A Feminist Is A Person Who Understands that the current social structures of the World are dominated by men, and that there is inequality and injustice toward women and other gendered/sexually oriented people because of those social structures and ideas. A Feminist Works to deconstruct those current modes and replace them with fair, inclusive Co-created new social structures that allow freedom and protection for all people.
9.18.2019
9.14.2019
I have seen America, We have plenty of room.
I have been to 38 states, driving or on a train, so I can honestly say that I have seen most of America. Considering the fact that the Entire population of the earth would actually Fit; all be it very uncomfortably (think: ant farm), in the cubic area of the Grand Canyon; I have actually done the math; we have PLENTY of room here. There is absolutely no physical reason for homelessness in the ENTIRE WORLD. There is ONLY ONE REASON for homelessness and poverty in this world: GREED. It is not hatred; hatred is a subtext of greed. Hatred is a devisional tool used by the greedy to manipulate others to do the dirty work.
There are visibly poor people in every state in America. Some states have a lot more poverty than others, namely Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana. They have less homelessness and more poor. The states with least homeless people are Alaska, North Dakota and Wyoming. The places with most are California and New York because they are the wealthiest states. Begging is more "lucrative" in their cities and there are more mentally ill people in a larger population. Up to 30% of homeless people are mentally ill with no proper sources of care.
I am so sick of the strange comments on facebook about how some people, namely immigrants (but a lot of other groups get named or implied in the typical classist racist anti immigrant rhetoric), dont deserve to be here and dont deserve to be given any rights in detainment centers. It not only offends me, it TROUBLES me.
We Can Not Go On in this manner.
Today it was implied that immigrants dont deserve emergency medical attention because it costs taxpayers, also implied was that poor people shouldnt get it either because they are dead beats basically. When pressed they went on to say that immigrants who take their children over the border from far flung places are "bad parents". So I responded with this:
Right, so people who work, that dont get paid well, whose employers dont cover with health insurance. who have no money left over to buy insurance because their rent utilities food laundry and gasoline and car insurance and car repair bills are more than they can afford, those people who are single, or married, and have children or dogs or grandparents, they should just go to hell? And guess what, that IS who is going to the ER, hundreds of thousands of them all over america, because their other expenses are so high. The percentage of immigrants who use the ER is lower than the plain old american citizens who cant afford insurance. And those people are NOT deadbeat losers. They are working people with BILLS and kids and cars and grandparents or parents that they support. Many states do Not have appropriate services for adults; Social Security does not pay enough for most seniors to live on; Medicare doesnt cover everything. This is Not an immigrant problem. This is a SOCIAL Issue in our country. Im sure none of you live in alabama west Va. tennessee "missip" florida missouri, s and n dakota, indiana new hampshire, arizona... some of the states that dont have good governments and have really bad systems. The lower middle class is suffering there at the hands of their own stupidity. and someday so will all of you as long as you think like your foolish friends and relatives who keep the corporately funded republican agenda alive by spewing this classist racist rhetoric that you think is somehow righteous. You apparently havent watched your own parent or child or friend die because they didnt have proper care or insurance. You apparently have never lost your job and had to use public services to feed your family, or worse, been denied services and LOST Everything and wound up on the street with 4 kids and grandma. And These Immigrants? they WALK sometimes thousands of miles to get away from their shitty lives and their terrible selfish fat cat governments to escape and find a better life. YOU Cant even BEGIN to Understand Them. Stop acting like you Know Anything. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. IMMIGRANTS ARE PEOPLE TOO.
Of course, he then told me I was too emotional and making it personal and the thing about being bad parents and I responded:
First of all, this Is a personal issue or You wouldnt care and I wouldnt care. This is a personal ISSUE. Secondly, Immigrants are people and they deserve to be treated humanely and given true emergency care regardless of their status. The issue is what our government and the world governments at large do to make this situation one of impinging on the middle class tax payer in america, read: you. You care because its your dollar. If our government gave you health care with your tax dollar this would be a non issue and we could talk about illegal entry. Lets take this ER thing off the table. Its a non issue because frankly the trillions of dollars of tax payer money that the govt spent on war is really the reason why we cant have national health care today, oh and corporate insurance greed. Not immigration. So your taxes, and your dollars are in the wind because of our governments and the world at large being sick greedy fucks in each others pockets screwing every living person out of a decent life in every way that they can to keep their easy cake jobs and their fancy cars and trophy wives. Not the poor suffering bastards who you just called bad parents. Wait, I just realized, you said that. That is really screwed up. Why am I bothering to to explain anything to you? I mean What??!! Bad parents? Dude... YOU SUCK.
and then I laughed for a few minutes and then I blocked him.
But that isnt the answer to this issue. The Moral Issue of Our LIFETIME is at hand my friends. We have martyrs already. IT IS ON.
The other day I was inspired to write this:
IF WE IMAGINE, for a moment, that the Border is Real, and that our government is justly founded and legitimate and that all of us, its citizens, are not illegal immigrant criminals; if we put aside the fact that the US is full of white people who seized and stole this country from the indigenous tribes thereby making the border an utterly imaginary, non-thing that we think is rational and real... Then what exactly are we saying here? That for some weird reason... it is acceptable that "other" people are being treated badly in this country by government agencies and police? And this Bad Treatment, what are the parameters by which you measure it's acceptability? And these "other" people, these "aliens", what are the qualifiers for their acceptability?
You're not really ready to make those distinctions are you? To say 39 hours is okay for a child to be locked in a van, but 42 hours, now that would be bad.
