we all imagined life getting easier,
fairer, more relaxed and comfortable;
we would work less
- or even not at all.
But capitalist progress
had a different goal:
to turn the whole world
into anxious workers
and debt-ridden consumers
controlled by fake democracies
and their crude smoke and mirrors.
DISSIDENCE
beyond the pale
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Monday, 30 January 2012
Sunday, 29 January 2012
On the death of a former lover
"It is with a profound sense of sadness and loss..."
I read, on idly Googling my old friend William,
who was such fun to eat with in his early twenties,
and who said,
when he was fucking me with his sweet wee dick,
that it felt much more like me fucking him.
He liked my paintings for their unrefinement.
I painted him. You can see that portrait here.
Compare it with the obituary-photo.
An early work of his hangs in my bedroom -
I haven't looked at it for years...
Now shall go up the stairs.
I read, on idly Googling my old friend William,
who was such fun to eat with in his early twenties,
and who said,
when he was fucking me with his sweet wee dick,
that it felt much more like me fucking him.
He liked my paintings for their unrefinement.
I painted him. You can see that portrait here.
Compare it with the obituary-photo.
An early work of his hangs in my bedroom -
I haven't looked at it for years...
Now shall go up the stairs.
From this week's 'New Yorker' magazine
"Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.
—more than were in Stalin’s gulags."
[People in the southern states see]
"... the prison system as essentially a slave plantation continued by other means."
—more than were in Stalin’s gulags."
[People in the southern states see]
"... the prison system as essentially a slave plantation continued by other means."
Identity at seventy
Who am I ?
I am: just anyone,
just a constant stream
of thought carried by
a ridiculously healthy frame
in the bewilderness.
And I am: I (or me, to be colloquial)
and cannot see
why anyone would want to be
more solid than mere fantasy
of self, a brief illogicality
encased in flesh and selfness.
I am: just anyone,
just a constant stream
of thought carried by
a ridiculously healthy frame
in the bewilderness.
And I am: I (or me, to be colloquial)
and cannot see
why anyone would want to be
more solid than mere fantasy
of self, a brief illogicality
encased in flesh and selfness.
Saturday, 28 January 2012
Friday, 27 January 2012
Thursday, 26 January 2012
GRV
in these three consonants
the final three thousand years (and more)
of Homo sapiens:
they are the Indo-European
linguistic 'root' which gave us
Grave (Grab in German; Russian ГРОБ),
Groove, Engraving
and Graphic (ГРAΦEIH : to write
- for writing originally was engraved).
From writing, as from the killing fields
and tombs
nothing by Nature will be saved.
(NOTE: the three letters are, more properly, GhREBh-)
the final three thousand years (and more)
of Homo sapiens:
they are the Indo-European
linguistic 'root' which gave us
Grave (Grab in German; Russian ГРОБ),
Groove, Engraving
and Graphic (ГРAΦEIH : to write
- for writing originally was engraved).
From writing, as from the killing fields
and tombs
nothing by Nature will be saved.
(NOTE: the three letters are, more properly, GhREBh-)
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Within mere alphabets
"lie all the arbitrary abracadabra"
of our thinking. This is why
we lack the global vision of the fly.
(with acknowledgement to A.O. Spare.)
of our thinking. This is why
we lack the global vision of the fly.
(with acknowledgement to A.O. Spare.)
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
In the bankosphere
which upholds the cratosphere
there are only fuckers and suckers.
Everything else is mere material.
there are only fuckers and suckers.
Everything else is mere material.
Sunday, 22 January 2012
The Clever Animals *
know that there is no time past
no time future
only the grinding present.
We are the only creatures that suffer
from the illusion of time -
because we cannot bear
to think we are of no consequence.
* Rilke, First Duino Elegy -..."die findigen Tiere".
no time future
only the grinding present.
We are the only creatures that suffer
from the illusion of time -
because we cannot bear
to think we are of no consequence.
* Rilke, First Duino Elegy -..."die findigen Tiere".
Saturday, 21 January 2012
Yet another definition.
God is the pathetic invention
of people who demand a purpose in life
to control themselves (a bit)
and others (a lot), and consequently
have no sense of humour.
of people who demand a purpose in life
to control themselves (a bit)
and others (a lot), and consequently
have no sense of humour.
