Tuesday, August 05, 2025

the misanthropist

 Trump posts bloodied teen photo in drastic call to 'lock up' 14-year-olds

Story by Sarah K.
President Donald Trump went off on a rant, attacking Washington, D.C., as "out of control" with local "youths." To solve the crime problem, Trump wants to begin charging 14-year-olds as adults.
Taking to his Truth Social platform on Tuesday, Trump said gang members are "randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released."
"The Law in D.C. must be changed to prosecute these 'minors' as adults, and lock them up for a long time, starting at age 14," said Trump.
Trump included a photo of a young man covered in blood, whom Trump claims was "beaten mercilessly by local thugs." According to a CBS News reporter, Trump later revealed that the man who was beaten was an employee of DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency formed and run in part by tech billionaire Elon Musk.
"Washington, D.C., must be safe, clean, and beautiful for all Americans and, importantly, for the World to see," said Trump. "If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City, and run this City how it should be run, and put criminals on notice that they’re not going to get away with it anymore."
Trump called the picture an example of an "incredible young man."
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(Truth Social post) Trump:
Crime in Washington, D.C., is totally out of control. Local “youths” and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16-years-old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released. They are not afraid of Law Enforcement because they know nothing ever happens to them, but it’s going to happen now! The Law in D.C. must be changed to prosecute these “minors” as adults, and lock them up for a long time, starting at age 14. The most recent victim was beaten mercilessly by local thugs. Washington, D.C., must be safe, clean, and beautiful for all Americans and, importantly, for the World to see. If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City, and run this City how it should be run, and put criminals on notice that they’re not going to get away with it anymore. Perhaps it should have been done a long time ago, then this incredible young man, and so many others, would not have had to go through the horrors of Violent Crime. If this continues, I am going to exert my powers, and FEDERALIZE this City. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Monday, August 04, 2025

Purging the body :: Poetic wager vs poetic fantasy

 “They don’t teach literature any more for the most part. They teach ideology of one sort or another.”


— Harold Bloom





In bringing about a radical change in the human being, in you, you are naturally bringing about a radical change in the structure and the nature of society. I think it must be very clearly understood, that the human mind, with all its complexity, its intricate work, is part of this external world.
Krishnamurti Most of us try to carve out a private life of our own, a life in which we can be happy and peaceful and yet live with the things of this world. We seem to think that the daily life we lead is separate from the outer world.


If it weren't for constant dreaming, living in a perpetual alienation, I would be happily able to call myself a realist, that is, an individual for whom the external world is an independent / nation /. But I prefer not to call myself anything, to be who I am with a / certain / obscurity and to have with myself the malice of not knowing how to forsee myself.
I have a kind of obligation to dream forever; therefore, since I am nothing more and don't want to be more than a spectator of myself, I have to have the best spectacle I can.
So I make myself out of gold and silks, in false halls, false stage, ancient scenery, a dream created amid plays of soft light and invisible music.
-Fernando Pessoa
In my ignoble and profound soul, I register, day by day, the impressions that form the external substance of my self-awareness.
-Fernando Pessoa

I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my internal promises. I always enjoyed, as if I were another, a stranger, the defeats of my divagations, accidental witness to what I thought I was.
I never gave credence to that I which I believed.
I filled my hands with sand, I cleaned it gold, and emptied my hands of all of it. The sentence was my only truth. With the sentence said, everything was done; the rest was the sand as it always was.
-Fernando Pessoa
I envy everyone because they aren't me. Since of all impossible things, this one seemed the most impossible, it was the one that constituted my daily anxiety, the despair of all my sad hours.
-Fernando Pessoa
Fiction accompanies me like my own shadow. And what I want to do is sleep.
-Fernando Pessoa
Some say that without hope life is impossible, others that even with hope life is empty. As far as I'm concerned, since today I neither hope nor despair, hope is a simple outdoor picture that includes me, and I attend it, as if it were a play without a plot made only to amuse the eyes - a dance without connection, a shaking of leaves in the wind, clouds in which the sunlight changes colors, old strolls through streets at dusk in strange parts of the city.
-Fernando Pessoa

