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		<title>By: edward mycue</title>
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		<description>it happens to us in a more modified form. because BECAUSE we usually don&#039;t stay on the line, but hang up quickly. the services used, i think, have nothing to do with the organizations we support. the organizations we support hire-out these &quot;collection&quot; agencies--and as no good deed will go unpunished, we get treated like geese. (and their hands are clean.)
it is, as lawrence fixel said, part of the MACHINEIFICATION of human activity. as with the political parties, we are but fodder while the great handles turn the sausage machine. my mind is walking away from all of this. but the sausage machine is not affected. we are very dead before we are dead. meat is absurd. we are used. the sausage machine is a mask and it grinds. when we are dead we are dead. before we are dead we are dead. the fodder shrieks and protests as it is being fed into the sausage machine. someones will say we must blowup the sausage machine. that we must resist the machineification of humanity.   but what do they know. they only know they don&#039;t like somethings happening. they are fodder for mrs. lovat&#039;s sausage machine. the executioners, the sweeney todds, are mad. the machineification of all the todds and all the lovats is the mad symbol of what susanne langer may have believed could be averted with logic, with intelligence, with rigorous care: but but that great woman was never heeded. 
the services used THE SERVICES USED allow our feel-good sweet &#039;honorable&#039; institutions to believe they are so-doing &#039;GOOD&#039;, but the evil
is only temporarily surrendered. under the flagstones and under the banners, there dreams an
evil more evil that human evil: it is evil because 
to us it will not connect--evil only to us: what defeats us is the feelingless machine. the hawk flies, the winds roar, waters whip and rise. the machine rumbles on. we feed it.   edward mycue</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it happens to us in a more modified form. because BECAUSE we usually don&#8217;t stay on the line, but hang up quickly. the services used, i think, have nothing to do with the organizations we support. the organizations we support hire-out these &#8220;collection&#8221; agencies&#8211;and as no good deed will go unpunished, we get treated like geese. (and their hands are clean.)<br />
it is, as lawrence fixel said, part of the MACHINEIFICATION of human activity. as with the political parties, we are but fodder while the great handles turn the sausage machine. my mind is walking away from all of this. but the sausage machine is not affected. we are very dead before we are dead. meat is absurd. we are used. the sausage machine is a mask and it grinds. when we are dead we are dead. before we are dead we are dead. the fodder shrieks and protests as it is being fed into the sausage machine. someones will say we must blowup the sausage machine. that we must resist the machineification of humanity.   but what do they know. they only know they don&#8217;t like somethings happening. they are fodder for mrs. lovat&#8217;s sausage machine. the executioners, the sweeney todds, are mad. the machineification of all the todds and all the lovats is the mad symbol of what susanne langer may have believed could be averted with logic, with intelligence, with rigorous care: but but that great woman was never heeded.<br />
the services used THE SERVICES USED allow our feel-good sweet &#8216;honorable&#8217; institutions to believe they are so-doing &#8216;GOOD&#8217;, but the evil<br />
is only temporarily surrendered. under the flagstones and under the banners, there dreams an<br />
evil more evil that human evil: it is evil because<br />
to us it will not connect&#8211;evil only to us: what defeats us is the feelingless machine. the hawk flies, the winds roar, waters whip and rise. the machine rumbles on. we feed it.   edward mycue</p>
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