Post-war, post-strife, corporate control ensures harmony and plenty. An athlete excels at a deadly game, and the idea of excellence and beating the odds in a world of conforming drug-doped nobodies makes him dangerous. Individuality and the excess of self. But what does dangerous freedom look like in the 'I' of the storm? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yku2CXuKKiU This … Continue reading RollerBall (1975) A Metaphor For American Exceptionalism Reversed Engineered Within A Single Isolated Individual – James Caan Battles For the Ineffable In Cyberpunk Dystopia Bloodsport
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Jordan Peterson Interprets Dostoevsky’s ‘Notes From Underground’ And His Take Away Is ‘UtopianISM’ is Bad When I Would Argue Dostoevsky’s More Subtle And Truly Genius Message Is ‘Utopia Literally Means No Place For a Reason’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZyNJ3cKfEg THE ISLAND... IS US. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9a7-2XLPqc&t=287s This is in my opinion an incredible misreading. Dostoevsky is not criticizing 'Utopianism' but rather Rationality itself. In fact a gutteral human cry rebutting those who would seek to have all live and die under the rubric "facts don't care about your feelings." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIiyuHwontk
Prayer for the Highland Prodigal Wolf
If you look through these pages torn withered leaves, whispered meanings dissolving on bloodsoaked screaming terror filled streets viewed from the roof top of your disconnect your high definite touchless screens you will not find me among the lost, among the angry i am gone with the things i let go from the weapons i … Continue reading Prayer for the Highland Prodigal Wolf
The Bullet Is Still Inside (YOU DO IT TO YOURSELF) – …This is Where the Lattice Comes In…
Because I want everyone to witness my youth. Why?Isn’t it gorgeous? Who’s gorgeous? Not like that. No, I just mean, that it’s in bloom. That’s what you’re all about, right? The showing of raw fruit, correct? Whether that’s in videos or on spring break, whatever, the amplifying of youth, the editing and volume magnifying what … Continue reading The Bullet Is Still Inside (YOU DO IT TO YOURSELF) – …This is Where the Lattice Comes In…
In the Arms of An Emotional Support Martial Force Array – a Poem – by Cypress Butane
A clip, short, with strident blip of crying woman, usually unkempt In an apartment collapsed and spent Watch closely captioned what happens Next Her animal, more than a pet knows she Is in a panic and so attacks - with passionate Affection, attention and unrelent You get the picture, She cries and yet The idea … Continue reading In the Arms of An Emotional Support Martial Force Array – a Poem – by Cypress Butane
The Haunted Typewriter 