Recurring Imagery: Conspiratorial Tentacles
The Conspiracy Foreshadowed (circa 1800)
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
The Coming Money Trust (circa 1912)
The Vampire Squid (circa 2010)
The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.
- The Great American Bubble Machine
by Matt Taibbi for Rolling Stone
Behold, Leviathon (circa 2004)
It was only a matter of time before the unctuous old snakeoil
salesman slipped in his product and impaled himself on a white
picket fence-damn you, Joneses, I’ve got a bigger house, a faster
car, and a newer tv, and now you’ve got me in collections you filthy
silver-tongued weeds-crowding out revolution with the empty
promises of money and the stability of money-symbol liesAll the automatic tellers with their cameras acting as eyes,
they ingest, digest, and regurgitate paper… and watch for the
database-maybe those lines lead back to Ohio, maybe they run
back down to the murky floor of the harbor where words like
“Novus Ordo Seclorum” are coined
The tentacled Elder God “Cthulhu” of the Lovecraft Mythos figures squarely into my personal mythology as an ultimate, unknowable element of entropy – an eternal enemy of self-organizing life itself; perhaps it’s necessary in the paradigm of a genetic algorithm, but that does not make it any less pernicious to the individual or societal organism.
There isn’t much of a future for humanity so long as individual greed and collective ignorance can steer food away from the hungry and bombs down upon the innocent – said as much before and I suspect I’ll be repeating it … so long as I have a voice.
Never speak of politics or religion in polite company.
