some notes on geographical difference
as you may already know i spent some time outside of maine in late july and the beginning of august. hence i feel qualified to begin making generalizations about what i have seen and assessing the complex character of this our expansive nation. and its almost the 5th anniversary of 9/11 so it is timely to trot out the assessments of our nations character and maybe hold it accountable to its new style. which is neither new nor stylish...UGH, hit me! my preoccupation with september the 11th is growing and growing weird. it is not some late blooming melodrama of tragedy (not that i'm trying to say it was a good thing...its just, many a high profile hand has been wrung and i really dont feel the need to add to that. in addition, on personal terms [the ones that really matter to an egoist {who never thinks they hurt anybody} which is very much how i feel in matters of policy and national tragedy] it had a very distanced affect on me) its just at a weird observational stage now and very consciously avoiding opinion let alone emotion. i've speculated a lot about conspiracy theories and this depresses me for a number of reasons...i think i'll expound a bit.
firstly let me state for this record that i have trouble believing in a massive government engineered plot to drop tha towers. mostly because i doubt that enough people could be properly organized in this fashion towards this end. but then i wonder if mostly i just dont want to entertain the very depressing notion that theres really no atrocity too reprehensible for the government that governs me. certainly this is an element of my skepticism because assuming this kind of worldview would start to necessitate terrorism and i'm not ready for that. i hope no one's too disappointed.
but there are troubling questions regarding the architecture of collapse which i hardly understand but worry about. now were getting into real conspiracy territory, no? i'm marginally informed but skeptical and opinionated! which is a lie. i'm interested and skeptical but of really everyone involved here. even my mind which i grill about how much it can bear. answer; not much, some reading followed by brief comprehension and speculation but that takes time away from amateur rock theorizing and then i get cranky...i need a cigarette...what's better, a speculative fiction or back to the motor league? who's better AND less appreciated, T.Rex or Creedence? what if Big Star's in that race? its no use.
then i get depressed thinking about how 9/11 conspiracy theories are really gaining a lot of ground in popular discouse. this in and of itself is not depressing because that is a good thing i think. the government could stand more scrutiny i think. stop me if i'm off base. tell me if you work for the NSA. what worries me HERE is that this will become our generation's JFK assassination in which a lot is said and written and speculated and after all of it they just give us the same report and it fades away. at least Oliver Stone probably wont weigh in this time...OH TICK!
well, time's gonna tell and these things probably will get a lot of external stimuli in the coming weeks and so i'm ready for it and eagerly anticipating the renewed fervor this time around. ugh i'm making myself sick. i need some superfluous rock prattle to realign with and set my mind right. but i meant to talk about the midwest
what i have seen in my limited travels is the character of this country is indistinct as so much of it consists of fake towns centered around shopping centers. what percentage of our great land is now parking lot? of course this is generalizing (i TOLD you) and ignoring a lot but is it so unfair to focus discussion of how we live on where we live? so much of the densely populated USA is so very similar as to render kind of silly geographical distinctions and, so i'm gonna say, geography its damn self.
i know this is false but i've got a new idea about policy and dialogue and it comes from the fertile ground of AM call-in radio programs. this also comes from the trip and it has been given more thought than i care to admit cause i'd like you to think that i spontaneously mesh disparate influences all the time. also i feel kind of ashamed of the amount of times in a day that i idly wonder "how would sean hannity handle this?" see where this is going? FUCK GEOGRAPHY! useless waste of time cluttering up the institutions of higher learning.
but what i'm thinking is that while i find the IDEA of calm, rational dialogue appealing, America (a lot of her) seems to not...find as i do. so while i am irked by the prospect of alienating extremism i maybe just gotta buy it so that i illicit stronger responses. as it is i think i register a vague, inchoate apathy in most situations. hence the predictable rock and radio blather is now cut with the awkward solemnity of some of my half-assed musings on 9/11. but if this aint an outlet for irresponsible musing then that means i gotta get into political radio. which could definetly be really fun for awhile.
