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Having fun isn’t hard when you find the Worcester Antiquarian Society’s archive of Puritan funerary art ImageImageImageImage
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There’s something so quaint & gravely humorous about the primitivism of the depictions, as the rock is too brittle to carve elegantly, so you get the Hamburger Helper mascot saying YOU ARE GOING TO DIE Image
Funerary art is the first American Folk Art-- iconography being suspect for idolatry, the Puritans had to invent their own aesthetic language, & this was always done by amateurs who worked in other trades. It's the origin of AMERICAN PRIMITIVISM.

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Apr 20
We need to become post-political in the sense that you probably only need to run psychometric profiles on people in order to run the state & that’s actually just how it’s run now, except that in America we select exclusively for psychopaths.
What if instead of optimizing for psychopathy we had a state which ushered the most psychometrically healthy people into power, people who are not psychopaths but the opposite, what if we had Communist Party?
We have a psychometric sorting mechanism here but it’s like “how far are you willing to go” moreso than “where do you draw the line”— if you can go as far as Epstein well the world is your oyster, most people don’t have the stomach for it
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I think the CIA hasn’t mattered much since the 70s and the real power is with the Department of Energy but I’m “schizo” for that one.
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The CIA cares about like embassies & “human resources” so they don’t like this Iran war. But the DOE was established due to the CIA’s failures in Iran in the 70s— they care about things like American fracking & Canadian mineral rights…
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Mar 30
"Prominent outstanding member of rural community" is code for like the Police Chief who fucks kids etc. The upstanding School Principal who fucks kids. The Town Priest who, you guessed it...
The "Prominent Outstanding Members of Rural Communities" -- Freemasons, Elks, Knights of Columbus, Rotarians-- the black coffee breakfasters at the sales convention in the Motel 6 off the highway. All that can be imagined of the Epstein Elite is a routine occurrence amongst these "Prominent Outstanding Rural Community Members."
My town had a population of 2.6k people. It was zoned for agriculture. People rode their horses past my house regularly in suitable weather. The "Prominent Outstanding Members of the Community" whose ancestors had streets named after them for centuries-- these people were always doing weird shit.
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Mar 30
This only happens in suburban & small town america-- if you live in a city with kids, nobody is surveilling you like this & you are actually more free from 'societal surveillance'-- everyone who romanticizes "rural small towns" doesn't know it's surveillance hell, everyone knows everyone & watches everyone & it never ends.
This is due to the insufferable boredom of rural life in tandem with the ubiquitous adoption of social media (before, this would just be a phone tree of church gossip, now it's a local Facebook group). It's the worst part of rural/small town life. The anonymity of city life is more life-affirming.
One of the ironies of life I learned when I finally got to move to the city-- I suddenly felt freer to do whatever I wanted. If someone got mad, they evaporated into the crowd across the street. They wouldn't immediately contact their cousin who tells their mom who is in your mom's book club etc.
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About that time to remember the peak of indie rock music
I love Modest Mouse-- but people are still reluctant to admit that this is their magnum opus, not a departure or a compromise but a fulfillment of everything they'd ever worked toward. Johnny MARR on an indie arena rock epic about THE SINKING SHIP OF AMERICAN EMPIRE?
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Give me forced health till I wish death on myself
Ah ha ha! Ah ha! Ah ha! Ah ah! Ahaaah!
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From our phones, VCRs and our worldly woes
Ah ha ha, march on, march on, march on, march on
Well, march on!
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