How about more boring and a lot less war, genocide,

How about more boring and a lot less war, genocide, and economic insecurity? I have to admit, the constant adventurism model of daily living has grown so old, and I've found that I look more forward to boring than I look toward advancing some politicians dream they are representing me. They are not.
The world has been taken over by speed freaks. Why does anyone think being constantly bombarded by a million choices, moral decisions, rationalizations that for the most part don't even affect most of us in the nation that produces conflict at every turn and is merely a smokescreen for keeping and sustaining the fires burning in the rest of the world, as well as burning the rest of the world up.
It is paradoxical that the minor differences between the majority of republican and democrat citizens have been manufactured by the constitutional arsonists of uncommon sense politics we have been governed by for decades.
Are we really afraid that there are enough bullets, bombs, and hate pointed at our freedoms by another people who have as much interest in preserving their way of life as much as we do?
We have been manipulated, coerced, made afraid, and controlled by self-serving interests on the one hand and, worst, by men and women who have nothing but greed and power in their hearts.
How is it that we have come to believe that men can solve the problems they themselves have created? And how is it that we can come to the conclusion that we, ourselves, have not been complicit in our own stupidity by falling for the snake oil/poison salesmen? How is it we believe that all these people claim to have our interests at heart and yet they never listen to us?
How is it that these men and women believe they are above us and must restrict us with ancient, medieval, pre-industrial mythologies and beliefs about the world that have been dismissed as unable to help us or prevent us from helping each other?
Money or the lack of it is not the center of our problems. Value placed on work, regulated by monetary interests, banks, corporations, national interests all reflect power based on racial/ethnic supremacy and economic hierarchy.
The only uniting factor among all the leaders in every nation on earth is the consolidation of economic interests and this is done by both violence and resource management/control, and the de-democratization of all nations.
Americans look to themselves for saving the world from itself, but it's actually a revolution in the other parts of the world that will save them from America. Trump is giving a good head start for that to happen. The big question will be how many countries will understand that it isn't their militaries that have been sucking resources from their own coffers that will save them but their ability to turn their backs on America's self-interest and look to cooperation and divestment of American interests. International banks, corporations, and bad politicians will attempt to thwart this nation as rebellion and resistance increase and as America's influence wanes (except in the interests of war) other nations can and hopefully will form new alliances and cooperative institutions.
We are too far along to continue to "evil" storytelling about our nature. Fairy tales, folklore, and creationist universalists beliefs are no longer useful. Our eyes are open to those who try to blind us. Take evasive action.


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5/17/12

We’re Only Human, Aren’t We?

One of mankind’s biggest problems is that there is a tendency, whether natural or not I don’t know, to lay a legal, simulated socially acceptable architectural framework around every important philosophical and religious belief. This framework turns into more of a meshy( as well as messy) mental jailhouse from which the intellectual cannot escape without leaving some little truth behind, like a revered ex=lover, one now despises, yet remembers good times amongst the bad, or like one atom smashing against another atom, leaving less mass within each and the other. Physics professors spend their whole life looking for that missing link.

Don’t forget a brand new prison is still a prison.

From the Holy Bible, Torah, Koran to the Magna Carta, Constitution, or Social Contract, there is the incessant tendency to obfuscate whatever is written so it can fit the perusal needs of the “obfuscator,” as GWB, Sarah Palin, or Donald Rumsfeld might say.

There is hope though. There is still one firm last standing philosophical example that has been little toyed with and remains intact and free from legislators and their legal ilk who act as our moral oracles of Delphi in our political world, describing, reinterpreting, reinventing those things we thought we were sure, sure of. This one philosophy which has managed to escape these moral and legal oracles is the Kama Sutra. What you see is what you get there and need no lawyer be present to understand. Long live mutually satisfying sex. Very few right-wing extremists wear their guns into coitus nor have Karl Marx, Adam Smith, nor the Fed successfully managed to either tax it or make revolution with it, though they've tried. Keep on fucking. It’s the last free state of being.

The Wrong Paths We Take

 written 2003

I was in the bathroom and I started Fred Setterberg’s The Road Taken and I felt the twinge of nostalgic time traveling he was rendering on the page and for a moment I wished I could jump in the conversation with my similarly rustic road reminisces. However, once I was done in the bathroom, I wondered whether or not, upon further reading, I was being suckered into denying my past like many post- Sixties tomes seem to blather on about by wishing I had become a Christian, a Hindu or a scientologist, or a businessman, or an earnest entrepreneur, or by wishing I hadn’t wasted my time fucking around with my instincts and had gone on to get my doctorate or even my masters in something beside Anthropology, or wished on myself any other of the jobs my generation finally succumbed to in the name of “survival,” meaning accepting the prevalent middle class Darwinism, giving up entirely and guiltily on the one and only time I cared what happened to anything besides myself.

Right now, after listening to the fear ridden post-9/11 American pleas for order the only thing I hear about the Sixties is that the troops didn’t get any respect and we could have won that war too if we had only persevered with more surges and better use of the air force. The making up of History is the perfect pre-apocalyptic hobby.

