Friday, July 10, 2009

Getting Real vs. Doing It Right


I do often wonder, are we ever going to get real in this country?

Will we ever face the one thing we can't stand looking at, ourselves, and get honest with ourselves and each other?

We could do that, but it would take getting real, which would mean no game playing, being serious, and being out front about who we are. That would help a lot.

I'm not holding my breath. I am, however, reserving my right to leave room for miracles.

Why is it that so many people are utterly and profoundly against getting real? A whole lot of perfectly nice people truly hate and fear getting real about something or other in life.

To get real would be to change everything. To change everything would mean those in control would no longer be in control; and those getting rich off our sacrifice and sweat would have to give up their monopoly on power and wealth distribution. That simply can't happen. I think it's been well established that enough of these super rich criminals will kill to preserve their unprecedented hoarding. It's all they've got I suppose. When you're crippled inside you have to push hard to feel anything. If all you can feel is satisfaction when you get more for yourself even though you don't need it, that's what you do. I'm afraid facing the truth in this country is not allowed. It is something deftly and expertly avoided, with only the rarest exceptions, and even those are routinely and rapidly buried.

It's not just the crusty uppers that prefer the fakedom, it's pretty much everybody who believes in the system. All kinds of people are flat terrified of getting real and will go to great lengths to avoid it. People very much want to look like they are doing it right and getting real would make that next to impossible.

"Doing it right" is defined by the system, and the first rule of doing it right is to see the system as a grand benevolent force that makes possible all that is good and right and decent and noble in your life. The system is to be perceived as responsible for giving you everything, and regardless of how little you may actually have, you're also to believe that you have more and better than people all over the world and you should even feel guilty about it. Because of the system we are number one, because the system itself is number one. Doing it right means seeing the system as near perfect and excusing and overlooking the inevitable appearances of flaws when they arise. According to the system, when you live in the system you are doing it right, and when you are doing it right you will be happy.

Therefore, we are all supposed to be happy all the time. We're all supposed to not have any kind of real problems ever, beyond perhaps scheduling problems or not having a good recipe to use up the rest of the Easter ham. There is an unspoken philosophy of why 'real' is bad. It goes something like this.

Real problems are bad, so people who have real problems are bad, or even mentally ill or even maybe criminal, because problems don't happen when you're doing things right. People who are angry, struggling, poor, fat, sick, unhappy or obviously different are scary people because they're obviously not doing it right. Colored people and people who speak poor English or no English are scary people too because they're not doing it right. They can't do it right, they were born wrong, and that's why they're jealous of us and hate us and why they want to destroy us. They hate our perfect system; our problem-free democratic nation of patriotic God fearing Support-The-Troops We're-Number-One Americans because we are doing it right, and God loves us because we're doing it right. People of other colors and people who wear towels on their heads and people who believe false religions hate us because they are jealous of the way we are doing it right and are prospering and they are not doing it right and are not prospering so God has to punish them for doing it wrong. We make them look bad and they are jealous of us because we are better than they are and we don't have to apologize for that. Because we know how to do everything right, we are prosperous, healthy and happy and we have strong marriages and we are heterosexual and our children are A students and we go to church and our purses match our shoes and our men keep their hair short and bring home the bacon. People who do everything right are happy and will have no real problems. There are no real problems in America, there are only bad people who refuse to do it right.

The above bull pucky is never so much as said outright, but tell me it isn't at the core of how brain dead loudmouthed generic America thinks and sees itself. This is the "America" Sarah Palin represented. This is the America shoved down our throats with every Presidential fanfare, inside every military recruiting office, and in every unethical, lying corporate newspaper, TV news broadcast, unfair and unbalanced Fox News and Rush Dipshit radio show that hits the airwaves. The whole "if you have a problem with us then there's something wrong with you" mentality is not just obnoxious, arrogant, and ignorant, it's utterly dishonest. It absolutely relies on people pretending everything is perfect and nobody seeing any serious problems that are self generated. If you're a happy herd member who's been taught all about doing it right then you're golden. All problems are somebody else's fault. In short, to keep up this nonsense it is required that nobody attempt to get real. Getting real is all the way out.

I've known people who absolutely refuse to acknowledge anything unpleasant, as if doing so would break something. If grandma died at the dinner table the whole family would smile and whisper because she 'fell asleep'. Everybody knows grandma laying there with her face smashed into her mashed potatoes is dead, but that's just too unpleasant to mention. If you asked these people why they all said grandma was asleep at the dinner table when everyone knew she was dead they'd say they didn't want to upset the children or spoil dinner. What they're really saying is that when reality is perceived to be unpleasant, shut up and see something else.

People like to play a lot of games with each other. Quite a few like to take their role playing games to the ultimate heights. What it's all about is the opposite of substance, because substance is reality. But reality is out. What does that leave but appearances? Not much. How things look, how things appear to be, posturing, spending more than you have to make people think you're more "successful" in the system than you really are, this is what people care about. It goes way beyond keeping up with the Jones'. It installs a national, paranoid delusional neurosis. A suspicious, superstitious, ignorant, shallow, childish, dependent, jealous, competitive population that's just plain full of shit and obsessed with nonsense, status, labels, titles, teams, winning, plastic surgery, Hollywood, hair dye, calories, breast size and penis size. Everybody's running around missing the point of everything. Not hard to do when reality is not allowed and unreality is more important than life itself.

The system is there to define everything for us, including ourselves. It is absolutely necessary for the continued existence of the system to do that, which is why the system seeks to get inside our heads to overwrite our natural selves as early in life as it can. It must relieve us of our natural minds and beings, training them out of us, wiping our slates clean, in order to fully and successfully rewrite a reality program for us that just happens to suit the system very nicely.

We are started out very young embracing the idea that we must change ourselves at almost every level in order to be okay in this society. The way we naturally think, feel and look are the last things we could ever consider to be acceptable; we must force artificial changes based on what others think even though it's not "us" to do that. The message is loud and clear; you cannot feel good about yourself, really good about yourself just being exactly who and what you are.

We are given to believe that we have no intrinsic value as people, none at all, and can only become somewhat valuable to the extent that we are rich and if we're not rich we must prostitute ourselves out to meet other people's demands and expectations. This is perhaps the ugliest lie there is to build a society on, much less little girls and boys. It's also the exact opposite of the truth.

There is no way to know who you are, to establish anything about yourself when you have no frame of reference for a self realized concept of personal reality. You cannot get your bearings if you don't know how you feel in reference to what you see, feel and experience. You can't get a starting point much less conceive of life's greater meaning when you don't actually know who or where you are. If you can't determine for yourself which way is up or down or north or south you cannot get a fix on anything, including yourself. All you can do is desperately flail about and be obsessed with getting all the official "doing it right" signals and information that tell you who you are and what you're supposed to think and do and be in order to keep on doing it right and even to do it more right than others who are doing it right.

Pulling people out of their own reality, their own perceptions, their own critical thinking, analysis and creativity is to destroy those people. Right now the system's destruction is limited to reducing people to docility and rendering them inert, meaning, their disempowered mindset keeps them from challenging those who want to control everything. People's natural creative forces and potential are rendered inert, detoured off the trail to the red herring of "doing it right". Doing it right, herd style, presumes there is only one way of doing it right and that if you simply follow the steps and embrace them, you'll be a winner. Of course that's exactly the opposite of the truth. Figuring out how to do it right for yourself is what empowers you and brings you into energized, conscious, proactive existence. Convincing droves of people to wander off course and become hand clapping blobs that don't interfere with the big boys ideas and plans keeps all the competition disarmed and in one ineffective place. That's destructive as it can be, it's next to total destruction of the natural person. All that's left is rendering the physical being inert too, and they're busy working on that now with lavish amounts of government dollars that we provide. We are buying our own spiritual and physical murders. Going along with that is, supposedly, doing it right.

Once people get sucked into "doing it right" there's a truly pathetic desire to get gold star recognition awards for being good at doing it right, and there are much coveted awards for being the best at doing it right. Which only makes sense because when self esteem is not internally generated it can only come from outside sources in the form of approval and validation that you indeed are doing it right. That this could be enough for someone is beyond sad. That it could be the end all and be all of what's important to you is pathetic beyond my ability to express. How the hell could anyone else have a clue about what "doing it right" is for anyone else?

This trap keeps people in eternal childhood, forever without power, forever needing permission, forever subservient to others of supposed superior rank and title. Those externally appointed superiors need do nothing to prove they are qualified, merely possessing rank and title is all that is required. When it turns out that they're corrupt, ineffective, sadistic or selfish losers, child molesters (a.k.a. Catholic Priests), crooks, thugs and thieves (a.k.a. Bush/Cheney), the pure hearted doing it right eternally trusting obedient followers can't grasp it.

The victims of ravenous false authority are really real, so they are always immediately swept under the nearest rug (wounded/disabled veterans, molested children, dead civilians) and nobody talks about them. Nobody misses a beat. The ugly bits are blocked from the mind as if they literally did not exist. It is always chalked up to an anomaly, an expected necessary cost of achievement, a single "bad apple". In effect, our blindness seals our fates. We will be perpetually stuck inside this circle of idiocy as our official leadership swirls the bowl morally, effectively and literally, taking us all with them of course. This is just not a good plan.

Generation after generation of young people are growing up in total unreality. To say that there is a critical dearth of healthy role models would be a serious understatement. Name one famous person who really has it together and is not a phony or so rich they have nothing in common with you. Yeah. Good luck on that. There aren't any. Strangely, what few excellent, reality based, decent, honest leaders do come along all get brutally murdered by the standard lone gunman. Sure they do. Nothing there to think about, move along please.

I cringe inside when I see very young girls dressed like hooker pop-stars, but that's what they're being sold as the most desirable image for themselves. Trashy, flashy sex products are the role models our young girls and women are being given to look up to today and emulate. The whole role model stage is all but empty except for these entertainers who always have and always will represent fantasy and extremes, but nobody's there to explain that to our little girls. All they see is someone who is supposed to be sexy and beautiful and apparently that supposedly matters more than anything, it's what it takes to be the ideal female and that's what they believe they should be. What a gyp for them. It would have done them infinitely more good to have strong, intelligent, substantive, courageous, real people role models that taught them self respect and showed them how to kick some ass in life. That would have done our whole society a lot more good in fact.

Some of these girls really knock themselves out trying to achieve "the look", because they think "the look" is what is beautiful and desirable and will make them lovable and worthy. Some of them succeed if you can call that success and some don't have a chance because they cannot fit into the silly mold that everyone seems to think is so very ideal. It bashes up their egos pretty well too unless they're very well adjusted and feel good about their self image anyway, but I suspect that's not often the case. The same goes for boys too, this is just one of the many games we must play in order to define ourselves and others and find our place, ranking and self worth in society. It's a completely useless way of doing those things, it's incredibly harmful, but that's what we've got so that's what we do.

The message that we have no natural value comes through over and again as we're taught in differing situations how we are required to behave in order to be acceptable, and even how we are required to think and feel. Our thoughts, feelings and beliefs are shaped externally through means that seem innocuous and optional, at least that's the claim the social engineers would make. But the truth of the matter is that unless you go along with what they want you to be and do and think and say and feel, you'll be branded valueless and get rejected. You won't be allowed to play the game and that means you won't get your real life needs met. Think Cuba and sanctions and see the template. Conform or die is the unwavering message we get again and again until we believe it is true and even that it is right.

The pressure to conform to the demands of the system is so intense that it systematically breaks people. I think it actually shatters the self. The pain is what makes most people conform because it would be unbearable to not be accepted, particularly at that young age but it's true at any age. It's really not at all optional but as usual, you'd have a hard time proving it. The social engineers don't leave much hard evidence of their tampering where regular folk can easily find it and take it to court. Even if they did take it to court, the court is the law arm of holding up our unreality system, so that won't get you very far. Indeed, our whole Congress and Executive branch is firmly entrenched in continuing and propagating the unreality of the "we're doing it right" American Way. So called radicals are people who try to drag reality, justice, fairness, equality, decency, respect and just plain old truth into the picture.

The fact that they hit us hard from a very young age before we have the ability to reason things out and decide the value of not putting our energies into being who we really are doesn't help either. In fact that's what seals it. Adults are not nearly as likely to embrace external peer pressure to change themselves to suit others. Younger folk haven't gotten enough life under their belts yet to know how little value there is in being detoured from who you really are and throwing all you've got into building on that and discovering yourself for yourself. Finding out the hard way long after it would have come in handy to know can be pretty annoying if you ever lose interest in the silliness and nonsense of fake people and fake relationships and role playing. I guess it's a lesson we all have to learn. Some learn it early, some never get a clue. The ones who never get a clue fit in perfectly with the herd mentality.

Lots of people strive to be super pro-herd thinkers and doers. It never even occurs to some of these folks that things can be done another way. They wouldn't understand the need or desire to do things differently. For them, because they are dyed in the wool creations who have embraced being defined and constructed by outside others, they think it's all great. They are doing it right. They are sufficiently rewarded, if only emotionally, for playing the game.

Rewards come to those who play the game passionately and believe it's real. You may have noticed that there is no money in being real, or being honest, open, decent, compassionate and human. It does not pay to think for yourself, judge for yourself, learn for yourself or do things "out of the box". Those things are quickly becoming valueless and more proof of insanity than human necessity. Humanity itself then must become unnecessary.

Individualism is tagged errant. It is equated to dissent and anarchy which are tagged as only and totally bad. Individualism is now being sold as a dangerous thing, something that threatens the greater good. The pressure to conform with group think, to achieve politically correct consensus and get everyone on board and have everyone be like everyone else is more intense than I've ever seen it. Forget yourself and become the Borg, or in the current vernacular become "one world", that's what we now are being indoctrinated to desire, hold dear and strive for. It's what we believe in, and truth does not fit anywhere in there. It simply doesn't pay to be real. This is severe mental illness. This is a literal, actual contagious disease affecting the human mind. It is all in defiance of reality and true values and real meaning and human health and all of the things that humans must have lest they fail to thrive. It's plain idiotic.

The engineers of society go through a lot of trouble to keep people as far away from truth as possible. Natural things, real, pure, honest things are being systematically eradicated. Honest thoughts and feelings, curiosity, independent thought and action, being real, being compassionate, being tender and human and kind are all passé'. These things do not matter in the ugly new world, a shrine to selfish greed, ill will and mass death. All human needs and truths beyond the simple physical are dismissed, labeled irrelevant, unnecessary, unscientific and illogical. They discredited and ridiculed and then are pronounced to be inferior to what modern science or industry can create in their stead. This is said with perfect seriousness; that man can improve on nature with science; that science can build a better man than God or nature. Mankind will achieve beyond his wildest dreams with his inhumane, cold and dry scientific thinking and his great modern forward turned mind and his scientifically trained and evolved rational being. It's about productivity and six digits after the decimal point calculations that demand units per second, more automation, less human input and control, we are now producing for the hive. Humanity is so yesterday, it had no worth anyway, we'd all be better off the sooner we let it go. Nature has become a doddering old fool. Schools are teaching genetic destruction, mixing and manipulation across all species of life as being better than what nature puts forth, and the scary thing is that when kids grow up hearing that in school over and again they grow up fervently believing it to be true.

The truth is the worst enemy of falsehood. That's why it's so reviled and rejected. Reality is such a threat that step by step, reality is being redefined. Time and again the opposite of truth is sold as the truth, and even though it really makes no sense and cannot withstand scrutiny, although there is no proof to back up these new false assertions, they are being asserted as truths and are being accepted, by engineered consensus, as truths. It's quite a racket. It sends chills down my spine. This is very serious intense human deletion and control, inducing people to go blind to reality and forget about it and know nothing but what they are told; to accept and believe without question; and it's all being successfully carried out on a global scale.

How do we fight that? It's dang hard to fight, in fact I don't think you can fight it per se. People believe what they believe and like it that way. Once trained to believe nothing but what the system says, people close themselves down entirely to other sources of information and are not open to learning anything new or different from them.

We're no longer to care about principles, morality or human ethics, which is of course, the end of principles, morality and human ethics. This is the formula to end principled independent thinking. It is a vicious crime against humanity. It is not an overt murder of the body but of the mind and soul, the other body, the nonphysical one, the one that actually matters most. The system works exactly as intended to replace independently thinking people with literal zombies, the living dead, who live and respond entirely on conditioned cue. There's no critical thinking in the herd only reaction and simple, uncomplicated routine.

The last few generations of Americans have been consciously steered away from thinking and living as free, independent people toward being and thinking as part of an amorphous low level herd. That amorphous low level herd is the new paradigm, encompassing the politically correct ideas of the day. The green movement, the 'we are one world' ideology, the new hyper modernistic 21st century, scientific/technological "in crowd". Factory farming, diet control, pharmaceutical regulation and control of moods, thoughts and feelings, degrading demands to be of "scientifically determined" weight for height, eyesight, skin type, body type are all micro controlled, recorded, and punished for failure to conform to required "norms". The walls are already closing in on the herd who is being culled of its poor, its unwanted physical and mental characteristics, its superfluous races and especially every last trace of defiant thinking and unwillingness to conform. The for profit commodification of body parts, patents on plant and animal life, the disingenuous move to legalize gay parenting - not for equality - but to legitimize scientific genetic mutilation. No more borders, one currency, UN global governance, Bahá'í "Faith", the resurgence of diluted, detoured and demoralized fundamentalist religion. "We are doing it right" could be tattooed on every forehead and they'd probably like that, at least a whole bunch of them would.

Instead of being our own authority the focus is now on external authority and experts, on "properly credentialled" officially vetted leadership, which we are legally required to believe and submit to as the only correct, authorized, scientifically 'proven' knowledgeable sources for getting all of our information, laws and systems. Officialdom now claims to own vast subjects that apparently no one else is allowed to think about independently, or if they do they are doing it wrong and don't count. Officials are becoming more like bigger than life mega stars than ordinary people who work for us. They don't even pretend they work for us anymore, the entire paradigm has changed. Today officials grab the lead and people become adoring fans and believers, accepting whatever the superstars say, and doing whatever they tell us to do, because they are doing it right. We adore and follow officialdom like we follow team sports and movie stars, gaining inflated self image and delusions of personal importance and validity by association as we vicariously follow them from home in front of our TV sets.

I don't mean to bash the green people or anyone who likes technology, that's not at all what I'm saying. But there is doing it right and there is doing it wrong, whatever "it" is, and that has to be understood. When it reduces people that's doing it wrong, and these controlled political movements are as phony as the people who orchestrate them. People are being boiled down to stick-figure clichés and clones of some idealized externally created and mass marketed image of self and correctness. It's very much like a new religious movement, and it comes not with good will and brotherhood for all but with arrogance and demands to conform or die. Science is the new god. Personal rights are unnecessary and invalid. The true followers are the new chosen people. This is how to do it right.

Who we choose to believe today is what it all boils down to. Believe society's super star leaders and you are cool and a winner, you are doing it right. Doing it any other way is automatically doing it wrong. No one can be right or get it right for themselves, it's not possible. You have to subjugate yourself to external iconic authorized others who feed you your information and opinions and even your feelings or you won't have a chance of doing it right. Someone else who knows how to do it right will tell you what to value and not value, what to consider good and what to immediately react to as bad. Childlike trust of 'experts' and blind obedience to authority is doing it right. Officialdom has taken power and authority from individual citizens and placed it squarely in the hands of a very few people who are to be completely trusted, obeyed and followed.

The only way to screw up is to think. If you think you will see the loose ends and columns that don't actually add up when you do the math. You're not supposed to do the math, you're supposed to trust. If you bring up anomalies you're told you're wrong. If you check yourself and come up with the same anomalies and bring it up again, you will be told that there is a reason for what you see that you can't comprehend, and to trust. If that's not good enough for you, you are out. Bring it up again and you'll be attacked and physically rejected from the herd.

Everything about it is sick and dangerous. Individuals mean nothing which quickly becomes life meaning nothing and death meaning nothing. It becomes a cult of worshippers who vie for position under the rulership of some phony bigger than life entity. It makes people weak, selfish and ignorant, fear based, insecure and panic prone, needing the constant blessings and assurance from their leadership that they are doing it right. Every little problem, thought and feeling must be taken to authorities to solve because you can't think for yourself, you don't know how. You have no idea how to value anything and must be told, because your life is not your own and your mind is not your own. In truth, "you" don't even exist. You're a generic flesh piece part in a big machine that can be easily pulled out and replaced without anyone noticing. It becomes a matter of desperation to be okay with those you worship and follow, it begins to mean everything. The whole thing is a recipe for everything that is the worst that humans can become. Weak, small minded, competitive, abusive, selfish, combative, jealous, petty, dependent, ignorant, hypocritical, unprincipled and immoral.

You only have to think it through to its logical conclusion to realize it's not where you want to go. But herd think relieves people of thinking anything through or checking facts or asking where data came from and seeing if it's even real data. Herd think is popping happy pills and going through the steps and doing it all again tomorrow. And when it turns out you're dying inside and you're depressed and feel like you're falling apart you'll be told there is something seriously wrong with you and that you need to be corrected and medicated. You'll be rejected by the herd who will fear you for not being okay. At every level, whenever truth and reality come through, which they will because they can't be dismissed or pretended away, they will be perceived with horror and rejected, and to whatever extent possible buried and quickly forgotten, along with the infected persons who carried it in. No one will stand to defend or debate the validity of the status quo because few believe there is anything else, so anything else that does come along must be a deformation, a problem, something to fear. Those who suspect there is more beyond the status quo will never breathe a word of it because they don't want to risk ejection from the herd and the benefits there in.

The pattern is evident in many aspects of society, it looks obviously formulaic to me. You can overlay the pattern on top of many public institutions and see it followed through. It can't be a coincidence, it's simply too pervasive, simultaneous and precise. This is social engineering to be sure, simple steps and procedures applied to manipulate human consciousness and emotions to bring about desired results. It's all done with precision timing, and with plenty of punishment, cruelty and threats to use as motivators. It's very much like that part of Orwell's 1984 where Winston is supposed to say how many fingers are being held up. He says what he sees and is beaten and tortured. This is repeated over and again until he finally gets it that that's not the right answer, the right answer is the one the man wants to hear.

When Winston gives the answer he thinks the man wants to hear he is beaten and tortured again. He still hasn't gotten it right. It won't be right until he actually sees the number of fingers the man wants him to see. This kind of mental torture and breaking down of the psyche and boundaries of reality, reason and truth are like putting your brain and sense of self in a blender. It destroys people, completely. Everything they know, everything based on reality is ejected from the mind because it's wrong. We police ourselves and keep ourselves from having wrong thoughts, the very idea of which horrifies us. We want to see five fingers when the man holds up four, and just like Winston we eventually get to seeing five, really seeing five, when he holds up four. That's when the beating stops.

That's how it's done where ever it's done and it is done pretty much everywhere. One false step will bring that home pretty quickly.

An example of this is the so called war on drugs. If you do drugs, like drugs, illegal ones only now, don't care about drugs, or think the government should keep it's big fat nose out of people's private lives, then you are not "right". You are wrong. And being wrong is very serious, risky business. Being wrong makes you suspect and dangerous. Your morality is in question, your value system judged deviant, your intentions, lifestyle, credibility, acceptability in general, all come into serious doubt. The idea that you're probably a criminal and a threat is what comes from having thoughts and ideas contrary to required engineered ones. It's no joke, no small thing. You could easily be harassed and arrested, lose your job, have your entire career and family destroyed because of saying something that is based on reality, on truths, on verifiable facts that just happen to be not okay with the engineered required opinions of the day.

Try telling someone that you've studied the facts of the "holocaust" and have come up with a great many verified facts that put the whole holocaust story in doubt and see where that gets you. Your facts would be vilified and accused of being vicious hateful lies and you would be branded a Jew hater and holocaust denier, both of which shouldn't really be a problem even if they were true. Why should they be? People hate. Sometimes irrationally, sometimes for a reason. Hate in itself is a normal human emotion. It is also in the stages of being criminalized. Hate is not a crime it is a feeling. Hate is hate. Crime is crime. Simply blending the two words together although they are not together and don't together create a reality, they have become an invented new politically correct "truth". The hysterical negative reaction to the subject of questioning the holocaust or any factual, rational criticism of Israel or crimes committed by Jews is the perfect example of how the forcing of irrational, self serving, nonsensical ideas into the minds of the greater public and demonizing all ideas to the contrary is accomplished. Even questioning this engineered malodorous, dangerous game instantly makes people hate you. Honestly hate you. This is our reality right here and right now. Doing it right requires thinking, seeing and believing what you are told, in spite of reality, in spite of the lack of evidence, or common sense or reason or rationality or fairness. Literally refusing to think critically and being self policing to keep oneself from seeing three dimensional facts in evidence is a social requirement. Comply or pay the price, and the price is enormous.



PART TWO

In this country it solidly stands that regardless of the subject, be it large or small, public or private, at work or at play, if you want to do it right - negative reality must never be acknowledged. Never give an honest report of how you are feeling, do not confess to emotional pain or unhappiness, for these are signs of personal failure and mental instability. Do not so much as suggest that opinions, values or perspectives contrary to officially condoned ones could exist, much less be credible. Never directly speak the name of the drunk police officer beating his wife, or predating and violating his own children. Faithfully ignore the stench of death or corruption issuing forth from every portal of information and officialdom. You are not getting screwed senseless. It just feels like you are.

Do not notice the hermetically sealed system of felon recycling in high office, or recall what they were indicted for twenty or more years ago. Forget the guilty verdicts and the presidential pardons. Don't have a look at their personal financial status or ask what they've been up to and how they like China these days. It's not important that the Secretary of the Treasury is the employee of a foreign bank, which pays his salary, and which no doubt also gives him his orders. Sure, you could easily get the wrong idea if you put two and two together. So don't do that.

Do not notice the fascism, hypocrisy, racism or blood lust of the mind controlled Christian right or the Zionist powered government in general. Just turn your head and look the other way. None of that is there. There is no fear mongering or hate mongering or delusional thinking there, no intolerance, selfishness or ill will in the way we do things. This country has not been skillfully divided and set upon itself to break apart and weaken the whole we would otherwise be. All of that is nonsense and is simply not true.

There was no Sam Kenniston or Bill Hicks, no John Lennon and no Mae Brussel. Nor are there tens of dozens of dead journalists or decades full of death prone populist politicians laying six feet under. Boys can and do lay down on railroad tracks and allow trains to cut them to ribbons and it is a well established fact that investigative reporters of both sexes and every decade can commit suicide with two or three gunshots to the head using the wrong hand after slashing both of their own wrists to the bone and getting in the bathtub. It happens every day.

There is no string of dead Kennedys, it never happened. No such persons as Martin Luther King Jr. ever existed and the Warren Commission did a very thorough job and found nothing amiss beyond the fact that the facts and the evidence did not match the official story. Magic bullets are too real. Nothing wrong there. There have not been a hundred deaths of witnesses directly associated with the assassination of JFK. 9-11 was not an inside job so stop saying that. It was 19 Arab hijackers with box cutters that flew those planes into those skyscrapers; ignore the facts, hate people who bring you facts. They are all liars. Thousands and thousands of liars.

There is no monkey virus swimming in your veins from childhood vaccinations and there are no shockingly high numbers of people dying of cancer twenty, thirty or forty years later. We are number one.

There is no censorship here, no infiltration and control of all 'mainstream' print and broadcast media. Billions of dollars are not spent each year to propagandize you. There is absolutely no withholding of facts you need to discern and decide the condition of the world you live in. This is the most informed country in the world. History is just as it is stated in your newest history schoolbook. There is no secret government. Global governance is not a pseudonym for private ownership of the planet. Everything is fine. Everything is perfect. Everything is exactly as they tell us it is.

To doubt that is to be a racist. To doubt officialdom is flat un-American. To doubt anything they say could even be a hate crime. To doubt any of this at all is to be a terrorist. You don't want to be a terrorist now do you? Of course you don't. You can only be with us or against us, there is no third position to take. What's it gonna be, punk?

All negative reality must be ignored and overlooked. Negative reality does not exist here.