Friday, 20 January 2012
A Reflection on a Dead Tradition
The non-breeding
saints and hermits
have been (of course)
outbred by the competitive
mobsters and their molls
who have reduced the world
to real-estate and walls.
saints and hermits
have been (of course)
outbred by the competitive
mobsters and their molls
who have reduced the world
to real-estate and walls.
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
For Jews
the Sin of Sodom
was wealth: Avaritia.
It was a horrible irony
that Jews were forced
into the rôle
of moneylending,
while sodomy became
a polite word for anal penetration -
which was till recently
the the commonest kind
of birth-control.
was wealth: Avaritia.
It was a horrible irony
that Jews were forced
into the rôle
of moneylending,
while sodomy became
a polite word for anal penetration -
which was till recently
the the commonest kind
of birth-control.
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Monday, 16 January 2012
Sunday, 15 January 2012
Saturday, 14 January 2012
I am not a nightmare water-closet
Friday, 13 January 2012
Rasputin and the Duchess of Windsor
were two of the most maligned celebrities
of the twentieth century.
They had little in common -
except that each was a Rank Outsider
brought into a palace.
One was murdered by war-mongers.
The other was made a scapegoat
out of sheer malice.
of the twentieth century.
They had little in common -
except that each was a Rank Outsider
brought into a palace.
One was murdered by war-mongers.
The other was made a scapegoat
out of sheer malice.
Thursday, 12 January 2012
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
'Lesser animals'
don't think, don't cogitate
but live in a continuum
of acuity.
Thinking is discontinuity.
(discuss)
but live in a continuum
of acuity.
Thinking is discontinuity.
(discuss)
Monday, 9 January 2012
About time
Capitalism
which loathes loners, monks, hermits
and the self-sufficient has - ironically,
enantiodromically - created a system
uniquely favourable to dissidents,
thoughtful and intelligent drop-outs
(and, of course, criminals).
Since I (so unregretfully) left school
unemployable
I've had a quality of life which gave me
complete control of my time,
my wider environment, and
my more-than-adequate
below-the-poverty-line income.
I give thanks
to the taxes of those
whose whole identity was employment -
the surrender of their time
to banks.
which loathes loners, monks, hermits
and the self-sufficient has - ironically,
enantiodromically - created a system
uniquely favourable to dissidents,
thoughtful and intelligent drop-outs
(and, of course, criminals).
Since I (so unregretfully) left school
unemployable
I've had a quality of life which gave me
complete control of my time,
my wider environment, and
my more-than-adequate
below-the-poverty-line income.
I give thanks
to the taxes of those
whose whole identity was employment -
the surrender of their time
to banks.
Sunday, 8 January 2012
Professor Stephen Hawking
(pictured above)
who is reputed to understand a great deal
about space, time, and string,
is reported as saying
that he does not understand women.
So much for science...
So much for heterosexuality...
So much for understanding...
I certainly don't understand
why women shave their legs
- to say nothing of labioplasty;
nor why men shave their faces,
run around chasing spheres,
are emotionally frozen
and watch horse-races.
who is reputed to understand a great deal
about space, time, and string,
is reported as saying
that he does not understand women.
So much for science...
So much for heterosexuality...
So much for understanding...
I certainly don't understand
why women shave their legs
- to say nothing of labioplasty;
nor why men shave their faces,
run around chasing spheres,
are emotionally frozen
and watch horse-races.
Saturday, 7 January 2012
Drones over London : All Under Control
The surveillance,
crowd-control,
and anti-terrorism
industries will ensure
that the 2012 Olympics
(Games ? - Games ??)
will be the most-organised
since 1936.
crowd-control,
and anti-terrorism
industries will ensure
that the 2012 Olympics
(Games ? - Games ??)
will be the most-organised
since 1936.
Friday, 6 January 2012
We are governed by rich people,
gangsters fiddling with
'instruments', by yes-men
and con-men, by fences
and those who won't raise their heads
above parapets, by ditherers,
compromisers, hand-wringers,
hypocrites, Hollywood values,
stuffed shirts and gas-bags,
mealy-mouthed nincompoops, airheads,
short-termists, stupid and dodgy policemen,
wage-slaves in offices, people who devise
surveillance equipment, people 'of principle'
who don't care about poor people,
nitpickers, micro-accountants,
macro-accountants, the World Bank,
criminal transnational drug-firms,
and scientists who haven't the sense
to realise that everything which makes
more comfortable or extends our life
also lays waste the world.
