These are excerpts from Jim Macdonald’s: “Fools! A Cry of Hope!”
...so few people controlling the economic and political capital and all that goes with it – namely government at all its levels including the laws, military, and police; business at all its levels, particularly the large corporations; the banks at all their levels, especially the mega banks (I know you’re not listening, Wells Fargo); etc. These same people control the mass media – and the useless range of talking heads we hear – and the policy choices left as scraps for those foolish enough to believe their vote matters.Of course, that we are all left as fools is the point. Compared with their power, we are mere babbling idiots. I am allowed to write these things because they resonate nowhere. I am lucky if I can get my friends and family to read these essays. At most, my reach is a few hundred people for any given essay. If my message is intended to penetrate those who wield power, it simply cannot. Therefore, I am not a threat. Voices much larger than mine – from Amy Goodman to Noam Chomsky to Michael Moore – cannot make a dent in their citadel. In respect to it, we are left as babbling idiots. We, to them, are no more than the curiosities we find at the zoo – the same zoo animals that we happily abuse without a second thought. “Don’t feed the animals” might as well be a message for treating us. Ignore them, and they will go away. Give them a deal on consumer junk. Numb their minds with the safety of popular culture where what passes for radical is whether someone dares to utter a foul word or shows too much skin.Many people are surely “happy” with this life. They make enough money, they have a nice enough family, and they enjoy watching television day after day after day. So long as the upper classes keep a moderately fattened middle class, the wretched underbelly of the society will continue to be tolerated. You never see domestic cows rise up whatever their conditions. Just keep them sufficiently fat, and they will find contentment in that. I doubt that cows are actually content with that, but I want to make a different point. Keeping a cow fat comes at a cost. In Greater Yellowstone, it literally and specifically means the deaths and torture of thousands of bison. In human terms, it can mean computer chips coming at the cost of millions of lives in Africa, chronic poverty, and a permanent underclass of despair. It often means wars in other countries to maintain control over oil and energy resources, it means detrimental land practices, and that interestingly can lead to deaths and torture of thousands of bison. For keeping cows fat is not irrelevant in practice to keeping humans grazing on potatoes (in a thousand different varieties) from the couch.Yet, as long as we do not have to think about any of these things ourselves – so long as enough of us can remain fat and lazy – we are free to do whatever we want within the range of minutiae left for us (even to write essays like this – whatever floats your boat?)We are left babbling fools. When some people wake up to their condition and decide that they want to live their lives more fully – recognizing that the happiest life is one where each of us has the chance for the fullest expression of our nature – they occasionally go out to protest. This has happened in the last year with the Occupy Movement; it has happened here in Bozeman, Montana with a Wells Fargo divestment campaign and other actions. Inevitably, some people show up, raise a fuss, other people honk horns, and everyone goes home. To the vast majority, it just looks like a show – a perverse show perhaps that could use a director and professional writers. It’s where the lunatics go, not the respectable people. Respectable people understand that change is not made that way. No one listens to lunatics on the side of the road waving signs and speaking incoherently into a sound system. It smacks of almost a religious cult to go out there with a sign proselytizing and chanting like maniacs.