When the president commits a crime it's not a crime. No government official could ever be a liar or a thief or a thug, even when they're stealing and cheating and killing. No cop could be a serial killer or a thief or be on the take. All doctors are brilliant and skilled. They're always right and know everything and doctors don't hurt or kill people. There are no psychopaths in medicine or education or law enforcement or teaching or Children's Protective Services or the Judiciary or the government in general, only the best of the best, the cream of the crop. The only place bad people are is out here amongst the valueless masses, and over there in other countries. All guys in business suits are worthy of blanket respect and are upright and would never lie, cheat, steal, conspire, rob, crush people, pay off officials, pollute and walk away, or dodge taxes. All officials are honest and capable and are devoted, utterly committed to serving you and improving your life. The fact that your representatives are millionaires and you're not is not a problem. Just because they are handed checks by lobbyists is no reason to lose faith in our system. It's not corrupt, it's perfect.

If it looks fishy to you, you will not say so out loud. To do so would run the very serious risk of undermining the corrupt authority that rules all of our lives. To do so could very easily strike a chord with others that could act as a spark that could light a fire that could spread so fast and wide that the truth could suddenly be held as more important and more valuable than what the dominant criminal classes want us to believe.

To speak the plain truth in simple words that anyone can understand is to attack and assault your government, and your police, and your military, and your laws and courts and judges. It is to threaten to bring into focus the awareness of other ways of seeing, defining and valuing the way we do things in this country.

If simple truth is ugly, if it conflicts with our script, our game, our process underway, then the truth must be sacrificed. The truth is the enemy. The truth becomes the terrorist. It must be silenced, censored, denied, rejected, and fiercely! Immediately! With vigor and outrage.

How dare you speak simple truth! How dare you bring up facts for comparison to official fiction! Do you have any idea how dangerous that is?

To speak of the steady stream of corporate malfeasance and criminal activity is to suggest that people should have a problem with it; which threatens it. To observe the hundreds of billions of dollars being given for free to the wealthy and the spoiled with no strings attached, the self same people who broke the world and to call it a bald faced shameless crime, a theft, a purposely planned and operated daylight robbery is to suggest that they don't deserve all of the wealth and that you deserve some for yourself.

Are you insane? Are you purposely trying to destroy our country?

It is not okay to say you disagree with those in authority. You may not criticize what you see as murder, manipulation and lies. It is not okay to call their crimes, crimes. When they do it, it's not crime. It's only crime when you do it, or when someone else does it who is not authorized to commit crimes.

To call that hypocrisy is to suggest there is something wrong with doing things that way.

To suggest that the rules should be the same across the board for everyone, rich and poor alike, is an attempt to hold those in power accountable to you for their actions. They are not accountable to you! They are not accountable for their actions! They have rights! They don't have to tell you anything! They are above you! They are your superiors! You will jump when they tell you to jump and run when they tell you to run! You will hate and fear who they tell you to hate and fear and when they lie to you, you will believe them! You may not have your own opinions about anything, if those opinions are at all different from establishment framing! Are you crazy?

If people were ever to think of wealthy powerful people as nothing more than equals who had to earn respect, and earn trust, and show proof of their assertions of being of benefit to society, it would ruin everything! If the trillions of dollars that slip through government fingers ever had to be accounted for like every other business has to account for money, just like every single individual has to account for money, it would place an unbearable burden on officialdom and deeply undercut their ability to invisibly spend truckloads of money as desired for whatever they like, in any quantities they like, to achieve more for themselves and give more wealth to their wealthy friends.

Do not attempt to explain to others that our money is an illusion or that we need no central bank and indeed would be infinitely better off without it! Those Special Interest European Banker Organized Criminal Oligarchs need our billions in interest income, paid on imaginary money given us in imaginary loans that do not exist, that never existed and cannot ever exist. They are the richest people in the world because we pay them interest on nothing to the point of our own starvation and depravation in the extreme. They're used to getting everything they want for free. They like it that way. It helps them fund the machinations that keep the world in turmoil and war, that decides who will run what country, who will dutifully serve the invisible lords and masters behind the curtain and who will be assassinated for refusing to comply.

Slavery is freedom, don't you know that? A debt that is impossible to pay off no matter how many generations try to free themselves from its controlling stranglehold is the insurance policy they need to keep black hob nail boots firmly on the backs of our necks forever. Hundreds of billions of dollars coming to them for free, for doing nothing but pulling off the biggest most deceitful, betraying lies on the face of the earth is their right to receive and our duty to silently provide. We should expect nothing in return for this. We are duty bound to just give it to them so that they may continue to destroy our world, our country and our lives, play global power games and politics, undermine our freedom, enslave us and use us as chattel and livestock to produce more wealth and power for themselves. If we don't do that what right do we have to exist?

Do not point out the deaths, the suffering, the abject failure of it all. How dare you! It is not okay to express grave doubts in the trustworthiness of any form of officialdom, whether it's local and municipal, nonprofit or for profit, appointed or elected.

In order to keep the whole thing going, in order to allow the rich to keep getting richer and the rest to slowly drown in a sea of filthy, empty, pointless, debauched, meaningless struggle and distraction, we must keep smiling.

So what if the Senator is a closet sexual predator? So what if he heads an anti-gay religious council and takes street drugs while propositioning same sex prostitutes? So what if he's into kiddy porn? Senators are better than you are, it's not wrong when they do it. It's only wrong when you do it. It's only wrong for you to mention it or notice it or talk about it or try to stop it or punish it.

It is not okay to mention the fact that upper echelon government posts are held by dual citizens with loyalties to Israel first and Israel second. It is not okay to notice the United States becoming a fascist totalitarian dictatorship and think there is something wrong with that. It is not acceptable to moan and complain as our every right and freedom is undermined and demolished with sleazy end runs around the law and voluminous lies.

Do not point out any of the databanks of evidence of lies and corruption that prove the entire enterprise is a criminal organization and that we are all being gang raped and robbed by psychopaths and Mafioso and mercenaries and global intelligence agencies that are all working together as one and reporting to the same bosses. Turn your head when the obvious assassinations take place and the volumes of hard evidence disappear without explanation. Look the other way when your family members come home from our wars of aggression in caskets. Do not bother your beautiful mind with irrelevant facts. Ignore the facts!

What matters most is surface appearances. That is what you must focus on. Put on your masks, take your positions, and smile. There are no similarities to Hitler or Nazis here. Nine hundred empty concentration camps do not exist on American soil, it's a lie. Unless you can personally see them in which case they are only there in case we need them during an emergency. Smile and think about dividends income. Smile and think about stock purchases and tropical vacations. Smile and scrutinize Angelina Jolie's butt and think about poor, weird, dead, Michael Jackson. Smile and turn on Oprah and donate to officially recognized charitable causes and don't worry where the money went, trust. Smile and believe everything you hear on TV and every word out of the mouths of officialdom and corporate board rooms. It is all the truth. Every bit of it.

No one here is being robbed or fleeced or cheated or lied to or used. Elections are not rigged or stolen, Congressional seats are not purchased, gifted or otherwise guaranteed to those who go along with the program. We would never go to war for reasons other than the reasons we are given. America never makes mistakes and never does anything wrong, which is why we should never have to apologize to anyone for anything. There are no elephants in any of our living rooms or in the oval office. Police are not carrying machine guns to use on you and your family and your children. There is nothing wrong with grade school teachers diagnosing your child's mental illnesses and insisting on prescription drugging. There is no one in prison who is not a danger to society! Prison inmates have it too good. People who do wrong things should not be allowed to vote. Our unverifiable votes are not a problem. Exit polls are the problem, they're totally unreliable. Trust. You must trust.

Everyone should be taking at least two or three prescription drugs because prescription drugs are good for you. Pills can cure your grief and loss and emptiness within as well as your athlete's foot fungus and obsessive compulsive hand washing. Psychiatrists are too real doctors and pills are all you need to feel better. Animals are not dying when fed genetically modified organisms, and no one has mad cow disease in this country. We don't even test our cows so there is no mad cow disease here.

Vaccines are good for you! They're good for your whole family! Get all the vaccinations you can find. Vaccines keep you safe and healthy! It's only those nasty people who refuse to take dozens and dozens of injections of healthy mercury and genetically altered animal viruses who threaten our health! Keep your kids far away from those horrible people!

Everything is beautiful here. Everything is perfect. If Thomas Jefferson were alive today he'd be proud. There is no more honest, upright nation in the world than our own. We are noble and upright as we torture terrorists without any evidence of wrongdoing.

Smile and think about shopping. Don't worry about mall shooters and campus killings and aids and killer bees. Just smile and trust and believe. You are free. Everything is fair and safe and just and rational.

The fact of the matter is that proof and evidence to the contrary of our beautiful self imagery is all nonsense. All made up just to try to undermine our happiness and peace and freedom. It's all a lie. The only truth is the official truth. Nothing else matters. Who are you going to believe, your own lying eyes or the government? Well there you go. If it weren't for the government you might question these things. You need them. We all need them. We don't ever have to check anything for ourselves because we have them to do our checking for us. We are blessed and lucky indeed. Everything they say is true. They love you. They care about you. They are there for you.

Honest.

Okay, maybe not. Maybe they don't care about you. How could they when they don't even know you exist? Besides, why would they? There's nothing in it for them and getting everything for themselves is the whole reason they're there.

There's one more thing I want to point out and this should come as a great relief to the most hysterical paranoid types. You do not have to worry about socialism or communism setting in here. If you're worried about that, let it go. Because you're way too late. We were Sovietized ages ago. If you can say "Federal" then you can say "Soviet". What nobody ever told you is that they mean exactly the same thing.

It means consensus. It means living in abject poverty for the most part so the least part can live in absolute opulence, and more than likely somewhere else. They do seem to be in quite a rush to clean us out for every last dime and every last household mortgage, don't they? In case it needs to be said, if you have to depend on somebody else for your survival you're not going to do much surviving. Just so you know.

Maybe I'm wrong about all this, huh? Maybe it's all just a great big coincidence that the more we lose the more they gain in both money and power and the more it means that we'll never get them back without paying in blood. Maybe they're trying with all their might to make the world a better place. In fact I'm sure they are. A better place for themselves. You've never been mentioned have you? What makes you think you're in the picture?

Then again, the evidence to support my position is a bit overwhelming, and I barely put a dent in it all. There's not enough time in my life and not enough space here to try to list all the crimes and murders and lies and wrongdoing that most of us know nothing whatsoever about. That doesn't mean they never happened. It means we are ignorant and need to catch up and get with the program.

This is what happens when people refuse to get real. Mistakes are not corrected. Official crimes are left unpunished. Corruption flourishes. Good people get used and abused and crushed under the weight of ravenously greedy, selfish, arrogant, self serving people who don't care who gets hurt. Truth becomes extinct. Freedom to be human, to draw your own conclusions, to think for yourself, to talk about anything freely and openly all go extinct. A controlled society comes into being where corruption and brutality keep the cheated, the brutalized and the predated in chains so the murderers, rapists, predators and the liars can be safe and snug and doing what they do; eating the flesh of our babies.

When we avoid the truth we guarantee the worst for ourselves. We forfeit all chances of preventing inevitable bad outcomes. We forget who we are, why we are, what we are. Nothing makes sense and soon nothing matters. The game is taken over by the strong and no one else matters anymore.

Personally, I'd rather bring up the ugly truth and deal with it, but that's just me. It's hard to see how there could be unemployment if we actually faced our ugly bits and got to work fixing our country. It's hard to see how America in general could do anything but benefit profoundly from growing up, taking responsibility, and actually trying to be what we say we are. It's hard to see how that would do anything but make this country a healthy, thriving, decent place to live. Pretending there's nothing wrong is not the same as things being okay. It doesn't work that way. In my humble opinion one of the greatest services we can all do is call it like we see it and tell the plain truth, no matter who doesn't like it or on what grounds. No grounds exist that make the truth a bad thing.

Getting real is a matter of substance over appearances and a decision we each must make about which matters more to us and which we will consciously choose to live by. We can't do that for anyone else, but we sure as heck can do it for ourselves. For every person who chooses substance over nonsense there is one less participant supporter of all that is inane and self destructive.

Never doubt that our own decision and commitment to get real will influence everyone in our lives and can be a real obstruction to the social engineers. That, as I see it, is the only place that answers and solutions will come from. Changing the world into what it could be is not impossible but it won't happen by accident, by passivity, or by luck. It won't happen overnight either, but living like we mean it cannot help but keep safely in living memory what it truly means to be human. If that is ever lost and forgotten, then nothing much will matter anymore. And I'm afraid that is exactly the game plan. Because when nothing matters, evil people will be free to do anything to anyone, no matter how violent, obscene or inexcusable and this world will no longer be real. It will be impossible to return to reality because there will be no reality and no way of even figuring out what it was. After a time no one will care because they will know of no other way of existing. To me that is the definition of hell. And unless we get real that's where we will inevitably end up. It's a choice, a personal choice and political one. It's something we all know is more important than stupid partisan issues and phony baloney politicians and bullying rich people and militant police. The real war is against human truth and the sanctity of life. And it's a war that we can only lose once. If we lose it, we lose everything that matters, forever.

If we honestly care about more than our own selves then we need to care about getting real and facing the negative reactions. When enough of us get real we can push the criminal scum back down into the holes they crawled out of. It's really as simple as that. It's really within our grasp to decide our own futures and the future of the world. But it does require getting real.

Which takes me back around to where I started and to the question I asked in the beginning. Will we ever decide to get real?

I don't know. I sure hope so.


Monday, July 06, 2009

Letter to the Prez


As Cynthia McKinney along with twenty other human rights and aid workers languish away in an Israeli prison for the crime of caring about suffering people and wanting to help them, I find myself grappling with an all too familiar nausea and disgust. There is no mention of this outrage in the corporate media. Which is despicable and obvious on its face.

But where is the outrage from Congress? Where is the concern, the solidarity, for one of their own being illegally detained and thrown into prison? This literally makes me ill.

Not that it will matter much in the greater scheme of things, I decided to write to the President about this. That short letter is available to be viewed by the public. It looks kind of cool the way they do it, which may be my greatest reward for taking the time to attempt to ask our nation's leader to do the right thing.

If they want to ignore reality I guess they will. But I cannot.

Here's the link if you're interested.

http://capwiz.com/politicsol/bio/userletter/?letter_id=3602077236&content_dir=politicsol

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Genuine Truth


There's a part in the book "1984" that's stuck in my mind that comes up and around regularly like brain cud. It's something I can't swallow, but I can't spit it out either, so round and round it goes in the background.

It's the part where O'Brien holds up four fingers and asks Winston how many fingers he's holding up. Winston says four. O'Brien asks him how many fingers it would be if the Party says it is five. Winston says it would still be four. What else could it be?

Winston is tortured until he says he sees five fingers, but that's not good enough. He is tortured again and drugged until he actually does see five fingers. That's when the torture stops.

That scene perfectly symbolizes the template of all evil. It defies every natural law of humanity and attempts to deny something that cannot be denied. It's not possible to control another sentient being, not in any true sense. All the techniques of torture and mind games and cruelty, the drugs and the sleep deprivation and all of the grotesque and deceitful mind shattering techniques that evil people engage in, are all phony cheats. They can get people to believe a lie, but it's still a lie. No lie changes to truth, no change ever takes place. Only the destruction of a sovereign entity's mind and body happens. That's nowhere near the same as actually achieving what they really want. They can't get what they really want. It's impossible.

O'Brien then goes on to tell Winston that they are going to purge him of his "insanity", meaning the truth, wipe his brain clean, meaning destroy his mind, and then give him the great gift of loving Big Brother, really loving him, meaning overwriting reality on his newly broken mind. And when that happens he will finally be sane and whole and right. Then they will kill him.

As if things weren't bad enough for Winston already, anyone with a grain of justice in their soul would think that Winston had given enough now. He'd given everything. Or rather, they'd taken everything there was to take. Why wouldn't that be enough? Why do they have to kill him?

The nature of the supposed crime was that Winston had once existed with thoughts in his head that were true. They were contrary to the Party which seriously threatened the party because the party is nothing but a lie. To think a thought that was not a Party thought was the one thing that could never be forgiven, ever. A contrary thought is taken as a murder attempt, because to reveal a lie is to kill it. The Party knows that everyone must believe the lie because if even one person doesn't believe it, the lie could be revealed and killed.

What the Party wants is impossible. It cannot ever actually happen that different individuals could live different life experiences that would bring them to think only lies, or rather, party thoughts. There is no possibility or probability of that happening naturally. It is contrary to nature, which means it's not optional. It just is. It applies whether it suits anybody or not.

The external and internal truth of every human being is that we are separate and independent from every other human being; experiencing all physical sensation through our own physical senses, thinking our own self generated thoughts, fully existing in our own self generated emotions; while synthesizing all that one knows and feels and understands and sees and touches and wonders about and hungers for and dreams of with the never ending turmoil of a teeming world of activity and discovery happening all around us every second of our lives; this is the first truth of existing. That's what being a human being is, it marks the beginning and the end of a life. It announces the legitimate arrival of a new sentient, independently functional human being. Your mind is you and every part of you is yours by definition. Nothing of what we are can ever belong to or be automatically obligated to anyone else because no one else had any say over whether or not we exist. We exist.

To not have any of that is to not exist. And to not have it be there by self genesis, is to not exist. We physically exist to function as autonomous, continuously self-creating beings. That is our primary function. Like washing machines wash clothes and can't do much else, we cannot help but do what we're built to do.

The highest crime between people is demanding by force, by law, by deceit, by manipulation, by threat, by imprisonment, by bribery, by withholding information, by telling lies, by ultimatum, by any means of coercion at all, that someone else must relinquish themselves, in essence cease to exist, and instead become a mere extension of someone else's will; carrying someone else's thoughts, ideas, desires, goals and philosophies. That is a crime against nature as well as a crime against the human species. We can offer, we can ask, we can request, but we have no right to demand and no right to force our will on anyone else. We have the right to defend ourselves from someone else's unwanted intrusion or attacks on our persons, but there is no right to wage such attacks or make such intrusions.

We don't seem to appreciate this nearly enough or understand the basic rules of coexistence. We confuse our own desires with a right to satisfy them. There is no such right if it involves or affects anyone else and they are not allowed to decide whether or not they want to participate. No such right ever existed, and it never will.

What "1984" shows us is how officialdom tries to sanitize their crimes against nature and humanity with claims to impossible authority and impossible rights to propagate official philosophy and condemn all alternative philosophies as evil. The Party turned all truth on its head and made natural rights into illegal things and illegal things into official rights, just like our own government does today and has done for a long time. What the Party was really trying to do to Winston was expunge his unique mind from existence. Big Brother demanded the mass murder of human consciousness.

It's easy to say that's insane, it is insane. It's evil, about as evil as it comes. What's not so easy is understanding why anyone would want this. It makes no sense. It's a contradiction to want everyone else's unique identity extinguished but still be surrounded by people. It reminds me of Narcissus gazing at his own reflection in the pond. If you want to be the only person on earth, then why don't you want to be alone? What is it that is so hard for you about other people not being you? What do you feel entitles you to torture and murder them for not being you when that is not a possibility, much less a crime? What is it that you really want?

People like this have filled volumes with their excuses and lies which they tell themselves and each other and then all agree it makes perfect sense and justifies their bad behavior. But it doesn't justify anything. There is no excuse or validation for serial killers.

By attempting to use force of any kind to deprive people of their primary function is to demand that they be expunged from existence. More precisely it's a demand to have never existed at all. It's a demand that cannot be met. No one can exist and then never have existed. It doesn't even make sense.

Even more, there is no reason, need or right to demand that anyone cease to exist. To demand that you stop being who you are is to demand that you kill yourself, mentally, physically, or both, so that someone else may feel happy because you are gone. That is not a reasonable demand. It is invalid.

To me that's natural law #1. If you exist you obviously have the right to exist. Period. Everything else comes after that, not before.

The thing about natural laws is that pretending they don't exist doesn't get you thrown in jail or punished the way breaking a man made law does. You can't break a natural law. You can try, and we do try, over and over again, but when a law can't be broken nothing you do will subvert or override it. Natural law can't be pretended away. It can't be changed or effected. You can choose to ignore it but it will still be there. If you're at all intelligent you can benefit profoundly from the wisdom of natural law, because it teaches instead of imprisons, it expands you instead of diminishing you, it heals you instead of hurting you. Knowing about natural law is like having an anchor so we know where we are in relation to everything else in the universe, but it's also like a piece of string we can pull on to get some light. It's not the same as "THE" answers, that's something else. Natural laws aren't answers, they're truths. They're starting points, realities, square one. They apply equally to one and all.

Independent sentience is the square one of human existence. It is who we are. It can't be removed from our existence, or be given to someone else. It is as hard to share our independent sentience with someone else as it is to share an arm or a leg with someone else. It doesn't work that way. Our independent sentience is what wills our arms into action and our legs to move our bodies across the room. We can't do that for anyone else no matter how much we wish we could, it's just not possible.

We can't feel anyone else's pain other than to empathize with them. We can't see what anyone else is seeing unless they tell us what it is and try to show us and we want to try to see it, but we can never directly see it ourselves through their eyes. We can come to know others, to understand them, to interact with them, even at incredibly intimate levels, but we will always remain separate, individual and unique no matter how close we become.

Interestingly, it has to be that way. We couldn't love anyone if we weren't separate and sentient and self-generating our every thought and feeling. We couldn't experience that other person if we were a single entity. Then we would be one self, one sentience, and there would be no "other" to know or feel anything for. We could not experience self and others if we were all one mind experiencing everything all at once at the same time. We have to be individually sentient in order to see or think or feel or communicate. Our own life has to be a unique, personal experience in order for us to exist at all. The magic all happens when everyone's doing that and we manage to find some way to interact, communicate and express ourselves to each other; and make our lives and our world into something that matters to us.

That's what Big Brother wants to eradicate from not just Winston, but every one else. Big Brother literally does not want anyone else to exist. It wants to end existence of all but itself in duplicated, repeating, identical form. A clone society of one person. The Party wants to kill sentience and have itself be the only sentience there is. Why that is, I don't know, but that is what it wants. It's not rational. It doesn't make sense. It wants to remake the world into a shrine to itself. I'd call that the definition of insanity.

"I want you to cease to exist so that I may be happy" is a serious disorder of the will.

It's easy to read "1984" and know these Big Brother people were in a raging disease state, and see that people who have this disease are also its primary carriers. What might not be so quickly apparent though is that it happens in lesser degrees, and all too commonly today, in the here and now. For some people it is a full blown disease. For Big Brother and the Party it was more like Ebola. For others it's anywhere from the equivalent of a sneeze to the common cold to the flu. It can even go pandemic, because this disease can be very catchy.

"I want you to cease to exist so that I may be happy" disease, the exact same disease state of "1984", can and does affect pretty near everybody to some extent or another at least from time to time; and it affects some folks very seriously, permanently and forever. We have a lot of names for the multitudinous ways this disease expresses itself, like racism, sexism, corruption, greed, deceit, oppression, domination, imperialism, fascism, modern capitalism, rape, murder, theft, fraud, war, cheating, bullying, manipulation, rudeness, inconsideration, selfishness, cruelty, disrespect, but while the expressions are all quite different they all spring from the same disease of the will.

There is something interesting I've noticed about this disease. That is its desperate, paranoid, even hysterical need to label itself as the ultimate form of perfect sanity. It must convince others that it is not a disease, not a disorder of the will, but instead it is the pinnacle of truth and perfected human thought. That assertion cannot be proven but to the infected, proof is irrelevant. Reality is irrelevant. Nothing is relevant but what the infected person thinks or feels. They can and do make it up as they go. They have no fear of being hypocrites or liars, and they cannot be shamed. They are able to stand before anyone in a state of raging disease, while it is crystal clear to onlookers that they are covered with crawling disease organisms that are truly disgusting and horrible, and they will say they are beautiful and healthy and that anyone who doesn't think so is stupid, or a terrorist, or is insane. They will say all kinds of things about others, but they will never consider any reason exists to look in the mirror.

Even more interesting is that those who are not infected see the disease and its false claims for what they are, and they cannot be tricked, fooled or in any wise convinced to believe it is anything but a disease. They recognize infected persons and know they are infected. It is only those who become infected who will suddenly believe they have not become sick, but they are now perfectly healthy. They too will spontaneously develop the identical paranoid to hysterical obsessive need to be perceived as perfect in their sanity. The slightest suggestion that they are not thinking clearly, that they are not objective, that they are wrong, that they are behaving badly, will never be received objectively or passively. On the contrary, it is risky to challenge infected persons because doing so cuts to the core of the disease and threatens to expose it, which would prove it is there. Proving it is there is to render it impotent. Knowing it is there is to threaten its existence. The response is predictable and always the same; rage.

The germs of "I want you to cease to exist so that I may be happy" disease float freely about us in great quantity at all times, just like so many other kinds of germs and pathogens. Our mental immune systems are not always geared up enough to fight off bouts of infection from this soul pathogen.

The cure is not complicated, it just takes conscious effort and the desire to get well, or if we are already well, to stay that way. No one is ever immune from being infected by this stuff. Interestingly though, because it is a malfunction of our own will we can always choose to not be infected. As soon as we realize we have it we can choose to not have it.

Being uncomplicated is not the same as being easy. It can be really hard to be honest enough and unselfish enough and mature enough to admit when and under what circumstances we have this disorder. It's not hard to understand that everyday people get infected with this because it comes from a natural and perfectly good thing. It's just that the perfectly natural good thing has malfunctioned.

My earlier quick definition of what a person is, an independent sentient being, is a being driven by self interest. It has to be in order to survive. But it also has to be driven by interest in others, because when it isn't, it malfunctions. It attempts to operate in opposition to reality. The reason it has to be driven by interest in others is because there are others. We exist and others exist. Any suggestions of greater or lesser right or worth or anything else are hot air. They can't be supported by natural law. We all exist in exactly the same degree, we have to acknowledge each other's existence in exactly the same degree. If there were no others it wouldn't matter, but then we wouldn't exist either so the point is obvious. You just can't get around this, it's simple common sense.

As simple as it is to understand, it's possibly one of the hardest things to manifest. Sometimes it can't be helped just due to sheer numbers, but many times it's only a choice we make to either acknowledge the existence of others or decide that doesn't count as much as getting what we want. When we negate the existence of others by conscious intent, with malice, with depraved indifference, it disrupts and damages the natural order of things and creates havoc, destruction and suffering.

Infected people are the cause of almost every wrong that people do in this world. It's not the same as making a mistake, anyone can make a mistake. This is specifically about the will of the infected individual malfunctioning. And like any systemic disease it doesn't just affect the will, it spreads to other components of the being and invades them, thus transforming them into willing accomplices which will aid and abet the disease's continued existence. No disease can go on existing unless it propagates and this disease is desperate to propagate itself. It must infect reason, logic, compassion, critical thinking, and most every function of the individual being.

The nature of this disease is to demand that natural law does not exist or that somehow it is wrong and they are right. Just as infected people insist they are not infected but are healthy, the disease can only stay alive by turning everything inside out and calling it normal. This disease exists in direct opposition to simple truth and plain old ordinary reality. The problem is, it cannot affect simple truth and plain old ordinary reality. Because of that it can only try to destroy them. It obsesses over destroying them. It goes on crusades to destroy them. Infected people's only recourse is to use force to eradicate simple truth and ordinary reality, because the exercise of one person's will cannot affect change in any other person but one's own self. Even this unchangeable natural law is one they deny and attempt to overthrow even though it is pointless.

Wanting to use our personal will to control the thoughts and actions of another person is common enough, but apparently not quite common enough for anybody who does it to recognize it doesn't work that way. Our will is confined to controlling ONLY our own selves, both physically and mentally. We cannot simply "will" another to do or be what we want. If we could do that, we would do that, but it's not possible.

What does that mean? It's too simple to believe it needs to be said out loud, but here goes. It means that it's wrong to do that. Wrong, meaning it is not within the realm of possibility. We do not possess the ability, and therefore we do not possess the right, to have our will control the thoughts, beliefs, feelings or lives of another person. Those are things we can control and are supposed to control in and for ourselves. We do it for ourselves, others do it for themselves. That's how this whole human existence thing works. That's how we function. Our will cannot affect the basic existence or function of any other being. You just can't do it.

