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.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
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.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
The Definition of "Politician"
Effeminate middle aged men with faces like a planks of wood, always with a twisted grin.
They piss on your lawn, put a gun to your face, and ask for 25% of your money, then move on to the neighbor's.
All day they call the house to say "better me do this than someone else". They implement a new policy, ten television channels must be dedicated to them.
After a night of sleep, the pricks show up in the morning and steal your newspaper, leaving only advertisements.
One politician ask your daughter if she wants a job, making you think "Maybe he's not such a bad guy". Three months later she comes back broke and pregnant, but she refers to herself as an intern.
You get mad, want to kill the bastards, but when you go to confront the politicians one waves his hand and says "none of that happened".
He is a masterful orator, so you go home and forget about it.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
The Noise
Six in the morning, deep into the REM stages of slumber.
Sixteen paws, each holding four pointed, thick nails loudly ticking and tacking against the constantly creaking wood floor directly above.
For dogs this is the best time to romp around. Wood antiques, loose window panes, and random metal trinkets hanging from rusted nails in drywall clamor loudly.
A screeching voice pierces the air every fifteen minutes, "STOP!"
What is with all the fucking noise? Too many goddamn dogs in the house.
Eight AM, the phone rings...ignore. The phone rings again...ignore. It rings once more, plastic cracks against a concrete basement wall then hits the floor.
Two PM, loud stomping shakes the ceiling, two voices speak for a few seconds then loudly scream at one another. The words are pointless, suffocated by the noise.
A car door shuts, peeling tires squeal.
Five PM, the door slams, a solo voice deeply growls into the phone. A grunting soliloquy of four-letter words shoots through bone then trails off. The door slams again.
How can anyone think with all the noise?
Seven PM, Outside for a cigarette to calm the nerves. The sunset is magnificent, deep red and blue skies greet sparkling darkness.
The scene is interrupted by a coach's whistle.
"Don't ever do that again!" He hollers to an eleven year old, plastic pads crash over and over.
Being told what to do loses effectiveness with age, but the noise will always strike a nerve. Ask the hypocrite middle-aged neighbor, calling the police on teens with a house to themselves on Friday night.
The noise destroys concentration, boils the blood, it can cause madness.
The only thing worse than the noise, is no noise at all.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Henry's Day
Henry’s alarm clock buzzed loudly, gradually increasing volume with every passing second, to remind him every minute asleep was a minute lost. He woke promptly, but only sensed darkness. The continued tradition of breakfast before dawn followed as his wife Maggie readied herself for work. For years during these times Henry mapped out the day; neighbors to visit, properties to fix, family members to check on. Well over a decade of retirement, and Henry refused to relax, life lacked lethargy and so did Henry.
“I’m off to the hospital” Maggie’s southern draw echoed, as she kissed Henry on the cheek.
Bells above jingled as she slammed the insulated door Henry built years before. Moments later, Henry heard the door of a new model SUV shut and drive off. Annoyed by the sudden silence, Henry guided himself to the small kitchen television, and turned to the news. He repeatedly dipped a cold spoon into a cereal bowl Maggie poured, then paused with the spoon mid-air.
“The DOW is down even further today, which make us wonder...when is this going to end?” The uppity newscaster announced.
Henry shook his head, a blurry sunrise rested in his left peripheral. He labored for decades as a carpenter and as manager of a lawn-mower company, only to see his life savings sucked dry from economic collapse and from the surgeries. At twelve he lost most sight in the left eye, and at seventy-five he lost all sight in the right. Expensive doctors told Henry he may see again, so every three months after the surgery he took the pricey injections, worked hard on rehab exercises, and stayed determined. The surgery, exercises, and determination never brought back clear vision. Henry muted the television.
