Curb Your Energy

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A man once tweeted "I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle”, that man is Kanye West and he announce that he is attempting to be responsible for a country that is the biggest, hardest, one time World War winner along with few minor other ones, except Iraq. I consider that a draw since our guy didn't show up.

So why mention Kanye West amidst a pandemic? Well, mainly because I just learned the word "amidst" and wanted to use it in a sentence. But also, because Kanye West is the manifestation of stupidity at the moment. I am obviously not going to say that a soon-to-be billionaire isn't smart, but why are our standards so low all of the sudden? I know mine are, I personally think Kanye West isn't the worst of the current candidates, who do I think is the worst? That quasi-racist white guy, not clear enough? The one who seems completely out of touch, now you get what I mean, right?

We as generation have given up the smart solutions on the same year avengers came out. We fell in love with the grandstanding, self-sacrificing, mentally martyring circus. The reason is- well- KABOOMs are fun! Think about it, much like the avengers, problems have been getting worst and closer to home gradually, and much like the avengers we didn't take the smart route.

But Amir, are you mocking the most successful franchise in history? Yes, me who is talking to myself loudly in an empty room and hyped up on three cans of energy drinks, Avengers actually did a horrible job as defenders. A team that has countless super powers, three geniuses at least, including one who knows the future, many more, and you are telling me no one could have came up with a better solution to get things done? I mean Thanos for example got his head chopped off so hard, you would think Thor was getting trained by ISIL, so he can be killed. Are you telling me no one was able to come up with a mini bomb that they could fly through his ear into Thanos body? Or anything within those lines?

Movie begins

Captain America: Tony, we need to stop Thanos
Tony Stark: Already done, I sent a sniper with a bullet that turns him into an idiot.
Captain America: Ohw

Then they would cut to Thanos saying something stupid like "Add pineapple to the pizza" or "Yes, the Big Bang theory is funny"

And for the remainder of the movie they could just discuss how a Gorilla got thousands of votes last election.

The End

Would that have been fun? NO, but that would have been the smart way to do it. The smart way is such an underrated method. Why explain your your point of view when you can berate, mock, insult, and dehumanize the devil who had the audacity of disagreeing with you. The courtesy of discussion should be passed for everyone, except for The Big Bang Theory fans and pineapple pizza, they ruined the sight of pizza and forced us to live in a world of "Bazinga".

Friedrich Nietzsche once said "God is dead, God remains dead, and we killed him", Nietzsche of course means it symbolically, although I wouldn't put it passed the Germans to have done it during that time period. What is missed from that point is that while God is dead, religion hasn't. And religion is extremely symbolic, Jesus dies on a cross for the sin of humanity, Moses opens ups the sea, Mohammed flies to heaven and hell for a night, Budha- uhmm.... eats chocolate....- I don't know, I am not an expert of all religions.

Now we have new religions, black people have civil rights, women have feminism, Muslims are either still following religion in the motherland or busy complaining about cartoons, and white men have either suicide or Jordan Peterson. The thing about killing God is assuming his responsibility, or her responsibility if you are an Ariana Grande fan. But unlike the avengers, we don't have super powers, so we are stuck trying to achieve power.

And unlike the avengers we don't have the luxury of skipping smart solutions, we don't have a man in an Iron Man suit to save us in the last moment. Our version of that, Elon Musk, a man who named his daughter X Æ A-12. Which is why when Thanos came in the form of the Corona-virus declaring the beginning of the Endgame, we were still stuck in Civil War.

So curb your energy, maybe the key to winning isn't fighting hard as much as it is fighting smart, fighting calmly, and in an understanding manner. We don't have Gods, witches, fancy military suits, people who get angry, bigger, and green, we don't have a Deus Ex Machina, and most importantly we don't have a director that yells cut and reshoots. So if someone offers you a slice of pineapple pizza and watch The Big Bang Theory marathon, you tell them to fuck off and go to hell, but you know, do it nicely.