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“I enjoy Stein most as a theorist: her ideas startle me, in whatever form they appear. (I call myself an inexpert.) One of those ideas was that becoming a classic could kill a work of art. Readers’ responses should shift, like Ida, with changing times, to make a book new(er); otherwise it doesn’t truly live in the present. If Stein becomes an endpoint for literary invention — a classic — her work can’t be read in the present tense.”  Lynne Tillman on Gertrude Stein

Whether it’s Homer, Lao Tse, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or Camus their immediacy is my spark.  They’re not classics, they are the perennial human voice. What use can I have with a classic?  Stare at it and nod?  Stagnate in static stuckness?    It needs to liven me, quicken my step, animate and inform me forwardly, nudging my budge from behind.  If I want a moral crypt, let me die first.  Now is my favorite place because it is in constant and imperceptible motion.  You only realize you’re traveling when you look back.  My greatest wish is to desire where I am now, now, and put all aspirations behind me. My best advice to myself:  Stay in place.

Give a coward a gun and he is the king of the world. The coward’s fantasy – to be all powerful and not risk life or limb. The will to power. Well, cowards need to feel good too. I sympathize with them. They, like me, are human, all too human. We all want to feel safe and sound. Our means of doing so aren’t always in our own best interest. Reason only pops in when we are in the deepest of holes we have dug for ourselves, and always too late.

Give a coward an army and he will gleefully sic it on the rest of the world, spew the word “exceptionalism” and accuse those who oppose him of treason. How can he do that? Because he is not any old coward, he is a coward with an ARMY. His own military service is nil. But so what? He is a coward with an ARMY. And of course he will impose his religion on the world. Beware of a coward with an army. He will call himself courageous. Courage, according to Orwell, is cowardice (with an ARMY). He will call his antagonists cowards (without an army) and traitors. He will torture with aplomb and murder with gleesome alacrity. Those who oppose him are weak. How can one outreason a coward with an army? The reasoning of a coward is infallible, just as long as he has an ARMY.

Great insight, American Thinker. The double standard we have been giving Barack Hussein Obama over the true Americans of this country is nothing short of a scandal. A colored man who didn’t somehow get all sorts of perks (i.e. double standards) could never make it in America.He would, of course, but since all those coons keep screaming racism instead of learning to read and write, they really don’t deserve to make it. After all, there is not and never has been racism in America. MLK made that shit up so he could get famous and screw white women. Ask Pat Buchanan: as he said of Sonia Sotomayor, she was an Affirmative Action student, so she lacks any ability whatsoever; never had it, never will. A third grade reading and comprehension ability was enough to make her salutatorian at Princeton and top of class at Yale. They expected nothing of her.Just filling their quota. Even her long record as a Federal Judge was judged by Affirmative Action Standards, thus no standards at all. Simple enough. Same with Barack at Harvard. No double standard here: Newt, for instance, was a creep, a liar, a womanizer, who repented, thus a qualified president (he REPENTED for God’s sake, can’t the left get that? They want justice for some spic chiquita so she can abominize the Supreme Court, yet won’t forgive Newt? Double fucking standard). Since we don’t know every little detail of Barack’s academic work, it must be assumed that he did nothing of note despite his grades and Presidency of the Harvard Law Review.I also wonder how long it took him to learn to speak like a white man. With practice, it’s possible. They say some of these people have a good ear; lot of musicians and dancers. Some white man ended up at DePaul so we could give the Law Review to an ignorant spade. Colored freeloaders become food stamp presidents. No double standard here. Newt and Huckabee both said, as a given fact , that Barack grew up in Kenya and was raised into a culture of Mau-Mau anti-colonialist revolutinaries. He has no concept of America as we know it. He was never in the little league or the Rotary Club as a kid. Huckabee is a man of the cloth (a degree he got WITHOUT affirmative action, it must be pointed out) and Newt, well. let me say it again. He REPENTED for cryin’ out loud. Would they lie? Pobably not. They know that is wrong. Unlike POTUS, they have morals. They’re Christians (well, Newt is a Catholic. I’m not sure whether Huckabee’s true religion allows Catholicism. More research on my part is needed here). So I agree. The double standard has destroyed the country. How can we expect an economy that was deeply in the gutter when this affirmative action food stamp president took over to ever recover? What can an uppity coon do about it? Especially one who we aren’t even sure went to Harvard and who we know grew up in Kenya (there is no reason to mistrust Mike and Newt on that one). Newt or Mike would have prayed this economy into a boistrous recovery, I guarentee that. Great work for uncovering that double standard. Nothing is more annoying than an ungrateful pickaninee.
Ms. Regan’s article is available at http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/a_gop_candidates_bitter_ex-wife_receives_more_coverage_than_a_video_of_obama_dining_with_terrorist_s.html#ixzz1kG6zZ300

