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He’s also known as Dow Constipation.

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Perhaps Uncle Joe will demonstrate how to properly fall in front of billions.

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"not my Uncle", lol

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Can't think of a finer figurehead to represent our collapsing empire!

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ABNORMAL

"The grotesque, or, if you prefer, the "Ubu-esque", is not just a term of abuse

or an insulting epithet, and I would not like to use it in that sense.

I think that there is a precise category, or, in any case, that we should

define a precise category of historico-political analysis, that would be the category of the grotesque or Ubu-esque. Ubu -esque terror, gro-

tesque sovereignty, or, in starker terms, the maximization of effects

of power on the basis of the disqualification of the one who produces

them. I do not think this is an accident or mechanical failure in the

history of power. It seems to me that it is one of the cogs that are an

inherent part of the mechanisms of power. Political power, at least in

some societies, and anyway in our society, can give itself, and has

actually given itself, the possibility of conveying its effects and, even

more, of finding their source, in a place that is manifestly, explicitly,

and readily discredited as odious, despicable, or ridiculous. This gro-

tesque mechanism of power, or this grotesque cog in the mechanism

of power, has a long history in the structures and political functioning

of our societies. There are striking examples of it in Roman history,

especially in the history of the Roman Empire, where the almost

theatrical disqualification of the origin of power in, and the coupling

of every effect of power with, the person of the emperor was precisely

a mode, if not of governing exactly, at least of domination: a dis-

qualification that ensured that the person who possessed maiestas, that

is to say, more power than any other power was, at the same time,

in his person, his character, and his physical reality, in his costume,

his gestures, his body, his sexuality and his way of life, a despicable,

grotesque, and ridiculous individual. From Nero to Elagabalus, the

mechanism of grotesque power, of vile sovereignty, was perennially

brought into play in the functioning of the Roman Empire.21

The grotesque is one of the essential processes of arbitrary sover-

eignty. But you know also that the grotesque is a process inherent to

assiduous bureaucracy." Michel Foucault, "Abnormal" Lectures at The College de France, 1974-1975

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"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. "

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Do I hear an "Amen!"?

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Amen. I wrote that; will that do? :)

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He is the fall guy

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The BIG fall guy according to Hunter.

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Ashes...ashes...we all fall down.

A world in despair. Fabricated, insistent, machine regulated despair. Machines rule.

Despise/despair. A program to fear. Ignorance is bliss. Bliss is despair.

Pushing the River and Blocking the Flow

Round and round down the drain it all goes.

I didn't fall, I was pushed, framed, coerced, forced, abused, obliterated. I was pushed. Hard. Again and again. I was human, my original sin

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It's the moon, the moon...the triple tamas...density, obstruction, darkness...of Chittra and Swati.

we travel now with it in our moody minds through Vishakha....the victorious...the forked branch...the potter's wheel...stillness within motion...the shift toward spirit from ensconced materiality...Chittra, the shining jewel of the night sky, the glittering physical star, the crystallized matter.

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Sep 19, 2023Liked by Mike Huggins
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Didn’t see it. Thanks

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Is this Dow Constantine person real? C'mon man, you made him up. It's a parody, right? A "public official" who invents things to justify his job.

I hadn't heard that song in, what, 30 years? It was their name that is remembered, what a name. I love reading the comments under the video, and adding more years to the year the comment was posted.

Days, minutes, seconds. It's all a blur. But of course, falling down can be injurious to ones health, I know that personally.

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Mike said it was a pubic serpent.

I think.

Might not be official.

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Well, I can believe he is a "pubic serpent". lol.

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Pardon my typos.

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Quite all right, it makes more sense that way.

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I got metaphorical vibes woven into it all. There was 'Nursery Rhyme' thing that we all know was tied into some dark shite and passed on through song. London Bridge falling was rumored to be about the actual decay of the eponymous concrete span. Wether it was truly about the structure or deeper darker spun thread about death and decay of society is left to the beholder of the meme like rhyme implanted in children minds for centuries. If something that massive could fall, a people would believe all is seemingly lost. By the by, it's been said that back when structures like it were built children were buried in the base as 'watchmen'. Don't think they had red or blue pills then.

The other memory dredged up was a 93 film also dark and violent. Fired murican engineer with crewcut stuck in endless LA traffic goes off the deep end and devolves from victim to hero to villain. Again, lots of societal crumble to be shared in that one. I fell down a mountain once in the dark. It was 14 degrees. When Jesus was a no show, I slithered up with my good leg. It really put a riff pin our relationship. I wish I'd been aware by Falling Down week too.

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The code for Queen Elizabeth dying was something about London Bridge falls.

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Seems to be a lot tied in to the old span. You mean the last Q of England I assume?

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Yes QEII.

I just looked it up on Wikipedia.

"Operation London Bridge".

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