Borges is one of my favorite authors. I came to know about his work through an
old heart mentor of mine by the name of René Levan. If you knew if you know
about my kind of history as a performer, as a card magician, sleight of hand
artist, then you'll know a lot of my my previous performance styles on stage was
heavily influenced by René. And René himself was heavily influenced by Borges.
And the reason why I like reading his work is, as in Borges' work, and I've
been to Buenos Aires myself. I've been to Argentina, stayed there for about three
weeks, went to Montevideo, Uruguay, knowing that he was a blind man or
developed a blind affliction. His writing became very introspective and often he
would explore subjects such as loneliness, darkness, isolation, and the deeper
philosophies.
Some of my favorite works of his is a man on pink corner, or the street corner man,
which is a short story that came out in 1939. Another one is The Garden of
Forking Pass. Another one is The Circular Ruins. Another one is The
Rolls of Paracelsus. Very good short story. And another one that I do also enjoy
is The Approach to Almutacim. Yeah man, these are my favorite stories. Oftentimes
when I read Borges, it makes me think about human nature, which is what I
want to talk to you about today, but I've been on the jobs since 5 a.m.
Fucking early. Yeah, we start early, man. We start, well, we start on a weekday,
because we all prefer about six. Yeah. Because we've got to be there for, like,
half an hour. Fuck. That means that we're waiting for about three.
Is that what you're going on? No, no, no, I finished. I finished about one
a club, but I was walking around, went to the library, got some books,
now it smells like a fat blood. Oh, fucking hell. You've got to change your
head. Back at the old hang, if you remember, I used to live in this area. I think they
try to grow some food over there in this, I'm not sure what it is, you know, some
community garden, because if they are, seriously, I want to help out, you know.
Look at them, very nice. Is it dandelions? I can make tea with those, you know.
I should jump the fence, like, at the nighttime and just fucking cut some.
Oh, look at them. Look at these daffodils.
I see all sorts of shit here. I see some nettles. Yeah. Very good. Very good.
Very good. Back at the old hang. I don't know if you remember this place.
This is Rawlins Street. I grew up here, specifically on that top floor there.
You see that, the one on the far corner, the three windows. Yeah.
How things have changed here. If you remember my old videos, you'll remember me sitting here and
doing joints in the evening. Remember the joints in the evening? The sun's out, everyone's out.
Can't find a good place to sit.
What are you laughing at? The sun is really messed up. I can't put you guys over here,
because you see, we'll be in your face. So I just have to put you guys over here.
When I was walking around that area with the seats, I regret not being able to record a
very nice conversation with a, I think it's in his 50s, and all the Jamaican men that I kind of
met when I was still living in that area about a year and a half ago, and I was smoking my pipe
on that same bench, and he came up to me and he started talking. And all, you know,
right away, I knew he was a man that has been awake for a long time. You know,
we were talking about cut to the chase, like this COVID shit was all bullshit. You know,
we kicked off from there. And then I got talking to, like, on many other different subjects
like things like racial history and origins of programming and MK ultra and all these things,
you know, and I just bumped into him while he bumped into me. I was reading, I was reading,
actually I was reading this edition of Borges, which is Labyrinth, which is a part of his
selected fictions, which is also a part of his collected fiction, which is a very thick book.
You know, I borrowed this from the library. And then it's lovely. This is lovely. It's
right size for my hand. I can hold it with one hand. I can hold the pages, you know,
like, like this, when I'm smoking my pipe, which was what I did exactly. And I guess he
smelt my pipe tobacco. Oh, I'm smoking some condor ready rough in my pouch here. Now,
God, I've got so much shit in my pocket, but serious in my little pouch, my doctor thumb pouch.
So he came up to me and he started talking to me again. Man, he's like, yo, man,
Chin, I haven't seen you in a long time. Where you been? You know, how you been keeping?
And it was as if the conversation never stopped. We just picked up from where we left off.
