timing looms large in human events and mine seems totally fucked today...i wandered off to campus to have a shufti at the garden and, perhaps, pay a social call...it seems it is spring break because the normally packed lot was pretty much empty...
the garden is, as you would expect in the second week of march, bare as could be...there is some activity and i was going to blog about that but events vaporized that mood...
the state would seem to be funneling more money into a regional campus and the third floor of the library is closed...and, by extension, so is the archives...social call laid to rest...okay...i accept responsibility for not calling ahead...my responsibility for my mood...so far...what set me off completely was the campus flatfoot that decided i was a suspicious character and followed my progress around the campus up to and including into a rest room...it is a "community garden"...a public space..and there were times when parker and i were the garden and i resent this behavior and begin to see credence in the concept of liberal authoritarianism...had i left a trail of assaulted individuals in my wake i could countenance being followed but this clown's behavior was a bit much...knowing that google and amazon and facebook track my behaviors and profile my habits and knowing as well that in most public spaces i am on camera and that the state of indiana has scanned my image into a facial recognition data base through the aegis of their fucking "new, you can't fly without it get it by january i, 2020 license" is one thing...i can exert some control over some of that...telling the campus cop to go clock speeders on broadway probably wouldn't fly...so i walked out of the crapper and left campus and may...excepting the public space of the community garden...set foot on the fucking place again...fuck these people...there is a strain of elitist, vanguardist "i know better than you" condescension in the liberal world and that is what drives the bulk of the population to the center ...or to trump...get a grip...
if google has no time for privacy it would seem there is an "official" reaction going on...i stopped by city hall to pay the water bill ( a utility the municipality desperately wants to privatize ) and...after wondering if the parking lot is actually supposed to be turning from concrete to gravel...i went in and encountered this sign prominently displayed...
does that include lawyers? one would think something that is allegedly part of the public record should accommodate the public if they are so inclined...one presumes this prohibition includes the press...and the whole thing reeks of obfuscation...or...perhaps...when the criminal ex-mayor was working the kickbacks from the construction of this carnival ride ( drive past it at night sometime ) the courtroom took the biggest graft hit...either way, even stalin went out of the way to make his trials as public as possible so the lesson would be an overt one...sometimes power loses it s way.
No comments:
Post a Comment