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Deconstructing the News

    In this soon-to-be regular feature,  I'm going to   respond to the embedded media's revision and   actual stage management of contemporary history.

     My comparison between what they say and
   what reality looks like to me will begin as soon   as this site is fully constructed.

  -Glen Roberts


Definitions

Anarchy

Civil State

Communism

Democracy

Dictatorship
  Legend

  This begins as an objective and carefully coherent conversation with myself about some things which, though certainly equivocated and lied about enough, are off limits to honest discussion. If other equally objective and coherent philosophers find it and want to join in, it's designed to become an open conversation. But this isn't a blogsite for lumpen and it's not talk radio.
  Long long ago in the middle of another century, I read a series of essays and counter essays and counter counter essays - a serialized debate that had been carried from week to week in a scientific journal of an even earlier century, between T.H. Huxley and some religious figure whose name I don't remember. I don't remember the subject, either, but because it was a subject that still needed airing 100 years later, I read all the instalments, and when I came to the end, I knew that I had never encountered a better, more effective conversation.
   I'm convinced that the best way to debate or converse is NOT by

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NEW RAP
( Imagine NO drums but just one guitar or piano, playing clearly definedand logical notes, low volume, behind my clear voice just conversationally articulating 100, 250, 350, 1000, or - in the rap below - exactly 500 words.)


The Underside

       There's an old counter-myth about the devil being the
good god and the supposedly good god being a fraud - evil
cross-dressed in a brass halo. There's a lot to it.
       There's something like that going on in the real world
of political and social classes, where power is usually
inherited and can be risen to only by those stupid or cunning
enough to go along with the crooked game being played,
while honest potential leaders must accept suppression or,
against all odds, take up arms.
       I've got a note buried in my heap of "Notes to No-
where" about the necessity of at least ceremonial stupidity in
"high" places, which credits some bigshots with the low
cunning and purely political determination it takes to just
continuously pretend to be popularly stupid for ceremonial
purposes. But I don't really think city hall and capitol hill
pols, their courtiers, the embedded rich or even their em-
bedded bards are often faking their regressiveness. The
topside definitely stinks of a kind of evil behind its mask -
not just religious in nature (only the brass god's minions
care much about that) - but anti-intellectual, counter-
ethical, and philosophically inept.
       Good realistic writers have always been onto
this reverse negative reality. Realistic literature disguised
as fiction is rife with reliable blue-collar heroes, gutter
saints, and even low-life losers, lunatics, and crooks who are
better than the puritans who despise them. There's a whole
genre of gin drinking, wise cracking p.i.'s fired from the
police force, endowed by their creators with convincing
contempt for the establishment cops.
       The masters of noir regularly tease their readers'
suppressed rebelliousness with barely masked offers
of hope that the supposedly bad anti-heroes will get away
with their crimes against the supposedly good establishment.
And, in some of the very best books, they do. I relate better
to Wolf Larson, Ahab, and Merseault than to Robin Hood,
but there's catharsis for me in even a fairy tale revolution
that defies the cloudy throne to mete out fictitious reverse
justice that real world media and politicians would
ceremonially deplore.
       Of course, in the real world, the supposed under-
side doesn't always or even often fit any good devil role,
though you can't tell about people whose worth has been
wrung out of them or who think they have to cover it up in
a world that won't stand for any smart talk. But sometimes
even anti-heroes escape from the bookshelves and earn real
underside acclaim. The officially unrecognized idolization of
The Great Randy, Jello Biafra, Fidel Castro, and now Hugo
Chavez are dramatic examples. But it's only logical, or
reverse logical that the best examples - the real elite among
good devils - have to be more completely unknown (like me,
of course), because, while it's only bullshit religious morality
that's reversed in the Satanic mass, it's a whole reversed
value system I'm talking about, and the grasp as well as the
granting of worth, recognition, and influence are among the
the concepts mirror-reversed.