Change

Change

The democrats nor the left has anything to offer in the way of change.

I probably shouldn’t compare the democrats to the left but when you realize that, like in other one party states, both major parties in America merely reflect the right, center, and left of one party, call it the American Big Party. Or the Profit party. Or the Greed Party.

In America the One Big Party represents only the freedom to make a profit. Economists will tell you that that is the “natural” way. And there are natural market forces that protect working people and individuals from predatory profit taking but, in reality, everyone believes in profit, what the common man/woman calls Savings for a Rainy Day but what economists don’t tell you is that America is a no nonsense gambling addicted society so people have the freedom to spend their savings (money earned above their necessities) on anything they want because that’s what freedom is about. Right?

Nowadays one can gamble on just about everything. In addition, one can be addicted to just about everything so guess where “savings (to you) and “profit” (to them) goes, to either satisfy some addiction (to you) or create more money (for them). 

This is where freedom is like a snake eating its own tail. Although we have the freedom to choose what isn’t free as our only real choice but aren’t able or free to choose removing ourselves from the treadmill of our earthly obsessions, which voyeurism plays a big part, and poor judgement.

The trump revolution, which is what it is, has turned the tables on what we Americans have been brought up to believe. We’ve all been trained (socialized) to accept the variations of the ill named “two party system” and haven’t ever really been able to look at the world in a different way.

If we either laugh at or cringe at trumps TACO moments and obvious mental deficiencies, his inability to hold to one idea for any length of time so how can he be trusted, etc imagine what it’s been like for the long line of slavery descendants, indigenous survivors, and millions of international victims of Americas violent hegemony, that over the decades and centuries, it’s no wonder we’ve become immune to real empathy or even the slightest understanding of human behavior without guns, greed, or subjugation.

All of that is included in the one big package of one big party.

Trumps revolution, like all revolutions, will eventually disintegrate, and like all revolutions, whether it be Cuba, Russia, French, Chinese, or American, it will always be thereafter at the mercy of subsequent emergent ideological battering until it becomes “normal”., the essence of human addiction and greed.

All revolutions end up the same, obsolete because they never fully address true social, economic freedom which ideally includes, no borders, no supremacy, no subjugation, no ownership

The democrats are objecting to trumps Iran war style but believe me they (the democrats) are on the same page as trump. There is no call to return to Obama’s Iran nuclear deal. Make no mistake about it, Iran, according to most of the political establishment as well as the American public is “Iran must go”.

This is true with the Epstein files and any other Trump political staging. No president or prime minister will ever be indicted by the ICC for an international sex trafficking cult or rape ring except maybe the faux “mass rape” on Oct 23, concocted by Israel to cover themselves from pulling their idf forces out of southern Israel prior to the hamas breakthrough.

I can’t even imagine that unless there is a true anti-Trump revolution. That would be a little too bloody for most American stomachs. But that’s where we are now, the failure to bring justice to those who deserve it, has created a vacuum that is too far from gone to be suddenly revived, if it really was ever alive.

One important aspect of profit and greed, as in the economic capitalist philosophy is that it sponsors, not freedom, but dependency. The current Iran crisis demonstrates how it all works. Corporate hegemony on world food and energy products creates a dependency on many nations who because of global control by dominant states, can’t try and become independent by changing their own economies by using their resources. Instead, these dependent countries are forced to take on debt from international banks in order to even maintain some semblance of “nation statehood”

We are already betting on a less moral and, certainly, empathetic world. There’s money in gambling and prediction on the economy, wars, commercial investment, assassination, and sports.

Living has become a roulette wheel and cheap thrills. Be simple.

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Trump family investment in ai, military use of robotics, investment…

Trump family investment in ai, military use of robotics, investment in genocidal imperialism has once again demonstrated the cart leading the horse, where we the people are the horse. Science has always moved ahead of the people and for some reason, humanity likes to stick with superstition, magical thinking, notions about reality from illustrative technology ( like tv, movies and other social media), as well as plain old adherence to ignorance or denial.