Lets hope Newt does so much damage to the party between now and the nomination, that any victory for whoever wins will be Pyrrhic only. Otherwise our cook is goosed. Unfortunately, what normal people call damage, the deranged call health and wholeness. My problem is trying not to let my cognitive/emotional biases (read Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman – you’ll never trust your thinking again) overwhelm my more objective thinking about these things. I read too much Hannah Arendt and her analyses of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia these days – it gives me plenty of fuel for fear, since what she is writing about actually happened. The parallels are stunning. Understanding the relationship between plutocratic oligarchs and populist politics (cf. The Shock Doctrine) also lubricates the shudder machine to the point that I am often in a state of constant convulsion. The most important and frightening insight I get from Arendt is that we are mistaken in equating Totalitarianism with the government – it is the ideology and the ability to manipulate opinion and impose the ideology into the very being of all citizens that is the heart of Totalitarianism. What we fail to understand here is that in principle, it is quite possible to have a Totalitarianism with democratic institutions. The onslaught of Big Capital (Koch Bros et al.) on the very fiber of the nation is the great national crisis here, and the stakes are as profound as those of 1860. And the all-out war being waged now is as concrete as Fort Sumter. Thus South Carolina is an ironic symbol. Big Brother need not be anything more than Big Buffoon, i.e., Newt, the Lizard of Ooze. On the Hope side of the ledger, however, Wisconsin is the paradigm, and there is much discontent and political pull-back against similar plutocratic political meddling in government over the disaster that so many manipulated people allowed to happen to themselves in 2010. My pessimistic view goes to the heart of human nature itself: most of us, for biological adaptive reasons, are slaves; I mean this in the most essentialist way; we will fight and die for our masters long before we will fight and die for ourselves. The old Enlightenment sense of individual “state-of-nature” adaptation is nonsense but deeply embedded in your cultural collective psyche. So we the few, who bask in our glorious need for freedom don’t understand that for the multitudes, Freedom is Bondage (cf. Orwell, Dostoevsky – “the Grand Inquisitor”, Aristotle, Nietzsche – the idea is out there and has been for a long time). If you made it this far, my sincere apologies. Go out and enjoy your Sunday. I will spend the afternoon listening to Mahler: Kindertotenleider then the Ninth Symphony.

