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Si natura negat, facit indignatio versum
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[Dec. 25th, 2008|03:57 pm] |
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| Albion |
[Sep. 28th, 2008|04:00 pm] |
Albion,
work, eat, sleep, work.
Think, consider, contemplate.
Time shortage leads to prioritisation.
Ask the question what is the most important. Which psychological limb do you keep and which must be amputated. What thoughts do you let yourself think in the time that you have.
Drink all the water in the land, you are wet and the world is a desert.
End Transmission
...........................Supplementary Broadcast.................................
Black history month...
"In 1596, Queen Elizabeth issued an "open letter" to the Lord Mayor of London, announcing that "there are of late divers blackmoores brought into this realme, of which kinde of people there are allready here to manie," and ordering that they be deported from the country. (1) One week later, she reiterated her "good pleasure to have those kinde of people sent out of the lande" and commissioned the merchant Casper van Senden to "take up" certain "blackamoores here in this realme and to transport them into Spaine and Portugall." (2) Finally, in 1601, she complained again about the "great numbers of Negars and Blackamoors which (as she is informed) are crept into this realm," defamed them as "infidels, having no understanding of Christ or his Gospel," and, one last time, authorized their deportation. (3)"
I find it ironic that only a few years earlier the good queen had partnered with an adventurer and made a 60% profit on...yes you guessed it - black slaves. |
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| Eschatology |
[Apr. 20th, 2008|04:23 pm] |
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I often wonder to myself if my continuing focus on dystopian scenarios is a consequence of indoctrination with an eschatological weltanschauung during my formative years. What concerns me most though is if the latter is true and one can interact with reality only through the prism of ones experiences then how can I know if my dystopian thought is a product of logic or of the prism. If it is a product of the prism how do I examine that which I examine through? |
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| corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur |
[Apr. 19th, 2008|10:31 am] |
I can no longer listen to music. It brings tears to my eyes. It represents a world that I know is dying. When I listen to it I think of the millions who are about to die. I think of the cataclysm that is coming and I can't shake the images from my head. When this happens I come back again and again to the Decameron, a medieval book where a group of Florentines flee the city as the black death ravages the land. Destroying the world and killing everyone, or so it seemed. They retreat to a villa and tell each other stories as they wait for the plague to pass. I so often wish to do the same, to escape the evils I know are approaching me and mine, to retreat and lose myself in words. But there is no escape, not really. It has begun much earlier than even I thought, I wonder if those who have had the misfortune to be borne in an era of, not just difficulty, but disintegration, cursed the time of their birth. Disintegration, such a good word to describe the coming storm.
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| Consequences of Eating the Fruit |
[Jan. 8th, 2008|01:02 am] |
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things
1 Corinthians 13:11 |
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| living room |
[Jan. 7th, 2008|12:14 am] |
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Why do we call it a living room when all that takes place within it is the antithesis of life. An eternal stillness connected to the fictitious lives of an imaginary host. |
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| Future Network News |
[Nov. 22nd, 2007|01:13 am] |
For those of you with an interest in international politics, futurism, the environment, genetic modification, climate change, etc please watch my new webcast show
FNN - Future Network News
@
http://futurenetworknews.blogspot.com/
leave a comment and let me know what you think.
Cheers. |
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| The problem with Vegans |
[Nov. 1st, 2007|05:46 pm] |
This was ripped from pyrotech_c3h8
http://pyrotech-c3h8.livejournal.com/179344.html
Vegans...my lack of give a shit, let me show you it. [Oct. 30th, 2007|11:02 am]
Yesterday I had this idea. I figured I could write a humor entry that was funny and effective but that also relied less on creative combinations of profanity and wasn’t almost entirely based on a vicious attack on a group of people, riddled with numerous insults and allegations of a highly personal nature.
I started writing something that was pretty close to that idea…then I got bored and wrote this instead. It’s about vegans. If you’re a vegan you might want to skip reading this. You also might want to do something with your life and stop trying to make it seem like you’re mother fucking Theresa just because you only eat chic peas. Now, there are a few vegans out there who aren’t total dicks about it and don’t get all pious about their beliefs, so if you’re one of nearly half a dozen vegans who aren’t all consuming dick lords about their beliefs, you have nothing to be offended about by this entry. But I hear you asking “Zac, I am your friend and I am a vegan, should I include myself in this category of vegan dickheadetry?”
