anti-manifesto

Apparently the Una-bomber has written another manifesto about the internet and technology.  I am too lazy to read it, although I am sure it's very well-written and well-thought-out and that there are a lot of things in there that would appeal to the anarchist in me who just want to be contrarian for the sake of being one (once you agree with the masses, you need to check yourself).  But you see, I won't ever subscribe to it or be rallied by it because I am a man of little ambition of effecting the world and also a man of ample cynicism and doubt that the world can ever be changed.  Mankind is what it is - selfish, greedy, power-mad, narcissistic.  We repeat history over and over.  Sure, our weapons get fancier, technology gets more advanced, but we take the same course towards self-destruction every time.  All those people like Ted Kaczinsky (or for that matter people like Ghandi), in their own grandiose way, think they can do something to disrupt that march towards madness, with their thousand page manifesto, preaching how the world should be in their fantasy la-la land.  Well guys and gals, it ain't happening no matter what you do.  So why don't you just join me on my apathetic couch and watch some Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and have a laugh or two instead?  Trust me, the end result is the same, but mine is a less painful path there.

Wait - you think I am hopeless and an example of the worst of human nature - that one should always fight the good fight to make the world a better place, regardless of the chance of winning, that if it were up to people like me, the world would never progress and that we would still be in the dark ages.  I offer you this, if everyone was like me, you wouldn't have any fighting to begin with.  People like me would never hurt anybody in the name of ideology and what's right or wrong, because we never feel strongly enough to fuss over such grand themes.  We know we don't know, and we are cool with that.  Black people - cool.  Homosexuality - sure, why not?  You want the Gaza Strip - go for it; there's plenty of land to go around.  I think it's when people think they've figure it out, that they know what's going to make the world "good" and "right," that's when we get in trouble.  Even ISIS thinks it's doing what's just and right by their God.  If nobody bothers with any of that and just want to watch some tv and eat some chips, then where's the conflict?

So I ask, can we please care a little less?  The evils of technology and internet.  The greed of the Western capitalistic pigs.  The oh-so-white Oscars.  Those pesky Mexicans crossing the U.S. border as if to borrow a cup of sugar.  The barbarism of all Muslims.  Global warming and melting ice caps.  You know what I have to say to all that?

West Covinnnnnaaa!!!


What?  You don't like this? You say you don't like musical comedies???  Now, that's crazy talk.  You are definitively, 100% wrong.  Musical comedies make the world a better place.  Let me convince you...