COUNTDOWN TO POVERTY

BUT FIRST THE MEANS TO SOLIDIFYING THE PRIMARY PYRAMID SCHEME MUST BE SET

THE WAIT IS ON!

WHAT WILL THAT EVENT BE, the one that turns the tide solidly to the might makes right, right wing? The Iran angle setting up just in time to peak at elections?

Conservatism may be as impoverished a philosophy as ever, being that it has a chronically dysfunctional take on current events, and what are the rights and responsibilities of a whole free people. That inbred ideology of exclusion may have backfired and created the illusion, that power moves by the right wing are on the wane, since the exposure of blatant cronyism, incompetence and corruption. But are they?

Here is a Truthout.com link to an article on the fall of conservatism.

Noteworthy in this argument, is a paragraph about a third of the ways in, that describes the acts of Dick Cheney hours after the Florida recount boat was sunk, and democracy overthrown.– The plans to divide America and the world in two.

• The Fall of Conservatism

  by: George Packer, The New Yorker

What is not said in regards to the upcoming election is; to what lengths will the neocon agenda go to insure their perpetuation into the future? And just who will prevent the next run up to war, or the occurrence of another reactionary driven event, that will scare We the People into knee jerk like conformity, bowing to the jingoist mentalities and war worshiping that come to idle before the public consciousness?

The plundering of the Great American Commons continues unabated, by the philosophy that only corporations or “free” entrepreneurs have the right to raise prices to cover their cost, while the rest of us are left like the residents of New Orleans 9th Ward. “Should have lived somewhere else. Should have been prepared. Should have had some sense. Should of had 5 million dollars. Should have been born into one of those rich families with the welfare for them state and lovely compound by the sea.” Inflation and job income reduction are siphoning away the dollars purchasing power, and how much access to it one has. I’m sure the rich and powerful feel the empathetic pain of those living paycheck to paycheck–not.

BLAME THE AMERICAN POOR FIRST CONSERVATIVES

These blame the unprepared individual conceptions, are the contrapuntal notions sifted out to settle on public consciousness, when the reality that society has been engineered to provide freedom of access to the wealthy above all else, is considered “class warfare” talk. It has been estimated that you will need, currently, one million dollars to retire “comfortably”. How much preparation will any of us have had when gas gets to $5, then $10 a gallon? Everything will cost much more (already is!). Unfortunately, this is what often motivates empire imperialism to war.

Hey, don’t you want the benefits of taking stuff away from others, otherwise once called booty or plunder? We are currently living “high off the hog” from the efforts of near slave labor in China and other places, that is disguising our national decline with a national worldwide credit card. All while producing a lifestyle that is condemning the environment to collapse. Breaking the “Golden Rule” makes for tangible short term gain. But what of the future? The “blowback”? Don’t worry. Conservatives will find someone else to blame as always. They cannot help it! That is what cognitive dissonance will do for you.

The people of the USA, as well as the world, need to have a very long talk, just to start the coordination needed to handle upcoming events. Most conservatism is shooting the present and the future in the foot with delusions of grandeur about the past. And some of them are counting on annihilating one another. Too bad if we all are caught in the crossfire.

A country of, for, and by the people?

Who is the butt of that joke?

Guess who has been under attack all along?

RUNNING OR RUINING THE WORLD

We have learned

that anyone can do it

anyone can play the puppet

I could speak off the teleprompters

repeating over and over, and over

just like old George Orwell said

I could scare the masses silly

making them dumbfounded

ready made for deception

change words meanings

it is what we have seen

what has come to be

my friends could get

incredibly wealthy

they would owe me

that is what nepotism

and our despotism

are always about

it could be me

or you siphoning

off of life’s energy

forcing our own will

upon if we are willing

to toss it all away

on sure delusion

and each dollar

like Orwell said

scare them good

good and stupefied

then tell them straight

whomever disagrees

is a liar or a traitor

misguided fringe

a seditious element

to be hounded down

by sycophants and bias

along with each freedom

then marginalize them

make them look nutty

you know it, ridicule

conservatism’s slave

tempting our hubris

now you own normal

the machinery is set up

to change the votes

to lose the trail

to tell the tale

only from our

point of view

now truth is bias

the hint will be

gotten inside out

the threat to freedom

bend it wide to oblivion

for it is we the doer’s

who own all Creation

having taken it away

right from under

the Almighty’s nose

if we ruin this world

running it ragged

using it all up

spitting it out

the public kept

deaf and dumb

so! what!

we have lived glory

been followed as gods

bowed to by believers

owned others wills

in the good life

we have taken

advantage

of all life

have taken

its very soul

consumed it

without a fear

for any one

or any thing

to stop us

anyone

could do it

we have seen it

the ungodly exchange

in our night of fear;

blood is cheaper

than oil.

BIG BAD POST ON FICTIONAL CRITIQUE OF CONSERVATISM

IN RESPONSE TO CONSERVATISM’S CONSTANT DESIGNING OF THE FACTS TO SUIT STATUS HIERARCHIES AND SKEWED BELIEF SYSTEM IDENTITIES, AND ITS CONCERTED OPPROBRIUM TOWARDS ANYTHING LIBERAL, COMES…

(And to follow the beginnings of the book, two shorter middle sections before second half, which is not posted.)

