Dear Sir,
The distinguished and hairy members of the The Buzzard Group would like to inform you that if you do not proceed with your stated purpose of your blog, Stories from the Ether, we will be forced to remove all of the toilet seats and toilet paper from your home. Tootle Do.
Regards,
TBG
To further demonstrate the seriousness of the aforementioned threat, it was delivered by the below individuals:
The giant demon samarai played guitar while Norman Bates in momma-drag sang the message. Look how animated he was. I think Boba was just there for some muscle. They all rode in on the giant lizard. Don't worry too much, non-Buzzards, they were not as big as they appeared.
So, now to the actual introduction of the story.
Solitary Man stemmed from two sources: a song and a book. The song is called Age of the Freak, by Stardeath and White Dwarfs. As I listened to the song, I kept picturing someone "freakish" being locked away in a cellar. At the time I was also reading a wonderful book called
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do
, by Michael J. Sandel.
Sandel reviews the ideas of several prominent thinkers in the areas of freedom and justice, two of which are Immanuel Kant and Jeremy Bentham. Kant's ideas of how social structures, in essence, manipulate the subjective perception of individuals, prohibiting them from being free and Bentham's Utilitarianism ended up playing heavily in the story. (Lost fans may remember a character going by the name Jeremy Bentham for a short time. A character, incidentally, who is named John Locke, another British Enlightenment philosopher...gives you a whole new insight into the show.) Anyhow, these concepts were not the primary intent in writing the story, however. The intent was to create a creepy world.Hope you enjoy the story. Future installments will come every week or so.
Solitary Man
This story has been removed as it will be published in the June 2011 edition of Deadman's Tome.
1 comment:
Hey now, wait a minute!
Who’s to say I need to gather information from the past to form a valid opinion in the present!? Statistics, poppy-cock! Why should I waste time or money analyzing data from the past when the answers of today are found in the events of tomorrow?
Listen to Dr. Bob! The observations of today direct the actualization of yesterday and the reality of today is informed by the actualization of tomorrow. The effect is the cause of the cause & the cause is the effect of the effect. So, what’s the point trying to measure objective reality when there clearly isn’t one?
The choice of how to approach this fantastically mysterious reality of ours is up to each of us, and there is no way for any one person or opinion forming strategy to justly dominating any other; only fear motivates us to try. We can either believe in a verifiable objective reality in which cause & effect are a dominant law or we can believe Intelligence (Singular &/or individual) is the master of the physical present, future & past. Preferably, we can live by a philosophy that simultaneously values both in dynamic equilibrium.
Matter may move forward in time but information moves backward, intelligently. When the two collide we are capable of experiencing realities most extraordinary event, its only meaningful event, its only existent event … NOW. In which, we have available all the information needed to fully experience the physical moment as it truly is, for just what it is, beyond description. Other than this moment, all we can ever really know is that there is an ultimate end to everything. Without that, there could never have been a moment to inform the universe of its beginning not to mention its unfolding.
With the actualization of the end of the universe, every preceding moment was realized all the way back to the ‘Big Bang’. In the beginning, a single piece of matter was encoded with the entire unfolding of the universe because it had already happened; only in death is birth conceived (So, you better die someday or you will never have been born!). Alpha & Omega, I guess, the end & the beginning are one & the same. We experience the unfolding of it in one direction while the unfolding itself is realized in reverse. Maybe that’s God, the single thought at the end of the universe. Its Information rippling backward through time, encoding each moment as it goes along, back to the Beginning … And, God said, Let there be Light! …
And, where exactly is this tangent going? Nowhere ... you know me I do this. Live with it!
Oh yeah, now I remember, Confirmation Bias: "In psychology and cognitive science, confirmation bias is a tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions, leading to statistical errors." What a bunch of crap! Who cares what the shrinks say, they're all crazy!
And here I thought Karma was carried on from my past life. Who woulda thought, my empty bank account is the result of mistakes I haven’t made yet!? F@#k the financial planners, they don’t know shite ;-)
Merry X-mas Bro,
D. A. (card carrying member of TBG…Be afraid, be very afraid!)
(PS. I told you I’d read it and I like the schizo approach, good job!)
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