jerry

Read through the whole excerpt and now i want the full book lol

chance_pictures

Fascinating, but utterly inaccessible, just like a lot of things. I'm not gonna read all that because I just don't give a shit if a bunch of old people who believe they run the world. In reality, humanity is something homogeneous, something that's uncontrollable, incomprehensible with regards to the wealth of knowledge that exists.

These people might have influence and control over people, over the economy. I don't know. I do know that their own greed and hubris is in control of them, which is comforting. It comforts me to know that I will always have control over my own desire and they never will. They're trapped in the "real" world, whereas I find myself closer to truth by virtue of the fact that I'm not them. I'm not ruled by the pleasures of moment, and I'm not ignorant of the world beyond life, whatever that may be, nothingness or the eternal. But they are. They are truly ignorant and not really alive.

jerry

I more take comfort in the fact that they are frail and old, and eventually someone is going to kick each and every last one of them in the fucking chest

taxation_is_slavery

They can spend all day doing whatever they want, even if it involves things like building race cars, jets or castles using your labour. You can't ignore a tapeworm infestation forever.

chance_pictures

Part of our job is to know whether or not the tapeworm actually exists. With so much information that needs to be understood, the objective truth of the tapeworm's existence becomes difficult to know for certain. I find myself content whether or not conspiracies like this are actually true. I don't know what's true. I don't pretend to know. And I don't care. Maybe that's what they want. I don't know. I suppose I may have a learned helplessness. In the end, we're all part of this machine. Is the machine going to end us? That's the question I'm interested in. At this point, I don't think we can control the machine of humanity or turn it off.

I like your comparison of these groups to tapeworms. That's what they are. They're meaningless. And I might be meaningless too, but at least I'm not a parasite. If they kill me, so be it. I was going to die anyway. If they kill human progress, then that's something to worry about. But saying, "Yes, they are killing all of us," is pure conjecture. These parasites might be the means by which we evolve to a more enlightened society, beyond this post-modern chaos. I don't know. This is all conjecture in my opinion, but is the discussion harmful? Never.

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