You know, of course, we were talking about the whole Iran shit, where, you know, like the
whole narrative behind that and the whole weaponization of the Islamists and the whole
weaponization of the narrative of the East, West West and what's that all been about,
you know, and it's very good to be able to talk to someone on a level. Just last night.
Me and my housemate, we had a very good, very good smokeout session in the garage.
And we, well, here's the truth of himself. You know, we spoke about a lot of different
subjects, but being Polish himself, a lot of the things were moving to what in our kind of
dialogue, we're talking about war, preparing for war, fighting combat, these type of things.
And now with the situation, the economy is being weaponized against the masses.
The money is being weaponized against the masses.
Poverty is being weaponized again, you know, to the masses, not by the masses, to the masses.
And we were discussing all these layers of different programming, you know, all these
different layers of MK Ultra programming. And we were then talking about natural versus
unnaturalness. How things now in this modern society, if you're in the so-called first world
countries, and you're living in like the cities or whatnot, or the common wealth countries, and
you're in your metropolitan kind of like infrastructures, man, the sky is so beautiful today,
I gotta, I gotta fucking find up my pipe, man. Just for old time's sakes. Folk and pipe.
I think I got a bit of Samuel Gowith's 1792 flake in this, coupled with a condor. A very nice little
combination. Very nicely dried too. It's crushing your hands and anyway. What is believed or perceived
to be natural is very unnatural. And what were the natural ways have been perceived in
the bubble of the metropolitan kind of like islands, which you guys call cities or whatnot,
to be very, I got confused. Sorry, I've been up since five, I've been up since like three
a.m. in the morning, man, shit, man. It's like fucking awful in the afternoon in my island,
so I've been at work. What is deemed to be natural is very unnatural. What is deemed
to be unnatural is deemed to be natural. And if you open your eyes, you can see,
you know, on the faces of the people, the way they live,
the things they pursue, the dreams they have, the aspirations, the troubles, the woes,
everything's perverted. The pain and pleasure pathways have been perverted even neurologically.
It's in a point where we don't know what's real, what's worth pursuing, what's valuable.
Yo, what's going on?
So, yeah, man, it got me, got me thinking.
Why is it so difficult to speak to some people about these subjects?
Yeah, why is it so easy to speak to others? Maybe strangers on these subjects,
subjects on human nature, you know, for the past couple of years to at least find worthy comrades.
I'm not saying that I haven't found any, but in my pursuits, in my journey,
of course, there's been more obstacles than anything else. And when I was speaking to
these people that I'm mentioning in the video here,
even though these people have never met, their answers to me are the same.
Who's Boston Magyberal, are you?
Serious.
Yeah, even though they've never met, these people have given me the same answers,
which leads me to believe that it's not a, it's not a sudden thought,
you know, what they see, what they perceive, and what they tell me.
A lot of people, the ones who are wide awake, they perceive it too, you know.
So, what is it that allows people to see it, and what is it that allows people to not see it,
you know?
And then speaking with my Polish housemate on the subject,
he told me this.
What's going on?
What's going on ladies, you okay?
Ah, there's a butterfly, okay, yeah.
So, speaking to my Polish housemate, he told me this.
Probably the millennials
were the last of their kind to be able to live with the radar of caution and danger still turned on.
The radar has not been switched on.
Where we going? Where we going?
So what?
Yeah, road industry number 14, that was where?
Oh, not that one.
Where?
Number three.
Number three?
Yeah, up here.
Oh, I used to live number 14, so I'd like to come back here.
I see it.
Yeah.
Oh, do we walk around here as well? I'm not this side though, mate.
I'm around there, born and bred.
Oh, shit.
I'll let him come down and say, how's the joy?
Oh, okay.
Well, I don't know.
What was that one's body carrying for them?
What was it?
Not actually, right?
Is that for the body moving in that?
Aye.
Well, I think he might have walked past me.
No, he's there.
Sorry, chatting up some cute girls.
Speak to you later.