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โ€œConfessions of a Hopi *** Israeliteโ€

by Giuseppi Martino Buonaiuto

Like a psychotic docent in the wilderness,

I will not speak in perfect Ciceronian cadences.

I draw my voice from a much deeper cistern,

Preferring the jittery synaptic archive, So sublimely unfiltered, random and profane. And though I am sequestered now, Confined within the walls of a gated, golf-coursed, Over-55 lunatic asylum (for Active Seniors I am told), I remain oddly puerile, Remarkably refreshed and unfettered. My institutionalization self-imposed, Purposed for my own serenity, and also the safety of others. Yet I abide, surprisingly emancipated and frisky. I may not have found the peace I seek, But the quiet has mercifully come at last. The nexus of inner and outer space is context for my story. I was born either in Brooklyn, New York or Shungopavi, Arizona, More of intervention divine than census data. Shungopavi: a designated place for tribal statistical purposes. Shungopavi: an ovine abbatoir and shamanโ€™s cloister. The Hopi: my motherโ€™s people, a state of mind and grace, Deftly landlocked, so cunningly circumscribed, By both interior and outer Navajo boundaries. The Navajo: a coyote trickster people; a nation of sheep thieves, Hornswoggled and landlocked themselves, Subsumed within three of the so-called Four Corners: A 3/4ths compromise and covenant, Pickled in firewater, swaddled in fine print, A veritable swindle concocted back when the USA Had Manifest Destiny & mayhem on its mind. The United States: once a pubescent synthesis of blood and thunder, A bold caboodle of trooper spit and polish, unwashed brawlers, Scouts and Pathfinders, mountain men, numb-nut ne'er-do-wells, Buffalo Bills & big-balled individualists, infected, insane with greed. According to the Gospel of His Holiness Saint Zinn, A Peopleโ€™sโ€™ History of the United States: essentially state-sponsored terrorism, A LAND RUSH grabocracy, orchestrated, blessed and anointed, By a succession of Potomac sharks, Great White Fascist Fathers, Far-Away-on-the Bay, the Bay we call The Chesapeake. All demented national patriarchs craving lebensraum for God and country. The USA: a 50-state Leviathan today, a nation jury-rigged, Out of railroad ties, steel rails and baling wire, Forged by a litany of lies, rapaciousness and murder, And jaw-torn chunks of terra firma, Bites both large and small out of our well-*** Native American ***. Or ***, as in vaโ€™a fare in *** (literally "go do it in the ***") Which Italian Americans pronounce as fongool. The language center of my brain, My sub-cortical Brocaโ€™s region, So fraught with such semantic misfires, And autonomic linguistic seizures, Compel acknowledgement of a fatherโ€™s contribution, To both the gene pool and the genocide. Columbus Day: a conspicuously absent holiday out here in Indian Country. No festivals or Fifth Avenue parades. No excuse for ethnic hoopla. No guinea feast. No cannoli. No tarantella. No excuse to not get drunk and not *** your sister-in-law. Emphatically a day for prayer and contemplation, A day of infamy like Pearl Harbor and 9/11, October 12, 1492: not a discovery; an invasion. Growing up in Brooklyn, things were always different for me, Different in some sort of redskin/***/***-- Choose Your Favorite Ethnic Slur-sort of way. The American Way: dehumanization for fun and profit. Melting pot anonymity and denial of complicity with evil. But this is no time to bring up Americaโ€™s sordid past, Or, a personal pet peeve: Indian Sovereignty. For Uncle Sam and his minions, an ever-widening, conveniently flexible concept, Not a commandment or law, Not really a treaty or a compact, Or even a business deal. Letโ€™s get real: It was not even much in the way of a guideline. Just some kind of an advisory, a bulletin or newsletter, Could it merely have been a free-floating suggestion? Yes, thatโ€™s it exactly: a suggestion. Over and under halcyon American skies, Over and around those majestic purple mountain peaks, Those trapped in poetic amber waves of wheat and oats, Corn and barley, wheat shredded and puffed, Corn flaked and milled, Wheat Chex and Wheaties, oats that are little Os; Kix and Trix, Fiber One, and Kashi-Go-Lean, Lucky Charms and matso balls, Kreplach and kishka, Polenta and risotto. Our cantaloupe and squash patch, Our fruited prairie plain, our delicate ecological Eden, In balance and harmony with nature, as Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce instructs: โ€œThese white devils are not going to, Stop raping and killing, cheating and eating us, Until they have the whole *** enchilada. Iโ€™m talking about โ€˜from sea to shining sea.