Punchline

If you accept that life is a joke,
then you can appreciate it.


The trick is, you've got to be able to see the joke first, before you can laugh at it.

That starts with cultivating a little awareness.

And a little detachment doesn't hurt either.

Think of every decent person you've ever known who, in spite of doing everything they were supposed to, ended up penniless an alone at the end.

Or every shameless shifty cocksucker who falls ass backwards into money and easy living, who attributes their success to hard work and perseverance when you know damn well they've never raised a callous on their soft soft hands.

Every loyal employee who's been with their company so long that all the skills they had going into the job are outdated.

Who's employer no longer needs to worry about keeping them.
Who's only three avenues of escape are unemployment, incarceration, or suicide.

Every honest dedicated individual you've ever met who was mercilessly screwed so that some unworthy shiesty fuck could maintain the sort of comfort the rest of us cannot even dream about.

Every practical demonstration that the reward for loyalty is eternal and increasingly demeaning servitude.

Every case study offering absolute proof that the only way to succeed in this world is to defy the conditioning so many of us receive in our early years.

Honesty, decency, loyalty, charity, humanity, humility, hard work.

Doing the right thing.

The 'Golden Rule'

The 'Noble Poor'

Convenient fictions, designed to keep us all in the dirt where we supposedly belong.



But I get the hairy eyeball when I tell folks that my goal for the new year is to be a worse person than I was the year before.


Now tell me that isn't fuckin funny?