Let's have a drink!

Where all the light hearts at? The world needs you. Not the pablum, not the manufactured products like every-goddamn-comic-book-movie-ever, but the frivolous folk. Not The Monkees, but The Beatles. The GoBots, not The Transformers.

I'll admit there's a lot of horrible in T&J, but I still see less overall than in Disney. Disney's just as bad, morally, and tells a far falser tale about reality. That kayfabe shit really is the root of all evil. I want to break my isolation by putting a pair of tighty whities on my head and sit at a card table with a sign, "join my cult", but I have no doubt some blue soldiers would be visiting shortly to move me along. I had my humor-only coping mechanism forced on me, and am begging anyone I meet to teach me the other way, to help bring me more back to the center of the bell curve in this kind of stuff, but there really is a benefit to digging as deep into humor as you need to go when the going starts getting rough.

Not much actually helps as a coping mechanism for truly horrible shit. Basically, suppression, humor, and emotional support from other people are our three choices. Suppression needs to be temporary; the longer you suppress something the more bullshit with which you will have to deal when it comes out.

Emotional support from other people rocks the house in, but Terry Pratchett explained all the philosophy you need to know regarding other people:

You can't trust anyone and there's nothing you can do about it so let's have a drink.

There is nothing new under the sun; people have been digging up the big answers since the dawn of time. History is littered with our corpses. Look for anyone who rode the booze-to-bullet arc. We tend to write shit down.

Bye bye.

There's an interesting postscript to this story. I ran into Gomer on a train later, and he was supposedly running around doing research for his Prof in Grad School. I am now about thirty-five 6-year-olds in some psyche journal somewhere.

Tolkien sucks.

© 2023 Poloniousmonk

Thanks to Tunechick83 from Pixabay for sharing the lonely log cabin image.

I was going to submit this to a memoir contest, but it became something else. Only 7 pages double spaced, but if you tunnel down every linked rabbit hole it is "War and Peace" sized. Hell, just Mil's page can keep you entertained for hours. Ditto Maddox. Please visit the original version on Substack for all the links.