If history has shown us nothing else, it has definitely shown us, that all of the myriad forms of mental passivity, lead directly to death.
Fighting the last war instead of the war you’re fighting now is death.
Classism, Racism,Sexism, Creedism, Cynicism, Cronyism, Optimism, Pessimism, are all death. Cynicism is especially bad and epidemic in this modern age. It is essentially a pre-judging of all people. You think to yourself, as Henry Rollins puts it so eloquently, that All People Suck. And you go about living your life based on that mental laziness. But it's bullshit. How the fuck do YOU know that all people suck? Have you met ALL people? It's fair to say that a statistically significant sampling of people that you have personally met suck, but just because it's 95% doesn't make it a 100% If you make it a 100%, YOU'RE the problem. YOU'RE the one who sucks.
Dogma, whether it’s political or religious. is death. Notice how the more dogmatic a person is in their covenant how they slide towards social death...and possibly actual death.
Getting fed up with the pace of the modern world and slipping into the patterns of a simpler age IS DEATH!
Slavish devotion to tradition long past it’s sell-by date is death.
Not even knowing what a sell-by date is, because you haven’t been in a grocery in 20 years is death.
Not keeping a weather-eye on popular culture is death. I’m not saying you have to give a fuck about Nicki Minaj, but you ought not come off like a foreign person in your own home town.
Thinking with your heart instead of your head? Death. full-on, lacing up his shoes, coming to get you.
Been living somewhere for a century and still sound like you’re fresh off the boat? DEATH!
Assuming that once you’ve become powerful that you no longer have to be polite, especially to people you don’t know. Death. Heck it’ll probably be me who kills you, because people are all the time rude to me, because they assume i’m just some schmuck.
Some of those people are dead now.
Oh sure. We’ve all got our blind spots and our prejudices. We’ve all got things that we’ve let get away from us over time. But I say to you that part of your ethic should always be, that when you notice a spot of mental passivity within you, that you root it out with fire and tongs as fast as you can.
Some of these deaths are slow like crabgrass. Other’s will be fast and agonizing and you’ll wish to ash as fast as possible but death will be long in coming and even the most hardened hearts watching will flinch and shy away.
Am I being poetic to make a metaphoric point? Maybe.
Do you really want to take that chance?
I’m not saying that you have to reinvent the wheel every time out. I’m not saying that you can’t do things that have worked before. But I am saying, learn to adapt when that thing stops working instead of standing there dumbly or curling up into a fetal ball.
Death. You’ve tasted it before.
If you don’t use your brain, you’ll get a belly-full.
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