WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
The Ancien Régime**
byVanderleunonJuly 30, 2021
Soon.
The tumbril creaks and rumbles on
Upon the road of Slate,
Retracing rutted Years of sand
Whose distance Storms debate.
Its passengers stand fixed as stone
While faces cheer from Snow.
The blade awaits its midday meal,
When Above becomes Below.
Innovations carved from clouds
Give despair and dance New measures.
The blade reflects its evening meal
When kings slake peasants’ pleasures.
Arrived at Hope they gaze towards mist
Where granite horses roam.
Their schedules as fixed as Dark.
Their future — White as bone.
The Head within the Basket sees
Vast Parliaments of Sky.
Its ears hear but the fading surf
Where the past gone years reply.
** The Ancien Régime was the monarchic, aristocratic, social and political system established in the Kingdom of France from approximately the 15th century until the latter part of the 18th century (“early modern France”) under the late Valois and Bourbon dynasties. The term is occasionally used to refer to the similar feudal social and political order of the time elsewhere in Europe. The administrative and social structures of the Ancien Régime were the result of years of state-building, legislative acts (like the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts), internal conflicts, and civil wars, but they remained a confusing patchwork of local privilege and historic differences until the French Revolution ended the system.
Instead of peasant children being murdered by speeding carriages transporting the aristocracy, we have children being offered up as sacrifices to the teachers’ unions and ruling caste.
Even if we could stop the damage being done right now, we’d have an enormous task of de-programming these kids ahead of us. And of course, nothing to date has impeded the relentless assault being perpetrated against this country’s children, so this essential task becomes all the more formidable.
There was a time when I thought that, if the children were being adversely affected by any program – at any level – there would arise a tremendous hue and cry. Well, like so much that has come to pass since the new millennium was ushered in, I’ve been wrong. Appears there isn’t anything the Sheeple won’t accept under the auspices of the New Normal.
Moreover, even if a modern-day Robespierre were to emerge; to what end? We proles were reminded a couple of weeks ago that the Ancien Regime is protected by “The guys with the guns.”
ghostsniperJuly 30, 2021, 1:18 PM
I’ll be partially satisfied when I get to nail Tater Stelter and Lemon-AID’s nasty hides to the side of the barn for target practice.
@Richard, for at least 30 years now parents have been relying on the public indoctrination system as their free daycare center for all the kids they can’t stand to be around but wail like banshees that they “would do anything for my kids”. In that time period I have asked hundreds of parents why they send their kids to these places and the overwhelming answer has been, “Well, it was good enough for me and I turned out OK.” Proof, that idiocy begets idiocy.
There’s only one way out for sane people, and that means a great culling must occur. I expect at least 90 million will be gone in the first 6 months. The burn off will be glorious.
Back in another life I had to teach “A Tale of Two Cities” every semester for years. Whatever the “crimes” the aristocracy committed, I cannot fathom the horror of being a victim of “The Terror”.
But in this age and time, “the ptb” would do it to “us” in a heartbeat.
On the other hand, if we could put all the “gain of function” scientists in the tumbrils, along with all the architects of the great re-set, I’d be first in line to pull the release on Madame G.
JWM
Kevin in PAJuly 30, 2021, 6:44 PM
In a letter written by Madison to Jefferson re; the Shay’s Rebellion, Madison expressed concern that these rebellions could be the ruin the republic. Jefferson responded that “the tree of liberty should be refreshed with the blood of tyrants and patriots” from time to time. Madison queried further as to how often this watering should take place. To which Jefferson responded -“about every twenty years or so.”
Perhaps the tree is long overdue for a watering.
John the RiverJuly 30, 2021, 7:22 PM
I think I heard that the FBI and NSA are hiring. But I don’t think it will work. They will probably, scratch that, they probably already have added many,many computers all programed to listen and watch all the millions of American citizens starting to talk and write about their distrust, nay disgust of this Administration.
I’d like to know how much of a strain of their resources it was to round up the five hundred citizens they have in their hands now.
At some point soon, prisons won’t hold them. Have they started building camps yet?
Joe Biden is sitting in a corner whispering “I have Nukes….”
Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks.
placed solid, by hands
In choice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
in space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way.
straying planets,
These poems, people,
lost ponies with
Dragging saddles –
and rocky sure-foot trails.
The worlds like an endless
four-dimensional
Game of Go.
ants and pebbles
In the thin loam, each rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
with torment of fire and weight
Crystal and sediment linked hot
all change, in thoughts,
As well as things.
Gary Snyder
The Waking
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
The scientists are in terror
and the European mind stops
Wyndham Lewis chose blindness
rather than have his mind stop.
