Writing Block

[archytas]

The easiest blocks to writing are getting out of routine and being lazy.  Most of what I write is academic and the technical delivery of teaching (for distance learning) - the stuff is so dull it's easy not to do it.  There is no real market to produce interesting material for.  I was tempted to call my company 'Wolf From Door Productions'.  I'm not really concerned with 'boot-to-arse'  motivations to do this stuff, more with what prevents a more creative impulse getting into print, onto screen or cluttering up some living space like one of Facil's sculptures.

I'm a snob on creativity and tend to wish the vast majority of 'entertainment' like selfies and television had been subject to writing block and probably producers being put on the block.  I can pick up most books and see how I could write a version - this is dead easy with academic material and most stories - but the process is demotivating on the grounds one is only going to produce a clone.  This is the way of the world - the simulacrum.

How does one write an original?  Can we give any examples (originals in this world of copied copies might be a myth)?  If we knew how to do originals would be bother doing any - why not program machines and let them churn them out?  Would the rest of the world recognise an original?  Is trying to produce one to finally stick one's head into permanent darkness?

When you write for student consumption you know they mostly won't 'listen' - most academic courses are so dull people are only there for the money (lecturers and the vast bureaucracy they support) certification, gossip, sex chances and so on.  I even write business maths courses on the assumption no one could do them without me giving them worked examples that can be cloned into exam questions and spreadsheets.  My cut and paste learn organisational dynamics whilst remaining an English-illiterate Chinese is particularly popular amongst lecturers who have exhausted their voices on deaf ears and discovered their foreign students have all been submitting essays written 20 years ago with minor changes like the name at the top.  Two of my Pakistani students submitted identical essay at the same time in the days of Tipex.  I remonstrated with them on the grounds they should have noticed they had Tipexed over a fail grade.

What I want is Molly's self-at-peace-not-worrying-about-others-evaluation-in-self-evaluation and Facil's obvious ability to churn out originals like a queen bee's eggs - the effortless production line of the creative process!  I may have got the wrong end of several sticks at this point ...

One block I'm considering is that creativity is a sort of licensed brainwork.  Of course, considering blocks is eventually a block - if one considers methodology too long one can never do any practice.

[facilitator]

My first reaction is to try and respond with a clever yet reciprocating idea but I don't want to hate myself after I have posted it. A response to this requires thought.  

[archytas]

Creativity is free without copyright protection.  Walking into a brainstorming session it is tempting to ask 'where are the other brains then'?  Even the invention of physics outside space-time doesn't get one out-from-under that manoeuvre, especially when pertinent to reality!  What everyone in the galaxy hates most is a wise-ass.  A colleague once told me she couldn't stand even minor distractions like people talking at the back, always thinking they might be saying something more interesting than she was.  I was able to assure her this could not be true, as no one had ever said anything interesting in one of her classes.  'Must have SOH' is a general personality demand - yet most react to harmless jibes with revenge and advertising as harmless.  Brilliant riposte - I've just spent 3 hours fixing the ultimate block to my writing - malfunctioning Microsoft Office - needed a smile.

One might try writing on the important, but no one is interested in that without the guru act.  My aliens have it that the prime directive of human languages is deception.  Few humans can take this deadly seriousness with a smile.  Sadly the aliens don't use money and I have to rely on the human audience.

[Allan]

I understand what your colleague is saying. As for brains that is why I oftentimes why I find myself sitting  on the side of the hill. I'm left wondering if most of the world has turned into a tinsel town?

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[archytas]

Can you see if the tinsel is being worn inside or on top of the blue velvet?

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[Allan]

I think it needs to be on both sides  as you are trying to create the realiy factor.

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[Allan]

But what would I know, I seem to be trapped where time is nothing more than a histarical marker.

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[archytas]

I think we have the idea of the 'solo artist' quite wrong.  Collaboration with others is often awful - I really have been to brainstorming sessions of truly brainless proportion - and I long abandoned other academics in anything where I was responsible for deadlines - yet I miss the contributions of others now I've gone solo and still can't shake off what we might call 'audience pressures' or find a voice (though I can still get through 3 hours of lecturing with discomfort only amongst the poor souls that have to listen).  'Histarical' sounds wonderfully descriptive of something you and I experience Al.  The Engleesh teechers will never allow it though.

