Stop Standing Around

Stop Standing Around

Here we are. We, the american people get to play the german people, get to dress up our consciousness for genocide denial. Are there even words strong enough, we've spent our collective hubris already. Some 13 or so saudi terrorists crashed planes into the towers, the pentagon, a field in pennsylvania and the people of afghanistan paid the price, the people of iraq were thrown in for good measure and last week america threw in with the twisted dictatorial netanyahu. America is Revenge. Saudi Arabia never saw a bomb, a plane, tank, had its water shut off, its food supply, its white flowing robe empire stripped clean.

This week we supported and encouraged the wrong nation to do what it has wanted since 1948. The arabs knew it in 1967 and 1973, that the zionists have eyed the entire region. The Zionist are not the Taliban nor Hamas, though they are not any more exemplary. Their treatment of women is just as foul, their egalitarianism still bound by prejudices formed in ancient times, their ambition, to control the world by their extremist religious practices.

No, the jewish people are not to blame for the actions of their government as american citizens, or german citizens, are/weren't to blame for the actions of their government except in one similarity, the citizens are standing around now just like they stood around at wounded knee, slavery, dachau, hiroshima, and for seventy something years, standing around palestine.

Can americans really understand the arrogance of the western nations in 1948 giving land to anyone as if they owned it. They didn't. They were in possession of it in the same way they're in the possession of everything. Just possession, not rightfully theirs. They essentially gave the land and the people who were rightfully there (Palestinians and Jews as well as other Arab tribes, to something that would only abuse, use, and inflame such a situation) After all, it's human nature.

All these politicians are nothing but clowns, except they dress up in suits and ties, the ladies in waiting, their best clothes.

And so it came to pass, the israelis went too far, their ambitious revenge near complete. Oh god, where is your justice, where is your son?

Could it be that the creator of the dead but beautiful universe is a false god like those on olympus, a weak god like the son who could not save himself. For what, sacrifice? Us, the sheep, the lambs. Against so many wolves. They chew away, their bloodlust is their essence.

Some of us are not satisfied with what freedoms they temporarily allow us. No more voting, no more standing around. For me.

If our vote is all the voice we have, on choices they have selected for us, then where is the freedom in that? Thats a rhetorical question.

I've lost all interest in the manufacturing of the american dream. We've all been complicit in trying to divine the divided path without really choosing one over the other.

Who is the enemy? The politicians, yes, mainly because they only do the bidding of the rich, the wealthy, those who've become beyond the ideals of justice, and even sin. They are exempt to the law because they made the laws. They are exempt from the democracy because they don't need to vote to save their skin like we think we must. Voting to them is not necessary because their voice is listened to. Voting, for us, is a simple prayer into the spiritual void, having no more impact than kneeling down beside your bed at night like a child and wishing all your dreams come true, no matter how many people have to be enslaved and die for it, your prayer.

These men are not only immature, but they are also infantile. Their boyish charms, their manly arrogance, their complacent women who dress so well and have the minds of clones. Surely, there must be a wife out there who leans into her hubby's ear and says, What about the palestinians, dear?

Clones and drones are the new messiah.

We is found, lord. Save us from them and the parts of us we are them.

Is that too confusing, god? If all they are going to give us is an invisible unarmed god to rely on, then we should at least stop wasting our real time expecting much more than what is right now. Real democracy is still far ahead of us and will always be in the tomorrow's until we emerge from a revolution now.

Stop Fucking Standing around watching everything die. Palestinians don't want to be ruled by Hamas but neither do they want to be ruled by Israel/America. It's not one or the other, it's neither. Stop Apartheid, Stop religious extremism everywhere. 

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Ralph Nader

Thank you ralph nader for finally breaking your own truth. When asked by amy goodman if it was true what nyt said you were supporting democratic party, you denied this, saying what you said was when it comes down to deciding who to vote for, you'd choose the autocracy of the democratic party over the fascism of the republican party, going on to say that to support fascism is to support the continued domination of the corporate class, the severance of social justice from ideals of equality. Autocracy, you said, at least keeps hope alive for change. 

I say, how?

Well, ralph and i say this sadly, you forgot hopefully temporarily, that it wasn't fascism that got us to here but that very autocracy, corruption, greed, is what brought us, led on by both democrats and republicans alike.

If i get an opportunity to vote for cornel west i will vote for him, like i voted for you in 2000. And the whole liberal/ leftist mythology that you lost al gores presidency and should, like all third parties/ be taken to task for it, is bullshit. My vote in california didnt hurt anybody and it was the electoral/ supreme court/ vote counting shenanigans in florida AS WELL AS the democratic party's complete capitulation to those decisions and voting irregularities that defeated al gore. Nevertheless, that's putting a lot of credence that an al gore presidency would have done what no other presidency would have done. Where in the hell is al gore today?

Cornel West is the only one, or the only one that will admit it, who understands that some sort of revolution is necessary in this country to change what needs to be changed.

In a country that represents through its history and policies what is wrong in the world, (and yes, there are others), a nation that has no meaningful dialogue between its opposing parties, except, maybe, the biblically fixated, going strictly by the book, 

As for fascism bringing all this, fascism is the anarchy of the right, there is no agenda, as trump has demonstrated, except a form of chaos, whereas capitalism, corporate controlled, greed, is tightly controlled where there is no viable system or ideology (no one except intellectuals knows what socialism is), many believing that anything is more authoritarian than the most authoritarian system in the world.

