The War of the Invisible Feelings
What to do when you your evidence is translucent
It’s another day in utopia, and I’ve decided to take a break from my ongoing investigation of how best to submit myself for the first one-way trip to Mars. Everything is wonderful, and anyone who thinks it isn’t wonderful is awful. What more could you want? The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, the waves are cresting, and humans everywhere are finally free to be happy. It’s not quite the happiness you hoped for, but at least someone is enjoying it.
It is strange, though, that most of what gets in the way of this happiness seems to be things we can’t even see. You and I and everyone we know is broadcasting invisible hatreds on people who are haunted by the many horrible invisible things that visit them from so long ago that none of us were even alive. Like a 5G signal you just can’t shake, and no Faraday Cage can repel. I’m talking, of course, about SYSTEMIC INVISIBILIA.
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Twitter is mind poison. We all know this, but even the strongest among us cannot stay away for long. Strangely, the only ones who would be able to resist its charms are the braindead NPCs who fill it with their braindead thoughts. If only they knew the power they had, to summon enough white noise to crowd out their thoughts and fend off the virulent mental encroachments that plague any of us who are paying attention, it would solve all of our problems all at once. But they see it as harmless, and as such they render themselves harmful.
If you’ve been on Twitter for even a moment during the past month, you know the deal. The deal is that certain people can steal and threaten, and other people cannot stop them. I’m not sure why this was trending; this should no longer be a surprise. After all, the same people who wish to abolish the police are the ones most likely to cite the lack of police protection in their neighborhoods as a ROOT CAUSE for the many behavioral phenomena that spring forth from these broken lands and carjack you in broad daylight. Those who believe a thing called “community policing” is even remotely plausible apparently do not like when the “community” actually “polices.”
Perhaps they think they could do it better. Like with WORDS instead of headlocks. But I don’t know - I’ve worked for nearly two decades in the business of “using words” to calm down aggressive people, and I can tell you that there are no words that work after a certain point. It’s either physical restraint or three months of disability at 60% your normal paycheck. Don’t believe me? Think I’m over-simplifying? You could be right. I could tell you I am really good at it, that my record of neutralizing violent situations is among the “best in the biz,” and that I am usually the one who holds out the longest before we go “hands on.” I could tell you all that.
But even if I did, some would still say that I am just not smart enough or good enough or moral enough to use words instead of force. It is entirely possible, after all, that we could just talk to kids before they do a few rounds of the knockout game on octogenarians walking innocently home from the grocery store. We could calmly explain to them - if we just had the patience - the convoluted schematic of why punching old people in the face isn’t nice. But I guess the community police need more officers to get to those poor kids in time. Please consider joining!
I’m kidding. And it doesn’t matter if I was serious, anyway. The people have already spoken and voted and locked in their answers: they are sick and tired of those who represent institutions using force to get their way, and so to prove that point, we are now officially suspended from resisting force from those who have historically…disproportionately…unfairly…traditionally…been the target of force. Like that old saying goes, “in order to change the world, just do the things you hate to other people, so that they can also hate it plus see how mean they were.” I think it was Seneca who said that.
But I’m making it all too complicated. It’s simpler than that. It’s too simple, actually; one of those things that’s so obvious and right in your face that it’s practically invisible. In fact, it is invisible! The reason why people can now choose whether or not to follow laws is because they have invisible things that hover around them and provide them with special privileges. The invisible things are really terrible, and they really hurt, and so if you see someone with an invisible thing around them (which you cannot because they are invisible) then you need to just let them blow off some steam. It’s the only way to get rid of the invisible thing. Or, actually, it doesn’t get rid of it but at the very least it’s like taking a break from it. Which they’ve earned, because they’ve been dragging around this invisible thing their whole life!
The way you know if someone has an invisible thing is if they tell you they do. You will know they are telling the truth because they will be emphatic about it. You might have an invisible thing too, and so occasionally you may come to loggerheads about whose invisible thing entitles them to more free passes. Because it is important to remember that these things are truly invisible in the most literal sense, and because anyone who says they exist means they do exist, then the tie breaker goes to how you look while you are being emphatic about your invisible thing. For instance if you look like your name is “Beth,” then your invisible thing is probably going to lose a tie-breaker.
This system is foolproof, and will be in place forever. The invisible things have always latched onto certain people throughout history, but they used to let go. The Jews had a real problem with these things, but - according to those presently riddled with lots of invisible things - those all came off. The ones that came about more recently (not including the Holocaust) are permanent.
Also, if your invisible thing is mental illness, then you always. win. As long as your invisible mental illness conforms to the right je ne sais quoi of acceptable mental illnesses. Then you always. win. But if you are dangerous because of your mental illness, then you only always win if you’re not facing off against someone who both a.) has an invisible mental illness thing and b.) also looks like they have other invisible things because of how they look. As long as how you look indicates that your dangerous invisible mental illness things is because of your other invisible things, then you are free to be as menacing and vile to others as possible. The same is true if your invisible mental illness thing makes you have conspiratorial or racist ideas; this is only okay if you also have another “looks-based” invisible thing, or if you are using your invisible thing to measure your right to be accommodated against someone who has no invisble things to speak of.
Note: EVERYONE has the invisible thing called trauma, except those who do not look like they do, or look as though they might but probably don’t have the right to have an invisible thing as much as other people who have worse invisible things.
I know that appearance or how someone “looks” has been mentioned now multiple times, but please do not confuse that for having anything to do with who a person is on the inside. How someone looks is only a heuristic; it is a short-cut that can be used when you are having difficulty deciding whose invisible things entitle them to hurt you or your family with impunity. But please remember that how you look is never something you should judge others on, or that you should be judged on, unless you have no invisible things that justify your existence, in which case you are only privileged enough to be without invisible things because of how you look. But again this is only a “rule of thumb,” and the best way to know about someone’s invisible things is not to look at them, but to ask them. Each person is different!!!
