Fighting the Universal Spider Too

She wears white satin pants that are a little soiled. She shouldn’t wear white for I can tell that she is no virgin. Who wants to plow this ground? She’s a transsexual with a tiny little ass and big fake tits. She speaks Spanish. Oh, my Chiquita you gotta little banana! The male belly button is not erotic. That fold of flesh just below it will bloat but it will never swell. She’s getting bitched out by a scrawny little blond with glasses and a bad disposition. An oversized coat and tennis shoes makes her movements rather jerky. She does not walk with any fluidity and her appearance does not demand it. Food calms the passions except for sex of which it is a metaphor. She is busy eating. Her temper has subsided. She is subdued. I go back to reading my book.

I was never dear to you, / You disgust me. But the torment drags on, / And love, like a criminal, / Languishes, brimming with evil – Anna Akhmatova – The Complete Poems, 1992a p283

Natural-process – a belief in its reality has no bearing on its reality – example: global warming
Social-process – belief has everything to do with reality – example: money

It is taxation that monetarizes the economy; it is taxation that creates money, and it necessarily creates it in motion, in circulation, with turnovers, and also in a correspondence with services and goods in the current of that circulation – Gilles Deleuze

Living the useful life
     Full of activity
     With hustle and bustle
What vitality I see
Hither and thither
      In go-go boots
Patati Patata all
      Downtown
      Until the dawn
Ahead of the times
     Reading all of the headlines
      In the swim of the stream
Forever on the move
      Big fish eat the little fish
This restless history
      Waits on no one
With its hysterically voracious
      Appetite

In itself, every idea is neutral, or should be; but man animates ideas, projects his flames and flaws into them; impure, transformed into beliefs, ideas take their place in time, take shape as events - E M Cioran – A Short History of Decay, 1975 p3

It is estimated that about 50 percent of the children born blind or blinded in infancy have absolute pitch which in the general population only occurs in one in ten thousand.

Once man loses his ‘faculty of indifference’ he becomes a potential murderer; once he transforms ‘his’ idea into a god the consequences are incalculable – E M Cioran – A Short History of Decay, 1975 p3

What is one in ten thousand
       More or less
A special qualia
Associating colors
       With names
And doing it with
       The ears
A realm of precept
       Without relevance
An isolated ability
With what rhyme
       And without reason

Only the skeptics (or idlers or aesthetes) escape because they ‘propose’ nothing, because they – humanity’s true benefactors – undermine fanaticism’s purpose, analyze its frenzy - E M Cioran – A Short History of Decay, 1975 p4

Yes, why doesn’t the government beta-test its new programs like software developers. Although I’ll admit that Microsoft is not very good at it. California’s Prop 15 proposes to do just that. It’s Fair Election imitative will only apply to one office – the Secretary of State – and for only two election cycles. After that it will be sundowner unless extended by the voters. What a good idea to let the people decide if they like the idea. And what a great concept to let them experience it in action rather than having it poked at them in soundbytes. Like the Gladiators in the arena – they can give it thumbs up or thumbs down – both only after they have seen it in action.

Tea-baggers are slurping it up, but they probably aren’t aware exactly what it is they’re slurping… preaching free-market ideas to the masses while profiting off taxpayer money… She stood in judgement before the Invisible Hand, got an invisible thumbs down and bee lined it straight to Uncle Sam for a loan guarantee – Yasha Levine

Each year 64 millions prescriptions for anti-depressants are written in the US. Sales total $9.6 billion. One in ten Americans are taking these anti-depressants. Are Americans crazy? Or are they just trying to cope with a crazy world? Without drugs would our culture fall down like a house of cards? Are these questions worth asking – oh just shut up and take your meds. Is it really important to put on a smiley face when you get out of bed? God, if I had to do that before I could get up, I’d never get up – and that my friend, is the definition of depression. Hell, just give me some more of these – I need to get my prescription renewed.

Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even ‘imagining’ a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so? – Tony Judt – New York Review of Books (12/17/09) p86

All powerful government trumps big government
Spend and don’t tax vs spend and tax
What are the options – are the loonies
     Really in charge
Bush league big government hypocrites
Radical outsiders with big business connections
     Big government and big business are synonymous
Hoping to tap into corporate cash
It’s everyone’s get rich quick scheme
      Milking the taxpayer all the way home
      Crying – wee wee wee –
Get government off my back

I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth – Theodore Roosevelt

By 1970 only 23 countries had abolished the death penalty, today 141 nations have done so. Last year 2,390 individuals were judicially executed. The countries leading the death hit parade are:
         China          1,718
         Iran             346
         Saudi Arabia     102
         United States     37
         Pakistan          36
         Iraq              34
         Vietnam           19
         Afghanistan       17
         North Korea       15
         Japan             15

A bitter new shirt / For my beloved I sewed. / The Russian earth loves, loves / Droplets of blood – Anna Akhmatova – The Complete Poems, 1992 p288