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Aug. 17th, 2011
Life in The Desert
Aug. 17th, 2011 05:38 am~It is presently 65° and 33% humidity. Not sure how hot it got today - probably up to 98° at least - because I slept through the afternoon. After plenty of drugs and saline spray my snout is somewhat improved. Humidity in the 30's also helps. It was so fucking dry it made my gums recede. Ack!
- Tue, 19:19: This is both horrifying AND accurate: "Blueprint for a Woman's Life" http://t.co/FSfDcth
- Tue, 19:23: William Gibson on cities in Scientific American: http://t.co/40cD78i
- Tue, 20:48: My sinuses are hating me. I'm hating them back. Need drugs and more sleep.
- Tue, 21:03: “Nobody knows anything.” William Goldman http://j.mp/pRTVR7
- Tue, 21:08: Follow Me On Twitter: I Say Deep Shit http://j.mp/qI21en
- Tue, 21:10: ..or is that Derp Shit?
- Tue, 21:39: Person Of Interest Found Dead In Hotel Room http://t.co/g0AWN2D
- Tue, 21:45: Antonio Villaraigosa: Prop 13 Needs To Be Reformed http://t.co/8n1U1d6
- Wed, 03:34: WARREN BUFFETT TO US GOVT: TAX ME, YOU FOOLS http://t.co/9EVNhKF
- Wed, 03:52: Half Measures Availed Us Nothing http://j.mp/omrCjk
- Wed, 04:18: Ten Thousand Daughters http://j.mp/pechOj
- Wed, 05:44: Life in The Desert http://j.mp/q1fCIW
- Wed, 05:58: Deadly new Russian weapon hides in shipping container http://t.co/agg8kmq
- Wed, 06:02: A Russian cruise missile system which can be hidden inside a shipping container http://j.mp/qVjwrY
- Wed, 06:11: I'm blogging in my underwear. *smiley face*
- Wed, 06:58: Budget Crisis Meme http://j.mp/nvsvut
- Wed, 08:38: All these nice people on the internet want to give me money and help me have a bigger dick.
- Wed, 09:30: Government Austerity and Political Instability http://t.co/17PRWy2
The Futility of The Hoi Polloi
Aug. 17th, 2011 09:17 pm~Earlier today I posted my Budget Crisis Meme over on the Talk Politics Comm. This is a good example what I mean by Meta-Trolling, re stirring up conflict in order to make a Point, as opposed to regular old Trolling, which is stirring up shit just to be a dick...though of course dickishness is certainly part and parcel of Meta-Trolling as well.
So, a few days ago one of the Mods wrote me a long LJ/PM saying he'd seen/read me etc on The Recession and thought my thoughts interesting and would I consider joining his Comm and so on. Apparently he'd forgotten that he and I had flamed rather severely in Under-L's LJ some time last year[?] and that he'd been so ticked off he'd banned my from his own LJ, which I don't think I ever even got to.
My post has the Comm 'all a buzz' – though they seem a might Drama Queenish over there anyway – and I'm not really laughing, but am more cynically amused. There's all this fighting and snarking and dick-swinging about What Is Right, most of it totally ignoring that The Power of The Corporate State is presently Transcendent and that all this is akin to arguing over the details of one's own funeral.
However, this outcome does also point out the general pointlessness of most Meta-Trolling in that those being Trolled, as a rule, will never get the Point being made. It's only use is as an example to display for the detached outside observer...and the Point, more or less, is:
“Our choice as a species is either between the triumph of an essentially fascist Global Corporate Combine – which is pure Patriarchy – a path to near extinction as a species at best or total extinction at worst. Or the New Matriarchy as proposed by my Spirit Guide. That there are other paths is certainly possible, but none of them seem at all likely.”
Of course, if you're a regular reading de moi, you know that already. And so it is....
So, a few days ago one of the Mods wrote me a long LJ/PM saying he'd seen/read me etc on The Recession and thought my thoughts interesting and would I consider joining his Comm and so on. Apparently he'd forgotten that he and I had flamed rather severely in Under-L's LJ some time last year[?] and that he'd been so ticked off he'd banned my from his own LJ, which I don't think I ever even got to.
My post has the Comm 'all a buzz' – though they seem a might Drama Queenish over there anyway – and I'm not really laughing, but am more cynically amused. There's all this fighting and snarking and dick-swinging about What Is Right, most of it totally ignoring that The Power of The Corporate State is presently Transcendent and that all this is akin to arguing over the details of one's own funeral.
However, this outcome does also point out the general pointlessness of most Meta-Trolling in that those being Trolled, as a rule, will never get the Point being made. It's only use is as an example to display for the detached outside observer...and the Point, more or less, is:
“Our choice as a species is either between the triumph of an essentially fascist Global Corporate Combine – which is pure Patriarchy – a path to near extinction as a species at best or total extinction at worst. Or the New Matriarchy as proposed by my Spirit Guide. That there are other paths is certainly possible, but none of them seem at all likely.”
Of course, if you're a regular reading de moi, you know that already. And so it is....