06 October 2017

Memos From The Asylum





Memos from
the Asylum


Y2k17.10.03


Insanity:
Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting the same results…


_________________________________________________________Albert
Einstein (paraphrase)


 


I’ve pledged to document my final
years living on this human insane asylum called earth, an ironic place where
there exists from space, a gorgeous green and blue and brown ambiance, but on
its surface, there is mostly murdering, eating, and absorbing. I don’t believe
that the human species will last because it does the same thing repeatedly and
expects the same results. Ours is an insane species, dwelling amid a paradise
that we besmirch every chance that we get. We are bound and determined to
commit suicide and, sadly, at the expense of every living thing on this planet.


I’ve said this again and again that
the world did not change after the events of 11
th September 2001. I
recall growing up in the 50’s and 60’s with nothing but anxiety. We have never
gotten along, and we always have conflicts that either fester in cold wars over
the years or grow hot when the rich need more money for their lavish life
styles. I can’t remember a time when our species was completely at peace with
each other and not abusing one another, and at this stage of our evolution, peace,
harmony, and wisdom may be improbable. If there is one thing we are good at, it
is making each other as miserable as possible.


I take my existence seriously
because if I am not careful, I could die at some other human being’s hands. But
in another way, I can’t take anything seriously because this planet is nothing
more than an insane asylum run by the inmates themselves to the detriment of
all. Let me use some details here so you can understand where I am coming from.
Please remember that USA citizens seem bound and determined to let a thief, a
liar, a tax evader to mess with our taxes, that TrumPutist Don Dotard the
creepident of our country, and these are the same supporters that are chiefly
concerned for their money over life. If that is not insane check below the
first 16 reasons why I believe I am living in an asylum.


1. Human beings build cities that
block out sunlight and congest breathing as we know it.


2.Human beings do not respect the
rights and communities of other communities.


3. We have made our world into a
shopping mall, strip or otherwise, that is the same as any place that we travel
to. Where are those far away Walmart-less places, those places free of big box
stores and multiplex characterless movie theaters and chain stores? They are
fading into nothingness along with stamp collections and printed newspapers and
magazines. Crazy people can’t take surprises, so everything must remain the
same for everyone and for every place we visit.


4. We must gentrify classic old
communities to death, expel the real people, and replace them with dummies.


5. Every time people are murdered
by gun toting crazies in our gun loving country, our politicians always have “hearts
that go out to the victims” when most of them have no hearts; otherwise, the
events of Las Vegas would never have happened since the politicians and Trump
want more guns, not less. They don’t even care if crazy people own them. And
they even want to make mass murder easier by allowing people to put silencers
on their weapons. If the first responders during the Las Vegas massacre could
not hear where the gun fire was coming from, even more people would have been
dead. People are insane because they allow people with no hearts to run the
rest of us into untimely and violent death.


6. Remember how the mayor of Amity
insisted that there was no shark in the water the same way that the Trump nosed
creep is insisting that there is no climate change? Insane people insist that
the reality of their eyes is not reality, and that climate change is just as
fake as the 3 major hurricanes we just had.


7. I remember when I came to New
York in the early 70’s. I learned of the street screamers who would babel
loudly in public with demented fury. Now, 40 something years later, more
people, not less, are babbling loudly in public, into their cell phones, and
those who are not, have their noses stuck in their androids without even
realizing that another, even more nutty person, is coming up to urinate in
their faces. Insane people seldom pay attention because they are busily
inhabiting their own special world.


8. We can speak to empty air loudly
and with emotion in public if we do it in a church, a synagogue, or a mosque,
but we are shunned if we talk loudly to ourselves to no one or nothing outside
of these venues.


9. We live in a hypocritically
puritanical society that uses sex to sell its products.


10.We condemn violence yet allow
innocent football athletes, for example, to have their brains damaged just
because we really all wish we were back in a Roman gladiator arena.


11.Our hospitals are impersonal
death houses.


12.Our educational institutions are
nothing but factories.


13.And many these days have
children but do not raise them.


14. We are creating a world filled
with our trash worse than anything shown in the animated feature “Wall-E”.


15. Humans value their filthy money
more than they value human beings or animals or the planet.


16. The USA has, after all, placed
a madman at its helm and quite appropriate for this asylum earth until nuclear
horror blots it out forever.

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