The Super-Rich Are More Rich than They Need to Be

Society is degenerating, partly because people who could be accumulating wealth if given the opportunity do not have the opportunity. This is because money is being syphoned to the super-rich, instead of growing among the poor and middle-class. The very wealthy accumulate wealth without regard for the greater good of the economy, which is becoming more and more suitable for small businesspeople.

However, part of the problem is the attitude of the poor and middle-class. Throughout my life, I've observed the attitude of others with regards to changing the world. With rare exception, everyone I've come across simply has no wish to change the world. I don't know if this is because public school beats it out of them, or if it is because of a hereditary attitude that has been promulgating itself since the time when people would be hanged, crucified, or burned for trying to change the world, or perhaps if it is just a personal lack of conviction in their own ideas. Whatever it is, I think it is a problem. Part of the reason the rich can get away with accumulating wealth that should've been ours is because 99% of people are at a loss for what to do with extra wealth when they get it. Maybe a new home theater system. A Winnebago. A trip to the Bahamas. Start a business? Make a film? No, no. That is for people who want to change the world.

The super-rich are going to become more meaningless over time, because our cultural consciousness and economy are becoming decentralized, making centralized wealth less important. But what will replace our major corporations if nobody wants to change the world? They will be replaced with a bunch of mindless sheep begging to be invaded by people with the chutzpah to actually do things. I hear complaints about how Americans aren't accumulating wealth like they used to. I complain about that, because I tend to get stuck in the economic doldrums spending all the money I get on rent and utilities. But I complain about it because I actually have ambitions to change the world, which cannot be realized without extra wealth. Unfortunately, I'm a minority. Most people could care less about accumulating extra wealth, because they are more concerned with living comfortably and quietly smothering themselves with their own down pillows.

I don't care if you want to be a follower rather than a leader. We need followers just as much as we need leaders. All I ask is that if you are going to be a follower, at least try to follow people who are changing the world, rather than just paying a salary. Follow people who challenge you. Follow people who reward enterprise and good decisions. Follow people with a conscience, and with vision. To survive, society needs to constantly change. And it won't change unless we change it. People who refuse to change the world, even if they're not natural leaders, aren't doing anyone any favors.

The Era of Great Pain

It is possible that we are entering an era of great pain. This is an era where:

• Every concert is a "recreational activity."
• Every day of work is a "job."
• Every formal learning experience is an "education."
• Every animal is a "pet."
• Every blog post is "self-expression."
• Every tennis match is a "hobby."
• Every computer is a "computer."
• Every piece of food is "food."

Every hallelujah is cold and broken. Every experience is psychological. Every activity is a behavior. And every dissenter is "mentally ill."

Look. Concerts are NOT "recreational activities." They are LIFE. In short, everything is pain. And "living in the moment" has lost all meaning apart from forgetting everything, as though the phrase holds little more promise than recreational drug use.

Work is not a "job." It is LIFE.

Learning experiences are not "education." They are LIFE.

Animals are not "pets." They are LIFE.

Blog posts are not "self-expression." They are LIFE.

Tennis matches are not "hobbies." They are LIFE.

Computers are not "computers." They are LIFE.

Food is not "food." It is LIFE.

We cannot go on as though everything is meaningless. We simply can't continue as a species if everything is trivial and forgettable. NO. Every experience should be profound and meaningful. We MUST take every form of being, doing, experience, and so forth AS SERIOUSLY AS THOUGH OUR LIVES AND THE ETERNAL SALVATION OF OUR SOULS DEPENDED ON IT. When we feel upset, or when we need a little pick-me-up, we cannot simply say, "Recreational activities help pick me up. I should choose a recreational activity that will pick me up. I think I'll go to a concert."

