that the new opiate of the people,
the new sigh of the oppressed and poor,
the new impotence of the human mind
to deal with occurrences
it can't understand, is going to be...
'Everybody my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man-Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?'
you have nothing to lose but your lifestyle.
Reclaim your time-
the asset unique to you that power brokers use
to have you grub for money they don't own,
by which they divide you from your life
through debt and dependency.
at the Frankfurt book fair
asked Art Spiegelman
on the publication 'Maus'
'Isn't it in bad taste to make
a comic book of Auschwitz?'
'No' Spiegelman replied,
'Auschwitz was in bad taste'.
a means of accessorizing
ourselves and others
by assigning each other roles
that fit around one another.
The better to aspire to some new,
as yet unadjusted to, 'authenticity'.
1-Wandering around a supermarket
at least three times to find the goods
you need because your shopping list
is in your head, and you were relying
in the prompt of the shelves groaning
with goods to remind you of your needs.
2-Half remembering the names
and faces of ministers who in the
present government, but having
a clear memory for the names and faces
of ministers of governments from before
you were born and as you became an adult.
War at first is like a young girl
with whom everyone wants to flirt
but by the last it is like an old woman.
All who meet her feel grieved and hurt.
-Samuel Ha-Nagid