01) "How do our allegedly rational and programmed societies function? What moves the populations, what gets them going? Scientific progress, objective information, insight into the facts and causes, the punishment of those truly guilty or the growth of collective happiness? Absolutely not, nobody cares about that. What fascinates everyone is the debauchery of appearances, that reality is always and everywhere debauched by appearances. That's an interesting game, and it's played out in the media, in fashion, in advertising - more generally in the spectacle of technology, of science, of politics - in any spectacle whatsoever. The veritable contemporary social bond is the concerted partaking in seduction. If a revolution wants to take place then it must first seduce us, and it can only do so with the signs. But while a revolution might alter the course of history, only its sight is truly sublime. And what do we choose? 'The people didn't actually desire a revolution, they merely desired
Posh Dosh (As Seen On TV) by doolhoofd, literature
Literature
Posh Dosh (As Seen On TV)
00) $poken Word audio version
01) ₮he moolah is the magic key
that opens our society:
people will do all you say,
ev'rythin'll go your way.
02) €v'rybody worships dough,
'cause we all wanna run the show.
Sick'ning greed without restraint,
run the tre'dmill till you faint.
03) Дt the cashbox: five, six, sev'n,
hurry up to make elev'n;
a nickel & two pennies more -
grab y'r bags, rush out the door.
04) ₮urn the tube on: more disasters!
You're a puppet, they're the masters.
If only you could save some green!
You'd finally shake that nagging spleen.
05) Дn'mals crushed industrially,
a fat cat for the pres'dency.
Corrupted idiocr'cy!
Ev'rything is vanity.
06) ₱eeps don't care 'bout one another,
love comes only from your mother.
The rich survive, lean 'n' mean,
the darkest cashflows go unseen.
07) ₡ap'talism's quite immoral,
but the scent you flaunt is floral;
the world's real cold, cruel & vicious,
but rare steak is so delicious!
08) ฿read & circ'ses keep you dumb,
screens all
00) A follow-up to Divine Sunshine (the Sun is God)
01) "The fact is clear that the Devil was at first considered a God, and was worshiped as such by several nations, including some of the early Christian sects. And the same is true of Jesus Christ and the Devil, that the same titles were applied to each, an evidence that they were both derived in common from the Pagan conception of good and evil, virtue and vice flowing and emanating from the same fountain, which was primordially the sun."
- Kersey Graves, The Biography Of Satan
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02) "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
- The logical problem of evil, attributed to the Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 BC)
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03) "Art is man's nature; nature is God's art."
- Philip James Bailey
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04) "If nature is
01) "The sun? Conscious? Impossible... How?" 'In a way lower organisms like you have difficulty to grasp. One thought from the source takes longer than a human life. A conversation with other stars takes thousands of your years.' "All the stars are conscious?" A dry laughter resounded. 'Of course. They are the original inhabitants of the cosmos. Without them there would be no organic life, let alone organic consciousness.'
- Elian Lazaro, Elysium
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02) "I think that modern cosmology took an unfortunate turn several hundred years ago by denying or ignoring the question of function or purpose in the larger cosmos. Biologists recognize the principle that form follows function; so why do astrophysicists not recognize this principle? Why are astrophysicists not asking this question? The idea that life or intelligence would be attached to a planet or a star was too much for our consciousness, so we denied its possibility. There was never any evidence to substantiate