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20220513
20211206
20210703
For Fox Sake
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"My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And in consequence, I am a little bored."
Men... They have guns, and they hunt. It is very disturbing. They also raise chickens. This is their one redeeming value. Are you looking for chickens?
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"My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And in consequence, I am a little bored."
Men... They have guns, and they hunt. It is very disturbing. They also raise chickens. This is their one redeeming value. Are you looking for chickens?
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20200726
20200103
For, isn't it the truth though?
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The unique character of the place does not lie so much in detail as in broad effects.
It's all part of the charm—the all-inclusive quality and unwitting self-reflective veracity of a random comment like this one:
For, isn't it true though?
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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The unique character of the place does not lie so much in detail as in broad effects.
It's all part of the charm—the all-inclusive quality and unwitting self-reflective veracity of a random comment like this one:
For, isn't it true though?
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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20190415
It has been said nothing unmasks a man like his use of power
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In this context, the word man is gender neutral, so the same, of course, is true of a woman...
It is also true of a government.
Or an entire nation.
Or just simply an entire species, like the Naked Ape.
Ah Pook is here.
Power is as power does. And the power of power rests in the demonstration of power.
Just like the Shock and Awe use of overwhelming force during the invasion of Iraq (or the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in other times before it) was a "demonstration" of power, so has been, in its own way, the relentless persecution of Julian Assange.
That's what the whole exercise is about: a demonstration of relentless, raw, naked power.
Know your place, people.
Submit to your better.
Don't rock the boat.
And, oh yes, remember to vote for whom you are told to, every four years or so.
Imagine an organization like Wikileaks in the 15th or 16th century publicly disseminating incriminating documents about the House of Borgia. Well, it would be of no consequence to the Borgias, of course. The people at large already knew or strongly suspected most of what would have been revealed and worse, and, in a way, had grown to expect it from people in power. Wikileaks would only have confirmed what "everybody knows." And, then...what?
Wikileaks, on the other hand, would be destroyed by the Borgias. Publicly so, so as to make an example. Julian Assange, no doubt, would have his tongue cut out, and would be hung, strung and quartered for good measure.
This is what most people fail to realize about our era, the Borgias' times were but only yesterday.
Our young fledgling modern democracies are hardly democracies, at all.
The seemingly gentler era we are living in, that thin veneer of civilization, is but a fragile illusion.
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In this context, the word man is gender neutral, so the same, of course, is true of a woman...
It is also true of a government.
Or an entire nation.
Or just simply an entire species, like the Naked Ape.
Ah Pook is here.
Power is as power does. And the power of power rests in the demonstration of power.
Just like the Shock and Awe use of overwhelming force during the invasion of Iraq (or the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in other times before it) was a "demonstration" of power, so has been, in its own way, the relentless persecution of Julian Assange.
That's what the whole exercise is about: a demonstration of relentless, raw, naked power.
Know your place, people.
Submit to your better.
Don't rock the boat.
And, oh yes, remember to vote for whom you are told to, every four years or so.
Imagine an organization like Wikileaks in the 15th or 16th century publicly disseminating incriminating documents about the House of Borgia. Well, it would be of no consequence to the Borgias, of course. The people at large already knew or strongly suspected most of what would have been revealed and worse, and, in a way, had grown to expect it from people in power. Wikileaks would only have confirmed what "everybody knows." And, then...what?
Wikileaks, on the other hand, would be destroyed by the Borgias. Publicly so, so as to make an example. Julian Assange, no doubt, would have his tongue cut out, and would be hung, strung and quartered for good measure.
This is what most people fail to realize about our era, the Borgias' times were but only yesterday.
Our young fledgling modern democracies are hardly democracies, at all.
The seemingly gentler era we are living in, that thin veneer of civilization, is but a fragile illusion.
MORE >
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20170511
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20120312
A Pleasing Sinne
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Many social histories tend to collapse most clubs into a single overriding example of "improvement" through civic association; unfortunately, this approach obscures core differences that separates and distinguish clubs like the Wulfshead from the rest. A key difference can be discerned in the clubs' perception and practice of sociability. Sociability naturally takes different forms when practiced by different groups in different settings, and this is particularly the case with the Wulfshead.
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20120124
Year of the Dragon
Do not spend a long time rubbing one side of an elephant,
and do not be surprised by a real dragon.
—Dōgen
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20111108
Don't get me wrong
I'm just a soul whose intentions are good.
But just between you and me, Tim, I just come here for the booze.
That — and the company of some of the patrons, of course.
If you know what I mean...
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20110306
20101128
Why, yes, that device is in perfect working condition.
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An original period piece, sir.
There are hundreds of films that go with the machine. Thirty-six are installed, the rest are all on spools in the library.
What you do, see, is just press the selector button...here...just like that:
Yes, the gentleman is right, the song is from the 60's.
The Scopitone though is a later model...
Nineteen Seventy Seven, I think.
And, ah, imagine that, this was also the year, Jodie Foster sang that same song on French TV.
Jodie Foster was but only fifteen years old at the time:
Yes, there is an English version:
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An original period piece, sir.
There are hundreds of films that go with the machine. Thirty-six are installed, the rest are all on spools in the library.
What you do, see, is just press the selector button...here...just like that:
Yes, the gentleman is right, the song is from the 60's.
The Scopitone though is a later model...
Nineteen Seventy Seven, I think.
And, ah, imagine that, this was also the year, Jodie Foster sang that same song on French TV.
Jodie Foster was but only fifteen years old at the time:
Yes, there is an English version:
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20100730
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