The Manifesto of a Second-Rate Genius

I want to start out by saying that I'm really, really stoned but I
have this really positive feeling. I just realize that I love myself. I
really do. I'm just happy to be alive. Even with all that I've
suffered, my life's been incredible. I've hit it up so much. I'm so
bling bling. I am charismatic and above all, I'm just a freaking
genius. I've got skills. I have such precise judgement. I can do
anything. I can spit religious rhyme and make a holy book. Anything I
do, even if it's just scribble on paper, it's more brilliant than
pretty much anybody can do. Because I've got magic in my touch. I'm
inspired. I've read so much and my brain's so fast. My body's fast,
too. I'm a mean dart and tennis player. I would love to be a warrior.
Heck, I'd enjoy going to war just for the fun of it. I'm that kind of
bloody fellow. But I don't war because I'm too noble. I want peace for
the world. I want order; I want wealth. I just want to do things right;
I'm so sick of all this mediocrity. I've come to understand who "Howard
Roark" is, you kow the character from "The Fountainhead." We humans can
do things right; it's in our power. We can create absolute beauty. If
we all start operating in an orderly and intelligent manner, we can
make utopia in ten years flat. Our technology is so powerful; we don't
feed to slave after scraps like a bunch of dogs(i.e. capitalism).
What's the problem G's? Everybody can live comfortably on what our
technology produces. People don't have to be fighting just to survive
in this economy? People don't have to be plugged into these freakin
televisions like they're batteries in the matrix. They don't have to be
frying their brains and ruining their health with drugs(a few in
moderation might be beneficial.) We don't have to be making explosions
in Afghanistan and Iraq? Who are we kidding? Are we a bunch of monkey
tribes here? What's wrong with the authorities? Can't they see that we
need peace, order and sanity? Can't they see that humanity has to have
a united strategy in order to expand past this planet and survive our
own technology? Bombs aren't toys, kids. Let's stop squabbling among
cultures. Do we have to hate blacks, then chinese and now whites? Can't
you see that we're the same species and that our tribal bickering is
interfering with the progress of civilization? You see, that's the
thing, I used to be able to write fiction and read fiction and read
anything? and care about it. But no, enough of this. I've gotten past
the point where I should be reading. I'm emerging as a genius here. I
need to be producing for humanity. I need to gather as much power to
myself as I can because our society needs me as a leader. I don't want
to fight for survival or play these games any more. The authorities
might as well just recognize that I'm one of the smartest people alive
and put me to work serving humanity. Give me the reins of one state and
in a year, I'll give it back to you, with ten productive moon colonies.
I'll be as effective as Napoleon and as benevolent as Ghandi. I'll
settle this government problem. Give me a round table and I'll choose
nine knights to represent the world, let's see, Jay-Z, Clinton,
Schroder, Richard Dawkins, Larry Ellison, or some similar choices,
obviously incorporating international diversity. Just get the ten most
on it people out there and give them the reins. Create some other kind
of balanced system for the rest of government. A council of 100, 200
hustlers could just get together and settle these issues like some
sensible tribes instead of like some kind of ape with a destruction
complex. Are we bunch a yahoos? Swift was seeing straight. So many
humans are just deformed animals, a highly inferior species, unlikely
to achieve intelligence. But then there are those among humanity who
demonstrate our potential. There are those who develop such a level of
advancement that you see that we could be a great species, a great
empire. We just need some method, some flow, some sense of community
responsibility. And just so you know, I'm not mad, I realize my true
abilities and inabilities. I know that I should probably just be some
radical kid on the council of one thousand or something. I'm good but
I'm not that good. I've got some brilliance but I'm not Shakespeare,
Churchhill or even Clinton. I'm a second-rate genius but a genius
nonetheless.


We can expand way past this star. The galaxy seems right for
it. Let's just hit it. But slowly, methodically. Let's organize and
meditate for two hundred years. Let's perfect our technology and save
our environment. This pollution is just a clumsy stage. Are we gonna
let this stop us? Are we slobs? Come on, let's clean up our planet. We
don't need a car and a half acre lawn for every American macho man and
his retarded goose wife. And that applies for the other countries, too.
No, Israel, you can't commit genocide. Just because the Nazis tried to
exterminate you, doesn't give you the right to enslave and enstrict
another ethnic group. I'm not saying this in a spirit of anger. I love
Israel and the Israelis. They have a beautiful culture; they provided
us with an incredible tradition that's played a large role in the
creation of our civilization. This is the tradition that gave us
Christianity, which has proven to be such a beautiful religion, despite
its warts. And no, Bush, you can't make America a monarchy. Obviously
you've got some smart kids on your team, some superior blood in your
tribe, but America's a big country with a huge economy. We've got all
kinds of ideas floating out there. It's a big world out there. You
corporate kids haven't thought this through. You can't run it. You
don't have the inspiration. You haven't gotten the "vision" thing down
yet. You fools haven't thought past your accounting sheets; you can't
run a planet. You'll go down in infamy; I mean you will. You already
will. All I'm saying is that you kids need to consult Fischer on what
his views might be. Dude's crazy as a loon but at least he's got some
strategy, some flow. The people running our society have no skills.
It's time to step aside and let in some young guns. Let's get some
people with craniums. We need order, meditation, thoughtfulness. This
chaos won't work for a highly technological society. We need to develop
a noble and orderly society. There have to be rules and parameters.
Humanity has to operate somewhat as a team, as a single organism. We
can't have people starving, eating junk food, and indulging in terrible
vices, pop, smoking, television, crank, mindlesness, machoness, hubris,
it's all foolishness. Let's do things as a team. Let's design a
reasonable range of diet and make sure that everybody's eating it.
Let's make sure everybody's getting enough of the right kind of food.
If people shouldn't be eating corn dogs, popsicles and Pepsi, then try
not letting them. Society is run by leaders, people who make calls, and
the ones we have right now are making the wrong calls. We can say a
lot. But that's the bottom line. Obviously there's a cultural norm here
that's not working. We're too conformist. We've got too much of the
violent foolishness of primitive times left in us. Let's get back some
wonder, some inspiration, some spiritual or philosophical awe. I mean
this stuff is really simple: earth should have a certain population.
Each person should exercise regularly, eat well and do some kind of
productive work. We don't need to be killing people in the mines
anymore; they don't have to be slaving in sweat shops so silly American
women can wear the flashiest colors. We can get back some humility as a
species. We're just a species of animals, kids. Things don't have to be
perfect. Get some toughness. Think about Crazy Horse. I'll bet he
didn't have to shower everyday, wear the freshest clothes and use
facial lotion. And why should people go to church? I'm not dissing
religion here, I'm just saying that it's apparent that religion should
be mixed throughout life rather than concentrated on one particular
day. People should pray or meditate throughout the day, kind of like
they do in Islam although obviously incorporating more religious or
individualist preference. And why do most women shave their body hair
and dress some up like some kind of dolls? Can't we be real here? We're
animals, bipedal omnivores, not that much different from a freakin
panda bear in the scheme of things. And why does every man think he's
King Kong? I live in America; I don't know about other cultures but
here, the machismo is just obnoxious. People are so egostical; I
swear.
And no, I'm not egotistical. I'm just smart. I have game. I have some
sense of nobility here. If I had a chance to lay down my life to be of
great service to humanity, I would do it. I'm a team player and I know
we're all a team. I'm related to those sea turtles and to those weird
fish on the bottom of the ocean and so much more to you, any
homo-sapien. Let's get along. Let's start meditating together.