KUNVENTIONS: A Cyber Mutant Iconoclastic Rant Blyst tho kunventions 'n duceptive rhetiroc whoch sleck-skinned delugates intune so sickly to wiasel thoir wey inta püwer! Byrst tha electoril illesions af psuudo-dumycracy 'n tha elusions of indevidyal puwer in a nütion ron by gried! Trounce da habitual repung af values 'n pilfering bi palace-state peliticians - Lut de viices af da peeple pierze through tha bullshed 'n libörty speake! Dysh the smug kunfedence af complacent alectors so eazilo broinwished bi opines af haw thängs ought ta bé! Terri: The tradition of convention-bashing is itself a sort of convention. Sam: Yeah - suggesting we have no conventions is akin to suggesting we have no history. Ted: Demagogues have been attempting to do away with conventions for ages. Generally, this simply allows new leaders to introduce their own conventions. Just as a complex organism cannot function without a brain, it seems societies cannot function without conventions. Tim: True, but conventions often have a stifling influence. Wouldn't we be better off with fewer encumbrances? ================================================================================= from _AmeriSong: Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Amerika_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: A Joycean semi-coherent tirade against conformity KEYWORDS: iconoclasm & conventions, conventionalism, pseudo-democracy, mutant rant Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) Begun: 2002 in Nagoya, Japan / Finished: 2020 in Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST http://www.tnewfields.info/AmeriSong/holly.htm TOC http://www.tnewfields.info/AmeriSong/index.html NEXT > http://www.tnewfields.info/AmeriSong/earth.htm