And this idea of "other" is really out of hand folks. Get a grip. WE are the "aliens".
What the hell is wrong with everybody? FACE IT, FACE THIS: WE are the descendants of Criminals, Land Thieves and Murderers. WE ARE THE ILLEGAL ALIEN IMMIGRANTS.
It is Outrageous Hubris how we stomp around this place like entitled babies grabbing at things with our sweaty baby hands saying "Thats mine, Gimme that! wah wah" and making putrid messes everywhere on everything and scratching the "other" childrens faces and just having a tantrum ALL of the Time!!!
There are visibly poor people in every state in America. Some states have a lot more poverty than others, namely Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana. They have less homelessness and more poor. The states with least homeless people are Alaska, North Dakota and Wyoming. The places with most are California and New York because they are the wealthiest states. Begging is more "lucrative" in their cities and there are more mentally ill people in a larger population. Up to 30% of homeless people are mentally ill with no proper sources of care.
I am so sick of the strange comments on facebook about how some people, namely immigrants (but a lot of other groups get named or implied in the typical classist racist anti immigrant rhetoric), dont deserve to be here and dont deserve to be given any rights in detainment centers. It not only offends me, it TROUBLES me.
We Can Not Go On in this manner.
Today it was implied that immigrants dont deserve emergency medical attention because it costs taxpayers, also implied was that poor people shouldnt get it either because they are dead beats basically. When pressed they went on to say that immigrants who take their children over the border from far flung places are "bad parents". So I responded with this:
Right, so people who work, that dont get paid well, whose employers dont cover with health insurance. who have no money left over to buy insurance because their rent utilities food laundry and gasoline and car insurance and car repair bills are more than they can afford, those people who are single, or married, and have children or dogs or grandparents, they should just go to hell? And guess what, that IS who is going to the ER, hundreds of thousands of them all over america, because their other expenses are so high. The percentage of immigrants who use the ER is lower than the plain old american citizens who cant afford insurance. And those people are NOT deadbeat losers. They are working people with BILLS and kids and cars and grandparents or parents that they support. Many states do Not have appropriate services for adults; Social Security does not pay enough for most seniors to live on; Medicare doesnt cover everything. This is Not an immigrant problem. This is a SOCIAL Issue in our country. Im sure none of you live in alabama west Va. tennessee "missip" florida missouri, s and n dakota, indiana new hampshire, arizona... some of the states that dont have good governments and have really bad systems. The lower middle class is suffering there at the hands of their own stupidity. and someday so will all of you as long as you think like your foolish friends and relatives who keep the corporately funded republican agenda alive by spewing this classist racist rhetoric that you think is somehow righteous. You apparently havent watched your own parent or child or friend die because they didnt have proper care or insurance. You apparently have never lost your job and had to use public services to feed your family, or worse, been denied services and LOST Everything and wound up on the street with 4 kids and grandma. And These Immigrants? they WALK sometimes thousands of miles to get away from their shitty lives and their terrible selfish fat cat governments to escape and find a better life. YOU Cant even BEGIN to Understand Them. Stop acting like you Know Anything. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. IMMIGRANTS ARE PEOPLE TOO.
Of course, he then told me I was too emotional and making it personal and the thing about being bad parents and I responded:
First of all, this Is a personal issue or You wouldnt care and I wouldnt care. This is a personal ISSUE. Secondly, Immigrants are people and they deserve to be treated humanely and given true emergency care regardless of their status. The issue is what our government and the world governments at large do to make this situation one of impinging on the middle class tax payer in america, read: you. You care because its your dollar. If our government gave you health care with your tax dollar this would be a non issue and we could talk about illegal entry. Lets take this ER thing off the table. Its a non issue because frankly the trillions of dollars of tax payer money that the govt spent on war is really the reason why we cant have national health care today, oh and corporate insurance greed. Not immigration. So your taxes, and your dollars are in the wind because of our governments and the world at large being sick greedy fucks in each others pockets screwing every living person out of a decent life in every way that they can to keep their easy cake jobs and their fancy cars and trophy wives. Not the poor suffering bastards who you just called bad parents. Wait, I just realized, you said that. That is really screwed up. Why am I bothering to to explain anything to you? I mean What??!! Bad parents? Dude... YOU SUCK.
and then I laughed for a few minutes and then I blocked him.
But that isnt the answer to this issue. The Moral Issue of Our LIFETIME is at hand my friends. We have martyrs already. IT IS ON.
The other day I was inspired to write this:
IF WE IMAGINE, for a moment, that the Border is Real, and that our government is justly founded and legitimate and that all of us, its citizens, are not illegal immigrant criminals; if we put aside the fact that the US is full of white people who seized and stole this country from the indigenous tribes thereby making the border an utterly imaginary, non-thing that we think is rational and real... Then what exactly are we saying here? That for some weird reason... it is acceptable that "other" people are being treated badly in this country by government agencies and police? And this Bad Treatment, what are the parameters by which you measure it's acceptability? And these "other" people, these "aliens", what are the qualifiers for their acceptability?
You're not really ready to make those distinctions are you? To say 39 hours is okay for a child to be locked in a van, but 42 hours, now that would be bad.
And this idea of "other" is really out of hand folks. Get a grip. WE are the "aliens".
What the hell is wrong with everybody? FACE IT, FACE THIS: WE are the descendants of Criminals, Land Thieves and Murderers. WE ARE THE ILLEGAL ALIEN IMMIGRANTS.