What the respectable person does not realize is that he too has been made into a fool. Most people live in their silly little boxes connecting their asses to the couch, with a beer at their side, a remote control where their penis might be, flipping through hundreds of channels constantly. Perhaps, they pride themselves on being outdoors people, going out and hiking in the mountains with their dogs, enjoying the scenery and the physical exertion. This is all good; even animals need their exercise. They think they have found a place to keep their dogs off their leashes, but the leashes are firmly around our necks. The moment ends, and we return to our jobs and the numbing routine of life. Look at this society from the sky, and you see what looks like an ant colony marching in line, the land turned into grids, and all the people down there look like mere ants filling up those grids with their cars. The respectable person has been made a fool. Our ancestors would not likely see this as progress. They would laugh at what buffoons we have made of our lives.Through peaks, we see that things are not nearly so dreamy that even the happy caged fool imagines himself. We get a glimpse behind the American Beauties at the high divorce rate, at the high suicide rates, at polls that suggest that the respectable people don’t think things are going in the right direction. Alcoholism and drug abuse are high at all socioeconomic levels; diseases related to obesity are gaining strength as well – all while health care costs are skyrocketing and many formerly middle class people have lost their homes and their jobs. There is high anxiety about whether the middle class trough isn’t soon disappearing. Indeed, I am not immune; I can write this essay today because my contract at another job recently ended, and I too am between jobs and unsure whether my trough will run dry. We do not know where to turn. Our friends are the people we get drunk with; can we count on them to be there when things really get tough, when we might find ourselves imposing on them? In some cases, we are fortunate. Many are not; they do not even know their neighbors.snipNevertheless, the happy fools are content enough and only take a disdainful glance at anyone who reminds them that there are many who are not and have never been so fortunate – that the 2008 economic recession was their lot long before the housing market collapsed.snip... We have seen what all the electioneering has done to give us a President Obama who has plenty of blood on his hands – continuing to wage wars across the world. They have elected Democratic and Republican congresses, and they are surely not the same (one is always going to be better than the other), but they did not derive their power from you. They derive it from those who hold the purse strings. That is why they can pretend to be environmentalists, for instance, all while supporting hydraulic fracturing. That is why they take a half moment to shake your hand while spending hours wining and dining with the rich and influential.snipThe real problem, of course, is that our voices – the extension of what it means for us to be alive as humans – do not matter in the least. Thus, I’d suggest that acting like fools via protest serves a more rational purpose in one respect. The protestor is, by screaming and yelling, trying to express to the rest of us that we are reduced to a state of relative insanity, and that we fellow fools need to do something about it. Unfortunately, the message is lost on a dumbfounded public that misses the irony. That is no doubt why I find myself writing an essay like this – so that at least those few people who hear this recognize that we have as much hope of getting our message across to the powers that be screaming like fools than doing anything else. Or, maybe, we just need to figure out how to be more entertaining. As court jesters, we might be able to be more subversive than we realize if only we were more conscious of our aim. My sense is that too many protestors believe that they are doing something that might communicate a serious message. There is a serious message for sure; however, we need to step back and realize that the message isn’t to be found in our signs, but in our desperation – in the fact that we are exposing the truth of what we all are – lab animals in some sadistic if yet silly experiment.snipI meet a lot of people who admit a core of loneliness. If recognizing we are made fools is the beginning of wisdom, then the admission of our loneliness – strange as it may sound – is the beginning of hope. When people both realize their place as fools in this world and yet also find a kindred bond with some in the immediate environment, then maybe there’s a reason to care, to be rational, and reasonable, and respectable. There we find the true seeds of happiness – not the inner peace sold like a potion and not the so called outer peace of hope in someone else somewhere else – but in discovering something simultaneously in ourselves and with each other. Only if we can succeed at those first steps can we have any hope of raising our voices loud enough to be heard up in the citadel, to make ourselves strong enough to tear that tower of Babel down once and for all.This is my cry in the dark. Has anyone heard? I don’t want to be left howling alone in this dungeon. Enough is enough! Let us sing a new song!
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You are not going to get another life. Be happy with what you have and try to improve your lot. If you don't believe in yourself do not ask others to believe in you. Most of us have been in our dungeons of our own making. Hard. Very hard. Let me assure you that you are not going to make a difference unless you start something. Make something. Sell something. Create something. Love yourself.
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Exactly. There are the true seeds of happiness and the false ones. He is right. You are right for posting this. Sorry you (and I and anyone seeing it) had to see the obnoxious first comment. I'm sure you love yourself fine. Tedious platitude people! Be happy with what you have and don't think about anything one else and let the rest of humanity rot. Blech. That cowlike attitude got us into the mess to begin with.
Will the black helicopters hunt me down for rating this? Yeah, I know. They don't give a shit about me. But I see them flying overhead during the day. Hunting somebody, or training to hunt.
This is powerful. Thanks for posting this, Libby.
This is powerful. Thanks for posting this, Libby.
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Ande. Macdonald's essay was refreshing to me, but the title was presumptuous I realized after posting and may not have that effect on others. The earnestness of your comments is compelling. I thought Macdonald took a really big step backward in perspective in seeing us all in the same humbling societal "enclosure", as profoundly disrespected, neglected and exploited by an overlord economic and political class and recognizing our mutuality in vulnerability will help us. I feel that way, too. I see the nation as a family, and I see a global family, too. And I see that family getting bullied.
