TO BE or NOT TO BE or MAYBE TO BE
POST
MRR COLUMNS
by
Mykel Board
We
will peer at wiggling things that look like rattlesnakes from one
side and look much more like the middle of next week from a different
but equally plausible angle of view. Those with tired or rigidly
dogmatic minds will find these perceptual relativities distressing...
You have had warning. Don't complain later if this seems like a
bloody abattoir for you own favorite Sacred Cows and you get a bit
uneasy about things that formerly looked simple and honest. --Robert
Anton Wilson
Fuck,
I'm late. They're gonna be pissed off at work. The Japanese are such
sticklers that on-time is late. I'm hung over... I need to
pour myself into my clothes and POW! out the door. Elevator
downstairs... out the front door. My foot hits something slimy...
gooey... slippery.... SSSSSSS.. TAKOOO! It slides from under me.
For a second, I'm in the air... Peter Pan over Bleecker Street.
TWATOOOM! I'm on the sidewalk... my ass a mass of coffee-colored
pain... my hands aching and slimy. I look at them. They too are
brown... palms covered in shit. Splashed onto my wrists, the sides of
my pants. I slipped on dog ooze and landed in it palms first. The
smell makes me gag.
FLASHBACK
TO 1997: I don't have a cellphone. I won't be bullied into getting
one for a couple years. But I need to make a call. In the 90s, there
were things called COIN PHONES. The body of the phone was attached to
a little stand. You picked up the receiver (a black piece of plastic
with a speaker for your ear and one to catch your voice) and listened
for something called a DIAL TONE. Once you heard the tone, you put
some money-- usually a quarter-- into a slot at the top of the fixed
part of the phone. Then you dialed the person you wanted to speak to.
There must be an instructional video on YouTube someplace.
This time, though, the act of picking up the receiver, putting it next to my head... against my ear... and speaking into it is … well... there's something slimy on my ear, something squishy on my hand, something foul-tasting in front of my lips. You guessed it! It's covered in shit! This time I vomit... right into the receiver.
This time, though, the act of picking up the receiver, putting it next to my head... against my ear... and speaking into it is … well... there's something slimy on my ear, something squishy on my hand, something foul-tasting in front of my lips. You guessed it! It's covered in shit! This time I vomit... right into the receiver.
FLASH
TO LAST WEEK: First class over, now! An intestine full of last
night's Red Horse beer … Red, now brown... waiting to burst out...
I can just about make it to the men's. Rip open my belt... unzip...
now... now... NOW! BLLLAAAUUUUPPPP! A blast... a joyful noise... a
liquid soup... a number three.... exploding from my rectum with such
force it splashes the bowlful of water back up... mix of shit and
bogwater coat my ass... drips from my balls... FFFFFRRRRT.. an
aftershock... another ecstatic explosion. My God... the best feeling
of the day... the week... the month... I'm pregnant... giving
birth... releasing the universe inside. The best shit... uhhhh...
wait.
Shit!
Shit? Good or bad. Most evil of face filthers or most delicious of
joys? Maybe it's neither... or both... or... And of this shit begins
this column.
SHIFT
TO A BOOK: Recommended to me by my jailbird friend Kyle, it's written
by Robert Anton Wilson. He's best known for his conspiracy trilogy
THE ILLUMINATUS...
and his participation in lots of Libertarian events. It's the third
part in another trilogy: the
Trigger Books. The
quote at the start of this column is from that book.
Wilson
writes the entire book without using the verb TO BE (am, is, are,
were, was etc) except when quoting someone else. The reason? He
believes that TO BE stops thought. If I say, “It IS cold outside.”
there is no room for discussion... only right or wrong. Disagreement
becomes personal attack. A position is hard... fixed. Whereas if I
say, “From my life experience, and in comparison to other
temperatures I've observed, the weather seems colder than at other
times.” I open the door to intelligent discussion and a world of
possibility closed to the IS COLD absolutism.
If
we only have IS, we can only counter with IS NOT. We're trained to
make binary decisions. A or B. Hot or cold. Right or wrong. Good or
bad. Mother Theresa or Adolf Hitler. The world isn't like that.
There's a complicated range of possibilities... and they can be
different depending on what side of the sphincter you're on.
Intellectually,
that appeals to me. Stylistically, it sucks. I like the idea though,
and will take a lesson... or two..., from it. Lesson one:
Take
Israel... please.
The
original idea of Israel was to make a socialist paradise-- a safe
haven for any Jew under attack. It was supposed to be an example. A
utopia... a lesson for the world on how to live... a place to go when
the going gets rough (as it often does for Jews). That's a worthy
cause.... a good cause. But there's been a lot of lead over the
desert since then.
