Sunday Random Thoughts

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**What follows are some fun random thoughts which moved from my brain to my fingers to the page to this Substack. Enjoy!

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1. I’m just a random unknown smalltime writer with no agent, no published books, a lot of creative drive, uneven intelligence, and aspiration, pinched, perhaps, with a chunk of neo-narcissism.

2. Life is a bizarre, warped phenomenon; it’s almost never a straight easy line; it’s nearly always a zigzagging, wayward, twisting dose of chaos.

3. What is the realization of Man? That he does not truly exist, except, perhaps, only in his own demented self-consciousness.

4. What is narcissism? Being alive in our contemporary moment. To exist now is to see only fragmented distortions, illusions of oneself. Shards of social media glass that cut into your own eyeballs, slicing out your own ability to see yourself. A special kind of anti-Human self-loathing. Yet we call it love.

5. What is the point, precisely, of Death? Or rather to the point: What is the point of worrying about Death? Pre-birth we have zero essence. Ditto after we die. We worried not before being born. We shall worry not after. This is the most religious statement I can think of to say. (Isn’t the knifelike quality of Father Irony wonderful?)

6. Who cares about life, love, hatred or death? It’s all subjective, in the storyteller’s mind. All humans are natural storytellers. Mankind has told itself stories since the dawn of hominids millions of years back. When we started agriculture 10,000 years ago, we told ourselves stories about the sun, the moon, man, god, life, love, death. It’s not different now. Only these days we use TikTok.

7. God is dead. Nietzsche said that in the 19th century. But everybody knows God never existed in the first place.