Doesn't play will with others Con/Jur/d, 7/16/2025 guilt is a sociopath’s cover-up for hollowed emotions; the DIRTY SECRET a therapists job is to help you adapt to a bad situation YOU are always shouting into the void “SUMMER HAS COME! SUMMER HAS GONE! WHAT happened to the summer?” it’s time to put the outdoor table away flip it onto its back, in case the Anthropocene Celtic Knot chart lands on snow this year we'll wait to buy a new grill ‘til next year throw parties for our friends, and in the interim remember how to make friends, since aging has made us all solo climbers, JUST YOU and the mountain, fingers and toes grounded in what we've been told is granite, an archetype of success sure, sure GODZILLA has destroyed the city people have died quick -quick by radiation, or long - slow-slow beneath piles of rubble made from logoed and branded ambition , THE IMPORTANT bit, was you were RIGHT, and you will die knowing you were one of the lucky, always right, never a FOOL; blinded by a SHIMMER, you understand your handhold was not EARTH HEART and BONE ROCK rather, MICA, whose thin glittering sheets are as worthless as, yet, lack the weightiness of GOLD, and in this circumstance, like the fools who trust the market, cannot, willnot SUPPORT your weight and as you fall RABID RATS above TIGERS below, do you want to spend the time of this FALL falling complaining: THAT'S NOT WHAT I’VE BEEN TOLD! or do you want to ENJOY the WHOOSH
Ah THE BALLOON BUS — WE’VE BEEN THERE — ARE YOU ON OR OFF THE BALLOON BUS? — THE ONLY RELEVANT POLI-PRAC-TICAL QUESTION IN 2025
Much love,
Con/Jur/d, 7/16/2025
There should be a trigger warning whenever you have a picture of a spider.
And do sociopaths actually feel guilt? Because I think they don’t.
Noted! Trigger warning will be instituted. No, maybe not not I'm getting at the mechanism of guilt, it's a mechanical construct based on cultural mechanisms. It's easily forgiven by the church, and easily worked around. Sometime with empathy, or a clearer understanding would feel and respond to a full range of emotions, not a presumptive lie or original sin. Ehh it a metaphor do what you will with it, maybe it doesn't work