I wanted to do something like my teaching strategy - largely based on an early threat that my job was to install a thick textbook of unbelievable tedium in the heads of students, followed by an offer to throw it in the bin if they would have a go at finding something they wanted to do.  A kind if make your own mind up novel.  I managed this in case study by encouraging investigation outside the written material.  I think what happened to me was getting used to writing in hyper-text to be filled out by others and too used to marking all the work as though I was the audience.  I am not alone, as an academic, in reading Kierkegaard as a Danish comic (the Nordics will wait much longer for a joke than us) - but I can't find a way to write the bigger farce of language as deception, other than in some turgid academy-speak on such as law courts pretending to be rational while acting out Freud's Oedipal theatre.  Histarical!

[Allan]

I know my spelling is bad.. but it is better than it was.  A good brain stoming session is good if fellow participants have brains.
Good starting point.

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[archytas]

Odd how easily we get suckered into such as 'bad spelling', the shame of the misplaced apostrophe, barking spelling rules like i before e except after c (no doubt like seize) and 'for who the bell tolls' (it shouldn't be whom according to the rules).  I actually thought 'histarical' describes us both to a T at times and Gabby all of the time (not really) - so why should it be a spelling mistak?  Gabbs won't understand none of this Charlie, on the grounds of being dragged up in the logically ruthless German language in which one must tomorrow navel with head in clouds gaze the dative case, bright as a button being in the creation of words so long they probably their own internal syntax haben.  To make up for this they drop the a in 'I am a Berliner'.  Endless supplies of paper we not though Sweden army trees and small army have.

My English teachers had nice legs.  I remember little else other than the trauma of the Oxford comma and the brutality of the future pluperfect.  German and Russian came as blessed relief from the language of world domination, now wrenched from the Queen's fair hands by Americans with no language of their own.  I was told I would need these foreign languages, along with Latin to better understand Greek and read scientific papers written by the only foreigners literate in it.  Turned out everything about Greeks and Romans was an extended lie of the Catholic Church and German and Russian scientists bright enough to translate papers to English.  They dropped the requirement doctors speak Latin on the day they started teaching it to me.  Doctors, of course, never wrote Latin, but this does explain why their handwriting is so bad.  They just haven't dropped the habit of covering up their lack of Latin.  It is a matter of great regret I never discovered who or what was sucking out the brains of my contemporaries to make them think.  At some point, I strumbled (another word we should put to more use) into computer coding.  Here one discovers that coding is very boring and relies on understanding nothing human beings say makes sense to machines far brighter than we are, able to translate all languages through statistical methods badly.

Get out that fiddle Allan and we'll jamm some histarical stom strumble. 

[Molly]

Writing block is a force to be reckoned with. When we can't express, we can only be still, until the expression begins again. Good luck, my friend. As for me, I am entering the season of hectic calling. I will miss you all in the duration, and will try to chime in from time to time. I love it here.

[archytas]

Good luck as ever Molly.  I once had a cat that learned to type and turned my thesis into Greek.  The dogs aren't being much help, lying about bored when I produce the great work and leaping to enthusiasm only when they hear the noise of Windows 10 signing off.  They have decided this means 'walkies;.

[Gabby]

I would not cause problems if we made this group site your writer's blog. Democratic principles have never managed to enter this space here anyhow.  Your input activities have kept the group communication process alive for the past years, so we might as well fully face reality and do something ourselves to get you out of here and into the world. That way we could also try to legitimize the blue eye without feeling too much shame. Speaking of shame and mental blockage, yes, it helps to be German to be able to violate English language parameters and principles. Universal grammar principles have been shown to be violable by speakers of all kinds though. Which is why I recommend you changed the welcome note and turned it into a real welcome note. Cross out all the things that show how much unpleasant experiences you expect to occur and how you are prepared to cross them out. A short but friendly welcome note will do. 

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[archytas]

Write the note so we can cut and paste Gabby.  One of those cards in the window of a cosmopolitan guest house would do, or none at all to indicate we take hospitality for granted.  You always were the sweetest goose.  My eyes are warm brown.  Democracies with few ideas or contributions are hard.  I was not my own candidate in the mod game - you were.  The ears of democracy were deaf and so achieved default by default.

