jukebox lean: What'd you do today?

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

What'd you do today?

Living in another country, especially one in Central America, you can pretty much bet your life on getting some manner of food poisoning. However, having staved off this particular infirmity for just over 2 and half months, I figured my raw ass motherfucker of a stomach could handle anything. Quite the contrary. At approximately 9:22 P.M. on Dec. 5th, I signed my own gastrointestinal death certificate. Evidently this stir fry I ate had like, HELL of MSG in it. Plus the meat was rancid or something I dunno. So, with the MSG on top of the shit street-meat that was in my stirfry, not only was my body rejecting the food, but my stomach was physically eating itself. I mean, that I can deal with, I mean these things happen right? It was when I threw out my back from throwing up so hard that I kinda gave up on life altogether and decided that if I could ever walk again that I would buy a load of razorblades and do the deed. Well, today I walked again. But I decided the razor blade idea may have beena bit hasty, so instead I just went and got some Burger King.

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1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in "advanced" countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. "You do not understand me. I do not expect you to. You are not capable of it. I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good and evil. Legions of the night, night breed, repeat not the errors of night prowler and show no mercy. I will be avenged. Lucifer dwells within us all."The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in "advanced" countries.
2. The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy.
3. If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later.
4. We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system.