[Kzyxtalk] The ship of Theseus problem.

[Marco McClean]

The ship of Theseus problem.

"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions 
and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, 
prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, 
prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless 
frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the 
children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these 
things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone." -Rod Serling


The recording of last night's (2017-03-31) pretty good KNYO Memo of the 
Air: Good Night Radio show is ready to download for free and enjoy, via 
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com


An odd show. A lot of weird little things happened. The swing-arm light 
waited till exactly when I’d put some music on to fall off its 
disintegrating clamp thing, then Alex Bosworth called while I was fixing 
the light with parts from another light and the phone’s squiggle-cord 
was all tangled up in what I was comico-frantically doing, but I did it, 
put Alex on, and his phone was running dead out in the car he uses as a 
radio studio (in San Diego), rather a steampunk phone, somehow not the 
kind you can charge in a car, so he went away to deal with that, and the 
light bulb in the lamp exploded, probably because of having been shaken 
around before but, as I said, odd. I guess it doesn’t sound so weird 
now, in the daylight, with the sun shining through prisms hanging in the 
window and trucks going by outside but, really, when’s the last time you 
had a light bulb just spontaneously go bang and spray glass everywhere? 
And other weird things; it is a seven-hour show; lots of time for 
synchronicity to develop stress microfractures in the fabric of reality 
and pop something.


That’s the nice part of your getting the recording: I have to do the 
show at night because generally there’s sweary poetry and so-called 
adult situations and after 10pm local time is when Americans are 
/grudgingly allowed/ freedom of speech and expression on broadcast 
radio, but you can play the recording any time of the day or night, and 
skip past the parts that make you grit your teeth because /who cares 
about this particular genre of bullshit?/ or /it’s annoying when people 
sing in a foreign language because it makes you feel like they’re making 
fun of you/, or maybe the Zeke Krahlin story unsettles you because in it 
a time-traveling LGBT-activist historian researching the Jesus myth 
discovers eleven-Jesuses-and-counting and all of them turn out to be 
time-traveling LGBT activist historians, say, from even farther in the 
future, and that’s just too much for some people’s Midwestern 
sensibilities. I don’t have a problem with any of this stuff, besides 
lightning striking my light bulbs, but I’m not the only person in the 
world, am I. Different people like different things, and that’s why 
censorship and prior restraint are against the highest law of the land. 
For a little while longer, that is, until the constitutional convention 
that’s just four more states’ votes away from occurring and turning the 
U.S. into the Republic of Gilead in Margaret Atwood’s /The Handmaid’s Tale/.


In other news, the Scott Peterson expose of another facet of the Coast 
Hospital financial charlie foxtrot, titled /Off the Charts/, turned out 
to really require that you see the charts the text metronomically refers 
to. Here: http://tinyurl.com/CoastHospitalOffTheCharts


Besides all that, also at http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find 
literally thousands of links to not necessarily radio-useful but 
certainly worthwhile material, such as:


You can be a hero. Take action: reform California’s screamingly unjust 
money bail system.
https://ssl.capwiz.com/aclu/ca/issues/alert/?alertid=76478626


Puffer fish courtship art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1PID91sEW8


Black Holes. About a genetically superiorified melon in a voder suit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeQi4zbT8fA


And Jenny Nicholson politely rips on the movie /Tomorrowland/ which, 
even though she’s right on every single point, dagnabbit, you should 
still see. (I played this before my show started. You hear the tail end 
of it at the beginning of the show recording.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1-74z9dFYs



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Marco McClean

memo at mcn.org

http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com