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Nietzsche: Great Toilet Reading

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Years ago when I was trying to pull myself out of white trash Northern Virginian existence to a DC hipster delusion, I found myself in a bar in Arlington. I was talking to the then owner Alice Despard about great writers. At the time I didn’t really know much about “great writers” I mean I had read Emerson, Whitman, Voltaire, a girlfriend had turned me on to Tom Robbins and that Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance book, but I was still in way over my head.

Though I was creative and charismatic enough to bullshit my way around the DC indie rock subculture I always felt that if I let my guard down for one second my southern accent would return and the charade would be up: “we found you out boy, back to Manassas with you now, to work in auto parts stores!”

[To those who know me personally, this is where that strange and sudden insecurity comes from.]

So Why Did That Cop Shoot Oscar Grant?

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

We’ve all seen the video by now. Was he reaching for his Taser? Probably not. Was he startled by Oscar’s “struggle” or “resistance”? Not so much. So why did he take out his gun, stand up and execute Oscar Grant?

I don’t think he planned it. I don’t think he went to work that night hell bent on killing yet another black man. And I’ll admit, the video shows his surprise. So why did he do it?

Here is the answer: because he wanted to. Because that’s what they’re trained to do. That’s what this culture is; what it does.

What that fucking cop did was no different than what the well trained and well groomed bigot does when he/she blurts out a racial slur in “polite” company. He/she acted on their conditioned nature and played out this societies program for so-called normality. However, the second after the racial slur (or bullets) come out, the agent is immediately aware of the ramifications of their actions.

The husband that hits his wife knows within one second that he has fucked up. Do we forgive? We should not.

Cops are trained to (and do) loath the general public. Us. Think about how cops are trained to hate people like me: anarchists.

We need to understand that cop’s bullet as him blurting out “nigger.” Or “thug.”

To say it again: he did it because he wanted to. Programmed to. For one second (in his sick mind) he had “justice” with those “thugs.” It doesn’t matter what Oscar’s human story was anymore than the story of a slaughtered family in Gaza. The people that pay for the bullets also “pay” for “education.” And journalism. And Research. And science. And industry. And media. And “Defense!” And so on.

None of the words matter. They call it “law and order” and/or “progress.” I call it Occupation. And we play out the tragic, pathetic and horrific script written for us by the rich and powerful each day.

I feel like a time bomb.

Judge for yourself:
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Before this video plays I have to report the real horror. It’s not just the late night sloppiness of this post or the execution of a young father by the fascist coppers. The real crime was that nobody fought back. And that we haven’t. Not really.

That cop did what was expected, the only surprise was YouTube. What he did goes down every day. Yes, there were protests and “riots” after. But why weren’t the cops stopped right there? In their tracks. When people were (rightly) screaming “what the fuck?” why didn’t they believe themselves and act? Why did they watch the murder of Oscar Grant and not fight back? Not to mention try to save him. People now hold phone cameras in “resistance” and “solidarity?”

If me or my wife are ever being beaten or shot to death please call Ward Churchill and his AK-47. OK?

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I Hate Edward Bernays!

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Meet Mr. Mind Fuck USA! Edward Bernays was essentially a much more talented version of Joseph Goebbels right here in the land of the free. Known as the Father of Public Relations he, as Wikipedia states, …”combining the ideas of Gustave Le Bon and Wilfred Trotter on crowd psychology with the psychoanalytical ideas of his uncle, Sigmund Freud, Bernays was one of the first to attempt to manipulate public opinion using the psychology of the subconscious.” Ah yes, in addition to convincing women to smoke, people that bacon is good for them, that water fluoridation is a good idea and that Calvin Coolidge was a likable guy, his techniques for mass manipulation were also put to use in the political process and thus, undermining any chance at meaningful Democracy. His work has helped sell us soap, “clean coal,” George Bush and war just to name a few. Here he is in his own words, keep in mind that what he was describing he thought was a good thing.

“Those who manipulate the unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. In almost every act of our lives whether in the sphere of politics or business in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.”

“Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.”

“If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.”

What a fuck face! To read a good article on Bernays click read more for a piece I found at PR Watch.

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