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Friday, December 26th, 2008
4:58 am	the tortoise and the hare "This is how a human being can change: There's a worm addicted to eating grape leaves. Suddenly, he wakes up, call it grace, whatever, something wakes him, and he's no longer a worm. He's the entire vineyard, and the orchard too, the fruit, the trunks, a growing wisdom and joy that doesn't need to devour." But the diversity of histories seems almost overwhelming, each human race living in a different temporal order and swimming in a different stream of history that we call a "tradition". Before giving an indication of his proof, notice that very considerable sophistication involved in the use of inequalities here. Archimedes knew, what so many people to this day do not, that π does not equal 22/7, and made no claim to have discovered the exact value. If we take his best estimate as the average of his two bounds we obtain 3.1418, an error of about 0.0002. Ancient Maya discovered two fundamental ideas in mathematics: positional value and the concept of zero. This feat was accomplished by only one other great culture of antiquity, the Hindu. But they did it 300 years or so after the Maya. These two elements, positional value and zero, might be considered simple and basic concepts nowadays. In fact, they are, and that is precisely what set them apart as a distinct stroke of genius. Greek and Romans, with all the force of their spirit and all the strength of their institutions, did not manage to find these principles. Just try to write down a large number using the Roman notation to see how important are the notions of positional value and zero. The Maya system is based on the number 20, not on the number 10 as our own. This means that the Maya counted from zero to nineteen before they had to move to the next order, instead of using 10 digits, from zero to nine, as we do. Perhaps they employed fingers and toes to keep the count. In a decimal system the positional value is met as soon as we reach beyond number nine. A one followed by a zero is a ten. In the Maya system, a one followed by a zero equals twenty. Our numeric system employs ten symbols to represent each one of the digits. Maya numerals were written with only three symbols: a dot for one; a line, which is a five, and the glyph of a sea shell to represent zero... The basic unit for the Maya calendar is the day, or kin. The second order of 20 days was called uinal. In a perfect vigesimal numeric system, third order should contain 400 days (20 x 20 x 1); but at this point Maya priests introduced a variant for calendar computation purposes. The third order, or tun, was made by 18 uinals, or 360 kins. This came closer to the duration of the solar year.... In fact, the Babylonians have given their base 60 to us. There are 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute. There are also 360 degrees in a circle (6 x 60), and a single degree can be broken down still further. There are 60 minutes in a degree, and 60 seconds in one of these minutes. (There is no connection between angle minutes & seconds and time minutes & seconds.) "But the mythos goes on, and that which destroys the old mythos becomes the new mythos, and the new mythos under the first Ionian philosophers became transmuted into philosophy, which enshrined permanence in a new way. Permanence was no longer the exclusive domain of the Immortal Gods. It was also to be found within Immortal Principles, of which our current law of gravity has become one. "The Immortal Principle was first called water by Thales. Anaximenes called it air. The Pythagoreans called it number and were thus the first to see the Immortal Principle as something nonmaterial. Heraclitus called the Immortal Principle fire and introduced change as part of the Principle. He said the world exists as a conflict and tension of opposites. He said there is a One and there is a Many and the One is the universal law which is immanent in all things. Anaxagoras was the first to identify the One as nous, meaning "mind." "Parmenides made it clear for the first time that the Immortal Principle, the One, Truth, God, is separate from appearance and from opinion, and the importance of this separation and its effect upon subsequent history cannot be overstated. It's here that the classic mind, for the first time, took leave of its romantic origins and said, "The Good and the True are not necessarily the same," and goes its separate way. Anaxagoras and Parmenides had a listener named Socrates who carried their ideas into full fruition. "What is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject and object, form and substance. Those divisions are just dialectical inventions that came later. The modern mind sometimes tends to balk at the thought of these dichotomies being inventions and says, "Well, the divisions were there for the Greeks to discover," and you have to say, "Where were they? Point to them!" And the modern mind gets a little confused and wonders what this is all about anyway, and still believes the divisions were there. "But they weren't, as Phædrus said. They are just ghosts, immortal gods of the modern mythos which appear to us to be real because we are in that mythos. But in reality they are just as much an artistic creation as the anthropomorphic Gods they replaced... [Plato] and Socrates are defending the Immortal Principle of the Cosmologists against what they consider to be the decadence of the Sophists. Truth. Knowledge. That which is independent of what anyone thinks about it. The ideal that Socrates died for. The ideal that Greece alone possesses for the first time in the history of the world. It is still a very fragile thing. It can disappear completely. Plato abhors and damns the Sophists without restraint, not because they are low and immoral people...there are obviously much lower and more immoral people in Greece he completely ignores. He damns them because they threaten mankind’s first beginning grasp of the idea of truth. That’s what it is all about. "The results of Socrates’ martyrdom and Plato’s unexcelled prose that followed are nothing less than the whole world of Western man as we know it. If the idea of truth had been allowed to perish unrediscovered by the Renaissance it's unlikely that we would be much beyond the level of prehistoric man today. The ideas of science and technology and other systematically organized efforts of man are dead-centered on it. It is the nucleus of it all. "And yet, Phædrus understands, what he is saying about Quality is somehow opposed to all this. It seems to agree much more closely with the Sophists.... "Lightning hits! "Quality! Virtue! Dharma! That is what the Sophists were teaching! Not ethical relativism. Not pristine "virtue." But aretê. Excellence. Dharma! Before the Church of Reason. Before substance. Before form. Before mind and matter. Before dialectic itself. Quality had been absolute. Those first teachers of the Western world were teaching Quality, and the medium they had chosen was that of rhetoric.... And now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world in terms of dialectic truths, had lost. He had built empires of scientific capability to manipulate the phenomena of nature into enormous manifestations of his own dreams of power and wealth...but for this he had exchanged an empire of understanding of equal magnitude: an understanding of what it is to be a part of the world, and not an enemy of it. "One can acquire some peace of mind from just watching that horizon. It's a geometer’s line...completely flat, steady and known. Perhaps it's the original line that gave rise to Euclid’s understanding of lineness; a reference line from which was derived the original calculations of the first astronomers that charted the stars. "Phædrus knew, with the same mathematical assurance Poincaré had felt when he resolved the Fuchsian equations, that this Greek aretê was the missing piece that completed the pattern, but he read on now for completion. "The halo around the heads of Plato and Socrates is now gone. He sees that they consistently are doing exactly that which they accuse the Sophists of doing—using emotionally persuasive language for the ulterior purpose of making the weaker argument, the case for dialectic, appear the stronger. We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves. .... The Appearances cling to something which is independent of them and which, like Ideas, is unchanging. The "something" that Appearances cling to he named "substance." And at that moment, and not until that moment, our modern scientific understanding of reality was born. "Under Aristotle