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Full Disclosure

I am an absolute failure at everything except music. And in music, there is no longer any money. At least not at my minuscule level of success.

I had a long, stable corporate career, that I threw away for magic beans, and a succession of broken relationships, broken windshields and broken bank accounts.

I have nothing left. I am at the end of the world.

I don't know what the hell can be done from here.

It seems like it's all over now.

I may or may not rally. I suppose now I don't even care.

This labyrinth of motherfucking bullshit doesn't really seem worth the effort.

Those of you sitting pretty, with money, with people that care about you: congratulations, but beware.

You could lose it all in an instant. Through no fault of your own.

The universe is abundant, but capricious.

I am just tired and broken.

There may be no more posts.

Bye.

Motion Graphics

I am tired of every fucking tech thing, from phones to web to desktop being a non-stop menagerie of motion. Popping up, popping down, appearing, disappearing, et al infinity.

Some people are easily hypnotized by sparkly baubles and they are playing on that inherent capacity.

BUT IT DOES NOTHING!

There are times to have an interface that has certain dynamics like that, BUT 95% OF THE TIME IT IS JUST WASTED CYCLES.

Thanks for fucking up the computer age and turning it into an animated video game of no worth to the struggle for human dignity.

You all should go sit in the corner for like 20 years and think about what you've done.

It will take us AT LEAST that long to recover.

Criticism of Tech Criticism in the Baffler

http://thebaffler.com/salvos/taming-tech-criticism

The Baffler makes some very insightful comments here about the tech industry and the lack of a coherent progressive critique.

Tech is just one aspect of contemporary capitalism that needs some SERIOUS analysis!

Web Pages and Videos

Does every single fucking on-line news site need to stream you a video of what you're already reading? Not to mention the text jumping all around the page as different ads load and collapse endlessly?

People wonder why no-one can fucking concentrate anymore.

When I want to read something, I want to be able to trace a line of text that is not jumping around and to not be interrupt from my reading by blaring ads and chattering news anchors.

I mean, I often turn off the sound to avoid the noise, but there's not much to be done about the data overages, and I think corporate America wants it this way.

Ad Blocker is not the answer, it's proper regulation of the industry, but that's not going to happen until people really start to feel the pain. I think it's coming, though. I hear more and more complaints every day about the weird fucking shit the tech companies are doing.

Human dignity. That's all we have above the machines, so let's start respecting it.

Walter Sobchak

(NSFW Warning!)



Walter Sobchak is my spirit animal.

I have caused these kinds of scenes a few too many times in the last 2 years.

High Tech Greed

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f799cfd080b04b93a34df61fc007b096/snapping-cheap-spy-tools-nations-monitoring-everyone

We are living in a time of heavy disinformation and manipulation. And the worst part is, the average person doesn't even realize that these things are happening, let alone have the opportunity to adapt.

I mean, seriously, fuck these people. These are human rights violations in a box.

$$$ rules some people, but the more that are shut out of the ivory white offices, the more there will be growing unrest on the street and a rage that can no longer be pacified.

Drink champagne while ye may, you fuckers!

Meet Trump's Right Hand Man

Anyone who doesn't think that the Trump campaign is dangerous and deluded, meet Trump's main campaign advisor:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/13/top-trump-aide-led-the-torturers-lobby.html

"Manafort was a principal at the lobbying firm Black, Manafort, Stone, and Kelly (along with another top Trump ally, Nixon alum Roger Stone), a K Street powerhouse with close ties to the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations, as well as top Republicans on Capitol Hill.

But over the years, they made millions by representing a rogue’s gallery of clients far away from D.C.’s genteel corridors of power: dictators, guerilla groups, and despots with no regard for human rights—including one man responsible for mass amputations, and another who oversaw state-sanctioned rape."

WOMAD Festival

The cancellation of the United States WOMAD festivals in 2001 I consider one of the low points of my experience in this country.

The musicians are not the terrorists. Anyone who can't see how ART relates to LIFE is either fucking stupid or a naive agent.

Don't fuck up your chance, assholes! LOL!

The Holy Mountain

What do Sam Cooke, Mickie Most, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and Alejandro Jodorowski have in common?

Look it up, yo! I can't do all the work for you... LOL!