INTRODUCTION

On September 11, 2001, I decided I must write something from my life experiences to expose the hypocrisy and double standards of conservatism. I was flooded with the ‘get to it’ impulse, get to setting the record straight to a planet in denial. The actions of yet another reactionary group slaughtering unsuspecting innocent people was the final straw for a simmering desire I had long been nurturing. I had been by the Trade Center 8 days before, and my best friend the day before. I knew people who walked home from midtown in the dust and ash of lives vanished, martyred for conservative certainties of another belief system.

In my own country, the United States of America, I had experienced the choke-hold conservatism has had on my own life, and seen its effects on others. On top of that, for a long time now, hearing the endless excuses for reactionary behavior masquerading as patriotism, or spiritual conviction, when in fact it was the excuse for escape from our collective realities and responsibilities that necessitate compassion and understanding, made my spirit insist enough was enough.

From my first grade parochial school class of 63 students in one room; to the Vietnam war draft where democracy and freedom were nonexistent to the draftee; to the social neglect of not having parents, with not family, community nor state providing any guidance; to living with chronic tooth pain and social withdrawal; to the work world experience of social-economic inequality; to the mine fields of the “battle of the sexes”; to the retrogression of the fourth estate into a childish form of ‘presented’ information on training wheels guided by manipulative interest; to the promise that I was told the United States stood for and fought for.

The real truth of that elevated promise was obviously broken, broken and made into a big hollow wooden horse pushed through the gates of that American once authentic Spirit, to instead further opportunistic advantage. A Trojan Horse packed to the rafters with predators. Predators who see a certain advantage to themselves in perpetuation conservatism’s conformist ideologies, that allow them to seem human, but others to seem less, and so deserve treatment as such.

THE RISE OF THE FALL

The noisy American conservatives, the ad hominem conservatives, had grown more bold since rebounding from Mc Carthyist shame. It is as if there was enough decency and critical thinking ability still around at that time, to regain the political landscape from the fear mongers, to a least stand up for the promise of a free and diverse America.

But that venom simmered, fermenting in the moist caverns of conservative ideologies, came out of its perfect circular reasoning hole to stalk the land, a serpent looking for new plots to meander in. It found the slippery silk spun world of “wedge issues” to bind individual identities to political interest, numbing the followers to the actual machinations of those interest. Things like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, for one example) under these conservatives would have the wolves guarding the hen-house; the polluting interest having oversight over; pollution!

As an open minded person, willing to allow the benefit of doubt in argument to shatter my own beliefs in order to live by a higher order of truth, the right wing ranting and raving always seemed obviously sinister, but stupid in its blindness and conceit. Yet in its inbred philosophy, laughable and perhaps worse yet; understandable in prideful arrogance and hubris. When those fanatics put on the suit and ties of church and state, then go about remaking those structures of society and state into their own image, the comedy show is over.

This method of denial applies at times to the left wing as well. Aspects of the so called left, can have no sympathy or understanding for the insecurities that drive the wealthy and powerful to strangle themselves along with the culture. Ignorance is the breeding ground of hate and illusion. These deceptions of reactive point of view can fester, leading to gangrene of the heart, when ones own spirit is cut off from the Whole of Life.

WHEN 19 LOSERS DECIDE AMERICAS PATH

It was what it was; it was simple emotional poisoning, it was not objectively questioning, it was shaming and damning the other sides with the false purity of absolutes. At what horrible cost to humankind had the poison of ideologies drugged their users into blindness of spirit? Actually killing innocent people to proclaim the power over an others symbols, conceived in the attackers convoluted perception as a noble deed. Conservatism offered fighting hate with hate, a recipe for one thing to perpetuate–hate.

It is this reactionary view called conservatism, that puts insecurity safely at the center of ones heart. Hence the external test of apparent bent over “loyalty”; flags, pledges, prayer demonstrations, parades of conformist no thinking required buzz words and symbols, all meant to assuage the fear of otherness. That core of now self imposed darkness that nest in the conservatives superior delusions of idea based self grandeur.

These delusions forbid questions, especially of context, they refuse introspection as to responsibilities of the conservatives own actions. Precisely why they are always wishing or whining about everyone who thinks differently, not holding up their side of a Faustian bargain with ignorance. Facts are often the conservatives worst nightmare. Ideologies build the walls to keep input of differing perspective, or even grievance, out of the conservatives sense of self responsibility, including liberals whose own beliefs have atrophied into stone coldness.

During the Clinton administration, you could observe the ad hominem machinery of hate and loathing gaining more respect through control of media access and repetition. The 2000 election represented the overthrow of that promise of what America had stood for, the exception becoming, that that freedom was stolen to elite’s who use their advantage over the many, binding to their privilege, the “We the People”. Media consolidation is a noose around democracies neck, slid over it by corporatist seeking domination.

FREEDOM IS ABOUT THE TRUTH!

In this one most important sense of a true democracy, the Will of the People, I did not care who won that election in 2000, only that they had won fair and square. I was outraged when Dems. even suggested restricting overseas military voting for some suspicion, only to find much later, the Repubs. did restrict the newly enlisted and possibly more liberal votes from the same source they were raising hell about over the Dems. On that fact, “We the People”, our nation and heritage, was blatantly betrayed. But what could one person do when the institutions set up to defend our rights had gone AWOL, inebriate with the same anesthesia polluting the body politic? Our fate now in the possession of institutions both corrupt and afraid in the land of the free and home of the brave.

