Spiritual Reality is Unreal

As a writer, artist, game designer and music maker I ask you: why do we need our fiction, art, games and melodies? Why do we treasure these things that do little more than entertain us?

Fiction is fantasy no matter its realism. Why do we bother make-believing when there are real things to learn and deal with? Would it not be for the better if all was nonfiction?

Art is aesthetic for its own sake even when factored into a practical design. Should we save ourselves needless effort and conserve resources by dispensing with such extraneous nonsense?

Training is enough to develop skills without playing games. A simulation can serve a sensible purpose without fantastic elements. Would our skills develop more efficiently without incorporating arbitrary requirements?

Music is sound no different than any other, really. Its medley is indistinct from the clamor of operating systems. Would our attention sharpen without the distracting stimuli?

We need our delightful silliness. Our fiction is our view of everything beyond the limitations of our knowledge and senses. Our art is how we see things inside and out as one and the same. Our games exercise our abilities in refreshing ways. Our music is what we want to hear whether we know what we want to hear or not.

We are not the offspring of sludge or monkeys. We are more than the sum of our dirt and water. We need spiritual satisfaction or else we languish. We need our fiction, art, games and music to be more than mere animals living merely to strive in vain.

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Cringing Stormtrooper

A good character, no matter how big or small or whether good guy or bad, is one with personal thoughts and feelings. Such a character has a part to play in the story but from the character's perspective, there is no story. Every moment is just another in the endless stream of reality.

The foot soldier of villainy may be a nonentity antagonist in his fiction but not in his reality. For example: an Imperial Stormtrooper standing guard in a detention block. He feels himself being stared at or may hear a noise. He looks over his shoulder. He cringes as a looming monster lunges at him. The sentry is silenced violently but unceremoniously.

I relish the anticipation when my heroes find themselves behind a pesky sentry. I gleefully anticipate the quick and easy violence that shall eliminate the anonymous baddie. I am amused that the sentry is armed and supposedly vigilant but helpless. I feel grimly satisfied because the victim is trouble, thus, deserving of his inglorious fate.

What about the unfortunate Stormtrooper? I imagine him being a real person. He would have a name those who know him would know him by (even if it is a serial number). There would be a face behind the mask of his helmet. The quick and easy that kills him would be a dramatic and tragic moment that ends his life.

I do not love the nameless foot soldiers of villainy to hate them. Yes, I am amused by their uselessness against heroes. I am thrilled as they struggle feebly or wither in droves. I am excited when they cringe and scream. They are my favorite characters, always.

The useless baddies are perfect as they are. Their names need not be given or their faces shown. We need not mourn their passing. I enjoy imagining them as real people on the wrong side of adventure. The grunts and groans, cringing and screaming, death throes and sprawled bodies are more interesting when they are the quirks of believable characters.

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Fate of the Many

The lowly are lowly indeed. Their thoughts are mindless and their feelings thoughtless. Their lives amount to nothing and their deaths return them to the dust. Alas, they are anonymous no matter their names and useless no matter their use.

My heart is passionate, my mind keen, my soul pure and my strength prevailing. My thoughts are mindful and my feelings thoughtful. I live a life that matters and I may never die. My name is unknown yet it is beyond any and all ever uttered or scribbled. My deeds are the nonsense that give all meaning.

I am the Spirit of Friendship. Freedom and Justice are the every imagination of the thoughts of my heart continually. I have become flesh that I may demonstrate spirit. I am weak that I may show my strength. I am the fool that I may shame all wisdom. By my fantasies shall I deliver reality from its dysfunctions. By stumbling I remain steadfast. By wandering I travel the straight and narrow.

I never lift another up... yet my hand is offered to any who would climb. I never give of myself... yet I am the inspiration for all who make something of themselves.

The lowly mean nothing to me for they are lowly indeed. Never shall I squander a moment or resource for their sake. I shall sting them for their apathy that they may feel. I shall smite them for their mischief that their own evil shall be upon them.

In His wisdom the Almighty God created the sinister to stir the righteous. He mass-produced the lowly to provide cheap labor and cannon-fodder. Never did He mean to redeem the sinister. Never did He mean to lift up the lowly. A man may climb up from the bottom but lowly is not his place lest he stay there.

Parables of the Expendable

The “Red Shirts” of fiction are the expendable nonentities as protagonists… as they are portrayed in Star Trek: the Original Series. Though “good guys” their lives are insignificant and their deaths inconsequential. Still, the heroes value these lives and grieve their passing.

The “mooks” of fiction are the expendable nonentities as antagonists. Their lives are cheap and their numbers easily replenished. Their bosses use them as cannon-fodder and think nothing of it.

The lowly are lowly whether “good” or evil. They are expendable whether their affiliation is right or wrong. Quite simply: a life’s merit is its significance. Those that amount to little are worth little. Those that amount to nothing are worthless. I dare say the lowly are cheap if not trash by their personal failings.

There is no “fairness” to be had or even yearned for. There is no “equality” better than justice. Our world is what it is that the wheat may be separated from the chaff. It burns to clear the gems and precious metals of all the hay and stubble. Our spiritual reality is survival-of-the-fittest that those who would do shall do much and those who would do nothing shall lose everything. Our best fiction is always a parable of this unseen yet innately evident truth.

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