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CAIN Let’s look at where we really are. If we’ve reached the point in our civilization whereby a powerful nation or nations can control the destiny and future of other nations, big and small, without putting boots on the ground, our civilization is doomed. Doomed by moral decree. The worst dystopian future has come to pass. It doesn’t matter that people protest, resist, or demand changes. America has over two more years of Trump. Two more years of this artificially created reality, where one man with many henchmen (albeit a few women) has usurped what supposedly modern civilized people created with their laws, a weak system of justice and equality, and an institutionalized religious and greedy interpretation of those laws. It is and was a doomed system from the beginning and like all change, it has taken its slow time proving it. Many generations have been taken through this system with varying degrees of failure that’s called success and lies that’s called truth. Nearly every group, from indigenous, slave, women, working class, sexual oriented, immigrant, and now, climate change proponents have been thwarted, cajoled, murdered, punished, manipulated, corrupted, all for the sake of their insane ideas about how not only their community, state, and nation should be but now how all the world must be. It’s a universally fatalistic (for people) vision of the future by people who control the world's financial system. They can control whether a nation, an entire ethnic group, an individual, a family, lives or dies. They can starve, they can sanction (not allowing even basic necessities to anyone), they can bomb, destroy and annihilate life. And the sad thing is, most of us can only watch, becoming inured to real compassion. We are becoming the dystopian equivalent of mentally, emotionally enslaved peoples who have no REAL control over what happens to us or to them that suffer more, even if some are happy or content with what’s happening. There was a saying in Vietnam, “kill them all and let god sort them out.” If only those who believe would leave judgement to that one they say is real. Where did everyone get the idea god worked through them? We should have figured when they told us god made us in his image, but he had to make the ape first prototype. 

 Even in this day and age, people in general don’t believe in evolution even though we have leaders more like crazed gorillas, pity the poor gorilla, to imagine what was once magnificent has become with time. It’s all about time. For us there is too much of it. To think that a human child takes at least a decade to become somewhat capable of surviving when every other animal is up and running or swimming or aware in minutes, hours or a few days. Yet, a child in every war torn child has ten years to come to a dirty end just because crazed humans believe their god doesn’t care about who’s within a bombs range. These people who use their fake beliefs are evolution's defects. To me, god is like Frankenstein. If god started us out in the garden of Eden, where the lions didn’t eat the lambs, and all our problems started because of disobedience, rather than Cain killing Abel because he was jealous and Eve becoming a breeding machine, there’s a long way down from the mountaintop there. It just can’t get much worse. No wonder we’re where we are, according to their story, we descendants of Cain. 

Us agnostics and atheists are always trying to rectify what all the religionists believe, and right now in today’s world we’re meeting our true nature, creating AI, supposedly the intelligence that up to now was supposed to be in our image. We created through all our intelligence the technology that is as anti human as the creation story is. What a waste. And we’re just as worried that Cain will raise his ugly head once again to finally put an end to Abel’s natural world. Mark my words, someone will call It, cAIn. Sent from my iPad

What haven't we learned?

We haven’t learned yet from every war in our histories, especially modern war (in my lifetime), that there are no victors, ever. This is borne out by the current world war, another form of fascism vs whatever these fascists want us to think is the political opposite of fascism, between Iran, Israel, all the Middle East, Ukraine and Russia, and all the neo fascist dictators everywhere reemerging through electoral (yes, democratic) politics, the US, the hapless societies, such as Cuba, Venezuela, all sanctioned, international bank controlled islands, the aggrieved, the desired, the taken. And today, I should mention, Greenland. Stalemates, all. Just plain old suffering, for both claimed victors and defiant losers. 

Humans are the most durable beings on the planet and yet the only species that can turn on itself with devastating consequences. A bad combination. Here we are, stuck to planet earth like lost souls from outer space, always wishing to return to heavenly peace, places no one has ever gone, returned from, to tell each other what paradise is made from. I can tell you pretty confidently paradise isn’t made up of anything man made. That much is true. I heard Naomi Klein say how bad it is and how Trump is at the center of all these problems and I have to disagree. Trump is only the messenger for the culture of America, all two hundred and fifty years of it. No cause for celebration. The fact of the matter is no nation has represented progress, England after the magna carta, the French Revolution, the constitution, the Russian revolution, mein kampf, colonialism, imperialism, capitalism. I don’t mention communism or communalism or socialism because those in a modern sense have never been able to manifest themselves within a nation state, only as tribal, community, or extended family arrangements. No doubt, all the western concepts based on supremacist religious, scientific, technological superiority, and super man idealist principles of politics have been failures as cohesive social measurements of what humans can accomplish, such as colonial, imperial, and capitalistic motivations. All have been instrumental in the spread of chaos, disorder, and most basically, the development of violence, or might makes right, as a human tool. It’s true that non western civilizations, such as the Aztec, Incan, kingdoms of Africa and Asia, followed similar paths of historical significance. The development of writing in those nation state type civilizations preserved both the idea of power being a supposed “natural” politic while also institutionalizing whatever authoritarian hierarchies existed, for instance, beliefs in man’s supernatural inheritance from “god(s)” to man. From early historic records, such as the bible, the Homeric tales, Roman, Greek, Irish poems, storytelling to modern tomes on the economic and art of war humans love to hate, we have risen no further than what our stories have told us we are. Our gods and politicians have not been good to us. 