Unless, of course, you do terrible things that hurt other people. You can use your will to make you get a grip and behave like a decent human being, or you can decide not to do that and use your will to come up with ways to use force or deception to make others do what you want. No matter what your supposed good reasons are, no matter how it is rationalized, it is still breaking the first basic rule of coexistence to do that. Just because you are able to use your own will to ignore and defy simple reality and truth does not mean you are right to do so. You are committing a crime against independent sentience when you use force or other cheats to get your way.

You're also causing damage to the person you use force against, and possibly to other people connected to them as well as yourself. There is physical rape and we all know that's a crime, but there is also mental rape and that's also a crime. Both physical murder and mental murder are crimes. In a way this is so simple that its hard. What's hard about it is really facing it, really getting it, and really understanding that we're not functioning right in this world unless we're trying hard to overcome those things in ourselves that make us want to deny the obvious and act as if our desires matter more than who we use to satiate them. There is no natural law to support that.

I know that some will say that's not true because, for instance, in order to eat we have to kill something. They will say that because that's true then anything we want to do toward fulfilling our desires is valid and there are no rules and killing isn't even wrong. That would be incorrect. That's like saying, "If this is an apple then everything is an apple". No it isn't. There is an obvious natural law that requires us to eat life to stay alive. We have no choice but to consume other living things, which means killing them, but those living things are food, not other people. We have to eat food but we do not have to rape or kill or lie. That's just stupid. Look for the natural law. If it's not there, it isn't there so quit being a twit. This is simple stuff. It is common sense. You don't even need to be able to read to know this. We can observe it all around us in our natural world.

There are rules. There is right and wrong. We are not masters of the universe. We are complex, diverse, sentient, individual beings living finite life spans on a world with other sentient beings and many other life forms. We're all here together. We like to pretend we're not a part of it all, but we are. The more effort, time and energy we put into pretending we are separate from our shared Earth reality, the more we prove ourselves wrong. The more we try to defy the natural, common sense rules that cannot be changed, the more harm we do. And boy are we stubborn and defiant. We hate not having everything our way. It should be pretty clear to everybody by now that we are guaranteed to kill ourselves as we continue killing the world we're a part of unless we knock it off.

Our personal desires may be strong, but they do not automatically manifest a right to be fulfilled. A desire to be fulfilled is not a right to be fulfilled. Our rights end at the outer edges of our own skin. That's the fact of the matter and it's a fact we sometimes really hate. We can hate it all we want, but that won't change a single thing. We are doing it wrong when we pretend there are no rules and there is no morality and there is no right or wrong. Of course there is.

The disease state of "1984" is in full bloom in the real world we all live in. Just like in the story, the infected Party power players have lied, cheated, stole, murdered, and turned reality on its ear in the useless attempt to legitimize their disease. They achieved the means to have it written down on paper and have their crimes protected by legal force from any attempts at correction, but they did not achieve the real goal they wanted of making it legitimate. It can never be legitimate, it is a disease state. The next step was to elevate the lie to a sacred truth that must never be questioned or doubted. This makes anyone who questions or doubts it a vile horrific enemy that they can then claim the right to brutalize, imprison, and even kill in "self-defense". It is absolutely self-defense. Every person with the truth inside them is a direct threat to their continued existence.

When the disease state controls our lives everything slowly dies because the disease brings death. That's what diseases do. Natural law facilitates life and growth and health, because that's what it does.

I know "1984" is a book of fiction, but all the same I would beg to differ. It's a fictional account of hard reality and it describes perfectly well the nature of the eternal struggle on this world. It shows us the exact definition of "wrong". It shows us how "wrong" masquerades itself as "right". It shows us how to get people to never look at the real issue and instead believe the wrong people masquerading as right people, and to embrace the masquerade wholeheartedly and think it is real. It shows us exactly why information control and non-diversity of thought turns people into automatons who don't think and who cannot think past their indoctrination. It faithfully depicts what happens to people when their birthright to think for themselves and to have their own opinions, beliefs and ideas is cheated and manipulated away from them.

As unpleasant as these things are to look at, they must be looked at. They must be endured long enough to make clear to us how important it is to know with all certainty what is right and what is wrong and why. Because as long as we fall for the rivers of bullshit and lies that are there to detour us from simple truth, to confuse issues that are not confusing, to excuse behavior that is inexcusable, we will continue to slowly but surely cease to exist. And if there is anything the vast majority of humanity would be quick to agree with is the fact that no one's demands that we cease to exist can ever be legitimate. We are never obligated to cease to exist to make anyone else happy.

That means that the very people who are most infected must also be allowed to exist. But at least once we know who and what they are, and if we care about being free of their infection in ourselves, we can choose any number of legitimate avenues to address this disease and perhaps even some day be able to free ourselves from the rampage of death and destruction it inflicts on our whole world.

We are given to believe that things are much more complicated than this; that nothing can be this straightforward and simple and be real; and that it would be idiotic to suggest that there aren't puffed up self-important people who are better than everyone else based on any number of personal beliefs. But a personal belief is not a genuine truth or a natural law. A genuine truth applies to one and all. It applies whether we know about it or not. It applies whether we deny it or not. It is not a matter of assertion or belief. It just is.

An example of a personal truth is that you are afraid of bees. The reason you are afraid of bees is that you are highly allergic to bee stings. If a bee stings you, you are very likely to die. This is a personal truth that is actually a truth. It is true whether or not anyone else out of the next hundred people is also allergic to bee stings. Even if nobody else is, you still are. That's a personal truth, not a general one, or what I refer to as a genuine truth that applies to all people everywhere.

Another example of a personal truth is that your mama says you're special and you believe her. She would never lie to you and tells you you're special every single day. You might really believe you're special and your mama might really believe it too, with all of her heart. But it doesn't make you special anywhere else beyond you and your mama. It's not a general truth and I'm not even sure it's a personal one, but in any case, it is certainly not supported by natural law. I'm surprised how many people don't realize that. It boggles the mind.

The same applies to the personal belief that you are better than others, or more special than others, or more entitled than others, due to whatever variable you want to assert. Your personal religious beliefs, a belief that money determines the value of a life, a belief that might makes right, that real men must be macho and should beat up women, these are personal beliefs, not general truths. They may be true to you, but that does not equate to being true anywhere else outside of your own head, even if you can get fifty seven other people who say they agree with you and believe the same thing. It still doesn't make it a general across the board reality. It is not a genuine truth. It does not apply to all. You can think it does but it doesn't and it never will. It's not possible. If it was a general truth everyone would know it wouldn't they? But too many people know it's not a truth in their own lives. A personal truth may or may not be true, and it may or may not be a genuine truth. These things are all different and not all supposed truths are true.

The truths that I'm talking about here are genuine truths. They do apply to everyone across the board. They are something we're all born with in exact equal measure. They just are.

Where we run into trouble time and again is in believing our own personal truths, beliefs, opinions, preferences and desires apply to anyone outside ourselves, which they can't, and don't and possibly never will, because they're personal. We may think they can apply to others who aren't interested or who reject them, but they don't, and they won't, and they can't. We have to get over ourselves and quit pretending that what we have in our heads, no matter how much we believe it, is not an automatic general truth that applies across the board just because we think so.

We also have to accept that not every desire comes with a right to have it fulfilled, especially not if fulfilling it includes anyone else but ourselves. There is no right to get our jollies out on somebody else's life. This is so not hard. Like I said, the hardest thing about it is making ourselves be honest about it, and for some people that's just too much to ask.

We can't make anyone else be honest or real about anything, we can only do that for ourselves. But we can tell who cares about being honest, who cares about the other people on the planet with them, and who consistently doesn't. We can choose to refuse to associate with people who want to be infected, we can try to present them with other knowledge and facts and ideas to explain how we see things differently, or we can choose to do something else. That's the free will part of being an independently sentient person; and the self same part that the diseased among us are always so desperate to stamp out. What a coincidence.

I offer this up today to be put on the record because apparently a whole lot of people have not been clued in. Regardless of anyone else's take on the subject, this is my take and I duly register it along with the statement that these are my rules, and if you break them you're wrong. Also for the record is the fact that this is only a part of this picture, there's a lot more attached to it and behind it and supporting it, but it is still a genuine truth that stands on its own. It's still true whether we're able to appreciate it and make headway with it or not. If we don't know this we won't get anywhere as human beings, but I think a lot of us know this, even if we've never thought it through or put it into so many words. It only makes sense. It's fair. It's reasonable, logical and hard to argue with. It's hard to come up with any genuine truths to support the opposite.

Unfortunately, what we know from "1984" as well as our own current reality is that the truth does not keep some people from trying to pretend their own truth is better or matters more. It does not keep anyone from denying it or violating it or trying to erase it. Which is why it is so important to be adamant about what we know is right and wrong and not allow ourselves to be hijacked out of our very purpose and reason for being alive. If we don't value our independent sentience enough to protect it and insist upon other's respecting it, nobody else is going to do that for us. Indeed, if we don't care enough about it, it will be hijacked and we will be expunged from sentient existence and we will become nothing more than animated meat puppets trained to respond on command as extensions to somebody else's will. That would never work for me but then I am aware of the rules, so it's much less likely to happen to me. But those who are not aware of the rules would not even know if and when it's happened to them. And that is something that scares me even more than "1984".

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Mr. Happy Goes To Argentina

I'm working on finalizing two new, rather long posts, that have been in the making for a few weeks, but this isn't either of those. This won't be a long post but I have to say this.

The news is awash with the story of some elected official who just got busted for sleeping with his extra marital honey in Argentina. I don't know his name, it's not even worth looking up.

When this non-story came up as news yesterday it irritated me. I didn't read it, because I couldn't care less. When it came up on Democracy Now today, I shut off the TV.

The "news" clip showed this silly man standing behind a podium, with a microphone, in front of the whole world, apologizing for having sex with somebody besides his wife.

That's when I reached over and shut it off.

That's not news. Why is it being sprayed all over people when it's not even news? Could there be a less newsworthy item in the country than this guy's personal problem? Who cares? I don't care. I don't know the guy. Why would I care?

What does this guy's personal sex life have to do with anyone besides this guy?

Does anyone think that an elected official getting some extracurricular nookie is going to have a negative effect on this country? Does anyone really believe that what this guy does with his Mr. Happy would have any effect on this country at all? You have to know these things are not related. There's no way this matters. AT ALL.

Oh I know what some folks are saying, they're saying that it does matter because it's a character issue. If he lies to his wife then he would lie to us, and we just can't tolerate that. It means he's a bad man.

I'm sorry for this, but I am too tired to be diplomatic right now. Here goes.

Anybody who claims to be worried about any of our dearly elected politicians character... their morality... their honesty ... is a big fat liar. You don't care about the character of the people you elect. You don't care when they lie to you. You don't give a rat's ass about their morality. What are you going on about?

If you actually cared about the character or morality or honesty of American politicians, pathetic weasel crud like that guy would never get into office. If this guy's personal sex antics get you so upset, then why doesn't the whole filthy, corrupt, lying, murdering game show bother you? Do you honestly believe that this guy cheating on his wife is the worst thing your dearly elected are up to? Are you really that naive?

If you cared about this character stuff, you might have blown a gasket over the filthy lies coming out of the mouths of every president that's been in office during your personal lifetime. You'd be livid over the millions of dead people over seas that never did anything to deserve to die at the hands of some bullshit Western coalition mass murder spree over some impossible war on terror that doesn't exist, never existed and never will exist. You should have been all kinds of offended by that. Because that actually matters. AND it pertains to you, unlike Mr. Whoopie and what he's doing in his spare time.

If it really bothered you when elected officials lie, you would be bothered out of your mind right now. You would be looking at these people and listening to them and knowing every word out of their mouths is a lie. You would know that like you know your own street address.

But you don't want to know that. You want to play "holier than thou" games and pretend it's shocking and unbelievable for a grown man to have extra marital sex instead of noticing how many of these respectable characters are getting their jollies on little kids. You would be demanding prison sentences for the protected child sex slave rackets being run all over this country and not just this country. You wouldn't be wasting your time on things that don't concern you, that aren't any of your business, and that don't fricken matter to anyone at all except whoever's personal business it is.

Don't turn your head you coward. That's reality. And that's nothing, NOTHING compared to who and what these people all are and what they do every single day they show up for "work". Why don't you get real and look at the truth? Every last one of them is screwing YOU right now. And they won't stop till they're done and there's nobody left to screw. Why don't you know that by now? What does it take to get you clued in? Oh that's right. Soap opera style dirty laundry.

You chicken shit.

My God, are people really that inane? Yes, they are. They really are. It's unbelievable.

This lot makes me want to hurl.

All the same, I don't really think there are that many Americans that give a crap about this guy and his affair.

I think it has a whole lot more to do with the disgusting scum bag whore morality of the new American mainstream "media" and what they themselves get titillated by. They are the ones who are the horses ass gossips, and the flesh obsessed meat vultures. They are the ones who waste everyone's time and energy hystericizing and nit picking over athletes taking dope while officials condone torture and military political zealots blow away one of their own, and their extreme better at that, just because he gets it and doesn't stand for lies and war crimes. Nobody cares who's poking who, or what Hollywood phonies are up to, or any other manner of completely irrelevant, idiotic, stupid stuff about people's personal lives that have nothing to do with any other human being in this country at all. The world is going up in flames, the country's morality itself has been shot in the head and left for dead, while the country is being gang banged and cleaned out by a global criminal syndicate that's murdering the future of 350 million Americans; and you give a shit about some guy having an affair?

You are vile and filthy whores. That's it. That's the highest compliment you deserve. Your own debauched, trivia obsessed management is the reason big media has tanked. You've got nothing worth having and next to nothing anyone needs. It's simple cause and effect. Because you're inane, dishonest, cowardly, shallow twits, that fail utterly at your supposed purpose, Informing The People, the effect is nobody likes you anymore. We want real information. Go figure.

End of rant.

Long exhale.

All better now.

Just fyi, the aforementioned two new pieces will probably take another week or so to complete. I'm sure everyone's lives are as busy and as overpopulated with distractions and challenges as mine is. It's like that right now kind of more than usual. Nothing I can't handle, it just makes it impossible to spend time doing what I want to do. I've easily got half a dozen pieces in various stages of completion and will eventually be able to put them up when time and energy allows. I hope.

In any case, all my best to you. And by the way, thank you sincerely for being there and for all of your good will and support. I really do appreciate it.

Ang

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Attack of the War Gamers



"Yes the game is DARK, BUT...."

"Yes the game is VIOLENT, BUT..."

"Yes the game depicts a HORRIBLE HELLISH FUTURE, BUT..."

But what? All you guys want to "debate" me. About what? To try to convince me that violence and killing incorporated into entertainment is innocent and harmless? Well I don't think it is.

Isn't this just the gamers version of "It's not wrong when the president does it"? Killing is not wrong when gamers do it. What else is not wrong when you all do it?

How about computerized rape? Would that be okay too? It's not real rape, it's just fantasy rape. Would that be just a game that has no affect on society or people's heads and value systems and I'd be stupid for saying it did?

The idea of entire formalized game scenarios around rape, gang rape, raping the enemy, that doesn't go down so well does it? I wonder why. No I don't actually, I know why. It is because you have not yet been desensitized to the idea of rape so that it doesn't bother you or shock you. You still see something sick and wrong with rape. You don't think of rape as legitimate. But strangely you see killing as perfectly fine and even entertaining. Well who does that serve I wonder? It certainly wasn't something you were born with. Where did it come from then? Go ahead and tell me you haven't been skillfully indoctrinated all of your life to accept war and most of this society's standardized forms of "legitimized" violence, killing and death. Or are you just natural born fantasy killers? I doubt it.

Luckily for the women of the world, rape isn't quite so easily and handily paired with some noble idea to make it seem acceptable. Unfortunately for the whole world, mass killing has. We have entire, complex games built around killing. Nothing else, just killing. Because that's good wholesome fun. According to you.

Is killing glamorous? Is killing good? Is killing fun? Why do you find it fun when you play your games of death and war?

How do you suppose your subconscious mind parses that out, or do you actually think it can? I say it can't. It's not possible. Because in order for you to play your killing games, at some level, somewhere, you've decided that killing is okay. Under SOME set of circumstances, your particular set by coincidence, the idea of killing and fighting and shooting and making war is perfectly lovely.

Well, I'm sorry, but I can't come along with you on that.

You see, my basic position is that killing is wrong. Killing doesn't fix anything. Killing isn't justice. Killing doesn't even take any brains, any thug with a big club can kill.

Killing and war have been glamorized, justified and legitimized by connecting them to patriotism and 'we're number one' , to self defense and the nobility and bravery of the individuals who go off to war. But those things are not war. War uses those things to get its credibility and its legitimacy because the truth is that war has no credibility or legitimacy of its own.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm no shrinking violet. When it comes to defending myself I'll use a gun in a heart beat. But I won't find it amusing. I won't do it without feeling it hard afterwards. I will defend myself, but so much of the violence we see and engage in this society has nothing to do with self defense. Have you not seen the police beating and shooting people who are no threat to them? The police are 100% legitimized and so by default anything they do is automatically legitimized, even when it's not at all legitimate. Even when it's senseless and punitive and unjustifiable. But try getting around that inculcated, naive belief that police can never be criminals or act inappropriately or be rapists or serial killers. They can be and some of them are. Cops are just people like everyone else, and there are cops that are real thugs. That's on the record. Some cops commit crimes. Every day in fact. Some soldiers commit crimes. All presidents commit crimes. Regardless of any title, badge, uniform or high office, these are all just people, ordinary people, and not all of them are nice. They are able to hide under the freely given blanket of legitimacy from this unthinking society and they are able to get away with murder because of that. That's a fact, check it yourself.

Where I guess all this violent gaming loses me is pretty much right from the beginning. You see, I don't consider any form of violence to be entertaining. I don't get why millions upon millions of people in this country ENJOY a "good" rape and murder movie. In my mind, that's cracked. There's something wrong with that. There's nothing at all fun or amusing or entertaining about brutality and killing. Violence, brutality, murder, killing, shooting are serious business, there's nothing fun about them. I know, I've seen it and been in it and there's nothing fun or romantic or swell about it. It's the worst thing in the world. That's my opinion for which I'm sure somebody somewhere would be willing to snap my neck. They would feel entitled to snap my neck because they strongly stand behind their own conception of what kind of violence is good, even noble, or at least excusable, acceptable, all the way to "harmless" fun. But how did it ever come to be that any kind of brutality slid over into the category of "fun" at all? Something is out of whack there. That doesn't make any sense.

Some people who love playing these violent games got very angry with me because I pointed out the violence in them. I'm not putting the violence in them, the violence is already in them. This is like it's not wrong for the violence to be there it's only wrong of me to say so out loud. Well I'm sorry, the violence is in there and I'm saying so out loud.

I didn't pick Warhammer for any particular reason. This isn't about Warhammer. I don't care in the least about Warhammer. I don't care about the characters or the story. They are not at all what I am addressing. There are dozens of incredibly violent and dark "games" out there, I picked Warhammer by chance, so I'll say it again, this is not about Warhammer. There are millions and millions of men playing Warhammer along with dozens of even more violent, more disturbing games. That's a whole lot of fantasy killing.

Why do they like their killing games so much? Why do they spend so many hours and so many years playing their killing games? What are they feeding? Are games without killing incapable of fulfilling the entertainment urge for some reason? Do war gamers ever ask themselves these questions? Is there really nothing better they could do with their time than have war fantasies? There probably is but games are easier and the pleasure hit comes fast and large and is guaranteed. You all are addicted, you just don't want to see it that way. After listening to the hostile bombardment in defense of a silly game it tells me that this is far more serious than you're even willing to face. Why should it matter to you at all what I think? Am I a threat to you lot?

The fact is that I've felt this way all my life. It hasn't affected a single one of you in the slightest. It made no difference at all in any of your lives. It didn't make a difference until you found out about it and then all of a sudden it was like the end of the world for you. It's what you are telling yourselves that is upsetting you. My thoughts and feelings have always been here in the same earth plane with you. It is not my thoughts or feelings that are causing you any grief whatsoever. It is your thoughts and your feelings. My thoughts and feelings have no affect or presence in any of your lives. I cannot affect you in any way. So why, suddenly, are you all up in arms over my beliefs and opinions? Why are you all rushing in to insult me and accuse me of being everything from stupid to a liar to someone who just doesn't get it? Why are so many of you needing to explain every detail of the game to me? You are seeking justification for why YOUR preferred killing game is a good and okay killing game. Apparently it is not enough that you think so. You require me to think so or you feel threatened. I see that as an abject failure to even try to be objective or serious about the whole of the violent gaming phenomenon.

Killing is not fun. Death is not fun. You're the ones who are saying it is fun, but I'm the one under unending attack from you all. Doesn't that strike you as at all backwards? I'm not attacking anyone, I never have. I am pointing at things I see because they are there. I am connecting dots that you refuse to consider connecting. Your refusal doesn't mean the dots aren't there to connect, they are there. That's why you're so pissed off with me. Because I am challenging you not to defend your silly games, but to defend your own private lust for violence and killing, and you can't do it.

Where is the fine line that you prefer to think of as a mile wide that separates thinking and fantasizing about killing from being willing to do it? Oh, only under the "right" circumstances to be sure, but what makes the circumstances right? A good and noble cause? Whose cause? Yours? Theirs? Mine?

Don't you get that killing is always deemed justified by who ever is doing the killing? Serial killers feel justified, are they? Cops feel justified, are they? The military feels justified, are they? Does anyone bother to think about it anymore? It takes two sides to have a battle, and obviously both sides feel justified in their killing. Well if only one of those sides is in the right, then one must be in the wrong, but which is which? In the heat of the battle nobody seems to care too much who is actually right or who is actually the "bad" guy. Both sides consider the other to be the "bad" guy, for their own reasons. So how do we ultimately decide who is really the bad or good guy, objectively?

When you really start digging down into the nitty gritty about who is justified and who is not, it's quite surprising to find that so very often whoever is doing the aggressing is in fact not a very nice guy. Often the side that is being howled about and called the worst of the worst people in the world are in fact the real victims. It seems more to depend on who can scream the loudest and kill the most. Whoever is left standing is the victor. But does that make the victor the good guy? Should it? I don't know you tell me.

See, I ask these questions. And I am willing to admit that it really depends a whole heck of a lot what side you're on in any battle. Both of the sides see themselves as in the right. But if both sides are in the right then you shouldn't need war to reach a mutually beneficial solution. War is an option that should rarely need to happen, but in this country it happens all the time. There's something very wrong with the whole damned thing, and even more wrong is how few Americans seem to give a shit at all who all or how many are getting killed somewhere else. Killing others has become the means to feel safe. Is that twisted enough for you? It sure is for me.

What makes it truly miserable is when good men are called to battle and they can't afford the luxury of doing too much thinking about who is shooting who and why. All they know is the reality that someone over there is pointing a rifle at them in the here and now, and they either have to shoot first, and accurately, or die. All of the critical thinking, all of the critically important questions, all of the issues of who is right and wrong evaporate in the harsh cold reality of survival. It truly becomes mindless killing in the literal sense. It can be very gripping. Intoxicating. You can totally lose your mind and your soul, if only for an hour, or a day, or a week or a year.

And this feeling, this exhilaration, the winning, the danger, the glamor of it, if you can call it that, this is the same high, the self same buzz that you gamers get high on. Only you do it all safe and snug in your bedrooms and offices at a computer terminal. But you still celebrate your kills, you even keep track of them. You count your trophies. And all the while you tell yourselves that it's just a game. And you damn well insist that I have to see it that way too, as if it's your right to tell me anything. It isn't your right. Even though it shouldn't matter in the least to you what I think, it seems to be of critical importance to you. Why should it be, if you truly believe there is nothing wrong with playing killing games?

Couldn't it be that even pretend killing, "fun" killing, is still thinking the thoughts and feeling the feelings of winning by the use of deadly violence? Oh yes, you love chalking it up to skill and strategy, but what's all that skill and strategy for? It's for killing. What else? It's not for setting a nice luncheon table. It's for killing. Admit it.

So please, spare me the "let's debate the game" nonsense. I know the game. This is not about your particular game, it's about you. It's your taking extreme pleasure, addictive pleasure from your war games. And it's you telling me, demanding of me, insisting to me that there's no harm in it whatsoever, that it does not and cannot affect greater society in any way shape or form; and for me to suggest that it gets inside our heads at the deepest level and serves to inculcate people into the acceptance of violence as legitimate, as long as there is a sufficiently evil bad guy in the picture, our violence and our killing is automatically 100% justified. It's warranted. It's necessary. It's even good. And dang it, who can help it if it's fun too? It's just a game after all.

I'd better take a minute to clue in my regular readers as to what this is all about. Let's see, how shall I put this? Let's just say I've had a busy couple of days.

Two years ago I started looking around at all of the online gaming going on in this country and I'll tell you the truth, I was really blown away by how violent, dark, depressing, depraved and grotesque a lot of it is. There are all kinds of games of course, ranging from cute little games with goofy little characters to amazing, impressive 3D productions in Flash with lifelike characters and lots of women with immense breasts running around half nude with humungous swords. As if. I don't know a single woman who'd be the least bit interested in being around sharp instruments in her underwear but this is "just fantasy". No worries about men getting themselves all wound up on bullshit that makes it impossible for them to have real relationships with boring old normal, clad, unarmed females. I say that with some sarcasm obviously.

Anyway, I'd decided to do a web page on my site about this violence. Not to attack the people who are into it, but to bring to the fore, to conscious awareness, particularly for parents, what it means to think of violence in terms of it being "fun" or "harmless". Because the human mind doesn't work like we love to believe it does. It doesn't separate out what our eyes see into fantasy and reality.

Our brains take it all in as real, as you may have experienced if you've ever been to a horror film or a really scary movie. Your heart is beating a mile a minute, or maybe you suddenly cry out from the tension and a good scare on the screen; but why would you? You intellectually know that it's only a movie and that the guy with the chainsaw or the ax or whatever, is just an actor and so are all the other people in the film. They're not even really there, it's just a recording. But tell your rapidly beating heart that. It doesn't care what's in your head intellectually. It is responding to the danger it perceives from a whole different part of your brain that is authorized to over ride your conscious intellect at will. You can actually think one thing and feel something in direct opposition to your brilliant conscious mind thinking its grown up, rational thoughts, at the same time.

You may think it silly to have a physical fear response to a recorded scripted story, but the fact is your body is reacting to it as though it was real. That's the main reason people go to scary movies in the first place. If they didn't feel real fear it wouldn't be much of a thrill. This isn't fantasy, it's fact. The whole of your brain is not just the conscious awareness part. In fact George Lakoff came out with the results of research last year where he stated that most of what we think of as thinking, over 90% of it, is done unconsciously. In fact the number is even higher than that. According to Lakoff, we do practically no conscious thinking. So the fear you experience at the movies is quite real, and it is not the result of your conscious thoughts but thoughts you don't even know you're having. The most you can do is keep that fear response under control with your intellect and will, and a feeling of assurance that you are indeed safe. But I guarantee you, if the scary guy playing the insane killer in that movie suddenly came walking down your aisle, you'd piss yourself.

Does that relate to violence in other entertainment? It does relate, and in the same way, and then some. My concern in writing the web page was to flag parents, and people in general who have never once thought about their beliefs about war and violence. As I mentioned above, we automatically assign justification to some of the most heinous acts of violence in our country, just as long as the violence is done by people we think of as authorized to do it. It's a bit weird when you really stop and think about it because there is no such thing as automatic justification. No one deserves to be given free reign to kill or shoot or imprison at will, period, no human being is so perfect as to be qualified for blanket authorization to kill or do violence at will, no questions asked. But we in this country have been so propagandized through television shows that always portray law enforcement and government and lawyers and investigators and intelligence operatives as these sparkling great people that are good hearted and always in the right, so that is our perception in real life.

We have no direct personal experience to explain our automatic trusting belief in authority, so where does it come from? Well that's obvious. It comes from the only experience we do have on the subject, and that experience isn't even direct. It's not even an experience of reality. It's an experience of watching fiction, 100% made up, no real cops or presidents or intelligence operatives anywhere in sight, ever. It's not even live, it's recorded. It is actors saying lines from scripts, and characters we come to "know" and actually grow fond of. None of it is real, but people none the less come away from it fully indoctrinated in their staunch belief that all authority is benign and beneficent and can be trusted at all times, so there is little in the way of questioning anything authority does, even when it's grotesquely and blatantly wrong. We'll even make excuses to cover for them, such is our deep self-indoctrination based on sheer fantasy. It feels real to us though, and we'll be damned if we let any facts set us straight. Hell no. We won't stand for it.

