“This will hasten the restoration of paradise”
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NEGATING EVERYTHING
THAT CAUSES US TO BE DEAD
WHILE ALIVE
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oopdate 1
We do not need to look at the news to see we are living in the Kali Yuga. It’s a dark age where we’re all surveilled, herded and targeted to a stupefying degree. Our bodies have been turned into profit-optimized enterprise zones. Our senses have been neutered. Our brains have been gentrified. Our cities have been stripped of authenticity and replaced with immersive experiences.
We have resolved that the only thing to do maintain a cheery disposition. To steal a line from Andre Breton, we will negate everything that causes us to be dead while we are alive.
oopdate 2
To keep us from lapsing back into the old habit of sleeping all day,
we have decided to take down all of our curtains and blinds. What happens in the top half of our bedroom is now on display for our neighbors across the road to see. When laying flat on our bed, we are just a few inches below visibility.
Now we wake with the dawn and no longer set an alarm. When getting out of bed, we avoid exposing our bodies by sliding down and dressing on the floor. We read books, play and drink coffee slowly. At night, we are exhausted, but for now it is the type of exhaustion sleep will alleviate.
oopdate 3
It feels so unsexy to complain, so even when the weather is bad, we put on our shoes and go walking through the park to the lake. Strolling along, we weave constellations from all that we have recently experienced and found out.
Our minds organise these new inputs and shuffle them into our existing thought patterns and diagrams. By doing this, we expand what we call our inner geographies. When we reach the lake, we hope to possess a clarity that the families feeding the ducks do not. If we have been successful, we will carry walking and perhaps do some window shopping.
oopdate 4
We love systems. Corporations exploit systems and use them to hoard capital. We love the future. Capital determines the future by eliminating the old and implementing the new. We love elections. Candidates solicit capital from corporations and tell us the system is working for us.
People carry distorted images, get carried away and say mean or hurtful things. We hope that suddenly a breeze will arrive, a lively breeze. And after it has cleared the air the situation will seem less like a monstrosity. People going around saying crappy things will be replaced by something else.
Right now, we are siting on the couch, eating our salads wearing clothes others would laugh at. We are lucky to have got here.
We hope we have made at least one choice we won’t regret oneday.
But, our hope is simple, nothing fancy.
oopdate 5
We are not going to look it up in a book or do our research. We could talk about it, yes. The events of the morning were fairly interesting.
Latey, we been thinking a lot about gratitude. It’s a great time to be part of something. We love new ideas and are eager to contribute. We believe the best is yet to come. Now, more than ever, we say, it is important to stay excited.
It makes no sense to either of us that we feel like settling down. We are choosing to believe, the future has not yet produced anything insurmountable, yet. For the moment, we are staying centered and aligned.
On Monday, we will go to our jobs. Our golden years are coming.
oopdate 6
Starting sentences doesn’t seem to be a problem for us. If only you could have heard us today. Oh, if only, you could see the walk we took after lunch.
Many people have the notion we live in an age where things are going pretty well. It is a little too late for us to start making claims.
Fifteen years ago things ago were different. There was sunlight which came down, moved around and exerted a strong influence. Don’t worry about anything, you guys! How ridiculous that we believed it.