orion wrote:
Dear Mr Luoma,
as I grow older I find that I also get more, how shall I put it, morally compromised?
I used to despise people that lie or manipulate “average”, “simple”, I don?t know “stupid unwashed masses” and “sheep” is the term I use in my head, though I rarely say it loud.
But, the older I get, the more I see, the virtue of just lying to them starts to appeal to me.
It is so easy. They want it so much. Their desire to be lied to is so strong I can feel it allmost physically some times.
Should I a) rebell against the system make a shitload of money and have sex with really wild women…
or b) simply slime my way up the social ladder and marry a nice girl and cheat on her with my secretary while making a shitload of money.
Ha, you didn?t think the questions would be so easy as carb-timing didn?t you?
If you have some insight I don?t have, I really need it now.
TC wrote:
Walt Whitman, my boy. Preface to “Leaves of Grass”:
(if it doesn’t work for you at least a little bit, I’ll be glad to discuss my opinion in less metaphorical terms)
This is what you shall do:
Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body…