Transmissions

Sigmund Freud

(this excerpt is from Freud’s work of the same title: pp. 33­35, 91)

(Found at Primitivism)

We come upon a contention which is so astonishing that we must dwell upon it. This contention holds that what we call our civilization is largely responsible for our misery, and that we should be much happier if we gave it up and returned to primitive conditions. I call this contention astonishing because, in whatever way we may define the concept of civilization, it is a certain fact that all the things with which we seek to protect ourselves against the threats that emanate from the sources of suffering are part of that very civilization.

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The people in power will not disappear voluntarily; giving flowers to the cops just isn’t going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

- William S. Burroughs

Greetings Earthlings, check out my favorite internet writer of the moment, Frank Smecker:

The Politics of Awareness, part 2 on Dissident Voice. This article kicked me directly in my ass this morning. Please read it. Read the living shit out of it! (I’ll comment on it later.)

Have I mentioned that me and Soph’s daughter is going to be born, like any day?! More tomorrow.

BREAKING FUCKING NEWS: Mickey Z joins modern civilization (wait..oh no!) and creates a Facebook profile! (I’ve actually had one for a while but it has been managed by Sophia. I’ve now made the transition from MySpace to Facebook if anyone wants to say hola.)

So, tomorrow I want to discuss Mr. Smecker, Bringing Down Civilization, Our beloved daughter, social networking sites and my (late) hatred of the bourgeois yearly fraud “celebration” of MLK. Here is what I said last time.

I found this here:

The Christianizing of Tahiti

Reacting to the stories of Tahiti, and troubled that the crew of HMS Bounty could have found life among the Tahitians preferable to life among Christians, the religious orthodoxy of England founded the London Missionary Society in 1795 (which included their own armed police force). The sole purpose of the society was to bring Tahiti under Christian rule, in effect to remove a more pleasant alternative lifestyle that threatened Christian power (my emphasis.) Two years later the first missionaries arrived in Tahiti and were as warmly treated by the Tahitians as had been earlier visitors. But after 7 years of missionary work (children were required to recite, “For what is Jehova angry with thee? Because I am evil and do evil.” in Tahitian) there were few willing converts to Christianity.

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