[lbo-talk] JFK - HAIKU ONLY

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Thu Nov 27 05:33:52 PST 2003


The longue duree: the ur-conspiracy was God and all his minions

every hidden sign pointed towards judgment day com ing any day now

We all thought this way until modernity. its first invention was

the future. Histor y became Progress. who now knows how it will end?

Acceleration once signalled apocalypse Now it's everyday

History lost its hidden hand. Its ultimate meaning. And many

thought *that* meant the end. So they invented conspir acy theory. The

French revolution took God out of history. And people who missed

him replaced him with les franc-masons: supposed builders of the world

w/o god. And they had to be powerful be cause how else could they

Have beaten God? On the left it answers a diff rent question: If ev

ryone's interests are on our side, and we're right -- how come we always

lose? Although with guys like Shane or the Slacker guy I sometimes think its

really a hobby. A kind of intellectual's version of the bar

game where you debate who would win: lassie or flip per. And if batman

died would the joker be happy? arguing for the fun of it. L'art

pour l'art. Give up yet? Your arguments are feeble you cannot beat me



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