Tim Barrus Blog
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Dirt Bike Town: You knew, Baby. You Knew.
The Earth Does Not Know Us
we are too/ numerous/ abundance for whom/ oh, us/ same
old/ same old shit/ here’s what i know so far/
run/ run as fast as you can/ get out while you can/
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Tim Barrus: No Imagination
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-100-days-approval.html#permid=141592235
I am a communist. I like the sense of distance here in terms of stepping back, carefully. The background of the piece is telling me to be very wary because instability is unpredictability. The human brain is a predictability machine. It assesses risk. Here’s one: I predict summer. The…
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Extinction Event
I am a communist. The whole Let’s Have More Babies fetish is a hay ride I cannot jump on. Babies in poverty is so unfair. We are worth more than that. Why is slavery always the answer. Just telling me that humanity will rot doesn’t make it through the filters…
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Tim Barrus: David Brooks Calls For Massive Resistance
I am a communist. Finally, a voice at the New York Times is saying it. A mass civic uprising to overthrow the Deviant. I have one question. Where is Stormy. Where is General Milley. Where is E. Jean Carroll. Where is Liz Cheney. This is the short list. The long…
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Tim Barrus: All Americans Are At Risk
I am a communist. This is the best thing Ezra Klein has done in his career. Some of us have been screaming this stuff from the rooftops. For years and years. No one listened then, and no one is listening now. I always thought there would be a big bang…
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Tim Barrus: Harvard Is a Class Warfare Machine
I am a communist. Class and caste. I feel disoriented reading this. I was not educated at Harvard. I was educated in a grey depressed factory rust-town where the principal would shave your head if your hair touched your ears. That was the focus of education. Your hair and what…
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Tim Barrus: No Safe Zone Underground Bunker
I am kinda stunned. For the last ten years, I have been writing a book about how do homo sapiens build back an entire culture. A bit dystopian, but grounded in reality. Everyone leaves their bunkers at the same time. I am afraid of Americans. I am terrified by Americans.…
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Tim Barrus: Playing In The Rubble
I am a communist. I note that short term pain is code for something is going to be removed. For the disabled, it will mean food. It will mean medications. I know that is not what you want to hear. But the measuring itself is an institution of massive variables.…
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Tim Barrus: Save When By Fits
Controversy is a pathfinder of trouble, and at times in your face honesty, humor, pathos, and willful perplexity the uncertain terrain of life itself that shatters assumptions, unsettles easy presumptions, and yet, while we walk through our day-to-day existence, the sheer gravitas of everything around us in our ordinary vision…
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Tim Barrus: Other Circumstances
I have copyright of this novel. – Tim Barrus