the "Reader," whose knowledge of Trojan aretê seems conspicuously absent, forms and substances dominate all. The Good is a relatively minor branch of knowledge called ethics; reason, logic, knowledge are his primary concerns. Aretê is dead and science, logic and the University as we know it today have been given their founding charter: to find and invent an endless proliferation of forms about the substantive elements of the world and call these forms knowledge, and transmit these forms to future generations. As "the system." "And rhetoric. Poor rhetoric, once "learning" itself, now becomes reduced to the teaching of mannerisms and forms, Aristotelian forms, for writing, as if these mattered. Five spelling errors, Phædrus remembered, or one error of sentence completeness, or three misplaced modifiers, or...it went on and on. Any of these was sufficient to inform a student that he did not know rhetoric. After all, that’s what rhetoric is, isn't it? Of course there's "empty rhetoric," that is, rhetoric that has emotional appeal without proper subservience to dialectical truth, but we don't want any of that, do we? That would make us like those liars and cheats and defilers of ancient Greece, the Sophists—remember them? We'll learn the Truth in our other academic courses, and then learn a little rhetoric so that we can write it nicely and impress our bosses who will advance us to higher positions. "Forms and mannerisms—hated by the best, loved by the worst. Year after year, decade after decade of little front-row "readers," mimics with pretty smiles and neat pens, out to get their Aristotelian A’s while those who possess the real aretê sit silently in back of them wondering what is wrong with themselves that they cannot like this subject. "And today in those few Universities that bother to teach classic ethics anymore, students, following the lead of Aristotle and Plato, endlessly play around with the question that in ancient Greece never needed to be asked: "What is the Good? And how do we define it? Since different people have defined it differently, how can we know there is any good? Some say the good is found in happiness, but how do we know what happiness is? And how can happiness be defined? Happiness and good are not objective terms. We cannot deal with them scientifically. And since they aren't objective they just exist in your mind. So if you want to be happy just change your mind. Ha-ha, ha-ha." "Aristotelian ethics, Aristotelian definitions, Aristotelian logic, Aristotelian forms, Aristotelian substances, Aristotelian rhetoric, Aristotelian laughter...ha-ha, ha-ha. "And the bones of the Sophists long ago turned to dust and what they said turned to dust with them and the dust was buried under the rubble of declining Athens through its fall and Macedonia through its decline and fall. Through the decline and death of ancient Rome and Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire and the modern states—buried so deep and with such ceremoniousness and such unction and such evil that only a madman centuries later could discover the clues needed to uncover them, and see with horror what had been done.... This primacy of the rhetorical or grammatical over analytics is apparently what the Sophists acknowledged, but that which Plato denied. So, is dialectical reason a fraud and a usurper and a delusion?  The short answer is -- yes. The example of Descartes proves decisively that speech -- grammatical, articulating speech -- precedes and subsumes thinking itself. Dialectics or logic, as something divorced from grammatical speech, is an abstraction -- a castle in the air. Analytics is but one specialised branch of grammatical speech that also includes -- epics, lyrics, and dramatics.  Dialectical reason, which divides reality into subject and object (mind and body) categories, is rooted in an historical error that assumed the indicative form of speech (in the form "it is...") paramount.  It cannot account, by its omissions, for our full reality. It is a narrowly perspectival logic, fully that which Blake called "single vision". the hare can never surpass the tortoise.... This process of ascent and descent of time is not described by dialectical reason. But it is described by enantiodromia -- reversal of fortune at the extremity of action, (or, why the road to hell is often paved with good intentions). I and I centers, pivoting centers.... Consequently, the various "spheres" (or modules) actually form a seamless whole, and the modular boundaries are simply conventional, definitional, intellectual, and abstract. It is important to bear this in mind, for each is nonetheless informed by the "modern ethos", which is dialectical reason, and if this Second Wave civilisation is presently dying -- and its passing away is attended by many apparent negatives of turbulence, crisis, chaos, confusion, or seeming madness and absurdity -- it is because its particular mental-logical structure of consciousness, expressed in the form of dialectical thinking (or "Universal Reason"), is itself breaking down as it now exceeds and transgresses the limits of its possibilities and its spectrum of applicability. It has become, in other words, "deficient", in Gebser's assessment also. Yet, this remains the form of thinking that is still taught in our schools and universities. The most certain indicator that this mental structure is decaying, and that dialectical reason is collapsing, is the proliferation of perverse outcomes and unintended consequences. A whole industry of "crisis management" has arisen simply to handle the blowback effects, perverse outcomes, unintended consequences, and multiple crises that have been engendered in the breakdown of dialectical rationality itself, applying (of course!) -- dialectical thinking. "Crisis management" is therefore tautology and is itself a perverse outcome, which is just as likely structurally to contribute as much to the present mayhem as it presumes to resolve. In fact, we are witnessing this very "crisis management" in action today applied to the present market meltdown. But in effect "crisis management" is simply a public relations slogan. It gives the impression that, really, someone with "smarts" is in charge and has things well in hand and under control. Nothing, however, could be further from the truth. The present crisis is simply one aspect of a continuing crisis of long-standing that has been lurching forward from decade to decade, and since the First World War at least. It is the breakdown of dialectical rationality itself in its failure to account for all of our experience and reality. This, more than any other factor, is what it means for a civilisation to die. It simply fails to respond adequately to new circumstances. It's structure of consciousness is deficient. And, more specifically, this is what Toffler means by the "dying" of Second Wave civilisation. The terms "post-industrial", "post-modern", "post-ideological" all amount to a post-mortem. ... We owe the term "enantiodromia" to the depth psychologist Carl Jung. He, in turn, owed its meaning to the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus, who Rosenstock-Huessy once called "The Greek Buddha". In general, it specifies "the coincidence of opposites", or rather the polarity and even identity of presumed opposites. It negates dualism. More specifically (and as I have elaborated upon this in past posts) enantiodromia means reversal of fortune at the extremity of action and at limit. One and the same process reverts into its own contrary when pressed beyond its effective and applicable limit or "Nemesis" point. This is, in effect, a recovery of the old Greek consciousness of hubris, or transgression of limit. Dialectical reason does not actually disappear in this paradigm, but is dethroned. It becomes a special instance of thinking only, not the essence of consciousness, and one applicable only to a limited range of circumstances and problems. The new consciousness sees that dialectical rationality, pushed to its extremity and beyond the limits of its possibilities, becomes indistinguishable from insanity and madness, and ends in absurdity. This is the current state of affairs, one observed in all sorts of issues. This is the ethos, however yet unarticulated, that informs the manifestations of the new. justice...... Such is the terrible Abraxas. He is the mightiest manifest being, and in him creation becomes frightened of itself. He is the revealed protest of creation against the Pleroma and its nothingness. He is the terror of the son, which he feels against his mother. He is the love of the mother for her son. He is the delight of earth and