the Tao of Emo

What constitutes a mind that tenaciously patrionises emo thoughts? And how do you reach its nirvana? What gives people the tendency to emo more than others?

1. Command of language. Floridity of language gives the emo-ist a false sense of superiority (because he is so adept at his art) with which he boldly threads into unknown places. The stories of his travels are often audacious and shocking: How does he go so deep? How could someone possibly think like that? Like fuel to fire, these words of encouragement empower him to reach new grounds of radicality and depths of soul.

2. Attuned to the arts. True emo-ists are attuned to the arts. Just imagine the emo of a scientist and you'd understand: I felt a pain in my heart. It is actually the result of dichloriphenomide aggravating the receptors around my heart, triggering a contraction in my arteries and causing the pain I feel. Is this then, a feeling of sadness? Is this real? The foolishness of my mind hinders me from reaching a conclusion...

3. The mind of an elitist. The elitist sees 2 groups of people: himself, and the rest. How can he ever, ever come down to the level of the rest? He constantly searches within for that special thing that sets him apart. Well, all of us do it; but the elitist does it with so much more passion! It is his occupation: to reach the pinnacle of emotionality, to relish unrelishable thoughts and to disparage the state and wisdom of the world. But the most most important part is: He must then confuse himself in order to show that he, at such a pinnacle of state of mind, is unable even to comprehend his own thoughts! And at that pinnacle of state, that zenith of emotion, he lies at rest in two worlds - one of his own, and one which he shares with the rest of the world.

It doesn't matter that the emo-ist's state of mind is apparently unstable and volatile for he is really very much in his place - high and lofty, yet low and dark.


-club emo