“Linear, overt activism that calls attention to itself is as shitty as cosmetic beauty that does the same. And “political” punk-folk farted out for a like-minded protest-horny audience is just as redundant as hymns about being at church or club anthems about clubbing. (We’ll be DIY when we make our own cigarettes, fuel, and plastic.) The consistently poverty-stricken Edgar Allan Poe dropped a great term for such “humble” imps: “self-bepuffed.” Bragging about how you’re going to cultishly “liberate” a particular community is as bizarre and arrogant as hoarding stuffed animals, which, as the cultural critic Daniel Harris has pointed out in his book Cute, Quaint, Hungry, & Romantic, is an act of sadism: surrounding yourself with helpless lessers in need of your propping.”

William Bowers, “Puritan Blister #44 | 2009: A Xiu Xiudyssey”