Billy Dalto

(Via toxicgreen, via johnnyfive, via brooklet14). I don’t know about his friends, but I feel that way all the time, particularly when reality has some ‘catch,’ some intractable problematizing quality that seems to hold humanity in a state of irresolvable tension, anxiety, dilemma, or struggle.
For example: cocaine. Hell, cocaine and other top-tier drugs: it’s always irritated me that drugs work so beautifully, so splendidly, but in an almost immediately diminishing way, so that at first they are a spectacular means to euphoria, increased competencies (say, interactive or sexual), and the blissful passing of hours, but soon encounter some sort of psycho-physiological ‘resistance’ or ‘tolerance’ so that returns contract and soon you need to shoot up your heroin just to walk straight.
What a God thing to do: give us the ability to experience, but not sustain, euphoria.
What a God thing to do: give us some inexplicably adaptive quality that promptly absorbs any beautiful sensation, any thrilling rush, any transcendent pleasure, and turns it into something smaller, something less fulfilling: a memory of how much better it was before.
What a God thing to do: make all of our best feelings necessarily temporary. Then have people say things like, “Well, you’d get bored being euphoric all the time,” when you plainly wouldn’t as you don’t get bored when you’re euphoric.
What a God thing to do: make humans a permanently dissatisfied, restless species that cannot attain peace through any permanent arrangement and so frantically dives into new loves, new drugs, new arts, new passions, just to keep ahead of our expanding sense of boredom and familiarity, until even the concept of newness and love is boring. 
I don’t need to believe in God to be pissed about these facts. Why must everything new become old?
(Don’t even get me started on entropy or economic phenomena or the distribution of traits genetically…). 
(via mills)

Besides being great, this post makes me think of Joe Frank’s brilliant “Holy Land” (from The Other Side). Just before Eve eats the forbidden fruit she says the following to Adam.

…And now, this tree of knowledge business. Frankly, it pisses me off. I mean, why did he have to do that? He let us have everything and then this one thing he says we can’t do. You know what that is? It’s just a power trip that he’s on. He’s just a control freak. He gives you everything but then maybe the most important and the best and the most richly satisfying thing, that’s the one thing he doesn’t let us have.