I wonder if this quote will resonate with you re some of your comments on believing in oneself and relating to others:
"A student once said “When I was a Buddhist it drove my parents and friends crazy, but when I am a buddha nobody is upset at all.”"
Jon Kabit-Zinn
I am trying to be the buddha in my life, but too often or maybe always am the buddhist in that analogy. Ghandi said to be the change you want to see in the world (rather than the would be changer). Same message I think. Easier said than done, certainly. We are all works in progress and hearing our own inner drummers. And following our own hearts, minds and consciences.
Someone once wrote that we should not go to shrinks to change, we should treat shrinks like astronomers rather than magical "fixers" of our abnormalities and neuroses. Astronomers to calmly explain to us how the constellations of our personalities and characters, how they came to be, were created by both nature and nurture (or lack thereof) of our childhoods so that we can learn to co-exist more peaceably and effectively with those ferocious roles, tendencies and belief systems, since, again, the configuration of our beings were so profoundly set by that journey.
Learning to love oneself is indeed key to existential peace. So is loving humanity. Sometimes tough loving parts of humanity is part of it all, as is tough loving oneself at necessary times.
fwiw. best, libby
I wonder if this quote will resonate with you re some of your comments on believing in oneself and relating to others:
"A student once said “When I was a Buddhist it drove my parents and friends crazy, but when I am a buddha nobody is upset at all.”"
Jon Kabit-Zinn
I am trying to be the buddha in my life, but too often or maybe always am the buddhist in that analogy. Ghandi said to be the change you want to see in the world (rather than the would be changer). Same message I think. Easier said than done, certainly. We are all works in progress and hearing our own inner drummers. And following our own hearts, minds and consciences.
Someone once wrote that we should not go to shrinks to change, we should treat shrinks like astronomers rather than magical "fixers" of our abnormalities and neuroses. Astronomers to calmly explain to us how the constellations of our personalities and characters, how they came to be, were created by both nature and nurture (or lack thereof) of our childhoods so that we can learn to co-exist more peaceably and effectively with those ferocious roles, tendencies and belief systems, since, again, the configuration of our beings were so profoundly set by that journey.
Learning to love oneself is indeed key to existential peace. So is loving humanity. Sometimes tough loving parts of humanity is part of it all, as is tough loving oneself at necessary times.
fwiw. best, libby
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watching un`pierced franks explode
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gotta tell you, Art, sometimes you really crack me up, give me a belly laugh when I most need it. And leak out some profound truths, too.
Working for justice. Though sometimes being a "bumper car for peace" is a kind of oxymoron. Talking about me more than you. Okay, maybe both of us at times! :)
best, libby
watching un`pierced franks explode
in the microwave"
gotta tell you, Art, sometimes you really crack me up, give me a belly laugh when I most need it. And leak out some profound truths, too.
Working for justice. Though sometimes being a "bumper car for peace" is a kind of oxymoron. Talking about me more than you. Okay, maybe both of us at times! :)
best, libby
It will not sustain. Whether that is a notion of hope or major tragedy or much of both I cannot say.
fernsy, thanks for the strong tlc! I have to admit I have a habit of assuming my belief system is one size fits all.
I don't know about self-love, it sure fluctuates with me. But I do know growing up I was conditioned not to believe in myself and now I am coming to believe in myself more and more and liking myself more. I like flexing on open salon. Gives me an opportunity to stretch and sometimes meet new evolving dimensions of myself. Sometimes the feedback from others is informative, positively and/or painfully. Sometimes I over-blurt, sometimes not enuf. But the beat goes on!
You know the theory of Johari's window? Four squares. What we know about ourselves that others know about us,too, is one. Another, what we know about ourselves that is hidden from others. What others can see about us we are blind to in ourselves is a third. And what is true of us both we and others are clueless about us is the fourth.