There is a philosophy I call total mistake and somebody else might call it something else, I don’t know. Rarely, is there anything really new in the world for the very reason of total mistake in interpreting information we get from science and those who love to confuse us. Every major scientific invention is rolled in skepticism and pure disbelief, while the public spends decades or centuries burning at the stake, ostracizing, fantasizing the miscellaneous effects by placing new ideas against what they think they know from their own experience, ancient religious texts, and more ignorant authoritarian people who tell them what to think. While this process takes place, including voting for only those people who also refuse to accept new ideas and real scientific technological change rather than fantastic acceptance of powerful and wealthy influencers who only envision new ideas to further their stranglehold on power. The military can always use robots or ai long before (but too late) the public even understands how it can be utilized by normal people, and, of course, whether it even needs to be used at all.

It’s not always better.

Here’s several scientific "discoveries" where total mistake was and is a fabricated feature in  backward, and magical thinking.

'Earth centrism' was and is sponsored by bible and creation texts. Upheld through centuries by religious leaders, kings, and dictators to authenticate the belief in their authority represents gods' authority.

'Evolution/ climate changes' were and are challenged by those for similar reasons by authenticating fast talking world leaders over the slow, slow reality of random catastrophes or changes. Reluctance to use common sense and human intuition further hinders our ability to survive.

'The belief in a god with a personality' Another, and perhaps the only one, essential faux belief that somehow we humans, and no other animal, even Coyote, are the epitome of life, in the universe no less, designated by god the father, to reign supreme over the earth, as if there’ll be anything left of it when we’re done with it.

There are many examples of magical thinking in our world today, too many for me to itemize, besides everyone has their own to contemplate. Freedom, liberty and justice for all is certainly worthy of thought. No one’s solved that one.

One suggestion I have, and I don’t want to be completely patronizing here, is to watch, listen, pay attention to words or phrases that crop and pop up in all the information we get, from every source, for example AI, security, terrorist, and yes, even fascist or humanitarian international law, and ask yourself if anyone, including the leaders of the world are really thinking about or believing any of that as they “mow the grass”.

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The Treadmill

 if life is represented by a treadmill, we can say that's an apt metaphor but the speed on which a treadmill moves is never taken into account. Once upon a time, getting up in the morning and doing a few chores and making sure your future is somewhat secure from disasters, was a relatively simple life. Now, we need the speed of a car, train, or plane to get to all the essential elements of our lives, our survival. Time consciousness has been extended to practically include every moment of the day plus the next one. Planning ahead, all the time. It's like taking a rat on a wheel and speeding up the wheel. It's not even like the rat can just hop off, and say, "fuck that". Early experiments on dogs, remembering Pavlov, relegates much of who we humans are, can be boiled down to rigid routines and obedience to conformity no matter how ridiculous it is.

Here i come to save the day, mighty mouse is on the way.

It's interesting the things that pop into a head. Like a cartoon seems silly, doesn't it? Most young people wouldn't have any idea what I'm talking about but that's where I, and my generation, has an advantage. Probably some would call it "wisdom" but i just call it, fixation.

A mighty mouse might sound ridiculous, but marvel has ant man, maybe it's psychologically healthier to have a human perform supernatural acts but we are raised on the premise that animals can be human, or, at least invoke emotions or loyalty or friendship, whereas nowadays everyone forgets we humans are predatory animals, survive off of whatever resources are provided by mother nature, and do not care about others of our species outside of our territory. 

That's certainly part of the problem in solving many of our issues about living, as a nation or as individuals. We have natural built-in issues, call them fears, adherence to routine, skepticism of the truth, belief in superstitions, wanting others to believe in our superstitions, obedience to ill-defined authority, just to mention a few. Of course, there's also the fact (truth) our bodies fall prey to aging or disease and also, at the most basic, the weather nor the earth is on the same page in our grand plans to implement "perfection".

If money and wealth or even middle class living seems as if it insulates some from the above-named problems, i think i can say from experience that none of those three things prevents nor guarantees freedom from becoming irrelevant at some point.

Yes, that's what living is all about, trying to accumulate family, friends, and debt to keep the wolves at bay. sometimes the wolves are real but why create problems for yourself by trying to hang on to man-made or self-delusions. Life's hard enough as it is.

