The serpentine Hydra of Grecian myth is well known for its deadly characteristics had many heads filled with fangs and hungry for human flesh, no sword or axe blade no matter how sharp could provide a fatal decapitation, for as we all know the neck stumps would merely sprout more heads to replace the one lost.
Today the whole world is menaced by a different sort of Hydra; the good news is that this one has only two heads, the bad news is no one has gotten close to chopping off either head to see if this one shares its ancestor's skill at regeneration. Each head despite being joined at the neck has its own separate name like a conjoined twin. Those names are State and Capital, State and Capital like most brothers are keen to compete to prove who's the stronger of the two and prone to arguments even on occasion violent disagreement. Perhaps because there is only two heads, both control not just the head and neck but split their shared body down the middle. State with sharper fangs and claws controls the left, whilst Capital possessing a silvery forked tongue and hypnotising eyes controls the right. Despite their disagreements they can agree on one thing, that domination and control of the world serves them both equally and when faced with a genuine threat will like any good family work together to overcome every obstacle.
Unfortunately for humanity the source of the Hydra's threats is the struggle for freedom and dignity. In order for Humanity to make gains they must take away from the Hydra's domain, and chip at its scaly hide, too much of this and the Hydra will die and rot away. So like any beast State and Capital will fight to assert their shared dominion of humankind. This struggle has been going on for centuries, usually the hypnotic eyes of Capital and the sharp fangs of State give the Hydra the upper hand, but on rare occasions humanity has pushed back the Hydra and reclaimed part of its territory. Humanity's greatest asset in the struggle against the Reptilian twins has been its numbers and the ability to organise in Solidarity with each other, when attacked on all sides two heads are simply not enough to achieve victory.
Unfortunately such Unity is rare in human history, for State and Capital are not unthinking brutes, on the contrary they are clever and know well the dangers of allowing the human race to organise itself and have developed some clever tricks to make total unity impossible. State uses its sharp claws to divide up the world into smaller chunks called Nations. Not all Nations are equal (that's the clever part) some are large, others small, some have a bounty of natural wealth others know only scarcity. The differences are quite literally set in stone, and it is not long before these differences affect the minds of the humans living within them. Those living in the biggest and richest count themselves fortunate and consider that they are also rich and big, whilst those whom live in the smaller lands and scarcer territories in a warped testament to the human spirit draw strength and pride from their lands short comings viewing those whom live in more favoured lands to be weak and sheltered. In each land more and more humans come to give thanks to the Hydra for dividing up the world for them, calling their new territories "Nation States" with a small band of extra enthusiastic supporters becoming known as the Statists whom profess to rule their lands in the name of State and the indifference of their brothers and sisters.
And Capital was also hard at work, while State was busy dividing up the lands he was busy dividing up the people within those lands. In each new Nation State Capital went to he mesmerised a select few to view themselves as better than their brothers and sisters, he told them to believe that the Nation and its riches belong to them and them alone, that they are in effect a class apart from their fellow Nationals and should not treat them as brothers and sisters. And so these bands of ambitious men and women began laying claim to their lands and resources, each acquisition gave them more pleasure and prestige, and served to detach and elevate them from their brothers and sisters fulfilling Capitals promise. After claiming all their Nations had to offer this new class faced to dilemma's, the first and most pressing was how to get at the riches of the lands, the fertility of the fields, the metals in the mountains and fish of the seas and lakes, the second was the hostility of the Statists whom did not like their attempts to divide up the land and their people. To the Statists what matter was the differences between States no those within them. The solution to the first problem was to use their brothers and sisters whom they had distanced themselves, many of whom had begun to look enviously upon the riches owned by the new class. In exchange for giving up their labour (the one resource this new class could not own outright) to work the lands growing crops, and mining the mountains, and fishing the lakes and seas the new class now called Owners would reward the non-Owners, now called Labourers -after their only Virtue the Owners believed them to possess- with a portion of the wealth of the Nation. The solution to the problem with the Statists whose hostility could lead to violence in a mockery of the familial disputes between the Hydra heads was to reassure the Statists that the Owners where still part of the Nation of which the Statists ruled they were just a better class then the Labourers. By working together the Owners and Statists would stand strong and tall over the other Nations.
