DE EIGENLIJKE M.O.S.S.E.L.-F.A.Q.

some basic facts on mussels,
Animalia Mollusca Bivalvia,
you'll need to be aware off

Why isn't it working? WHAT IS WRONG WITH US, WITH OUR PERCEPTION OF OURSELVES, WITH HOW PEOPLE SEE US?

Let's be honest: it isn't because we can't get people to buy into the shit that we produce that microfunding stuff isn't working. Ok, it may be part of the problem, but it isn't the main reason. People 'd do almost anything to kill the moral pains of living in unbearable luxury while the bigger part of the population is starving. There are a million ways of hooking up creative activity so that it functions as a redemption for others in this respect. But we don't want that, we feel we're deceiving ourselves too if we pull off a stunt like that.

After all we aren't 'just' mussels. Neither are we 'only' a member of the undead aggregate as put forward in the first instance of this textual procedure. Part of our processes can be taken 'en masse' as being the monadic instance of musselhood alive within our historical mess. Individuation doesn't happen on an 'artistic level', or ideologically within the fictions we attempt to impose on our material realities. That material reality, until further notice is almost entierely made up within the bilogical realm. It's our fingerprints that may cash in on our 'Art', not our fartistic identity. I don't accept the old fabrications of 'art'anymore. I believe we should try using some other allegories for a change. Hence the Musselmen, wanting to fly into your 2 towers of Art und Fart.

But then, that ofcourse, the vicious circle part, is essentially the main problem why microfunding NEVER works: we can't get involved with the stuff we're acting against, but we need the stuff we're against in order to get involved with our own shit. Oh dear. Problemo.

So let's get back to the Marcel Broodthaers Mussel Enigma, which isn't much of an Enigma as it is another well-diagnosed occurence of the disease known as BPG or Belgian Prodigal Genius.

First of all, the inherent contradiction with creatively hyperactive people as it is often put (anti-commerce needing money) isn't the case, actually. We're not so much anti-commerce (some of us are but not qua mussel, as a environmental-activist perhaps or as a mother, or as a dentist..) as we are a-commercial, unsellable. The getMoney() method isn't mussel-native and, moreover from General Recursion in Economics (GRE NKdeE syll. 2011/4) we ought to remember that the recursion of the getMoney() method is not to be placed within the getMoney() method itself but within the garbage() method a few levels down (or up, depending on the Clumpiler) (yes, i know, the GRE isn't available yet, hey give me a break will you). So correction:

A mussel qua mussel is not anti-commercial, she is a-commercial.

So we're not against getting paid by nature, we 'don't want any part of the damn system' because it's essence, the getMoney() method, isn't a method that comes natural to us. So the self-inflating procedure doesn't work, there's no getMoney() method returning moreMoney as the mussel itself is growing.

Next, the products of mussels aren't the side-effects of their being a mussel. Mussels áre their product. Commercially, you put them in their breeding grounds and leave 'm there is the best possible conditions and harvest them when they're ready to be cooked. After coocking (they do scream while being coocked alive but their screams do not register in commercial ears) you can eat a mussel, preferably with some french fries and a Belgian beer - but the remainder is a useless albeit smelly shell that attracts big mother-flies filled with eggs of little flies. Most mussels, when trying to apply the getMoney() method, attempt it wrongly with either their side-effects (sell their shell-garbage) or their production engines (bodies). Here, have a mussel..

So many of us find themselves in the paradoxical situation of wanting to be eaten alive. Living it up towards the final sacrifice...There's no need, really.
Instead we should aim to present ourselves as much as possible as uneatable, disgusting, unhealthy. Nor is there any need to negatively built a self-image of a leech draining energy from the 'healthy' host-society, only bent on producing off-spring, other leeches.

On the required disavowal of negativity, e.g. in the L.E.E.C.H. model.

So any set-up of microfunding, it appears, just doesn't reach the disequilibrum required to get inited. No momentum, no money. Why? Well, for one thing there's not enough mess to unbalance the other jerks fishing (= acting like a fish) in the pond. That is because every fish insists on creating her own fiction of scarcity. The fish so much want to be fish, in need of things a fish need and in need of being acceptable as fully functional fish,that they end up as leeches, stuck on sharks feeding on the little fish they were defending, originally. They should become fully aware of their un-fishyness instead and act like a true mussel, in ignorant bliss of fish, enjoying their sublime state of pure luxury, and keeping their shit to themselves.

 

********THE MUSSEL SHELL SONG*****

[spoken intro]
[get some woody allen schmuck to do this]

Gdamn we need to be put in a kettle and boiled alive before we hear
les moules screaming what it was/is they/we

are/were [untsoweiter]

 

After all these years
we still can't face it
that it doesn't matter what we do

at all

if we don't keep
our shit
to ourselves

like

les moules do.

[chorus]

if we don't keep our shit to ourselves like les moules do.

if we don't keep our shit to ourselves like les moules do.

 

No water? Close and suck your own meat.
The tide is right? eat whatever passes by.

i'd say that's rather simple.

- now get yourselves a bank to grow on-
and when the tide is right
we'll all go down togeêther..."

from 'Pastoraria', a Beethoven Mock-up of an opera no-one will ever hear because
some Rich bastard KId forgot to pay the nasty old buggar
so e tore the darn piece to smithereens in anger

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WATCH OUT FOR STARFISH!!!

 

• What is Mussel?
• Why Mussel?