Election of 2012

Election of 2012 

There are only a few

Recorded -blogThere  are only a few actual issues in the world that are repeated often enough, over and over, throughout history, it seems to anyone in the present, wherever that present may be, disguised as something new by modern technolgy and conventional wisdom, it may all seem new. Because History doesnt reflect reality of the historical moment, being built on whoever is in power and managing the interpretation of the moment, reality always seems to contain a strong element of unresolved, complicated nuances. This is, mainly, because over the course of centuries, men have controlled the narrative through their religions and insistence that nations, governments are the most ordinate of authority, next to god. In the rare occurance when a woman or man who understands what limits power inherantly has, that it normally corrupts, these have been unable to do little to change the discourse to a more real relationship between government and governed.

They are, first, the main elephant of the room being SEX. Then there is FEAR, and the icing is CONTROL.or Authority..

Almost all law, all traditions, all hierarchies, all nation states base their continued existence on the ability to manage the general public's ability or inability to handle basic and universal survival, which governs work, value, economic, both at the simplest exchange level and at the heightened reality of control of resources and principles of ownership set by the authorities managing money, time, and debt.

Survival is not just a tv show where people live by their wits off the land, but day to day living in any nation on earth. As modern nation states, all rely on the three themes mentioned above to manage each persons ability to survive. The main aspect of Control is Division.

Divide and conquer is an old adage, but true, nevertheless.

Its hard for anyone to imagine that at some time in human world history that life in a social, communal environment was far less problematic. This isnt to say that life was problem free. Weather, climate change, and other uncontrollable forces played a part in making,life not perfect. 

All the problems of modern life and the change in perspective are illustrated in all the early stories, mythologies, magical thinking religions, old and new testaments, chronologies, some of which continue today. The gods were humans and have alway contained in a human personality with all its foibles, strengths, and excessive power. Interestingly, the women gods eventually fell to the wayside  as the so called modern religions and customs focused that power unto men and, and in rhe case of the main modern gods or their messengers, male personalities. Most of these gods, if not, their followers, are as fucked up as their faithful believers, filled up with hate, revenge, ethniccentric, magical thinking blather about make believe heaven and hells. Punishment is a big thing in religion as it is in all nations services to the people. Unfortunately, if one is to believe christian belief in the love of jesus christ, few christians rely on their charity to get themselves to heaven or paradise. They're too busy making worldwide mischief, creating irreconcilable notions about women, sex, race, ethnicity, other religions, and their neighbor.

One example of all this is the current situation in Old Palestine or New Israel, however you want to call it. Prior to the twentieth century, palestinians and jews lived pretty peacefully together for centuries. Then the british, french and a host of arab princes came and began fostering ideas of liberation or acquiescence to a colonial power.

People were forced to take sides, allegiances.

 Today we might say life was harder then, but that notion is only an evolution of a false claim that authorities new, modern for the times ideas of capital, resource control, and ownership, the triumvirate of chaos, became the order of the day. They were indispensible in establishing security and safety in the chaotic system they created.

The modern age has brought us more and more sophisticated methods of control. No longer the whip, the sword, control of media, thus knowledge has become the subtle weapon of choice. This method of choice is clearly anti-democratic, that is if democratic means that the general population  shares certain acknowledgement of egalitarian values. Common sense values.

Common sense values. Not based in fear. If a mother is fearful of a gay person who teaches school is a fear not based in any real circumstance anymore than the belief in the previous centuries that jews kidnapped children and desecrated their bodies in some way.

The elephant in the room is always sex.

All religions are based in it, drowning in it. 

All personal relationships are swimming in it.

All

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Critique on the Revolutions Reported or Be Careful What You Ask For.

 

I’ve been critical of the so called ‘revolutions’ taking place around the globe recently, including the Occupy movement of a couple of years ago. The so called social media revolutions because they were built on the availability of social media to engage many people that may not have ever been engaged. As we’ve seen the revolutions in Northern Africa slip from the news, the Occupy Movement slip from having any relevance at all, and Egypt, Syria, Ukraine, and other nation states, some newsworthy and some not, slip into and out of chaos, my criticism seems well founded.

I’m only critical of how all these mass movements became reported, analyzed, and prognosticated by the media which supposedly supported or reported on them. We have reached a point in our history where mass media (free press) has been accepted as the main stay of a free society, such as we like to describe ours, without any real criticism as to whether or not it is really free. The disclosures of Wikileaks and “whistleblowers” alike, ala Ed Snowden, have only put a dent in the public’s recognition of how important any one leak or disclosure is. In other words, we hear about the massive train wreck but not how it happened nor how to prevent it. We hear that there has been massive spying worldwide by all the powers that be, but we the public, really have no way to prevent it from happening or stop it from happening at all, so it’s seen as more of a form of entertainment with the now faceless citizenry which has become fascinated by its own self oppression. At some point, a true fascist society contributes to its own demise by valuing that belief that suppresses them.

