The Endless Parade of Saddam Faces We Call Life

It means fucking this. It means that grey aliens (and I can see their beady little faces as I write that - and fuck them, incidentally) came to Karen Carpenter and basically sucked out her soul. Cause look at her in that YouTube video of “Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft” and look at the fucking mind control ritual abuse victim look that she has and the cult quality of that video, and then tell me that an alien didn’t wend its way somehow into her mind and cause her to starve herself to death until she became this pale thing impossible creature from space or other dimensions or wherever the fuck those fuckers come from.

Right? And Princess Di too who we’ve been talking about a lot lately. She gave this big Martin Bashir interview where she talked about being bulimic and then later she was killed. I think I wrote something about this pro-anorexia thing one time as well. Let me find it and see if I left myself any clues.

Okay yeah weird. That article goes into this thing where they end up making the name “Mia” (as in bulimia) and “Ana” into personifications of the experience of these syndromes or whatever and then talk to those things or externalize them as people or something. I wrote (in my infinite wisdom):

This whole thing about Ana, Bella and Mia makes me think immediately that perhaps they are tapping into some kind of actual spiritual entities (or maybe have created their own). Maybe they are beautiful skeletal beings who thrive on the offerings of food these girls (and men) are giving to them, instead of eating for themselves. Some of the obsessive and unhealthy behaviors associated with these disorders may in fact be keeping with classic characteristics of spirit possession or fixation.

So yeah, I think we’re onto something but I’m just not sure what. I have a lot of notes written down about everything though. I am getting to be a little bit like a mad scientist. And as I wrote that line and looked around and felt my fingers typing, I felt for a minute like I was playing the piano. I think there’s a Bukowski poem about that feeling. I thought he was just being a show off. No, he was just describing what he was experiencing - the feeling of playing perfectly in time with words, with the sounds as they are being pulled down, or channeled you could think.

The universe isn’t the universe. The universe is the universe’s experience of itself. In this lies a great deal of confusion and frustration because this same thing happens to us. We are not our selves, we are our experiences of our selves. And the thing is that neither of them is really fixed. Our experience of ourselves is always changing, and yet we try to hang onto some idea or image about ourselves. And there’s nothing there. Nothing to grab onto. Not in terms of past or history but just the sheer fact that you have to EXPERIENCE your EXPERIENCE. It’s very simple but it’s a razor’s edge to be able to walk it with any consistency. But the path to that consistency lies through total honesty, total sincerity and total love. There are no other roads there. The gate is narrow. The path is treacherous. Many will enter. Few will win.

But we could all win. We could all be having that experience - the pure experience of our pure experience. That’s after all what we’re put here for. We are the universe experiencing itself. We are not the universe. We are not our selves. We are our experience of our selves. And that happens to be very fucking mutable man.

Been going over this line from a mostly not that great documentary about Philip K. Dick, of some of his friends talking. They actually talk at one point about how this dude - whoever it was - and PKD used to talk about this other author, a poet. And the poet would walk around with a cyanide capsule so that one day he could just off himself. And he carried it with him wherever he went in his pocket. And he would take it out and examine it. And when people would ask him why he carried it, he would say something like, “A prison becomes a home when you have the key.”

And one more thing: I am beginning to have the distinct feeling with all these “old” videos suddenly popping up on YouTube of things which allegedly happened a long time ago, right. I am getting this suspicion about them that they are actually not only not from a long time ago, they are being filmed live, right now, and are being broadcast to us as we see them. And think about it: that’s how time works. Everything is recorded live. Nothing is recorded dead, unless you actually record a dead person, but even that has sounds. I wonder what Saddam’s body is saying right now. I wonder what music he must be making.

Saddam’s death is the death of an old way of looking at the past which is totally out-moded. Think of it: who followed the Saddam Hussein trial? Nobody, right? Nobody really gave a shit but everybody kind of kept an eye on it cause we thought maybe it would somehow be important. But when it all rang out and came true, it just seemed like, well yeah of course. Of course he would say that kinda stuff. So of course everybody is ignoring it. But his death is not his death. His death is the death of a certain way of experiencing things more naively within culture. We have crossed a threshold where we are withdrawing our illusions and probably creating others in its place of course. That much is only inevitable.

See and that’s what YouTube is and what Time Magazine’s bullshit person of the year being “YOU!” thing is all about. It is a recognition that pop culture no longer matters. Mass media is dead. But that doesn’t mean they won’t keep doing it or that they are abdicating the throne to us. Far from it. It just means they are changing tactics. And they are realizing that pop culture doesn’t matter, but our experience of pop culture matters. So the vampires are just going to start sticking straws right into our authentic true human personal show & tell style experiences of culture and more importantly of life and the universe, and then they pit these things against each other to see what has the most staying power, the most cultural viability and then they bottle and sell it back to the seething writhing masses who don’t fucking need it anyway. Because we aren’t who we are because of pop culture. We are who we are because of our experiences of life. And that is in fact all that we are. Everything else is just incidental. It is not about “you” at all. It is about your experience of “you” and the sooner you can get on board with that, well the sooner then call sell you a raft of new products to replace and retool your now out-moded Saddam Hussein style way of seeing the world.

