Each year the monuments grew larger. The citizens demanded this. As their lives got worse they wanted longer staircases to descend, towering fountains …
Taxes were increased. A famine settled in. An inexplicable epidemic appeared. Autumn was rain sodden. So, they collected funds for a new work
in the form of a giant, granite pineapple encircled by a narrow staircase, so difficult to climb some said it symbolized life or friendship.
The monuments meant nothing of course. The misfortune seemed undeserved. At parties the food was served on plates in the form of clouds
that descended from the ceiling and under each unseasonal strawberry a gold leaf was set. Despite these strategies the general melancholy increased.
Poems concerned themselves with childhood, autumn and failure, although it was understood that these took the place of events too unbearable to discuss.
Work resumed on the pineapple. It was decided to enclose it within a transparent sphere inscribed with a poem concerning autumn and failure. Meanwhile
in the downtown area, work began on a new staircase, some 900 feet high, leading to a colossal weeping eye. On rainy days citizens would gather to watch the way
it vanished sweetly into mist, but no one dared to place a foot on even the lowest, shining step:
Man, I don't even have a problem with David Wong. It's just that I wouldn't be surprised if the transcript for this came up on Cracked.
While I think that most of the reality TV genre revolves around dehumanization and otherness, I think Honey Boo Boo's a better case than most. She's rather happy with her life, and her show doesn't rely on the manufactured drama that powers most in that genre (as far as I know). And her mother, IIRC, is saving most of the income from the show, and I think it's for HBB's education or...something.
The point is that they have something of a handle on their exploitation.
Man, I don't even have a problem with David Wong. It's just that I wouldn't be surprised if the transcript for this came up on Cracked.
While I think that most of the reality TV genre revolves around dehumanization and otherness, I think Honey Boo Boo's a better case than most. She's rather happy with her life, and her show doesn't rely on the manufactured drama that powers most in that genre (as far as I know). And her mother, IIRC, is saving most of the income from the show, and I think it's for HBB's education or...something.
The point is that they have something of a handle on their exploitation.
He wasn't talking about the people who film the show, he was directing his criticism at the people who watch it because "hur hur stupid rednecks."
that has to be one of the strangest collabs i have ever heard of.
dj spooky is kinda odd
he teaches some sort of academic course thing at the same private university where zizek and agamben teach. looking at the website its weird. "our tutors: Slavoj Zizek, Giorgio Agamben, DJ Spooky'
also it looks like the attempted gay marriage politics delay has been crushed. good news. the fabulous sparkle train rolls on despite some guy on the radio banging on about 'the aggressive homosexual group'. where is this group and how can i join it?
also it looks like the attempted gay marriage politics delay has been crushed. good news. the fabulous sparkle train rolls on despite some guy on the radio banging on about 'the aggressive homosexual group'. where is this group and how can i join it?
I saw this already—I like Kallgren's stuff; he's pretty thoughtful—and while I think that the argument is, yes, pretty self-evident, the way that he presents it is interesting and well-constructed. So I don't know.
Also, people who think of themselves as intelligentsia tend to be pretentious and self-important in any field. The difference is that right-leaning ones tend to promote destructive, intolerant policies rather than simply act smug.
Also, people who think of themselves as intelligentsia tend to be pretentious and self-important in any field. The difference is that right-leaning ones tend to promote destructive, intolerant policies rather than simply act smug.
Yes, but left-leaning ones promote policies that are intolerant towards my people (bigots, jerks, worthless scum of the earth, close-minded fools) and destructive to tradition.
Both right and left are terrible, intolerant jerks, it's just that they're jerks towards different people.
Anyways, there's a reason why I try not to really say what I truly think here; because it'd get me banned, probably. Or at least everyone would think that I'm foolish, behind-the-times, backwards, and objectively wrong; and I don't want to have to put up with the way that people would react to my thoughts.
Aliroz: It's unlikely you'd get banned...the screaming loonies that caused that sort of ban-worthy trouble on OTC are, last I heard, either still there or banned from TVT, and they likely have no idea this place exists.
