Night of Dark Leaves

Black against blue,
no escaping stars,

night of dark leaves
gives wing.


Shades assemble.

No human voice,
not even a whisper,
accompanies the
music of gunfire.


Intrigue, with tongue to ear,
seduces the still hour.

The 90's: Rise of Pop Fascism in the United States (Pt 1, NAFTA Debate, Both Faces)

"Politics of Fear versus the Politics of Hope."

Blog Bathroom Stall Graffiti

The Bureaucratic Organization of Knowledge

Informed and Efficient Control of Bodies



UnAversity

InterNET

IP Un-freely



Government Secrecy/Classification

Social Media, Formatted and Fenced Agora

Tollbooth'd Info Distribution



Bourgeois Required New Theology and Liturgy (Information Becomes Spirit[Law] and Letter[Instrument] of Capital)

Rationalism Replaces Theology as Mode of Authoritarian Control of Knowledge

End of Knowledge: Efficiency, Never Ending Dream of Exploited Bodies


Warfare as Extension of Intelligence Wielding "Information" as Weapon

Godot the Monument

Cloaked in dust,
impatient,
he craves
tending hands.

               Not a clock,
               or covered ears at
               crow of cock...

Still he sits.
Listless stares

pass sans care. 

"Protesting Was Sexy On a Saturday Night"

Excellent Documentary on Obama as "More Effective Evil" (h/t Margaret Kimberley, Freedom Rider)

A Friend Made This Video for a Great Guided by Voices Song

Clean rockin'.

Growth Demands Love Among the Ruins at Lower Prices

Over 1,000 lovers died so Western garment peddlers could sell hip clothing cheaper in "more advanced and enlightened societies". Out of love, economists comfort Western clothes horses by calmly producing graphs and charts proving this sacrifice is necessary for "growth" in "less advanced societies".

                             
                             

                              And that glory and that shame alike, the gold
                                                 Bought and sold.

                           --- "Love Among the Ruins", Robert Browning.

Soon

Happy May Day! (Remember, You Have the Right to Be Lazy)

A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. This delusion drags in its train the individual and social woes which for two centuries have tortured sad humanity. This delusion is the love of work, the furious passion for work, pushed even to the exhaustion of the vital force of the individual and his progeny. Instead of opposing this mental aberration, the priests, the economists and the moralists have cast a sacred halo over work. Blind and finite men, they have wished to be wiser than their God; weak and contemptible men, they have presumed to rehabilitate what their God had cursed. I, who do not profess to be a Christian, an economist or a moralist, I appeal from their judgement to that of their God; from the preachings of their religious, economics or free thought ethics, to the frightful consequences of work in capitalist society.

In capitalist society work is the cause of all intellectual degeneracy, of all organic deformity. Compare the thorough-bred in Rothschild’s stables, served by a retinue of bipeds, with the heavy brute of the Norman farms which plows the earth, carts the manure, hauls the crops. Look at the noble savage whom the missionaries of trade and the traders of religion have not yet corrupted with Christianity, syphilis and the dogma of work, and then look at our miserable slaves of machines. 

      ---Paul Lafargue, The Right to Be Lazy, Chp. 1.

Seamless Transition of "Humility, Resolve, and Compassion"

Revision is Empire's ultimate duty.

YOLO, SWAG, and the Sovereign Individual: The Meek Shall Inherit Commodity Fetishism's Golgotha

The Skull-Pandaemonium was once home to a Temple of Aphrodite. Appropriate landfill mounds now display the mystery of discarded commodities' resurrection inspired by the meek's love.

Bay of Straw

Blades of grass faintly glimmer
dagger tips in the distance.


Sand stretches a soft blanket
kindly for the cutting host.


The quartered moon sets high
scales of the condemned.

Mindful victims touch bottom
in this Bay of Straw.

Occupy Boston Strong, A Resounding Success

A security failure by authorities led to the imposition of Martial Law on an entire metropolitan area in the United States. An army of 9,000 authorities, with military vehicles, well armed in battle gear, descended on a city. An awe struck media served as a loyal claque for these forces to viewers all over the world.

All of this for a manhunt to capture TWO SUSPECTS.

The occupation of a city by militarized police ended when a near dead kid was found and taken into custody. Crowds burst out on the street and cheered "We got him!". Reminiscent of the gleeful crowds rushing to the streets after Osama Bin Laden was assassinated. Columns of militarized police vehicles, SWAT Teams, and regular police vehicles were cheered by thankful citizens.

The same authorities who failed to detect bombs in two sweeps of The Boston Marathon before the event and one just an hour before the explosions were now heroes.

Authorities have learned from New Orleans(after Katrina, a devastated city with no media coverage, police and military forces killed civilians), and now Boston, that most Americans are fine with Martial Law as long as some "bad guys" are captured or killed. Expect more manhunts, more National Guard flooding into shut down cities to assist in manhunts, for the protection of Americans.

In a Statement to the Nation President Obama kept in tune by claiming these two suspects were "terrorists", as head of Executive Branch of Gov't he asserted their guilt before charges were filed(as he did with Pfc. Bradley Manning), and the authorities did their jobs admirably to protect citizens. He capped off honoring the militarized police by closing his statement with the last line of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Media alchemy helped authorities turn their security failure and overzealous response into a resounding success. They cheered the shut down and occupation of a city. Cooperated wholeheartedly in a real time "Cops: City Occupation and Manhunt" episode. Were regularly spoon fed reports from FBI, etc, often false, but nobody cared then or now...One bad guy was killed, and the other was captured near death!(bring out the flags!)



Occupy Wall Street was never granted such friendly and helpful coverage. Media was too busy ignoring it or justifying and excusing the brutality of the same guys they helped make protective heroes this time.

They support the abuses of authorities and ignore or deride the legitimate protest of citizens.

"Through the window, in my 16 hole boots"

Shameful Creation

Therefore Promethean Poets with the coles
Of their most geniale, more-then-humane soules
In living verse, created men like these,
With shapes of Centaurs, Harpies, Lapithes,
That they in prime of erudition,
When almost savage vulgar men were growne,
Seeing them selves in those Pieran founts,
Might mend their mindes, asham'd of such accounts.

  ---George Chapman, Hymnus in Noctem, lns. 131-8.

Usefulness

"I like shade," replied M. de Renal, with a touch of the hauteur appropriate to speaking to a surgeon who was a member of the Legion of Honour; "I like shade, I have caused my trees to be pruned to give shade, and I cannot imagine that a tree is made for anything else, when, unlike the useful walnut, it doesn't bring in any money."
               ---Stendhal, The Red and the Black, Bk. 1, Ch. 2.  

Wandering Tramps

"As for the dispersion of the members...of detestable doctrines..., whose influence and authority are far greater now..."
        --- reworded(in every sense and one tense) from Eugene Sue's, Le Juif errant, Epilogue.
                                       

People Are the Iphigenia Obamamemnon Happily Sacrifices to Propitiate Gods of the Market

"It was her fate in the very hour of marriage to fall a sinless victim to a sinful rite, slaughtered to her greater grief by a father's hand, so that a fleet might sail under happy auspices."
--- Lucretius, De Rerum Natura.

"Lately"

"Remove the tunics touch"