My prediction for the GOP nominee: Newt; and Huntsman will be his running mate. I will call them the Duke and the Dauphin (one must read Mark Twain in order understand the American geist or what the hell I’m talking about). But will the citizens realize they were gipped? Mugged by a medicine show? Soon enough to run them out on a rail in tar and feathers? But can I inure myself to the most shudderous smirk in political hiss-tory? Do I have health inurance (sic) for this viral onslaught? Are my stomach muscles up to the task of the onslaught of this horrification of human venality? Of the apotheosis of Narcissus, ascending skyeverward . . . oh that this would be ancient Thebes; damn Zeus woulda zapped that motherfucker years ago (this Theos was an honest, indeed, a frank zapper), done the hubris treatment just like he did on Creon.”Antagonize me?” saith our Zeus. “I don’t think so.” Our God ain’t like that; a wimpy lover of human grandeur who showed his true stripes in the Job deal: he puts the Newts in charge so that others won’t dare to imitate his unwavering narcissism. Was Warren Harding really as bad as everyone says? Is Warren Buffet as good as everyone says? Will we hear the word “dithpICable” daffied about in Warner Brothers Mel Blanc intonations for eight years of Gingrichian Elmerfuddation? He speaks like a caricature of all that could go morally wrong in the last surviving hominid species. And when I am so riled as I am now, I play Brahms – first, the most beautiful woman in the world, Helene Grimaud playing Brahms sonatas and late opus pieces on the piano, and now The German Requiem sung by, who else, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. In homage to the Mitt man, of course. I look forward to a platinum age in the anals (sic) of American History. I finish with the new American motto (to replace “in God we trust”) – Watch your butthole.

So Newt the Lizard of Ooze wants a “Lincoln – Douglas” style debate with Barack Obama. Am I to assume that this lizard is the “Lincoln” of the debate? For a man who makes us have to reinvestigate all of the possibilities of what “dishonesty” might actually involve in a human character, to find hidden “dishonesties” that have only surfaced when considering this specific example of the species, unknown to any previous anthropology of the post-Garden era? Probably the most rapidly available adjective that comes to mind when considering the Great Liberator is “Honest.” Now the Lizard loves being called “smart,” intelligent, some even refer to him as the “intellectual” of the Party (ponder, ye of surplus cerebra and time to waste the implication of this Orwellian semiotic), and, like all other cranks, being called “smart” is the only desideratum on which self-esteem relies. Call me “smart” and I am happy – I’ve made the only point I need to make, that I am smart. Pull me down, point out the irreality and delusive nature of my ideas, note in minute detail that I lie through my teeth, my bladder, my scrotum, but flatter me with my smartness, call me SMART and I have made the only point I need to make. Call me SMART and the only relevant point has been made; case closed. And the Republican Party Intellectual? Now that’s a small space to fill. Too easy. Lincoln had the wrong idea: people were much more likely to praise his integrity, his honesty, his moral depth, but they actually thought he was pretty dumb. SMART wasn’t the adjective of Lincoln, HONEST was. The grandiose crank craves only the barrage of SMART; Newt loves the label “grandiose” (he actually embraced it with pride in a rejoinder): he apparently believes it is a synonym for Grand; not very good for someone so SMART as he. It is a synonym for delusional and pathological self-image. So to embrace it is not very SMART, since your inferiors understand the definition better than you. Narcissism, enslavement to self, unverifiable claims – this is the world of the crank. Newt had some accomplishments, however they were brought about, but Ph.D. notwithstanding, he has no claim on wisdom, persuasive power, an aura of courage, pragmatic execution of necessary actions, take control-ability or anything else that is required in a Leader. We can note wisdom in children, mentally challenged individuals, castigated and rehabilitated malefactors, some say even in our pets, but not in grandiose cranks. Their neediness in requiring the SMART label for any ability to go forward in life is their sole drive. Newt is “surging” in S.Carolina, Andrea Mitchell just headlined in touting her upcoming show. So who follows a self-agrandizing crank? The only people who possibly can: the inherently inferior, both in intelligence and moral fiber. Newt is about to grab a momentary victory: King of the Inferior. All Hail! Those who berate the “Elite” should have no problem labeling themselves “The Inferior.” Inferior Pride would be a great label if only it didn’t sound so “Liberal.” Maybe Inferior Kicks-Ass would work. Sounds Inferior to me.

