Saturday, February 13, 2010

the modern world sucks


The internet is full of bad news. Bad news.

I just found out that there are no B. Traven books in print. Not in the US anyhow.

When I think of the worthless fucks whose books are read reverently by graduate students and writers workshop idiots I really seriously want to break things and curse.

The next time you meet a graduate student who admits to having read W.S. Maugham, beat him up, take his money and use it to buy a copy of "The White Rose". You'll have to track down a used copy but it will be worth every cent you steal and every drop of blood that graduate student sheds.

Sometimes I think that art is just some crap I use to pass the time but GOD DAMN IT I would gladly trade the whole of John Updike, William Faulkner and Ayn fukkin' Rand- I would happily see their memory wiped from the face of the earth- in exchange for a world where B. Traven is given the respect that he deserves.

The modern world is a heaven for cowards, punks and snitches. It is a world ruled by vampires.

2 comments:

ish said...

Not your main point, but all my favorite people hate Ayn Rand. I've found hope in that...it's like a litmus test: if you are a decent human being you are morally compelled to hate her. If you see through the curtain of lies about the way the world is, you cannot bear her.

Your driver said...

I mentioned her because she is on some academic list of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century. What a pathetic excuse for an artist. She was vain, self absorbed and stupid. The best I can say about her is that, in her worship of early capitalist industry she is sort of a pale shadow imitator of Marx. There are artists I can grudgingly admire despite our differences. She's not one of them.

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