I D not Want To Think About It

I don't

There exist so many cases, these days, where IDWTAI = I don’wanna thinka-bout it! For example: “Are stars canceling shows because of (what their doctors claim is) "laryngitis"? Or is it vocal fold immobility (VFI)” You know what?

IDWTAI. That’s What- yeah, life is hard. People die. You are born, you getta boner, and then you die. What is the purpose of life? To re-produce.

I dunno. Let’s be positive. I am losing all my readers this way.

Let’s talk about the disaster of modern times. There was a book called “Modern Times,” by conservative historian Paul Johnson. He wrote books on comedians, on intellectuals and more. He is GREAT. I actually do not know what a “conservative historian” is. Isn’t the purpose of historiography to preserve history? Isn’t preserving like conserving? So all historians are conservative. Science fiction is more liberal.

But he is supposedly a conservative historian because…. Okay, I will leave it at that. Just because… But I guess “conservative historian” is a technical term used in academia. So why am I using it? I am not in academia, I am a private economist. Most people think that means I piss golden streams that I distribute to the sewer system but they are wrong. I am talking IDEAS here. LIKE: IKEA-which looks almost entirely identical to: IDEA. That has got to be meaningful in some way. I just sure hope I do NOT piss away my economics ideas on Substack. Oooops, maybe I do. Maybe that is why no one listens. I should keep it real close to the vest thereby increasing its value. In the future, I will only be revealing my wisdom to like Harvard or Princeton. Writing that almost makes me physically sick. The very idea. I mean: the very IKEA~

But the world is geting worse and worse. It’s a Modern Disaster (which was almost the name of the present essay). Instead I named it I Don’t Want To Think About It but with a “D” instead of the second word. This is to make me trendy and popular. Nobody does that. But I did it. I deserve the popularity that results, if any. So that is a great idea and it should make me super popular. Not that I care about all that stuff.

What I want to know is this. Why do COCKROACHES live in my laptop? I moved to a new motel room. Very nice. And AGAIN these little versions of cockroaches are crawling out of my laptop! I am writing something. And a little roach comes crawling across the keyboard. So I get my revenge: I write about it(!!!!#).

Well. Lemme tell ya. This has been a lot more fun than writing all my serious stuff.

p.s. I am just floored by the relation between Ikea and idea. That I have gone all my life without realizing that is incredible. They are like almost the same. And “Like” is like one letter away from “Ikea.” That cannot be coincidence. Something for Jonathan Foer.