After hearing Rick Perry forgive himself and the Lizard of Oooze of all sins every done or considered and pronounce themselves redeemed in the eyes of the Lord, I am listening to Newt right now.  My autonomic nervous system has jumped into high alert. I feel  the need to defend my life from an inchoate and profound threat as the vocal tone and facial motions slither throughout my organism and register within my brainstem. I am  caused  to choke back the vomit that panic brings on.  I think of Huckleberry Finn;  the Duke and the Dauphin come to mind.  The charlatans and the ignoranti, the human being at its most primitive and alarming; this is the American version of the liederhosen movement in Germany in the 1930s.  The Tenth Amendment now stands for the freedom to re-enslave and deny citizen rights to the Xenos, very much its function for centuries.  The civil rights acts of 1964 weren’t about loving the other or even one another; it was about insuring justice, equal rights for all citizens of the country.  A simple message:  You are welcome to your hatred as long as it isn’t harming anyone other than yourself.  Now we will return to state enforced hatred. Syllogism: A. “Love thy neighbor” Christian doctrine. B.  “Love is Hate” Orwell.  C. The logical conclusion is ironclad and is left to the reader to reckon.

Now I just have to say in a few words what I wrote and lost just a few minutes ago. The computer is becoming my bane. The US is now remorphing into the most racist country in the history of the world. The South Carolina crew just race baited their way tonight, and I suddenly realized that Juan Williams will have to learn to run from the noose very soon – I hope he realizes it too. Rick Perry says that Obama’s condemning the soldiers who urinated on Muslim corpses is another example of how much he disdains the military. Mark my words – all non white people are going to be on the run very soon in this country, the Free Market will be the rallying cry for the slaughter that will follow the next Republican president. I have been reading too much Hannah Arendt as she explained how the “others” of Nazi Germany had all the humanity alotted them by the lovely Christians of the day as Orkin does to Periplaneta americana, She was writing about a REAL series of events, not a Steven King novel. We have the people necessary and willing for this, so I think it is time to start thinking about what is probably upcoming in the country, I find it so bizarrely surreal to see Kingfish Cain and Calhoun Thomas, and Gunga Din Haley, and all the other brown skinned dwarfs basking in their Jolly White Giants’ cold and vanishing shadow. The n***** bashing that has been going on today in Republican rooms on Dr. King’s holiday has assured me that this is not just something “disturbing,” as the pundits keep saying. It is something that is happening. And most of my friends aren’t even going to vote – Obama, they tell me, has sold out their Marxist utopian dreams, so there is no difference that makes a difference. Remember, we are the country of the slaughter of the Natives, centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, the KKK, (also not a Steven King novel) and the ideals that allowed these things to happen continue to exist, and what was eventually considered to be unjust, is now being seen as the next great wave, and it makes many many people happy to think that they are finally going to get their country and their racial entitlement back. Justice is just a platonic fantasy. Christianity as God means it to be is ready to conquer the promised land. You thought Tony Perkins was terrifying in Psycho, wait till he becomes the Secretary of Religious and Family Matters in a Rick Santorum administration. We’re on the brink of an earthshaking change, and only money or public prayer will keep you from being shipped off. There are real places in recent real history where vast amounts of real people have been shipped off. This is no Steven King novel.

