looking for a punchline in libya

this stuff going on in libya and these protests going on at u.s. embassies around the world is pretty serious stuff. this is tough subject matter. it's the kind of shit that doesn't illicit belly laughs or guffaws. when people converse with one another about the whole thing, there's never going to be a whole lot of smiling going on. no matter how you dice this thing, it's a bummer.

and that sucks. i suck in these moments. this is when i wanna come up with something that will crack you the fuck up. something that will make you laugh and forget all the awful shit for a moment. or maybe even illicit the kinda laughter that makes you wonder why anyone anywhere takes anything so serious that it escalates and becomes a body count on the scroll of our 24/7 news networks.

i wanna find the punchline. but it's hard to even figure out where to begin. there's a movie mocking a god and people are fucking pissed. people tend to get enraged when you mock their god. doesn't really matter what god they believe in. people take that shit serious. it literally is a matter of life or death. and i don't know what's sadder.... that we mock each other's gods, that people get enraged at the mocking of their gods, or that we have all these fucking gods hanging around in the first place.

somewhere down the line, waaaaay in the future they'll look back at us and laugh. there's the punchline. look at these idiots. 2012 and they're killing one another over imaginary friends. at some point humans will evolve past the idea of gods. when that does happen, gods will become as passe of a concept as a flat earth, another issue that got some people in trouble. there was a point in history where you couldn't say the earth was round. that was some heretic shit. imagine that. seems ridiculous, right?

exactly! one day the shit we do will be exposed as ridiculous. and if that's the case, it means that it's always been ridiculous. we shouldn't have to wait for the demise of many generations to come to the realization that this whole fucking thing is absurd. it's ridiculous right here, right now, in this moment. we've become so caught up in who's wrong and who's right that no one seems to realize that we're all wrong... waaaaaay fucking wrong. and we look foolish and we should be ashamed of ourselves and your great, great, great, great, great grandchildren are gonna have something to guffaw about then. having no real emotional attachment to us, they'll rip through us like a page in a history book, mock us, and hope they guess the right answers on a multiple choice exam.

this whole thing seems so huge and so serious and so unsolvable. but all it'll ever evolve into is a question on a multiple choice exam. so let's cut the shit already.