and gabriel said..

[Sepia]

Sometimes, I get this weird feeling that if the children of flowerpower had suceeded in creating something more of substance from their trend, things might have worked out differently. Peace, love and understanding would be in abundance. Illuminated buddhas would walk the earth, bring us further in, further out of the cosmic correlation we are a part of. We would be operating spaceship earth at full capacity. We'd be drinking the dreams of gods for breakfast along with our runny eggs and crisp bacon.

Then I catch myself thinking and I remember that people is filth. My thoughts are simple: I like the concept or the idea of humanity but despise individuals and masses, as they are the same. There is no strength in numbers, there is security. The walls to the gated communities are hard to climb but still we find ourselves climbing them. We turn away some times, but return to that glorious road again and again and again. It is where we meet our friends, our enemies and those that provoke nothing but apathy.

Shouldn't we get bored? Isn't this just dull? The continuation of these systems that have been buried for so long in our hearts, don't you feel the agonizing pull of past fuckups? You did this mistake earlier and you now you're doing it again. Where would we be if everyone had your attention-span? Why do you remember that particular ad you're going to tell the lads at the watercooler about tomorrow? You wanted to gamle today, but you didn't, you bought tuna for your cat and not duck.

You head out into the street, ready to bash something in the name of the true aryan blood or the true god or that pure ideology. Perhaps you're just bored and throwing bricks seems like a good way to pass the time? I don't judge what people eat nor what they believe. I judge in peoples taste of cigarettes and alcohol. I judge you when you fry the egg in a white-hot skillet.

There is no point in judging you when you're in a group because you won't learn anything and nothing good will come out of it. Nothing I can use, nothing you can use.

Fight the war if you want but remember that you are not a god-king. You are not a philosopher. You are a snowflake, crafted by chemists in a laboratory, waiting to be spread out over some halfpipe that's rotting. There's a hole in the sky.

Hating groups of people is like chewing amphetamine and viagra, sitting in your childhood room wanking. You get at one kind of hate but there are other ways to perfection it, there are ways to make it what you wanted it to be. You don't lock your mind in with hate, you lock your mind in when you hate the same things you used to hate, the same things everyone hates, the things you can find a million reasons to hate. Everyone can find those, ickle snowflake.

Find the mask and the man behind it. Figure out why you hate him after you've been out drinking with him for a night. Go deeper in your hate as you do your love, get to know your nemesis and feel the fiery talons rip in you.

Then.

Go.

Proceed out into the world and hate.

[Thurnez Isa]

this is fucking brilliant

[Darth Cupcake]

I dig it.

I particularly like

There is no strength in numbers, there is security.

However, I take a little bit of issue with

My thoughts are simple: I like the concept or the idea of humanity but despise individuals and masses, as they are the same.

Because I don't see individuals and masses as the same--I think masses are what fuck up individuals. When you get someone into the Hive Mind Mentality^TM, where they identify themselves as part of a group more than as themselves, then you lose the individual. However, when you have a singular person that you can interface with on a one-on-one sort of basis, you can actually extract something out of them, and see if there is more to them than just the I Am One Of Us bit.

Most people are pretty dull. I've met a lot of individuals that aren't worth the volume of air they displace, and I wonder where they find the motivation to keep their heart muscle spasming with any regularity. But I've also been genuinely flabbergasted as how awesome some individuals are, when you can pry them away from their Us Group and make them be just Themself.

However, that one tidbit aside, I really like the piece. It flows very nicely, with a good rhythm and energy and carries the reader through. It's just very strong over all.

[Sepia]

It might be an area where I'm a bit harsh, but anyone who doesn't have the mental faculties for getting their own asses out of the "hive mind" isn't worth jack shit in my book. Or they might, after I've spent some time gettin' to know em. These rules based on intuition will always be different from people to people, but individuals create masses by their own free will. They create the security (catch you if you fall, you'll never walk alone and any other damned soccer song etc) and they (quite bluntly and skipping some points) dumb.