Okay so here's the thing about "good bones"
It doesn't matter if the house has good bones as long as they're hidden under the layers and layers of rotting flesh
The realtor's promise is a lie because to pull off a reno like that you have to rip literally everything out
It doesn't matter if the house has good bones as long as they're hidden under the layers and layers of rotting flesh
The realtor's promise is a lie because to pull off a reno like that you have to rip literally everything out
https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1322501784951140353
And they know you won't do that
Tear down the moldy drywall, tear up the rotting floorboards, strip everything down to bare wood and brick and build anew only on what is structurally sound
It's too hard, it's too expensive, you'd have nowhere to live in the meantime
Tear down the moldy drywall, tear up the rotting floorboards, strip everything down to bare wood and brick and build anew only on what is structurally sound
It's too hard, it's too expensive, you'd have nowhere to live in the meantime
It'd almost be easier to just burn all of it down and build a new house
Everyone tells themselves they'll fix up the fixer-upper but it's a sucker bet, a money pit, a losing investment throwing good money after bad
Everyone tells themselves they'll fix up the fixer-upper but it's a sucker bet, a money pit, a losing investment throwing good money after bad
Most people just end up living in the rotting moldy house breathing in the stink and the spores until they can Febreze it enough to fob it off on some other desperate sucker
It's all just a scam, in a long chain of scams, an endless search for a greater fool
It's all just a scam, in a long chain of scams, an endless search for a greater fool
This world we live in isn't just a fixer-upper that never gets fixed up
It's worse than that, it's the worst case scenario
This is a Grey Gardens hoarder house
This house is filled with garbage that NEVER GETS THROWN OUT
It's worse than that, it's the worst case scenario
This is a Grey Gardens hoarder house
This house is filled with garbage that NEVER GETS THROWN OUT
Never mind ripping up the floorboards, the owners of this place never even picked up their trash
There's a thick layer of garbage in every room of this place, old wrappers, dirty dishes, soiled clothes
Everything teems with vermin and stinks of neglect
There's a thick layer of garbage in every room of this place, old wrappers, dirty dishes, soiled clothes
Everything teems with vermin and stinks of neglect
There's all this fucking STUFF here that was carelessly left here by long-gone precursors for some purpose now long forgotten
Everyone looks at the mess trying RI figure out how much of it is garbage and how much is valuable and gives up in despair
Everyone looks at the mess trying RI figure out how much of it is garbage and how much is valuable and gives up in despair
No one ever actually succeeds at even throwing out a little bit of it, much less making good on the promise to organize it all in some rational way
Everyone just gives up and ends up turning into a slob who adds to it
This endless clutter of monuments age memorials and history
Everyone just gives up and ends up turning into a slob who adds to it
This endless clutter of monuments age memorials and history
I don't know that I actually do worry that if I had kids I'd raise them ignorant of their history
I worry about the exact opposite
If I had kids I almost certainly *would* pass on the legacy of everything that has made me who I am today
And nobody deserves that shit
I worry about the exact opposite
If I had kids I almost certainly *would* pass on the legacy of everything that has made me who I am today
And nobody deserves that shit
Whenever I get in a despairing mood I don't think about Thanos-snapping all the *people* away
Almost the opposite
I wish I could wipe all the memory in this goddamn world
Erase all the hard drives, burn all the books, crumble all the statues and paintings to dust
Almost the opposite
I wish I could wipe all the memory in this goddamn world
Erase all the hard drives, burn all the books, crumble all the statues and paintings to dust
Have everyone wake up innocent dumb animals again, start the process over
They'd probably inevitably recreate all the bullshit sooner rather than later but at least it'd slow it down, at least it'd create the *possibility* of making a different choice
They'd probably inevitably recreate all the bullshit sooner rather than later but at least it'd slow it down, at least it'd create the *possibility* of making a different choice
Everyone's so damn worried about "maintaining continuity", all our political talk revolves around our worship of this moldy old shitty piece of paper we refuse to just rip up and throw in the bin
All this talk of the preciousness of "legacy", of the memory of the ancestors
All this talk of the preciousness of "legacy", of the memory of the ancestors
Well shit the cold hard truth of the world is you end up maintaining continuity whether you want to or not
The ancestors will have their way with you, have in fact had their way with you since before you were born, and whether you choose to honor them has no bearing on this fact
The ancestors will have their way with you, have in fact had their way with you since before you were born, and whether you choose to honor them has no bearing on this fact
Such is life in the world of cause and effect
It's the opposite - the idea of a blank slate, a fresh start, a true revolution - that is truly precious, almost nonexistent
It's the opposite - the idea of a blank slate, a fresh start, a true revolution - that is truly precious, almost nonexistent
We really are a race of psychotic hoarders
Fantasizing about the nightmare of being out on the streets with nothing - imagine if this house burned down! Imagine how much history would be lost! - while the weight of our accumulated trash threatens to bury us
Fantasizing about the nightmare of being out on the streets with nothing - imagine if this house burned down! Imagine how much history would be lost! - while the weight of our accumulated trash threatens to bury us
Can you blame people for getting into doomsday cults and praying for the nukes to go flying
Burning down the house is always an irrational act, sure, and yet when you're looking at years of old newspapers piled high because the last owner thought they "might need them someday"
Burning down the house is always an irrational act, sure, and yet when you're looking at years of old newspapers piled high because the last owner thought they "might need them someday"
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