Night under wind mid garofani,
the petals are almost still
Mozart, Linnaeus, Sulmona,
When one’s friends hate each other
how can there be peace in the world?
Their asperities diverted me in my green time.
A blown husk that is finished
but the light sings eternal
a pale flare over marshes
where the salt hay whispers to tide’s change
Time, space,
neither life nor death is the answer.
And of man seeking good,
doing evil.
In meiner Heimat
where the dead walked
and the living were made of cardboard.
from Preludes
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock;
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.
— Eliot
ARTIST: CASEY KLAHN
Song of Myself
I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this
air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
— Walt Whitman
“From a student radical/hippie/leftist of the Free Speech Movement/Vietnam Day Commitee era and a full-on Democratic Liberal in the decades after, I think I’ve evolved a politics that is neither right nor left but is, in its elemental nature, draconian. In the last 20 years, I’ve taken apart my beliefs with a sledgehammer. Now I’ve got to put the surviving parts back together with tweezers and other ‘shabby equipment, always deteriorating’.”
Real World Address for Donations, Mash Notes and Hate Mail
Gerard Van der Leun
1692 MANGROVE AVE
APT 379
Chico, Ca 95926
Soon.
** The Ancien Régime was the monarchic, aristocratic, social and political system established in the Kingdom of France from approximately the 15th century until the latter part of the 18th century (“early modern France”) under the late Valois and Bourbon dynasties. The term is occasionally used to refer to the similar feudal social and political order of the time elsewhere in Europe. The administrative and social structures of the Ancien Régime were the result of years of state-building, legislative acts (like the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts), internal conflicts, and civil wars, but they remained a confusing patchwork of local privilege and historic differences until the French Revolution ended the system.
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Gerard Van der Leun
Lay down these words
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
The scientists are in terror
Instead of peasant children being murdered by speeding carriages transporting the aristocracy, we have children being offered up as sacrifices to the teachers’ unions and ruling caste.
Even if we could stop the damage being done right now, we’d have an enormous task of de-programming these kids ahead of us. And of course, nothing to date has impeded the relentless assault being perpetrated against this country’s children, so this essential task becomes all the more formidable.
There was a time when I thought that, if the children were being adversely affected by any program – at any level – there would arise a tremendous hue and cry. Well, like so much that has come to pass since the new millennium was ushered in, I’ve been wrong. Appears there isn’t anything the Sheeple won’t accept under the auspices of the New Normal.
Moreover, even if a modern-day Robespierre were to emerge; to what end? We proles were reminded a couple of weeks ago that the Ancien Regime is protected by “The guys with the guns.”
I’ll be partially satisfied when I get to nail Tater Stelter and Lemon-AID’s nasty hides to the side of the barn for target practice.
@Richard, for at least 30 years now parents have been relying on the public indoctrination system as their free daycare center for all the kids they can’t stand to be around but wail like banshees that they “would do anything for my kids”. In that time period I have asked hundreds of parents why they send their kids to these places and the overwhelming answer has been, “Well, it was good enough for me and I turned out OK.” Proof, that idiocy begets idiocy.
There’s only one way out for sane people, and that means a great culling must occur. I expect at least 90 million will be gone in the first 6 months. The burn off will be glorious.
Back in another life I had to teach “A Tale of Two Cities” every semester for years. Whatever the “crimes” the aristocracy committed, I cannot fathom the horror of being a victim of “The Terror”.
But in this age and time, “the ptb” would do it to “us” in a heartbeat.
On the other hand, if we could put all the “gain of function” scientists in the tumbrils, along with all the architects of the great re-set, I’d be first in line to pull the release on Madame G.
JWM
In a letter written by Madison to Jefferson re; the Shay’s Rebellion, Madison expressed concern that these rebellions could be the ruin the republic. Jefferson responded that “the tree of liberty should be refreshed with the blood of tyrants and patriots” from time to time. Madison queried further as to how often this watering should take place. To which Jefferson responded -“about every twenty years or so.”
Perhaps the tree is long overdue for a watering.
I think I heard that the FBI and NSA are hiring. But I don’t think it will work. They will probably, scratch that, they probably already have added many,many computers all programed to listen and watch all the millions of American citizens starting to talk and write about their distrust, nay disgust of this Administration.
I’d like to know how much of a strain of their resources it was to round up the five hundred citizens they have in their hands now.
At some point soon, prisons won’t hold them. Have they started building camps yet?
Joe Biden is sitting in a corner whispering “I have Nukes….”
Let the tumbrils rolls again in Washington DC. The lists of enemies of the republic will be very long. People will want to savor the moment.
The NSA is indeed hiring. To apply, just call anybody.