Henry was never a man of prayer, he saw himself as a practical man. He became even more practical after witnessing the deterioration and death of his first wife...Schizophrenia. After her death, the lawn-mower company offered him a new position, one in South Carolina. The carpentry trade was too rugged for a man of his age, so he took the position. It was a chance to leave behind pains of loss, a way to keep working and living without distracting emotion. Henry’s son, Henry Jr. followed in Dad’s footsteps, and became a formidable carpenter back in his home state of Ohio through the years apart.
Henry thought about his son, both wives, and his four daughters over breakfast. Every few weeks he would call and ask how weather was up North (it tended to be warm in the Summer and cold in the Winter) The short period of reflection and stagnation turned to frustration, so Henry walked outside. The stroll became a struggle for Henry; down two flights of stairs, across a steep lawn, and to the dock, where a pontoon and speed boat rocked in crisp lake waves. Dry air told Henry the boats would soon need raised from the lake. For a few moments, Henry didn’t think about anything; wind played the water below, wood clanked against rock, and every few moments a Gar’s fin splashed in the air as it preyed on bluegill below. Soon the noises sounded too familiar, boring Henry into another task- retrieving the mail.
With his head cocked to the right Henry slowly shuffled away from the lake and to the front yard, bracing himself against every tree and landmark on the way. Dead pine needles cushioned thick crab grass and clay beneath him. Inside the old black mailbox a thick stack of magazines, letters, bills, and advertisements filled the space.
“Damnit” Henry spat allowed, pulling a toothpick from his pocket to chew on, a way to calm nerves after quitting chewing tobacco.
Henry forgot to bring outgoing mail, knowing he would later retrace his footsteps, only taking time away from the day’s other tasks. He closed the box and walked to the front door.Once inside, Henry passed a computer he never used and a keyboard he never played in a room he never occupied in route to the kitchen. He slapped the mail onto the kitchen table, then grabbed a pen, checkbook, and large magnifier from a miniature basket on the table. Reading every letter and paper received became the day’s most time consuming task. He wrote a check and set it aside for Maggie’s review, then continued until he came across a letter concerning his grandson.
“The amount below is delinquent” The letter read.
Henry shook his head in disgust. He never went to college, yet he owned two cars, a truck, a lake-house, three boats, a jet ski, an arsenal of guns, and four wheeler, all in cash, and all from hard work. Years before he co-signed a student loan for his grandson. Henry Jr. wanted to name the grandson Henry III, but Henry Jr.’s ex named him Dustin, citing Henry Jr.’s drug and physical abuse as reasons Henry didn’t deserve the freedom. Dustin was the first of his mother and father’s family to attend a big University, and now the bastard had trouble paying his debts.
Every few months a letter would arrive at Henry’s house in regards to the loan, but Dustin always gave excuses. He was living in a friend’s closet, couldn’t find a job, had been laid off, he simply couldn’t afford his school debt, which he compared to a mortgage. Henry never missed a payment on anything, and didn’t understand how anyone could. Dustin’s mother didn’t work for years as she raised Dustin’s brothers, Henry assumed the same lethargy moved to Dustin.
Henry hadn’t seen Dustin in years. Henry Jr. moved to South Carolina at one point, and Dustin lived back North with his other family. He visited every summer before college, sometimes staying for weeks, the two fished, drank beers, and worked alongside one another on Henry’s properties. In high school Dustin worked at Henry’s favorite local restaurant back in Ohio. Henry offered to pay for the business and franchising rights, so Dustin would run the business. The fifteen year old Dustin declined, saying he wanted to stay in school and with his brothers. Though he was often disappointed, Henry missed Dustin.
Henry guided himself along the kitchen table into the living room, where dusty pictures of a young, sixty-year old Henry sat atop a fireplace in the living room, below a large mouth bass mounted on the wall. Henry sat comfortably in his large recliner next to the phone, feeling his way around the wide key pad to call Dustin and remind him of his obligations. The phone rang, but Dustin never answered. It was eight in the morning, so Henry called again, hoping to wake Dustin up before work, or to simply wake him from unemployment, Henry never knew what Dustin was up to.
