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norton ash wrote:Wasp Honey

We joke about the vile new order now
Thieves, frauds, pimps, butt boys, button men.
The incredible whore’s addicted cells metastasize,
Creeping through the city towers, make the black wasp honey of
Rendered fat, plutonium, mercury, lye. We pay the rent.

The world-eater alone breathes oil. All other life it throttles
Silent screams, distant, choked, unheard, drowned out by traffic
Air conditioner drone, ear buds slowly launch the needle probes
Creeping through the drying brain, make the black wasp honey of
800 BPM, coltan, astroglide, meth, alien corn. We spread it for our kids.

Waking in the hills, the old one in the desert spray of stars
Planets risen, air pulled taut, the magma warming
Whispers the prayer, spits, recalls its thousand names
Creeping through the dead valley, collects the black wasp honey,
Soaks the roller. Holds it to the turning world. Like obsidian, we shine.

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AhabsOtherLeg wrote:...It is worth re-stating just how unique this place is on the internet. To have a board like this, dealing with some highly inflammatory subjects, that is both lightly moderated and (for the most part) civil, friendly, and free of endless circular flame wars and shitposting is rare indeed.

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compared2what? here stripped of context and delivered as general wisdom - or a worthy prayer wrote:
Nothing. It's actually my impression that above all other things, you're a sensitive and suffering human soul like any other. It's also my impression that the coping mechanism with which you contain and quiet your fears and insecurities requires you continuously to reassure yourself that you see the world more clearly and are therefore better than what you regularly refer to as "the herd" -- ie, the billions of other sensitive and suffering human souls with whom you share this country and this planet.

That's a very common disposition, and therefore one that's very commonly exploited by any number of the countless cynical and self-interested powers who have an agenda that purports -- somewhat paradoxically -- to offer something close to absolute individual freedom and personal empowerment to those who sacrifice their autonomy by subscribing unwaveringly to every tenet of its dogma.

So....Please forgive me in advance for speaking as candidly as I'm about to do. And please also accept my assurances that my candor is motivated by concern for you and not hostility, if you can. Though I certainly wouldn't hold it against you if you couldn't. It is kind of asking a lot.
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Right on jr.
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lightningBugout wrote:The imagined past seems to be one of the mind's preeminent storehouses for transcendence and/or the possibility of universal truth.

I find it very easy to imagine a future culture with mind-boggling capacities for space travel looking back at documentation of the Apollo landings with a sense of reverence similar to yours for Egyptian public works projects. And I doubt they'll be listening to "Whitey's on the Moon" for balance. Will the Cold War itself simply be remembered as our culture being singularly organized around what should have been an impossible feat?

Will Shephard Fairey's Obama poster be thought to speak of "something real about all men, about office, and [hope], and [change] and about yourself as well," etc?
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Fixx wrote:Hugh was right all along, it's KWH. This piece of dodgy cryptozoology will pass through the internet like a dose of prunes through dysentery patient. Everyone will be so used to going "It's a little Otter", that we'll all ignore global warming, "Is it a little 'otter?"
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nathan28 wrote:When some motherfucker makes life by hand, from scratch, not this semi-homemade stuff (what, is he trying to get on Sandra Lee's Cooking with Martinis & Push-Up Bras?), let me know. On second thought, when he makes an artificial pig, I'll pay for the charcoal.
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JackRiddler wrote:I have a love-hate relationship with the moment when events confirm my belief that something was indeed as bad as I thought, contrary to the hopes of so many.
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Crow wrote:Why do our government's proposed solutions always seem to involve making gay porn? Really, we have more sexual hangups here than they do in the Middle East.
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Simulist wrote:"Alien babies from Uranus" don't kill people, "Change You Can Believe In" can. And does.
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Religion may be the opiate of the people, but the example of Texas shows its effects on the mind are closer to those of crystal meth.
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norton ash wrote:If I want a sick sense of dread or the feeling that dark forces are tipping the world askew and messing with the kids, I just watch a little 'Hannah Montana.'

It scares me worse than Twin Peaks.
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The Consul:

And it was myopia not to peel what led to the rise of Pol Pot from
year zero and the muggy boneyards of Campuchea.
If you lurp on the wrong side of that river, the witch man points
the ancient bone at you and from then on, you belong no no one
and nothing and all you possess is like a swirl of sand
beneath the moon and you are free only to realize
your life has been but a tool for darkness, death and horror.

wicked prose



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thatsmystory wrote:It is bizarre the way patriotism became equated with authoritarian cheerleading.
"The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego."
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