Enjoy the good, forsake what's left or unlovable.

Miscellaneous While We Wait

 My gawd, you can murder 75000 people but don't smash the ceramic head of jesus, when he's down on his luck.

i hope the current world war inspires more readings of shakespeare and mein kampf. King Lear meets Adolf, or Hamlet meets Goebbels. Maybe even the illiad/odyssey poetry. Siege at Troy with heroes Achilles and other gods messing with Helen. Rumors in the auxiliary media are spreading that trump has gone full shakespearian mode, a true mad tyrant, poisoned by his own self-aggrandizement. I'm thinking a military coup now, but a gentle one demanding fucking congress do its job and send him and his constitutional and international law wrecking crew out the door.

I've just been reading a book about John Wilkes Booth, though what made the book interesting was its central theme being a fictionalized version of the Booth family growing up, little john wilkes and the effects of the assassination on the family aftermath rather than just on the wayward son and hated president. Lincoln himself illustrates the confusion in america at the time. American history books portray him as either a saintly figure or a much-hated personality depending on which side of the mason dixon line you were on, attitudes to this day still reverberate across the political spectrum, as if both hero worship and hate travel through bloodstreams and time rather than just empty minds.

Right now, the world is in a lull, waiting for the next boot to free fall, but isn't that the way it's always been? 

The answer is Yes, if you're hesitant.

I have no insider information to convey, only the relentless, exaggerated claims of many utube podcasters and patriotic exclamations by corporate media. Blaming or defending trump, exercising free speech profanity, fostering trumps chest pounding exploits and foibles and stupidity, prognosticating his downfall doesn't move the world forward ho, at all. America is a slow wagon train going nowhere, wrapped in alcoholic, gun addicted fantasies. Yet, it's still intriguing to me how so many average, professional looking people still see him as someone to emulate and how many self-hero worshipping fools believe he isnt a true coward with an army to back him up.

At my most hopeful, I'm hoping all this will show the world how ridiculous the whole nuclear arms race has been, and how close we have come to the cliffs edge or to midnight in the apocalyptic clock. Don't get me wrong though, i don't have much faith in humanity. There're still far too many guns and missiles in the wrong hands.

The whiniest world war denial

 The whiniest world war denial ever. Since everyone is committing one war crime after another, every participant and partisan observer is calling out to the media. The international criminal court should be working overtime, but it’s understandable that in believing the SYSTEM is broken, the court could never be taken seriously again if it began taking all these claims seriously. Alas, it’s already shown, like the US Congress and public, its impotency in getting any justice for anybody, for any crimes, no matter how egregious. When was the last time any major war criminal got justice at The Hague? Everybody is a war criminal in this one. Al Jazeera though, might take the prize (and later give it to Netanyahu or Trump) for being the whineast journalism because, like everything else in this war, it’s a bit confusing who’s fighting who and who’s winning, as if we in America really care except in determining when, if, and are we winning, though not knowing what the prize will be. Al Jazeera is based in Qatar but has always been supportive of the Palestinians, pretty much like all the other Arab US friendly oil rich nations, Egypt being the primary exception. Egypt already got its bailout when the US quickly supported the military coup overthrowing the duly elected Muslim brotherhood back when the Arab Spring was crushed, albeit with US help. Saudi Arabia, our own little friendly dictatorship, arch enemy-ally wants Iran out of the oil equation. Meanwhile, the US press doesn’t know whether to take this war seriously, either it’s already over as declared by The Sheep Worrier himself, or we have to think about the how the rest of the world is suffering from the aforementioned SW’s war of choice and blackmail prevention diversions.

Unfortunately, as war crimes go, which are only a real thing if you believe in war as an art form open to critique by all those who imagine themselves historical heroes or nationalistic prudes or, or more likely, it’s  Machiavelli’s The Prince which is the best path.

Believe me when I say, this all is as old as writing, it’s all been gone over in rock hard, soft scroll, storytelling for millenium. It’s boys playing god and it should be no mystery that god is HE. God is Men, Men the bastards of the man God King.

