Persiflage & Paroxysm

The history of the world that is written in approved texts is a judiciously selected compendium of myriad facts, dates and cautionary tales, tales carefully chosen by the authors and their patrons to reflect their world view. It’s little wonder then that these official histories are rife with inconsistencies and pseudo-facts. But these historical accounts soon evolve and develop from points of view subject to revision and correction to reach the status of accepted myth. Its devotees are quick to defend theses written accounts without the slightest intention of proving the provenance of the many assertions made in these texts. Their devotion to this accepted history is absolute. One hundred years from now the history of what happened in Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela, Libya and elsewhere, gleaned from inaccurate accounts of events and slanted and down right biased reporting by journalists in the unwitting employ of powerful nations, will be etched in stone and as unchangeable as the ...

The lucky few on this Earth are dumb, I mean really dumb, and they have only one thought on their mind and seek only one thing: pleasure. The unlucky ones are the rest of us who ask and inquire and search for answers and meaning that do not exist, filling our lives with worry, anxiety and pain. There is no meaning to it all, only the pursuit of scratching that itch and the lucky among us live out their lives drunk or drugged to high heaven. The unlucky ones have reality to contend with and to theorise about, how lucky are we! We're not in a race, nor are we being tested to make sure our moral stature and character are suitable, nor is life a resume and list of achievements, nor is it about procreation oddly enough. Kids are rarely a reward, they are more often a punishment for not using protection, a tax we pay for all the fun we had. If you're alive you better live with all you've got, have as much pleasure as your wallet and fitness level can stand, go all out, beca...

The idea that a welfare system that keeps people healthy and makes sure everyone is literate, ruins economies by making people lazy and not want to work is total bullshit! People need to do something in their lives that defines them and fulfills them, so people will continue to work in a welfare State. In fact, once free form anxiety and worry over getting sick and how to get medical care or over how to pay for the kids' college, people tend to work even harder and better and achieve more.  Wha t really makes people not want to work or aspire to achieving great things within the economic system is the bureaucracy that savagely attacks and destroys private enterprise and aspirations wherever it sees it. It does so to keep power concentrated within it and keep the citizenry constantly seeking the good will of the bureaucracy.  Figure-head military or political leaders are not the real dictators, civil servants and the structure they serve and perpetuate, those are the real ...