There was also the sense that We the People were running out of time to continue that endeavor to “form a more perfect union”. George Orwell’s 1984 was seeming to manifest its characteristics through many conservative channels. Words and concepts being construed to mean their polar opposite, their anti-spirit. The entertainment news channels had been declaring America had shifted surely to the right, and other so called “MSM” (the “wise” conservatives illusionary liberal Main Stream Media) assumed the same, beginning to find and load the tables with status quo conservative pundit sycophants and “patriotic” jingoist. While basic poll data of citizen values were quite solidly liberal by definition. The grand liberal messages of the Bible, the US Constitution and Bill of Rights were being so conditionalized by language, truncated to serve various power interest in our society, that these promises to all were being denied by the few, as they seemingly have the resources to endlessly try to convince us otherwise through a Russian Roulette of propagandized definition.

On that September 11th day, my life became the basic source material for this reply. Not driven by insights from some book or ideological conviction, but mainly the experience of my own life; how an individual is manipulated by institutions, situational emotional declarations of truth without proof, and other “authorities” in life.

Whether those steering with their directive intentions were for good or ill, in effect, became of paramount importance. The old existential position of apathy; “It’s all the same, nothing changes, and so it doesn’t matter what I do.”, was put to shame by the power of one individual (or tiny group) to be hero or villain to the entire world. Ideas themselves, become the messengers of bias, a bias often not accepted or acknowledged by the one holding that slanted premise as fact. The public seems purposely left adrift on a life raft on a sea of abstractions, becoming dependent on the ship that comes up and throws down the ladder. It seeming to have good food on board according to the words over the nutrients.

RIGHT FROM LIFE

The results of my personal inquiry were to speak for themselves through one individuals lens. All that any of us ultimately have to determine what our authentic nature actually is, as contrasted to the entire world who will tell you their own opinion of who or what you are. Those opinions are to be used as a type of check and balance to ones own perspective, helping the individual to determine the reality of the apparent effects of their presence in the world. We experience that truth by honing our own lens with critical thinking applied not only to the outer world of apparent external influence, but also the inner world of ones own beliefs and judgment. One is only able to see clearly through this crystal ball when that prism is seen for what it is. This is an ongoing commission I have received from my life’s story.

From the viewpoint of my own life, status quo power interest have a constant and overwhelming advantage in the modern world to bind the individual to their interest, making the powerful interest appear as the individuals own (dependency-addiction). To counteract the relentless demonization of liberal open-mindedness and tolerance for difference, a complete table turning was in order. As I set up to expose reactionary concepts and self imagery, it became shockingly clear how simple it was to put the shoe on the other foot. The story to follow is that exploration into the world of contradiction between liberal and conservative philosophical parameters. The consequences of their effects pertain to all existence in ones experience of consciousness; to love and hate, to life and death, to an honest life.

(Introducing)

A Prospect for a New American Cosmology

A scenario employing the lexicon of ‘right wing’ circular logic thought matrices extrapolated to a conclusion.

1

LET THE EVENING BEGIN

We were shown to our seats as if at some play. After a few minutes the lights went out. There we were in the dark, waiting on what?

Footsteps are heard quickly coming down the aisle. How could that be in this blackness? Someone must be wearing infrared eye wear. Can’t make out those words, but it seems somebody is being removed from the auditorium. Wow! That was an unsettling experience for one sitting here in the null and void.

I had received an e-mail, a letter and a phone call to confirm my attendance at this alleged unprecedented event, said to be a historical rendering of the current situation in America and the world. I suddenly wondered what I had really gotten myself into.

You could make out something appearing on stage to the back. Colors, familiar and swishing, its the American flag, becoming bright and beautiful, it fades out a bit, and then our presidents face appears smiling in front of the flag. Less than 30 seconds later appears his wife, slightly behind him, smiling the same.

The closed news conference was a bizarre setting. A few dozen of us reporters, sat up front beneath a podium, in an otherwise dark, cavernous hall. A huge monitor stretched from wall to wall above us to the back of the stage, beaming the president and first ladies smiling faces, lending a peaceful air. As if in living glory, a diaphanous US flag waved ethereal goodness in the mist around them.

The Vice President came smiling to the front stage podium to forward this announcement;

“A Bright Star has risen over America, an Angel to guide our nation through these confusing and troubled times.”

Then he presaged; “Any comments about a fallen angel or thought control will be met with the image of me leaving the church smiling on Sunday morning, denouncing those speculations as the ‘crackpot fringe.’

Remember, it is the image that counts, that speaks a thousand words into the heart of the viewer. That image will rule the day. By our direction, with our spin, our web will tie up those who disagree with us. “Bias is believed to be extrinsic to the beliefs of its originator. Emotional judgment seems to be true. There is MY wedge into humankind.”, according to our Angel. Believe me, We are in charge of manipulation. Trouble us to you peril, is my friendly advice.

Life is about opportunity; opportunism, survival of the fittest, the rest is of little consequence. Our Angel says Darwin was right, it’s all about survival. Warfare, competitive sports, all competition seeking dominance, is the American Way, the way of the winner.

The meek? Well, they are failures in every respect, comfortable with being unwanted children of the welfare state. They do, and will inherit nothing but the serfdom they have coming to them. Their G– be damned! And as you will come to see, the vast majority of the American people will support us on this proposition; to do whatever it takes to restore peace and prosperity to our nation. Only enemies of the United States would wish otherwise.”

