Established Marvel : a Monk by Abbreviation

5. COCK AND BULL STORY:

"In an office, if everyone's computer has a virus, is that a staff infection?" - the guy who asked that question, I'm afraid, was serious. The other person who then replied - in turn asked - "what exactly is a staph infection anyway?, I never really knew." And the answer was 'It's a bacterial virus entering your bloodstream, and the name comes from staphococcus, or something like that, and the plural is staphococci", and then the other fellow again asked "Does that have to do with cock-eyed?" and of course the answer was "No, it doesn't. Cock-eyed is the term given to the way a rooster (cock o' the walk) stares out with one eye and his head slightly twisted and askew, in order to focus on something - presumed threat or otherwise."

I began to feel that they were at last all agreeing on shared concepts - which gave me a good feeling; for unless we agree to certain shared concepts, I'm afraid there's no sense to be made of society at all. People just babble on, sometimes, it seems, right past each other - as no one listens to the person talking for they all wish themselves to be talking. No one takes a minute to actually reflect NOR respond to what they've heard, and the entire world then is nothing more than a cacophony of strangely twisted noises. It's like a convention of used-car salesmen in a small room, each extolling the virtues of the particular piece of crap they've been assigned to sell. On and on they go, in a ring-o-levio of words and concepts having nothing to do with anything R-E-A-L.

When the hell did Government get into the Medical business? As a for-instance. When the Hell did the church or religion get into the business of Government? How is it that we've allowed sympathy and sentiment to take over and run things - parlay tax-dollars into rolls of relief for other people? How has such a hideous concept as Government Schools ever evolved? (OH, you don't know what I mean by that?) I mean every local street-corner school in your community. What do YOU think they are, outposts of free enterprise? They're NO different than any Chinese Communist mind-controlling brain-prison run by inept governmental agents for the particular purpose of maintaining the civil lock-down on individuals and free thought.

I was walking the high hinterlands of the Jersey Palisades yesterday, near and adjacent to the area above the GW Bridge. Miles of WPA and depression-era government roadways and bathing areas along the Hudson on the Jersey side - all up high and at river-level - the stoneworks and the old buildings built by effort of the US Government and the depression relief agencies all now brought to nothing but neglect and ruin. The ruins of what once were vast turn-of-the-century mansions (of the iron-magnates and railroad barons who once ruled and built the Manhattan we once knew). Their mansions and holdings were taken from them by the goverment -- in fact only ONE is still extant and used by the Park Service as their Headquarters! It's all a shambles, a disaster. Great families, with their fortunes and possessions taken from them, had once to give up their wealth and privilege so that Government and scum could, 75 years later, move in and take over and destroy what once was pristine. Now we have graffiti'd rocks, monikered by imbeciles and morons with spray paint and rap reputations in their brains, old roadways that lead to nowhere but ruination and wrecks, an old cemetary, neglected and grown over, of one of the once-great families. And then what do I come upon? Just adjacent to that cemetary, a parked BMW with New York license plates parked askew, and two morons furiously fucking on a blanket thrown down next to the cemetary's stone wall. They look up, slightly embarrased and non-plussed, and pull the blanket up so I can pass.

Exaggeration? I think not. By these means, in fact, we are probably ensuring the propogation of that same species for the future. Soon, there will be no memory left of anything once grand, sedate, learned and profound. But, who needs it? The needs of the millions will be taken care of by the powers in place - which powers first, to serve others, serve themselves.

'Only Rivers of Blood will wash Slavery away!' John Brown said that, a long time ago. Mathhew 10:34 says also that someone came 'not to send peace but a sword.'