The Unimportant Stuff

​Murphy’s Law #243: The more unimportant stuff you have, the easier it is to misplace the important stuff somewhere underneath.

The legitimacy of said law may be subject to doubt, especially because its random recording here lacks a source.  However, unless we mean to debate whether there are indeed 243 Murphy's laws (and clearly more) or the folly of writing interesting quotations and leaving out their sources, then that is of little account.  That, after all, would be to misplace the important stuff beneath the unimportant.

Of course burying important stuff with the unimportant is the meat of procrastination.  So also the way of social media.

For instance, why do we live in a world where we judge our president and the Pope by their random comments on twitter?  Perhaps virtual reality has supplanted the value of what is deeply human to such an extent that these have indeed become the most important.  That is easier to believe, for it stares us right in the face.

We all like to be right.  We all like to be admired as being at the head of innovative trends that transform society.

Then let us begin a crusade for the Unimportant and we shall find ourselves leading the charge.  If we can propose the most trivial things to people through extensive advertising, social media campaigns, and so on, we shall succeed in burying once more the deeper uncomfortable realities once considered important that really just get in the way of doing what we want to do.

Production, growth, change: these are the keywords for our new movement.  Let us raise the banner of the Unimportant!  Don't question why.  It is clearly the right way to go simply because that is what everyone is doing.

If you resist the new movement you are clearly a bigot.  Your belief in deeper truths obviously makes you racist and prejudiced.

Therefore you must save yourself by jumping on the bandwagon and embracing the pointless little things as the dogma of a new reality.  When you release your hold on the outdated notions of the past and conform yourselves instead to the freedom that arises from doing solely as you please according to the standards set by the group to which you belong you will know that this is clearly the key to happiness.

Never mind the ephemeral nature of this quality we term happiness.  You must seek happiness at any cost, even at the cost of your own self.