It is Outrageous Hubris how we stomp around this place like entitled babies grabbing at things with our sweaty baby hands saying "Thats mine, Gimme that! wah wah" and making putrid messes everywhere on everything and scratching the "other" childrens faces and just having a tantrum ALL of the Time!!!
As per the laws and protocols of the United States Immigration Department you are not illegal if you come to the border and ask to come in, that is an asylum seeker, or a legitimate immigration applicant. You are not even considered illegal if you try to cross without asking, you are then a detainee, awaiting process. You are "illegal" if you got in and didnt tell anyone and stayed and made money, but that still doesnt make you a criminal before the entry, and even if you were a criminal, why should you be treated INHUMANELY?
If One is rational, One would be predisposed to be considerate and fair to ANY person who comes to the "border" here, bearing in mind that One is ALSO an Illegal Alien, from a long family line of Illegal Aliens, who were quite possibly criminals, land theives, murderers... One might have the utmost humility and respect for those whose may have suffered and died at the hands of one's forefathers and for those descendants now sitting before you, awaiting Your Judgment.
Futurism equals Climate Disaster
There is a dichotomy of thought in the world, and in many of our own minds, about the future.
On one hand is the notion of a futuristic space travel hover car world. Asimov and Roddenberry et al may be to blame but we perpetuate it.
On the other hand is the ominous eventuality of climate change and climate disaster.
Together they equal dystopia.
The futuristic imaginings can only eventuate as Climate Disaster.
All of the raw material needed and the energy required to Build such a Musk/ Bezos future can only be created by capitalist Polluting dystopian fascists of our nightmares. Make no mistake, this is the truth. It is happening right now under our noses while we all dream of the future of floating cars and missions to mars like silly girls dreaming of princes in our pink ruffled bedrooms.
All of the ugly landscapes in all the futuristic science fiction movies and novels already exist and will only continue to grow until there is nothing left. The refugee and prison camps of displaced and policed people Exist all over the world and they continue to grow: Turkey, China, United States, Kashmir, Philippines, Lebanon, India, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia(a mix of countries with either detainment or refugee camps)... the current number of displaced persons is now 70.8 million worldwide. The highest number ever. That is fucking astronomical. The number of Detained persons in this country is over 350,000. In China it's over a million; look up Uyghrs. Turkey has over 3 million Syrian refugees.
So, listen to me... You Have to come to terms with this nonsense fairytale of a futuristic world of floating cars and magical fingertip easy controls and flying into space to meet aliens. It cant happen without the total toxic pollution destruction of our oceans and entire planet and the murder of millions and the police state violent detention and mind control enslavement of 90% of the population. It is Happening Right Now.
You have to ERASE the white privelege concepts of space travel and smart homes from your minds right now because that shit is sending us straight to hell.
Mass production and computers in every room and cell phones and missions to Mars eat up Energy and resources. Energy is made with fossil fuels and Nuclear power. Burning fossil fuels is destroying the Air, destroying the oceans, polluting the land and causing climate disaster. Nuclear power is Dangerous and is currently killing sealife in the pacific and Arctic ocean due to accidents in Japan and Russia. Resources are ores and minerals Ores are mined. Mines are filthy toxic pollution sites. Toxic Pollution is destroying the Earth and causing climate disaster, there by killing us all.
Just because a bunch of wealthy priveleged white aristocrats wanted to get richer at the turn of the century and made investments in Oil, Steel, Manufacturing and Shipping Does NOT Mean that it was Ever a Good Idea. It was Never a Good Idea. There are dozens of toxic metals being mined and smelted! Shipping is Filthy. It is toxic from the manufacture of steel to building of ships to use of oil to power ships to oil spills to death of sea life to polluting of waters to polluting of ports to mistreatment and displacement of indigenous people... Oil is the same list plus oil spills and devastation of wildlife, wilderness and coral reefs. Manufacturing is the pinnacle, inclusive of all the Big 3 polluters plus the incalculable devastation of the entire planet due to Waste including the biggest threat, Plastic Packaging.
Thats your future folks, if you keep believing the fairytale of futurism. The Fairytale of space travel. The fairy tale of computerised android slavebots to do your bidding. The fairytale that we are creating right now because the white robber barons made up a world for us. We must destroy the ideas they forced onto us with the ease of the toaster and the dishwasher in every home. Now it is the cell phone and the laptop. Soon it will be the robot and the flying car. Please. I beg of you; STOP Dreaming of the Futuristic Future!!
STOP IT NOW.
Start Imagining Better ways to do Better Things, Different Things. The Ideas of the Past Are KIlling Us, Lets Kill those Bad Ideas Instead.
BETTER IDEAS FOR A BETTER FUTURE.
JAIL THE POLLUTERS! MORATORIUM NOW!
Links to references
https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/figures-at-a-glance.html
https://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2016/refugee-camps/
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/7/30/20747028/china-uighur-muslims-internment-camps-forced-labor
https://www.bulatlat.com/2011/10/17/there-are-political-prisoners-in-the-country-up-to-now-%e2%80%93-rights-groups/
On one hand is the notion of a futuristic space travel hover car world. Asimov and Roddenberry et al may be to blame but we perpetuate it.
On the other hand is the ominous eventuality of climate change and climate disaster.
Together they equal dystopia.
The futuristic imaginings can only eventuate as Climate Disaster.
