Adam Curtis presented a three-part series on the BBC, recently, “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” (title from a Brautigan poem)… and only a day after the second installment, I received evangelical emails, about the series, from several brainy friends. I have already watched two films, by Curtis, that I consider interesting-but-loosely-argued… and a bit too “mainstream” (supportive of The Standard Worldview, with minor twists). I only managed to find part 2, online, at first, and sat through all 59 minutes and found it interesting. Curtis’ general thesis has to do with, I think, the  modernist mistake of … Continue reading All Watched Over By Euphonious Voice-Overs on the BBC

  The dirty little secret of the Pop-Porn-Fashion-Fantasy-Role-Playing Industry is that the best sex you will ever have is with your wife (I write this from the perspective of being a husband: translate gender and/or legal arrangement according to your POV). Whereas the all-but-explicit goal of Advertizing (Capitalism’s Nanny/Lover/Ninja/Chef) is to make you want what you don’t have precisely because you don’t have it (the not-having is the spur and the hook… the endlessly-renewable mercantile resource of grievous consumer need), the Happy Human is the human who is quite fucking pleased with what she/he already has (after a general period … Continue reading AMOK TIME: FUCKING THE NEW

  1. The extent to which “educated” Americans are parroting anti-Qaddafi propaganda is an infernally-glowing product-testimonial to how powerful our Yankee brainwashing is: exactly which magnitude of bloodthirsty global tyrant rains bombs on so many sovereign nations for so long, and what kind of “electorate” can’t work out the greater evils, here? Qaddafi evil/ Drones Good? To quote Prof. Michel Chossudovsky quoting Rep. Denis Kucinich (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24351) Military operations of this size and magnitude are never improvised. The war on Libya as well as the armed insurrection were planned months prior to the Arab protest movement. In the words of  Rep. … Continue reading THE BEST WAY TO DESTROY THE OPPOSITION IS TO HIRE IT

  The only sane, logical, clear-eyed and non-duped reactions to the Tucson Narrative I have thus far read emanate exclusively from “wacko”  “nutjob” “paranoid” “conspiracy theorist” websites. Certainly not a jot  of useful, un-duped, laser-eyed analysis is coming from the HackAcademic  Left, despite the fact that this latest event will, without a doubt,  open the gulag door for the next plague of draconian measures. Let’s not forget  that it was the dubious fizzle of an underwear bomb which heralded  full-body scanning (and junk-jiggling) at the airport. Soon to be coming  to your banks, cinemas, kindergartens and grocery stores. Intellectual  Snobbery … Continue reading In the Name of Reason: Be a “Nutjob”

We often think of norm-challenging concepts or theories as “ridiculous” or “irrational” not because we are in possession of the facts sufficient to refute them but simply because we have been told to. Too often, an “education” is the process, by sheer repetition and social conditioning, by which science, logic and common sense are distorted for the sake of convenience. We don’t need to ask (just yet) “whose convenience?”; we need to ask how much of what we’ve been raised to believe is utter fucking bullshit. If I’ve been raised to believe that the sweet water in the well behind … Continue reading Everything We Think We Know Is Not Just Wrong

   [I have corrected a BHO speech, regarding a fishy event in Tucson, Arizona, in 2011, for accuracy and to reflect more pressing situations…] As many of you are aware, earlier today a number of people were attacked by an American drone in Afghanistan, including several who were meeting to fetch unclean water from a rusted barrel.  We are still assembling all the facts, but we know that at least one human being who represented absolutely no threat to her professional killers was one of the victims.  She is currently at a hospital in the area, and she is battling … Continue reading SPEECH (in the manner of Harold Pinter)