 So, to be even more specific, I believe the main problem is not trump but the system created in the historical record as manifest destiny. If the majority of human fate is wrapped up in pre-history, supported only by storytelling tradition or written down in the collision of civilized authoritarian imperial historians, (winners and losers), we have no real, in time, verifiable accounts as to how pre historians lived and got along, although many of these societies were very populous and engineered lasting construction projects to tell us they were here. The main idea behind the fascist ideas of this current bunch is that there was a time in America we could all return to, kind of like the fountain of youth, which old ponce de Leon never found there in Florida. But they can’t say where or when that time was because, of course, it never existed. We’re all just being taken for a ride down the old road of the age of exploration, where history tells us that the entire western hemisphere, Africa, and much of Asia was open to discovery and domination by the vandal, hun, saxons, anglos, moor invasion hordes. (I want to mention the recent change of the maps used by the early explorers because as usual, they’re the ones who drew them. As it turns out they’re biased perspectives which gave smaller status to continents such as Africa, Asia, and the southern half of the western hemisphere, exaggerating the north Americas, Europe, much of the northern hemisphere, including Greenland. The new maps actually put the continents in perspective as to their actual land mass. And guess what? Trumps probably been looking at Greenland from an old explorer map, but sorry chum, it’s not that big, but it is melting like the climatologists say it is. Antarctica is the largest and I can hardly wait until whichever of the current militarized nation states wants to colonize it, the fight will continue. There’s still a lot of ground to fight for. These geological areas, such as Israel, Ukraine, that seem so important now and which are in the middle of an adverse climate change scenarios, will amount to nothing in the long run. Israel is a good example of a people tied to nearly all the old-world illusions about the earth in general and how even three thousand years of warfare and heavenly promises is not going to make it into the future, except as another cautionary tale no one will pay attention to. Nations built on graveyards of the mass murder of human predecessors are doomed to be hollow places like Chernobyl, Troy, Pompei, thousands of semi-ruined past, present and future towns, cities and nations scattered around the world. Most of what’s happening today is ironically the difference between what science has been telling us about the planet we live on and what religionists, authoritarians, and snake oil salesmen want us to believe or accept so they can go against all the prehistoric and historic realities common people everywhere have developed in order to cooperate, coexist, and collaborate with each other. 

Long before Israel was given permission by their god and the UN, long before Columbus set sail on the ocean blue, long before genghis khan, long before napoleon, long before the constitution, and long before the Old Testament, humans had a natural fear of the unknown, but always a willingness to band together to handle the rigors, beauty and challenges of the real natural world, not the artificial world created by force, violence, and evil. And the majority of us always reminded how inconsequential we are in their scheme of things, Yet, I still believe in the natural but slow order of things, because in some massive couvade birthing process we will emerge from the forests, plains, deserts, mountains and seas to create what has not yet been created. We will prevail over the current warlords of the modern world because the only real power they hold is as fake and worthless as their artifice. Every historic warlord, fascist dictatorship, anywhere and everywhere, has left behind a mess of bodies, pain, chaos, and everyone one of them is buried, dead, and gone. Soon, these will end up the same. For me the names will go with me to my grave but my granddaughter will have new names, new challenges to take on. Sent from my iPad

Back in the day,

Back in the day, 

like the 1950s the implications of Japanese monster movies was that nuclear weapons could trigger bigger and more lethal reptiles. Now it’s more like Trump set off a chain reaction of similar proportions when he saw Wonder Woman comics, DC Comix, cleaning up dc. Japan now just sends us tsunamis. So, it’s still Mother Earth vs Father Time. We invented time, the western mind, the daily grind.

It’s clear the pigheadedness of Putin, Netanyahu, and Trump are not out for a peace stroll. If you really think about it, here’s what “peace” looks like from the perspective of money talks, bullshit walks.