the cruelty of heaven. Man becomes paralyzed before his face. Before him exist neither question nor answer. He is the life of creation. He is the activity of differentiation. He is the love of man. He is the speech of man. He is both the radiance and the dark shadow of man. He is deceitful reality. The heavenly gods appear in spirituality, the earth gods appear in sexuality. Spirituality receives and comprehends. It is feminine and therefore we call it MATER COELESTIS, the heavenly mother. Sexuality generates and creates. It is masculine and therefore we call it PHALLOS, the earthly father. The sexuality of man is more earthly, while the sexuality of woman is more heavenly. The spirituality of man is more heavenly, for it moves in the direction of the greater. On the other hand, the spirituality of woman is more earthly, for it moves in the direction of the smaller. Deceitful and devilish is the spirituality of the man who goes toward the smaller. Deceitful and devilish is the spirituality of the woman who goes toward the greater. Each is to go to its own place. Man and woman become a devil to each other when they do not separate their spiritual paths, for the nature of created beings is always of the nature of differentiation. The sexuality of man goes to that which is earthly; the sexuality on woman goes to that which is spiritual. Man and woman become a devil to each other if they do not discriminate between their two forms of sexuality. Man shall know that which is smaller, woman that which is greater. Man shall separate himself from spirituality and from sexuality alike. He shall call spirituality mother, and he shall enthrone her between heaven and earth. He shall name sexuality phallos, and shall place it between himself and the earth, for the mother and the phallos are super-human demons and manifestations of the world of the gods. They are more effective for us than the gods, because they are nearer to our own being. When you cannot distinguish between yourselves on the one hand, and sexuality and spirituality on the other, and when you cannot regard these two as being above and beside yourself, then you become victimized by them Man is weak, therefore community is indispensable; if it is not the community in the sign of the mother, then it is in the sign of the phallus. Not to have community consists of suffering and sickness. Community brings with itself fragmentation and dissolution. Differentiation leads to solitude. Solitude is contrary to community. Because of the weakness of man's will, as opposed to the gods and demons and their inescapable law, there is need for community. For this reason, there shall be as much community as necessary, not for the sake of men, but for the sake of the gods. The gods force you into a community. As much community as they force upon you is necessary, but more than that is evil. In solitude let there be squandering of abundance. For community is the depth, while solitude is the height. The true order in community purifies and preserves. The true order in solitude purifies and increases. Community gives us warmth, while solitude gives us the light. The serpent is an earthly soul, half demonic, a spirit, and related to the spirits of the dead. Like the spirits of the dead, the serpent also enters various terrestrial objects. The serpent also induces fear of itself in the hearts of men, and enkindles desire in the same. The serpent is of a generally feminine character and seeks forever the company of the dead. It is associated with the dead who are earthbound, who have not found the way by which to cross over to the state of solitude. The serpent is a whore and she consorts with the devil and with evil spirits; she is a tyrant and a tormenting spirit, always tempting people to keep the worst kind of company. The white bird is the semi-heavenly soul of man. It lives with the mother and occasionally descends from the mother's abode. The bird is masculine and is called effective thought. The bird is chaste and solitary, a messenger of the mother. It flies high above the earth. It commands solitude. It brings messages from the distance, from those who have gone before, those who are perfected. It carries our words up to the mother. The mother intercedes and warns, but she has no power against the gods. She is a vehicle of the sun. The serpent descends into the deep and with her cunning she either paralyzes or stimulates the phallic demon. The serpent brings up from the deep the very cunning thoughts of the earthly one, thoughts that crawl through all openings and become saturated with desire. Although the serpent does not want to be, she is nevertheless useful to us. The serpent eludes our grasp, we pursue her and she shows us the way, which, with our limited human wit, we could not find. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
3:58 pm	babylon is fallen "If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself." Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? Malachi 2:10 http://www.brainwashington.info/portal/default.asp?id=1&ACT=5&content=106&mnu=1 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Ex 20:12 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are sons of God. For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. (Romans 8:14,15) And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about. And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up. Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth. Ezekiel 8:7, 12 http://www.scribd.com/doc/938076/ETTEM-Project This chasm or abyss that needs to be bridged is not space. It is time. Spatially speaking, the Earth is now one globe owing to the technologies of communication and transportation. But the diversity of histories seems almost overwhelming, each human race living in a different temporal order and swimming in a different stream of history that we call a "tradition". (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 21st, 2008
11:48 pm	secondary thoughts So here we return to the issue of "deconstruction". What is it that the deconstructionist deconstructs? The symbol and the symbolic order? Actually, no. The deconstruction is the deconstruction of our perception itself, which confuses the symbol (metaphor) for the reality it symbolises. All of thinking really only boils down to "identify and differentiate" or "compare and contrast". To what end this? For survival. If we lived in a Garden of Eden, we wouldn't need to think (and wouldn't think) at all. So, thinking does not define existence (as Descartes thought) so much as it attempts to secure it. This has a number of enormous implications for our self-understanding. Because thinking is geared towards survival, there is an element of fear, anxiety, or insecurity involved in thinking. When thinking becomes identified with existence itself (as the thinking ego or cogito) it necessarily requires this element of insecurity and fear in order to justify itself and its activity. Therefore, it must cast reality in terms of "good" and "evil", and create oppositions to itself. This is the character of Gebser's "mental-rational" consciousness expressed as dialectical rationality. When thinking (our internal monologue) is suspended, we see there are no oppositions, and no "good" and "evil" in themselves. This is often expressed as "Oneness" or the concord and unity of opposites. At the same time, it is experienced as ego deflation or ego death. And since existence has become identified with thinking (in the cogito, also the founder of philosophy, Parmenides, gave before Descartes that "thinking and being are the same thing") it doesn't want to stop thinking, even where that thinking is pointless tautology and vicious circle and merely empty chatter and busy mentation, ie, the "monkey mind". (Comment on this)
