lubbuthedigitalnomad

This is a short excerpt from Ejection Eddie, a ten-page chapter in the travel-adventure book Fearless Puppy on American Road. In it, Eddie gets ejected from several places that humans are usually never thrown out of, including the US Army draft board during the Vietnam era, a secured lock-up ward in a psychiatric hospital, and a jail. BEGINNING OF CHAPTER Travel-Adventure Book     Certain hitchhiking rides have delivered me to realizations as well as physical destinations. Ejection Eddie was one of these.       “Welcome to my vehicle. I’m Ejection Eddie. Who are you?”       I felt a funny punch line coming on, but it didn’t seem smart to joke around with a guy who called himself “ Ejection ” until I knew why he did so.     I got right to it. “Everyone calls me Ten, but that’s obviously not the name on the birth certificate. Your mom didn’t pick the name Ejection for you, did she? Do they call you that because you have one of those James...

Our truth, happiness, practicality, and objectivity all suffer from ancient dogma as well as modern advertising. Behavioral codes that are no longer relevant and fairy tales that never were have been deeply rooted within our psyches, since we were too young to own the logic that would dismiss them. Much of what we’ve been told all our lives is bullshit. It is part of a very old formula devised by a few greedy, arrogant pricks along time ago in order to keep the majority of humans submissive, productive, and under control. History and morality have both been bent to support the purpose and reflect the ego of tyrants.  For example,  Lincoln didn’t start the civil war to free the slaves, Columbus didn't “discover” America or prove the world around, there is no Santa Claus or Tooth Fairy, greed kills more people than cancer, no brand of cologne will get you laid, there are better solutions than war to almost any disagreement, targeting civilians instead of soldiers is always i...