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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Imagine how astonished (appalled?) we'd be if that all that mind chatter of the thousands/millions in your vicinity were broadcast over community loudspeakers. I'd bet that a quite large percentage of that chatter would reveal itself as the ridiculous tangle of irrelevancy implanted by Capitalist economic consumption propaganda, an internal muck of jingles, images, and verbiage designed to enrich elites and pauperize the rest of the biosphere. That complete waste of nerve impulses would be joined by those underlying speculation about the other, folks we like or dislike, folks we admire, envy, celebritize, detest, many of those impressions aimed at individuals of whom we have no direct personal knowledge, whether it be Jill Stein, Johnny Depp, or Donald Trump. Broadcast, that noisy chaos would drive most of us in search of earplugs, yet we have difficulty finding the internal earplugs to stanch those loudspeakers in our heads. I'm convinced that a measure of the immense waste of mental and therefore actual biochemical energy implicit in all this chaotic brain-merda would amount to a stunning number of Joules.

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Alexander's avatar

Hey, Caitlin, I love you. And not in a weird way or any way to make your husband or my wife jealous. Just love, like Jesus,/John Lennon kind of love.

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