The alliance of the Owners and Statists were then cemented by a clever practice known as taxation, in order to keep the Statists strong the Owners would give a portion of their wealth to the Statists whom would use it to strengthen the Nation. So close did the two grow that the Owners soon openly declared themselves Capitalists in honour of their Patron Hydra head. And thus humanity was bitterly divided and the battle against the Hydra's waned and their domination of the world seemed total and complete.
To be continued.
The Two Headed Hydra
Newest Deviations
Remembering Charlie
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Search Your Feelings
Though long ago, and far away
My love for cosmic battles is here to stay
The child within thanks you George
You put the adolescent me through an emotional forge
The adult me though no fan of CG glitter
Does not feel in the least bitter
I love this galaxy from core to far
Though I still, and always will hate Jar Jar
My love for cosmic battles is here to stay
The child within thanks you George
You put the adolescent me through an emotional forge
The adult me though no fan of CG glitter
Does not feel in the least bitter
I love this galaxy from core to far
Though I still, and always will hate Jar Jar
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Ambau el ili asertas ne spekti televidon
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La oni pri Skotlando
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La oni pri Paul Mattick
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Gravaj momentoj en Maldekstraismo: Sektisma
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EO Dash Academy Chapitro Du Varmega Flanko
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Interview with a Zombie
The following is a transcript of a recorded interview of research subject George R, by Project head researcher Dr Robinson. This transcript is classified under Clause 4 Subsection 12 of the Data Retention Act and available to class 3 or higher Security clearance personnel only. Unauthorised access of this file or any material relating to the Mortis project is punishable by termination of contract and/or life.
Please forward any queries regarding this file or any other and your personal clearance
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Q: Testing, testing, Doctor Robinson here conducting our fourteenth session, time is 2330 hrs, June 15th 2037. How are you today George?
A: (sounds of shuffling) Briaaaaains, gruh, (harsh wheezing sounds for 38 seconds) Braaaiiinssssssssssssssssss.
Q: The usual then? Good, good. Now George I’d like ask you some further questions pertaining to your.... your condition. I trust you have no objections?
A: Gruh
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Q: Testing, testing, Doctor Robinson here conducting our fourteenth session, time is 2330 hrs, June 15th 2037. How are you today George?
A: (sounds of shuffling) Briaaaaains, gruh, (harsh wheezing sounds for 38 seconds) Braaaiiinssssssssssssssssss.
Q: The usual then? Good, good. Now George I’d like ask you some further questions pertaining to your.... your condition. I trust you have no objections?
A: Gruh
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EO Dash Academy Chapitro Unu Nevola
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Gravaj momentoj en Maldekstraismo: Kamarado
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Put it all on Red!
I present to you Comrade Laski’s tale
In modern times it’d read [spoiler alert] epic fail
But this was the sixties/seventies
The decade of strange amenities
Laski was another American Red
This time even his own Comrades thought him better dead
Laski & Co backed the Chairman Mao
To the Bourgeoisie they said `Kapow!`
But Groups for Peoples Armed Defence
Cost quite a lot in dollars and pence
But Laski had a plan that would turn the tide
He’d go to Vegas and let it all ride!
As we know Lady Luck is quite fickle
Even to those shaded by the Hammer & Sickle
To his eternal regret
He lost every bet
And showing judgement quite poor
Raided the party treasury and bet more and more
But thought the wheel did spin and spin
He still could not win
It wasn’t just the dice that gave him the snake eye
He was denounced by a proletarian cry
But after failing at roulette and committing such impropriety
He damn well refused to try his luck at the Russian variety
He reached for his gun,
In modern times it’d read [spoiler alert] epic fail
But this was the sixties/seventies
The decade of strange amenities
Laski was another American Red
This time even his own Comrades thought him better dead
Laski & Co backed the Chairman Mao
To the Bourgeoisie they said `Kapow!`
But Groups for Peoples Armed Defence
Cost quite a lot in dollars and pence
But Laski had a plan that would turn the tide
He’d go to Vegas and let it all ride!