Gaza will be turned into some sort of capitalist, Palestinian free (meaning free from Palestinians), a private enterprise, over governed by the no longer secret nuclear state of Zion. Netanyahu reiterates that there will NOT be a two state, nor one state solution in which Palestinian or any other indigenous people will coexist.

Puti states Russia will not back any plan whereby it must give up the eastern region of Ukraine and crimea, thus making that peace plan obsolete before it ever becomes a reality.

Trump will insist on continually rebranding this country, like a cattle thief while sticking the hot poker up the ass of any idea he insists invades his sleepy, drug addled mind with golden sugar canes and lollipops dancing through his empty head. Think Donald Trump Institute of Peace or the Arch de Trump or any other imitation he can come up with. It’s not the anarchist in me nor the free thinker me that thinks of the humor that will come out of all this as sometime in the future, how much enjoyment people will have as they topple all the statuary, burn all the banners, erase all the ridiculous “trumpian” nonsense of this era. Unfortunately, I probably won’t be around to see it but at least I am prescient enough now to know it is inevitable and I can have a good snicker.

Remember we are only in year two of a four-year apocalypse, no matter who is elected between now and 2028. The rules of the game have been set. Remember, Obama and Joe Biden both had congressional majorities at one time or another and look where we are now. And always remember, we had democratic presidents with both houses of congress and social security and some version of civility and progress and a future but always riding along was war, slavery, and hate so no matter what happens, you and me, we can’t forget, even when we are happy or content. We have to always be vigilant while laughing, be wary while compromising, have a strong sense of freedom while giving someone authority over us. Don’t let anyone convince you, bribe you into thinking they know better than you.

A few simple rules for lifelong happiness and struggle. Dance, sing, make love but be ready to fight for that right because there is ALWAYS someone who doesn’t want you to do whatever you’re doing to be free.

(I don’t know why I feel I have to say this, kind of like everyone who says “ I love America but don’t like whatever it’s done” but here goes. Being free to me isn’t getting to do whatever you want but choosing to give what you have to offer and choosing whatever is offered to you. So, yes, one can be greedy, take but not give, and be free to do so. Otherwise, don't give them fools any regard. Its choosing, choosing, choosing, all the time. That's what life is about.

That’s the negative, right? But, remember, free is up to you and only you. Don’t offer to help the greedy, and don’t take from the corrupted, the bribers, the snake oil salesman. There should be no law that says you have to. You don’t have to go to war, pay taxes for war, you can be selfish and not give nor take anything if you can survive that way. Just don’t try and make or coerce anyone else to do what they don’t want to do or decide they can’t do something you don’t want them to do. Free means it’s on you and no one else. Love becomes a series of acknowledgements between individuals, such as trust, consent, honesty, and in the case of children, responsibility. All these attributes have to do with freedom. Ambition, dishonesty, greed, all that, the seven deadly sins are deadly for a reason. Remember all this has been laid out again and again throughout history, and people respond and slow or thwart fascism's progress, the only difference being, our world is actually on the brink of destruction today because technology and a high level of cosmic, climatic change is a two headed Thing to be reckoned with. The ocean and a lack of privacy are coming for us.

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The Present is a Cauldron

The present is a cauldron of different recipes for survival, all of which are examples of too many cooks spoil the broth adage. No one in times like these could possibly find solace nor recidivism recommended in any one truth without becoming contradictory and confused. Here in California where I live we are being processed to be prepared for a super El Niño when statistics show it is La Niña years that have resulted in the majority of catastrophic floods and damage. Nevertheless, I will give cursory acknowledgement to the warnings because in this day and age, it’s best to put some effort in personal safety without acquiescing entirely to the rising fear mongering world leaders and science and technology benefactors are either not warning us enough about or are overwhelmingly promoting or cautioning about. From worldwide travel restrictions, health concerns, data center building, nuclear/war violence, dictatorship/ anti-democratic politics, surveillance overreach, and, in general, a plethora of information and variety of truth/ untruths we are bombarded by, they have all coalesced into one big bundle of apprehension and fear. On the surface, the best of us try and ignore or, at least, dissimulate and disassociate ourselves from most of it, but I still wonder why a ballroom and new monument in Washington, D.C. are prime examples of a reality I never saw coming, despite being a lifelong contrarian, in the mildest sense of the word. I read enough science fiction and understood and continue to understand, dictators and monsters sometimes take over the world, but super heroes, patriotism, idealism always has come forward and puts a stop to it or them. Or does it? 

