JUST IS

Plagiarist assemblage text May 15 2007 – Nov 11 07 // excised from the journals of Steve Calvert, mediator of Bachelor Machines... Illustrations by Steve Calvert from the albums Youngest Ancients and Gigantes Ritournelle

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I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR NEW INSECT OVERLORDS

Be ye ymen of great passions.  Only in extremes can the spirit discover itself - be without fear as the great metamorphosis begins – go where there is strength and freedom, seek the emanations of love and intelligence – we experience our being only at their place of meeting - in a completely chaotic universe such as this one, there are no accidents – everything is significant – a person doing his true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe, and will seem possessed of amazing good luck.  So many coincidences occur that it is ridiculous to use the word coincidence at all --- laughter is it’s own opposite: conceptualization and deconceptualization occur simultaneously – shattering of expectations is the device of all our best humour.  Verily, laughter is an instrument of magic –the free energy of our destroyed beliefs manifests as hilarity.  By the amoral cultivation of laughter, the magician can shrug off all losses and avoid entering averse states altogether – only laughter can be gotten away with for free – diversion,-divergence – we give away all the information we have – you’re lucky if someone could be bothered to steal your stupid fucking demo - scraping against the walls of this dimension, trying to break through – mmm, power – – I can’t hear you over all the Liberty -- narrowness of purpose vs breadth of vision – unlimited access to indecency and corruption– once a man sees the world’s black underbelly, he can never turn his back, never pretend it doesn’t exist - we are compelled, blotting out reality, never compromise, not even in the face of Armageddon - the end? Nothing ends, nothing ever ends – to never surrender, no matter who orders you to look the other way – we do not dignify absurdities – knowledge claims, an ultimate satire – the very best in care to our wounded warriors – the obvious oblivious blind drunk – terribly maimed everlasting brotherhood, resurrected by science – I have a We, We the Me, an US - the idea of mind or ego as a fixed attribute or possession of the self is illusory– relinquishment is freedom – acting without lust for result, he achieves his will - I’m just a puppet who can see the strings

So why do you think this is happening? - One smart decision among many many stupid ones - exercising immanent domain, prior art – feed the imagination, that it may wander the alphabet as it wills - freedom from identification ––  the tradition of anonymity, which has become a symbol of independence - - anything that sticks out is looked on with skepticism - confidence always wins - a life known and celebrated – the aim is to produce inspiration and enlightenment through disordering belief structures – a psychological synarchism – raise awareness of our ability to live almost any truth – Christians know Fantasists as Satanists – an incredibly dangerous place to work – some of these ideas are filled with razor blades - magic is profoundly opposed to religion – a liberating behavior is one which increases one’s possibilities for future action – the solution is to become omnivores, polymathic – there is a thing more trustworthy than all the sages, and which contains more wisdom than a great library : … your own body – your body will be with you a long time, get comfortable, be good to it, get good at it, and defend yourself,  – you’re here to do something really important, brilliant, amazing, evolutionary - that will change the way things are done

We desired a mode of thought that would impress itself upon the real and would trigger a whole series of phenomena in the real – with the sacred being the chief one, the contagious spread of the sacred being the most important one – the antonym of ‘determinist’, it produced rather than predicted phenomena - scotoma – the eye sees what the mind chooses to see – you’d have no reason to believe your delusion wasn’t real - you’ve concerned yourself with minutia and have drawn wild conclusions - imitation and emulation – parody of truth – someone’s idea of a reassuring environment for humans – librarians are hiding something ––the yuppie Nuremburg defense,``for the mortgage `` – denial is a better idea – it’s why you’re still alive - I lied, I used to pretend that I didn’t see things, I don’t see anything, until I didn’t see anything – he is without sight, but he sees more – they have taken my eyes, but not my vision – you have eternity, I have only now – we go forward, we come back, it’s the only way – I need to remember the future– my vision is incomplete - to hunt the future, the spice must flow – the script is written, the stage is not set – history is written on the sand– plots within plots - where men walk without footprints - problems in this universe for which there are no answers – I meddled in all possible futures in order to create them, but they created me – the only permanence is change – those who accept self-deception, will perish by that deception –don’t turn your backs on your heritage – it remains a living symbol – other lives hover in the enigma of our consciousness – shared lives – it is the curse of all pre-born – one day each of you will come face to face with the horror of your own existence – alone, unable to see the future – genetic rivers flowing in my veins – I had full consciousness long before birth – my entire heritage alive in me, ever-present grandmothers - my skin is not my own – now I have survived the crucible, silenced the voices that would have possessed me – only one remains – visualize the flow of time, it must move, not you – consider the union of opposites, recognizing the essential instability of our universe – one must learn to make it one’s own creation – I will face my fear, I will let it pass though me –

