i haven't blogged for a long time about nothing

today i will blog about nothing

i will blog about a book i am reading called 'animal liberation'

the book uses only facts

it says that factory farming and eating animals is worse than how white people treated black people as slaves

i think this is true

it's a fact

but what about amoebas and bacteria and those microscopic bears?

we kill these things by doing laundry, by using anti-bacteria wipes, etc., and we don't know how painful it is to die in the laundry or things like that

i'm not joking right now

i'm being serious

these are factual things

those microscopic bears probably feel pain

this is completely not a joke

i'm just taking into consideration more things

before slavery was illegal it was probably a joke to say black people should be free, before women could vote, before homosexuals in america were treated not as sinful beasts, before animals had anti-cruelty laws, before animals had the same consideration given to them in regards to pain and suffering as humans, etc.

i'm not joking about microscopic bears

and eventually i think inanimate objects will have to be given consideration too

if you read this on mcsweeney's or edrants or anywhere else it would be a joke, it would be farce or satire

i really don't like farce or satire

i always agree with the farce or the satire

a modest proposal, about eating babies

yes, what's so funny and absurd about that?

if people eat pigs they should eat babies also

i want to be very serious right now

if a person is serious about reducing pain and suffering in the world they should probably study... i don't know

they should probably study computers

so they can create computer models that will tell them factually what to do

if the computer tells them to kill all humans then if the person is serious about reducing overall pain and suffering in the world the person should kill all humans

they probably should study computers, not spend their time voting or lobbying for politicians or writing books on why to be a vegetarian

i don't know

i'm not being self-righteous

i'm also not being david foster wallace and saying that i'm an asshole who doesn't care about anything (he said that in the lobster essay in order to appear 'cool,' i think)

i'm not accusing anyone or telling people what to do

i'm just letting some facts go in my head and create new facts

earth is .00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 percent of the universe

the time one human life exists is .00000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 percent of the time that the universe has existed

what does this mean?

i don't know

it is a logical fallacy to say that something does not matter because it is so insignificant

something that does not matter is something that does not exist

otherwise it matters

even .000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 is not the same as 0

but it is also a logical fallacy to defend your actions by saying that 'at least you are doing something'

you are either constantly trying to do more or you must admit you are not 'serious' about what you are doing

but i know that doing a little is more than doing nothing

but i also know that there is no factual reason why anyone would want to do anything

the universe is messageless

the only factual message the universe gives us is the laws of physics

to not move and not be conscious and let the laws move you like a rock falling or a river flowing or a planet orbiting

what am i trying to say right now?

i don't know

these are literary concerns to me

these are things i consider in my writing because i try to consider as much as possible

so i am not being 'off-topic'

okay

this has been tao lin blogging about nothing

tao lin wishes you a merry christmas

good night