Date: July 7, 2005 2:34:50 PM PDT
Subject: UP! NO EMERGENCY // july 7. 05
TURN ON COMPUTER // TUNE IN TO FREED SPIRIT OF INTERNET
// TAKE OVER!
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u cant understand the world without innerstanding yourself
UP! NO EMERGENCY// july 7, 2005
OR NOT MUCH MORE THAN USUAL
la- la- la- lap-toppling da system!
u cant innerstand yourself without understanding the world
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london
am all right am all right (and everyone I know too)
thanks for all the worried emails
but am totally all right :)
amazingly enough, and unusually, i actually walked through kings cross tunnel yesterday (one of the bomm sites) on my way back from a dental appointment - less than 12 hours before.
so the iraq war finally reaches britain surprise surprise in fact nobody is surprised, especially not the politicians & security forces who've been warning us about its inevitability for months.
so how does it affect me to be that close? not that much. even walking past the exact spot in the same 24 hour period the odds were still 288:1 against getting hit. i just walked my dog as usual in the local park. (except theyd closed it! turned out the council had so decided in order that staff could get home. hmm. don't we need parks more than ever on such a terrible day? bet u it was a union ultimatum :))
what strikes me most is that, despite scores of ordinary people and even victims being asked their reactions, i have seen nobody fulminating against the arabs (except our professional politicians of course, whose asses are on the line.) but it's like everyone knew it was coming one day, and knew exactly why. after all, we've been watching nearly as many die every single day in iraq on our tv sets for months, so it's even embarrassing (for us brits) to make too much fuss when a stray bomm lands in london.
and how are we, after all, to respond? by dubbling the bomming of iraqis? hardly. (but probably).
so this is my message from ground zero of the latest "terrorist attacks," and it would be EVEN LOUDER if i'd lost half my family and both my legs:
AMERICAN TROOPS & SNOOPS OUT OF BRITAIN.
(and "presidents"). AND AMERICAN AND BRITISH TROOPS & COUPS OUT OF THE MUDDLE EAST (u like that?).
oh and the olympics? have we signed the contract yet? today's newspaper is headlined LONDON'S DAY OF GOLD. well, it'll be DAY OF BLACK tomorrow, and they've just been guaranteed to bankrupt our city - and make life here an absolute security nightmare.
and the makepovertyhistory? well, you're finally moving SLIGHTLY towards returning our world to a fairer place. FER GODDESS' SAKE GET MOVING MUCH MUCH FASTER!!!
UP! UP! UP! UP! UP! UP! UP! UP! UP! UP! UP! UP! UP! UP! UP! UP! UP! UP!
my own biggest decision is whether to go ahead and publish 'Monkey's Marvelous Trip From The African Jungle To Inner & Outer Space' tonight as i'd planned. it seems to be speaking of a different world from the one we're actually living in. and yet&. that's exactly the point. we MUST move into a totally different world soon or perish together.
there are 2 ways to change the world. one is incrementally, changing one detail after another, and hoping for a good dose of synergy. the other is to try to deepen and accelerate the Spirit of the Times, from whence everything else will inevitably follow. thats what Monkey is about.
look in your in-box tonight :)
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