Having Faith that your Hopes will be Satisfied.

Another day, a second entry--simply amazing! With luck (or the lack thereof) this will become a trend. The idea here--not that any of you reading this actually care to hear my excuses--is to build a routine of some sort. You've heard it all before: write something everyday; even if you throw it away. Of course, when you consider the amount of time each of us spends screwing-off with email, our daily writing quotas are more than satisfied. And yet contemporary writing is, for the most part, absolute drek. And then there's this kind of self-indulgence. [At least the guy's aware of what he's doing. Then again, he does refer to himself as an "intellectual"...] More importantly, does anyone really expect that ANY of this shit is actually worth reading?! I should stop...really...

Anyway, it's all a bit self-help daytime talkshow-esque for my tastes, particularly with the almost Geisel-rhyme lurking, but who knows... If nothing else, it'll be a fun way to chronicle the slow decay of whatever grey matter I have left. Sort of an autoblogography of a wasted mind. [Hmm...that's a bit pretentious...] Especially since the likelihood of my ever actually doing more than bemoaning the shallow trivialities that occupy me these days is minimal.

If only I could think of something worthwhile to contribute to the world.

So that's the story. I really don't understand how this little experiment is going to help me get motivated to work on the long, long, long overdue essay on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics (oh how that needs to be an SNL Jeapordy category...) and the Paradox of Analysis, but at least I've wasted a little more of my day. I'd say I really hope this is going to help, but I feel pretty much the same way about 'hope' as I do 'faith'.

They are both just such ugly words. They don't have any obvious reference, despite being something "everyone's gotta have." And who wants something everyone else has already has?! [Gads, that's a couple of ugly sentences! Eh...perhaps it proves my point.] They're ideas people only seem to put any stake in when times are bad. And neither can be uttered in an even remotely lyrical manner: 'hope' begs to pop its 'p' and 'faith'...heh...try tossing that one around in conversation without hosing-down your audience.

Then again, who really gives a shit about their audience? They don't really care. Few, if any of them, are actually listening/reading with even the slightest concern about the content of the message. More often than not, they're too busy working up "scathing replies" to material they don't even understand, or planning that night's binge, masturbating (intellectually or physically), or trying to remember in excruciating detail the contents, color, and shape of their last bowel movement.