All of the raw material needed and the energy required to Build such a Musk/ Bezos future can only be created by capitalist Polluting dystopian fascists of our nightmares. Make no mistake, this is the truth. It is happening right now under our noses while we all dream of the future of floating cars and missions to mars like silly girls dreaming of princes in our pink ruffled bedrooms.
All of the ugly landscapes in all the futuristic science fiction movies and novels already exist and will only continue to grow until there is nothing left. The refugee and prison camps of displaced and policed people Exist all over the world and they continue to grow: Turkey, China, United States, Kashmir, Philippines, Lebanon, India, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia(a mix of countries with either detainment or refugee camps)... the current number of displaced persons is now 70.8 million worldwide. The highest number ever. That is fucking astronomical. The number of Detained persons in this country is over 350,000. In China it's over a million; look up Uyghrs. Turkey has over 3 million Syrian refugees.
So, listen to me... You Have to come to terms with this nonsense fairytale of a futuristic world of floating cars and magical fingertip easy controls and flying into space to meet aliens. It cant happen without the total toxic pollution destruction of our oceans and entire planet and the murder of millions and the police state violent detention and mind control enslavement of 90% of the population. It is Happening Right Now.
You have to ERASE the white privelege concepts of space travel and smart homes from your minds right now because that shit is sending us straight to hell.
Mass production and computers in every room and cell phones and missions to Mars eat up Energy and resources. Energy is made with fossil fuels and Nuclear power. Burning fossil fuels is destroying the Air, destroying the oceans, polluting the land and causing climate disaster. Nuclear power is Dangerous and is currently killing sealife in the pacific and Arctic ocean due to accidents in Japan and Russia. Resources are ores and minerals Ores are mined. Mines are filthy toxic pollution sites. Toxic Pollution is destroying the Earth and causing climate disaster, there by killing us all.
Just because a bunch of wealthy priveleged white aristocrats wanted to get richer at the turn of the century and made investments in Oil, Steel, Manufacturing and Shipping Does NOT Mean that it was Ever a Good Idea. It was Never a Good Idea. There are dozens of toxic metals being mined and smelted! Shipping is Filthy. It is toxic from the manufacture of steel to building of ships to use of oil to power ships to oil spills to death of sea life to polluting of waters to polluting of ports to mistreatment and displacement of indigenous people... Oil is the same list plus oil spills and devastation of wildlife, wilderness and coral reefs. Manufacturing is the pinnacle, inclusive of all the Big 3 polluters plus the incalculable devastation of the entire planet due to Waste including the biggest threat, Plastic Packaging.
Thats your future folks, if you keep believing the fairytale of futurism. The Fairytale of space travel. The fairy tale of computerised android slavebots to do your bidding. The fairytale that we are creating right now because the white robber barons made up a world for us. We must destroy the ideas they forced onto us with the ease of the toaster and the dishwasher in every home. Now it is the cell phone and the laptop. Soon it will be the robot and the flying car. Please. I beg of you; STOP Dreaming of the Futuristic Future!!
STOP IT NOW.
Start Imagining Better ways to do Better Things, Different Things. The Ideas of the Past Are KIlling Us, Lets Kill those Bad Ideas Instead.
BETTER IDEAS FOR A BETTER FUTURE.
JAIL THE POLLUTERS! MORATORIUM NOW!
Links to references
https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/figures-at-a-glance.html
https://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2016/refugee-camps/
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/7/30/20747028/china-uighur-muslims-internment-camps-forced-labor
https://www.bulatlat.com/2011/10/17/there-are-political-prisoners-in-the-country-up-to-now-%e2%80%93-rights-groups/
7.29.2019
7.22.2017
1123 ex post facto reality
I. "I am he
as you are he
and we are all together".
II.
I walked down this dirt road
in the dark to siddhartha
and I told him
you are not my father; I renounce you.
So, now
in the golden flicker
of candlelight
reflecting
in the water bowls
in every dark room of my mind
is it my own fault,
I wonder.
as you are he
and we are all together".
II.
I walked down this dirt road
in the dark to siddhartha
and I told him
you are not my father; I renounce you.
So, now
in the golden flicker
of candlelight
reflecting
in the water bowls
in every dark room of my mind
is it my own fault,
I wonder.
this could be 1800's new orleans
I can smell the jasmine
and feel the white lace dress
and the binding tightness
of the spell of righteousness...
of all the places I have been
new orleans was the most
and least free.
but I digress,
as always.
III. bodhisattva
in my youth
I was an
optimist,
perhaps now
I am merely a storm cloud.
yet,
rainbows come of such things.
IV.
this is the section about Descartes.
I think.
V.
In this post facto reality
I've got going
truth is,
I am the same person I was
the day I first realized who I am.
VI.
all the many and the none
all the many and the none
I walked backwards to get here.
"but it's all right ma, it's life, and life only"
VII.
that
nautilus shell
was a birthday gift
I cant recall who gave it to me
but I remember
suddenly now
after 40 years
they said
"It's You,
or actually, right there in the center is you."
1123
my birthday
the first 4 numbers of the Fibonacci sequence
if we apply the golden ratio
we can see how it is...
a logarithmic spiral. . .. ...
8.07.2016
Righteousness, religion, revolution: Why the Enlightenment, the founding fathers and Science brought forth a new nation...
A few centuries ago ...
A few centuries ago there was a time period that is now known as the enlightenment, when observers of natural events had cataloged, researched and created scientific thought and practice, when others had observed society at large, and people specifically, and compiled data to form new social structures that included fairness and equality as their Primary Tenets. It was a time of great need in a world of much greed and tyranny of kings and savage businessmen... It was a time when religion was corrupt and oppressive and seething with politic and hatred... A time when the world could be HAD.
