Trump is the culmination of a long developing horror story. Unlike his predecessors who prepared the way for him and who generally wore traditionally allaying masks to hide their evil actions, he is the greatest blatant fraud to ever occupy the White House.| Edward Curtin
“Art is magic liberated from the lie of being truth.”| Edward Curtin
I wrote this essay about Kris Kristofferson on September 21, 2024 a week before he died on September 28, 2024. In the intervening week, I was surprised to receive a message from one of his children who had read my tribute and was showing it to Kris whom I was told would appreciate it. His death deeply saddened me, but I was also glad that I wrote it when I did and that Kris may have found comfort in knowing that someone was listening and knows "he beat the devil" as he "fed the hunger in ...| Edward Curtin
“In a dark time, the eye begins to see. . . . What’s madness but nobility of soul| Edward Curtin
“You may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for” – Billy…| Edward Curtin
“An example that shows the radical devaluation of thought is the transformation of words in propaganda; there, language, the instrument of the mind, become ‘pure sound,’ a symbol directly evoking feelings and reflexes.”| Edward Curtin
In a country with a Mount Rushmore that celebrates the ruthless and frenetic westward expansion, it might be a bit…| Edward Curtin
Whenever I get the infrequent opportunity to walk the wild deserted Cape Cod outer Atlantic beach in the early morning,…| Edward Curtin
“They didn’t act like people and they didn’t act like actors. It’s hard to explain.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye| Edward Curtin
The following was published in June 2019. It’s the same old story. When will we ever learn?| Edward Curtin
What follows is a revised and updated version of an essay from my 2020 book, Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies. | Edward Curtin
Real Holes in Neverland| edwardcurtin.com
Even though it isn’t a nut, reality is especially hard to crack these days. But if you closely observe daily life all around you, no matter how superficial it may at first seem, you will catch many glimpses of why this may be so. The signs of falsehood are everywhere here in the land of make-believe, for those willing to decipher them. The big lies and deceptions of politicians, intelligence services, and their media minions have their counterparts in trivial encounters where, as Melville s...| Edward Curtin
“To me, they [Palestinians] are like animals, they aren’t human.”| Edward Curtin
That the United States of America is controlled by a criminally perverse, two party ruling class should be obvious to any reasonable (not rational, for the above-named people are very rational) person not living in what Jean-Paul Sartre, the French existential writer, called bad faith (mauvaise foi). | Edward Curtin
It is getting harder and harder to breathe. The world grows smaller as storms gather. All night the storm raged furiously, the lightning, thunder, rain, and wind locking us in and away from the world. No one expected it to be this bad. The dogs howled like wolves.| Edward Curtin
As a result of recent conversations, my life-long closest friend Diego wrote the following. If you’re lucky as we are, you have such a friend whose interests and thoughts match yours so closely that it seems that you were separated at birth in a dream. We both felt from the days of our youth when chance brought us together that, to paraphrase Bob Dylan, it was not he, she, them, or it that we belonged to, or that we would ever gargle in the rat race choir for those who make the rules to te...| Edward Curtin
What is the truth, and where did it go?| Edward Curtin
“To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.” Eugene O’Neill, The Iceman Cometh| Edward Curtin
“In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.”| Edward Curtin
Israel Has Wiped Out Over 1,000 Entire Families| Edward Curtin
Although Memorial Day in the United Sates is ostensibly a day for honoring soldiers killed in wars, it is, rather, a day for promoting war. If it were to honor the dead, all its pageantry would be in opposition to war. Rather than being haunted by the ghosts of war, many Americans are very proud of all its soldiers killed while killing foreigners for the military industrial complex and the super-rich who own the country.| Edward Curtin
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The following is the Introduction to my new book, At the Lost and Found (Clarity Press).| Edward Curtin
We live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle where brainwashing is cunning and relentless, and the consuming public is consumed with thoughts and perceptions filtered through electronic media according to the needs and lies of corporate state power.| Edward Curtin
“Accomplished fingers begin to play./Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,/Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.”| Edward Curtin
There is history worth remembering as Trump is lauded in certain circles on the so-called “right” and “left” as a peacemaker with Russia over the US/NATO proxy war against Russia via Ukraine: President Richard Nixon, who ran as the peace candidate in 1968 with a “secret plan” for peace in Vietnam that was actually a plan for more war, visited China in February 1972 in a move to exploit the Soviet-China split, and yet the US war against Vietnam went on until April 30, 1975 when the...| Edward Curtin
I was asking this question recently when the nightmare of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians greatly disturbed my reflections and took me in another writerly direction. Now I wish to return to this matter that seems perpetually pertinent, a pertinence, of course, not unconnected to the dead in Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else. There are so many ways of getting dead – and living – that complicate my question.| Edward Curtin
It is hard for those who have not lived through the shattering political assassinations of the 1960s to grasp their significance for today. Many might assume that that was then and long before their time, so let’s move on to what we must deal with today. Let some old folks, the obsessive ones, live in the past. It is an understandable but mistaken attitude that this documentary will quickly shatter, visually and audibly. The echoes of those guns that killed President John F. Kennedy...| Edward Curtin
Before my mind was turned to the subject of my title, I started to write a piece called “Are the Dead Nostalgic?”| Edward Curtin
An Absurdist Review| Edward Curtin
A Review| Edward Curtin