That is an excellent question, and for your convenience, I have constructed a handy test to help you ascertain whether you should, in fact, consider yourself a vegan ass wipe, or if you are actually tolerable. Please answer the following question –
True or False – I am a vegan, and I think everyone else should be.
If you answered false, then you are either not a vegan and are exempt, or you ARE a vegan, but you don’t think that everyone else on the planet needs to think and act as you do. If you answered TRUE, you are an asshole. Sorry. Just because you’re down with the animals, and frogs, and not using cats as condom testers doesn’t mean I have to be, so if you have the attitude that this is some sort of holy war, yes, you are indeed a douche.
There is only one vegetarian out there who actually has my respect for their beliefs and it is A. Whitney Brown, who kicks so much ass most people don’t even KNOW he’s funny. He used to appear on Saturday Night Live from time to time but never got many laughs because he used big words and didn’t rely on visual gags. He was once quoted as saying “I’m not a vegetarian because I love animals. I’m a vegetarian because I hate vegetables” which is downright fucking awesome.
As for the rest of you vegans first of all, everyone always has to let you know when they’re a vegan. I DON’T CARE. I’ll ask someone if I can offer them some beef jerky and then I get this response-
“Oh, I can’t eat THAT…I’m vegan!”
Ok fuck-o-whirl, I didn’t ask if you were a vegan, I didn’t ask for insight into your personal beliefs. I asked if you wanted some beef fucking jerky. And the answer is yes you sanctimonious cock juicer, you DO want beef jerky. EVERYONE wants beef jerky. It’s impossible NOT to want it. Why do you think they sell it at Walmart, gas stations, hospitals and some of your more affluent funeral homes? Because human beings NEVER want to be more than 17 feet from the opportunity to get more beef jerky. So stop lying and just give me the HONEST answer, which is of course –
“Yes. I do want beef jerky. More than I want to get my pole smoked by every living Playboy Bunny, but I am a pussy who can’t eat meat so I am just going to go over here and chew on some vegan Jerky which is a shitty approximation of real food.”
Incidentally, I tried vegan beef jerky. I’ve tried a LOT of vegan food because as a man, it is impossible NOT to taste something, even if you know it is going to taste like the ass of a well used hooker that has burnt marshmallows stuffed in it. All real men on the planet know this. If one of your friends tastes something TERRIBLE, the next thing out of their mouths is going to be “Man, this tastes like fucking SHIT! Try it!” at which point, you are legally obligated to try it. If you fail to try it you are immediately taken to a sex change clinic to have your new vagina installed.
At any rate, I tried some vegan beef jerky with Shad the other day, and it was honestly WORST thing I have ever had. It’s visual appearance was DEAD ON for rat turds that have been smooshed flat, and the taste was like shoe leather mixed with burnt pubes.
And that’s another thing, fuck you guys and your vegan versions of our food. That just proves my point. You guys always have to make your vegan renditions of our delicious meat filled foods. If meat is so fucking horrible and gross, then why do you always have to make shit so you can PRETEND you’re eating it? Are you having god damned separation anxiety!? You know what that is like? It’s like saying you abhor incest, can’t stand it and are absolutely appalled by the idea and would never in a million years fuck a family member because it’s wrong and immoral. Then you spend all your time asking your boyfriend to dress up like an old man and calling him ‘Daddy’ the entire time he’s fucking you for getting a C- in geometry. If you were so repulsed by meat you wouldn’t spend all your time trying to make YOUR food taste as much like it as you can. You still want meet fuckers, stop denying it.
I hate to be the one to tell you (by which I mean to say I absolutely revel in the moment) but your food sucks. Vegan food production standards are most closely akin to dressing up people with down syndrome to try to look like popular super models. First off, even if it were possible to overlook the hooker ass crack taste of most of it, they can never even get two of the easiest aspect of it nailed down. The color and size are usually all fucked up. I remember trying vegan marshmallows one time. As I was trying to not notice how they tasted like sand filled balls of phlegm I couldn’t help but notice that they were only 1/4 the size of a regular marshmallow, not really close to cylindrical and they were for some reason a sickly yellow. It was like a bag of marshmallows got aids and was in the advanced stages of some questionable treatment. If Mengele made marshmallows, these would have been the result. Mengelemallows. They are THAT fucked up.