I see people like you and others here taking risks in asserting and confiding and supporting and it inspires and teaches. thanks for that.
thanks for commenting, too! best, libby :)
I don't know about self-love, it sure fluctuates with me. But I do know growing up I was conditioned not to believe in myself and now I am coming to believe in myself more and more and liking myself more. I like flexing on open salon. Gives me an opportunity to stretch and sometimes meet new evolving dimensions of myself. Sometimes the feedback from others is informative, positively and/or painfully. Sometimes I over-blurt, sometimes not enuf. But the beat goes on!
You know the theory of Johari's window? Four squares. What we know about ourselves that others know about us,too, is one. Another, what we know about ourselves that is hidden from others. What others can see about us we are blind to in ourselves is a third. And what is true of us both we and others are clueless about us is the fourth.
I see people like you and others here taking risks in asserting and confiding and supporting and it inspires and teaches. thanks for that.
thanks for commenting, too! best, libby :)
Chicken Maaan, I am glad Macdonald's declarations resonated. Human progress has always been contingent on "united we stand" solidarity. I liked the way he said it. Some would say pessimistically. I read once that realists are really optimists and those labeled pessimists are really the real realists.
Black helicopters, eh? I am wary of drones the size of hummingbirds. Probably much smaller by now since last I read that comparison.
Best, libby
Black helicopters, eh? I am wary of drones the size of hummingbirds. Probably much smaller by now since last I read that comparison.
Best, libby
toritto, thanks for comment. You are talking about trickle up misery sending its message to the middle class or former middle class! I think the swamp is rising fast, the quicksands quickening.
I love hearing of your faith and confidence in your children and their generation. Would like to give all the hope and experience I can share before my final exit, though. "They believe in justice down to the bone" makes me smile with hope! Thanks for that. best, libby
I love hearing of your faith and confidence in your children and their generation. Would like to give all the hope and experience I can share before my final exit, though. "They believe in justice down to the bone" makes me smile with hope! Thanks for that. best, libby
Yes, Jan, I think Macdonald has his own unique cognitive dissonance going on, in a way, don't think they can hear you but assert your brains out anyway, but I find it a kind of a counterpoint to the cognitive dissonance being dished out from the media. Also, a warning to would be reformers not to get so grandiose they lose sight of the real enemy and appreciate their mutuality with those not as awake yet to the hardening of soft fascism. Sustain their empathy for the entire family of man and woman. And he is tweaking those who are unconscious and believing they have a voice in now voiceless America. The 99% will say "no war" and the President, Congress, Pentagon and NYT, et al., (and Israel) says "WAR ON!" I called Macdonald's take "refreshing" because it was pointing out how formidable our plight is but also encouraging mutual support there at the end and hope. yeah, we are in the dungeon, but wake up and look at how many of us are here to deal with it. best, libby
Very interesting post. I agree with nearly everything he says - except for the statement that the middle class is happy. I don't think anyone in this society is terribly happy. In order to function emotionally, people have a fundamental need to live in community with their fellow human beings - something that has been systematically destroyed in contemporary society.
I too find myself in full agreement with most of what you've posted of his writing. But it is NOT to the elite that people who join in such things as Occupy, are "screaming". It is to their fellow sheeple. It is to let the sheeple know that they are not alone; that others see the same things in the same way as they do. It says, "WE CAN DO BETTER" if we put out minds to it. It says that there are ways to deal with the elite that don't necessarily involve violent confrontation. (Check out the latest "adbusters" bulletin for more info on this.)
Thanks for posting this, my friend, it heartens me to know that my eyes are not playing tricks on me and that others see what I see; as do many of your posts.
"LOOK AROUD YOU.... IS THIS THE BEST THAT WE CAN DO?"
Thanks for posting this, my friend, it heartens me to know that my eyes are not playing tricks on me and that others see what I see; as do many of your posts.
"LOOK AROUD YOU.... IS THIS THE BEST THAT WE CAN DO?"
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"AROUND" not "AROUD"......... (Tiz been a looooong day of moving)
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"AROUND" not "AROUD"......... (Tiz been a looooong day of moving)
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Instead of a vague "put our minds to it" I am very interested in a peaceful way to be effective. I agree that occupying parks, marching with signs, linking arms and singing, etc, is only effective in evoking police brutality. What definite suggestions do you have? Voting for two candidates with no difference solves nothing since both are under the control of the corporate-financial systems.