On the other side of the ringing Dustin looked at the incoming calls and ignored them. He was broke, homeless and far in debt from school, but knew none of this mattered to his grandfather, all that mattered was a payment which was late. Dustin remembered times when Henry called him every few weeks to ask about the weather or sent a birthday card which always arrived on the right day. Recently Dustin only received angry letters from Henry, or condescending phone messages about “all that education”. He once looked up to his grandfather, but now only wanted to be left alone. After years of a broken and awkward relationship with his father, Dustin only felt tied to the family through his grandfather, but he no longer felt that connection after the nasty called and letters.
“That makes me so damn hot in the collar” Henry shouted to himself, hanging up the phone.
He rested for a few moments in the recliner, seething from the lack of respect and gratefulness. In hopes to appease his feelings he called his son Henry Jr., only to hear more ringing with no answer. Henry Jr. lived in Ohio with his new wife but traveled the country, working on different building contracts from state to state. Henry again hung up the phone and shook his head. The morning heated as it neared noon. Henry sat in darkness, tired of the taunting nature of a blurred son in the corner of his eye.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
A Pint of Humanity
Daggers of Sun attempted to pierce the thick fog, crashing into overbearing molecules. The mixture spread across open land in one cloud of dim light. Morning dew caused grass to glisten, illuminating the vast hillside region where pockets of men anxiously awaited battle in scattered troughs. The divided fractions of fragile creatures bickered and plotted without knowledge of simultaneous bickering and plotting among multiple other groups of hill folk, adding volume to buckets of plausible and possible outcomes.
Deep, hardened voices of un-worried warriors carried meters into the atmosphere, transforming into high pitched squeaks squelched by miles of mist. While separate but equal sized specks of humanity contemplated issues such as “victory” or “tactics”, moist air managed to easily evaporate without notice or resistance. Further in the distance condensation sat atop strawberry fields, which patiently anticipated a plucking.
Humid heat dominated the aging day as soldiers’ stomachs saturated pan fried breakfasts, unfamiliar aromas attracted the attention of nearby animals though unable to identify origins of the scents. Restless rallies of the random rowdies signified growing tension inside the battalions, leaders enticed followers who left behind the lethargic and marched up their respective hills.
The clans converged, carrying flags of different creatures and creative symbols. Up close, blood splattered, bodies mangled, and men turned into beasts; animals walked by nervously, aware of the unnatural culmination of confrontation between their masters. Far away, other events occurred and passed, ignorant of the brutal bravery and blatant savageness. The Sun rose alongside mounting violence, then fell as forces waned and lives vanished.
Only the most resilient of fighters survived in each army, but every weapon emptied of bullets. The remaining yelled in efforts to persuade one another. Eloquent presentations morphed into “hmms” and rabbling, clashing words created one Neanderthal poem.
“Abortion! Abortion! Proportion, extortion, divorcing and war, greedy and poor! Money money money, money. Money.....money! Prison, drugs, regulation, hugs, left right, in hindsight. Taxes and faxes, rackets then rockets, pickets and pockets, politician, superstition! Science! Gods! distribution of Ipods! Media, propaganda, conspiracy, Miranda. Arrest, detest, constitution, prostitution!”
Night expanded and stars flickered in the dark, worlds and realities drifted by, unaware of time or rhyme. Imaginative creatures collided and collapsed in formations while crickets tweeted and chirped. The crickets were war survivors forming federal government, figuring who founded and who would lead, who could stay and who must leave. The insignificants slept soundly, their dreams appraised significance of the day.
Just as the sun came and went, the men would gather and the men would split. A great flood came and washed away the SOB’s, just like something defeating disease. The scene faded and shrunk, smaller and smaller into the unknown. Giant stars and clusters of mass grouped into tiny molecules and waves. The waves fluidly passed through the mind of a man. To the clashing specks of different ideologies and arguments, the man was God. To God, he was but a man, washing away cluttered thoughts of the day, vicious debates over cities and states, drowned with a pint and some laughs with his mates.
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