How to fit into the jolly old system and be what it wants us to be – that’s the question on everyone’s lips, isn’t it? There are YouTube tutorials on that you know. How to make a name for yourself in the Copycat World, how to copy societal templates better than the next guy. How to be a better clone than your neighbour. That’s where the kudos is to be found, you see – all that wonderful, wonderful kudos. How to find respect and approval from the people who matter most to you. Or from anyone at all, basically. Whoever it is. Everyone likes to hear that they’re great. Everyone likes to hear that they’ve done well, everyone needs a bit of that ‘old social validation’ from time to time. Hunting for Kudos in the Copycat Realm, where the only sin that can’t be forgiven is the sin of accidentally being original. They’ll turn on you for that, you know. They’ll turn on you fine and fast…
In the special magical world of which I speak reality can be whatever you want it to be. You are the Boss of Everything in other words, and isn’t that what we all want at the end of the day? Isn’t that precisely what we’re all hankering for? In the special magical world of which I am King, reality not only can be but must be whatever I desire. I simply don’t give it any choice. My word is law, in other words – I am the great autocrat of my own super-fake reality bubble and if you don’t like it then you know what you can do. You can fuck right off. Damn right you can. Yes indeed my friends, I don’t take any shit from anyone, as you can plainly see! You bet I don’t. In the special magical / generic world within which we are all so privileged to live we are all free to seek approval from our fellow idiots in whatever ways we can and that’s a measure of just how far of both just how far we’ve come, and how far we have yet to go. Things could be good, but they could also be quite bad.
You’re trying to make a name for yourself you see, and who can blame you for that? You’re only trying to do what you’re only trying to do. You are doing your level best to adapt yourself to a system that just doesn’t care and why wouldn’t you? What’s the alternative, after all? What else are you supposed to do? This world we live in is special and magical and I don’t want you ever to forget that. It’s also a helter-skelter ride of madness and despair. You’re on top of the world one minute and then way down in the dumps the next, cursing and bemoaning the unfairness of it all. One moment they’ll say you’re great and then the next they’ll pretend you don’t exist! Folk are like that – they are as fickle as the day is long. They are as fickle as the day is long and yet what else can we do but keep on trying to please them, what else can we do apart from keep on trying to worm our way into their good books? It’s the only game in town, you see. It’s the only game in town and it’s also one we can never win…
