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A passage of book I will never start nor Finish

5/15/2017

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"There he is again, in the midst of his peers trying hard to legitimize his embarrassing mediocrities. There is nothing wrong about being mediocre. After all, we are all mediocre in one or two departments of life. Yet mediocrity is no virtue, and going to great lengths in a desperate attempt to justify it, to the point of becoming an advocate of it, is simply pathetic, if not dangerous. Yes, dangerous, for mediocrity spreads like wildfire as men are always on the lookout for ways to sugarcoat their wrongdoings. The lucid and honest acceptance of one’s mediocrity, on the other hand, can count as a virtue, for it seems to be the hardest thing. Especially among westerners; spoiled for millennia by their delusional Jewish ancestors who would go on and on reciting that fairy tale from the Book of Genesis until the lie became truth: Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that THEY MAY RULE over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."; oblivious to the fact that men are nothing but glorified beasts at the mercy of a mindless and whimsical Nature that couldn’t care less about who holds the high moral ground. Well, things are not getting any better, good luck deflating their ego now that grandma Science and aunt Technology are supplying grand toys to the minuscule men." F.G.
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Simon Petrikov
12/12/2017 02:47:27 am

A Letter to the author of a non-written & unfinished book

Dear Author.
Expect below a letter from a sinner of averageness, a perpetrator of the unremarkable, a soul lost in the seemingly never ending amalgamation of the mediocrity you describe. Yet I dare ask you from the deepest pits of the abyss: what do you see? For you surely do not see me, unremarkable my form, it would be impossible for even a keen eye to tell me apart from the dull dark background of my surroundings. You must only see light? Or has my solipsism dragged me so far into myself that I cannot even fathom what your perspective might be . . .

All I’m saying that all-things-mediocre is what makes the exceptional stand out. By no means is this a justification for rewarding or systematically which perpetuating mediocrity, it is simply a (frustrating) inevitability that in order for something to stand out, there has to be something for it to stand out against.

Mediocrity will sometimes be rewarded and awarded, while its counter part finds itself sorely punished; since fairness is not inherent to nature. For this reason the I cannot say anything about how likely it is for a remarkable someone and/or his work to succeed and receive the praise it deserves, and even an endless amount of time cannot see that all exceptional (and unexceptional) things are treated as they truly deserve.

Terminating this poor attempt of a letter, I must say that I agree with in that men are glorified beasts, at and until something in our very nature changes we can do nothing but struggle with our beastly impulses and hopefully at some point truly admit to ourselves that justifying mediocrity leads to the deepest of the nowheres, in a very fast and dangerous manner.

Yours Truly,

An unremarkable person which considers your writing remarkable.


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