Escalation

People seem to often get offended when people escalate the rhetorical intensity of a conversation, not recognizing that sometimes passive acquiescence is a similar escalation, especially in the context of very serious and real provable bahavior and/or situations.

Opinions are of little help with the deeper problems. They should naturally derive from the philosophical context as best able to be done with the most stringent cognitive tools.

That is why we all need to work together on this. Not just in the realm of opinions, but in the depths of philosophical argument. We need targets of outcome that we can shoot for, and with all of our diverse opinions, there are reasonable means to come to humanitarian and sane outcomes.

No more superstition. No more ridiculous unsubstantiated opinions.

We argue from the secular sphere, with a sense of communality, and acceptance that there needs to be fundamental guarantees that we take this all on a case by case basis, and the case may take longer than anyone can have in a short, opinionated conversation.

And we need to have at least some sort of peer review, from a broad section of the community.

Which is why, I guess, the rule of law is the best approximation we have of holding the greed, prejudice and discrimination of people at bay.

Peace through philosophical strength.

It's not quite algebra, but there are best principles to follow that can approximate a best case.

Carlos Fuentes

"There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it." —Carlos Fuentes

Computer "Security"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_security

There is basically enough information here to DAMN every single aspect of the current computer infrastructure.

This shit is BEYOND out-of-control, and it will be the assholes that screw all of us.

Pray that there ain't no rootkit for the nukes.

I'm going back to an Apple ][+ connected to a 300 baud dial-up account at my friend's house.

Our conversations were more interesting than any of this bullshit you hear on Twitter.

When I bought my Apple ][+ computer, I got the source code listing of the entire ROM. I could see EVERY SINGLE THING THAT IT DID, and do memory dumps to look at it and to formulate tests to make sure it was doing what it said. There's not zero risk of a chance that something was not quite what you thought, but hackers weren't targeting our personal bank accounts with the shit either.

Good luck to you all. May you never have your lives turned against you by a bunch of pathological bullshit programmers. But you will.

Fansmitter

http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-showed-you-can-hack-an-offline-pc-by-listening-to-its-fans

You're not even safe when not connected to a network.

Shit is getting crazy out there.

Too much human attention in stupid fucking idiotic technology. We can't even get along with each other. It's a goddamn shame. People being stupid being stupid.

Fuck This Asshole

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Icahn

Fuck this asshole.

Capitalist jerk.

Life Be Cray

Like how did I meet someone who worked with DJ Screw in Houston and then have my phone fuck up the contact info and I get 86-ed from the club where we met. I done seen his truck in the parking lot, but I can't go in!

But hey, we all need to rely on our own initiative to succeed, and I'm producing like a mother fucker!

I will eventually get my helicopter deal and be able to survive and pay my rent.

Ira Crass

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Glass

I fucking hate this asshole.

He's a whiney douche privileged piece of shit.

He will never have a hit record.

Phylloxera

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylloxera

I learned a lot about rootstocks this year.

Oh Death

Three Mile Island

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident

This ain't even the worst we're up against right now. Ever had your iPhone crash? Well, just wait until the programmers fuck up the centrifuges. Oh wait, that already happened.

We are on the edge out here, y'all.

I ain't going to shut up about it.

The Port Huron Statement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Huron_Statement

Oh wait, I guess Facebook and Google have made all of these things irrelevant now, because the panopticon is the best of all possible worlds! All hail Kang and Kodos!

Oregon: Fuck Yeah!

I spent a significant amount of time in the grape fields doing canopy management with this trellis system. Fascinating to learn about horticulture and the Oregon wine industry.

https://www.1859oregonmagazine.com/home-garden/2013-march-april-1859-magazine-oregon-creatives-scott-henry-trellis-system-designer

The Alchemy of Post-Traumatic Growth

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-trosclair-lcsw/the-alchemy-of-posttrauma_b_8646548.html

"Jung engaged in a different sort of research to find the common denominators of change: Over his lifetime he carried out a broad survey of how people in other eras and cultures had achieved transformation. He concluded that there is a longstanding tradition of using intense crisis for spiritual and psychological growth, that alchemy had been part of that tradition, and that psychotherapy was the modern and more scientific successor."

Psychotic Mania

Anyone who can't see that this person is dangerously psychotic must be too involved with their own self-interest.

