jukebox lean: fly by night

Saturday, May 24, 2008

fly by night

i am stranded in spain because an automated bicycle rental machine stole 236 dollars from me. i haven´t the money to leave to country, much less see the bullfight i am to attend tomorrow in madrid. in fact, i can´t even pay my current accomodation, but they don´t know that yet. it honestly may come down to doorbell ditch of literally international proportions. i have yet to locate the box in which our passport data has been stored, but once that happens, these dudes are fucked. more as this develops. just in case, what currently exists of the manuscript of my autobiography has been stored in locker 224 in union station. though they don´t yet know it, harper collins has agreed to publish it.

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julia said...: call me, ass.; 10:53 PM

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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.

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Saturday, May 24, 2008

fly by night

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