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    The Burning Block Issue 4
    The Burning Block Issue 4
    The Burning Block Issue 4
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    The Burning Block Issue 4

    By Shane Eide

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    In Issue 4 of The Burning Block, aphorisms are at home with The Demonic Newsreel, in which modern politics are paired with science fiction solutions to global problems. It turns out, the non-aggression principle is, in fact, aggressive. Activation is preferred to activism. The news has always been fake and the fakest news of all seems closer to the truth. Enjoy this wild ride where the current social and political climate is never quite what it seems.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShane Eide
    Release dateMay 15, 2017
    ISBN9781370923533
    The Burning Block Issue 4
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    Shane Eide

    Shane Eide is a part-time hermit, part-time flaneur, which means that he is either spending time on literary pursuits or taking walks and thinking about literary pursuits​. He lives in a little room walled with books and sleeps near a big desk, on which he doesn't write since all the quiet is too distracting. He usually goes someplace noisy in order to write as much about fiction as he writes fiction. He's been writing fiction since he was about 11, in which time he's written several novels that he never intends to publish and which no one will ever see, and several others that he wants to publish that he's read out loud to his gold fish. He's been writing what he supposes would be called non-fiction ever since he wrote "Shane was here," in easily erasable pencil on a desk in junior high. You can read his essays and occasional fiction at his blog, www.emergenthermit.com

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      The Burning Block Issue 4 - Shane Eide

      THE BURNING BLOCK

      Philosophy, Politics, Literature

      Issue 4

      May 15, 2017

      EDITOR

      SHANE EIDE

      ©Copyright, The Burning Block Issue 4

      Edition 1 Published by Shane Eide, May 15, 2017

      Edited by Shane Eide

      Cover design by Shane Eide

      Cover image by Fred Velvet

      Portland Oregon

      The contents of this issue may not be republished elsewhere or redistributed by anyone but the editor, with the exception of brief excerpts for the sake of review or the endorsement or critique of ideas herein.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      A Letter from the Editor

      Aphorisms

      The Demonic Newsreel

      Public School=Public Whining

      Representative Authority

      The Part in the Whole and the Whole in the Part

      The Origin

      The Non-Aggression Principle as Aggression

      Pig Morality

      Freed Speech

      Not Activism, But Activation

      A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

      Shane Eide

      Issue 4 contains a new series called ‘The Demonic Newsreel,’ which, though I introduce it here, has its own internal series of introductions. As I describe it later, it is an exercise in non sequitur, though it would be more appropriate to say that the headlines involved have only too much to do with their subject matter. The issue opens with a brief series of aphorisms.

      The newsreel deals with issues of today (when I say ‘today,’ I don’t necessarily mean issues that are timely) while the essays which follow it approach issues more at a subterranean level; as features of life which seem to creep into all ages and confront us whenever we are in such a position to let them visit us.

      APHORISMS

      Shane Eide

      The coward’s bravest act, that is, his willingness to admit his cowardice, is often resented more than his cowardice.

      Goethe put his hope ‘in nothing,’ but this ‘nothing’ is active. It is the pool into which ‘something’ ever wades and realizes itself.

      Only individuals can have enemies. Nations have disaffected customers.

      One thinks he has changed another. He fails to see that it is not he who performed the change, but something lying beyond that other’s vanishing point.

      The greatest mistake a musician can make is to stop playing. Even after the instrument is set down, one must

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