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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 22:00:58 EDT
From:         "Daniel A. Foss" <DFOSS@CCVM.SUNYSB.EDU>
Subject:      Dumping Ground

You are a "Dumping Ground" because the Grownups, you know what they done did?
They done started the Revolution without you-all, and they couldn't wait this
time for any New Way of Thinking that's still Out On Order, like the Last Time,
back in the 1960s, "Slow down, you move too fast/We got to make the morning
last/.../Feeling Groovy!" That is what they done done.
   Sometimes, you know, people, things get going that make not just the tough
get going. Maybe it was partly the Japanese who JiTted everything. Maybe it was
my Fault, old and slowing down. Maybe it was your Fault, dont't the kids in
school with the hustle, with what in Republicanland is called "that competive
edge," but more like your kind of folks than most, are not living the futility
they write about that they ACTUALLY HAVE TO READ ALL OUR SHIT; they are, you
know what I mean, what we used to call in the Old Days, "into things." Maybe
just maybe it was San Andreas Fault.

This is not the kind of Thingie where it's done by the book, in Order:

"Ya know what, let's call a meeting of the Estates General and close a few
tax loopholes."
"Swell idea, let's do it."
"Just one small problem.
"Wuzzat."
"We aint got factory delivery of that latest model Enlightenment, you know, the
New Way of Thinking. Hell, they aint even let JJ Rousseau out of the Looney Bin
behind a bad acid trip to personify Reason."
"Sorry, but this Revolution not only is starting without you, it's not just
starting on time, IT'S STARTING THREE FUCKING HOURS EARLY. Buzzzzzofffff!"
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   Each, what the folks in this [Social and Behavioral Sciences] Building you
know call, you know, CULTURE got it's own Way of Thinking, sometimes several.
Usually, you gotta have minimum two, one for us guys, one for the other kind.
Because the latter gotta be kept busy, best us guys can arrange it, with the
most trivial, diddliest, mindrottingest birdshit we can stick on them.
   Onliest thing what keeps this sorry species in business is, us guys are
fucking WRONG about what's important, but so is everybody else, if you know
what I mean. Elsewise, no matter how Weak we tell the wimminfolk they is,
they'da just IGNORED us long ago and made us a takeitorleaveit deal if you
know they were in a generous mood.

   But no matter how different all these Ways of Thinking get, one Culture to
the next, they all got one, only one thing that stays the same, universal,
constant, which is PSYCHO INSANE. So anybody tries to make like they are
psycho insane, there is nothing New happening by definition. Any Reality made
up in the basement by a Schizo or a Bipolar Disordered nutcase is a trivial,
derivative, inane modification of the Nationally Advertised Brand of Reality.
Anthing anybody says, "They've been hiding all this groovy stuff from us for
thousands of years," "God told me just haffanhour ago that," "They've been
hiding all this evil plot conspiracy thing from us all this time because they
knew what we would do to them if they let on,...Fuck them. The Bushmen in the
Kalahari got bored with it tens of thousands of years ago, it was tedious in
Olduvai, Lucy heard it all before language wuz.
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   It is with deep regret that I herewith announce that some of the people I
have from longest ago relied upon utterly to tell me I was not psycho insane,
people who have never met and whose sole common characteristic is that their
States (RI, AR) are the property of the Rockefellers, have been acting a bit
funny so I can no longer believe a word anybody says to the effect I am not
psycho insane, hence whether I have or not told you true I am psycho insane
and HISTORY, let alone History, aint gonna Absolve me. Fidel Castro, see, was/
is a Hero, I was a spoiled Jewish brat turned crumbum nogood.
   I herewith commend my soul to the Revolution. For your own protection, my
children, do not believe A SINGLE THING I may tell you hereafter. Because it
is psychotic babble and They are letting it on the air just to weaken you.
   VIVA LA CAUSA whatever the hell that is. LA LUTTE CONTINUE but damned if
I know what that is. There will however always be an England, even if they
have to tow it out to the Pacific, park it next to New Zealand, and stuff
the meters with the Japanese equivalent of quarters. Bless you, H760, and
bless your ragged barefoot Celtic brood of children.

Daniel A. Foss
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