{∅, {∅}, {∅, {∅}}} : Rage Against the Meat Grinder

Raul,

I think you have a practical grasp of the dynamics of our vulnerable predicament as organisms, and that your sense of humor, even if bitter or morbid, is a kind of secret power at your service which will "talk you through" whatever processes your organism must endure.  This is the story we can't write, our own living experience.

On the abstract level, I have much contempt and disdain for our species.  Many of us are horrified by the similarities between our species and lower lifeforms such as cockroaches:  feeding , fuchking, and fighting ... On a subjective level, we are each destined to witness the decay of our animal body.  The only one who can talk you through this is you, and I am sure you will be reaping the harvest for having reflected so truthfully and fearlessly on the miserable nature of life itself.

We may be fortunate to have a couple people on this earth who will sincerely miss our presence.

If anyone just stops communicating here, we can only assume the worse.  My nephew might have the sense to contact Holden in my case, but I doubt we will be informed should Holden pass - and I am fairly certain no one will be sending us word from Paraguay should you, Senor Raul, disintegrate into thin air ...

Maybe this global emergency might give everyone a temporary reprieve from the Business-as-Usual world.  Upon witnessing the reactions of other human beings, my own honest internal reactions appear to be "inappropriate."   If one laughs, we are accused of not taking the matter seriously enough.  And yet, what if one is inspired by just how quickly "all the rules change" to suit the current, ever changing narrative of the "historians."

Whatever the nature of our lives is, we grapple with this inside our own heads, in our breathing body.  Now may be a good time to re-read one's favorite works ... an opportunity to reflect on the tragic stupidity of some of the more arrogant members of our species.   They will mourn the closing of their sports arenas and concert halls, their bars and clubs, their churches, mosques, synagogues, AA meetings, etc ... their "schools" ... and even their new State operated Marijuana Distribution Centers ...

The military will be called in to enforce "law and order" ...

Madmen like us, we poor prophets of doom just might survive the damn thing.   Either way, I, for one, am prepared to wash my a-s-s in the bath tub; whereas the ladies may be addicted to toilet paper.  As I said, there are so many in denial of the miserable nature of their very own lives.  That denial will be difficult for them to maintain as their illusionary universe falls to pieces, bit by bit.

All one can pray for is to be a good sport about it, whatever comes.

May we suffer well, and may we not suffer for too long ... Maybe there will be peace in the end.

All's well that ends well?

Holden,
I am wondering how Silenus is doing, and Ibra ... Maybe the Clown gave Silenus the creeps.   

On a humorous note:  My mom panics at the thought of running out of toilet paper.

It's just as well I am trapped here with my mom.  If I had been living the way I was 5 years ago, there is a good chance I would not want to expose my mother to myself since i would have been hitting all the free meals and hand-out zones.  My mom needs me for everything, and even though this is a ridiculous life, I might not be so grounded were I a lone male out there alone, howling and whispering to the moon!

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To all:

"The gods hide the happiness of death from man that he might endure living."
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My apologies if I sound as though I am detached from the "global event."  I guess it will have different effects on different people.  I'm going to try to just continue being myself.  If my cockroach body gets attacked by the bug, I will try not to be a complete infant; but I do not suffer well.  Even a head cold feels like some kind of torment in Hell.

I am sure to curse the gods ... the devils as they free this animal body from its attachment to organic life.

There is surely something surreal when such an outbreak is global.   There is no need to distract ourselves with horror or science fiction literature.  Our reality is stranger than fiction.

Nor is there a reason to add to the number of books written by members of our species.

May we each reap the harvest of our own deep reflections upon this miserable existence which everyone has been brainwashed since childhood to speak of as "the precious gift of life."

Plagues are a part of this life, and we are each destined for the graveyard.

Would any of the already dead choose to return to this madhouse prison planet given the choice?

As regards toilet paper,most Indians don't use it all.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.scoopwhoop.com/amp/The-World-Is-Slowly-Replacing-Toilet-Paper-With-Water/

Hentrich,

Thank you for your response. A new day is dawning. A more cruel, hostile, and ruthless world will emerge after this event. I have no doubt about this. The fact that I am seeing the army patrolling the streets at night - a measure against the constitution- is enough evidence that things will turn uglier as days pass. This isolation can be also called a house arrest.

Using your words for millions their illusionary universe will fall to pieces, bit by bit. But again give the complexity of human psychology they will still cling to the idea that life is a gift.

