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Victim. Consumer.
How do you know you're a victim?
We're not getting any cleverer, you and I. Bottom-feeders feed on. We are down.
There is nothing underneath us. Dark color and electrolytes, polymers
and chintz, like water, flow downhill, which means we are at the BOTTOM, or below it. Dig?
Don't dig. If you dig down below bottom line, you float. Don't dig, there must be
something better to do with your yen for work, and your shovel. Or here we are, down
deep. Broke through the crust. We don't fall. You don't fall. You
don't fall to the center of the earth (we are not dense enough). You don't fall through
to China (china is on the OTHER SIDE of the gravity well, it is above us, in the satellite sky).
China is where all the plastic stuff is coming from, what used to be called Heaven. We are not
in heaven. We just float.
Saw your first ship sink and drown
From rocking of the boat.
And all that could not sink or swim
Was just left there to float
- - Ship of Fools
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Victims are cool. Hyenas who get eaten by Lions, or sled dogs that get gutted by polar
bears, or baby elephants who drown for no good reason. Dope. The wisdom that every ten-dollar
dope dealer knows is that he has been played. O victim and stroke me. Assuage my bad
deeds. A player is one who gets played. Every Republican knows what victim means. It
means blubbering. Which part of dog-eat-dog do you not understand? Watch out for my
well-trained police force. We are tired of blubbering.
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What claims victims? If we are victims, of what are we victims? Victims are victims of
predators. Duh.
Anybody who is happier than you are is probably opressing you. This is most obvious when somebody is
richer, better educated, prettier, has better sex, knows funnier and more lively friends, and drives a nicer car than
you do. But it is equally true of a poor uneducated loser with no prospects, lots of debt, no leisure time,
plenty of painful diseases, and no friends, but who is, nonetheless, happier than you are.
The mathematics ain't not so simple. Victimnity is not just the inverse ratio of
happiness. It is frequently true that you are happier than those who oppress
you. So it does no good to go looking for happy people, because THEY are not,
necessarily, making you a victim.
You can do something about being a victim. That's a rule. If you can't escape,
if NOBODY can escape, then we're not really victims. Gravity, except for outer
space folk, smooshes all of us, and it doesn't do much good to get resentful. So we do not suffer gravity as a victim.
Same with death. No point in getting indignant. You are going to die.
Pollution. Does pollution claim victims? Bullets. Do bullets claim victims?
Let us take the case of Juanita Wellrock. She got cancer from the DDT in the paint on the baseboards
of her parent's apartment. She suffered a long time, searched for a release from pain, got hooked
on heroin. She was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and she got shot in the head.
Dead. Most people agree she was a victim. The mayor gave a speech about the evils of poor
pest control choices (pollution) and the evils of using hollow-point bullets in drive-by shootings
(bullets). Just kidding. The mayor did not actually hear about the incident.
What's the standard Mayoral answer here? "Poor Juanita was a victim of _______________."
Depends on your agenda. Why go hunting for predators? Nobody looks for predators. All
the predators are labeled and every single one has a society founded to kill it.
We just choose one. Pollution. Bullets. A lack of mayoral interest in the underserved
communities of our cities. Marketing. Media. The Man.
Well there's always sex. It feels good even without a frame of reference. Oh. Oh.
Sex is a frame of reference.
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