But they don't want enlightenment.

They don't fucking want it.

They want the world of chaos, and entropy, and the violent God of Abraham and Isaac, and the bullshit box-canyon promises of religion, politics, and consumerism, and somehow, they think the party will last forever.

Or not.

Maybe that's where the whole doomsday death wish thing comes in.

And perhaps that's why you can't seem to impress upon people that it's ticking down, and we really need to shape up as a species.

Or, sometimes they do see that, but when they see the antidote is what I represent, they react against it.

Because they've been bullshitted with more propaganda.

It's "un-American", or commie, or un-patriotic, and they have an arsenal of slogans to drill into your mind with, and the status quo keeps lurching morbidly along.

And part of the okey-doke, is they'll hide behind the Bible, and when you go after that with logic, there's an arsenal of bullshit for that too.
And when you go through all of that with logic, then there's the old appeal to faith.
And then back to the theology, then faith, theology, faith, theology, faith.
And you quickly figure out it's another ride at the carnival.

And again, it's all just to keep this minority of weasels in charge.
Always has been.

And the whole machine isn't even complicated.
Four or five gears to the thing.

Just a basic setup of fear and greed.

And greed boils down to fear.
Fear of not having enough.
And of course we've got merchants of that whole little "virtue".

And you tell people how to get off the ride, how to be free of the bullshit and fear, and that a better world awaits out the other end of the mess,...and they don't fucking want it.

Because of fear.

And you look at history, and people like me have been holding out the world of truth and enlightenment for centuries, and people just don't fucking want it.

It's like some kind of abused wife situation.

You beg her, and she just won't leave, and won't press charges.

It really is like that, because the world of bullshit doesn't even make people happy.
That's what all the drinking, and drugging, and religions selling death wishes in the form of awful books is about.

And that's "the human condition", for you.

That's the whole ball of wax.

Always has been.

Yet somehow we survive all this bullshit.

And along the way, we go to the moon, and probe the solar system.

But think how much quicker we could've gotten it done, if history hadn't been such a dead crawl, with the ankle weight of bullshit on us.

But again, that's the human condition.

God help us.
Oh, right...