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Nov. 16th, 2017 12:18 pmMy experience with comedians has been small, but I can tell you - I don't think anything is below a comedian - these are people for who dignity isn't even a real thing - the inhuman lust for bad attention fed with the most grotesque debasement. So, no, nothing is beneath a comedian, they're all filth.
Giving some thought to the statements made - I keep running up against this book I've been reading - a really good one - Debt - the first 5,000 years. It's one of those eye-opening - mind expanding books and it puts to mind Hrdy's Mother Nature- it's in that pantheon of anthro-texts that bends your perceptions & puts your assumptions' feet to the fire. So you think of someone as rich becuase they have managed to have a lot of green paper. And you think of someone as powerful because they get people to do what they want. And all along the way I just keep thinking about refusall. "I won't do that." There's comment & consternation on this point & I don't blame people for not realizing that it's not in their power to simply refuse - there's an entire mechanism of grooming & training called secondary education out there - there's industries backed by unthinkable sums of green papers out there to bend compliance & twist arms - it's a hard way to go to always be telling people "No, Fuck you." Especially those poeple most others are always saying yes to.
But I'm there, always have been. "Fuck you, No." is my essential core identity & has for a long time been. I'm good on it, but I like seeing the veneer get peeled back a little - for discussion in the broader world to go that way - toward refusal & the uncurtaining of wizards. "Did you know this guy's only a big shot because a bunch of dopes think he is?" More of that please, always more of that.
Wealth & riches - you think about it, how you're caught up in the pursuit of keeping-it-all-going making sure you're alive & staying that way - that's a whole enterprise we exist upon all based on all sorts of obligations, fiduciary blah-blah. There's no end of spiraling obligations. I've been rich & I've been poor & this aspect of things - it doesn't go away at any point of the spectrum I've lived on. So you think on this & you have a feeling - escapist feeling. Lottery winners & the windfall escape-hatch - the dream of leaving it behind - of being liberated from the whole bondage of obligations & authority - but the imaginary escape - heck, even the real escape - they're still constructed around that core of money & obedience. And I think on this - that there would-be could-be - the new thing from outside, the disruptive genesis of a next economy - like steel axes in the hudson bay & muskets in biafra - new inputs that make the old systems obsolete - that make the rare plentiful. What would it be - let's say - let's say that if you all/we all had a computer and you could go into it and type out what your bank account should be - what you want it to be. Let's say you suddenly had access to unlimited quantities of the scarce-by-construction resource that we're all twisted around - and how woulld that change things?
I mean in terms of power dynamics between people- obligations & obedience. As in - what's the difference between a person who goes in it with some tacky comedian becuase they hold the strings to the bag of green paper vs. the one who goes in it with them because they like them? What does it mean even to like someone - to want anything with them - given a breakdown of power relations - what is love & would it happen - or is it born out of need & want & made-up desperation?
Giving some thought to the statements made - I keep running up against this book I've been reading - a really good one - Debt - the first 5,000 years. It's one of those eye-opening - mind expanding books and it puts to mind Hrdy's Mother Nature- it's in that pantheon of anthro-texts that bends your perceptions & puts your assumptions' feet to the fire. So you think of someone as rich becuase they have managed to have a lot of green paper. And you think of someone as powerful because they get people to do what they want. And all along the way I just keep thinking about refusall. "I won't do that." There's comment & consternation on this point & I don't blame people for not realizing that it's not in their power to simply refuse - there's an entire mechanism of grooming & training called secondary education out there - there's industries backed by unthinkable sums of green papers out there to bend compliance & twist arms - it's a hard way to go to always be telling people "No, Fuck you." Especially those poeple most others are always saying yes to.
But I'm there, always have been. "Fuck you, No." is my essential core identity & has for a long time been. I'm good on it, but I like seeing the veneer get peeled back a little - for discussion in the broader world to go that way - toward refusal & the uncurtaining of wizards. "Did you know this guy's only a big shot because a bunch of dopes think he is?" More of that please, always more of that.
Wealth & riches - you think about it, how you're caught up in the pursuit of keeping-it-all-going making sure you're alive & staying that way - that's a whole enterprise we exist upon all based on all sorts of obligations, fiduciary blah-blah. There's no end of spiraling obligations. I've been rich & I've been poor & this aspect of things - it doesn't go away at any point of the spectrum I've lived on. So you think on this & you have a feeling - escapist feeling. Lottery winners & the windfall escape-hatch - the dream of leaving it behind - of being liberated from the whole bondage of obligations & authority - but the imaginary escape - heck, even the real escape - they're still constructed around that core of money & obedience. And I think on this - that there would-be could-be - the new thing from outside, the disruptive genesis of a next economy - like steel axes in the hudson bay & muskets in biafra - new inputs that make the old systems obsolete - that make the rare plentiful. What would it be - let's say - let's say that if you all/we all had a computer and you could go into it and type out what your bank account should be - what you want it to be. Let's say you suddenly had access to unlimited quantities of the scarce-by-construction resource that we're all twisted around - and how woulld that change things?
I mean in terms of power dynamics between people- obligations & obedience. As in - what's the difference between a person who goes in it with some tacky comedian becuase they hold the strings to the bag of green paper vs. the one who goes in it with them because they like them? What does it mean even to like someone - to want anything with them - given a breakdown of power relations - what is love & would it happen - or is it born out of need & want & made-up desperation?