โ€™โ€ โ€œI fight no more forever,โ€ Babaloo. So I must steer this clunky keelboat of discovery, Back to the main channel of my sad and starry demented river. My warpath is personal but not historical. It is my brainโ€™s own convoluted cognitive process I cannot saavy. Whatever biochemical orโ€”as I suspect more each dayโ€” Whatever biomechanical protocols govern my identity, My weltanschauung: my world-view, as sprechen by proto-***; Putz philosophers of the 17th, 18th & 19th century. The German intelligentsia: what a cavalcade of maniacal bastards! Why is this Jew unsurprised these Zarathustra-fueled รœbermenschen . . . Be it the Kaiser--Caesar in Deutsch--Bismarck, Hitler, or, Even that Euro-skank, Angela Merkel . . . Why am I not surprised these Huns, Get global grab-*** on the sauerbraten cabeza every few generations? To be, or not to be the *** bullgoose loony: GOTT. Biomechanical protocols govern my identity and are implanted while I sleep. My brain--my weak and weary CPU--is replenished, my discs defragmented. A suite of magnetic and optical white rooms, cleansed free of contaminants, Gun mounts & lifeboat stations manned and ready, Standing at attention and saluting British snap-style, Snap-to and heel click, ramrod straight and cheerful: โ€œReady for duty, Sir.โ€ My mind is ravenous, *** for something, anything to process. Any memory or image, lyric or construct, Be they short-term dailies or deeply imprinted. Fixations archived one and all in deep storage time and space. Memories, some subconscious, most vaporous; Others--the scary onesโ€”eidetic: frighteningly detailed and extraordinarily vivid. Precise cognitive transcripts; recollected so richly rife and fresh. Visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, and olfactory reloads: Queued up and increasingly re-experienced. The bio-data of six decades: itโ€™s all there. People, countless, places and things cataloged. Every event, joy and trauma enveloped from within or, Accessed externally from biomechanical storage devices. The random access memory of a lifetime, Read and recollected from cerebral repositories and vaults, All the while the entire greedy process overseen, Over-driven by that all-subservient British bat-man, Rummaging through the data in batches small and large, Internal and external drives working in seamless syncopation, Self-referential, at times paradoxical or infinitely looped. โ€œCogito ergo sum." Descartes stripped it down to the basics but thereโ€™s more to the story: Thinking about thinking. A curse and minefield for the cerebral: metacognition. No, it is not the fact that thought exists, Or even the thoughts themselves. But the information technology of thought that baffles me, As adaptive and profound as any evolution posited by Darwin, Beyond the wetware in my skull, an entirely new operating system. My mental and cultural landscape are becoming one. Machines are connecting the two. Itโ€™s what I am and what I am becoming. Once more for emphasis: It is the information technology of who I am. It is the operating system of my mental and cultural landscape. It is the machinery connecting the two. This is the central point of this narrative: Metacognition--your superegoโ€™s yenta Cassandra, Screaming, screaming in your psychic ear, your good ear: โ€œLISTEN: The machines are taking over, taking you over. Your identity and train of thought are repeatedly hijacked, Switched off the main line onto spurs and tangents, Only marginally connected or not at all. (Incoming TEXT from my editor: โ€œLighten Up, Giuseppi!