Sick Of It

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

Lunch is for wimps.

Whoever dies with the most cash wins.

Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.

If you're so smart, why ain't you me?

I said all of that - and more - on the daily. Of course, I'm always careful to let myself off the hook with the disclaimer that I was just indulging in some dark and humorous irony - like I didn't really mean it.

But I did. Somewhere deep down, I meant it. I must have meant it, because I lived it.

And it caught on in a big way, because not only did an awful lot of people take it all very seriously, they acted on it in ways that morphed it into an anthem - a paean to a way of living that rationalizes Freddie Hayek's Extended Order and drives the Unfettered Free Market System in a perverse, predatory way that justifies the kind of robotic, unfeeling cruelty at the heart of the world's economic system these days.

Friedrich Hayek argued that human civilization evolved by suppressing innate, collectivist "animal instincts" geared toward small-group solidarity. He believed modern "extended order" (capitalism) requires overriding these primal tendencies, which, if followed, lead toward socialism and tribalism, as explained in his work The Fatal Conceit. 

Key Aspects of Hayek's Views on Instincts:

• The Tribal Legacy: Hayek asserted that primitive human instincts are not solitary, but collectivist and tailored for small, face-to-face bands.

• Conflict with Modernity: These innate instincts—solidarity, altruism, and collectivism—are "atavistic," meaning they are ill-suited for modern, large-scale, impersonal market societies.

• Cultural Evolution: Human civilization progressed by creating a "spontaneous order" through rules of conduct that override these instincts, favoring competition over solidarity.

• The "Fatal Conceit": The mistaken belief that we can manage a modern economy using innate instincts of group cooperation rather than impersonal market mechanisms.

Which is why we have a system of maybe two or three dozen global cartels - giant mega-corporations that eat companies and shit people.

But then we get to see something like Artemis II, and we're reminded that all we've really got is one planet and each other.

Overheard:

• I'm tired of wars
• I'm tired of lies
• I'm tired of small, pathetic men wasting humanity's time
• I'm tired of the worship of money
• I'm tired of the corruption
• I'm tired of the indecency and the cruelty
• I'm tired of the fakery and the fuckery
• I'm tired of the sadism and the cynicism
• I'm tired of the abuse, the cowardice, and the narcissism
• I'm tired of the shameful criminality
• I'm tired of the need for conquest and exploitation
• I'm tired of dishonorable people never being held to account

We want to be caring, thoughtful,

considerate humans again.

We want to dream again.

We want to live.