Timed Writing 0300508

The trick I think is to (I don't know why but I think of one of the few 'smart' things Lindy Hough "was allowed" to say) which was, simply, do you value your thoughts?
Does it really come down to this?
and if this is soooo great then isn't the internet diarrhea of the mind supposedly "good"?

Hmm,
I don't know.
Most people's thoughts are NOT that interesting.
why?
because (hello Mr. Gurdjieff) are somewhat unconscious of where their thoughts come from. Oh, I don't mean the "family of origin" piece, i'm totally burned out on that (you're a republican because your alcoholic father was a republican and this is some kind of loyalty, while I am a democrat despite the fact that my dysfunctional family was also democrat. huh?)
i think what did me in on all that
was that i saw "prejudices" (unconsciousness) running rampant under the guise
of
"science" -- psychologists armed with the new universal theory of disfunction (everyone has been abused)
"myth" the influence of Joseph Campbell and Robert Bly -- that there is a "mythic" way of thinking that goes something like this: "I (fill in important person's name here) like Rumi's poetry so Rumi must be somehow "important" to "our time".... if I follow (MY) intuition it will lead me (BACK) to a (neo) tribalism that seems to resemble early hippie imaginings of utopia, however, I am not culture-bound, but you are."

i think in the end that's why I "returned" to conservatism.
the conservatives have no real sense that IMMINENT (and/or total or global) WORLD IMPROVEMENT is (merely) accessible via (environmentalism, progressivism, et al) and that
WERE THEY TO JUST GIVE US A CHANCE it could all be different.
conservatives believe that human nature isn't easy to change
is very very tricky, a combination of greed and compassion, (good and evil)
they also don't easily panic
they tend to respect history (more)... and see there is a history of panic

I am thinking of the skeptics take on the Koran

"Is it more logical to believe that an angel of god dictated these words to a merchant soldier or a talented, possibly epileptic man digested and reworked the myths and legends common to his time and level of learning, calling it something new."

um, let me see.

I am thinking a lot of Miranda July. Perhaps I should make her a character in my new novel.

Dave Eggers : where we should invade next. it's no error that in the end his position is more yippie (?) than contrarian. he's clearly left -- war is bad, old white general can and should be deposed via laughter (first then maybe a Che style execution)
I'm not sure you could do what he's doing without being left.
contrarians have difficulty leading people.
they're too thoughtful.
etc.
yadda yadda
is my 5 minutes up yet