In
the current war, thousands of Palestinians have been killed... fewer
than a dozen Israelis-- all soldiers. A U.S. funded Iron
Dome system protects Israel. It destroys in-coming rockets before
they reach their target. Gaza has no such system... so they die from
Israeli rockets. How can Israel excuse such a one-sided massacre?
What's left to say... they WANT to die?
Yep,
that's what they say. According to the Israelis, Palestinians hide
the rockets in schools, hospitals, and apartment complexes. The
Israelis warn them of coming attacks and the locals climb to the
building tops to wave on the attackers. The fact that there are tens
of thousands of refugees running from the war doesn't change this
opinion. Running away or not-- they still WANT to be killed. How can
people believe that? It's easy, because the opinion doesn't come from
facts... it comes from viewpoint, from BEING.
I
AM a Jew. Jews support Israel. First support Israel, then bend the
facts to fit that support.
And
what of those lefty Jews? Those who say I AM a liberal. The ones
outraged by environmental degradation... refusing to shop at Walmart
because the company pays slave wages... marching against climate
change... what are their feelings on Israel? Support a massacre, an
ethnic cleansing. They find their views are exactly the same as FOX
NEWS... How do THEY feel when their liberal perspective suddenly
turns conservative? When Glenn
Beck visits Israel and wears a yarmulke? How do they choose
between I AM a Jew and I AM a liberal?
Why
support Israel just because you ARE a Jew? Jewdom has a myriad ways
of expressing itself. It's a religion, a nationality, a culture. You
don't have to believe in Israel any more than you have to believe God
turned Sodomites into salt. You can start with some version of
reality and THEN see if that leads to supporting or opposing the
Jewish state. You can start with the moral action, rather than the
rules you have to follow by BEING Jewish. Same, of course, with BEING
a liberal.
Lesson
two:
Or
take feminism... double please.
The
idea went through a myriad of changing. Starting (in the US) with an
angry Carrie Nation's saloon smashing, morphing into a voting rights
movement, now finding itself at
war with transexuals. Calling the trannies bed
wetters in bad wigs.
Like
being pro-Israel, if you start out being feminist (in the 2014
sense), you see things in a completely different way from someone who
is not feminist. Feminist Susan McClary, for example, writes that
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is about rape:
“The
point of recapitulation of the first movement of the Ninth is one of
the most horrifying moments in music... which finally explodes in the
throttling murderous rage of a rapist.”
Oh
please! I hate Beethoven as much as the next guy. The music may be
boring, but it ain't rape. From her feminist-first point of view,
however, that's the reality.
Now we see
lefty wars between feminists and trannies... and you can't even say
“tranny” anymore. (NOTE: I AM Mykel Board. I can... and do... say
what I want.) Fox News' Gavin McInnes was fired both from his Fox
TV job and the ad agency he helped start. This for writing on the
internet:
(Transsexuals) are mentally ill gays who need help, and that help doesn’t include being maimed by physicians. These aren’t women trapped in a man’s body. They are nuts trapped in a crazy person’s body. I see them on the streets of New York. They are guys with tits and a sweatshirt. They wear jeans and New Balance. “What’s the matter with simply being a fag who wears makeup?” I think when I see them. You’re not a woman. You’re a tomboy at best. Get fucked in the ass. And ladies, if you’re a butch lesbian, you’re a lady with a lot of testosterone. Put a dick on a belt and fuck your girlfriend. You don’t need to turn your vagina inside out. You’re not a man.
(Transsexuals) are mentally ill gays who need help, and that help doesn’t include being maimed by physicians. These aren’t women trapped in a man’s body. They are nuts trapped in a crazy person’s body. I see them on the streets of New York. They are guys with tits and a sweatshirt. They wear jeans and New Balance. “What’s the matter with simply being a fag who wears makeup?” I think when I see them. You’re not a woman. You’re a tomboy at best. Get fucked in the ass. And ladies, if you’re a butch lesbian, you’re a lady with a lot of testosterone. Put a dick on a belt and fuck your girlfriend. You don’t need to turn your vagina inside out. You’re not a man.
Here
we see rightist FOX-NEWS Gavin taking the same side as the radical
feminists. But maybe he knows this and has decided not to BE a
right-winger, but to SAY what he thinks is right. Fuck the
requirements of TO BE ideology.
Of
course I disagree with him... but NOT completely. I want to fight the
binary.