This is Silicon Valley in a nutshell.

They are robbing us blind.

SHUT THEM DOWN, NOW.

Oops!

https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCut46961

https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCuv33856

Oops... So sorry about all of this...

NOT.

You're all being raped endlessly by corporations.

Might be time to wake up before it's too late, but nah.

Enjoy your Chardonnay!

Trilla

Music will not rest. It is relentless and incomplete.

American Pride

My pride for America comes not from the military strength or political establishment, but from the workers and artists who have given meaning to all of our lives in this country.

The heart cannot be stopped.

Donald Trump is a misguided coward and would be a disaster on the world stage.

There is only one choice this election, in a way that has not been this stark in many many years.

Vote for hate or heart. That's the choice this year.

I am ready to fight to the end of the earth to humanize this terrible disaster that has been wreaked on our republic.

washday

Gypsy Y'all

Bob Black Appears to be an ASSHOLE. SURPRISE!

Narc douche...

http://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/opium-made-easy/

Take your pseudo-leftist shtick and fuck yourself.

GO AWAY!

Epistemology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bergson

Addiction?

Fuck all of the moralistic assholes. That goes for ALL OF YOU.

Waaaaves of Joi

Go Roky Go!

Police State

This shit is out of control...

http://gawker.com/video-shows-unarmed-black-man-pleading-with-arms-raised-1784004594

Slavery, Inc.

Unless we can figure out a way to stand up to corporate bullying and get the legislature to care properly about human rights, we're doomed.

Things have become so ideological that the back-and-forth necessary to be fully cognitive humans is not happening.

It takes a dialog to create a creative outcome.

Turn to the art / music / writing, not guns, kids. It's really not much more simple than that, and we still can't get it.

How about universal income? a living wage? a cybernetic system under humanitarian control?

Look, dude, the rules didn't change just because computers started mediating all of our transactions.

The law still holds some potential, but "Citizens United"? Like that is seriously delusional.

We need to bring the laws from outside the system INTO the system in a gentle and incremental way.

There are so many problems to solve, let's start with the easy consensus, and then when we realize that we actually CAN work together, we'll be better suited to solve the other problems.

But we need dialog with the centers of power to make that happen, and in this world of viral memetics, it may require guerrilla theater. The dialog HAS to start, and it has to be through language.

McDumpals & The New World Order

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/06/peek-inside-a-professional-carding-shop/

There has always been crime and fraud. But you used to have to go do most of it in person.

Now we have sociopaths hiding behind keyboards and Tor layers, doing whatever the fuck they want with impunity.

The laws have not caught up with the techniques, and society is barreling on unaware of the dangers.

Companies like VISA, Mastercard, etc., get paid for the use of their services whether a purchase is fraudulent or not. There is no incentive for them to pay close attention and so they won't.

With our world increasingly interconnected, get prepared for the truly terrible stuff to happen.

The Rise of Fascism

http://nypost.com/2016/07/13/silicon-valley-start-up-proudly-starves-its-employees/

There is no way to avoid the implications of the human behavior coming out of Silicon Valley.

It is deluded and dangerous.

These people have no conscience, no ethics, and no clue.

These self-styled "uber-men" are creating a world without a humanitarian foundation.

It will get worse.

Hopefully everyone wakes up before we enter the full apocalyptic meltdown of the world.

I've already given up, so I'm not so concerned anymore. But you might want to worry about your kids.

Zero-Day Exploits

Now that computers have become interconnected and incredibly complex, it is more important than ever for human beings to ensure that our privacy and human rights are protected from "bad actors".

The current structure of the software "industry" does not allow us to have personal authority over our own computing devices.

If you are hoping to rely on your obscurity to protect you from the increasing dangers from this state of affairs, you are playing into the hands of cynical governments, abusive criminals, and others.

If you haven't heard of Stuxnet by now, look it up. You don't even have to go on-line to do that. It has been well-covered in the New York Times, Time magazine, the Washington Post, etc.

Computers are not neutral technologies. They are not just machines for sharing selfies and staying in touch with your friends.

Computers control our nukes, monitor our heartbeats and dispense our drugs in hospitals, control our nuclear power plants, mediate our banking transactions, and so on and on.

