‘Scientists have discovered the consumption of copious amounts of kale can lead to uncontrollable twitching caused by an eagerness to always say something, an enflamed ego and as well as a green tinge to your own billowing farts.’ Everyone loves an explanation or an uncomplicated black and white situation. We can easily rap our heads around such things and make a decision about what is best for us. Such as information like the reasons you feel shitty all the time being that coffee shrinks your skin, alcohol causes your brain to vibrate and chocolate creates a direct link from your cerebellum to the crumbling economy. People act shocked constantly. They love it. Its like a drug and at that, one as powerful as blind faith, pessimism or meth. It removes responsibility, ornaments reality in a floral dress complimented with a pink bow and calmly makes all your decisions for you. They cry with astonishment “Gosh! Turns out heroin turns the spleen inside out and replaces the ...
Blog by Melbourne cartoonist Ry Hamilton-smith, mostly optimistic nihilism poetry and creative writing.