Coming Late to the Party #5: The World is Abundant But I'm Too Lazy To Do Anything About It

Uh...wait. How did Dianetics get on there?

Or, On the constant fear of being left out and the importance of libraries 
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Coming Late to the Party: Part of a regular series here at PostConsumer Reports wherein I reflect on something that I either totally missed or completely disliked the first time I heard, watched, and/or read it. In a sense, the party’s been going on for quite some time and I have arrived but significantly late. If you will, it is the AfterParty or the PostParty Party. This week's entry is a continuing meditation on why we all will always be arriving late to the party: we are too lazy to put in the actual work to get there... (click here for the companion piece "The World is Abundant and I'm Entirely Overwhelmed"
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I know what the Scriptures say. I know how I should live. And yet my life is in a constant state of fear:

...for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

+++2 Timothy 2:7

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

+++1 John 4:18

I suppose you could say when it comes to intaking and partaking of works of art I lack all self-control and have not yet come close to a perfected love. I am consumed by a fear of punishment which leaves me powerless.

Making a Case for Dark Comedy #3: The League of Gentlemen

NOTE: there are disturbing and crude subjects discussed in this post.

Terry Gross: You've said your speciality as a comic is going to a place where people get uncomfortable and then you stay there. How did you realize that was your comedy, that was what you do?

Louis C.K.: I kind of couldn't help it, you know...Like the stuff in that monologue [we just heard from SNL]. It's very touchy stuff...Maybe there is a God, maybe there isn't. Is God divorced? Did God kill his wife? Some things that are like "Oh boy...." You feel a little sweat on the back of your neck when you get there. But if you stay there for a second you can find something joyful and funny in it. And it's such a great thing to go to a scary place and laugh. I mean, what's better than that?

+++Louis C.K., May 19, 2014 Fresh Air Interview

Introduction: Welcome To Royston Vasey—You'll Never Leave
If you have ever watched an episode of the (now classic) BBC dark comedy series The League of Gentlemen and it left you feeling dirty and disturbed—about the world we live in, the characters of the show, the writers and actors on the show, and (hopefully) even yourself, then that's probably a good thing.