THE RNS (Real News Service)
@1492 Zulu time

“You all have been invited here to be given an opportunity to get on track with the future, which any responsible journalist should welcome.” Said our newest Secretary for Homebase Security, Joe Ridgedland.

“Tonight is an evening of clarification, a night of coming clean to you who would chose to observe and report on our doings. You will be let in on our little secrets, and for that honor, you will be required to keep your opinions to yourself. We will be defining what our national interest are, and what is required of each individual to fulfill the intention of those commissions.

To that end, we are letting you know that you are not above those interest. You do not live in some perpetually privileged state where we will allow you to undermine our determination to overcome any and all adversaries. You will be held accountable for violating this trust we must expect from you. We have the will and the ability to have your life and carrier go down hill, as if by magic, if you work to undermine our desires. Think about it folks. Your spouse, your children, your life, it will all begin to unravel with your sinking spirit. This is your future, should you decide to work against us. You can take that to the bank!

We are not like some countries that can be intimidated any longer to vote for the wrong people. Americans are too wise to be manipulated by terrorist no matter who they are! You know that is true.”, said Ridgedland.

“Some people will stop at nothing to attempt to weave a blanket of fabrication, allegation and innuendo around this administration, but America will not be intimidated. We will do whatever it takes to stop biased, undermining comments, and their evil intent, from ever seeing the light of day. To criticize us is to criticize our war on terror, that is unacceptable. The American people are with us on this.” He said.

2
Now for the rest of the lesson we were given.

Pointing to the fact that studies have shown that approximately 70% of any given population will support authority figures under fearful times of stress, the Secretary professed;

“The American people want us to do what it takes to protect them. It is a survival thing! Think of the implications of that commission. You can see clearly how fear and stress work in our favor, we can do anything in fears name, while our leaders remain, by fearful good will, mistake free. Doing something is what counts, no matter how wise or ill conceived. Fear gives us this immunity from critique under the umbrella of “what it takes”. It is the penultimate straw. You have to trust us.

We are given a blank check all thanks to this fear. If what it takes requires stopping free elections, it will be done, was done. If what it takes requires suspension of the free press, it will be done. If what it takes requires stopping critical thinking, it will be done, or freedom of speech, it will be squashed on earth as it is in heaven. Anyway, we really do not have those things you know, since they are relative in fundamental ways to income level, well, except to a certain degree thinking. And May I repeat, the American people are with me on this.

We have carte blanche for our crusade on terror. Are you still with me? If we need our people to believe one person is another, no problem, that is patriotism! 70% are set up psychologically to go along with the direction of deception. You must follow your leader anywhere, no matter what. It is an axiom of status. It’s beautiful! The truth is what we say it is, due to the leverage of fear. Go against that word of ours and what you do is go against your God and country, as defined by those who have access. Can you see the opportunity this situation opens up for us? Do you think in your wildest dreams we would let it slip by?

We are redefining exactly Who God is in the philosophical underpinnings of our nation. Through the reconfiguration of belief system tenets, we are redesigning the world into the image of our desires. We do this for American supremacy. History has shown us that the trust and insecurity issues around the belief in God are the single most powerful motivation for individuals to do things against their nature. Symbols are magically powerful control mechanisms! They become a question of ones honor, and that is powerful! By rectifying the operational concept of God, we create an opening in the public for the acceptance of once unacceptable spiritual implications.

We have associated the idea of God with a new, more broad-based revanchist definition suitable to a clash of cultures all under fears guidance and control. We are on a crusade to get back our culture form the liberals and their God, after we convince the public they have had it taken away by those influences, but the God we will re-conceive more delicately, as to not startle the nation. We are blessed with opportunism to achieve this designer democracy that gives us power over the people. Believe me. It is relatively simple, thanks to fear, to keep a carrot dangled in front of our hungry conservative followers.

This opportunity is one we cannot afford to pass by, now that the means to our ends is so close to fruition. The new battle field is over the soul, and in this endeavor we will not fail, our way of life depends on it. And so, metaphorically speaking, whatever it takes to apprehend or in any way cease and desist this Old God character will be done. We have the right of imperium. We cannot have Him, or It, or whatever It is threatening our national interest. Remember, it is that Old God who threatens people out of the blue with vicious, heinous terror tactics. He will unmercifully kill you in the end! America stands for democracy and freedom and unbridled opportunity, God does not. God runs a universal dictatorship which is incompatible with our democratic, Christian freedom loving values. For this reason we are now aligned with our Angel Lucifer, a real Ally who shares more of our American values and way of life, the ways of success.”

(and then the book takes off. So to speak.)

DEMOCRACY; LIBERALISM, CONSERVATISM AND DEBATE

AN OCOTILLO CACTUS ON A MONSOON SEASON DAY

ARE HUMAN ADVANCES, SUCH AS THE LONG MARCH TO INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY, (THAT CURRENTLY LETS US DISCUSS POLITICS, RELIGION, AND SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC THEORY AND REALITIES) HAVE THESE CHERISHED LIBERAL VALUES JUST COME FROM MAKING NICE?

I like the cactus, its often lovely flowers, as a red-orange flame on top. It exist in this harsh desert environment, partly because of its thorns. Thorns of a sort protects most water caring individual cactus, from being plundered to death and extinction. Most all cactus fruit are edible

The current allegedly endless war on terror, is said to be necessary by conservatives of a sorts, because our opponents wish to plunder us and do away with such liberalism’s we enjoy. To do this endless job, we need, the argument goes, to draw back our freedoms (to defend them) and retreat into a quasi authoritarian state. Limit our freedoms, put them into conservative ideological hands, to save them from the enemy that hates them.

