For the sake of baseless hoopla last week, the world was entranced by another apocalyptic prediction, by a man who touts no more special powers than being elderly and fatalistic in his views of the Bible. May 21st, 2011, the world ended, just as it did on January 1st, and just like it will December-twenty-somethingth 2012.
That will be the third publicized hocus-pocus brewed through the popular believes of those who really have nothing else to look forward to besides total global destruction, the unleashing of Hell on Earth, and mass disease, death, and suffering. Who wouldn't be psyched? Society is the most bass-akwards it has ever been, when people get off to the idea of human extinction. I've read the books, and not just the Christian ones, and few times do I see Jesus, God, Allah, Zeus, any of them celebrate the demise of people like people do. Most of the time History and fable alike show us the repeating theme of, "I am my worst enemy". Man is both a suicidal and homicidal maniac, Hell bent on creating fear and raising tension, perhaps that is why there is a tick in the public pulse to pray for the end in this generation. Maybe people just want to be put out of their misery.
There is no reward for being cowardly or submissive in this world or the next. I've never seen those who beg for pity rise to any occasion, it isn't in nature or God's code, and I've been paying attention.
If you believe in God simply because you want to be special, don't even kneel. If you think going to church once a week and listening to another human tell you about God, then wake up every day and go on about the rest of your life in routine fashion, you missed the point. Don't tell me about the destructive force of God, or his hateful inferno that will burn "faggots" or sear the insides of those living in sin. Save your breath, you missed the point. Take the hate, the sense of superiority, the feelings of destruction and turn them on yourself, because you aren't making the world a better place, a realistic place, or a place worthy of any holy entity's surveillance.
We are now a people of lazy patience, waiting for something greater than us to arrive, ignoring the wrong before us in our daily lives, taunting the forces of nature, tempting the fate we don't even take time to analyze.
I don't go to church, and I can't claim to have ever read the Bible in it's entirety, but I do believe salvation lies within, take it how you will, just feel free to keep it between yourself and God. Instead of living in the shadow of doom, masturbating at the prospect of widespread death throughout the world, make yourself useful enough to at least add a shred of positive energy into existence. "Live every day like it's your last, learn every day as if you will live forever" It's powerful sentences like these that drive the human spirit and inject us with a sense of wonder about the things hanging above, don't celebrate the prospect of a death a majority fear too much to confront, and there for live irrationally.
Every time an end of the world scenario heats up, I don't look forward to a bloodbath, I reflect on my life and self, then wonder what I could do better, what I would regret never doing, and that usually makes the next day a lot more meaningful, especially when it's still there. I don't fear the end, I don't celebrate the end, I simply celebrate now and know every moment that passes before me ends forever.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
Ding Dong Osama's Dead, the Wicked Prince, the Wicked Prince
Half way through the depths of a lager, after a long night of work, I learned American troops slaughtered the Boogeyman, Osama Bin Laden, the first person in History to be in the eye of a technological global manhunt. My intense glare gratefully looked at the glistening beer before me, the only thing in that moment that seemed to matter.
"Obama just won re-election" Is the first thought that hit me.
I didn't rush home to gawk at the T.V. or excitedly ask the bartender to pour my nationalistic side a celebratory shot of whiskey. I already knew the images and words our media would submerge the public in. The moment seemed surreal through the scrolling words of a newsline beneath the Red Sox game, and I can honestly say I didn't care emotionally, no tears or smiles...I felt nothing. When I arrived home to force myself to the television, I was just in time to witness the empty soul of our modern fuhrer, President Obama, taking credit for the action, and delivering one of the most important speeches of our time with the same emotionless face that stretched across my guise. Obama's words, "The War on Terrorism is far from over" rattled through the cracks of my brain. To me this was stating the obvious, as the manhunt for Osama has deviated to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, instability in Egypt, Bahrain, and bombings in Libya, soon to see the soil of Syria. I saw a War on Terror become a dissolution of guaranteed rights like freedom of speech, press, and assembly, I saw the war turn home as American citizens are treated like terrorists every day, groped by the TSA and herded through the x-rays of advanced screenings.
Visions of brutal police pummeled unmarked vans filled with government agents and headphones, scrolling slowly through green neighborhoods. I saw WTO protestors in Pittsburgh maced, beaten, and deafened, as the quiet screams of a man plummeting from the upper levels of the World Trade Center plunged into gangs of depressed stockholders frantically selling off shares to compensate for loss. One thousand tickets in their hands transformed to political signs reading "Obama/Biden" as a wonder-struck fifteen year old walked into Geometry on a fateful day and saw America as he knew it die in a brisk September.
I watched in shock as thousands of whites in D.C. suddenly all appeared at once to celebrate, simultaneously with drunken puppets in Manhattan and Boston. Citizens cheered and ran with flags around the streets in a more "civilized" manner than the cavemen of Pakistan and Palestine who cheered the day the towers fell, overcome by their thirst for blood and joy in death. I reflected on the thousands of innocent men women and children who died on September 11th, the innocent casualties and children carpet bombed in Iraq, the American soldiers who gave their lives fighting a war that only seemed to grow over time without any clear objective. I thought about the onslaught of laws and regulations that came home, the general fear people began to have of their neighbors, and the cold stares of those in burkas who patiently waited to be flogged in the streets. The world will never be the same, Osama is dead, and so is our dream.
I question everything, especially when the "conservative" network FOX boasts the victory for Obama, and the body of our tormentor was immediately cast into the sea without thorough evaluation. The most important corpse in the world caused people to jubilantly cheer and scream without any contemplation of it's significance, and vanished into a watery abyss before speculation, in line with Islamic tradition, because in War, God knows, one must respect the fallen, even the body of a murderer, whom we raked the Earth for a decade to find. I believe the term is "catch and release". I always catch my biggest fish when I don't bring them home.
So relax America, the boogeyman is dead, though you forgot about him over the years, as the beginning of something more sinister festers inside our nation. Worship your leader, because his campaign is rolling and he needs your votes. Celebrate a man who was incapable of worldly expression as he walked into his defining moment. I saw the face of a man who expected the outcome, I saw the face of a man dancing in arrogant victory, who cared more about the delivery of his words than the significance of the day.
The sweeping War on Terror is in fact far from over, but now it needs a new face, and as others jubilantly dance like fools in the streets, I sit and wonder who the next boogeyman will be, and when he will strike. The lust for power inside the core of man has not dwindled, and now we have a man sitting on top of the world, with a feeling of invincibility, and a haunting stare that causes me to tremble.
"Obama just won re-election" Is the first thought that hit me.
I didn't rush home to gawk at the T.V. or excitedly ask the bartender to pour my nationalistic side a celebratory shot of whiskey. I already knew the images and words our media would submerge the public in. The moment seemed surreal through the scrolling words of a newsline beneath the Red Sox game, and I can honestly say I didn't care emotionally, no tears or smiles...I felt nothing. When I arrived home to force myself to the television, I was just in time to witness the empty soul of our modern fuhrer, President Obama, taking credit for the action, and delivering one of the most important speeches of our time with the same emotionless face that stretched across my guise. Obama's words, "The War on Terrorism is far from over" rattled through the cracks of my brain. To me this was stating the obvious, as the manhunt for Osama has deviated to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, instability in Egypt, Bahrain, and bombings in Libya, soon to see the soil of Syria. I saw a War on Terror become a dissolution of guaranteed rights like freedom of speech, press, and assembly, I saw the war turn home as American citizens are treated like terrorists every day, groped by the TSA and herded through the x-rays of advanced screenings.
Visions of brutal police pummeled unmarked vans filled with government agents and headphones, scrolling slowly through green neighborhoods. I saw WTO protestors in Pittsburgh maced, beaten, and deafened, as the quiet screams of a man plummeting from the upper levels of the World Trade Center plunged into gangs of depressed stockholders frantically selling off shares to compensate for loss. One thousand tickets in their hands transformed to political signs reading "Obama/Biden" as a wonder-struck fifteen year old walked into Geometry on a fateful day and saw America as he knew it die in a brisk September.
I watched in shock as thousands of whites in D.C. suddenly all appeared at once to celebrate, simultaneously with drunken puppets in Manhattan and Boston. Citizens cheered and ran with flags around the streets in a more "civilized" manner than the cavemen of Pakistan and Palestine who cheered the day the towers fell, overcome by their thirst for blood and joy in death. I reflected on the thousands of innocent men women and children who died on September 11th, the innocent casualties and children carpet bombed in Iraq, the American soldiers who gave their lives fighting a war that only seemed to grow over time without any clear objective. I thought about the onslaught of laws and regulations that came home, the general fear people began to have of their neighbors, and the cold stares of those in burkas who patiently waited to be flogged in the streets. The world will never be the same, Osama is dead, and so is our dream.
