Look into my brain
the error of solipsism
Imagine, being at the peak of your military career, a drill sergeant in the Freak Army — Most likely having spent the previous evening candy-flipping or insufflating a traditional freak stimulant or recovering from a day well spent examining the transdimensional possibilities of slum-lord’s apartment from the perspective of a single emergent qualia without the burden of a personal history — awash in stolen scotch dispensed beneath the table from one of the long/deep trenchcoat pockets, at one with the bare-dirt-punk and excess new-wave polyglot rhythms of the mirrored dance club. infinitely reflecting versions of me/you until the externalization of the soul and internalization of the body, to borrow from McKenna, is an oxymoronic axiom.
And then waking up, planning on doing it again today, performing the day-facing yoga of coffeepot and bong and excitedly launching into the adventure of becoming by watching Pee Wee’s Playhouse and the above clip comes on and like a hyperspace-guru, he is talking to you and just to you - and as the belly roll laughter explodes between you and your best friends, suddenly, someone arrives unannounced but not unexpected
and says, “Hey what’s going on here?”
How could you? How would you? and you are reminded there are Others. To a large extent that was why I started Criticalsense (Could it be 20 years ago? no-fucking-way.) And like Pee-Wee, I thought, “Hey, look into my Brain,” was a good enough reason to have an e-mail list. As one of the cohorts, commented the other day, “I miss the old CS because I could more easily discern what I wanted to click on.” Damn. That’s right, there are others and I even get bored with my brain, well, certainly frustrated by thinking.
So I’ll begin using quotes from the articles as the hyperlink, allowing for some personalized discernment. Many more tomorrow. Since I have finished this week’s (Gate)less its time for a break.
There are 2 exceptionally good articles sent out by Peter Webster to his much-missed list, ‘The Harder Stuff’ that are vital. That’s it for today:
Another Hiroshima is coming
“I write this as a warning to the world,” reported Burchett in the London Daily Express of September 5,1945. Sitting in the rubble with his Baby Hermes typewriter, he described hospital wards filled with people with no visible injuries who were dying from what he called “an atomic plague”.
For this, his press accreditation was withdrawn, he was pilloried and smeared. His witness to the truth was never forgiven.
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was an act of premeditated mass murder that unleashed a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of America’s war propaganda in the 21st century, casting a new enemy, and target – China.
During the 75 years since Hiroshima, the most enduring lie is that the atomic bomb was dropped to end the war in the Pacific and to save lives.
The Coming War on China - Documentary Film by John Pilger
Available here:
http://johnpilger.com/videos/the-coming-war-on-china
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDl9ecICIYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAfeYMONj9E
And one by Caitlan:
Shape Yourself Into The Perfect Weapon Against The Empire
Dissident Circles Too Often Become Another Nerdy Hobby Group
"Politics should change you. Revolutionary thought should transform you. Dismantling establishment narratives about the world should dismantle your own narratives about yourself."https://t.co/Yu7Ll5Svuu
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 19, 2020