   No Trust 2006-07-10 . chapter 1“I have never been afraid of being different; in fact sometimes I fear that I am in many ways too similar to those sheep that I see going through the motions.”
Ah, the stupidity of faux-individualism.
People are individuals. The point of individualism isn’t to be ‘different’, or to ‘do what you want’ (everyone already does that), it is to realize other humans are individuals, period. Whether they’re ‘inferior’ to you in some other way, they’re no less individuals than you are. It’s simply biology.
“What happiness can be found in being complacent?”
All the happiness that can be found at all.
“Untruth’s spouted by people who are too afraid of the pain that would come with a slap or misguided word. Fear has caused this, or at least that is what I think, although maybe that is just an egotistical thought?”
Fear has saved my life plenty of times, and probably yours. Fear can be good.
“We live in a false, dishonest world that I say should be abolished, let all the sins and sweetness be that for which they are!”
We already live in a world where all the sins and sweetness are what they are. There can be no other. It’s just that natural selection, in a civilized context, tends to favor people who aren’t sociopaths.
“Are we sheep, or wolves? Is humanities meant to be permanently chastising itself for those things that are our very nature?”
It is human nature to chastise themselves for other things that are in their nature.
“I offer this argument. Some day when your wife or husband has gone to sleep after a tedious day of work with the children tucked safely away in their plush mass-produced beds, do you wonder what it would be like to be a ‘sinner’?”
Depends on what kind, but probably not. If I’m married it’s because it suits me; why should I want to live any life other than the one I’ve already chosen over all others?
“Know what it is to be honest.”
Honesty is not always natural. |
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