I question everything, especially when the "conservative" network FOX boasts the victory for Obama, and the body of our tormentor was immediately cast into the sea without thorough evaluation. The most important corpse in the world caused people to jubilantly cheer and scream without any contemplation of it's significance, and vanished into a watery abyss before speculation, in line with Islamic tradition, because in War, God knows, one must respect the fallen, even the body of a murderer, whom we raked the Earth for a decade to find. I believe the term is "catch and release". I always catch my biggest fish when I don't bring them home.
So relax America, the boogeyman is dead, though you forgot about him over the years, as the beginning of something more sinister festers inside our nation. Worship your leader, because his campaign is rolling and he needs your votes. Celebrate a man who was incapable of worldly expression as he walked into his defining moment. I saw the face of a man who expected the outcome, I saw the face of a man dancing in arrogant victory, who cared more about the delivery of his words than the significance of the day.
The sweeping War on Terror is in fact far from over, but now it needs a new face, and as others jubilantly dance like fools in the streets, I sit and wonder who the next boogeyman will be, and when he will strike. The lust for power inside the core of man has not dwindled, and now we have a man sitting on top of the world, with a feeling of invincibility, and a haunting stare that causes me to tremble.
Friday, January 21, 2011
An Open Letter to the Next Doomed Generation
President Obama will be giving his State of the Union Address shortly, and this young writer has decided it's time to knock some dust off the type-writer. It was around this time two years ago I watched as the first African American president was inaugurated into the White House. It was an exciting time, one which promised change from the eight year reign of George W. Bush, a man driven into the Oval Office by his own religious convictions, and decades of political rule by oil-soaked relatives.
What I've seen since isn't a change from the corrupt corporate politics of the past, but instead, a crash course with the reality of what our country is becoming, a watered-down promise that has only faded alongside whispers of potential from a rich history. There are unsettling feelings about the future, but what do you expect from someone born at the turn of a century, speculated as a doomed generation, susceptible only to televisions and the promise of Armageddon.
I confronted my own death and the prospect of an afterlife some time ago, and it was a period of mental growth, as opposed to the destruction easily handed out in pill-form to countless other searching souls. Though I came out of the experience a deeper being, I found myself spat out into the core of a society riddled with fateful gloom. Facing my own death was nothing compared to the difficult task of witnessing what I perceive as the death of Democracy and individual freedom...quite possibly the death of the American civilization.
While reading through my copies of "Ken Magazine", a publication from the late thirties, I've learned political banter hasn't changed much over time, though we have had ages to learn and grow. The disheartening sense comes from the faint pulse of the average American citizen. I am surrounded by an attitude that everything worth happening has already occurred, and the progress of humanity has hit a wall, only to be replaced by the very real phenomena of a transformation into something more sinister, where every thing and person has a number attached to it, with little gripes from the faces of those who were born for something greater.
I've always been searching for that something, though the feeling has no name or distinction. I haven't found it in love or violence, two factors that seem to elucidate this reality. It wasn't found in my own writing, or my time spent working on campaigns in New York. The prominent title and feeling of self-importance only took me so far, and Obama has only further proven this feeling cannot be subsided by empty promises of sweeping reform.
While African Americans celebrated the accomplishment of having representation of their culture in the White House, I found this too is a farce, I still have yet to see a President or any politician for that matter that represents "me" or anyone who has ever grown through struggle. Sure, every slick suit-and-tie attributes their success to generations of poor immigrants and broken households, but all I see are a select few with millions or billions in the bank, and a keen sense of self-importance I myself found somewhat repulsive. I do not see Obama's grandfather losing his house of forty years, I do not see Obama as a broken man who's aspiring only to be a writer (a promise of more poverty to come), nor do I see his children being sent to foreign lands with the promise of coming out a man, only to find folded flags and unquestioned nationalism pushed by unfamiliar talking heads. I see instead, a generation of soldiers being used for political rhetoric they will never quite understand.
It is a time where calling an economy and government controlled by outsourcing billionaires "fascist" makes you a communist, and to denounce communist ideologies such as government run healthcare and education only makes you a right-wing lunatic with poor education. As major banks receive bailouts to uphold public consumer debt while taking money from tax dollars of the indebted, I continue to type, though I cannot find or hear my own voice in a time where any passionate words basted in honesty fall on deaf or severed ears. I am to the masses and two-party system, someone who doesn't "get it", though I have studied American political History in my free time since second grade, and received a degree in the realm of both politics and history, only to work in what I'm convinced, is the most corrupt political party in the country, the New York City Democratic Party.
Maybe I will "get it" when Obama lies with a cocky grin to those who put so much faith into his words, or perhaps when he tells a truly divided nation, "our union is strong". Perhaps it will take more time for me to "get it", like when the Department of Homeland Security dwarfs every other government bureaucracy in size, and turns it's iron sights on any opinionated youth looking to make real change through an assumed 1st amendment right. The red flag has been raised, it is used to hang those on stand-by, who hope without action for a brighter future. The signs are here, the beginning stages of this presidency are eerily similar to the technological and scientific totalitarian leaders of the past. I am watching tearful Democrats cheer on what I see as a reincarnate to Stalin's "Great Purge", or Hitler's psychosis of the youth.
This is not all directed solely towards Obama, the most arrogant and engineered politician I have ever seen, but instead to a land where political ideologies have shareholders and sub-prime loans. Mussolini, a rather infamous fascist once said, "Fascism should be called corporatism, because it is a merger of the state and corporate interests". I'll take his word for it, then apply that to a place where failed companies are bolstered by the government, and billion dollar industries betray the soil they were nursed upon by sending jobs overseas, so 3rd world peoples can be exploited for a nickle a week. Nike sells pairs of shoes for over a hundred-dollars, pays less than a dollar to make the product, then turn around and gives hundreds of millions to Lebron James, a millionaire already from his profession, and a God among those with no interest in reality, who wish they could play the game of basketball only half as well.
As sponsors like Lebron win titles and royalties, the rest of us lose both our dignity and morality, this coming from a young binge-drinker who hasn't seen the inside of a church in years, and even then only attended on the strings of a girl who confused his moral structure.
The newspaper is dying, only to be replaced by corporate media websites, stocked with stories of celebrities, brought to you by Advil. The book reading public has died off, replaced only by the teenage sagas of werewolves and vampires, with the literary richness of condom instructions. For this aspiring writer who feels a desperate need to be heard, it is not a happy prospect. I don't care for fame or money or notoriety, but only pray that I can put my thoughts on the table, as I believe unlike so many others, I have the intent of enriching the national conversation and helping people understand why they are so fucked. Not fucked in the literal sense, as this natural occurrence needs no explanation, but fucked in a strangling sense, like when a Boa fucks the curious and completely unaware mouse which was raised only to be eaten alive.
I see oil-prices sky-rocketing and causing a chain reaction throughout the economy, I see "For Sale" signs becoming more prominent than mailboxes in front yards, and youth who live for a fix, or self-inflicted pain from tattoos and piercings, At least when they get this "work done" they are inflicting the pain on themselves... perhaps it is the last shred of control our children feel they have in this world. While the dollar falls, and our legislators spew tax-dollars overseas, countries arm themselves and hide agendas behind the desks of diplomatic spies. Everything is a lie, from global policies to the neighbor's marriage, and the lepers of America would rather wear make-up than treat their illness.
So I look forward to Obama's upcoming speech, where he will tell a neurotic land to lay down it's right to bear arms, because another lone lunatic in Loughner has affected a whole nation. I look forward to hearing Obama push Internet censorship because sharp critiques of global fascism have brought the truth closer to home than ever before. I look forward to the other pertinent issues he will discuss, only adding fuel to the domestic fire. These men have perfected the art of divide and conquer politics, Bush and Obama have both turned our aggression so inward between political lines, that the shady deals and deceitful words they harbor go unnoticed by most, whom are too busy clubbing each other to death.
At least one is safe to assume the freedom of opinion on his type-writer from the 1970's, before IBM began monitoring web activity, and Alltel turned private conversations into information buffets for intelligence agencies around the world. At least for now, one is safe to assume thoughts and ideas still have a glimmer of hope against the dehumanizing technocrats who wish to transform man into a Godless beast of burden, so empty beards can spread ripples across the seven seas on million dollar yachts, joking of the bastardization of mankind they created, as if the world is nothing more than a game of chess among "civilized" gentlemen.
What I've seen since isn't a change from the corrupt corporate politics of the past, but instead, a crash course with the reality of what our country is becoming, a watered-down promise that has only faded alongside whispers of potential from a rich history. There are unsettling feelings about the future, but what do you expect from someone born at the turn of a century, speculated as a doomed generation, susceptible only to televisions and the promise of Armageddon.
I confronted my own death and the prospect of an afterlife some time ago, and it was a period of mental growth, as opposed to the destruction easily handed out in pill-form to countless other searching souls. Though I came out of the experience a deeper being, I found myself spat out into the core of a society riddled with fateful gloom. Facing my own death was nothing compared to the difficult task of witnessing what I perceive as the death of Democracy and individual freedom...quite possibly the death of the American civilization.