When I was a young kid and bomb shelters were being made so we could all emerge after an undetermined time from a nuclear war ( with The Union of Soviet Socialist Republic, remember that?), we’d be ready to get back to building the democratic, bigger, better, and, of course, heavily armed capitalist state. I, also cheered and sometimes participated in the anti-war, pro civil rights, modern feminist, anti- nuke (both weapons and commercial use), the Occupy, Arab Spring, pro- Palestinian, anti- Zionist, anti-surveillance Patriot Act, anti- war again and again, and again. I was also a veteran, or I can say proudly, I am a veteran, for once a veteran, always a veteran, a blue-collar working man, and now an old gray haired social security recipient favoring Medicare for all and some version of socialism for my grandchildren. The sad thing is seeing certain parts of the world continue to deteriorate into sacrificial lambs, Cuba being the biggest one to me because I’ve been there several times and I understand the people are being made to suffer simply because at one time in their history they fostered a relationship with socialism and Russia. That’s the way of America, Saudis fly planes into the twin towers and pentagon, and all Muslims outside of Saudi Arabia are intolerable. The banks bring America and the world to the brink of collapse, and they get the relief, while millions of ordinary citizens lose their homes, financial security, and faith in their country. A pandemic kills a million or so here, the worst statistical measurement in the world, and it’s called fake news. All culminating in the most crazy historical, literally crazy, example of when nearly all the so-called leaders of the so-called free world begin to follow and emulate one of the worst human beings born in my lifetime, willing to destroy whatever small amount of civil, cultural, political, idealistic, philosophical principles pushed and pulled and sacrificed for, into the modern age. It’s not as if he is Prometheus when we need warmth, but more like Midas who gleefully brings us a Hydra, or Medusa. He, of course, is no Jason nor Perseus, merely a cartoonish version of how we see monsters in the modern age. Fat, lumbering, all powerful until the inevitable beheading or the successful assassination. Then it reverts back to mundane historical repetition, I won’t be around for the next edition nor the historical rewrite, the palimpsest of fake embellishments. 

All history is the …

All history is the …

all history is indeed the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things,—Nietzsche 

We, so much want the world to have a moral order, when it is actually composed of an integration of, not an opposition, to social disintegration and is an antidote to the morality imposed on everyone by those who subscribe to chaos through wealth and power.

 Humans have always perceived, or attempted to perceive, a sort of mechanized version of living, with centuries old development of philosophes and religions presuming we humans are at the very least, the culmination of evolutionary change, if not the apple of god's eye as told in their ancient stories.

All of this has been set up to thwart complex fears and mysteries of life, as we see it through religion and politics as resolutions, merely theories rather than surety. We all try so hard to make sense of the nonsensical. And the universe is nonsensical when we don’t accept the general belief that it exists only for us to star gaze on a first date. There’s nothing practical about it but that’s all right with me, some people think trees are unnecessary.

Why does a right to lifer, so profoundly passionate about the fetus and the unborn of their neighbor, so quick to be immune to the suffering of those children that their nation (not God) believes is an enemy?

Why do feminists or women in general remain so passive when girls (and boys) are used as sexual ploys, yet the more ambitious scholars complain only about the dollars they are worth when compared to the moral squalor of their genital opposites?

Why does justice seem to miss those who have the most to gain by it?

When Obama lets the banks and mortgage managers go, when all the president's let their militaries go, when politicians take money and let democracy go, it is inevitable, Justice will have to go. Now we have an outlaw nation, Israel, turning justice out to roam the pasture of historical genocide while we americans continue to cater to all the practitioners of a form of political necromancy.

Where has Justice gone, gone to no right nor wrong.

It's all about justice, we let them creep away. From bankers, mortgage houses, to those made-up wars and self -defense causes, girls getting messed up in their clutches, priests abuse, presidents and prime ministers confuse, this country isn't too big to fail, a walking heart congestion, like the president we're in it for a buck and out with a bullet.

Gaza is bad but not the worst we have seen or will see or turn a blind eye to, in my lifetime. America has leveled ancient civilizations like some Indian God of revenge, or Greek mythologies

We're so naive to believe that if the primaries, midterms go as progressives and lessor democrats want that Trump still has two more years of doing what he wants. America is not going back to 2015.

We're in it. Retrograde. Going back to when america thought it was great but never was except in the minds of the blind hearts and those unrepentant souls that quack like the same duck but somehow become so enduring

Do not put your faith in a god, or politicians, or billionaires. Put it in your own ability to know what you truly need, not in a contrived belief in a security state and a safety you don't have, not trust in a surreal authority that doesn't care about you, and then, go to work, build personal and economic relations with all the others who have the same needs. I'm sorry but you can't get anywhere with a headset covering your ears, a mask covering your mouth, and a form of mental aversion and inability to thinking.