โ€) Reminding me again that most in my audience, Rarely get past the comic page. All righty then: think Calvin & Hobbes. John Calvin, a precocious and adventurous six-year old boy, Subject to flights of 16th Century French theological fancy. Thomas Hobbes, a sardonic anthropomorphic tiger from 17th Century England, Mumbling about life being โ€œsolitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.โ€ Taken together--their antics and shenanigans--their relationship to each other, Remind us of our dual nature; explore for us broad issues like public education; The economy, environmentalism & the Global Rectal Thermometer; Not to mention the numerous flaws of opinion polls. And again my editor TEXTS me, reminds me again: โ€œLIGHTEN UP!โ€ Consoling me: โ€œEven Shakespeare had to play to the groundlings.โ€ The groundlings, AKA: The Rabble. Yes. Even the *** Bard, even Willie the Shake, Had to contend with a decidedly lowbrow copse of carrion. Oh yes, the groundlings, a carrion herd, a flying flock of carrion seagulls, Carrion crow, carrion-feeders one and all, And letโ€™s throw Sheryl Crow into the mix while weโ€™re at it: โ€œHit it! This ain't no disco. And it ain't no country club either, this is L.A.โ€ Send "All I Wanna Do" Ringtone to your Cell Once more, I digress. The Rabble: an amorphous, gelatinous Jabba the Hutt of commonality. The Rabble: drunk, debauched & lawless. Too booty-delicious to stop Bill & Hilary from thinking about tomorrow; Too Paul McCartney My Love Does it Good to think twice. The Roman Saturnalia: a weeklong *** fest. The Saturnalia: originally a pagan kink-fest in honor of the deity Saturn. Dovetailing nicely with the advent of the Christian era, With a project started by Il Capo di Tutti Capi, One of the early popes, co-opting the Roman calendar between 17 and 25 December, Putting the finishing touches on the Jesus myth. For Brooklyn Hopi-***-Jew baby boomers like me, Saturnalia manifested itself as Disco Fever, Unpleasant years of electrolysis, scrunched balls in tight polyester For Roman plebeians, for the great unwashed citizenry of Rome, Saturnalia was just a great big Italian wedding: A true family blowout and once-in-a-lifetime ego-trip for Dad, The father of the bride, Vito Corleone, Don for A Day: โ€œSome think the world is made for fun and frolic, And so do I! Funicula, Funiculi!โ€ America: love it or leave it; my country right or wrong. Sure, we were citizens of Rome, But any Joe Josephus spending the night under a Tiber bridge, Or sleeping off a three day drunk some afternoon, Up in the Coliseum bleachers, the cheap seats, out beyond the monuments, The original three monuments in the old stadium, Standing out in fair territory out in center field, Those three stone slabs honoring Gehrig, Huggins, and Babe. Yes, in the house that Ruth built--Home of the Bronx Bombers--WTF? Any Joe Josephus knows: Roman citizenship doesnโ€™t do too much for you, Except get you paxed, taxed & drafted into the Legion. For us the Roman lifestyle was HIND-TIT humble. We plebeians drew our grandeur by association with Empire. Very few Romans and certainly only those of the patrician class lived high, High on the hog, enjoying a worldly extravaganza, likeโ€”whom do we both know? Okay, letโ€™s say Laurence Olivier as Crassus in Spartacus. Come on, you saw Spartacus fifteen *** times. Remember Crassus? Crassus: that kinky twisted *** trying to get his freak on with, Tony Curtis in a sunken marble tub? We plebes led lives of quiet pubis-scratching desperation, A bunch of would-be legionnaires, diseased half the time, Paid in salt tablets or baccala, salted codfish soaked yellow in olive oil. Stiffs we used to call them on New Yearโ€™s Eve in Brooklyn. Letโ€™s face it: we were hyenas eating someone elseโ€™s kill, Stage-door jackals, Juvenal-come-late-lies, a mob of moronic mook boneheads Bought off with bread & circuses and Reality TV. Each night, dished up a wide variety of lowbrow Elizabethan-era entertainments. We contemplate an evening on the town, downtownโ€” (cue Petula Clark/Send "Downtown" Ringtone to your Cell) On any given London night, to wit: mummers, jugglers, bear & bull baiters. How about dog & *** fighters, quoits & skittles, alehouses & brothels? In short, somewhere, anywhere else, Anywhere other than down along the Thames, At Bankside in Southwark, down in the Globe Theater mosh pit, Slugging it out with the groundlings whose only