Why should it be

that evil

never wants for allies

 

while good folk

stand waiting

for support and supplies?

 

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Alone for the Holidays

Recently a friend opined that she was sad and lonely

because none of her family had contacted her during

the Thanksgiving week. I encouraged her that this

was a particularly celebratory piece of news, and I

would feel damned proud if none of my Fam-Damned-ly

ever contacted me again!

It was perhaps not the sought after reaction, but it

was for damned sure a legitimate one!

What's to despair in being alone?

No more being barely tolerated by two-faced

fickle fucks whom you can't stand anyway?

Finding out the hard way that everyone is

fair-weather and unreliable in a real pinch?

Oh wait! I know what lonely and depressed people miss

about being around other people! Being interrupted

and condescended to!

Or perhaps being ignored!

Or maybe it's being treated like you're crazy while

everyone else talks of equally banal and ridiculous

errata and pretends they're fabulous?

No one talks anymore, anyway--they all have their

faces planted in electronics. Who needs a pseudo

'face-to-face' ?

I say "Embrace the aloneness!"

Being alone is enlightening and the ultimate

freedom. Detach from the manufactured

notion that you cannot accomplish or be

satisfied amidst your own company!

Strip down pretense.

Reject compromise.

Abandon 'settling.'

The best writers in the world will tell you,

there's nothing that beats separating from

the rat race to gain perspective and

contentment!

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"Whatever it Takes, Babycakes!"

Survival of the Fittest is, at heart, dependent on the
flexibility of learning old ways aren't working, and
willingness to learn new ones.

Underhandedness is not off the table.
Morality is an outdated concept.
"By Any Means Necessary" is the new standard of
excellence, and slogan for all who wish to see tomorrow.

If 'anything goes,' then the only real answer to halting
someone out to harm you is to end that person mercilessly.
Do or die, baby....you're either the winner or the loser;
there is no in between.

A bullet to the head of an opponent can make things a
bit messy if you don't have the resources for disposal
(or, greasing the hands of necessary accomplices.)

A lack of resources isn't a dead-end, however. One can
attempt to fly under the radar and keep your nose clean.
That doesn't mean staying out of the arena; War can be
waged in all kinds of ways.

And you'd best be prepared to rumble; staying out of the
fight promises nothing. Some will imagine you weak,
even target you as a result of passivity. No rest for the weary.
Eventually, you have to throw down to prove you can.

The problem is we live in a society where the pretense
at least is of a civilized society, and there are certain
agreed-upon standards of behavior that unpopular, poor,
and unconnected people must abide by, lest we wish to
be disappeared into the labyrinth of one institution or
another.

Creativity, hand in hand with bold determination, is our
only counter. Whereas many have wealth, resources,
compatriots, and network to rely on, the rest of us are in
the midst of the dog-eat-dog harsh reality.

Personally, being left with no one and nothing has made me
stronger than ever. I've found depths of pain and gristle I
never knew existed. I have tapped into my animalistic side,
become a warrior and survivalist, and deadened myself to
all weakness.

It's all a part of the process. In this world, in order to
hold your own, everything old must die in order for the
new you to be born. If you want to live badly enough,
that's where it's at.

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