Tim Barrus: Blood in the Water

Sex was once considered to be a political act. Birth control was up for grabs, and birth control is still up for grabs. I remember – those times – when old white men called the shots because they could. The Supreme Court went for guns. Do you think, they won’t go for pills. I remember when the Culture War Politik wasn’t ready for the kind of secular Catholicism JFK carried with him to the White House. Too progressive for the elderly justice. Old Men Fight. What is your purpose in life. Why are you here. Why is it so hard for us to recognize and remember evil when it’s not juxtaposed against what we conclude is good. Politik is economic. Politik is judgement. Politik is Some Of Us Regret Being Born. There is an insinuation that you have created a culture we do not desire to be a part of. You failed. Being here is required because we need slaves. The next Supreme Court justice should be a communist. Who among you has read Karl Marx. I thought so. I remember reading it in a library in another town, because my town, did not know who Karl Marx was. Let alone how economics in an auto-manufacturing hub in Michigan, would have nothing to do with their ruined lives that broke them. They are testing the Ogallala for blood. Capitalism is what moves the plate tectonics. It moves around because it moves around. Not to embrace. But to resist. The physics of ancient warlords and their ships, filled with Yersinia Pestis and the bubonic plague, are upheavals, too. All brought to you by…