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direction

“If you could only look in one direction, which way would you look?”

“Ahead I suppose.”

“What about having a mirror in front of your face, so that when you’re looking ahead you’re actually looking behind?”

“No, I’d do without the mirror.”

Unnifished

 

Going Through Hell

“What would you say to someone who’s going through hell?”

“Keep it up.”

“Keep it up?!”

“Yeah, keep it up - keep on going. How will you get through it if you don’t keep going? Don’t stop. And whatever you do, don’t lie down there.”

“Or if you do, get back up.”

“That’s true too.”

ScrIBble

 

Stoned to Say the Least

By Saint Etienne.

Kant and the Good Action

I’m reading a biography of Beethoven by Jan Swafford, and in painting the sociological background of Beethoven’s world and times Swafford writes of the huge influence of the philosopher Immanuel Kant:

For Kant, the moral part came down to what he called the “categorical imperative”: every person must act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law”. Every act should be done with the conviction that if everyone did likewise, life would be good. 

So the very first action to look at to see if it matches up to the idea of one’s behavior amounting to a universal law for all is Kant’s act of writing a book of philosophy. And so we see that apparently every living person should write books of philosophy - otherwise this act of writing a book of philosophy doesn’t constitute a maxim of universal law, and is a self-contradictory piece of thought at its very root. Otherwise, armed with this code of behaviour, you don’t go one step without gong wrong. So everyone should write books of philosophy, and then life would be good. As an aside, who will read all these books, I wonder, that we should be all spending much of our time creating?

Extending this, a bit of dialogue comes to mind:

“Hi Immanuel, how are things?”

“Oh good, good.”

“You know who’s i met earlier?”

“Who?”

“Joseph. Joseph Bosch.”

“What’s he up to?”

“He seems to be doing well. He’s a shoemaker now.”

“Everyone should be a shoemaker!”

“Really?!”

“Of course! Goodness and freedom are at stake here, you fool!”

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Pray

“You know what I pray?”

“I’ve no idea. That you win the lottery?”

“No, no, no, no, no!”

“What so?”

“I pray that when I leave the world the world doesn’t follow me.”

Bourgeois Intelligentsia Lecture Hall

Student: “And who are the ‘good citizens’ in this desired society?”

Lecturer: “The good citizens are those who let themselves be re-educated without being pushed, merely prompted.”

Student: “And the not-so-good ones?”

Lecturer: “Well, there’s different gradations. There’s not-so-good ones, as you put it, who can become good ones - those who become re-educated after being pushed, for instance. The really not good ones are those who refuse to be re-educated even after being pushed.”

Student: “But the younger generations - they don’t often have to be re-educated as simply educated, is that so?”

Lecturer: “Yes, that is so.”

Tudor

 

Spruce Intelligentsia

More music news, and rock star icon Spruce Pipedream has teamed up with the aforementioned Bourgeois Intelligentsia to chisel from the caverns of consciousness a new anthemic antidote for our times: With My Tight Fitting Jeans and Your Intellectual Mastery, Together We Can Seize the Means of Production.

Rolling Stone magazine have called the song, which they are hoping to hear soon, “incisive and inspiring”.

There is also a b side, the catchily titled: The New Global Citizenry Will Comprise of Children Who Have Been Purified Ideologically (The Rest Are at Best Compost).

Gimme, Gimme

Bourgeois Intelligentsia have just released their newest song into the war zone that is the cultural landscape: Gimme, Gimme, Gimme a Dictatorship of the Proletariat!

There is also a b side: I Just Can’t Feel Comfortable Around the Working Classes.

Harsh

The following is a key and emotionally charged scene from a powerful melodrama I’m thinking of writing called possibly The Reckless and the Ravishing:

“Damn you and damn your money!”

“I don’t have any money.”

“Well damn you and damn your poverty so!”

“That’s a bit harsh.”

“It is what it is.”

Kicking

“You know a thought that came to me is that in a way being attacked is a good thing because it shows, for whatever reason, you’re worth attacking.”

“That’s not much consolation though if you’re down on the ground getting your head kicked in.”

“Maybe not. But - if that is it doesn’t finish you off completely - the kicking might at least wake you up to the need to be able to defend yourself.”

“And in time you might even end up giving the kicking instead of getting the kicking.”

“Well, whatever about that.”

Room

“If you were in a room and it was all dark, and then someone came in and turned the light on, what would you do? You’d want it turned off again, wouldn’t you?”

“Would I?”

“Of course you would! You wouldn’t have had it dark in the first place unless you wanted it to be dark.”

“Maybe not.”

“What do you mean maybe not?!”

“Well, maybe I just didn’t know where the light switch was and I couldn’t find it in all the darkness. Or who knows, maybe I was incapacitated. So I could maybe be grateful to whoever it was that came in and brightened up the place.”

“Ridiculous!”

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Earthquake

“If there was an earthquake just about to happen and it was right under your feet - there was this crazy rumbling or however you describe it - what would you do? You only had seconds in which to react, would you jump to the right or the left or what before it’s too late?”

“Well, I wouldn’t want to offend anyone.”

“What?!”

“I’d like to stay neutral.”

“What does that mean?”

“I’d try to stay in the middle.”

“The middle? The middle of the earthquake?”

“Yeah, that’s what I’d try to do. If I could.”

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Mindscape 0815

 Another older piece I came across and am cleaning up or tinkering with a bit.