heres something! a new career in a new town! irk no more vlad wormwood, irk america! ask not what your country can lamely half-provide for you but what you can loud-mouthedly posit about gay marriage and flag-burning. and what these things need is someone on the left who's just as loud and stupid. representatives from the left always make the mistake of trying to engage in dialogue and just stutter dumbfoundedly when hannity or whoever stumps them with something completely unrelated and of no bearing on the issue at hand. what the left needs is someone who in this case just screams back "ATTICA!" or "JOE McCARTHY'S GHOST" or "CHENEY SHOT A MAN IN THE FUCKIN FACE" see i got a lot of these, i'm pretty ready for the AM circuit if i do say so myself.
and it will help because change does not actually come from rational dialogue (you fucking hippy) it comes from idiots shouting at each other and coming to blows and over decades of this shit attitudes magically change and hopefully for the better. of course that all depends on the type of magic and whether its a good witch or a wicked witch involved. the cycles of the moon are also important and punxsutawney phil and a dreamcatcher. and thats the vibrant american political landscape as i understand it. i went to college.
the challenge will come when i assume this role and someone brings up 9/11 conspiracies as this will be the achilles heal of the character i play for the radio. it will unleash the dams of doubt and confusion and half-statements gone back on again and again. uncertain and scared vlad will surface and whoever i'm debating will leap upon this.
"what do you think?" is what he/she'd say "what are you saying? are those words? it sounds like you're whimpering. are you singing 'someone's in the kitchen with dinah'?...see america this is exactly what's wrong with the left and with higher education. no beliefs! no conviction! certainly no strength! no character! go run back to your parents. run back to school and the teacher's that told you you were clever and talented...THEY'RE ALL YOU HAVE! THEY'RE ALL THERE EVER WAS FOR YOU, VLAD WORMWOOD! YOU AND YOUR FANCY KIND!"
and then its time for my Frank Capra comeback, my impassioned plea for understanding and compassion in the public sphere. i imagine i'd say something like "Always, no sometimes, think it's me, but you know I know when it's a dream/ I think I know, I mean, ah yes but it's all wrong, that is I think I disagree."
as you may already know i spent some time outside of maine in late july and the beginning of august. hence i feel qualified to begin making generalizations about what i have seen and assessing the complex character of this our expansive nation. and its almost the 5th anniversary of 9/11 so it is timely to trot out the assessments of our nations character and maybe hold it accountable to its new style. which is neither new nor stylish...UGH, hit me! my preoccupation with september the 11th is growing and growing weird. it is not some late blooming melodrama of tragedy (not that i'm trying to say it was a good thing...its just, many a high profile hand has been wrung and i really dont feel the need to add to that. in addition, on personal terms [the ones that really matter to an egoist {who never thinks they hurt anybody} which is very much how i feel in matters of policy and national tragedy] it had a very distanced affect on me) its just at a weird observational stage now and very consciously avoiding opinion let alone emotion. i've speculated a lot about conspiracy theories and this depresses me for a number of reasons...i think i'll expound a bit.
firstly let me state for this record that i have trouble believing in a massive government engineered plot to drop tha towers. mostly because i doubt that enough people could be properly organized in this fashion towards this end. but then i wonder if mostly i just dont want to entertain the very depressing notion that theres really no atrocity too reprehensible for the government that governs me. certainly this is an element of my skepticism because assuming this kind of worldview would start to necessitate terrorism and i'm not ready for that. i hope no one's too disappointed.
but there are troubling questions regarding the architecture of collapse which i hardly understand but worry about. now were getting into real conspiracy territory, no? i'm marginally informed but skeptical and opinionated! which is a lie. i'm interested and skeptical but of really everyone involved here. even my mind which i grill about how much it can bear. answer; not much, some reading followed by brief comprehension and speculation but that takes time away from amateur rock theorizing and then i get cranky...i need a cigarette...what's better, a speculative fiction or back to the motor league? who's better AND less appreciated, T.Rex or Creedence? what if Big Star's in that race? its no use.
