Irrational Paranoia!

8. They know I spend all day on ILX and are SPYING ON ME AND LAUGHING

The Doberman will cause an even BIGGER explosion.

No no no the TUBE TRAIN will explode and we'll probably just be crushed under rubble and die slowly and then the rest of the mice will take over.

I am not paranoid about mice taking over though, they'd obviously done that in the KISS FM advert and they looked like they were having a great time.

11 - that I move my mouth when typing.

i found this comment on one of my favorite insane websites. i'm gonna put it here to keep from fucking up the egypt thread

TONIGHT I SPOKE TO THE SMARTEST PERSON I KNOW ABOUT THE LOOMING CRISIS IN EGYPT. SHE IS A SCHOLAR, A WRITER AND A STUDENT OF CHICAGO POLITICS. SHE IS ALSO A CLAIRVOYANT FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN SUCH THINGS. WHAT I CAN TELL YOU FOR SURE IS. SHE KNOWS OBAMA’S EVERY MOVE BEFORE HE MAKES IT.

SHE SAID WE HAVE TO FOCUS ON WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING IN EGYPT–BECAUSE NOBODY GETS IT. THEY THINK HE IS INCOMPTENT WHEN IN FACT HE IS QUITE PURPOSEFUL IN WHAT HIS IS DOING. OR YOU CAN UNDERSTIMAE HIM AT YOUR OWN PERIL,

BEFORE YOU CAN DO SO HOWEVER YOU MUST UNDERSTAND HOW CHIACAGO POLITICS WORKS, AND WHY UNTIL NOW IT WAS NEVER ALLOWED TO GO NATION WIDE. TED KENNEDY RELEASED THAT DIFIGURING DISEASE ON AMERICA IN 2008 . AND NOW IT IS TRANSMORGIFYING THIS COUNTRY LIKE IT HAS DAMAGED THE CITY OF CHICAGO–BUT ONCE AGAIN

NOBODY GETS IN. LEAST OF ALL BIG MEDIA WHO WITH THE EXCEPTION OF FOX GET THEIR CONTENT DIRECTLY FROM THE WHITE HOUSE–WHICH IS WHY THEY ARE STATE MEDIA.

MY FRIEND HASTENED TO ADD THAT CHICAGO POLITICOS ARE NOT BRILLIANT. THEY DO NOT OPERATE OFF ELABORATE PLAN. BUT THE STUDY AN OPPONENT CLOSELY, WHETHER IT IS THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, OUR FOREIGN POLICY , OR THE MUBARAK GOVERNMENT. THEY PUT THEIR PEOPLE IN PLACE, THEY POKE HERE, SEE WHAT POPS UP THERE AND PLAN TO HOLD POWER IN PERPETUITY BY KEEPING THEIR OPPONENT COMPLETELY OFF BALANCE, UNTIL THE TIME IS RIGHT TO STRIKE AND KILL THEM. THEREAFTER, CLAIM PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY. .

THEN SHE ASKED ME TO THINK ABOUT WHERE OBAMA STOOD ONLY TWO WEEKS AGO. HIS STATE OF THE UNION PRODUCED ZERO BOUNCE. THE BENEFIT OF THE TUSCON SPEECH WAS FADING. THE REPUBLICANS WERE POISED TO BEGIN THE HEALTH CARE DEBATE AND TO SHOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HOW THEY HAD BEEN SOLD DOWN THE RIVER. THE TEA PARTIES WERE GETTING THEIR SECOND WIND. THEN CAME THE CRISIS IN TUNESIA AND IT WAS AT THAT POINT THAT OBAMA REALIZED THAT IF HE COULD PRECIPITATE A SIMILAR CRISIS IN EGYPT AND PUSH FORWARD THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD THEN HE COULD CREATE AN INTERNATIONAL CRISIS WHICH WOULD DRAW ATTENTION AWAY FROM HIS DOMESTIC FAILURE.

