Established Marvel : a Monk by Abbreviation

7. LACONIC BODY PARTS:

If you've read the Denmark Vesey post on the other blog, you may have already wondered about Telemarque, the fellow I described. You see, he was real and over the historical years somehow his name has gotten mixed up with that of his master, Captain Vesey, so that we have intermingled and confused the two. One was a proper Dutch sea-captain, and the other (Telemarque) was the slave of Captain Vesey, who later led a slave revolt and was captured and hanged. Vesey Street in Manhattan is named after Denmark Vesey - well, one way or the other, one of those guys is being memorialized. And then, of course, I got to thinking that maybe (JUST maybe) telemarketing is named for Telemarque. And wouldn't that be a kick in the ass?

Eventually all societies decay from within. They spend all of their life-span, money and personnel defending themselves during their existence from perceived outside threats - and then eventually just wither and die from the decay within. (Much like the human body, I guess). That's the process, right now, well underway in this country. It's happened a million times before - every great empire, nation or kingdom eventually lost its way. Diminished expectations, a coarseness of culture which eventually supercedes all else, more and more social programs and leveling systems which eventaully diminish and cancel out the essential body-politic and its vibrancy - lackadaisical apathy, boredom, wealth, division - all of these play their part. At play right now, we ourselves have countless self-destructive entities, enjoying their success but at the same time pulling down everything by which they've mounted that success. They all get 'too big for their britches'. We face that now, with the achieveing of these self-destructive tendencies by the lawyers who pounce on everything for gain, the fuck-heads of the entertainmet kingdom who feel they know politics better than make-believe, the police authorities and other enforcement agents, who now get free rein to throw their weight around and institute control-factors in a once-open society - using security as a cover - the educational profession, at every level, which enforces criticism, erroneous interpretation and broadly socialistic aims of distribution and attitude in order to bolster a society of weaklings. And, of course, the entire journalistic enterprise - called the press, media, or whatever - which is never satisfied until it can yet again manufacture and re-manufacture a crisis, an issue, any sort of sideshow and then multiply it into something which eventually destroys culture, society, or issue-politic.

These are all symptoms of a wasting-away disease from INSIDE. We can cry all we want about terror, Arabs, anarchists, murderers, nuclear bombs, bacterial warfare, etc., whatever, but the real, total and most insidious threat is from within - as we allow this society to falter and then fail by giving front-stage access to low-life intentions, rabid hate-mongers, homeless litigants, stateless cults and all that rest.

This has to stop. The issues which confront us are NOT the issues which are outside of us. Israeli-Palestinian problems (the entire issue is a LIE), Muslim-Hindu rivalries (a mixed-up jumble of uneducated masses), black-white cultural conflicts (old-fucking-hat arguments over nothing) Communist against Democracy adherents (both forces a complete lie and full of bullshit) - any of these and a hundred more issues are not as important as the decrepitude we've allowed to enter our own system.

It's time we stepped up the pressure and started to UNDO some of the more piquant exemplifiers of this false taste. They have already destroyed all peace, happiness, grace and culture that once was. Why should we now continue to grovel?