What I want to say is life is for idiots, but that’s not entirely true. There are plenty of smart people who enjoy life. What I mean to say is life is for people who have lousy memory. Or the ability to delude or deny memory, same thing. I don’t know how else anyone can bear the ever increasing burden.
The other day I had to drive 5 miles. I avoid driving because apparently it often ends with me smashing into a pole, a guardrail or some concrete pylon. Uncontrollable, and I mean fullass uncontrollable suicidal impulses come to a boil when I’m in control of such a potent suicide device as a car. I know enough to always hit inanimate objects, at least there’s that line of code working, but other than that all bets are off. So anyway I had to drive 5 miles.
Back to the subject of this post, the memories, the flashbacks kept playing in front of my eyes like a jumbotron. I don’t remember seeing the road, much less being able to focus on where it went. Those horrible visions were stronger, more real, than any neural impulses being transmitted down the optic nerve. At one point I realized what was happening and I couldn’t believe it. Not that what was happening was anything weird, but I couldn’t believe that every car on the road wasn’t smashing into everything because who the hell can drive like this? Certainly nobody who possesses the ability to remember, the obligation, the compulsion to remember.
And that’s when it dawned on me. People don’t remember! Simple as that. It’s a planet of amnesiacs. Because if people remembered, their brains would get saturated with every passing second, as if you were constantly recording in 4K, recording video & audio for years and years and decades on end, and simultaneously playing everything back in no particular order on that jumbotron in front of your optic nerve. This isn’t insanity, it’s simply how the device works. So why isn’t everyone smashing their car into everything?
It’s because everyone—everyone else—is programmed with a divine flaw. Amnesia. The only way to survive is to keep forgetting, forget faster than you can pack new memories into the sack of *** that is your brain. Time heals all wounds, and all that bullshit. What they really mean is: all hail amnesia.
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You’re close! It’s not amnesia, but acceptance. They haven’t forgotten, they’ve processed it and have chosen to move on in peace, because the alternative is keeping things and staying miserable. Acceptance, not amnesia 🙂 but similar
I suppose you’re right. Forgetting is just 1 way of processing it. My parents have a long history of forgetting, so that’s how I was “taught” to process life’s ugliness.
It’s not amnesia- those who manage to get along with life just fine are those 1- with money and have no real concerns in life 2- idiots who are too stupid to know any better and 3- yes, those who have “accepted” that this is just how life is. They don’t question it, they don’t fight it like we do. We who do, wind up depressed af.
High IQ has a lot to do with depression. I was talking to an online “friend” about this. People who are dumb, don’t know any better, or people who just don’t care to question anything- are chugging along way more “well adjusted” than those who question the narrative.
The most brilliant minds in history- almost all of them have had documented severe depression (or other mental ailments). Those who are well aware of the corruption and inescapable reality that the rich and powerful and corrupt have their boots on our necks, in every way possible.
God, life is depressing…
I agree and that’s what I don’t understand about nature & evolution. You’d think (and on the whole this is true I think?) that intelligence is rewarded by nature. Intelligent animals figure out efficient ways of living which ensures their survival and comfort – nature’s “reward”.
But with truly advanced intelligence, not just regarding their immediate survival needs but the big picture, like you said the state of society, the state of the world, these intelligent animals get fucked. Depression, mental health disorders, suicide. All because we think of more advanced things than what’s for dinner.
Like literally, I don’t understand how nature could’ve fucked up so bad, unless I’m missing something.