The ancestors hate you. Caveman great grandpa x 100 says "When I was your age, I'd already killed a dozen men for their flocks of sheep." Victorian grandpa says, "With so many opportunities for profit, I can't believe you are descended from my loins." Ancient Egyptian grandmother says "You could have married for love, but didn't love anyone? Boo-hoo!" Yes, the ancestors hate you.
Combat Expiration: 12am PST, 5/2/2011
Critique Expiration: 12am PST, 5/4/2011, with a rolling grace period of 24 hours to allow for critique rebuttals.
Bonuses/Penalties: +2 if posted by 6pm PST, 4/29/2011, +1 if posted by 2am PST 4/30/2011, -1 if posted by 6am PST 5/2/2011, -2 if posted by 12pm PST 5/2/2011.
Combatwords, April 22, 2011: Declared and Undeclared Malice
I'm considered a malicious guy and I'm fine with that. My malice is well considered rejectionism. Why not? There are outrages everywhere. Does this mean I have a thin skin, or does it mean that most people have no moral compass? I say it's both. We live in a vile civilization that glamorizes power and yet, isolates us as individuals; thus encouraging people to objectify others. Isn't that fucked up? To seek power over those who appear to be little more than cartoons? Why shouldn't I hate that? And if I choose to be a hater, what's wrong with that? Those who label me thusly, what are you suggesting? That one shouldn't be outraged? That one should just stfu and tend one's garden? I oppose that on principle. Principle: the source and solution of and to my malice. Fucks are deaf and blind to good deeds and appeals for goodness—but by definition, fucks are very sensitive to the malice of others. So I'm proud of my malice. At least I declare it and it's not like I'm a Joan Rivers or Perez Hilton, using my malice against other, basically vapid enterprises. And the worst of course are the malicious who can actually argue with a straight face that they are not acting on hatred, but are rather acting on an impulse of love and compassion. These people should be murdered.
Free-for-all rules apply for this combat, which means if you don't like the main topic, go and riff off another combatant's composition.
Combat Expiration: 12am PST, 4/25/2011
Critique Expiration: 12am PST, 4/27/2011, with a rolling grace period of 24 hours to allow for critique rebuttals.
Bonuses/Penalties: +2 if posted by 6pm PST, 4/22/2011, +1 if posted by 2am PST 4/23/2011, -1 if posted by 6am PST 4/25/2011, -2 if posted by 12pm PST 4/25/2011.
Free-for-all rules apply for this combat, which means if you don't like the main topic, go and riff off another combatant's composition.
Combat Expiration: 12am PST, 4/11/2011
Critique Expiration: 12am PST, 4/13/2011, with a rolling grace period of 24 hours to allow for critique rebuttals.
Bonuses/Penalties: +2 if posted by 6pm PST, 4/8/2011, +1 if posted by 2am PST 4/9/2011, -1 if posted by 6am PST 4/11/2011, -2 if posted by 12pm PST 4/11/2011.
I read somewhere that nostalgia is a weapon. Maybe I inferred that. Does it matter? Think about it: a whimsical craving for the past poisons one's present and makes one vulnerable to appeals to 'return to the past.' Politics is only one angle—art does the same thing. Perhaps they intersect, as Kundera suggested, in the form of kitsch? And if nostalgia is the past and kitsch is the present, then what is the future but fantasy? A realm that never connects to our present—a floating point that is always somewhere beyond the not-quite-obtainable near-future. So even if nobody said nostalgia is a weapon, that's one of my takes on it. You probably have a different one.
Free-for-all rules apply for this combat, which means if you don't like the main topic, go and riff off another combatant's composition.
Combat Expiration: 12am PST, 4/4/2011
Critique Expiration: 12am PST, 4/6/2011, with a rolling grace period of 24 hours to allow for critique rebuttals. Addendum: Based off the LAST critique in the thread.
Bonuses/Penalties: +2 if posted by 6pm PST, 4/1/2011, +1 if posted by 2am PST 4/2/2011, -1 if posted by 6am PST 4/4/2011, -2 if posted by 12pm PST 4/4/2011.
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