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I just updated my profile here on lj with a buncha shit ganked from my previous posts...
words are wee puns.
wield them with care.
The Elder Gods are always being challenged by the Young Gods. The Elder Gods, being elder, and having once been Jung Gods themselves, (Thou Art That, and all that...) ...thee Elder Gods have always, reckognized this threat and are wise enough to redirect their younger rivals away from threatening the Throne and point them towards conveniently chosen enemies.
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." ~Voltaire
the thing of it is... sometimes... none of this shit really matters.
"You make your own dream. That's the Beatles' story, isn't it? That's Yoko's story. That's what I'm saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself. That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshiped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be. There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you." - John Lennon
"I can refute everything in this world surrounding me that offends or enraptures me, except this chaos, this sovereign chance and this divine equivalence which springs from anarchy. I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms."
-- Albert Camus, An Absurd Reasoning
"Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality." ~Nietzche
I don't remember deciding what country I would be born in? My parents just happened to be in Illinois at the time. It seems like a complete accident. How are people proud of that? Big Deal. Move on.
But that's how the old men get the young to go kill and die. There's always somebody out there who dissagrees with whatever flag you happen to be standing under. They always want to kill you and take your stuff. So we send our young to kill them and take their stuff first. It's a basic instinct in action. We band together in packs and herds and whatnot. The USA is a big herd of people with sharp fuckin claws and bloody bloody fangs. Its enemies are no less viscious when provoked. That's the world we all live in.
Unfortunately, the top dog has just been spanked with a newspaper and is stubbornly deciding his next move. And who the hell are these people grasping after all that power anyway? Anyone who WANTS that much power probably shouldn't be allowed anywhere near it.
But what can you do? Society wants its Government. Somebody's got to Be in Charge of the Government. It's all We know. People would freak the fuck out if they weren't protected by the Government against other Governments. There would be Thousands living in the streets and stealing stores blind without Social Services. Government is just the way People have figured out how to Run things. Society believes in its Hierarchies. Hierarchy manifests in every relationship in Society. Why wouldn't it also manifest in the way that Society is Structured? I'd be crazy to oppose "Democracy".
That's why I don't oppose it.
It serves its purpose well. Voting reassures the populace that their voice is heard, albeit in a limited and limiting way. Voting hands one's voice over to someone else. But, the great part is, we can continue talking after the ballots are cast. We can bother our Representatives incessantly if we want to. Remember, they work for us, not thier campaign contributors. It's a clunky and deceptive system, corrupted by money and its influence, but still, it's better than Monarchy. Fuck that shit, man. Kings and Emperors can kiss my ass.
words are wee puns.
wield them with care.
The Elder Gods are always being challenged by the Young Gods. The Elder Gods, being elder, and having once been Jung Gods themselves, (Thou Art That, and all that...) ...thee Elder Gods have always, reckognized this threat and are wise enough to redirect their younger rivals away from threatening the Throne and point them towards conveniently chosen enemies.
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." ~Voltaire
the thing of it is... sometimes... none of this shit really matters.
"You make your own dream. That's the Beatles' story, isn't it? That's Yoko's story. That's what I'm saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself. That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshiped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be. There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you." - John Lennon
"I can refute everything in this world surrounding me that offends or enraptures me, except this chaos, this sovereign chance and this divine equivalence which springs from anarchy. I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms."
-- Albert Camus, An Absurd Reasoning
"Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality." ~Nietzche
I don't remember deciding what country I would be born in? My parents just happened to be in Illinois at the time. It seems like a complete accident. How are people proud of that? Big Deal. Move on.
But that's how the old men get the young to go kill and die. There's always somebody out there who dissagrees with whatever flag you happen to be standing under. They always want to kill you and take your stuff. So we send our young to kill them and take their stuff first. It's a basic instinct in action. We band together in packs and herds and whatnot. The USA is a big herd of people with sharp fuckin claws and bloody bloody fangs. Its enemies are no less viscious when provoked. That's the world we all live in.
Unfortunately, the top dog has just been spanked with a newspaper and is stubbornly deciding his next move. And who the hell are these people grasping after all that power anyway? Anyone who WANTS that much power probably shouldn't be allowed anywhere near it.
But what can you do? Society wants its Government. Somebody's got to Be in Charge of the Government. It's all We know. People would freak the fuck out if they weren't protected by the Government against other Governments. There would be Thousands living in the streets and stealing stores blind without Social Services. Government is just the way People have figured out how to Run things. Society believes in its Hierarchies. Hierarchy manifests in every relationship in Society. Why wouldn't it also manifest in the way that Society is Structured? I'd be crazy to oppose "Democracy".
That's why I don't oppose it.
It serves its purpose well. Voting reassures the populace that their voice is heard, albeit in a limited and limiting way. Voting hands one's voice over to someone else. But, the great part is, we can continue talking after the ballots are cast. We can bother our Representatives incessantly if we want to. Remember, they work for us, not thier campaign contributors. It's a clunky and deceptive system, corrupted by money and its influence, but still, it's better than Monarchy. Fuck that shit, man. Kings and Emperors can kiss my ass.