vote on it

[priamus at hotnet.com.au]

This has nothing to do with Lepidoptera and is Off-Topic. Please do not
post this sort of thing here. Post it to the appropriate newsgroup,
whatever that is.
 
Chris Hocking
Papillon Entomology . . . . . . . . . . Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Charles Gavette wrote:
> 
> petitions are fine with me as long as we include a petition to de-regulate a
> fascist attitude to what is to be called a topic. if god is dead, it is only
> because of his own good health, by not realizing the inherent pathology
> within his own archetype. in other words, some call it the "violence found
> within peace." it asks us to be nice and have everything prearranged, a
> programmed fermentation. to open the windows and let in a breath of fresh
> air scares the tyrants who scan the horizon looking for guilt. categorizing
> in this way is a scission, and is precisely the neurotic symptoms we are
> addressing when we talk about what we can do for the environment. it HAS to
> move toward the political, the philosophical. what other object can be held
> up as an image of free speech against all of those who would use the fear of
> getting reprimanded and blamed for being deemed "incongruent with existing
> states of alienation!" to speak of our alienation from nature draws a reply
> that threatens to alienate? are you serious? i would not want to live with
> the UFO cop in your head. i initiate changes, for example, by thanking
> people for walking, even inside of buildings. fascism can only be addressed
> by divergence from such narrow-mindedness, so what else is left but to
> attack it and ask us to presuppose an errance? try thinking of alternate
> things we all can do in our practice of space. everyday that i don't drive
> has done something for the planet and its butterflies, its host plants. but
> to castrate expression, creativity, open discourse, rather than offer any
> alternative? i actually shook a few people from their dogmatic slumber
> today. it is my own personal little history. did others accomplish something
> other than live another day as the great insulated marshmallow man in
> paradise....or look for a village scapegoat/sacrifice? what is really
> psychotic is that you ask people not to take sides in a debate on a subject
> that is yearning for clarification, whose collective effects are not alien
> to what is going on in Kosovo. ok, if a war broke out in the U.S. what
> measures can we take to protect the butterflies? can Kosovo be a possible
> model for us in the future? you are asking us to be the most chickenshit of
> soldiers: willing to kill, yet afraid to die. pornography. (I'll watch it
> though, if it's televised)
> 
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