#41.12 - Herod the Great

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Herod the Great was a nutcase. Reading and listening to the lives of so called great people in history makes me just wish that there was no sense of history at all. 

There is no time. There is no progress. It is all an illusion. It is all a joke. Take any point in history and people are going to be universally pissed off with the way things are.

The other day Oisin asked me what do you think, if it existed, would heaven be like? I said well heaven was kind of invented by people whose lives were pretty shite. I was just thinking the other day that we have electricity, we have cars, washing machines, we have facetime, we have running water, we have hot water at the flick of a switch. Our lives are pretty cushy. We live till about 75 with no bother. I'd say we are already in heaven.

So I am going with that. We are in heaven and life is good. I have enough money to do what I need to do and enough friends which I should be more grateful for. I have a job which is meaningful. I mean I can't do it right now, but it is good.

So the only thing pissing me off right now is pretending I am able to do the job. So I should just not do that and just enjoy what the situation is right now. It is only for the next couple of weeks though and I totally have got it.

So just freaking enjoy it. That's all.

I love the Renaissance and who cares if I can't teach it I am going to ENJOY it. 

I am so glad I'm not a concubine in Herod's court, not one of his wives, not his daughter, although that isn't as bad as being a son, not a subject in his kingdom, nor involved in any way at all with the madness of Judea. And good for the Jewish people managing to stay alive despite all the exterminating. I find the depiction of them though quite snobby and elitist. And they seem to have this sense of exceptionalism - mostly disapproving of Herod because he was not Jewish, which is a form of racism, if you ask me. I would disapprove of him for being a murderer. That, if you ask me, was far worse. However he was great because he managed to at least given them a state - which they never fully appreciated - while he was alive, keeping Rome at arms length. Managing to be a good client state. God. What a freaking life. At least I'm not that. So I'm going to enjoy myself. 

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