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We Are the Aliens We’ve Been Waiting For

Navy pilots, have you heard,
Are talking to reporters
From the Times
and from the Post
About what they’ve seen
In the skies — UFOs
And who knows
What those could be
Space people? ETs?
Let’s just say they are
Let’s just say they see
Society’s catastrophes
And, let’s just say they say:
We’d like to turn your globe
into a salutary garden
End the wars, and poverty,
and property, and properly
Establish peace
The only thing we’d need
In exchange is your support
Because we’d all outnumber them
By such a massive margin
There’d be no need to resort to force
Something that could happen,
Actually, with no space people at all
Here on planet Earth

    -- Elliot Sperber

the Doctor

extinction meme

“…ecological data is so complex, and is about such complex phenomena, that it’s difficult to make that data into facts, let alone start living those facts, rather than repeating truthy factoids…”
-- Timothy Morton, Being Ecological

It is difficult, outside of academia, to argue convincingly that we should abandon Modernity. Yet our obsession with facts, the factoids and the mimetic ideation that lives in our brains as memes, may well be standing in the way of our simply meshing with the environment, not as humans uniquely capable of realizing reality through our consciousness, but as ecological beings.
-- John Davis

ecological-beings

where were the spiders?

idiot

What is before us now are the death throes of capitalism, which is oddly enough also capitalism at its apogee with a precipitous descent ahead due to its profound unsustainability. A common analogy of our times is referencing going off a cliff of some kind to describe the present trajectory of this idiot society, e.g. an unstoppable train with no brakes going over a cliff, or Wile E. Coyote having already gone over the cliff and simply hasn’t bothered to look down yet to notice he’s run out of terra-firma. Whatever variation of the analogy chosen, the point is that we know the cliff is there, but the collective state of our idiocy doesn’t seem to care too much. It has other idiot priorities it deems more necessary to care about, so it plows ahead despite knowing it has run out of track.
    -- Jason Holland

the-idiot

exciting news for your 501(c)(3

The U.S.Department of State is offering a grant of $75,000,000 to non-government-organizations to help it to further meddle in Syria.

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thanx and a tip of the wave machine to Tom Beach