ssɐ ʎɯ ɟo ʇno

Expectation without eventual satisfaction is just intolerable. Not to say that one would have any measure of expectation regarding any words of mine, but either way, I said I'd write something. I've started a handful of posts on various subjects, all pending completion. On a jog I was on not half an hour ago, I saw a dead bird on the side of the road and thought, "I really ought to write something-because well, I have a blog, and there's a dead bird." The point is things really come together when you have the right motivation.
On occasion, (all the time) I wonder to myself what the point 0f all this is, reality, existence, the whole taco grande. It was once said, by someone really smart I'll say, that life cannot be understood and lived at the same time. One has to be an outside party to understand a system objectively. Unfortunately for me, I am still a human being and still a part of that system. But, as any one who knows me can attest, my human qualities are negligible.
We humans, we're born, we grow up, we die. What of it? To assume purpose to our existence is to assume a governing power or authority which has the right to say what ought to be. Yet, if all is merely the clockwork of the forces, then what are we? Merely conveyances for our genes to pass on to the next generation. If we are only flesh and bone, protein and lipid, where do we go from here?
Let me start over. I'm a firm believer that there's a reality beyond what our perceptions present us. If you remove all subjective perspectives, all people from the universe, it would be just as it was (except people of course). But then again, perhaps human consciousness is collapsing the wave function of existence, so maybe if people disappeared, the universe would revert back to possibilities... anyway. Existentialism and quantum mechanics aside, the world can be understood.
Logic, reason, the scientific method, these have shown us our world has governing laws. It is because of the reliability of these laws that we can produce the tools and technology for our ever-advancing society. So what if human behavior also had a set of laws? What if we had a prescribed order? Only, unlike natural laws, we can choose to disobey ours. If gravity just said "fuck it" one day I wonder how things would progress. Obvious references to God, or some metaphysical governing intelligence aside, our ability to think has made us the kings of the world, no matter what manner of kings we are.
Strange to think that although our ability to think and reason has brought us so far, yet the gift of mind is so ubiquitously frowned upon, at least in the U.S., where Larry the Cable guy holds the public's attention better than ..well, anything remotely intelligent. With the populous dumbed down to cro-magnon levels and sedated by 24-hour entertainment, the powers that be can do pretty much what they want, sans interference from the common man. Then again, taking another look at the common man, maybe the elites are right. It is difficult to see the true value of a single human being when one is reduced to such a shadow of their true potential. Then again, aren't we all shadows of our potential? Oh boy....
I'm sorry to say, that I think I forced this one out like a constipated weasel. (Give me a break. I dare you to come up with a better simile. I'm on a time-budget here.) No matter the quality, if such a word can be used to describe what I just blew all over this page, at least some thing was posted.
"Something of increbible depth and profundity will replace this sentence at some point in the future."