Hollow Words

You were wrong. I do understand. I understand that there is nothing to understand.

Remain a lecherous philistine. Uphold that facade of superiority, of dominance. Its the only tool you’ve got.

You are fated to act as you have. Your inconsistency highlights your inability to coordinate a path around this fact. Scorn and hatred when applied everywhere and always is just one way out. Any other constant response to the order of things remains just as valid.

I may be young, I may enjoy different modes of being than you. But this entails nothing.

The Steps I Gotta Take

Show me how to wade into that endless sea.  To become more than I am, to make you more than you are.

Besides occupational reservations, I’m complete. I can do what I will myself to do. The Grecian man trodding down streets of the mind, whose every detail remains a photograph. Knowing the outlines of corridors and alleyways, there is little need to explore each. I know what they contain and can delineate these contents to a t.

HOW TO WRITE GOOD

Amazing.

Kenneth Harper Finton

by Frank L. Visco

My several years in the word  game have learnt me several rules:

1. Avoid alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are  not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid cliche like the plague. (They’re old  hat.)
4. Employ the vernacular.
5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7. It is wrong to ever split  an infinitive.
8. Contractions aren’t necessary.
9. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
10. One should never generalize.
11. Eliminate quotations. As  Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
12. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
13. Don’t be redundant; don’t use more words than necessary; it’s.highly superfluous.
14. Profanity sucks.
15. Be more or less specific.
16. Understatement is·always best
17. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
18. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
19. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
20. The passive voice is to be avoided
21. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid…

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“Do I contradict myself?

Very well then I contradict myself,

(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”

~Walt Whitman

“Patroclus eased up alongside him and shattered his right jaw with his spear, driving the point through his teeth, then, gripping the shaft, levered him up and over his chariot rail, the way a man sitting on a jutting rock with a fishing rod flips a flounder he has hooked out of the sea. So Thestor was prised gaping from his chariot and left flat on his face. His soul crawled off.” ~Iliad

Who am I? Who are you? (The Self)

“If I hadn’t been born rich, I might have been a really great man.”

~Charles Foster Kane: The Enigmatic Void

Nietzsche: The Modern State and The Last Man

The Great Conversation

In his magnum opus, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche comments upon the insidious nature of modern political communities, “The State is where slow universal suicide is called Life.” In this video, we will explore Nietzsche’s criticism of the modern State and of the State’s ultimate goal – the creation of the Last Man.

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“I think I’ll go home and lie very still, feigning terminal illness.

Then all the neighbors will troop over to stare,  my love, perhaps, among them.

How she’ll smile while the specialists snarl in their teeth! – she perfectly well knows what ails me.”

~Ancient Egyptian poem

“L’homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers.”

~Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

Imperialism, Finance Capital, and World War

Very rarely do theoretically-oriented analyses of historical events prove true. World War I was a different matter.