Programmers are not gods.

The more we become dependent on computers, the more we need to be able to SEE what is going on, how it is accomplished, and what the repercussions of the various codes are.

Silicon Valley has a conflict with personal freedom as regarding computers and software, because they have business interests, not just in the privacy of their "proprietary" code, but also in the leverage that it gives them with governments, with criminals, with rapacious capitalists.

If you think all zero-day vulnerabilities are "accidental", I think maybe you need to step out of the box that the computer industry has built for you and look a little deeper.

This speed of evolution of code cannot be maintained safely or with true human dignity.

Pokémon GO is not reason enough to give up all of the hard-fought battles for personal freedom and informed consent.

Before you "sign" that next software license agreement, I suggest you actually spend an hour or two (most will take this long to read these days) reading the specific language that they are using.

It's us versus a greedy industry with no scruples and teams of highly specialized lawyers. Who do you think is going to win.

Don't think that the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) is going to help you. They are in bed with all the tech companies and the battles they are fighting may as well be false flags.

We are at a crossroads. Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not watching you.

Good luck out there. Gotta catch 'em all!

Gangland

In 1985, I spent 2 months in a "correctional" facility in Chicago, in a room with two opposing gang members, a Latin King and a Gangster Disciple.

They seemed to get a long fine with each other, and they were cool with me, a Nerd Wizard.

Some time later, I met the "hacker" in Chicago. He totally tried to get me to snort coke with him, but I refused. He demanded that I at least do "a gummy" (rub a little coke on my gums). Maybe he thought I was a narc?

Man. The urban environment creates really weird gradients, filled with all kinds of insanity.

Now I'm back down on the street level again, doing manual labor and "associating" with the "undesireables".

There's more wisdom out here than I've found in any plush corporate environment.

If you're going to learn, you've got to get down to the street level and see what is happening in the real!

Fuck Fascism

Welcome to the United States, y'all. It has it all: the racist hate, the guns and the lack of prosecution.

http://www.oregonlive.com/clark-county/index.ssf/2016/07/man_suspected_of_shooting_4_pe.html

Turkish Intransigence

The world is heating up (temperature AND human violence), and speeding up.

We are living in a world of acceleration, and people still do not understand the impacts of this relentless change.

Future Shock author, Alvin Toffler died just a few weeks ago.

We need that analysis now more than ever.

Silicon Valley is changing the actual neurological responses of humans with rapid feedback mechanisms. The economy is being disrupted with massive job displacement and income inequality.

We don't even understand the kinds of fires that we are dealing with now.

Our nukes are held in place by human / computer interfaces that are NOT fool-proof.

Turkey is melting down in the midst of ISIL and the Kurd crisis and the US / Russia brinksmanship of the Middle East.

We need to all sit down and have a LONG LONG chat about what we're going to do about all this shit.

I'm a highly trained graphic and computer science technician and I'm working the fields of a winery and now a lumber products company as a grunt.

I am an intellectual, but I'm not afraid to work. I am not afraid to join the proles in the trenches.

Clench to your precious bubble while you can, folks. You can't stop physics nor psychology.

We are underway. We need to right the ship before we all sink.

Go ahead and play with your cell phone all day and shoot pictures of your kids.

In 2011, Erdoğan ordered the tearing-down of the Statue of Humanity, a Turkish-Armenian friendship monument inKars, which was commissioned in 2006 and represented a metaphor of the rapprochement of the two countries after many years of dispute over the events of 1915. Erdoğan justified the removal by stating that the monument was offensively close to the tomb of an 11th-century Islamic scholar, and that its shadow ruined the view of that site, while Kars municipality officials said it was illegally erected in a protected area. However, the former mayor of Kars who approved the original construction of the monument said the municipality was destroying not just a "monument to humanity" but "humanity itself". The demolition was not unopposed; among its detractors were several Turkish artists. Two of them, the painter Bedri Baykam and his associate, Pyramid Art Gallery general coordinator Tugba Kurtulmus, were stabbed after a meeting with other artists at the Istanbul Akatlar cultural center.^[60]

Power of the "Pen"

http://artforum.com/news/id=62177

This happened to a blog I participated in back in like 2001-2002. The entire blog was deleted by Yahoo Groups due to an unsubstantiated complaint about it.

