About theidiotdeity
Paragods
We pretend to be gods. But after the shift you have to turn in your superhero cape.
Here Be Dragons! Ye Be Warned!
This website began many years ago as a way for me to exorcise, clarify, and organize the demons that I met while “doing my job.”
It started as an attempt to make sense of the senseless pain and suffering that I and my coworkers saw every day on the job and, perhaps, as a way to explain to those who do not see cruelty, pain, suffering, death, and stupidity on a daily basis what “the job” is all about.
Life, for a hero, isn’t pretty and it isn’t fun a lot of the time… it’s real. Unfortunately reality can be scary to those who have been insulated from it for most of their lives.
We are not gods. We're mortals pretending to be gods so the world can feel safe at night.
What Is "Normal"
One of the most debilitating influences that our heroes have to deal with is isolation. Heroes know the misery, suffering, death, and pain that exist in the world. They know it intimately because they deal with it daily. Their world is different. They have the guts to look at life in its true form unfiltered, raw, and mean and they are misunderstood because of it.
To those of us who’ve seen the dark side of life “normal” people are abnormal. They’re sheltered, naive, and driven by trivial concerns. They think that the definition of normal is “... people who think and act like me.”
The Rift Between Us
This creates a rift between the “heroic professions” and “normal” people… a rift that alienates and separates us further from each other. Tolerance and understanding are words that are tossed around lightly in conversations between “normal” people but when we stare at the wall for an hour reliving the nightmare we witnessed at work yesterday then suddenly we’re no longer “normal” and we need help, which is a thinly veiled attempt to make us like them.
Many people “believe” that they know about the suffering and evil out there because they have friends who have suffered injustice, or watched a social media video that “triggered” them but their experience is like someone watching a horror movie… it looks scary but the experience is more thrilling than truly traumatic.