Friday, March 6, 2026

As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland; disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance, by pulling off flesh from the living planet; as if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration

I'm disturbed I'm not more disturbed by my descent (or ascent) into the non-verbal, it's speeding up, both my descent (or ascent) and my being disturbed I'm not more disturbed. Life in a world without kayfabe where kayfabe is constantly broadcast, winkless, constantly understood as breaking itself, it makes me write horrible sentences like the first two in this paragraph. Here, let me put it this way:



This is a blog which exists to talk to itself, to me, and is worth no more than any vanity project, including art created in lieu of verbalizing the thought. I'm disturbed I'm not more disturbed by my dwindling interest in monologues here while quickly acknowledging that this joint still vitally assists me  processing life in a dangerous and weirdass world without kayfabe where kayfabe is constantly broadcast, winkless, and constantly understood as breaking itself in the act of reestablishing itself, hence the sanity-salving side-effects of the grids, the (other people's) poems, the music, but barking as if there is kayfabe that needs breaking? Getting if not gotten old. What I mean to say is


This the eleventh attempt at a monologue for this post, since I no longer write in my paper tablets, since I no longer type in my digital tablet, since I only type here and delete the proceeding draft when starting the next, what existed in the first ten attempts are archived in my increasingly non-verbal brain and may or not appear on this page in the future in their original form and may arise not from memory but as new thoughts, a good (or bad) thing: I'm disturbed I'm not more disturbed by such content for disorder and chaos. Here, last and bottom third of the self-portrait posted as alternative monologue to this post's typed monologue, you didn't go look at it when I posted a link to it in the last post


Deus in Machina: AI and Divine Rhetoric
There are no psychopaths?
Democrats won’t rule out giving Trump more money for Middle East war
Sovereign is he who does whatever the hell he wants
The Question of Whether this War is Legal is the Wrong Question
A Topography of the New Dollar Imperialism
We have reached the Triskalians betting quatloos on when and how you will die stage of empire
The Nihilism of Trump’s War Games
The Long March of Presidential Power That Led to War on Iran
We have reached the Triskalians betting quatloos on when and how you will die stage of empire
Obama Made the Legal Case That Trump Could Use to Attack Iran
We have reached the Triskalians betting quatloos on when and how you will die stage of empire
Techno‑Authoritarianism and the Death of Counterculture
We have reached the Triskalians betting quatloos on when and how you will die stage of empire
The NYT Style GuideAll the Ways Big Tech Fuels ICE and CBP
We have reached the Triskalians betting quatloos on when and how you will die stage of empire
The Right-Wing Nonprofit Serving A.I. Slop for America’s Birthday
We have reached the Triskalians betting quatloos on when and how you will die stage of empire
Cockblocking AnthropicOn RedistributionYou can just do things
Starting wars and spying at home
The part where we are fuckedFool's errands
Proton Mail payment data helped FBI identify ‘Stop Cop City’ account holder
Faux discountsMain character syndrome in wartime
The dry and the wet burn together
The rhetoric of freedom and the oldest swindle in the imperial playbook
Albanese, Gaza, and the Military-Propaganda Nexus Behind the US-Israeli War on Iran
Fourteen ways of looking at white
He heard the news todayHollow opposition
Common groundHe saw his Marianne walking away
How Christianity Was Used By the Powerful and the Marginalized to Shape Post-Civil War America
Avedon CarolTHEC and the ISPR against THE UULFer
People I work with at both GW and American (especially) tell me trustworthy bosses up their chain of command are advising they look where to jump before the imminent push is delivered
For the Fossil RecordJoy Williams on Rilke
{ feuilleton }A Bolivarian Republic of Letters?
William H. Gass’ *Order of Insects*
Henri Cole’s BestiaryAlmost no one makes it out
I'd forgot about american football and had no idea they were considered major and influential
DiscombobulatedAlice's astral plane adventures
Seefeel Reveal First New Album in 15 Years!Out in May, one song released now





MOSS-GATHERING

Theodore Roethke

To loosen with all ten fingers held wide and limber
And lift up a patch, dark-green, the kind for lining cemetery baskets,
Thick and cushiony, like an old-fashioned doormat, 
The crumbling small hollow sticks on the underside mixed with roots, 
And wintergreen berries and leaves still stuck to the top, —
That was moss-gathering. 
But something always went out of me when I dug loose those carpets 
Of green, or plunged to my elbows in the spongy yellowish moss of the marshes:
And afterwards I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road, 
As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;
Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,
By pulling off flesh from the living planet;
As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.

6 comments:

  1. Fine irony abounds that the current secretary of schooling oversaw the era where fake real was willingly revealed as real fake. As if the market had demanded it.