While reading through my copies of "Ken Magazine", a publication from the late thirties, I've learned political banter hasn't changed much over time, though we have had ages to learn and grow. The disheartening sense comes from the faint pulse of the average American citizen. I am surrounded by an attitude that everything worth happening has already occurred, and the progress of humanity has hit a wall, only to be replaced by the very real phenomena of a transformation into something more sinister, where every thing and person has a number attached to it, with little gripes from the faces of those who were born for something greater.
I've always been searching for that something, though the feeling has no name or distinction. I haven't found it in love or violence, two factors that seem to elucidate this reality. It wasn't found in my own writing, or my time spent working on campaigns in New York. The prominent title and feeling of self-importance only took me so far, and Obama has only further proven this feeling cannot be subsided by empty promises of sweeping reform.
While African Americans celebrated the accomplishment of having representation of their culture in the White House, I found this too is a farce, I still have yet to see a President or any politician for that matter that represents "me" or anyone who has ever grown through struggle. Sure, every slick suit-and-tie attributes their success to generations of poor immigrants and broken households, but all I see are a select few with millions or billions in the bank, and a keen sense of self-importance I myself found somewhat repulsive. I do not see Obama's grandfather losing his house of forty years, I do not see Obama as a broken man who's aspiring only to be a writer (a promise of more poverty to come), nor do I see his children being sent to foreign lands with the promise of coming out a man, only to find folded flags and unquestioned nationalism pushed by unfamiliar talking heads. I see instead, a generation of soldiers being used for political rhetoric they will never quite understand.
It is a time where calling an economy and government controlled by outsourcing billionaires "fascist" makes you a communist, and to denounce communist ideologies such as government run healthcare and education only makes you a right-wing lunatic with poor education. As major banks receive bailouts to uphold public consumer debt while taking money from tax dollars of the indebted, I continue to type, though I cannot find or hear my own voice in a time where any passionate words basted in honesty fall on deaf or severed ears. I am to the masses and two-party system, someone who doesn't "get it", though I have studied American political History in my free time since second grade, and received a degree in the realm of both politics and history, only to work in what I'm convinced, is the most corrupt political party in the country, the New York City Democratic Party.
Maybe I will "get it" when Obama lies with a cocky grin to those who put so much faith into his words, or perhaps when he tells a truly divided nation, "our union is strong". Perhaps it will take more time for me to "get it", like when the Department of Homeland Security dwarfs every other government bureaucracy in size, and turns it's iron sights on any opinionated youth looking to make real change through an assumed 1st amendment right. The red flag has been raised, it is used to hang those on stand-by, who hope without action for a brighter future. The signs are here, the beginning stages of this presidency are eerily similar to the technological and scientific totalitarian leaders of the past. I am watching tearful Democrats cheer on what I see as a reincarnate to Stalin's "Great Purge", or Hitler's psychosis of the youth.
This is not all directed solely towards Obama, the most arrogant and engineered politician I have ever seen, but instead to a land where political ideologies have shareholders and sub-prime loans. Mussolini, a rather infamous fascist once said, "Fascism should be called corporatism, because it is a merger of the state and corporate interests". I'll take his word for it, then apply that to a place where failed companies are bolstered by the government, and billion dollar industries betray the soil they were nursed upon by sending jobs overseas, so 3rd world peoples can be exploited for a nickle a week. Nike sells pairs of shoes for over a hundred-dollars, pays less than a dollar to make the product, then turn around and gives hundreds of millions to Lebron James, a millionaire already from his profession, and a God among those with no interest in reality, who wish they could play the game of basketball only half as well.
As sponsors like Lebron win titles and royalties, the rest of us lose both our dignity and morality, this coming from a young binge-drinker who hasn't seen the inside of a church in years, and even then only attended on the strings of a girl who confused his moral structure.
The newspaper is dying, only to be replaced by corporate media websites, stocked with stories of celebrities, brought to you by Advil. The book reading public has died off, replaced only by the teenage sagas of werewolves and vampires, with the literary richness of condom instructions. For this aspiring writer who feels a desperate need to be heard, it is not a happy prospect. I don't care for fame or money or notoriety, but only pray that I can put my thoughts on the table, as I believe unlike so many others, I have the intent of enriching the national conversation and helping people understand why they are so fucked. Not fucked in the literal sense, as this natural occurrence needs no explanation, but fucked in a strangling sense, like when a Boa fucks the curious and completely unaware mouse which was raised only to be eaten alive.
I see oil-prices sky-rocketing and causing a chain reaction throughout the economy, I see "For Sale" signs becoming more prominent than mailboxes in front yards, and youth who live for a fix, or self-inflicted pain from tattoos and piercings, At least when they get this "work done" they are inflicting the pain on themselves... perhaps it is the last shred of control our children feel they have in this world. While the dollar falls, and our legislators spew tax-dollars overseas, countries arm themselves and hide agendas behind the desks of diplomatic spies. Everything is a lie, from global policies to the neighbor's marriage, and the lepers of America would rather wear make-up than treat their illness.
So I look forward to Obama's upcoming speech, where he will tell a neurotic land to lay down it's right to bear arms, because another lone lunatic in Loughner has affected a whole nation. I look forward to hearing Obama push Internet censorship because sharp critiques of global fascism have brought the truth closer to home than ever before. I look forward to the other pertinent issues he will discuss, only adding fuel to the domestic fire. These men have perfected the art of divide and conquer politics, Bush and Obama have both turned our aggression so inward between political lines, that the shady deals and deceitful words they harbor go unnoticed by most, whom are too busy clubbing each other to death.
At least one is safe to assume the freedom of opinion on his type-writer from the 1970's, before IBM began monitoring web activity, and Alltel turned private conversations into information buffets for intelligence agencies around the world. At least for now, one is safe to assume thoughts and ideas still have a glimmer of hope against the dehumanizing technocrats who wish to transform man into a Godless beast of burden, so empty beards can spread ripples across the seven seas on million dollar yachts, joking of the bastardization of mankind they created, as if the world is nothing more than a game of chess among "civilized" gentlemen.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Pay Attention, You're Tripping Balls Right Now
I don't remember the first time I took acid, I guess that's the mind fuck of the whole thing.
The strangest thing about acid isn't when you eat it, but long after, when you think to yourself "what the Hell was that all about?"
In the midst of what strikes the brain as psychotic illusions, the mind feels satisfied and all knowing...even if you are laughing uncontrollably for what seems like weeks. The laughter and visual obsession with the weird distracts the brain from thinking to itself, "Christ, this is weird". Even if Christ did agree with you, he would only be adding to the problem by speaking up.
I never had a major gripe with LSD, but it's always important to keep an arm's length distance. A week long bender could quickly turn into decades being the strange old man on the bicycle. "Poor bastard" They'll say, "I wonder if he even remembers anything."
Colors never look the same again, but they don't hurt the eyes so much. Sometimes to smooth over the intense buzzing, you have to ignore flashes and the constantly changing spectrum, and actually think to yourself, "Is this real?". As always, a cigarette is necessary for this debate.
"Kill the bastards! I'm just kidding, none of this matters...Holy Shit, I'm hungry. Did they just hear me? Am I talking out loud? OHHH I'm in trouble."
It's best to have friends you trust the most around during an intense dive into psychedelics; you never know if you'll come out the same, and there's always a good chance you'll come down, not liking the person you just tripped with. If someone likes you less because of your actions on acid, screw em'.
It's been a while since I climbed out of the rabbit hole, and in hindsight, it was an interesting ride...not the kind to write home about, not the kind to hold proudly, but definitely the kind of ride to remember fondly. If anything, it's a ride that reminds us what it's like to know the thrill of feeling young at heart.
I'm not younger, I took the trip and it was fun for a while, but I won't ever feel a want or need to return, I paid enough attention the first time around to get what I needed from it. Not to mention, the embarrassment of reminiscing on fogged and unreasonable reason is never enjoyable. Nobody is comfortable looking back at themselves and realizing a dose made them slightly insane. "Man I had some crazy thoughts jumping around last night, that was trippy."
I could take a dose everyday, but it wouldn't get me anywhere, it would just keep me in awe of a forever spinning cycle that self-explains itself through reputation alone. Not a good daily routine for the eager mind. No, the eager mind pursues truth through the path of reality, and the truth is, sometimes drugs help you escape faster.
A word of advice, at some point, wander off the path, you might even like it in the grass. Just keep in mind the natural curiosity to move forward and look ahead.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
The Rebel Within
Take a look at the big picture, be aware of the world around you, this is how we learn and grow as people. Be weary of loaded words, things are more complex than definition. Trust is reserved for family and friends, anyone else has an angle or agenda, and it's not always good. Every person makes a difference, your actions and relationships change and effect others. Start a revolution in your mind, be critical of yourself, how do you spend your time? What are you feeding your mind? Have you abandoned nature and true reality?
