beauty is the enemy

It is humbling to think that the foundations of common sense are just the design specs of one of our organs. Yet our science and reason have managed to reveal many aspects of space, time and causality that do violence to common sense but that we can see are likely to be true. No small part in this transcendence is played by scrutiny of these concepts as they appear in language and thought, allowing them to be understood as part of our makeup, and discounted accordingly. It is the closest we can come to the light dove’s dream of taking wing in empty space.

WORD.

The topic in my class this week has been reparations, and I'm sure that you all know how frustrating that can be. I did not know this, being a totally ignorant newbie on the topic of racism and racist ideology. So I started with a post with highlights from the discussions, but it all was soooooo fucking stupid that I just gave up. But tonight I got into it with everyone's favorite, Diane Priest. She called me a hateful, ungrateful little white girl and told me that "my forefathers" are probably rolling in their graves at how disrespectful I am. I have to admit - being called names over addressing White racism stings (hence the title), and I'm feeling sensitive about it, despite the fact that she's a rabid moron, frothing at the mouth with fear about how anti-racism = Whites losing their jobs and education, poverty and violence rampant, lowering of standards and morality and basically the end of the world.

So, naturally, I figured the best way to deal with it would be to mock her mercilessly on dot_race_snark. (x-posted in my own journal for my own reference).

( our exchange... Collapse )

(choose a band and answer only using their lyrics)

TOOL

> .01 are you male or female?

Underneath her skin and jewelry,
hidden in her words and eyes
is a wall that's cold and ugly
and she's scared as hell.
Trembling at the thought of feeling.
Wide awake and keeping distance.
Nothing seems to penetrate her, 'cause she's
scared as hell.

(cold and ugly - opiate)

> .02 describe yourself?

I have come curiously close to the end, down
Beneath my self-indulgent pitiful hole,
Defeated, I concede and
Move closer
I may find comfort here
I may find peace within the emptiness
How pitiful

It's calling me...

(reflection - lateralus)

> .03 how do some people feel about you?:

Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.

(lateralus)

> .04 how do you feel about yourself?:

Something kinda sad about
the way that things have come to be.
Desensitized to everything.
What became of subtlety?

How can it mean anything to me
If I really don't feel anything at all?

I'll keep digging till
I feel something.

(stinkfist - aenima)

> .05 describe your girlfriend/boyfriend/interest:

Pure intention juxtaposed will set two lovers souls in motion
Disintegrating as it goes testing our communication

(schism - lateralus)

> .06 where would you rather be?:

As below, so above and beyond, I imagine
drawn outside the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend.

(lateralus)

> .07 describe where you live?:

This ground is not the rock I thought it to be.

Thought I was high, and free.
I thought I was there
divine destiny.

I was wrong.
This changes everything.

(flood - undertow)

> .08 describe how you live:

WIDE AWAKE AND, KEEPING DISTANCE FROM MY SOUL.
(cold and ugly - opiate)

> .09 describe how you love:

So familiar and overwhelmingly warm
This one, this form I hold now.
Embracing you, this reality here,
This one, this form I hold now, so
Wide eyed and hopeful.
Wide eyed and hopefully wild.

(parabol - lateralus)

> .10 how do you feel about life?

Is this a test.
It has to be. . . .
Otherwise, I can't go on. . .

(the patient - lateralus)

> .10 share a few words of wisdom:

I've got some
Advice for you, little buddy.
Before you point your finger
You should know that
I'm the man,

If I'm the fuckin' man
Then you're the fuckin' man as well

shut up and buy. buy. buy our new record. send more money. FUCK YOU.

(hooker with a penis - aenima)

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