All my blisters now revealed
The sanctity of marriage is a fucking lie.
I'm pissed that it's been given such a starry-eyed legend. That it's every little girl's hope and dream and every male's fucking responsibility. Fucking pissed that this archaic institution, originally devised to buy and sell daughters like cattle and make human beings into financial assets has evolved into this obligation. It's an excuse for two people to pool their economic resources. Without marriage, would people be able to buy houses? Cars? Stocks? What would their incentive be, if not to Provide for the Family? It's that brainwashing to "not be selfish" that makes us kill ourselves for the fucking propagation of the species.
Marriage is a HUMAN INSTITUTION. It was not divinely ordained by a desert god. It's an ancient, socially evolved contraption, the birth pangs of civilization. It's become outdated in the high-tech, self-aware, sexually cultured world.
I feel like declaring myself a hedonist. To just say, people should do what feels right. Fuck stable economy, stable social structure, stable whatever, stability, period.
And the best part of that is, nobody would agree with me. Not to the scale, really, where anything stable would falter. Because people fear; they have no faith in themselves or others. That faith has been crushed from the beginning of civilization. It's been crushed by those who said you had to build walls and sow wheat. Crushed by those who said men must "look after" women. Crushed by those who said blacks were devils to be traded for rum, or that the Indians were savages who needed the light of the desert god. Crushed by those who say we must have corporations (or states) to manage our numeric transactions and the distribution of goods. Crushed by those who say the government must manage freedom, telling us where the limits are. Crushed by those who tell us to lock our doors at night and lock our neighbors from our hearts. Crushed by those who sell us dreams of being rock stars, movie heros, politicians, drug dealers, businessmen, man and wife.
And now I've decided to take a brief hiatus from LJ. I think the over-posting rut I've fallen into lately is good evidence that I need one. I guess this is a periodic thing for me - post more and more for a while, fall into good times, and post nothing, and then, more and more again.
Whatever. You can agree or disagree with me as much as your little heart desires.
Am I bitter?
Am I resentful?
I'm pissed that it's been given such a starry-eyed legend. That it's every little girl's hope and dream and every male's fucking responsibility. Fucking pissed that this archaic institution, originally devised to buy and sell daughters like cattle and make human beings into financial assets has evolved into this obligation. It's an excuse for two people to pool their economic resources. Without marriage, would people be able to buy houses? Cars? Stocks? What would their incentive be, if not to Provide for the Family? It's that brainwashing to "not be selfish" that makes us kill ourselves for the fucking propagation of the species.
Marriage is a HUMAN INSTITUTION. It was not divinely ordained by a desert god. It's an ancient, socially evolved contraption, the birth pangs of civilization. It's become outdated in the high-tech, self-aware, sexually cultured world.
I feel like declaring myself a hedonist. To just say, people should do what feels right. Fuck stable economy, stable social structure, stable whatever, stability, period.
And the best part of that is, nobody would agree with me. Not to the scale, really, where anything stable would falter. Because people fear; they have no faith in themselves or others. That faith has been crushed from the beginning of civilization. It's been crushed by those who said you had to build walls and sow wheat. Crushed by those who said men must "look after" women. Crushed by those who said blacks were devils to be traded for rum, or that the Indians were savages who needed the light of the desert god. Crushed by those who say we must have corporations (or states) to manage our numeric transactions and the distribution of goods. Crushed by those who say the government must manage freedom, telling us where the limits are. Crushed by those who tell us to lock our doors at night and lock our neighbors from our hearts. Crushed by those who sell us dreams of being rock stars, movie heros, politicians, drug dealers, businessmen, man and wife.
And now I've decided to take a brief hiatus from LJ. I think the over-posting rut I've fallen into lately is good evidence that I need one. I guess this is a periodic thing for me - post more and more for a while, fall into good times, and post nothing, and then, more and more again.
Whatever. You can agree or disagree with me as much as your little heart desires.
Am I bitter?
Am I resentful?