As you effect things, outside influence and events effect you. When we go to war it is family members, neighbors and friends putting their lives on the line. When taxes and expenses are passed down it is your hard work the government skims from, it's 25% of your livelihood. When media is suppressed your mind is robbed, when bailouts happen you are robbed. These things do effect you, they effect you every day. The writing is on the wall, History has brought us here, History reveals our mistakes and taunts us when they are repeated.
Start a revolution in your mind, because it does matter, you matter. Everything that has been created outside of nature was first an idea, a flash across the mind of a person just like you. We are the shepards of our own lives, our own realities. Picture the world you want to live in, think how we can get there. Look at the past, look at the present, where are we moving as a country, as a society, as a human race? Time slips through our fingers and brings us abruptly to the future, know it, experience it, change it for the better, because time will never cease.
We are on the edge of History, we are the generation bringing in a new millennium, technology is advancing faster than ever before. Question authority, question Science, questions technologies. Are we using them to benefit ourselves or dehumanize ourselves? Are we creating things that will push us forward or repress us in self-loathing and lethargy? It's through scrutiny that we learn truths and perfect our creations. Don't trust the word of someone you don't know on the picture box, investigate for yourself, there are agendas out there that do not care about your best interest or your family. Pat attention.
People can be simplistic, they hold onto fear, and have a tendency to be uncomfortable with anything different from the status quo. What if the status-quo is wrong? What then? As we get older we realize adults were wrong, we realize they are just as childish as we once were. They name-call to advance in an argument without sound reason, they sacrifice others for their own benefit, they hoard and lie. These are human imperfections, and every day we each battle them, every day we are given the opportunity to choose what we do, how we react, and what kind of person we want to be, these opportunities are ageless.
We are fragile yet powerful, through our advances as people we become immortal, but we all perish. Know you will someday die. Every day leading up to that end is yours, define yourself. Don't fear the inevitable, don't let fear control or change you, be selfish with the time you are given, the clock is always ticking. People will always use this fear against you, this is the world we live in, this is our reality. Fear is used to change the world and the futures we envision, the world we have always hoped to forge is twisted with every decision made in the shadow of fear. The government says it will protect you, but nothing can protect you from the ultimate end. In that end will you look back in regret? Will you be proud of standing up for yourself and your convictions, or will you reflect back on the wasted years of cowardly submission?
In History we see every government abuse it's power, strangle it's citizens and conduct unjust wars. It's very real, thousands of people die every day without you noticing, women and children are slaughtered. Do you care? Foreign lands aren't alien planets, they are filled with people just like you, imagine the terror, the pains of these people, and how lucky you were to not see these horrors. Don't take that for granted, because it can happen to you. Be grateful, not afraid. No government in History has ever deserved unwavering trust, every government grows and represses with growth. You are not your government, government is never to be feared or trusted, it's through fear and trust that government has executed the most horrific crimes against humanity.
Reality television, advertisements, cars and "things", they are all distractions. They distract you from the questions you should be asking. "Why am I here?" "What is life's purpose?" "What happens when I die?" "What is right?" These are the questions we are here to ask, these questions are complex, we are given a lifetime to figure them out. You are born and die naked, alone, with no car or home or bank account. What happens in between those two days is what you gain in life, it is what you do with that time that empowers and fulfills you. Never let someone else answer these questions for you.
This isn't a game, this isn't a talking point, it's your life. What will you do with it? Are you paying attention and looking to the future, or doing what your told, wasting away the years before your ultimate fate? Live, love, learn, and laugh, ask questions, stand up for yourself, be someone you can be proud of, be aware.
As you effect things, outside influence and events effect you. When we go to war it is family members, neighbors and friends putting their lives on the line. When taxes and expenses are passed down it is your hard work the government skims from, it's 25% of your livelihood. When media is suppressed your mind is robbed, when bailouts happen you are robbed. These things do effect you, they effect you every day. The writing is on the wall, History has brought us here, History reveals our mistakes and taunts us when they are repeated.
Start a revolution in your mind, because it does matter, you matter. Everything that has been created outside of nature was first an idea, a flash across the mind of a person just like you. We are the shepards of our own lives, our own realities. Picture the world you want to live in, think how we can get there. Look at the past, look at the present, where are we moving as a country, as a society, as a human race? Time slips through our fingers and brings us abruptly to the future, know it, experience it, change it for the better, because time will never cease.
We are on the edge of History, we are the generation bringing in a new millennium, technology is advancing faster than ever before. Question authority, question Science, questions technologies. Are we using them to benefit ourselves or dehumanize ourselves? Are we creating things that will push us forward or repress us in self-loathing and lethargy? It's through scrutiny that we learn truths and perfect our creations. Don't trust the word of someone you don't know on the picture box, investigate for yourself, there are agendas out there that do not care about your best interest or your family. Pat attention.
People can be simplistic, they hold onto fear, and have a tendency to be uncomfortable with anything different from the status quo. What if the status-quo is wrong? What then? As we get older we realize adults were wrong, we realize they are just as childish as we once were. They name-call to advance in an argument without sound reason, they sacrifice others for their own benefit, they hoard and lie. These are human imperfections, and every day we each battle them, every day we are given the opportunity to choose what we do, how we react, and what kind of person we want to be, these opportunities are ageless.
We are fragile yet powerful, through our advances as people we become immortal, but we all perish. Know you will someday die. Every day leading up to that end is yours, define yourself. Don't fear the inevitable, don't let fear control or change you, be selfish with the time you are given, the clock is always ticking. People will always use this fear against you, this is the world we live in, this is our reality. Fear is used to change the world and the futures we envision, the world we have always hoped to forge is twisted with every decision made in the shadow of fear. The government says it will protect you, but nothing can protect you from the ultimate end. In that end will you look back in regret? Will you be proud of standing up for yourself and your convictions, or will you reflect back on the wasted years of cowardly submission?
In History we see every government abuse it's power, strangle it's citizens and conduct unjust wars. It's very real, thousands of people die every day without you noticing, women and children are slaughtered. Do you care? Foreign lands aren't alien planets, they are filled with people just like you, imagine the terror, the pains of these people, and how lucky you were to not see these horrors. Don't take that for granted, because it can happen to you. Be grateful, not afraid. No government in History has ever deserved unwavering trust, every government grows and represses with growth. You are not your government, government is never to be feared or trusted, it's through fear and trust that government has executed the most horrific crimes against humanity.
Reality television, advertisements, cars and "things", they are all distractions. They distract you from the questions you should be asking. "Why am I here?" "What is life's purpose?" "What happens when I die?" "What is right?" These are the questions we are here to ask, these questions are complex, we are given a lifetime to figure them out. You are born and die naked, alone, with no car or home or bank account. What happens in between those two days is what you gain in life, it is what you do with that time that empowers and fulfills you. Never let someone else answer these questions for you.
This isn't a game, this isn't a talking point, it's your life. What will you do with it? Are you paying attention and looking to the future, or doing what your told, wasting away the years before your ultimate fate? Live, love, learn, and laugh, ask questions, stand up for yourself, be someone you can be proud of, be aware.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Government Definition of the Model American: A dumb cowardly submissive lazy fat diseased drunken fool obsessed with money and television...or a felon
Twenty-five percent of the world's prison population is in America. It's estimated one in four African Americans will be in the prison system at some point, and one in eleven American males. China, who our propaganda machine constantly attacks for being oppressive to their population, has 4x more people than we do, yet far-less prisoners, in what we see as an authoritarian communist government. (This is by no means support for communism or China, but our media portrays them as one large prison)
In a free country, we have a staggering amount of people with their freedom taken away. A lot of this stems from The War on Drugs, a war as impossible to win as the War on Terror. You can't wage war on a product with demand or an emotion and expect to win. The War on Drugs as exploded the prison population, sending NON-VIOLENT criminals to prison, our treatment programs are a joke, and have a high failure rate. Drugs addicts have become comparable to the mental patients of the past; nobody in government knows how to deal with them, so they are simply removed from sight.
You can lose your life in prison without taking the life of another person in this country. Many people begin selling drugs because they have no other way of making the large sums of cash, especially is poverty stricken neighborhoods. The federalized educational system fails and disenfranchises many of its youth, then turns around and puts them in prison for selling drugs. When they are arrested someone else steps in to sell the product, it will never end, the cycle has never come close to ending.
Mexico is absolute chaos right now, drug cartels are slaughtering people, and waging war on U.S. Border Patrol. Officials in Mexico claim "it means the war is working". When drugs still pour into the country as before, and violence has spiked. If drugs were decriminalized and sold by pharmacy's all of the money and power would be taken from these violent cartels...yet the "war" continues.
The U.S. Government has no real interest in ending the war on drugs. As a youth in a lower-class area of a lower class town I never remembered hearing people using heroin or talking about it being around town. Now, it's unbelievable how many people who take and become addicted to the drug whom I know personally and are not from broken homes. This happened of course during the War on Terror. Before the war, the Taliban had almost completely wiped out Poppy growth in Afghanistan. Prior to the regime, Afghanistan was the largest producer of Opium worldwide. After U.S. troops arrived, production is up 95% and the biggest export of the country. The media and mouthpieces claim "we have to support the opium trade to keep the farmers with jobs". Now our youth suffer from a growth in heroin, a spike the drug has not seen in decades. (pun intended) I wonder how Afghanistan finds the finances to ship the large quantities of heroin over the world.
