Dream a Little Dream with Dok

[Doktor Howl]

I just want to be free.

Then why aren't you?

[The Rev]

I just want to be free.

Then why aren't you?

Working on it.

[Doktor Howl]

I can't help thinking that your enemy is hope. Hope for this fast-sinking clusterfuck they call "civilisation". Hope that it'll all work out in the end. Hope that things will get better.

It's a trainwreck, Dok, and my advice is give up on it. Now. Abandon hope. Bury your optimism or, better yet, stop digging it out and it'll get buried by itself under the mountain of shit that's piling up around every good citizen's ears.

It's easy to hang onto hope. Just like a real trainwreck, everything seems fine if you just don't look out the front window. Look out the sides and everything seems fine. Stare at the pretty landscape flying past and you can believe you're going to to reach your destination, safe and sound. Right up even after the first car leaves the rails. Just don't look forward and it'll all be fine until it's too late.

Fuck that shit. I'll enjoy the buffet car while it's here but I'm under no illusions. I'm ready to jump. I'm ready to watch the whole thing go up in a tower of burning wreckage. Truth be told I'm looking forward to it. Buffet is over priced and tastes like crap anyway.

Newsflash - America^tm is sinking. Get ready to swim for it.

Optimism?  Blarg.  I just need to hold my shit together for another two years.  TWO YEARS.  And then I can get on that train, that party train, woop woop.

[Doktor Howl]

I just want to be free.

Then why aren't you?

Working on it.

Freedom != Mobility.

Freedom is a state of mind.  You can be free in jail (in fact, MLK couldn't be free without it).  Freedom is the ability, beyond any fear of retribution, to stick one finger on each hand up and tell a motherfucker what's what.

Pent's always been free.  Some people will never even understand what it means.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I just want to be free.

Then why aren't you?

Working on it.

Freedom != Mobility.

Freedom is a state of mind.  You can be free in jail (in fact, MLK couldn't be free without it).  Freedom is the ability, beyond any fear of retribution, to stick one finger on each hand up and tell a motherfucker what's what.

Pent's always been free.  Some people will never even understand what it means.

I weighed up the choices I was presented with and I was pretty sure the punishment sounded better than the reward. It was a no brainer, really. Can't take credit.

[The Rev]

I just want to be free.

Then why aren't you?

Working on it.

Freedom != Mobility.

Freedom is a state of mind.  You can be free in jail (in fact, MLK couldn't be free without it).  Freedom is the ability, beyond any fear of retribution, to stick one finger on each hand up and tell a motherfucker what's what.

Pent's always been free.  Some people will never even understand what it means.

In my own way this is exactly what I am doing.

[Doktor Howl]

Nigel's still stuck in the Denver Airport.   

[Cainad (dec.)]

"Barbarians at the gates," we screamed, Dok! Barbarians at the gates!

So we ran and we screamed and we ran and we screamed some more, shoving the weak and infirm out of the way while we scrambled for what we could grab and moved towards the central part of The City, the part with higher walls and stronger gates.


Only we still haven't found those higher walls to hide behind, because every time we get there, there's nothing but rubble

and the barbarians are still at the gates

and still we scream and we run


but there's no more walls to hide behind, no more gates to seal against the barbarians

because we tore them all down


we are the barbarians

and we have sacked our own City.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Nigel's still stuck in the Denver Airport.   

The jaunty little tune the train plays is starting to grow on me. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The doors are closing.

The doors are closing.

The doors are closing.

The doors are closing.

The doors are closing.

The doors are closing.

The doors are closing.

The doors are closing.

YOU are delaying the departure of this train.

[Kai]

The doors are closing.

The doors are closing.

The doors are closing.

The doors are closing.

The doors are closing.

The doors are closing.

The doors are closing.

The doors are closing.

YOU are delaying the departure of this train.

This and the other stuff are fucking giving me chills.

[Richter]

I try to think of the differnce between "Freedom", and "reasonably content with what's happening or ignorant of the problems for the moment."

Then I try to pick out the difference.  Then the screaming starts again.

[Kai]

Freedom? What the FUCK is Freedom? As a generalized category, there never was such a thing.

Freedom in the universe? We're stuck here on Earth, following the rules of gravity, electromagnetism, and nuclear forces, and we have no choice in the matter.

Freedom from biology? We're meatbags of a millions of years old lineage which has selected for those that fuck and make more meat bags, and every moment of every day our unconscious mind screams at us to make it so.

Freedom from humans? Humans are fucking everywhere, like cockroaches, but unlike cockroaches they don't keep to theirselves, they're everywhere and they all want to fucking tell you. There is no escape.

Freedom in our Nation? We have to be given rights for them to pertain, we have to grovel before the corps, because without them we'd be starving. There's always a hierarchy.

What fucking freedom? Because there is no such thing.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The doors are closing.

The doors are closing.

The doors are closing.

The doors are closing.

The doors are closing.

The doors are closing.

The doors are closing.

The doors are closing.

YOU are delaying the departure of this train.

This and the other stuff are fucking giving me chills.

[Don Coyote]

When Dok posts like this I get angry that I cannot express myself like him.