Louis C.K. Is Not at All High as He Explains Earth's a Martian Graveyard
Louis C.K. has a feeling he's discovered "the origin of the basic despair that we all feel in the pit of our being, that one thing we all share." And it's not, as he previously posited, the knowledge that each of us will be forever empty and alone. It's that Earth is a Martian graveyard, and we're all "seeded by marsian corpse DNA."
As Louis explained over a couple of hours on Twitter, it all started with a civilization of people-things fleeing a globally-warmed Mars and trying to take refuge in the Earth's orbit:
It really feels like Mars used to be a here that got globally warmed by some very us-y people-things.
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) October 8, 2014
I'm not saying I can prove it. I'm saying it feels like it.
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) October 8, 2014
It feels like they left mars on a moon that they pushed out of orbit and rode over here to try to orbit what was earth
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) October 8, 2014
But then: disaster! The Martian moon/spaceship collided with the planet that would eventually be called Earth, killing billions of Martians. And from that Martian graveyard, humanity eventually arose.
That's the only way you could move billions of people-y types. But their moon crashed into pre-earth and everyone died.
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) October 8, 2014
What was left turned into here and our moon and got seeded by marsian corpse DNA. And later we'll use our moon to go back.
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) October 8, 2014
That's what it feels like anyway.
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) October 8, 2014
Seems like a plausible feeling. Haven't we all wanted a moon-spaceship at some point or another, to take us away from our failing planet to somewhere that feels more like home?
But what if the moon isn't the ship? What if the ship is something even bigger?
And it feels like we are gonna keep bopping around on moons til we realize the whole solar system is actually a spaceship.
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) October 8, 2014
The sun is the engine and if you wait til it all lines up just right and you push "go" you can ride it to a bigger far place.
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) October 8, 2014
I would really like to emphasize that these are not opinions or theories. It's just a feeling I have.
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) October 8, 2014
Also I feel like I know the origin of the basic despair that we all feel in the pit of our being, that one thing we all share.
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) October 8, 2014
We used to be one single thing that was nowhere. The Big Bang happened, sending us, which used to be a "me" hurtling outward.
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) October 8, 2014
And that basic sad despair inside is us going "aaaaaaaaaaaaah!!" Through space. We're like on the 20'th "a"
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) October 8, 2014
If you go "aaaaa!" For a jiblion years you stop even hearing yourself say it. Anyway that's just how it feels sometimes.
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) October 8, 2014
It's tempting to dismiss this stuff as weird for the sake of being weird, but Louis's entire body of work is about the baseline level of pain that comes with existing in contemporary society and interacting with other people as they attempt to exist also. Is it so farfetched that he would have these feelings of (literal) alienation and turn them into a bit on Twitter?
A week ago, he said he seriously couldn't think of anything to tweet, and stopped posting. Maybe he's spent the past few days working out this feeling and how best to express it.
On the other hand, maybe he was just high.
I'm not high.
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) October 8, 2014
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