then i get depressed thinking about how 9/11 conspiracy theories are really gaining a lot of ground in popular discouse. this in and of itself is not depressing because that is a good thing i think. the government could stand more scrutiny i think. stop me if i'm off base. tell me if you work for the NSA. what worries me HERE is that this will become our generation's JFK assassination in which a lot is said and written and speculated and after all of it they just give us the same report and it fades away. at least Oliver Stone probably wont weigh in this time...OH TICK!
well, time's gonna tell and these things probably will get a lot of external stimuli in the coming weeks and so i'm ready for it and eagerly anticipating the renewed fervor this time around. ugh i'm making myself sick. i need some superfluous rock prattle to realign with and set my mind right. but i meant to talk about the midwest
what i have seen in my limited travels is the character of this country is indistinct as so much of it consists of fake towns centered around shopping centers. what percentage of our great land is now parking lot? of course this is generalizing (i TOLD you) and ignoring a lot but is it so unfair to focus discussion of how we live on where we live? so much of the densely populated USA is so very similar as to render kind of silly geographical distinctions and, so i'm gonna say, geography its damn self.
i know this is false but i've got a new idea about policy and dialogue and it comes from the fertile ground of AM call-in radio programs. this also comes from the trip and it has been given more thought than i care to admit cause i'd like you to think that i spontaneously mesh disparate influences all the time. also i feel kind of ashamed of the amount of times in a day that i idly wonder "how would sean hannity handle this?" see where this is going? FUCK GEOGRAPHY! useless waste of time cluttering up the institutions of higher learning.
but what i'm thinking is that while i find the IDEA of calm, rational dialogue appealing, America (a lot of her) seems to not...find as i do. so while i am irked by the prospect of alienating extremism i maybe just gotta buy it so that i illicit stronger responses. as it is i think i register a vague, inchoate apathy in most situations. hence the predictable rock and radio blather is now cut with the awkward solemnity of some of my half-assed musings on 9/11. but if this aint an outlet for irresponsible musing then that means i gotta get into political radio. which could definetly be really fun for awhile.
heres something! a new career in a new town! irk no more vlad wormwood, irk america! ask not what your country can lamely half-provide for you but what you can loud-mouthedly posit about gay marriage and flag-burning. and what these things need is someone on the left who's just as loud and stupid. representatives from the left always make the mistake of trying to engage in dialogue and just stutter dumbfoundedly when hannity or whoever stumps them with something completely unrelated and of no bearing on the issue at hand. what the left needs is someone who in this case just screams back "ATTICA!" or "JOE McCARTHY'S GHOST" or "CHENEY SHOT A MAN IN THE FUCKIN FACE" see i got a lot of these, i'm pretty ready for the AM circuit if i do say so myself.
and it will help because change does not actually come from rational dialogue (you fucking hippy) it comes from idiots shouting at each other and coming to blows and over decades of this shit attitudes magically change and hopefully for the better. of course that all depends on the type of magic and whether its a good witch or a wicked witch involved. the cycles of the moon are also important and punxsutawney phil and a dreamcatcher. and thats the vibrant american political landscape as i understand it. i went to college.
the challenge will come when i assume this role and someone brings up 9/11 conspiracies as this will be the achilles heal of the character i play for the radio. it will unleash the dams of doubt and confusion and half-statements gone back on again and again. uncertain and scared vlad will surface and whoever i'm debating will leap upon this.
"what do you think?" is what he/she'd say "what are you saying? are those words? it sounds like you're whimpering. are you singing 'someone's in the kitchen with dinah'?...see america this is exactly what's wrong with the left and with higher education. no beliefs! no conviction! certainly no strength! no character! go run back to your parents. run back to school and the teacher's that told you you were clever and talented...THEY'RE ALL YOU HAVE! THEY'RE ALL THERE EVER WAS FOR YOU, VLAD WORMWOOD! YOU AND YOUR FANCY KIND!"
and then its time for my Frank Capra comeback, my impassioned plea for understanding and compassion in the public sphere. i imagine i'd say something like "Always, no sometimes, think it's me, but you know I know when it's a dream/ I think I know, I mean, ah yes but it's all wrong, that is I think I disagree."
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