Sacralizing is a word I am increasingly interested in. I feel that modern life has been deprived of meaning, it has been rendered profane. I don’t mean this in the religious sense. Much of religion has been rendered profane by the modern world. I don’t mean religious. I mean sacred. I mean imbued with meaning and purpose.
GLORIOUS LEADER! HERO OF THE REVELATION! BRINGER OF THE LIBERATION! But I am nonetheless a wage slave with a day job that pays the bills. And the seven point five hours each day that I spend earning my daily bread is devoid of meaning. A third of my day is profane. And this drains my soul. I think it drains all of our souls.
We need a life pregnant with meaning. We need a life imbued with purpose. And we don’t have that. I remember as a teen discovering that McDonald’s supposedly had a training video called: “How to Be a Cog.” I don’t know if this is true, but the idea struck me and I have never forgotten this. I refuse to be a cog. I am the universe experiencing itself. And I do not think the universe needs so many of us to experience a life without meaning. I think the universe has got the message.
Professor Harbinger's School for Villains 