a con man

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Joseph Franklyn McElroy Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist] wrote:

> I am a con man, I will use the energy you give me to build and create.

An impossibility. Another's energy is not yours + the mechanism that
drains energy from another is wasteful. But you're precis on
imperialism, and absolute (not individual / souvereign) power.

> I will suck you dry, but you will be refilled by time and satisfaction
> from the creation. You perhaps learn to be a con man yourself, or perhaps never. It
> does not matter, for you still participate and experience in life. You build.

Solidifying spirit. You're going to build–Museums? Party Halls?
Congress Halls? Parliaments? Mummification Mausoleums?

Glad to see imperalistic-every-man-dictator-now is so de rigeur. Not.

Nobody's energy belongs to anybody but themselves.

> A good con man must first con himself, become a true believer.

Idiocy: that would be the trap of con-men.

> A good con man is not ironic.

Rather the opposite: a good man knows the 'population'
is fond of irony, and plays that string to the max.


> If we are not fooled out of irony, nothing much would be created.


A con man cannot create.

> A good con man never explains the "truth" or "reality".

This hasn't got anything to do with 'con men'. Truth
and Reality are not subject to words. Maybe one day your
ape-brain will realize that and release its grasp on you.

> A good con man never calls his mark an idiot.

The rules of 'con man' behavior? So I hear that conmen are creatures of
habit.


> A good con man laughs at death.

The creatures of habit always fall in death's trap.
Only idiotic self-importance would think that it matters if
you're–delusionally–crying–or laughing.

Death is not after your mask, baby–nor does it care for it.

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