6:32 am	bal-can-can Grown up so deceived by the murderers of Yeshua, is that reason for me not to respect Christos? The seed was always twisted, put on an altar and made crooked by human hands and words. I myself took part in the ritual killings of sisters and brothers. If Only US Law Applied to the US Government http://www.brainwashington.info/portal/default.asp?id=1&ACT=5&content=106&mnu=1 http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/34747prs20080401.html http://balkin.blogspot.com/2008/04/full-employment-memo-for-bloggers-and.html "There is a lot of worship of the "numinous constitution" in America. Many patriots say the Constitution is sacred. To make a material thing sacred in itself is the definition of idolatry. Until patriots stop worshiping a man-made government and bowing to a graven image of parchment, and prefer instead the government of God, His Law written on men's hearts, men will continue to be subject to governments that compete with God for power and glory." brainwashington Yeshu did not serve the King, President, Caesar or whatever they call him. He knew One Father, whom he called Abba: “And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.” Ex. 20:25-26 Gospel of Matthew (5:42) to “give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.” It was indeed written. And so I ask, can I trust King James to translate these papers? Do I need a middleman to link with the creator? I know I have sinned, I can feel it in my heart. But I also realize it in the damage I have made to the beautiful gifts I have been given. I don't want this to sound like a selfish apology; I've indulged in too much of my petty self to allow it. I do look back and see my failure to complete the historical display at the Boys and Girls Club as one related to the frozen summer block party that sounded so good in my heart, which I did not bring to life in either case. So forgive this dirty fool's reminisces...there is nothing but the seeds of discontent in it. I know what to do. (You are what you do). I know this. But enough balking! I raked the fallen leaves and plowed the fallen snow all this week. I am in better health now than I was when I was hibernating this summer. No use in balking any more. The seed must die for new life to be born, and new season, and new growth. (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
11:08 pm	5 month reflection its been about 6 months since i graduated with new standing in this corrupt society. I've been relatively on-time with the first installments of my out-sourced bills to loan sharks (the federal government?) And I've been a contributing member of wayward politics in the green zone mall, and the 'technical' industrial training-grounds/book-learning breeding grounds of the local schools. Relative accomplishments.....amid failures in personal projects of liberation and creativity...but what use is there in thinking about what is not?? there is still room for redemption...... I was positive and inspired, just became inactive. I was trying to get started back home, but became lazy and intoxicated. (late June) noon dream on the phone with shiva, talking about a state of the art athletic field....then stephan called to tell me something, maybe about holy cross and parking tickets, then maybe abe called....but then i saw noah with a group of other people outside on the porch, they were dressed like it was halloween. I got in a beef with someone very quickly, but then we went into a small and narrow bar/diner with many old friends and acquaintances....then joe and lenz and a few other friends came in a big group. I asked if joe wanted to smoke the shredded mushrooms offered. a friend warned me about a surveillance camera they just put up across the street and there was a second fence surrounding the garage/house. instead, i went upstairs to grazilelles/sonyas room/bathroom and packed a little bowl with the white shreds, but i was dawdling too long....i kept going back and forth inside and out to shut off lights and return a tin....when i was leaving for good, a grey/black cat was trying to come in, and i gave it resistance, but it entered....and when it walked away, it transformed into this (mute white) woman with a very big asss....she laid down to recline and i tried to seduce her, and kiss her.....but then i walked across the street to get on a school bus on a field trip with old class mates, and with the shredded shrooms, now in very small glass bowl that was just the bowl, we smoked.....mike told me how he was losing faith in sex because of all the problems that arise from it, and while someone was swallowing the bowl, I woke up i was vacuuming the car today and saw a woman-looking person pull a man around a corner. two boricua men passing yelled something and laughed....then when I was coming around, he said it was a man. later, while i was eating some bread at a bakery, they came in and also ate something and mentioned how (prison) desperate you would have to be....close your eyes.....seems like i took the wrong bus anyway im working through the bain, got to keep on walking! "This is how a human being can change: There's a worm addicted to eating grape leaves. Suddenly, he wakes up, call it grace, whatever, something wakes him, and he's no longer a worm. He's the entire vineyard, and the orchard too, the fruit, the trunks, a growing wisdom and joy that doesn't need to devour." (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 14th, 2008
2:51 am	language “The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.” - Huxley, Brave New World Revisited http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft1El0GHKC8 the imperial state crown Words associated with Christianity and British history taken out of children’s dictionary Julie Henry - 08 Dec 2008 Oxford University Press has removed words like “aisle”, “bishop”, “chapel”, “empire” and “monarch” from its Junior Dictionary and replaced them with words like “blog”, “broadband” and “celebrity”. Dozens of words related to the countryside have also been culled. The publisher claims the changes have been made to reflect the fact that Britain is a modern, multicultural, multifaith society. But academics and head teachers said that the changes to the 10,000 word Junior Dictionary could mean that children lose touch with Britain’s heritage. young people have to ask questions....be critical in understanding themselves and the world. one way to help is to finish the project I should have finished last year. never to late...although the dull lull of privilege may have tripped me, I can still ask questions and act unilaterally (in the sense of independence)....in orgi with the others in the world i mean look! they are taking out "empire" and "monarch" and replacing them with "blog" "bandwidth" and "celebrity"....we really need to question the "preservers of knowledge" the ivory tower.....shake the earth with our confused huffing rush as babylon collapsing, armageddon..... (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 13th, 2008
3:56 am	as my thoughts emerge.... puritan, jesuitic, juridicial, patriarchal mind-games......computer c(r)ash Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them. (Psalm 115). The greatest idol of all today is self-image, which is ego or "the false self". Some people have invested their consciousness and identity so completely in this idol that, for all intents and purposes, they have ceased to really exist as individuals except in this ghostly, distracted, and abstract form of self-image. Narcissism occurs where self-image absorbs identity completely and exclusively. The experience of "I am", which is immediacy, presence and the only reality, becomes instead absorbed into a pastiche existence of "I am this or that..", which is image construction and distraction from real presence. It is nakedness of the kind which Rumi described: "I know nothing. I have nothing. I am nothing", the surrender of self-image. This self-emptying and becoming naked (innocence) in effect "prepares the way of the Lord" who is equivalently "the Way, the Truth, and the Life". This is "the presence of the kingdom" as the manifestation of the real, but which is barely seen through the images upon the surfaces of our master bubbles. At the Natick police station, the woman gave a false name. After booking her, police were able to identify her through the Live Scan system, which links police with a federal database, said Natick Fireman "The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities." Zbigniew Brzezinski. fictatorship What happens now? The most frightening scenario is that the US goes it alone, steam-rollering its own expansionist trade agenda with bilateral agreements with willing partners. The result of this would be chaos, protectionism and the ditching of all environmental and social issues, more dumping on developing countries, more undermining of local economies. But the greatest irony is this: if the WTO itself collapses there will be no world forum for the poorest to at least ventilate their concerns and protect their own interests. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/dec/05/wto.globalisation How poor sanitation kills the equivalent of 20 planes full of children every day http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jun/01/globalisation.g8 my mind is still holding the Power in oblation....rend unto caesar. duno why i stay up late and worry, maybe because I slept all day....gotta revitalize my life and get motivated outside of work. I like going back to high school, I just need to act, and independently! (Comment on this)
