by mark » Mon Jun 27, 2005 11:03 am
The hole represents the void, the empty space inside us all, the meaninglessness of life. We try to confront the void head-on, we believe our souls are big enough to fill it, however all the tears ever cried would not be sufficient. We then try to fill the void with clutter and junk, meaningful nothingness, we flail our arms around trying to splash as much life as possible into the stale colourless air, mini-gods of our own rotting worlds. We then try to ignore the void, to walk around the black gaping chasm as though it didn't exist, focusing on the day-to-day tasks of survival. Finally we retreat to the only man-made object big enough to fill that void, God. We grab God by the ears and physically insert Him into the void, we suspend our disbelief and logic, we put common sense on hold, we ignore the facts, the figures, the reality of the situation and stick the worlds largest band-aid on the worlds largest wound. Then we write some self-referential get-out-of-jail-free clauses, ensuring that the validity of our solution can't easily be questioned by people who are still busy falling into holes in the sidewalk.
was that what you meant VM?
While one who sings with his tongue on fire Gargles in the rat race choir Bent out of shape from society's pliers Cares not to come up any higher But rather get you down in the hole that he's in