Forum / The Result Of High Grade Pharmaceuticals On Nerds

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  Chris Okum

  Jan 24, 05:42pm

  From Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World, by Jonathan Crary: "It is often said that billionaires are not the problem, that they are a secondary symptom of a market economy whose dynamics are not directly administered by anyone. However, even if this can be logically argued, the sociopathy of the global billionaire class (some soon to be trillionaires) produces a range of malignant consequences. A winner-take-all culture is not just incompatible with minimal norms of justice and democracy; it is synonymous with their disappearance. The unregulated, effectively lawless framework of global finance attracts and empowers a new category of criminals and psychopaths, especially now, with fewer or no constraints on the looting of social wealth and natural resources. As a result of this idolization of billionaires in mainstream media, those on the middle rungs of the class hierarchy must, in some way, adapt to this deranged social reality while those at the bottom of the global ladder are subjected to suffering, dispossession, and disposability."

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  Darryl Price

  Jan 25, 07:00pm

  The Part of the Story Where Anything Can Happen

  by Darryl Price

  for Chris Okum

  Some gates have opened that should have remained closed. Some
  gates have closed that should always be free and open
  for all. Things have come through that should have been
  kept out for good reason. Things are now being kept
  out that are necessary to continue to grow as human
  beings into better beings. But the true path remains the
  same central destination. The path of love is love. The
  royal path of love is freedom. Why hide the word?
  They are not coming to heal you. They are not
  coming to feed you. They are not here because they
  care if you live or die. They are here to
  stop you in your tracks. They are wearing Halloween costumes
  of politicians and priests and cops, friends and relatives, but
  the backs of their heads are shaved with hateful words
  of symbolic slaughter and domination. They are not here to
  equally share the world with you. They are not here
  for justice, but the power to control everything and that
  means every one of us. They despise the very air
  that you breathe without paying them something for it. They
  want you for their slaves because they are selfish idiots.
  Why hide the obvious truth? They hurt you because they
  can, because the Dark protects them, because their souls are
  twisted and tightly knotted by a daily rhetoric of blind
  lies and blind obedience to a heartless master. They have
  bargained with Death itself to be its zombie legion of
  followers to the grave. They have sold out brothers and
  sisters, wives and children, all to gain best favor with
  a reserved seat next to the Great and Powerful weapons
  of ultimate war. But, as John Lennon said, there's no
  one you can save who can't be saved. Showing them
  love will not be easy. They are being trained to
  fully detest things like empathy, compassion and mercy. You will
  not see any of these things in their eyes, but
  it's there, as much as it is in everything that
  is alive with atoms. It's there because we are here.
  It's there because we reflect it, even when it is
  hidden within the greedy, deepest depths of their self-pity and
  self-indulgence. They were once children, not enemies of Angels or
  planets, but intuitive partners of curiosity and exploration and free
  expression, play and creative activity. Maybe find a way to
  show them that memory, if we're going to stay alive.

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  Darryl Price

  Jan 25, 10:27pm

  To be perfectly clear, Chris is one of my favorite artists and a friend.

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  Chris Okum

  Jan 27, 06:29pm

  Good stuff, Darryl. Thanks.

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