THE GOBLINKO PROJECT.

I  WROTE THIS IN 1995. WE GREW UP IN THE BAY AREA DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE JACQUES DERRIDA INFLUENCED LEFTIST DECONSTRUCTION PERIOD - AS OPPOSED TO ACTUAL NIHILISM, THIS WAS DECONSTRUCTION OF THE OLD DOMINANT AMERICAN MENTALITY, CULTURE, RACE, RELIGION, WHATEVER, WITH THE SEEMING INTENT OF HAVING COMMUNISM REPLACE THE DISMANTLED AMERICAN IDENTITY. THIS WAS THE CULTURAL MILIEU THAT WE CAME FROM, COUPLED WITH A GENERAL LEFTIST ANTI-AUTHORITARIANISM & HYPER LIBERAL TOLERANCE WHICH BORDERED ON LIBERTARIANISM, BUT IT WAS LARGELY WITHOUT A CRITIQUE OF LEFTISM. AS WE GREW UP & BEGAN TO DEVELOP OUR OWN GRAVITY & INERTIA, THE CULTURAL VALUE OF NON-SUCCESS BEGAN TO BUTT UP AGAINST OUR DESIRE FOR SUCCESS - HOWEVER SUCCESS COULD BE DEFINED. FOR ME, IT WAS REVOLUTIONARY SUCCESS & BEING ABLE TO CARRY OUT A SUCCESSFUL REVOLUTION, I WAS THINKING ABOUT HOW TO ACTUALLY WIN, IGNORING THEORY, IGNORING THE RULES OF THE BAY AREA LEFT & CHARGING FORWARDS WITHOUT PARTICIPATING IN THE COMMUNIST CARGO CULT* THAT DEFINES THE MAJORITY OF RADICAL LEFTISTS. HOWEVER, THE FURTHER OUT WE GOT FROM THE LEFTIST STATUS QUO - EVEN THOUGH OUR GOAL WAS TO ESSENTIALLY WIN THE SAME FIGHT THAT WE HAD ALL BEEN PROGRAMMED WITH AS CHILDREN, THE LESS OUR OLD MILIEU MADE SENSE & THE MORE THEY WOULD TRY TO KEEP US CONTAINED & ISOLATED. AS SOON AS WE REALIZED THAT OUR TEAM WAS TAKING COMMANDS FROM A LONG-DEAD COACH IN ORDER TO INTENTIONALLY LOSE A GAME THAT WASN’T ACTUALLY BEING PLAYED ANYMORE, THE PROGRAM FELL AWAY & WE ARRIVED AT THE END RESULT OF DECONSTRUCTION - NIHILISM, NOTHING.

NIHILISM IS VERY FREEING IF YOU ARE BURDENED BY USELESS IDEOLOGIES & A LOST IN A MAZE OF ORIGINAL SINS & GUILT COMPLEXES THAT HAVE ALMOST NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU. BUT, YOU CAN ONLY OPERATE WITH NOTHING FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME BEFORE THE NATURAL FUNCTIONS OF THE HUMAN BRAIN KICK IN & YOU BEGIN PIECING TOGETHER SOME KIND OF CULTURE & SO, FROM GROUND BASE, WE BEGAN TO PIECE TOGETHER WHO WE WERE & WHAT WE WERE DOING. DESPITE BEING RAISED AS ANTI-AMERICAN SOCIAL CRITICS, WE CAME TO REALIZE THAT WE WERE INDEED AMERICANS & THAT THIS COUNTRY WAS WHERE WE WANTED TO BE & WHERE WE FELT BOUND BY FATE & SO, WE HAD TO DECIDE HOW WE WANTED TO BE AS AMERICANS & WHAT AMERICA MEANT TO US, NOW, TODAY, WITHOUT THE INFLUENCE OF PREVIOUS PROPAGANDA & PREJUDICE.