Liberals and libertarians who suggest that this is throwing the baby out with the bath-water are called terrorist appeasers. The most popular analogy conservatives of the pre-emptive force type offer, is how certain historical figures did not oppose the Nazis as they rose to power. Point taken, but taken to where?

NAZIS AS TAG FRAME

The Nazis used this very reasoning; developing a superiority complex ideology, targeting Jews and many others as the devil (evil), then pre-emptively attacking all who oppose them. But here comes my real point about points on cactus or bayonets.

The values we cherish under the umbrella of freedom, were not handed to us through history by the good will of the Hitlers, Stalin’s, or Mao’s of this world. They had to be convinced we would not forever live under authoritarian tyranny. Most all of us have some ancestor or know of someone who is putting down their lives to stand against the will of one, by living as a thorn for the will of all.

Forces in the world that control social and economic interest, are attempting to place their own barbs, on challenge to their sometimes invisibly imposed authority. They wish, for whatever reason, to hoard life to themselves. They are reactionary in that respect, against the will of the whole, against the liberalism of Christ, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. They count on us to be spineless; to be pointless, to meander in a make nice mentality, where our own fear of defending freedom and self responsibility, for the illusion of stability, surrenders it.

OF THORNS AND FLOWERS

Vibrant democracy, as vibrant discourse, can handle strong emotion. Freedom requires both expression of idea and need, and the will to keep it in the face or eroding “reasons”, that will leave a canyon between various aspects of the whole population.

Some may wish to live in a cult like atmosphere where no-one expresses their fears; where no-one shouts; I am hurt!; where no-one says you are taking from me and denying it by words and deed. The far rights vitriolic fear machine has many crouched in a corner, fearing a conflict if they stand up for truth and justice, or just a different point of view to theirs. They have done this even to the point of threatening to send their own private army to your door, oh dissenting one.

I can see the feeling to avoid conflict. Many of us would rather live in peace than conflict. I certainly would, but not by ignoring the truth that I know and must express freely. Many, as Hitler rose to power; thought their friends and neighbors would surely not turn against them. But many, by fears manipulation to survival, did.

I hardly believe freedom and responsibility are achieved and preserved without strong emotion. I see no evidence of this but in cults. Where the surrender of ones own will to the cults figure head, can hardly be called freedom or responsibility in any honest frame of reference. Democracy and freedom require vibrant debate, but they also then require extended respect, not threats to ones own freedom to express.

IDEOLOGICAL CIRCLE SIMILARITY

The far left and the far right end up at the same place–pre-emptive attack on the whole to preserve their ideological purity. Big idea differences but hardly any difference in behavior. Harm becomes a “good” to place on those other than yourself and tribe identity.

I am OK with those who sit out the pointed needs of our collective freedoms and responsibilities because they cannot take (or reject) the occasional pin point to their ego or identity. They are either ruled by fear, or absolute Good.  And who am I to decide.

But those of us who debate and show some underlying respect; that we allow differing ideals, ideas and opinion, that we, as they once said; “I disagree with you to the core, but will give my life to defend your freedom to express your beliefs.” If this be our stance, then we will maintain democracies blessing. But if out of fear we say; “Sure. Take it all a way. Just leave me safe.” Then democracy will be taken down in the desert of humankind’s opportunist ability to be, cruel and unjust.

I live for the day humankind puts understanding before fear, places compassion and empathy before insecurity interest. But until that day of love and peace flowers, as it one day must if we are to survive, its fruits will not be known unless the path to understanding remains protected.

BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID, BE EVEN MORE AFRAID THAN THAT!

THE BUGGY-MAN IS POWERFUL

DEATH AND TAXES; they are said to be inevitable, or sure things. How wonderful a delusion to think we can do without them. Just the promise of conservatism’s new (same old) presidential strategy. Be afraid! If the liberals do not tax you to death, they will let the terrorist in to finish you off.

The brainwashing must continue!

We need scrupulous oversight of governmental spending, absolutely, but since we share a world and nation, we must take care of things. Eliminating “Big Government” is a great shell game for the rich and entitled. Pork and bridges to nowhere, as well as wars that cannot be won by force, are a two faced hallmark of their control of all branches of government.

They know the common things must be taken care of or we revert to a barbaric feudal society. They are disingenuous fear mongers, with wedge issues and media manipulators paid to defeat the republics perception of accurate truth. With media consolidation and elections many ways of being interfered with, they are still going to be on their way to creating that one party, Orwellian state they mimic so eerily.

Fear seems to be the key.

Fear of the other guy, with no responsibility for yourself–the conservative cognitive dissonant mandate mindset (implied ideological purity). Explains well how any problem under their watch is automatically called someone elses act of irresponsibility, SINCE PURITY OF AN IDEA HELD TRUE, CANNOT THEN SEEM TO BE IN ERROR! Even though our land was attacked on their watch while they were diminishing the funding of the war on terror; Oh! It is what the dems. will bring upon you! Vote for them and die!

Fear is the key. The tax man takes your freedom away! Fear of not enough to make ends or dreams meet. There’s a no brain-er, as they say, since it is set up that most of us could aways use more money. Vote for them dems. and you’ll be pilfered to death! The repetitions of these common tags to frame our minds into mind fields of deception are flying out of the right wing side of some mouths non stop on the Internet, talk radio, and most cable news shows.

