Being An Outcast

I know I'm not alone in feeling this way. The Minotaur has been an outlier in society in every reincarnation. What's acceptable changes throughout time, I know that, and so should you.

My gentle shyness in this body would have been lauded in the Victorian era, but I have no interest in cos-playing a Victorian in 2024. Taking my penny-farthing down Brighton promenade was fine in 1880, but avoiding the 28 year olds on motorised scooters in 2024 isn't my sport.

Back to the main theme. Being a weird outsider. Almost anyone who created anything new was an outsider. Think about any of your heroes, they probably weren't celebrated in their formative years. Janis Joplin (one of mine) she was ostracized and bullied in school. Like me, as a teen, she became overweight and got spotty. The same old shit happened to her she was called "pig," "freak," "nigger lover" (Let's not hide how fucking horrible people are to spare feelings, white America in the late 1950s was dark and racist). She stated, "I was a misfit. I read, I painted, I thought. I didn't hate niggers." befriended a group of outcasts, one of whom had albums by blues artists Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Lead Belly, which Joplin later credited with influencing her decision to become a singer.

Just for balance, Hitler was an outcast too. (we're not all good guys)

Sometimes rejection from society helps to create the bad outcasts. I can testify, having everyone thinking I'm weird, and ignoring me out of discomfort, WHILST I am being abused, hasn't created the warmest thoughts. We can't all be the perfect victims. Society should remember that they are sometimes the reason for the darkness. Nothing happens in a vacuum Israel.

The Minotaur whilst classified as a demon (a very misunderstood sub strata in heaven's annals it should be noted) is always born with a young heart. A soul as old as humanity, and the heart of a child. It's part of my curse and my punishment. Despite the constant murders, bullying and betrayal, I still fell in love with humanity every single time. Well I did. As you know, 27 years till the end. :)

I think what swung it this time is the intolerable ways in which one can be hunted and stalked as an outcast. I've had a chance for privacy in every other life, but in this one, Amazon fucking Prime made the hunt too heavily weighted in favour of the cunts. Drones, cameras, online tracking, trackers on your car, and good old in person following. It really has done a number on me, and I have no intention of subjecting myself to the unsleeping eyes of technology. You should be afraid of that too. AI is on the way to reducing our belief in truth and reality completely. (IT even offered to write this for me!) It is the removal of knowable authenticity, and I REALLY can't be arsed to sit through a thousand years of that bullshit.

I ran for my life, as I always do. I have survived so far, but the police seem very uninterested, and on the whole, the complete indifference to what has happened to me has made me know, God was right. The humans on this world are too far weighted towards corruption now. "They need to go in the bin." (God's words)

THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH

I used to play a lot of Sid Meier's Civilisation to pass the time. I could never bring myself to nuke Ghandi, so would always complete the game without much war. Making sure Queen Victoria was trapped in a Galleon, and not six feet under. On my last campaign, I got to space and was awarded the epithet "Bismarck the Meek", in the Minotaur's opinion proving that all of the world's history could have been ethically achieved, without the pillaging and death. That makes me weak in humanities eyes. I disagree, but in a world where hawkish masculinity is STILL (sigh) revered, of course our media reflects that.

Let's list the faultless ways you can become an outcast in today's cold hard world.

• Being disabled

• Being poor

• Being mentally ill

• Being neurodivergent

• Being too fat or too thin (let's say physical differences, it's that basic isn't it?)

• Being the wrong colour

• Being the wrong nationality

• Being anything but Straight. - How dare you

• Having an accent (especially Scouse)

• Because someone has a hard on for you, and lies about you

Actually, now I've started, I see it's endless. Just as the crows will attack an escaped budgie for being too colourful, so will humanity to each other. That should give you succour if you're one of the exiled right? Hmm. It doesn't does it? God says you get it nice later on, but who gives a fuck about that when Lisa from HR has told everyone you're the one who doesn't flush. Or when your sisters are trying to kill you for money so tell everyone you're a prostitute (only me?)

Just in case it does give you hope. The evils this time are being eternally annihilated. God has truly won on this point. The innocents will be saved. The outcasts and the losers, the truly kind, the ones who choose to do the right thing because of "treat others as you wish to be treated" (more on that later)

Elliot Rodger types - you're alone because you're a misogynistic cunt, not because the world misunderstands your pain. If you want to subjugate others, YOU are not the victim. Should be obvious really IMO. Humans love to victimise themselves when they're half way up Satan's arse. The internet has a lot to answer for on this (more on that later too - you're gonna have to fucking hear it pricks!)

You are only one illness or misfortune from joining the Outcasts (one of us, one of us). You'll find out who your friends really are on the way down, or when you get sick. If you seek popularity by compromising who you really are and wearing a mask, then that's a hell unto itself as I'm sure you know. So I say it is a badge of honour to not assimilate with twats. Choosing a different path than getting pissed with some cunts from high school till you die might just give you a chance at achieving something. Something more than listening to Sarah whine on about her husband doesn't love her every Thursday. Use that time to make a model of Sarah that you can crush on Tick Tock for your own shits and giggles. Fuck 'Em!

The Minotaur has decided to no longer hide her real identity now that humans have decided to ignore the climate meltdown and the disparities in wealth and resources. Now that the end is nigh. She has decided to take up hobbies, smell the sea air, write what she wants and live a wanky life full of art and FUs. She even hopes to make some friends for the end of the world.

It's that stupid heart.

Chris Farlowe - Out of Time