The Naming of America

 The Naming of America.

The renaming of the world. As far as I know, god didn’t name America nor Mexico.

The name chosen for America, it is said, comes from Amerigo Vespucci, a lessor Italian explorer who never does set foot on the soil that claims his name. His fellow countryman, Christopher Columbus, of course, never sets foot on amerigos namesake property either. They named this place America because this man named Amerigo looked at a crude map drawn up by hundreds of other explorers sailing out into the unknown and like a bunch of blind Pygmy’s climbing around on a dead elephant, describing what they believe this world is and called it after himself, like Yahweh who supposedly made Man in his image, only to erase his own image. Amerigo, being a mapmaker, put it on maps historians doubt he ever went to. They went on to name themselves, name everything within that name, from rivers to quarks, from mountains to viruses, and most of all, making sure everyone had a name they could put a stamp on, which said we own you.

So, what happens when coyote wakes up and hears Men have renamed everything. It’s going to be pissed.

Rabbit Boy says, they, the smart boys of the Eocene period, started renaming everything and once they named something they made it theirs, they took away its freedom a little at a time. They colonized the name, gave it a time and a place, they put up a fence or a wall around it or a  cross claimed it and it was theirs. Possession, they say is nine tenths of the law, the other tenth is a good gun. Not like when you, Coyote, saw in the dreamworld we all needed to be called something so we could see ourselves as something, not so others could tell us what they saw in us.

Eocene Epoch, second of three major worldwide divisions of the Paleogene Period (66 million to 23 million years ago) that began 56 million years ago and ended 33.9 million years ago. It follows the Paleocene Epoch and precedes the Oligocene Epoch. The Eocene is often divided into Early (56 million to 47.8 million years ago), Middle (47.8 million to 38 million years ago), and Late (38 million to 33.9 million years ago) epochs. The name Eocene is derived from the Greek eos, for “dawn,” referring to the appearance and diversification of many modern groups of organisms, especially mammals and mollusks.

Dinosaur city the future

Dinosaur city the future Back in 2026, I woke up to the sounds of mourning, the storm is here, the apocalypse is coming. In around 70ad, Jerusalem is destroyed by Roman forces and somebody called John wrote the apocalypse to counter the then current belief that Jesus is going to avenge Jerusalem's destruction. Jesus always did have a thing about Rome. The first apocalypse, an example set, Vesuvius erupts, buries pompei in 79. 

In 2026, the hundredth version of the apocalypse takes place, where the Persians and other Arab peoples are accused of trying to destroy Jerusalem once again. Though it isn’t god nor Jesus who leads this revenge party, the ones called The Sheep Worrier and The Beast, who hypnotize and terrorize the known world of finance with demonstrations of hellfire, damnation and brimstone. Although there are plenty of examples of human compassion and a hopeful ambition of preserving what’s best about humanity, like medicine, like compassion, like helpful institutional organizations aiding food, water, and care throughout the world. Alas, those things are not the future, though they will always be around. The good ones. It’s the others who lead the sheep, and the sheep themselves who are always stuck inside their fear, rightly so, because they are always the ones shorn of their humanity, sometimes not forever but long enough to make the long road back to normalcy difficult and impossible. The sheep can never rule over themselves because they are not one, they are to be led and whoever leads them, knows they will follow. And for those who don’t follow, a life of strife rather than just fear is a prolonged guarantee. Sent from my iPad

Creating the missing link.

Social scientists and writers of every ilk, from the lofty ivy-covered institutions to lowly anarchic word masters, have been looking for the “missing link” between what makes us humans so fucking good and bad at the same time. And of course, depending on which ever side the discoverer of that link is, will determine the course of history from here on out. There seems to be no consensus among them whether humans represent the epitome of collaborative evolution like most other life forms or a disingenuous mutated development that ultimately will be suicidal or a dead end because there's too wide a gap of dissonance between “the individual is an island” mind and the social collective one as the ultimate survival evolutionary mechanics. Are we man(sic) or beast? The age-old question. 