I am saying that the same kind of indoctrination occurs through all forms of major entertainment, and in the case of the web page I did two years ago, in computerized games of violence, war, killing and death too. Why would this one thing be exempt from affecting the mind?

It can't be exempt, everything affects our minds. There is nothing that does not affect our minds. It will affect different people in different ways, but I am only asking people to be conscious of what their children are being inculcated into without anyone realizing it or paying attention to it; because we have a serious problem with violence in this country. Where is all of this violence coming from? The major share of influence comes out of the whole of what we think of as ordinary entertainment. And this country is the most violent of westernized nations in the whole world.

Something somewhere is behind this astonishing level of American violence. Shouldn't we be willing to consider ALL forms of standardized violence that children are exposed to? Should we ignore out of hand anything that we personally happen to be behind and like? Is that fair? Is it honest? No, it's not fair or honest. If children were not inundated with death images and death messages from the first day they turn their TV sets on, if they were instead never even introduced to the idea that killing is okay, wouldn't they have a much harder time doing things like joining the army to go off and fight without even knowing why? To them killing would seem as senseless as it actually is, and they would need a reason before being willing to risk everything for what boils down to nothing at all. Am I horrible for asking people to think about that? I do not know why that would be anyone's valid opinion.

One of the arguments I keep hearing over and over is that it is only a game, as if that's supposed to be proof enough, absolute evidence that there's nothing harmful about it. It's a game. It's fun. But what I know, is that because it is so seemingly harmless, because it is fun, it is supremely able to enter the brain without encountering any defenses, no screening, no critical thought whatsoever, in fact it is welcomed. It is welcomed on the grounds that it is entertaining. It is fun. Sure it is killing, but it is only a game. The two things really have no business connecting because they exist at the opposite ends of a long and far away spectrum. And it scares me and it bothers me very much that somehow the two have met in the middle, and all of the negativity and horror of violence and war is washed away under the halo of wholesome enjoyment for one and all.

It began on Thursday morning. Someone, somewhere, an avid player of the game I happened to use for the example on my web page, ran across that web page and had an extremely, I'll repeat that, extremely negative reaction to what he read there. He immediately went into battle mode in his own mind, and I became his hated enemy. How dare I have a problem with anything about his death game? How dare I ask questions about serious things like killing and war when this was only a game? Was I so stupid that I couldn't see that it's only a game? It's not real. I am too dumb for words according to this guy. The email he actually sent would not be reprintable here, it is too offensive and vulgar. I don't have tender ears or anything, but when somebody's really hammering me with profanity and insults, it's not pleasant. That's where it began. This one unhappy camper was so extremely offended by my rather fairly presented criticism, so outraged that I had anything resembling a problem with Warhammer 40,000 and the Space Marines and the Angels of Death, that he meant to teach me a lesson I'd never forget.

He posted my web page and my email address on a gaming site that I'm told has something like three MILLION members. In the first 24 hours I was besieged with hate mail telling me where to go and to go there now. They wanted to rip my head from my body and shove it down the neck hole. Really a rather bizarre reaction in my opinion. I didn't attack gamers. I didn't attack anyone in fact. I pointed out what I could see with my own two eyeballs and asked questions about legitimacy. And a whole lot of gamers could see no legitimacy in my doing that. And they came in droves to tell me so.

In the last 24 hours that little web page has gotten over 11,000 hits. And whatever that unhappy camper originally posted on his gaming site went viral. I mean to tell you, it spread like wild fire to almost every large and small gamers web community on the internet. It even went on Twitter. You wouldn't even believe all the places that picked this up. Some horrible, outrageous, despicable woman is saying disrespectful, downright wrong, utterly stupid things about the killing game Warhammer 40,000. I am the most hated person in the whole of the global gaming community today. At least it sure feels that way. My inbox is smoking. I cannot keep up. And I have honestly tried. I really have.

I could have gotten myself all in a wad over the truly bad behavior of some very selfish, unkind people who simply cannot grasp the concept that I can have an opinion and it's no skin off their nose in any way. But I decided that since something I said caused such an uproar that I needed to step up to it and see if I could bring at least some of these people around to mid ground and at least show them that I'm not a drooling down the shirt nazi fundamentalist screeching about things I know nothing about. And I've had a 99.9% success rate with every exchange where I put forth the effort to find common ground. Because I know for sure we have common ground, I just needed them to know it so they wouldn't have to be so upset with me over something that in fact, was never said. It was not an attack. But this game has a following, and a very devoted one for that matter. I can't begin to tell you how many emails I've gotten from guys who explained the intricate details of the characters and the story line and all of the details of the game in the attempt to prove to me what a great game it really is so that I'll admit how wrong I was for not giving it, and them by default, the respect they both so richly deserve. Only a true idiot would fail to respect the game or its honorable, noble, intelligent, sophisticated players.

But I just don't see it that way. In fact as I see it, most of these guys are incapable of pulling out of where they are, just for long enough to try to be objective. They are not objective to put it mildly. I find it truly amazing that I can write about and criticize religion and have never gotten such scathing, abusive responses from staunch religionists. These guys blow Christian fundamentalists out of the water. The intensity of their defense of their clearly, immensely beloved killing game exceeds everything I've ever seen. The only close comparison I can make is the standard reaction to criticizing Israel. These seem to be in the same ball park.

So what's this all about, really? I thought it was just a game. They don't act like it's just a game. In fact, they act like it is the most serious thing in the world. They believe in this with all of their hearts and souls. Is that really rational? Should grown men feel this intensely devoted to a mere game? To the point they are willing to send vicious hate emails to someone who has done nothing to them whatsoever, and to threaten her, and call her every insulting name in the book? Is that the behavior of a reasonable adult mind? Is it really the end of the world when someone has a different opinion than you do? Is that grounds to despise someone and dismiss them entirely as a human being? Over a game?

As this process has unfolded, in just a short two days, I am watching as all these angry men, men of all ages, prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that all of my concerns are legitimate. That the acceptance of violence and hatred and killing and making someone an enemy for the slightest cause in a "game" or non-serious format does indeed saturate the mind down deep, not at a conscious level but even more scary, at the same level where the heart beats rapidly at a horror movie. They feel they have permission to hate, to be hostile, to dismiss someone different from themselves. It plays right into the hands of the social engineers who seek to guarantee that there will always be a steady supply of warriors for their armies. These guys feel rage, and the rage is real. Reason is not a part of this. They approach me with demands to bow down to their will, to see it as they see it, or die, in a way. If I fail to comply I am literally loathed, with full body loathing, despised and reviled. I become the most heinous person they know. Over a game. Over an opinion which is in fact, justified.

How can they defend that? How is their game, which has not been touched, or threatened, or in anyway taken from them, nor is there the slightest risk that it could ever be taken from them, how is it of such immense importance what I think? Why is it so unacceptable to them that I fail to give them the justification for enjoying killing games that they have given themselves? Why am I automatically evil and they automatically righteous? What compels them to feel it is legitimate at all to behave so badly with anyone for any reason, much less over a difference of opinion over a game they like to play.

I don't know, but it makes me feel very sad..

But cheer up, as I write these words it is only Friday night. I can hardly wait to see what will happen when the weekend comes and all of the gamers and all of the players come home from their offices and places of employment, and belly up to the computer to play their favorite games and read their favorite posts on their favorite gamers web sites. And when they find the word, the message, the fact that some vile stupid person criticized a killing game, how many more dozens and dozens of furious, obscenity laden emails will I be getting? It kind of tuckers me out just thinking about it.

But there is an upside to this believe it or not, and it tickles me a good bit. Because all of these gamers, at least the ones who first go to the website to see it for themselves, are being brought directly to my movie site, which is packed to the gills with hundreds of the kinds of movies they don't show us on television. And I am loving that. And according to the numbers, some of them are actually coming back, again and again.

As I see it, that is a grand victory wrapped in a prickly coat. I'll take it. Because honestly, I think I win this time, and in more than one way.

Hooah.

If you want to see what caused all the hoo-ha, here is the link to that page at my website.

UPDATE:
As of today 6/22/09 I am no longer accepting comments or emails from gamers about this. I can not do it. I do not have the time. I can't spend all day, every day, for weeks and weeks on end, doing nothing but responding to people who run across this one post or that one web page and want to get their digs in. I know you think I owe you that, but I don't. It's not reasonable for you to demand that I have to do that. It's not possible for me to do that. I've heard every one of your positions over and again. I HAVE TO move on to other things. I'm sorry if you feel that's not fair, but that's how it goes. I've asked you to stop the emails and rage filled tirades. You're not respecting me at all. So I have to shut this down. The subject is closed, you missed the window, it's over. Whatever your opinion is, you are entitled to it, and I am entitled to mine. I am now officially closing the door on this. I won't post your comments, answer your comments, or read your comments. I won't read or answer any more of your emails. I can't. Sorry.

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

How far is too far?


I couldn't help but notice a whole lot of articles and commentaries on the net recently where the topic, roughly, is "Obama is not what he presented himself to be. He's worse than what we just had".

Yeah. I know. I'd started a piece three weeks ago that began by making that same basic observation but I lagged in finishing it. No need to post that one. It's not that much of a news flash. How could it be after the financial fleecing we just got in front of God and everybody? When billionaire bankers get handed free hundreds of billions of our dollars, no questions asked, in the middle of a global financial meltdown that they themselves caused out of uncontrolled criminal greed, then you have to surmise something is up. As in belly up. As in America.

Something else I've been noticing way too much of in news reports from all around the world, is the general, staggeringly high level of world wide mass murder going on. While the US v. Iraq, US v. Afghanistan, and Israel v. Palestine situations never leave my chest, brain, or guts, ever, EVER, they aren't what I came to talk about today. They're related to be sure, but this goes far beyond any individual act of "war".

There are multiple places all over the globe where mass human slaughter is being carried out, violently, by self-appointed deciders of everything for everyone else. And who is it that dies? Innocent civilians. There is a never ending, constantly repeating theme of mass slaughtering of innocents going on. Why?

The brutal murders of indigenous people by militarized police forces of the Peruvian State happened just a couple of days ago. As always, the official perspective is that human beings who want to protect their land, culture, birth rights, sovereignty, means of subsistence, dignity or human rights are outrageous, irrelevant people who are dangerous and can only be dealt with by killing them. The human legitimacy of others is never recognized by the king, who is, let's get serious about this for once, in reality what we all have. And kings are supremely selfish, arrogant, fear based people who can tolerate no dissent. All kings demand total obeisance, and all kings, when they don't get it, send in the armed forces to annihilate the disobedient.

The government response is never to send out people to help, to determine fair solutions, to discuss, bargain and obtain mutually beneficial agreements, but always and only to send out the troops to slaughter those who are being wronged, to slaughter the victims of the king's arrogant imperialism, slaughter them brutally, cruelly, coldly, with over powering force, by the tens and hundreds and thousands. Because this whole world is ruled by the supposed rights of so called kings, there has been and continues to be a nonstop carnage fest on planet Earth. The rights of kings amounts to nonstop blood dripping carnage on our little world which in my short little life time I have witnessed going on for straight decades. Literally every single day.

When you add in the natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes, plus the floods and the famines and the tsunamis that have steadily rocked the globe; and all the while bloody, criminal war and violent carnage is playing out in the background like some sick demonic opera; it really starts to add up to a hell of a lot of dead bodies.

Plus look at the declining state of health in America, the skyrocketing rates of cancers of all kinds and the sheer inept idiocy of throwing toxic chemicals at the problem with the stated aim of either killing the cancer or the person and calling that medical "care", and you really have to begin to wonder what the hell is going on around here. Go ahead and look up annual death rates and what people are dying from. So much hype about guns and cigarettes and illegal drugs being dangerous when they barely put a dent in the overall annual death numbers in this country due to legal drugs, due to visiting the supreme beings called doctors, due to chemicals and carcinogens saturating everything you eat and drink and every breath of air you breathe. You may be very surprised to find out how many Americans go down each year, and how. Annual deaths directly resulting from mass produced foods and prescription drugs, from going to the doctor, from having to stay in hospitals, from cancers and aids and new wild ass strains of tuberculosis and flu and cancer and viral pathogens that nature never invented, this list goes on and on by the way; it becomes quite plain that the boogie threats we are given to believe are too horrible for words are the least of our worries. The reality is that Americans are dying at unprecedented rates, living much shorter, much unhealthier lives, and birth rates have plummeted. Sperm counts have dropped steeply and sharply, infant mortality is on the rise, and new impossible epidemics of autism are changing the very fabric and future of our country. Add in the staggering numbers of people whose lives are affected by or taken by war and the cacophony of carnage reaches an earsplitting crescendo. We are in a shit load of death, disease and war.

When I really thought about it in the larger sense, not just in the separate individual geographical locations where violence, killing, suffering and death are ongoing, but taking it as a whole, I am honestly overwhelmed at just how much death there is on this planet. The fact is, the killing never ends. There are always people somewhere, somehow, being struck down either by self-appointed dark lords of self-righteousness, or due to extreme deprivation and the inexplicable global inability to respond quickly enough and sufficiently enough to help other innocent people struck by catastrophe.

It's too much. It does not make sense to me at all.

We have nothing but bogus wars; and they are all bogus, that's the fact of the matter. If you don't believe me then you're not caught up and need to get that way. You've been left behind with the sleeping people who are stuck in stupid. Get your ass out of there, pick a war, and read up on it. Don't just go to the authorized spew outlets, go elsewhere. Go to the verboten sources, to the first hand accounts of those who were invaded and slaughtered and oppressed. Get the story from people who were actually there and if you really want to be honest with yourself, get all of the sides to the story. Try to verify the standard official spew by finding third party, objective corroboration and it won't take too long before you realize things are vastly different than the king's take on things. There is no corroboration. All history and all current events reporting are wholly and totally one sided, coming only from the king's side because to the king nothing else counts or matters but the king.

Recall the glorious, fear mongering, hate mongering, ignorance inciting build up to the much desired Neo-Con/Zionist war against the people of Iraq. Let the Fox news filth be forever branded in your memory. They were of, for, and by the king; and the king, our king, no matter who he is, always wants more war. They always want to expand their territory and their access to profitable resources and cheap if not free labor. They always want to force more people down on their knees and present them with offers they'd best not refuse. That's what keeps empires rich and powerful.

Keeping that in mind, tell me why our new king is ramping up an extended military campaign in Afghanistan? Why the hell is he now killing even more people across the ocean? How is this protecting us? How is it protecting anyone? It's clear that no one is being protected. It's clear that this has nothing at all to do with protection of anything. All that's happening is that people, innocent people, are being slaughtered and their homes and properties and human rights are being dismissed and stolen by kings.

On the subject of why we're in Afghanistan, let me share with you a few quotes from a May 15, 2009 article at PressTV entitled 'US to be buried in Graveyard of Empires'. Excerpts from that article:

"US efforts to cut out a friendly Afghan administration could end up as disastrous as the previous international approaches on the country, says a former presidential assistant.

"The idea of trying to establish a central government…that is going to be pro-American is foolish," said political analyst and former special assistant to ex-US president Ronald Reagan, Douglas Bandow on Thursday".

Never thought I'd see the day that I found anything worth agreeing with from Reagan's administration, but the fact is, some of those older, non Satan worshipping guys are crawling out of the wood work in the 21st century, first to barf, and then to point out how truly astonishingly evil and stupid our foreign policies are. Thanks Doug, you da man. My very favorite quote from him is coming up; it made me think of dear Madeleine Albright's stomach churning remarks about something or other being worth the price of half a million dead children. What a gal. Whatever happened to her anyway? I hope she's under 24 hour surveillance and locked up somewhere, like in the cell next to Hannibal Lecter; because the thought of her running loose in the world is very unsettling to say the least. But I digress, here's the quote from Douglas Bandow:

"Bandow, however, doubted the objective of Americanization to be Washington's prime target after the stated aim of counterinsurgency, from which, it had deviated".

"The question is what is America doing? What is America's goal? It is very hard to know."

You see that? A former presidential special assistant with decades of experience in this boiling pot has no idea why we're in Afghanistan. And neither do you. And neither do I. And neither does anyone shopping at the local mall. I see a serious problem here.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but before so much as a single human being gets his or her brains blown out, ours or theirs, should we not know beyond any shadow of a doubt exactly why we're shooting them and getting shot back at? Shouldn't the reasons for this war have been nailed to the wall and analyzed three ways from sundown and shown to be so absolutely necessary that we have no other choice? SHOULDN'T THEY? Jesus God. What are these people doing to us? What are they doing to our world?

A final quote from that article:

"The comments came while President Barack Obama has assigned 21,000 soldiers and a great number of civilian experts to the Afghan-based contingents.

This is while the civilian deaths from the US attacks on suspected militant sanctuaries continue to rise and conjure up anti-American sentiment".

"Conjure up anti-American sentiment"? Don't they mean lighting blow torches of gut wrenching hatred? I think that's more accurate. Funny isn't it, the way the king's media can play down such very real horrors when they're usually such sensationalist fear & hysteria mongers? That there is what I'd call "a clue". When the truth is super ugly and the king is the guilty party, they come up with puppy-warm and cuddly words like "Enhanced Interrogation" and "Extraordinary Renditions" so as to help people not grasp the reality or the seriousness of our sociopathic plutocracy. Sprinkle more magic dust on those newspapers boys, keep those sheeple asleep. But you know dang well that if those 'insurgents' over there were doing the exact same things to our sons and daughters on our home soil, they wouldn't be calling it necessary and legal, or coin it in these perfume drenched terms. They'd be sending multi-directional high velocity spittle out both sides of their mouths and calling it vicious, brutal, inhuman torture and despicable acts of terrorist kidnappings of innocent people off the street.

It's the hypocrisy I can't take anymore. How many more times will we have to go through this shit folks? How many more dead people will it take for the plutocrat vultures to eat their fill?

Do I need to bring up Vietnam? The same exact, self-righteous fist pounding and rhetoric about God and country, honor and duty, support our brave fighting men, "we must save the world from the evils of" (fill in the blank), banging the war drums, stoking up the lust for killing dehumanized people in some far away country, transparent lies, self inflicted insults and wounds, heavy duty propaganda, at home psyops, intelligence goons breaking our laws to spy on people who speak out against the mindless violence of war, brutal attacks on people who protest against all wars of aggression, obnoxious calls for shooting "traitorous peace freaks". To hear it from the super righteous God Bless America top-chickenhawk-guns, smashing Vietnam into a bloody pulp was the most critically important thing in the universe for America. To not do it was unthinkable. The result was well over three million Vietnamese people killed. The result was over 55,000 of our beautiful, irreplaceable sons and fathers and brothers and uncles and daughters and sisters and mothers coming back dead. That's a whole lot of flag draped coffins. I don't know how many were injured and disabled and are still suffering. Why don't we ever hear about them?

Why don't we hear about the urgently necessary Vietnam war all the time if what transpired there was of such earth shattering national importance? It wasn't that long ago, and it went on for so many years. And the losses were staggering. Breath taking. Gut wrenching. The carnage was beyond comprehension.

Those who have never seen real war can't have a clue. We would want to puke forever if we were forced to see all of the death and blood and guts and blown up babies and hacked to bits grandmothers and blown up farm animals and burnt up children. Every dead soldier and every last brutally killed civilian were all real live living breathing human beings who were violently, horrendously killed.

But these are just words. Words can be forgotten. Words can be ignored. Words can be rewritten and twisted and denied. But images can't be argued with. So try this. Imagine that you were about to be taken someplace and be made to stand somewhere, and you could not move or turn away or close your eyes; and what you saw before you was all of the death of that war, in one huge heaping, disembodied, bleeding mass, all of it, all in one place, all at one time. A literal multi-mile high mountain of corpses and body parts. Who could handle that? Who could deal with that? No one could handle that, not mentally or emotionally. It would overwhelm any of us. We would not stop retching for the rest of our lives. We would never feel peace inside ourselves again. Such a vision would end all war forever. It would literally blow our minds.

Well, just because that can't ever happen, just because we could never see what all of the carnage and suffering looks like all in one place at one time, does not change the fact that all of that carnage happened and that all of it was absolutely real just the same. There must have been one hell of a reason for all of those human beings to have to die.

If all that carnage was so critically urgent, so very important, then you tell me why the Vietnam war is all but forgotten? Why aren't we all still talking about it? Why aren't they teaching our children about it in our king's schools? Shouldn't it be mandatory to know all about the decades long Vietnam war and what it was all about? It was critically urgent to our nation, wasn't it? It was a really big deal. That's what they said. There must have been numerous lessons to be learned? There must have been a victory? We must have had the noblest goal in the world, right?

Vietnam who? It's not even mentioned. It's not talked about. It's not remembered. We're not having huge national holidays to honor those who fought and lived or fought and died. It is totally ignored as if it was irrelevant. Forgotten and swept under the rug as if it meant absolutely nothing now that it's done and over with. Now that the spoils of war have been divvied out and the war profiteers coffers have been filled and spent. Now that the king has prevailed and forced his ideology and control down the throats of millions. It is all swept out of sight and out of mind by the same exact individuals who stoked up the calls for that war and the calls for war in Afghanistan, Angola, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Chile, The Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, The Dominican Republic, Ecuador, East Timor, El Salvador, France/Algeria, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Indonesia, Iraq, Jamaica, Laos, Libya, Morocco, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Rwanda, Seychelles, Suriname, Uruguay, and Zaire. Sometimes revisiting these places time and again. And are the pressing, burning, indelibly important reasons for all of this killing still fresh in all of our minds? Isn't the better question why we were off killing and fighting in any of these places at all? Do you know why? Does anyone?

Currently the king and his media are stoking up the calls to make Pakistan a critically urgent situation calling for unavoidable war; stoking up the rhetoric that will make it of utmost national urgency to unavoidably attack Iran in self-defense of Israel; and a whole list of other countries to unavoidably attack by no means ends here, and yes there is a real list.

All of these future threats out there, just waiting to go critical, one by one. How nice of these horrible dangerous past and future enemies of "our nation" to so courteously go critical in just the right order and at just the right time for us to go kick their asses; right when we're free and available to make war and give it our full attention, and not when we're already busy defending our freedom and democracy in some other country's cities and towns. How nice that they let us defend ourselves in just the right order to keep us endlessly at war and spending all of those trillions and trillions and trillions of unavoidable war dollars. Dang nice of our evil enemies to do that for us. Nothing here to think about folks, move along please. Everything they tell us about war is true. There are too real threats that just happen when they happen. The USA can't help it. The USA has no choice. The USA doesn't want war, we hate war, President Bush said so. Every war president says so. It's all about national security. We have to defend ourselves on other people's soil. "Have honkin' Army Will Travel". Every time. We have to do it. It is critically urgent.

The king's media is already forgetting and letting fade away the last critically urgent 7 year long "war on terror" we just had and are still having in that still smoking pile of rubble and ruins formerly called Iraq. They just can't forget 'em fast enough can they? It doesn't seem to matter at all that every war is a debacle and humanitarian crisis that leaves millions dead and bathes our country in oceans of shame. Don't even suggest that the very next war needs a damn good reason to be waged. If they say we need the next war or any war, believe them. After all their track record is... Um, wait, their track record is a piece of shit. Well, just shut up and support the troops you terrorist supporting wussy coward.

There were no weapons of mass destruction, remember? But did the king apologize and bring the troops back home and send back money to Iraq and did he show some remorse for his egregious error? NO. He didn't do that. The king's men devised new lies and false pretenses for staying there to keep pretending to be doing whatever they were supposedly doing there which no matter what it was, boiled down to killing people and destroying culture, lives, dreams, rights, history, and critical infrastructure. The whole horrible episode of trashing Iraq is too flaming unbelievably filthy for me to talk about. I can't talk about it. So much shame has descended on our country that I can hardly breathe anymore.

Would you please look at the Arab peoples over there across the sea and give them the deep and abiding respect they deserve? They have handled all of this with a grace and dignity that we'll never see in this country from our supposedly elected royal officialdom. As THEIR land and THEIR homes and THEIR countries are turned into foreign military playgrounds and THEIR innocent civilian populations are extinguished and referred to as "collateral damage" like so many boxes of supplies getting dented during shipment, they were still willing to wait out President Obama and give him a fair shot at proving we're not a lunatic asylum of barking jackals incapable of grasping simple ideas like, there are other people on earth with us and we don't get to kill them all. Gee, that they get sick of being invaded, murdered and controlled and sometimes refuse to take it anymore, is that really so hard to understand? REALLY? That people are defending themselves against the endless bombing and killing and destruction of their people, is that too complicated to mentally digest?

I don't see how it could be. Get serious. This is not hard. This is not complex. All that's required to comprehend the righteous, valid rage is the most basic level of compassion. It's a human feeling, for those who are unfamiliar with the concept. It works like this. You imagine yourself in the position of those other people and then ask yourself, "How would I like it if this was happening to me?" And then you answer your own question. And it's so easy to instantly know that you'd fricken hate it that it's honestly unbelievable that it needs to be explained; but clearly it does need to be explained.

The real question is, what kind of crud is it that can't figure that out? What kind of freak does it take to 'forget' compassion? Then again it is a human emotion. Perhaps I'm missing something. At this point I really hope that's what the problem is, because we couldn't be blamed for being taken over by flesh eating satanic aliens from outer space. But if that's not what the problem is, how the hell are we ever going to raise up our faces in this world again with any modicum of credibility or self-respect? Not that it's worth anything, I didn't vote for any of them. I don't want to encourage these people. I do not extend my permission to be ruled by people I can't respect at any level. Why the hell would I?

Yes, I am angry. I'm so tired of all this b.s. It's way beyond the point of excuses. "We're so inept", and "We're protecting the country from bad guys". Oh bite me. It infuriates me the way our good decent men and women in the military are being used and trashed like their lives aren't worth bothering about to these people. They're expendable stupid cattle, isn't that what Kissinger said? Something very much like that. Look it up. I don't have to make anything up. The world's ruling class has openly damned themselves with their own words from their own mouths and written by their own hands. This is all, always, carried out using the same step-by-step template. The same b.s. presidential orations about God and country and getting the boogie man of the year. That's all that changes from decade to decade. Switch out "commies" with "pinkos" with "reds" with "hadji's" with "terrorists" with "insurgents". The rhetoric never changes. It's the same verbatim, quote for quote, decade after decade. It's all way too steady and well funded to be anything but a hard core game plan. They will keep using the same scary enemy boogie man excuses and ramping up the mind-boggling "defense' budget to pretty near a trillion dollars per annum to keep the war machine, the murder machine, the most pointless, unjustified, illegal, criminal mass murder of human beings happening today and tomorrow and every single day for the rest of our lives and our children's lives and their children's lives, and why? From what I can tell the only reason could be that it gets them off.

A trillion dollar "king's pleasure kills" budget, yes, that's every year. Give me a break. Give us all a break for Christ's sake. When is the carnage on this planet ever going to end?

Is there such a thing as our military force going too far? Because, in their eyes, I don't think there is. If they don't think it's gone too far by now, if they didn't think it had gone too far after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it's a fair question and one that needs to be asked. How far is too far, your highnesses?

How many times has the US been in the Middle East waging violent war for whatever reason in the last hundred years? And what about before that? It's not like there's no history here. Odd how they don't ever mention it.

How many times will the US go back with all new weapons, all new state of the art bombs and planes and tanks and remote control killing machines, and how many more human beings will be annihilated off the face of the earth and forgotten, as if the king's soldiers are simply plowing down the fields for a new planting of the king's crops? The depravity is akin to what dripped down the walls in Amityville. You know that's not supposed to happen and you know that when it does happen, it's not going to be a good thing. The more it happens the worse it's going to get when the lights go out. Or even before they go out.

How far is too far, officialdom? How far is too far, war machine makers? How much death and suffering is too much? Is the sky the limit for all of you gents? Is the sky the limit for the king's media too? Is there no such thing as too much mass human slaughter at our hands? Is no number too high? Is any old reason a good enough reason to kill? As long as they're buying, you bomb and tank and war plane makers are selling, and it's not your problem who's getting killed? Whose problem is it gentlemen?

