I find that in life, human beings and the systems they set up for themselves are inherently flawed. We have the ability to conceive of incredibly, singularly diverse thoughts and ideals but we have no way to communicate them. Our natural reaction to this? Get frustrated and grow angry with the inability, and thus let negativity overrun our personal ideals and destroy them. The United States of America was founded on the ideals of freedom and the protection of individuality; while we kept this, we discovered that we couldn't just live on said concepts and needed production: even today, we retain the ideals of individuality and personal choice and design, but demand industriousness and singularity from the nation to provide for itself. This is why we live in relative chaos. This is why human beings ARE chaos. We conceive of thoughts our own minds aren't yet prepared to handle, yet we keep them despite the chaos it causes us: why? Some kind of instinctual choice, a hope that if we do so our brains that we find so large will keep stretching themselves out, keep evolving, and that one future version of humanity might comprehend those thoughts we can only grab at? Or do we just choose to grab too much at once, and in doing so lose the ability to live life itself--and what constitutes living life? If "cognito ergo sum" applies, that excessive overthinking is the purest form of life there is--but it causes such utter chaos in one's mind that it becomes utterly impossible to actually enjoy life itself, because one begins to analyze and contemplate every possibility, every last thing they see and hear and sense, and in doing so torture themselves with the throes of their own damned minds. Is our basest philosophy incorrect? Do we damn ourselves with thought? And if our ability to think such things is an improvement over our old Neanderthal selves, is the human race doomed to become a race of overthinkers, contemplating life endlessly and never truly experiencing it? Or, by that logic, are we actually devolving, and has the golden age of our existence passed us up? Am I even thinking further as I hit the keys, or..no, that ideal is lost. As are so many others.
Good lord, being a confused teenager sucks ass.
-carl, potential death
Go bash your head against a rock for a few hours and then come back.
If the only things on your mind after that are "women", "booze", and "where's my hat?", then you'll be cured.
[ 01-06-2002: Message edited by: Elethi ]
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Elethi had this to say about Captain Planet:
Kids, this is what happens too heavy Porn Maniacs after a while.
Well crap... 
But don't give up, in giving up you lose your hope of understanding yourself, then you will be truely lost to chaos.
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Leopold, the Voice of Reason had this to say about (_|_):
some crazy stuff
well, looks like im screwed either way
"You have no idea what your talking about!"
live that way and youlive happy
but what do i know i have no idea WTF im talking about
lets dance now! *dances randomly*
