True, all the very little we wanted was provided to us absolutely free -- BUT all the millions and billions and trillions of things we DIDN'T want were provided free too.

And so we had to PAY people to keep all that shit away.

Like, health care was absolutely free, but we had to pay certain people to not come by and make us sick every day.

Housing was free too, but we had to pay people to not move into the house we were already living in, as was their right under the free housing act which made housing free in the first place.

All food was free, both in stores and restaurants, but we had to pay people to NOT piss on it just before we ate it.

And so, though we wanted very little and everything was free, we still had to work.

This was the logical outcome capitalism shared with socialism and anarchy.

Goods and needs aren't what really matter. What really matters is somehow paying someone something every time you breath.

This, however, as everybody knows, overlooks the entertainment of various biologic irrationalisms that keep a species honest.

And, as a result of the repressiveness of work, entertainment had to be made out of everything else: from surgery (surgertainment) to meditation (meditainment).

Otherwise, we'd fall asleep out of boredom over (yawn) just another one of those pathetic little matters of life and death.

But this only serves to underscore that:

Which still, surprisingly, is not enough to depress the living crap out of us.

This is explained by a vague memory everybody has about how, when we were very young, we made some less than heartfelt compromise with nebulous forces in our dreams. We agreed to pretend that there ISN'T nothing. And so, so-called success in so-called life was really based on how hard you pretended, and so-called happiness is defined as getting to the point where it doesn't feel like pretense anymore.

And once you stopped living this or forgot it, it WOULD depress the living crap out of you.

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