MONKEY MOUNTAIN
Chuck Tryon, with Mary Gauthier

There’s a crack in my armor I don’t know what to do
After all these years something’s pushing through
My mind spins, my thoughts implode
I don’t believe what I was told

I feel guilty just to be alive
I’m still here, but I don’t know why
Monkey Mountain massacre, I see it with my eyes closed
I don’t believe what I was told

I don’t believe what I was told
I don’t believe what I was told

I see the young ones with a thousand yard stare
And I see myself I see me in there
I feel their heart I know their soul
And I don’t believe what I was told

I don’t believe what I was told
I don’t believe what I was told

I gotta stay busy I gotta give it away
Gotta put a smile on another vet’s face
It slows the demons it soothes my soul
I don’t believe what I was told

I don’t believe what I was told
I don’t believe what I was told

credits
from SW​:​S Retreat – November 2014, released 31 December 2014
Mary Gauthier / Chuck Tryon

In Hume’s criticism this weekend of Rand Paul’s statement regarding the complicity of Republican Party Hawks in the arming of ISIS, Hume alleged that Assad merely split Syria with the *Islamists barbaric imperialists. That same line of asinine, delusional thinking resonated amongst featured speakers at the 2014 Socialism Conference. Strange bedfellows?

*Whatever the ISIS scourge is, it is not collectively Islamist.

more. that’s the goal.

My 87-year-old mom suffers from organic dementia. She has lost the tolerance filter one cultivates over decades of assimilating ever-changing cultural trends. Expose her to overtly sexual and violent television programming and she will speak in tongues about the world. It’s been a few years since her remote required a battery change.

American culture, at least, places more value on power than justice, possessions than humanity, instant gratification than achievement, and reality tv stars than really admirable persons. The meaning of life has been reduced to generating a buzz in a 24/7 media cycle.

Those who lack the tools to place this recent phenomenon in historical context react in different ways to the wall of noise. Some speak in tongues. Others blow out brains.