Existence is random, has no pattern save what we imagine from staring at it too long, no meaning save what we choose to impose – reborn then, free to scrawl our own design on this morally blank world – viewers ‘suspend their disbelief’, become vulnerable to embedded messages and values – moving images produce a shift in neural activity, which induces a sort of chemical trance that suppresses judgment and heightens suggestibility – burroughs suggested re-arranging words and images to evade rational analysis, avoiding linear presentation, allowing subliminal hints of the future to leak through an impending world, glimpsed only peripherally – implying limitless personal choice - the amount of meaning one experiences is proportional to K`s manifestation in one’s circumstances – Kia-Anon freely transmogrifies its arbitrary personality, refusing any identity defined by its environment –  felt as meaningfulness, power, genius, and ecstasy in action.  Outside of this, nothing is true – the only clear view is from atop the mountain of your mutilated selves  - personal enlightenment and emancipation are the only real safeguards to freedom

like seeing a plant you don’t recognize – the vegetal mirror - we are the changing people – how close the dreamer’s mind is – glamour’s illusion can create memories in people that aren’t theirs, or make them forget things they’ve always known – transform our mere sightings into genuine visions – if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you – we’re out of our depth  - time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel which humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet – life insists on life’s viewpoint, even where alternatives exist – your definition is narrow – to find a rational universe, you attempt to compare the mere uncertainty of your existence with the chaos of the world beneath us – if you’d only relax enough to see the whole continuum, life’s pattern or lack of one – thermodynamic miracles – events with odds against so astronomical they’re effectively impossible – to distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability – the crowning unlikelihood – as far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being – if god exists our knowledge of him is imperfect – struggle to find a way to reconcile your faith with fact – so say we all

the less you represent, the more you push the simulacrum of representation – a ventriloquist art delivering its own oracles – the talkies were powerful instruments of choice for fledgling totalitarianisms – the ethics of disappearance completed by the aesthetics of absence – the speed and rapid movements of change force you to look continuously from one to the next – your sight does not master the pictures, it is the pictures that master your sight – they flood consciousness – the cinema involves putting your eyes into uniform, when before you were naked –

meanings coalesce from semiotic chaos before reverting to chaos – exotic, transient and elusive, these must be grasped quickly – these referent points established, an emergent worldview becomes gradually discernable amidst the media’s whitenoise – jigsaw fragments model and align themselves piece by piece – specific tomorrows necessarily obscured by indeterminacy – broad assumptions regarding this postulated future may be drawn. we can imagine its ambience, we can hypothesize its psychology – oblique and shifting cathode mosaic uncovers the blueprint for an era – an aura of the conceivable and concrete, and of the casually miraculous – look on my works, ye mighty – the method has an earlier precursor in the shamanistic tradition – of divining from randomly scattered goat innards – observation ends, it must be so – disorienting lateral thinking – their pursuits lead them deeper into moral and intellectual regions as uncharted and devoid of landmark as the territories currently surrounding us

do you comprehend the triumph to which you have contributed, the secret glory it affords? he opened my eyes – only the best comedians accomplish that – I swore to deny his kind their last black laugh at earth’s expense - what caused such precociousness? perhaps I decided to be intelligent rather than otherwise? perhaps we all make these decisions – there is no ‘ordinary person’ – there’s a notion I’d like to see buried - you’d be surprised how many geniuses forgot to breathe – ninety nine percent respiration - believing in yourself and your own heroic potential is the first step to realizing that potential – the means to attain a capability far beyond that of the so-called ordinary person are within reach of everyone – the disciplines of physical exercise, meditation and study aren’t terribly esoteric – by applying what you learn and ordering your thoughts in an intelligent manner, it is possible to accomplish almost anything --- No one is waiting any longer for the revolution, but for the Accident, the breakdown – from that moment, whoever says nothing consents to cede their ‘right to remain silent’, their freedom to listen, to a noise-making process that simulates conversation – what use are words in the face of what offers itself with such luminous obviousness

