What if we all just quit one day?

I know you've thought about it.

What would happen if we shrugged off our burden and screamed "No!" to the invisible forces, demand there and now, as one, our toils are worth more than you pay for them, our LIVES are worth more than your paper, your wood, your metals, your trails of ink and wood, leading to an unfullfilling anticlimax, more than a slow but steady decline into pessimism that eats at us inside till we blow our worthless heads off and let the body absorb into the matrix.

What would They, who are "They?", do? How would they react? They are Gods among men, those bastards. They can control us simply by showing us Hell, giving us a taste, so that we might join their dark legions instead by tasting that Promethean suffering just so it stings us enough to cling to what little They let us have.

Television is a fucking fraud. Film industry too. Good things get made, but at the end they're selling you a filthy pack of lies. Education is the answer, we just got too lazy to keep it up somewhere. I'm proudest of our Teachers, our fellows who found its importance and devoted their very lives to it, aware of the meager repayment they'd receive by THEM for their efforts, aware of its virtual worth. I'm proudest of you most of all, but what does anyone care what I think? I'm just a bum, hovering in the ether between paths, trying to be good, trying to lean to the right, to fall into goodness with the teachers and the doctors and the EMTs and the firefighters and ESPECIALLY the missionaries. Good on you, Do-Gooders.

I am proud of those that Create. New and better things. The yo-yo, the bubble pipe, the lava lamp, the Everlasting Gobstopper that lasted till your teeth hit it, the jujubes fresh out the fridge, the throbbing cavities in our moth-ridden teeth made better by magic matter plunged in the empty spaces until they blacken and fall from our mouths. We don't need our teeth, but they'd better stay white, goddamnit. /satire

Food Blogger For Dummies. Who buys that Shit? They're out of the evolutionary chain. So are people who treat people as property, not a fellow human being.

A haunting thought paralyses me. What if we ALL stand up? What if we stand up to face THEM only to face ourselves?