What are freedom fighters really fighting?

Pathetic? Desperately, for Ligotti is great.

When everyone you have ever loved is finally gone
when everything you have ever wanted is finally done with
when all of your nightmares are for a time obscured
as by a shining brainless beacon
or a blinding eclipse of the many terrible shapes of this world
when you are calm and joyful
and finally entirely alone
then in a great new darkness
you will finally execute your special plan

- “I Have A Special Plan For This World”
by Thomas Ligotti with Current 93

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Let us never speak of this man again.

Insomnia: metonym for the clarity of perception which arrives when the brain gives up pursuits aetiologic and starts choking down unfiltered reality with willful abandon. Glutting on ideation which lacks the quality assurance of a well-rested perspective may result in paroxysms of epiphany, spewing logorrhea.

I imagine coughing up souvenirs, bits of postcards and letters long forgotten, slippery black worms, blood; objects which signify yet other objects and signs pointing to signs. Memories against the reality of the past. Inculcated memes against their substrate.

Language’s tautologies were immediately apparent to de Saussure; not content to know the enemy, he turned it on itself with playful words: A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas. If differences are boundaries and there exist no rational absolutes within language, e-Prime’s honest attempt at clarity leaves its speaker and listener in a state of untenable un-knowledge. To speak of anything - linguistic law included - as if it may manifest or reify as more than words is like trying to pin down a ghost. (I told you, the man had a sense of humor)

Plans, as meanings, change at all times - gang aft agley, even. So it is with my plan.

Also, I should add, one should not contemplate the particulars of art. To do so is to invite new layers of difficulty:

Artwork’s truth content lies not in communicating something other than itself; rather it is a mediation, a “participation,” in history. The great works of art do not transcend the boundary of their own illusion, because their illusion represents their truth, an illusion of truth, i.e., their falsity. Aesthetic truth transcends illusion, but the artworks themselves are illusory. This is the paradox: they cannot lie, and yet they remain false.

- Amresh Sinha, Adorno on Mimesis in Aesthetic Theory

… and so, too, are we - a mediation of eternal cosmic machinations and subatomic combinations.

DISCLAIMER: The following process is described for comparative purposes only. Do not endanger yourself in the wanton pursuit of pain. Be happy with what you are naturally granted.

Process for Comparison

The caramelized sugar and rubbing of salt may impede or facilitate, depending upon one’s perspective.

Yes, the process describes forms of pain which are commonly accepted and experienced by many on a daily basis, however, as stated in the disclaimer which you should have read, this is an illustrative comparison.

My apologies, aficionados of agony - existing forms of pain will have to suffice until I can be assured that my form of pain is protected from unauthorized duplication or other intellectual property infringement.

What brought me back? A few realizations:

1. I love to write.
2. Silence often connotes acceptance.
3. That Thoughts on Secrecy post received a hit from a CIA hostname - comedy jackpot.

Here are the election results since 1980:

Compare - year after year, it looks as though “landslides” in either direction abound.

So why are we still facing the same problems we saw in the 1980’s?

Ask not what your country has done to you…

This is not a universe of negation. Meaning does not exist outside of itself. You are not the one attaching meaning to this. You are not the one who needs to worry about the spiders. That is not a web tangled in your face.

“Who keeps mumbling about the damned spiders?” I inquire - that damnable jabbering is really getting to me, until I realize that it’s coming out of my mouth. Almost inaudible. That guy who just walked by heard it, though. I heard it.

This is Insomnia #1635. This is yesterday, 24-hours-with-no-sleep later… and yesterday was madness.

Have to stop before they catch on - they’ll know; you can make that happen but you can’t destroy knowledge. It may already be too late.

Didn’t you feel that? Yes, they are definitely not nesting. They are not getting in.

#1634 wasn’t so bad, #1635 was too much - and I haven’t even told you about the spiders…

… and if UNO strikes your fancy, I’m not too humble to take credit for assisting with the orange/grey remix.

Apparently some people believe that it is illegal to photograph federal buildings. Where did this hysteria first manifest? Post 9/11 paranoia? Does a photo of a building necessarily represent a security threat?

It is not illegal to take pictures of federal buildings or any other facility from a public sidewalk. Cryptome has taken hundreds in New York City, Washington DC and elsewhere. Cryptome has asked federal guards on several occasions about taking pictures; all said it was okay, a couple said this is your property not ours. On other occasions rent-a-guards have been hostile, act as though they have something to hide about their unimportance. In 2002 rent-a-guards at a CIA-State Department communications facility in Virginia (Warrenton Training Center Site D) confiscated camera and and video chips, saying they could be recovered by contacting CIA. Follow-up requests to CIA have been ignored.

- GSA Vigilante Assaults Photographer
article at Cryptome.org

Did you know that the General Services Administration is an independent agency of the United States government? Interestingly enough, all of the following organizations also belong to that category:

• Central Intelligence Agency
• Commodity Futures Trading Commission
• United States Environmental Protection Agency
• Federal Communications Commission
• Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
• Federal Trade Commission
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• National Archives and Records Administration
• National Labor Relations Board
• National Science Foundation
• National Transportation Safety Board
• Office of Personnel Management
• Peace Corps
• Small Business Administration
• Selective Service System
• Social Security Administration
• Securities and Exchange Commission
• United States Agency for International Development
• United States International Trade Commission
• United States Postal Service
• Postal Rate Commission
• Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board