HE MET MUBARACK BEFORE AT THE CAIRO SPEECH. HE KNEW HE WAS A PROUD AND BRITTLE MAN. HE KNEW THAT IF HE COULD EMBARRASS HIM THAT HE COULD CAUSE HIM TO OVERREACT. SOROS OPERATIVES LIT THE FUSE IN EGYPT. AND JUST AS HILLARY COMPLETED HER WORK ARRANGING FOR THE PEACEFUL TRANSITION TO REAL DEMOCRACY WHICH THE WORLD WANTED, HE CALLED UP MUBARACK AND INSULTED HIM NOT JUST ONCE BUT THREE TIMES OVER THE COURSE OF SEVERAL DAYS. EVEN THE ESTIMABLE CHARLES KRATUTHMAMMER MISSED WHAT THE GAME WAS HERE, AND IT HAS AXELROD’S FINGER PRINTS ALL OVER IT. IT CREATED THE CRISIS HE WANTED, NEEDED AND USED MOST EFFECTIVELY TO SHIFT PUBLIC ATTENTION AWAY FROM THE JOB LOSSES, RISING FOOD PRICES AT HOME, THE LOSS OF OUR SOUTHERN BORDER. NOW BIG MEDIA IS COVERING HIM WITH GARLANDS AND PROCLAIMING HIS LEADERSHIP AND RIGGING THE POLLS TO REFLECT IT. (NOTE: ZOGBY OF ALL PEOPLE–AN OBAMA MOLE WAS ON FOX TONIGHT TELLING US NOT TO BELIEVE ANY OF THE POLLING GOING ON NOW.)

SHE CONCLUDED THAT OBAMA HAS HIT UPON THE PERFECT RELELECTION STRATEGY WHICH IS TO KEEP INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN SUCH A STATE OF TURMOIL. AS THIS VIRUS SPREADS TO OTHER VENUES IN THE EAST IT WILL CUT OFF OUR OIL SUPPLY AND THREATEN THE VERY EXISTENCE OF ISRAEL. OBAMAS HATRED OF THE UNITED STATES AND HIS CONTEMPT FOR ISRAEL ARE ALL IMPLICATED IN THE GRAND SCHEME. YET NO ONE IN THIS COUNTRY SEEMS TO CARE. THEY ARE TOO BUSY WITH THEIR DAILY LIVES, AND THAT IS WHAT OBAMA IS COUNTING ON. BIG MEDIA WILL NOT REPORT THIS BECAUSE THEY ARE TOTALLY RELIANT OF THE WHITE HOUSE FOR THEIR CONTENT.

Ha ha. I want to go to Tunesia now.

iTunesia

enjoying the mental image of Chiacago

Someone did a study and it revealed that 99% of reddit’s content was generated by 1% of users. The rest were lurkers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/3qbpsp/comment/cwefw3v

In 2008 I started lurking on ilx. I read the archives every day, checking to see what my favorite posters had said about this or that band. Ned, Momus, Nabisco, etc were very familiar “bylines” for me. As were many people who I would go on to interact with and even meet in real life.

I didn’t start posting until 2013 and my career as a poster had been pretty terrible, marked by impulsivity and half-assed bullshit. But whatever, the point is how many lurkers are there? And are they, like I was, pretty tuned in to the discussions, observing us all like rats in a laboratory? and when you post, do you think through what you are saying, as if it is published writing? Because I just say whatever basically

And what is the takeaway of this? What leads someone to post instead of lurk? And what changed in me that made me a poster?

Roberto Bolano once said that reading is much more important than writing. I think it’s true. But I write far more than I read.

What is wrong with all of us that we write all the time? Is there any hope? Not for me—I think I’m OK—but for all of you miserable people?

Also, feel free to use this thread to talk about coronavirus

<3

I am very interested in the fact that there may be lurkers here who are like "oh there goes Jim in Vancouver/formerly Jim in Glasgow again with his old bullshit" when I write a bad post. it's quite eery to think about in a way. whereas if other posters are thinking that then it feels less disquieting because I've seen all their shitty posts too

Lol

It varies, I think of it more as conversation than writing but then there are times when I'm more deliberately writing.

This is going to end up being my life's work but hey, what can I say, I'm workshy and half-arsed.