Insanity…It’s Starting To Look Pretty Good These Days.
There are those who would argue that has been my modus operandi all along. And that may well be the case. But this does not alter the fact that our world has become a genuine farce. And if you have come around to that way of thinking, you might enjoy this.
The Rumble In The Jungle Of Your Head
Anyone with two brain cells to rub together has to be fighting to hold onto their sanity these days.
I know I am, and it’s getting to be real uphill work. Over the past decade and a half we have all witnessed a seismic shift in the way things are in the world.
And with every single event being analyzed, scrutinized and opined on basically six ways from Sunday, it’s really not all that difficult, no matter how much you plug your ears and hum a happy tune, to be suffering, and chronically so, from a severe case of information overload.
I can’t really speak for everyone out there, but I am a pretty good observer and I find that a lot of the people I meet and talk to about the way things are, sound weary and worn down from trying to make sense of it all.
There are a number of experts in the field of stress and stress management who will tell you that the information jones is an easy one to feed. Basically because information is coming at you all the time, in terms of news, politics, the climate, the overall state of unrest in the world, the economy, advertising, public relations and of course, the big fucking conversation that we are always being asked to join.
There is a cumulative effect to all of this information coming at you, and this can manifest itself in any number of ways including but not limited to: a) Making you insane insane, b) Forcing you to figure out some way to deal with it so it doesn’t make youinsane c) Forcing you to turn off in as much as that is possible or d) Have you contemplating a move to to a part of the world where the information can’t get at you.
The more it goes on, the higher the mountain becomes, the more it manages to penetrate my consciousness, and now even parts of my sub-conscious the preferred option, for me at least, is insanity.
Crazy Works....Honest!
You don’t have to process everything in terms of its morality, or how it will affect you because if you’re insane morality is a concept you no longer care about and your ego is also gone.
When you become insane, everybody who is talking at you makes no sense, but you don’t care. And that’s a big improvement over what you’re perceiving right now from all the input that is filling your mind.
When you become insane, you no longer have to be concerned with anything intellectual, political, social or (in Ontario), even medical.
When you’re insane, you usually end up in a place with a lot of other insane people and generally you all get along just fine.
When you’re insane your world shrinks down to a space just a little bit larger than the one you take up on the planet. All your thoughts are internalized and only make sense to you. There is real solace in that.
You are no longer responsible for anything, even your own basic well being.
It’s not the greatest way to live, but it does have one huge advantage…it turns the dial on the information flow down to zero.
Your Road Map To The Funny Farm
There are a number of things you can do to drive yourself crazy, and they’re so simple almost anyone can do them.
1. Watch CNN for at least 4 hours a day.
2. Find an ultra conservative radio talk show like Rush Limbaugh or one of those assholes and listen for a couple of hours a day.
3. Max out your friends list on Facebook and read everything that everybody says. Watch as many videos of people fucking up as you can.
4. Go to Starbucks and listen to some of the conversations that the pretentious twerps there are having. Any Starbucks. Anytime day or night.
5. Read the National Star cover to cover, every week. Even the ads.
6. Go to the chat room of any media site like Reddit and read the comments on all the trending posts. All of them.
7. Drink at least 8 cups of coffee a day.
8. Watch Jerry Spring and Maury Pauvich every day. The follow that up with the nightly news on the three major American TV networks.
In about two weeks you should start feeling a bit unhinged. You will definitely be much more paranoid and edgy, and that’s good.
Now the last thing, and this will be the clincher…Walk into a biker bar, find the meanest looking guy in the place and bitch slap him. The bikers will take you outside and administer your entrance into the world of the insane with several well placed kicks to the head.
After the brain swelling goes down, just stop talking. Do not say a word under any circumstances. After a few months of that, you will be, by some good soul close to you, declared insane. And you will be free.
The Highly Bearable Lightness Of Being A Loon
The terrorist threat will not bother you. The melting of the polar ice caps and radical alterations in weather patterns will not phase you. Donald Trump, Kim Jong Il and every other crazy motherfucker on the planet, will be nothing to get upset about. Cops shooting unarmed people…no biggie. It will all slide off your back like an egg in a teflon pan.
And the best part is that as more and more people become insane, the assholes who create all the bullshit that makes people crazy will have no audience. The media reporting on all the bullshit that makes you crazy will have no minds to pollute.
Information overload will no longer exist, not because of the information, but because of the that scarcity of people to be overloaded.
The world will become a much more acceptable place in which to live and the playing field will be leveled out completely.
And at that point, your insanity will be considered normal. So everybody can just get on with things like they used to before it all went to hell.
OK, so this might not work for everyone, and certainly there are a rather substantial number of people who are already well their way to insanity without any biker assistance.
But the fact is that the sooner we all get there, the sooner all the craziness we are seeing will disappear.
OK that’s it. gotta go. My coffee cup is empty and it’s time for Meet The Press.
Oh yeah…this video is really worth watching.
http://theunboundedspirit.com/myth-of-normal/
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