If you think I am claiming the U.S. invaded Afghanistan for Opium, you are correct. In the late 80's something very similar happened. The Iran-Contra Affair. The CIA bought Cocaine and showed "Freeway Rick Ross" how to create crack (a more affordable modification of the drug) in L.A. Crack and Cocaine as we know exploded during the 70`s and 80`s. The U.S. Government profited directly from the sale of Cocaine and crack in America, and used the money to support a contra-war in Nicaragua to overthrow the Sandinistas, while also using the money to supply Iran with weapons (who at the time held U.S. hostages)Freeway Ricky Ross ended up in prison for a long time, everyone on the government side of the operation dodged any legal ramifications. Ross' supplier was a CIA agent, this is how his operation became so large, the government didn't touch him until the whole project went public.
So what does all of this mean? It shows the U.S. Government does not care about the people, it looks at us as pawns in the great scheme of global dominance. Our government will take the youth away of it's people and imprison non-violent drug offenders for using or exchanging drugs. This is while the government and CIA wages covert wars for these drugs for rights to distribute in mass quantities.
Private prisons are becoming quite the phenomenon is the U.S., people are making profit from the mistakes of others, they get large government tax breaks and it is IN THEIR INTEREST TO SEE PEOPLE INCARCERATED. There is a prison industry in America. Interesting once again in a "free" country.
During modernity there has been: a devastating fascist government massacring a population of people because of their religion. In our parents generation African Americans were treated as subhuman in so many ways and supported by laws. Europeans nearly erased the indigenous population from this land during it's conception, then humans were shipped to this country to become slaves, Japanese Americans were detained during World War II in America, two major genocides have occurred in the past decade in Africa, another in Bosnia, Japanese massacres in China during WWII, hundreds of thousands of political prisoners executed in Maoist China, hundreds of thousands killed in Stalinist Russia, racial and religious division in Israel.
Excuse me if my tendency is to always mistrust government, because History has shown government is a genocidal maniac. The media frenzy in recent years has directed itself towards people of Latin American heritage and Muslims. Around the world people are detained in prison without judge or jury, held as a terrorist, tortured and executed. Unfortunately for the internationally incarcerated, The Constitution does not expand beyond American borders. Al Qaeda attacked America, not a sovereign nation such as Afghanistan, Iran, or Iraq. Al Qaeda has an international force of...your ready for this? less than 200 people. We didn't find Osama Bin Laden, who is Saudi, just like most of the attackers on 9/11.
Our reason for war in Afghanistan was "terrorists operated from there" where the most extreme sect of Islam, Wahhabism is Saudi Arabia's official religion, an overwhelming majority of terrorist camps are Wahhabi, and financed directly by members of the Saudi Royal Family. Most of the hijackers as we know were Saudi. Whether you believe the mechanics of 9/11 or not, the motives, targets, outcomes and relationships are extremely questionable. It is hard for me to believe the CIA, FBI, President, Lawmakers and media are all so inherently unintelligent, that they could fuck up a global war so badly, where most of the connections point to our very own ally.
The restriction of free speech in this country and domestic spying has increased through expansion of federal power, while our military has expanded operations into the Middle East. A police state grows under our noses, and most people are either too shallow to care, or too afraid to say or do anything about it. The sheriff, city PD, INS, FBI, CIA, Dept of Homeland Security, the National Guard, Military police, State Troopers and many more could arrest anyone they wish, move them through the prison system either at home or internationally and make them vanish if they wanted to. Just so happens over 1 million people go missing in the U.S. every year, less than a thousand dead are found. I'm not making assumptions, but I find it overwhelming how many people disappear from this country, go to prison in this country, or die in an attack by this government when compared to other countries worldwide.
Every major country has at one time or another involved itself in war crimes, and this makes sense, due to how much of a crime war itself is against humanity. Brute force, intimidation, high tech weapons, compliance, fear-mongering is all used by this government both domestically and internationally to cause people to submit. Search police brutality, US war crimes, and the such, it happens every day. Look how violently suppressed protesters are in this day and age, it looks like Communist fucking Russia. The lethargic, pop-culture obsessed, fat, mentally dying U.S. public is the most depressed in the world clinically. Nobody wonders why, they just feed you more drugs, alter your mind, numb you.
Depression occurs because people hate themselves or their lives. Drugs aren't going to change you or your life, they alter senses. Just because a drug is legal and made by Pfizer doesn't mean its healthy or only has positive effects. It alters your mind, the chemical makeup of you. Here is an idea for depressed people, your job has you down? QUIT. Significant other making you miserable? GO GET SOMEONE ELSE. Hopelessly lost in debt? FUCK EM, YOU DON'T HAVE THE MONEY. Want to get away from your life? GO, RUN AWAY.
This generation is nothing more than a science experiment, people refuse to read, they believe whatever they see on television, though they remind themselves daily how reality can be changed with special effects. New drugs come out to make the imperfect (everyone) perfect. Hair removal, fat burners, wrinkle remover, penis enlargers, drugs to change eyelashes, skin, nails. Commercials pound these products into your head every day to make you feel imperfect. We are fed Cheetos, soda, candy, fast food, grease, all of the things guaranteed to kill. We are slowly becoming a diluted, processed, molded humanity.
One of my favorite lyrics says "There is a war going on for your mind, if you are thinking you are winning". I write these articles because I'm pissed off, I see through the bullshit the government and false speakers present. They prove themselves to be untrustworthy on a daily basis and people still trust them, or simply ignore the problems of our world. There is such a lack of pride or will to fight for good in this world, and I find it disgusting. We accept how dumbed down our population is, and find how blatantly the government keeps people from receiving quality education, or how media and teachers keep important information from people necessary to make an informed and proper decision.
Many are imprisoned in this country physically, but even more are imprisoned mentally. I'm asked so many times "What can I do about it?" "What are you going to do about it" when it comes to the issues I raise. I do my part, I read up on what goes on, I pay attention to what people on television are actually saying. I know what spin is, I know who pays who, who owns parts of what business, I know history, I find statistics, I seek the truth. I understand the motives of businessmen, congressmen, and others, and I realize too many coincidences mean there is no coincidence at all. I'm not special or made different than anyone else, I'm not privileged, I'm just paying attention, trying to find what's right in this world, and what is wrong with my country, if everyone did this everything would be right in this world and nothing would be wrong in the country. You only live once, put in some shred of effort to be the best possible you.
"Educate yourself, make your world view bigger, visualize wealth and put yourself in the picture" -KRS ONE
In a free country, we have a staggering amount of people with their freedom taken away. A lot of this stems from The War on Drugs, a war as impossible to win as the War on Terror. You can't wage war on a product with demand or an emotion and expect to win. The War on Drugs as exploded the prison population, sending NON-VIOLENT criminals to prison, our treatment programs are a joke, and have a high failure rate. Drugs addicts have become comparable to the mental patients of the past; nobody in government knows how to deal with them, so they are simply removed from sight.
You can lose your life in prison without taking the life of another person in this country. Many people begin selling drugs because they have no other way of making the large sums of cash, especially is poverty stricken neighborhoods. The federalized educational system fails and disenfranchises many of its youth, then turns around and puts them in prison for selling drugs. When they are arrested someone else steps in to sell the product, it will never end, the cycle has never come close to ending.
Mexico is absolute chaos right now, drug cartels are slaughtering people, and waging war on U.S. Border Patrol. Officials in Mexico claim "it means the war is working". When drugs still pour into the country as before, and violence has spiked. If drugs were decriminalized and sold by pharmacy's all of the money and power would be taken from these violent cartels...yet the "war" continues.
The U.S. Government has no real interest in ending the war on drugs. As a youth in a lower-class area of a lower class town I never remembered hearing people using heroin or talking about it being around town. Now, it's unbelievable how many people who take and become addicted to the drug whom I know personally and are not from broken homes. This happened of course during the War on Terror. Before the war, the Taliban had almost completely wiped out Poppy growth in Afghanistan. Prior to the regime, Afghanistan was the largest producer of Opium worldwide. After U.S. troops arrived, production is up 95% and the biggest export of the country. The media and mouthpieces claim "we have to support the opium trade to keep the farmers with jobs". Now our youth suffer from a growth in heroin, a spike the drug has not seen in decades. (pun intended) I wonder how Afghanistan finds the finances to ship the large quantities of heroin over the world.
