Good News

This from the today's New York Times:

"The economy shrank at an annual rate of 0.3 percent in the third quarter, as personal consumption spending fell for the first time in 17 years."

No doubt, people all across our great nation are becoming inspired by our message: Stop consuming, and start creating!

On War

Obama-McCain have been waging war on the American mind.  Their weapon of choice: boredom. Day after day, we are subject to a barrage of badges, buttons, and all sorts of nick-knacks, and for what?  

An election is an artificial game, which follows a strange, arbitrary set of rules.  Hence, when you enter the polling booth you become nobody.  

War, in contrast, is best defined as a game with no rules.  War is life.  It is the most biological (and therefore least artful) form of human existence. When you enter this game, you perish.  The best you can hope for is to replicate your genes and store them in the body of your "child." (I agree: disgusting!)

An information war has scorched the metaphysical plane.  Ergo, our society has entered into a state of suspension; and the flower that is art has ceased to bloom (but has not yet wilted).     

I Wish It Was The 60s, I Wish We Could Be Happy

On Language

Language is a highly flawed means of communication. I call for perestroika and glasnost on the commonly accepted devices for transmission of ideas, concepts and emotions. After all, how can we as a species ever truly acknowledge the constraints that we are forever bound to if we cannot place ourselves outside of language? Pictorial representations offer a glimmer of hope, but are perhaps not entirely effective either.

Comments, offerings and suggestions are highly encouraged (nay, pleaded for).

[Quentin]
A modest proposal: at the heart of all communication is the Will to Groom. Yet grooming, as currently practiced (e.g., 'www.facebook.com'), is unacceptable. Ergo, I call for an extension of our perestroika and glasnost into the realm of grooming.

All Gloss and No Substance

Or, why PowerPoint is responsible for the death of the soul. With the advent of the PowerPoint presentation we have descended into  a society of light, color, bullet points and nothing more. 

Think about it.

More Reasons to Salute Richard Dawkins

Finally, Dawkins has spoken out against Harry Potter. More here.

Possibly the best part of the article: "His scientific world view once led him to talk about suing astrologers under the Trade Descriptions Act".

Kurt Vonnegut Quote of the Day

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

On The Importance of Being Meta

Fiction and art are dead; only metafiction and meta-art are appropriate.

On Nihilism

I think God cast himself into oblivion.

There is no divine doctrine.

Do whatever you please, children.

Many things exist, but ultimately the sum is zero. There is no pillaging: we are all paying for it (we just cannot see it).

The way I see it, to encompass the whole is death itself; no longer are we bound to a particular dimension.

We think conspiracy exists but none are privy enough to realise that it is mere evolution.

If you were not tormented by others, you would find a way to torment yourself.

On the Human Obsession With Noise

The Laughter-Track; The requirement to "Contribute" in class; The Assumption that an absence of words suggests Deficiency;
All examples of the sick, carcinogenic human OBSESSION with meaningless, pointless noise.

And what is noise?

Noise is grooming. Noise is a more evolved (i.e., more efficient per unit energy) form of primitive, primate social conditioning. We call for a glasnost on noise.

Enjoy the silence. See: "Words are very unnecessary."

Quash your obsession with noise to free your soul from the chains of earthly desires. You have everything you need to survive. Stop the grooming. Make grooming an embarrassing vestige of thoughts I once had. Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad (See: E.B. Browning).

On Micro-Aggression

We, the aforementioned, propose a new term to guide our academic inquiry: micro-aggression. By micro-aggression, we mean a deterministic, logical behavioristic account of every-day violence.

Credit to: Jaymie Paige Stein, for her ongoing work and research in this field.

On Historiographic Metafiction

History is a mere fabrication. Nothing matters. Be here now.

History is used to control people through the construction of a community mythology centered on forcibly-imagined events.

People Like You Find it Easy

This Life is Only a Part of a Mosaic

There is writing happening

Maybe thats hard for you to understand

I am here but "I" am not here

I am writing but "I" am not writing

Inside of me in the heart cave is a 

Mantra going on that reminds me

Who I really am

Over and over again

In this inner place

I am

And even as I write, where this 

Mantra is going on Im just watching with

Great awe and wonder

Why I Love Richard Dawkins:

Richard Dawkins and his British Humanist Association are paying for ads like these to be posted on buses in London.

Said Dawkins of the campaign:

"This campaign to put alternative slogans on London buses will make people think - and thinking is anathema to religion."