I became like a character in a book, a read life. What I feel is (without my wanting it so) felt so that it can be written. What I think, therefore, I think in words mixed with images that undo my thoughts, which are open in rhythms that are just something else.
I've put myself back together so many times that I've destroyed myself. I've thought myself so many times that by now I am my thoughts and not myself.
I plumbed my depths and dropped the plumb; I live wondering if I'm deep or not, without another plumb now that my eyes show me, from white to black in the mirror of the high well, my own face that contemplates me contemplating it.
-Fernando Pessoa I am not sure how to buy that. Anger turned inward can be destructive if you choose not to express it or manifest it in its truest form. - Marco Almeida
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I am not here to inform anyone for their amusement, especially when the only purpose would be to bury me. I prefer to be an unfettered individual than one stuck in their momentary relapses of judgment. - Marco Almeida

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I talk because I refuse to be obliged by anyone off of social media. I have no idea how much simpler to make it before assholes ruin it. -Marco Almeida -----------------
I prefer to be a write-off in the minds of a mediocre majority than to be sought of from that. - Marco Almeida

I used to play the "everybody likes me" routine blindly. Now I read right through that garbage on twitter and in real life. I am not an unapproachable human being beyond the reproach of a respectable / reputable person who strives to be alive.
I am not one to break rules, and not one to learn what they are either. It means my sense of freedom is transparent. As it should be.
My heart is bigger than my mouth which also means to put your efforts with what you say and do in a very personal yet considerate manner. - Marco Almeida I absolutely hate that creepy vibe girls automatically assert to men as her only defense mechanism, are the same ones who want validation.
Honesty is the act of stating your mind and knowing that your unadulterated habits entertain even the most ignorant fool.
"One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great and individual men."
-- Oscar Wilde I have never given an impression that such is myself so falsely related, or so painfully obvious it makes me, I then liberate from. Marco Almeida
It's weird really - when people want you to act like you don't already know more than they themselves. So very weird.
“Character is long-standing habit.”
Plutarch


Sunday, August 03, 2025

The Good

 I don't know what sharing good news is, but I am here too.

I am not disillusioned for stating what I have been aware of for some time. (If it means what I say it means.) The interpretation is not up to me.
I've decided that all actors in this city never had the back of anyone other than their own self interest.
And because of this, what this has involved is a rapid growth and transformation into unlearning the more mortal I've become.
Winnipeg actors (most I've encountered) don't have my back - and I won't have theirs. Either way -
Even though I've got nowhere with acting in this city, I consider myself more of an artist now than I ever veered in the past.
The truth about me is that I am as an intense individual as the artist I know I care to be. I am not only a measure of these things. I am an avantgarde, a poet, a philosopher. . .
The thing is I never planned to be this way. None of it has come premeditated. I just worked at it.
And I have had it with the obscurity of others. Obscurity - in the sense I don't measure to those things I am. I don't care for the validation.
What I care about is the whispers that echo in the wind. . . much like Hamlet - I listen to what others might think of as unclear to themselves. But the message that the wind carries - is decoded in my brain. The mind I have developed does not lie. It never has.
This goes for the behind the back, double crossing, double standard (hypocrisy) that most people talk. They speak about things they have no idea of.
I am going to say it.
If it reinstates the risk of being held as some sort of mental patient, sobeit.
I am sick of this cities acting community. I need to do this.
You can all talk a big game but you can't foresee the reality of your own flaws - or - your inhibitions are false. Therefore, those live a lie just to be actors, only to shit talk about what is in that circle. Only do damage - the same lack of respect they have for no better cause or credibility to speak for.
I have witnessed all of it.
You can talk all you want - you can label me all you want. But you won't win.
I am going to keep at this. My theories are part of the picture. You rather not fit into the same orbit. Which means my internal clock is different. My wage as an artist you don't just find at the casino.
Consciously, I am as good as it gets in Winnipeg. As far as I can tell.
I know the difference. It's this ::
I will never blame myself. I am through with that.
What goes around comes around. I will not give up my dreams.
[]Despite what so many of those think as not of this world is made[].
My dream was to be an actor - but far far from what actors are. My idea was to make myself into a Canadian philosopher plotting the thoughts of a poet.
It's happening whether you like it or not.
I have never been more determined on account of these words. IT won't end - never.
-Marco ===============

