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Looking at them from a distance from 'The Boy in the Box' (unpublished work by me)
I don't believe anymore in my fellow human, or my fellow American. I divorced myself from these two groups a long time ago, somewhere around 30 years ago. I found myself feeling completely outside of the human race and the American experience. Abraham Maslow, the psychologist said, the fully realized man does not identify with the local group. And when I read that it really hit me. I said, "That's me." I really don't identify with these people, I don't feel a part of this - I've never, never felt a part of this. And by "this" I mean - the human race. Yeah I know, I'm human so by definition I'm in it, I mean feeling like I'm American. But as the late George Carlin put it in an interview - "I just don't give a shit anymore. I stopped giving a fuck. And because I did that, it gave me a great deal of artistic freedom - it gave me emotional detachment from which I could operate with a more even-handed look at everything. I didn't have a rooted interest. I didn't have an outcome I was interested in. I didn't have a rooted interest. I wasn't a cheerleader. I was really just an observer. When you're born in the world you're given a ticket to the freakshow; when you're born in America you're given a front-row seat. And some of us in the front row have notebooks and pencils. That's you, Rachel, that's me. We sit there and we say, 'Look at the fucking shit that going - look at this. Do these people know what they look like? Let me write this down.' And so, that kind of divorces me from any of these attachments." (source: from an interview conducted with George Carlin by Rachel Sklar at the Huffington Post blog)
I don’t think I could have put it any better than the way George did during his interview. For those of us who have lived outside of what society calls its boundaries, we know this is all one hell of a freakshow. Especially when you think about what has happened since 2000. If there were any doubts regarding the evil that resides in the human psyche, they should have been erased observing the blood thirsty, hate everyone that isn’t pure white, religious fucks from the right wing fring of our society.
For people like me who saw pure evil from a very early age, nothing surprises us. So, like George, we merely observe everything without ever getting involved in the bullshit that surrounds such events. Have you ever noticed how much they use things like guilt, patriotism, or what I call Jesus juice to drum up the masses? If you’re rational and objective you know all of those little psychological things are nothing more than manipulative tricks to persuade people to go along with whatever the government has planned.
Recently I saw a story line that caught my eye because of its title – it was called ‘Today my son became a man’. I went in and read it and after reading the story and looking at all of the pictures I simply shook my head and muttered “you poor dumb bastard – how fucking stupid can someone be?”. You see, the story centered around a man’s son who grew up, joined the Army, went to Iraq, and… yeah, you guessed it – he was killed. Throughout the story there were pictures of the son from when he was about 3 years old up to after he was deployed to Iraq. I stared at the pictures and just shook my head wondering how could a father who supposedly loved his child be so supportive of his kid going into such a dangerous and misguided adventure? If the father really loved his kid, I mused, he would have done anything and everything to protect him from the bullshit and lies of the government. Instead, this clown applauded his son’s actions and expressed no remorse or guilt over how it turned out. In fact, at the end of the story the father said something about how happy he was that his son “was now safely in the arms of Jesus”
Yeah asshole – I guess it’s better to be safely in the arms of Jesus than a lot easier than trying to keep him safely in your arms. I know this sounds cold and harsh but as George expressed it – when you’re outside of what the majority of freaks call ‘society’, everything is a freakshow including misguided patriotism and religiousity.
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