in this on going salon war
how many of you got your feet wet first at Dkos ????

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since not only did i not
but
the thought of an active role at such
an albert hall full of teleported cubicles
fills me with
a pre 6 anguish

now when i begain dropping by here ....

if i bothered to introspect
i discovered
a feeling
not unlike
that of the common ass
who arrives late to the booth
and keeps asking
catch up orienting questions like

"why is this guy ...and why isn't she just ..."

one soon enough gets over that
if
like here

the reception is gracious

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todays sermonette:

the notion of a hierarchy emerging out of a circle
can be disturbing eh ????

when its largely a non dues voluntary free time
spontaneous self forming association

one wonders how often success
"popularity " leads to building
an administrative apparartus
like kos has become

big man big gal outfits
seem less spooky
when viewed

apres le deluge

but genesis of rankings
sets the gut
to curling
curtling

rumbling

hierarchy
the nausea of an uncertain
fate at the hands of
budding authority

even in its spring time this power
from outside
taking command
of one's motivations

nausea
can only be relieved
by an epiphany

by a moment
of revealed absurdity

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perhaps it starts
with the power of a touch

the granting of favor

sometimes merely attention
a gaze a private part lick
by an alpha
and then
even their betas
suffice

all becomes a craving for recognition

that can if used shrewdly
build this tiering system
the pack structure emerges first
then maybe
like kos
the pack becomes a troop
or at least a troop in pack's clothing

all of this is quite different
from a place or congregation
of communion
centering itself on a non rival being

alas none of us can be that can we
we all can't be shared out equally and simultaneously
one on one

so to counter the intensity
of neglect or worse exclusion
we collectively invent shape and reshape
spirits
or memes that are by theur very nature collective non rival goods

the irony is
the potentially non rival
can be shaped as a collective exercise in exclusion too

amen
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very sunday morning thoughts...eh ???

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sorry
i have a very nasty habit
of either broadcasting

spying
or
playing one on one
behind the curtain

my literary idol btw is M Swan in ROTP

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balanced n part interchanges

make me queeesy it seems

a deep sense
of surge up to water walking mode
or
drown in the multitude

i'm happy either way
for brief episodes

two reelers are my optimal gig

then
hi ho silver away .....

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below a second sermon
not delivered

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exclusion vs split

you can't fire me ....i quit

it is good to rebel
it is good to unite

but bombard the headquarters
24/7

not getting thru???

progress may require a split

or at least the threat of a split
and i don't mean a bluff

pols are opportunists
by internal construction

they will come to the people
and sniff their cuffs

if the bosses' leash is long enough
or ...it brakes
or they bite it in two
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the only thing that gets their attention
and frankly ..should get their attention
is gaining or losing
votes and donations
if one way leads to votes and the other donations
now the thinking must begin

that is where i contend the jack asses
find themselves today
or will soon enough find themselves

the all things to all people fraud
that is the core cult
of the donkery
crumbles when crucial events
demonstrate
their really nothing to anybody

so up comes ever stronger
third party movements

but beware
in the fearsome context we call america
imo
these thirdees
are best
remaining guerilla outfits

and they need to fight accordingly

no fixed positional battles on a mass scale

focus on a few weak links

use smoke and mirrors

why not build a real
long term third party

like the socialist party was
so long as debs lived

well
even if debs were immortal
the socialists would imo never have risen
to form a troika of parties
like the uk has
or canada might evolve into

third parties are temporary
catalytic agents

the great exception is the repug emergence in the 1850's

but that
was really the product of the very special social forces
produced and released during the 1840's
the most surprisingly intense
and rapidly uprising interval of cataractic
social white water to hit this country
between
the 1760's
and
the 1930's

massive immigration
resurgent slavery
exspansion
industrial awakening
railroads
all too much for the jacksonian two party system

so the spawning of many third parties
and the eventual ...and percipitous
collapse of the whigs

very special conditions indeed

are the donks a whig party ????

no
in the present social crisis
will we
see a split
into say
liberal and popular donk daughter parties ???

maybe

but the magic of the donkery
is its opportunistic
co optive tradition
reaching back to 1796
it can co opt it can morph
and that is the ability
that has allowed it to persist

even as it big tentedly
retains two antagonist sub parties within itself
from the civil war
to pre new deal
white southern rural protestants
and northern urban catholics.... for decades
ingesting and dissolving
the bulk of the populists
and the unions along the way

or from the new deal to the civil rights conjuncture
again two sub parties
co existed if restlessly
the enlarged liberal core
and the re actionary remnants
of the pre new deal
dixie doodle/catholic unionists
then came
that great moment when
LBJ
COMPLETED FDR'S DREAM
OF A LIBERAL NATIONAL PARTY
by throwing the palefaced
yahoos to the four winds of the gop

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instead i
re enforce the pack mind set
by mocking the stoogery to mcat charge
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for the record
i used to disagree with mcat

but she sent me this fab pink powder
and now ……

well any decent kult must have a ….
special
inner members only
sauce …….eh ???

just so long as its not …a giant pod
for each and every one of us

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secret to why ultimately
i fear no big brothers

totalization yes
its a tendency of all societies

but its limitations are social reality
not just at the fringes either

the shadow of the other casts itself both ways

like the contrast dot at the core
of each half
(in the fat part ) of the yin yang disc
but its dynaimc
in a head
the ingested model built out of social parts
reveals its bugs when the programs are run

internal contradictions

makes the system
brake into a moment of freak out
prior
to a new totalize

wish they came more frequently ????

spinoza points out

what is best is rare
what is rare is difficult

the best can never be easy

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i’m wearing my cone cap
today

all day

my mini hounds bark in contempt
as i enter their part of the house

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back to poli snide

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mcat writes

“Now that was Kos’ business model in my view. Not just some evolving hierarchy.”

indeed i wouldn’t bet against u on that

the preachers that build those mega church structures
mostly dream of em first
not wake up one day and
stare out at the congregation of s credulous needy stooges
and gulls

and say to her self

“what have u done amy ???
what is this teeming mob of givers
out here
waiting to be …serviced
and frisked
what is this large automobile
u’re driving …to the collection booth
where could u have taken the turn
that led to all this….
hoopeee
one lucky fuckin girl iam i am iam “