Oh, and Bruce Lee was 100% assassinated. Just watch this video and see what I mean. You can’t let that shit survive and spread out of control.

Oh and in response to comments made here and my further thinking on the matter (though your experience of this probably doesn’t demand that back-story - mine did, but that’s just my experience): No see, I now think it goes like this: we don’t have multiple stored variants of ourselves. We have multiple experiences of ourselves. And the thing is that these different experiences of ourselves (how we are with friends versus our parents or coworkers) don’t necessarily match up or even need to. Because they are all just our experience and you can explain it and try to figure it out, but when you do that you’re telling a story about how it all fits together. One of many possible stories. Hence in that Philip K Dick documentary how they can interview ten different people who have ten completely different experiences and ideas about who the man is. Because he himself on some level recognized that and cultivated it.

Saddam Hussein did the exact same thing, even all the way down to making it totally concrete with having numerous known body doubles.

You know what? They should have decapitated Saddam and saved his head and we could have built an international shrine around it, a new oracle that we can go and talk to and ask questions and he will give us answers. And maybe they won’t actually be good answers. Probably not. But at least they will at least be answers. Because what we have now, what we have in its place. That’s nothing.

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Tim Boucher Says:
December 30th, 2006 at 9:24 am
That picture of Saddam in his “hiding place” - the diagram - what the hell is that? Who is he - David fucking Blaine?
Tim Boucher Says:
December 30th, 2006 at 9:27 am
The ads Google is serving on this page automatically are fucking brilliant:

- Saddam Hussein Articles
- Connect With Your Angels
- Eating Disorders Seattle
- Intuitive Counsel

Fuck, they are almost saying what I want to say better than I am saying it and all they are doing is applying an algorithm to my text. But the thing is, all I am doing is applying an algorithm to reality, and sucking important things out of it - we call this our “experience”

So that means the ads from Google are experiencing our experiences of actual life… For now anyway!
speedbird Says:
December 30th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
I think being aware that each of us has a way-of-seeing-the-world (possibly shared with others) which doesn’t necessarily show us the world as it really is (whatever that might mean) is on the whole a good thing. I met a guy once who clearly hadn’t a clue that anything like a way-of-seeing-the-world might even exist. He was really scary.

Technology changes and ways-of-seeing-the-world (is there a simple word for that?) change. As an instrumental musician, Itunes is currently scaring the crap out of me.

And my crazy-ass recurring unicorn dream is back. This is probably a good thing (and also probably irrelevant to this thread, but I felt like sharing).
fuj Says:
December 30th, 2006 at 2:08 pm
I am getting to be a little bit like a mad scientist.

More like a mad poet, methinks! With some very nice insights of late, given sufficient headscratching to get at them. What’s happening to the individual? And to time?!

we don’t have multiple stored variants of ourselves. We have multiple experiences of ourselves.

Perhaps we should start getting used to the idea that schizophrenia is our natural state of being. Obviously God has multiple personality disorder, with each of Hir parts playing a part. What if each of our inner part has a voice? Some organs tend to figure more prominently than others… *ahem*. Or chakras, memes, archetypes, fish sticks, Pokemon, yo momma?
This Grant Morrison vid is worth checking out (again), particularly after 21:30.

Excellent book linking appetite to culture.
sketchmonkey Says:
December 30th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
Great post, Tim.

It all comes down to reality tunnels… & our ability to shift our perceptive vantage point amongst them, ala good ol’ RAW.

Video may have killed the radio star, but the new emergant ‘reality’ (of which the internet as we now know it is but a herald, IMO) demands a sacrifice of the old political goats.

Which begs the question, who is the new goat gonna be? Or might the tables be turned, with mankind finding iteself on the sacrificial menu?

Revelation, that which might be revealed, is all around us, if we have the experience to see. To be sure, the Apocolypse is nigh. As our friend Alistair & many others have noted: the old way is on the way out.

However, we must take great care, lest we fall into the old traps in a new guise. “Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.”

Bruce Lee… ah, we hardly knew ya. The complete interview is well worth checkin’ out.

Mr. Boucher: keep on keepin’ on into the New Year & beyond!
hebrides Says:
December 30th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
The Bruce Lee video is great. When he talks about being dogmatic about style leading to being mechanical he sounds so much like Gurdjieff and the idea of the Sly Man.

Enjoying the free-form transformation of your writing style and posting format. It’s beautiful and those Saddam pictures feel like a great gonzo compliment to the stuff Jeff Wells does with photos over at his site.

