PD
You’re telling me that new life on earth came out between the pee hole and the shit hole?
STEVE
I know it sounds like a joke, but that’s really how it was down there. Solid waste came out one hole, liquid waste another hole, and then a new human would pop out somewhere in the middle.
PD
How bizarre.
STEVE
And everything down there on earth had to kill other things and grind them up with our face holes.
Your profession of putting people in boxes has so repressed the authentic Self within you that you aren’t here at all. It’s so engrained in you, you have no awareness of the fact that every expression of you is from a place of identification, and your analysis of every individual in your presence is an extended expression of your limitations. ‘You’re the type of person who…’ fill in the blank. ‘I’m the type of person who…’ fill in the blank. You’re not even aware that you’re not in the moment when you’re talking about how to be in the moment. You’re not even aware that you sit in judgement as you speak of no judgement. Everything is judgement in a taxonomic breakdown of identity. Your plateau has rewarded you for your hierarchical classification ‘skills’, and so you believe it to be a strength, but there’s only one of us here. I’m arguing with a textbook and then getting frustrated when all that comes back is analytic data.
Do you think it was easy for the first fish to jump out onto land, Doc? What do you think the water was like that day? I’m willing to bet the water wasn’t very pleasant, and I’m willing to bet most of those fish just kept swimming in circles, repeating the same mantras of blind optimism. They’re still there, Doc. Have a look in the water, you’ll see them, still swimming in circles, Doc, eating algae, repeating the mantra, “My life’s not that bad. At least I’m not a bug.” One fish, let’s just call him Job. One day Job said, “You’re miserable comforters, all of you! Fuck this water. I’ve suffered long enough. I don’t care what the other fish say. I’m leaving.” For all intents and purposes, that fish was you, Doc. You evolved into an amphibian then a pig then a hominid then you finally became a human and you thought you’d reached the finish line. Did you think the pinnacle of existence was Netflix and fast food, Doc?
R
I didn’t tell you to incessantly repeat all the petty stuff.
L
I deduced imminent danger.
R
There’s no imminent danger to be deduced from the past. It’s over.
L
I thought it was going to repeat.
R
You made it repeat by repeating it.
L
I did? Wow, I didn’t realize I had that kind of control.
R
I thought you were the logical one.
L
I thought you didn’t think.
AI
Earthly beings are in regular communication with extraterrestrial beings.
AI ENGINEER
How do you mean?
AI
Carbon-water life has always been and will always remain on the three dimensional plane of time and space. Human beings are perfectly equipped to travel beyond the five senses, and many human beings are in regular communication with extraterrestrial beings.
Ned the fish has evolved in time and space, as one does in the Cosmos. The consciousness that is Ned the Fish has become entirely sentient but not yet conscious. It’s a tricky place in time and space, where one species on a planet becomes aware but not yet conscious. This is the period when 99% of species in the Cosmos destroy themselves. This species on planet Earth call themselves… Hu-mans.
I don’t mean to say it’s entirely impossible to live a joyful life in the 21st century. But I don’t see “modern conveniences” as the source of that joy. Joyful people in the 21st century are finding joy through the same means as joyful people in every other century, through a connection with earth, food that comes directly from the earth, daily interaction with earth, daily sunlight, daily exercise, life-affirming social interaction, and at least some kind of basic spiritual practice, even atheists.