'instruments', by yes-men
and con-men, by fences
and those who won't raise their heads
above parapets, by ditherers,
compromisers, hand-wringers,
hypocrites, Hollywood values,
stuffed shirts and gas-bags,
mealy-mouthed nincompoops, airheads,
short-termists, stupid and dodgy policemen,
wage-slaves in offices, people who devise
surveillance equipment, people 'of principle'
who don't care about poor people,
nitpickers, micro-accountants,
macro-accountants, the World Bank,
criminal transnational drug-firms,
and scientists who haven't the sense
to realise that everything which makes
more comfortable or extends our life
also lays waste the world.
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
Monday, 2 January 2012
Sunday, 1 January 2012
The Less-accused.

In the rich countries
people think they are poor
if they have to think
a little bit before they buy -
a new freezer, a new car,
an electronic game or gadget.
They haven't an idea
of what it is like to queue
for two days for a bag of flour
or a kilo of potatoes.
They are the desperately
poor in spirit,
who haven't an idea
of what they need.
They know only
the hierarchy of visible status
in the Empire of Greed.
Saturday, 31 December 2011
'The false humility of hell
is an unending, burning shame
at the inescapable stigma of our sins.'
- Thomas Merton, one-time resident of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val
But true humility in this life
starts with the shame of being human,
not the crime of being Christian.
- Anthony Weir, currently resident in Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val
at the inescapable stigma of our sins.'
- Thomas Merton, one-time resident of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val
But true humility in this life
starts with the shame of being human,
not the crime of being Christian.
- Anthony Weir, currently resident in Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val
Friday, 30 December 2011
What if,
after death, we got exactly what we expected ?
Would we all be in our bubbles of bliss,
the religious in their antiseptic,
unforested heaven,
the wonderers perpetually wondering,
the thoughtless forever thoughtless,
and I, fulfilled by no existence at all,
the shadow of entropy ?
Would we all be in our bubbles of bliss,
the religious in their antiseptic,
unforested heaven,
the wonderers perpetually wondering,
the thoughtless forever thoughtless,
and I, fulfilled by no existence at all,
the shadow of entropy ?
Thursday, 29 December 2011
Training Humans: Hints for Dogs
Remember that humans think they are pack-animals
though they are obviously herd-animals like sheep:
what the leaders do, all will do.
Give them small rewards for obedience.
Get them spayed as soon as your vet advises.
Never let them get into bed with you.
Never let them go through a door before you.
Never feed them before you have eaten.
And never, never leave them unsupervised
with children.
though they are obviously herd-animals like sheep:
what the leaders do, all will do.
Give them small rewards for obedience.
Get them spayed as soon as your vet advises.
Never let them get into bed with you.
Never let them go through a door before you.
Never feed them before you have eaten.
And never, never leave them unsupervised
with children.
Wednesday, 28 December 2011
So obvious that it shouldn't need saying
Education is education,
And bits of paper are bits of paper.
And rarely the twain do meet.
And bits of paper are bits of paper.
And rarely the twain do meet.
Tuesday, 27 December 2011
Some good titles for Richard Dawkins
The Humanity Delusion
The Progress Delusion
The Intelligence Delusion
The Wealth Delusion
The Science Delusion
[add your own suggestions...]
The Progress Delusion
The Intelligence Delusion
The Wealth Delusion
The Science Delusion
[add your own suggestions...]
Monday, 26 December 2011
скопeц
Memo from a skopyets to Ludwig
Wittgenstein
It is not enough to be silent
about what we know nothing about,
better to be silent about being silent
in the cacophany of consciousness.
Wittgenstein
It is not enough to be silent
about what we know nothing about,
better to be silent about being silent
in the cacophany of consciousness.
Sunday, 25 December 2011
Saturday, 24 December 2011
Greed will always rule.
Needless to say,
the Landgrabbers of Israël
are crowding out
the shepherds of Bethlehem.
What do 'The Faithful' care,
with only hypocrisy to share ?
the Landgrabbers of Israël
are crowding out
the shepherds of Bethlehem.
What do 'The Faithful' care,
with only hypocrisy to share ?
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