Yes. I've backslid. I've barely cracked open Slavoj Zizek's Parallax View. I have felt rage, fear, outrage, horror, relief, adulation, dismay, depression, camaraderie, and so many other emotions in a short time frame that I have been focusing my attention on my assigned tasks at work, dreams and schemes (a la Ralph Cramden), writing poems, watching copious amounts of low quality t.v. programs, eating junk food and perusing catalogues. All tried and true methods heavily culturally endorsed to keep us hypnotized, anesthetized and otherwise like podlings in Henson's "The Dark Crystal"--drained of our living essence. Okay, except for the writing poems part. In all that escapism the divine Hand tapped me on the shoulder during a not so low quality t.v. program--a revival meeting of sorts--a gathering of radio talk show hosts from am 1090 Seattle http://www.am1090seattle.com at a town meeting in Seattle, Wash. --a place that quickly snaps to my attention that Utah is Bizarro-World--gently I was nudged back to the issues, okay let's call them catastrophes, that concern me. In the televised alternate universe people spoke like the people I talk to in daily life, not in the usual artificiality and propaganda so clogging the air/airwaves. There were soul searching discussions. There were "green party views" and some pragmatism, but mainly there was a problem identifying and addressing approach. I will be checking out their website more often and finding out if there's a way to hear more of their shows.
