Tag: William Burroughs
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Tragic Flaws and Best Qualities
This, my friend, is the truth. We are all walking contradictions, teetering on a knife-edge between brilliance and oblivion. The key is to remember, the ride is the point, not the destination. So, crank the dials, push the limits, but keep an eye on the flickering red lights on the control panel. This meat machine…
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Selling Shovels to Miners is Always a Winning Strategy
Scratchy black vinyl rasps a forgotten blues dirge as you stare into the roach-mottled motel mirror. Another gig economy hustle, another city bled dry. This time it’s pickaxes, not poems. Steel gleams under the flickering neon, each one a promise, a chimera – fortunes forged in the sweat of strangers or another dead end. The…
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Protocols
Product: The iPhone – a chrome embryo pulsating with data streams. A meat puppet for the digitized masses. Market: A hungry maw, a million twitching fingers yearning for connection, porn, and the simulacrum of social interaction. A Deleuzian rhizome of desire, burrowing into every pocket, every purse. Fit? A perfect symbiosis, a feedback loop of want and fulfillment.…
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The Feedback Loop of Lesser Carnage: Revisited
The neon vacancy signs of the American Dream Motel pulsed a seductive binary: red or blue, a tawdry choice flickering on the screens of our simulated reality. The air hung heavy with the stale pheromones of manufactured consent, a breeding ground for a peculiar political foreplay. The tired hologram of democracy played out on reality…
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The Feedback Loop of Carnage: Lesser of two Evils
The roach motel of American politics stretches out before you, neon vacancy signs flickering a binary choice: red or blue, Dem or Repub. A tired hologram, the duality of man repackaged for the flickering screens of reality TV. But the real game is rigged by invisible control. The corporations are the Yakuza of this dystopian…
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Change the past tomorrow while living the future today
The mess we find ourselves in, this wretched apocalypse of climate chaos, is nothing short of a grandiose demonstration of market failure, a spectacle of capitalism’s absurdist tragedy. In the grim landscape of economic theory and environmental destruction, one might say that market failure is not just a malfunction; it is the defining characteristic of…
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Change the past tomorrow while living the future today
Change the past tomorrow while living the future today, a glitched mantra scribbled across the collapsing realities of a fractured timeline. The future is a relentless data stream, pulsing with the potential of what could be, while the past is an overwritten database, its files eroded by the relentless reprogramming of memory and circumstance. It’s…
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Unresolved After 45,000 Years
Here’s a cosmic joke for the ages, a riddle wrapped in the absurdity of technological evolution: it’s nearly impossible to solve a need while constructing the very technology meant to fulfill it. We’re talking about a grand, sprawling farce that’s played out over the millennia—a never-ending cycle of futility where the answers always elude us.…
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The Steroidal Abstraction
In the contemporary landscape of intellectual discourse, a peculiar phenomenon has emerged: abstractions, once lean and limber, are now excessively pumped up, their muscles bulging with the aid of intellectual steroids. The modern theorist, driven by the insatiable hunger for recognition and authority, has resorted to augmenting their conceptual frameworks to the point of grotesque…
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Good Television
Cut-up chaos bleeds into the flickering tube. Network logos – pulsing, cancerous growths burrowing into your retinas. Feed. Consume. Obey. Good television, if such a thing can exist, crawls out of the muck only during brief, fetid lulls in the relentless scramble. A lull. A synonym for societal collapse, perhaps. But in the fetid emptiness,…