Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with history
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I am pushing the idea of comments and what does this mean, comments. Gatekeepers are impotent to fight back. So they go subversive. Popeye was right. Spinach and olive oil. Fought off entire armies because he was a strong zealot grouch to the Coliseum with them. The Tigers await. Predation…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
People get wacked out of shape when I articulate the le word: Communist. I am a na ked communist. I once played The piece here is fine. Flashes of brilliance. Even when it sort of plays with the idea that perhaps the founders were – maybe – idealistic, but they…
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Tim Barrus: If Sexuality Were As If
If by what degree history itself represents, mainly motal armies as they sleep. Even their bones come from wounds. I have made mince meat from a strange and bitter world.
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Fire and Dust
I am a communist. We are a patchwork of heritage you would be confused of having lived your entire life as a slave. Okay, let us revisit this history of religion. As it existed in the mirror of backwards how much backward can one go, Prayer. Mutiny. War. The Soldiership.…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
And then he caved. There are many Americans who worship the great cult leader. They claim to know that he will live forever. What does that mean. It means he will be shielded by his guards (and we will pay for it) for a very long time. I predict prison.…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
America loved him. Americans voted for him. America placed their lives in his hands. America saw him as worthy of their hope. He failed. Us. We have no history of ever taking responsibility for what ruinous public policies Stephen Miller has designed. Those designations were never Trump’s ideas alone just…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
First, it was kids in cages. Some died. Of neglect. It was beyond cruel. They were sick yet it was public policy to deny them their parents, to deny them food, to deny them water, to make sure they slept in the concrete floor. It was public policy. We took…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
It is not at all hard to imagine a monarchy. In 1658, Cromwell did it. As both head of state and head of government of the new republican commonwealth. He was the new king who chopped off the head of the old king. There are absolutely no facts to support…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
You are your history. Hitler was not appeased. A unified right wing. Nazi rallies were hypnotic August 1934. intimidation, and fear of the radical communists, bought Hitler a 90 percent electoral majority. Voters loved Hitler. He was the dictator of new normals. During the election, Histler threatened violence against one…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
The End of America, Good Riddance It is too late to save anything. The slaves in most civilizations had nothing of worth to save. The rich will tell you that there must be something wrong with you – you are probably stupid – if you do not save like they…
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Going Rogue
THEANTIFASTORIES every movement needs its heros/ every story in the shelf life of stories can become a legend/ even greece had its gods and sex and there is no god who is without guilt, treason, infidelity, murder, dystopia, and the apocalypse/ conflict, irony, rebellion, war, love, illicit love, a fetish,…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Tom Friedman makes an impassioned case for the keeping of his valued democracy. I, too, wish it had worked out, and that we had valued it over and above our fears, hatreds, and our greed. But it is done. The talking heads, the talking pundits, the talking writers, the talking…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
Apil 12, 1861 was the year the bloodbath began to run. We are going straight hell again. This will at first glance seem uncivil. It is the truth. Complacency is evil. Ideology is camouflage. Public policy is constructed in the face of a pandemic the insular United States confronts with…
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Suicide and Starvation Is the Future
Like a lot of failed writers, I also wrote a book that predicted the future. I was ridiculed as an alarmist. Everything I wrote about has come true. There will be no tomorrow. No horizon. No hope. That book’s name was “Genocide.” Laugh. Ban me. I don’t do science fiction.…
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The Great Suspension of Disbelief
We die alone. What of it. We eat we fuck we joke we play we piss we hate we sing we dance we drink we smoke we tell stories we shit we run we race we love. We try to stay alive. We fail a lot. Whelps. Kingdom of the…
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A Desert of Bones
Tim Barrus: The New York Times I am worried. Elizabeth Warren is far more impressive than I had given her credit for, and she would obviously make a historic president. I did not know she was so physically tiny. That should not matter. But on a stage with the Monstrosity.…