I thought I'd share....
....an email from a friend who just moved to Florida. I'm not sure what they are doing to him.
My job is fun because it's like acting, and the part IFlorida.
play is of an enthusiastic corporate employee. I
smile and act really cheerful all day and have a big
shit-eating grin on my face all the time, this must be
how those mass murderers feel before they go crazy and
shoot up their office. Only they're not the actors
that I am and I hope to at least get into middle
management before I have to do something like that, I
don't want to waste my time ending the lives of
pathetic wage slaves like me, I want a shot at a CEO.
Still I think about doing stuff like buying a bunch of
fake moustaches and wearing them into work like I did
at the video store, although I've no idea how that
sort of thing would go over here. I test the limits
to an extent, for instance this week I was assigned to
use the computer that demonstrates to the class how
all the stuff we are learning is done. We're playign
with dummy credit card accounts so nothing we type in
matters, whether I change someone's name to Batman or
write that they make 20,000 a year in supplementary
income from organ thievery and are hence eligible for
a credit line increase, it's fun to see the awkward
look on the trainer's face as he reads this stuff out
to the class and then makes me change it.
I have no doubt that starting tommorow, someone else
will be using the demonstration computer.
I'm looking for an apartment in the city, it's really
nice there, much nicer than this place I am living
now. It's like it's not even the south, in fact
people in the city make fun of southerners for some
reason, as though they think they're different. It's
like when I lived in NY and there would be the
occasional native New Yorker who would have
confederate flags on their car. There was a guy like
that in high school who would tell our Jewish art
teacher about how the south was going to rise again
and get rid of minorities. Where the hell do they get
this stuff?
Sometimes I hear voices in the night. I wake up in
bed and I can't move and I hear them all around me. I
know for a fact that the FBI has placed bugs in my
room, my family pretends they don't know what is
happening but really they do. They have a
transmission device that puts thoughts into my head
-that I know I did not have there before!!- I think
that the NSA is trying to find out who is coming into
my room. Sometimes they talk about children, but who
on Earth would hurt a child, what kind of sick
monster? Their experiments are only more indication
of the further extent that this country is being
coopted by a demonic presence. I don't know if this
line is being tapped but tell others. If you don't
hear from me then I expect I have been taken to
Washington to testify before a congressional
subcommittee about the nature of the threat against
the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. They know that if I die
then they have lost their only evidence of what is
happening to this world right under our noses.
All my love,
Why did he have to go there?

6 Comments:
He's a close friend, isn't he ? He has your kind of humor and your ill-defined sadness. I can't tell you why he's hearing voices in the night though. Perhaps because you love Guided By Voices ? Nothing to worry about then...
I've never read Samuel R. Delaney, but I will. I will follow every track from you, every trail. But as you've given me a lot of them (I think I did too), it will take some time to settle. Besides, I love science fiction. You mentioned "Stalker" among your favorite movies. Did you read the book ? Do you know of Eastern Europe sci-fi ? Very dark and very absurd. Bound to be. If you haven't read Stanislas Lem, you should love "Solaris".
I visited the random typo site you suggested and typed a short erotic text about my usual dreamboat, thinking I would get amusing images since the site said it would take some from Google. But all it ever does is mix up the letters on some arty background. Jeez. I want my money back.
Do you know the "Workshop of Potential Literature" ? It was a post-surrealistic French movement, regarded as a forerunner of the random possibilities of the Internet :
http://www.oulipocompendium.com/html/home.html
Hey, had a look at our "good old forum" ? Dunno what she said, but the anti-Moore gal sure came on running like I knew she would at the first provocation. They want me on their site but for now they're entertaining me on my territory, LOL. It's like in "Monty Python's Holy Grail", when the French in their castle taunt King Arthur who's still outside and he loses his temper, LMAO. These anti-Moores are as subtle as a bull in front of a red cloth.
But God are they numerous.
Sorry to disappoint, it's only same old me.