The media will not tell you what’s wrong with the system, it simply exposes what it believes will tickle our fancy, both intellectually or culturally. And, if it gives us that rare glimpse into the inner workings of how or what the power structure is doing, we want to believe that it is an anomaly at worst so we do not have to fully accept its consequences.  The problem with the media and our relationship to it is that we are being given a recipe on how this particular democracy works and we don’t seem to care that it’s not the recipe we think we’ve been cooking up all these years so we don’t pay attention to it.

We’ve reached the point in our intellectual development where we think knowledge is a tool and is as relevant as we want to make it. Knowledge comes with a price, and that price is it so easy to become complacent. We can let others do our thinking for us, telling us what is true and what isn’t. Accepting authority until something seems not quite right, but by that point we can’t reverse what has already happened or go back down the path from whence we came which would be a perfectly natural thing to do if one is lost. And we are lost. We have allowed others to choose for us. We’ve become spoiled and arrogant by assuming that someone else will save us from ourselves or in many cases believing we don’t need saving. Yes, the sandwich board warning, “The World is Coming To An End” has been around for a long time, the Old Testament might have started it off, and the Plague and Invasions of Heathens during the Middle Ages and beyond certainly fed the prognosticators with reality. Of course, with all these temporary historical facts came the Solvers or Authorities who because they were around at the right time, right place said they were the reason things got better when everyone else thought they would not. They said they prayed to God who helped us or outright killed the nuisance, whether the nuisance was the Devil, the Witch, the People next door, or Over the Hills, or Behind the Sun, the Unbelievers.

So we went on. Accepted a new truth until a new virus, a new enemy came upon us. Democracy came along and now we believe we have choices, pick your poison, but you can’t opt out or try and find a solution outside the “chosen” one because it either costs too much or it’s not where the society is going. It doesn’t have anything to do with whether or not it does or doesn’t work, or “makes sense” enough to be considered.

Most of our technology has arisen out of the mental workings of ordinary working people putting their social heads together, helping to make their life easier until recent times.  The last couple of centuries much of what we’ve developed has extraneous uses, such as developing the war machine or enabling the ability to sell and consume by adopting economic conditions that cater to the whims of wealthy people who base their principals on ownership Our Freedom now is relegated to choosing colors, styles, things that have no relevance to what eventually will hurt us. Our science has created wonders to help prevent illness but it is limited by the availability of money in addition to the fact that much of what kills us or hurts us is originates from the same scientists and its collusion with politics. Science isn’t the innocent working for the helpless. Science and Industry have colluded in Weapons of Mass Destruction, creating high priced options, whether it be cars or medicine, that are unavailable to ordinary people. And we are ordinary people. Be Proud of it. The Salt of the Earth.

We forget that it is ordinary people who have been responsible for the increase in production and development of basic technologies that have been usurped by wealthy and greedy people and though some individuals have gotten credit for discoveries, most discoveries have been on the order of Columbus discovering America, I think you know what I mean there. From the containment of fire to the loom or plow, it’s been the people who live and survive where changes really come from, not from the mental musings of politicians, philosophers, priests, scientists, CEO’s, or celebrities.

Worship of Hope

The worship of hope and the denial of contradiction is probably the anarchist greatest dilemna. Anarchism is more of a state of mind than a well regulated  political theory that constantly is straitjacketed with unchanging definitions and rigid constructs about how to organize a movement. Like communism and not capitalism, anarchism is reliant upon the natural human desire to buck authoritarian trends rather than establishing progressive political trends and agendas. And like all philosophy, anarchism is based on some sort of moral, social etiquette but being anti- authoritarian rather than authoritarian in nature is well suited to breaking away from stale and unsuccessful attempts to revolutionize society. And it is only revolution that will change social constructs, which are only progressive if pliable and changeable. Once, someone puts up a fence, as Voltaire says, and the others go around rather than through, the revolution is dead until the fence comes down.

Progressives worldwide have taken up the belief that democracy in a sort of pure sense is the new revolutionary methodology, based on Hope (wishful thinking or magical thinking) and the denial of reality (natural contradiction). Think Big seems to be the mantra for most politicians and so-called revolutionaries. If anyone believes the Build Back Better 3.5 trillion package, is going to be even partially acceptable without outright bribery, has got to be believing in the illusion of the era.

There is only one struggle for the anarchist and that is how to juggle the growing society's seeming desire to become a completely authoritarian state by repeatedly reinventing the notion that if the government supplies money in the right place combined with a personal belief (hope) that the authoritie's who has historically proven themselves to be ineffectual are going to solve society's problems without involvement of the people themselves.

Why anarchists haven't even attempted to resolve this main "political" question except by creating realistic and experimental social-civil societies rather than mainly personality cult communes or random urban/rural intentional communities, associations loosely based on non-political philosophies and charities, I don't know. 

Revolution is more than trashing any existing institutions without believing in any true recognition that there can be something better.

We are at the point in the worlds history where there is no longer an agreed understanding between the different sides of any political dicsussions. Even within movements, so called progressive movement, feminist, working class, others, there are splits, disagreements that paralyze progress. These divided elements are a regression toward more authoritarian institutions. 

Are you feminist because you think a womens plight is the worst thing imaginable? Or merely a humanist because you think everybody is up shit creek without a paddle? Or maybe you're a humanist because it keeps you from acknowledging the special plight of women, black, brown, queer, poor white, working class?