I lost a large amount of writing and art that I had done directly to the blog.

I was VERY vocal about the dangers of this and NO-ONE cared.

People still don't.

I don't rely on on-line archives anymore. Too many capricious corporations out there with no scruples.

Fuck them.

Exercise your individual power or lose it. Do not depend on on-line services. They are fucked.

Bayh

http://gawker.com/evan-bayh-is-done-making-a-lot-of-money-and-would-like-1783512660

While I understand that Evan Bayh's positions are "mixed" and that he has worked extensively as a lobbyist since leaving the Senate, his return to the Senate would help shore up the Democratic party's ranks.

I respected his father, Birch Bayh, quite a bit. Somewhere I have the letter that Birch Bayh wrote me when I sent him a letter in my early teens.

Indiana has had an interesting political history. The KKK had a HUGE presence in southern Indiana in the 1930s.

They generally vote Republican for national offices, but there have been a number of Democratic politicians that have done extremely well in Indiana.

They are a little small minded sometimes, but there is a lot of genuine heart.

It is the state that raised me, for better and for worse.

Colony Collapse

Sail To The Moon

This excellent song owes SO much to The Cocteau Twins!

Fight The Power

Remains

Next Universe

Grass Roots

So the way that this can go down, and must if we are ever hoping to get "there" is:

1. We use communication networks to connect up supportive, conscientious individuals at the local grass roots level. March on city hall type of stuff. Black Lives Matter have the right idea on this.

2. Organize coordinated presence from the local level to the centers of state government.

These are not so much like councils as festivals of polity. Maybe provide cultural stimulation and readings, guerrilla theater, music.

3. Stage the mother of all parties at the center of the federal power structure. Every street in Washington DC aflood with people demanding to be allowed to address the Congress.

We will not be silent to a world out of control. There are reforms that MUST happen. These are not optional conversations. But it will never happen until we regain our COLLECTIVE identity as fully functioning, philosophically competent, HUMAN BEINGS.

Economic Bubbles

So there's a saying that the value of real estate will never go down, because population is increasing and there will never be more land.

That statement has a few caveats that are never mentioned.

One: Population may not always increase. Has anyone done a study on housing prices after the 1918 Spanish flu?

Two: Valuations are not the same as true value. There are many illusory things floating around this world.

Three: Never trust a corporate banker.

Yeah, everyone wants their piece of the American dream and thinks it's going to happen because of a great job they got or a new person they met or their beautiful new baby.

The American "dream" requires community, sacrifice, incessant effort.

A dream where some privileged people keep the spoils is no community in any legitimate sense.

There are few vectors towards unhinging this shingle. It will take a deep analysis to bridge.

Income Inequality

So, think of the banking system as a huge barrel of beer.

Now, all that liquid is going to go to somewhere.

Where is it going to go?

Well, that depends.

Is it 2000, on the cusp of the first tech bubble collapse?

Is it 2004, on the eve of the war on Iraq?

Is it 2008, just as the housing market collapses?

There are many different ways for particular people to influence monetary realities.

Where do you think that Iraq War money went?

There are people from Black Water vacationing in Cancún RIGHT NOW on that money.

This shit is a stack of lies and hubris.

We live in a closed system. There is only one ground, one sky.

That money was siphoned out of the collective fund and given to whomever would stoop so low as to degrade themselves into fucking other people over.

So that's why the assholes have the most money.

But WE, COLLECTIVELY, have the most human power.

Which is exactly why they want to keep us fragmented and opposed to each other.

This shit was articulated throughout the late 50s and 60s, and yet, we lost the will entirely to keep up the discipline necessary to collectively oppose bullshit.

Aided and abetted by the court system.

I rest my case, your honor.

Stacktrace

The ironic thing about the modern "on-line" experience, is that they get to know all about you, but you don't get to know anything about them.

It is a one-way street to fucksville.

Not to mention, that if fraud is done to you over the interwebs, and you're not rich and famous, the cops will say "duly noted" and nothing actually will be noted.

You might as well shout into the void.

No-one cares, and no-one is paying attention: to your victimization.

Flip the situation around, and you will be dropped to the pavement in like 10 seconds for "failing to comply".

