but I refuse to believe that because evil and hypocrisy exist, that nothing good can be accomplished.

a nation of finks.

This isn't mere sarcasm, it's prophetic eschatology, the "praise" of an angry seer awaiting the crushing footfall of an angry god.

What Burroughs says isn't intended to rouse Reagan's nation to righteousness. It's the funereal drumbeat before the execution.

There are things he speaks of that cannot be reversed. We can stop genocidal wars, we can stop police state cruelty against our own, we can stop letting the wealth of the world be vacuumed up by the greediest 100 pigs on the planet. But we have already ruined the ecology of the planet and I'm afraid it's too late to reverse the process. And with the weaponry -- biological, chemical, and nuclear -- that we have created and that is finding its way into the arms of insane people, we may extinguish ourselves before we extinguish the climate.

in the Dead Land.

He's a cherished poet. Getting us to think and laugh upon some of the idiocies.

Thanks for sharing this Tace. I had never heard it before. Hope you enjoy a wonderful day!

... he was a brilliant wordsmith and incredibly insightful. My first taste, if you will excuse the phrase, was The Naked Lunch. I would read a paragraph or two and have to put the book down, absolutely stunned and dazzled. He really shows the power of the word.

I have a couple of excellent recordings of his on CD; his Thanksgiving Prayer is featured every year for me.

Also the Ron Cobb cartoon on Thanksgiving showing the white american family saying grace and you can see skeletons of First Americans in the ground beneath them. Classic. I send that cartoon to my whole family every year. It speaks for me. And so does Burroughs.