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31 January 2005

 

Thought for the day
It's sort of a strange life that musn't be questioned too closely or it all falls apart.
-- Alfred Chester

posted by Lorenzo 5:46 PM

30 January 2005

 

Thought for the day
The user of cannabis is all too likely to see the truth where it is and to fail to see it where it is not ... Obviously few things are potentially more dangerous to those interested in prolonging the status quo ..."
-- Paul Bowles, A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard

posted by Lorenzo 1:41 PM

29 January 2005

 

"Mythical America, R.I.P."

The response to my latest essay (linked above) has been amazingly positive. Apparently there are quite a few people who have been giving serious thought to the fact that we need a new constitution in this country. What I supposed was a radical idea seems to have already taken hold in the mainstream as well. The next few years are going to get really interesting.

Here's a sample from my new essay:
Of course, no one wants to admit that there is more than one version of America, because , well, that would be un-American. And being a good American means that you only subscribe to one version of the USA, Mythical America. That is the America, we have been told, that always puts the interests of the poor and downtrodden first. That is the America that would never strike first, and is a good world citizen, never polluting or using more than its share of the world's resources. As far as countries go, Mythical America is as good as it gets. Like they say in Texas, "It ain't perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than what's in second place." Wrong, bucko! Your version of America is not only dead and gone, it never even existed.

posted by Lorenzo 1:54 PM

28 January 2005

 

Thought for the day
The day will come, when after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love, and on that day for the second time in the history of the world , we will have discovered fire.
-- Teilhard de Chardin

posted by Lorenzo 8:25 AM

25 January 2005

 

Something to think about
We are hyperspatial objects of some sort that cast a shadow into matter.
-- Terence McKenna

posted by Lorenzo 1:51 PM

18 January 2005

 

William S. Burroughs' thoughts about religion
Anyone who believes he owns all the answers is a lunatic. And lunatics are dangerous to themselves and others. Spacecraft Earth is too small and too over-crowded to accommodate lunatic sects. The answer is very simple: instead of being tax-free, churches should be taxed double. They should be taxed right out of existence.
--William S. Burroughs, Sects and Death, Semiotext[e] USA, 1987

posted by Lorenzo 4:21 PM

 

UGLY AMERIKA
(The following statement was made by a young Iraqi woman who goes by the name Riverbend.)

Now we're being 'officially' told that the weapons never existed. After Iraq has been devastated, we're told it's a mistake. You look around Baghdad and it is heart-breaking. The streets are ravaged, the sky is a bizarre grayish-bluish color- a combination of smoke from fires and weapons and smog from cars and generators. There is an endless wall that seems to suddenly emerge in certain areas to protect the Green Zoners... There is common look to the people on the streets- under the masks of fear, anger and suspicion, there's also a haunting look of uncertainty and indecision. Where is the country going? How long will it take for things to even have some vague semblance of normality? When will we ever feel safe? . . . Terror isn't just worrying about a plane hitting a skyscraper ... terrorism is being caught in traffic and hearing the crack of an AK-47 a few meters away because the National Guard want to let an American humvee or Iraqi official through. Terror is watching your house being raided and knowing that the silliest thing might get you dragged away to Abu Ghraib where soldiers can torture, beat and kill. Terror is that first moment after a series of machine-gun shots, when you lift your head frantically to make sure your loved ones are still in one piece. Terror is trying to pick the shards of glass resulting from a nearby explosion out of the living-room couch and trying not to imagine what would have happened if a person had been sitting there. . . . The weapons never existed. It's like having a loved one sentenced to death for a crime they didn't commit- having your country burned and bombed beyond recognition, almost. Then, after two years of grieving for the lost people, and mourning the lost sovereignty, we're told we were innocent of harboring those weapons. We were never a threat to America. . . . Congratulations Bush- we are a threat now.

posted by Lorenzo 1:22 PM