All of this shit should be obvious to everyone, but it's not. And the big corporations want to keep it that way.

Everything runs fine for the person who stays on the path and does everything according to the standard conventions and doesn't ask too many questions.

They want it that way, because then no-one believes people when they expose what is REALLY happening behind the scenes.

I have tried to raise these LEGITIMATE issues, carefully and with full backing evidence.

Who gives a shit? Well, if you don't, then don't complain when the system crashes on YOU!

Image Capture

Image capture is the new growth industry. It's very J. G. Ballard in its dystopian aspect. Taking the real and incorporating it into computer databases, linkable hypertext, systematic recuperation.

Paper isn't going away any time soon, but we need the virtual to be everywhere, all the time.

These concepts are playing out, just as many of our most forward thinking authors were nascently aware.

Human beings have needs. We need to breathe, we need to eat. Sometimes we do other things.

But we need to provide for our survival, and in a dysfunctional system, our methods become dysfunctional.

If you think ISIS and Orlando and Dallas happen in a vacuum because of some "bad apples", I think maybe you're being a little willfully naive about what is happening out here on the "street".

People are becoming radicalized because they're feeling the powerlessness of living in a society that does not admit anyone without a wristband. If you don't get what I mean, think harder.

The movie Highrise, based on one of J. G. Ballard's novels, is a pretty good field manual to the new normal.

If you don't want to see this play out, GET OFF YOUR PHONE and GET ORGANIZED.

Object Oriented Programming

You want some idea of why the computer world is so fucked up today?

You see, some programmers created this paradigm called "Object Oriented Programming (OOP)".

We have teams of hack programmers using an insane architecture and collaborating with each other without really knowing what the others are doing, or how to integrate it properly as a whole.

The tech world has really fucking screwed the pooch.

"The problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle." —Joe Armstrong

"I find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real problems you need multisorted algebras — families of interfaces that span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting — saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all." —Alexander Stepanov

"Object Oriented Programming puts the Nouns first and foremost. Why would you go to such lengths to put one part of speech on a pedestal? Why should one kind of concept take precedence over another? It's not as if OOP has suddenly made verbs less important in the way we actually think. It's a strangely skewed perspective." —Steve Yegge

"Paul Graham has suggested that OOP's popularity within large companies is due to 'large (and frequently changing) groups of mediocre programmers'. According to Graham, the discipline imposed by OOP prevents any one programmer from 'doing too much damage'" —Wikipedia

The tech world has created a tangled web of excessive garbage, and "design patterns", "methods", "inheritances", "classes", "objects".

It's like you have to design a rocket ship to go to the grocery store.

It is utter fucking madness and I've watched it evolve for like almost 40 years.

Humans are fucking stupid and arrogant, and when there's money to be made, you can't stop them.

LSD

"For Garcia, the ability of the Acid Tests to stop the world for a while and then remind you that it was still spinning was one of its key lessons. The Acid Tests, he says in Signpost, were “our first exposure to formlessness. Formlessness and chaos lead to new forms. And new order. Closer to, probably, what the real order is. When you break down the old orders and the old forms and leave them broken and shattered, you suddenly find yourself a new space with new form and new order which are more like the way it is. More like the flow.”

To put Garcia’s formulation in terms a contemporary Silicon Valley venture capitalist might understand, LSD was a disruptive technology, except that instead of upending mere transactions such as hailing a cab or renting a hotel room, the things being disrupted were the basic conventions of society, which is why mainstream America was, and remains, so terrified of the drug."

http://flashbak.com/how-the-mythical-ethical-icicle-tricycle-became-the-grateful-dead-45758/

The Weather Underground

Now, I wouldn't go so far as to say that there needs to be a war. YET. But there are definitely some things to think about regarding one... If all of the legitimate grievances are ignored, I'd say the ruling class is illegitimate, and there will have to be a discussion. Right now we're on a hair trigger.

"Hello. This is Bernardine Dohrn.

I'm going to read A DECLARATION OF A STATE OF WAR.

This is the first communication from the Weatherman underground.

All over the world, people fighting Amerikan imperialism look to Amerika's youth to use our strategic position behind enemy lines to join forces in the destruction of the empire.

