Tag: politics

bad election

i’m freewheeling with neil in a sodden cloud

commiserating on the unproud

behold the convict’s re-ennoblement

i live with my pain, i own it 

and i don’t care who knows it

chain-whip for a strain 

against the pain

with every novel 

life-stage crisis 

i achieve a new, anal

level of organisation 

i remember tidying my room after a particularly bad bout of depression aged about 18. i think it helped. i remember even at that time being always stressed out about the files on my computer. and my email inbox. i had no systems. files had stupid names. data was saved all over the place on various hard disks. at some point i actually managed to lose gigabytes of original music recordings i’d made over many years. i’m getting stressed typing this.

when i had a bit of an identity crisis after being diagnosed with autism, amongst other things, i assembled all my school reports cards and exam certificates. and i sorted though all my emails since i got a gmail account in 2007. i try and maintain a system of sorts now. i like to keep my flat tidy.

actually existing capitalism

life under actually existing capitalism continues; 

a unique combination of boring and stressful.

face it, i’m never going to be a hot porridge-man

i think trusts are somehow fundamentally immoral

for tax wheezes and to sneeze-on late diseases

build car washes and slag heaps on the green belt!

speed eden’s fall to it’s infernal conclusion

i don’t want to be too political, but i don’t like the world that much. i don’t claim to know how to fix it. but it’s just not that fun. work i mean. we spend years in training, like 13 years of school, then maybe college as well, you’d think we’d be like smart enough to make the world work without everyone spending most of their waking life just trying to keep on top of their emails.

an odd feature of actually existing capitalism, is that the essentials of life, you know, shelter, food, raising a family, entertainment… are priced as luxuries. lots of jobs just don’t pay enough to support such things. i don’t claim to understand economics. but that seems to me like an abject failure.