I just looked at what the gal wrote. Not too bad. She's trying hard. Think I should reward her ?
Yeah, you should reward her. Just because that would be more entertainment for me. I'm not ready to join that fray just yet. Like I said, it feels like Moorewatch only without the same level of intelligence, and that is a sad, sad statement. But who knows! Maybe that is the perfect crowd to connect with. They are mostly harmless. If an intelligent voice from "the other side" comes through, perhaps they will think more. Who knows. If you test the water, I may join at some point. We'll see.
Morons are never harmless. Didn't you read "Stupid White Men" ? And if it's for your entertaiment, then I'll dive head first.
But you promise me it will make you less sad, eh ? :-)
Morons have strength in numbers, but intelligent people who have it wrong are more dangerous because they know how to convince the morons to follow them, so I belive, relatively speaking, that a smart wrong person is more harmful than a moron. Then again, a moron who has it right (that is, sees things my way) is an entirely different story, because they are a liability. Morons on the opposing side can always be won over through deprogramming, but our own morons are the ones who vote to nominate the Kerry's of the world, and then vote for the Bush's of the world in the main election because they actually think he's still a "straight shooter." Those are the truly dangerous morons. Then there are the smart, but willfully ignorant. I think they are the most dangerous of all. They aren't morons, but weak willed suckers who are led down the garden path by family and peers, never having the guts to think truly for themselves. Or simply the intelligent yet uncurious, people who believed in compassionate things all their life without question, and then suddenly had an epiphany that led them to question their values, and were fooled by rhetoric to believe that lacking compassion is compassionate. Tough Love! There are many forms of danger that manifest them through people who are wrong. But some silly morons are, while among the dangerous, the least scary to me, hence my assertion that they are mostly harmless.
By the way, your post there is brilliant. Your scholarliness is apparent. It's interesting, the people we meet online who are smart in different ways. When I used to "hang out" at alt.movies.kubrick, there were many professors and writers and even a few film directors who I would talk to without any inclination as to who they were in life until later. The internet is a great equalizer in many ways. Now that's an interesting discussion for another day. I've got to go and watch some Curb Your Enthusiasm with my wife. Yippee!
Thanks for the compliment. I used my Herr Professor side on purpose ;). You know, Ambrose Bierce had made this comment after writing The Devil's Dictionary : "I want the morons to shut up after reading it". The kind of effect I wanted to produce was similar. I wanted to cause a socratic aporia and see what would happen after. But in the meanwhile you posted some funny shit, so I came down from my ivory tower, LOL.
There is no chain of command in the moronic world. A moron can be a smart moron or he can he a moronic moron. It's a matter of education, of culture, of social position, but that's anecdotal. Being a moron is a Freudian position.
I lied when I said intelligence was a form of pleasure. Intelligence is painful. Dumbness is much more pleasant. That's why so many choose it. For dumbness is a choice. Intelligence is simply what we are here for. That's why morons hear its call even though it's an ultrasound to them, or even though it's shrill and they don't like it.
Beyond that, being a moron is also a spiritual position. It's the choice to serve evil instead of serving good. Now of course what's good and what's evil can be discussed. I personally believe humanity is unable to tell and need religion to know. But it doesn't matter. What matters is that the spiritual morons are able to serve evil even though they acknowledge it as evil themselves. You can tell from their lies and their silences. See Kopel from the "Independent Institute" (ha !), see Mike's opponents running and fleeing.
You know, my friend the Moore-disliker causes me a lot of pain. Of course the way he sees Mike is hard to bear, but not only. There is so much slumber, fear and refusal (he's excellent at debating without debating, and now that we're friends he has stopped debating at all) in this remarkably intelligent, honest and moral man that it upsets me. As a Jew he knows what oppression is and what the moronic position can do. But from there he draws crazy conclusions and makes stunning choices, and I don't know why or how since he won't discuss them. I gave him (and he gave me) so much love and he still won't trust me.
Dumbness, evil, madness - Shadows and Fog.
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