The weather has affected my outlook more than i thought possible - much to my chagrin · That my nation of birth just fought off a fascist putsch, certainly contributed to a certain "terror", but the fault is my own if the flavor of what you read is bitter when the words i would grow be sweet and nutritious. There is not a lot of time for recrimination and wallowing in the danger; the 'merican language and the freedom of our traditional irreverence and open expression are in the line of fire. Only now there is no public discourse on what can and can’t be said - some twerp in a corner office with the sheepskin to prove it is now making arbitrary decisions and vetting content, not based on appropriateness, but on marketability.
Because there are no longer recognizable nation-states, only corporate regions of interest, the challenge is to incite spending, identify potential markets, diminish costs and inflate profit - all else, be damned · But that is not what i've seen in my travels. I find human beings that have not been totally subsumed, and who are asking hard questions about what is important and why. The problem is any conversation about ideas is now so fraught with volatility that discussion and discourse are reduced to branding and affiliation. I wear a pony tail because it amuses me and the prospect of ceding my freak flag to the proud boys militia was as galling to me as the gayblades of Frisco hijacking the “proudboys” moniker was for the proud boys.
We are no longer allowed to laugh at each other and i am not even sure how much of that statement is projection about my own hair-trigger, no pun intended. Our species is on the chopping block and as long as we are unable to discuss that fact, we are doomed. Noam Chomsky shared thought about how a border region in Texas, traditionally blue dog democrat voted for the _rump. Mr. Chomsky determined that it was because Joseph Biden had the temerity to threaten the fossil fuel industry about fracking - i am aghast · Upton Sinclair said “It is difficult to teach a man something if his livelihood depends on his not understanding.” Austerity and the chokehold the ruling class has on streaming content makes our circumstance all the more precarious.
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality, is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.” - P.K. Dick I queried googol with the middle section of that quote and the hegemony of its power and a clear indication of it betrayal to its responsibility about "doing no evil" was googol's refusal to return the origin and author of that quote - how is anyone reading going to parse the danger of what i am saying, if our species is denied access to something as fundamental as language to battle the threat we face at the dawn of a new era. There will be no new era if the corporations are not brought up on a short leash and refused dominion over the free inquiry of knowledge. As long as the social engineer/billionaire class is given carte blanche to determine anything other than the most efficient return of a question, then Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not a servant but a master - thanks no, motherfuckers · i’ll walk my own dog without you telling me where, and buy every dictionary i can find that hasn't been burned.
Until that happens, i’ll be content to be a stumblebum on the fringes of a culture that doesn’t exist except as some white paper in a corporate boardroom free from the caustic effects of its incompetence and immune from consequence by its legions of lawyers - but as the famous punk rock photographer Edward Colver once mused, “when the shit hits the fan, there won’t be walls tall enough for them to hide behind.” The paradox is it is not the ruling class that is living in fear - the balance of humanity is responsible for its own fate, if it wishes to believe the crap passing for civilization, it is on them to live differently. Just as i cannot blame my family for shunning me, if i am attached to anyone that would behave that way toward me - the responsibility is my own. Conversely, if i choose to be kind to any one or number of human beings, i cannot reasonably expect a return in kind; that i am beginning to believe is the foundation of faith.
jts 14/11/2020
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