Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Thursday 7 November 2024

The problem with escaping

from the big white/European/Christian/
Abrahamic prison of the mind
is that you're suddenly oppressed
by the freedom to form ideas
enjoyed by Diogenes,

who refused to commit the crime
of optimism.

~

Almost every minute of our waking lives,
encouraged by the solipsistic religions,
we wilfully ignore the titanic
juggernaut of evidence
that we (unlike locusts or red-legged
spider-hunting wasps)
are a blight upon the planet,
and will keep smiling, hoping sadly
or grimly, or with manic
destructiveness right to the finish.



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