without a sustained period of introspection, like depression, it’s hard to imagine where a developed series of creative ideas could emerge - equating the act of writing to a kind of vivisection – we quite literally cut things up and paste them into place – a hybrid tissue of fragmented references – poetic labour of an artist, who responds to mortal loss by creating a living work - never stop seeking what seems unobtainable - if you like a good idea, steal it – just add new persuasions – becoming a statesperson – rank marked by scarification – I didn’t mean that innuendo - imaginary evils – no brain no pain – you suffer a little more, but it’s worth it – the largest dichotomy ever – yet another perfect reason to drink – if you don’t get down it doesn’t count – the need to procure resources – the sculptor, estrogen – low stealth esteem – its all in yer minds – don’t let the plan get in the way of the journey – a more rewarding scenarios– the transformational power of liberty, order, democracy – once they are free they will love us – are you ready to curry favour with your corporate overlords? Yes!? – he’s inscrutable

symmetrical whole – literal lateral – subs stance - whoever’s having the most fun wins - when it comes to mental gymnastics I’m a fourteen year old Romanian girl, and I’m gonna stick the landing – the mothership is arriving to select the special one – when destiny calls for you, you can’t just decide to lay around in the bath for ten more minutes, or say you’re not coming out because your hair’s not combed -- I didn’t want to go anyway --- destiny wants you outside and in your rocketsuit at 7am sharp

Sentience – we generally agree suffering is a bad thing - something in nature seems to be discouraging uniformity – aggregate accumulation – I had no idea how much the mind has the ability to twist things, play tricks on you - it is the choices men make that enslaves their souls – an ear of corn has a better chance of forming a coherent thought than these shrimp – there’s no creative impulse without discontent – abominably victorious – wisdom will be the new criterion for evolution – there is only one of us – all relations will reflect that – the only thing that’s real is you –you’re not the system, you are the user – upgrade the illusion - the Analogous, the age of the ‘likely’, the probabilistic computation of sensation, through a filter, by software ––‘one of the most serious transgressions that a sequential artist can commit is to somehow make the audience aware that he is looking at a drawing – anything the artist does to create a break between the story and the reader is a mistake – in order for technique to be effective it must be invisible’

They always say time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself – it takes a big man to read what’s in his teleprompter – you must be reminded of your ethical responsibilities and challenged to rise above your own selfish needs – where intelligence is unleavened by compassion, human beings do terrible things all the time – a famously muscular interpretation of his own power – asymmetrical warfare – you can do less - doesn’t make us right, just a whole lot of people wrong

To love only one person at a time – it’s hard to chose the ones we fall in love with – people like us, we’re more complicated –– cut the wire, you are being played - some might say she was the victim of political persecution – hell, she could apply for asylum – will comply  - Could you please bring the sexy back?  Our affinity for disobedience seeks first to understand and then to be understood – you’ve already made the choice, you’re here to ask why you chose it – the anomaly – there are only two intelligent questions a man can ask: why did god create the world? and what should I do next? ‘why’ is the only real source of power – if we do not ever take time how will we ever have time  – A lifetime is like finely spun thread – a snail who dreams he’s an ox – multiple ways of knowing – nonsense – my vocabulary is infinitely expanding – observe phenomena and render hypotheses about said phenomena – a standing bridge of multiple universes to connect the finite with the infinite – a ruse that gods play on themselves – there’s no measurement to it – if you are prudent, everything is permitted

To see the face of god brings madness – the hybrid is born to indecision – it had already been written – you model is fundamentally flawed – the messianic conviction that you’re on a special mission to enlightenment – all interruptus and no coitus - dead grays tell no tales – procedural foresight – this brain will broadcast distracting thoughts so that all our zombies in the vicinity will continue to function according to our mind control - that the author of liberty will guide us in these trying times – the gods lift those who lift each other – life is a carnival, but the tents are folded before dawn – someone whose life experiences and decisions have had some impact on their face – steel is strong as it has known the hammer – there’s always a backup plan for victory – if you can be strong in times of adversity you’ll be invincible in times of joy

Y’know what, nobody knows who they are – that’s what life’s about – never call colleagues your subordinates – you neuter? - Y – vowel or consonant – pick a side we’re at war –what happens when you bring democracy to information? – the invisible hand of the market has the mouse now – reality is just what the majority of people decide it is – reality has become a commodity – a web of deceit – irreverence – bearing the suffering of not knowing – the doubting anamnesist - the most important part of being a risk taker is being really good at assessing risk - remember you can’t beam through a force field so don’t even try it –

