I’m sick of hearing about Illegal Immigration. The War In Ukraine. Chinese Belligerence. Hamas atrocities. Israeli atrocities. Joe Biden’s senility. Anybody running for President. Anything happening in the Congress. Climate Change. The Fentanyl Crisis. Homelessness. Runaway Shoplifting. Runaway Inflation. Artificial Intelligence reducing us to Sheep. Donald Trump destroying Democracy. Anything related to Donald Trump…Anything I hear on Fox News…Social Media robotizing otherwise fertile human minds. The dysfunctional education system. Anything with dysfunction attached to it. Sex Trafficking. Juvenile Gender Transitioning. Animal Cruelty. Weather events impacted by Climate Change…Anything I hear in the mainstream news. I’d just as soon bury my head in the sand.

“Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.”

This quote just popped into my head. Turns out it’s the first sentence of Henry Miller’s book, The Tropic Of Capricorn.

I don’t know exactly what this quote means. Henry Miller is the kind of writer you fall in love with in college and later you discover he’s full of crap half the time. But that’s his style. Rapping off all the goofy stuff that enters his head, then crafting it later into a grand bamboozle. I don’t think his ghost will disagree with my assessment. Unlike Kerouac, who was dead serious about everything he wrote, Miller liked to have fun. If he dragged you along to the party, that was okay; If you had a bad time, that was okay, too. Winning you over was never his goal. Pleasing himself was.

He had a talent for turning his half-baked musings into high art. Here’s one of his watercolors.

The fact that he could cash in on his artistic limitations is kind of amazing. But isn’t that what a lot of Artist do…especially abstract expressionists? Here’s a painting by Rothko.

Untitled, 1956, sold recently for 67 Million Dollars. You may be thinking, well, but I’m buying a genuine example of the history of Fine Art. Painted by one of its Geniuses. But if you’re a normal putz like me and somebody sees it on your wall they’ll think your 5 year old kid did it. Because most people don’t know shit about the history of art and they don’t care, either. They’re busy trying to get by and at the same time griming-out over the daily news….The only people who benefit from having Untitled on their wall are the fat cat wannabe Billionaires. They have friends who’ve studied The History Of Art. They’ll be envied for owning a Rothko. Meanwhile, Rothko’s ghost is laughing.

Maybe stuff pops into my head for a reason

I could ask the Lobotomy dude. Or even the Smelly Irish dude, who’s actually a phony Australian Dude but still smells. Could they tell me why stuff pops into my head? I doubt it. I could read Freud. Freud will have the answer to why Henry Miller’s quote just popped into my head. I’ll need to read Freud…

I didn’t read any Freud. Instead I asked Google. I Googled “why does stuff randomly pop into my head.”

Google tells me I’m having what’s called MIND POPS.

Google claims Mind Pops are a result of Schizophrenia.

New findings suggest that mind-pop experiences — when unrelated thoughts pop into your head — are related to hallucinations in those people suffering from schizophrenia. Mar 29, 2012

Science Daily. com

So I’m a Schizophrenic. Terrific. I can get help. Get diagnosed by a reputable Professional. Become eligible for crazy pay and possibly free housing.

Wait a minute.

Google is not done.

Known as “mind pops”, these involuntary recalls happen to all of us, on average about 20 times a day, although there is a lot of variation between individuals. “It’s a basic characteristic of autobiographical memory,” says Dorthe Berntsen of Aarhus University in Denmark, who studies this phenomenon.Oct 24, 2018

Newscientist. com

So I’m not crazy.

This means I have no future as a State Dependent.

I’m back doing for myself like always. Living on Scruffy in the pouring rain. Paying for shit out of my own pocket. Working a suck-ass job as a Free Sample Dude.

Thanks for nothing, GOOGLE.

Uh Oh….wait a minute, wait a minute, again…

Google aint done.

Intrusive thoughts are often triggered by stress or anxiety. They may also be a short-term problem brought on by biological factors, such as hormone shifts. For example, a woman might experience an uptick in intrusive thoughts after the birth of a child.Oct 1, 2021

Harvard edu

Well, I aint a woman. Not since the last time I looked.

I’m an Old Dude. I’m an Old Dude with no desire to gender transition into an Old Woman.

That’s the beauty of being Old. You have no desire to Gender Transform Yourself.

I’m sure there are examples of elderly men who’ve changed their sex.

Here’s one:

No, I’m kidding. This is Pope Francis. He’s the Pope and I’m sure he enjoys being Male as much as I do. Maybe even more. Makes you kind of wonder, eh?

Fact of the matter, I’ve always enjoyed being Male. I know this is not Politically Correct thinking on my part. But I can’t help it. I used to be a marginally homophobic young dude. I grew out of it. I came to embrace people’s right to choose. Not physically embrace. Morally, I mean.

Nowadays, I’m just Phobic.

What about that third definition?

That third definition mentioned Anxiety and Stress as possible causes of Mind Pops.

I started this blog expressing how fed up I am with the news, how I’m sick of hearing constantly of all the shit going on in the world today. The drumbeat won’t stop. It makes me crazy.

Maybe that’s it.

Maybe living in this crazy ass world is putting me on edge. That, and the stress of living on a leaky boat in the pouring rain with a deadbeat kid to feed.

He’s gonna need to make it on his own. I’m about done feeding his ass…

I think I’m dealing with Stress and Anxiety here.

This is why my mind keeps popping up random shit.

Maybe I oughta take old Henry Miller at his word.

Just give up the Ghost. Go with the dead certainty of it…

What do you think?