BLACKBEARD THE GREAT

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For a long time my material has drawn from three sources. The first is the English language: Words, Phrases, Sayings and the Way We Speak.The second source has been what I thought of as the “LITTLE WORLD”, those things we all experience everyday: Driving, Food, Pets, Relationships and Idle Thoughts. The third area is what I call the “BIG WORLD” : War, Politics, Race, Death and Social Issues. Without having actually measured, I would say what I do reflects that balance very closely.

The first two areas will speak for themselves, but concerning the “BIG WORLD” let me say a few things.

I’m happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in. I listen to people comment on Political, Social and Cultural Issues, I notice most of their material reflects an underlying belief that somehow things were better once and that with just a little effort we could set them right again. They’re looking for solutions and rooting for particular results. I think that necessarily limits the tone and substance of what they say. They may be talented people but they’re nothing more than cheerleaders attached to a specific, WISHED FOR OUTCOME.

I don’t feel so confined. I frankly don’t give a FUCK how it all turns out in this country or anywhere else for that matter. I think the HUMAN GAME was up a long time ago ( When the high priests and Traders took over ) and now we’re just playing out the string. And that is of course precisely what I find AMUSING: the slow circling of the drain by a once promising species and the SAPPY, ever more Desperate Belief in this country that there is actually some sort of “AMERICAN DREAM”. Which has merely been misplaced.

The DECAY and Disintegration of this culture is astonishingly AMUSING if you are emotionally detached from it.I have always viewed it from a SAFE DISTANCE, knowing I DON’T BELONG: it DOES NOT INCLUDE ME and it NEVER HAS. No matter hoe you care to DEFINE IT. I DO NOT IDENTIFY with the Local Group. Planet, Species, Race, Nation,State, Religion, Party, Union, Club, Association, Neighborhood Watch Committee. I have NO INTEREST in any of it. I LOVE and TREASURE individuals as I meet them. I LOATHE and DESPISE the Groups they Identify With and Belong to.

So if you are reading my posts or watching my interviews and it sounds like ADVOCACY of a particular Political Point Of View, PLEASE REJECT THE NOTION. My interest in “ISSUES”is merely to point out how BADLY we’re doing, Not to Suggest a way we might do it BETTER. Don’t confuse me with those who CLING TO HOPE. I enjoy describing things how they are. I have NO INTEREST in how “THEY OUGHT TO BE”. And I certainly have no interest in fixing them. I sincerely believe that if you think THERE’S A SOLUTION, YOU’RE PART OF THE PROBLEM.

P.S. Lest you wonder, personally, I am a joyful individual with a long and happy Life Partner and a CLOSE and LOVING FAMILY. MY CAREER has turned out BETTER than I ever DREAMED and it continues to EXPAND. I am a PERSONAL OPTIMIST but a SKEPTIC about all else. What may sound to some like ANGER is really nothing more than SYMPATHETIC CONTEMPT. I view my Species with a combination of WONDER and PITY and I ROOT FOR ITS DESTRUCTION. And please don’t confuse my point of view with CYNICISM: the real CYNICS are the ones who tell people EVERYTHING’S GONNA BE ALRIGHT.

P.P.S. Oh and by the way, if by some chance, you folks do manage to STRAIGHTEN THINGS OUT and make EVERYTHING BETTER, I still don’t wish to be included.