Posted in Personal Speculation, everyday life, media, politics, propaganda on December 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Call me a crazy, recovering conspiracy poet, but that’s how I’m reading this news:
” A former Nasdaq stock market chariman arrested on a securities fraud charge Thursday, accused of running a phony investment business that lost at least $50 billion before he confessed to senior employees it was a “giant Ponzi scheme” authorities said.
Bernard L. Madoff, [...]
Posted in everyday life, politics, positive aphoristics, pro-peace/pro-people on September 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s no surprise that I haven’t written anything about the real collapse of all that imaginary money that the so-called leaders of finance and government have puffed themselves and their subjects up with over the past eighty or so years. I just don’t feel like I have much to contribute to that discussion, other than [...]
Posted in media, politics, provocative filler, satire on September 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Like Bizarro was to Superman, Sarah Palin is to spritely 90’s alterna-chick, Lisa Loeb.
Just compare the look, the mannerisms, and the joie-de-vivre of Loeb with Palin. Palin comes off as a stilted, robotic version of Loeb from a block-shaped planet in some strange parallel universe.
You might need to turn the sound off to really do [...]
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, conspiracy poetics, everyday life, politics on September 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Limnal Site of Dead Heroes, history, mis-education vs. raw learning, politics, pro-peace/pro-people, psychology on September 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
About a year ago, a Rastafarian guy I worked with who had a lot of optimism about Obama and, to me, an unrealistic expectation that an Obama presidency would be “revolutionary,” made a statement that piqued my curiosity. In the middle of speaking on what was shaping up to be the Obama versus Hilary primary [...]
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, Personal Speculation, conspiracy poetics, everyday life, late night, pointing at The Big Something, politics, pro-peace/pro-people on September 2, 2008 | 22 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Personal Speculation, conspiracy poetics, politics on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“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 [...]
Posted in politics on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Republicans who smoke pot.
And:
Anarchists who like money.
Keep the options going/growing!
(Lord knows we need more variety up in this piece…)
Posted in everyday life, media, politics, provocative filler on March 30, 2008 | 13 Comments »
While I still work through some house re-ordering out in the physical world, I won’t be posting too much. It may be another week or so.
However, in the meantime, I recently recieved this graphic which sums up in one power-house image of concentrated meaning, quite a bit about the Spectacular election ritual we are [...]
Posted in celebrity idolatry, media, politics, pop culture, propaganda on February 25, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Submitted for your analysis: the hottest, hippest, young people and a moving, cinematic montage fit for an Oscar-winning film’s promotional package or a Gap ad; versus the Whitest and Dorkiest of white and non-white people with lower producution values, less sex appeal, and inspirational power of the 1985 New England Patriot’s answer to the Super [...]
