Posts tagged "ruination"
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Accelerationist Ambivalence
Listening to Steve Bannon coping with the increasing ineptitude of the Trump Regime is fun, but I actually like Steve Bannon. I like his approach. He’s a tactician. He knows his Sun Tzu. Moreso, I like that he’s an Accelerationist. It’s easy to shout ‘burn down the old temples’. As much as I cheer on people like Bannon, I also realize that there are problems with Accelerationism. It’s complicated. We’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t. Let me explain.
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The 1937 Watershed
Do you know anyone over 90 years of age?1 I have a 95 year old neighbor; she lives alone;2 up until a year ago, she drove a car to the nearby shops. How about that really old English war hero who died during the pandemic? They don’t make 'em like they used to. They do make 'em like they used to in 1941. That’s when Dick Cheney was born. Something struck me recently: “all these 80 year olds, like Cheney, Trump, Biden, and Pelosi, are not noble people… they make such a contrast with the 90 year olds.” So, I came up with a hypothesis. My hypothesis is based on the idea that there was some big generational shift which delimited the 90-somethings from everyone since.
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Why I write A Blog
I remember one time, one early evening, I happened to be looking at my deck when a big longhorn beetle landed and rolled on its back. I set it right, but it immediately unset itself. Lying there, walking to nowhere, it was as if whatever tiny soul it had was reliving the thing that made it feel most free. An hour later, its legs were now moving in slow motion. Death was close. I went away for a while, and when I came back, the first ants had appeared. Scavenger bitches! It wasn’t dead yet!1 Half an hour later (or so), I checked again and there was a swarm of ants trying to move the corpse. When I went to bed they were still working. The next morning there was nothing there. A writer should have a question that has stalked him like Death his whole life.
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