
Tintypographer
I am done as of 4-21-2023. Somewhere I am no more
- Apr 29, 2020
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I keep coming back to the loop that nothing matters. I am not so naive as to assume philosophers much smarter that I have already thought of this. But I began realizing the absurdity of having to rationalize our failures.
Let's ay your only dream was to become a professional figure skater. You work through the program but don't make it. You spend your life depressed because this was your only dream and you want nothing else in the world.
On the other side say you dream of it and you get there and you hate it. Or you love it. But no matter what someone loses and can't ever achieve their dream.
We are stuck in a world where society really wants most of humanity to be irrelevant. We don't want other's problems or concerns to be relevant, we fear losing relevance and we act to try and remain relevant but the programs, systems and bureaucracies work to minimize that relevance. Because being relevant is a commodity. If anyone could do it then it would lose its value.
And I think that the worst thing in the world for those who are relevant is having people stop caring about their relevance.
And if someone takes their own life then it says to everyone, "you are not relevant to me!".
That's what upsets people the most. You can't ever try and make someone feel bad. If a murdered takes their own life before trial, the family of the victim is angry that they are not relevant. If you take your life because you are a failure then all those people who "want to see you succeed as teachers or mentors" become less relevant. Your friends become less relevant.
But you no longer have to care.
Let's ay your only dream was to become a professional figure skater. You work through the program but don't make it. You spend your life depressed because this was your only dream and you want nothing else in the world.
On the other side say you dream of it and you get there and you hate it. Or you love it. But no matter what someone loses and can't ever achieve their dream.
We are stuck in a world where society really wants most of humanity to be irrelevant. We don't want other's problems or concerns to be relevant, we fear losing relevance and we act to try and remain relevant but the programs, systems and bureaucracies work to minimize that relevance. Because being relevant is a commodity. If anyone could do it then it would lose its value.
And I think that the worst thing in the world for those who are relevant is having people stop caring about their relevance.
And if someone takes their own life then it says to everyone, "you are not relevant to me!".
That's what upsets people the most. You can't ever try and make someone feel bad. If a murdered takes their own life before trial, the family of the victim is angry that they are not relevant. If you take your life because you are a failure then all those people who "want to see you succeed as teachers or mentors" become less relevant. Your friends become less relevant.
But you no longer have to care.