It is not the distinction between the Model and the copy, but rather between copies and simulacra – pure becoming, the unlimited, is the matter of the simulacrum -insofar as it eludes the action of the idea and insofar as it contests both model and copy at once – simulacra which elude the ground and insinuate themselves everywhere - periodicity, chromos – wave interference creates acoustical beating, pulsations in material – always a pair of eddies, members of each pair turning in opposite directions – ubiquitous law of periodicity and symmetry – hermaphrodite oroboros, center of the wheel, fulcrum of heat and light, the forge­ – bull headed fabricator of the labyrinth - standard bearer for the economics of industrial mass production

just because you’re not watching it doesn’t mean a culture doesn’t exist – a call from the grandfathers, to accept allegiance to civilization, its fraternity of workers – to tighten up your ship – curb or resublimate the attraction to disarray – suppress your scorn for war – what means have you to unbind your enslaved imprisonment? Ameritocracy - the celebrated autophangeous self-authoring textual tapeworm – complemented by sets of syllabic glyphs – logograms, morphemes  - the text is a social property - it knows everything about its own – the sea is the lifeblood of this planet, just like the blood in your veins – be obscure clearly – be wild of tongue in a way we can understand – a passage in it made him change, it flourished in him -  comics is a medium mistaken for a genre - just pretend you’re an arrogant bastard who thinks only of himself – who needs to pretend? why did I ever doubt your low minded deceitfulness? Do not ever let another make you who you are - when you do things right, no one will know you’ve done anything at all - how to create the illusion of reality – build up a background of evil verisimilitude – notoriety is not as good as fame, but much better than obscurity – report any suspicious activity - when the solution is simple, god is answering - the mystic fallacy that someone somewhere was tending the light at the end of the tunnel – he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow also

demons were always an integral part of the world created by god – one that was never dualistic – creative energy in its most material form -– elves were collective powers closely connected with the ancestors and life force of the family - power excellence valiancy boldness heroism perseverance nobility divinity benevolence greatness goodness blessings beauty friendliness wisdom decisiveness optimism intelligence energy ambition – LUNG, descendants of the dragon, ultimate representation of mother nature, greatest divine force, celestial breath – sheng chi  – the divine madness of spring – the goat leaping with lust –siva and sakti - all the ascended beings – a contest between faith and chance, the daimonic is the unrest which forces us into the unknown, leading to self-destruction and self-discovery – a medicine man is blessed with healing powers in response to his love of living things - a planet that dreams of being human – the world behind the world –

xenophilic inklings –all mystics in all ages and countries have declared that behind the visible are chains on chains of conscious beings, who are not of heaven but of the earth, who have no inherent form, but change according to their whim, or the mind that sees them – there is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious - the visible world is merely their skin.  in dreams we go amongst them, and play with them, and combat with them.  Do not think the fairies are always little.  Everything is capricious about them, even their size - things come to him – he just opens up and there it is – the radio is not the source of the message – the great creative people can tune in and pick up other channels – can he see us? no, he’s dead – the growth of crystals, like seamonkeys - couture – free of futures pre-determined – a victim of what he knew he could not choose – free of the perversion of the prophets words – create its own future from moment to moment – the sins of the mother bloom in the children they bear – one door has closed but another has opened – solve your own death

yes, I created a lie, but you believed it, and there found something true – this could be the most important moment of your life – commit to it – what was done to me created me – everything was connected, one long chain of events – I felt like I could see everything that had happened and everything that was going to happen – it was like a perfect pattern all laid out in front of me – and I realized that we were all part of it and all trapped by it –beneath this mask is an idea, and ideas are bullet proof – I’m simply the manifestation of what you already are - a revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having –

The love religion has no code or doctrine – your sweet blasphemy is the truest devotion – it is foolish of me to try to say this – if I did say it, it would uproot our human intelligence, it would shatter all writing pens – when you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you keep saying again and again – ‘this is certainly not like we thought it was!’ - science damn you! United atheists alliance! I will smash your skull like a clam on my tummy! Self hatred, self righteousness, and self pity – new rules! All plagiarisms of each other – the struggle to throw off servility – sexually comfortable, labour positive, they are by their nature exceptions, and cannot be legislated for – you can’t claim you’re for the peace unless you’re willing to disturb it –  mathematical symbol for the force