Friday, December 12th, 2008
11:36 pm	what it is What is termed globalization is the culmination of a process that began with the constitution of America and colonial/modern Eurocentered capitalism as a new global power. One of the fundamental axes of this model of power is the social classification of the world's population around the idea of race, a mental construction that expresses the basic experience of colonial domination and pervades the more important dimensions of global power, including its specific rationality: Eurocentrism. The racial axis has a colonial origin and character, but it has proven to be more durable and stable than the colonialism in whose matrix it was established. Therefore, the model of power that is globally hegemonic today presupposes an element of coloniality. http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu:7001/Events/spring2002/04-03-02-quijano/index.html The capitalist world-system was formed by the Spanish/Portugese expansion to the Americas in the long sixteenth century. This first modernity (1492 to 1650) built the foundations of the racist/colonial culture and global capitalist system we are living today. Simultaneous to its expansion to the Americas in 1492, The Spanish Empire expelled Arabs and Jews from their land in the name of "blood purity" ("pureza de la sangre"). This "internal border" against Arabs and Jews was built simultaneously to the "external border" against people from peripheral geographic zones. The Spanish and Portuguese expansion to the Americas constructed the racial categories that would be later generalized to the rest of the world. Nobody defined themselves as blacks in Africa, whites in Europe, or Indians in the Americas before the European expansion to the Americas. All of these categories were invented as part of the European colonization of the Americas. The formation of the international division of labor occurred simultaneously to the formation of a global racial/ethnic hierarchy. As Anibal Quijano states, there was neither "pre" nor "post" to their joint constitution. This is why Mignolo (2000) states that "Occidentalism" (the dominant discourse of the first modernity) is the sociohistorical condition of possibility for the emergence of Orientalism (the dominant discourse of the second modernity). Christianity was central to the constitution of the colonial imaginary of the world-system. The Cartesian thinking subject and constitutive being was not supposed to be a black African or a brown Indian from the Americas, a brown Indian from Asia, or a brown Arab from North Africa and what is today the Middle East. The Cartesian subject was immaterial and disembodied, without color and odor-an empty signifier of a sort (controlled by the principles of the Theo and Ego politics of knowledge) that embraced all, every skin color and religious belief under the control of the experience of white European man and Christian religion. Immanuel Kant was clear, following Decartes' route, that "these" people were not yet ready to reach the highs of the Beautiful and the Sublime and, even less, of Reason. This anxiety is felt at the imperial centers, too, where high-tech and computer industries are disproportionately filled with the West's Others who are treated just as ambivalently by the "white" culture. the trace of social desire corresponds as the register of social control structure of power, fiat of power ota benga, jack johnson resistance...and acceptance? do I really owe the computer company money? try to figure out where the next bill is coming from.... (Comment on this)
Monday, December 8th, 2008
12:11 am	more babelin Social decadence and nihilism is, in effect, the failure to effectuate and eventualise that trinity of truth, truce, and trust in a form which makes for a truly human and humane societal order at all, and under whose sole sovereignty alone we recognise the return, after her painful exile and absence, of the name and spirit and presence of Justice. Mesopotamia used base-60 number system...like 60-minute hour (24/7) along with 360-degree circle there is no Rhyme or Reason to the 'new world' empire how could there with such a colossal war machine?? we get 'freedom'...as long as we pay whats due they want to colonize our bodies but third world freedom fighters know histories preceed Colonial History despite the reckless invasions of greedy americans burning and burning but not preserving the middle way and stand and act Deracination is only distraction, and distraction is the paranoiac condition of being "beside oneself" -- of living vicariously and mediately outside the centering immediacy of presence and the Now. Such issues in fact attest to the true problematic character of deracination. Our rootlessness is only lack of presence to ourselves, to our immediate experience, and to the immediacy of our life-world. In that sense, we are all "absent-minded" and creatures of distracted, alienated being. Our true roots are in presence and in the Now. To live vicariously outside presence, through abstracted images of a memorialised past (which leads to the reactionary) or abstracted images of the idealised future to be realised through "creative destruction", is to live distractedly, dividedly, and at constant war with oneself and the life-world. Both are deviations, extremities, and distractions. Our true roots are not there, but here and now in the Immensity of the Immediate. it's not that i trust America...how could i when its leaders are dumb, albeit tricky, criminals! the order they attempt to establish is chaos! how can they want me to believe so many lies and obey?? by force, the rule of law, so-called, that dictates its unilateral, monological Truth. truth is plural, there are truths. and caesar lies, tricks, cheats, steals, kills, destroys lives. The Truth disguises the evil truths of its origin. but this narcissistic cycle can be broken by hearing the babel and waking up and living truly freely, not under the twisted cross of compelled obedience, which is the roots and fruit of Empire. wake up and stop eating that shit! let being be, love, stand up and act. french kissing the chaos, kicking the cack, realizing spiritual evolution, love, peace and happiness by any means necessary! it's necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn. the world may not change, but we can change our thoughts, or think...or stop thinking. I may never understand why white europeans police the indian ocean.....but this is an understand we might benefit in re-assessing. Whatever I looked at was death. My native country was torture to me, and my father's house a strange unhappiness....I became a great puzzle to myself, and asked my soul why it was so sad, and why it troubled me so sorely. But my soul did not have an answer for me. And if I said "Hope in God," it would not obey me, because that most dear friend, who it had lost, being a man, was better and more real than the imagined deity it was bidden to trust in. if physical things please you, then praise God for them, but turn back your love to him who created them....the Holy Cross of love, peace and happiness but the soul is weary, babylon is falling, lost souls in the wilderness need to wake up...and sleep in due time. I guess i make myself sick, or seriously have the potential for that. penance week for us in transition. make peace with ghosts. forgive weak spirit for not waking up and preserving the fire. awaiting the dawn..... http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-sci-happy5-2008dec05,0,5449915.story Islam maps out four ways one can fulfill the duty of jihad: by the heart, the tongue, the hand, and the sword. For the first, one must purify one's own heart by resisting wrong and overcoming evil temptations. The Islam religion is promoted through the tongue and hand, and accomplished by supporting what is right and correcting what is wrong. And to fulfill the fourth way, Islam asks its followers to wage war on the unbelievers and enemies of the Islamic faith. (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
1:27 am	where my mind is at.... Dead Prez, They School....school is like 12 step brainwash camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf1QcHs4vGY New World Order USA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6M8iudsVN4 roots manuva, where my mind is at is where my soul is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le-rTfWkKD0 roots manuva, chin high! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bUd1JU04G8 Mesopotamia used base-60 number system...like 60-minute hour (24/7) along with 360-degree circle there is no Rhyme or Reason to the 'new world' empire how could there with such a colossal war machine?? we get 'freedom'...as long as we pay whats due they want to colonize our bodies but third world freedom fighters know histories preceed Colonial History despite the reckless invasions of greedy americans burning and burning but not preserving the middle way and stand and act (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 29th, 2008
