Deepity du jour

Written by

Ophelia Benson

in

I dropped into PCC Market this afternoon to get a loaf of bread and saw they had some sort of motto board in the little cafe area. I was curious to see what the current deepity was so I looked. It goes like this:

The future is coming this way.

Let us go out to meet it.

And then the author’s name, which I didn’t write down and don’t remember.

But: what??? That’s such wisdom it’s worth finding the alphabet blocks and pinning them on the board?

The future is the future; you don’t say!

Let’s go out to meet it??? I don’t want to be harsh but there’s no need to summon or advise us to meet it, because we have zero choice in the matter. Tomorrow is tomorrow whether we “go out to meet it” or stay in bed with pillows over our faces.

And if we did have choice in the matter – well hey, maybe going out to meet it is a shit idea. It will be just more Trump, and global warming, and children dying of measles, and pangolins gone forever. Let’s not go out to meet it, let’s go back and fix our mistakes.

Comments

13 responses to “Deepity du jour”

  1. Artymorty Avatar
    Artymorty

    Trust the journey.

    Your truth is your truth.

    You are exactly where you’re supposed to be.

    The moment is now because now is the moment.

    (I could keep going but I already want to punch myself right in the face, just by playfully, ironically writing out such drippy, deepity claptrap. It’s so gross!)

  2. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    Isn’t it though? Why do people have to be so SAPPY??

  3. chigau Avatar
    chigau

    My local liquor store does better.

    During Covid:

    “If you refuse to wear a mask because you are ‘concerned’ about lack of oxygen to your brain, it’s pretty clear that that ship has already sailed.”

  4. chigau Avatar
    chigau

    Ophelia, if you want to contribute to the message board, I recommend this for inspiration:

    https://sebpearce.com/bullshit/

    .

    example: Consciousness consists of bio-feedback of quantum energy. “Quantum” means a maturing of the mythic. The dreamtime is overflowing with ultrasonic energy.

  5. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    Hahaha I like your local liquor store.

  6. guest Avatar
    guest

    Well I don’t need to be told what to do by a sign in a cafe, but I guess the way I’d read it is: Things are changing, and they will continue to change whether you accept it or not; you’re not doing yourself any favours by pretending nothing’s happening. (This is me with ‘AI’.)

  7. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    Aka suck it up, buttercup.

    But I don’t think that is the right way to read it. It’s a deepity, and a deeply stupid deepity at that. It’s the old embrace change, welcome the new, turn that frown upside down, but in touchy-feely speak.

  8. Mike Haubrich Avatar
    Mike Haubrich

    There’s a lot of this on LinkedIn, and I’ll be honest it does not inspire me to network with someone.

  9. What a Maroon Avatar
    What a Maroon

    “The future is ahead” is a pretty common cross-linguistic metaphor, for obvious reasons. But there’s at least one language (I forget which, but I think it’s an American language) in which the future is behind, both linguistically and gesturally. The underlying logic seems to be that you can see the past, but not the future.

    So I suppose their deepity would be “Watch out! The future is sneaking up on you.”

  10. John the Drunkard Avatar
    John the Drunkard

    There’s a distinct ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ vibe in that particular trope.

  11. Steven Avatar
    Steven

    The future’s so bright I gotta wear shades.

  12. Mosnae Avatar
    Mosnae

    What a Maroon:

    “The future is ahead” is a pretty common cross-linguistic metaphor, for obvious reasons. But there’s at least one language (I forget which, but I think it’s an American language) in which the future is behind, both linguistically and gesturally. The underlying logic seems to be that you can see the past, but not the future.

    Ooh! I think this applies to Quechua; maybe that’s the language you’re thinking of?

  13. What a Maroon Avatar
    What a Maroon

    Mosnae,

    You could be right. It’s been a long time since my grad school days.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

More posts