“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” Plutarch

“To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.” Plutarch

Today I have ever discovered by processes of infiltration of which I know nothing that I still have in the caves of my soul, audible if someone opens the downstairs door, the repeated scales, played by the girl who today is a different woman, or dead, or locked in a white place where the black cypresses turn green.
I weep because everything, (my) childhood along with it, becomes lost. It is the abstract flight of time, not the concrete flight of time - which is mine, which pains me in my physical brain for the repeated, involuntary recurrence of the piano scales upstairs, terribly anonymous and distant.
It's all the mystery in the fact that nothing lasts in the absurd depth of my memory, which repeatedly hammers out things that do. It manages to become music, but which are nostalgia.
I suppose, nevertheless, that I'm being metaphoric in all this, that the nostalgia I feel is not really mine, not really abstract, but the intercepted emotion of some unknown third person, to whom these emotions, which are in me literary, were - as Vieira would say - literal.
It is in my supposition that I feel that I am sorrowful and anguished, and the nostalgia, the sensation of which dizzies my eyes, well, it is through imagination and otherness that I think and feel it.
-Fernando Pessoa
Should I someday by chance have a solidly secure life and can freely write and publish, I know I'll be nostalgic for this uncertain life in which I barely write and do not publish.
I'll be nostalgic, not only because this frustrating life has passed away and is life I will never have ever again, but because it is a particular pleasure, and when it passes into another life, even if that new life is better, that particular pleasure is less joyous, that special quality is less good, it ceases to exist, and there is an absence.
I am nostalgic about the hypothesis of being able one day to be nostalgic, even if that nostalgia is absurd.
I'm almost asking whatever gods there are to keep me here, as if I were in a coffer, defending me from the bitterness and also the happiness of life.
-Fernando Pessoa
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Everything that is not part of my soul is for me, or matter how much I wish it or do not wish it to be so, nothing more than scenery and decoration.
A man, even though I can recognize by his thoughts that he is a living being as I am, always has - because of what is in me that is involuntary and truly my own self - less importance than a tree, if the tree is more beautiful.
For that reason, I always feel human events - the great collective tragedies of history or what people make of history - are like colored friezes, empty of the soul of those who pass by in them.
(... It always saddens me to admit there might be sincerity in collective things, seeing that it I the individual in isolation who is the only being who feels.)
Those who truly suffer do not form mobs, they don't gather together.
He who suffers suffers alone.
What a bad group: what a lack of humanity and pain! They were real and yet incredible. No one could make a scene in a novel or a descriptive passage out of them. They flowed by like garbage in a river, the river of life. After seeing them I felt sleepy, nauseated, and supreme.
-Fernando Pessoa -----------------------------

The irony about American Mavericks is that I can speak the truth in relation to the 🇺🇸 in a personal manner. But if it in any way offends them it means I am anti American and I must be stopped. I am pro immigration, pro gun laws, and anti conservative. Yet I pose as a threat.
The truth is any good natured person should have their sovereignty granted to them not vilified for their own sake of seeking asylum at 🇺🇸 borders. When you enter the US today it's either you are or you aren't American so enable themselves as victims of automatic impropriety.

Principle for freedom

 






The destiny of not being able to desire without knowing that I shall have to not-have has persecuted me like a malignant being. If I see a nubile young girl's face, no matter how indifferent it may be, I have only a moment to imagine what it would be like if she were mine because it always happens that ten steps from my dream the girl meets the man I can see is her husband or lover. A romantic would make a tragedy out of this; a stranger would sense it to be a comedy: I, however, mix the two things, since I am romantic in myself and strange to myself, and I turn the page to get to yet another irony.
-Fernando Pessoa

Ironic spectator of myself, I still haven't lost the courage to witness life. And since I know, today, in advance of every vague hope, that it will be disillusioned, I suffer the special pleasure of enjoying my disillusion with my hope, like a bitter with a sweet that turns the sweet against the bitter.
I am a somber strategist, who, having lost all battles, is already sketching out on his pad, and enjoying the plan, the details of his fatal retreat, on the evening before each new battle he fights.
-Fernando Pessoa ==============

I am taking Pessoa more and more seriously by each word every sentence at face value, on a sociological and social scientific level. This man has changed my entire perception of life and my own individuality. - Marco Almeida August 3, 2017 ================