If you think I am claiming the U.S. invaded Afghanistan for Opium, you are correct. In the late 80's something very similar happened. The Iran-Contra Affair. The CIA bought Cocaine and showed "Freeway Rick Ross" how to create crack (a more affordable modification of the drug) in L.A. Crack and Cocaine as we know exploded during the 70`s and 80`s. The U.S. Government profited directly from the sale of Cocaine and crack in America, and used the money to support a contra-war in Nicaragua to overthrow the Sandinistas, while also using the money to supply Iran with weapons (who at the time held U.S. hostages)Freeway Ricky Ross ended up in prison for a long time, everyone on the government side of the operation dodged any legal ramifications. Ross' supplier was a CIA agent, this is how his operation became so large, the government didn't touch him until the whole project went public.
So what does all of this mean? It shows the U.S. Government does not care about the people, it looks at us as pawns in the great scheme of global dominance. Our government will take the youth away of it's people and imprison non-violent drug offenders for using or exchanging drugs. This is while the government and CIA wages covert wars for these drugs for rights to distribute in mass quantities.
Private prisons are becoming quite the phenomenon is the U.S., people are making profit from the mistakes of others, they get large government tax breaks and it is IN THEIR INTEREST TO SEE PEOPLE INCARCERATED. There is a prison industry in America. Interesting once again in a "free" country.
During modernity there has been: a devastating fascist government massacring a population of people because of their religion. In our parents generation African Americans were treated as subhuman in so many ways and supported by laws. Europeans nearly erased the indigenous population from this land during it's conception, then humans were shipped to this country to become slaves, Japanese Americans were detained during World War II in America, two major genocides have occurred in the past decade in Africa, another in Bosnia, Japanese massacres in China during WWII, hundreds of thousands of political prisoners executed in Maoist China, hundreds of thousands killed in Stalinist Russia, racial and religious division in Israel.
Excuse me if my tendency is to always mistrust government, because History has shown government is a genocidal maniac. The media frenzy in recent years has directed itself towards people of Latin American heritage and Muslims. Around the world people are detained in prison without judge or jury, held as a terrorist, tortured and executed. Unfortunately for the internationally incarcerated, The Constitution does not expand beyond American borders. Al Qaeda attacked America, not a sovereign nation such as Afghanistan, Iran, or Iraq. Al Qaeda has an international force of...your ready for this? less than 200 people. We didn't find Osama Bin Laden, who is Saudi, just like most of the attackers on 9/11.
Our reason for war in Afghanistan was "terrorists operated from there" where the most extreme sect of Islam, Wahhabism is Saudi Arabia's official religion, an overwhelming majority of terrorist camps are Wahhabi, and financed directly by members of the Saudi Royal Family. Most of the hijackers as we know were Saudi. Whether you believe the mechanics of 9/11 or not, the motives, targets, outcomes and relationships are extremely questionable. It is hard for me to believe the CIA, FBI, President, Lawmakers and media are all so inherently unintelligent, that they could fuck up a global war so badly, where most of the connections point to our very own ally.
The restriction of free speech in this country and domestic spying has increased through expansion of federal power, while our military has expanded operations into the Middle East. A police state grows under our noses, and most people are either too shallow to care, or too afraid to say or do anything about it. The sheriff, city PD, INS, FBI, CIA, Dept of Homeland Security, the National Guard, Military police, State Troopers and many more could arrest anyone they wish, move them through the prison system either at home or internationally and make them vanish if they wanted to. Just so happens over 1 million people go missing in the U.S. every year, less than a thousand dead are found. I'm not making assumptions, but I find it overwhelming how many people disappear from this country, go to prison in this country, or die in an attack by this government when compared to other countries worldwide.
Every major country has at one time or another involved itself in war crimes, and this makes sense, due to how much of a crime war itself is against humanity. Brute force, intimidation, high tech weapons, compliance, fear-mongering is all used by this government both domestically and internationally to cause people to submit. Search police brutality, US war crimes, and the such, it happens every day. Look how violently suppressed protesters are in this day and age, it looks like Communist fucking Russia. The lethargic, pop-culture obsessed, fat, mentally dying U.S. public is the most depressed in the world clinically. Nobody wonders why, they just feed you more drugs, alter your mind, numb you.
Depression occurs because people hate themselves or their lives. Drugs aren't going to change you or your life, they alter senses. Just because a drug is legal and made by Pfizer doesn't mean its healthy or only has positive effects. It alters your mind, the chemical makeup of you. Here is an idea for depressed people, your job has you down? QUIT. Significant other making you miserable? GO GET SOMEONE ELSE. Hopelessly lost in debt? FUCK EM, YOU DON'T HAVE THE MONEY. Want to get away from your life? GO, RUN AWAY.
This generation is nothing more than a science experiment, people refuse to read, they believe whatever they see on television, though they remind themselves daily how reality can be changed with special effects. New drugs come out to make the imperfect (everyone) perfect. Hair removal, fat burners, wrinkle remover, penis enlargers, drugs to change eyelashes, skin, nails. Commercials pound these products into your head every day to make you feel imperfect. We are fed Cheetos, soda, candy, fast food, grease, all of the things guaranteed to kill. We are slowly becoming a diluted, processed, molded humanity.
One of my favorite lyrics says "There is a war going on for your mind, if you are thinking you are winning". I write these articles because I'm pissed off, I see through the bullshit the government and false speakers present. They prove themselves to be untrustworthy on a daily basis and people still trust them, or simply ignore the problems of our world. There is such a lack of pride or will to fight for good in this world, and I find it disgusting. We accept how dumbed down our population is, and find how blatantly the government keeps people from receiving quality education, or how media and teachers keep important information from people necessary to make an informed and proper decision.
Many are imprisoned in this country physically, but even more are imprisoned mentally. I'm asked so many times "What can I do about it?" "What are you going to do about it" when it comes to the issues I raise. I do my part, I read up on what goes on, I pay attention to what people on television are actually saying. I know what spin is, I know who pays who, who owns parts of what business, I know history, I find statistics, I seek the truth. I understand the motives of businessmen, congressmen, and others, and I realize too many coincidences mean there is no coincidence at all. I'm not special or made different than anyone else, I'm not privileged, I'm just paying attention, trying to find what's right in this world, and what is wrong with my country, if everyone did this everything would be right in this world and nothing would be wrong in the country. You only live once, put in some shred of effort to be the best possible you.
"Educate yourself, make your world view bigger, visualize wealth and put yourself in the picture" -KRS ONE
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Tonight I Stand in The Face of History
Tonight may be the last election I witness in American history. People in this country are sick, tired, and poor. The people of this country proved to me tonight they are angry with something in government that cannot be defined by Democrat or Republican. They are angry with a broken system that has disenfranchised them.
I just witnessed national news call Idaho’s Governor race after one-hundred votes. The editors were quick to pull the number from the screen, replacing it with a checkmark graphic next to the projected winner. I saw South Carolina elect a Governor to run their state, with little over twenty-five percent of the population’s vote. My state of Ohio elected it’s Governor with around 30% of the population voting, this is a recurring theme in every state tonight.
Tonight I saw sixty congressional seats and House Majority go to the Republicans two short years after the media claimed the Republican Party died a horrible death, at the hands of a new Democratic wave led by Obama.
Two years after “change” swept the country, “change” has swept through once again.
George Bush exposed corruption in government through his incompetence. I thought to myself many times, “this guy can’t be in charge, someone else has to be making these decisions.” Because of this, I consider George W. Bush the best president of modern times because of his transparency. It didn’t show in policy, but it showed through his horribly written speeches, idiotic debates, and hesitance to respond to anything the American public told him. George W. Bush was incompetent and the worst actor in U.S. Presidential history, and because of this I beame more informed and involved in the way my country works. George Bush woke a sleeping giant with his blunders. This government has led us astray long before George W. Bush, but Bush made government corruption blatant, he brought it to the forefront of our minds.
It was clear after Iraq that Bush’s agenda was not an agenda of the people. It was obvious his agenda was not one of peace or prosperity. We destroyed a surplus and sunk our country through out of control spending led by Republicans. We went into two unjust and pre-emptive wars, incited by an isolated terror attack, and did so led by Republicans.
George Bush won his first presidency without the popular vote, and won a second term through roused patriotism found in wartime. During this time the First Amendment was weakened through the implementation of “Free Speech Zones” repressing the right of assembly. Personal freedoms were fringed upon through the “Patriot Act” as the public’s phones, computers, and privacy could be monitored by the government and police without a warrant. During this time “Habeas Corpus” was damaged by the exposing of water-boarding by the CIA and military.
Dress the facts up in any garb of nationalism you want, but our nation became one of pre-emptive war, where torture tactics became Standard Operating Procedure, and many people around the world were detained, and in some cases executed without any due process of law. We witnessed gay citizens denied their right to happiness and marriage because of religious beliefs that defined marriage, in a country where our forefathers stated a forced separation of church and state.