Good on you. Keep exploring…best for the New Year.
alistair Says:
December 30th, 2006 at 3:43 pm
bruce lee was crucified for calling the technocratic game. we are set to the task of arguing over who`s map is more accurate, while life slips on by all the while.
andrew dice clay was murdered similarly for trying to wake men up to the bullshit of feminism. he told the truth about what women are really like and because he was too popular for his mouth they decided to give him a sitcom to die in. had bill hicks not passed away on his own he would have met a similar fate. people who carry similar messages generally meet a similar fate. either dying or sitcoming.
here`s a short but instructive list;

lenny bruce.
richard bandler. (lawsuits.)
drew carey.(his stand-up is wild.)
even george carlin……………

interestingly european comics of this type tend to stay truer to thier word.

eddie izzard.
billy connolly.
benny hill.
tommy cooper.

maybe it`s american consumer-biased media that is the killer……………….
Steven Hutton Says:
December 30th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
That Grant Morrison video is astounding and very apropriate to the things that have been discussed lately.
holdercc Says:
December 30th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
What are neural networks but algorithums.

Experience the conduit and the many trails that run through the head and heart.
Or choose to experience MSM Google et al versions of you.

Buy a new you to decide…
Jennifer Emick Says:
December 30th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
Yeah, the ads always give me pause… freaky stuff. I guess that’s why they’re so effective. The funniest, I think, was on a news site with a story about a punk rocker who was booted from school for wearing lipstick, the ads were for lipstick and punk CVDs.

Funniest part, though- about invented the ads, did nothing with them, and sold it all to Google. I always wonder who it is who’s going “d’oh” every night before bed…
Tim Boucher Says:
December 30th, 2006 at 7:52 pm
Perhaps we should start getting used to the idea that schizophrenia is our natural state of being.

Been getting used to that for about five or six years now!

the old way is on the way out.

The old way is the only way left to us. Backwards is the new forwards.

had bill hicks not passed away on his own he would have met a similar fate.

Bill Hicks, like all prophets - murdered.
Ben Says:
December 30th, 2006 at 11:46 pm
awesome, awesome post.

experience is life.

interesting insights into corporate capitalization of the recognition that mass media is obsoleted by democratizing technology (ie, the internet).
Darkshadow Says:
December 30th, 2006 at 11:57 pm
Weee, catching up again after the holidays. Hope you had a good ‘un, Tim.

Looks like some sort of dam is breaking up in you, Tim. Do you feel like something is rushing around somewhere in your thoughts? You’ve got a very stream of consciousness thing going here, it’s awesome.
Rev max Says:
December 31st, 2006 at 1:27 am
Aliens and Anorexia
CAB Says:
December 31st, 2006 at 1:56 am
interesting that you mention reality tunnels sketchmonkey. tim’s riff on the universe’s experience of itself makes me think immediately of such. if all the self or the universe can consist of is experiences of itself, what is happening as it examines itself? it would be something like a feedback loop, or one of the reciprocal equations at the bedrock of chaos theory - it’s as if with every moment a deeper layer is created, an additional pair of brackets (surrounding nothing) - something like a constant tunnelling-in (or -out, depending on your frame of reference.) when pkd described valis as possessing an armillary coherence could he have meant tunnel-like?
Steven Hutton Says:
December 31st, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Assume for a moment that what Grant Morrison said in that video is accurate and the universe can be accurately considered as a single entity (of which we’re all part) growing through the pre and perinatal stages of being. So if you consider the development of human society as having gone or going through the basic perinatal matrices Grant theorises that the 20th century was humanities perinatal matrix stage 3 event which leads us on to stage 4 next which is the release of birth.
Now I was also listening to one of the pop occulture pod casts recently in which it was stated that certain people believe or have believed that we are moving through time backwards. Or more accurately that our experience of time is backwards to it’s actual direction progression. That would mean that the growth of this being that is the universe and is also all of us is actually moving backwards from our perspective. Meaning that the next thing we should expect as a society is basic Perinatal stage 2 not stage 4.
Moving back to what Grant was saying in the video he said that the idea of self and a sense of individuality are fairly recent concepts (the last 2000 years or so) and although they have brought us far they’re becoming a hindrance and thus should be cast off again. Let’s reverse the direction of time again. Now that the past is the future we’re actually moving away from the idea of self. Meaning that Perinatal stage 4 (the release of birth) actually happened far off in the distant past, perhaps around the time that we developed (or is that lost since we’re moving backwards now) the sense of “I”. It also means that in the future we can expect to find ourselves in Perinatal stage 1 “Oceanic Bliss” (where every desire is provided for (perhaps through technology perhaps through magic or perhaps both) and then we’ll gradually fade away becoming more individual and more separate as we head to wards the end (which is actually the beginning) of time.
This may seem a pretty bleak image on which to finish so lets look at this from the correct temporal perspective. Uncountable bajilllions (which is a word that means very big numbers) of humans moving through time being absorbed into our parents as we go. As we move onward we move closer, becoming less separate as there are less and less of us and gradually the sense of self, which separates us, dissolves and we become closer still. Now there are only a few humans wandering the plains of Africa in a small tribe so close and so bonded by our shared identity that we’re almost one being. And time moves on as the universe grows smaller and smaller til it reaches a single point and from that point emerges a creature that looks like a glowing silver ball. Time and space have stopped and a new creature is born into the 5th dimension. At least, if you believe Grant Morrison.
Julia Says:
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:56 am
And I thought John Dillinger died for our sins. It was really Bruce Lee!
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