Bruce Barten

About me:

I believe that people remember jokes better than other forms of knowledge. People are different mainly because they know different jokes. I have a rare outlook on history and philosophy because I believe that memorization is fundamental to understanding the psychotic multiplicity which undergirds any frame of reference. My biggest entry to the internet was writing customer reviews for Amazon.com, usually with my real name, but sometimes I like to emphasize an anti-war feminist attitude while hardly controlling the feeling that it is difficult to write like a crazy broad without being funny. Sometimes I even think country music can be funny. Check out Brad Paisley singing: I'd like to see you out in the moonlight I'd like to kiss you way back in the sticks I'd like to walk you through a field of wild flowers I'd like to check you for ticks ABC news is no longer playing the Ticks video in their news videos, but you might be able to hear him if you find the Brad Paisley profile. 3 a.m. capers have been extraordinary for me, and drawing on 40 years of recapitulation of being part of the American national honor in Viet Nam has some moments that are more exciting than the mundane details of ordinary life. I have some combinations of words which truly rattle my brain like: where have I heard that before? As a Freudian expert in the humor of the Vietnam war, my greatest intellectual struggle is to find published materials that can be used to express a view that condemns common American public opinions, or the crowd that voted for hemlock for Socrates. Now that the twentieth century is over, historical irony demands the reflection that it was a time when people didn't joke about what the map of Vietnam looks like. I just made a list of interesting web sites that were the first 47 results for a Google search for: "what the map of Vietnam looks like" Among the results were pages for which the server could not be found, and pages which did not have my name or my review of LIFE AGAINST DEATH by Norman O. Brown in which I asserted that American policy was only possible because most people had never seen a credibility gap which looked just like a map of Vietnam. I'm part of the collective unconscious which includes 339 web pages, possibly all peddling LIFE AGAINST DEATH, many of which will never be seen again, but you might get the same results just by searching for "map of Vietnam looks like". On many occasions since the year 2000, I also got interesting results with a Google search for "Heidegger in secret sacred cowsville".