i don't care about japanese dolphins

well, i don't care about japanese dolphins. as horrible as it is, i just have a feeling this is the sort of thing that will or won't get sorted out. sure the videos are horrible, the treatment is horrible, but when i gaze into the heart of man i see genuine indifference towards tragedy outside the realm of their own personal experiences.

i mean, everybody knows veganism is a bunch of bullshit, right? like... what's the harm done in a can of tuna fish?

ok, let's rewind.

i'm gonna tell you the real reason i don't speak out against the things i am outraged by, why i don't read books that let me look in on the horrors of the world, why i don't go to college for international politics or marxist economic theory.

i don't do any of that shit because it doesn't matter how right you are about anything. exposing things like hypocrisy, cruelty, oppression, inequality, racism, hate, bigotry, any of the seven modern deadly sins- well, who fucking cares?

i mean i care. i guess. i care enough to let myself think that i care. but what i'm saying is that the polls are closed. the debate is over. Product has beaten Process.

did you hear me?

i said product has beaten process. if you can understand this vital truth to existing in 2010 you can understand why anybody does what they do. why for all our knowledge and information and factoids and wikipedia entries everybody is gonna do whatever they feel like doing.

it doesn't matter how something's made or where it comes from, what matters is it's ability to produce the desired effect.

i observe a world of people hungry for new experiences.

new products. the hamburger no one has eaten yet. the hamburger that could not have existed in 1955. i don't want the hamburger my dad told me to get, i want one better than that. i want to know there is still something worth discovering in the world. i want to know that my experiences and interactions with this beast called man on this rock called earth are unique, authentic, specific to my being. right? i think people really think like this.

they don't want their experiences diluted by someone else's jaded 'been there done that' attitude. they want to get into heaven with a report card god will hang on his fridge.

i think if you were to ask people what heaven is like in 2010 you'd get much different answers than if you were to ask people the same question a hundred years ago, or a hundred years before that.

actually, if i can expound on that a little bit

i think many people's idea of heaven was the same for probably like, 1500 years.
then it was the same for 250 years
then 100
then 50
then 25
then 10
then 10
then 10
and so on and so forth

so that's some sort of exponential decrease in the half life of religious ideologies.

what would heaven look like today?

a computer on a cloud where you can google whatever you want and place yourself in the context of whatever you'd like for as long as you might want.

2000- an apartment in a cloud with a laptop with access to websites where you can order whatever you want

1980- an apartment in a city in the clouds where everything you could ask for is a short walk away

1950- a house in a nice neighborhood in heaven where the neighbors are all good by your definition of good and everything you need is a short drive away

1900- a place where the investment of ambition is met with great reward and likeminded individuals build a city worth living in together

1800- a country where the investment of ambition is met with great reward and likeminded individuals build a country worth living in together

1600- a world worth understanding

1400- a world worth exploring

so, i guess what i'm saying is that as the world gets smaller so are people's minds. the way a fish grows as large as the thank will allow them.

the ocean was once a great place for a fish to live. now the smartest of all fish, the dolphin, a genius creature, the human being of the ocean, gets terrorized and tortured for being in the way of humanity. another blessed being trampled underfoot.

boo fucking hoo

oh shit, it's 9\11.

anybody wanna hear me say something edgy about 9\11?

ok here goes:

i don't care about japanese dolphins, i don't care about 9\11 victims and rescue workers, i don't care about your wife with cancer, i don't care about your dying africans.

why not? because life sucks.

life has always sucked.

thank god history gets written by the conqueror because the story from the conquered would just have us all weeping in the fucking streets.

or worse, not weeping.

going about the business of looking for the computer in cloud where we can just order whatever our heart desires.

welcome to 2010.