TNP LIVE 03/19/2024 Monologue
I always liked the Mad Libs books when I was a kid. And this was well before the Libs of TikTok days. This is when you would take something called a pencil, and you would write in a word in order to fill out a sentence. And you would use a pencil, because a pencil would have a rubber erasure that you would use to rub the graphite and some of the surface of the paper with it. Shit sounds crazy right?
The object of Mad Libs was a thought experiment. Placing words that don't belong in sentences was fun for me. Especially for the kind of young hooligan I fashioned myself to be with my extended x-rated vocabulary and vulgar imagination.
I wouldn't just sit and scribble into the open spaces alone though. The object for me was to make my friends laugh, piss themselves, or even vomit because of the shit I would say.
The only time I use a pencil these days is when I play miniature golf but I still love getting a reaction out of my friends. My imagination is still as wild as ever. And with all the concepts I've been introduced to through the internet in the past 20 plus years of being enthralled by all sorts of morbid curiosities, I'm sure I could start weaving a twisted sentence into another for as long as I wanted to. This world is a goldmine for material meant to disturb people.
Some people don't like being emotionally upset by words. It's understandable. If I listen to another bullshit congressional hearing or another upside down fucking world Supreme Court Ruling I'm ready to snap into a tirade of words myself. But that's still just emotional bullshit. We all carry it, we all have triggers now don't we?
Or is the implications that words can cause that harm the problem?
For instance, the fit of rage that government processes give me is based on both opinion and past experiences mixed with my interpretations of what I've grabbed from history. However, I would never expect to hold government to account for their words causing harm when there's all this other tangible harms that I can point to.
Focusing on the intangible things like Positive and Negative Rights, which are merely just labels to describe a pattern of behavior based around two different principles. The negative is the limit in which individuals allow the government to interfere with their affairs. The positive is giving the government the right to decide its own limits.
The fucked up thing is, the government, is also a label for a pattern of behavior. In this one though, its a bunch of individuals playing the part of a mythical beast called The State. And by dawning that cloak and mask, The State has no duty to the individuals anymore. It now makes decisions as what's best for the state. Our security for instance. And nothing is more of a threat to people's security than words. Words that disturb, upset, and even provoke will always threaten The State, because they can reveal the truth, that underneath the cloak and mask of the state are the fucking people responsible for it and they shall not be held liable. Unless others hear our words that is, and the window closes just a bit more...