“Tied to Your Success”

Sometimes I think that the most joyous occasions for humanity are when they’re finally allowed to take off more clothes in public. And this amounts to a hoarding. Eventually, in this way, you see how there never was a sharing — those who continue to live, live long, prosper, have beautiful, well-off kids, do so because they meet success. And successful people find it easier to make friends. But sooner or later, you find that there’s a finite amount of things that these “successful” people can be into, and they all tend toward the same cultural beacons — expensive movies, clothing trends, expedited ways of thinking in which the goal is to find something funny, and to laugh. Whereas laughing is actually just a spasm, wasted energy, incoherent sounds, and in many old cultures they have the same word for “smile” and for “laugh” in their language. It’s funny, when you thought life would constantly be a shaping, a way of creating on earth what’s already up in the constellations but too far to see, you see familiarity, finally, and too much familiarity — people darting, people hoarding, people successful.