Cynicism : Sentimentality

Cynicism and sentimentality are bad tactics and worse strategy.

Responsibility

With the destruction and deliberate targetting of civilians and the yelling of 'it's their fault' at everyone else, I'm struck by the inability of anyone to accept responsibilty.
'We did that because you did this' or usually 'because we thought you might do the other' is like an iron weight around our necks. War is always fought at civilians and always has been. [The uniforms were just for decoration].
It is just the same degree of death whether by stone ax or laser guided munition. Fuck collateral damage : what is meant is "they might take over the world / my street / the shop at the corner". "THEY" the other, not I not WE. The spuriously constructed US which is used to justify just about anything.

And now these pages are patrolled by rapid response units of apparatchiks from any nation with the wits to hire them.
The easy way to tell is to look at the profile -
set up this month?
their own functioning blog?
lots of views of profile?
Meanwhile back at the Ministry of Information...

17 years ago I met a spy in a hotel carpark in Hungary. He told me he was a salesman for a plastic bag manufacturer in Belgium and then he asked me 500 questions about why I was in this obscure little town in an 'official' hotel. Apparently satisfied he skipped away and I never saw him around the hotel. He is probably head of the blog squad for somewhere other than Belgium.
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locked in : locked out

Nothing to worry about. This is a silent corner.
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The Great Fear

I've identified the great fear.
That someone will reply, ask a question, tell me off, or encourage me.
Like fearing rain because it leads to drowning?
In fact it has just rained.
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Light / Illumination

Light :
partially wrecked light fitting

Illumination :
a different story

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The fake conflict

The fake conflict pits two inert sets of actions and beliefs aginst each other. We are supposed to dance around in the shower of sparks. Meanwhile the real conflicts are planned, worked out and dealt with. Grey suits in a thousand different forms.
We are mesmerised by the shower of sparks and cheer for one side or the other. The sparks last a nanosecond but are endlessly produced. We go blind watching.
Beirut
Belfast
Kashmir
Western Sahara
Angola
Gaza
Israel
Zimbabwe
Afghanistan
Like the dropdown menu when you sign up for something. Managed conflict.
The politicians do a dance without movement or rhythm.
Frustration or distraction - the two available options?
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monolog

I'm still thinking about this process - the externalised monolog.
It is the rant in the car on the way to work, pumping up for a day of nonsense.
Trying to get past the bile to some useful stuff.
But bile is addictive, the chemical backwash, the purged sense of rectitude.

Even a monolog must have a respondent.
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27.7.06

An idea

An idea came to me. A sentence which implies much, but delivers nothing.

The internet is widely regarded as a jungle of conspiracy theories. So the meta-theory is that the conspiracy theorists are there to locate the worriers and others. To keep them supplied with material with which they can agree until it becomes actively pathological. This is essentially a functionalist analysis but it does explain the plethora of Rumsfeld-on-crystal-meth websites.

Naturally the phrase "Rumsfeld-on-crystal-meth" will eventually be found on Google and be interpreted in line with various ideological perspectives.
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What is to be done?

What is to be done

was the title of two books : a 19th century Russian novel - I don't remember the author - and one by V.I. Lenin which became the programme for the Bolshevik Party.

What is to be done is now the title of a 'future diary', a set of questions for clarification by me and by others. In time.
I've made notes for years about what has happened, a constantly reactive position and one that is constantly played back by news media. We are not encouraged to look forward except to our next financial event. But this is not divination or prediction. But rather a critique, the exploration of what's missing, beyond behind the mundane.

I think I am probing the wreckage, a crash investigator rather than an archaeologist. I may be wrong.

Some rules :

• Cause no offence to others or to yourself.
• I will not tolerate hyperbolic stupidity.
• This is as serious as your life.
  
  

OK. that's it for now. P