Crissy Ridin'

By the time you realize the world is a great spinning blue ball of hypocrisy you are already a hypocrite or very dead. Either ways, by the time you realise it, it is too late.

But not for everyone though. For some, that realisation comes a little before death or “the great conversion”. Your Eureka moment is pointless anyway. This blue ball does not become any less hypocritical. In fact, as soon as the realisation hits you, provided you do not drop dead from the sheer horror of it, you notice covert and not so covert attempts at converting you. How long? perhaps, all your life.

You cannot be against the world; this blue mass will chew you up and spit you out. No, you have to be for it and what other way can you be for the world than by being a big, multi-faced, scheming hypocrite? (Two-faced is for amateurs, you should go pro as soon as you can.)

Take it easy now, what is one to do? Would you rather be dead? What about your kids and or spouse? The questions pile up. Death is out of the question; you must live. Selfish, yes, but that is entirely beside the point. The point IS, on what terms do you accept life?

“The presidency and country was theirs. Not yours or mine, or even the neighbour’s across the street with whom we frequently disagreed on things political. Only theirs. The rest of us somehow neither relevant nor competent and the coffers of ideological purity kept full so the impure were blitzkrieged by money and buried at the starting gates of political contests. “

Robert Ludlum, writing under the pseudonym; Jonathan Ryder, in the introduction to his excellent work, Trevayne.

And if it occurred to anyone what great hypocrisy the whole goddamned planet is and that one said;

 ‘a great abomination indeed, I see the world for what it is but that does not make me so’.

 What then? Well, to quote that good man from Walden; 

“How can a man be satisfied to entertain an opinion merely, and enjoy it? Is there any enjoyment in it, if his opinion is that he is aggrieved? If you are cheated out of a single dollar by your neighbour, you do not rest satisfied with knowing that you are cheated, or with saying that you are cheated, or even with petitioning him to pay you your due; but you take effectual steps at once to obtain the full amount, and see that you are never cheated again.”