The Necessity of the Enemy Or Don’t Be a Goddamn Hippie

Can’t we all just get along?

No. Of course we can’t. What a preposterous notion. Why the hell would we want to anyway? I have no desire at all to make nice with a bunch of squares and inbreds. Fuck ‘em. I know, I know, everyone should be treated like you want to be treated blah blah fucking blah, but in the reality is that’s just not going to happen.

And it shouldn’t. Here’s why:

Having an enemy, an obstacle, is a catalyst. It crystallizes what it is that you are for by defining what it is that you’re against. If you are pro-life, than you’re anti-abortion. It’s plain and simple. The idea of trying to find some kind of consensus, to try to make some kind of peace, when the two sides are diametrically opposed is ludicrous. Sometimes there can be no middle ground and that’s the way it should be. The middle ground is for pussies that are afraid of “offending” some section of the populace. Fuck them and fuck the populace, if I know I’m right and the majority of people are wrong, well than now the majority of the people are my enemy and my life has meaning.

Yeah, that’s right. Having an enemy gives your life meaning.

After a night of heavy drinking I recently allowed one of my friends, who was just as drunk as I was, to tattoo the mark of the beast, 666, on my back. This is symbolic. I don’t believe in Satan as an actual entity, I don’t pray to him or sacrifice babies in hopes that he will grant me some kind of magical evil powers. It is instead a statement about my adversarial relationship with Christianity. I think that Christianity has been responsible for much more harm than good if you look at the whole of human history. Christianity, and indeed almost all organized religions, acts as control on the masses. It is the inhibitor, the authority figure that stands there ready to punish you if you step out of line. They are my enemy. (On a side note, but one that I think is very important to point out, I have no problem with people who actually follow the teaching of Christ as he intended [Outside of the fact that I think belief in any kind of ancient mythology is childish] Christ taught people to be decent to each other, to take care of one another. I defer to Ghandi on this note: “I like your Christ, but he is so unlike your Christians.” I have a problem with the institutions of Christianity and their influence on society)

I don’t want to be everybody’s friend. I want to have relationships with people who I find value in, people who have something to offer. This is why I don’t associate with yuppie pricks who are concerned with money and vanity. Quality is more important than quantity, and so I eschew any idea of “getting along with everybody”. It’s like having a racist friend and justifying it with some bullshit like “well I grew up with the guy” or “he’s just a product of his environment”. No, he’s a prick and you’re a prick for defending him.

He can fuck off and die. He is my enemy.

If I’m going to summarize what I’m trying to say it would go something like this: You can take your hippy-dippy bullshit notions of good vibes and peace and harmony and shove them directly up your ass. If you stand for nothing you fall for anything. I’m not going to sit back and just go with the flow; I will paddle up-river as hard as I can just to show all you turds that it can be done.

“If you’re bored and listless, you just need to get yourself an enemy.”

- Jack Terricloth

And fuck ‘em if they can’t take a joke.