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Dominance Games: Pangs of charmless shame

Posted in current events, dominance, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , on July 29, 2011 by B Schiff

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The lustful now brings us a long look at fallow water.  The lustful now brings us all that we wish would go away.  The lustful now brings us no comfort.  It brings us no joy.  It brings us only rancid spectacle….. unhappy charmless debilitating shame.

And again the night comes and the day breaks and the story unfolds.  And again the parties interact and the trends trend and at the bottom of the pile is that long lamented world gone by.  It was different then.  The yesterdays of our dreams.  In ways that were special.  In ways that were good and sincere, lovely and tenacious.  It was charming then… the days before yesterday.  Charm rang us awake.  Hope put us to sleep.  Things were better then.

The sun was brighter then. The days drifted with the clouds then and there was a smile in the air.  Bonds were stronger then.  Fabrics were tougher, more prone to endure.  Thoughts were more thoughtful then, more rational.  Principles were more principled .  The honorable were more honorable.

The laments of past foolishness hurt much deeper, then.  The pangs of past regret ran stronger.  There was a feel that there were good things… good things lost … good things were not unattainable then.  The path from then to now was much clearer then, much clearer.  The virtues were more virtuous then.  The then then was not as good…. now the then is heaven.

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Dominance Games: Charmless shame

Posted in current events, dominance, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , on July 28, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

And again the night comes and the day breaks and the story unfolds.  And again the parties interact and the trends trend and at the bottom of the pile is that long lamented world gone by.  It was different then.  In ways that were special.  In ways that were good and sincere, lovely and tenacious.  Charm rang us awake.  Hope put us to sleep.  Things were better then.

The sun was brighter then. The days drifted with the clouds then and there was a smile in the air.  Bonds were stronger then.  Fabrics were tougher, more prone to endure.  Thoughts were more thoughtful then, more rational.  Principles were more principled .  The honorable were more honorable.

The laments of past foolishness hurt much deeper, then.  The pangs of past regret ran stronger.  The path from then to now was much clearer then, much clearer.  The virtues were more virtuous then.  The then was not as good.

The now brings us a long look at fallow water.  The now brings us all that we wish would go away.  The now brings us mo comfort.  It brings us no joy.  The now brings us only spectacle….. unhappy charmless shame.

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Dominance Games: American Exceptionalism

Posted in current events, dominance, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , on July 27, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

Saved we are by our intrepid heroes.  Saved we are by those governing fools.  Governance is what they do.  They dance it fine.  Measly little power grabbers.  A laugh.  Measly little over aged adolescents.  A scream.  The best this country has to offer, they.  The proud poster children for American exceptionalism they.  We are proud.

So.  Now we have our moment in time.  It is a fine and great moment…a moment that can be a magic springboard and springboard us back to the very best versions of our very best selves.  It can be a springboard to the very best selves that we hold dear and deep in our hearts, the ones we think of when we day dream and are heroic.

We are now teary eyed wonders saluting our flags of strength and it is not by accident that we brave many things in order to envision the best of all noblemen and women.  Honor fulfilled, large injustices not metastasized, we, as one, cherish our common suffering and our common courage and valor.  Oh but were that my exploits could be chivalrous and true.  Oh but were I a standard bearer for the sure and true.  My heart would sing forever.

We tell our selves.  We tell our selves again and again.  Oh, but were that me, that soldier of soldiers, that brave stoic soldier of soldiers.  Oh that the moment in time to be good is here again.   Oh that it is a moment of no frustration, of no foolishness, of no ass backwards behavior.  Oh, the goodness and joy.

As have been many that have come before, so often, so hard charging, so eminently luminous…..the past is prologue.  It sets that which must come next.  Our past was yesterday.  It will not bear on tomorrow.   Our reactions harsh and fearful and weak.  Our past small, narrow and petty.

We come from hard times and look through many prisms.  There has been frustration and false premise.  There has been false horizons and false dawns.  Actors act.  They wonder.  They cannot see yesterday.  They cannot see tomorrow.  They can, though, be the glory of their times.

Yesterday’s toys were sullen things.  Yesterday’s toys will be no more.

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Dominance Games: Whip Hand

Posted in current events, dominance, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , on July 26, 2011 by B Schiff

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Back alley consent is easy consent.  Simple peasant villagers and serfs trot off to market.   The landscape is a simple barren thing.  The bon fires of the whip hand reap sanity.   Gazelles on horseback run away with the wind and sneer at fools trying to catch them.  The whip hand is the one that got away.

The eight by ten glossies of fire walls against chaos enhance stability.  Power and things and money and such are good hammers.  They deface an ugly backlash from the suckers.

The gentle gentry cooperate with the soothing strains of enforcement, the legitimacy of law, always coerced with the withering tales and willing stories of  lustful lusts and hateful hates.

Might makes right.  Might makes trust.  Systems function.  The trusting trust that the hammers of force and power will be wielded in a trusting way.

Imperial statehood is a show.  The  honorable consent of the honorably governed…  good simple bounty.

Ennui works well.  The holy rollers and the cynical snide love to ride out their lustful fancies.  Proud stasis is reached when the game is understood by all.

