Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Can your attention be drawn?

John Taylor Gatto, the man a wrist watch on each arm

It’s absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to sit in confinement with people of exactly the same age and social class. That system effectively cuts you off from the immense diversity of life and the synergy of variety; indeed it cuts you off from your own past and future, sealing you in a continuous present much the same way television does..."

"I've come to believe that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us... I began to wonder, reluctantly, whether it was possible that being in school itself was what was dumbing them down. Was it possible I had been hired not to enlarge children's power, but to diminish it? That seemed crazy on the face of it, but slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to *prevent* children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.


Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy—these are precisely what the structures of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another."
– John Taylor Gatto


If polar bears lived at the South pole,
we'd have bi-polar bears. The Transmogrifer




Monday, January 4, 2010

The Thoroughly Modern Gas Mask

The gas mask is the Transmogrifer's metaphor for
a world gone mad with the human mind at
the end of its tether.

The mask creates a uniform visage
returning us to mob mentality,
afraid to breathe the air;
desperate and dangerous.



With the gas mask affixed to the face, a person has
gained
anonymity: a portal into
the collective unconsciousness

There will be no semen in censorships


The banking cartel in full stride











Sunday, January 3, 2010

Aguirre: The Wrath of God

Aguirre (pronounced uh gear ay) is the quintessential Illuminati operative. In the movie (foreign language) Aguirre becomes the archetypal tyrant as he tortures and murders his way through the South American jungles in search of gold. Director Werner Herzog illustrates how the disconnected Spaniard brings "civilization" to the jungle. Aguirre cares about one thing: his unlimited empowerment at any cost. Or the end justifies the means. Aguirre would ask this question: what good is having power if you can't abuse it?

Aguirre attempts recruit his final accomplice

I recommend this movie with a warning: it is not a hyper-spliced, MTV style action entertainment designed for people with ADD.

Aguirre illustrates the values of the military or weaponized mind. A mind that finds all that is loving, sensitive and spontaneous as nauseatingly repulsive and ridicule worthy.

My favorite scene occurs about 2/3 through the movie when a priest runs an innocent Indian man through, then proclaims that "saving these savages is hard work."

For the Spaniard's quest for gold, cold blooded murder is a small price to pay and nothing has changed today. The difference is that extortion and murder are much easier to hide in the big city and mass-media.

Right after the JFK assassination Hoover was asked if he thought that organized crime had killed Kennedy and he responded with "...there is no such thing as organized crime." His statement is given credence in the mainstream media who give the impression that all crime is committed by "lone gunmen" and that there is no such thing as a conspiracy.

Al Capone gave me this cool
Tommy gun!

I can't remember if I have amnesia or Alzheimer's!

Friday, January 1, 2010

Tom Terrific: analysis of a metaphor


Crabby Appleton

Drawn in a simple style, it featured a gee-whiz boy hero, Tom Terrific, who lived in a treehouse and could transform himself into anything he wanted thanks to his magic, funnel-shaped "thinking cap," which also enhanced his intelligence. He had a comic lazybones of a sidekick, Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog, and an arch-foe named Crabby Appleton (pointing up to Tom Terrific), whose motto was "Rotten to the core!" Other foes included Mr. Instant, the Instant Thing King; Captain Kidney Bean; Sweet Tooth Sam, the Candy Bandit; and Isotope Feaney.

If the function of the funnel (a unidirectional device) is understood, Tom Terrific would be the reverse of what he was portrayed in his animated features and we'd end up with these two guys:

Denizens of Deadwood:

Isotope is a word that got tossed around on TV and movies in the fifties along with:
Geiger counter, uranium and radio active. Now we've got Rush Limbaugh to be radio-
active for us...now that's progress!

So now I am left wondering if a Geiger counter is as good as a bean counter and what the heck
is an isotope? I do know this much, all of this atomic bullshit is going to be fertile ground for Godzilla!

Post-atomic King Kong with subtitles that eats early Toyota trucks

Hans Geiger, the dude who invented
the Geiger counter and...

a painting by another guy named Geiger who
created this image of vintage corn-holing in 1840
that brings new meaning to the word "cubicle."