Look, stop making shit ass food and then trying to make it like OURS, okay? Stop calling it vegan steak, or vegan burger, or vegan ham slices. It’s not even close to the real thing and if you were not nearly 35% brain dead from a B12 deficiency you’d realize it and just start naming everything APPROPRIATE names. Instead of vegan salami you could just name it “Compressed shit slice #42A”.
Not cooking vegetables. That’s another one that gets me, you vegans who have to go the EXTRA yard and don’t COOK your shit. It’s like being “above” all of us meat eaters was no longer ENOUGH for you dick fags, you actually have to be better than OTHER ASSHOLE VEGANS too, so you decided not cooking your shit in some way makes you even MORE vegan than everyone else. Fucking WHY!? Weren’t you miserable enough already? Is there some contest among vegans that us meat eaters aren’t allowed to know about wherein you gain prestige and scene points by seeing who can stomp their life into the worst shitty ass excuse for existence and gain the least amount of pleasure from living?
Then you have your vegan groups, the people who think it’s their solemn crusade to enlighten the population as to the previously unknown fact that meet is made from animals, and that these animals are actually KILLED in order to make the meat! Wow, thanks guys! I hadn’t really ever thought about where meat, or eggs or milk came from! You mean to actually tell me that we have yet to develop a way of obtaining the precious meats of animals without killing them? NO! Why, being the stupid meat eater I am I never in a million years ever considered that!
I remember reading someone’s profile that boldly advised me “The animals don’t need your EXCUSES!” which is fine. My excuses have no particular need for animals. My delicious appetite however does need animals. It needs them medium rare, juicy and succulent and in some cases finely marinated. NOM, NOM, NOM!!!
Guess what, I guarantee you every meat eater out there has had the moment of clarity where we have thought about the fact that we are eating a previously living animal. We’ve thought about the moral implications of our actions and asked ourselves if we should stop eating meat in order to make the world a better place. On behalf of meat eaters everywhere, let me be the one to give you our unanimous verdict on the situation.
Nope.
Look, it’s YOUR lifestyle choice. Fine. Stop trying to convert the rest of the fucking world. It’s not going to happen. There is never going to be a glorious day where nothing edible has that horrible evil yellow dye in it that is derived from animals and McDonalds serves nothing but Boca Burgers. We rule this planet and if it comes right down to it, and you really want to fight about it, we will. To the death. Then we’ll eat your corpses, just to prove our point.
You’re not going to change us you ass lord cock bots. You think you’re so enlightened but going around thinking that everyone needs to do as you say is known as fascism. You know who else was a big time vegetarian? Hitler. And you know, even Hitler was less pushy and commandeering than most of you bastards.
Ok, since I can already hear the verbal shotguns of all you vegan dipshits being loaded out there, let me assure you, there is no need to debate this with me. I don’t care, so please spare me your point by point response on this. I’m sure you have some great responses and counterpoints, and I am even more sure I don’t give a fucking shit.
And remember, being defined by what you are not is lame. |
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| Discrimination and inequality |
[Oct. 8th, 2007|11:52 am] |
Social Inequality
Today we are going to talk about a form of discrimination and a form of disadvantage that is hidden and almost it seems invisible. It is insidious in that it’s very ubiquity makes it acceptable. It is far more widespread that racism, sexism, religious discrimination or discrimination on the basis of sexual preference and I would argue has a greater impact on society than perhaps all of these combined. This is socio-economic disadvantage.
Whilst we are legally obliged to prevent overt educational disadvantage on the basis of race, religion or sexual preference, our society not only tolerates economic inequality, but consciously reproduces it. You may say that consciously is an unfair statement, but if disadvantage on the basis of economic background was not a conscious overt outcome of educational system, why would funding for private or public schools be an election issue? Why would people send their children to private schools in the first place if it was not because they believed their financial advantage would yield educational advantage & therefore hopefully perpetuate their socio-economic position?
