Hold the (Forgotten Word). Line!
Morning Thoughts #195
What’s all the popular yammer? Another existential threat miscast? If the people are talking—and by people, I mean their talking heads—it’s almost certainly so. Those managers of official opinion say so only because they misunderstand themselves.
To the solipsistic, anything taken personally constitutes an existential threat. Why? Because for them, their world is the world.
Worry not, friends, for it’s only their world that’s at risk, not anything greater. And may this risk be a real one! Many worlds today are overdue for an ending! And so that I may not be misinterpreted, when I say “a world is ending,” it in no way means a life is ending. In fact, I suspect that for most people and peoples at present, their golden era lies on the other side of some more immediate, supposed apocalypse.
Far too often, those most vocal in calling for progress and “needed change” speak only for the sake of their own title. They beam with pride as speakers of truth to power, when all they are really doing is talking to themselves, chasing their tails on a personal quest for a revolutionary identity. And the threat of any real, consequential, paradigm-shifting change will be the cause of much bewildered and existential shrieking from this very same type.