Who just ran up record deficits? Who was quite as a mouse about their parties plundering of the future in fears name (except Ron Paul)? Who is waisting down a hole, more of our would have been future investments than anyone? Who adds those huge taxes (I mean windfall profits), onto oil every-time someone Big somewhere sneezes? Then keeps the tax flowing in to them when they are well again! It is called conditioning. Soon things seem from one angle, unchangeable.

How about built in obsolescence? What do you know of that as a corporate tax on you? How many years have you worked (as a slave for someone in effect) just to pay for replacing poorly made goods? I remember how towns would go up in arms at a half cent city tax on gas just to get some common need covered. On comes the conservative mantras outcry! Off with the heads of the tax and spend liberals-socialist agenda! Oh how they can keep us all as; “Suckers!” Mr. religious President called his evangelical necessities for his election “Wackos”.

Now it is a catch twenty two thousand ways to be tricked, deceived by language, be hunted by the deception that keeps its arrows in you, only to have it offered again as the answer! And, so many buy that slapping of the tax hand in their pocket, while there are 3 hands in the others getting away with so much more.

We could call this last administration; 1,000 and 1 ways to fool your supporters right under their upturned noses. There is a certain understandable reason to living under deception; that you would logically see the truth (being contradictory), as itself, a deception.

Sure I am harsh here.

Conservative delusions of grandeur are sinking the planet and humankind’s chances for survival. Someone should speak up, before their clash of civilizations prophesy gains an unavoidable compulsion to a self fulfilling reality. Many are speaking up, but you can be sure more than death and taxes, that the predators of and on democracy, are stoking their coals.

Conservatism is a built in breeding ground for insecurity, fear, control and manipulation. That is why they are developing that cult like list of buzz words and notions that candidates are to sign off on or be labeled traitors, or worse; dem. terrorist enablers. If you think those new conservatives for hire are our freedoms defenders. That turnip truck needs some gas, cause you are going places. With the back gate of common good, pulled out. Hold on!

KNOCK. KNOCK.

Who’s where?

Get real over who is in whose interest, and who is actually undermining whom, and where your government is going and why.

Why?

Cause the conservative party of pillagers (and some dem, enablers) are the last to be believed in any word they utter. This has proved so consistent a need of theirs; to deceive enough voters to keep true democracy in chains, it can be called; The First Law of Conservative Privilege Maintenance of the Oligarchy.

It would be nice if they at least delivered something real as promised to the mass of those they seduce. They do in a way that is intended,–fear, framed on their target audience.
BE AFRAID.

MIGHT HAVE A POINT FOR YOU AND I.

WHAT WE DON’T KNOW CAN HURT US;

AND DOES.

WHEN LIFE BECOMES PROBLEMATIC

There is that illusion in youth that one is immortal if healthy. Years take an eternity to go by. I remember once hearing a boy say, his friend with him is an old friend of his; they knew each other 9 months.

We stretch our limits physically; how fast can I run, jump, climb, at least many boys do. Girls have some of their own physical feats; sometimes like the boys, or other games, jump-rope, hop-scotch(?), even tumbling and other daring doo’s, that boys might rather not be “shown up” at.

I first hurt my neck when 5 or so, secretly. When 16, I was knocked out after catching a football in a parking lot. I went over the roof of a car and landed on my head. Being “out” was curious, being that I was in a black void, wondering how I find myself, looking for my senses. There was nothing but a desperate search. Things started to turn on in strange ways, hearing in color, until everything snapped into place and you could use your muscles.

I first hurt my lower back when diving off of a high dive while I was recovering from “walking pneumonia”. It was a bad choice to go to that pool, but my older cousin invited me and I hardly ever went anywhere for fun. I loved bounding off the end of the board as high as I could.

In my early twenties was the first time my lower back “snapped” when I picked up a dropped fork, (after the prior days digging up and turning over of the whole back yard in California, huge clay chunks, some prob. one and one half by two feet thick), leaving me with those ten days of no improvement, can not lift much of anything. It is a struggle to get out of bed, then have to walk like a stick not allowing any leaning forward or backwards, or sideways.

In about 3 weeks I was back to normal, but never the same, since that crippling extreme has happened half a dozen times in my life fully, and dozens more in a milder one week recovery way. Now I can usually tell how I get into this situation and try to stop what I am doing before that. That is then only a day or two of back swelling, sweating, or stiffness. Unfortunately, the neck and lower back are connected. I most always have to not bend my head when getting into cars, or the lower back might pop.

Later in life, I went on to work in construction. sometimes doing strange stunts like carrying a five eighths thick four by twelve foot sheet of sheet-rock balanced on the middle of my head to install it up on scaffolds onto a businesses ceiling. What a pain; balancing, aligning to edges, trying to use a hand to put a screw, or start a nail with.

I did this once to get our half hour lunch ended, since no “boss” was there and guys were still talking 40 min later, lounging on the floor. I was hired to work as I promised, so I did. Usually that would wake the others up from their mid day vacation. That is how I have been; I will sacrifice myself to achieve some promised ends in the face of difficulty, even if others sit by watching.

In my late thirties, as the main “clerk” in a huge warehouse in Tucson, I might lift and carry from 50,000 to 100,000 lbs. of boxed cotton goods (boxes often 80-115lbs) in one not so unusual day. All for about 1 dollar over minimum wage. My back went out once big time there. I told the manager, who then put me on another detail. I could feel my back leaking inside. In about an hour I could not hold my hands up in front of me without extreme pain. That started a 3 week no party of a vacation.

