"I deplore brutality," he said. "It's not efficient. On the other hand, prolonged mistreatment, short of physical violence, gives rise, when skillfully applied, to anxiety and a special feeling of guilt. A few rules or rather guiding principles are to be borne in mind. The subject must not realize that the mistreatment is a deliberate attack of an anti-human enemy on his personal identity. He must be made to feel that he deserves any treatment he receives because there is something (never specified) horribly wrong with him. The naked need of the control addicts must be decently covered by an arbitrary and intricate bureaucracy so that the subject cannot contact his enemy direct."
LET ME MAKE SOMETHING abundantly clear: I am not now, nor have I ever been, a threat to society. In person, I am mild-mannered and gentle. I am not crazy; in fact, I am quite sane. Yet because of the last post someone has been dispatched to my house to retrieve my security card for the aforementioned corp., as if I was planning to go twenty miles within it's vicinity! Much less do something stupid with it! Please! Let me repeat: I am not crazy--that card will NEVER be used by me again, and it will be turned in post-haste! Tomorrow morning! Additionally, I have been threatened with a LAWSUIT. For what? For saying I found someone detestable? For saying I thought their company was nowhere? What if I was a Wall St. analyst and I said I thought a certain stock wouldn't do well--is that slander? I did not threaten to give away any company "secrets"--I don't know any! I had a bad experience with a temp job, and decided to write about it! I'M A WRITER. Is that a crime? I never signed a disclosure agreement, like those folk over at Amazon (I worked there their first year, btw) . . . until I figure this out, let me tell you what I will do--I will make the names of the last post fake. And then I'm going to write the whole story and find someone to publish it who has heard of a little something called FREE SPEECH (presently tenuous in America; thus, the point). I will research the law. I will contact ACLU. And if I have to work at fucking LABORREADY for minimum wage like I did five years ago pushing shovels around I will do it. Because big-ass corporations who bully around the little guy just because they SAY something they don't like can kiss my ass. Goliath, hear me roar . . . with my PEN, Big Guy, with MY PEN . . .
Dear Missus Bojangles, I want you to know that via my short time @ corporateahole.com, I found your behavior and personality to be quite detestable--but more importantly, I wanted to give you my personal url so you can read my story about my two weeks there when I publish it on my website:
http://www.drmenlo.com/
The only reason your website is still around is because it is being propped up by that Corporate Giant XXX. Let's not beat around the bush. If it were a private venture, your dotcom would have long ago sunk like the hideous ballast it is. You and your corporation do not know more about the net than I do, and what's more, my website kicks your website's ass.
Now, let me get to that story . . . "Missus Bojangles was . . . " (I'm reaching for the thesaurus to find synonyms for the word 'troll') . . . Come to think of it, I will publish this very letter as a prelude to my story tentatively titled "Fear and Loathing at Corporate Ahole.com," and you can just wait for the rest.
Dr. Menlo International Art Machine Central Labs, Seattle http://www.drmenlo.com/ drmenlo@well.com
Notice this cop's tongue placed outside of his mouth as he aims at a man who is walking away.
JAKARTA
You know how all those propagandists over at New Republic (Plastic bro) and the Economist et al. always say how the people of these third world countries aren't protesting corporate globalism? That it's just the middle-class, American white kids who are protesting for them, but who don't really know what the hell they're doing? Nobody is paying these Indonesian kids to carry these signs and march with so much passion against the IMF. Solidarity.
BERLIN
Big man to carry a girl in a head-lock. Maybe he thinks she might secretly be Aeon Flux.
ISTANBUL
These signs say "Father, how much do I owe to the IMF?", left, and "Father, how much do I owe to the World Bank?"
CARACAS
Venezuelans perform skit against corporate-globalism.
ZURICH
I can't even begin to show all of the cities in the world that took part in today's May Day anti-corporate-globalization demonstrations. You won't hear much about these amazing global displays of anti-megalocorporate moxie from the American media. They will not even broach the subject without throwing in the word "violence" somewhere.
I saw an eagle today. Down at Elliott Bay park, which is my favorite park in the whole world (it used to be Dumbarton Oaks in D.C., designed by Olmstead) . . . it was flying amongst some lower birds. I saw some eagles in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, too, standing on the dock . . . they really are majestic creatures up close. Truly the King of Birds. Their presence inspires respect, awe . . . you want to sit at their feet and hear them lecture about things; you could imagine sitting next to one with a pipe, and he’ll tell you all about what he really does, and does not like, about America. And maybe he’ll even tell you that he’s been so angry at America so many times that he’s almost flown right into the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. to demand from those podunk congresskids that they take his image offa anything and everything having to do with the U.S.—that’s how disgusted he gets sometimes. “These white fundamentalist Puritans come and kill all these Indians, and take all their land, and they have the balls to claim ‘moral imperative?’ . . . “ And then he’ll pause . . . and then he’ll say that he thinks about that, sure, but then he’ll soar a little higher, and just forget about the whole damn thing.
I recently saw the movie, The Bear. I was pleasantly surprised by the psychedelic sequence. This movie should be a staple in any progressive family's collection.
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