#folderol

             your

    sick              ness, prescribe

                 it             names.

scream long enough into the abyss and the abyss will scream back: merit varies, either some solipsism shit about echoes or something about “help me” being the first communication anything with the ability to communicate says, and never really stops. and that’s pretty alright.

“abyss” is our name for the immensity of what we can’t perceive, as though our ability to perceive what isn’t abyss means anything. sometimes if you greet the abyss, someone else in the dark will respond to the abyss’s greeting in kind, and the abyss will be just a little less empty: awwww yeag thats theg OOD shit babeiy

Every person, at least one thing. Obviously it’s usually more than one. And that’s only what I get from the limited time I interact with them.

This has, over time, coalesced into a rubric for how I interact with the world;

- I am not the miraculous exception to this human trait. I, also, have something about which I Should Fucking Know Better. Obviously I don’t know what it is, or I’d… know better. And if I am fortunate enough to find and correct one of these, there will always be another. The negative space carved out by what I should realize and don’t is as much a part of me as anything I do.

- The people I am most interested in interacting with are the people most likely to recognize that about themselves, too. It’s not quite inversely proportionate, you gotta have confidence in some of your thoughts and beliefs. But it’s been my experience that people who are confident in all of them are not paying nearly enough attention to things outside their skull.

I am, maybe foolishly, pretty confident in this approach. Seems to be working okay for me.

But there’s a simpler one too, that has never gone wrong for me yet. And it’s encouraging how much it seems to line up with the above.

It’s this;

- I do not trust anyone who is happy to have a reason to hurt people.

That, for me, has largely sorted the world into “people I can work with” and “people I have to work around.” And the simplicity of that binary pings some warning bells for me, because I damn well do Know Better than to think any framework can be applied to 8 billion people that easily.

From the moment I first saw this, and for over a decade since, I have had this specific sentence turn up in my head unprompted on a regular basis. This sentence just installed itself in me and my brain will continue to quote it at me forever.

MOTHER

FUCKIN'

JUICE