[allan...@gmail.com]

Neil is right Gabby.  Minds eye is a discussion group. . It is open to any topic. Writers block is a valid topic because you are objecting so much my guess would be you are suffering from writer's block.
Unfortunately that means we put up with a lot of BS from everyone. If you don't like the topic the easiest way to deal with it is not respond. I know that is to simple of a solution.

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[gabbydott]

James was. He was probably not loud enough and did not use the right attributes.

I find copy&paste relatively easy, I don't need further practice, thank you for the well meaning advice.

I will try to not cause any problems nevertheless.

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[gabbydott]

It is some sort of sentimental streak that I have identified that keeps me from not objecting to "the master is right" statements. I will work on that.

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You are right Gabby  Do not kill the holy cow..  (",)

[archytas]

It might be a case of working out where hostility arises and who is trying to master whom.  I had not thought of myself as a holy cow before Al - thanks for that one!

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[allan...@gmail.com]

ROGLMAO. The Holy Cow thing is from Gabby's new tag line. . It is not my idea.. the olden calf thing is her's also.. don't want credit for great ideas.
Actually when you think about it minds eye is our sacred cow.. 

So what is the topic for barn storming in the Holy Cow of Minds Eye?

[archytas]

Gabby is right, of course or jawohl.  Direction is often what screws us.  Most university courses in management have some pot-boiler content on 'motivation at work' that excludes what is done to get us into work situations in the first place.  The aim is to get get students to hack out answers from this content without ever thinking.  No doubt my insistence on them thinking for themselves was equally directive.  I also taught the equivalent of getting them to read keynotes like those that let you give the answers teachers want on Jane Eyre and the rest without reading the novel.  Some of the most directive and awful management teaching concerns personal development.  The best I managed was to let my students know how little I know, though the Socratic irony is even this is to know more than people who read management books thinking acting as they instruct is remotely moral.  One of my own teachers, asked to give us what had been important to him gave us two bits of plain paper.

So what do YOU think people?  I used to give out half-a-dozen potential assignments.  The last question was always 'think one up yourselves'.  This had few takers, though all the best work came from those that chose this option.  One or two were smart enough to negotiate doing nothing, offering me the opportunity of having nothing to mark.  Anthony Flew is supposed to have answered the question 'what is courage?' with the two words 'this is' as an undergraduate.  Gabby will no doubt tell us this wasn't minimalist enough.

False enthusiasm is now taught in teacher training.  You've just got to lurve them sums and keep beating this enthusiasm into kids that can't do them.  We might ask the holy cows - they have fairly complex language if one bothers to listen to them.

[Gabby Thiede]

It could actually be very tiring to serve the system of embracing the paradox of being  goose  gabbsed in order to allow the natural superpower to delve in fantastic  memories of milk&honey lands. Paradise is not lost, the anti-islamic freedom fighters will bark us the way back and so on and so on. But - au contraire - this primitive echo chamber of cheap stereotypes keeps reminding me of the importance of staying awake. Thank you all. :)

 

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[archytas]

Beautiful poetry.  Is there any German for goose-gabbsed yet?  It sounds like something that could only happen to an Englishman.  Thank goodness I'm Scots.

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[gabbydott]

The Scotch animal. So so. More wise keys anyone?

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[allan...@gmail.com]

Don't know I am trying to figure out if Tony was getting a bit cheeky. .

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[gabbydott]

Fantasic reply! Blame it on Tony! Go for it. He is relatively new to this group, it must be him!

[allan...@gmail.com]

No  not blame Tony,,  with him I not sure which moon he was referring to.

[archytas]

Scotch at least is blameless.  Blame cultures are at least a bit more accountable than 'learning lessons'.  The meek can inherit the Moon, but not our helium-three rights!

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[allan...@gmail.com]

So that is the secret of Scots Whisky it all in the heavy water..

[archytas]

Could do with a bottle.  Finally got sick of Microsoft and Dell 'fixes' and got the 'soldering iron' out to sort this laptop with some old bits from others.

[Gabby]

Whereas your signature lines stink to the one and only heaven.

