Okay so here's the thing about "good bones" It doesn't matter if the house has good bones as long as they're hidden under the layers and layers of rotting flesh The realtor's promise is a lie because to pull off a reno like that you have to rip literally everything outhttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1322501784951140353 …
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This world we live in isn't just a fixer-upper that never gets fixed up It's worse than that, it's the worst case scenario This is a Grey Gardens hoarder house This house is filled with garbage that NEVER GETS THROWN OUT
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Never mind ripping up the floorboards, the owners of this place never even picked up their trash There's a thick layer of garbage in every room of this place, old wrappers, dirty dishes, soiled clothes Everything teems with vermin and stinks of neglect
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There's all this fucking STUFF here that was carelessly left here by long-gone precursors for some purpose now long forgotten Everyone looks at the mess trying RI figure out how much of it is garbage and how much is valuable and gives up in despair
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No one ever actually succeeds at even throwing out a little bit of it, much less making good on the promise to organize it all in some rational way Everyone just gives up and ends up turning into a slob who adds to it This endless clutter of monuments age memorials and history
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I don't know that I actually do worry that if I had kids I'd raise them ignorant of their history I worry about the exact opposite If I had kids I almost certainly *would* pass on the legacy of everything that has made me who I am today And nobody deserves that shit
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Whenever I get in a despairing mood I don't think about Thanos-snapping all the *people* away Almost the opposite I wish I could wipe all the memory in this goddamn world Erase all the hard drives, burn all the books, crumble all the statues and paintings to dust
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Have everyone wake up innocent dumb animals again, start the process over They'd probably inevitably recreate all the bullshit sooner rather than later but at least it'd slow it down, at least it'd create the *possibility* of making a different choice
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Everyone's so damn worried about "maintaining continuity", all our political talk revolves around our worship of this moldy old shitty piece of paper we refuse to just rip up and throw in the bin All this talk of the preciousness of "legacy", of the memory of the ancestors
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Well shit the cold hard truth of the world is you end up maintaining continuity whether you want to or not The ancestors will have their way with you, have in fact had their way with you since before you were born, and whether you choose to honor them has no bearing on this fact
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Such is life in the world of cause and effect It's the opposite - the idea of a blank slate, a fresh start, a true revolution - that is truly precious, almost nonexistent
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We really are a race of psychotic hoarders Fantasizing about the nightmare of being out on the streets with nothing - imagine if this house burned down! Imagine how much history would be lost! - while the weight of our accumulated trash threatens to bury us
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Can you blame people for getting into doomsday cults and praying for the nukes to go flying Burning down the house is always an irrational act, sure, and yet when you're looking at years of old newspapers piled high because the last owner thought they "might need them someday"
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