24-08-2013, 05:46 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Why?
In best Hannibal Lector voice: "First principles. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature?"
"A president tried to nullify me once. I ate his brain with some fava beans and a big Amarone."
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:This is not about making more profit. The money is incidental.
This is about pure contempt for anyone outside living outside the luxury air-conditioned palaces of glass, the private jets, the island resorts protected by security guards in shades.
This is about an insatiable, insane, unspeakable lust for Power and Control.
And around such lust the human psyche constructs myths tempered into spiritual belief systems replete with hungry deities and the ritual feedings they demand.
Yet mortality -- the dread of personal annihilation -- is inescapable. So Caesar must be rendered into God.
But here's the thing: "Even gods aren't exempt: note Jesus's howl of despair as he stepped rather tentatively into eternity," wrote Jim Harrison.
Nevertheless, they rule without fear of material menace.
"We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books."
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene