That there is such vigorous defense of US killing and no reaction of any kind to "Jeanny" shows clearly enough the transparent and superficial view of things here.
That people do not react and have no interest makes this aspect of "Abandoning Paradise" all the more compelling to me as there's only one thing that comes from their samaritrophobia:
Samaritrophobia: hysterical indifference - Kurt Vonnegut
Greece (Katakolon, about a year ago)
America (Fort Worth, yesterday)
Something fascinating on the Texas side is the deliberate unwillingness to learn anything substantive about what happens in the Middle East. The raising of the subject typically only elicits the response, "Oh, no, no. I don't want to hear about that."
The above is not the reaction I get as I very rarely talk to any of them about it. What point as they're not educated and may have guns. It's not much different from looking for conversation on a social network except these ones can kill you. Talking to them makes no more sense than an Iraqi trying to argue with an F-18's bombs. But they do build nice gas stations, don't they.
Also they build three Wal-Marts within three miles of it and they do it at this minute. Evolution in action.
This is not far from the George Bush Turnpike. He asked you to pay $1.5 trillion to pay for the F-35 program ... but ... if you want to drive on the George Bush Turnpike you have to pay a toll. Welcome to the State of Texas, Governor Rick Perry presiding. See above about samaritrophobia.
Lockheed Martin is a few miles from here and Yevette has been concerned about radiation and reduction of personal injury from it through various medicines and herbs. We spoke of it yesterday when a friend came by and I said, "Radiation really isn't such a worry. If it ever comes to Fort Worth, they will deliver a fuckload of it and herbs will burn up too."
Lockheed Martin is one of the biggest military draws in the central states because of the fighter aircraft assembly. In the event of a real war as opposed to modern day girlfights or the simple butchery most Pentagon leaders prefer, Fort Worth will be vaporized. Good-bye Cincinnati as well as GE makes jet motors and that has to stop, doesn't it. Of course, the most destructive thing to America any attacker could do would be to leave Washington and New York unscathed and the leaders untouched.
The irony is that Fort Worth would get melted for an aircraft that doesn't even work. More evolution in action.
There's a poignance in looking for Paradise amid this most hideous urban squalor but that makes it all the more delicious to find. That no-one listens to it makes it sublime.
The temptation is to cover "Jeanny" as I was playing it on and off for hours yesterday. But this is not "The Paradise Song" and it would be a serious cover rather than what I did with "Bomb Me Amadeus." It would also not be a verbatim cover as those are pointless unless you're a karaoke queen who likes taking snowmen to rodeos. Note: they melt.
There is no writing currently as the thinking goes toward the direction. Covering "Jeanny" is germane to the overall concept of abandoning Paradise but it takes a very much darker tone than anything else in the book.
"I Am Algernon" is another similar line as that one is a song about your own disintegration. It has two huge disadvantages: it would likely be self-pitying and no-one would get the reference to Algernon. The story isn't entirely true as I don't feel sorry for myself ... everyone disintegrates, I just don't like it. The biggest concern is that the music disintegrates and that's causing a lot of confusion.
That I have the luxury of spending hours thinking about such things is clearly Paradise. That aspect is crystal. Conversely, it is also crystal clear that with America's wealth Fort Worth could have been a garden spot. Instead it's what you see above, nothing more than a cheap stop on a highway to somewhere else.
It seems there are two themes, one of finding and recognizing Paradise and the extended theme of why do people throw it away. My general feeling is that they abandon it because Americans don't get laid half as much as they pretend but this is so far beyond the original intention of the book that any reader will probably throw it out a window and to hell with whomever the iPad hits, kind of like Yank foreign policy.
Not a single bit of this will make sense unless you're thinking like John Cage except my view of it is that not all sound is auditory. Some is real and not perceived and some is perceived without any actual physical auditory signal at all. I hear "Jeanny" practically every moment but no-one around me does.
I also see her lying there. It's devastating but what really stabs a knife right through my heart is that people don't get it.
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