the fact of the matter is that the leader is never the same as the people he leads. The real leader has more in common with a few hundred figures scattered over thousands of years and a multitude of places.

The leader chooses people to be a "part" of, but he is not of them, no matter what mask they wear.

Yes, baby, I been drinkin’
And I shouldn’t come by I know
But I found myself in trouble
And I had nowhere else to go

Got some whisky from the barman
Got some cocaine from a friend
I just had to keep on movin’
Til I was back in your arms again

Guilty, baby I’m guilty
And I’ll be guilty the rest of my life
How come I never do what I’m supposed to do
How come nothin’ that I try to do ever turns out right?

You know, you know how it is with me baby
You know, I just can’t stand myself
And it takes a whole lot of medicine
For me to pretend that I’m somebody else

The seeking out of perfection. It is not possible to say that it is impossible, but here it is more unlikely.

I'm not sorry.

Sometimes, when I have had a few drinks, I believe that it will all work out. I shall build a castle and a bunker and we will all live there happily. I will be a patron of real arts: science, engineering, politics, and economics. I don't know who 'we' is, or how many 'all' entails. We shall drink and carouse atop the battlements and produce enough surplus to fulfill our responsibilities to the wretched of the earth. A center of culture and science, to be sure. Feudalism without the futility. Justice. Happiness.

Sometimes I believe the same thing when I'm completely sober. But more often I see death and the void. Neither one makes sense to me, so I find it impossible to be afraid. Many people are pathologically driven to discover the meaning behind it all, for it gives them comfort. I do not frequently admit it, but I am driven to discover that there is no meaning. No one loves of us, we have no purpose, and this entire series of events is an accident.

There is no sense in saying goodbye to anyone or finishing anything. There is no sense in saying anything to one who is facing eternity. Regardless of my wishes, I will be forgotten, so I may as well wish to be forgotten.

I would like to leave one of my final thoughts. It is no more or less important than any others, but it is one of the last.

Man has no natural rights, which is why he must guard his artificial ones all the more jealously.

People need to learn that I don't get into arguments I can't win. If I'm not holding all the cards, I engage in discussion.

The Dictatorship of the Statistic

All of the greatest crimes in history have resulted from bad statistics. From the holocaust to the great leap forward, not having the correct numbers at the correct times has led to a great deal of speculation. This speculation is usually incorrect from the beginning and becomes more malevolent as time goes on.

For the general, it would be best if such things as kafka or laibach did not exist, as they are doomed to distortion and inanity. Perhaps not even translated into english. This language is vulgar, degraded beyond al hope of meaning.

When one sees the millions that are drawn to something stupid, one cannot help but envy the platform. One cannot help but feel rage at the giant audience which is recieving a message of no importance. But therein lies the problem. The audience would only exist for something irrelevant. The important and the mobilizing, the axes for the frozen seas within us... they cannot draw or hold the mass. So be it.

It is always possible to obtain freedom and dignity. The only question whose answer remains unknown is if we desire it.

When something is very clearly and intentionally out of place... It is best to think carefully.

We will educate these masses or we will be crushed beneath them. There is no chance of seperate development or synthesis.

The rail thin man with his fat wife who talks loudly at all times.

I'll still take them over the animals the rest of our society have become. Savages. Yes, I do think our mechanized system of annhilation is superior. It has a cold beauty that suits our civilizations well. It is easy to understand the anger and primitiveness. The abstract madness of sitting in trenches, waiting for exploding shells lobbed from miles away to kill you... it shows discipline. Order. Planning.

When all is said and done...

You must love your people, your country. You must love them unconditionally. A revolution that hates the people it is trying to help is doomed to be placed in the rubbish heap of history. You must not love them only after conditions and terms have been met. You must love them without question or end. And that is the greatest and most terrible thing that anyone can do. Because unconditional love destroys just as often as it builds. And you must not be decieved, because when wielding the most powerful force of all time, mistakes do incredible and irreperable damage.

When all is said and done, I am a machine. Not a very useful or practical machine, but a machine all the same. It is best not to dwell too much on the future. Some days I don't feel the pull of eternity.

. Don't listen to the words, except for admissions against interest. Watch what they do. Everyone wants unity, peace, and prosperity, but they all have such different ideas about how to obtain it, or what it consists of. Don't trust anyone unless there's a gun pointing at your head, at which point the option to trust disappears.