Start each new day with welcome and enjoy it. Seek out good and it will come to you....
We all live in our tiny cells with walls we erected ourselves. Shackled by crushing debts and struggling to hang on during this horrible depression economy.
You cannot truly love another until you love yourself.
And then forgiving your same self for being imperfect.
WE all need to raise our voices...
We all live in our tiny cells with walls we erected ourselves. Shackled by crushing debts and struggling to hang on during this horrible depression economy.
You cannot truly love another until you love yourself.
And then forgiving your same self for being imperfect.
WE all need to raise our voices...
Libby...I have been in my own dungeon a couple of times and in someone else' s once. My own despair brought me there. My own will and faith in a tomorrow was my vehicle for escape. Right now I am watching a magnificent tree blowing about.....15' from my window. If this was the last thing I ever saw before descending into another Hell of my own making, I would focus on that image and find a way to crawl back. Be not complacent with the status quo. And never give up hope. If you've only tasted Vanilla, try chocolate.
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Stuart, thanks for your visit once again. I tend to agree with you on that every one in our society is unhappy including the middle class. But there is the devastation of economic oppression and terrorism on the lowest class and there is "unease" of the middle class without bottom line hunger and homelessness and joblessness, though the third one is really creeping in there and thus the other two will follow ultimately, which I know I do not have to raise your consciousness about. As toritto theorizes, we are awaiting trickle up bottom line misery conditions. I do see the nature of the national unhappiness in the more cognitive dissonance zone of the national faux communicator, big media, offering no comfort but confusion (fusion with) with its flashlight on non-empathetic scenarios, titillation over human sensitivity. The gamesmanship reporting of the political horse race not the moral ramifications of the grotesque amorality our governance including Prez is locked into and pumping up war rationalizations for the 1% corporate war agendas. Putting the white hat on Obama like MSNBC does is most crazymaking imho and dangerous. Special kudos from me on this statement:
"In order to function emotionally, people have a fundamental need to live in community with their fellow human beings - something that has been systematically destroyed in contemporary society."
As norville of the changing names declares, we are a spiritually "zombie" nation in terms of our vast majority.
best, libby
"In order to function emotionally, people have a fundamental need to live in community with their fellow human beings - something that has been systematically destroyed in contemporary society."
As norville of the changing names declares, we are a spiritually "zombie" nation in terms of our vast majority.
best, libby
thanks, sky! I appreciate what you say and the validation. I feel like you when I read a sympatico blog, like Macdonald's, that is calling out the lazy, distracted, heartless, willfully ignorant, media or socially cronied propaganda status quo denial, minimization and justification for the amoral that is escalating in this country. The evil that is being normalized and institutionalized! I, too, believe in non-violence. If the 80 million who backed Obama thinking or more hoping he was someone else rallied once again to say, "You blew it, buddy, and have been committing war crimes and shredding our constitution and denying us health care and jobs and security when you could have done so and we would have had your back and both parties would have to reckon with our strength" then we would be somewhere healthy today, not shrugging that we are STUCK with the lesser of two evils bullsh*t. best, libby
Jan, thanks for coming back. I wish I had a roster to present you with. I do think that protests are important to rally those seeking justice. Courage is contagious and in our cyberworld it is important to show up feet on the ground to walk the walk and support like-minded people of conscience, though I see the growing repression of first amendment rights and the ruling class elite illegitimately using the police to break our rights. To up the cost of voicing one's outrage at the amorality. That is why I get so frustrated with citizens who will let the brave ones of our society twist in the wind and take on unfair punishment because they are not covering their backs when those honorable individuals are fighting for all of us. Risking their quality of life for us. No way will I vote for Obama. I will not reward someone with re-election I believe deserves impeachment and prosecution. I am backing the Green Party with Dr. Jill Stein. it needs and deserves national support. It has a platform of principles. I see how I have failed my generation and future ones by not paying attention to what was happening in local, state and national political realms for way too many years. Not aware of the corruption. We all got punked believing during the Bush years that the Dem party represented at least SOME liberal and moral values and what a shame it wasn't in power, if we could only get it back. hah! Its corruption was paralleling what was happening with the Republican party. I also believe, Jan, people like you who call out the mendacity of the status quo are sending out strong, persistent ripples and currents of consciousness raising, even though Macdonald modestly says his blogging is not making a difference, it is and does. Sometimes I go to someone like Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report and read his stark call outs on Obama and I take a deep breath but I know his saying it there in black and white so bluntly and passionately is empowering me to nod and break through the denial, minimization and rationalization always pulling at all of us and to spread the truth Ford, and others like him, is illuminating, especially since big media is so slick and pervasive and replaces real truth and reality with "truthiness" anti-humanity bullshit. best, libby
Mission, thanks for the visit. Thanks for sharing your wisdom and spirit once again. Worth repeating:
"Start each new day with welcome and enjoy it. Seek out good and it will come to you....
