FUCK THE PEOPLE WHO FUCKED THE WORLD, OR WHY THE ONLY QUESTIONS LEFT AREN'T WORTH WASTING OUR LIVES ON
Hi! How’s everyone? Today we’re going to talk about…everything…or, more succinctly, how there’s nothing left to talk about, except…
There I was. Standing next to the cafe. Sneaking a ciggie. I’m on the West Coast these days, and I’m an alien here. People scowl at me everywhere I go. I don’t go to the gym, I don’t care about the state of my hair. Joyless bastards, I chuckle. This is where we are in the world. I get scolded for having a cigarette, while the world…
Fucks itself to oblivion.
The city sped by. I was reflecting on why I don’t write much anymore. The answer’s very simple. It’s about what I’ll call Where We Are in Hypercivilization, or Fuck These People. That’s a mouthful, forgive me. We live in times hostile to intellect, LOL, sorry let me correct, we live in world where absolute fucking morons, the kind of people who’ll giggle at YouTube and TikTok all day but haven’t read a book in several years, the kinds of people who adore dictators and think the return of polio’s Something Wonderful, are are in deeply and madly love with…
Fucking themselves to oblivion. Fucking everything into oblivion.
I was wrong, I suddenly thought. There are three questions left to talk about. Or topics, themes. But…they’re useless. Even thinking about them is…pointless. There is no meaning whatsoever to them, and wasting your life on them is a terrible error. Let me explain what I mean.
Question one. How stupid is the average person? How much more stupid can these dumb fucks even get? On a spectrum that ranges from “I can’t name a single great scientist, artist, or writer who ever lived, but I love scrolling influencer-videos on my phone!” to “I’ll set my babies alight if my favorite dictator tells me to!”, just how fucking mind-meltingly idiotic is the average person at this point?
I’m sure the Good Boys will debate this. Oh wait, they already are. Today I saw Ezra Klein and Chris Hayes almost discussing this very theme. Very politely. Please don’t call the idiots fucking idiots. Why, that would be rude! Let us be genteel! Pistols at dawn, my good man! Who knows? Maybe another one of them, whoever the fuck it is, doesn’t matter, will chime in at some point, and they can fix the world with the carefully manicured hand of politesse. Such good boys! Fucking kill me.
There is no point to even asking this question. Not for people like us. We’re the intelligent ones, or at least the ones who cared. We devoted our lives to better things. Art, science, music, science, discovery, enlightenment, truth, beauty, justice, reason. This question—are these people really this stupid?—is useless. You can’t do anything with it. It can’t help us advance one step, or even slow the rate of regress.
Please see that clearly. We’re now debating angels on the head of a pin, like medieval theologians. And while God may or may not exist, human stupidity certainly does, but questioning where the bottom or end is is completely fucking useless. To you, to me, and to human civilization. Because even if we can answer this question, it will yield no scientific breakthroughs, no artistic masterpieces, no musical triumphs, nothing. Just a resounding, guttural cry of pain, echoing into the endless night.
Speaking of the night, let’s come to question two. How long will the Dark Age we’re now entering last? Five decades? Three? A century? More? Again, this is a useless question. There’s no point in debating it, nor is there much point to debating “if” we’re in one.
Remember the Good Boys? Those insipid motherfuckers are still too pants-pissingly polite to even get here. Hell, it’s fucking Caligula in the White House, replete with cage matches. Etcetera. See the signs. The Good Boys never do. Not in the bar, not in the boardroom, and certainly not in the fucking clubhouse of posers preening and grinning and earnestly still telling us “everything will be OK!” LOL, please, just fucking shoot me, good boys, or at least let me have my fucking cigarette, because the world is fucking itself to oblivion.
Question three. What happens now? We all know what happens now. The world plunges into chaos, turmoil, violence, vengeance, theocracy, fascism, and every other form of stupidity and folly, for decades to come, and this is just the beginning. Perhaps a few bright spots of democracy will be left. Canada, parts of Europe, etcetera. Maybe. The rest? It’s cooked. How long will Americans have social security and medicare? Good luck living that life.
Again, this is a useless question. We can’t do anything with it. No science, art, music, truth, beauty, goodness, anything useful or noble or true, can come from it.
