Here We Are Now, Entertain Us!

Do the “lightworkers” realize that the more entertaining life is, the more its opposite, death, is accentuated and advanced?

This is nothing more than the dualistic logic of contrasting opposites.

It stands to reason that the more you find your ‘self’ entertained by all the grandiose hoopla of living (however you define it), the more seeking to avoid death will become paramount?

But then, why else do we seek “enlightenment” if not to cheat death?

Obviously, the most effective means of avoiding death is denial and this seems to work well until the last breathe. Along the spectrum of denial, denying that we deny is crucial to continuing to deny.

Do you have good “healthcare,” eat healthy, exercise, take vitamins and get plenty of rest? Do you wear your seatbelt? Well then, statistically speaking, you may live 8.5 years longer but, make no mistake, death is still guaranteed.

Of course, there is no guarantee on living and, like the running guru, Jim Fixx (“The Complete Book of Running”), you could drop dead while on your daily jog around the park.

Yet, many claim it’s not quantity of life they seek to improve, but quality (entertainment).

Nevertheless, this inevitably means that the greater the entertainment factor, the less you will want the show to end. The more you embrace 'life," the more you will seek to extend it, quantitatively. This is why pervasively and deeply depressed people often entertain, and even commit, suicide, since they have finally surrendered any chance of quality entertainment, even though they’ve been taught that their purpose is to work hard finding it (more work than the ”lightworkers” could possibly imagine: "just think happy thoughts and create your reality").

This all begs the question, why make any such distinctions whatsoever? Why spend your entire life seeking out ‘meaningful’ entertainment, only to drop dead after a statistically specified time?

Because you’re an ego and that’s what egos happily learn to do, make entertaining distinctions in defining “happiness.” In fact, that’s all egos can do is make ‘relative’ conventional distinctions between contrasting opposites: this is good, that is bad, this is ugly, that is beautiful, I love this, I hate that, etc, etc, etc, (up and down we go, along the ‘relative’ spectrum of 'entertainment').

It’ll be a cold day in hell before you stop making distinctive judgments, because to do so would mean that “you” (identity) will cease to be entertained and without entertainment, the ego would perish, because egos must be entertained.

"With the lights out its less dangerous
Here we are now
Entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now
Entertain us
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My libido
Yea

Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello"
(Nirvana)