Now is also such a time... and our closed minded idea of living in an advanced Age is exposed to brutal truth. We are being Had.
Slavery is rampant and practiced everywhere Still, it Never went away.
Religions are petty and puerile and mean and selfish.
Politics are festering piles of boiling diarrhea.
Governments are owned by corporations.
The world is a cesspool of polluted filth.
This is a true turning point of humanity.
We either have to change in a dramatic positive way immediately or perish.
The founding fathers brought forth a new nation during this period of enlightenment on the basis of science and fairness and moral philosophy for the betterment of mankind, not freedom of religion per se, that is merely a tenet, not a basis! The righteousness of fundamentalist christians here in the United States is not based on reality. The founders were against governance by the church and tyranny. Righteousness has no place in government. Freedom of religion is just a basic right, not a podium on which to oppress people! Thats what the authors of our founding documents thought.
I mean, How can any human person in this bright future present - How can Any One believe that they are gods chosen person and that they have a right and an obligation to convert people to their fairy tale rule book or condemn them or, worse, to harm and kill them for not believing? ! Shocking does not adequately describe the preposterousness of this idea!!
Populations have been revolting against tyrants and oppressors for so long that One would hope - that in general - Everyone should be aware that Injustice and oppression exist, they are unfair and wicked, they cause all the suffering in the world and they need to be avoided, and put down and deposed at all times. It is The FOUNDING PRINCIPLE OF THIS NATION THAT WE ARE ALL EQUAL HERE AND THAT WE DEMAND OUR NATION TO BE JUST AND FAIR AND COMPASSIONATE. (We have yet to truly live up to it though.)
Fair and Equal is the Standard to which we Aspire. Over the years the people who actually read our foundational documents and study the laws and have integrity, have expanded the rights and freedom of many oppressed people.
Therefore, IT DOES NOT FOLLOW...It does NOT Follow that in This Nation of Free and Equal, Anti Tyranny, Anti Oppression, This Revolutionary, Enlightenment Era, Free Thinking, Nation of Tolerance and Humanitarianism... That we would EVER EVER EVER EVER Allow fundamentalists to write laws, bribe representatives, steal elections, revoke rights, infiltrate our public opinions, defame and punish people, oppress our citizens, nor allow them to harm and kill those they don't agree with. It's bad enough that we allowed industrialists and now corporations and war opportunists to run the world forever
But that is exactly what is happening, here and everywhere. Christian Fundamentalism alone is swelling to an infectious tsunami sized wave of intolerance hate fear blame and Yes, killing that can Not be Allowed at All. NO. Never.
The righteous religious population has swallowed a lie, and they are puking it up on the rest of us. It makes me sick! their motto of helpless ignorant non understanding is this: Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die.... because god said so. It's ridiculous.
I do Not believe in fairies. And I am so happy to be free of such nonsense really. People have the horrible tendency to revert to childish thinking, or passive denial of responsibility to question authority. During the enlightenment when the alleged founding fathers (and their wives, sisters, mothers, girl friends and female acquaintances) THOUGHT About REALITY, they Most Certainly Did Question Authority!!
I ask you now to speak of this to others, to Absolutely Question Authority
And To
THINK HARDER. NOW.
A few centuries ago there was a time period that is now known as the enlightenment, when observers of natural events had cataloged, researched and created scientific thought and practice, when others had observed society at large, and people specifically, and compiled data to form new social structures that included fairness and equality as their Primary Tenets. It was a time of great need in a world of much greed and tyranny of kings and savage businessmen... It was a time when religion was corrupt and oppressive and seething with politic and hatred... A time when the world could be HAD.
Now is also such a time... and our closed minded idea of living in an advanced Age is exposed to brutal truth. We are being Had.
Slavery is rampant and practiced everywhere Still, it Never went away.
Religions are petty and puerile and mean and selfish.
Politics are festering piles of boiling diarrhea.
Governments are owned by corporations.
The world is a cesspool of polluted filth.
This is a true turning point of humanity.
We either have to change in a dramatic positive way immediately or perish.
The founding fathers brought forth a new nation during this period of enlightenment on the basis of science and fairness and moral philosophy for the betterment of mankind, not freedom of religion per se, that is merely a tenet, not a basis! The righteousness of fundamentalist christians here in the United States is not based on reality. The founders were against governance by the church and tyranny. Righteousness has no place in government. Freedom of religion is just a basic right, not a podium on which to oppress people! Thats what the authors of our founding documents thought.
I mean, How can any human person in this bright future present - How can Any One believe that they are gods chosen person and that they have a right and an obligation to convert people to their fairy tale rule book or condemn them or, worse, to harm and kill them for not believing? ! Shocking does not adequately describe the preposterousness of this idea!!
Populations have been revolting against tyrants and oppressors for so long that One would hope - that in general - Everyone should be aware that Injustice and oppression exist, they are unfair and wicked, they cause all the suffering in the world and they need to be avoided, and put down and deposed at all times. It is The FOUNDING PRINCIPLE OF THIS NATION THAT WE ARE ALL EQUAL HERE AND THAT WE DEMAND OUR NATION TO BE JUST AND FAIR AND COMPASSIONATE. (We have yet to truly live up to it though.)
Fair and Equal is the Standard to which we Aspire. Over the years the people who actually read our foundational documents and study the laws and have integrity, have expanded the rights and freedom of many oppressed people.
