The Invisibles

by Grant Morrison

The Raw & the Cooked

I like eating red meat. Bloody, red meat. I mainly like NY strip, skirt steak, and filet mignon. I don’t care if they come from a cow. They are delicious. And for the record, I will not eat “meat” from a fast food restaurant. You know Jack-in-the-box killed someone with a hamburger. It amazes me that they are still around.

I also like eating pork. Bacon is a reason to live. It is crispy, salty, and goes with almost any meal. Yum. Yes, pigs are cute, but bacon is delicious.

I could never kill a pig and eat it, but I could kill a cow and eat it if I had to. And no, I don’t enjoy killing anything, but you can be damned sure that if I had to kill something, it would be to further my survival. That means I would be protecting myself or eating it, or both.

Also, if you eat chicken, you are eating something that was once alive. Same thing with fish. Do you honestly believe that just because fish are very different from us and other mammals that they do not feel pain? Sorry, but it’s true. So you half-ass vegans who don’t eat the cow, but eat the chicken or the fish – Go all the way and stop pussy-footing around.

It does bother me a little to kill something to eat it, but I’d do it anyway. Tigers kill to eat. Lions, sharks, cheetahs, and other animals that are a part of nature also kill things and eat them. This is how nature works. The circle of life. And by the way I’ve had fried shark and it is delicious.

You see, I love nature. I am a part of nature. And I love to eat. And being a part of nature, something will most likely have to die for me to survive. I love the circle of life. Although I don’t want anything to eat me. That’s why I’m going to get cremated. That’s my way of giving the circle of life the finger.

As a matter of fact, I have a list of animals I want to eat.

I hope they all don’t taste like chicken.

Baptism

My son is to be baptized soon. And sitting in the office of our Catholic church, a religion I have many problems with, I have to recite the reasons for wanting our child baptized.

Initiation.

Original Sin.

Salvation.

Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?

And then I am told that what I was told was Original Sin is not what “The Church” now says is original sin. Now we are to realize that we are born into an imperfect world and can only be made perfect through faith in Christ. And who doesn’t want to be made perfect, eh?

You say you smell hypocrisy? I say that you are correct.

The reason we are baptizing our son in the Church is because, well, family on both sides expect it. And the Catholic faith isn’t all bad, except for some unnecessary deification and tons of dogmatic red tape, like most religions it does assist in instilling a moral compass of sorts, albeit one that is Christ centered, or at least the Catholic Churches version of Christ.

I will be happy when this is all over. I have grave aversions to anything false and not done whole heartedly.

This is my latest sin.

Freedom

I am lost. But come to think of it, this place I am in and what I am writing about may as well be about the television show (and how I hate TV, except for LOST).

I am in a place that I have no bearing and I am afraid to start in one direction or the other because of one simple thing: Truth.

Everywhere I turn are control structures, lines of thought and dogma that cloud the issue and alter reality. These ideas and religions offer you truth, but deliver slavery.

Run from anything or anyone that tells you, ” You must…”

Some magickal writings tell us to create our own framework, while others preach no dogma, which is dogma in itself.

Maybe I’m not after truth, but freedom. Freedom from other ideas and books and religions and television and media and fashion and…the World. Death comes to mind, but this defeats the purpose of the exercise.

Silence is another word. Complete and total silence. Being cut off from anything that can render its message to me in any way, shape or form. Tabula rasa is not good enough. I’m talking womb. I’m talking rebirth. I want to wipe my hard drive and build my own operating system from the ground up.

Everything thought and action will be me and I will set myself free.