[allan...@gmail.com]

Interesting reply Gabby,
It shows the seed is actually working and having an effect.. which leads to an very interesting question what lies hidden within your soul that brings out such a radical reaction..
Neil by his own admission never even noticed the sig lines both yours and mine.
;-)

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[gabbydott]

Oh, I'm pretty sure you will keep on telling me what you see I'm hiding within my soul. I see no force around here stopping you to do so.

As for Neil and his reading technique, he is skimming the language material for the effects he is interested in and serve his purpose. There is no hidden agenda. Only fields of blindness, to use a politically incorrect metaphor.

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Why is my sig line politically incorrect?

[gabbydott]

Because it contains a message. And the selection of the chosen languages indicates a direction.

A simple name signature would be considered neutral but usually unneccessary in our forum here. The name of the author is already given in title line of the posting.

Say what you want to say in the main body and don't hide it in the cellar where it cannot be adressed properly. Okay? That's my message to you. :)

[allan...@gmail.com]

You are right gabby it does have direction and purpose . I dispise murder .. rape .. enslaving others in many forms .. harming others goes  without question.

It is not meant to be neutral.  It is meant as a seed like all farmers it is scattered on the only soil available the Internet.
If you want your world dominated by murder. .. rape ..  enslavement and harming others   remain neutral. . Me i will do what little i can to spread my seed with every email sent.

[gabbydott]

The base emotion of this posting is fear, fear, fear. Fear of others doing you potentially wrong. Allow me to copy&paste out of context:

"A person who does everything they can to look at anything but self can pervert much and in the process create much pain for self and others."

The only soil available on the internet for your kind of farming?

[facilitator]

Telling people "Not to do something" leaves one with the impression that they would be doing it otherwise.  I picture Allan standing at the temple gates saying "who dares enter?"

[allan...@gmail.com]

Follow your own advice Gabby..  unknown to you there  was a long discussion over the seed and the format and language. . Sadly yours is a response of fear..
It will remain.

[allan...@gmail.com]

In a way I am Tony .. standing before the temple of violence and hatred saying "Do Not Enter."

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[gabbydott]

You see, it all comes out one way or another. It really stinks in here.

[Molly]

"The dude abides. I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that." - The Big Labowski

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[archytas]

We are no doubt as happy as schwein im merde in Eurospeal.  I am  personally particularly happy to be Gabby's semi-domesticated Schotchman.  No one north of Watford can afford the stuff now and Bulgarian neighbours provide from stills in cellars.  We might say 'where there's muck there's brass Lassie' to the lady with extraordinary smell.  We could write each other's sig lines as an exercise in her class.  That's the one next to the Austrian peace cellar construction gathering on Thursday nights - in the business school close to the making fiscal opportunity from modern slavery forum (the sign on the door says 'global wage arbitrage').

Gabbers brings that feeling of 'the boys are back in town', nipping in to smash holes in sig line windows to let in some anarcho-existential air, with that neat gendered touch with the curtain shade before she leaves.  I have a big sister like that, so am enamoured, much as I once thought to travel to Brighton to flip my hat in Chazwin's direction, mistaking his gender in banter between the Old Ones (Jenks et al) for the real thing.  It is refreshing to be told a man may have his own purposes and no agenda.  Can I use that thought Gabby, or is it subject to your law of mass censorship once dreamed by another?  I wweely wweely like you, honest as soldiers - said with no agenda.  People who make me laugh are treasured.  

Allan's sig line at least allows me to think 'at least I didn't do any of that' when I wake up.  If the group went for mass membership and Twutter format, we could make a business selling cool sig lines with logos knocked out in Tony's kitshen.  We could be really big in the sweat shop T-shirt import business through our value-added.  My friend will be guarding the gates to hell when we get there, pellet gun at the ready.  I have already devised the Windows 11 computers you'll get to use there, if he lets you in from the rain.  The operating system destroys all others and is in a constant state of 192 'undates' that load all day and reconfigure to scratch overnight - wait up - that's Windows 10 and already here with weather even the dogs won't go out in.

Linux.

