Israel and Exceptionalism

I think we can look at the highly intelligent, highly resilient, highly resourceful nation of israel as an example of democracy and exceptionalism gone haywire based on one belief, that being, the superiority/ supremacy of their existence based on an imaginative proclamation of a god with a personality which, uncoincidentally, acts just like them. The horse before the carrot sort of thing.

Israel, of course, is not alone. Many of the current world powers and many of all nation states, whether tribal societies or sophisticated, technologically advanced, like Dubai, have demonstrated the same tendency, basing their superiority on messages from some god who happens to mirror that particular people cultural, religious atrocities.

As we know, if anyone of us started using god as a reason for doing whatever we want, it would be short-lived and disastrous and declared mentally insane.

Any fool who espouses such theory needs authoritarian power, that is, power entrenched in institutions of tradition, religion, and popular belief in magical thinking.

None of us have that.

Our particular system is based on guilt/More on that later.

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Top Secret

The law has always been more about governance of the oppressed. And belief in the illusion that law gives us freedom rather than takes it away. It's a Secret how the law really works. Does the world need so many lawyers, justices, and enforcers? It's like the proverbial infinite number of monkeys typing out the entire repertoire of jurisprudence.

There is no rule of law for the rich and those in power. The percentage of the top one percent being punished is absolute zero. Trials for treason at the top go on and on and wind up on the cutting room floor, usually with monetary slaps on the wrist while people like Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and many others waste away. 

If Julian Assange had just put those documents he obtained into his garage, house, mansion, he could have saved himself alot of trouble. What was in those precious documents is no longer a secret and, in fact, no one, except a few liberals, certainly no one in congress, or the presidency or the military cares, so it only proves the law is more about severity of punishment in relationship to the further you are down the ladder toward the bottom, where there, injustice is meted out more harshly.

For it seems possession of top-secret documents without authorization to possess them is okay if you once had power, prestige, or acrimony against the government but for others, it leaves a dangling participle of a math question: is possession nine-tenths of the law or is publication 100% of the crime?

There must be a hidden axiom somewhere that it is easier to punish a dirty man for being unclean than a clean man for being without morals.

Lawyers, are of course, the supposed spiritual mediums between the accused and the jailed but more between the law and the large realm of those who could become criminal over any trifle or breaking of social convention. Look at the laws surrounding marijuana and abortion. 

The laws related to our freedom are rife with restriction, whereas all men are created equal never became law.

Jerry Epstein and Harvey Weinstein, for instance, are/were criminal cross-overs., that is, they are/were not wealthy enough to escape the law ( however, because of their associations with sexual pedophiles and celebrities they worked the axiom long enough), they simply got caught in a maelstrom of righteous anger and the rich were forced to punish their own kind, although many of their friends were and are of the same ilk, politicians, 

It's unfortunate, that, like many other current trends of neo-liberal thinking trying to convince us that we should just let the system work it out, the interpretation of the law has become the darling of non-profit, morality organizations, that rely on donations and small change aphorisms. 

Somewhere along the line, we, the people, have lost our way. The path forward must be stashed away in either the toxic vaults of corporate elitism or political apathy. Stamp it, Top Secret-SIOP-ESI

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Paranoid

Is it any wonder we're the most paranoid culture on earth. don't believe me. think about it. we're a culture

 that believes everybody we deem important is watching us. God (for obvious reasons, heaven or hell

 being at stake, Santa Claus ( he knows if you've been bad or good).the tooth fairy ( how else would it

 know who has teeth under the pillow?), the government (mostly because of taxes, security and safety (for

 them), let's see who or what else is watching over me, how about every fucking camera in every store and

 street corner, they're all watching you. in fact, I'm watching you, and you, and you, all of me is watching you.

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FDR, "Economic Bill of Rights," 1944

https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/course/21/21h.102/www/Primary%20source%20collections/World%20War%20II/FDR,%20Economic%20Bill%20of%20Rights.html


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Reflections On Evil by Frederick Foote

Reflections On Evil 

Fascism seems more subtle

Fascism is more subtle than we tend to think of it. In its weakened and initial stages, it is more anti- intellectual than anything else, which gives it a wide range to wander the institutional and philosophical, cultural, social, and political milieu. Change is certainly its goal, but what kind of change?

Heres some examples of daily activities or issues most common people have to deal with and fascism plays the scene.

Recent book restrictions, the freedom to read, publish and display.