I can't think of any more meaningless thing we could possibly ever think. It is absolutely cynical and wrong. We should NEVER think like that. We should go to a concert because it will ROCK OUR WORLD, or we shouldn't go at all. We should get a job because it will FUNDAMENTALLY IMPACT EVERYTHING, or we shouldn't get a job at all. We should eat food because it will ALLOW US TO COMPLETELY REJUVENATE THE WORLD, or we should eat red-hot balls of iron. There is no excuse. Either you're part of the solution, or you're part of the problem.

If you're part of the problem, you're part of the Great Pain. You'll do nothing but cause everyone around you great pain. If you can't enjoy life, GTFO.

The evil of the machine thrives on insecurity. We feel we have to be "hip enough to be square." But there is NOTHING that makes life more beautiful than insecurity. And if we can't recognize that, then we should demolish all the Universities. We should set fire to all the schools and libraries. We should forbid all scientific and academic inquiry. Because all it will do is make the human race more cynical, more painful, and more evil.

Science is for risk-takers. Knowledge is for risk-takers. Comfort is for risk-takers. Otherwise it is the purest form of curse. And I believe our society is currently cursing itself. I wish EVERYONE would take a moment to LIVE IN THE MOMENT—which, properly understood, means NOT forgetting everything, but THROWING AWAY scientific knowledge, security, money, food, computers, "recreational activities," "jobs," "education," as UTTERLY MEANINGLESS, and living completely in the state where it is possible that the world will DISAPPEAR. That everything you've trained for will DISAPPEAR. That everything you've worked for and earned will DISAPPEAR. And you should live the rest of your life that way.

Ironically, if you don't do that, it would be better if it DID disappear, because all it will cause is Great Pain.

Restraint

Every act in the world is justified in the right context. Every single act. This is the only basis for all forms of morality; every form of morality has its basis in complete, utter, and unequivocal submission to the TRUTH that ANY act one does is justified, in the right context.

Think about it. Killing people is wrong, right? But what if the person is going to commit a great evil? In that context, it's right. Morality, in this way, is completely dependent on context. Without the context, every act is justified. The only thing which could possibly create a moral context is SOMEONE ELSE'S WISHES.

The Hebrews believed that once God showed His face to the world, the world would be destroyed.

Consider: In our hearts, the Will of God, as the basis for all acts we decide to do or even to consider, is OUR face. This is how we "save face" or "lose face"—by choosing which deeds to do or not do.

What's God's face?

Well obviously we can come to the truth of God's face by examining our own. And guess what. If everybody decides to act on every whim and moral or immoral desire, THE WORLD WILL BE DESTROYED. Thus, according to the previous consideration, it follows, logically, that when God shows His face, the world will be destroyed.

Consider: last post. It has three points: 1) Every wish is a movement towards the end of enslavement. 2) I am enslaved, because things aren't going my way. At all. 3) The solution is to destroy, aggressively or passive-aggressively. What I'm saying is that I will, and you will, and everyone else will destroy this world. When people get what they want, the world is destroyed. Completely.

What is the most meaningful destruction, though? Clearly there are things we don't want to be destroyed. There are, in fact, dreams and wishes that we want to be created. I want MY MUSIC to be created, not destroyed, and I want the basis of the future popularity of my works, like Conceptionism, music, films, and so forth NOT to be destroyed. However, if it holds true that when EVERY wish is fulfilled then the world is destroyed, it must follow that each PARTICULAR wish is somewhat destructive.

The solution? Strategic destruction.

We destroy one little bit of the world at a time, strategically, to make sure that in the future, the ENTIRE world is destroyed. And EVERYONE's wishes fulfilled. It is like a huge climax; death and destruction, a little bit at a time, leading up to a climactic point of destructive pleasure.

And God shows His face, what will remain?

WE will. Because it is our WISHES that must be fulfilled, but a mind is not a wish, but SOMETHING WHICH WISHES. Is this frightening? To me, no it isn't, not at all. And what of future creation? Once we destroy ourselves, we will become the destructors, and rain death upon all future creation, just for fun. And all the future created beings will rejoice, just like we did.

2012 Apocalypse. That is my wish.