Therefore, IT DOES NOT FOLLOW...It does NOT Follow that in This Nation of Free and Equal, Anti Tyranny, Anti Oppression, This Revolutionary, Enlightenment Era, Free Thinking, Nation of Tolerance and Humanitarianism... That we would EVER EVER EVER EVER Allow fundamentalists to write laws, bribe representatives, steal elections, revoke rights, infiltrate our public opinions, defame and punish people, oppress our citizens, nor allow them to harm and kill those they don't agree with. It's bad enough that we allowed industrialists and now corporations and war opportunists to run the world forever
But that is exactly what is happening, here and everywhere. Christian Fundamentalism alone is swelling to an infectious tsunami sized wave of intolerance hate fear blame and Yes, killing that can Not be Allowed at All. NO. Never.
The righteous religious population has swallowed a lie, and they are puking it up on the rest of us. It makes me sick! their motto of helpless ignorant non understanding is this: Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die.... because god said so. It's ridiculous.
I do Not believe in fairies. And I am so happy to be free of such nonsense really. People have the horrible tendency to revert to childish thinking, or passive denial of responsibility to question authority. During the enlightenment when the alleged founding fathers (and their wives, sisters, mothers, girl friends and female acquaintances) THOUGHT About REALITY, they Most Certainly Did Question Authority!!
I ask you now to speak of this to others, to Absolutely Question Authority
And To
THINK HARDER. NOW.
2.21.2015
street theater more accessible than obscure blogsites
Violence and greed is consuming us, and every living thing. No one is immune to the horror unfolding every day. We will all perish if we do not totally acknowledge and move to dismantle it.
How do We achieve a complete harmony between all living beings? ... if we still have despicable wealth and widespread untenable poverty, religious hatred, cultural hatred, national wars ...
How? It's Impossible.
Yet, even as I write the word impossible, I know somehow, that it is absolutely not impossible.
Total willing willful happy Harmony IS Absolutely Possible.
Obeyance to religious doctrine and passivity just won't do it though. Violence and domination are completely wrong. Philosophy... meh.
Instagram? Twitter? facebook? youtube?! more like... but not.
I think I'm going to go out on a limb and say Performance Art.
Like the Crucifixion or the parting of the red sea... but you know, Better than that, with way more witnesses.
Demonstration. Act-ivism, Performance Activism.
In centuries past, puppet theaters traveled the countryside propagandizing the illiterate... it's a proven method.
Protesting in public is a form of performance art. Occupy Wall Street is performance art.
Performance protesting/activism is the way to go.
How do We achieve a complete harmony between all living beings? ... if we still have despicable wealth and widespread untenable poverty, religious hatred, cultural hatred, national wars ...
How? It's Impossible.
Yet, even as I write the word impossible, I know somehow, that it is absolutely not impossible.
Total willing willful happy Harmony IS Absolutely Possible.
Obeyance to religious doctrine and passivity just won't do it though. Violence and domination are completely wrong. Philosophy... meh.
Instagram? Twitter? facebook? youtube?! more like... but not.
I think I'm going to go out on a limb and say Performance Art.
Like the Crucifixion or the parting of the red sea... but you know, Better than that, with way more witnesses.
Demonstration. Act-ivism, Performance Activism.
In centuries past, puppet theaters traveled the countryside propagandizing the illiterate... it's a proven method.
Protesting in public is a form of performance art. Occupy Wall Street is performance art.
Performance protesting/activism is the way to go.
12.07.2014
CORPORATE COLONIZERS ARE KILLING THE PLANET AND WE ARE LETTING THEM
Just thinking about the King Model...
(not the noble one of MLK Jr),
the stupid one on which we base everything that exists in our murky little human reality...
The King Model
wherein the King rules all he surveys, he conquers, he reigns, he slays
at any and all expense to everyone else.
we think about ourselves this way personally, spiritually
we think of the family this way
our social groups
our societies
our governments
our religion/god
the leader rules
everyone else does as they are told...
It's the much written about discussion of feminists and anthropologists of our time.
PATRIARCHY
Survival of the Fittest
Man's Dominion over the lesser animals
GOD
Kingdoms
Empires
Armies
Dictatorships
Fascism
Corporations
Religions
Cults
The Boss
Advertising Agencies
Pimps
The King Model
seeks to Win.
seeks to gain
seeks to be right
seeks power
seeks money
seeks things....
to rule to gain to hold to clutch to
You better let go of It or It will ruin you... exactly as It has the entire world and everything in it.
We have got to realize that the current model of proprietary behavior and Ownership and all of our concepts from DAY ONE are so Flawed and so Integral to the destruction of the earth that we absolutely MUST STOP adhering to, participating in, and believing any and ALL of these ideas and methods of living and thinking.
Our whole society worldwide is based on a lowbrow, archaic and arcane idea that he who has the most gold or the newest iphone wins. No matter how useless and cruel and filthy the system was, is or will become, we keep using the same model believing that "That's the way it is". Disgusting. And Backward.
Toss your litter out the window suck down your coca cola eat your burger pick your scabs and shake your fist at the sun for starving people in Africa. That's the old paradigm at work in our culture today... think of the most ignorant person you know and then try to figure out the One good thing you could say to him/her today to bring them one step closer to actually CHANGING THEIR MIND.
THINK ON THESE THINGS.
