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Group: alt.nuke.the.usa · Group Profile
Author: Ken EhrettKen Ehrett Date: Sep 3, 2008 15:46
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 15:16:48 -0700 (PDT), LumpLoad gmail.com>
wrote:
:>I realize all you guys are grizzled old rodeo riders here in usenet-
:>world, but I either have a baseline IQ or else I've fallen prey to
:>some kind of brain disorder that's turned my brain to goat cheese.
:>I've been fucking around with a laptop on my, well, lap, for almost a
:>year now and I noticed I can barely read the back of the cereal box
:>without my concentration wandering off. I used to read Russian
:>literature for fun and now I can't comprehend the instructions that
:>come with a hand-operated can opener. The internet seems to me to be
:>like a gigantic wall of hundreds of screens, all open simultaneously,
:>and I just sit in front of it and scan all day and all night. If it's
:>not a recipe for boiling corn, it's the Fed's analysis of Chinese coal
:>industry and/or buying a watchband while looking at a fat guy shooting
:>off a handgun.
:>
:>In other words, it's all hopelessly mired-down in a vast swamp of
:>idiocy that I could float in till the day I die. I'm not sure I should
:>do that..... it requires so little of me, yet takes so much, without
:>me giving anything yet keeps me coming back for more. Very strange.
:>
:>I don't even recognize the world I live in anymore. When did politics
:>become about the person and not about the plank? Does anyone even
:>know what a plank in a platform even meant? Apparently not. Instead
:>of debating the role of government in American life and keeping the
:>power-drivers in check, it's reduced to telling the other guy he sucks
:>off his dog for breakfast. Pretty goddamn horrible for us.
:>Depressing. If I turn off the TV and unplug the computer and quit
:>reading the newspaper and go back in my little den/library and pick up
:>that book I bought last year about John Adams, will I be any happier?
:>Socrates thought that the invention of writing would cripple Man's
:>intellect by giving him a way to refer to the knowledge that the good
:>old man felt we should have in our head, vibrating.
:>
:>My sleep is all fucked up again; I'm back to waking up at 3:15 am and
:>by 9 am, I have that shitty hung-over feeling I hate that reminds me
:>of all those years I came to work sick from the night before. I'm
:>worried about this election, I'm worried about realizing that life has
:>no meaning beyond what one gives it, I miss my dog who died of old age
:>seven years back and I miss the night.
:>
:>The only identities who feels like they have plasma running in their
:>veins around here is Karen and Bill C., aka the Nominated. Don't any
:>of you find that odd? That the two persons who are thought of as
:>crackpots are the only ones who seems like they are anchored to some
:>kind of humanity? Bill Cmelak and Karen Anderson, being nominated for
:>actually firing neutrons while the Goat Keepers think they hold the
:>keys.
:>
:>See what I mean? I read an interview with the Google boys and they
:>said that we'd all be better off if we were interfaces. And by god if
:>they weren't serious.
:>
:>I'll see you around. Shutting this shit off will be like quitting
:>smoking. Let's see if I can go longer than 4 hours... ha.
Don't worry about a thing Beavershot, I'm sure one of your other nyms or a
flood of anonymous remailers will come in and agree with you and hang on
your every word.
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