There are days when you want to crank "Rock Lobster" and there are days when you want to quote Chuck Palahnuik and Bret Easton Ellis.
On a good day, the norms that society seems to agree upon are all well and good, but worth disregarding in the name of good humor. On a bad day I just want to betray those norms so that I can prove that I can. As if any limitation on my own insane free will would indicate that I have no freedom.
If a sane man may not behave like a mad man, lest he be caged like a mad man, which man is the more free? Maddening, isn't it.
Here's what I do when I find a cognitive hole like this one: I blow it up. I tell myself that none of it means shit. Sane? Mad? Freedom? What does any of that really mean in the free world. I can do anything that I want to do, and I'm extra lucky because the vast majority of the things I'll ever want to do won't harm anyone. So rather than bothering myself with thoughts of self-constraining desires, I'm going to go play video games.
See how easy it is to be healthy?
Mahalo.
On a good day, the norms that society seems to agree upon are all well and good, but worth disregarding in the name of good humor. On a bad day I just want to betray those norms so that I can prove that I can. As if any limitation on my own insane free will would indicate that I have no freedom.
If a sane man may not behave like a mad man, lest he be caged like a mad man, which man is the more free? Maddening, isn't it.
Here's what I do when I find a cognitive hole like this one: I blow it up. I tell myself that none of it means shit. Sane? Mad? Freedom? What does any of that really mean in the free world. I can do anything that I want to do, and I'm extra lucky because the vast majority of the things I'll ever want to do won't harm anyone. So rather than bothering myself with thoughts of self-constraining desires, I'm going to go play video games.
See how easy it is to be healthy?
Mahalo.