CHOOSE TO BEGIN TO LEARN TO BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE GOING TO BE THE SALVATION OF ALL HUMANITY AND EVERY SPECIES AND THE ENTIRE PLANET RIGHT NOW AT YOUR OWN HAND WITH ME AND EVERYONE ELSE.
I CHOOSE TO BEGIN TO LEARN TO BELIEVE THAT I AM THE SALVATION OF ALL OF HUMANITY ALL SPECIES AND THE ENTIRE EARTH, RIGHT NOW, TODAY, WITH YOU AND EVERYONE ELSE.
********
Carl Sandburg once wrote, in a children's story called "Three boys with jugs of molasses and secret ambitions", from the book Rootabaga Stories, "A secret ambition is a little creeper that creeps saying - come and find me, come and find me".
If you feel a special sort of excitement or awe or fear or like you might cry when you read the words telling you that you are are the salvation of the world, I just want you to know that it is really really extra super good for you to feel that feeling. Hold Onto That.
(not the noble one of MLK Jr),
the stupid one on which we base everything that exists in our murky little human reality...
The King Model
wherein the King rules all he surveys, he conquers, he reigns, he slays
at any and all expense to everyone else.
we think about ourselves this way personally, spiritually
we think of the family this way
our social groups
our societies
our governments
our religion/god
the leader rules
everyone else does as they are told...
It's the much written about discussion of feminists and anthropologists of our time.
PATRIARCHY
Survival of the Fittest
Man's Dominion over the lesser animals
GOD
Kingdoms
Empires
Armies
Dictatorships
Fascism
Corporations
Religions
Cults
The Boss
Advertising Agencies
Pimps
The King Model
seeks to Win.
seeks to gain
seeks to be right
seeks power
seeks money
seeks things....
to rule to gain to hold to clutch to
You better let go of It or It will ruin you... exactly as It has the entire world and everything in it.
We have got to realize that the current model of proprietary behavior and Ownership and all of our concepts from DAY ONE are so Flawed and so Integral to the destruction of the earth that we absolutely MUST STOP adhering to, participating in, and believing any and ALL of these ideas and methods of living and thinking.
Our whole society worldwide is based on a lowbrow, archaic and arcane idea that he who has the most gold or the newest iphone wins. No matter how useless and cruel and filthy the system was, is or will become, we keep using the same model believing that "That's the way it is". Disgusting. And Backward.
Toss your litter out the window suck down your coca cola eat your burger pick your scabs and shake your fist at the sun for starving people in Africa. That's the old paradigm at work in our culture today... think of the most ignorant person you know and then try to figure out the One good thing you could say to him/her today to bring them one step closer to actually CHANGING THEIR MIND.
THINK ON THESE THINGS.
CHOOSE TO BEGIN TO LEARN TO BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE GOING TO BE THE SALVATION OF ALL HUMANITY AND EVERY SPECIES AND THE ENTIRE PLANET RIGHT NOW AT YOUR OWN HAND WITH ME AND EVERYONE ELSE.
I CHOOSE TO BEGIN TO LEARN TO BELIEVE THAT I AM THE SALVATION OF ALL OF HUMANITY ALL SPECIES AND THE ENTIRE EARTH, RIGHT NOW, TODAY, WITH YOU AND EVERYONE ELSE.
********
Carl Sandburg once wrote, in a children's story called "Three boys with jugs of molasses and secret ambitions", from the book Rootabaga Stories, "A secret ambition is a little creeper that creeps saying - come and find me, come and find me".
If you feel a special sort of excitement or awe or fear or like you might cry when you read the words telling you that you are are the salvation of the world, I just want you to know that it is really really extra super good for you to feel that feeling. Hold Onto That.
8.24.2014
Object Lesson
Sad days are upon us... difficult days. I look at myself and I know I am not physically strong enough to march and rage against the machine and get arrested protesting every fucking atrocity in our sick and crumbling nation... We are so foolish to presume that we have progressed as humans.
I love this world. It is so beautiful. I really love life and all the wonderful things that happen in our lives.
But the simple and true things of this world are hidden now by the nonsense of the societies we have created.
Do you want your life back? Do you want the earth back? Do you even realize that it is being taken from you? (I sound like a conspiracy theorist here, but the world is actually being run by greed infested capitalist corporations, not secret societies, they are right there out in the open, in front of our faces turning the earth into a waste dump.)
I propose an object lesson. A social experiment.
Let us all do something every day for the rest of our lives that promotes the well being of the planet, of our neighbors and ourselves. Let us all reach out beyond the realm of our insular paranoid silly selfish greedy petty lives and make a safe place in this wretched world of despair and separation.
Make small talk with someone you would normally never speak to. Say hello to every person you see. Give something away to a really needy person. Learn to speak another language. Buy books for a school library in the poor part of your region. Buy blankets and coats and give them to a shelter. Walk down the street to that very old lady's or man's house and bring some fruit or flowers and give them your phone number. Offer someone a ride. Stop buying juice in plastic bottles. Tell someone who doesn't understand about pesticides and organics why its so important. Grow a garden. Don't use miracle grow. Buy organic seeds. Tell a joke to the guy waiting on a line with you. Tell someone they look good. Be friendly despite your own problems. Be candid about your own flaws. Tell someone off who is being a real prick to you or someone else with very polite yet searing words and take their photo with your phone. Smile. Bring more food with you and share it generously. Buy some random person dinner, or lunch or Water. And be their friend. Tell them about this whole thing, about taking the fate of our world away from the corporations and the politicians and the bankers and the greedy haters and the fearful zealots.... by being friends with everyone and by banding together across every possible barrier until the whole population of the world is unified together to protect the earth and the kind people and animals in it.
