I Made This Anyway
I was listening to
a history podcast
while I worked
my factory job.
The subject was
the life and crimes
of infamous Nazi doctor
Josef Mengele.
Whenever the hosts mentioned
Hitler’s piece of shit book
“Mein Kampf”
they referred to it
as his manifesto.
I thought that was
a pretty accurate
way to describe it.
When it comes up
I usually call it
the wack-ass book
he wrote in prison.
I started to wonder
if the word manifesto
by definition means
writing that is sinister.
When I think
off the top of my head
about examples of manifestos,
the first that comes to mind
is the Unabomber’s
super boring manuscript
about his contempt for society.
His pathetic little attempt
to justify putting bombs
in the mail,
and killing innocent people.
Next I guess would be
Elliot Rodger, the incel
turned mass murderer.
Did he actually even
write a bullshit manifesto?
I think he might have
just done whiny vlogs.
Anyway my point is
crazy criminals
write their stupid stuff down
and we call that
their manifesto,
so it is a good word
for “Mein Kampf.”
After work
I pulled out my dictionary
to see if a manifesto
is negative by definition,
and I was surprised to learn
that it is not.
Manifestos don’t need
to be evil.
That fact kind of
throws a wrench into
this whole piece of rambling.
If a manifesto
always was defined
as vitriolic writing
by these terrible humans,
I was going to say
we should change the word
from “manifesto” to
“dumb-shit-stupid-scribblings.”