New ideas are very commonly presented by people who are very strange – unorthodox sciences - contrary to the conventional laws of physics, energy can be produced by a fuelless machine – save the world and make a little money on the side –  I think phytoplankton can take half the burden off the industrial revolution’s damage – With your intellect and my balls, we can change the world – those who would take care of others must first know how to take care of themselves – accumulation of the effort to cultivate character – inexhaustible nurturance – when spiritual virtue increases, there is no difficulty or danger – the basis is firm and stable – one can then resolve others problems – developing others by one’s own development – lacking basis, lacking inward mastery, it creates confusion arbitrarily – the business of guiding others comes after the completion of the great path – when completed, mind and body are autonomous –one can thus benefit others and not harm oneself – the main theme is self-development

The college of sociology was exclusively devoted to the study of closed groups - you were a favourite moment of a dead century – but all your dreams are over now – a lover’s food is the love of bread, not the bread – no one who really loves, loves existence – lovers have nothing to do with existence – they collect the interest without the capital – people who renounce desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites - rekombinat anonymist dilettante coterie - a primitive gaming device used in his time –– hyperbolic speculation – god’s a flying spaghetti monster –– we don’t believe in journalists having to adhere to anything yet still consider ourselves to be  journalists – believe in telling a good story even if it then ceases to be factual –in the multitude of counselors, there is safety - i just wanted to be sure you weren't neutral on pirates - you’ve got to never say anything about this – couldn’t evolution be an answer to how but not the answer to why?

VIOLENCE and other IMAGINED EVILS

an epoch of permanent crisis – we are beset by a plague of wizards – visual liars, deflect, dissipate – we’re coming for you – we’ve re-awakened Godzilla – a tightly bound assembly of moving parts, each trying strenuously to destroy each other – obsolete power corrupts obsoletely – a crash course in collision – that machine will be prevented from working at all - don’t hurt us, we’re monsters - it’s not a lie if you believe it – to spread democracy through media - we’ve drunk our own kool-aid – the dead rise, transfigured – battle not with monsters, lest ye become one

convicted by a jury of your peers –the bounds of community standards – crimes against humanity, collaborating with the enemy - history does not look gently on genocides - – I call question - terminate the prisoners - Main battery firing solution – I recommend that you take your victory and move on - he was used to working with machines –– it’s not the gods or fate or the universe, you’re screwed up! - fear of fear itself - we became what we beheld - a replacement for alot of things that men need but can’t get anywhere else – you know your job - work with what you have it surpasses every human emotion you’ve ever had - – breaks preconceptions, can’t really prove it one way or the other – my horror for your marvel  – if you can face that, you can make a lot of money – we’re enslaved here to do a job boys, let’s pick it up – when tv is this real, life is good – share my wings – imagine when you came back from that, you’d be irrepressible - Death then becomes a learning experience – bitter and painful – how many pilots have we lost? We will monitor the situation – you got something to live for now, not just die for – humanity never asked itself why it deserved to survive

Take the safety off - a life free of violence – scientists running amok – guilds of calamitous intent – silence on grounds of national security – unless there’s a secret CIA out there that we don’t know about – player haters – fear is a disease – a pox on the infidel dogs - friend foe or frenemy – its very easy to turn a human being into a killer, harder is the rehabilitation - good soldiers make terrible citizens – debt and wage slavery – neonatal Nazis - Take the safety off - If you want someone’s attention, you don’t have to be right, you just have to be loud – logic and reason aren’t enough, you have to be a dick to everyone who doesn’t agree with you –you need to know how we do things before you come here – consent of the governed - reasonable accommodation – did you burn when we set you on fire? – media has gone from a one way channel to an echo chamber – hail science – our answers to the great question will prevail – guided between light and dark, she is angel or is she demon, she is real or imagined

endophyte compounds – somnambulant elder gods – Denial is not just a river in Antarctica – in comedy, we keep things complex – gallows humour is the way people have always survived – what’s better than an invisible beam to fight an abstract concept - Anything can happen when you give a robot a machine gun – If you can’t execute someone in a democratic fashion, are you mature enough as a government to rule independently? - that feeling you can’t fight? That’s the invisible hand of the market reaching for your throat