The question I would put to you is this – Why is it not ok for someone to be disadvantaged because their parents are Aboriginal or from Sudan or Muslim or because they are homosexual, which I might add are relatively small minorities when compared to the overall population & yet it is acceptable to be disadvantaged because your parents are poor? Why are people outraged when someone is discriminated against on the basis of race or sexual preference or religion & yet as a society we can tolerate disadvantage as long as it’s because you are poor. If I want to go to a private school and they refuse me a high quality education because I was born black, then I can sue them, but if they refuse me because I was born poor, that we can accept.
Why do schools have policies against discrimination on the basis of whether you prefer to sleep with boys or girls, but not on the basis of the most prevalent of evils – poverty.
So this is the question, why? Could it be because race, religion, sexual preference is something that we perceive as inherent, something we do not choose, something for which an individual cannot & should not be blamed? Yet poverty, poverty is the fault of the poor, their lack of effort, something in the essence of who they are precludes us from seeing their conditions as something inalienable, inherent, instead it is something we believe is chosen.
Could it be that it is to the advantage of the ruling classes to have us focusing on those things that make us different, our race, our gender, our sexuality, rather than those things that make us the same, our lack of wealth, our lack of influence and our powerlessness?
This is the question for you & your conscience. |
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| Surplus: Terrorised into being consumers |
[Oct. 5th, 2007|01:13 pm] |
This is a good documentary from 2003, looking at the thought behind the anti-corporate movement. The doco has a strange feel to it, it kind of has a film clip like quality to it. It also is hard to discern what the critique is of the system, instead the director allows the people and images to speak for themselves and collates them in a way that makes sense to him.
This is part 3 of 10 parts available on Youtube.
There is a wiki article on this film
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_(film)
This has been a lost_aesthete announcement
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| Adam Curtis |
[Oct. 3rd, 2007|04:59 pm] |
This is a Lost_aesthete public service announcement
Adam Curtis is a British documentary film maker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis
Everything he has made has both enlightened and frightened me in equal measure. I highly recommend you check out his work.
Some of his work is available on you tube or google video, I would highly recommend:
Century of the Self
http://video.google.com.au/videosearch?q=century+of+self
Pandora's Box
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf0ORy4BzMY
The Trap
http://video.google.com.au/videosearch?q=The+trap
Here is a synopsis of his work also available at wikipedia.
. Episode One "Hats Off to Mr. Wilson” (concerning the process by which the United States was involved in the First World War).
1992: Pandora's Box examined the dangers of technocratic and political rationality. It received the BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series. [2]
1995: The Living Dead investigated the way that history and memory (both national and individual) have been used by politicians and others.
1996: 25 Million Pounds a study of Nick Leeson and the collapse of Barings Bank. Won the Best Science and Nature Documentary in the 1998 San Francisco International Film Festival.
1997: The Way of the Flesh tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, the "woman who will never die". It received the 1997 Golden Gate Award. [3]
1999: The Mayfair Set looked at how buccaneer capitalists were allowed to shape the climate of the Thatcher years, focusing on the rise of Colonel David Stirling, Jim Slater, James Goldsmith, and Tiny Rowland, all members of The Clermont club in the 1960s. It received the BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series or Strand in 2000. [4]
2002: The Century Of The Self (BBC Two) documented how the rise of Freud's individualism led to Edward Bernays' consumerism. It received the Broadcast Award for Best Documentary Series and the Longman-History Today Award for Historical Film of the Year. It was released in the US through art house cinemas and was picked as the fourth best movie of 2005 by Entertainment Weekly.
2004: The Power of Nightmares (BBC Two) suggested a parallel between the rise of Islamism in the Arab world and Neoconservatism in the United States in that both needed to inflate a myth of a dangerous enemy in order to draw people to support them.
2007: The Trap - What Happened to our Dream of Freedom (BBC Two - working title Cold Cold Heart), a series regarding the modern concept of freedom. [5] |
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| You must watch this it will freak you out |
[Oct. 2nd, 2007|08:02 pm] |
This is probably the best documentary I have ever seen (and I have seen a fair few)
It is called
The century of the self, there are four episodes, each episode more terrifying than the last, it is the history of how we have been trained to think the way we do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
Example do you know why you add an egg to instant cake and muffin mix, because housewives didn't buy them because they felt guilty about how easy it was, like they were putting in no effort, so a psychologist told the companies to have an instruction on the back telling them to add an egg, because this would make the wives feel they were doing something for their husbands, hence the cake mix took off and now we are still adding that egg. |
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