The silence is deafening isn't it? No one wants to come out and proudly state our policy or game plan or long range interests. You know they have them, they just can't apparently bring themselves to tell us what they are. It's not about national security, oh please, I think the people in the cross hairs know the secret is out. I wish the kings wouldn't be so patronizing to us. I really don't like that.

So they don't want to risk letting us know what the 10 year plan is, much less the five year plan. They want it so bad they refuse to let us get wind of it, knowing we wouldn't go along? So, I guess the definition of high moral character is to cammo up and sneak end runs around an honest assessment of policy, say it's classified, can't be discussed, and then use us for our money and our lives, and use our military for everything you can squeeze out of it, and use the intended victims taking the bullets and bombs to blame it all on, so that you may sneak in the back door and steal and black op and lie and psyop and help yourself to your desired trophy? Were you going to surprise us with it afterwards, or just lie about what it even was and come up with something you'd prefer us to swallow?

That's not the definition of high moral character in my Funk and Wagnall. Maybe I need the updated DoD/Government version where reality's been officially turned on it's ear.

We need some very serious, long over due public debate to force this tireless beast back into its cave for a season. God, doesn't it ever sleep?

If Iraq was not going far enough for the men who think that killing solves all problems large and small, will Afghanistan be enough? No it won't be enough, because they're already making all of the noises about Pakistan, and the new fable, spin, whatever you want to call it, about them being too drunk to keep their nukes in the back seat with seat belts properly fastened.

And of course the steady drumbeat about Iran being some beady-eyed Jurassic Park Arab T-Rex pacing behind its electronic fence just waiting for that power to go out. One dark and stormy night the fence gets hit by lightening and kaboom, Israel never knows what hit it.

It's a great script for Hollywood, but a disingenuous, less than objective, less than rational assessment of verifiable reality.

How far is too far Pentagon? Chiefs? State Department? Banker dark lords? Senators? Representatives? Lobbyists? Can you point to it on a Google satellite map? Can you draw a schematic on a white board somewhere so we can get the picture? At what point would you folks ever draw a line and say, we can't go that far?

We already know the answer folks, we've known it since the Cuban Missile Crisis, and even before that. According to the men of war who decide the fates of all and who see every problem's solution as a military one, they'd have dusted all of us and all of the USSR and anyone else in the way and never would have stopped for one second to ask themselves, "What the fuck are we doing?" It's our way or everyone dies? Is that the philosophy? Because if it is, it's beyond barking at the moon insane. It's way past that. It's well into scarier than hell.

Is that the end goal? Turning this place into hell? Because we're half way there now, and the folks overseas have been there for years. This is what has come of you folks in the expensive seats having it your way for so many decades in a row. All the money you want, all the off the scale technology you want, all the enemies you want. Are you through yet? Will you ever be through?

As these painful years of post 9-11 terrorism and Cheney's dream of endless war drones on, don't say you're not watching where you're taking all of us. Don't say it's not you in the drivers' seat. Of course it's you. Please don't think we're not watching where you're going and where you're taking us, and how. We are most certainly watching. When are you going to be done killing people and bankrupting us for reasons so unclear that no one can put it into a simple sentence?

This is like charades and we've got your number. You look silly standing there keeping up the mime routine. Can we get real now? Or is that a national security threat in general?

Maybe that's what the plan is folks. Taking something as wonderful and irreplaceable as our country and a long list of other countries, and trashing them to make them into a hell of the kings designs. It's no stretch to say that it keeps looking and feeling more like hell than America as time goes by. I don't even see America here any more. I still see Americans, demoralized, pissed off, confused and struggling, but I don't see the defining structure, values, ethics and humanity that is supposed to be our calling card.

Not when our highest officialdom openly disdains freedom and democracy and loathes our values and overrides them with their own obscene personal version of "values" that we wouldn't put up with in our own homes, from anyone. EVER. Not when lawyers are no longer able to defend illegally imprisoned people without acres of mindless, invasive, obstructive, illegal government red tape that exists only to crush any chance of justice being done. That's not a value system we can tolerate much less be proud of. There's nothing to be proud of there.

Sadly, there's ever less things we can truly be proud of any more in this country. What a crying shame it is, what a terrible waste. Such a filthy racket, a fun little game for those high and mighty, yet oh so cowardly self-crowned global lords and masters who play the game on our lives and dreams and our children's lives and do it so very well. It's not about money to them, they believe they own everything already. They have more money than God. So what's it all about then , dark lords? Is it just the joy you get from crushing the innocent? From defiling the sacred life within us all? From pissing on and blowing to bits the sacred beauty and mystery of this thriving, life giving world? Is that what offends you so much? Life itself?

As they continue to lower the world into their stinking, roiling cesspit vision of depraved kingly perfection, it's little wonder that they're simultaneously arming and militarizing massive, violent compliance forces to attack and annihilate anyone at the slightest sign of dissatisfaction or dissent with their truly foul ideas.

Too bad the king's media couldn't get any reporters out to the Bilderberger's May 14-17 meeting this year, AGAIN, to find out what the self-appointed special people and wanna-be rulers of the Earth have in mind next for all of us. If we can't get the 4-1-1 from our own officialdom, could any of you big time major newspapers or TV news channels afford to send a couple of folks in, under deep cover, to ferret out what's next on the plan to grind us all deeper into the dirt and demoralize us while continuing to kill millions of people and redefine reality in the background like the depraved little evil wizards they are? It would be nice to know what's on the official agenda for the year, just once. Not that we can't guess, but the trusting people don't know, and that's just not fair. It's really very rude. Very disrespectful to play nations this way. Where do these people get off? If I knew I'd drop them off, personally. On my own dime. Trust me. I really would.


Monday, May 25, 2009

Playing The Game


Playing the game called "America" is a long standing, popular phenomenon. Most everyone chooses to play. You can play "America" or you can play other games, or you can choose not to play any games in particular. Playing the game is optional and you are free to leave the game at any time; though relatively few do leave the game once they begin playing, regardless of lack of personal reward and in spite of great personal losses, up to and including their own lives. For those who play "America", nothing else matters. To them, non-players and their lives are deemed not important at all. In fact they are often perceived as a threat to the game. Nothing will stop the game. The game is everything.

A game by definition is a competition, so all players are competitors; and what is a competitor but an opponent? In this game everyone is your enemy, and you must live your life perceiving all others as either friend or foe. Those who are not friends are foes by default, according to game code.

The game I'm referring to is not much different than any role playing game you can play online. You must choose your identity and construct your physical appearance from available provided components, leaving you little flexibility toward making yourself unique. This is generally not a problem as most players don't desire to be unique. Quite the opposite. They are strongly motivated by the desire to be exactly the same as the others in their own sector of the game board; and a great many players desire to be exactly the same as currently popular generic/iconic public figures advertised by the game itself.

You can never be truly unique in the game because whatever components you choose to construct yourself with, will also be chosen by millions of others. The individual selection and reconfiguration of provided components lends the impression of uniqueness, but by design the game cannot accommodate true uniqueness. Being unique in the game is prohibited because it imposes unwanted challenges to the code and could overwrite the code. Overwriting the code is strictly forbidden and will not be tolerated. Attempts to overwrite the code will result in expulsion from the game.

You have chosen to enter the game to play the game, and that is what you will spend your every waking moment doing for the rest of your life. The only way you can truly excel within the game is by playing the game better than others in some way or another. Endless winning through endless competition is what lies at the foundation of your new value system, the value system provided by the game code. Because prizes are limited and quite hard to get, you understand that unless you become very skilled at playing the game you will never win more than what you need to simply stay in the game and keep playing it. For some that is enough, but for many it's not nearly enough. For all, the chance to win great prizes is what makes it all so exciting and desirable. It's the primary reason all gamers get up in the morning. Every day is another chance to win.

Like any game there are flaws in the program but you were told long ago to believe that if you see a flaw it is either not there and you were mistaken, or there is a perfectly good reason for it that fits within the parameters of the game which are beyond your understanding or need to know. There are no other possible reasons. Anyone who suggests otherwise is to be perceived as someone with a serious cognitive impairment or as being purposely dishonest to gain attention, which is a highly coveted prize in the game. You believe that and accept it to be so. The code is always right. And because you accept the code you are always right by extension.

When I, someone who is not interested in the game, run into you, someone who is fully invested in playing the game, there is an immediate interpersonal disconnect. A tangible flash-point explodes between our bodies; and you and I will not be able to communicate meaningfully. What I say lies beyond the parameters of your game code, and what you say is of little value or use to me in the non-gaming world. There is no way to apply 'give and take' to the situation. I have nothing you're willing to take, and what you have to give is the last thing I'm interested in. I am standing here being me, being real, but you are playing a game. The problem is that you don't realize you're playing a game. The game you accepted so long ago has become, for you, an absolute truth.

Once you enter the game atmosphere it becomes the only reality there is. You don't forget completely that there is an external reality but you don't care to spend any time in it or pay it any mind. It in fact becomes undesirable out there because there are no rules and the safeguards built into the game don't exist out there. There is pain outside the game. The parameters are not predefined and given to you. People say things that are not written into the game code and this is endlessly frightening to you. It is too hard to think for yourself. It feels unsafe to trust in your own critical thinking ability. You are dependent on the code to guide you at all times. Intrusions from outside the game are unwelcome. You don't like being interrupted or yanked back into the real world to deal with unhappy things outside of the game, you want to remain inside the game and play the game at all times.

The game world is much easier than real life because all rules and parameters are predefined and provided. Once you understand the parameters and operational possibilities, you are free to do whatever you like, achieve as much as you desire, test yourself to your hearts content; but only within the specific predefined parameters and rules of the game. Your existence is minimized and simplified because the entire spectrum of choices and possibilities has been erased from your life palette. All options are removed but one, and that is the one you take. You will deny that is true because the code says it gives you everything and you believe the code.

The payoff for playing the game comes at a basic level. Although additional elevated levels are shown you so that you may aspire to them, for the vast majority of people, the basic payoff is all the reward they'll ever get. By accepting the parameters of the game and following the rules of the game, you receive the basic payoff: limited inclusion in the game. It may be limited, but it's still inclusion and inclusion means acceptance and that acceptance is what you covet. Being accepted by the game means that you officially exist and are cleared and expected to play. Many insecurities and fears vanish overnight forever the moment you decide that you will enter the game and stay there forever.

Playing the game well means you know how to do it right, you know how to play and win big prizes. But just for playing you receive standard player status, though not officially, and small rewards and praise are passed around from within groups of standard class players. They don't mean anything beyond the clutch of standard players passing them around, but they are made out to mean a lot to the clutch.

The advertised rewards for playing the game seem vast but in truth, only the lowest hanging fruit is available for most players to compete over. Usually, there really aren't that many great official physical prizes to be had. There are various levels of subsistence prizes and various kinds of nice emotional rewards, and a great many consolation prizes in pretty packaging. A perceived increase in personal status compared to other competitors is the form of gratification that is most coveted. Those who obtain a perceived increase in personal status rarely reject it. It is hard to get and it lifts the winner up to pluck fruit from much higher, sunnier, more bountiful places on the tree. This is called winning, and that's what playing the game is all about.

The first and primary reward for all players is the total release from responsibility in creating a real world to live in. Playing the game is much easier and the rhetoric about why you should play is exciting and compelling, you never tire of hearing it repeated. It makes you feel like you're a part of something special. You'd have to be nuts to not take this enormous life short cut. To play the game is to be happy, they say, and playing it right means you are doing things right and you will be acknowledged by everyone else in the game for doing it so nice and right all of the time.

The game is supposed to be fun and pretty and perfect all the time, and everyone playing the game is supposed to be happy all the time, and never have serious, sad, or otherwise sobering, horrible problems. The game does not allow for those things, except under the most special circumstances. If you have only ordinary status within the game, any real life situations that intrude will likely get you rudely and automatically rejected from the game. You will only be allowed to watch, from a distance, but you will not be allowed to play anymore, unless you somehow manage to recover completely and can return triumphant, but that is often not the case.

As you walk down the streets of the game, you sometimes notice others on the peripheral edges who have been ejected or barred access from the game. You pay them little mind because they are not important in your game playing. Involvement with them at all would cost you points, lost time, and perhaps even lay a horrible burden on you that would slow you down and cause you to lose status and momentum on the game board. You tend to see the homeless person, the minority, the screwed, as having no one but themselves to blame because they refuse to play the game like everyone else does. You dismiss them with some disgust and sometimes you don't hide how you feel from their earshot and view.

To you, there is something wrong with them, they want rewards from the game without playing the game and you perceive that as repulsive. It would make you very jealous to have to share a single one of your hard earned points with them, or see anyone else but yourself benefit from your hard earned personal game status and playing skills. You'd rather see them die or at least beaten and dragged away to prison cells where such deviant types should end up.

They frighten you like nothing else in the game because they represent an unthinkable threat to you: the taking away of rewards that have come to you as a result of your acceptance of and adherence to the game code. It goes against everything you believe that others should be able to take away your winnings from you. Accumulating your personal winnings is the basic essence and meaning of your life. They are lucky the game feeds them at all, they certainly don't deserve the kindness. The kindness is not even appreciated. Yes, you have a very hard time even granting the right to exist to anyone who doesn't play the game you play. And in your heart of hearts you think that's the right way to see things. It would never occur to you that most of those scattered along the edges of the theme park are suffering there because the rules of the game specifically prohibit their participation. It's not their fault at all. But the rules lie and say all are welcome, so that's what you believe. You believe in the code.

All of your in-game thoughts and opinions are reinforced by many others in the game with you who will also see and think and believe as you do. That singleness of mind is in no small way a reward for being a player. A large part of the enjoyment of the game is the disconnected solidarity of the players, the shared experience of knowing the rules, accepting the boundaries and parameters, and trusting the code. Even those from many disparate parts of the game board will all enjoy hearing and repeating the game slogans and listening to the game theme songs. Everyone can feel welcome to play the game and believe that the benefits of playing are there to be had by one and all. All you have to do is suspend your soul and you too can play the game and have the best time of your entire life for the length of your whole life. As the saying goes, you can't win if you don't play. And you are not just a player, you are a winner, and you deserve to win.

You believe with all your heart that playing the game with all you've got is "the answer". You would never doubt that for a minute. The endless stream of errors and glitches in the code are all a part of the game, they mean nothing, and you believe they are always and only anomalies, no matter how often or dependably they repeat. In the game, doubting the code is the one rule that must never be broken. You refuse to doubt the code. You've been reassured countless times that the code is infallible and superior and that no better gaming experience exists anywhere. This is the best game in town and you love this game. You don't mind or notice that the rules are bent for the power players, and when anyone mentions it you tell them they are liars and to shut up. No one questions the code. The code is all. The code is perfection. Doubting the code is to be stupid and evil. Belief in the code is what makes the code the perfect, gleaming thing of beauty that it is.

Well, I question the code. I don't trust the code. I don't have much respect for the game. I don't like its obvious contradictions, cheats, hacks and fixed outcomes. I don't like the dark and gargantuan mechanical underground workings churning away while no one above knows they exist because the game denies they exist. I don't like that people are led to believe the game is real, not a choice, not a diversion, not a selective escape from reality. These are the things I can see from outside of the theme park. I know the bad results of the game which the game routinely buries and denies.

As I have no interest in the game per se, I care about what I care about, and what I care about is the reality I see around me and that I live in. To the game I am a vicious enemy, a doubter, a questioner, someone who does not believe the code is superior by virtue of its mere existence. I know the code is written by ordinary mortals like myself, who are without exception flawed and weak and error prone and not above writing the code to suit themselves. In fact by not playing the game and instead walking around the theme park, especially in the restricted access areas, I have come to understand what the game is and why it is being played and why it is so important to the theme park owners to keep people excited about the game, believing in the game and playing the game with all they've got, including all their money, their bodies, and every aspect of their lives.

What I see offends me. The game is rigged. I see mass blindness, ignorance, selfishness, cruelty, and things that fly in the face of reason. Things that deny the existence of reality. Which to me, of course, makes no sense at all. It does become surreal to have to argue the case that reality is real and that it exists, when I am surrounded by so many others who angrily and condescendingly tell me that there is no such thing as reality beyond the confines of the game board, and there never could be.

Well I know better. And I feel a good bit of trepidation about a future wherein reality is erased completely from the conscious workings of the game board, and is kept hidden from all of the players by the owners, operators and copartners who all benefit handsomely from propagating the myth that reality does not exist and that whatever seems to be reality beyond the board is a lie.

What I know that few players know, that few of the players can believe or accept or even listen to is the simple reality that this game is rigged. Completely and totally. It is not natural. It is not real. It is not necessary. It is flawed, fixed and evil. And while it is true that there are parts of the theme park that are allowed to be beautiful it is only a matter of time before those small patches of reality are excised and removed from the park or marked off limits and made into something to fear or not believe in.

Because I know better I can never give up trying to show you what I see. I am not making anything up. There is an entire universe beyond the game board boundaries, whether you choose to realize it or not. Your belief does not make the reality of the universe. The universe makes its own reality which you can either choose to participate in or do something else. If you were not at such dangerous, critical points in the game I wouldn't much care what reality you chose to believe in.
But your reality as well as mine is being threatened because of your game and your undying belief in the code.

The code is wrong. The code can lie like nothing I've ever experienced in my life, it takes my breath away and never ceases to outdo itself. I am in awe of the inhuman, wicked, convoluted, hypocritical deceitfulness of the code and the extreme viscosity it uses to perpetrate the illusions it sows. Those illusions are not sown for your benefit, they are sown to benefit others at your expense. They are sown to prevent you from ever having a chance at gaining true benefit from living a real life in a real world in a way that really matters and makes a difference. Those who own the game want nothing different. And they are the most frightening people on the face of this earth.

You can consider my words or choose to dismiss them without a thought. The choice is yours. But do ask yourself this. If I am not playing the game then what rewards could I possibly be seeking? The answer is none. What other motivation might I have to say these things that question the code and try to expose its hypocrisy and evil nature? To make trouble and seek attention from the game? I seek no attention from the game. Do you enjoy trouble? Well neither do I. I do not seek trouble. That leaves few other motivations than the one I have, which is this: it matters to me that everyone knows they are in a rigged game that predates them and will eat their young and destroy this world forever if it is not exposed and stopped.

It's really that simple. Why should I care? Why shouldn't I care? It is only within your game code that all others are enemies. It is not a universal truth. If that surprises you then rest assured, there are many more surprises in store. There is a better way to live than in the game and according to game code. The game is not "the" way. It is not the end all and be all of existence. From where I stand it seems silly to have to state such an obvious fact, but I know it is not obvious to you if the game is all you've ever known.

If you ever decide to investigate the realm beyond the game board, there's a very good chance that you will see that you could actually do much better out of the game than in it. The 'better' will be in different ways, in many different forms. "Winning" is not all. Unless you consider the possibility that there is more in the universe than playing in your game you will never have the opportunity to find out if what I'm saying is true. If it is true and you never bothered to at least take a look, how will you rest in your eternal sleep? What life will you have lived when you did not bother to check for another path which was there and would have served you, in your one and only life, so much better? I know it mattered to me to check. I know I'm very glad I did.

If nothing I've said has convinced you to look beyond the game for your own sake, then I will leave you with two truths to consider. Everything there is in the whole of existence lies beyond the borders of your game code, not within it; and nothing, absolutely nothing is ONLY what it appears to be.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Political Cheats and Hacks


How do they do it? How do they get away with all of those bald faced lies and crimes? It truly is amazing isn't it? The fact is they do get away with the most honkin' wombat lies and despicable crimes anyone ever committed but somehow, nobody catches on, or at least none of the major establishment media outlets ever get a clue. They miss lie after crime after stinkin' lie.


Well that's just such a shame that I wanted to help. So, I went to a reliable independent source and got the official list of Political Cheats and Hacks that everyone should know and be familiar with so that anyone or their dog or even the biggest establishment media outlets could see the tricks, cheats and hacks, point them out, and win big prizes like not being politically unconscious stenographer twinkies anymore.

If the big boy thugs can know these cool hacks, why shouldn't everyone know them? It is good to know things. The more things we all know the better for us.

What struck me personally about the list is how what it describes as grown-up, legitimate, complex political strategies, are a lot like the juvenile bully games you can find on almost any grade school playground. But that's just my impression, see what you think.

Here's the official list:

Shitface - Playing shitface is very popular on the political stage. In essence, when confronted with a chunk of truth or when reasonably certain a chunk of truth is about to be released to the public, and that chunk of truth makes you look bad, exposes your wrong doing, hypocrisy or crime, or reveals your nasty-ass values and criminal interests to the public and you know the public will find you despicable and eject you from your power perch if they knew those things, you want to stop it as fast as you can.

If you want to prevent it before it even comes close to happening, Shitface is the hack for you. All you have to do is pick up a huge stinking handful of any available verbal excrement you can find nearby, including your own, and in public, before witnesses and television cameras, fling that handful of stinking dripping verbal excrement directly at the face of your opponent. When it smacks him in the face and the stench and revulsion begin to sink in, point at him and cry, "Shitface!!"

Now you and all your team must stand side by side, point at him and sing, "You are a shitface! You are a shitface! Nah nah nanah nah! Everybody look at the shitface! Ha ha!"

Everybody will look at the shitface, however briefly, and they will cry out, "Look at the Shitface!" "That Guy is a Shitface!" "Yikes! It's a Shitface!"

Then the TV and newspapers will immediately begin to pump out stories about what a shitface the guy is. They will make it up as they go and say, "He's been a shitface for a long time" and "He's always been a shit face for as long as I've known him" and "I never knew he was a shitface but I should have known, it was obvious." "What kind of shit was it, anyone know?" "Yes, it was (whatever kind of) shit!" "Didn't he have shit on his face before?" And they will bring in people from everywhere who will say they knew what a Shitface he was a long time ago. They will do long broadcasts on the whole topic of Shitfaces and how Shitfaced they are and why we should hate them for it.

It does not matter that the shit doesn't have any relation to the person who has been shitfaced. It does not matter that he did not put the shit on his own face. It does not matter that the people who threw the shit did it to lie and cheat. It does not matter that the shit on his face will destroy him, personally and professionally for the rest of his life. It certainly doesn't matter that he was coming to the people to give them the precious rare substance known as reality that would help set them free from the kind of people who play Shitface and cheat and who are criminals. All that matters is that he has shit on his face, no matter how it got there, or who threw it at him, or that the people who did that to him are the scum of the earth. Because all people will see when they look, is a guy standing there with shit on his face and they will be grossed out and reject him forever.

Same As - Same As is a very popular cheat that can be played by any half talented cheater or hack. The object of the cheat is to make your nasty ugly self look good by saying that you are the same as something that is very good indeed. Just forget all the damning truth about your amoral thug real self and say you are the same as Jesus, or Freedom and Democracy. That sounds much better than saying, "I want to kill everybody because I'm a raging sociopath asshole". It works even better when you can pay other people to say fantastic sounding "same as" things about you, especially all on the same day.

It is very compelling when people walk by and hear, "He is the same as all that is good and fine and true!", and "He is the same as doing everything right all of the time!", and "He is the same as the best thing ever!" People will say to themselves, he must be the same as a good thing and I think I shall vote for him.

It also works in reverse and can be used to destroy your opponent by saying, "He is the same as a crook and a rat and a liar and child molester and a terrorist and he does terrible things to small animals". When people walk by and hear that they will think, he is the same as a bad thing, I do not think I will vote for him".

It is a good game for any self aggrandizing meretricious hack and liar to get himself into a sweet spot and stay there.

Hide The Skunk - You have to be a pretty slick operator to pull this cheat off. Hide The Skunk requires one thing: you must have the ability to get a lot of people to voluntarily sit down and listen to you talk and go on and on until you are done. That makes Hide The Skunk of primary interest in big politics, the church, and organizations that front themselves as good and decent things like humanitarian organizations, charities, NGO's, foreign aid, national defense, your government and the like but which are also used to hide their various skunks which are elements of those organizations that are the exact opposite of or worse than what the organization stands for. Regular guys can play Hide The Skunk and lots of them do every day, but since they don't affect millions of lives they are irrelevant for the purposes of this article.

The basic goal of Hide the Skunk is to justify something that cannot be justified. The thing is so bad that it can't be justified no where, no how, no time, never, because it is crass, despicable, filthy, murderous and otherwise unacceptable. In spite of that, you want to do it anyway, but it would be seen and done in public view which would bust you in five minutes, so you need to Hide The Skunk. You literally have to hide all of the filthiness and death and cheating and corruption in a way that even though it's right there in front of everyone they will think it is actually something else.

Here is an example of Hide The Skunk. "War on terror" The skunk is very well hidden simply by asserting a drooling down the shirt dumb notion that you can wage a physical war on a non-sentient, nonphysical concept that amounts to a word in the dictionary. This is actually a proclamation of calling out the troops to fire on words in the dictionary because they are "bad" words. This would of course be ridiculous beyond comprehension and can't happen. Yet few stop to ask themselves, "Gee, if they aren't shooting dictionaries, what are they shooting?"

This is precisely why Hide The Skunk is the #1 preferred hack and cheat of politics. Professional highly skilled Hide The Skunk architects can hide the biggest, stinkiest skunks you've ever seen in your whole entire life. They can hide skunks that are bigger than Godzilla. In fact, there are so many hidden skunks all around us that have been piling up for years and years and years as politicians come, hide skunks, and go, that we are up to our eyeballs in hidden skunks. There's so many dang hidden skunks on every street in this country that you can't take five steps without tripping on them.

You can't see or find hidden skunks because they are expertly hidden, but you can't get away from the smell. In the heat of things sometimes the smell gets so unbearable that people will begin to say, "Hey, do you smell that? It stinks to high heaven around here. Is that a skunk smell?" When people begin to smell the hidden skunks, that can be handled with another game called "Your Brains Fell Out" or "You Are Mean And Hate Me For No Reason".

Your Brains Fell Out - Your Brains Fell Out is a great and easy game and hack and politicians love it. Your Brains Fell Out can get any first degree scum bag out of almost any hot water. Here's an example. When you've played Hide The Skunk and the skunks can't be seen but the stench is getting pretty intense and people come up to you and say, "I smell a skunk. Did you hide a skunk somewhere around here because I smell a skunk, I'm sure of it". You can say, "Your brains fell out!" and just walk away. Your Brains Fell Out is a sister to Shitface, but here it attempts to discredit people who are not asleep at the switch and who know what a skunk smells like. Your Brains Fell Out works so well that even when someone follows the smell to the hidden skunk and finds the skunk and comes back and says, "Hey! I found your hidden skunk!", and you reply with, "Your Brains Fell Out!" and walk away, then everyone listening will think that person's brains fell out and they won't believe he found any skunk at all.

It gets better though. Even when someone finds the skunk and takes some tail hairs and shoots many photographs and has eye witness accounts of you coming by and hiding your skunk and they saw you do it, you can still use "Your Brains Fell Out" and it will still, amazingly, continue to work. People will still not believe the actual real skunk tail hairs are real and they will say the skunk pictures are fakes and the skunk witnesses are liars whose brains fell out too.

Your Brains Fell Out is standard policy signed into law by our Federal Government back in 1865. They stand by it and have used it for every major government covered up crime since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

The only way to shoot down Your Brains Fell Out is when it is shot down by a person of higher rank than yourself, although even that doesn't always work but it can work if vigorously applied. Should such a thing be happening to you, all is not lost. There is yet another game called "Shut Up Forever".

Shut Up Forever - This is a sticky wicket of a game that is not recommended for the small fish in the pond. This is best reserved for the very largest sharks. Shut up Forever shuts up anyone forever. This is best accomplished by having them die. Political thugs and hacks have ways of getting this done, so that part of the game will not be covered here.

You Are Mean And Hate Me For No Reason - Premise and use identical to "Your Brains Fell Out". Usually used in combination with "You Have To Feel Sorry For Me Because I Know About Some People Who Are Long Dead But Had Horrible Lives", or "It's Not My Fault If You're Too Stupid To Worship The Right God". You Are Mean And Hate Me For No Reason is highly flexible and can be used with many other qualifying add-ons seamlessly.