The People, who are more of an abstraction rather than an obstruction are not able to think of themselves as anything more than sheep, perfect ploys for the Sheep Worrier, and his loyal dogs of war, greed, pestilence, and hate.

The Catholic Church once the most powerful agency in the world, much like the current US military, became, like its US military modern counterpart, the agency for slavery, genocide, religious fratricidal, matricidal, pedophilia, choosing that over the teachings of the man they claimed was God. 

The old nazi boogie men now wears a suit and tie rather than a medal infested brown shirt and suit but it’s the same old mind underneath the hairline.

Another troubling undercurrent in American media, including left wing liberal podcasting and standard media, is an undercurrent of nationalism in their reporting. This undercurrent can be stated like if Iran is winning, that can’t be tolerated, in other words, the criticism seems to be all anti Trump because he’s not winning against Iran. A sneak attack on Iran? ok, but only if you attack Iran then win. In other words, the American illusion pops up again, America should be invincible. 

Just about every illusion has been shattered in this one. Democracy, international law, universal suffrage, constitutional adherence, separation of powers, separation of church and state, all despoiled by the Sheep Worriers, Trump and Netanyahu.

But the sad thing is, everybody is going to lose something from this, most of us a little bit of our soul, the good thing though is we can covert to whatever form of Christianity it is where you can save yourself for heavens sake by repeating, forgive me, Jesus, everyday for the rest of your life. Try to be convincing.

Knock, knock, knocking on heavens door.

The poisonous Snake

 The poisonous snake only has so much venom and if it runs low and isn't effective, it is left to bluffing. Trump is like that. Poison stockpiles are not limitless and in this moment I'm curious to know more about his new bluff about Iran being decimated, obliterated and let the rest of the world go to hell, an interesting concept for any world leader. Somewhere in the snake's mind, he's being moved by money. maybe it's too early to tell, but most of the world is growing tired of his constant threats and intimidations.

One thing all this demonstrates is providing an example of the adage that most people are one paycheck away from homelessness or poverty. so, now we realize the entire world is one empty gas tank away from going nowhere. Its time to introduce the saying, "Everyone is within walking distance of everything you need." Or at least a bicycle?

When it comes to making revolution, it is simpler than most revolutionaries imagine. If oil is the problem and to a large extent it is, then bypass it. Maybe I've been watching too many u tube videos on eco-villages, eco-cooperative food production and all that semi-social(istic) living where getting the most out of living, working, and cooperating really does look idyllic as well as works.

Most of the way we humans create living areas, work areas, food production is "dinosaur thinking". It is petroleum based, heavily, more than necessary petroleum based. Hey, i understand, industrial production needs oil, but do we have to eat, drink and sleep with oil. Solar isn't going to replace oil completely and is already a problem, like oil, when it comes to waste and toxicity. So, what's wrong with bicycles, what's wrong with walking?

If wanting clean air, clean environments revs up the anti-woke in somebody enough to get in their raised four-wheel truck and drive across somebody's garden plot or nature preserve then we're stuck just trying to manage mental illness because that kind of "simple" anger is so prevalent in everyday life AND is not a good sign.

Lies and Truths or the Lie that Keeps on Giving

 Besides the lie that now everyone accepts, the lie that Iraq had a nuclear weapon, or wanted one, or would use one if it did have one, etc, there's a bigger lie, or maybe truth, that the two main outlaw nations today, the US and Israel have the same "destiny' or "god given instruction" to go out and whether by destruction or corruption, fulfill some sort of prophecy or extraterrestrial fate.

To divide, conquer, separate, isolate in order to fulfill this self mandated destiny.

The lie is that this is the truth and the truth is that this is a lie.

Israel believes it is driven by gods command and the US is driven by Gods Will. I'd compare these two rogue states to ISIS or Al Quada or any other religio-cultural fixation on "wiping the earth of imperfection."

There hasnt been enough study on the ways of sheep, perhaps the most domicile of creatures, used for sacrifice and mutton, controlled by the best Blue Heelers, sometimes called  "sheep worriers. Thats all thats needed, put the sheep out to graze, get the sheep worrier, and let fear do the rest. Human sheep are, of course, more inventive, they have alot more paths to anxiety.