The Burning Block No. 10
By Shane Eide
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In this tenth issue of the zine of apocalyptic satire that is The Burning Block, a future chronicle of UBI melts down into a simultaneous utopian and dystopian fever dream, a critique of human privilege deconstructs man and his anthropomorphic prejudice through which he has ever tried to beat the universe into submission, and philosophy is discovered to be a mere practice through which folly has been allocated to some avatar or mimetic scapegoat with ever mutating religious fervor.
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 No. 10 - Shane Eide
THE BURNING BLOCK
Art, Apocalypse and Satire
Vol. II - No. 10
September 14, 2019
EDITED
by
SHANE EIDE
Quelling the effects of the apocalypse by making them more ecumenically palatable
Copyright
© The Burning Block Vol. II, No. 10
Edition 1 Published by Shane Eide, September 14, 2019
Edited by Shane Eide
Cover design by Shane Eide
Cover image by Kathryn Eide
Portland Oregon
The contents of this issue may not be republished elsewhere or redistributed by anyone but Shane Eide without permission, with the exception of brief excerpts for the sake of review or reference.
The contents of this issue are featured here with minor edits and improvements, having first appeared at EmergentHermit.com.
Contents
You Be Eye I
Human Privilege
Encyclopedia of the Current Year
Starve Your Principles, Not Your Children
Philofolly
More by Shane Eide
You Be Eye I
0.737474 In the end the rats ruled the cities.
1.0 There's a tale we all told on cold nights of a world in which everyone had their own vision. Every man was the prophet of a localized gnosis.
1.1 The technocrats of this world quite envisioned something different than how it turned out. They focused too much on technology and overlooked the fact that the egregore was responsible, ultimately, for the AI (and the egregore was as much our fault as the AI).
2.0 The tribes bifurcated a million times over due to events stemming directly from the implementation of Universal Basic Income. It was assumed that everyone would continue down the path of atomization - that they would now have money to feel comfortable and pay rent.
They did the system one better: