[-empyre-] whose "our systems" & body weather

[Simon Biggs]

The Borg is everywhere.

We are the Borg. That doesn't fill me with horror, abject or otherwise. More an existential fatigue. I think you need a certain degree of youthful energy to feel the sort of intense emotion you are referring to Alan ;)

best

Simon


On 6 Jul 2014, at 10:32, Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:

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> You might be interested in Merlin Donald who argues much the same thing; even here, however, I'd ask where is the Borg? In ISIS/ISIL? In the US prison system? Right away class enters - violently - into all of this, and class media, etc. As far as memories go, what do we do with abject horror, mediated or not?
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> - Alan
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