What is the Mafia?
Dog willing... I get to sleep now! Although - the results of the exertions of yesterday are already coming in, and it doesn't look good. My muscles had been cramping up something awful in the days preceding yesterday. And I was not yet having a, "good day." Even good days, which contain exertion, lead to bad days soon. But actual STRAINED days, like yesterday, lead to much worse days. So - I am quite concerned about how things will be when it is time to take dog off to the vet / executioner. In the morning, no less. Ugh... I will have to drive with a strained brain, at the very least.
What is, "the Mafia"? I will tell you...
The Mafia is where you have the egregious creeps of the family dedicated to preserving the memory of the good people in the family, especially the dead ones. To do this - to uphod the ultra-holier-than-thou self-image of the family, the egregious creeps resort to graft, corruption, lying, killing people, and so on. In fact, they turn the whole family into something morally reprehensible. One big Double Standard walking around on many legs. With its secret codes, of secret honour, and secret designs, and secret lies, and secret handshakes, and secret rituals, to the virgin Mary and all that. Meanwhile, what becomes of the good people in the family, especially the dead ones? They kind of get steam-rolled into patronised obscurity.
Do you ever notice how the American flag has these white and red stripes going laterally, al the way across. Doesn't that look like dead bodies, steam-rolled into one, long flat surface? Bones and blood. Of all the good people sent off to war. And the stars. They look like squashed bugs. Or maybe brains. Stultified by the whole milieu of oppression, hypocrisy and militarism. But, the USA holds up that flag - that reminder of all the good people who have been squashed beneath - as its symbol of honour, might and morality. In this way, the USA is like the Mafia, which does similar things.
Carefully constructed mob behaviour.
- or maybe the blue field represents the brains, and the stars are all the good ideas that got stomped out...
What is, "the Mafia"? I will tell you...
The Mafia is where you have the egregious creeps of the family dedicated to preserving the memory of the good people in the family, especially the dead ones. To do this - to uphod the ultra-holier-than-thou self-image of the family, the egregious creeps resort to graft, corruption, lying, killing people, and so on. In fact, they turn the whole family into something morally reprehensible. One big Double Standard walking around on many legs. With its secret codes, of secret honour, and secret designs, and secret lies, and secret handshakes, and secret rituals, to the virgin Mary and all that. Meanwhile, what becomes of the good people in the family, especially the dead ones? They kind of get steam-rolled into patronised obscurity.
Do you ever notice how the American flag has these white and red stripes going laterally, al the way across. Doesn't that look like dead bodies, steam-rolled into one, long flat surface? Bones and blood. Of all the good people sent off to war. And the stars. They look like squashed bugs. Or maybe brains. Stultified by the whole milieu of oppression, hypocrisy and militarism. But, the USA holds up that flag - that reminder of all the good people who have been squashed beneath - as its symbol of honour, might and morality. In this way, the USA is like the Mafia, which does similar things.
Carefully constructed mob behaviour.
- or maybe the blue field represents the brains, and the stars are all the good ideas that got stomped out...