Things are going to happen – our attitudes about it are rather irrelevant – what we should take from this is a deep sense of engagement with the present – boundaries need to be attacked, and it takes crazy people to do that – confidence, will to power, to foolishness – freedom from servility - an authoritarian government has the luxury of silence – In a democracy, we are forced to lie again and again - if the Spanish had not come, what would Mexico look like today? – you have made us appear weak in the eyes of our enemies – prepare to endure my harmful rays!

by juxtaposing insolence and sweetness, hardness and charm, without any transition, Dada represented something characteristic of our times: instability – a race between a typewriter and a sewing machine – as denunciatory as tele-surveillance – contrary to romantic notions,  art’s most serious drawback is its immediacy, its ability to be perceived at-a-glance – the  event`s involving immediate presence still demand prolonged attention – seeing art as ornament as diversion from political progress, artists were to accept their adult responsibilities and make art a weapon - so militant futurism declared its hostilities on the prolonged attention of an onlooker - the reason I’m painting this way is because I want to be a machine – no longer has something to say about the worker, but only about the unemployed – the first thing to go was craftsmanship – the impact of industrial repetition – the Nazi assault on degenerate art would be followed by the age of automatic art – a profaned art emerges in the image of the annihilated corpses of tyranny – freedom of expression stops at the edge of an abyss, on the brink of the call to murder - authoritarian knowledge claims: we kill people for a living, they say shoot, we shoot - the second chance is the essential criminal idea: it is the lever of heroism, and the only sanctuary of the desparate – quite apart from the suppression of definitely heretical words, the reduction of vocabulary was regarded as an end in itself, and no word that could be dispensed with was allowed to survive.  Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the choice of words down to a minimum – how did apes acquire speech? They learned to refuse – rebels wear glasses, because their vision is imperfect -  a house divided can not rock – bring the noise – ain’t no faking the funk

life is a terminal condition – slam your brains against your desks until something comes out - ambitious sons of perdition – its only in the face of horror that you can find the nobleness in yourself – libertine – a dissolute person, usually a person who is morally unrestrained, one devoid of any restraints, who ignores or spurns religious norms, accepted morals, and forms of behaviour sanctioned by the larger society – insinuate, invertebrate – you get out what you put in – caloric economy – industrial surplus – the dead should, if possible, serve the purposes of the living

an invention with no philosophy behind it is worthless – science should reveal universal principles, not assist man in his folly – that technology would make us all equals – this is all for profit – be careful how you use that word ‘equal’ – you’re using science to make weapons of war – so? that’s how we make money! what’s wrong with that?– its very difficult for a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it – if you argue correctly, you’re never wrong - trouble is what you now have because we are giving it to you

we are freak, we are technique – we’re machines, making musique – get up to get beat down - man some of these guys overdevelop – have you seen these mesomorph frog-men? – it’s another reality -  all of the women tried at the Salem Witch Trials were found guilty – if you’re home schooled that’s correct – Hope has two children, Anger and Courage - a warrior cult that can use its divine-sanctioned violence to bring christian democracy to the world –  the evil of their course seems pleasing to them – but X guideth not those who reject his faith – so do not wrong yourselves therein, and fight those who go astray– you’re insane - may this harvest be spared the blood – so say we all – some people are afraid of peace, they can’t imagine life without fighting – living and working together, growing things – conquer your fear and I promise you you will conquer death - the time when weapons are used to change the world is ending – to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing– they can be a great people - they wish to be - she’ll know the face of god in her lifetime, she’ll see patterns others will not see

myopic and parochial – interested only in preserving their own power – all the nonsense I’d imprisoned myself with – I gave up fighting, not you, myself – reborn, on the threshold of something extraordinary – one thing to gain control of your perceptions, quite another to gain control of your desires – and when you do you’ll find reality to be qite a bit different than you’d thought – you wear its collar

all that stay silent are judged to consent – incapable of understanding the full horror of human violence - routine horrors, pitiless art – the catastrophes of modernity - instead of a merciless art of presentation, seductive images of carnage in glorious Technicolor – hyperviolence and silence – scientific voyeurism is powerless to express the actual extent of human cruelty – pity is excluded from the outset, rejecting the banality of evil – the machine is playing these beats – reduction and repetition as marker of progress – become longer by process of subtraction - the art of mass media as the most perilous effort yet to manage the silent majority – it has attained such level of self-alienation that it can now experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order –

