bring out yer crazy, part deux
"do no harm"... yeaaaaaaaah.
I'm pretty sure just about every person running the so-called path of enlightenment thinks about these things: How to go about doing the right thing, and all the other lessons of higher mindedness. Me and most everyone I know probably OVER-thinks it all a fair bit too much.
The trouble is, I'm pretty sure what truly short-circuits us has nothing to do with thinking or not-thinking. Crossed emotions and things jumping out from the pre-conscious areas are what tend to throw the wrench in personal and collective flow.
Thinking gets so easily steamrollered, instantaneously and without warning. The Fear hits and you see white.
No matter how much knowledge we acquire about doing what's "good" and "right", them little demons come barking out of nowhere to put the whammy jack-fuck in the works. They're crafty that way.
"Do no harm", huh?
Is solitary confinement, sitting in a cloister in the mountains meditating on world peace gonna do a damn bit of good for anyone except for the meditating dill-wad convinced of the not-harm he's doing?
Is "doing jack shit" considered doing-no-harm? If that's the case, then my friend who plays X-box all stinkin' day every day and dicks around on MySpace continuously... he's the greatest American Buddha ever. He's "holding space" for all us poor motherfuckin ambitious retards.
Someone give him a fuckin' bowl of rice.
How about my own personal modus operandi: Being a retard assclown like almost ALL of the time. It mostly results in the spreading of amusement, but sometimes scares the shit-fuck out of a few who aren't quite emotionally or mentally prepared for it at the moment. Do I notice? Fuck no - too busy bein' an assclown. Do I care? Yeah, but what am I gonna do?
Cuz not-being-an-assclown is simply NOT an option.
I am me. I am crazy. Just because I do a fine job perpetrating the illusion of intelligence doesn't mean I'm not 100% fucking insane all the fucking time. How do you think I got so "intelligent". I'll tell you a secret: I been practicing the ruse since I was about 2 years old. The "intelligence" is just a cover story for the deepest, blackest of fears.
Cranked it up hard at the age of 6 when I realized completely and undeniably, in a crystallizing moment that is still very vivid to this day, that everyone around me (all adults included) was a shit-scared know-nothing clueless fuck who were all just making it up as they went along (and doing a piss-poor job of it at that.)
To this day, no epiphany has been more powerful or more transformative for my life. No soul-crunching 3-letter psycho-mimetic substance, no comatose heart-stopping NDE death-ride into the dark night... NOTHING since (and there's been more than my rightful share or NOTHINGs) has come even remotely close to that infinite moment of clarity.
Thus: the non-stop assclownium. I been dead forever and still looking for ways to live. It gets ugly sometimes.
Even so, I "try" to do no harm. At least that's what I think, but action ends up being so scattershot non-linear.
As much as I consciously attempt to follow the "do no harm" credo, every once in a while electric fucking fire jumps right out of my skin, following it's own imperative - ignoring all conventions of politeness and reason, shooting from the black core of Ur-space, tagging some poor soul right in the kisser or bread basket. The path of least resistance for FIRE tends to also be the path of maximum damage/effect.
Oops. Fuckin' sorry. The well-practiced veneer of civility doesn't always contain the fire. Someone got burned... again, 3rd degree and still smoking.
...and the flames continue to shoot.
Almost smoked my computer monday. It spun down, shut down, made funny noises and spit out some burning plastic epoxy smells out the back. It restarted fine, but I immediately shut it down for the night to give it a rest.
Tried to cook some rice. The rice cooker stopped working. Gone. Broken. It took one for the team.
All hail the Salton Rice Cooker/Steamer Christ for dying for my sins. "A young kitchen Appliance dies so that an old Macintosh can live" ...enabling my continuing Prodigal wayward ways of spreading a swath of disruption straightaway through my universe of delusion.
So, yeah, I smoked Red's rice cooker with my animus. Only got 3 uses out of it. Nice job.
I've been told (by my oldest friend) that my "evil" has killed every computer I've owned. That there's only so much evil these devices can pass before they just can't take no more.
Red says that I'm not evil, but I create evil on my trusty Laptop.
Mm hm, I don't see the distinction.
Now I could use my super-intelligence to do good. Maybe create the next Magic Bullet super drug, or find a cure for cancer. But, really, is that doing NO harm? Place such actions into the larger context of history. Super-drugs eventually lead to stronger super-bugs: viruses and bacteria that can't be stopped by anything. Shit that eats your skin clean off. Cures of any kind just result in overpopulation, famine an other undesirable effects down the line. What good deed doesn't eventually go unpunished?
So if doing good can lead eventually to negative consequences, is INACTION the only way of doing no harm?
And if inaction is the way, why bother thinking or doing at all? Shouldn't we then be watching as much TeeVee as possible?
I read Do No Harm and all I can think is: What is 'harm'?
Really. Whatthefukk?
Today I'm all in a funk about the unintended results of my assclownium... rolling into 'fuckit' mode. I know the pattern.
here's what I'm telling myself: You're gonna piss people off. You're gonna be an asshole sometimes. You're gonna get your feelings hurt, and hurt other people's feelings, too.
whatever.
Some days you'll feel happy. Other days you'll feel bad... maybe even REALLY bad. I guarantee you won't have all of only one or the other - both kinds is the rule. And always in retreospect, you see it all as good.
whatever.
You ARE going to feel ugly sometimes and once in a while feel like a Super Model. And even if you do look weird as fuck (and you know you do), there will be at least one person who thinks you're the most beautiful person on earth.
There's a slim chance that that person won't be drunk and/or really high at the time. In which case: they're bat-shit fucking crazy, so avoid them.
whatever.
some days everyone will seem beautiful. other days you'll be glad you don't carry a gun, as you shiver to the bone at the annoying unwashed sea of humanity pressing in closer at the edges..
big whoop.
you'll unintentionally intimidate most everyone by the simple act of being, but a few people will hang with you. But even they will be frightened by you sometimes.
so what.
And no matter how much good or evil you consciously or unconsciously emanate outwards, you eventually are gonna die.
So fuckin' get over it.
KNOW that you're gonna do harm some times. KNOW that you're gonna do no harm other times.
Time's a wastin' and there's too much fun to be had than to sit here sulking.
Fuckin' whatever, bitch.
(at which point the voices-in-my-head got into a blouse-ripping, stiletto-heel-breaking cat-fight for calling me bitch.)
i sit here on this free internet connection at the L.A. Library with that odd amorphous just-penetrated feeling.
my fingertips buzzing numb.
my body craving chocolate once again. the fire needs a feeding. chocolate is it's "coal".