The Massacre In Las Vegas

It does no good to blame the massacre in Las Vegas on bourgeois values. Every successful person living in the United States is a bourgeois but you can’t tell them that. What, my way of life was invented and developed beginning 900 years ago in Europe? What I do is my own thing. I earned my way to success. I applied my reason, and nothing but reason, to reality. I practiced a behavior designed to exploit my abilities and the abilities of others to make money. Rational behavior made me. Devotion to rationality produced science and science produced technologies that change nature  to new more profitable forms. 200 years ago in America my ancestors were agricultural slaves, but look at me now. I exercise faithfully. My car is worth new $60000 dollars. My job is the result of technologies that are the most advanced in the history of mankind. I’m on my way. I’m making it by applying reason to reality and I don’t care what result happens or what my values are or where they come from. I’m not a bourgeois. I’m me. The world is too weak to resist technology. Rationality and science rule. I rule.

   So no one is a bourgeois even though it is obvious to simple historical inquiry that every system of values for living a life of quality opposed to the bourgeois way of life failed. Put simply, we Americans are forced to live a rational and politically correct life up the ass. The bourgeoisie organized the systematic rape of the world. It continues but now with one mighty and obnoxious exception. The rape has never been more rapacious. Every time the bourgeois world gives us some positive pleasure it’s the result of stuffing something painful up the natural word’s ass.The soul? Forget it. Buy a new car, get divorced and remarried, buy a more expensive house. Do what reason tells you.  All the other non-rational signals will lead you only to your true feelings which might lead you to the disaster of relying only on what you find in your heart. Stephen Paddock fired his rifle at people using advanced technologies. He did not consider himself a bourgeois either even though his heartless method was totally rational and completely lethal like bourgeois values.

Daniel McNeill

Several of Daniel McNeill’s writings can be read online at: usoftheworld.com