Bye bye love.  The whip hand is not for wimps.

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Dominance Games: Melt toxic

Posted in current events, dominance, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , on July 25, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

Rat bastards and sultry party girls  know public interest.  Deficient lay persons come awash with scandal and comprehension.  The thoughts of the  fates  are the stuff of legend while public minds and group clouds make definitive statements.   Right thinking wonders are never astray while cogent minds contemplate their navels and grovel at the feet of those who know better.

Parity.  Fairness.  Xenophobia.  Heartfelt compassion.  Good people all with thin skins.  The world is not an easy place.  The whining of poor babies echoes loudly from here to the Martian sunrise.  The stiff cries of hold my hand are deafening…..and often time a counter weight.

Ideas  rip the blood of bad actors of no repute and aria singers of no legend.  Unorthodox hard edged filters of desperation protect us from the no nonsense void.  Life churns.  The humble ruminate.  The grand reflect.  The rooted sincere have no idle moments.  We all draw pretty pictures.

A pauper’s joy for the demeaning, the demonizing.  A sultry singer’s bow for the self important.  Too much the liberalizing efforts of the universal comforters.  The store gets given away to those who work it not.

The fierce battles rage on.  The rights of the group and the membership therein.  Membership is a thing open to passions and reasons and fears and such.  The melting pot of old does not always melt.  It does not always blend.  It is at mercy to the ingredients in the stew and the stew often has uncooperative parts, the main ingredients rancid, the diced additives being not of a combining kind.

Staunch defenders of the faith are oftentimes staunch defenders of the faith.  The non narrow us is the over ripe other, the suckers who sees too little too late, too much too often.

Battlegrounds.  Power is often to save face and place, often a trip for the hard relentless.  The power… never diffuse it, challenge it, break it.  Break only  enemy thine.

Cohesion not when there are prizes to be won, sacred cows to be hidden, ridden, loved for the hate engendered.  Thugs can marshal the forces of the club…bring harm and grief… trump peace and joy and love and understanding.  For any and all good peace the thugs have to be noble thugs.  We grow only noble thugs here.  Any and all good peace … good sick comedy and toxic lame.

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Dominance Games: Antithesis. Goodbye.

Posted in current events, dominance, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , on July 23, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games: Politics

Simple colds and dead stress.  Cold warm water bathes all.  To live and die too damned well.  Not without a moment in the sun.

In the end it is best to be right.  God forgives the noble heart.

Thesis.  Antithesis.  Synthesis.  A paupers delight.  Seal our longings with the kiss.  Kiss our longings with the seal of honor.  Backbones show of  daunting things.

Rough justice.  Principle in the winds.  The court of the courts of push and shove.  Look out and see the vision.

Civilized history.  The great march of  the protections from tyranny,  want, intrusion has come to our crowning glory of now.

The tacky hammers.  The gods of Olympus.  The want of a hammer.  The hammers of good avocation.  Political hammers.

Taut and tight.  Taut and tough.  The whip hand.  Unnerving posture.    Better than their lessers.   Lesser than their betters.  Grinding hands creating.  Creating  hands grinding.   Fairy tales.

The regal.  The royal.  The sublime.  The taut and tight.  Tis the love of redemptive fear and loathing .

The weepers, the shouters, the deadly droll.  Paper our hearts with flimsy tears.  Paper our pockets with crying dew.  Streets of mulch turn fallow and dry.  Seeds of doubt are ever planted.  Can my new master be a good master?

Never miss a chance to waive good bye and run away.

To will and to will not.  With wretched excess.

Make them go away.

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Dominance Games: Power corrupts

Posted in current events, dominance, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , on July 22, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

Power corrupts.  It corrupts mightily and famously.  It corrupts hedonisticlaly, morally, severely. It turns virtue on its head and relegates expression to a game.

Power fuels the laundered images of fear and the abject lack of restraint.  Power goads and practices, flails and takes what it takes.  It can be a serene thing  it can be a strong thing, a mocking thing, a self satisfied thing.

Power can shine like a beacon, drop like a stone, crush like a runaway truck.  It lures.  It calls.  It wants.  It produces sweet songs to calm the ear, sweet reason to sack the instincts.  It may turn away from its prey and seem to be something else, a trivial thing that hides itself  from challenges and flies sweetly from inspection.

Power knows.  It sweats.  It works very very hard.  It knows itself.  It knows its dupes.  It glorifies all.

Power rides the tall horse.  It beats with a whip.  It smacks with delight, hisses with a sneer.  Power coddles the beast of intentions.  It coddles the war horse of inclinations.  It answers to itself and laughs.

Power chides.  It raises high its mighty sword.  It is useful unto itself.  It has to depend not on the good offices, good wishes, good works of others.  Power dictates.  Its game and lightening bolts will survive.  Its victims will not.

Trust always those with power.  They learn how to use it.

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Dominance Games: Rancid fire

Posted in current events, dominance, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , on July 21, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games: Politics

Again we mock the human soul.  Again we mock the human spirit.  The cadres of popular imagery are apparent no more.  Damn the torpedoes, all speed ahead.  The more we behave badly the better we become at ability.  The more we are drunk with the powers of sure observation, the more we are observant of the void.  The emptiness of the great desert of formless nothing haunts our futures and it is a barren desert, a hot dry place.

