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I used to agonize over being left out of the Boyz Club of leftist intellectuals around me. They were the only ones talking about stuff that really mattered, the only ones talking my language, the only ones on my subjects, and I was practically suicidal with need for that company at many times in my youth, but, no, it always turned into something about fucking me instead of the weightless discussion of the real. I didn't realize at the time that they never went weightless together behind my back, that it was always a pitched battle of ego nuance and they actually performed better while trying to maneuver me into bed. I was young... and hadn't learned to look past my own urges to see the real.
I think the only one I have not caught putting his intellect in service of his own ego before pronouncing on something may be Michael Parenti. Some are worse than others, but I haven't got time to run their stuff through the filter to try to come up with useful grains. You can find them masturbating full time all over the internet. You can marvel at the speed with which they condemn just about anyone, especially a pop icon, but anyone, even the lowliest redneck. If they verbally abuse the troops, it's a safe bet they have zero tolerance for the masses who have not seen through their cultural conditioning to grok that all our wars are for corporate profit alone. This right here makes them unworthy of attention... and... funny... the vast majority of wrongfully Republican voters agree with this point.
We don't like to admit that the ignorant pinheads are right about some things.
They're right about this.
And so am I.
If you google "leftist intellectual" you will get a bunch of Noam Chomsky hits first. This old fucker is so jealous of cultural heroes he even insists it's a big so-what that JFK was assassinated. You should hear his illucid [yes, I made up that word] mutterings about 9/11... or... rather, you should just spare yourself, since it's pointless. And, why would he do that shit? Because others with whom he perceives himself to be in competition have distinguished themselves on those subjects, and because those positions make him valuable to the fascists who may yet be marching us all off to concentration camps.
When I first started blogging, I tried to pick between them the ones who weren't more harmful or wasteful than good, because I want to be on some of these subjects still, but it's not worth it. They are more wasteful than good... with the maybe exception of Parenti... and I keep finding my insight is more impeded by their relentless self-illustration couched in way too many words than it is ever helped. They are entertainment for people who'd rather think well of themselves than manifest positive intent.
There is no time for that. There hasn't been in years. Yet they persist. Yet they so moronically persist.
24 October 2008
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