interest, In the performance is the choreography of swordplay and stale sexual puns. Meanwhile, Hugh Fennyman--probably a fellow Jew, An English Renaissance Bugsy Siegel or Mickey Cohenโ€” Meanwhile Fennyman, the local mob boss is getting his ya-yas, Roasting the feet of my text-messaging editor, Philip Henslowe. Poor and pathetic Henslowe, works on commission, always scrounging, But a true patron of my craft, a gentleman of infinite jest and patience, Spiritual subsistence, and every now and then a good meal at some, Sawdust joint with oyster shells, and a Prufrockian silk purse of T.S. Eliot gold. Poor, pathetic Henslowe, trussed up by Fennyman, His editorial feet in what looks like a Japanese hibachi. Hensloweโ€™s feet to the fire--feet to the fireโ€”get it? A catchy phrase whose derivation conjures up, A grotesque yet vivid image of torture, An exquisite insight into how such phrases ingress the idiom, Not to mention a scene once witnessed at a secret Romanian CIA prison, Iโ€™d been ordered to Bucharest not long after 9/11, Handling the rendition and torture of Habib Ghazzawy, An entirely innocent falafel maker from Steinway Street, Astoria, Queens. Shock the Monkey: itโ€™s what we do. GOTO: Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey/ (HQ music video) - YouTube// www.youtube.com/ Poor, pathetic, pissed-on Henslowe. Fennyman : (his avarice is whet by something Philly screams out about a new script) "A play takes time. Find actors; Rehearsals. Let's say open in three weeks. That's--what--five hundred groundlings at tuppence each, in addition four hundred groundlings tuppence each, in addition four hundred backsides at three pence--a penny extra for a cushion, call it two hundred cushions, say two performances for safety how much is that Mr. Frees?" Jacobean Tweet, John (1580-****) Webster: โ€œI saw him kissing her bubbies.โ€ Itโ€™s Geoffrey Rush, channeling Henslowe again, My editor, a singed smoking madman now, Feet in an ice bucket, instructing me once more: โ€œLighten things up, you know . . . Comedy, love and a bit with a dog.โ€ I digress again and return to Hopi Land, back to my shaman-monastic abattoir, That Zen Center in downtown Shungopavi. At the Tribal Enrolment Office I make my case for a Certificate of Indian Blood, Called a CIB by the Natives and the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. The BIA: representing gold & uranium miners, cattle and sheep ranchers, Sodbusters & homesteaders; railroaders and dam builders since 1824. Just in time for Andrew Jackson, another false friend of Native America, Just before Old Hickory, one of many Democratic Party hypocrites and scoundrels, Gives the FONGOOL, up the *** go ahead. Hey Andy, Iโ€™ve got your Jacksonian democracy: Hanging! The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) mission is to: "โ€ฆ enhance the quality of life, to promote economic opportunity, and to carry out the responsibility to protect and improve the trust assets of American Indians, Indian tribes, and Alaska Natives. Whatโ€™s that in the fine print? Uncle Sammy holds โ€œthe trust assets of American Indians.โ€ Hereโ€™s a *** tip, Geronimo: if he trusted you, It would ALL belong to you. To you and The People. But itโ€™s all fork-tongued white ***. If true, Indian sovereignty would cease to be a sick one-liner, Cease to be a blunt force punch line, more of, King Leopoldโ€™s 19th Century stand-up comedy schtick, Leo Presents: The Rape of the Congo. La Belgique mission civilisatriceโ€” Thatโ€™s what French speakers called Uncle Leoโ€™s imperial public policy, Bringing the gift of civilization to central Africa. Like Manifest Destiny in America, it had a nice colonial ring to it. โ€œOur manifest destiny [is] to overspread the continent, Allotted by Providence for the free development, Of our yearly multiplying millions.โ€ John L. O'Sullivan, 1845 Our civilizing mission or manifest destiny: Either/or, a catchy turn of phrase; Not unlike another ironic euphemism and semantic subterfuge: The Pacification of the West; Pacification? Hardly: decidedly not too peaceful for Cochise & Tonto. Meanwhile, Madonna is cash rich but disrespected Evita poor, To wit: A Virgin on the Rocks (throwing in a byte or 2 of Da Vinci Code). Meanwhile, Miss Ciccone denied her golden totem ***. They snubbed that little guinea ***, didnโ€™t they? Snubbed her, robbed her rotten. Evita, her magnum opus, right up there with . . . Her SNL Wayneโ€™s World skit: โ€œGet a load of the unit on that guy.