Should i be more concerned about what africans do to other africans, what latin american dictators do to their own people, or is the entire repetoire of oppression based on what primarily white offshoots of european civilized colonizers, idolators, settlers, and countries with no national inhumanity restrictions do to their own indigenous, black, brown, citizens?

The use of fear to construct the worship of authoritarian personalities, tribes, communities, towns and nations came out of religious and other belief systems and didn't matter whether it was voodoo or catholicism, whether it was medicine man or priest, whether or not it was conqueror or conquered.

It seems to me we're all pretty fucked up, not knowing which way is up, down, right or wrong. We have to have more than Hope, we have to have real change, and we have to be the ones to make real change, or somebody else will, who might not make the change we want. We live in one of the most authoritarian nations on earth but we don't live in the most fascistic, wartorn, beleagured nations, YET.

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Gods Little Savage

Gods little savage,

Every now and then you get a good one, one that treats you right, feeds you regularly, gives you attention, those you try and hang on to for as long as you can, but, as you know, deep down inside, its going to be over, somethings going to go wrong, and you dread what might be coming next, some wild animal maybe, kill or be killed, eat fucking live bloody food, the foods on the ground, writhing, just like on the discovery channel, or maybe you go from that good time to something more horrific, like consciousness of yourself, how tenable and fragile everything is, maybe you have empathy, fighting between cynicism and hope, sometimes thats hell too.

Once that happens, you cant forget how good or how bad it can be, everything becomes carceral, containment, trying to escape the one and embrace the other, again, never completely understanding how you got here, to this moment, feeling trapped. Of course, now, being able to write it, youve done that before, maybe a century or two ago, time bEing what it is, so temporal, temporary, yet eternal as far as punishment goes, kind of like being innocent, yet being held at quantanamo. You know they held abu zabedah for over two decades, maybe hes still there today, i dont know, being in the current state im in right now, they tortured him every day so they could write the premier book of torture about it, not caring if he did anything, it didnt matter, of course, he didnt do anything but thats the way it works with them. Theres some gratification though, figuring that they too, might sometime be in the same boat, like a slave ship and not the master of it all, what goes around comes around sort of thing but being tortured like that or like many people are, just by the waterboarding of their own guilt, or being innocent, and no master, god, or kindness to save you.

We all fall, everytime, hard, slow, or soft enough to get back up again, temporarily, theres that word again, go on, hero, get back up again, maybe you went the entire fifteen, only to lose on points, is that better than being knocked out in the first round, i dont know, i experienced the one thing and not the other. Give me enough time and i wonder if ill say, ive seen it all, so far i havent.

Over and over we all return to our roots, whatever they are, more like what came first, the chicken or the egg, infinite recycle, ever since lucifers little tantrum about what god called pride and he called freedom. God had enough of it and when puny adam and eve decided to bite the apple from the apple tree, little did they know god had already had enough. Wrong place, wrong time.

I killed a wildebeast, i was a wildebeast. Twice. One time i was at the old watering hole and some monstrous crocodile grabbed my snout and there was a big tug of war kind of struggle, push, pull that went on for a half hour or so until all that roughhousing attracted a bunch of hyenas and i suppose you can guess the outcome for me wasn't very good. The crocodile didnt get much out of either, and im sure, within the scheme of things, it was having its own personal, internal circular strife about life. That was a trip.

Everything went topsy turvy. Upside down.

I have learned, probably temporarily, a couple of things. Janis joplin was right. Southern Comfort and a little marijuana go along way toward bliss and the gospels of matt, mark, luke and john dont put very much in a new light from the massacres and violence ridden punishments of the old testament.

Sure, i suppose theres a certain amount of hope in believing a dead man of dubious roots will somehow return to pick up his truly loyal and dispassionate followers, leaving the rest  to keep to our graves. But we, those unbelievers , who are not being kept to the silence (and peace, mind you) of our graves are actually being shuttled back and forth between the living (temporarily) and the killed and be killed of the animal world as well as the human world, that to be truthful, i never was that fond of, expecting little in the name of faith, hope, and charity.

Unlike the animal world, the human world is filled with uncertainty, not just in the physical realm but the unsurety of insecurity is a fate worth many deaths, or even worse.

I wish i could give you the one universally true truth to take away with you when you go, that once taken will actually save you the trouble of not only the damned but of the saved. I don't even know of which cadre i belong. Like i said in the beginning, sometimes its so good you're sure you are part of the blessed, yet, whoa, slow down, because sooner, and it always seems sooner, than later you are pushed once again to prowl the serengeti or blue depths of the sea, to be victim, whether in the form of plankton, or a giant squid, like in captain nemos 20000 leagues under the sea, sink a nautilus, or be a nautilus, a mere conch shell that lives far too long, longer than you ever want under those conditions. Fuck, i dont know why im stuck(temporarily) in old disney movies and andre gide writing. Rebellion, i guess. 

The fucking blue jay that comes into my masters yard and drives off the little finches wanting to get water cannot even "hear" my fake growl. 

I understand, i was a blue jay once. And a finch. And my master.

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