our patronizing revenge against the word

All their lives, they've never learned the good of the written word.

As little children, books were associated with reluctant bedtime; as schoolchildren, boring old coercion. They'd always rather be playing. Pictures always better, moving pictures best of all.

Hard to believe anything good could ever come from writing. Look at the kids that did it too well or too much. Begging for jobs from us now unless they got smart along the way. At least the computer nerds turned out to be useful for making money. Look at the difference between publishing (dead or dying) and tech (unlimited growth) -- much better to pretend that you're a computer guy turned merchant manager salesman investor bully than a book guy turned merchant manager salesman investor bully

Well that's all behind now. They've learned the clever cautions of lip service and (buried grudging) tolerance -- books are like niggers and fags to them. Yeah, sure, we're all friends now. Are they out of range? Cruel laugh...

Look at all of the loser writers, whining about how hard it is. Anyone can do it. I'm sure I could, if I wanted to and had the time. What's the big deal anyway. ___ wrote a book and made money, after all. Marketing sells books, not the shit that's written in them which doesn't matter anyway. Books are like t-shirts and seminars and bumper stickers and plastic toys and cartoon shows and everything else...they're only good if they're bought and sold

they'll pay them back, conscious or unconscious, for all of the old wounds. Forcing them to learn, forcing them to read, forcing them to think about things...pretending those words are worth something that they just can't see, it's all a bluff, teachers and professors and artists all protecting their jobs by being so pompous and mysterious...there's nothing there, and since there's always more of them than ever before and they rule the world they can pay them all back and make sure that everybody knows it

or learns it the hard way

and they've beat their message into a lot of the teacher and professors already, by way of the

real deep true language of the street and the victim and the politics that takes the wind out of your old white sails and says real things that mean something, nothing long or complicated or that a child couldn't understand and okay we'll throw in plenty of nonsense that seems like poetry because that's all it ever was and we can pretend too so there

and the solid righteous pragmatic language of the boardroom and quarterly market report and legal medical useful these things are, unlike your puffed-up nonsense and all of that crap that never made anyone richer or live longer or put hair on my head or a rock in my cock

(and once, long ago when i was smaller, I had a second where I thought the words were becoming something new and strange inside my head and I had to kill it quick it scared me and I won't even let myself remember that now because i was helpless and stupid and small and alone and i'm so much bigger and stronger now and everything makes perfect literal sense or it's meaningless or at least kids stuff not fit for real life adult world)