The academic learns the art of suppression and understatement,
 but I've thrown all that away.
Good riddance.


If I'm going to be poor, then I should,
at least, practice the art of honesty,
and thow away fear.








UNFINISHED DRAFT

The visitor wanted to know:
Is this where the revolution happened?

Freed from his cage at work,
his intellect was now free to formulate questions,
even though they seemed to be pre-formulated
and pre-formatted by the images stuffed into his head
while he'd been watching TV.

He was moving uphill, near the  top of the square,
with McDonald's to his left and an empty Sausage Stand to his right:
The Illustrious Saint sat atop his enormous horse beyond the deserted Stand.

Where did the revolution happen?

It never happened.

That event on the TV screens wasn't the revolution.

--After all, we know that nothing real appears on TV.--

But the revolution?

No revolution happened:

It was a restoration of Capital,
a return of the poor rich boys,
and a new wave of inhumanity and struggle.

All symbolized by the preference for the Fast Food of the Multinationals
at the square of nation's saint.

What I wanna know is this:
The day they shut down the Sausage Vendors on Vaclavské Naměsti,
how much more money did McDonalds take in?

FOOTNOTE
Recently I read at a blog described as
hyper-professionalized,
a truly Calvinist comment
dividing the world into
the good student and bad student of Philosophy,
Sinner and Saint,
God's Chosen and God's Damnned,
written with religious fervor,
--I know who the Sinners are!--
expressing a pre-scientific approach to human psychology;
But,
best of all,
scrupulously
and insincerely,
--but Professionally--
qualified,
just a bit,
with the concession that this was an over-simplification.

Which just goes to showm
how utterly superficial is the professional writing style,
and how
it can perfectly well co-exist
with the most unenlightened and unprofound of world-views.

A Manifesto for Socialist Sense

A Manifesto for Socialist Sense The link will take you to the thoughts of Michael Roberts, a Marxist Economist who used to work in London. I find his blog edifying.

fuck computers

My computer is getting to be as annoying as a car. Update this. Update that. This is not compatible, so click here.... ETC ETC And my life has not gotten better. Sorry, not one tiny bit................ eg it is not in any way "easier" to do taxes on line my crap computer doesn't make it easy to have many windows open at once and adjusted to readability and I still have to waste fucking money to print out forms and such, and then some idiot planned them to have tiny font Yes, font sizes on the internet are SHRINKINGLY SMALL, and that's a rule.... No thank you for this new way to annoy the hell out of me.

pope--schmope

It's bad enough hearing economic nonsense (just leave the market alone----and let people die and starve and freeze to death.........), but when we are saturated with crap about the pope, I really want to throw up.... http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=9868 http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/03/14/pope-m14.htm

the cluttered Internet---it doesn't have to be that way

Once again I notice.... As I was trying to read a message I got through hotmail, the text was getting crowded out by the adds....damned annoying.... Similar problems over at gmail. No, I am not thankful for these "free" (ha ha) services. Yes, I do believe that capitalists tend to be assholes, but you can argue with me about whether imperialists (such as the soldiers/politicians responsible for torture, death squads, invasions---Rumsfeld and his ilk----)are worse than those who own the public resource which is the web.... and you can tell me that capitalism produces imperialsm, or needs it. I am prepared to listen to arguments about that. But about the basic predominance of assholes, I don't think I need arguments to convince me, and my daily life is pretty good proof of the reality. Yes, let's take back the commons.

Let us never forget....

U.S.A. crimes---call them war crimes, if you will----in Iraq... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/mar/06/james-steele-america-iraq-video

from time to time

From time to time I manage to read a few pages of the classic novel, "The Good Soldier Schwejk." In the part I was reading the other night, S. is being interrogated by a sort of military policeman who is looking for Russian spies---who he was told speak perfect Czech--as does Schwejk. He asks Schwejk about drinking tea. (Schwejk is drinking tea with rum.) Do they drink tea with rum in Russia? There is rum everywhere in the world. And are Russian women beautiful? There are beautiful women everywhere in the world. Disappointing answers, but whatever S. says the policeman is convinced that S. is a spy, and he admires him for his ability to remain calm in the face of his (the policeman's) subtle method of questioning. There's a lesson in that for police and spies everywhere................. and, not to be too subtle, for the spies on the internet as well......