I read in a Paraguayan digital newspaper that because of the social isolation many couples are buying condoms in the pharmacies. Sex and business must go on. Also as you say in American English there will be girls who are looking for a guy to knock her up even in this tragedy.

Here there are two popular Catholic saints, called San Blas and San Expedito. Most are praying to them against the Chinese virus. Others pray to Chiquitunga, a Paraguayan nun recently canonized by the Church, and San Roque González, a saint, a martyr killed by the Indians three centuries ago. These saints are powerless against the virus. 

In Ciudad del Este a police officer violated the quarantine, he went to party with his friends, went to a motel with an 18 year-old girl, he fell off the stairs and died. He was 30 years old. I say he is resting in real peace now.

As you also say maybe there will be peace in the end.

Stay safe and sound.

Hentrich,

I hope your father and sister and also your nephew are doing allright in this situation. I am sure you are doing what you can for your mother. Your circumstances are complicated specially now. From what you have written you have proved to be very strong and resilient. Maybe this has to do with your bloodline. You are a Kraut.

You are not obligated to keep your head together. And you are not unsympathetic or harsh either. You see this world with your eyes wide open. You are right to be angry. You were lied to for a very long time. We have been lied to for a very long time. We vomited their lies.

You are not a monster. Who can blame you for feeling hatred toward this world? The real monsters are those who engineered wars, famines, financial crashes, etc. Honestly I don´t wish many people well. I would not shed tears for them but the problem is that most of them are parents. Their children need them. Their present is bleak and the future is much bleaker. Their parents were slaves and now their children will face a compulsory world slavery. No life is good.

Our grandparents and parents´world is gone. Their world and everything they fought for does not exist anymore. Indeed it was a fake world with false values. I have nothing to be thankful to my parents.

I won´t lie. I am afraid of dying. But my time will come. I may get hit by the virus, by a car, by a motorcycle or a cancer or even get stabbed in the street. This is the so-called cycle of life in this laboratory called Earth. 

On the radio I heard the Paraguayan ambassador to Italy. He said that there were military convoys taking the dead to cremation sites because there is no more room in the cemeteries. I can see myself being taken in coffins in trucks here.

Again the war machinery keeps moving. I read that there are 30,000 U.S. troops with thousands of armoured vehicles in Bavaria, Germany. Something is going on there.

Once again stay safe and drive carefully.

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Senor Raul,
I hope you live long and prosper.

And multiply 
This part of the country,where I am,has it really bad.
Almost complete lockdown.As it is my lungs are weak.
You and Herr Hentrich write such beautiful and elaborate posts and I just write a line or two.I am sorry about that.
I feel very distracted most of the time.
Like the stray dog who is always afraid that he might get attacked from any direction at any time.

Take care.
P.S. Physically, you have descended from the mighty conquistadors and Herr Hentrich's tribe defeated the infamous Roman Legions,I am the weakling here, with tuberculosis infested lungs.Corona might be the cherry on the tuberculor lungs..

In my country deaths like these are commonplace.They can spare the likes of me quite easily.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

Physically, you have descended from the mighty conquistadors and Herr Hentrich's tribe defeated the infamous Roman Legions,I am the weakling here, with tuberculosis infested lungs.Corona might be the cherry on the tuberculor lungs...

I would not burden yourself over these differences in the behaviors of our recent ancestors, as each human organism must face the same existential crisis in the end.

Also, we are each very fragile and vulnerable, something the machismo knuckle-draggers become quite intimate with when they catch a head cold or get hit with the flu.   The warriors and soldiers are presented as heroes, but, Holden, are we to accept these Slave Heroes?   We do not have any heroes.   Schopenhauer is not so much my as the author of something that had become a sort of "Bible" for me ... the voice of a higher order ... a rare taste of someone who was not a shill for the corporate state.   OK, I suppose the Buddha and Christ and John the Baptist were also heroes (no more so than Robin Hood) ... but I had eventually become disillusioned by religion in general, and even disillusioned over my initial glorification of the criminal elements ... that is, while I am still confident there are a great many thinkers trapped in the prison industry, I have grown to despize gang (packs of males) mentalites.

Can we, as human beings, forget these demands for heroism, and simply acknowledge just how ridiculous our predicament is ... Do you suppose misanthropes might be more impressed with antiheroes, such as the disgruntled soldier who refuses to carry arms or fakes insanity to be discharged from pointless wars over resources to fuel the Meat Grinder?