Adjustment Day

by Chuck Palahniuk

For hate is a form of passionate attachment, and to be despised seems better than to be unknown.

Hate demonstrates a complete freedom from pleasing others.

He’d surmised that love is a mission a man goes on every day. A mission a man never completes until death. In that way, true love is a suicide mission.

The last thing a black man wants to be is another fake white man. The last thing a homosexual wants to be is another imitation heterosexual. The last thing a white man wants to be is another phony paragon.

“But identity politics,” Dawson continued, “has reduced the homosexual to nothing but his sexual preference. It has reduced the black to only his skin. And each has become a caricature of his former dignified self.”

Cross culturally, from Europe to Indonesia and South America, the ancient world had believed that exposed pussies would always frighten away evil. Up until the eighteenth century, above the doorways and gateways of castles and churches, masons had carved images of women squatting to reveal themselves. Neither Satan nor any evil could endure the sight of the female sex organs, it was said.

Jamal wasn’t fazed. From wiggers, to the film Ten starring the actress Bo Derek with her blonde hair braided in cornrows, to white “trustifarian” young people with dreadlocks, this Barnabas seemed like the inevitable result of cultural appropriation. An old lady wigger. The latest in a series of chemically enhanced Sambo types. The racial equivalent of a drag queen’s botched version of being an actual woman.

Whether they called it reporting or research, for white people crossing the color line was always just fun and games.

The same sun that warmed her neck at this moment had also warmed Hitler’s. The stars she could see from her marriage bed were the stars that had twinkled above infamous Nazi death camps. How humans organized their society and conducted their lives counted for nothing in the grand scheme.

mankind was suffering identify fatigue. People were living too long to retain a single self. Therefore, the boldest were seeking a new frontier. Men were becoming women. Whites were becoming blacks.

The weakest people alive will try to glorify themselves by tearing down the truly amazing strength of the dead.