A bit

 Some quick thing from a while back I just tried to work on a bit.

All Our Yesterdays

More music news and those perennial triers Fake News Shitstorm have a new song they’re just releasing: Covid Is Yesterday’s News, Just Move On Already.

There is also a b side: We Just Bombarded You Nonstop With the Best Available Information We Had at the Time (The Death Tolls Were Great by the Way).

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Return of the Icons

It hardly needs saying that every release by seminal supergroup Countercultural Icons of Humanity is a blessing for humanity, their music a cultural safe space amidst the floodwaters of oppression that threaten to drown us all. And so it delights us to see that their label, ‘Corporate Whores in Drag’, has just informed the world that band members Spruce Pipedream and Grave Dohl have co-written a new song, which will be hitting our airwaves over the coming days: Still Fighting the System, Still Believing in Doctor Fauci. Apparently Bourgeois Intelligentsia, who share the same label, fill out the sound with thoughtful and unobtrusive backing vocals.

All profits from the single will go towards paying Dr Fauci’s legal fees regarding some misunderstandings he is currently clearing up. 

Buyers will also receive a bonus b side to the single: No Fascist Gonna Stop Me Taking My Booster Shots (One More Is Never Enough(Mandate Them All Over Again)).

Hardcore Satanist Betrays the Cause

 An interview with Erika MacDougall whom I find very interesting, insightful and endearing. And below with her again. 

Paradise Metal

 

The last two songs from the titled album by the Greek Orthodox priest, Fr Dionisios Tabakis, photographed above. It’s a pretty eclectic and unconventional mix of stuff, though these more traditional type pieces which close the album are probably my two favourite pieces.

Nazi Doctor Questioned at Nuremberg

I think this is a video of an infamous Nazi doctor being questioned at the Nuremberg trials after World War 2. Humanity learned great lessons after the reign of such evil, demon possessed souls. The dreadful bottomlessly dark eyes say so much - which is just as well since his mouth no longer does.

 I believe Hitler, so high on barbiturates he barely knew what was going on, had previously given the doctor a backdated pardon covering the years of some of his more, let’s say, unethical practices, so, even if here a little uneasy, the doctor is still quite hopeful this amnesty should protect him from any legal retribution. 

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Fauci, the Fifth

We lived through the bullshit era of this man and the people and agendas they represented. Why did Biden issue him a pardon again? What might he need a pardon for? A criminal cartel protecting its own.

And - aside altogether the infinitely more serious revelations about his pubic versus private utterances regarding Covid, its origin and treatment, etc - a few quotes from the diaries regarding his inner life whilst he was doing everything he could to battle this dreadful pandemic and rescue humanity from its malevolent, even if unconscious, clutches: “The press is hot and heavy about me.” “Multiple stories per day directly or indirectly involving  me.” I am the most famous person in the world.”  “My national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable.” “I am the most famous person in the country and one of the most famous person in the world.” “Countless profiles on me in multiple media. I cannot even read all the things that are written abuyt(sic) me since I am so busy …. seriously.”

Imagine being one of the most famous people in the world, but lacking the time to read everything written about you. Tragic. If only there were more hours in the day.

And here are the words of the great man in 2017:

“There is no question that there will be a challenge to the coming administration in the area of infectious diseases . . . There will be a surprise outbreak.”

A surprise? If I’m definitely predicting something quite specific is going to happen, then it’s probably not going to be a surprise. But then Fauci of course is a great man of science, though perhaps a little deficient in his mastery of human language. And maybe that’s why he refused to answer any questions whatsoever above - he was afraid he might make a fool of himself with his clunky use of words. There were also many more scientific questions for Fauci at this hearing which can be easily seen, but, even here, very much on his own territory, so to speak, he chose the Fifth also. A heroic intellectual performance.

heaven, Dante

“You know what I was thinking about earlier?”

“I don’t know. The Galapagos Islands?”

“The Galapagos Islands? No, I wasn’t thinking about them. Good guess though, but no. I might have been thinking about them, but I wasn’t. What I was thinking about was … emm . . . Let’s call it Celebrity Heaven.”

“What’s that? Is it a tv show?”

“Not that I know of, though maybe there is some show called Celebrity Heaven - it’s hard to keep up with everything important that’s going on - but that’s not what I’m talking about. What I’m talking about is the afterlife, and if it exists is there a separate heaven for celebrities, or at least a part of heaven set aside for celebrities, especially the bigger ones. It just doesn’t seem right to me that they should be in the same place as the rest of us. So what do you think? Does it make sense?”

“Celebrity Heaven?”

“Yeah.”

“I’m not sure. But why not instead rather Celebrity Hell?”

“What do you mean?”

“You know like Dante’s Inferno with the nine circles of hell. And so with each circle having a different bunch of celebrities, whatever logic they’d employ to divide them up into their differing destinations.”

“You’re out of your mind!”

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to change a

“How many woke popes does it take to change a lightbulb?”

“I don’t know. It’s not a question I’ve ever asked myself. Well how many does it take?”

“I’m afraid I don’t know either. It just came to me to there for some reason - you know, like in a moment of illumination, but with the answer remaining in the darkness, so to speak. So whether there’s some depth to it or it’s just nonsense I have no idea.”

“It’s interesting though. Maybe it’s got something to do with the spiritual world needing to become more practical.”

“Maybe.”