The landscape gets cold at night, a counterpoint to the extreme heat of the day. It is an uninviting place, the future in times of trouble and uncertainty.  It mocks us, our belief in it, in its presence, its shape.  It can retreat and hide, run away or crush.  It stares us down a hungry lion.

Deal with what isn’t there.  Deal with what is.   Build monuments to what is not real.  Build real to what monuments we do not have.

A view the other side .

A view from trying to beard the tremulous lion.

The future gets cold at night.  It burns heat during the day.  It sears heat and rains acid.  It sears our nightmares, our night sweats.  It commands us our apprehensions.   The landscape gets cold at night, a counterpoint to the extreme heat of the day.  The landscape gets cold at night and rains down arrows of pain and violent hail storms of anger.

The landscape gets cold at night.  It freezes and mimics.  It throws godlike presence and excuses for the messianic.

The landscape gets cold at night and it offers fight and flight, panic and arrogance, acrimony, back bites, division,  lust, dominance and void.  It offers the fun of fear and the great chances to harness same.

The landscape gets cold at night and it offers cold power and rancid fire.

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Dominance Games: Swords emasculating

Posted in current events, dominance, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , on July 20, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

The moods moody.  The lights misty.  The dancing seals dancing.  Blood sport sporting.  Kill sport killing.  Derision sport deriding.  They damned well like it.

Commentary as machete for the lazy and the rich. Toys to be abused for the ones who take wings off of flies.  Hateful hates.  Vile devils.  Deemed demons.  They damned well love it.

Hope is for those who work at something.

Trips to lovers lane are guaranteed those who look mighty and brave in their mirrors of choice.  Mouths mouthing, egos flaunting, dunces duncing, tantrums wailing…… no childhoods end.  They damned well love it.

Trendy rackets and self immolation.   They damned well love it.  More the thrill of erotic passion.  They damned well love it.  More the vivid.  More the emasculating.  More the basically simpleton;s simple.  They damned well love it.

Self inflation, self importance, self flagellation, self satisfaction….. the show of them forever.  Great wars of swords and sorcerers they play.   Chargers chargers.  Heroes heroing blithely saving fair maidens from any undesirable greatness.

Zoos come and go and animals act up and perform and there is comfort in the love.  Tactics.  Tougher.  Stronger.  More evocative of pain.

The bating bated, the hate hated, the smarms smarmed.  The fight enjoined.  Odiousness …. the smell of flowers…. the all purpose passport.  Thine self holy, wise, noble and good.  Fondle the love.

I think they like it.  They damned well love it.

Screech.  Screech.  Shrill.  Shrill.  Color tawdry and putrid.  Enemies divine. They play good and they kiss their shadows.  Power allows.

Night is coming.  The dreams of all good people are coming.  The rough hewn sleeve rollers are coming.  Get thrown under the bus and to the wolves.

Love makes to play dirty.  Sincerity makes to implore noble tricks of the trade.  Speak loudly and club the bastards to death.  Taste the taste… blood lust, blood sport, blood.

Some are better at it than others.  The real joys of politics.

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Dominance Games: Barbed wire

Posted in current events, dominance, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , on July 19, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

Into nether world jobs they go.  Whistling and skipping and wailing and scheming,  swords of mighty justice they are.  The usual exchangeable parts who fit the slots and make noxious noise they are.  Hordes of independence, realism and thinkers, seers and lemmings swooning gracefully.   Good searing hacks can enjoy the laughter of achievement and ritual, attainment and lobotomy, speciousness and tripe.

The virtue in the weak sisters and the hairy apes.  The rank prancers, the  weak dittos?  Love all the damned all the damned time.

The masters of mirth, the procurers of entertainment, the light show, the tinder box.  The answer to questions not asked, the question to answers not given.  They appear and disappear.  The phantasms of dimension, the spines of the spineless.  They endure mightily as they are unendurable.  They are the free thinking potted, rotted plants.

They are special.  They are coy.  They think.  They act.  They feel and maim.  They promise to promise.   They promise promise.  They promise to be alive.  They promise.  Base blase full of vim.  As valuable as a post they are.  As approachable as as the barbed wire toppings on their fenced in predispositions they are.  Flags around their shoulders,  the aura of Miss Liberty they are.

Hard scrabble worth and abundant luminescence, they are.  Voice, privilege, moonstruck mountains they are.  A  mound of dirt and a pile of rubble  upon which to sink they are.  The  strong special grifters grifting well with rocks and stones they are.   Cream rising to the top they are.  The bats in the belfry they ate.  Great movements and dead brains they be.

The solid frenzy of empty, void.  Faith, hope and charity they are.  a show they are.  All show all the time they are.  Can’t close out of town….. to damned humble they are.

Bless the beasts and the children.  If I only had a brain.

Its nice to have injected thoughts.  Spares the head muscles.

The sun don’t shine where there are shades of gray.

Gray is dull.  Like me.

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