Monday, January 31, 2005

The Postmodern and its Scenes

It appears we're spinning out of control. The earth is heating up. Society is sickening. Scientists hired by politicians spin the illusion that nothing is going on...but what is the truth? Forecasts in the weather never seem correct but their error today seems greater than ever. Here's a forecast example: Rain with a 50% chance of sunny skies. Wow I got a degree to spew this unadulterated #$%^. Or here, here's a true story, girl is rushed into the hospital with stomach cramps...famale medical practitioner suggests the patient drink more "juice" Wow, I wonder what she thought when the victim was rushed in again a week later for an emergency appendectomy. Science has all the answers though...so don't question authority...and follow everything they say otherwise your the problem. OKAY ...next subject, terminal stupidity.

The world is in a chronic state of dis-ease where it's failing surface facade looks more like rusted out body panels in a junk yard. We've entered a new Guilded Age! The terminally collapsing edges are butressed with police state mentality yet unfortunatly gated communities still fear burglars slipping in. Children are missing...a war is waging...musicans mourn their music is stolen on the net...as we all dance to silly love songs while eating our bread at the circus. If society were a skeleton it'd be that of the Elephant Man. Twisted and deformed even that which made it human is gone... sold out and hung in a freaks collection of fetish prizes and purchases, society lays silent. A symbol of something else...something it could have been...
Just kidding....

It's not that postmodern society is post-historical it's that it's post-intellectual-here the masses are force fed a daily ration of lies, intrigue, spin, and rhetoric. In the correct proportion we get sports...llllllleeeeettttssssss get ready to rummmmmmmmmmmmble.

Bob Loblaw and his Solipsism: Yadda yadda yadda, tada tada tada, babble babble babble, etc.etc.etc. need I say more.

Silence is like golden... showers

Don't get me wrong I enjoy meditating....it's like a vacation from me.

My wife told me I was selfish and a lier...I told her shut up and help me off the couch I've got a world to save.

What kind of world makes a toy called "Stink Blasters" It's a toy that stinks! I thought that's was the job of the educators...to make life stink....or was it the politicians?

Or how about bosses!

Just because a boss doesn't know how to do something doesn't mean he won't tell you how it should be done.

Just helping....

I asked my ten year old what he thought of the seven modern wonders of the world...he said they were old-fashion.

Hey what's with those priests and their penchant for ....no I wont go there...



Sunday, January 30, 2005

Histrionic Deja Voodoo

Ego is the false center from which we operate.

Forgetting determines who you are as much as those thoughts you hold dear. What filters those unwanted memories. What edits them into the mental recycle bin. How is it that forgetting shapes the now. Freud said humans were shaped by largely unconscious factors. What compensatory models shape our condition? Like a coerced-internalized false confession
what cues the internal editing process we call memory? If tradition is weak and instinct weaker where does man stand? We are what we are not. What thoughts have you not acknowledged or forgotten....more importantly why?


"Forgetting of myself
My head reclined on my beloved
The world was gone
And all my cares at rest
Forgotten all my grief among the lilies."
St. John The Ascent of Mount Carmel



The Wasichus have put us in these square boxes. Our power is gone and we are dying, for the power is not in us any more. You can look at our boys and see how it is with us. When we were living by the power of the circle in the way we should, boys were men at twelve and thirteen. But now it takes them much longer to mature. Well, it is as it is. We are prisoners of war while we are waiting here. But there is another world.
Black Elk 1833


"And at this stage in human civilization, the choices reach as far as literal survival."
Noam Chomsky Oct 2004. See entire text @ www.chomsky.info
The "War on Terrorism" and the New Rules of World Order.

"We are caught in a situation in which every citizen of every country, his children, and his life's work, are threatened by the terrible insecurity which reigns in our world today. The process of technological development has not increased the stability and the welfare of humanity. Because of our inability to solve the problem of international organization, it has actually contributed to the dangers which threaten peace and the very existance of mankind"
Open Letter to U.N. Albert Einstein 1947.