I can't do anything without you and you can't do anything without me. We're all going to drag each other down or pull each other up. It's as simple as that.

It is us vs them. Not you against me, me against you. We know who they are, they've come out in the open, stalking about, roaring, bloodthirsty as ever. They've been there all along, carrying out their worn out hatreds and genocidal desires.

We've been ripped from our instincts and ability to smell trouble or rats. Our lives are being shred against our own lack of trust in our common sense.

If you're going to vote for some version of a donkey or an elephant thinking that's the solution, then just get out of the way, democracy went to hell and it's not coming back in any of our lifetimes.

But there is still our survival, as individuals, as a society and its time to sort out their stories and history behind everything and compare them to our own experience which no one can deny.

Living with your head in the sand while trying to keep up in the fast lane is suicide.

There are alternatives and I'm not going to tell you right now what they are. What they are not is electing a different set of politicians who have already broken whatever was minimally good, going along with undiagnosed insanity of those who really don't care one iota about what happens to you, having faith in an economic system designed for scarcity and minimalism for you and extravagance, greed, corruption, and power for them, and you really know in your heart who they are.

Okay, I'll tell you one thing among many things you can do. Step aside, step down and let their parade of hopelessness pass you by while you sneak away to fix your own sense of certainty that you were born with, before they sold and addicted you to the snake oil running your life. It's never too late to change, you know?

And I might add, it's not about picking up a gun and randomly picking targets, it's more about turning your back on just about everything they told you is true. Then go and find the people who you will need and who need you.

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Nuclear

Nuclear 

I think we’ve all forgotten that there are thousands of nuclear weapons and hundreds of nuclear power plants producing high grade plutonium around the world just waiting for the lunatics who run the world to go truly suicidal. Thankfully, thus far, they’re too concerned with their legacy and their money, not necessarily in that order. Someone like Trump, a megalomaniac may someday realize that he has no legacy like Obama but maybe like Hitler, and decide to answer his own question he asked thirty years ago, “If we have nuclear weapons, what’s the sense not using them?” Sent from my iPad

To think there was a time

To think there was a time 

when every minute I felt free til at one point- minutes, hours, days or years, no, never years, but time is only one segment of life making us who we are, then, now, or in dreams. Dreams are the future and you must know dreams are not real nor promises nor, well, what’s worse than “not real”?

Hate to blow the bubble but I realize every day that technology can’t outpace me, or anyone actually, but why do we think it can? Can’t because how many times have you tried to explain to someone, dried blood doesn’t often leave a trail, according to fbi and cia secret files. How do I know, because I know, I just don’t know how much I don’t know. None of us do, and some would call it depressing but most would call it a challenge. What’s on the line? Cavemen (and women, of course) or another worn, outdated revolution that addresses all the stops, starts and truths but turns out to be false.

It’s OK, at least we tried, and trying, failing, trying, failing always leads to some king of success, at least that’s what they tell us, and we believe. Walking us down the road to destruction, I say, not necessarily the wisdom of the new god, global capitulation.

Most of my friends I managed to keep are dead now, the others, along with wives, children, went missing along the path of time.

I’ve become cynical. Democracy had its heyday already, kind of like the Apocalypse that roams and settles in someplace, and leaves. Those that live through either of them end up telling their stories like it was a bad dream but can only remember it piecemeal. I’ve seen and sometimes participated in the fits and starts of democracy. I voted, I believed in some of those politicians, some others not so much. I’ve wanted a woman to be president, even knowing that it’s never made any difference (except, at best, temporarily) in the other places. Same for black and other ethnic groups, some bad, some good. And I’m not one of those old white men who automatically reverted to acknowledging the history of men, in general. The only thing I attribute to men is the recognition that they (me included) are responsible for every problem we have today simply because men wrested away and took control of technology. Everything from the gun (and its weapon progenies) to the gasoline engine, to the art of war, and the art of suffering, men have built a generic society based in incremental values of wealth, power, and violence.

Maggie Blackhawk states it in simple terms. “We keep looking at other countries in order to try and understand what's happening

right around us but it’s right here in America where the start of it all is.

For instance, when did the Jews get permission to defend themselves above all other moral codes?

Was it when god said, abraham kill me a son?

When the Messenger of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time and said, “I am taking an oath on my own name, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not refused to give me your son, your only son, I will certainly bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of their enemies’ cities. Through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed.

Thus spoke Zarathustra.

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