Note: if a person looks like they probably have a lot of invisible things that you don’t have, you probably want to not spend too much time asking them about it, because having to explain it to you is yet another curse of their invisible thing, and your ignorance is triggering an emotional labor response that certain invisible things feed on and make their host person’s life even worse.
This system of understanding the world and how to treat others is quite simple, and so failing to follow it requires a level of ignorance that is beyond belief (unless you are someone who is very affected by the system, in which case you are not expected to spend your time perseverating over all of its ins and out). Also, as you probably already know, this system has been widely adopted. It is a system that works well for many people, and therefore can safely be assumed to be adored by most people, and therefore can be projected to have 100% support from all people. And by all people, I mean that it has been adopted by those whose invisible things amplify the relative electoral weight of their opinions, perceptions, and preferences such that only a few of them are needed to reach 100% of a whole (especially as their historical lack of political influence is an invisible egregore that still flits about them to this day).
If you oppose this, you are so disgusting that it would be completely fair and accurate to say that you do not exist. If you oppose this and continue to insist on the notion that you exist, then you will be subject to rapid, massive, and frivolous online boycotts against you, almost certainly losing your job, your reputation, and your livelihood as a result. If you think the boycott will ever expire, then you are wrong. If you think that catalyzing an extra-judicial execution of your character is exactly the kind of historical unfairness that made so many people’s lives miserable (and that we as humans should be moving away from instead of toward), then honestly just kill yourself. If you kill yourself because of this, then you are a coward and an attention-whore. If you go into hiding because of this, then you are refusing to acknowledge the pain you have caused. If you stand and take the pain, then you will stand and take the pain for infinite days.
This boycott can be levied anytime you make any unfair or untrue claims about the invisible things of others, especially if their invisible things are plainly more terrible than yours. You can also be subject to boycott if you complain about being victimized by the actions of others without recognizing the fact that these actions were caused in whole or in part by the invisible things that you yourself either caused or at least have the privilege to never even think about.
Finally, you can be subject to this boycott for no reason at all.
Perhaps you do not like it if people rob, threaten, harass, bully, violate, intimidate, or victimize you. But before you get all up in arms about something frivolous like “being held at gunpoint in front of your family,” take a moment to look around the ski-masked head of your so-called “persecuter.” If you took even a moment to do this, you might start to understand the role that invisible things play in these misadventures. In fact, if you do not see them - which is impossible for any smart person to do (despite the fact that they are invisible) - then you are obviously either lying or intentionally hateful, and if you are lying that means you are intentionally hateful anyway.
Ten times out of ten, it’s usually you who is propagating the crimes against you, and as the saying goes: “Play bigot games, win bigot prizes.” Malcom in the X said that, and you’d do well to remember it.
But it’s always been a problem of humans - remembering things. Such as history, which believe it or not happened not so long ago. It is hard to imagine how humans got by without this extremely simple system of codifying who has the right to violate laws and property and safety of others, and who is not allowed to complain about it.
Here’s a little history lesson in case you forgot: Historically, people had no idea how to rapidly perform this incredibly simple system of algorithmic ranking of strangers in less than five seconds (while under duress), and so they stupidly endeavored to make “laws that applied to everyone equally.” Hard to believe, yes. But it is even harder to believe that some people actually wish to go back to those times - and some of them get so upset they even cry about it (lol).
They cry as if they had invisible things of their own, but in fact they do not (as anyone can plainly see, so no use even trying to fake it), and so the purpose of their tears is to either draw attention to themselves or to attempt to bring consequences to people who already suffer under the yolk of many invisible things, and if they only want to draw attention to themselves, then they are performing a version of lying which means they are intentionally hurtful to the point of wanting the invisibilerati to die (see several of my doctoral theses for more info on this neologism).
In conclusion, open your eyes. Before you think, act, or intervene, or call the police, or don’t call the police, or prostrate yourself for a nice thieving at Lululemon or a leisurely session of having your life threatened on a moving train - just remember: people are not as they seem. They have so much more to them, which is actually easy to see if you’re not racist.
Yes, sometimes the “more” that people have to them are hard to see - so hard to see they could even be called “invisible.” But a famous white man (who I encourage you to read his wikipedia page bc a lot of what he said was actually problematic) once had a little something to say about things you cannot see:
“Be kind to everyone, for all men carry a heavy load" Plato said. “Some people’s loads are heavier,” Plato continued, “and so if those people (who have the heavier loads) act in a way that is scary or violative toward you, just remember how terrible it must be to carry that load.”
And finally, “also your load is not that heavy. Please don’t say that your ‘Irish grandparents also had it rough,’ because that is outside of the zone of acceptable historical invisibilia” (Deveer, H.P., 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2017, 2022, n.d., n.d., n.d.)
Plato warned, “and above all remember, if you get robbed or murdered, it’s probably high time that you think about all those other people who were robbed and murdered and felt helpless to resist it, such as in the past. We don’t hear those stories much, do we? And I wonder why,” he emphasized before coming to his masterful final conclusion [emphasis added by yours truly]: “people hate getting robbed and murdered and brutalized and misjudged because of arbitrary biological differences they cannot control, so the best way to stop that from happening is by childishly asserting the right to revisit those horrors onto the supposed descendants of those who carried those things out, and if they resist they are just as bad as their slave-owning grandparents.”
Read Plato, people. The cave metaphor, especially. It was about invisible things that everyone could clearly see even though they were NOT visible. They were invisible, and yet they were right in front of their very eyes.
“Stay woke, y’all” - Martin Luther