"We all live in our tiny cells with walls we erected ourselves. Shackled by crushing debts and struggling to hang on during this horrible depression economy.
"You cannot truly love another until you love yourself.
And then forgiving your same self for being imperfect.
WE all need to raise our voices..."
yes, yes, yes. We encourage our higher selves to stay awake and proactive as best we can. Forgive ourselves our humanness. Reach for both gratification and satisfaction as part of the glory and challenge of being a human being, and may that satisfaction be spiritually aligned rather than based on ego shallowness and/or evil!
best, libby
"Start each new day with welcome and enjoy it. Seek out good and it will come to you....
"We all live in our tiny cells with walls we erected ourselves. Shackled by crushing debts and struggling to hang on during this horrible depression economy.
"You cannot truly love another until you love yourself.
And then forgiving your same self for being imperfect.
WE all need to raise our voices..."
yes, yes, yes. We encourage our higher selves to stay awake and proactive as best we can. Forgive ourselves our humanness. Reach for both gratification and satisfaction as part of the glory and challenge of being a human being, and may that satisfaction be spiritually aligned rather than based on ego shallowness and/or evil!
best, libby
Ande, thanks for coming back. I don't know if I would have chosen the word "dungeon" as Macdonald did in my own blog, but it does resonate for me. I am wondering if you mistook that statement of being in the dungeon from him to me as the writer and not Macdonald? Maybe not. I do appreciate your encouragement to reach for personal balance and joy and not get lost in frustration which is a pitfall for me personally. I have lived in dungeons and bell jars way too long in my life, thanks for confiding you have been through your own dark days, and the slippery slope to both of them seems to hover and invite too often still. I appreciate the emphasis on will. That is what ails many of us personally and collectively in this country imho. Charles Ferguson said on a Tavis Smiley show he wondered if Obama who strikes me as such a cynical creature in his pragmatic rationalizations for anti-human policies has wiped out idealism for the next few generations at least. I am hoping OWS is exhibit A that Obama did not manage that. I just hope the rest of us can cover the backs of the awake and conscience-driven kids!!! I want to live a spiritually aligned and gratifying life!!! These are soul-trying times and meeting the enormous challenges of it is part of that. best, libby
mark!!! :) thanks once again!!! best, libby xx
A barking dog can be a nuisance but nobody pays important attention to it until it bites.
I can't buy into the "seek out good and it will come to you" blather. That sort of thing is part of the elite brainwashing that goes along with "pull yourself up by your own boot straps" stuff. Yeah, seek out good (such as an old man who felt sorry for one who deliberately gave the appearance of being ill with Lupus) and con them out of their pension money, eh Mission?
You see evil in your mirror every day and yet you have the gall to come on OS and offer your trite, nicey -nicey adages while giving the impression that they are something you live by. I know better, don't I Mission? About a thousand dollars better!
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You see evil in your mirror every day and yet you have the gall to come on OS and offer your trite, nicey -nicey adages while giving the impression that they are something you live by. I know better, don't I Mission? About a thousand dollars better!
.Skypixiezero - aka Larry Lawson.
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Somehow I missed this post. Bill Hicks did so many routines wrapped around the narcotic effect of media, marketing and complacent suburban comfort diversions... if I can find a clip from his HBO specials, I'll post it for comment & support.
awww, jmac, i thought you were just being FICKLE and had dumped me. ;) would be interested in hearing more of this bill hicks!
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