President George W. Bush’s approval average was forty-nine percent, the highest approval average of any president monitored was John F. Kennedy at seventy percent, who was assassinated. The highest approval point of Kennedy was 83%, Bush’s highest was 90% after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, pushing him into a second term. There is a large shroud of doubt surrounding Kennedy’s assassination, as well as there is surrounding the attacks of 9/11 and the “War on Terror”. Both times the term “conspiracy theory” is tossed around loosely at those who have legitimate questions about details, I believe politicians and “powers that be” change policy and focus on approval ratings more than the people do.
President Obama came into an America angered by politics, after being led by leaders into two blundered wars. John McCain held a lot of support as a moderate Republican who opposed Bush in many of his policies, he touted a respectable service record both in the military and in his public service. According to polls McCain and Obama were very close, until McCain chose the globally ignorant and unseasoned Sarah Palin as his running mate. I thought to myself, “there is no way he is making these campaign decisions" A feeling similar to the feelings I held of the Bush administration. McCain later confirmed Palin was not his decision, and neither were the uncharacteristically brutal and right-wing tactics of his campaign. The man running for president was told what to do by someone else, and it wrecked his campaign.
Obama won the presidency on campaign promises of “change”, the ending of Bush’s wars and the repealing of his policies. Patriot Act and Free Speech Zones were never touched. Troops pulled offensive operations from Iraq but still thousands of troops are in Iraq monitoring the country. The War in Afghanistan has escalated along with drone attacks inside Pakistan borders. Before Bush left office he pushed through a one-hundred and seventy billion dollar stimulus and the printing of more money which pushed inflation of U.S. currency. Obama’s bailout is said to possibly cost upward of three trillion dollars by it’s end. The bailout ensured the upholding of debts held by citizens after the banks proceeded with predatory lending and increases in interest rates of loans. Many have realized foreign policy and domestic policy lacks major change since Obama’s election. It almost seems as if once elected, someone else dictated to Obama what to do My guess is that before he ever sat in the oval office, a large stack of classified briefing papers waited on his desk. The same papers that await every U.S. president. I don’t know what they are or what they say, and that is why I don’t visually age a decade in less than four years.
Many believed if Obama was not elected and failed Bush policies continued under a Republican leader, that Liberals would revolt, weary of the election process and it’s fairness, the effectiveness of ballot counting machines, and the continuation of unpopular American policies.
In a short time President Obama dropped from the public’s choice for change to a forty-seven percent approval rating. Talks of tax increases on a strangling public proved to be the final straw, as Republicans won back a majority after all the damage the party and Bush caused. National unemployment is the highest since The Great Depression. After the housing bubble burst, people are not only losing their jobs, but they are losing their homes, all because of contracts being held over their heads by the very banks their tax-dollars helped bail out. The Democrats botched their chance to fix what ails the country. I wouldn’t expect anything else, as my time in politics has only taught me someone is always on a phone pulling strings, regardless of what party or how powerful the person.
Over the past thirty years we have watched our economic powerhouse collapse. While we continue to drive inflation, print money, and bail out predatory lenders, our factories and unionized jobs have been shipped overseas to underpaid serfs without unionization in countries that take advantage of unfair trade practices. Corporations in our country have effectively bankrupted our people and dissolved their livlihoods while simultaneously enslaving working populations of third world countries globally. Most goods purchased are not manufactured in America, and all goods only cost the producer a miniscule fraction of what they cost the customer. Our once proud economy has become a glorified pyramid scheme, where people like Bernie Madoff are simply a product of their environment. Cheap products sold by untrustworthy men, created to break so they are bought once again. Money decides our careers, our decisions, often our relationships, it also dictates American politics, and has done so well before George Bush took office.
I reflect on this all tonight after rich Republicans take power from rich Democrats in the legislature. The legislature has routinely failed the country and working-class for well over a decade, regardless of which party controlled the Presidency, Congress, or Senate. I look at a public, where the majority does not even take to the ballot. The voting population and minority swings itself on political talking points, repeated through the media and political commercials purchased by the rich politicians and parties.
During 2008 all I heard in any Democratic commercials was the word “change”, in 2010 all I have heard from Republicans was the word “spending”. Once again I did not hear one detailed plan of how anything will happen, why it will happen or when. I did not see one debate where two educated people identified problems and gave specifics to how they would solve them. I saw politics as usual, we turn one way to be let down, then turn the other way in desperation only to again be let down. We will see this trend again only a few short months into this Republican House majority. This is how an oligarchy that is out of touch with the public operates. It takes and absorbs without intentions of ever giving back.
In 2012 the voting minority will either be so tired of the Republican House that they will narrowly vote Obama in for a second term, or they will be so tired of Obama that he will lose the presidency to whatever choice the Republican Party brings forth. If Obama wins, the country will be even further divided and agitated by the end of his presidency. If the Republican Party wins the Presidency and holds on to a majority of the House the inevitable will happen, political chaos. I can’t claim to know when this will happen but I strongly believe it will happen in the next five years. This political unrest has already begun in countries all over the world such as Greece, and I believe the unrest will spread as does the failure of a global economy created and run by corporate leaders and politicians who can never gain enough money or power to satisfy their greed.
Most of the population recognizes early on they will never be President, but now a majority realizes they will never live as citizens respected by their elected officials in the nation their forefathers built. They have long been disenfranchised by two parties controlled by corporate donation money, but now people are losing their homes and their jobs. If these financial trends continue at the pace they have, and the political landscape does not change drastically in the next four years, there will be a revolt.
I fail to say revolution because I believe that would signify a unified and popular mass looking for major reforms to government and policy. I believe we will have a dumbed down and angry mob mentality sweeping the country that has been fueled by government and politics that has mutilated unity in this country through divide and conquer politics. The left and right are angry with government, but also hold a deep hatred for one another, orchestrated by divisive leaders who are not in touch with the American people and the social issues they want resolved. It is just a matter of time before the anger boils over against one another, or the public becomes angry at the same government at the same time.
Most people don’t want this to happen, I am one of those people. But then again, most people don’t vote, they don’t go to rally’s, they don’t scream and demean those with opposing political views. Most people in this country are tolerant of different races, religions, and personal choices, because they have more important things to do than point out others in hatred. The majority is controlled by the minority in elections, a one percent minority controls ninety-nine percent of the country’s wealth. Instead of pulling together for real change and solutions we eat each other while the elite sit back and watch, so high on the pyramid that it doesn’t matter who we elect in this country. They are global, powerful, and out of our political reach.
Tonight I look at a mess created by corrupt politicians on both sides who carelessly affect our everyday lives, running rampant with our finances, destroying our values as a nation. The government decides who can be married, the government OK’d domestic spying, the government OK’d pre-emptive wars and developed imperialism in a country built upon non-interventionist beliefs, the government printed tax dollars to hold its public in debt while destroying the value of the dollar, the government tells the people where to pray and where to protest while the media tells them what to think. After public is told what to think they vote, only to regret their vote once again a few short months.
Tonight I reflect on a broken system and the last peaceful American election I may witness. By 2012 I think the country will either be on the edge of increasing violence, or it will be recognized the election process is so corrupt and broken that I, along with a majority will fail to recognize it as an election at all. While I hope political violence does not spread across the country, I believe it is inevitable. I don’t believe this country will ever be the same again after tonight, I believe anger will hit levels never seen before in my times. It only takes thirty percent to control the other seventy, and it takes way less to cause disturbances or growing violence. Either the people will turn on each other, or the people will turn on their government, at which time the government will strike back hard and repressively. I believed this unrest would be subsided by Obama’s election. After Obama has gone into the midterm elections with such a low approval rating, I believe it’s only a matter of time before things erupt if the economy does not mend.
History has shown lethargy and gridlock in policy when a President’s party is opposite of the legislature’s policy. Based on this, the most hopeful we can be for the future is that things will stay exactly as they are, and I don’t believe most people find that status quo acceptable.
In that time I will keep my beliefs and hope for a better future.
I just witnessed national news call Idaho’s Governor race after one-hundred votes. The editors were quick to pull the number from the screen, replacing it with a checkmark graphic next to the projected winner. I saw South Carolina elect a Governor to run their state, with little over twenty-five percent of the population’s vote. My state of Ohio elected it’s Governor with around 30% of the population voting, this is a recurring theme in every state tonight.
Tonight I saw sixty congressional seats and House Majority go to the Republicans two short years after the media claimed the Republican Party died a horrible death, at the hands of a new Democratic wave led by Obama.
Two years after “change” swept the country, “change” has swept through once again.
George Bush exposed corruption in government through his incompetence. I thought to myself many times, “this guy can’t be in charge, someone else has to be making these decisions.” Because of this, I consider George W. Bush the best president of modern times because of his transparency. It didn’t show in policy, but it showed through his horribly written speeches, idiotic debates, and hesitance to respond to anything the American public told him. George W. Bush was incompetent and the worst actor in U.S. Presidential history, and because of this I beame more informed and involved in the way my country works. George Bush woke a sleeping giant with his blunders. This government has led us astray long before George W. Bush, but Bush made government corruption blatant, he brought it to the forefront of our minds.
