Happy New Year According to Whose Calendar?
Here's a little ditty from William Burroughs that goes down good this time of year.
To achieve independence from alien domination and to consolidate revolutionary gains, five steps are necessary:
- PROCLAIM A NEW ERA AND SET UP A NEW CALENDAR*
- REPLACE ALIEN LANGUAGE
- DESTROY OR NEUTRALIZE ALIEN GODS
- DESTROY ALIEN MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT AND CONTROL
- TAKE WEALTH AND LAND FROM INDIVIDUAL ALIENS.
In his The Revised Boy Scout Manual from which the above quote is from, William S.Burroughs is exploring 'revolutionary tactics and weapons'. He is referring to the Ruling Class as 'Aliens' and shows examples and strategies how to overthrow them. For a period of time he appears to have been actually convinced that the Earth was run by agents from Venus. He was right. (There's also some nice calendar based ruminations in Book of Breething: Text and Conception, but this one is harder to find.)
*Obviously this means abolishing the Christian Calendar. It's high time the final death blow is dealt to the cultural domination of this scum. There will be no more saint days or any of this bullshit; there will hardly be need for holidays as everybody does what s/he wants to do all the time anyway. Important big festivals can be held at certain days or at random. On the whole the 20th century and all the centuries before will be remembered as dark ages, when people had to work, were controlled, brainwashed and oppressed. Even the most sophisticated mind control techniques of the Old Rulers will be pale remnants of idiocy compared to the "delirious freedon and splendid poetry" that will fill the vacuum they will have left behind.
Happy New Year? Whatever...
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