As
readers of this blog know well, no event is random, and no situation
should be assumed to be without consequence but all of them should be
analyzed and re-analyzed for their deeper meaning and for clues to
our mysterious future and probable doom.
In
this search for meaning in our pointless lives, sometimes the use of
the Esoteric Knowledge is necessary but sometimes it is not.
In this case, no esoteric knowledge is required to see our stark
choices. The future is only too clear.
First
review my little post about my former living conditions at 270 Riverside Drive
to understand the situation. Now lets ask some questions about what
living there might have meant.
At
the time I was living there, I was vaguely aware of how lucky I was
and that this was a situation that would be hard to recreate were it
to ever go away, which inevitably it must. In part that was mixed in
with my conclusion that living there also allowed me to live in
Manhattan which was itself quite a blessing. But beyond that, what
did it mean?
What
was really going on, I conclude in retrospect, is that through an
artifact of the ancient rent control laws of Manhattan, themselves
left over from a more Socialist period when, briefly, the living
conditions of the poor and disenfranchised were a concern, however
modest, of our political elite. Through a series of lucky breaks,
I had been permitted to live in a situation that I could otherwise
never afford. But even more important, this was a living situation
that I also did not deserve.
This is where the lower animals deserve to live
You
see, in America, it is only the rich who are permitted to live in a
way that their life is enhanced and ennobled. The rest of the
population, by the very definition of being not-rich, are a lower
animal form who are unworthy of any of this. They should live
in dreary poverty, stupid stucco dingbats, or endlessly similar
suburban housing, where they can pay inflated rents and mortgages,
buy from chain supermarkets, and live out what is left of their
so-called lives as servants of the rich.
The
kind of lifestyle I had when at 270 RSD was thus completely anomalous
and should not be allowed to occur and in general it does not. My
choices now are to live in poverty and despair or in some way prove
myself by making in excess of many tens of millions of dollars, no doubt through entrepreneurial activity
or, to judge from the history of great fortunes in America,
through various types of theft, crime or amoral and sociopathic behavior.
This does not seem like such a hard lesson to learn, but somehow it is.
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