wow... brain...................shit.

i always end up saying something that someone doesnt like, so i suppose i will do that again.

OF COURSE the new strain of HIV is existential-related.

doesnt it have something to do w/ existence??

howsabout those choices??

if i remember correctly, & i think i do, if one hones existentialism down the its very boniest bones, it is about how nothihg much matters beyohnd the choices one makes, b/c very little matters anyway, or at least very little major matters that can be easily considered controlled by what has been corrupted into the words "higher power."

to make our own choices of existence would no more dis-include choosing -not- to pass on a potentially horrible strain of a potentially horrible disease any more than it would dis-include going out to get the paper & getting hit by a milk truck.

in some ways it goes back to sartres pre-stalin marxism & how "choices" (to be a communist, then) meant something different than a choice to be a communist now, but it is almost 3am & i am always in the process of having some horrible thing done to me or recovering from it or its aftermath & i dont feel up to discussing that at the moment, although, you betcha, i could.

there is more to existentialism then just parading around on some campus belaboring points of bataille (postpost) et michel leiris or whoever is current now, in terms of what came before & how silly what preceded the current colloquium of thought may actually be --but probably isnt.

there comes a point where discussion must turn into action, oh yes it must, or eles one ends up just where we are now, w/ a monkey controlling all of the western & most of the eastern & many of the places in between of the known world.

& one of that very serious ports of discussion into action comes w/ doing ones best not to spread horrible virusii that kill people in more than unpleasant ways; those of us that know nobody who has succummed might be more than unwilling to get an earful from me, who would be more than happy to provide it.

nonsense about toilets i could live w/o.

trivia does not tingle my dingle, as they once said. especially trivia meant to shock the rather unshockable. live thru life & listening to words just becomes irritating.