polyblog

enter the abyss. this multifaceted virtual reality that is infinitely more mutable than our already infinitely mutable reality. i have no interest in limiting myself to politics, or taste and style, the arts, cooking current events, anything or nothing at all. today's multifaceted multiculturalism holds an implied mandate that these limitations do not aid our understanding of life, and specialization and focus are for the myopic.

this is clearly a load of crap, but to put a fine point on it, life is a load of crap, if you look through crap stained glasses. as some band that no one remembers once said, there's nothing you can say that isn't said. this is all somewhat distressing if you think about it, and i probably spend an inordinate amount of time incredibly distressed over completely unnecessary tangents. i always say that i'm not an optimist, because if i thought things could possibly get better, i would kill myself. the upshot being i don't worry about being happy, because although i often am, i also am often not. i understand it would be nice to be happier more often, but i have little use for the falsification rituals, that would suggest i be happy when i am not.

this is not to imply that i don't routinely falsify various things routinely, and my greatest desire for you, tender reader, is that you passionately disagree with me. far from suggesting that you actually kill the buddha if you meet him in the road(i think he would be an invaluable teacher/guide/all around fun to hang around with guy, and further more a take a pretty strong anti-death stance in general, and a particularly strong anti-killing position) i think you should follow sheepishly the spirit of the times(irony is falsification, and sarcasm a form of irony) and get your information from a wide variety of sources. in the end, it echoes the greater jihad/lesser jihad concepts (with the greater jihad being do your best to cultivate your soul such that you are not an asshole, and the lesser jihad being, suffer assholes bravely, we all know the world needs fewer assholes and less complicity with assholes.) you should learn humbly and dutifully from whatever sources you see fit, and it is an uncommon blessing to find a worthwhile mentor, but make up your own damn mind. and ideally, have one.

speaking of falsifications, for those of you who casually or deliberately ignored 20th century french linguistics, i have a very particular allegiance to the truth or, some may reasonably argue, none at all. i apologize in advance for mentioning things some of you may already know, my pedantic sophistry is just a couple quarts shy of legendary. for mentioning things incorrectly that you already know, i welcome your gentle corrections, and will also accept your flaming belligerence. as much as i endorse a theoretically cordial discussion of whatever, i understand how gratifying it must be to unleash years of pent up rage over grammatical errors that were so hard one back in the procrustean bed of secondary education. having said that, although my understanding of shifting signifiers leads me to take unconscionable poetic license with the meanings of words, and i'm likely to create words as refudiatably as sarah palin. for the record, throwing my hat in the ring for defining that well crafted freudian bullshit, i'm gonna say that
 refudiate is a verb that suggests the refusal to accept the plausible deniability of something that in fact may be true by someone so willfully ignorant of all the component arguments that they simply will not allow an intelligent conversation on the topic.

having said that, words mean things, and depending on how you define "words", "mean" and "things" you can shuffle through the language to make some pretty astonishing proof. this does not begin to describe the possible transmutations of concepts, and the amazing transformative power of the selection of ideas. this is all terribly(or terrifically) interactive and i encourage comments, corrections and contemplative descriptions of which dantean level of hell you expect me to be burning in for anything i may bring up, misrepresent or wholly disregard in my meandering description of what i may ironically describe as truth.

as always thank you for reading, and more importantly,
thank you for thinking.
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