Your life is an exercise in balance. How close to rock-bottom can you hover without ever actually getting there? This is a question you strive to answer every day as you make your way clumsily through life. It’s a question that underlines all the decisions you make, both big and small, from who to date to how to manage your meager finances to what poisonous substances to consume. It’s what keeps you up at night and what feeds your generalized anxiety disorder as well as your myriad, troubling addictions. This question is really the ultimate goal of your whole life.

Lucky for you, Fraudulent Living is here to show you the way. The true way. The way of the neurotic, self-obsessed, success-avoiding loser. It’s time to quit pussyfooting around and do this for real.

That’s right, “pussyfooting.”

Welcome to Fraudulent Living.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Your politics


No matter what your politics are, you should profess them really loudly whenever asked about them. However, you should also make sure you do little to no actual work when it comes to advancing any agenda whatsoever. In fact, you should barely be able to find the energy to vote once every four years. You shouldn't even consider voting during the mid-term elections. But if you do go to vote during these off-year elections, make sure you know absolutely nothing about any candidate and that you strictly vote down your party line. When it comes to picking judges that don't have party affiliation next to their name, just vote "no" on every one of them. That way, any time a court ruling happens that you don't agree with, you can feel completely absolved of any involvement.

Your inability to make any kind of real decision for yourself should, nonetheless, never stop you from feeling that you can make decisions for everyone else. The fact that you don't actually lead a life, but rather follow it, lemming-like, over the cliff of failure on a daily basis -- this should have no real bearing on your ability to pass judgment on other people's screwed-up ways of life. Keeping this in mind, even when you don't vote or don't go to the rally for the cause you're really interested in, you should heap scorn on other people who don't vote or attend the rally. It sounds like hypocrisy, but really it's just fraudulent living. Other people don't have that excuse, so it's your job to judge them harshly for their socially irresponsible actions. Now that you've coerced someone into voting or doing the political thing you know you should do but won't, you can feel totally absolved for not doing it yourself. 

Since your political views, no matter what they are, are absolutely true, you should feel allowed, nay, obligated, to brutally ear-rape every stranger around you with various pointed rants on controversial topics. The best place to do this is the bus or the subway. Ideally, you should get into a conversation with a friend about something like gay marriage, gun rights, the death penalty or O.J. Simpson. You should spout your utterly true view on the topic just loud enough that anyone within earshot will hear you, while simultaneously enraging and embarrassing the friend with whom you're talking. This is your sacred duty as an intelligent, sometimes-voting member of society. 

Also, you should constantly note how almost every action you take in your fraudulent life should automatically disqualify you from public office in the future, yet nevertheless still believe that some day you will be the President.

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