So. There are things left to talk about, but—and here’s the painful part, for us intellectuals and artists and scientists and discoverers and explorers and rebels and misfits and revolutionaries and thinkers and poets and scholars, for the lovers among us—they don’t matter anymore. The more time that we waste on them, the more we waste of our precious lives. The more we spin our wheels against the greatest rock of all, the impregnable, immovable spire of human stupidity.
Now let’s talk about what I called “hypercivilization.” That just means…the space of possibilities that a civilization has available to it, or “lives inside.” Think of the other us. The one that didn’t choose to…
Fuck itself to oblivion.
That us went on to do beautiful and noble things. It created, discovered, explored, expanded. It grew into adulthood, past childhood, and its infantile-narcissistic concerns. It matured, and as it did, it came to a semblance of self-understanding, and with that came equanimity and wisdom.
In practical terms, we ended hunger, violence, deprivation, disease, war. We built institutions and systems to do what’s obvious, necessary, good, like educating every single child on the planet, or giving everyone a home, income, resources, dignity. In that us, everyone that wanted to, I don’t know, do a PhD in quantum physics or biochemistry or anything at all could do it for free, because knowledge is the ultimate lever of human prosperity. I could go on, but the point is…
To see us in “hypercivilizational space.” Our set of possibilities imploded. We will never be that us now. Maybe fifty years or a century onwards we can try again. But now? Impossible. We’ve spent too much money on truly fucking idiotic stuff. Because all of these fucking idiots put together…their idiocy didn’t just add…or even multiply…it exponentiated, went thermonuclear, reached critical mass, exploded, started a chain reaction,…these shit-for-brains motherfuckers…
Fucking everything into oblivion.
They’ve destroyed us hypercivilizationally. We will never be what we could have been, and that doesn’t mean we won’t “get there one day,” but it does mean that you and I won’t be alive to see it. Imagine a world where a certain orange guy never happened, and maybe you see my point.So isn’t that absence of what could have been…cruel, evil, terrible? I can’t imagine much worse than that, if I’m honest. To just…
Throw five millennia…of human accomplishment…from democracy to science to art to truth…into…the garbage can…then take a colossal shit on it…then do a victory dance in the foul garbage-shit-slop like you did something wonderful…miraculous…because you’re that much of a fucking idiot.
Is there anything dumber than that? Literally? Stop and think about the sheer mountainous weight of idiocy we’re talking about. Five millennia. Turned to dust.
And so the truth goes like this.
We shouldn’t give a fuck about these people now, or ever again. They’ve proven that they are not worthy of caring about or for. They do not deserve anything from us anymore. Our gifts, which we’ve spent our lives acquiring by the way, must never be wasted in this way. Let me make it very, very clear why.
You want me to help you with…science…art…truth…reason? LOL. After you slit their throats open, bled them out, and then pissed on them? Now you want your money back? Your future? Your democracy, freedom, rights? Law? Justice? Fairness? A country? Now you’re asking me for my fucking help? Are you fucking kidding me?
You’re such a moron you didn’t realize that setting five millennia of human civilization on fire, giving everything you were given, everything you ever had, to fascists, crooks, lunatics, and bastards….all that…didn’t come with a money-back guarantee?
Now you’re asking me for help? All of us? The very ones who told you not to fucking burn down the house because Big Daddy told you the flames would set you free? Now you want to be saved from your own stupidity?
The line to kiss my ass begins over here, motherfucker. Why should I help you now? What’s in it for me? All I can see happening is this. If I do, you get to do this all over again, the moment you’re placated, and I’ve made everything OK all over again, because we know that’s what entitled, grandiose, clueless whiny little bitches always do.
This is a pattern. A cycle. And it’s not working. Should the smart ones go on fixing everything for the fucking idiots, the mess they’ve made, just so they can burn it down all over again two, three, five years from now, the next time they throw a bitch-fit-tantrum and cry for Big Daddy, or should we let them learn their fucking lesson?
All that’s the lesson for us. It’s why the three things we have left to talk about aren’t worth talking about.
Fuck these people. Fuck these absolute staggering morons. Who fucked us all into oblivion. Five millennia. Remember? We’re smart enough not to pay the price, or at least not as much as these absolute shit-for-brains motherfuckers already are. Oh, sorry, you lost your money to the dictator you voted for? Well, shit, Sherlock, now you want democracy back? Oh, now it’s time for me fix all the things you broke? So you can do it all over again?
