Silence and All That Shit

Silence and All That Shit

Silence in the face of cheap taunts and provocations from stupid, ignorant, and insecure assholes and douche bags indicates real strength. A real man speaks what he has to and then he just moves on. Too much sound and fury is a reflection of weakness, and strength. Speech is a precious gift. Use it wisely. A man is strong indeed when he's of a few words. 

Life isn't about finding your limits; it's about recognizing the limitations of your imagination. Man is only restricted by his imagination. All human achievements have been born of imagination and wishes. 

People often look at you skeptically after they ask you who you are and receive a reply delivered in a rich baritone voice that you are a writer, a lover of words and languages, a financial and verbal gladiator, a philosopher, and a humble but occasionally arrogant truth-seeker. Then you go for the jugular, yes, you happen to think of yourself very endowed in metaphysics and vastly superior to most men and women you have met in terms of intelligence and intellect. 

About twenty years ago, you chanced to meet a guy at a bar. He asked you where you were from and what kind of work that you did and all those sundry ice breakers employed when we meet strangers but want to carry on a conversation. Apparently, you made quite an impression on the guy because he commented that you spoke English far better than most of the natives and that your sentences flowed in a coherent pattern like paragraphs in an essay. He asked you where you had gone to school and how come your English was so good. You self-deprecatingly  said that you couldn't get rid of the foreign accent in your voice. He looked at you in the eye and said that Kissinger couldn't get rid of his accent either. He then disclosed that he was a professor teaching Cognitive Science. He and you then moved on discussing the process of language acquisition and the functioning of the brain. 

Whenever you feel down or misunderstood or homicidal, you always turn to that chance encounter in the bar to lift you up from the funk you find yourself in. 

Recently you came across an arresting sentence, “We must push our minds to the limits of what we could know, descending ever deeper into the darkness of unknowing.” This sentence reflects your intellectual journey. 

Your recent interfacing wth certain assholes have brought to the fore the following insights:

1. Man has the basic needs of survival and procreation. 

2. And then because he is a social mammal, he needs respect and he craves for power. Very few humans are good enough to go after scientific or artistic self-actualization. The majority of them are stuck with the pursuit of power, big or small, and a sense of significance, whether they deserve them or not. 

3. Thus, most of them live in fear of feeling small, stupid, and unaccomplished. So they defend their fragile, eggshell egos with naked lies and sound and fury, instead of real achievements. TamiKaKa and Paul Van are prime examples of these simian humans. But since they are lazy and not terribly smart, they do NOT realize that the only fears they must have are Fear of Death, Fear of Loss of Self-Respect, and Fear of Failure. For certain men of exceptional pride, Fear of Death pales in comparison with Fear of Loss of Self-Respect and Fear of Failure. With these men, facts and truths are vastly superior to wishful thinking  born of superstition, and masturbatory and bloodless dreams.

Of course, you happen to think of yourself as part of the elite group of humans with exceptional true pride. That's why you have worked your ass off to improve your body and mind. That's why you fucking despise rodents like TamiKaKa and Paul Van and have a strong conviction that these two motherfuckers along with their brethren like Veronique Thuy Huong and Lông Chó Vũ should be thrown into an industrial steel-making  furnace and burned to ashes. When you hold this kind of conviction, you have glimpses of the workings of the minds of Hitler and ISIS leaders and their ardent, compliant followers. 

Man is a sick, strange animal, indeed. Mess with his ego, and a steep price must be paid. Man doesn't live by bread alone. Alone in the animal kingdom, he kills and dies for Ego and Ideas. That's why you've tried to practice stoned-face Silence and Breath Control.  You are accumulating Energy for a your Judgement Day, your own festival of settling scores and unleashing a stream of blood. There must be a reason why Red is regarded the color of Passion. It's the color of Blood and Death. Roberto Wissai, you must learn to keep your mouth shut amid noise and cacophony, nonsense and stupidity. Killing is fucking easy; the hard part is dealing with the consequences. 

Theorizing, based on common sense and imagination, instead of facts and information, no matter how incomplete the facts and information are, is stupid, intellectually dishonest, and dangerous. 

There's been an explosion of books about modern cosmology lately. Read at least one book, then read The Vital Questionby Nick Lane. After reading those books and the article with the subject title Ultimate Fate of the Universe in Wikipedia, and you still believe in a Personal God with Whom Jesus of Nazareth was somehow connected, then sadly you are doomed to the la-la-Land of Make-Believe. 

There have always been two types of modern humans on this planet:

1. Those who are intellectually vigorous, curious, and honest; and emotionally strong and independent. They care about facts and truths. All the knowledge acquired by modern humans to this day has been generated by the people in this group. They are the cream of the human species and have always been in the minority. 

2. Those who are intellectually lazy, moronic, and dishonest; and emotionally childish, dependent, and slavish. They are fearful of facts and truths. They enthusiastically embrace everything they are told by their religious and political leaders. They believe to the letter the Bible. They are Donald Trump supporters and see him as a "leader" and an agent of change, and not as a fraud and a demagogue. In my views, these humans are barely a step above monkeys in terms of evolutionary development because they cannot think in a dispassionate manner. They are all passion and very small brain. 

By the way, TamiKaKa Ito, nick of Nguyễn Mạnh Phúc, is a prime example of this type of deplorable, pitiful humans. This ignorant, envious, and stupid dude "thinks " with his dick and speaks through his ass.

One of the pleasures you have in life is to read how stupid and ignorant folks opine about politics and religion.   Most humans are stupid, superstitious, vain, insecure, and worthy of being exterminated, especially the insolent, the loud-mouthed, and the sarcastic. Whenever you see an ugly, fat, loud-mouthed simian monkey with shifty eyes and incoherent, stupid, uninformed opinions, you feel blessed. 

You have an irrepressible ego, but strangely enough you don't have a burning yearning for a thundering, rapturous acclaim. You are content to be who you are. 

There is some truth in a line written by Shakespeare, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" Guilt and insecurity manifest themselves unconsciously. Very few guilty people can be always cool. It's very common to ascribe to others what we feel most uncomfortable about ourselves. Thus, drunks often laugh at alcoholics; fat folks make fun of heavy people; assholes who accomplish nothing with their lives talk about others' failures; lousy native speakers of English ridicule the English of newly arrived immigrants. Man is a strange, insecure mammal, indeed. He is often not comfortable around those who are clearly to him in intelligence, intellect, and looks. He must find ways to bring those down to his level or below so he can feel good about himself. Inferiority complex is a heavy burden to bear so he tries to act superior, whether he is truly superior to others or not. Human animals like these deserve to be burned up like thrash and garbage. Their ashes would be then mixed with fertilizers to enrich the soil. 

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(To be continued)