Also, people who think of themselves as intelligentsia tend to be pretentious and self-important in any field. The difference is that right-leaning ones tend to promote destructive, intolerant policies rather than simply act smug.
Yes, but left-leaning ones promote policies that are intolerant towards my people (bigots, jerks, worthless scum of the earth, close-minded fools) and destructive to tradition.
Both right and left are terrible, intolerant jerks, it's just that they're jerks towards different people.
That's kind of a false dichotomy, isn't it? If you consider that kind of behaviour bad, then why tolerate it at all?
I've noticed you tend to treat tradition as inherently good when this simply isn't the case.
It's not inherently bad, either.
And, really, I don't like shades of gray. I like to think in terms of yes or no, black or white. I either like something or I don't, something's either good or it's bad; and having a whole range of grey requires too much thought and too much doubt.
I know this kind of thought is limiting and stagnant. It's just, after a lifetime of being wrong, there's a tendency to stop trying to be right (people just slap me down when I say what I think, so why say anything).
^ I can't tell people to stop doing bad things. I have to put up with people doing whatever they want. I'm no ruler to have any authority over people.
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The citizens demanded this.
As their lives got worse they wanted
longer staircases to descend, towering fountains …
Taxes were increased. A famine settled in.
An inexplicable epidemic appeared.
Autumn was rain sodden. So,
they collected funds for a new work
in the form of a giant, granite pineapple
encircled by a narrow staircase,
so difficult to climb some said
it symbolized life or friendship.
The monuments meant nothing of course.
The misfortune seemed undeserved.
At parties the food was served
on plates in the form of clouds
that descended from the ceiling
and under each unseasonal strawberry
a gold leaf was set. Despite these strategies
the general melancholy increased.
Poems concerned themselves
with childhood, autumn and failure,
although it was understood that these took the place
of events too unbearable to discuss.
Work resumed on the pineapple.
It was decided to enclose it within a transparent
sphere inscribed with a poem concerning
autumn and failure. Meanwhile
in the downtown area, work began on a new
staircase, some 900 feet high, leading to
a colossal weeping eye. On rainy days
citizens would gather to watch the way
it vanished sweetly into mist,
but no one dared to place a foot
on even the lowest, shining step:
'This is art,' they said, 'We cannot use it.'
(john ash)
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
While I think that most of the reality TV genre revolves around dehumanization and otherness, I think Honey Boo Boo's a better case than most. She's rather happy with her life, and her show doesn't rely on the manufactured drama that powers most in that genre (as far as I know). And her mother, IIRC, is saving most of the income from the show, and I think it's for HBB's education or...something.
The point is that they have something of a handle on their exploitation.
where my faith in humanity will be further decreased
Are you saying I need to lose weight, bitch?
dj spooky is kinda odd
he teaches some sort of academic course thing at the same private university where zizek and agamben teach. looking at the website its weird. "our tutors: Slavoj Zizek, Giorgio Agamben, DJ Spooky'
i want the fabled Gay Agenda Illuminati to exist
can you imagine how amazingly dressed they would be
Both right and left are terrible, intolerant jerks, it's just that they're jerks towards different people.
Anyways, there's a reason why I try not to really say what I truly think here; because it'd get me banned, probably. Or at least everyone would think that I'm foolish, behind-the-times, backwards, and objectively wrong; and I don't want to have to put up with the way that people would react to my thoughts.
And, really, I don't like shades of gray. I like to think in terms of yes or no, black or white. I either like something or I don't, something's either good or it's bad; and having a whole range of grey requires too much thought and too much doubt.
I know this kind of thought is limiting and stagnant. It's just, after a lifetime of being wrong, there's a tendency to stop trying to be right (people just slap me down when I say what I think, so why say anything).
^ I can't tell people to stop doing bad things. I have to put up with people doing whatever they want. I'm no ruler to have any authority over people.