The Paranoid Ramblings of a Pretentious Artist

you think you know

Thursday August 19, 2010

you think you know everything there is to know about something, or maybe that you know enough to be considered smart, or enough to feel that your place in the world is not for a waste

you think that what you know will be useful to the world, change the world and ultimately you will leave a lasting mark on everything that is to come

or maybe not everything, but something

you think that what you know will define your life, define your career, define the path in which you follow until you die

you think you know everything there is to know about something

even if its a pencil, or a staple, you think you know everything there is to know about that

but what you think you know is completely different from what you actually know, as are all things in life

you think you can bake, but in reality your brownies taste like sandpaper
you think you can act, but in reality your performance is laughable
you think you can dance, but in reality its not even reality, its just a show

your problems come from thinking, and your proof is in your actions based on that thought

so what you think you know about something, or anything, or even everything, is ultimately going to be proven wrong by your own actions to the contrary

so instead of thinking that you know everything, or something, or anything, assume you know nothing about everything and neither does anyone else

therefore all the knowledge in the world is wrong, all the things in which you grasp to or cling to in order to form some sense of reality from this world

everything you see is an illusion of what it is supposed to be

your food is an illusion of health
your pencil is an illusion of knowledge or power or creativity
your computer is an illusion of freedom or intellect or progression
your air is an illusion of life
your sex is an illusion of passion

and all of these illusions are constantly tricking you into believing that the world you are perceiving is the only world that exists and that all other concepts of another world or plane of existence is simply an illusion

therefore illusions are tricking you into thinking that illusions do not exist

and so if you rejected reality, and you truly believed that you were an individual thinker, you would understand that the entire world is not real and what you perceive is constantly tricking you into perceiving the world as reality when in fact it is illusion

so reject this illusion
and accept the only thing that is truth doesn’t actually exist
and will never exist
therefore there is no definable truth in the world

and if you live your life without truth, you will live a free life

free of responsibility, free of integrity, free of morals, of this idea of good or bad, of the idea that everything you do must be true in order to be worth something

imagine living your life this way, taking everyones words as lies, fiction, a false reality

your teacher explains to you a theory that a scientist created about gravity but you know in your heart that this teacher was told this theory by another teacher who was told this theory by another teacher who tested this theory to confirm it because he was told by another teach and so on and so on until we reach the source who is the original conjurer of the idea and was told this idea by outside sources, otherwise known as nature that this idea is true

so between nature and your teacher, the amount of time and possibility for misinterpretation is so immense that nothing can ever be true anyway

so this idea that truth can exist in a world based on he said she said is absurd because in reality, in true reality, you would not need to rely on others to tell you the truth, you would be able to perceive it for yourself

that is if nature was actually telling you the truth

and should you even have to rely on nature to tell you the truth

the point of this is to convince you that truth cannot exist if it relies on someone else knowing the truth and you being told that this is the truth

because it is not the truth, it is their version of a truth that maybe once was fiction, but has been accepted by so many people who told so many other people that this is the truth that it now became the truth

see how many people will believe you if you told them that your teacher told you that the radio waves being emitted and received in cellphones cause cancer and that we are all ticking time bombs

its shocking how many people will blindly accept a truth so that they do not have to actually search for it themselves

rather than work for an answer they would rather be told that this is the way something is

and that is why the government is necessary in order for our society to function