As we know Lady Luck is quite fickle
Even to those shaded by the Hammer & Sickle
To his eternal regret
He lost every bet
And showing judgement quite poor
Raided the party treasury and bet more and more
But thought the wheel did spin and spin
He still could not win
It wasn’t just the dice that gave him the snake eye
He was denounced by a proletarian cry
But after failing at roulette and committing such impropriety
He damn well refused to try his luck at the Russian variety
He reached for his gun,
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By the Rockets Red Glare
In the year of our Lord Seventeen Seventy Six
Things were going on in the Imperial sticks
Out in the Colonies Thirteen
They declared People Supreme
And birthed a new nation into the mix
It seems they all wished to be free
And showed great disrespect to tea
To protest King’s Largess
They formed a Congress
And bombarded His Majesty with a plea
Having fail to impress upon jurisprudence
Grabbed muskets an declared independence
Fought Redcoat an Hessian
Who made quite the Messian
And forced the King to commit costly vengeance
From Georgia to the tips of Maine
And funding from France and Spain
They built an army
And behaved calmly
And marched in sun, frost and rain
It is more than fair to mention
They did better than expectation
Though for a time
Not in battle line
Such was the cause of their desperation
Lacking in the tools of convention
They gave plots more than a mention
Going where Eagles Dare
By sailing the Delaware
They inflicted a state of exasperation
Which lead to the withdraw
Things were going on in the Imperial sticks
Out in the Colonies Thirteen
They declared People Supreme
And birthed a new nation into the mix
It seems they all wished to be free
And showed great disrespect to tea
To protest King’s Largess
They formed a Congress
And bombarded His Majesty with a plea
Having fail to impress upon jurisprudence
Grabbed muskets an declared independence
Fought Redcoat an Hessian
Who made quite the Messian
And forced the King to commit costly vengeance
From Georgia to the tips of Maine
And funding from France and Spain
They built an army
And behaved calmly
And marched in sun, frost and rain
It is more than fair to mention
They did better than expectation
Though for a time
Not in battle line
Such was the cause of their desperation
Lacking in the tools of convention
They gave plots more than a mention
Going where Eagles Dare
By sailing the Delaware
They inflicted a state of exasperation
Which lead to the withdraw
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`Schrodinger: A Pillar of Internet Communism`
Communism appears to have a very serious and long standing problem despite having a very basic definition, -`A society without classes and states organised by Communes (hence the name Communism)`- and having adherents all over the world ensuring even the basics are translated into most languages, time and again most people including its alleged adherents don't seem to grasp what it actually is, leading to all sorts of strange conclusions and antics.
This is nothing new or unique mind, quite a few people describe themselves as Capitalist despite not owning any actual Capital.
But oddly enough the internet age which has made access to information much easier and quicker has made this strange phenomenon even worse. For example let's take a look at the comments for this deviation it appears to have stimulated quite a heated debate amongst some so called Comrades. One in particular stood out and no its not the
This is nothing new or unique mind, quite a few people describe themselves as Capitalist despite not owning any actual Capital.
But oddly enough the internet age which has made access to information much easier and quicker has made this strange phenomenon even worse. For example let's take a look at the comments for this deviation it appears to have stimulated quite a heated debate amongst some so called Comrades. One in particular stood out and no its not the
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Surely Something has Gone Awry?
There was a time not long ago, when we marched in step and line
To usher in the glorious new time,
When we strived to free every slave and serf
In every corner of this rotten earth,
It mattered not who called the shot
So long as they weren’t a dirty Trot.