Fernando Pessoa speaking of subject re; nothingness / that nothing can exist in that we know nothing. Pessoa states: the ceasing to exist of something that in no way can exist. - Marco Almeida
This follows...
It sometimes happens - and it always happens to me in a single rush - that in the midst of my sensations there arises within me a tiredness of life so terrible I can't even formulate a hypothesis for some action that might dominate it.
As a remedy to this situation, suicide seems uncertain; death, even supposing it even entailed a loss of awareness, is still not absolute. This fatigue does not inspire ceasing to exist - which may or may not be possible - but something much more horrible and profound...
I think I occasionally glimpse something of this ambition, which is more negative than nothingness. But either those speculations lack the sharpness of sensation to be able to tell what they think or they lack the acuity of thought to feel what they feel I that way. The fact is that I think I'm the first to put into words the sinister absurdity of this sensation for which there is no cure.
I cure it by writing it down. Yes, there is no desolation - if it is really profound and not just pure emotion - without the intelligence having some part in it it, for which there exists the ironic remedy of saying it doesn't exist.
I literature had no other purpose, it would have thus one, if only for a few people.
-Fernando Pessoa



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It sometimes happens - and it always happens to me in a single rush - that in the midst of my sensations there arises within me a tiredness of life so terrible I can't even formulate a hypothesis for some action that might dominate it.
-Fernando Pessoa ============


“All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark”
Richard Rorty
Sometimes I think about how beautiful it would be to be able, my dreams, to create myself a continuous life, succeeding itself, within the flow of entire days, with imaginary guests, with created people, and go along living, suffering, enjoying that false life. There I would suffer disasters; great joys would shower on me. And nothing of me would be real. But it would all have a proud, serious logic, all of it according to a rhythm of voluptuous falsity, all of it taking place on a city made from my soul, lost up to the platform alongside a calm train, very far within me, very far.... And all dear, inevitable, as in exterior life, but the aesthetics of the Death of the Sun.
-Fernando Pessoa
I myself do not know if this I that I reveal to you in these serpentine pages really exists or if it is only an aesthetic, false conceit that I made of myself. Yes, that's the way things are. I live myself aesthetically in another. I sculpted my life like a statue made of material different from my being. Sometimes I do not recognize myself, so external am I to myself and in so purely artistic a fashion did I use my awareness of myself. Who am I behind this unreality? I don't know. I must be someone. And if I do not seek to live - act, or feel, it is - believe me - so that I don't distort the established lines of my false personality.
I want to be a work of art, at least of the soul, since I cannot be one of the body. For that reason I sculpted myself in a calm and madness and I put myself in a kiln, far from the fresh air and honest lights - where my artificiality, an absurd flower, can flourish in distant beauty.
-Fernando Pessoa

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Socrates: The holy has been acknowledged by us to be loved of God because it is holy, not to be holy because it is loved (Euthyphro)

Breathing apparatus

 You see when you seek out silence you are creating disorder. And that disorder you call silence. Order is born out of... it comes into being when disorder ends. Right? To find out disorder first, not seek order, why our lives are in disorder, and to go into it, find out, and so on. When there is that comprehension completely of disorder there is naturally order. Now when you don't separate sound from silence there is order, complete order - like the universe, it is everlastingly in order - sun rising, sun setting, the stars, the beauty of a new moon, the full moon, the whole universe is in order, it is only human beings who are in disorder because they have lost their relationship with nature, they have no beauty. You understand?⁠

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So the end of the matter is when there is no self, self-centredness, there is something which is totally orderly and that order is silence and sound, and then there is that thing that man has sought, which is timeless. Unless you do this, all that is verbal nonsense. Unless you put your mind and heart to understand your own life, why you live this way, why you have to go to the office day after day, why you have to quarrel with your wife and husband, the jealousy. All that destroys love, and without love there is no order. And where there is love there is compassion. And where there is compassion there is supreme intelligence. Not the artificial intelligence of a computer, nor the artificial intelligence or powerful intelligence of thought. But when there is that quality of the brain, which has understood the whole business of conditioning and is free, and silence is part of that enormous sound of the universe, and where there is the end of sorrow, there is passion. Compassion is that passion, and it is that intelligence, and then beyond that there is total nothingness.⁠

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J. Krishnamurti⁠

Public Talk 4 Madras (Chennai), India - 06 January 1985⁠

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Theoretic karma

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Obscurity of capitalist thought & its decadence

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