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Month: September 2013

Burroughs

Actually I own and have read Burroughs, and Leary, and Hoffman, the other icons he mentions in the article. First I will say Burroughs is a lot easier to ‘take’ recorded than read. His notoriety or fame was never about his writing as a mass appeal thing; there was never a chance of that. He fought battles of censorship to write frank descriptions of heroin addiction and sex between older and younger men, but not a lot of people ever wanted to read that much of it.

His life was a lot of different stories, but the one I like is like this. He was a weird kid from a rich family in a midwestern town. He was sent to Summer Camp at Las Alamos. He fell in love with another boy. Their secret was discovered, and the Camp staff responded with requisite horror. Maybe they made each boy swear he had never done such a thing, and Bill lied, but his lover did not. When it was said and done, the lover had committed suicide. In my story, something shifted into place in young Bill and stuck, then. The whole Post Victorian straight bully world was nothing but Evil, and it would be made to pay, somehow, some day, if it was the last thing he did. To that end, he pioneered the idea of words or ideas as Viral, infectious, weapon-like. He may not have been a ‘great’ writer, but he was a Shaman, accessing places ordinary minds were not going, and reporting what he found there. And he was the Mentor to writers like Ginsberg and Kerouac. And in a very real way, he succeeded. In his lifetime, he saw his own sexual proclivities go from being grounds to be shot on sight to an acceptable alternative among adults who will keep quiet. (Burroughs was never a politically correct gay man.) It helped that he was ahead of his time, so he had the cooperation of demography and history on his side, even if ‘society’ was always arrayed against him. So when they call him the Godfather of Punk Rock, it isn’t because he recorded with Brion Gysin or Kurt Cobain. It’s because the attitude of uncompromising hostility to propriety and authority on grounds that it’s morally indefensible, THAT was something he wrote the book on in his life. It’s a caustic and difficult attitude, the opposite of all getting along. It presupposes that life is conflict and does not offer to roll over. So when this writer laments that what younger people get from Burroughs is mainly an attitude, I would agree, but not as a lamentation. Come down to it, most ‘movements’ are built on attitudes more than ideas. Uncle Bill has achieved Punk Rock Immortality, exactly the twisted underground kind he would have wanted.
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One World Non-Government

“>LJD Their One World government is not my idea of a One World government, in my New World Order there would be no government.

“>SS: Govt is an institution, or a hydra-like cluster of institutions that are all interdependent, though some of them don’t even know it. Institutions are like living things with a survival instinct. They ‘eat’ money and other symbols of importance and power to survive. They are really hard to kill. But they can be easy to ignore, once deprived of prisons and torture chambers, just like the Church. I wish we could break the chain of Force causing Fear, which leads to more violent Force, which creates more Fear, etc. Institutions are just Games people play, and I don’t really care about that as long as they play nice and nobody gets hurt. (In my mind, someone is laughing, and I shoot them.)

“>LJD yes, it is the most evil of all practices just like religion. It has created a mimicked reality so think you can actually cut the fake reality with a knife. the best thing you can do is set your mind and soul free and become what you were meant to be what you were created to be by our ultimate creator …. Only then wil you feel peace and true love… with out any standards or limitations… they are hard to kill and are powerful but love and peace is the ultimate power in this universe.

“>SS: They are hard to kill but so are we. I think really we are led by Alpha Families like a complicated herd or pack structure. They control the rest of the herd as protection, back-up genetics, and otherwise just to fool around with, play games with, build cities, fight wars. Whatever fun stuff we do on our computers, they do with us, more or less. Including the porn. Maybe especially the porn.

“>LJD: yes we are hard to kill, especially once we have had our sip from the natural reality cup as opposed to the mimicked fake reality created for us. they use sinister tacticskinda like sigil magic, or harmonics, they even use frequency attacks… to mess with our body’s frequency

“>SS: Mind if I quote this on blog? With initials?

“>LJD: not at all i dont patent my stuff… if it sends a positive message why patent it, thanks, i feel honored.

“>IY: Like Monopoly.

“>LJD: All life is a game.
There is great power in words, so use love and peace often if water can react and perceive those words so can people
“>>SS: This video focuses on taxation, if I recall, as its favorite crime of civilization. But others say all the same things about Interest, and Rent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbp6umQT58A

>We can only be kept in the cages we do not see. A brief history of human enslavement – up to and including your own. Text: http://www.fdrurl.com/slavestory

“>SS. Personally I am drawn to Ontological Anarchism, which was a fad that passed awhile back. Basically says, there is no government if i don’t believe there is a government. There is just a bunch of guys, armed bureaucrats playing a game that they are the government, and playing it poorly I might add, like they themselves may be losing interest/getting appalled. It sounds terribly narcissistic, but I live in the woods. It can FEEL real to look around and realize the only government present is in my mind, and if I banish it there, it is banished indeed. …. At least unless any of those really keen game players with the guns show up. Then they might force one to play along with their game. But that STILL does not make them a Government. It’s like, when you stop believing in God, the Church does not cease to exist, does it? But what it represents _to you_ is something very different. I have ceased to believe not just in any Authoritarian Spirit but in any Authority period, outside of games we all agree to play. That is what Popular Sovereignty Means, dangit.

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