An image is worth a thousand words. Is this video worth a million?
“The Krampus enter at 1:56, if you’re wondering. But on a larger scale, I think it’s patently obvious that this is the kind of movement which can easily peter out and be written of as performance art, or it can be an opportunity for all of us to “come out” of the closet, say no to the Plutocratic demands, no to the myth that we are separate and estranged, that we must compete with one another, that we must identify with one “team,” one “nation,” one “race,” and kill or take from all the others, that mutual benefit isn’t the only virtue. Charlie Sheen might be a egomaniac and any number of other things, who knows, I don’t know him personally. But when he said “I’m a rockstar from mars,” and, you know, I’m sick of pretending otherwise, that, in my own way, I could completely relate to.”
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