Our Partisan Shit-Show in anticlimatic

The fuck happened to us? Mommy and Daddy used to fight fairly often, but at least back then they understood their dependency on one another; understood that they turned one another on, that they shared some values and mutual appreciation beyond the logistical battles over priorities. They’d fight until they fucked, enjoy the sunrise over breakfast, and begin again at lunch. Now it’s like Daddy is living above the garage and Mommy only ever has her girlfriends over. No more co-ed parties or events, everyone consolidated in groups implicitly designed to reassure that the dull and meaningless life we’ve confined ourselves to is just a necessary hardship for being uncompromisingly strong in our moral marching boots.

I don’t believe in group or individual blame, for we are all brief extensions of the same singular consciousness and species competing with entropy and the cosmos for survival through the eons gone and to come, but this business needs sorting out by adults. When did society collectively sabotage and/or dumb down their EQ to levels generally seen in people that would have been committed to asylums 50 years ago? How can people not participate in simple conversation without short circuiting, having a panic attack, and retreating to a safe place to regroup? What happened to people who had the answers to life’s basic and sophisticated questions? I remember a few, dead now of course, but surely the ideas should be living on in other people. Where are the quality philosophical and moral role models? Where is the earned wisdom of the ages? It’s like our species, at this point in it’s multi-century lifespan, is having a stroke. MEDIC!!!

The lack of cultural meaning right now is staggering. People hard on the right miserably cling to traditions and rituals mostly out of fear and spite, fake and joyless, consumed with hate over the fact that every major institution in the country insults them on a daily basis. People hard on the left, also possessed by fear and hate, need everyone and everything on the right eradicated, so they can finally feel safe from the same dangerous force that used to accompany them to bed and protect them. Mommy’s in the house on the phone with the police, hoping to get Daddy hauled out of the garage and sent to jail; and Daddy is cleaning his gun for the third time today.

Is society miserable because it lacks meaning, or does it lack meaning because it is miserable?