Hugo Hopping:
Mardi possessed a valid and real transcendence of the alienated world of man. In response to the intellectual harassments of others, who failed to comprehend the internal progression of the self, Mardi deflected attacks with compassion and patience, and then, when called for, with wry wit and idiosyncratic irony. This is due to Mardi’s deep understanding of the abundant forms of mediocrity and the significant space it occupies within the dimensions of human history. Mardi went as far as to conceive a formula that explains this human condition and settled it as such: M = mc². However, since our concern rests mainly with Mardi’s crass humor, we should look closer at how Mardi abstains from insults and then only delivers them as a penult indication before the violence. This perhaps should give us an idea as to what kind of realist Mardi is and how Mardi constantly responds to the frustration of discourse with intolerant dissatisfaction. So as to not deride the ignorance of others in regards to Mardi, we can easily look at the benign academic warnings preceding the timeless crassness of our favorite person:
“Please, write constructive comments here, keep it clean” or “this is an organic dialog please, respect the topic”.
One would assume that this generous individual would be the best conflict mediation professional that the cultural left could find to arbiter its most inflammatory debates.
Yet, from time to time, when any given individual disrupts the pace of discussion with unmitigated venom in unwelcomed comments (usually ad hominem attacks in such forums as blogs or chat rooms) that annoy the shit out of Mardi;, such attacks provoke an outpouring of mirthful contempt embodied in the most excruciating deliverances. For example:
“You stupid butt-fucking waste of skin. If you’re going be too fucking stupid to consider the nuances of dialectic negativity implicit in Hegelian humanism, why not go sleep with your sister, cause you’d be slowing down the human race just as much. You sorry cock sucking, waste of my time”
—Mardi, Facebook (Wall Post), July 4th, 2009, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Often, Mardi adopted an executive response to ironic provocations coming from chat trolls that disturb the faithful attempts at engaging discourse, esp. when Mardi is a main contributor:
Mardi: Feuerbach’s “love is the true unity of God and man of spirit and nature…Love is materialism; immaterial love is a chimera” suggests a unification of civic and religious faith, creed, and activism albeit through historical consciousness. It is the correct tendency. Hence John Lennon’s reframing of the Beatles success as being “more popular than Jesus Christ” was a meta-comment on the re-introduction of love after Auschwitz and not a dismissal of Christ, It is nothing but a reassertion of love “and what wonders does love work in our social life”.
Troll: “The Nazis were the coolest thing to walk the globe since Jesus Christ”.
Mardi: “I hope you choke on a cock”.
— From Politico.com, May 22, 2008, thread now deleted.
Perhaps it is too easy to dismiss the frankness and off-the-cuff vulgarity of Mardi’s intellect. After all, Mardi comes from a peculiar generation that has understood itself as having a leading subjective participation in the global economy, pretty much as a fluid enterprise detached from national and master narratives. Mardi knows that to exist is to excel in the reproduction of aesthetic difference (and thereby praise others while simultaneously undermining them), since community is the problem of the local and not the movable enterprising global subject.
Mardi meant no harm.
We should note, as well, that Mardi has no ethics per se, since as a student of post-structuralism, Mardi learned very quickly that to be agreeable is all that “appears” to be proper for every situation in question.
However, we should not try to misconstrue Mardi’s best intentions, however paradoxical they may seem. Mardi is not a cultural schizoid, but a child who strategically occupies both positions at the same time and happens to organize them using the latest available neoliberal management theory. For example, we now know that Mardi performs politics as a nonchalant liberal abroad and as an archconservative at home. We should also be so astute to know when we can ask Mardi to chip in. In the end, Mardi is a true double consciousness, who would, of course, consider any proposal. Sometimes that works to Mardi’s advantage or disadvantage. Remember, Mardi has much more to say about us than we can say about Mardi.
I leave you with a peculiar example that could not be demonstrated with words. This will prove of some interest to those of you who are passionate about reconstructing or reenacting history. It is a deep insight into our friend’s subjectivity, and it gets you as close as possible to Mardi’s cogito ergo sum, who commented the following: “you never really are going to strike at the ego of a man by confronting him, but if you strike his queen, you will see how quickly he resigns himself to your will, which always resolves questions of spirit.” Of course, Mardi was talking about chess, and now without disclaimers and with best intentions, I hereby provide the example of the abovementioned. It serves as an introduction.
[Chess Game, Phoenix, Arizona, November 16, 2006]
[White “Mardi”]
[Black “Unknown White Male”]
[Result “1-0”, Black Resigns]
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 d5 3. Bg5 e6 4. e3 Be7 5. c4 O-O 6. Nc3 c6 7. Be2 h6 8. Bf4 Bd6 9. Be5 Nbd7 10. Bxd6 Re8 11. c5 b6 12. b4 b5 13. O-O Nh7 14. Ne5 f6 15. Nxc6 1-0