12:13 am	render unto Caesar It is God who delivers and provides, who sits on the edge of the world (Isaiah 40:20-31) "The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves." Here's a BBC video of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson giving the Masonic "triangulation" sign (a pyramid with the fingers) around the 3.20 min mark. Paulson succeeded in raising the national debt to $11 Trillion last week. Under the administration of Illuminati member George W. Bush, the national debt has doubled! He has spent as much as every administration that preceded him. He has done more to enslave Americans through fictitious debt than any President. Remember a dollar of new debt is a dollar in the pocket of the central bankers. http://www.brainwashington.info/portal/default.asp?id=1&ACT=5&content=27&mnu=1 Objection: The Founding Fathers were honorable and sincere men with the best of intentions. The U.S. Constitution is a legitimate contract "to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity." Response: The Founding Fathers were mostly lawyers. In their pretended "constitution" they misrepresented themselves as "We the people of the United States." They arbitrarily excluded women and blacks. They knew common law (in use at the time), which requires that for a contract to be valid it needs to be entered into knowingly, voluntarily, and intentionally by all parties. For a written contract to be valid, it must be signed by all parties. The Declaration of Independence was signed as a mutual pledge between the signatories. Comparing the Declaration to the pretended "constitution" may lead you to the conclusion that the latter was a betrayal of the former. Some of the Founding Fathers realized that the "constitution" was a betrayal of liberty, so they formulated the "bill of rights" in an attempt to undo the betrayal. The pretended "bill of rights" became part of the pretended "constitution" nearly three years after the latter was signed. The pretended "constitution" has been a fraud and a hoax from the outset - and an abomination, particularly if compared to the Declaration of Independence. BrainWashington is an information warfare term used loosely and in varying senses to describe political, military, judicial, and intelligence skullduggery. BrainWashington generally refers to the morass of propaganda from and about Washington, D.C. politics and the U.S. Federal Government and military. BrainWashington carries the sense that the government and its members are constructively deceptive and complicit in expert practices of media-driven propaganda and brainwashing for hidden political objectives to succeed unnoticed in the confusion. BrainWashington also points to the tactics of the FEDGOV, as most modern warfare is ideological information warfare as practiced by the military-industrial complex. Often in context the term also implies that the U.S. government is an imperialistic power used as the spearhead for internationalist globalist conquest of nations. The disingenuous government actions are routinely downplayed officially by the use of orwellian doublethink (war is peace, etc.) to spin altruism and goodness from the atrocity of aggressive and violent militarism and imperialism. America does not have a free market. It is a communist market with corporate fascist aspects. Empire is an invisible structure built on the premise that fear is a better motivator than love, and to ensure that fear motivates a manufactured culture of terror is forced on the citizenry. Cultures can sustain themselves when empires don't take their identities away through carefully designed entitlements with compelled obedience as payment. Nothing that empires give is really free. Basically the elitists cause a problem by robbing a culture of its identity then proffering their dues ex machina of "sustainable development" to cement the coffin of rubber-stamped "cultural evolution" Environment, the third "E," is the cover used to promote systems of soviet justice and fascist economics. To Sustainable Developers, the environment means putting "nature" before man. Establishment environmentalism partners with the establishment educational system. Their goal is to indoctrinate a sense of guilt and fear among young people. As a result death has become a repeated focus in modern schools. Care for people Care for the earth Give away the surplus Submission to imperial systems bars one from following these principals http://www.brainwashington.info/portal/media/files/IMPERIUM/IMPERIUM%20Primer%20One-Culture%20and%20Invisible%20Structures-Permaculture.pdf Bitterness is the end-result of anger. Anger accumulates when you harbor ill-feelings and do not forgive and let go. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
12:38 am	4 moons later..... I told my dad tonight that I wish he supported me more when I was adrift instead of reducing me to an impotent economic unit who didn’t make money. I can’t expect him to lead me to realization, but I let his single-minded nagging “get a job!” get to me. Folly is an endless maze, Tangled roots perplex her ways, How many have fallen there! They stumble all night over bones of the dead; And feel they know not what but care; And wish to lead others when they should be led. I didn’t enjoy the summer sun that week or the whole summer. I had begun esl training classes and sat tutoring, but I was not completing an ongoing history project…or organize a block party, which was my best goal. we went out the the wild west of the commonweath to see our cousin's dad who lives in the woods. we havent seen him for 10 years and it was really nice to be in the woods relaxin with family :) hes a very calm person too...and we went to the lake near his house and went canoeing, u know? so i did get sun! and i am a little red!! but i feel better....and i might even jog a little with chris (i think im nervous because im coming off of so many drugs jaja ;) I didn’t jog…. i didn't call u with a phone, but maybe psychically :P how ru doin? im glad u could see antoine....he still owes me money from an exchange....slow europeans!! im dead broke now :/ jajajaja talk to u soon babi :) i hope u do fine bellino, sorry things at home are not easy... be patient bellino and show your father u r not as lost as he thinks. un bacino bellino I didn’t jog…I actually believed I was dead broke….Maria Jose said to be patient and stop being lazy!!! And eat more…. Then I saw Fernanda and her new family on Isaac’s birthday at our birthplace. I had just let go of much confusion about my first romance with Shiva. We chilled with Joe before his trip to Afganistan. I hadn’t gotten in touch with friends in Napoli who I met 4 years earlier. Or remember the same impasse I struggled through two years before. Or call back Erin. Or go back to the church with Amanda. Didn’t try to visit Usman or Stephanie. Hadn’t really been in touch with Mom and Chris. Distant, removed, lazy, stumbling all night over the bones of the dead, street walking, dozing away. rich and poor a poor black man asked for change shower, eaten dinner I stopped believing, pretended not to be laziness degenerated awareness to desperation inert, poisonous, fatalistic belief of no potential, arrogance, and decadent poverty ran out of money that week but I was not counting the many other blessings of life I prepared myself to follow in fear to shit my love, health, life jumped into a hole I didn’t see or smell what a lonely fool I made myself personal history tied to empire through self-reflection, spirit of possession let go…to be awake, alert, active mind moving too fast chugging like a train full of foreign cargo rumbling the rails and the streets passing fields and cities chugging on its destiny to our stomachs cosmopoli we weave to tangle our minds in mazes half-asleep half-dead wallowing in willed depression sealed passion and broken faith erupted in a corrupt city possibly scarred but still kickin small urban center, with several rail lines crossing through the store-fronted downtown. There are many big, divided houses, apartment buildings, old factories, garages and junkyards, a woman prison, a ghetto project area, along with lakes and streams and other