By my mid fifties; carrying a three quarter inch think sheet of MDF board (4′-8′) on my head to get it into my narrow trucks camper top and gate opening got more and more difficult. After several of these my neck seems no longer what it was. Now I cannot use it at all for a prop post.

Moral of the story being that; depending on use, some parts of your body can suffer from experiences at an early age, or leave you with a surprise chronic pain later. In case all you athletes thinking the possible thrilling abuse will not be met again later as the aging surprise. Surprise! There are birthday surprises that may be coming to a body near you. A gift that keeps on giving.

HARD WORK AND ITS SACRIFICE FOR ALL

Throughout the culture we have some people using muscle and or being in positions that will have them regretting it later, but for many, that job was what they could get, and they might even become loyal to it, to their later detriment. The culture requires this work to be done.

These people may not have the ability to pay for health care. If you do not believe society (which depends for its existence on these people just as if they were the military) if you do not believe society owes them the decency for their service and sacrifice to it. Well you might be considered one off those heartless Darwinian conservatives, that are enlisted into Pavlovian response come election time, to blame the physical effects on the decisions of the one who sacrificed themselves; because it was their choice! Not only that. But why should I then offer anything to those suffering individuals since I knew better; was hereditary endowed (physically or monetarily), avoided hard work or difficult military service. We see this, the proud and righteous anti tax perception, promoted by predatory opportunist, as a moral value in the society. Down with the Nanny State!

This is an example how the greediness endemic to the alienated-separated individual, can be used to pivot their perception from full life connection, to defending oneself from responsibility to the whole. If one is kept in the perception of economic stress and or ego non accountability to other parts of society, which constitute the whole, I can think I am standing up for moral self accountability BY NOT ACKNOWLEDGING OR RETURNING THE SACRIFICE OTHERS HAVE GIVEN FOR MY OWN VERY LIFESTYLE AND PRIVILEGE TO BE PROTECTED AND CARED FOR IN THIS COUNTRY.

Imagine it. Conservative pundits right now as I type, are well paid to tell society that those homeless (yes, even from the military) living under bridges or a box in the alley, are mentally unfit and so beyond our province to help. That is the conservatives own mental illness of separation, often disguised as pride and moral, even spiritual superiority, to help shove someones life out of sight and out of mind. Their consciousness of the whole that is; amputated.

But this was to be a note on my life from yesterdays travels.

I avoid going to dentist and doctors, so yesterday was a special treat to see both.

Now from the doctor, I must make appointments for three specialist in differing fields. Isn’t that special. I also have another filling gone bad and have an appointment for that one. I did not know I was going to be getting x-rayed yesterday, so that was another surprise for the pocket book.

Gem Show

The tiny bit of the Tucson Gem and Mineral and Everything else Show one can see in two hours, was interesting in that there are many new kinds of stone and craft work suddenly all over, with an increasing shift, where I was at, towards Asian items.

Poetry

The poetry reading was fun. I read the poems I have put on this site, which are in some strange ways different than my usual. I just write them and post them, sometimes going back and finding mistakes or awkwardness from the process of hurrying things on-line, or speaking to interest of my concept of who is writing poetry in general on my tags. Live and learn. That is what I have heard.

There were quite a number of newcomers to that reading, all seniors. Every writer is distinctly different. I sometimes enjoy particularly the straight forward from life ones from someones past, telling of some slice of life impression, fond or difficult memory. No fancy razzle dazzle word usage, just insight. Which is just so very much; a whole lot!

It is warming up an I am contemplating making a longer and less high dam on that small stream I mentioned many post back. The one with the one dam I already made last week. I often have to judge the price I will pay for lifting 94 pound bags of cement then walking sideways downhill with them. Plus all the mixing and shoveling.

Sometimes if a thing is to ever get done, you just go up to it, and do it.

From the nations last line.

Benafia

DO NOT VOTE FOR ME OR THE COUNTY WILL BE IN RUIN

I’d like to see someone actually try running on this as a platform. That way they would not be opposed. I mean, their opponents would be at a loss for words. For instance, no one could say later; I told you so. While they probably will if anyone else won.

This political season both parties had “extremist” running that were probably more near what most of the population would agree with. As if by magic, they become excluded, and it is the case this season, even if they are polling better than the acceptable candidates. Makes you wonder who really pulls the strings.

We will not be shown the long distance realities. We will hear one party is better at defending the nation, without ever having the long distance reality check. Another will be called the party of the people or the working people, yet no matter who is in power, the tax burden, over histories arch, continues to be shifted from those who benefit big from American freedoms, to those who struggle to make ends meet, or work paycheck to paycheck.

I heard a speech from a conservative well known think tank a few years back, where the guy speaking indicated that we would need a pool of angry people indefinitely to make sure we have the right stuff to fill our military ranks. Subjectively speaking, this person looked exceedingly like what one would label as nerdy. He was a thinker, but it seems to be true, many of our nations protectors currently do come from poor backgrounds, where an income or the prospect of education, along with a noble role in the nation, prompted them to join up. This scenario is patently exploitative; we need angry people, angry enough to kill.

At 9-11, 2001, I had been near the World Trade Center just a week before. I picked up a friend at a local airport who went by them two days before to get on the Staten Island Ferry. I remember looking at the skies that night, 9-10, and wondering what tomorrow would bring. Where the world was headed.