โ€ Or, that infamous MTV Music Video Awards stunt, That classic *** Lip-Lock with Britney Spears. How could I not see that Oscar snubola as prime evidence? It was just another stunning case of American anti-Italian racial animus. Anyone familiar with Noam Chomsky would see it, Must view it in the same context as the Sacco & Vanzetti case, Or, that arbitrary lynching of 9 Italian-Americans in New Orleans in 1891, To cite just two instances of anti-Italian judicial reach & mob violence, Much like what happened to my cousin Dominic, Gang-raped by the Harlem Globetrotters, in their locker room during halftime, While he working for Abe Saperstein back in 1952. Dom was doing advance for Abe, supporting creation of The Washington Generals: A permanent stable of hoop dream patsies and foils, Named for the ever freewheeling, glad-handing, backslapping, Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force (SCAEF), himself, Namely General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the man they liked, And called IKE: quite possibly a crypto Jew from Abilene. Of course, Harry Truman was my first Great White Fascist Father, Back in 1946, when I first opened my eyes, hung up there, High above, looking down from the adobe wall. Surveying the entire circular kiva, I had the best seat in the house. Donโ€™t let it be said my Spider Grandmother or Hopi Corn Mother, Did not want me looking around at things, Discovering what made me special. Didnโ€™t divine intervention play a significant part of my creation? Knowing Mamma Mia and Nonna were Deities, Gave me an edge later on the streets of Brooklyn. The Cradleboard: was there ever a more divinely inspired gift to human curiosity? The Cradleboard: a perfect vantage point, an infantโ€™s early grasp, Of life harmonious, suspended between Mother Earth and Father Sky. Simply put: the Hopi should be running our *** public schools. But it was IKE with whom I first associated, Associated with the concept 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. I liked IKE. Who didnโ€™t? What was not to like? He won the *** war, didnโ€™t he? And he wasnโ€™t one of those crazy *** John Birchers, Way out there, on the far right lunatic Republican fringe, Was he? (It seems odd and nearly impossible to believe in 2013, That there was once a time in our Boomer lives, When the extreme right wing of the Republican Party Was viewed by the FBI as an actual threat to American democracy.) Understand: it was at a time when The FBI, Had little ideological baggage, But a great appetite for secrets, The insuppressible Jay Edgar doing his thang. IKE: of whom we grew so, oh-so Fifties fond. Good old reliable, Nathan Shaking IKE: Heโ€™d been fixed, hadnโ€™t he? Had had the psychic snip. Snipped as a West Point cadet & parade ground martinet. Which made IKE a good man to have in a pinch, Especially when crucial policy direction was way above his pay grade. Cousin Dom was Sapersteinโ€™s bagman, bribing out the opposition, Which came mainly from religious and patriotic organizations, Viewing the bogus white sports franchise as obscene. The Washington Generals, Sapersteinโ€™s new team would have but one opponent, And one sole mission: to serve as the butt of endless jokes and sight gags forโ€” Negroes. To play the chronic fools of-- Negroes. To be chronically humiliated and insulted byโ€” Negroes. To run up and down the boards all night, being outran byโ€” Negroes. Not to mention having to wear baggy silk shorts. Meadowlark Lemon: โ€œYeah, Charlie, we raped that grease-ball Dominic; we shagged his guinea mouth and *** rotten.