i am entering a state of confusion, which is not the dandiest thing one can enter. The State of Confusion borders Insanity, the land of chaos. It is paradoxically the moment of greatest artistic expression, although at the sacrifice of the more immediate responsibilities, which are at the source of the stay in the State of Confusion.

We spend our entire lives putting and keeping things in order, but when we die, it all returns to chaos. Why bother?

The smell of Chinese food attaching to your clothes, hydrogenated oil atoms floating from the pan onto your woolen coat and my face. Let us toast, cup in hand, cigarette in fingers, to the remaining days. There is money, and there is culture. Money laughs at culture, it says culture doesn't feed. "I feed the soul and free the mind, whereas you imprison" it responds. At the end of the day Culture starves to death and Money lives up to 87 in a state of emptiness and depression.

Life, life, life, life, life... The less you worry, the more you live. The less you think, the more you do. The more you do, the more you risk. The more you risk, the higher chance you might pass. The more you survive, the more life means. Or you could be a Quaker and be happy.

Origins

The other day I was talking to a fundamentalist who believed the Book was completely literal in its ideas, including that of Genesis. He disproved of evolution, while I defended evolution. But when I defended evolution I thought to myself 'what crap is flowing out of my mouth' so that I ultimately reached a conclusion: that I believed in neither, but rather, that the distant past is meaningless. Sure, many would argue that Genesis gives man a purpose in life as he is created by the Dude, and evolution, well, evolution just wanted to say that the Dude didn't make it, but rather that we naturally came to be. Nevertheless, for both I conclude that we are and what are you gonna do about it? To be or not to be, that is the question, not necessarily how we came to be. It matters enough that I came from a human to know that I am human, and that now that I am human I have a responsibility that goes with it: the responsibility of surviving with the least amount of pain or suffering.

Capitalistic Greed, WiFi and Bad Coffee

I heard from my brother (Mysanthropist) that Starbucks[TRADEMARK!] and T-Mobile[TRADEMARK!] have joined corporate forces to charge customers for WiFi services ($19.99 a month or $10 for a day-pass).

You mean to tell me that two of the biggest corporations in the world are unable to afford complimentary WiFi?! And it is especially so when there is a small mom-and-pop coffeehouse down the block, with a fraction of the monetary clout that these two business leviathans possess, offering free wireless Internet.

*Inhale* Ahhh, I love the smell of unstoppable capitalism and bad coffee in the morning...