While I was in Manhattan for several weeks before, I would get some rest (from working on an apartment) by sitting on benches with my partner on Broadway in the Upper West Side. I told her planes flying so low were bothering me. It seemed like an accident waiting to happen. They now seemed to fly diagonally across Manhattan when before they always seemed to go parallel down the Hudson, which I was near. Others probably went down the East River. Of my many visits, air traffic control seemed to have changed, or I was picking up on something.

As I left for LaGuardia in a cab, I looked out the window at all the huge urban area, all the water that went around it and thought; This place is so vulnerable. I felt ominously uncomfortable about it( as I recall the water access particularly aided this negativity). The next day after my partner returned, her daughter called us and said something was happening. I turned on the TV. I could see one tower was smoking.

When I (the only time I did) predicted a tornado to someone, one hit that spot less than an hour latter. The thing is; when I predicted it, one was hitting another high school at that very time. I lean to the idea that inner dimensions continue to connect everything that is, and at times we are sensitive, probably because of our proclivities in that area, to connecting for a moment. I have had countless psychic experiences to confirm that we do connect to one another somehow, sometimes.

I greatly digressed from the election notion for commotion. Gulp!

It amazes me to hear some political commentary, especially those much younger than I, like when I heard one see a replay of Colin Powells presentation to the UN about Iraq, the coffee shop employee exclaimed; “There it is! There’s the smoking gun!”. I had seen the same presentation earlier in the day and could tell there must be so little hard evidence, that they had to come up with drawings, innuendo, allegations, scare tactic stunts, with he said she saids thrown in. It was just propagandized info-slant parading as fact. It was astounding to see such nonevidence paraded (just trust the experts) on forward by the surrendered fourth estate as “convincing” doubt removing and the like. They seem to think we were both born yesterday, and probably after our mother fell off the turnip truck.

Conservatism draws its followers from no-think. No objective reality check involved. Instead biased rationalist stand in to verify the tenets of status and wealth, and whomever some contrived wedge issue can seduce into their ranks. They can become victims of their own faith in the assumptions of conservatism; that it is the sacred wisdom of the past(cannot be questioned); that it is automatically wholesome compared to the free thinking that should be required of liberals(an open mind is an empty mind); that status and authority are rooted in it, thus by following, helping to guarantee their favor(even other primates have the kiss up to alpha response); that by disabling critical thinking abilities, contrapuntal information is presumed false(no thinking required about info that cannot and should not be processed).

And by the way, liberals and leftest can be just as fallible in these respects, including me at times. It is somewhat easy to tell when one is engaging in cult-think when they have a word or two, perhaps a phrase that sums everyone else up; non-believer, infidel, pagan, conservative, liberal, socialist etc. These and many more can be used to remove the heart and soul of someone else. Reduce them to a few letters, then flush them and their hearts down the toilet of contempt.

We are naturally defensive when we feel threatened. After 9-11 I thought I might need to enlist, way too old, but better to use somebody who has lived a while than take those just beginning. My message is; real attacks create real recruits. I think if one is going to advocate a need to take lives, that should be done in the highest sobriety based on truth. If we are to ever transition to a peaceful world, the anger and hate will have to take a back seat to reason, which means truth telling to both the citizenry and the world.

We have seen that for some reason those controlling information in the US have been operating on deceptive fear mongering for opportunist agendas, all hidden behind God and the flag. We were lied to in getting into Vietnam and we were lied to again. I suspect that when the election of 2000 was carried out against the cause of democracy, the seed was sown for predatory interest to take over our beloved sacred abstractions, both of God and nation. Unfortunately everyone bears the consequences of this betrayal.

The truthful defense reaction of most men is to stand up against threat. That has been a male role here-to-fore, and it is one that can be manipulated by cleaver opportunist and propagandist. Others are threatened to a herd mentality behind “patriotic” truth or lies by implications they are aiding the enemy or somehow seditious, solely based on their insistence on standing up for the highest ideals of this country based on truth and not wild speculations or manipulative fear mongering dressed up as cherry picked facts. (Vallery Plame–Joe Wilson)

Keeping citizens greatly ignorant of both the world and interest in the US manipulating the world; (There is a book out I believe is called; Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins), we remain at the mercy of dark forces masquerading as the source of our own defence. This cheating on the truth to the population brings back its inevitable blow-back. Lies and deception create monsters of the psyche, monsters that under alleged legitimate concern for the nation, suggest keeping a pool of angry people. What kind of vision for the future is that! What an insult to the nation and to men and women, to suggest we would just roll over and let our cities be taken over by; communist, fascist, or religious fanatics. Yet this blame Americans using their freedoms first notion, is paraded around as the one one party holds.

Huge sums of money are funneled into a Faux news channel, and raving ad homonym near psychopaths to seed conclusion ahead of reason emotionalized perspectives, to grab these very natural safety impulses that are native to humankind. Others think that if someone says they are a Christian (of the right kind) they nearly automatically get their vote. Others think if the person has unions behind them they must-be standing up for the regular Jane and Joe—WRONG.

We need information reform to be informed and honest citizens who can perceive what our true interest are. And we need election reform, so that money is not the deciding factor over the spread of ideas, political or otherwise.

We are a nation that can be true, right, defended, understanding of the world, and free as can be, and have a military with the respect of a priesthood, not a toy for political and ideological opportunist.