Gavin
says, “You ARE NOT a man?” Does that mean you ARE a woman? We're
caught in the binary again, instead of the realm of infinite
possibilities. Why are there only two choices? There aren't!
I
know many transfolks are not gay. Half the guys who become women
become lesbians. Is that gay? I don't know. But Gavin asks questions
that go beyond the gonzo writing. Some transactivists want children
“born in the wrong body” to be given hormones... starting as
young as 8 years old. That way, they say, the kids can have a
smoother transition.
WTF?
eight-year olds cannot legally decide who to fuck. They're not
allowed to fuck anyone, actually. Yet they can decide to take
hormones leading to major surgery? Huh? When I was eight years old I
wanted to be a cop... or maybe an astronaut. Kids-- all people--
change their minds. One false move as a kid and POW! you're on
hormones! This thinking disappears when you get rid of the verb TO
BE, at least when it comes to gender. Not I
AM a girl or I want TO BE
a boy... but
“Johnny,
you may be right and don't feel like you're a boy. That doesn't mean
you're a girl. You don't have to be one or the other. You're JOHNNY!
Different from everyone else. Okay?”
Of
course I support the freedom to choose your gender... and the freedom
to unchoose it. But if we stop looking at gender as something you
ARE... instead just doing what feels good, we can kiss the hormones
and the scalpels goodbye.
Here's
where that copula-cutting works. If I say (and I used to) I
AM a leftist does that mean I support Fox's censorship of
Gavin McInnes? That's what leftists do. I don't. If I
say I AM a Jew, do I have to support the Israeli genocide?
That's what Jews do. I don't.
I've
written before about homosexuality and how people DO homosexual...
not ARE homosexual. Maybe it's time to rein in the BE... er... in my
opinion, the time has arrived to rein in the BE... not to eliminate
it, but to think a bit before using it.
ENDNOTES:
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-->Full-disclosure
dept: The coin phone episode is true... but it didn't happen to
me. It happened to my friend Bianca... and was the reason she got a
cell phone.
-->Had
to happen department:
An ALS fatality... some
idiot decided to do the ice bucket one better. Jump in to a pool
at the bottom of a cliff... a 100+ foot drop... plow... didn't make
it. I guess he won't have a chance to challenge someone else.
Me?
I was challenged and rejected the challenge... or tried to. At the
bar we ordered 3 bucketfuls of Red Horse beer. I explained how I'd
decided to refuse to be intimidated into supporting a rich charity
where most of the money goes to the board of directors. My friends
answered by holding me down, pouring the water and ice from all the
buckets... over my head. Fortunately, they forgot to video the farce.
-->Just
because it's in the Post doesn't mean it's wrong dept: The NY Post
reports that private eyes have started using drones to spy both on
cheating spouses, and people filing false disability claims. “The
drones are a game changer,” says one of NY's private dicks.
-->Censorship
is censorship dept:
I'm not sure of the best way to support Gavin McInnes in his ouster
from Fox and his ad company, Rooster. Try send emails of support to
Fox and to the Rooster
Ad Company complaining about the censorship.
-->Quote
of the Month dept: President
Obama is a member of a minority and as such I'm sure during his
lifetime he has been prejudiced against... Now he's doing the exact
same thing, talking about the top 1 percent as if there's something
wrong with us. --Cypress Semiconductor CEO TJ
Rodgers
-->Compassion,
Swine and the 1%-- South Africa style dept:
Thandi Modise, chairwoman of the S.A.
National Council of Provinces,
was paying workers on her
pig farm sub-McDonalds wages. They walked off the job. Without
attendants, the animals starved, became cannibals and drank their own
piss. When the woman was confronted with the facts, she said, “The
suffering the animals endured does not compare to the financial loss
I suffered.”
-->More
on the 1%-ers dept:
1%-er Michael Bloomberg's website Bloomberg.com
reports that economists at the European Central Bank said that a new
study shows the percent of earnings of the 1% is not 30% as usually
stated, but 36%... and may be higher. Study author Philip Vermeulen
said, “The results clearly indicate that surveys are very likely to
underestimate wealth at the top.”
-->Keeping
the Pressure on Dept:
I want to thank reader George Metesky for suggesting a Bring
Back Mykel
effort directed at Maximum
Rock'n'Roll.
Send your comments-- to mrr@maximumrocknroll.com
with the subject line: BRING BACK MYKEL. Let me know how they answer.
-->And:
I'm on a massive clean-up/divest kick. I'm giving away DVDs,
cassettes, VHS videos, and a few CDs. Just pay separate shipping and
handling. Details at: MykelsGiveaway
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