But things are no longer sweet
We’ve drunk deep from the well of defeat,
Now there’s an awful rattle
And the redrawing of the lines of battle,
Once there was the workers and the Bourgeoisie
Now its Nationalists and Conspiracists and the damn Nazi.
Not everything’s changed though
Thousands worship Mao, Hoxha and even Uncle Joe,
Though I wonder how they can sleep
With the company they keep,
It seems that now that the Comrades are few
Some have started to blame the Jew.
It seems acquainting the Fascist with the pavement
Is a forgotten statement,
Others still hate the modern Boxwallah
They’ll gladly line up behind the Ayatollah,
Others yet so blinded in their hatred of the Yank
Will champion the Russian tank.
To usher in the glorious new time,
When we strived to free every slave and serf
In every corner of this rotten earth,
It mattered not who called the shot
So long as they weren’t a dirty Trot.
But things are no longer sweet
We’ve drunk deep from the well of defeat,
Now there’s an awful rattle
And the redrawing of the lines of battle,
Once there was the workers and the Bourgeoisie
Now its Nationalists and Conspiracists and the damn Nazi.
Not everything’s changed though
Thousands worship Mao, Hoxha and even Uncle Joe,
Though I wonder how they can sleep
With the company they keep,
It seems that now that the Comrades are few
Some have started to blame the Jew.
It seems acquainting the Fascist with the pavement
Is a forgotten statement,
Others still hate the modern Boxwallah
They’ll gladly line up behind the Ayatollah,
Others yet so blinded in their hatred of the Yank
Will champion the Russian tank.
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Modern Habitual Disenchantment: A Review
Modern Habitual Disenchantment or MHD is a collection of poems by Joshua Deeds AKA DurtyDeeds93, it’s a collection of free verse, with at least one entry embrace qualifying as short prose. It’s on Googleplay and priced at $1. The poems are broken down into three collections connected loosely by subject matter. Those collections are Pain, Disillusioned and Anger. There are common themes and language in all three but each has a different target and so offers some variety.
Pain:
The poems collected under pain are appropriately painful to read, I mean that in a good way. They share a narrative of a relationship breakdown -possibly more than one- from the point of view of one of the survivors, and it does feel like the character (possibly the author, the details and vivid language seem to be coming from a personal place) is surviving a traumatic
Pain:
The poems collected under pain are appropriately painful to read, I mean that in a good way. They share a narrative of a relationship breakdown -possibly more than one- from the point of view of one of the survivors, and it does feel like the character (possibly the author, the details and vivid language seem to be coming from a personal place) is surviving a traumatic
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Mother Jones on the Common Enemy
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Err yeah the length of absence just grows and grows. A lot has happened since my last journal which was nearly a year ago would be cause for concern if that was not the case. I'm back in full time employment which explains most of the absences, and I've finished most of my extra curricular hobbies. I've completed transcribing Conquered City, and started on another book The Pink Triangle by Richard Plant. I've also completed several online Esperanto courses including the Duolingo one, so Mi povas parolas Esperanton. Sed mi bezonas plu praktiko.
Its an interesting language and I look forward to progressing with it. Other than that I've been doing quite a lot of reading, I managed to finish all five volumes of Les Miserables which I quite enjoyed, the musicals don't do it justice, though they certainly try. I was surprised by how much the 2013 one crammed in, but it is five volumes worth of material so something had to go.
Gxis poste!
Its an interesting language and I look forward to progressing with it. Other than that I've been doing quite a lot of reading, I managed to finish all five volumes of Les Miserables which I quite enjoyed, the musicals don't do it justice, though they certainly try. I was surprised by how much the 2013 one crammed in, but it is five volumes worth of material so something had to go.
Gxis poste!
- Listening to: The Decembrists
- Reading: The Shining
- Watching: Gotham
- Playing: Bloodborne
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Artist | Hobbyist | Photography
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