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AssemblyRequiredYou’re going to die.

You will be buried, cremated, or left somewhere to rot.

Your name will fade into memory.

After enough years and enough people follow you in death, you will be forgotten.

How you lived your life will not change this ending.  You face the same cold embrace and obliteration as Hannibal or George Washington or Hitler.

Yes, Humanity may remember names, it may even remember yours.  Yet Humanity can never truly remember the people, the individual.

To be superior, a Master, an Übermensch is to eventually be reduced to a word smeared and distorted by idiotic and facile men.  So it goes.

Humanity will continue along as it always has; you have only the obliteration of time to look forward to.

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Interpreting “Somebody That I Used To Know,” By Gotye

Musically, one finds a wide variety of influences here.  Ones that readily come to my mind are Tom Waits, Beach Boys, and Genesis.  This work successfully and beautifully weaves retro and pop elements to form a modern, yet folksy work.

Lyrically, the story is of a break-up.  Standard fare in contemporary music.  Girl left me, melancholy, end scene.

However, while most break-up songs are told from ONE side, this one possesses something unusual, something unique.  A female voice joins, not merely to sing along, but to sing against.  The soliloquy transforms into a dialogue, where the woman offers a rebuttal, and the man finishes the song out on what seems to be an unresolved note…

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Après Paul, Le Déluge

Translation: After (Ron) Paul, Dildos.

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Ron Paul, our generation’s William Jennings Bryan, has largely run his course.  The man who for decades bravely griefed Congress and disrupted Republican Primaries, now talks shit about dead people on twitter.  He who lives by the troll dies by the troll, I suppose.

Following his not-so-stellar progress in 2010-11, these actions certainly don’t surprise me; here was a man ultimately less interested in cultivating a meaningful counter-narrative, and more interested in pissing people off before collecting his Congressional pension.

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