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luka

luka

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with the marxists you always feel like everythings worked out and accounted for but nothings real.
 
william_kent

william_kent

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Ira Einhorn - Prelude To Intimacy

Self serving self-published memoir of the Unicorn Killer's time on the run from a murder charge. Unintentionally hilarious. The introduction penned by one his friends talks of how The Unicorn Killer couldn't be capable of murder by saying that he was "warm", and illustrates this with an ancedote about how whenever Einhorn would visit someone's house, the first thing he would ask is "Can I take off all my clothes?". That is exactly the sort of thing I would expect someone accused of murdering his girlfriend and then storing her body in a suitcase in his cupboard for a year and a half to say.

The guy has no modesty, there is a lot of boasting about how intelligent he is, frequent name dropping, and endless examples of how women are immediately attracted to him.

Also a fair bit of whining about how when he defended himself in court his story about being set up by the CIA because of his in-depth knowledge of top secret mind control and time-travel experiments was summarily dismissed by the judge who claimed "there is no such word as psychotronics".
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
william_kent said:
Ira Einhorn - Prelude To Intimacy

Self serving self-published memoir of the Unicorn Killer's time on the run from a murder charge. Unintentionally hilarious. The introduction penned by one his friends talks of how The Unicorn Killer couldn't be capable of murder by saying that he was "warm", and illustrates this with an ancedote about how whenever Einhorn would visit someone's house, the first thing he would ask is "Can I take off all my clothes?". That is exactly the sort of thing I would expect someone accused of murdering his girlfriend and then storing her body in a suitcase in his cupboard for a year and a half to say.

The guy has no modesty, there is a lot of boasting about how intelligent he is, frequent name dropping, and endless examples of how women are immediately attracted to him.

Also a fair bit of whining about how when he defended himself in court his story about being set up by the CIA because of his in-depth knowledge of top secret mind control and time-travel experiments was summarily dismissed by the judge who claimed "there is no such word as psychotronics".
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Is this why you don't see many unicorns these days?
 
T

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
luka said:
ive been reading popular '60s paperback One Dimensional Man and what is striking about it so far is that Marcuse is very upset that conditions have got so good for workers that they have lost all desire to cause trouble. which reminds me of Hobsbawn saying that the big problem the left has is that it has achieved all its aims.
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Not aged well that book.
 
woops

woops

is not like other people
I haven't read Marcuse but i have just finished refreshing my memory re. may '68. it seems that the spin was an uprising against the boredom of (relatively new) consumerist culture, as described in Perec's Things: A story of the sixties which is indeed quite a bleak portrayal. Worth remembering that the so-called utopia of consumerist choice seemed in need of overthrowing at the time.

Things apparently even made it to Russia as a piece of anti-West propaganda.
 
luka

luka

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well this is it, you get it all over early prynne as well eg

The public
Is no more than a sign on the outside of the
Shopping bag; we are what it entails and
We remain its precondition
 
luka

luka

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and from our point in time it seems mental, cos they were living through what in retrospect was a gilded age. but perhaps the better things are the more intolerably bored you become.
 
woops

woops

is not like other people
luka said:
and from our point in time it seems mental, cos they were living through what in retrospect was a gilded age. but perhaps the better things are the more intolerably bored you become.
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i think that the current of thought presented the "gilded age" you mention as a kind of peak of alienation, in marxist / existentialist terms. all those consumer goods but no authenticity man. of course it can always get worse; you might find yourself with a baudrillardian simulacrum on your hands next
 
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