It was clear after Iraq that Bush’s agenda was not an agenda of the people. It was obvious his agenda was not one of peace or prosperity. We destroyed a surplus and sunk our country through out of control spending led by Republicans. We went into two unjust and pre-emptive wars, incited by an isolated terror attack, and did so led by Republicans.
George Bush won his first presidency without the popular vote, and won a second term through roused patriotism found in wartime. During this time the First Amendment was weakened through the implementation of “Free Speech Zones” repressing the right of assembly. Personal freedoms were fringed upon through the “Patriot Act” as the public’s phones, computers, and privacy could be monitored by the government and police without a warrant. During this time “Habeas Corpus” was damaged by the exposing of water-boarding by the CIA and military.
Dress the facts up in any garb of nationalism you want, but our nation became one of pre-emptive war, where torture tactics became Standard Operating Procedure, and many people around the world were detained, and in some cases executed without any due process of law. We witnessed gay citizens denied their right to happiness and marriage because of religious beliefs that defined marriage, in a country where our forefathers stated a forced separation of church and state.
President George W. Bush’s approval average was forty-nine percent, the highest approval average of any president monitored was John F. Kennedy at seventy percent, who was assassinated. The highest approval point of Kennedy was 83%, Bush’s highest was 90% after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, pushing him into a second term. There is a large shroud of doubt surrounding Kennedy’s assassination, as well as there is surrounding the attacks of 9/11 and the “War on Terror”. Both times the term “conspiracy theory” is tossed around loosely at those who have legitimate questions about details, I believe politicians and “powers that be” change policy and focus on approval ratings more than the people do.
President Obama came into an America angered by politics, after being led by leaders into two blundered wars. John McCain held a lot of support as a moderate Republican who opposed Bush in many of his policies, he touted a respectable service record both in the military and in his public service. According to polls McCain and Obama were very close, until McCain chose the globally ignorant and unseasoned Sarah Palin as his running mate. I thought to myself, “there is no way he is making these campaign decisions" A feeling similar to the feelings I held of the Bush administration. McCain later confirmed Palin was not his decision, and neither were the uncharacteristically brutal and right-wing tactics of his campaign. The man running for president was told what to do by someone else, and it wrecked his campaign.
Obama won the presidency on campaign promises of “change”, the ending of Bush’s wars and the repealing of his policies. Patriot Act and Free Speech Zones were never touched. Troops pulled offensive operations from Iraq but still thousands of troops are in Iraq monitoring the country. The War in Afghanistan has escalated along with drone attacks inside Pakistan borders. Before Bush left office he pushed through a one-hundred and seventy billion dollar stimulus and the printing of more money which pushed inflation of U.S. currency. Obama’s bailout is said to possibly cost upward of three trillion dollars by it’s end. The bailout ensured the upholding of debts held by citizens after the banks proceeded with predatory lending and increases in interest rates of loans. Many have realized foreign policy and domestic policy lacks major change since Obama’s election. It almost seems as if once elected, someone else dictated to Obama what to do My guess is that before he ever sat in the oval office, a large stack of classified briefing papers waited on his desk. The same papers that await every U.S. president. I don’t know what they are or what they say, and that is why I don’t visually age a decade in less than four years.
Many believed if Obama was not elected and failed Bush policies continued under a Republican leader, that Liberals would revolt, weary of the election process and it’s fairness, the effectiveness of ballot counting machines, and the continuation of unpopular American policies.
In a short time President Obama dropped from the public’s choice for change to a forty-seven percent approval rating. Talks of tax increases on a strangling public proved to be the final straw, as Republicans won back a majority after all the damage the party and Bush caused. National unemployment is the highest since The Great Depression. After the housing bubble burst, people are not only losing their jobs, but they are losing their homes, all because of contracts being held over their heads by the very banks their tax-dollars helped bail out. The Democrats botched their chance to fix what ails the country. I wouldn’t expect anything else, as my time in politics has only taught me someone is always on a phone pulling strings, regardless of what party or how powerful the person.
Over the past thirty years we have watched our economic powerhouse collapse. While we continue to drive inflation, print money, and bail out predatory lenders, our factories and unionized jobs have been shipped overseas to underpaid serfs without unionization in countries that take advantage of unfair trade practices. Corporations in our country have effectively bankrupted our people and dissolved their livlihoods while simultaneously enslaving working populations of third world countries globally. Most goods purchased are not manufactured in America, and all goods only cost the producer a miniscule fraction of what they cost the customer. Our once proud economy has become a glorified pyramid scheme, where people like Bernie Madoff are simply a product of their environment. Cheap products sold by untrustworthy men, created to break so they are bought once again. Money decides our careers, our decisions, often our relationships, it also dictates American politics, and has done so well before George Bush took office.
I reflect on this all tonight after rich Republicans take power from rich Democrats in the legislature. The legislature has routinely failed the country and working-class for well over a decade, regardless of which party controlled the Presidency, Congress, or Senate. I look at a public, where the majority does not even take to the ballot. The voting population and minority swings itself on political talking points, repeated through the media and political commercials purchased by the rich politicians and parties.
During 2008 all I heard in any Democratic commercials was the word “change”, in 2010 all I have heard from Republicans was the word “spending”. Once again I did not hear one detailed plan of how anything will happen, why it will happen or when. I did not see one debate where two educated people identified problems and gave specifics to how they would solve them. I saw politics as usual, we turn one way to be let down, then turn the other way in desperation only to again be let down. We will see this trend again only a few short months into this Republican House majority. This is how an oligarchy that is out of touch with the public operates. It takes and absorbs without intentions of ever giving back.
In 2012 the voting minority will either be so tired of the Republican House that they will narrowly vote Obama in for a second term, or they will be so tired of Obama that he will lose the presidency to whatever choice the Republican Party brings forth. If Obama wins, the country will be even further divided and agitated by the end of his presidency. If the Republican Party wins the Presidency and holds on to a majority of the House the inevitable will happen, political chaos. I can’t claim to know when this will happen but I strongly believe it will happen in the next five years. This political unrest has already begun in countries all over the world such as Greece, and I believe the unrest will spread as does the failure of a global economy created and run by corporate leaders and politicians who can never gain enough money or power to satisfy their greed.
Most of the population recognizes early on they will never be President, but now a majority realizes they will never live as citizens respected by their elected officials in the nation their forefathers built. They have long been disenfranchised by two parties controlled by corporate donation money, but now people are losing their homes and their jobs. If these financial trends continue at the pace they have, and the political landscape does not change drastically in the next four years, there will be a revolt.
I fail to say revolution because I believe that would signify a unified and popular mass looking for major reforms to government and policy. I believe we will have a dumbed down and angry mob mentality sweeping the country that has been fueled by government and politics that has mutilated unity in this country through divide and conquer politics. The left and right are angry with government, but also hold a deep hatred for one another, orchestrated by divisive leaders who are not in touch with the American people and the social issues they want resolved. It is just a matter of time before the anger boils over against one another, or the public becomes angry at the same government at the same time.
Most people don’t want this to happen, I am one of those people. But then again, most people don’t vote, they don’t go to rally’s, they don’t scream and demean those with opposing political views. Most people in this country are tolerant of different races, religions, and personal choices, because they have more important things to do than point out others in hatred. The majority is controlled by the minority in elections, a one percent minority controls ninety-nine percent of the country’s wealth. Instead of pulling together for real change and solutions we eat each other while the elite sit back and watch, so high on the pyramid that it doesn’t matter who we elect in this country. They are global, powerful, and out of our political reach.
Tonight I look at a mess created by corrupt politicians on both sides who carelessly affect our everyday lives, running rampant with our finances, destroying our values as a nation. The government decides who can be married, the government OK’d domestic spying, the government OK’d pre-emptive wars and developed imperialism in a country built upon non-interventionist beliefs, the government printed tax dollars to hold its public in debt while destroying the value of the dollar, the government tells the people where to pray and where to protest while the media tells them what to think. After public is told what to think they vote, only to regret their vote once again a few short months.
Tonight I reflect on a broken system and the last peaceful American election I may witness. By 2012 I think the country will either be on the edge of increasing violence, or it will be recognized the election process is so corrupt and broken that I, along with a majority will fail to recognize it as an election at all. While I hope political violence does not spread across the country, I believe it is inevitable. I don’t believe this country will ever be the same again after tonight, I believe anger will hit levels never seen before in my times. It only takes thirty percent to control the other seventy, and it takes way less to cause disturbances or growing violence. Either the people will turn on each other, or the people will turn on their government, at which time the government will strike back hard and repressively. I believed this unrest would be subsided by Obama’s election. After Obama has gone into the midterm elections with such a low approval rating, I believe it’s only a matter of time before things erupt if the economy does not mend.
History has shown lethargy and gridlock in policy when a President’s party is opposite of the legislature’s policy. Based on this, the most hopeful we can be for the future is that things will stay exactly as they are, and I don’t believe most people find that status quo acceptable.
In that time I will keep my beliefs and hope for a better future.
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