It took me this long to realize that I could never have been such an anti-capitalist and yet, become an economist like the ones who become apologists for every mistake and devastating decision major banks and corporations create through the philosophical likes of Ayn Rand whose philosophy is much closer to running this country than Jack Kerouac ever was.

That’s one thing I can say about Kerouac which no historian can deny, he didn’t have “political” aspirations. I remember seeing him on the Steve Allen Show, and he was drunk and sullen, basically inarticulate.

We writers chronicle, we don’t lead. We aren’t responsible for who picks up on our wordsmithing. Kerouac chronicled not only what every middle-class white boy in that period fantasied about what they really wanted to do and thought they should do, but what every itinerant farm worker or real dharma bum looking for work felt as they passed through this land in the post-industrial society. Kerouac’s work chronicled the illiterate, semi-literate or inarticulate who were out of work, out of sorts, who crisscrossed this country and helped make it whatever it is today, both good and bad. He also introduced the post- war generation to the possibilities of “nihilism” as a way of life.

America doesn’t appreciate its writers that poke at the downside of the american dream. It’s ironic that Steinbeck was practically stoned in Salinas and now he has a monument there.

I love the way America treats its story tellers.

Anyway, I’m way ahead of myself or at least my reading of The Road Taken.

I’ll let you know what happens. Don’t sit on the edge of your seats though, the long ride on the wrong path is hell on your back. 

if jesus is coming back

 

ALL

 all for one, one for all.

justice for all

freedom and happiness for all

all lives matter

today, april 19, is another protest, just after a week or two protesting around the country. is it good to keep on reminding each other that we can stop this sinking political juggernaut with vibes?

it makes me drowsy just thinking about it.

since, i who is in command of what language i can speak, or am I, can i really differentiate between ALL the subtle different renditions of ALL this or ALL that. Its a mystery but what would have happened if someone came out with All Lives Matter before BLM came out with Black Lives Matter or would we all know that ALL didnt mean ALL then any more than it meant ALL back then.

if the modern wage slave has to watch the daily celebration of death and dying, the addictions rising, and sexual devolution among those who don't work, it's no wonder they are restless. if those who play without paying respects to those who won't, can't, don't know how to play then rules and regulations will be the order of the day. their Puritanism, Catholicism. I dont mind modern religious leaders succumbing to an age of secularism, where all men are judged by their weakness but praised by their wealth and where all women are judged by their use of cosmetics and prosthetics.

why did all lives matter become the chant for those who harbored resentment to just saying black lives matter? and why did black lives matter become the mantra for those whose skin color stands out as a target?

racism, though, is not the main ingredient nor the basis for freedom movements against   authoritarianism being the sludge that overwhelms all the needs for freedom, the need for freedoms that arise from disgruntlement/ disillusion from living.

As we see the new totalitarians sink into their revolutions demise, we understand how extremely weak they are but will we get to see their fall? Probably not.

The courts seem to be the only thing between ALL of us being betrayed but, i guess, that's how this system works, balance of power, now ALL we have to do is sit and wait for the Fake Men to implode with their own version of gullibility, believing that they really can dismiss, deny, or ignore courts. I, personally, am intriqued by the prospect of most of them choking on their own guile, and, at that time, i will be converted to post belief in god again, and seek forgiveness for my sin of condoning or wishing revenge on these hellish evil men, which reminds me of a sign i saw at a recent protest, "Evil men will burn down their own nation just so that they can govern over the ashes." I think its an old asian philosopher thing, which goes to show you, they've been artound a long time, but, it goes without saying, these men aren't the first evil men I've seen evn in my lifetime.

I guess that's my starting point. Watch out for more smoke, figure what's burning, and

2017

2017

How many more years are we going to do this?

todd

I was walking down the national mall in D.C

I was walking down the national mall in washington d.c. the other day and i suddenly realized this country is mine more so than theirs, the ones who have money, wealth, and have never suffered the pain of never having enough nor ever looking around and sayingbecause by looking around, at the black wall remembering the dead in vietnam, the world war two memorial, all the buses lined up, arriving and departing, like the body bags wherever they find themselves, tucked in some foxhole, oswampland, thats not your carolinas hometown, man, not deporting, all those veterans, and their families, who may have voted for them, only to keep embracing the sacrifices made, making sure its their country too. But sacrifice and pain isnt the only realixation i felt. Not just the memorials but the ideals represented in the monuments to mlk, jefferson, lincoln, and the museums dedicated to  african americans, native americans, that tell a different story, the story ideals upon which we all have strived and sometimes died for, the ideals of freedoms of love, peace, and prosperity for all, even though sometimes different than the one america told itself about itself, that still this country is theirs as well as mine and i wondered why, if it wasnt so, why the vets wouldnt visit the mlk monument, which brought tears to my eyes, my eyes that rarely speak in those emotions, why vets couldnt visit en masse, in buses, the mlk monument and why the multitude of visitors for mlk couldnt just walk over and visit the vietnam memorial and world war two memorial, and raise up their hands, or fists, or whatever suits                                                                                                                         all of us, and say in unison, this is our country, this is our land, and we're taking it back because we love it, from sea to shining sea, from the mountaintop to the valley below, from the heart and from the soul, we're never going to let it go again, together black and white and all the colors and dreams between, we're taking it back.