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“Aren’t you yet tired of all these supposed innovations? They trick consciousness in believing that great things are being done when really nothing is being done. It is old-time magic, wonderful in that way.”
“I do find myself yawning more when the next new thing is brought out.”
“But you get the game don’t you? Money must flow, never stop, it must flow through what the people want and they want these things and open the flood gates so the money flows well. That’s all it is. Why is that bad?”
“Yet if we aren’t part of the magic show? If we want something more substantial? Then we are swept off the stage and land in a comical heap out in the alley with the garbage and wild cats.”
“Laugh and use the situation to your best advantage. Oh, you must find that advantage, it is not a given. And if and when you do you’ll never look back or think twice about it.”
“The innovations have diverted attention from a historic fact that democracy, in the modern sense, is looking more and more like ancient societies with the education, experience, access, freedom going to one circle of democratic people and the rest of the democratic people cut away, made ignorant and superstitious, turned into addicts and criminals and so the eventual killers of what passes as the democracy. And yes, the circle of rule will have more color in it and more women but it will act exactly the same as the old ancient orders. “
“It will cut away from the deadliness it senses all around it.”
“The reality of that is too much so I will take myself to the tree and sit under the tree and look out into the splendid dark where I hear the owls hoot and the coyotes howl.”
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