โ€ (interviewed in his Scottsdale, AZ winter residence in 2003 by former ESPN commentator Charlie Steiner, Malverne High School, Class of โ€™67.) IKE, briefed on the issue by higher-ups, quickly got behind the idea. The Harlem Globetrotters were to exist, and continue to exist, Are sustained financially by Illuminati sponsors, For one reason and one reason only: To serve elite interests that the Negro be kept down and subservient, That the minstrel show be perpetuated, A policy surviving the elaborate window dressing of the civil rights movement, Affirmative action, and our first Uncle Tom president. Case in point: Charles Barkley, Dennis Rodman & Metta World Peace Artest. Cha-cha-cha changing again: I am Robert Allen Zimmermann, A whiny, skinny Jew, stoned and rolling in from Minnesota, Arrested, obviously a vagrant, caught strolling around his tony Jersey enclave, Having moved on up the list, the A-list, a special invitation-only, Yom Kippur Passover Seder: Next Year in Jerusalem, Babaloo! I take ownership of all my autonomic and conditioned reflexes; Each personal neural arc and pathway, All shenanigans & shellackings, Or blunt force cognitive traumas. Itโ€™s all percolating nicely now, thank you, In kitchen counter earthen crockery: Random access memory: a slow-cook crockpot, Bubbling through my psychic sieve. My memories seem only remotely familiar, Distant and vague, at times unreal: An alien hybrid databank accessed accidently on purpose; Flaky science sustains and monitors my nervous system. And leads us to an overwhelming question: Is it true that John Dillingerโ€™s *** is in the Smithsonian Museum? Enquiring minds want to know, Kemosabe! โ€œAny last words, ***?โ€ TWEETS Adam Smith. Postmortem cyber-graffiti, an epitaph carved in space; Last words, so singular and simple, Across the universal great divide, Frisbee-d, like a Pleistocene Kubrick bone, Tossed randomly into space, Morphing into a gyroscopic space station. Mr. Smith, a calypso capitalist, and me, Me, the Poet Laureate of the United States and Adam; Who, I didnโ€™t know from Adam. But we tripped the light fantastic, We boogied the Protestant Work Ethic, To the tune of that old Scotch-Presbyterian favorite, Variations of a 5-point Calvinist theme: Total Depravity; Election; Particular Redemption; Irresistible Grace; & Perseverance of the Saints. Mr. Smith, the author of An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), One of the best-known, intellectual rationales for: Free trade, capitalism, and libertarianism, The latter term a euphemism for Social Darwinism. Prior to 1764, Calvinists in France were called Huguenots, A persecuted religious majority . . . is that possible? A persecuted majority of Edict of Nantes repute. Adam Smith, likely of French Huguenot Jewish ancestry himself, Reminds me that it is my principal plus interest giving me my daily gluten. And donโ€™t think the irony escapes me now, A realization that it has taken me nearly all my life to see again, What I once saw so vividly as a child, way back when. Before I put away childish things, including the following sentiment: โ€œAll I need is the air that I breathe.โ€ Send "The Air That I Breathe" Ringtone to your Cell The Hippies were right, of course. The Hollies had it all figured out. With the answer, as usual, right there in the lyrics. But you were lucky if you were listening. There was a time before I embraced, The other โ€œlegendaryโ€ economists: The inexorable Marx, The savage society of Veblen, The heresies we know so well of Keynes. I was a child. And when I was a child, I spake as a childโ€” Grazie mille, King Jamesโ€” I understood as a child; I thought as a child. But when I became a man I jumped on the bus with the band, Hopped on the irresistible bandwagon of Adam Smith. Smith: โ€œAny last words, ***?โ€ Okay, you were right: man is rationally self-interested. Grazie tanto, Scotch Enlightenment, An intellectual movement driven by, An alliance of Calvinists and Illuminati, Freemasons and Johnny Walker Black. Talk about an irresistible bandwagon: Smith, the gloomy Malthus, and David Ricardo, Another Jew boy born in London, England, Third of 17 children of a Sephardic family of Portuguese origin, Who had recently relocated from the Dutch Republic. *** Jews! Like everything shrewd, sane and practical in this world, WE also invented the concept: FOLLOW THE MONEY. The lyrics: if you were really listening, youโ€™d get it: Respiration keeps one sufficiently busy, Just breathing free can be a full-time job, Especially when--borrowing a phrase from British cricketersโ€”, One