a pen warmed up in hell...

...(stolen from mark twain) is what i would need to do justice to international conspiracy theorists' day 2012...at least the n y times didn't involve itself this year ( have a look at last year's "umbrella man" op-ed piece )and , surprisingly, neither has the national inquirer...this new-found reticence does not extend to much of the rest of the interweb however...the sites are still proliferating in a peculiarly disgusting fashion...from the "refined"..."if you are a sophisticated conspirist you will know that the nonsense in conspiracy theories buries the 'case for conspiracy' under layers of bunk." to the overtly maudlin and border-line nostalgic..."november 22, 1963. dallas, texas. in less than a second america died." any way you cut it is a sad waste of time and energy better spent on addressing the entirely more serious problems facing the species these days ( an economic system in crisis and in need of a serious philosophical readjustment that the hegomonic culture will resist tooth and nail because it will certainly cost them their preeminence in society,,,but the collapse they will engender will do that anyway...read "the limits to growth" sometime or john stewart mill on "stationary economy") like climate change or obamalands' "entropy" ( how, i wonder, will he fight thermodynamics as applied to anthropogenic structures? "everything put together, sooner or later it falls apart ) so let me say again, categorically, i do not care who shot the giddy little hubris filled brahmin...it is irrelevant to all but the unbalanced and those with entirely too much time on their hands...aldous huxley and c s lewis both died on the same day...and while i find lewis unreadable and naive they still were the much greater loss in human terms...where are the conspirists for that?

death on credit ( sorry louis)

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it's sunday morning people and i was just reviewing the "spam" folders in my email accounts and i have received twenty-seven credit related emails overnight....lending tree wants to give me a loan on my home equity...home improvement stores are offering 0%apr if i get their credit cards...sears wants me to re-open the account i closed after i paid it off...the reverse mortgage industry has obviously targeted me by my age demographic...and every damned fly-by-night credit company and big-time criminal bank ( hear me calling you j p morgan chase? more on those rat bastards in a minute...i mean fuck these people ) wants me to get myself into credit trouble using their instruments...why? i was having a difficult time understanding why the hegemonic culture would risk its collective ass on bundled sub-prime mortgages that they cobbled together into "wonderful investment opportunities" in an act of utter self-delusion until i sat down and gave it some thought...these poor sods from the imf, world bank, the doomed euro zone, obamaland, the fucking imbecile tea party ( get with the times you party of lincoln...these degenerates are and albatross [bloody sea-bird flavor] you have hung around your neck because you think i am stupid...fuck you too ) and all the mavens of the hegemonic culture are addicted to debt because it is the engine of "growth"...and the debt they are addicted to is yours and mine...they don't really care if we have new cars or computers or houses or spiffy clothes or the latest in martha fucking stewart's home decor as long as we have debt....it's the debt that makes them richer and it's the debt that makes the markets happy ( those earnings reports that have so much impact are about how much of your debt you have paid...get cracking...consume damnit...make this the best retail season in living memory and the market will be overjoyed to the world )...i just sent a check off to j p morgan chase to pay off my house because those scum-sucking bastards were basically going to latch on to the insurance money from the fire and keep it...so i will have less debt on december first...i have paid off my vehicle and i will be working on the very last of the credit cards to murder that debt as well...i cannot entirely remove myself from the consumerist utopia...we are embedded in it...it is where we live thanks to the self-same hegemonic culture i have been on about...but i can be a subversive by eliminating as much debt as i humanly can and reducing my consumption through a personal program of austerity and reuse...the goal is to eliminate debt over the next six years and retire to find an avocation instead of a job...i am fed up with consumerism, debt, growth, whore politicians, and criminal bankers...i will remove myself from their foul agenda of personal aggrandizement through the euphemistically labeled process call "the economy"...the gardens and the search for native food crops is only part of the project...it is an act of culture building that they will dislike but not understand...they have no grasp of limits,

four more years

it's the morning after the night before and hoosiers have show unusual political wisdom in rejecting a complete fuckhead who tried to steal a senate seat and confirmed their political foolishness by believing that the rest of the elected candidates are really any better...they were just a bit more tactful in their public statements...so after boatloads of money and enough mud slinging to plaster the walls a foot thick nothing substantive has changed...calls for "unity" all around last night but the senate and house are controlled by warring ideological factions and the gridlock that has characterized what passes for government will continue as posturing and rhetoric replace any attempt at forestalling the entropy that has gripped the late empire...sunk capital investments and self-aggrandizement will prevent any sort of political transition to anything like a steady-state, sustainable, low to no growth economy...the voters have cast their ballots and now they can shut the fuck up and let the whores get on with their "important work " ( to borrow a "tail gunner joe" bit of phraseology )...venality and corrupt practice are dominant...and you have to spend money to make money...as linda mcmahon in what? connecticut? i wonder how vince feels about all that cash she spent trying to land a job that would pay off big...meanwhile the rest of us are on our own...when leadership fails you have to lead yourself...plant a garden in the spring and start to think about how we will create the shadow institutions and practices that will allow us to form communities when these idiots collapse...the disconnect is nearly complete...time to move off in a different direction.

decision day

in the end i see it as a negative choice...the hegemonic culture is not my culture...but go vote lest the slimiest of the cretins gains influence...they already do a multitude of things in my name that infuriate me but this loathsome creep is utterly unacceptable.

political silence broken

all politicians are whores....this is an a priori truth that is indisputable to the extent of being second nature to any really sentient being...i haven't had much to say because it has been such a foul political season with the bullshit " say nothing that pins you to a position" avoidance of commitment though lame rhetoric that i really felt it to be beneath contempt ( and i still yearn to be found in contempt of congress so i can put it on my cv )...but guy fawkes day is a political celebration ( even though the republicans would call it terrorism i would call the powder plot populist outrage and direct political action ) and as good a day as any to break my political silence ( i concluded who my choices were long ago...the fucking thing has only served to positively reinforce my loathing ) and say this mourdock fellow is a complete and utter atavistic throwback to a time when robber barons roamed the earth ( in overt fashion...not hidden behind glitzy pr like today's economic thugs are ) and greasy bags of hundred dollar bills were the currency of political debate...only the pea-brained republican worshipers of wealth will vote for this reeking turd...anyone with an ounce of intellect and with any respect for women will send this clown home tomorrow...where are dr. tarr and professor feather when you need them? flog this creep to the dustbin labeled " hamiltonian "...pull the "you must be fucking joking" lever on november sixth.