GRGR(15) - The Empty Ones
Terrance F. Flaherty
Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Mon Dec 6 19:29:54 CST 1999
David Morris wrote:
>
> The Empty Ones are prophets of pleasure as a means of self-annihilation. As
> such don't they mirror the Empire? But the difference is consciousness and
> intent. Being SOS, again they manifest the shadow of the Empire, forcing it
> to face what it chooses to Repress.
>
> David Morris
>
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"Driver where you taken us? Ride the highway west, baby, the
west is the best, the west is the best, get in and we'll do
the rest." Later, living inside the System will be described
as sitting in a bus, riding across the country with some
maniac bent on suicide at the wheel.
The System is suicidal and here the empty ones do indeed
reflect the System's maniacal drive: a drive for Control,
metaphysical control, and it will drive us all and every
tree, every child, every reconfigured molecule and element
into the abyss for Profits.
This is GR, we are turning and twisting in gravity's gyre,
and the bus driver will never hear the auctioneer. These
empty ones are bent on bringing this bus to a halt. They
will complete what a previous generation started, a hopeless
rejection of colonial subjugation. "They want a negative
birth rate.
The program is tribal suicide. They would finish the
extermination the Germans began in 1904.
The white colonialists looked on astonished, concerned for
their mines, their hired hands and colonial lives, their
profits, their colonial outhouses and pleasures.
Marx is satirized. Oh no, this is not simply about economics
and Profits.
It's much, much more
death and repression
.Out and down
(little ironic allusion)
and Pynchon or somebody is morally
outraged here, maybe it's just me and my moral compass.
Now the Whites try to figure out what's happening to their
property, Vitamin E, remember those kids on the train with
Slothrop had a Vitamin deficiency.
Puzzling. Perhaps we weren't as fair as we might have
been
.Typical, so typical of these people
Hey, lets negotiate a deal.
Some SOLUTION.
Puzzling
Tribal death over Christian death? Hey send in the
Confidence Man, the baby Jesus, hey didn't he die like a man
on a cross? Can't go to heaven if you commit suicide, tribal
suicide is not good for PROFITS, you know.
Puzzling
Now this whole suicidal thing is a mystery even to the empty
ones, but their sold on it.
The con game is now a pleasure game of sterile
sex-advertising and pornography.
There is History is under Control and they don't even need
to fight for it.
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