Scary title goes here, hoes...
“They did not know the difference between the vision in their hearts and the illusion of the American Dream. In pursuing the lie of illusion, they made it impossible to experience the truth of their Vision. As a result, everything of value was lost.”
-Hubert Selby, Jr. On the main characters in Requiem for a Dream…
Los Angeles
1999
(CUEUP: Ending the perpetual tragedy” by Shai Hulud…)
(Felix Red sits on the floor, this time in a brightly lit room with white walls, in his spiral design wrestling tights and an old IWF T-shirt reading “My antidrug is CRACK,” giant X’s drawn across his his wrists, dark sunglasses, staring up at the camera….)
“The boy who destroyed the world”
FELIX RED: Well then….
I’ve detached myself entirely from what you’re calling humanity, Mr. Fink. I couldn’t hold humanity in the gutter against it’s will if I tried. Humanity has nestled itself down in a pit of sewage all by itself and has no intention of rising under it’s own power. My hate, my miseries, my pathetic little problems, became who I was. When I rid myself of them, I was no more. I had ruined everything. The reality is that most people do not want to be saved. They’re afraid to dive into the oblivion, and maybe they should be. Maybe they’re not ready to be individuals. Maybe they need the collective, the government, the shared cultural values, maybe they need to see themselves in terms of what they have rather than who they are. Maybe not. I don’t know. I don’t care. If you were really such a philanthropist, you wouldn’t think of yourself as some sort of historic figure in the making. The prospect of being worshiped by future generations wouldn’t cross your mind, much less be what you bring up before explaining the justifications for this. You speak of liberating humanity from it’s own doomed American Dream, when you yourself are a fellow of middle class origins who might become a world champion wrestler soon and you’re a full blown megalomaniac to boot. Pure Horatio Alger. You contradict your own beliefs by existing. This isn’t any of my business either. I’m not interested in hypocrisy or ethical dilemmas. Ineffectual. Sometimes interesting only as a novelty.
The Intellectual and physical are what win us material successes…like wrestling matches. In regards to your mind state, Rat Fink, well, obviously you’re insane. Believe it or not, the same has been said of me. Far be it from me to assume everyone who doesn’t see things in the same terms I do does so out of madness. But if you are insane, you’ll fall. If there is any logic grounding your self assumed grandeur, then you could very well fall anyway. It’s well and good to have intelligence and a strong body. It’s far better to meld the two halves into one being. To extend both capacity’s to manipulate ones environment beyond the realm of self is approaching invincibility. I suspect you to be of the first pair, I strive to the later. You don’t want to free humanity from the illusion of the American Dream. You mostly just want to free yourself, but weather out of insanity or stupidity have yet to do so, as I have. You don’t need an army of robots to do this. You don’t need to topple any governments. You don’t need humanity itself to rally behind you. You need only to pry open your third eye….as the song goes….To embrace the random, Mr. Fink, is to become a god. (grins, and throws up a double thumbs up…)