Maybe being homeless is awesome

Ari Matti gets it. Lots of comedians have made this joke, but Ari’s is the funniest.

Is it really a joke?

It’s a flawless economic strategy:

• Zero overhead costs
• Zero future anxiety
• 100% immediate return on investment

It’s a state of pure, unadultrated “now”. Subtract until nothing is left but consciousness.

They’ve opted out of the pain-industrial complex. Just sit there, high, perfectly happy. Nothing to lose.

The universe conspires to give him exactly what he wants, at the cost of literally everything else. Victory.

Following a different set of rules that reveal the absurdity of everyone else’s “normal” rules.

Marie Kondo would lose her mind. Everything in their life sparks joy.

Skip to the end-game bonus track - and stay there forever.

A radical version of Diogenes living in a barrel. Genuine contentment without performance art.

A marathon runner who sits down after kilometer 3. They’re already there.

The absurdity isn’t their choice. The world calls it broken, but it works according to their logic.

Winning at applied philosophy

Ultimate minimalism

Nihilism to the max

It’s bascially the Christian ideal

Absurdist kings

Anarchists in fact

Meditation masters

Hedonist maxxers

The height of capitalism

Also communists somehow

Luddites

etc ∞

Can we genuinely look up to them?

Saying we have nothing to learn from them lets us off the hook. They’re simply broken in a way that we’re not…

But it’s not true. They understand something we don’t. How dare someone try to “help”. What an insult.

Honor lives outside of the self, in the eyes of the community. Who decided it was dishonorable to live outside like an animal?

Brittish people used to hire ornamental hermits to live in their gardens and add an air of intellectual depth and romantic melancholy to the landscape.

Homeless people are geniuses and fun heroes!!