Doug Michael

Empty vessels tattered and torn sailing the stormy seas of despair. Misguided spirits treading recklessly upon the desolation of self and the ashes of broken dreams. Tortured children, fallen progeny of the fallen, the lost ones, the forgotten and forsaken, the bastard offspring of what was and what could’ve been…Degenerate rejects of the universe.

You’ve got it all wrong, haven’t you figured this out by now? Well, of course not because you live within and embrace a culture that celebrates ignorance and aspires towards stupidity, mediocrity and banality and you revel in it. Not only do you not notice this, you don’t even give a fuck! That’s all well and fine but don’t you dare complain when you have to wallow within the shit pen that you have created with your indifference, apathy and unwillingness to even attempt to expand your consciousness and your perceptual awareness. You deserve to fall…And you are about to.

Well then…Good riddance! There will be no room for cowardice motherfuckers within a new paradigm of human experience. There will be no time to care for the weak of spirit or the faint of heart, the selfish me-ists who have sold their souls to the illusion willingly without care or thought. Let them go gracefully, we don’t need them.

If you are not even aware of the problem and in fact do not even remotely give a shit, well then, what could you possibly offer as an idea for a solution? Nothing! It’s the lack of caring and empathy that condemns you…Your world is about to change, whether you like it or not. You are about to pay the price for your false beliefs, distorted principles and what you have allowed to occur. Your children will suffer at the hands of your own indifference and self-absorption, your callousness and disregard for your brethren, let alone your own self. What else would you expect?

Oh, I’ve got it! Why don’t you go bash each other’s brains in fighting over which ideology is the correct one and bestow upon your children the ways of violence, intolerance and stupidity…At this point, I hope to bask in the glory of watching it all go up in flames. Shit, if I die before I get to see it all collapse into the toilet, before it all breaks down and implodes, then I will go to my grave disappointed. Oh please, please, let me live long enough to watch it all fall into the dust. I welcome it with open arms and I rejoice at the idea and very possibility that I may live to witness such a glorious occurrence; if you do not, then you have a hell of a lot to learn!

But wait! I’ve done my part! I went out and voted for a self-serving, puppet, criminal, sociopathic asshole in a sham election. I’ve done my civic duty! I’ve given my faith to a failed system and I’ve compromised my own morals, my very thought processes and my values, surely that accounts for something? Yes, it does…It defines the pathway of your own ruin. The very act of giving yourself over to that which is false is an offering of your children unto the alter of sacrifice and extinction. Let me know how that works out for you. It’s a sick fucking joke and the collapse of civilization is the punchline. So be it! Can we just get on with it then? Oh, happy days!

Blind acceptance and lack of compassion are the problems. You blindly accept the nightmare that is forced down your fucking throat and you lack the compassion to even be remotely motivated to begin to contemplate what to do about it. It’s not within your nature; such things have been bred out of the mind and heart of a slave.

You hate your own self and project your inadequacy onto the world; you’ve been trained your whole life to do just that, to never look within and to diminish your own self-worth responding as expected to every mundane stimuli, like a Pavlovian dog. You’ve sold your soul to an illusion and now the piper must be paid, so don’t bitch and moan. You’ve welcomed it with open arms, so now you must embrace the fall. Why not embrace it? Why not let the current paradigm of imbalance, hatred and fallen bloody tears of shattered human dreams fall into the shit pile where it all belongs? What are you holding onto? It’s going to fall, with or without your approval, so why not welcome it and contemplate different ways to build something new from the smoldering ashes?

You condemn and cast aspersions upon those who write or speak this way; you do so because your mind does not think in terms of possibility but in terms of prefabricated opinions that you have adopted unquestioningly. You were shot down and ridiculed for questioning, so now you in turn shoot down others for doing that which you have lost the courage to do. Your mind, your very spirit has been raped since you were a child; the very essence of that which makes you human has been stolen and harvested to fuel the fires of your own destruction.

Take an honest look; that is, if you have eyes that haven’t been completely blinded by the gift-wrapped perspective you cling onto that is not even your own. Learn how to self-define your own viewpoint and become self-actualized in this fucked up world. That is the only salvation that can possibly exist. There will be no rescue! You will not be saved! What a ridiculous notion!

As long as you seek externally that which can only be found internally, you will be nothing more than a victim. Every once in a while, a victim may be rescued but mostly they are just victimized. Many times, the rescuer is just a victimizer wearing a clever disguise. It’s like some sort of sadistic paradox. One aspect of duality feeds its polar opposite. They are essentially the same but with different appearances.

You bask and revel within the illusion that provides you with a false sense of security, empty promises, shattered hopefulness and creature comforts. You are kept constantly entertained, distracted, misguided and disunited and you embrace it and beg for more. That which enslaves your very being has become your closest companion…And you love it!

The critical decision point has been reached. It’s simply a matter of choice; it’s a conscious and willful altering of perspectives, attitudes and emotions, or a sedated march headlong into the arms of misery…

Only YOU can decide! Stop allowing others or some erroneous belief in the ridiculous idea of external authority tell you who you are or what you may become. If you do not even possess the inner fortitude to stand within your own sovereignty, to rise amidst the darkness and persevere through the suffocating and imbalanced reality that you so laughingly refer to as “life,” then that is fine and I wish you all the best…

Walk in peace.