Education is one of the playgrounds for fascist level, pretty much at the same level as literary and videography censorship, many fascist leaning people always have something to say about what to teach the children. Unfortunately, a society where two people in a family have to work must have little time to complain, much less to deal with the education of their kids. Public education was fine with segregation but when segregation ended neo liberals i.e. The suburban middle class of the time went to work to establish a new segregated school philosophy based on the division of so-called college bound preference students and those destined to be unfilled and unfulfilled in working class or blue-collar jobs.

Lastly, fascism earmarks a type of religious violence as tools of submission, not only in our daily life but in the nation's adherence to violence as a mechanism for control.

All these issues are the mainstay of a fascist leaning philosophy that for the most part is the result of social conditioning through ad hoc systemic institutions, like having two-tiered justice systems, two-tiered class structure, despite the fact that when a person says two tiered there might be a tendency to think there is some form of red line upon which neither tier can or cannot cross. No, that is the reason for a complex, nation state set of rules, laws, regulations that in some instances give justice to each tier equally, especially upon public demand, but for the most part, injustice, inequality, inhumanity is an institutionalized framework designed to give the semblance of order.

Thats our constitution, folks. 

I taught government in high school and i can tell you as close to the truth as i can get that the constitution is all about structure and defense of a wealthy, landowning class and the intellectuals and neo-liberals of the day had to fight to get the bill of rights in there as well but, of course, the bills of rights are as close as these men could come to the ten commandments but like the ten commandments, the Rights did not, nor do they apply to everyone and from there, that's all we, the common people, have been trying to get.

The fascist try and keep the situation stagnant by purposefully denying society changes at all, whether by political forces or just natural, social relationships evolving along with technological and scientific learning and laws, basically an intellectual type of involvement, or evolution.

Im sorry to say but being an intellectual is actually frowned upon in the neo-liberal controlled left movements of the modern world. Issues are merely discussed or referred to in a personalized, ideological framework, harking backward to the day when individualism reigned supreme. In america, cultural equality runs rampant, but it also was the same in 1920 and 1930s western society before the rise of different fascist politics that rose out of what they deemed "anarchist and evil" social influences.

Watching the world cup im amazed of the rise of arab nation states and their modern and in some cases, fantastic, other worldly city scapes, architecture. I'm also reminded that Dick Cheney and others of the bush era bought condos, property in doha and other such places, and if there is a leftist/ or neo- liberal anywhere who believes that if and when the shit hits the fan that freedom among the western world underbelly is going to be safe, please let them step forward and tell us their plan for a new, righteous world order.

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History the looking glass path

History and the past is the looking glass path upon which we travel to see where we are going next, into an ever shrinking future, a short, a small, a smaller, a maze of lies, deceits, and reckless genocides, a conundrum of rudderless motion, where we entangle ourselves in misinterpretations, dreams, and eunuch philosopies. We will become extinct before we go to mars. Thats the bet. Then try another way, over and over again and again, try, try, again.

Back to the same starting point, repeating ourselves with a new wand, sword or magical thinking, like a snake eating its tail. Ever Since the scientists of Egypt discovered the permanence of death and worship of the afterlife, the stars scattered throughout  the universe, the world and our place in it has shrunk, 

and no matter how far or how much we can imagine, 

the smaller we became like Alice in the looking glass. 

our destiny becomes more and more tenuous 

and ridiculous as if reality is anything we can count on, drifting on a life raft presumably saved yet watching the drowning of the titanic.

I am becoming coyote.

If you're not paranoid, then you're not being realistic.

There's no rhyme nor reason when it comes to love, yet poets and scientists try to capture it's essence with words or pictures

It's our time, not yours. 

Coyote the man, nefarious man, not of this world, certainly not the way of the human. 

Coyote is Indian, is the desert, is the field, and is the natural man, cruel when he can be, a joker, a real wide stoker, take me to the movies

I couldn't help but notice your unkind looks, the way you make money I suppose. There isn't much under the sun that I don't notice, but that took me by surprise. I don't like surprises, unless I'm the surprise.

What did you think was going to happen?

You've got a crazy man on one side and a bunch of hipped out innocents that are going about things in the wrong way and it's like some sort of social Molotov cocktail but without the streamers.

I can't help noticing the angles of your curves. The friendliness of your suppleness and subtlety is surprising me too. Come on baby, let's do the stroll.

Coyote is out of date.

I ran across those FTB last year. They were burying somebody not less than fifty feet from the tracks, where the sand was still loose and deep enough. Some poor sucker who liked trains when he was younger and probably couldn't believe his bad luck once he realized he wasn't going home ever again.

I see it all the time,

Never going home again.

I see it right now, some of these people are never going to be the same.

Never going home again.

I see it right now, some of these people are never going to be the same.

I'll help it along because that's what I'm all about.

Yes, we can

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