wetland and fields. The open and wooded areas mostly surround the downtown. That’s horse and deer country. The downtown area has many immigrant residents from around the world. Mostly latin languages can be heard, but so can so-called oriental and African languages. In the larger town, there is a classic American suburban, green-zone shopping district. Again, the wealthy landed bourgeois live on the outskirts of town. The downtown residents are mostly third world immigrants, working class folk, caught in the American Machine. how can the streets give a shit? whores stagger and pimps drive cars, America the beautiful....the struggle happens on every street, it's global...those who want to continue systems of exploitation and those who want freedom, justice, and equality for everyone. The war on terror embodies the criminal American mentality of Crusade against world and Muslims "America has put on a new face, but its heart full of hate, mind drowning in greed, and spirit which spreads evil, murder, repression and despotism continue to be the same as always. And the Mujahideen of Islam, by the grace of Allah, continue to be the spearhead of the resistance against it to restrain it from injustice, aggression and arrogance." (message to the world's weak and oppressed by #2 enemy of this corrupt nation, last week) we all have inner demons to fight, we call those demons dear and hatred and anger. If you do not conquer them, then a life of one hundred years is a tragedy. If you do, then a life of a single day can be a triumph. Malik al-Shabazz, New York City, December 4, 1963, the end of white supremacy: White America refuses to study, reflect, and learn a lesson from history; ancient Egypt didn't have to be destroyed. It was her corrupt government, the crooked politicians, who caused her destruction. Pharaoh hired Hebrew magicians to try and fool their own people into thinking they would soon be integrated into the mainstream of that country's life. Pharaoh didn't want the Hebrews to listen to Moses' message of separation. Even in that day separation was God's solution to the "slave's problem." By opposing Moses, the magicians were actually choosing sides against the God of their own people. In like manner, modern Negro magicians are hired by the American government to oppose The Honorable Elijah Muhammad today. They pose as Negro "leaders." They have been hired by this white government (white so-called liberals) to make our people here think that integration into this doomed white society will soon solve our problem. .... They know that The Honorable Elijah Muhammad's divine message will make our people (1) wake up, (2) clean up, (3) stand up. They know that once The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is able to resurrect the Negro from this mental grave of ignorance, by teaching him the truth about himself and his real enemy, the Negro will then be able to see and think for himself. Once the Negro learns to think for himself, he will no longer allow the white liberal to use him as a helpless football in the white man's crooked game of "power politics." .... The leaders of the Negro "revolution" (the civil rights leaders) are all subsidized, influenced and controlled by the white liberalsThe leaders of the Negro "revolution" (the civil rights leaders) are all subsidized, influenced and controlled by the white liberals....The government propaganda machine began encouraging Negroes to follow only what it called "responsible" Negro leaders. The government actually meant, Negro leaders who were responsible to the government, and who could therefore by controlled by the government, and be used by that same government to control their impatient people. The whites didn't integrate it; they infiltrated it. Whites joined it; they engulfed it; they became so much a part of it, it lost its original flavor. It ceased to be a black march; it ceased to be militant; it ceased to be angry; it ceased to be impatient. In fact, it ceased to be a march. It became a picnic, an outing with a festive, circus-like atmosphere ... CLOWNS AND ALL. We want no integration with this wicked race that enslaved us. We want complete separation from this race of devils. White America, wake up and take heed, before it is too late! Babylon is falling!! (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
12:07 am	gotta keep walkin you did it! you shouldn't! and it aint my fault badum bum bam....walk it out eagle steppin through the holy grove, stompin round the little lakes land walk it out for the holy ghost get mad at them and whos gona recognize the indifference of the devil who wants your soul and mine, but he can't give you life neither does god care, he washed his selfish hands and what water is there to wash ourselves?? babylon in my veins and gotta keep walkin trees and birds and bugs and leaves the buddh wake up for the little ones who had no choice no chance..... (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
1:37 am	Love and enquire…. I’ve said it before and ill say it again, I cannot tolerate racist fools. What respect do simpletons want by contriving wayward theories of superiority and domination? the G7 is talking about protecting their “sovereign wealth” against predatory, developing second world countries when they would have militantly criticized their “protectionism” only two weeks ago. In all of this who is protecting the massively needy people and planet? I think America cannot lead “free” and “global” trade anymore. The nation is xenophobic fascist and greedy. If we can agree that these “enlightened” philosophers incorporated racial theory in their conceptions, then that high talk of freedom really becomes problematic, especially given this government’s practice of those ideals. Slavery WAS a deciding factor in the formation of this nation, that IS problematic in light of Liberty, and there is no “automatic” fix when so much in this nation is invested in that contradiction. Profiteering conquistadores are the warriors we idolize in standard high school World (European) history books. And their descendants suited corporatocracy, because isn’t the line between them disappearing these days into what Mussolini called Fascism (the Corporate State)….G7, NATO and all these organizations embody traditional colonial divisions and imperial potentials. An example of waste is the 10% of the Amazon forest that has been cut down in the past 10 years. This is MASSIVELY destructive. This is a holocaust (the burnt sacrifice of greedy loggers) like the fires we drop from the heavens on the desert and mountain peoples. And civilians have indeed been repeatedly targeted: the death toll rises. The richest 20% Americans receive 46% of income, while the poorest 20% receive only 3.8% of income, ten times less then their rich “comrades”. Like the average CEO in this country who makes 150 times the average factory workers’ pay. Workers’ wage is the cost of bankers’ profit. The middle class in this country would be upper-class anywhere else in the world. And the world’s 358 billionaires combined net worth equals that of the poorest 45% of the world population. In this equation each billionaire stands on 40 million poor and 40 million burgers. The US contains less than 5% of world population, but consumes more than 25% of its resources. Bush calls it the New World Order. America does not protect their citizen’s freedom in the greatest contradiction of empire, and still believe in old world/new world, east/west divisions. Markets will favor big corporations—no dollar, no vote—but who will protect personal liberties against the capital machines, capataces, slaughterhouses, plantations, and fabric places that WASTE LIFE ON EARTH? How can America be first when it stands directly against Liberty and Justice. The mercenaries in suits call export and wage-slavery “economic development” when no one can subsist in their system except the rich and greedy. The technologically superior drive out the technologically inferior….and now capital is retreating from the “emerging world” to the good ol’ sovereign world of industry. While colleges are still racking in the doe. As with livestock, as long as there is someone around to feed and water them, they really don’t care who (or what) it is that feeds and waters them…as long as an acceptable degree of security, growing material wealth, etc., the average American does not ask who is running things or what goals are being pursued. Wars of aggression, unjust, criminal wars US has the most powerful, expensive military force in the world US is biggest arms merchant US has been most aggressive in world-wide interventions and Has been supporting fascist dictators or are tolerant to them (even Hitler until Japan bombed Hawai’i) What if military police take charge of your neighborhood? and politicians stop dressing up to take your money?? TV and media, misinformation, mass sedation, all ads are about individual comfort, consumption, pleasure, drilled day in and day out to develop of obedience-reflex and make us quiet, flag-worshipping servants I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen. Colossus-Money-propagated images of wealth-Eagle Oligarchy-largest corporations-raw materials, commodities, labor, capital markets of third world—with a single-eye on profit Hell-bent on empire building, like Israel Yoking global markets to transnational capital is contemporary slavery One important step will be to free ourselves from the illusions of the ideology that legitimates the policies that are freeing the corporation as an institution from human accountability …this corporate-spiracy protects only the rich…who will protect the citizens of the world? Our children’s children?? (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
