An animal, a plant, addiction, cogitation, Frank Zappa, the paranoid, and a spectacle

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The animal, a necessary evil, a cannibalistic plant created by other plants as a mobile compost heap.

One sign of addiction is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Consider then our addiction to cogitation, and how we ask of it what it cannot provide.

Frank Zappa: "An unrepressive society would not censor my material." Frank Zappa has gestalted the 'wrong' into the hands of society. And a paranoid individual can suggest that a unrepressive society would not make him paranoid. These outlooks are theoretically acceptable but they are not utilitarian. They enumerate a problem, they do not transcend it.

The situationist 'spectacle': if man operates and is motivated by spectacle, it is only because he is at the same time motivated externally (the prerequisite for a 'spectacle', which requires a 'spectator')

"Resentment is always highly colored in envy." Sheler

This is poor resenting rich, but not rich resenting poor.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.