And no matter how you look at it from every angle.
Loving me is like banging my head
Loving you is like chewing tar.
— I'm in show business, yes? Why come to me?
— Well I'll tell you why, Mr Motss. '54-40-Or Fight', what does that mean?
— It's a slogan, it's from the, uh...
— 'Remember the Maine'!
— Oh yeah, that's from — that's gotta be from the, uh...
— 'Tippecanoe and Tyler Too'!
— No, that's not, uh...
— They're war slogans, Mr. Motss. We remember the slogans, we can't even remember the fucking wars. You know why? That's show business. That's why we're here. Naked girl covered in Napalm. 'V for Victory'. Five Marines raising the flag, Mt. Suribachi. You remember the picture 50 years from now, you'll have forgotten the war. The Gulf War, smart bomb falling down a chimney. 2500 missions a day, 100 days. ONE video of ONE bomb Mr. Motss, the American people bought that war. War is show business — that's why we're here.
— And what do you for the President?
Thinking it’s your fault after the fact is just pointless. Everyone has their own limitations.
There’s no point in me getting depressed over things I can’t do anything about...
I’m wasting my days as I’ve wasted my nights
And I’ve wasted my youth.
— It does not make sense that humans deliberately malfunction.
— Yeah, that's because your memories are filled with ones and zeros, pal, and our memories are filled with every fuck-up we've ever made.
L'absurdité grandit comme une fleur fatale
Dans le terreau des sens, des coeurs et des cerveaux;
En vain tonnent, là-bas, les prodiges nouveaux;
Nous, nous restons croupir dans la raison natale.
I treated him. He was a complicated patient. He saw reality too clearly. Faulty denial mechanism, failed to block out the horrible truths of existence. In the end, his inability to push away the awful facts of "being-in-the-world" rendered his life meaningless, or as one great Hollywood producer said: "Too much reality is not what the people want". Sandy Bates suffered a depression common to many artists in middle age. In my latest paper for the Psychoanalytic Journal, I have named it, "Ozymandias Melancholia".
Whatever you do in life will be insignificant
But it's very important that you do it, cause
Nobody else will.
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