Madison Ave and the Roman Empire

It is alleged that because millions participate in it, certain reproduction processes are necessary that inevitably require identical needs in innumerable places to be satisfied with identical goods.


-Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer (1944)



This follows the same model that was ushered in with Roman expansion of Christianity. Local geo-historically founded identity, religious and cultural practices, resulted in being swept away. Madison Ave and the Romans, have much in common.

- John Joseph Kehoe (2014)

silence (2002)




Silence, not one smile,
the quiet that becomes all too loud,
 and echoes ceaselessly

into the mundane patterns of waking life
in a city of strangers,
all with searching hearts,
but not one applicable method of deployment.

Pathetic are we to carry on, but no, we have laughter.

Laughter derived from our hopeless desire for salvation.
The imbecility of such is enough entertainment 
to last more than a century, 
for the laughter shall echo for a thousand years








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