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I was having one of my attacks of drowsiness earlier this evening, and decided to get in bed and listen to al-Jazeera instead of struggling to remain upright. Figgered I could just doze if I had to and not miss anything, since they repeat the headlines so often. Sure enough, I immediately started doing my in and out of it thing, catching snippets and diving into the blackness over and over and over... and then... Riz Khan came on and I guess he poked me with a cattle prod because, heh, I woke the hell all the way up like a bolt.

He was talking to Rick Rowley about his White Power USA documentary that's going to be aired on Thursday, and a couple other guys. They were talking about white supremacists moving in to coöpt the Tea Parties. Most of you probably know I've been whining about certain progressives thither and yon getting off their us-versus-them shit, quit going for the further alienation of people fed up with this mess, and seek to join and inform the Tea Parties, take them out of the clutches of fascist maniacs and religious kooks and, now, racial purity fanatics... use that energy to help scare the power structure away from some of the more murderous and perfidious practices they've taken up... but no. They'd rather shoot spit wads and boast of their superior intellects than create a better world.

I was struck by Rowley mentioning that this white power play starting to unfold is a direct consequence of progressives failing to seize the day, so to speak, failing to get over their holier-than-thou, shit-don't-stink stinking shit and create a truly American force to be reckoned with. I don't know if all is lost yet, with that idea, but it seems it very well may be. These chumps, these so-called "progressives" are very, very reliably playing right into the hands of the plutocrats trying to get us all into the meat grinder... and, I should try to be clear about it, by "us all" I mean all us humans.

I am the moderator for one of these chumps. I have been trying very hard to shine a light on this for him and for others for quite some time now, and no dice, but keep trying despite everything, and still no dice. The blindness and the prejudice on full blast on "the left" is so far beyond mortifying to me that I can barely express it. Something is going to have to give in this scene I have going or I don't think anything worthy can come of it.
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On an obviously not unrelated note, even before finishing the piece I'm going to have to say, duh, stupider also means greedier and meaner and... drumroll... clearly... even if counterintuitively... FASTER... not belabored with all these sense-stultifying head trips and air sculptures of intellectual vanity....

Perhaps, though, it also made the Boskops excessively internal and self-reflective. With their perhaps astonishing insights, they may have become a species of dreamers with an internal mental life literally beyond anything we can imagine.

So we ate them.
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