[archytas]

Good things happen in cellars, other than than Bulgarian hooch making.  One might think of Allan in a film Tony would have done a better job on - "Degenerate Art" - not for the faint of heart by the sounds of it, but actually about glass blowing.  I had a look through Vodlocker at Primewireunblocked

I could imagine Allan and Tony in the cellar opening, perhaps with the sounds of breaking glass suggesting Gabby in the background.

[archytas]

And thinking about the G-girl's very good point that Al's siggy sounds like we are out doing the stuff he protests, I have to say the noble savage is a myth and primitives of the world until yesterday, like Jihadi Yobsil and soccer players out on the drunken pull need the message.

[allan...@gmail.com]

Oddly the greatest majority are unaffected.  It id directed directly at those whose religious dogma and doctrine say it is okay if you murder rape enslave or harm others..
I am not alone is saying that the greatest majority of religions say it is morally wrong. Our laws in the western world say those acts are morally wrong.. when you look at it is just a reminder of what has been agreed on over the ages..
When i hear people saying it stinks  leaves me wondering just where their morality lies?

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Do not murder, rape, enslave or harm others

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[allan...@gmail.com]

Luud and i were discussing the television content..  it seems we are indoctrinating people that violence is thevaccepted morality. . An anything goes scenario

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[gabbydott]

I love you too, fear me not.

God's Mama

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[facilitator]

If we be evolved, then morality is a hindrance.

[archytas]

I know and appreciate Gabby.  I am currently considering a morality 4 billion years into the evolution of civilisation.

[allan...@gmail.com]

That isea is being proved wrong daily..  unless you are saying we need to evolve.

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[allan...@gmail.com]

Are you saying you are a athiest?

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[archytas]

Rumours that Gabby was launched upon us by N Korea are unfounded Allan.

[allan...@gmail.com]

No No No not north korean, Jupiterian ..  she can not be god's mama or the simple reason Gabby is a German Jupiterian and everýone knows God is Irish.

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لا القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد أو إيذاء الآخرين
Do not murder, rape, enslave or harm others

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[archytas]

Isn't Jupiter the big brother of Mars, god of war?  On the grounds anything makes sense in Irosh - I interpret the lady as Lutheran Rainbow Warrior with my universal translator switched to sweet emulation and Tony's override setting of 'we all get it wrong'.

[allan...@gmail.com]

You are right, you are right you ate absolutely right.

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[archytas]

I would, of course, fight for Gabby's right to be Gabby in her own terms, though I'm not sure any of us knows what this is in respect of ourselves.  Here one can raise stereotyping projections to laugh them away.  Most people seem to cling to them as fair interpretations justifying the self-snark of righteousness, inner light and other claptrap.  I think Gabby gives us the odd glimpse of this amidst our chattering-class gossip.  There is redundant tautology in your sig line after all Allan, the first two admonishers merely cases of the last.  One might, in thinking on do no harm, wonder on the case of negligent omission.  One harms the Chinese workers who made it for $5 everytime one lifts an i-Phone to ones lips.  Some poor soul probably died in a landslide getting the tin in our computers.  Where Gabby asserts your siggy pre-contains the idea we might be going about doing the evil, I would say we all create the conditions of existence for the foul acts in daily negligence about others.  We don't turn the other cheek, but rather look with Magpies' eyes for the glint of selfish pleasure, even if some find it in the glorious light of ignoring other's misery in achieving mastery of self.

PS

Now you know I am absolutely right, you can follow me anywhere.  But fear not, I know nothing other than a few things like being less fallible than the Pope, so we'll be lucky if we can get on the right tram to progress the inevitable world domination following discovery of the absolute. 

[allan...@gmail.com]

Actually yes, paying the Chinese worker $5 to make the iphone so you can make greater profit  does do great harm.. as does the mining of tin from the oceans.

You are right the word harm does get off target.  . Getting away from the original objective

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لا القتل، والاغتصاب أو استعباد الآخرين
Do not murder,  rape or enslave others

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[archytas]

Writing block may not be writer's block in the individualist sense at all.  We may be collectively preventing widespread means of expression, a bit like insect shrieks and 'hygiene' in the hive.

[Molly]

I''ve often considered national or world wide protest movements as waves of collective expression.  More and more, the cause seems secondary to the expression of outrage.

