While this fascinates me, I’m beginning to worry that I might actually end up on Burroughs’ shiticide list. After all, I’m not entirely free of the disease of romanticism myself.
Let’s not worry about all this abstract theory. What do shits actually do? According to Burroughs, shits are basically those who can’t mind their own business. They support the notion of 'victimless crimes'. They are in favour of censorship and they want to spread their religion. I’m starting to feel a little safer. That’s easy enough. I certainly mind my own business. I’m off the hook. And, I really can’t argue with that criterion. If we’re going to commit shiticide then that’s the criterion it seems most logical to use. It’s like the old chestnut, "we’re free to do what we want as long as it doesn’t impinge on anyone else’s freedom."
Is it really that simple? I rather tend to think that I’m going round in circles here, as is the entire human race. The ideal of shiticide is very much like the ideal of Hitler’s final solution. Ideals destroy themselves. If we engage in shiticide, we cease to mind our own business.
I suppose I don’t really have to worry about this dilemma – and that means the people on my list don’t have to worry, either – because I’m just not the kind of person who is ever going to be in the position where I will have to make the decision of carrying my ideals to their logical conclusion. I’ve already made my position clear just by being who I am and NOT HAVING the power ever to put my list into action. Are you worried that I’m even thinking this deeply about it? Well, there’s another reason not to worry, for me, anyway, the human race will do the dirty work for me without me having to lift a finger. Buy more oil. Drive more cars. Wage more wars. It’s shiticide-suicide. And all that’s left is….
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