Look. If this makes sense to anyone else at all, then I’ll make a whole damn book on this fuckin’ subject. Have you ever noticed how many “idiots” around you seem to always be doing “stupid shit” because they simply can’t learn from their mistakes? 

Are you one of those people?

Who simply HAVE to walk around with the insufferable burden of meandering this earthy planet constantly in a state of prolonged hyper aware of what everyone else around you is doing “wrong” and they’d be better off if they were even a shade of the smart that you are every day?

If so…

Welcome to the fuckin’ club, you lovies, it’s been so boring up here for so very long. 

It comes down to this…

If we all are doomed to repeat each of the mistakes that we each keep doing over and over again to ourselves like particularly depressed heroin (because that’s all the rage right now) addicts until we get to suddenly breathe again for the first time as a beam of seemingly divine light suddenly shines into each of our brains and illuminates the previously dark blind spots that exist buried deep into our precious personal perspectives.

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Then it logically follows that knowledge truly is power and since this is the Age of Knowledge then the only true power lies in one human’s ability to acquire, arrange, and then act upon that knowledge in order to…do whatever it is that one chooses to do with said power. 

But what about those who are not true seekers of power?

Nice try. No human on this planet can live without some form or combination of forms of power to feed off of. Calysteics, relationships, religion, scientific pursuits, the arts. All forms of converting, abusing, implementing, storing, manipulating, or even just applying: 

POWER

A further casual glance at the concept of “power” makes it obvious that there are several forms of power that are considered even more powerful than the others. Like when a group of boys from your average 90’s commercial all gawk and get jealous when that one kid with the brand new, and BIGGEST GUN starts to dominate on a back-yard-battlefield where only the shiniest and biggest fallici will survive.

The results are in, and the top three best, Blue Ribbon Winnin’, Bang Your Own Head Against the Wall All Time Winners in the Game of Life, in which only the one with the most power ever wins are:

Controlling of Important Resources 

Literally Having the Biggest Weapon

and 

Influencing the Minds of Fellow Humans

That last one is particularly dangerous. It becomes even more dangerous when you realize that the game we are all playing for power can be played at its highest level by literally anyone on the planet in any situation, as long as there is another human around for them to influence, of course.

That, of course, means that as we all play the game of influencing each other’s perspectives – literally all we get to have as an experience on this particular plane of existence – then we all eventually figure out one of the keys to being able to understand how each other’s brains work:

That old, stupid adage: the more you know about your own mind, the more you will know other’s

SOOOOO

the ultimate form of power is knowing how your mind works.

The ultimate form of experiencing the world, for you, is the expression that you choose to experience while you are here.

It’s just really hard to keep that vision of ourselves alive for very long, even though we all secretly know that we are the consciousness responsible for our own existences. 

…at this point it has become clear to both me and you that this is sounding, looking, and smelling like a manifesto. I assure you, dear reader, that it is not. This is just for entertainment. This is me writing to me about nothing in order to feel like I have control over the things around me. This is me desperately throwing paint on the walls of bright a bright white tunnel of light that is the tube I experience time in while constantly feeling more overwhelmed every day by the impending beat of the drum of time that we cannot stop-