[gabbydott]

Cause and effect shouldn't matter to a detached mind. The onelies* power is YOUR power.

*only/ onliest (superlative)/ one lie 

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[gabbydott]

Enjoy your state(us). Only a flying imagery would suit better. :)

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[allan...@gmail.com]

Right on...

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[archytas]

Soldering iron to brain circuits here.  Gewowser, rationality meltdown bliss.  Bender floored by Gabbybot.

Quite what is flying in mass protest I'm never sure.  Those found dead with police or gangster bullets in them seem more innocent in Mexico than here, Germany or the US, though we clearly have 'overkill'.  A non-black guy was shot by cops up the road last year and no one seems to riot - or even be interested in the long story of police corruption involved, dating back to when the last gang-boss was shot in bed, probably in a corrupt cop inspired hit.  The scam involves selling (officially losing) lists of police drug informers to drug pushers so they can organise retribution, increased sales and monopoly pricing.  Back in the day the detective could keep these 'lists' in her head.  Now they are written down into unencrypted lists to prevent police corruption, left in wallets near open windows and keys to a getaway car or sold by the guy with access to the computer.  It was so much better when you could go to a baron, mention the heat was on one's lack of arrest record and make oneself look good visiting the dozen addresses he gave you to pull some competition and minions.  As long as one avoided the cheap suits and young girls on offer, the baron could get a tug without exposing half the drug squad to retribution at his trial.  Resistance to cheap suits, pimped girls and even replated stolen BMWs seems rather low these days, so the odd baron has to be bumped off.  One could once set up a putative baron to do the dirty work, but increasingly uniform cops can be ramped up to do this as a public service issue.  It's all noble cause and without the trillion dollar global trade the sky would fall.  The odd cop who failed to protect his back with lists on the activities of others is sacrificed to jail time.  Obviously, as Gabby will know, I kept photographs of all the players in the professional standards department (internal affairs) in order to keep clean.  I must have passed my techniques on, as all the brothels, drug dens and gangs from 30 years ago are still in operation.  No one riots about this, though there is an old guy who writes letters complaining about one of the brothels to the chief inspector taking the skim.  These days the brothel is legal and all one does for the skim is rewrite any unseemly conduct in its vicinity to 'no crime'.  All legal and above board:

http://www.sandyssuperstars.com/

This is the world in which we invade Afghanistan to prevent drug trade that strangely gets much bigger and Elliot Ness just another crook who made a good deal on the television rights.  The moral high ground can only be occupied safely with a wallet full of photographs, though one soon finds there is no access to this world through honesty.  No one trusts the honest guy, for without photographs one can trust no one.

I'd like a different world.  Whip one up Gabby.  For those wondering, the brothel charges are £180 an hour.  The street used to be full of old Jewish shops and something of a treat to walk as a kid.  I can't think of any reason to go these days, except to meet the old guy protesting with his sandwich board.  Cops are threatening to arrest him.  I may go and join him today and hang my head in shame.

[allan...@gmail.com]

the white minority does not have getto mentality   except for rednecks ..   and other white minorities .. according to the KKK somethings just need killing. (movie line)


Maybe i need a sandwich board.. hmm where to go.

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[archytas]

Letting the dirty work get done by others is a feature of our societies.  We all live on top of it.  Noble cause is an easy mind set to get stuck in.  The obvious cases like Isil are very easy to spot and the neo-cons are actually in print about it.  The noble cause cops of my day all thought they were doing good, including the one with the rhino tailed whip in Leeds.  All I really noticed was how rarely we seemed to be doing anything worthwhile.  It's now obvious we were not protecting kids from paedophile and other exploitation, and letting the Mafia take over business.  Most cops these days can't even sort out antisocial matters and some are solving crimes I was told to leave alone 30 years ago.

The guy with the sandwich board was nice, knowing his protest utterly futile.  I took a flask and we shared some coffee.  Xmas is peak time for brothels he says.  The street is bleak now, with no sign of anything I would call life.  I though Tony must have been, as the arthropods are doing well, though on reflection nothing as nutritious as an apple core was in sight.  Various fast food outlets sell stuff so inedible it is thrown directly to the ants.