I’m beginning to think again about whether or not the “self” (or who are we?) is discoverable. There being subjective or objective evil built into the world, depending on whether or not one expects perfection in this real world or after it. In the former, it’s a matter of regulation, law, belief, and “moral conscience” to cull and calm the herd into compliance, whereas the latter requires extreme patience and self flagellation in our world of self-conscious driven fears and imaginary drives. To be or not to be is the oldest question in history for sure. Ever since the first hieroglyphic, pyrrhic symbols describing our fears, aspirations, and beliefs, we’ve been able to reenact, relive and reimagine everything in and outside our sphere of experience. We carry our history around in our heads whereas the rest of the living world carries itself around in its genetic code, whether it is a bacteria or a whale, or even a tree. I believe that our real evolution began just a few thousand years ago with the invention of writing, invention of organized society, the passing of information not just between individuals but between generations, and the division of the body politic into economic contradictions based on value. Albeit, the problem arises that not everyone gets the same message at the same time, at the same place, nor the same generation. It is like interpreting cave drawings or transcribing from one language to another. It’s the same problem we have today, which in some ways is understandable because our confusion started recently within the relative timetable of human history vs Darwins almost infinite concept of slow and fickle change. Since the natural world got such a long head start, we are trying to build a technological, literal wall between us and nature, which we don’t understand at all. Sure, many of us are in awe of nature while still wanting to believe the natural world is beautiful and worth preserving, (whereas ghod created the universe before he (it) created imperfect Man (them), hiking and traveling on, but, deep down, we don’t want to believe it cares absolutely nothing for us or about us and is no way dependent on anything we do. It’s anarchic. What scares us most about it, is we know we are made of the same stuff. We are as much more about the natural world as we are about the technological world. We’re in a monstrous identity crisis and sadly, the development of solutions to live in peace and harmony with both ourselves and nature doesn’t seem to be in our future. But that’s only natural too. Sent from my iPad

Noahs Ark

 Some scientists are saying they may have finally discovered Noahs Ark on Mt Ararat. They're so excited they think that this discovery may overturn the Darwinian theory of evolution. In other words, these scientists are crazed enough to believe that a theory about another form of creation, accepted by almost universally by other scientists, will be thrown out. Somehow, they're so excited to believe that if it is the ark, Noah will be vindicated as the new Adam. 

If you don't know the story, Noah was commanded by god to build his ark, save the animals and with his sons and son's wives and his wives would be saved from the worldwide flood waters. After the flood, Noah and his kin emerged just like suburban america would have emerged if the cold war back in the shelter digging days of the fifties. Ready to take on a new world. After all, all of adams progeny were now dead, drowned so Noah being the new adam took on his son's wives in an adventure of baby making until we got what we have today. I guess that's better than being descendants of Cain and Eve being the vestibule of the human race's future.

To think the Ark is real is just another mischievous story, though that's what we humans are all about, storytelling. It's in storytelling when monsters arise and the mischief of love and war are intertwined, fear of the dark and what lies beyond the sparks of the fire. How we got from there to here. Theres nothing wrong with that until developed societies began making it mandatory to believe in their stories as a criteria to live or survive. Worship. Prayer. And so there we be, looking for signs of one thing or another. It no longer is about the natural world we live in but becomes all about obeying arbitrary laws, standards, and traditions of those who tell us what is right and wrong while they do whatever they want.

cAIn

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, albeit 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 are 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 the insane ideas promoted by power hungry men about how not only the 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 idealogues who control the world's financial system. They 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 even more, even though 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 ghod worked through them? We should have figured when they told us ghod 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, any child in every war-torn nation has ten years to come to a dirty end just because crazed humans believe their ghod doesn’t care about who’s within a bombs range. These people who use their fake beliefs are evolution's defects. To me, ghod is like Frankenstein. If ghod 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. (Well, actually, we're descendants of Noah and not Cain, remember the flood)

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 temporary 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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