contemplates the sorry state of the wicket. Now that I am gainfully superannuated, Pensioned off the employment radar screen. Oft I go there into the wild ebon yonder, Wandering the brain cloud at will. My journey indulges curiosity, creativity and deceit. I free range the sticky wicket, I have no particular place to go. Snagging some random fact or factoid, A stop & go rural postal route, Jumping on and off the brain cloud. Just sampling really, But every now and then, gorging myself, At some information super smorgasbord, At a Good Samaritan Rest Stop, I ponder my own frazzled neurology, When I was a childโ€” Before I learned the grim economic facts of life and Judaism, Before I learned Hebrew, Before my laissez-faire Bar Mitzvah lessons, Under the rabbinical tutelage of Rebbe Kahane-- I knew what every clever child knows about life: The surfing itself is the destination. Accessing RAM--random access memoryโ€” On a strictly need to know basis. RAM: a pretty good name for consciousness these days. If I were an Asimov or Sir Arthur (Sri Lankabhimanya) Clarke, Iโ€™d get freaky now, riffing on Terminators, Time Travel and Cyborgs. But this is truth not science fiction. Nevertheless, someone had better, Come up with another name for cyborg. Some other name for a critter, Composed of both biological and artificial parts? Parts-is-parts--be they electronic, mechanical or robotic. But after a lifetime of science fiction media, After a steady media diet, rife with dystopian technology nightmares, Is anyone likely to admit to being a cyborg? Since I always give credit where credit is due, I acknowledge that cyborg was a term coined in 1960, By Manfred Clynes & Nathan S. Kline and, Used to identify a self-regulating human-machine system in outer space. Five years later D. S. Halacy's: Cyborg: Evolution of the Superman, Featured an introduction, which spoke of: โ€œโ€ฆ a new frontier, that was not, Merely space, but more profoundly, the relationship between inner space, And outer space; a bridge, i.e., between mind and matter.โ€ So, by definition, a cyborg defined is an organism with, Technology-enhanced abilities: an antenna array, Replacing what was once sentient and human. My glands, once in control of metabolism and emotions, Have been replaced by several servomechanisms. I am biomechanical and gluttonous. Soaking up and breathing out the atmosphere, My Baby Boom experience of six decades, Homogenized and homespun, feedback looped, Endlessly networked through predigested mass media, Culture as demographically targeted content. This must have something to do with my own metamorphosis. I think of Gregor Samsa, a Kafkaesque character if there ever was one. And though we share common traits, My evolutionary progress surpasses and transcends his. Samsa--Phylum and Class--was, after all, an insect. Nonetheless, I remain a changeling. Have I not seen many stages of growth? Each a painful metamorphic cycle, From exquisite first egg, Through caterpillarโ€™s appetite & squirm. To phlegmatic bliss and pupa quietude, I unfold my wings in a rush of Van Gogh palette, Color, texture, movement and grace, lift off, flapping in flight. My eyes have witnessed wondrous transformations, My experience, nouveau riche and distinctly self-referential; For the most part unspecific & longitudinally pedestrian. Yes, something has happened to me along the way. I am no longer certain of my identity as a human being. Time and technology has altered my basic wiring diagram. I suspect the sophisticated gadgets and tools, Iโ€™ve been using to shape & make sense of my environment, Have reared up and turned around on me. My tools have reshaped my brain & central nervous system. Remaking me as something simultaneously more and less human. The electronic toys and tools I once so lovingly embraced, Have turned unpredictable and rabid, Their *** penetrating my skin and septic now, a cluster of implanted sensors, Content: currency made increasingly more valuable as time passes, Served up by and serving the interests of a pervasively predatory 1%. And the rest of us: the so-called 99%? No longer human; simply put by both Howards--Beale & Zinn-- Humanoid.

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