4:32 pm	does the global economy really benefit us? the truth the corporations hold to be self-evident--freedom--is really violence. Is there any other way of being we can cultivate besides the global-corporate model, like freedom?? Not freedom disguised as an eagle, but the freedom that affirms love in all beings. Since World War 2 the old colonies became new nations by divide-and-conquer techniques, called the third world with the corporate language of "development". I wonder how much different this system is from Rome and England of old. This Empire, World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, the United States all represent decadence, in the sense of decaying the fibers that make us human. Hired mercenary-terrorist is only an obvious form: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7674435.stm Strike kills Afgan civilians, and this is one of many many contemporary examples. The "Western" material "world" is the home planet of this global disease. Every word of their self-conception embodies their arrogance! The economy simple destroys our world. We cannot continue to live decadent lives. It is against life. In my life span, the total average cost of public higher education rose more than 100% from $4.000 to more than the total average cost of private education when I was born. Education itself is becoming an efficent corporate enterprise. And all I'm left with after 18 years is dull memories and colossal debt (considering my current circumstances). The American economy does not benefit anyone but the fat cats. Emancipating education is one place to build a balanced world. (Comment on this)
Monday, October 13th, 2008
10:05 pm	not proud to be american i am not proud that this nation wants to spread terror-war to more 3rd world brown nations i am not proud that this nation is the world's leading war-machine and economic imperialist bombing third world countries into desperation and cutting down their resources and raising corn/wasting water for automobile/tanks that raises the food prices for the world's desperate i still drive a car and find it an inefficient guzzling machine that costs my pocket and the world far more than it is worth.....and i still drive when i can walk! my criticisms are hypocritical, but i will admit that and attempt a conversion of my actions toward my thoughts and words....integrity the rotten fruits of action are falling from capataces whose rotten roots are clenched by the Eagle and still people are proud to honor and support our profiteering conquistadores on a mission to kill and steal and enslave and waste our world in holocaust....in the name of Eagle's freedom! in a free spirit i ask these questions to cyberspace, hearing the breathing of the world's poor if only you listen and hear and criticize this system, not preaching complacency or anger in our thoughts and actions, but appreciating life as it is in its chaotic state....and not following along like a dead soul on the way to a hateful sacrifice in the name of Freedom, Eagle's freedom (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
11:16 pm	we stray down a path to see on the other side what we knew when we left and so we sing our song for the snakes and frogs to lighten our hearts we sing to the night the words we heard when we awoke turning and turning the sounds of these words rolling through space I and I sing to lighten our hearts onward down the path to the beginning of our journey (Comment on this)
1:48 pm	water the flowers a war on terror thats what they call it as if war is not terror when peace is against you it erases your culture so we call freedom fighters who have seen the mark of the beast heard its groaning intestines cry for freedom but the system will not help and who care to scribble these thoughts to reveal the twisted laws of a world clouded with print and vain colonial speech that leaves us deaf, dumb and hungry we want to succeed but when a system starves you presumes you to fail how can we turn to its laws if humanity is what they call terrorism I will fight for freedom and squeeze the juice out of all the sukas wit power to pour some bak out so as to water the flowers (Comment on this)
Friday, September 26th, 2008
3:09 am	dead presidents The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism—ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power -Franklin D. Roosevelt warning to Congress 70 years later….. “Corrupt practices undermine government institutions, impede economic and social development, and cast shadows of lawlessness that erode the public trust.” —President George W. Bush High-level corruption by senior government officials, or kleptocracy, is a grave and corrosive abuse of power and represents the most invidious type of public corruption. Kleptocracy is an obstacle to democratic progress, undermines faith in government institutions, and steals prosperity from the people. Together, we can confront kleptocracy and help create the conditions necessary for people everywhere to enjoy the full benefits of honest, just, and accountable governance. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
11:42 pm	ongoing i dont wanna dilute the past entries because their words express strong feelings in me....but at the same time they are crafted and written as ways to express frustration and not entirely as solutions....i dont have solutions, but i am aware of certain situations, and am also not so passionately against reality that i would chose anger or fear over calm.....i do chose fear and anger sometimes, but i need to keep a flowing calm in my heart as i roll along this wild life.....and this kind of entry allows a flow that i do not allow in other concentrated entries maybe they're like distilled versions of reality, certainly a skeptical view of mainstream reality, but at the same time a compassionate recognition of my part in what i see as a silly drama! illmatic and unstructured, but firmly elevated or at least aware of that heightened structure of consciousness that opens the mind and heart to higher being, peacefull being, loving being, natabatnesh - in a word forgotten by colonists..... i am in a struggle, and im struggling to structure these words into a form that an anonymous other could read and at least feel a little bit of what im trying to express......but my hope often goes unanswered, what answer do i need? i need to keep writing, keep flowing in being, maybe a little firmer than my current state, but preserving that calm inside and out.....where does passion find its express? in this place, maybe other more public forums, now im beginning to wonder if anyone but uncle sam watches these entries, i do get response on the mainstream collegial forum, but am i really as shy as i sometimes believe? i mean i think these things, but i also see myself as part of these things, taking part in a silly drama, ongoing as it is....but is my skepticism reasonable? am i reasonable to question my skepticism?? probably, but i gota keep on tapin these keys so that the river can find its way to this screen ur readin to give u a hint of my current confusion..... i understand some things of what i take part in in life, but i do keep moving like a good cog, keep movin like a machine hahah lost the train a little while ago, but im enjoying this random taping, its empowing as i bounce to the rhythm of the hop hip bouncin to the top, or so i hope to the top of my mind, around all creation from ghettos to galaxies , jammin n rammin these foolz as i bounce to the top of creation..... or so i hope (Comment on this)