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That's all there is to it. Just by consistently using all of the above hacks and cheats in your political games, you are next to guaranteed to get into office and hold that office and do whatever you like and get away with it, no matter how vile, despicable, disgusting, criminal, untrustworthy, murderous, hypocritical, immoral, inhuman and overall creepy you are. This Sack o' Political Hacks and Cheats (SOPHAC) is the best thing ever for nasty people all around the world!

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Want to test yourself? The following is a real live quote from the dark Lord Dick Cheney who is a high master of using the SOPHAC to crush people everywhere without them being able to make him stop.

From this article in today's ICH: While in Afghanistan in 2004, the dark lord told U.S. troops, "Your children and my grandchildren will live in freedom tomorrow because of what you're doing today." and "Freedom still has enemies here in Afghanistan. And you are here to make those enemies miserable."

Is he impressive or what? How many ultra sophisticated SOPHAC hacks can this guy cram into a few short sentences? How many skunks can anyone hide? Apparently there is no limit and that's exactly why the standard handy Sack O' Political Cheats and Hacks is the #1 indispensable tool for any up and coming power-craving dark lord wanna-be and already instated mean guys, thugs and liars alike. And just think, when the SOPHAC is used in combination with state of the art PR lies and the proven and highly evil psychological operations tactics available today, nothing can stop you. Throw in heavy weapons and butt-kissing, for-sale lawmakers and badda-bing, you can be unbeatable! Cool huh? Don't be in office without it, or else YOU might be the next Shitface or Shut Up Forever loser in the papers!

This article has been excerpted with permission from the 2009 edition of the Encyclopedia of Major Assholes of the World, published by the Suck Up and Face It University Press, Silicon Valley, CA. A profitless, unheard of, nobody dinky winky n/a spot that you can none the less find on way cool Google satellite map photos.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Which Is Better?

You there! Yes you. I have a question for you. Might you have an opinion on this? Do you know what you're talking about? Want to find out if you're right? Want to sound off about it? Of course you do! All right then, heeeeeere is your question:

"Which is better, chocolate or vanilla?"

You've got five seconds. Four seconds, three... Think about it, think about it....got your answer? Great, what is it? Well you're wrong. No matter what you said, your answer is incorrect.

"What? What? What an impertinent little wench! How dare she presume to know what I think!" Gee sparky, calm down, I don't have a clue what you think. I don't need to have a clue what your answer was to know you didn't get it right. Come with me on this, it won't hurt a bit.

Ask the next five people you meet that exact same question and my money is on the probability that they will say that either one or the other of those two things is "better". Why? Because people don't think. The question as stated above is not a question that can be answered, because it's not even a question. It seems like it's a question, but there really is no question in it. In order to answer the question, we'd need to ask our own questions just to figure out what the question is before we could even try to answer it.

The reason is obvious once you stop and look at it. Something is missing. No values have been specified for this question. We don't even know what we're talking about. What is the subject here, ice cream? Cookies? Birthday cake? Wine? Dog food? Do they mean hot or cold? Early or late? Mass produced or freshly made? Are we talking taste or smell? Is this some sort of raunchy racial slang? Are these candle scents or color choices?

In order to determine if "A" is better than "B" we have to specifically know what they are first. We also have to know what "better" means. Better how? Better at what? Better than what? Better for what? Better for whom? Better under what circumstances? An actual question has not been specified. There can't be a "right" answer when there's no question in the first place.

Folks tend to auto-assume and auto-supply things, like what "A" and "B" are and what "better" means; not based on facts but on personal relevance. When answering a question like the above one, the fact of the matter is that neither the questioner or the responder will really know what the question was or what the answer means. There is no actual information exchange going on here. It is not genuine communication where one conveys real information to another and the other can receive it with the specific intended values intact. This is not person to person, mind to mind connecting, it's a total miss. The entire exchange is based on open ended, non-specified criteria that each party assumes and supplies for himself without bothering to check if any of those assumptions match.

In the chocolate v. vanilla question it might be assumed to mean which of these tastes more pleasing to you? It's a simple little question and chances are that's exactly what was meant by the question. None the less, "which of these tastes more pleasing to you" is a completely different question than the nonspecific non-question of, "Which is better, chocolate or vanilla?"

Clearly this particular question is of no great importance but it does convey the point I'm trying to make. If it's this easy to fail to recognize the built-in fail on a non-important topic like this, consider how often this sort of standard fail exchange goes on in subjects that are critical and very important. Matters of love, justice, politics, marketing, life and death. Toss in complexity and honest factual errors, much less intentional deception and purposeful manipulation, obfuscation and lies, and wow, nobody knows what anyone's really saying or hearing or talking about because nobody's really paying attention and looking for specified/asserted values. We auto-insert the values, meanings, perspectives and framing. It's a massive fail, yet everyone walks away thinking they know exactly what just transpired and assuming everyone is on the same page.

The scary cherry on top is that this knee jerk assumption response is not done consciously. We don't even realize we've assumed anything. We think we've been asked a specific question, and would swear to it. And what was the supposed specific question asked? Whatever we auto-inserted the values to be. We'll argue it to the ground, we feel certain that a specific question was asked but the fact is, it never was.

We are not encouraged to habitually think in basic, specific, clear terms when big or small questions or value statements roll by, and they do roll by constantly. It's so easy to become habitually sloppy thinkers who don't really think at all. We believe we're thinking but we're not thinking critically. We are only responding to stimuli from a knee jerk, non-thinking self-centered core. Instead of immediately spotting the obviously missing pertinent data in a non-question, recognizing the complete lack of stated facts or defined values, and realizing there is nothing actually being said or asked, we simply fill in the blanks ourselves. We automatically supply and inject the point, context and meaning from our own subjective values.

It's more insidious than that though, much more. This kind of non-thinking response also sets up a bizarre, quite dangerous style of egocentric closed circular thinking that can be destructive. It works by making an external "thing" good or bad intrinsically, based on what we think of it. In other words, if you say vanilla is better than chocolate, then vanilla "is" good and chocolate "is" bad. You are deciding their value in the world for everyone else because of what you happen to like or dislike. It's a complete disconnect from reality.

When our own subjective values subconsciously morph into external non-debatable value judgments about some external thing, it reverses reality. It is not the chocolate or vanilla that are either good or bad just sitting there being chocolate and vanilla. They aren't good or bad and can't be good or bad without a context. Chocolate might be bad for breakfast but it's great for dessert. It can't be all bad one minute and all good the next. The only thing that can establish any value judgments of bad or good are whether they are bad or good in a specific situation and with the specific people involved in it. The chocolate and vanilla never change their intrinsic value, they just are what they are, and what they are is chocolate and vanilla. How they are valued is what's different and that depends wholly on who's looking at them.

In fact, the actual question isn't even about chocolate or vanilla, the question is about somebody's personal position in regards to chocolate or vanilla. Yet, with sloppy non-critical thinking, the question is auto morphed into whether it is the chocolate or the vanilla that is either good or bad. This judgment of worth or value, of goodness or badness puts the responder in the creepy position of self-appointed judge decider of people and things outside himself, which is goofy.

I can give you a real life example of this. I went out on a date once with a guy who absolutely hated what I ordered. He couldn't get it through his head that he wasn't the one who was going to eat it. His own value judgment was something he'd assigned as a factual universal reality to my food choice which in his mind made it horrible at all times and to all persons no matter who was eating it. He felt as if I was breaking some sort of cast in stone rule and he got offended. I wasn't breaking any rules and I wasn't being offensive. His personal rules don't apply to me. His personal rules don't exist anywhere in the universe except inside his own head. His personal rules don't apply to anyone but himself. This was his rule, not mine. If he can hate it, I can love it. There is no problem here. Everyone gets what they want. Unless they're incapable of comprehending that everyone gets to value the world for themselves, and they refuse to allow others to do so.

That was a weird date. It's this exact kind of inability to know where you end and somebody else begins that is at the heart of so much fighting, bickering, arguing and violence. Strange notions that our personal preferences and values are somehow instantly universal facts that others are obligated and required to abide by are pervasive in our society and everywhere else for that matter. Other people are not obligated to do anything we think, where do we get this notion? The fastest way I can think of to bring unhappiness and discord into your own life and into the world generally is to have the delusion that others have to do things your way. It's like lighting a stick of TNT and sitting on it. It will blow up, sooner or later, that's a guarantee.

A personal preference does not equate to a legitimate or even pertinent statement of value of something external to ourselves. Something may have no value to me personally, but that's not the same as it having no value. I may think something out there is wonderful but you might hate it. It's not that one of us is right and the other is wrong, in fact, that's a false parameter. There is no right or wrong in external objects beyond the right and wrong for us personally which means we can totally disagree on something but both be right. No matter it's value to us, that external something out there we're arguing about isn't changed or altered or affected by how we value it in relation to ourselves. It just is.

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People are incredibly programmed to miss all of these things. We don't think critically and many can't tell the difference between facts and opinions, between mine and yours, public or private, a truth and an ad hominem attack. We auto-supply missing values when the people on TV commercials and news shows speak and have no awareness that we're doing it. That's how we get manipulated, brainwashed and led around by the nose.

Illegitimate questions and pre-supplied universal value judgments proclaimed by our dear leaders are powerful, deceitful tools that are in continuous use for bringing the public to accept desired parameters. These are the ranchers tools used to spark the herd to move into the desired pastures, all the while leaving the individual herdites to solemnly believe they are moving along on their own accord. They believe it is their choice and their idea and that everyone agrees with their own idea when it was never their idea or their choice nor was any specific information, context, or parameters ever given.

We can all look around and see what results from millions of people functioning under this kind of amorphous assumptive sloppy non-critical thinking where what we think we hear is exactly that, what we personally think we hear. We don't hear what is actually being said because nothing is actually being said. The establishment mass media engages in non-informative data distribution utilizing methods specifically designed to feed into and encourage our non-critically thinking mind loops. They take extreme advantage of people every single day because they know what we don't know about the way we think. Advertising and social engineering traps issue forth from big media 24/7 proliferating an endless storm of inane nonspecific ideas. Our politicians make nonstop nonspecific fact-free statements that allow them to evade truths and assert less than truthful things without technically becoming big fat liars, and the people listening and receiving these non-actual messages automatically make them mean whatever their own personal criteria is about.

One example of this is something that made my skin crawl during the second bush campaign. My skin was crawling throughout his entire stolen residency, but this was a classic case of letting people make themselves happy by letting them assume whatever they wanted to assume and then also assume it meant they were on the same page with their beloved candidate or not on the same page as the case may be. The example I'm talking about is the "family values" spew his marketing staff came up with.

Who knows what family values means? It's so obvious that different families have different values that it's almost inane to point it out. But it never appeared to occur to bush licking worshippers that no actual values were being specified. What did happen though was that everyone transferred their assumptions onto the candidate and valued the candidate to be "good". Everyone was running around saying, "I'm very strong on family values", "Me too!", assuming they all meant the same things, when very likely they didn't mean the same exact things at all. But now the candidate is the no-brainer physical embodiment of "good", when of course he's not, he's just a guy and not a very good guy at that. It should be clear to those betrayed assumers of everything about their candidate, by now, in deep retrospect, that what meant "values" to monkey boy was not what meant "values" to Joe and Jane Average Citizen. How could us peasant folk even dream we have a values match when the multimillionaire oil company executive warmonger greed bag number 1 power guy has nothing remotely in common with Joe and Jane Average Citizen? Hello? People have to think.

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What it takes to achieve a desired response in another is to formulate a non-question in a way that you know people will agree with. For instance, take the issue of vaccines. The questions asked to stampede the herd into bringing in their children and rolling up the whole family's sleeves is, "Don't you love your children? Don't you want them to be protected from horrible diseases? Then give them every vaccine that comes down the pike or they might get sick. Only bad parents wouldn't do that for their children". The implication is strikingly clear. People who don't vaccinate their children don't love their children or care about their children's health. I.E. they are irresponsible. They are "bad" parents.

Now I ask you, who doesn't want their children to be healthy? Who doesn't love their children? It's a stupid question. What's the point of asking it other than to cattle prod the herd into wanting to feel like they love their children because they vaccinate them. This is a classic, filthy sales manipulation. It should make alarm bells go off in anyone's head because no one comes to talk to us about whether or not we love our children. Regardless of any situation or circumstance, how we feel about our kids is not a subject. This is private business. It's not up for public discourse. To put it bluntly, it's nobody's business how we feel about anything, especially in something so obviously personal. How we feel about anything doesn't have anything to do with somebody standing in our face that we never asked to be there. How we feel is not what they've come to talk about. What they've come to do is get something from us that we don't want to give them because if we did want to give it to them we already would have.

Hooking into people at this ultra personal level which is always an emotional level by the way, is disrespectful and belittling to us. It's a standard ploy though because if they can get you to forget what belongs to you, your feelings and your children, then they can take control over your life away from you. They can assert control over both your feelings and your children. There is no justifiable reason for anyone to do that. For anyone to want to do that is already a five alarm warning.

When this sort of thing is suddenly thrust in our faces the correct response would be to stop the speaker in their tracks and lay them out. "Whether or not I love my children or care about their health is not your place to bring up to me. It is not relevant to you and it's none of your business how I feel about anything regarding my family. I'm not interested in your opinion on my personal life and didn't ask for one. If you have a point to make, make it, otherwise please leave. What is your business here?"

The reason for this is not small. If we allow others to assert opinions over the most important personal things in our lives, things that are none of their business, it's not long before they'll assert their opinions as "better" than our own, and their ideas about what's right or wrong for us as being more "correct" than our own. And the minute we let that happen, the minute we buy into their manipulation or begin to doubt ourselves, they've taken control of what we value most. There are some things that we should never allow anyone to get near. It takes one time, just one time for someone to assert false authority over what belongs to us. If they do it one time, I guarantee you, they'll do it again. They'll keep doing it. The pattern is established and soon you're obligated to jump through their hoops.

That's exactly what's happening in the herd-think pro-vaccine sector. People's kids are being taken away from them on false assertions of endangering the health of a child for refusing to comply with obnoxious vaccination demands made by schools on parents who are no longer allowed to say no, not under any circumstances. Their entire job has been taken away from them along with the only natural rights that exist regarding the parenting of their own children. The hypocrisy is that the parent is still saddled with all of the responsibility but does not get to make the decisions that go with that responsibility. This means extraneous self appointed others decide what's best for us without having to bear the consequences or take any responsibility for when they are wrong or for any harm they do.

This is just wrong. It's insanity. The risk of serious damage to a child who is wrongly seized by false authorities under bullshit assertions of child endangerment so far exceeds the damage free choice to not vaccinate a child it's not even funny. The punishment does NOT fit the crime, it's exponentially worse than the supposed crime and does real and irreversible harm. The damage is real and present, not some theory or unsupported rhetoric. This entire situation is nuts.

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I don't understand why anyone thinks that "the state" can touch anybody's children for any reason. The arrogance to assert that they know better than you what's best for your child is the height of fallacious tripe. This goes back to what I was saying before, that our own personal opinions are not an instant and sudden universal fact; that nobody is obligated to do things somebody else's way. When it comes to parenting, no external person has the slightest "right" to get involved or supersede our personal parental authority. On what grounds? There are no grounds. It's such emotional territory that people definitely can't think critically and are easily pulled along and into the Erroneous Zone where they are robbed and diminished by false assertions of higher good and authority that seeks only what's best for the child. Well how would they know? Where's the proof of that?

In this day and age consensus invalidity is perceived as the same thing as being right. It's not. And it never can be. It's still wrong no matter how many people say it's right. It boils down to your irrelevant opinion against my relevant one. There's no contest here. But people let themselves be sucked in emotionally and choose to believe that if authority asserts it is better than parents at parenting, then it must be so.

Show me the data. Where are facts? I also need to know who got the data, who they are affiliated with, who they work for, who paid them? Who compiled the facts? Are they actual facts? Because if they don't have anything to back up their claims, they don't have anything. The end run around that is to get inside people's personal lives and set up a strong hold in their most private areas with the aim of settling our heads like Israel "settles" Palestine. The aim is not to help, the goal is not justice or peace, it is not to protect our children, it is to destroy the right to ownership of our own lives and our children's lives and to take control and ownership of it away for their own personal gain.

The single most profound human attachment is mother and child, parents and children. That's blood attachment, it doesn't get any more meaningful or valuable or real or intense. You don't mess with blood. No mother could be blamed for doing whatever it took to protect her child, and that includes killing someone who threatens the safety or well-being of her children. How do you blame her for that when it's her highest duty and her whole world? You don't. No one with any morals or ethics or brains would dare presume to interfere in the family business of others. The state doesn't seem to have any qualms about that though which says a lot about the state. In spite of the child protection rhetoric, the violent attack on parent's God given rights to raise and protect their own children is not protective of children, it is not protective of rights or dignity or truth, it is protective of the states false assertions of power to treat human beings like less than livestock. It's outrageous.

It is only by trespassing into the most private aspects of our lives and our allowing them to do it, our knee-jerk fear of and childlike trust in authority, our auto-responsive non-critical thinking when they speak, that has literally opened a door to outside interference that heretofore has always been a sacred place that none dared trespass against. High tech brain imaging has determined that when someone we think of as an authority speaks, our minds literally shut off. Areas of the brain literally go dark and stop functioning the moment an authority figure enters the room. If that's not scary I don't know what is because it's definitely not normal human behavior. That is not how free, autonomous, independent, critically thinking people act. The fact that this is so pervasive and rapidly becoming an established "good' way to be does not bode well for the future of this country or humanity in general.

Where we ever got the idea that anyone outside ourselves and those we personally know and interact with and live with, "must" be trusted and obeyed with mindless immediacy is beyond me. It doesn't make sense at the most primary level. It's idiotic. But this process has occurred and now people are systematically handing over authority to official others and giving away direct authority over their own health decisions and children's lives just because officialdom asserts it knows best. As I've already stated, nobody's personal opinions create an external reality. This new worship of 21st century techno-scientific authority is ludicrous and deeply disturbing.

No one else has any natural authority over us or over our children or over our health choices or any other basic, personal, private matter. It's not up to others, it's up to us. That's what our lives are at the most fundamental level. Others can only try to assert authority but they can't claim to have any rights of authority. It's only to the extent we believe their assertions and hand our authority over to them that they can have any authority at all.

The thing that makes it confusing is the stated claim of protecting us. People think being protected is good, and they auto connect being protected with officialdom of all kinds. They fail to notice that no officialdom or authority out there has any legal obligation to protect anyone. It eludes them that this is not a warm and fuzzy country where everyone gets a hug and enough to eat and if you ever have any problems you just pick up the phone and call the state or the CDC or whoever, and they'll rush right over and help you get all better again. We don't have that. We have people with guns and power telling lies and selling us everything from suicide to embracing our new dominated kind of freedom. Officials don't rush in to help you with a fricking thing, do they? No.

But, what about abused children and all that? Who will help them?

This is the precise mechanism I'm talking about. Who will help them is a false question because it presumes there is an answer. There isn't an answer, it's not that simple. It's an escape from facing a truth you cannot do anything about. Some children live horrible lives. The government can't change that. Sorry. There are many things that we, human beings, can do to change it, but neither you or I or the government can make it go away by giving over our parental rights to an impersonal machine.

The question of should we give up some of our rights to help protect abused children is the ultimate false question. It would seem that people of good conscience should rapidly agree to the exchange but it is a trap. If we hand over our rightful authority, our god given freedom, to anyone, we don't have anything left to protect. And those children will still be getting abused, probably worse than ever.

I am so sorry for the parents whose lives are being destroyed by bogus, brutally delivered assertions of impossible authority made by the state claiming jurisdiction over their private lives, their children's lives. Imagine being an informed single mother who has educated herself about vaccines and in good conscience will not allow her child to be vaccinated. The uninformed parents outnumber her and auto-respond with hatred and accusations. The child feels confusion and shame and doesn't know what's right or wrong. Then the state comes to her door and takes her child away at gunpoint and throws her into prison on charges of child endangerment. The situation is an obscenity. The situation should never exist. But it does.

It is power gone insane because people do not think. It couldn't happen if we simply understood what's ours and what no one else has a right to touch and we made damn sure to make clear and protect our private boundaries. They belong to us and only to us. We don't have to do that in any way that somebody else says we do. "Mine" really means mine in the truest sense. No one else gets an opinion about what's mine. Only I do.

When we don't understand that, when we don't support that, we give away what's ours and we suffer terribly for it. Like anything we lose in life, once it's gone it's next to impossible to get back. I can't stress enough the importance of people putting their foot down when slimy false authority tries to commandeer their private lives. The importance of standing by others who have the courage to do it cannot be understated. One person alone will be crushed by the machine, but a whole room of people saying, "Back off or else" is a whole 'nother story.

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Do you think it's even possible to tell a mother grizzly bear that she's an unqualified mother and we'll just be taking her cub into protective custody? Do you think she cares what anyone thinks of her mothering skills? She will not recognize the foreign complainant. There will be no discussion. She will tear you in half on the spot because you made the stupid mistake of presuming you had any business interfering with her private life. Do you think any courtroom order for her to cease and desist and turn over her cub would matter in the least to her? They can make all the laws they like under any pretenses they want but the bottom line is they're wasting their time if they try it with grizzly bears. That's why they don't bother. They don't delude themselves that their bad badges and phony authority matters a whit in somebody else's territory. Because grizzly bears don't recognize their authority or care what they think. Laws don't mean squat unless people go along with them. The state can't change reality, it can only change your head by getting into it and laying their sticky scientific imperialist slave eggs in your brain. Pardon me, but I'll pass.

Our 'dumb' animals have much to teach us, if we pay attention. They seem to understand the real rules and know that when any human is in their face uninvited and moving his lips, he wants something that's not his to have. That's common sense. No grizzly bear will ever be impressed by slick talk or court orders or snotty unqualified school employees diagnosing our children's supposed mental illnesses and prescribing mandatory drugging for them. Not in any school where the mothers know who's boss. Not in any situation where parents don't righteously give a shit what anyone else thinks of their parenting because what they think is irrelevant. And that's all there is to it. If you don't respect yourself, trust me, nobody else will.

The basic hook, the sales gimmick that has taken this country's self authority is the ongoing trespass straight into people's private business. Loving your children and wanting them healthy is a given, but people don't think, they respond from fear and insecurity because they don't know the facts. To them, loving your children means vaccinating them, it's irrational and illogical but that is the truth of it. That is the reason people are militant supporters of hundreds of vaccinations getting pumped into every child in the country. It is not at all about health, it is about loving your children, and to not vaccinate them is to be a bad parent who does not love their children. It makes no sense at any level. There is no connection between the two things. There is also nothing in this equation that has anything to do with highly profitable pharmaceutical products being dispensed to children. No information. No facts. No studies with data of any kind. It is a 100% marketing ploy that pulls people into going for it with a contrived, dishonest, self-serving deceitful sales gimmick.

What also doesn't get noticed is the automatic self supplied value between I love my children and vaccines are a good thing. There's no connect there. Simply by inserting the suggestion at the end of no-brainer emotion packed questions, the responder auto inserts the connection and then assumes it to be true.

If you've ever had a conversation with anyone who's been sucked into the belief that injecting extraneous mystery potions into their children is not only the best thing in the whole wide world for them but that it's also perfectly safe across the board for every single child and adult, then you know that it's next to impossible to get people to check their inane assumptions. They don't realize they've made any assumptions. But the sad fact is, most of what they believe is nothing but assumptions they've made without realizing it. This is sloppy thinking. It's truly terrifying to see how wide spread it is. The habit of sloppy thinking is what controllers want most to encourage, and boy do they.

If you really got to the bottom of what people think they know about vaccines, they would tell you they've been told everything they believe by qualified authorities. But I guarantee you, they rarely have. They've never once been in the presence of an autonomous, qualified independent authority that has covered the history of vaccines, specified the difference between a vaccine and being inoculated, explained what is in the vaccines and where those things come from and what their effect on the human body, brain and organs is known to be. They will not have been given data on studies that prove vaccines are effective at preventing disease, because there are no such studies. This is all assumed. They will not have been given data on studies that prove vaccines are not always safe. This information is also assumed. The assumption is that since no external criteria seems to matter regarding vaccines, that they are as safe as water. No one in responsible legal authority ever said that. Whatever information people do get will not be tailored to them specifically, much less to their children. No supposed information in the general 'out there' mentions taking into consideration existing health conditions like asthma or diabetes, or a current state of mild or serious infection with a bug or virus of some kind.

The well-meaning but not helpful people who propagate the widely spread herd stampeded fallacious misinformation are the assuming true believers. Assumers encouraging others to assume and make the same erroneous value judgments and project them on an external object. The object is now "good", and the assumers are in agreement that it is now "good". They've totally lost track of how 'good' is subjective and personal and not the state or condition of some other thing they perceive. Many people would have to really struggle just to get that much untangled and understood.

All of that unhinged, encouraged assuming going on is exactly what the engineers of this hideous fraud on the public want. It's about money, yes it is. Grow up, that's what almost everything is about because money is power and money is freedom and money is getting away with it. Don't doubt for a minute the profit motive part of all this. There are other parts worth considering that are even more frightening than avarice and greed. Those parts are easy enough to find out and educate yourself about. Not knowing them is nobody's fault but your own. And it is exactly because that is true that it frees the authorities from all responsibility when something goes wrong with you or your child after a vaccine is administered. After all, they can't be responsible for what you erroneously assume to be true or for what you do because of that erroneous assumption.

If you don't at the very least avail yourself of the official information that is directly available to the public, which is regulated by law meaning it mandates a level of critical disclosure that you need to know in order to make any kind of an informed decision on this subject; then in their eyes it is your stupid error. It is not their fault, because the information is there and the legal disclosures have been made. If you didn't go get the information, it is not their fault it is your bad parenting. If you choose to get your life and death related data from people who have strong uninformed opinions but do not have an honest to goodness clue, if that's good enough for you, then your information will be whatever they say about it. And they are free to make any claims and say anything at all about it and are not required by law to give you hard facts. It is your choice, that's your option.

The people who benefit from your assumptions won't be bending over backward to clarify your misinformed mind. In fact, as many of us understand now, they want you to make those wrong assumptions because there is a bald faced agenda to push vaccines on every child in this country. Why that is can only be guessed at but the fact is that is what's happening. And children are being disabled and going into comas and dying, and all of that is swept under the rug. Information control and manipulation is, I'm sorry but this is reality, what the authorities do. Who else would do it? Who else would be interested in doing it? A general state of uninformed assumptive closed circular emotion based sloppy thinking is what they count on to further their own agendas. That may be done in the honest belief it's what's best for everyone, or it may not. Regardless, they have no business or right manipulating the public at all, but they do it anyway. The fact that we are conditioned to sloppy thinking, herd think and assuming things instead of getting up off our butts and finding facts and checking statements and beliefs seals our fate and makes their future look very secure. They will never face responsibility for anything they do. It's not their fault if you're stupid, is it?

I'm not saying anyone's stupid or a bad parent, I'm saying that is their legal position. It covers their butt, not yours. That is how they think, not how I see any of this. Their position is utterly disingenuous and deceitful. It's disgusting. They do everything in their power to let people's imaginations run wild. They help to stoke up the ignorance because it serves them. They don't however hide the truth about any of this. It is a few mouse clicks away from any home computer. It says it all right there at the CDC website. It says it in plain English. Vaccines are not guaranteed to work. Vaccines don't protect you from getting sick. Vaccines don't mean you won't catch the very diseases you've been vaccinated with. Children do get sick and have life threatening reactions and die. They'll down play it, but they won't omit the critical data because you can take them to court over that and that would get them put away for life. They know the game far better than we do, believe me. They invented the game. The problem is, most of us don't realize there even is a game.

On this issue alone, far too many people literally don't have the first factual clue. They don't know anything about alleged vaccine effectiveness or safety. They don't have a clue what's in these concoctions. They will fight you to the ground saying the solutions are safe and clean and life saving, and this will not be because they know it to be true, but because they self-inserted the acceptable and desirable assumed criteria of their choice, made the auto-connection to the exterior thing, and melded them. They themselves deemed and judged this external solution to be "good". It is not good. It just is what it is, that's all.