Fuck you. You made your bed, now lie in it. Don’t ask me to clean up your fucking mess anymore.
Fuck these people. History will damn them. You know it and I know it. But so should we. History begins with us. It always has.
Remember the Good Boys? There they are, pretending like it all didn’t happen the way it did. No, really, it wasn’t people so fucking unbelievably, brain-meltingly stupid they’d burn themselves right down to the bone with sulfuric acid if their beloved dictator asked them all to. They didn’t fuck everything to oblivion. Not their fault! Hey, let’s debate it! Must’ve happened some other way. Spare me this fucking LOL-vomit-inducing intellectual bankruptcy, because the idiocy of throwing five millennia of human civilization away was already a crime too grave to bear. Fucking kill me, just put a razor blade in a bullet and aim it right between my eyes. It’d be faster than Death by Pundits, which is just a slower, more boring sequel to Death By Idiots.
You know what I think? Remember the space of possible civilizations? See where we are now, this fucking nadir, this zenith, this fucking plunge into the abyss? What do adults do? Take responsibility. The intellectualizations at this point are worse than useless, because they waste away the best in us, and we are the best left of all of us, and therefore questions we’re left with aren’t worth talking about for one instant, because if we squander ourselves on that, we’re also throwing our lives away on them, and that has to stop right now, this instant, because we deserve better than Death By Motherfucking Idiots.
Fuck these people. The line to kiss my ass starts way back there, moron. You clean up the mess you made, if you can, I’m not going to save you from shit. Sorry about that. I’m not going to waste one instant of my life anymore trying to save idiots so achingly stupid they took history’s biggest shit all over five millennia of civilization from the bitter, ruinous consequences of their own idiocy anymore, and neither should you. Hey, dummy. You didn’t want a democracy, rights, money, a future, a life, wealth, prosperity? All the nice things that come with science, art, literature, reading books, knowing a fucking thing, truth, reason, beauty, goodness, justice, nobility?
Good job, motherfucker. You’re fucked. Let me step aside so you can enjoy it.
Love,
Umair (and Snowy!)
You’re right. People who are greedy and selfish have destroyed civilization like it was a video game they were trying to win. Adding to that the decline in mental acuity and cognitive rigor… millions upon millions will suffer.
Astrologically, this is a time of turning, with July being ridiculously intense, starting a term of cascading events that continue through the end of this year.
Definitely not a fun time.
This has been predicted since the start of last year. And yes, decades to repair. At the same time, groups of people around the globe have been activated to step forward in this time of turning to serve as nodes of coherence within their communities. Help will come on a community level in the form of collaboration.
Jesus F Christ Umair, at least now we know why you're so incandescent with rage, you're right in the belly of the beast.
Vis-a-vis the US, I agree. As for the rest of the world, we'll see. I think the US hyper capitalist entity is rather like a cancerous growth on the rest of the world.
Eventually, the rest of the world will shut it out and learn to live without it. The US is imploding in every sense, though its cultural collapse is the most visible and far gone.
The rest of the world is recognizing this only now. Perhaps it is too late, but perhaps not. I think Europe and Canada in particular are making smart moves to reorient the world towards a more sustainable future. It will take years, perhaps decades, but eventually we will get there.
Unfortunately the US, like Russia, has chosen the path of fascist collapse. I don't like it any more than you do, but it's their choice, we can't be responsible for their choices, they have to take ownership of it.
As I said before, I'm in Hungary and here I see many signs of healing. Our moronic Trumpian PM has been thrown out, the systems he assembled are being disassembled as we speak, his cronies will face justice soon, propaganda outlets are being shut down, our equivalent of fox news, breitbart, the daily mail is no more, because they can't survive outside the crony system that has been built by far-right populists to maintain them.
Similar signs of healing are visible in the rest of Europe. US tech dependency is being tackled, alternatives are being created, trade routes are being redirected, etc... I think we'll be fine. As for the US, it is up to them to choose their fate, but if they continue choosing fascist collapse, then Europe and Canada will benefit through the brain drain that's already happening, with smart people leaving the US in ever larger numbers.