A news release from the Lacan Institute of Post-Neo-Modernity, director Foucault Yomama (Ph.D. Stanford, Critical Post-Neo-Pre-Columbian Incan Literature) has informed me of the following development: According to Fouc (we are close, so are on a half first -name basis in our relationship), the cultural hegemony of the monolingual Euro dominant community (Foucault [the original one, JA]) has vast implications on North American schizophrenics (a European linguistic label imposed upon their culture, which is noted for its non-linear creativity and powerful insights into the texts of modernity that disempower (Lacan, Levy-Strauss, Wrangler) the “Other” for the sake of maintaining a hegemonious culturality within conquered territories (Marx, Lenin, McCartney, Wartensnorff) to maintain a power-base textualizing and symbolically penetrating and violently invading the Westernly labeled “Schizophrenic community” (they call themselves “The Molten”) by denying its participants access to the ancient scripts in which paleocosmic insights are textualized and con-textualized (Derrida) and co-nte-xt-ua-l-i-zed (Derraisay) into a nativistic symbology of resonance and re-son-ance that employs muscular strength in combatting the invasive influence of the “Haigai” (i.e., Venusians) in the Molten “wango-anshh-it” (digestive system, stomach, colon, a linguistic trope of untranslatability into Western hegemonic textualization – it acts as a stand-in for both the entire digestive system as well as none of it, thus, in its anti-dualistic negation of rejecting the violent binary implications of both nourishment and defecation as isolated acts, which disempowers the “Inner-voices” of Molten culture, i.e., the Haigai who maintain the soul in equilibrium, deeply implying the spiritual nourishment acquired by the Haigai (Venusians) who softly penetrate every Molt’s body to share it and are a requirement for Molten to go out and gather into their shopping carts and plastic-bags refuse (“refuse” is a trope of great meaning, since it contains both the conceptuality of evaluating, judging, imposing penalties and utilizing (with its connotation of exploiting): ref-use; as well as cyclically iterating the onset of a potentially threatening situation: re-fuse. These anxiety causing tropes are of great cultural importance, commanded by the Haigai, since the Molten require them in maintaining independence from the various dogs, lilly-blossoms and bus-posters for The Gap that send them conflicting messages. The Western hegemonic forces, violently imposing restraints on the Molten, violently raping the community with their binary religious forms they call “psychiatry,” are well positioned now to eliminate this rich and noble culture through a form of cultural genocide expedited by potions of Western chemistry they designate “anti-psychotics,” which are pure examples of Western binary negativism, functioning to eliminate the “pro-psychosis” implemented by the Haigai, decimating the culture of its semiotic anchoring and the profound meaning this has for them. I will continue to update on this situation as information comes in.

I love the macho capitalistos commo Mitt Romney of the “rough and tumble world of capitalism” – ooh, they bad (never saw a day in the Armed services let alone a battle). The book “The Psychopath Test” by Jon Ronson is recommended. It has a great chapter on a Romney-type corporate “tough-guy” who relished his destruction of thousands of lives. Even has a steady long-term wife. Courage entails heart and empathy. Courage entails choice and compassion. Courage is going against your deepest fears to do the right and morally necessary thing. Courage is not the pathological inability to feel fear or compassion. That is psychopathy. Keep this important distinction in mind when punching your ballot this November. Not too very long ago, we had a quartet of these types (B,C,R,R) from whom we inherited a leprous country, shunned by the world for fear of infection. The Republican agenda is to gleefully watch the country die a tortured slow death with the venture capitalist at its head and the venture capitalists reaping the inheritance of the expiring corpse.

Envy motivates the capitalist’s every action. It is an existential trait that cannot be banished. It is the power behind his success. For this type of person, envy is always already there, just as salient and powerful as the air he breaths and the ground he walks upon. It defines and synonymizes motivation for him. In similarity are the racist and the religious bigot, who have no experience of anything other than seething hatred and toxic bile to allow them a comparative moment in reflection, who breath them in as the always present nutrient of life, who sweeten their Tea with them to palatiblize and offset its unseemly warmth; thus it makes sense to a bigot or racist that all of humanity shares in the same existential trait they carry. They know no different, and thus no better. A Romney-style vulture, cold, deprived of human connection or empathic manna, would only be able to understand human motivation from his own impoverished perspective. This is what Jesus meant when characterizing his persecutors as knowing not what they do, and thus not guilty of their heinous crime, requiring forgiveness. Not bad for a human being in the throws of death enduring the taunts of the crowd. They, on the other hand, believed he was envious of Herod, the Pharisees and the money changers in the Temple. Reason enough to string him up and nail him down. He was a man of the hundred percent who didn’t know to acknowledge the exceptionalism of the ruling one percent, occupying his cross across from sinners of all kinds in the midst of the cross and righteous crowd.