only one way we can solve this, see you at the end of the world – driven by a collective cultural ego, suspicion of histories drawn by warrior clans, there’s better tricks to being human –– you have to think only about yourself – myths known to the exclusion of one’s own –there’s hate and there’s allowing hate – two sides of the same coin really – we’re guilty of both – you have just won a very good argument with yourself – warrior renunciates of valhalla, remember lessons of blood sacrifice – none more should die in war - failed seekers, battle cripples – new flesh for old, one flesh – world as the human body writ large – walled garden – access implies compliance with contractual terms –

nobility craftsmen merchants slaves – killing on an industrial scale – temples to inspire and intimidate – lost worlds, shadow worlds, empires of clay – a scourge of thieves, grave-robbers, museum collectors, colonial adventurers – arrogance parading as humility – lossless systems – perfect recovery of waste energy and material – full human utilization of the world’s photosynthetic capacity – the doctor showed us a better way to live our life – you do what you think is right even when you’re the only one – I can’t do that, I say no – religion is a neurological disorder

I wanted to please my commander and that was it – there was no second thought – inherently  anti-evangelical – they formed a collective target of wrongness – Nihilistine Chapel – a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, for dangerous kids – the absolute value of human autonomy – we are dependent and interdependent – they didn’t choose, the cause is still mysterious, but that’s how they find themselves – evolved over millions of years, a wise and loving power behind this universe – radiantly accessible within a human lifetime – enormously attractive – gather the insights and transmit them – if it is to persist, it must take institutional form – that human dignity is grounded in something beyond itself – supernaturalism – makes it less wonderful – that the universe is an orderly place that we can understand, devoid of capricious wanton interventions – deep reverence without a supernatural god -

if we see daddy cry, then control of the family is up for grabs - if your shame is too unbearable, I offer you this sword – given a moments weakness, all the other dogs would kill her,  so she must assert dominance at all times – - denial, more than Christianity, is probably the true American religion – tyranny of the majority – diplomacy deterrence containment – to form relationships with whom they choose – neocommentary – experts in destruction – do you think these bombs fall on insects? if the bombings would stop, the bombings would stop – extinguish slaughter with a greater slaughter – lead by a government which is not able to discern the distinction between moral virtue and self interest – when barbarism and despotism reign, we must oppose them firmly – it is glorious to die in battle – when a man hasn`t found something he`s willing todie for then he`s not fit to live - I do not presume to understand the course of my life – a man does what he can until his destiny is made evident – you could spend your life looking for the perfect cherry blossom – the’re all perfect – they do not deserve what they have – they have the eyes of small children – always searching for the next source of distraction – a sweet taste in the mouth – we know rich opportunities when we see them – do not throw away creator`s blessing - there is more to our universe than we are observing – international clearing house for dangerous ideas – in the interest of better mechanical amusements and commercial opportuntity - its very easy to be a popular man in a land of slaves –– fighting fire with fire, where corruption is the enemy – the market decides its real – law is war – capacity to make difficult decisions with imperfect knowledge – the force is strong in you – and we sat and looked straight into the light, nakedly and aggressively boring – extreme boredom punctuated by intense bursts of activity – if they start running, they are killed – their values are essentially humane but the acts that are required of them are not – the come to be at war with themselves – battered human beings – false feeling that we all ought to recover – there’s some things that are unhealable, worth remembering – it’s never been a fair or even fight – duty – go get your body ripped to shreds – its worth doing – in tribute to the fallen – only the dead have seen the end of war – no divinity has cast this into being – it is a man’s conflict – sign of a really decadent civilization – the word ‘wilderness’ appears approximately 300 times in the bible and all of its meanings are derogatory - arts function to put you in the feet of that poor sucker - its never to late to take a stand after its too late – save the dodo – so long as it doesn’t divert the current – to keep things on an even keel - the rich are getting richer, and there’s no downside to that – honesty is not synonymous with truth – reinforcement of the lack – sinister – there is no lack – they take from the people who want to give – contrived empathy - a noble lie – concealed from the majority who are incapable of understanding it – superhero? I have been looking for a way to serve my community that incorporates my biases – speculative imaginative preventative paradigm – person with the most vivid imagination becomes the most powerful – in a society that believes in nothing, fear is the only motivator – I can’t let the destiny of my child be dictated by the fate of our planet – adhering within community standards – participatory democracy – the enigma of steel – this you can trust – natures laws affirm instead of prohibit – If you violate her laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman –

Plagiarist assemblage text. 2007.

excised from the journals and sketchbooks of Steve Calvert... Vancouver BC...

TEXT by S.Calvert

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