A Carriswheel Manifesto
"Incomprehensible Words Typed Out in a Completely Dark Room"
You can basically look at everything from an unlimited amount of angles.
These angles frequently oppose each other and represent different outlooks on life and being alive.
As an example, let's take the job of dish-washing and break it down into conflicting but all potentially viable perspectives:
1. Someone's gotta do this job, as long as restaurants and food service exists, the job is going to be absolutely necessary.
2. No one should have to do such a demeaning job for so little pay and so little respect.
3. There's a quiet dignity to dish-washing, something innate about the necessity of the job and the subtle importance of it.
4. It's an easy way to make some money, just a very simple and redundant task that requires very little thought or technical skill.
5. The job is so menial that it gradually wears you down in a way that creeps up on you. The redundant nature has negative mental effects and makes one complacent and numb.
6. There is a meditative nature to the continuous and unbroken ebb and flow of dishes. The task is calming and can induce a long period of reflection and thought, clarity and mental peace.
7. The job is extremely difficult, the learning curve is deceptively steep and there is a "finesse" to the subtleties of the work that cannot be taught but can only be learned over years of constant work.
8. Any kind of supposed meditative nature to the work is inherently negated by the fact that you are never "left alone" to your thoughts, you are constantly barraged by the complex environment of a busy kitchen and will always have to be multi-tasking and re-configuring yourself.
9. If you're dish-washing as a career you are a loser who didn't ever go anywhere in life.
10. If you're dish-washing as a career you are a valuable member of society and your contributions are valued and important, and your life outside of work is just as rich and fulfilling as anyone with a higher paying job.
11. If you're dish-washing as a career you are totally normal, nothing good or bad, just neutral and fine.
12. If you're dish-washing as a career at least you have a job, many people have nothing, no job, no money, no home, etc.
13. If you're dish-washing as a career you are contributing to the propagation of the system as a whole, and are therefore an extended agent of the state, no- even lower: a willing servant of the state, who happily eats the scraps you are given and says thank you pathetically.
14. If you're dish-washing as a career you are in the perfect position to throw a wrench in the system, to "sabotage" the day-to-day world and to call to action the underclass and the oppressed together as one.
15. Dish-washing is a great way to get ahead in the restaurant industry! It's a great "in" to learn the ropes and all the ins and outs of the kitchen and will put you in the position to eventually work your way up and one day be the boss.
16. Dish-washing, not dish-washing, it doesn't matter what you do, one day you're still going to be dead.
17. Dish-washing, not dish-washing, it doesn't matter what you do, you still have your life and yourself and no one can take that from you (unless they kill you).
18. Dish-washing is something a lot of people do at home, for free. So you might as well do it as a job and get paid for it
We could keep going on like this forever, so at a certain point one has to draw the line and stop.
The point is you can look at all things in this same way. You can view anything by any different angle or perspective that you so choose. Anyone else can too. You would go crazy if you tried to rationalize which is the real or most correct way to view anything. You'd have to weigh them all out against one another, line them up- and seeing as there is an infinite amount, that process would never end. You'd go just as crazy as you go when you're a dishwasher and you think about this kind of thing all day and night during your 11 hour dish-washing shift- like we did. So here's where we are as humans. We have to make these kinds of choices and decisions simply every single day. The only solution then that we are left with is to trust the option that you know is right, that is to follow your instinct and do what you know to be "the right thing". You don't have to weigh out all these angles because it's all just a mess. The voice inside you which you may have stopped listening to a very long time ago is the one that knows what you really "ought" to do. You know what things that you do that make yourself sad, and you know what things others do that make you sad. The system has it in a way now where everything is mass confusing unending distorted decisions and fake things and there never seems to be a "right way" to do anything or like it's impossible to be "moral" and good. This is a counter to that. You know deep down what is right and wrong. Carriswheel really can't help anyone, and we can't pretend to have some grand wisdom of really anything, we can only speak for ourselves and assume others know what we're talking about. But we have a hunch a lot of people know what it is we're talking about. Everyone who does bad things still thinks of themselves as a good person somewhere inside and that they're simply "putting off being a good person until later"- that this isn't "the real me", and they're right to think that. But they never decide to go back to being good because they're trapped in the world. Break out now in the instant or you will never do it. Carriswheel believes that you can go "full force". Don't let the winds of time keep cutting through you.