[kj] Complicity

[Alexander Smith]

You're not at all well.

Alex in NYC



On Thursday, November 17, 2005, at 11:25 AM, Darth Vader wrote:

> Gang of Four:
> "Watch new blood on the 18" screen
>  The corpse is a new personality"
>
> Fat Potanga pontificated:
>> It still shocks & numbs me to this day when I see
> that footage.
>
> I've seen so much violence on TV as a kid it doesn't
> have much impact on me.
>
> Nick Cave:
> "Saw some ordinary violence, some routine atrocity."
>
> I've been inundated with poxy war glorification films
> from the time I could watch TV to the day I threw the
> fucking thing out the window!
>
> One thing is sure - TWAT is doomed to failure.
> Fire against fire and everything burns.
>
> AGE OF GREED
> "Imbalance induces hate
>  How will you bridge the gap
>  Between your endless buffet
>  And the empty plate they have?"
>
>> I find it incredible that anyone could find the sight
> of a plane full of people being flown into a building
> full of people a happy event.
>
> I never described it as a "happy event." Some of you
> could do well writing for The Sun! There are many
> kinds of laughter.
>
> Some of you seem to be infering a lot of bullshit from
> one statement, which tells us more about you than me.
>
>> Corporate whores and lackeys?
>> Fair trade coffee or not, if you use a bank,
>
> Last time I used a bank by choice I left them with a
> big debt which I've never paid back, as a statement
> about their investment in lots of repressive regimes.
> Then the building society turned itself into a bank
> and gave me lots of money because of it. So I use a
> bank by default...
>
> GUILTY M'LUD!
>
> Money is a joke.
>
>> wear trainers,
>
> I buy all footwear from charity shops.
> I don't wear trainers.
>
> The sweatshop fashion bling poseur trainer gangs
> regularly take the piss out of my Rayven motocycle
> boots but I just laugh at their pathetic attitude. Why
> don't we all dress the same, like walking towers of
> Adidas crap?
>
>> drive a car,
>
> I don't drive a car and never will.
>
>> get
> on public transport, switch your light on,
>
> GUILTY M'LUD!
>
> I do these things, but could live without them if I
> had to. I walked to the recent Dirty Three and
> Medications  and Picastro gigs and walked back
> afterwards.
>
> Even in England, its possible to instal solar panels
> to get all your electric lights running for free.
> Lights don't use a huge amount of power compared to
> all the factories making rubbish that we really don't
> need, eg. Coca Cola.
>
>> open your fridge,
>
> I don't use a fridge in winter. Top tip: defrost your
> fridge regularly if you must use one, so that it runs
> efficiently. YOU'RE NOT LISTENING! On a mostly vegan /
> fresh wholefood diet it's possible to easily get by
> with just a cold larder. Not that I expect everyone to
> do this of course... How did the human race survive
> all that time without refrigeration?
>
>> read a newspaper,
>
> and then recycle it
> They give this rubbish away on buses here and I always
> pick up the ones people have chucked on the floor. I
> never buy newspapers as there are always lots of them
> left behind in public places, and the internet is a
> better source of news anyway.
>
>> make a phone call,
>
> I try not to use the phone. I don't have a phone line
> at home or a mobile. The phone companies are utter
> scum. I'd like a nice new electromagnetically
> polluting mobile mast next to my children's school, so
> I can order Walmart pizzas more conveniently!
>
>> use a PC,
>
> Bought 2nd hand from a co-operative who recondition
> computers thrown out from yuppie offices. Better than
> letting them go in a landfill?
>
>> take a flight,
>
> GUILTY M'LUD!
>
> I've done that just once to Germany to see Wire.
> I will try to learn the art of teleportation to avoid
> this damaging mode of travel in future!
>
> Jaz has predicted that flight will become a luxury by
> Spring next year... meanwhile scientists are trying to
> perfect low impact aircraft. INFERNO!
>
>> watch television
>
> I don't do that either unless someone else is already
> doing that. I don't own a TV, or a DVD player, and
> never intend to. TV is mostly moronic crap.
>
>> you're buying into it.
>
> I'm fucked by the bus then?
>
> I guess I'll have to walk to The Basement and the Flux
> office and gigs from now on!
> The exercise would do me good, if it wasn't for all
> those car fumes.
>
> <SARCASM>
>
> OK, you've convinced me. I must grow up and shut up
> and be happy happy with all the wonderful additives in
> Asda food. Why buy that shit when you can get so much
> of it out the dumpster round the back without having
> to complain and join the queue?
>
> </SARCASM>
>
>> People may (very rightly) whinge about these
> corporate giants, but very few would be prepared to
> live without them.
>
> What utter rot. There are more of us every day.
> The Pandys are HERE!
>
> I would and could live without corporations. They must
> be replaced, or our society will collapse into utter
> chaos. You can't keep thieving from the less
> miliatarily equipped countries and expect no
> consequences. This is one reason why there are people
> prepared to blow themselves up on the London tube.
>
>> And just because Doris works as a secretary or Daves
> a cleaner for HSBC in the WTC their execution isn't
> just.
>
> What execution is just?
>
> They weren't executed. They were killed by a plane
> crashing into the tower, with the probable complicity
> of the CIA and the upper echelons of the Republican
> dictatorship.
>
> Why doesn't that pesky Michael Moore just grow up and
> get a proper job? He should know his complicity with
> Western capitalism and not speak out, just stay at
> home farting about on the internet, giggling
> childishly at twits selling tat on ebay and making
> awful jokes!
>
>> Nor is the CEO's.
>
> Yes, that would be extreme!
> Life imprisonment in a McDonalds wearing a clown
> costume
> would do! Do the MacPlan diet & become man whose gut
> expanded.
>
>> Nor were the kids on the panes with their parents.
>
> The kids from pain?
>
> So Mr Potanga, have you ever tried to teach your
> grandmother to fuck eggs?
>
>> This list seems to sink lower each day.
>
> Just like the world we live in...
>
> THIS IS YOUR REFLECTION
>
> Cracked Machine irregular cyberzine
> http://www.webinfo.co.uk/crackedmachine
>
> Look at grafitti scrawled on the wall:
> Dubya can't catch family friend Bin Liner...
> But what the HELL?
> They talk to God!
>
>
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