CULTIVATOR OF MEDIOCRITY – by Huberto Rohden
My unknown friend. If you want to be a stubborn cultivator of
routine and mediocrity, guide yourself by the following rules:
Before thinking, always keep yourself informed of what to
think, in order not to introduce into the world, contraband of new ideas.
Never think with your own brain - but always with the brain of
others.
Always say yes when others say yes - and not when others say
no.
Read every morning your newspaper to find out what should be
thought in the next 24 hours.
When someone comes up with new ideas, avoid this person
because could be a trap, a social danger, a heretic, a terrorist, etc.
Do not expose yourself to the danger of doing what the
neighbour not does - but remember the proven bourgeois wisdom: safe than sorry.
Be a devoted friend of your comfortable sofa - and do not
expose yourself to the vertigo of vast horizons.
Always prefer the massive walls of a prison and the bars of the jail instead of the uncertainty of a stratospheric flight.
Do never open closed doors - pass only through open doors.
Do not explore new paths, like the pathfinders - always walk
roads and on rails previously aligned.
Always joining the bulk of the herd, as the good sheep - and
do not seek a different way out of a previous routine.
In short, my distinguished cultivator of mediocrity: leave
everything as it is to see how it looks.
Thinking this way, you will keep the health and tranquillity
of the nerves and you can have every day, very tranquil, your beer or cocktail -
as all good man does.
If, however, one day, you solve to escape from the traditional
routine and expose yourself to the deadly dangers of superior ideals, then read
carefully what it tells you a man who knows life:
Go to the banks of the Ganges and ask for the most robust
elephant to give you his thick pachyderm skin to use as a shield for your soul.
Go to the shores of the Nile and remove from the oldest
crocodile his impenetrable armour and make from it the casing of your heart.
And, after shielding your soul and your heart, make a trip all
over the world and say to the men of honest mediocrity that you live for an
ideal that is not in the stomach or the nerves or blood - and you will see that
they will declare against you, a war of death.
For you must know, my friend, that the world does not
sacrifice one idol for a warrior of ideas and ideals.
Since the boldest idealistic of history was crucified, dead
and buried - all idealists are crucified by the lovers of mediocrity.
Humanity become revolted when something major, divine, happens
in the world.
All that is beautiful and great - inevitably dies in the arms
of the cross.
This is the glorious tragedy of the superior men.
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