Monday 23 November 2020

dear joe rogan

i have listened and listened

so the joke is on me anyway 

especially from a monetary standpoint

but i have to say man

with all respect

and in light of the hours of entertainment and education i have garnered from listening to all manner of people: those who lived out in the woods for longer than Theroux ever dreamed possible and trapped wild animals and survived winter and so on - nothing but a shelter they built themselves from nothing 

and there again i did

i have to admit

learn something and it was hours of free content so

props i guess

but

joe rogan

you preach and preach and preach

whether on food or exercise or attitude

but still you

like us all 

you are not the biggest and the strongest and the best and the richest

none of us could be

we are all together a fleck of dust at the end of the little toenail of one celestial giant that is itself no more than a spectator in a pageant of nonsense performed for a king who is on a scale that becomes meaningless to our puny minds

we are

when compared to the arc of history

and when compared to the way itself

we are

we are

we are nothing but what we see as a newt could be when compared to the discoveries of Einstein

and anyway i've not got spotify 

so sorry

i've stopped listening

2 comments:

  1. Dear Josh: Greetings from Eleanor's old friend. We met in Guernsey, or maybe London in that recording studio. I just adore your writing. I've been adoring it every time it pops into my email inbox all these years. So now I'm saying hello. Carry on.

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  2. Thank you so much. That is the best thing I've read today. Hope you're doing really well in Ireland.

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