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Annexus Quam 926 posts |
Nov 20, 2003, 19:47
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Over the last years, I have kept well away from that heavily-polluted, chaotic, expensive black hole called London; I recently even travelled in an endless semi-circular motion around the extremely-congested M25 on the way to Wiltshire wondering why the world had come to get stuck in such a four-lane vicious circle to Nowhere; and I thought no person should ever cross that psychological belt that divides sanity and insanity called the orbital. Although I have spent part of my life and I met my wife there, like many other Holy escapists after and before me, I do not miss it. In fact, a place like Berlin is a much more accessible city for non-motorists and cyclists (50% of whose population has no car), with a huge chunk of countryside in its middle and a Scene that rocks as much as that in London. But today, at 18:25 CET, my heart was in Trafalgar Sq as the statue of that ludicrous leader of the US of Angst was toppled and my thoughts went back to that place where I have spent many moments of night and day surrounded by a constant maelstrom of traffic and double-decker parades. I had to rely on Euronews/GermanTV to see this historic event, since the BBC is too busy showing two cynical politicians hated by their own people and the rest of the world parroting the same old hollow speech. They have made the words Democracy, Justice and Freedom as empty of meaning as Gobbledy Gook. And if those words have become meaningless, then the dodgy duo stands for Nothing. At the very least, they resemble the opposite of what they are preaching - like old stalinist relics who completely ignore their own people, RITE NOW demonstrating in large numbers a few metres away. And every time those three words are used in conjunction these days, in interviews for instance, they are still used by an army of cynics, you know, the type of Ignoramus that tells you to go live in a cave if you say you reject GM food, the type of Bored Failure that sees the world in black and white, the type of dork who keeps a gun in his desk to defend himself against Strangers, Odd-Ones and Outsiders, until one day he decides to use it on himself when he finds it was all hatred of his own ghostly self. As I wrote on this site in April... „ 'Someone had to do the job', plankton-brained Bush-clones say, but the cost of lives and destruction (and the pent-up US hatred that this has created) exceeds any justification for a change of regime. Now come the bloodiest moments as people begin to fight for the biggest slice and those that are hiding turn from soldier to suicide bomber. The war in Irak has just started. And the US is losing it.“ And it seems that what all those protesters have always been saying before 2001 has become prophetic. As I watched the menopausal ceremony in honour of the Pig Patriarch in Fuckinham Palace yesterday and wondered if any of those useless people had ever achieved anything in life, I realised SO many more frustrated folks around the world are still joining the lists of Al Qaeda en masse after vomiting at such a tacky televisual demonstration of cynicism and masturbatory ennui. And the Kill goes on. And a thousand civilians in Irak shot daily continue to die in silence - unreported. And the clock keeps being pushed back 50 years to a world of the 1950s that suits Dubya and his ugly Condoleeza Rice Pudding brigade to a T. But they *know* they are making the world more dangerous. Because behind their symbolic language and caricaturesque faces of regret, they revel in what’s happening. And like their alter-ego’s, the ones they call terrorists, it’s THEIR ideal environment, their Electoral Paradise. My biggest regret is not to be able to BE in London right now with my staff and horseshoe, as a late ambassador of Nomadic Pastoralism and my love goes out to all who have been there. After all, as it is written at the very end of The Battle For The Trees, ULTIMATELY „we are the ones who know how to have fun“. And that’s exactly why they and their supporters hate us. As the song goes: GET BACK TO WHERE YOU ONCE BELONGED / GO HOME!
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Lawrence 9547 posts |
Nov 20, 2003, 20:25
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Of course, you don't know what it's like for someone with an above-average intelligence like me to live in a crummy country like the US. Especially me being an outcast disgusted with herd mentality. And people wonder why I'm filled with so much hate...
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Dog 3000 4611 posts |
Nov 20, 2003, 21:14
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You can always move to Canada if you feel that strongly.
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Lawrence 9547 posts |
Nov 20, 2003, 22:55
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I thought about moving to Australia. After all my gay pen-pal Douglas P. lives there. Must not be too bad...
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Annexus Quam 926 posts |
Nov 21, 2003, 14:53
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You don’t need to go anywhere. You may be disappointed to find that Fear, Apathy and Light define the inhabitants of Europe, America and Australia in similarly equal proportions, though the real perception of things may be more superficial in some countries than others due to media coverage and domination of large scale supranational structures. If you dig deeper you will find you are not alone there, I am sure there are lots of people in your own community who are not into childish crusades and simplistic dichotomies (i.e. good / evil, west / muslim, black / white, etc).
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Lawrence 9547 posts |
Nov 21, 2003, 15:02
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I think yr right. Actually, I'm not sure if I want to move out of my town anyways... I have too much of a connection to it.
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Hob 4033 posts |
Nov 21, 2003, 15:36
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Well said. My hometown is really grim at times, yet , those little rays of hope are always coming back when I'm needing them most. Screw Nietzsche, whatever doesn't depress me makes me happier.
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Lawrence 9547 posts |
Nov 21, 2003, 19:15
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It's like the people in the arts/music scene in my town. They're the ones who count! They make life bearable. Not many other cities have this actually...
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morfe 2992 posts |
Nov 21, 2003, 21:01
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"Not many other cities have this actually..." Lawrence, I have to differ old chap. Every city I've ever visited or heard direct mention of has a core of artistic individuals whose expression and light give a pulse to the place! From Prague to Toulouse, from Miami to Moscow! From Buenos Aires to Hong Kong, from Tipton to... ok. You can't repress the spirit of creativity, from arranging toenails in a prison cell to painting every south-facing building in the city with tromp l'oeil. The human desire to express itself has to have court, no matter how many pressing matters and politics and wars are knocking at the door, it's not as powerful as the desire to create, to externalise. What are you talking about, man!? Grab a paintbrush and make your day :-) We are not alone unless we make it so.
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Lawrence 9547 posts |
Nov 21, 2003, 21:31
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I've painted for the past decade actually! I'm pretty lucky too since unlike many famous artists I've sold a few of my works -- not enough to make a decent living on mind! But at least it's attracted some attention, however small... And there's my noise project that I've started up again after half a decade...
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