oh_me_ghost

cassandra redux
screaming about various things that are true
and not being listened
to by anyone.

except those
that already know.

9/17/05

Incorporated Earth

I think that business owners are human beings and so they care about people more than might be apparent, its just that the business model comes first, and the kindness part comes after. It's not a surprise. It's barely even interesting. The behavior is rational. Corporations that grow tend to be the corporations that put kindness second. This isn't scandalous. This is...
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i think the justice system is based on
the principle that if people
act reasonably
at all times, nothing bad
should ever happen to them.

the intercom clicks on.....

at ease citizens, as long as you
behave each and every day
like a reasonable sort of man
and think mechanically
like a robot fed by if-then statements,
we will let you alone.

She says to me this:

Why do women - in general
want a constant love
with a single individual?

Why do men - for the most part
seem to prefer a quick and efficient fuck
with any passing tramp?

Does the fact that love
is an evolutionary adaption
make it less important?

Does the fact that adultery
is an evolutionary adaption too
make it less...
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From Persona, by Ingmar Bergman
(A woman talks to her patient who refuses to speak)

Don't you think i understand
the hopeless dream of being,
not seeming, but being
in every waking moment aware, alert.
The tug of war-- what you are
with others [vs] who you really are,
a feeling of vertigo
and a constant hunger
to be finally exposed
to be seen through,...
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she says, there comes a point
when strangers pop in
and out of your life so randomly
that you adapt to the lack of closeness or touch
nobody stays, so you learn to adjust, and you come to prefer
for people to leave just as soon as they came.
hi, you don't say? that's great,
you're amazing, now please go away.

i might be overly fascinated by pearl jam
i went from a complete and very normal disinterest,
to 100% obsession with pearl jam in
about ten days. it's beautiful music. i tell you
and the lyrics aren't quotable, and the literal meaning is insignificant,
still the total effect is real and appealing
i don't know why i love it
it's a sound massage for the...
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Scraps of Paper

do not say such things, you rube
for such truths have not been proved
and thus do much annoy us

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i think your interpretation
of how people see you
can affect your
ability to break out of
well-established patterns of behavior.

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i wish that answers to such
questions could be fathomed
but as of right now
(i regretfully admited to...
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I'm intrigued by live pearl jam songs. The music doesn't sound amazing and i don't trust the lyrics because they seem intent on teaching something, but i think i find comfort in the originality. Even if he borrows a standard musical form, he'll switch it up just enough to make it mezmorizing while sober. Eddie Vedder walks the fine line between normal artist and moralistic...
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in what sense
are we related to our parents
the genes we carry were
not created by our
parents out
of clay.

the genes are copies of copies of codes
some probably more than several
million years old

utlimately, the source of our genes
is the process
called sex

the process of sex
creates the matrix of our flesh.

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Robots, Software Programs, and Ridiculous...
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