10 Reasons Why America’s (And ALL The Americas Out There) Always Sucked

+ Some Things Matter

1. Illness / Puritanism

Early settlers with money were religious extremists the King was happy to get rid of. They made the rules, admin’d the place and have held on to that. And that is why tits are forbidden. Problems in foundations can be a problem (and it’s not just the field of tits that’s affected).

2. __*ism, ___phobia*

Self-explanatory (America will never right these wrongs, purple i-Phones cement the whole—Africa in particular stands for a laissez-faire, nature, an intimacy, dance — American fiber detests the idea of touching that).

Persons afraid talk about Enlightenment all day long.

3. Puritanical Right to Love Money

Americans are free to engage in commercial activity. Nothing else in America is free. Freedom to buy and sell is lame.

4. Culture is a Product (Culture in America Resides Underground)

Art is actually something. Your IG account and objectives and website are nice, but that’s business admin, not art. And art matters. America’s system hates art. Poe, for example, was a one-person Renaissance, who died in his shit, because he was good. America hated him till he drew his last breath. Creative processes in America sur-vive (breed and breathe secretly, in spite of commercial life’s hatred of them).

5. Lying (Self-Deception)

Lying to oneself is sad. 1845 also marked the time, more or less, when Thoreau wrote Walden. Mock him all you want, everybody’s obsession with a mortgage and a house too big, and a job despised and so on, made the guy want to go live in the forest. There never was a Dream.

6. Addiction

More, forever, is thick (dumb + vulgar). No need to explain why too much food is not good. Same for money. Too much is like not enough (simple, no?).

And then, everybody’s on magical medicine of some sort (pharma-salvation of course is a problem…).

7. Lack of Intelligence

Americans aren’t stupid. People are people. But if thickness is something you’re going to celebrate…

Buffer, the UFC guy — what he does — bending over he’s so out-of-control shredding his vocal cords, sometimes gets to me a little… The humans in that cage are already going to try and kill each other.

You can’t super kill someone.

8. Killing and Wisdom Can’t Coexist

Arbusto once said he thought fish and people could coexist. He was right. But you can’t grow old while throwing your weight around, right and left. Old people get beat up.

9. Capitalism and Communism Don’t Work

People are people. They cheat. Rigged Capitalism is just a rigged something. Clean Communism never existed. Same for Capitalism. OPEC sets its own prices (so that’s not Capitalism) — the first obvious example that comes to mind.

10. For now that’s it. We got to 9. Probably says something nice about the USA.

a painting

Planets Stars and Galaxies (Rocks for Jocks) used to be (still is?) an attendance-optional class given at McGill. 100% ‘final’.

I passed with a D minus.

On her deathbed, my grandmother, Valeria (Valika), came to.

Robert, she said, remember what matters.