It is interesting to think that you can still be tortured to death in a building with carpet and air conditioing. Such manifestations of modernity carry with them a feeling of safety to americans. Blood is poured down drains while a few rooms away, two day old coffee is treated the same. Perhaps it is madness to find this state of affairs objectionable. After all, entire lifetimes seperate the one from the other. There is no reason to give value to a moorish palace and a fascist monument next to one another.

Letters to no one, words cast into a chasm. Don't look for them.

You were beatiful, and now you're dead. I have no responsibility for either. I really only care as it relates to me.

On the Nature of Freedom

I'll be honest. I have no problem with a slight reduction in our personal liberties. Nor am I afraid of a little eavesdropping, or just a tiny bit of censorship. The problem is not with those things themselves, but what they invariably lead to. You can't have just a little bit of censorship. It snowballs. First you censor pornography, lunatics calling for the violent overthrow of the government, and so on. Then people in power begin censoring things that work against them or their party, but not neccessarily the people as a whole. From there, the whole thing declines very rapidly. That's why I'm opposed to censorship. Because it never stays "just a little bit". It expands. It crawls outwards. It strangles the very ideals it was supposed to protect. And no pornography or hate speech can do anything that ominous.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books

I must state this once again. No one speaks for me. I offer my full support to no one. I am willing to consider ideas from all sources, but I am the final arbiter of all things.

Every time I put things in a larger perspective I look for ways to die.

I wish to create a tribute to every army in history. A tribute to all, but an absolution of none.

Even if you disagree with them, you must admit that they exist and must be overcome.

I understand. This whole thing is a mistake, but I need not rectify it. There is no need to place my affairs in order. Every problem is destroyed instanteously at the moment of expiration. To give life up while it still retains some sweetness and flavor is the only correct choice. Giving up the only thing I have that has any value. I fear the damage in-between but not the end. Not a departure but a conclusion. You will all....join me.

it would now seem clear that we have no 'right' to the truth. Those that lack the desire to know the truth will not. Eventually, the divisions in our society will become based on this simple axiom.

The land changes us. Not just "the land" in some mythical sense, but our entire environment. Climate, flora and fauna, differences in spaces and times. The traditions held before slowly fade away as we are unable to 'fit' them in this new realm. All of this changes with technology. Suddenly, we realize we do not have to leave the old ways behind. We can instead make nature 'fit' with our desires. That which held no meaning save pragmatic utility becomes venerated and worshipped. In remembering who we were, we forget who we are, who we can be.

"We decant a sea of bloodshed for brotherhood
and the equality of our nation and we are not
going to allow anyone to touch, to uproot from
inside or to destroy in any way this
brotherhood and equality..."
-JOSIP BROZ TITO

I want to support the left wing bourgois in the same way that the rope supports a hanged man.
-LENIN'



While you live, my good friends. While you live. The myth will replace your realities. Cry with me, for the images you once were.

Tag Die Freiheit!

Morales' approach to the coca issue is that the cocaine problem should be solved on the consumption side, not by eradicating the coca plantations and by sending more military into the coca-growing regions, an act which brought criticism from NGOs such as Human Rights Watch.[11] Along with the gas issue, the promise to push back the U.S. policy of "zero coca", i.e: the forced eradication of coca crops, was central to Morales's presidential campaign. [12]

There is much disagreement between Morales's administration and the United States regarding anti-drug laws and cooperation between the countries, but officials from both countries have expressed a desire to work against drug trafficking, with Sean McCormack from the U.S. State Department reinforcing the support of Bolivian anti-drug policy, and Morales stating "there will be zero cocaine, zero drug trafficking, but not zero coca".
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales#Nationalization_of_natural_gas_industry

true power is not making things, forcing things, buying things to how you want them to be for a day, an hour, a minute. True power is setting into motions forces that will see your perspective and values endure. Power does not come from forcing people to obey. It comes from within them. They must love and respect you, and willingly do whatever it is neccessary. In fact, they must be capable of using thier own intelligence and will to modify and strengthen your ideas in the service of the greater goal.

Perhaps it is neccessary to destroy those elements in society that are a genuine threat? But who falls in that category? Everyone? No one? A threat to what? Pragmatic Opportunism is always easier than constructing an entire thought system.

In most things, chronic uncertainty is a sign of ignorance or an unwillingness to make a decision. When it comes to matters of religion, the only sensible course of action thus far is to be uncertain, especially for those that require or restrict certain behaviors. Until we have absolute evidence, religons must be judged purely on the basis of utility in a material, rather than metaphysical sense.