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morningstarMorning.Star 01/30/2018 at 10:352 Comments

Still nothing. You guys are journalists, right? ;-p

Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone home?
Come on now
I hear you're feeling down
Well I can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again

Relax
I'll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?


There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb

Waters et al, Pink Floyd's The Wall


Years ago I showed my work to a psychiatrist, he told me I was DaVinci and threw me out with the instructions,

"Get your daughter out of care and take over the world with your robots."

Who's mad, me or him? I thought. Megalomania, and I'd be right back in here in two seconds flat with a genuine reason. But, no psychiatrist worth his salt would try such a lowbrow trick with an intelligent man. Besides, he did level with me and say I was smarter and saner than he, and I'd hate him for it. He was wrong about that tho. I hate no-one...

I have grown comfortable with what I am, and responsibly decided the planet is a ball of monkey poo and not worth dominating anyway. I do despise the despicable though. Politicians like May and her cronies who really do seem to have it in for everyone except themselves. Boris is of course just an idiot, and envisioning myself among these greedy and poorly educated fops just makes me laugh.

I dream of riches like any man, but behave like that to acquire it? No, I am not maladjusted either, and I have Bea to consider or I would work to acquire the power to change it myself.

In the meantime, I should throw away the opportunity to be recognised, respected, rewarded for what I am? Because a round of applause or taking the piss isnt close, and being ignored is just insulting.

Gratitude must be shown here to those who do support me. Mark, of course, who contributes directly, and Sophi I know did some fairly extensive personal promotion, Ars and the ZeroPhone crew, followers, friends, critics, and an unknown but equally important amount of people who folded an Origami star or did something creative because of me.

Thats why I came, and why I stayed. Not to take over the world, not to entertain it, not to clean it up, and not teach it [a lesson...]. I am an example of what a human can be if they put their minds to it. I learned all this, so can anyone... All it takes is to find the truth in something and its yours.

I am however at pains as to "What the actual fuck is wrong with you people?". You guys see it, right? A couple hundred thousand nerds and more... Among several billion who dont, led by a handful of total dicks. I pity this planet, I dont hate it, nor do I pity myself.


I wrote to The Morning Star first, out of courtesy.

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Ulysse wrote 02/01/2018 at 10:13 point

<Comfortably Numb>, my top tracks playlist

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Morning.Star wrote 02/02/2018 at 10:29 point

:-) One of the best ever, IMO. Their first album came out the year I was born, made me a lifetime fan although I didnt know it until I was a teenager and heard this track.

Arnold Layne's video was filmed on the beach a few miles from where I live too. :-D

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