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Right there, clear as day, there’s Doug E. Fresh dancing.  Where the fuck was the Get-Fresh Crew?  Did Slick Rick know about this shit?  What the Fuck Was This, Right?
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“You know my friend, right?”
This is Anti-Disney talking, a long-time friend, an artist, a brain with deep emotions and character scars: a born-connector.  He is also [...]

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At it’s best, conspiracy theory can take on the quality of a “trial by fear.”  The unnerving cognitive dissonance between the information and interpretations it presents and what is shelled out by corporate/governmental media and schooling can seriously scare the shit out of someone.  This, in turn, can loosen up perceptual imprints and make way [...]

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The religion of the Spectacle is the Spectacle itself.
We live in a supposedly secular, post-modern culture.  You wil be told this in some quarters.
We live in a Judeo-Christian culture.  You will be told this in other quarters.
Neither of these things are quite correct.
Our so-called postmodern, secular culture is really the”pre-modern” “ghost-filled” world dressed up in [...]

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It’s bound to happen eventually and my turn comes near Rockefeller Center.  I remember the day because it is the Feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe.  I am doing an errand when I come across a woman with short, curly hair who is stretching her arms out at all and sundry who pass by.  At [...]

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Man, the following writing  is so 2007, but I just had to unburden myself of it so I can move on.  Expect more unburdening of past curiosities of mine over the next month.
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T’was back when I lived in Japan that the first news began to percolate about the Chinese Communist campaign against the Falun Gong [...]

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At the job and we’re on our break.  Two coworkers are talking about the upcoming elections and how important they are.  I mention that the past two presidential elections were fixed and that I had no expectation that it would be any different this time.  One of them, a Democrat, says that she fears that [...]

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Oftentimes, conspiracy researchers/theorists (it’s so hard to tell where the line between “us” and “them” is these days) are just as much in service to the Spectacle as anyone else.
Here’s another thought from a regular reader, Ian, that makes another pretty good point:
In both mythology and conspiracy theory, people are taking facts, stories, images from the world around [...]

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I had an American Literature teacher in high school who looms large in my memory of those days, despite the fact that in physical stature he could have been a gnome.
We’ll call him Mr. Blunn.
He had the thinnest of comb overs on his pate, as well as piercing eyes that looked like onyx, at [...]

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“The trick to being a politician in a representative democracy is to get the people to believe that you represent them while making them really represent you.”–Neole Strathmore
“We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.  We are dominated by a relatively small [...]

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We worked together for one year in Japan at the same school. He lived in Hiyoshi, same as the tiny groupuscule from the Fellowship of Friends that I ran into during that year. He taught English, went to Temple University, and lived with a Japanese wife with whom he seemed to have a pretty [...]

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