People miss the whole reality of "good" being a state of personal perception. The "good" that matters is what's good for them, personally. Danger is embodied in the totally erroneous belief that something out there is "good" or "bad" because you perceive it to be one or the other. It isn't. And it can't be. It can only either be good or bad for you, based on your actual reality and that is something you have to know for yourself. Nobody else could have a clue about your personal reality. How could they?

So, if I've done my work here and have achieved any modicum of success, then how you answer the following question might be a tad different than the first time I asked it:

"Which is better, chocolate or vanilla?"



Fear and Panic. Not.


Are you at the end of your mother loving rope after plugging in to the endless streams of hysterical bad news and proclamations that everything sucks and prognostications that it's all hopeless and pontifications about how martial law is coming any minute and prophecies predicting that this is the end of the world?

Well stop it. At the very least put it all on pause long enough to consider the following points.

If you sit and look at pornography all day it does not mean that sexual intercourse is imminent. Does it? No, it doesn't.

By the same token, if you sit and listen to horrible bad news all day it does not mean that catastrophe is imminent.

You can tell when sex is imminent when there's somebody else with you who's naked and in the bedroom saying, "Let's have sex".

You can tell when catastrophe is imminent when you can personally see a tidal wave overhead. If you can't see it, it isn't there in any real terms that matter in your immediate life in the here and now. Sure, there's a tidal wave out there somewhere, that cannot be denied. But it's not here now. That means it's not here now. If it's not here now and you're panicking that would be like putting up your Christmas tree in the middle of July and waiting for Santa. In other words, it would be stupid because Santa's not coming for another six months no matter what you do with your Christmas tree. Santa, like any catastrophe, does not run on your schedule but in spite of it.

Now you may say that you know there are great big tidal waves out there and you're just sure one's going to come slosh you to Kingdom Come any minute. Sure, you can worry and pace and expect a tidal wave any minute, but that will neither hasten its arrival nor prevent or assure its coming. Your level of worry and anxiety has no effect on tidal waves or what they're doing or not doing. Sorry, you're just not that powerful and tidal waves don't care what you think or feel. If you are reasonably certain that a tidal wave is coming your way in the near future and believe that if it did you would not survive it, move out of its path. If you aren't there when it comes it can't get you, so don't be there if you're that sure it's on its way.

The salient point to keep stapled to our foreheads if necessary is that if it's not happening to you it's not happening to you, you are fine. If it's happening to someone else it is still not happening to you, you are still fine, they are the ones who are not okay. It actually happened to them while in fact nothing has happened to you. Your fear is not the same as their actual misfortune.

If you take the time and the necessary intelligent, reasonable steps to ensure your survival and your health, and if you take sensible security precautions such as not walking down dark alleys at night alone holding hundreds of dollars in your bare hands, you're doing as much as can be done to be safe and sound. There is no such thing as guaranteed safety and security. Anything can happen at any time to anyone and you can't do anything about that. If you pay attention in life you will notice something bad coming your way and that will enable you to get out of the way and avoid it. If you pay attention in life you will also be able to tell the difference between a real danger signal and a fake one that is the result of someone else's panic and ignorance getting unleashed and infecting everyone else who does not pay attention and has no facts and has taken no steps to self educate. If you do not pay attention then you won't be able to tell the difference between a real danger signal and your own unreasonable, unbridled bat shit nuts panic and fear disabling you and turning you into a jittering walking turnip who will probably do yourself more harm than any actual externally generated harm would do you. This is exactly like panicked goats running over a cliff. They are so afraid they're going to get hurt that they kill themselves. There's a bad plan. Panic is your worst enemy because it makes you stupid, and if you're stupid you can't take the simple steps that will keep you safe and sound, which can be as simple as stepping aside a few feet or taking cover for a couple of minutes. Running around with your hands in the air going, "Aahhhhh!" will not keep you safe and sound and don't laugh, that's what people do when they panic. That and much more and it often includes making the dumbest decisions that end up getting people hurt.

Not having a cow when you hear bad news is to know the difference between sitting comfortably in your living room reading about scary things and actually being in the midst of something terrible happening to you. These are not the same things. In one, you are perfectly fine. In the other you're not. If you can't tell the difference between when you're perfectly fine and when you're not you need to work on that until you get the hang of it.

Whenever you feel afraid, get your coordinates. What is the danger? Where is it? Can you see it? If you can see it, run away. If you cannot see it, it isn't there. Even if you're scared that it's there somewhere, if there's no sign of it, it's still not there. Your fear does not equate to there being imminent danger.

If you take these few little handy hints to heart and memorize them, you will be able to significantly cut down on your Prozac expenditures as well as other drugs that make your brain turn to mud pie but can't and don't solve anything or take away anything that's eating away at you in your real life. Being in the here and now will do you far more good than any form of knee-jerk mindless panic response will do you. Instead of worrying about things you don't have full and verified facts about and can't change anyway at the moment, invest your mental energy in learning what you need to know to be prepared if and when you should see an actual tidal wave overhead, and then get on with your life. Because there's no reason not to do that, and no good reason to do anything else.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

It's Something Else Entirely

The Difference Between Leadership and Domination



It is commonplace to refer to our dearly elected as leaders. But are they leaders? Who or what do they lead? Using the word in the strict sense of going first while everyone else follows, our elected officialdom consistently takes the country in the wrong direction; away from where the people who live and work here, by vast majority, want to go.

That is not leadership. It is something else entirely.

I think it's important to define leadership and understand its purpose. I have some strong ideas on leadership and what a leader is. I offer them to you for your perusal and consideration. If you find that you agree with my take on what a leader is and what they are supposed to do, then you can decide for yourself what our dearly elected in Washington D.C. are actually up to. You may come to the same conclusion that I have, that they are not by any stretch "leaders".

There is an easily discerned line between leaders and tyrants. It would do us well to know the difference.

The main role of leadership is to help people get where they want to go. Leadership is specifically about individuals. It challenges individuals to think in new ways and to try to achieve things they don't believe they can achieve. Leadership is coaching. It is guidance. It is experience and wisdom. Leadership is never about the leaders because the end goal of good leaders is to become useless; to no longer be needed by others in order to achieve their goals. Leaders empower others.

The main goal of dominators/controllers is to get people to go where they themselves want to go and do what they themselves want done. Nothing is done for the benefit of the individuals they control, in fact those being controlled give much more than they receive in return. Domination and control is all about the dominators and controllers. Individuals become irrelevant when they are controlled or dominated. Domination is undemocratic. There is rigidity in thought and action and a tendency to focus on the letter of the law as opposed to the spirit of the law. Domination and control is about hierarchy and illegitimate power over others. Dominators use others for their own ends. Dominators and controllers jobs are never done because people will always need to be controlled or they'll be something other than what the dominators want them to be. Dominators disempower others.

Leaders don't tell people what to do, or what to think. Leaders are not controllers, dominators or enforcers. We have different words for all those things because they are not the same things, they are different. Leadership may at times encompass certain elements of these other things but it will never be fully comprised of them, else leaders cease being leaders and become controllers, dominators or enforcers. If that happens it should be clear that leadership has nothing to do with it, and it becomes something else entirely.

Leaders are first and foremost guides. Facilitators. Enablers who help others get where they want to go. Leadership is about management, but management that is intensely people focused and very personal. Leadership is specifically about people; it is guiding people out of their own way to help them realize themselves. When it's done right, individuals are empowered and armed to go forth and use the best of themselves to full capacity. When it's done wrong, individuals are controlled and dominated down to being what their "leaders" demand, usually at the cost of individuality and critical thinking, as well as personal dignity, creativity, power, and choice.

There is a world of difference between domination and leadership.

Dominators/controllers do tell people what to do and what to think. They'll have slogans and posters to reinforce required thoughts and desired opinions. Dominators confine and subordinate extraneous creativity and intellect. They are threatened by critical thought and questioning and will seek to silence these things and crush the people who do them, often quite brutally. Dissenters are minimized and ridiculed. Dissent is punished.

Dominators insist there is only one way of seeing and doing things, which is 100% unquestioningly their way. Dominators demand loyalty and do not respect individual will. Dominators demand total submission and revile anything that deters from the conformity and adherence to rules they demand.

When leaders see hidden potential they work to encourage its development. Leaders encourage critical thought and questioning, trying to expand the self-limiting thinking most people have and take it beyond the imposed mental boundaries that exist nowhere in reality but in beliefs and perceptions. Leaders say there are many ways to do things, but right ways and wrong ways and the right way is better, and they can explain why. Leaders know that no two people are alike.

Leaders who have power use it to clear immovable obstacles out of the paths of those that look to them for guidance. When those without power cannot move the boulders out of their own paths, leaders will use their legitimate power to move it for them and get them back on their desired paths. The use of power to control or dominate others, to force submission, to instill fear, to create dependence or to demand obedience is the misuse of power. Legitimate power is used to help others who are weaker. Illegitimate power is used against weaker others to benefit those who are strong. Legitimate power is not about getting your own way. Illegitimate power is only about getting your own way, often at any cost to others.

Leaders take personal and direct responsibility for their actions. Power without responsibility is tyranny, which is precisely what we have in government and much of officialdom today. An important element of legitimate power is that those who make decisions that affect others lives take full responsibility for those decisions. If mistakes are made or harm is done as a result of their actions or decisions it can be defined and corrected and steps can be taken to assist and recompense those who were harmed. Without absolute responsibility attached to power, people get hurt, often seriously and there is nothing to be done about it by law.

Legitimate power is never used to force others to serve or obey those in power. Legitimate power serves those who are unable to exact justice or instigate necessary change for themselves. Legitimate power helps people out of their myriad prisons and ruts and shows them how to use what they've got to become independent and strong.

Domination/control reduces people to nothing, to powerlessness, and refuses to hear their voices. Illegitimate power separates itself from others. It isolates and exists in privacy. It is not transparent. It explains nothing. It constructs enormous self protective boundaries around itself while concurrently stripping away all protective boundaries from those they control. Dominators usually hold double standards giving all good to themselves and projecting all negatives onto those they dominate and control and those they see as threats. Illegitimate power never cleans up its own messes. It expects to be waited on hand and foot. It asserts that what it extracts from others is due and owed and those it is extracted from must give over or be punished. Disagreement is punished. Dissent is silenced. Facts are obfuscated. Truth is censored. Obedience is required.

Illegitimate power removes alternatives, coerces choices, diminishes possibilities, and in so doing corrupts justice and denies human dignity. Illegitimate power is wholly self excusing but falsely proclaims the guilt of others, even without any semblance of proof. Illegitimate power is hypocritical and brutal, deceptive and expensive, unjust and offensive. Illegitimate power is unaccountable and unreasonable. It does not bow to common sense. It is spoiled and self-obsessed. It cannot be trusted. It is cowardly and demands special treatment and special privileges that are never extended to others. It feeds on others, and it is insatiable. It will feed on others to their deaths.

Good leadership empowers people to think and act for themselves. Good leadership explains and exemplifies good ethics and moral behavior. Leaders are role models. They know they will be emulated and they seek to do and be their personal best. A good leader is not a hypocrite and does not play favorites. Leaders earn trust while controllers simply demand it.

Leaders empower others. Because leadership is very much about setting people free from things that prevent them from reaching their potential, when necessary, as it often is, leaders literally must give people "permission" to loose those bindings and become the strong capable beings they really are. By and large, people who are used to being dominated, controlled and coerced into compromised positions in order to receive a necessary benefit are unable to release themselves from externally defined and demanded boundaries. They need someone else whom they perceive as an equal to their dominators to give them permission to be free. Once that is done it can elevate people to full capacity. Once permission is embraced, further permission is no longer needed and indeed, may be passed on to others.

The goal of good leaders is to make themselves useless. When leaders are no longer needed because those who have looked to their leadership are fully empowered and capable of handling whatever comes their way, the leaders are free to go on to new challenges and do the same for a new group of people. Good leadership produces tangible, measurable results
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Individuals who look to that leadership know they are better off, stronger, more comfortable with themselves and the world they live in. They will see things differently, meaning seeing a bigger picture. They will feel better off and will often acknowledge and appreciate the good leadership that changed their lives. Things do change for the better under the guidance of good leadership. Change for the worse comes from the lack of good leadership, not due to the presence of it.

Leaders are motivators. The best skills of leaders aren't necessarily taught, they are human and real. Leaders understand others or at least seek to understand them. Leaders care about people. Leaders correct others without insulting or belittling them, they positively motivate others out of erroneous thinking and behavior. It requires tremendous personal commitment and involvement to be a good leader. Above all it requires selflessness.

I don't think we see much selflessness out of Washington D.C. On the contrary. That place is a raging cesspit swimming with narcissists, thieves and liars, abusers, cronies, and dark dealers. They play to enrich themselves and we get passed the bill for all their partying.

Observing the behaviors that have become standard operating procedure in the hallowed halls of government, one should be struck by the utter lack of selflessness and true guidance and leadership there is. In fact, the few solo voices that stand up and make a case for common sense or benefiting the public instead of the private interests of those who lobby them brings on an automatic cold shoulder and an instant rejection from the corrupted herd behavior and self centered parasitic feasting on public funds and abuse of the citizenry in literally every avenue across the board that is the status quo amongst our dearly elected.

Politicians are liars first and foremost. I'm sorry if that offends anyone but it's not a news flash. "Lying politicians" is a term that's been with us for a very long time. We should expect politicians to be liars. They are successful because they are such compelling orators, they can sell themselves as completely believable and trustworthy because they are salesmen and that is their product. They are unequaled at saying what people want to hear. They are unrivaled at coming up with reasonable sounding excuses for consistently failing to bring home the things that people most want and need, the things that people have always wanted and needed. The perceived battle of politics is that it is so hard to bring about the needed changes that will finally, after hundreds of years, lift all people out of poverty and lead them to self sufficiency. That particular ruse has been worn threadbare after so many years of us paying through the nose and getting nothing back for it. It would not be that hard to achieve the right things but it is impossible to achieve the right things when that's not the goal. What is consistently achieved is exactly the opposite. That's what our elected achievers consistently achieve.

Leadership doesn't give people bread it teaches them how to grow the grain and make the flour and bake the bread themselves. That is the last thing this government wants. It wants a dependent populace. It needs a dominated populace of loyalists, of non-thinking, non-questioning obedient submissive children who will swallow every lie and calmly take every abuse, theft and indignation without complaint. That is what modern patriotism amounts to. Blindness, deafness and dumbness. Servility. Cheer leading for your side even though you always lose and they always win at your expense.

Dominators have the skill to get inside people's minds and make them feel good about being abused, make them believe that sometimes governments have to lie to get "the job done", and all other manners and styles of making people look at something but see it as something else. That's not leadership. That's not even moral. It's very scary stuff. It's also status quo.

I've wondered a lot lately why so many people want to be dominated, because they do. The people of our country, inclusive of both the left and right, in a very sweeping general sense, seem to me to represent a division between those who prefer leadership and those who want to be dominated. At first glance it may seem that there is no common ground here so this rent in the populace can never be mended. If you look again though, there is still a firm bit of common ground.

That common ground is the desire to do right and be right. It is inherent in most of us I believe, that we want to do the right things. If we stop and think about what we do, we can always ask ourselves, regardless of the specifics of any given situation or moment, is this the right thing or the wrong thing for me to do? We can do that whether we prefer to be individual thinkers or followers of a dominant personality. Right and wrong still exists no matter what we believe.

Identifying what is right is half the battle. Rejecting what is wrong is the other half. And therein lies the ultimate continuing struggle, the battle that is within every one of us and always has been and always will be. Shall we do right or shall we do wrong? Which will we choose and why? If our appetites over rule our desire to be better human beings we will dismiss what is needed for what is wanted. We will behave badly, immorally, to others in order to satisfy our wants and egos, our selfishness and greed, our racism, narcissism, aggression, and desire for revenge. We will take sides as if life was a team sport and lose our own dignity and purpose. We will dilute ourselves down to a common mind and seek to meld ourselves into the team logos we root for and tell ourselves we are right when we've never honestly stopped to think about whether that's true or false. Right becomes something that is asserted, something that we can contrive or define ourselves, and that's simply not possible. Right is right and wrong is wrong already. It is very much a natural law, just like gravity is a natural law. You can't defy gravity, and you can't sell wrong as right for too long. When we embrace officially provided definitions of right and wrong instead of locating the truth of what is right or wrong for ourselves, we will without fail be led to wrong that is called right. The consequences of that cannot be escaped. Or denied. We live in a time when the consequences of many decades of lies have empowered thousands upon thousands of team sport motivated non-thinking status quo promoting gas bags to gorge their own appetites to public detriment and poison our environment to near collapse and our public morality into a clueless decomposing corpse.

We are war mongers and hypocrites from the top down. Motivated by personal gain, incapable of respecting others, demanding loyalty and obedience. When we see something we want we take it by force, even when force is not necessary. We behave like giant scary infants who think of nothing but themselves, and don't grasp the concept of tomorrow or of cause and effect. Like infants we are totally self obsessed and self centered, expecting everyone to see to our every whim and want and do it now. And when we don't get what we want we have destructive tantrums and seek vengeance. We want to teach lessons to those who don't instantly give us our every demand.

The people who set the direction of this country don't have a clue what leadership is. I'm not even convinced they're adults sometimes. I wouldn't bet that they retain concepts in their heads of right and wrong. Indeed, in the cesspool of big government, reality is what they say it is. They've said so in their own words.

Surely anyone with a functional brain knows that we don't decide reality, it is what it is regardless of us. Ignoring truths is not the same as solving problems. Pretending things are okay when they're not is a rigged contest of selling lies to get more for ourselves.

Can compassion win out over greed? Can respect and tolerance take the place of ignorance and violence? With good leadership it certainly could be that way. With good leadership we could go about anywhere and achieve limitless possibilities. I have to conclude that what we have passing as leadership for this country is in fact the exact opposite of leadership. It is anti-leadership. It is un-American. It is against individual power and dignity, and demands submissive obedience. It extracts more than it gives back. That which is us is being systemically minimized and disempowered while that which is them is being enlarged and hyper empowered, defying common sense and in blatant contradiction to their stated reasons for being there in those positions.

We now work for them. On their terms. Our wants and needs don't matter. They want our money and demand our compliance. If they say starve we're supposed to lay down and starve. When bankers predate us to death, they tell us to lay down and die. When police drive Army tanks down our city streets, electrocute us with "compliance" devices, snap our necks in holding cells and beat us to death, they tell us that is protecting us and to lay down and take it. I see a pattern here. To those at the top there is one answer for everything. Death.

If you are poor, die.
If you are sick and can't afford medicine or a doctor, then die.
If you need an education but can't purchase it, die.
If you need help, die.
If you are weak, die.

So that I can be happy and prosperous, you must die.

That's not leadership. But it's what they're giving us and telling us to love it.

Ultimately, leadership is service. It is unselfish. It is never about the leader or serving the leader but about the leader skillfully, effectively showing those who follow him the way to get where they want to go. Leaders don't have to be cuddly or warm and fuzzy but they must be moral and ethical and fair. They must be generous people who do care about every person under their responsible leadership and they must honestly desire to give each of those people something of real value that will make them stronger people, equipped with knowledge and philosophies that will carry on the good foundational values the leader possesses and lives by. Leading by example is the real thing. "Do what I say but not what I do" is not valid, at least not in adult settings and certainly never in political settings. Leaders are not superiors and whatever authority they have should be given them out of respect and voluntarily. Leaders operate from respect and really good leaders make everything they do and everywhere they go better somehow. People honestly love good leaders and learn a great deal from them that empowers them and makes their own personal lives better.

With that in mind, how close do you think our dearly elected, or our whole system for that matter, measures up? Not so good, huh? That leaves an obvious question to ask. If our elected officials aren't really leaders, then what the hell are they and what are they doing and why? What do we have here? If it's not all about us, and it's not, then why would we want it? It's supposed to be there for us, it's supposed to be us. It only exists because we're here. The way they're doing it they've made clear that the first priority is covering their own asses and generously taking care of themselves. We rarely enter the picture and every time we do all hell breaks loose. Just asking for what's rightfully ours brings on a balls out cat fight. Clearly the status quo likes things the way they are and they'll defend it with all they've got; and they have way more than we have. Why shouldn't they like it. The way it's set up is that they benefit and we pay for it and get as little as they can get away with giving us back for it.

The shame of the congress giving itself magnificent raises and lifetime benefits while at the same time excusing themselves from raising the minimum wage year after year after year frames the truth of this picture. Food stamps for the hungry are hyped as the dishonest ploy of lazy, immoral people who want something for nothing; while corporate welfare in the hundreds of billions of dollars to the most profitable wealthy corporations in the world is not a ploy of lazy, dishonest, immoral people who want something for nothing by the truckload; that's good. Sure it is. If you're the corporation. If you're anyone else it's a blatant breathtaking rip off.

Which in essence, at least in my humble opinion, is exactly what our hulking, expensive, closed circle of privately owned and operated for profit government has become, a rip off. That's not nearly as much of a news flash as it used to be but I doubt anyone's made the case with as much to back it up as I just did from the perspective of an ordinary person. Let's stop slathering our dearly elected with unearned compliments that only serve to further spread the myth that what they do is actually "leadership". It's not. It's something else entirely.

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Realityland


Is it possible for people to live in and believe to be real, a wholly man made, pre constructed, plasticized, consciously engineered social infrastructure? Could people live within such engineered systems and believe those systems to be the result of nature or natural unavoidable processes, consisting primarily of pure honesty and unadulterated truths? Without checking so much as once in a lifetime to verify their beliefs, to hold those beliefs as if proven, factual and true would seem, to many people, to stretch believability. Yet, without ever having that conscious thought, without ever hearing that question or stimulating our brains with that idea, unless it is directly put to us at a time prior to our mental cement permanently hardening, the vast majority of people can and do live in exactly such contrived artificial social structures and do assume them to be totally naturally occurring and comprised of whole truths and natural provable facts. No great number of these people bother to check for themselves so much as once in a lifetime whether or not their beliefs are backed up by facts.

The world we live in and accept as reality, as certainty, as natural and as real is a lot more like Disneyland than reality. It's exactly as natural as Disneyland too, precisely zero percent natural. Our contrived theme park could be called Realityland, it's so much like Disneyland, only it's a lot less fun, costs a hell of a lot more and you can never leave.

Just like Disneyland, Realityland is a cheap fantasy based planned man-made creation, an imitation of something that doesn't exist anywhere in nature or natural reality, and never could and never will. It is a place that has been designed and constructed in totality. It is added onto as years go by, and sections are torn down and replaced with newer things, flashier things, less substantial things. It is a place of illusion and external appearances. We are not allowed to see behind the scenes or even to know that there is a "behind the scenes". We are strongly encouraged to believe there is nothing more than what meets the eye and that what meets the eye is all there is. For most people, external appearances and assurances that's all there is, is enough. Reports of vast underground activity that holds up, directs, supports and wholly controls every inch of what is externally visible are routinely dismissed as ridiculous, the first hand account givers discredited and disbelieved. Believing it takes more to make a theme park run than what can be seen on the surface is a reasonable and rather obvious truth, but that doesn't matter. What matters is what is believed, not what is true. Belief becomes truth and stays truth because it is rarely checked and verified. It is assumed and when that assumption is generally held and dominant, to check it seems idiotic.


What we think of as reality is very much a theme park in the truest sense. There is little that is real about it. It is not a naturally occurring phenomenon that "just happens" without direction and planning. It is precisely what it is by conscious design. This is a fantasy world. It exists to sell people a good time, or more accurately to sell the illusion that a good time can be had by all, and in so doing it rakes in reality based benefits, benefits that are real and have value in the real world. These benefits are accumulated and whisked away, never spoken of, never discussed, never admitted or mentioned again. People show up and exchange their real valuables, their priceless time, their hard earned monetary wealth, for endless varieties of bullshit. Every sort of distraction is there to appeal to and draw in every sort of appetite, from the childish to the profane. The one thing every attraction has in common is that it costs you something to participate. If you don't pay you can't play. That in itself should be enough to distinguish non-reality from reality.

Do we or do we not consciously understand that money is king in Realityland? Everything runs on money. Is that a secret? A surprise? No. It's not even hidden. It's blatant. We do know that. Then can somebody please explain to me why people are consistently shocked and unable to believe that there is anything fake, dishonest, phony, contrived, disingenuous, filthy, corrupt, conspiratorial, criminal or otherwise not natural and healthy happening in our theme park? Where exactly is it that people think nasty people go to do their nasty things? Few could give specific geographical answers to that question but most will tell you emphatically it is anywhere but here.

What on earth is wrong with people's heads?

Can anyone tell me this? How can people sit through the endless carpet bombing of television commercials? Personally, I cannot tolerate the first microseconds of any advertising, I will be screaming loudly inside my own head, "Make it stop! Turn it off!" well before the first three spoken words are rattled off. The phony, cheesy tones of advertising, commercial "voice" as I call it, the creepy ridiculous style of advertising talk, commercial speak, commercial artifice, commercial visuals, artificial contrived advertising feel, texture and cadence, the obnoxious changes in volume levels, the precisely timed formatted sequences that never allow a pause, that give you no chance to think, to dismiss as nonsense, to reject or ignore. I utterly despise the nonstop barrage of saturating mind pollution. This is not benign, this is a weaponized, tactical assault and we are the enemy. Weaponized tactical assault advertising blasts into the heads of tens of millions of people simultaneously, repeatedly, excruciatingly, consciously, every minute of every day of every year of your life. There is nothing casual or nice about that.

The absolutely predictable stench and feel of advertising assault weapons are things instantly recognizable to me which instantly evoke inside my head extreme negative reactions and angry return fire. I refuse to allow that filth to be anywhere near my conscious or unconscious mind to the greatest possible extent. Advertising repels me physically as well as emotionally. I despise and deeply resent the heinous violent assaults on our minds so casually referred to as "advertising". This is not advertising. This stopped being advertising decades ago. What it is now is weaponized tactical assault technology, weapons for the mind, delivered with the aim, unfettered intent and unrivaled ability to take us down, all the way down, and without us ever knowing it. These weapons do not fire blanks, they lock and load with only the most potent state of the art live rounds that science can deliver.

This evil toxic mental invasion spares no cost, no trouble, no effort to devise ever newer and deadlier methods to deliver carpets of mind bombs and bullets. No lie is too great to tell, no blatant contrivance or outright idiocy is too farfetched to offer up as reality, no disinformation, misinformation or lack of information is beyond blasting at people's undefended brains.

The kill rate is staggering and unrivaled. The numbers of mortally wounded increased so rapidly from the start, over a very short period of time, that this evil force achieved its desired 100% kill rate decades ago, a kill rate maintained and uninterrupted to this day. Amazingly, a 100% kill rate was not enough. The desire came to increase the kill rate to beyond 100%. One is left to wonder how that could ever be done. The terrorists of advertising were and still are clearly determined to achieve rates exceeding 100%, to them it is obtainable reality. Today's advertising weapons seek to kill our young before they are even born, and they have succeeded in achieving that aim. We now bomb and destroy our own children in the womb, and increase the mind and body bombing and destruction the moment they arrive and continue it publicly and privately for the rest of their lives. No child in this country can escape the eternal and endless onslaught of mental violence and vile foreign occupation by modern day propaganda dispersal and advertising. No one can get away from it. It will invade your mind. It will infiltrate, occupy and parasitically replace the parts of your brain that think and perceive and recognize the very threat it comprises, with itself. Every exposed person will be forced, regardless of will, without consent, without full much less complete disclosure, without warning, without choice, and without excuse, to receive steady repeated blasts of toxic destructive mind bombing. This is the weaponry of relentless corporate for-profit propaganda, public relations and advertising firms. It is hurled against our beings for the entirety of our lives at intervals only minutes apart. Every single day of our lives. It never stops. It cannot be negotiated with. It will never recede. It can't be fought back at. There is nothing there to shoot, yet there it is bombing us, again and again and again well past the point of being able to stand it. Every single day that we are exposed to commercial broadcast or print media we are assaulted. We are all casualties. And our lives suffer for it, from the depths of our souls, the wounds will affect the course of many and diverse lives and actions.

The overall destructive impact of weaponized, unrestricted mass marketing, the unwanted unasked for targeting of our entire unarmed civilian population over decades, is possibly incalculable. We have little frame of reference for what an unmolested naturally thinking population would look like, or act like or think like. We simply no longer even understand the idea.