It could be argued that we've been moving toward fascism as it is generally defined for many decades, but again, that would be another admittance that just about everything's that happens only demonstrates the need for revolution.

I've written on revolution for much of my life and honestly can't give a breakdown on what one would look like. From some armed/violent/ military coup rebellion/uprising of the past, currently popular in african countries to praying that god strikes trump down with an embolism, a method much against my non-religious principles.

My thoughts seem to be drifting to solutions when i really want to show that there is no essential difference between autocracy and fascism if the results are the same, except in different generations.

Ralph, i think we're looking for something within the humanity realm, more permanent, and future oriented rather than dog eat dog.

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Savage Gods

Savage Gods by paul kingsnorth

The evangelist and the poet. Poetry has become the talk of ideas but not revolutionaries. Can we not speak, can we stop from knowing everything? The language smothers everything we cherish, such as the silence, such as the pure thought, the unobstructed connection to our soul. I dont know if it's just in america, or the western world, or throughout the world but do we all really want to sue the smoker next door whose smoke comes across the fence, or imprison the homeless but not the makers of war and weapons?

The silliness of it all. The jurisprudence society, the law of the land out of our hands.

It's true for me, much of what i write comes out of outrage or spite or even revenge, in thought if not in deed.

Can we all just shut up and still be friends? Can we all just stop ourselves from "knowing", wanting to know all about the things we have absolutely no control over, such as the politics, the governing bodies that have institutionalized our education system at all levels, our economies, our freeways to hell.

Democracy and voting, the reasons we believe we have control, investing and indebtedness, the ways we fell we can better survive, petitioning and rallying, the ways we complain, but none of those things change anything. The ways we want to change because we want to change the things we are not meant to change.

Get a million people on the street for a cause and all you've done is burn off more energy, forced the unchangeable system to gather more weapons, more resources, more capital to defend itself. We see ourselves the enemy of the system but we are merely the enemy's muse for destruction. 

The kings and queens, the princes, the emperors, the dynasties took over god, using It's name to make laws, restrictions, interrupting a natural spiritual connection, and when the kings, queens and the others became presidents, representatives, prime ministers they turned god into making money as the natural order of the world, so we followed as they lead.

When did the representation for an ox become Ox, and did that magically distance us from the natural world in small increments as we passed from the physical world to the almost totally abstract world we live in now. Think about how the land has drifted away from our lives except in the form of state, national preserves where people and cars mix with grizzly bears hunting elk, lions bringing down gazelle on the open plains.

I had corn fields behind my house and i was not raised on a farm but had plenty of room to explore right from my back yard. Snakes, toads, mice, every varmint residing near the river and in the fields, both the eaten and the eaters, were within reach. I drew birds of prey. 

The seashore had huge flocks of pelicans, seabirds and there were plenty of fish in the sea and starfish clinging to the rocks at low tide.

I am sometimes amazed at the personal loss of the sights and sounds i once treasured. Later, i found similar examples in the desert but that too has been trampled and earmarked for exploitation.

Borrego Springs reminder.

Maybe the fact that prose represents the bible, the magna carta, the koran, the constitution, the torah, the declaration of independence, we should all suspect, rather than respect, the languages from whence all oppression originates. It could all be lies, representing nothing but the growing distance between us and nature, hence climate change hardly becomes "natural" for us because we're so far into the body and mind abstraction to understand how reality even works.

Where did it all go wrong? Was it world war one, or the russian revolution, or slavery, or when we left africa, or crawled from the sea?

Go back, further back, where did the break begin, 

William Golding-"the Fall is thought."

Kingsnorth implies all of this, that either the problem is european thought, thus language or just one of the problems. We do imagine the primitive soul is the innocence before the Fall

Are we as writers trapped in a mental prison of our own making. An alcatraz where escape is impossible unless one is willing to brave the unknown.

Ive never realized the quaintness of rural sonoma, marin, mendocino counties though ive been through there many times. Words never struck me in those places, not like the desert where minimalist landscapes bloom in my imagination. I can see death there more easily. Scarcity in abundance. But when i see the ruby mountains, i see gemstones, aquarius mountains, i feel new beginnings.

There is part of the language that remains sacred, not part of the Age of Reason, hubris of law, justice and equanimity, or lies and truth, self-deceptive, guiltless or driven apology and confessions, advertising

Yes, language, perhaps, is the ultimate authority we must resist being taken in by. We do need to stop talking and stop the talking in our heads and listen for the silences between the words, natures code is speaking.

I used to believe that it was religion or governments or personalities that were/are the culprit behind all our problems, or maybe even the language itself that imprisons us in our makeshift prejudices, unless it is memory based on physical characteristics, like in a lineup of offenses toward us. We remember the eyes, the colors of our fears, though we don't know where or what life we saw them in.

But, no, it's more subtle, it's the primordial gene of dominance any society emits through its lessons of survival and necessity, that dominant authority one feels right with, without proof, only a built-in trust, maybe misplaced, maybe not irrefutable, but absolute.

For example, the early christians faith turned eventually to a dark, chaotic reality when placed in a modern context. Who can realistically believe in a god of revenge, or even love in a world reliant on the killers and saints battling it out on the streets, on the battlefields, in homes, and in our hearts?

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