SO, BY CHANGING OUR MENTALITY FROM NATIVE-BORN AMERICANS TO IMMIGRANT AMERICANS, WE HAD TO BRING OUR CULTURE & IDENTITY WITH US & FIGURE OUT HOW TO HUSTLE THIS COUNTRY SO WE COULD CARVE OUT A PIECE OF THE PIE. WE ALSO HAD TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IT MEANT TO BE AN AMERICAN & HOW THIS COULD BE TRANSLATED INTO OUR PROJECTS. WE ALSO HAD JUST BEGUN TO START ROLLING ON OUR FAMILY & SO IT WAS PERFECT TIMING TO CREATE AN UNDERSTANDING ABOUT WHO WE WERE & HOW WE DO THINGS. WE FELT THAT OLD NEW YORK CITY AS THE GATEWAY TO THE CLASSIC AMERICAN IMMIGRANT STORY & THE NATION’S SPIRITUAL CAPITAL WAS THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING WHO WE WERE AS AMERICANS & IT WAS THERE IN THE CLOSE QUARTERS & MESSY LIVES OF THESE AMPED UP IMMIGRANTS THAT WE WOULD TAKE OUR CUES. IT CAN’T BE STRESSED ENOUGH THAT A KEY TO THE SUCCESS OF IMMIGRANTS & AMERICANS IN GENERAL IS THE ABILITY TO PURSUE THEIR DREAMS FREELY IN THIS COUNTRY. WE FEEL THAT ANY HINDRANCE TO THIS GOES AGAINST WHY THIS COUNTRY EXISTS IN THE FIRST PLACE. WE STARTED WITH THE BASICS - GETTING BACK IN WITH THE AMERICAN FLAG & THE NATIONAL FOOD - THE HOT DOG. PREVIOUSLY I HAD ONLY BEEN COMFORTABLE WITH DESECRATED OR BURNING AMERICAN FLAGS, BUT AS AN IMMIGRANT & A BELIEVER IN THE AMERICAN DREAM, THE FLAG CHANGED FROM SYMBOL OF AMERICA - WORLD POLICE TO A SYMBOL OF FREEDOM & PERSONAL PRIDE IN HAVING COME TO AMERICA & WORKED TO ACHIEVE OUR GOALS. THE HOT DOG, PREVIOUSLY A FEARED FOOD OF ANIMAL ABUSE & A DEFILEMENT OF NATURE RETURNED TO ITS STATUS AS THE NEW YORK CITY FASCES - A BUNCH OF ANIMALS OF LESSER COMPOSURE GROUND UP, SPICED & SALTED, STUFFED UP THEIR OWN ASSHOLE & THEN SMOKED TO PERFECTION TO BE SERVED TO THE COMMON PERSON ON THE STREET FOR THE RIGHT PRICE. EACH SNAPPING BITE WAS A JUICY REMINDER OF AMERICA’S STREET-LEVEL, BOTTOM UP FREEDOM. BOUND TOGETHER IN A COMMON VISION, WE CAN BE GREAT. IN THIS NEW AMERICA THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR THE ELITISM SO COMMON TO THE BAY AREA LEFTISTS WE HAD GROWN UP AROUND. THERE WAS NO PLACE FOR LOOKING DOWN ONE’S NOSE AT THE PLIGHT OF THE COMMON PERSON, WE MUST LEND A HAND & SHOW EVERYONE THE TRUE WAY - WHICH IS NOT AS CLOISTERED ACADEMICS OR SEQUESTERED ELITES, BUT AS WARHOL SAID - 

“What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV & see Coca-Cola, & you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, & just think, you can drink Coke, too.”

OF COURSE - WE’VE BEEN CYNICAL & WE KNOW WHAT GARBAGE IS SERVED UP TO THE POOR - BUT AS AN IDEAL, WHICH IS WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. THAT WE SERVE EVERYONE THE SAME THING & THAT EVERYONE CAN BUY IT & BECOME WHO THEY WANT TO BE. IN THIS WAY, IT IS COMPLETELY IMPORTANT TO MAKE THINGS THAT EMBODY THE TOTALITY OF OUR OEUVRE, THAT ARE OF HIGH-QUALITY & THAT HIT ON MULTIPLE LEVELS. JUST BECAUSE THINGS AREN'T BEING DONE THE RIGHT WAY DOESN'T MEAN THE RIGHT WAY ISN'T AN ACHIEVABLE IDEAL OR STANDARD. WE MUST HOLD STRONG & PERSIST REGARDLESS OF HOW OTHER PEOPLE ARE DOING THINGS & HOW THINGS ARE - WE MUST BRING THIS INTO BEING & NEVER RELENT BECAUSE THE JOB IS NEVER DONE & TIME NEVER ENDS!

XO GOBLINKO

* A CARGO CULT IS A CULTURAL MOVEMENT ARISING FROM AN ISOLATED TRIBAL SOCIETY COMING INTO CONTACT WITH AN EXTERNAL, TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED SOCIETY WHERE THE TRIBAL SOCIETY THEN MIMICS THE TRAPPINGS OF THE ADVANCED CULTURE WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THE ACTUAL OPERATION OF SAID SOCIETY WITH AN EXPECTATION THAT THROUGH RITUAL MAGIC, THEY WILL GAIN THE POWERS OF THE MORE ADVANCED SOCIETY. I USE THIS PHRASE TO DESCRIBE THE GENERAL HUMAN TENDENCY TOWARDS BLINDLY FOLLOWING PREVIOUS COMMANDS WITHOUT ACTUALLY LOOKING AT PRESENT-DAY REALITY & STRATEGIZING USING THE CHESS GAME IN FRONT OF THEM INSTEAD OF SOME IMAGINARY ONE.