Black people have been fighting almost alone for years. We've known that our job is to lead white kids into armed revolution. We never intended to spend the next five or twenty-five years of our lives in jail. Ever since SDS became revolutionary, we've been trying to show how it is possible to overcome the frustration and impotence that comes from trying to reform this system. Kids know the lines are drawn revolution is touching all of our lives. Tens of thousands have learned that protest and marches don't do it. Revolutionary violence is the only way.
          -This segment is about the assassination of Mark Clark by the Chicago police. 1969 assassination of Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark by the Chicago police. The group had effectively been underground since the previous month’s SDS meeting, which became known as the “Flint War Council.”

Now we are adapting the classic guerrilla strategy of the Viet Cong and the urban guerrilla strategy of the Tupamaros to our own situation here in the most technically advanced country in the world.

Ché taught us that "revolutionaries move like fish in the sea." The alienation and contempt that young people have for this country has created the ocean for this revolution.

The hundreds and thousands of young people who demonstrated in the Sixties against the war and for civil rights grew to hundreds of thousands in the past few weeks actively fighting Nixon's invasion of Cambodia and the attempted genocide against black people. The insanity of Amerikan "justice" has added to its list of atrocities six blacks killed in Augusta, two in Jackson and four white Kent State students, making thousands more into revolutionaries.
-The attempted genocide was a reference to several murders that took place between blacks and the police in Las Angeles 1969. Daniel Berger wrote in his book "Outlaws of America The Weather Underground and Politics of Solidarity" "Just four days after the Hampton-Clark murders,…the Los Angeles Black Panther headquarters survived an unprovoked pre-dawn attack from police that lasted five hours…But LA was the exception…[T]wenty-seven Panthers were murdered and 749 arrested in 1969 alone."

The parents of "privileged" kids have been saying for years that the revolution was a game for us. But the war and the racism of this society show that it is too fucked-up. We will never live peaceably under this system.

This was totally true of those who died in the New York townhouse explosion. The third person who was killed there was Terry Robbins, who led the first rebellion at Kent State less than two years ago.

The twelve Weathermen who were indicted for leading last October's riots in Chicago have never left the country. Terry is dead, Linda was captured by a pig informer, but the rest of us move freely in and out of every city and youth scene in this country. We're not hiding out but we're invisible.
-The riots in October are referring to the Days of Rage where Dohrn led her helmeted troops into Chicago for throwing rocks and fighting police in October 1969.

There are several hundred members of the Weatherman underground and some of us face more years in jail than the fifty thousand deserters and draft dodgers now in Canada. Already many of them are coming back to join us in the underground or to return to the Man's army and tear it up from inside along with those who never left.

We fight in many ways. Dope is one of our weapons. The laws against marijuana mean that millions of us are outlaws long before we actually split. Guns and grass are united in the youth underground.
-Author Dan Berger wrote in his book on the Weather Underground that this kind of “uncritical celebration of drug culture…showed that the organization was still somewhat enamored of a militartist vision of being outlaws”

Freaks are revolutionaries and revolutionaries are freaks. If you want to find us, this is where we are. In every tribe, commune, dormitory, farmhouse, barracks and townhouse where kids are making love, smoking dope and loading guns—fugitives from Amerikan justice are free to go.

For Diana Oughton, Ted Gold and Terry Robbins, and for all the revolutionaries who are still on the move here, there has been no question for a long time now—we will never go back.
-All of these people were killed in the New York Townhouse Explosion by the bomb they had been building the detonated prematurely.

Within the next fourteen days we will attack a symbol or institution of Amerikan injustice. This is the way we celebrate the example of Eldridge Cleaver and H. Rap Brown and all black revolutionaries who first inspired us by their fight behind enemy lines for the liberation of their people.
-On June 10, 1970, the Weatherman group bombed the New York City police headquarters, just a few days after the deadline set in this artifact. Dan Berger wrote in his book, "With widespread resentment and anger at police violence — from communities of color as well as white youth — the police station was a logical choice as the most visible manifestation of a racist state. Seven police officers were cut from shattered glass in the explosion, but there were no serious injuries. Due to Weather’s commitment to engaging in armed propaganda only, no one else was injured by a Weather Underground bombing in the ensuing seven years."

Never again will they fight alone.

May 21, 1970"

Server Farms

The Invisible Insurrection may be moving to a new location soon.