I don't care who you are, if you've endured the millions of TV commercials and thousands upon thousands of hours of commercial broadcasting the average American has had injected into his or her mind from childhood, you've been altered. You have been modified, despicably, willfully undermined and redirected in your personal development and mental function. You have been infiltrated, occupied by hostile forces and emotionally, spiritually and physically reorganized whether you liked it or knew it or not. You have been re-engineered, transformed into a human receiver tuned to pick up all broadcasts of power propaganda and social engineering and you will accept without effort all standardized mental assaults from all authorized outlets and believe them to be non-dangerous. You will not be aware that you are a casualty of war. You will feel normal and unchanged. You may well be able to list all of the ingredients in McDonalds "secret sauce" even though you've never consciously thought about it or had any interest in knowing such ingredients. Even if you never eat at McDonalds, you may well still know the ingredients and the song that forced its way into your brain to be remembered forever. It is not lodged in there permanently for your benefit. It is lodged in there for McDonalds Corporation's benefit. You do understand that much, hopefully.

Every word I've said is true. Regardless of what smarty pants we love to think we are, every single person who has been carpet bombed by modern commercial mass media weaponry has been hit and re-hit countless times, and is a casualty that is at some level, permanently disabled.

The shrapnel of pornographic, weaponized commercial media is lodged deeply within our body tissues, inextricable from our brains, from our emotions, from our senses, from reason, from our belief formation and maintenance systems. These invisible bits of mind shrapnel cannot be surgically removed. They cannot be removed by will. Once they are there they stay there forever and literally meld with our bodies and beings forever. If that is not weaponry then I don't know what is. The permanent uninvited unwanted and unneeded invasive ideation of others being disrespectfully, relentlessly, repeatedly implanted inside our bodies and minds is about as intrusive and harmful as it gets. The success of these weapons against greater humanity is truly unrivaled. What other bullets or bombs can inflict damage on every man, woman and child and not be noticed, detected or if suspected be so easily dismissed as innocuous, entertaining or clever? It just can't happen with physical bullets and bombs. It is frightening and bizarre.

When people are hit by bullets they understand full well they've been hit and harmed. They know the bullet is not a good thing. They have no confusion as to whether or not it is a part of their body. They know up front they didn't want it in them, near them or on them. They recognize the projectile as a direct and serious threat to their person. They know it is an invasive violent force that is there due to someone else's specific intent to do them harm, even to take their life. There is no mystery there. Perhaps the pain is what makes it so perfectly clear that this is a threat and a danger. There is also the immediacy of harm and loss of life, pouring blood, disfigurement and suffering that is easily and obviously connected to bullets penetrating bodies. There is no debate or discussion as to whether those who are shot wanted it, asked for it or liked it. No one would dare suggest it is good for the economy. To suggest one has a right to propel bullets into other's bodies at will for personal gain would be resoundingly rejected. It is not acceptable. (Why we believe it is acceptable when our government does it deserves consideration. There is no such right regardless of the fictitious labels we place on each other). It would be idiocy to suggest any of these things. Nobody wants to be targeted and shot at with intent to kill, disable or harm out of greed or the desire to destroy free will and gain control over others. It's a shitty thing to do to people. That's probably why shooting people and causing harm for personal gain is illegal.

We have no problem recognizing what causes us physical harm. There is no confusion there at all. We spend mind boggling amounts of time and money to train specialist people how to react to violent physical harm, to assist those who have been harmed by all forms of violence against them. There are now countless areas of expertise, thousands of details and facts and knowledge available to respond to physical harm. It is an enormous industry and a beloved and trusted sector of our society.

Where is the equivalent for mental harm? It is as though no such thing exists. It obviously exists. Yet, do we ever hear the slightest suggestion of mental coercive attacks? No. The absence of the subject screams a truth. It is purposely absent from public discourse. It is routinely denied and ridiculed when reported. We are fully aware of terrific amounts of time, money and energy having been invested in "mind control" experiments by our own government for decades. None the less the topic is treated as fantastical and impossible. Something there does not add up. Why?

When weapons are not apparently physical we behave as if genuine harm is not possible. Exposure to toxic, foul, demoralizing, esteem damaging, reality bending, dishonest, contrived lies that exist to get your money by getting inside your mind and telling you whatever it takes to get you to open your wallet today and come back tomorrow to open it again and keep on opening it for the rest of your life is hardly an act of brotherhood and friendship. The attackers do not care how deadly or dangerous their products are to you. This strikes most people as too absurd to be true. Believability is unrelated to reality. You are a little wooden duck at the mechanical shooting range, and they have all of the guns. That's reality.

Injuries of the mind are real, pervasive and severe. Much pain and suffering, confusion, and notions ranging from the inane to the horrendous exist in real time inside peoples heads across the entire breadth and width of our country. People with nothing in common except owning and watching TV sets or reading corporate newspapers and magazines, people of all diverse backgrounds, ages, races, religions, political beliefs, jobs, financial status, all of them, can and do hold completely erroneous, identical, unsubstantiated beliefs that are not based in reality or fact yet are firmly and widely believed to be true. This is not a naturally occurring phenomenon. It can't happen in nature. There is no reason for it to happen. The only cause is artificial implantation of false ideas across the entire spectrum of television owning, media receiving humanity. False ideas are knowingly put there, repeated beyond reason, need or justification, delivered in a manner that causes deep conditioning to feel no alarm at all, to accept and allow penetration of the most precious, most private, most personal part of the body: the mind.

Tell me, what exists in this world that has "a right" to inject itself into your brain at will? What thing exists in nature that attempts to penetrate your physical body and implant itself in your head? Should any such creature present itself to us would we not recognize it immediately as a threat? As a parasite or a virus? Or at the very least as something that is not a positive or beneficial thing? Of course we would. Without discussion or debate we would instantly understand that an external intruder is only there to benefit itself at our expense. We understand full well that nothing outside of us has any right to force itself into our bodies or brains. We correctly assume such forceful penetration, unasked for, unwanted, unneeded, would be damaging to us and would cause us harm, even serious harm, even death.

Where does the blind spot come from that prevents us from understanding that the same kinds of external intrusion can and do occur invisibly? That equivalent pestilence and threats can and do attack and invade the human mind? It is reasonable to assume our collective identical blind spot has also been wholly engineered and delivered to our minds.

Our minds are everything we are, everything we think and see and feel and believe. Our minds are us. Our minds are who we are. They are not protected by reinforced steel. They are not respected by anyone seeking to invade them. Our minds can be played with at countless levels. What others say to us, how others look at us, what is said about us, mere nonphysical words can cause pain and damage so severe as to overwhelm us, hurt us, fill us with grief, rage, doubt, loathing, resentment, jealousy, the whole gamut of human response. Feelings and thoughts are our only reality. They are who we are. They can be and regularly are interfered with, influenced by everyone we meet, everyone we hear, everyone we see, whether or not we think about it or know it. It all gets inside our heads and it all affects us. It can cause us tremendous harm or tremendous good. That very much depends on the intent of those others, but even the best of intentions are no guarantee of doing good. Why is it that we don't understand that? Why don't we consciously understand how important it is for us to pick and choose what we want inside our minds? When clearly, it is the cumulative effect of all that is in our minds that makes us who we are and has the ultimate power to direct and decide our lives and how we live them. Because whatever gets in there becomes a part of us. Forever. It cannot be extricated.

It takes conscious effort to disarm unwanted influences in our minds. It is not always possible. We are not conscious when receiving the vast majority of what ultimately takes up residence inside our heads. Nobody asks our permission before discharging their yields into our minds. Nobody cares whether or not we want to hear it or be exposed to it or be offended, demoralized, confused or conflicted by it. Lies are told much more often than truths, truths are an increasingly rare commodity. So what's in your mind and how much of it is there by your choice?

How much of what takes up space in our limited gray matter is there by personal choice, by our own intent, and how much is hijacked and stolen from us, disguised as innocuous, as truth, as informative, important or entertaining when in fact it is knowingly delivered, dishonest, manipulative, propelled without warning or consent inside our heads with the specific goal of changing our heads, changing our very beings into something that will benefit others at our cost and loss? Why else do we knowingly harm ourselves with toxic products and damaging behaviors? Doing those things could never be our natural choice or come to us as ideas we would desire to make into reality. Doing those things is self destructive, which flies totally in the face of our strong inherent will and desire to live. You tell me where it all comes from.

You tell me why children are killing children in schools today when no such thing ever happened before. You tell me why deep enduring love has become the exception instead of the rule, why money is openly given more importance than life itself, why selfishness, pornography and violence are entertaining to us, why we emulate them, why we are not offended by things that clearly destroy us from the inside out? You tell me why.

Tell me why we naively believe our elected officials are bastions of righteousness and truth in the absence of proof to support such naive beliefs, in the face of non stop evidence of the exact opposite in generous supply? You tell me why an entire nation can be roused to a state of panic and fear of a deadly pandemic when no one we know is even sick, much less dead. Tell me why. Go ahead.

If what gets poured into our heads has no effect on how we think, on what we believe, on how we perceive, value and interpret the world around us, on our ability to separate bullshit from reality, then you tell me why our entire nation is brain dead and brainwashed. Explain to me how it can be that most everyone we meet thinks every doctor is gifted, honest, moral, capable and dedicated, and could never be a pervert, a crappy doctor, or a crook? Explain to me why most everyone believes that every cop is an upright noble citizen, believes every soldier is honorable and decent, believes every man behind bars deserves to be there, believes things that are not food are good to eat, believes one unconfirmed case of super TB three states away directly threatens personal health. Go ahead and explain those things to me. None of them can be substantiated. Why are these beliefs so dominant and pervasive?

It's simply not possible for three hundred million people who don't know each other to all hold the exact same nonsensical self destructive idiotic naive and just plain wrong beliefs and attitudes about the exact same things. That cannot happen by accident or by chance. It cannot happen as a result of nature. How then can it exist, and exist so pervasively? So intensely that people will come to hatred and blows should they encounter a difference of opinion? How does that happen? You tell me.

Are we as consciously created as the phony world we live in? Are we even really us? How much longer will it take before we no longer care? How long before we accept the next level of mental bombardment and occupation that tells us that we are better off this way regardless of the undeniable evidence to the contrary? Who are we really? Does anyone really know anymore?

Most anyone knows better than to leave his most valuable possessions unattended and easily accessible to anyone who sees them and wants to take them. What is more valuable than our minds? Yet how much conscious attention do we give to being in charge of what gets in them? How much right do we have anymore to protect and decide what goes into our own minds?

Bullets hurt when they penetrate our bodies and the damage they do is obvious and immediate. The damage done via intrusive, manipulative disguised mental attack is not painful, in fact it is made to be as palatable as possible. You will be made to love your slavery. You won't find a thing wrong with being mentally controlled by others for their own benefit at the cost of your free will and ability to discern and think for yourself. You might actually believe that they can think better for you than you can. Chances are, you already do in some ways. In the ways that you take the word of authorities and experts as solid truth and do not check things out for yourself, you've already given up the right to decide for yourself what you think.

That might not always be a bad thing. Not all experts and authorities are clueless politicos or "D" students with a flair for salesmanship. There is no such thing as "all" anything being the same. All people are different. All expertise is individual and unique, some of it is earned and real and lots of it is just memorized and taken as truth because it was delivered by people believed to be the pinnacle of reality. The danger zone is that glowing neon area where people stop thinking, stop asking questions, and stop checking things for themselves. Unthinking acceptance breeds ignorance, weakness and fear. Those who proliferate weak mindedness demand unwavering compliance, unearned loyalty, and expect to be staunchly supported whether they end up being right or wrong. That doesn't even make sense. Phonies are liars, and lazy ones too. This is why we hear the same words coming from different mouths verbatim. The laziest thing of all is to simply memorize what you've been handed and pledge your unthinking, uncritical support to bigger idiots than yourself. Nothing there to brag about. It's kind of a weenie way of being, in my humble opinion. I'm not sure what the payoffs are supposed to be. At the price of controlling my own head, I can think of nothing I'd trade that for.

There's no doubt that we're all under constant, focused assault by our own government. Even though it's supposedly illegal for our government to propagandize us, they do it every day. It's not even debatable. This is not theory, it's fact. It is on the record in official documents. Every major media outlet was infiltrated by intelligence operatives back in the McCarthy era. They never left. The censorship that prevents us from issuing "F" report cards to deserving elected officials is no accident. Nothing much happens by accident when losers and cheaters are running loose in positions of authority. They can't afford to let the public hear the truth. They can't afford to let real justice unfold in courtrooms. They can't afford to let the people decide for themselves when those decisions would more than likely drop kick losers out of powerful positions. They're icky people.

But icky people are nothing new. A certain amount of them are invariably drawn to places in society where they can try to get away with being icky and greasy and creepy. It's such a game and very tangled. They don't fool anybody who can see them up close.

We're not always made privy when decent people work behind the scenes to foil bad plans. We don't hear the dissenting voices of very reasonable, noble, dedicated people or know about how much static they give to poor leadership. So much of what reaches us in papers and broadcasts is plain crap that it's not funny. In the book "Toxic Waste is Good For You" it is stated that as much as 75% of what we read in the papers is completely made up. That's not something they made up it's something they proved.

We don't have to be helpless in the midst of all of this professionally contrived and delivered horse hockey. It can be rendered useless and harmless to us. It can be disarmed and ignored for the silly nonsense it is. We can walk right through it untouched. It's not hard to do. All it takes is using our own heads. Doing our own thinking. Making those who deliver public information earn our respect by giving us consistently honest, fair and accurate information; and when they don't we blow them off.

The truth is, when it comes to truth, you have to find it for yourself. No one can find truth for us. Having an unquenchable thirst for truth, for understanding what you don't understand, for knowing all sides of the story, for resisting the urge to become emotionally hooked and thereby controlled, is what it takes to insulate ourselves from the endless oceans of claptrap and goofiness so many people end up stuck in like flies caught in amber. They can't see past it or through it or get clear of it. They simply believe it and tell themselves how informed they are.

Those who are too lazy to ensure that what goes into their own heads deserves to be there will get whatever somebody else wants in there. Those who prefer to find and check facts for themselves will quickly discover that truth is not hidden or hard to find. Truth is simply not dragged out and served up on platters for us. The platter people are the ones who accept whatever they're served. They have no way of knowing what they're getting. I don't know how anyone could be comfortable with that, but I don't know everything and don't need to. I just need to know how to think for myself and that I can do pretty well.

To stay in control of our own minds we simply need to stay in control of our own minds. Anyone who wants to do that can do that. It is a choice. I will always choose to think for myself. I like it that way because I always know why I think what I think. In the process I also get to know myself and I suspect that unless we can do that, we won't get very far in finding the truths we seek, or in retaining control of how and what we think.

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Change The World

Hello again. I know it's been a while. I'm sorry for abandoning you, if you've felt abandoned that is. I've gotten a handful of inquiries from folks wanting to know where I've gone off to and when I'll be back so I figured I could just post the answers for anyone interested.

There has been no conscious decision on my part to stop writing. Over the last few weeks I'd started writing several new pieces but only came close to finishing a few of them. I often found myself losing the will to write them before they were even developed. I can't really say why. I don't know why. In a way I feel I've said what I want to say, and in another way I feel that people are beginning to wake up, so there's less compulsion to try to sound off. Whatever it is, it comes down to me not doing much writing for a while.

I've been unusually busy with some other things, creative projects that require the full and dominant use of a different part of my creative brain than I use for writing. I've had a lot going on with web site work and also with getting an archive site set-up and running for The Grassy Knoll shows after the plug was suddenly pulled on that front. I felt it too important to try to keep those shows accessible to people and could not sit idly by and accept them not being around anymore. The result of that effort has paid off with two sites you may find of interest. In fact both were finished just days ago. One is an e-zine, "Inside the Grassy Knoll"; and the other is an audio archive site that is still developing into what it will be when it's in full bloom. Here are the links if you'd care to check them out.

http://www.thinkorbeeaten.com/ITGK/index.html
http://thinkorbeeaten.com/theknoll

Thank you sincerely for reading my posts and for your wonderful and very real responses to them. I don't much enjoy the non-wonderful responses and wish those wouldn't come along so much. None the less, this blog has been a thoroughly great experience and a gratifying validation of my belief that there are many people who really do care and really do get it and really want better for this world that we all live in together and must share whether anyone likes it or not.

We have a long way to go to get there, "there" being a good place that is just, and more moral than not, and just plain decent for everyone instead of being this selfish "obtain the height of laziness, luxury and power for a limited few while all the rest have to F.O. and die" format. That's such a bad game plan it doesn't deserve or require comment here. Few would think otherwise, but it's those few who need to be enlightened, really enlightened, in order for us to begin getting off this one way course to self destruction on a global scale.

Although I haven't been writing, I have continued to watch the grand old orchestra of lies and death eternally playing its only song, "It's all about being rich and powerful". The big wheels of the cold machine never stop turning, grinding the bones of helpless people all over the world into forgotten dust. People everywhere are getting crushed under the weight of the one world order machine. The rest of the world seems to impassively look on and only sighs in relief that it wasn't them, this time.

The rich and powerful are going for the whole thing now, there's apparently little to stop them. They want to privatize the whole of the world, down to uprooting the last peaceful peasant in the remotest place. They want their serf world, their master/slave global scenario; it is finally within grasp, and they'll stop at nothing to get it. No amount of other people's suffering and loss will detour them from obtaining their death saturated "selfishness and laziness" prize.

It doesn't appear to have struck many people yet that putting all of your eggs in one basket is the worst possible way to do things, but it is the way the global privateer movement wants to lay things out for themselves. And it is all for themselves and not for anyone else but themselves, despite the warm fuzzy sounding rhetoric. You don't even have to peel back the curtain anymore to see how disgusting they are. Compare what they say to what comes of what they do. They are taking the world by the throat and will not let go until it stops struggling or stops breathing, either way, they think, they'll come out on top.

Sadly they believe that all those who perish in the transition will be part of a natural phenomenon, a settling of contents during shipment, like boxes of cereal or bags of chips. It will be better in the end, they say. They're obviously sociopathic assholes but I don't see how to get that message across to them. If you know of a way by all means share it, I'd be more than happy to take them on with some love letters and grounded advice about what it means to be a human being in this world. It's my opinion against theirs and their money doesn't make their opinion more valid than mine, though they would obviously differ on that. But they are not alone, they couldn't do anything they do without gigantic numbers of us regular folk going along with them. I'm afraid the truth is they don't really care about what really matters most in life, and sadly it looks like a lot of ordinary people don't really care either. It's all about playing a great big contrived game, a rigged popularity contest, and it's all about winning. It is that juvenile and that shallow. What an oxymoron, losers who think they're winning when they're not winning anything at all. Such a stupid, shortsighted unreality based game where the winners feel good for a while and then end up dead in the end like everybody else. And they say shiny objects only distract dumb animals.

What a shame and a waste it all is. A day doesn't go by that I don't mourn the tragic, albeit ancient repeating events that keep our precious little world from evolving itself into what it could be. The waste of a trashed ecosystem, the waste of irreplaceable pristine water, of arable life giving soils, of unique one of a kind species that are not here to be used up but to perform a particular function in the greater scheme of it all. It is all connected. It is all a unified, living, breathing, thinking, feeling miracle and mystery that has no explanation or reason for being, but there it is anyway. And we're all in it. But always, always, there must be some who cannot feel the awesome beauty of this vast mystery, and who cannot appreciate it in any way, shape or form. To these peculiar ones, all that matters is right now. Fulfilling the appetites of the moment in whatever way feels good to them, at the expense of anyone who gets in the way or who represents fulfillment of said appetites. As long as we, human beings, are seen as commodities by others, as long as this incredible planet is seen as a sack of goodies to be picked over by some few misguided individuals, we will all suffer the consequences. As these misguided others gain more and more power for themselves they do greater and greater damage, and as long as people are too afraid to think for themselves and see where it all will lead, then I'm afraid it's clear enough where we are headed and how this will all turn out.

I don't believe it can be supported to say that killing, destruction and "power" is the formula or the answer to a single thing in this world. Killing solves nothing but a selfish, irrational need to control and possess that which is not yours to control or possess. Power is an imaginary thing, just as security and money are imaginary things. Money has no meaning or validity anywhere except inside our heads. We believe it into existence, but it does not otherwise exist, nor does total safety and security or 'power' over others.

We humans don't like to think, and we don't like having to fend for ourselves. We want to be taken care of, and in exchange for subsistence levels of what we think we want and need, we will follow Satan himself into hell and we will torture and kill perfect strangers who have never done us any harm. We will attach electric wires to women's vaginas and nail men's testicles to the floor on Satan's orders, then go home afterward believing ourselves to be good people who are doing a fine and noble, important job of keeping the world safe from bad people. I am not making this up.

Pretending there are no rules and that anything we like goes is a childish, selfish self-excuse for inexcusable, harmful, horrific behavior. Making it up as you go with rule number one being you can have it all your way and nobody else counts is the very definition of immorality; such a simple concept and yet so grossly misunderstood. Morality is how people treat each other, that's all it is and all it's ever been. We can't be immoral to ourselves, we can only commit immoral acts against others, and we do this every time we choose not to live the values we claim to have. It is fact that there are literally millions of people today who sell and buy other human beings to be used as personal slaves. Adults and children both are bought and sold into sexual slavery, used as domestic slaves, cooks and laborers, and God only knows what else. As long as there are such broken people, such immoral people who cannot see or don't care that others are just like they are, then we won't move forward. Because those broken people breed and carry forward their mental and spiritual diseases, ignorance and sociopathy, over time it is ingrained into personal and cultural DNA. People can't change their own DNA, at least not easily. More so, they don't want to change, no matter if it is for the better.

So yeah, we've got a hell of a challenge ahead to ride out. It can and probably will bring into being the primordial spiritual stuff that brings forth some of the best that human beings have to offer, but at the same time that best will forever be under vicious attack by those who believe it is good and personally prosperous to hold humanity as a whole in chains.

As long as people think that brutalizing, controlling and enslaving others is a normal thing and perfectly natural and sensible and reasonable, we'll stay an awfully long way from changing this world from a slave planet into a free one. Because really, that is what we are. The vast majority of us are slaves at the beck and call of both known and unknown others who want things this way and make things this way, and who by conscious choice order the punishment, imprisonment and executions of dissenters and thinkers and those who speak of freedom and justice and things that go beyond all this violent mess. And the majority of us support it. This spiritual disease is nothing if not infectious and near impossible to cure. Few realize or would believe that the very idea of enemies is something that does not need to be, but it is a strong idea that is roundly embraced by perfectly good people who all share the odd belief that they and their particular group are number one. Whatever that means.

The only way of doing it right is by letting it be what it is; letting everyone work it out for themselves. If that sounds like anarchy then what is an-archy but the absence of archy? Mon-archy. Olig-archy. What's so bad about that? You and I are still here either way; those archy-types have very little to do with all of us in truth and in reality. It's all in what we think and believe and are led to accept as truth whether it's truth or not. Have we ever tried it without grand archys at the helm? Not that I know of. Who says it's such a bad thing? It's worth a twirl.

Accepting differences between peoples isn't all that hard when there's no scarcity or nothing to compete over that requires someone's demoralization or death. It does not have to be done as we do it now and have long done it, requiring and even rejoicing in the mass deaths of millions of others we don't even personally know a thing about just because they are 'bad' and we are so very good. We're not intellectually or spiritually well. Not yet at least.

I think we're always trying to evolve along those lines because it's our natural direction. Yet the more we evolve the more the fearful, the blind and the stupid "cheat" and use violence to try to deny and discredit human progress and development. The R&P's (rich and powerful) have everything invested in humanity staying afraid, blind and stupid like they are. Afraid, blind and stupid people are easy to control, and the R&P's whole thing is controlling others, controlling everything out of unrelenting fear. They are fear based beings, cowards, afraid of the reality that it's all beyond control and beyond answers and even beyond understanding. They can't handle that. Neither can most of us. Even though it is simple reality and in inescapable existence all around us at all times, we prefer to think otherwise, and that silly fantasy gives us release from all our silly fears.

It all boils down to our own conscious decisions, our choices, our morality, our shared values and visions of today, ourselves and tomorrow. As long as the vast majority of our voices cannot be heard or will not be recognized we'll stay stuck in this outdated, self destructive spiritual/mental prison, and wars will rage on and innocents will die and women will be raped and children will be orphaned, not for any good reason because there are no good reasons for such things, but because it is what we're constantly told is "right". If we lack the intellectual prowess to see through that, then we'll live and die in it. Obviously.

I'm quite interested in hearing how others who have come to the same place I have see things. Do they see an overall, incrementally gained progress for the good side or do they see the bad guys coming out ahead in the end? When you add modern technology into the picture and face up to who controls all of it and how they most want to use it, for military domination and planetary control, it is easy to feel understandable panic and believe the future is guaranteed to the worst of humanity to own and control. There are those who say this is our unavoidable future but I disagree.

It's not that cut and dried. Technology can be used for good as well as for bad, it's not technology in itself that's good or bad. Things always and forever will come down to who we are as a species and who we let dominate our world and set our values and define our beliefs. Minds can be changed, thankfully, that is one thing that is a defining truth about who and what we are.

Our most serious problem seems to be our reluctance to engage our brains, to use our own heads, to perceive and think for ourselves and to value the world around us according to what we can easily see to be right and wrong or good and bad. Easy stuff, simple stuff, if your head is in the right place to begin with. Unfortunately, on the average, we are more concerned with what others think of us than what we think of ourselves, with fitting in to a senseless status quo than creating our own solid and real status quo, to looking like winners than actually being winners.

It matters a whole lot what we think winners are and what we believe matters most in life. If we think the most important thing is to have power over others then that's what we'll want to have. If we think competition is great and wiping out enemies is grand then that's what we'll get high doing. If we believe that following mere mortals as if they were God is the thing to do, then we'll do it and not give it a second thought. If we think luxury and sociopathy is better than real happiness, then that's what we'll go for, at the expense of suffering and loss to others, to anyone but ourselves. We go along with whoever seems to be leading when we don't desire to lead ourselves. So even when we are forced to face the truth that having a dishwasher or a car doesn't bring us inner peace and happiness in life, we'll simply try for bigger and better dishwashers and newer cooler cars, never connecting the long rows of dots we've left behind ourselves over so many empty, disappointing years. This is not the path to getting what you really want and need is the message we cannot hear, even while we're drowning in it.

Clearly, the human mind needs a jump start, a little help, some assistance cranking itself into action. It needs good role models to emulate and better sources of information that frame independent thinking and morality as serious forms of wealth, as things to want and treasure for ourselves. You can scour the official 'out there' but you won't find that message anywhere. There's no mystery why. There is no greater threat to the R&P's and selfish cowardly controllers of any millennium than having huge numbers of people gain self respect and think for themselves, deciding for themselves how, why and if they will do anything. Especially threatening is the inevitable moment when thinking people choose to no longer participate in the dead end game of R&P uber alles, or war, or greed, or scarcity, or slavery, or force, or any of the cheesy, cowardly selfish ways things are done in this world. There are such better ways, so much more that can be and will be just as soon as people begin to think for themselves, and begin to value things honestly and accurately, starting with themselves.

You can't lie to somebody who knows the truth, it won't work. No wonder the truth, real truth is something feared, hated and rejected. No wonder we are all led to believe that which is false and personally disempowering. No wonder we actually can't discern the obvious when it's right in our faces. No wonder we willfully cling to and defend old, habitual, nonsensical beliefs and habits and ways of doing things and seeing things, and fear to death anything that would make us strong and personally powerful and self-responsible. We much prefer to be on our knees to others who want power over us, and that pretty much seals our fate. It's obvious you'll never get a fair break on your knees. Yet, even whilst down on our knees we will defend to the death our right to stay there forever.

That's what has to change.

But I digress. Can I digress or what? All I really came to say today was that my absence was likely to continue until it stops continuing, and I don't know when that will be. I don't know why it is per se, only that it is. Other than some scary high blood pressure, I am fine and otherwise probably too busy for my own good. That said, I will write again at some point, so do check back again, at some point. I'll catch up with you then. Until then, take care and be well, and though it hardly needs to be said to you, keep on thinking. That is the only thing that can and eventually will change the world.