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Despite the alleged

'sanctity of human life'
individuals don't matter
in the larger world.

Homo sapiens

is the only species
parasitic on itself.

We love others
of the species
to serve us, even
(or especially ?)
if they die in the serving.

Words from the greatest social engineer ever

'Poets should be
the engineers of human souls.'

(attributed to J.V. Stalin)

Spartacus

and his fellow 'terrorists'
did not want to liberate slaves,
but to become slave-owners.

Plus ça change...

What Cain said to Abel

Business
is
business.

The essays of Michel de Montaigne

were banned by the Catholic Church
for 200 years, because of his respect
for animals.

The meaning of life

is to prepare for death
with elegance and
enjoyment.

Sex :

too often
the latrine
of romance.

The sound of history :

water
going down
the drain.

No wonder I slightly admire the wily Odysseus/Osama !

It is sickeningly amusing
that the Haitian earthquake
(200,000 dead in the poorest country in the world)
gets less news-coverage
than the brilliant, Homeric
attack on those hideous and terrorist New York towers
(3,000 dead in the richest country in the world).

One American= 66,666 Haitians -

Of course!

The birth of OK

After rough Och Aye met chique D'Accord OK was born a little bitty guy (un petit gars) soon to be clad in Denim: a cloth (de Nîmes) originally woven in Provence, badly tailored into trousers resembling those once worn by Genoan sailors (de Gènes, corrupted into Jeans).

Denim originated in Indian fishing communities around Bombay (Mumbai) and was the fabric used for Dungarees.

Every building

is a crime.
















The best of man is his ruins.

In the rich countries

most people
look like the cold
undead.
In two of them
I'm fighting
the tough cushions
in my head.

A 'failed state'

is a country where you
get arrested for
pissing in a park.

Lying precedes language

In the constructed universe of language is our having, hence our being.
And language is the most powerful weapon
in our war against the world.

Telling, not showing

In the fly-trap of luxury,
unrecognised,
the greatest luxury
is suicide.


(A poem to celebrate
Google's decision to
cease blocking Blogger
& Blogspot in China.)

As our tools get better

we only get worse.

The Nazis demonstrated

that a society can be both evil
and ridiculous...
like any society with
concentration-camps for animals,
nuclear bombs
and poncey military parades.

Purpose -

perhaps the
stupidest thing.

Continuing happiness:

if it existed
it would be
a rather greater miracle
than life.

Death

is no indifferent enemy
but the universal friend.

Coprophilia

Capitalist shit:
fresh today,
toxic tomorrow.

Religions which seek converts

are inherently intolerant -
for if they were tolerant
they would be happy
to leave other people be.

What's so great about equilibrium

when see-sawing is so interesting ?

Epicurus Summarised

Simplicity + goodwill = happiness

God said

Let there be light!
Satan said
Let there be heat!

To be ignorant

of history
is to be ignorant
and infantile.

Life is

illusion of matter
and truth is
illusion of speech.

Racial Identity

Never having known
my father
I'm a quarter of
whatever
you think you are.

A good cook

is one who can make
a delicious meal
from the detritus in your fridge.

after Rumi

O tongue, you are a chattering disease -
and all our selves are withered worms
curled up on dying trees!

Is it just coincidence

that so much
'great art'
comes from so much
unpleasantness ?

Recessional

The richest peoples in the world -
with running hot water,
cars, unlimited food and drink
- actually think they are poor,
as they shower their infantilised
offspring with expensive junk.

Pathos :

the core of every crime.

The first property

was language,
and with it we exterminated
the Neanderthals.

Now the best property
is the English language,
whose native speakers
are the most depressed
in all the world.

Who would not be wiser

if he had a frugaliser ?

I love the smells

that other people hate :
chrysanthemums, my armpits,
cattle, horses, durian fruit,
dungheaps and wet dogs,
fresh tar, my socks, decaying logs...

Evolution : the cost

We plunder the planet
raging for what we don't know
we have lost.

The future

isn't just already past
but almost extinct!

'Conceptual art'

displays silly
concepts and
little talent.

CULL

is the word
that best sums us up.

Scientia

est potentia
est dementia.

Exquisite irony

Some of the Victorian asylums
near London have been converted
into "gated communities".

Error #58, Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, 1864

"No other forces will be recognised but those which reside in matter,
and all the rectitude and excellence of morality will be directed towards
the accumulation and increase of riches by every possible means,
and the mere gratification of pleasure."

- Pius IX, Pontifex Maximus

'Pygmy' children, seven years old,

male and female,
could - and still can -
feed and look after themselves
in the forest without the help
of the band.

'Civilised' children of similar
age can do little more than play
infantile games
and demand, demand, demand.

The Christian missionaries

(we don't say fundamentalists)
made and make
all the almost-naked wear
unflattering clothes.

The Islamic missionaries
(whom we call fundamentalists)
make clothed women cover themselves
with even garb that is even less flattering.

Monotheisms mean clothes.

Myxomatosis :

how conveniently
we have forgotten
the continuing horror.

Perhaps

the greatest achievement is
stillness.

Global Warming