I'm tired of being located in some Raiders of the Lost Ark-esque warehouse filled with porno, online harassment, Facebook comments, selfies, ethically questionable pirated material, cat videos, Fox News comments.

You get the drift, except that our society hasn't really gotten the drift yet.

Meanwhile, the tech companies collect the checks, while the people become more hypnotized.

And no amount of banjo bearded hipness can make this right.

The revolution will not be televised, it will be improvised.

And the improvised cognitive explosives will not harm people, they will heal them.

It's not just a matter of human dignity, it's a matter of human rights.

Subterranean Homesick Blues

So Rolling Stone rated this song as the 332nd best of all time? Are they smoking crack?!

(answer: yes)

I'd like to see the list of the top 331 and shoot at it with ballistic missiles.

(Hotel California is at 49. Enough said!)

I would have to put this in my top 10, at least.

This song captures more complexity and analysis of the earth-shaking experiences of the 60s than any other.

Dylan has problematic issues with some of his artistic output, but this one nailed it.

COMPLETELY.

This song should be studied extensively in every university in the world.

If you want to identify the REAL, this song is an important step.

He wasn't the best story-teller, nor the most emotionally astute, but as a lyricist:

NO COMPARISON.

ANYWHERE.

He captured it all. In an innovative and incendiary way.

Few things in the history of recorded music have even approached this kind of prescience.

The 60s

Something happened in the 60s. Maybe someone dosed the water supply with LSD?

There was a youth explosion. Music, The Arts, Philosophy, Culture.

I'm sitting here listening to the Bluesbreakers "A Hard Road" on vinyl.

That kind of heart cannot be replicated by The Black Keys, as much as they try.

Philip K. Dick considered the movement against the Vietnam War to have been the last time that consciousness rose up and took shit over.

Did Steve Jobs use his LSD experiences to hijack the human potential of the 60s and enslave it to computers? Did you also know that his widow is the single largest investor in Walt Disney and perhaps one of the richest women in the world?

We've been played, y'all.

Time to get our eyes off of our phones, out of our "Facebooks" and back "on the road."

We don't need sentimentalism, we don't need Kerouac-ian swagger.

It's time to put the heart where the mind is.

Philosophy and Heart is the only thing that can steer this spaceship properly.

Time's almost up. Do it or lose it.

Don't get lost in some narcotic Spotify playlist!

Human Beings Are Not To Be Statistically Modeled For Cash

Any corporation that tries to jack people for struggling needs a punch to the face.

http://twocents.lifehacker.com/the-stuff-that-costs-more-when-youre-poor-1783148870

Liars and Thieves

http://gawker.com/british-iraq-war-inquiry-delivers-scathing-critique-of-1783193399

Diaspora

We are all diaspora. Whether we realize it or not. We are all alienated from somewhere, something, someone.

No amount of capital, creativity or clairvoyance can ever protect us from the march of the real.

Every day is a new day. Every day requires COMMUNITY.

It's all we really have as human beings.

Live, Love, Learn.

We are soap bubbles, floating on the wings of Terra.

Mr. Gates

When I lived in Seattle in the late 90s and looked like a nerd, a group of four young men walked up behind me. One of them said to me: "Yo Mr. Gates! Where's my million dollars, Mr. Gates?"

It was actually incredibly cute, but also describes exactly what the country is going through now.

Farm Living

I got a sunburn on my neck, some cuts on my arm and a little bit of dosh from a hard days work.

I do not romanticize rural living or nature. It is rough, and it is hard.

But if you're not willing to put in the hard work, you shouldn't get the spoils.

Eventually my day's work may end up in a bottle of Reisling that might possibly be imbibed by the bourgeoisie (in fact, I met a Silicon Valley venture capitalist while I was at their winery over the weekend).

I'm okay with that.

Because the money I made from this work today will fund other revolutionary projects.

We are at war. Don't let anyone kid you. And wars aren't always "hot."

Sometimes they just suck the money out of communities and hold it overseas to avoid taxes.

There is a lot of shit to answer for.

I got pushed out of corporate America because I agitated for human rights.

I will never apologize for that.

BE ON ALERT

This blog is back and pissed as fuck. Y'all better watch the fuck out...