![]() ![]() I read part of it in college but damned if I can remember any of it. But sometimes life has a way of kicking you in the brain by distracting you and suddenly eighteen years have gone by and you’re all, “What’s the fucking point?” The Mahabharata was going to be one of those books. I suppose I’m still alive so I can always restart this project. I made it about forty pages through Genesis with nearly three hundred pages of commentary and then the project just sort of petered out. ![]() In my 30s, I planned on reading every holy book and writing copious amounts of commentary from a person who wasn’t taught the dogma behind the words and was simply trying to understand the book with the words that were there. Try to remember that these reviews are really just reviews about me and no the comic books I’m pretending to read but really just looking at the pictures. You know, like I noticed as well! Me! I noticed it too! Also while scanning Morrison’s Wikipedia entry, I noticed a short paragraph about Morriosn noting the similarities between The Invisibles and The Matrix. I just realized King Mob is Grant Morrison’s Mary Sue, isn’t he? I had an image of him in my head but I just checked the Internet to makes sure he did look just like King Mob and, well, the Internet confirmed my suspicions. It was right up my alley, even at twenty-three! I highly suspect I just lost track of it because I was a terribly disorganized comic book collector. So I really can’t remember why I stopped reading this comic book. ![]() My only friend is chaos” (that’s stolen from the Upright Citizens Brigade intro, just to be clear). My intro or about page on Facebook has simply said this for however long I’ve been on the cursed site: “My only enemy is the status quo. It’s probably why I understood this comic book from page one. “An organization dedicated to subversive activity in all its forms…the only rule of the organization is disobedience.” In an earlier The Invisibles review, I believe I equated this organization to the Upright Citizens Brigade (specifically the show and not the comedy troupe). On the inside cover of this issue, there’s a brief description of who and what The Invisibles are. I fantasize about it because I don’t think I’ll survive the ride. And believe me, I don’t fantasize about it because I think I’ll survive the crash. ![]() Just because a structure has stood for over two hundred years doesn’t mean it’s still worth living in today, or maintaining its upkeep simply because we’ve always maintained its upkeep. Imagine the stable structure you could build if you started from a foundation that was built to support a better, kinder, more just system rather than trying to build that better system on a foundation not meant to support anything like it. But imagine if you kicked out those three blocks, or, to sort of get back to the original analogy, crashed the bus into them and brought the whole tower down. Most people are willing to work in that paradigm because they’re afraid of starting completely over and losing their current safety and comfort, or because they think those three blocks are too sacred to remove. And because of that, the amount of true reform that can be applied to this system is limited to what shapes can stand upon those three blocks. We’re living in a Jenga tower where we refuse to restablilize the base even though it’s teetering on just three misplaced blocks. Most people want safety and comfort and will bargain with the devil to keep as much of that safety and comfort as possible, no matter how illusory it may be (because we have to face the fact that a good illusion may as well be reality). Maybe it stems from a carefree and flirtatious relationship with suicidal ideation that allows me to embrace the idea of burning it all down. But I feel the statement, “Crash the bus,” deep down in my bones sometimes. My inherent nihilism doesn’t show often because, ultimately, I believe in a humanitarian morality based around kindness and compassion, built upon the foundational belief that nothing exists beyond our short lifespans and any act of wanton cruelty which makes any part of that short and challenging life more difficult for another person is the only true evil in the universe. ![]()
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