It's a month before the election, and I think the primitives are getting downright boring.
From what I remember of the run-up to the elections of 2004 and 2008, the primitives although unified in their Hate and delusions, were more varied in expressing that Hate and living those delusions.
This year, it's the same two or three talking points over and over and over again, nothing new, nothing varied, from campfire to campfire.
General Discusson on Skins's island has of course always been a Wolkenkuckkuckensheim, a lurid, grotesque, writhing cloud-cuckoo-land, sort of an animated el Greco portrait that slowly twists and turns, as if melting, but at least in Days of Old, it had color. Nowadays it all seems simply black-and-white, and the pained and agonized movements repetitive.
I once compared--and quite reasonably so, I think--Skins's island with a small-town grocery store, the individual primitives as being different name-brands, and the campfires there as being products of those brands.
Now it's like walking into a grocery store with miles and miles of shelves, all of them fully stocked, ready for picking.....but the grocery store's full of nothing but the same black-and-white (generic) labeled cans of beans, nothing else, no shelf or aisle offering anything different than the next shelf or aisle. Just the same cans of beans.
