Thomas Disch's LJ (RSS Feed)
12-10-2007, 04:57 PM
Kids. if you think you can solve your problems
by heading up to the North Pole and working
for Santa, you got another think coming.
All that talk about Global Warming
is a load of crap. The bears may be drowning,
but the Pole is still cold, and besides
the Chinese have got that market sewn up.
Manufacturing is yesterday;
we all live in a service economy now,
making other people more comfortable,
so either you should look for a career
selling second mortgages, or sign on
with your local drug cartel and get into
Sales. Heroin: that's been the ticket
to success for well over half a century,
and it's only going to become
more lucrative as the idea sinks in
that we are all--rich and poor, weak and strong--
living on borrowed time and don't have long
before the ship goes down. So be a clown:
have fun, then have some more. Score!
Hope was the big motivater for
the 20th century. In your century
it will be despair. And the solvent
for despair is heroin. That will be
where the money is in the new, darker
day a-dawning. In the meantime
Devil take the hindmost. Adios!
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by heading up to the North Pole and working
for Santa, you got another think coming.
All that talk about Global Warming
is a load of crap. The bears may be drowning,
but the Pole is still cold, and besides
the Chinese have got that market sewn up.
Manufacturing is yesterday;
we all live in a service economy now,
making other people more comfortable,
so either you should look for a career
selling second mortgages, or sign on
with your local drug cartel and get into
Sales. Heroin: that's been the ticket
to success for well over half a century,
and it's only going to become
more lucrative as the idea sinks in
that we are all--rich and poor, weak and strong--
living on borrowed time and don't have long
before the ship goes down. So be a clown:
have fun, then have some more. Score!
Hope was the big motivater for
the 20th century. In your century
it will be despair. And the solvent
for despair is heroin. That will be
where the money is in the new, darker
day a-dawning. In the meantime
Devil take the hindmost. Adios!
(Original Post) (http://tomsdisch.livejournal.com/165653.html)