Bukowski – Tales of Ordinary Madness – Comment

 One commentator describes Bukowski as the “godfather of low-life literature”. The man’s writing certainly delves into the realities of alcoholism, skid row antics, the act of writing, and unpleasant sexual exploits that at times are difficult to read. One wonders where the man has time to write at all considering the amount of alcohol he consumed daily. In many stories he awakes hung over and sick, sleeping in the afternoon, rising with his signature disgust with humankind.  

The man’s output as a writer is quite extraordinary. Thousands of poems, short stories, and several novels published. This doesn’t include the work that never arrived at the printer. In a few of his books, he describes his process of grabbing a bottle of wine, and sitting alone with his typewriter, listening to Mahler and Beethoven on the radio, banging away into the early morning.  

Tales of Ordinary Madness is a collection of short stories that combines the experiences of a drunken gambler, a sex fiend, and musings on Kant, great classical music from the 18th century, and critiques on contemporary writers like Hemingway, Norman Mailer and Ginsberg. He’s the bum in some ally in LA, with vomit on his torn coat, a bottle in his hand, thinking deeply about society, and life’s true meaning.  

There are a few stories in the collection that this reader found exceptionally intense.  

One of the more original and moving stories must be Animal Crackers in my Soup. The protagonist is coming off a bender and walking aimlessly through an unknown town. He’s at the point of collapse, dying of thirst, and randomly knocks on the door of a house. A woman answers and invites him in, giving him water and later a few meals and a bed to sleep in. The man discovers that the woman owns several wild animals: a tiger, monkeys, a baboon, birds and a variety of snakes. All the animals are housebroken, docile and love the woman. He calls the place a “liberated zoo.” The man develops a relationship with the animal/woman and ends up moving in. There’s something mystical about this growing relationship. The woman becomes pregnant, and later, a violent crime occurs in the home. The ending of the tale is the ultimate tragedy. As a reader of Bukowski, this story was unexpected.  

As a reader of this author, he never disappoints because of his skill for realism and absolute honesty. There is no writer today who is quite like him. A master of the down and dirty with flashes of the sublime.  

It’s now Become a Spiritual Battle Between Good and Evil.

Opinion.  

The other day on social media, a person I follow, and respect posted that opening his phone in the morning has become an act of courage because the news around the planet has become so dark, so shocking, that he was thinking of leaving the internet altogether. This sentiment is easy to relate to, as it is for many people around the planet. This action of covering one's eyes and ears to these horrors is never a solution. Remaining informed and vigilant is now a matter of survival. 

The US has always been at war. As a young man during the Vietnam war, joining my first antiwar protest, and later following the regime change debacles in Latin America, Southeast Asia, Iraq, Syria, and beyond, the propaganda that the US was the world’s savior for democracy and freedom, had become obviously false. All these wars are started on false premises. One can boil it down to world hegemony and economics. What is astonishing is that many people continue to believe in the “freedom and democracy” nonsense. These people must either be brainwashed or push the war agenda for personal/political gain.  

The western alliance of democratic countries, who once pushed the “spreading peace and democracy” rubbish, murdering innocents in developing countries to establish dominance and control over (steal) their resources, are currently using the exact fascist tactics on their own people.  

A *blowback* of oppressive strategies overseas, that is busting down doors in neighborhoods of innocent noncombatants, or shooting them in the streets, has come full circle in the suburbs of America. ICE is the new Brown Shirts of Berlin circa 1930s.This blowback also takes the form of extreme censorship, where citizens are jailed for their political views. We see this in western Europe. Journalists, activists, and ordinary citizens are brutally tackled in the street for protesting the slaughter in Gaza. They are jailed for their political views. We are seeing violent authoritarianism writ large.  

My current home in Australia have passed “hate speech laws” prodded by the Bondi Beach terrorist attack last month. From a cursory glance, these new laws are quite vague. Though digging a little deeper, they’re draconian and without legal recourse. Censorship is *the* tool for authoritarian governments.  

Why and who are responsible for this violence and censorship crackdown across western countries? An educated guess would be two-fold: Billionaires and corporations are losing control of the narrative. This small *elite cable* must maintain control and dominance to further their profits and position at the top of the food chain. Secondly, Zionism has spread their parasitic tentacles across the planet. Elected governments, despite Israel’s genocide in Gaza, support this mass slaughter. We see our leaders dropping to their knees and licking the blood-soaked boots of Israel. There is a reason for this slavish behavior, and it goes beyond mere politics.  

Recently, the US Department of Justice dropped a massive collection of Epstein Files. Included in this dump reveals an international pedophile/human trafficking enterprise. Children are being raped, tortured and murdered for personal gratification. Those responsible are our political leaders, high profile scientists, the billionaire class, Hollywood celebrities, and respected writers and academics. Once thought of as a stupid conspiracy, we discover the glaring under current of this vile practice is the Israeli government and our own intelligence communities. Even more outrageous, the black arts are practiced in the form of satanism and the worship of the Old Testament demon, Bael. This is not only a political problem but a spiritual battle against the forces of evil. When you see the murder of children on a massive scale in Gaza, and people bragging about it in gleeful terms, stating that they shoot kids in the head for sport, you realize that this is not only a mental abnormality but a deep spiritual sickness.  

These high profile and powerful individuals revealed in the Epstein files, all appear to actually follow the dark arts, practicing satanic rituals, sacrificing the innocent and celebrating death. The term “selling your soul to Satan” turns out not to be a metaphor for choosing evil, but a real exchange for power, money and success.  

We witness the slaughter of innocents in Gaza, and those in power want to censor us, criminalize us, and remove us from the public square. Israel is committing the ultimate crime against humanity, and their erasing journalists and murdering children, including dozens of medical staff. in the most horrific of methods, and these soulless vessels order us to be silent.   

Again, this goes beyond mere politics, but in the realm of the spiritual, a battle against the forces of darkness.  

The warmongers are central to this darkness. These freaks make billions selling weapons to murder populations. Our intelligence agencies have never been a force for good, but topple governments around the planet, deal drugs on a grand scale, and gaslight us with stupid propaganda.  

The most disturbing aspect of all this is that most or all our politicians and their media are all part of it. The legacy media is still trying to gaslight us or remain silent.  

At this stage what can we as real human beings do about this?  

Frankly, from what has been revealed thus far, commenting, writing and speaking out against this cabal of rot, is the best we can do for now. Real actional solutions will come.  

The best now is to follow Jesus Christ’s proclamation: 

“Get thee behind me, Satan!”