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  2. 1/natural order of things...swampland...living planet...the whole scheme of life...a desecration

    2/some people i know are much like everybody else in some ways - a retired couple who live in the suburbs and watch movies on netflix in the evening - recently they watched Jurassic World: Dominion - description from wikipedia:

    The film is set four years after the events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, with dinosaurs and other de-extinct prehistoric animals now living alongside humans around the world. It follows Owen Grady and Claire Dearing as they embark on a rescue mission, while Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler and Ian Malcolm work to expose a conspiracy by the genomics corporation Biosyn. Planning for the film began in 2014, before the release of the first Jurassic World film. Filming took place from February to November 2020 in Canada, England, and Malta. With an estimated budget of up to $465 million, it is one of the most expensive films ever made. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, filming was suspended for several months and the release was delayed by a year.

    the hollywoodian inversion of reality - de-extincted life forms in abundance, instead of the ongoing and accelerating process of the disappearance of extant species - was striking

    the movie was satisfying, however, inasmuch as the good characters ended happily and the baddie unhappily - that is what fiction is for, as oscar wilde pointed out so memorably

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  3. "THERE ARE NO PSYCHOPATHS : Virtually everything you think you know about psychopathy has been thoroughly debunked. Why does this zombie idea live on?" ---AEON magazine

    Oh, damn! Just when more and more of us Serfs are finally understanding that The F*ckers In Charge are PSYCHOPATHS (and not simply trying to Do Good and Forever Failing, somehow)... we learn, from this trustworthy Science-y type authority, that there is No Such Thing as a Psychopath! What a twist!
    Hey, let's re-title this AEON "article," to make it more Sexy: .. "There are no Psychopaths, only the victims of Psychopaths: one of the most fascinating conundrums of Corporate Science-y-ness! I guess Humans are ALL Psychopaths, which means NONE of us are (aka The Arendt Clause)! Wow!"

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  4. RE "Oh, damn! Just when more and more of us Serfs are finally understanding that The F*ckers In Charge are PSYCHOPATHS (and not simply trying to Do Good and Forever Failing, somehow)... we learn, from this trustworthy Science-y type authority, that there is No Such Thing as a Psychopath! What a twist!"

    Right on!

    The twist means it's just another mind fxxx of the public. Essentially this 'new' fake narrative of 'there are no psychopaths' is an organized psyop that started right when more and more people gained the awareness that the ruling class are all psychopaths (expect for this fake narrative to get pumped out in the near future). Immoral lying psychopathic scientists, and the criminal mass media, are recruited to spread that lie, like how immoral lying psychopathic scientists told us one bold lie after another during their Global Covid Super Crime (https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html).

    With this total official lie of 'there are no psychopaths' these ruling psychopaths want you to believe the laughable lie that THEY are just like people in general, just like you and me, never mind their endless string of PLANNED super crimes and atrocities committed against the public, like 9-11, them stealing TRILLIONS of dollars from the taxpaying public, or the Covid Genocide, etc.

    'We official highly credible scientists tell you all, there are no psychopaths. Go back to sleep so we can continue to orchestrate our high crimes against you useless eaters!'

    "This is why they have to make yard signs that say “Science is Real”. Because this new science ISN'T. It is a total in-your-stupid-face conjob. When something is real and people know that, you don't have to make yard signs promoting it. You don't need yard signs saying “trees are real”, “the sky is blue”. You only need yard signs promoting things that AREN'T real. Like new science and, say, political candidates." --- Miles Mathis, American author

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  5. recently i read an article by sarah kendzior that made me feel less confused, rather than more - a more coherent picture of what's going on in terms of our very latest war - i had been thinking that the zionist entity's commitment to embiggenment was just due to the founding myth of 'this land is mine, g_d gave this land to me', and also normal greed and fear - everybody wants more, everybody knows that the other guys are out to get you

    i knew that so called "christian zionists" anticipating the "rapture" have detailed ideas about how current events relate to biblical prophecies - but it turns out the extreme right-wing 'kahanist' zionists also have 'messiah' fantasies - no not jesus - but the REAL messiah who is still on his way - this is why war is not 'a last resort' but actually the preferred option

    truly, as bill rees of 'ecological footprint' fame has colourfully put it, 'we are so hooped'

    https://substack.com/home/post/p-190015005

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  6. As ever, the links you find and share here may not all lead to cheery and bright outlooks, but as a compendium there's nothing else like your blog in the Intertubes -- other writers may be doing it similar, but we accept no substitutes. My thanks. Good pictures, too; my thanks for sharing them. And, all human life and its expression is a vanity project, in part and from time to time.

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