Begin to Believe that You are the Salvation of the World because YOU ARE.
I love this world. It is so beautiful. I really love life and all the wonderful things that happen in our lives.
But the simple and true things of this world are hidden now by the nonsense of the societies we have created.
Do you want your life back? Do you want the earth back? Do you even realize that it is being taken from you? (I sound like a conspiracy theorist here, but the world is actually being run by greed infested capitalist corporations, not secret societies, they are right there out in the open, in front of our faces turning the earth into a waste dump.)
I propose an object lesson. A social experiment.
Let us all do something every day for the rest of our lives that promotes the well being of the planet, of our neighbors and ourselves. Let us all reach out beyond the realm of our insular paranoid silly selfish greedy petty lives and make a safe place in this wretched world of despair and separation.
Make small talk with someone you would normally never speak to. Say hello to every person you see. Give something away to a really needy person. Learn to speak another language. Buy books for a school library in the poor part of your region. Buy blankets and coats and give them to a shelter. Walk down the street to that very old lady's or man's house and bring some fruit or flowers and give them your phone number. Offer someone a ride. Stop buying juice in plastic bottles. Tell someone who doesn't understand about pesticides and organics why its so important. Grow a garden. Don't use miracle grow. Buy organic seeds. Tell a joke to the guy waiting on a line with you. Tell someone they look good. Be friendly despite your own problems. Be candid about your own flaws. Tell someone off who is being a real prick to you or someone else with very polite yet searing words and take their photo with your phone. Smile. Bring more food with you and share it generously. Buy some random person dinner, or lunch or Water. And be their friend. Tell them about this whole thing, about taking the fate of our world away from the corporations and the politicians and the bankers and the greedy haters and the fearful zealots.... by being friends with everyone and by banding together across every possible barrier until the whole population of the world is unified together to protect the earth and the kind people and animals in it.
Begin to Believe that You are the Salvation of the World because YOU ARE.
7.26.2013
CHOOSE TO BELIEVE THAT YOU WILL CHANGE THE WORLD
I want us all to realize the limitations of our religions and our beliefs and our cultural conditioning so that we can begin to Grow in an important way. A way that will enable us to Be the Ones who can and will and are changing the world.
The people out there fighting, for the world to be a better place in every aspect of reality, Know that they have to step out of their own limitations to do what is required of them to succeed, to even try to succeed.
They know that they have to psych themselves into doing seemingly crazy risky things to get the issue in the news, to get people to pay attention. So Many people are unconscious, brainwashed, subverted, perverted from truth, goodness, kindness... and they have no idea how perverse they are. We ourselves are deluded and perverse. I myself am cynical and depressed and free falling most of the time. I am writing this to talk myself into doing what needs to be done to make the world a better place, to stop the poisoning of the earth, etc.
We all need to reinforce in our selves and others that we Must do what needs to be done Now. If you have a strong faith that promotes this behavior that is great. But most people have religious and social limitations that tell them that they can't achieve anything or that it is not acceptable to participate in radical activism. Most people are afraid to be arrested, myself included, at a rally or blockade. I am not necessarily suggesting that we should be arrested as a solution either.
What I want to impart to you with this new self concept mantra that I am evolving:
CHOOSE TO BEGIN TO LEARN TO BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS THE SALVATION OF ALL OF HUMANITY ALL SPECIES AND THE ENTIRE EARTH, RIGHT NOW, TODAY, WITH ME AND EVERYONE ELSE....
Is that THIS IS Possible, and with this mantra You can prepare yourself; We can prepare Ourselves for The Day When It Will Be Necessary to Be This Strong. Because That Day is coming, That Day IS Here.
Most religions are based on supernatural unprovable stories with large judgmental punishing deities that they are taught to embrace and to fear. I want to say that this is really not the point anymore, largely because the Sinners are raping the earth, poisoning the air, soil and water, charging us for it too! The Sinners are robbing the poor to feed their fat faces. The Sinners are preaching gospels, and chanting prayers while they kill their enemies. The Sinners are hiding behind God and religion while they starve the innocent and poison the meek. The Sinners are sullying the religions and twisting them into hideous pretzels while the innocent and the meek are looking away, afraid to speak, unable to fight the powerful wealthy abusers. We, the meek, the disenfranchised, the poor, the average, the middle class... are not the real sinners anymore. Were we ever? Sin is contextual, folks.
I ask you to entertain the idea that we are not sinners, or meek, or less, or just followers, just congregants. I want us to entertain the idea, the core belief, that we are masters of our own destiny. More than that, Masters of the destiny of the earth and of humanity as a whole, NOW. With No god, no religion, no doctrine to Divide us.
That is the part that is the most important. There can be no divide, No differences between us. We all must be equal with no god to divide us, no ideal to divide us. No Doctrine, and most especially no Messiah who is going to come and fix everything.
Because WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO WAIT FOR THAT.
The only tenets should be:
Equality and Human Rights for all people,
Sustainable Land and resources for all Species,
Humane treatment for all species,
No resource stripping,
No private-profit ownership of national resources most especially water,
No Pollution or overt damage to the Environment,
No Land grabbing,
No Religious Oppression., and/or oppression by religions.
No War
We are totally brainwashed to believe that this can't become manifest by our weird misunderstanding of free enterprise, especially in this country. For example; It is ridiculous that a person can profit-own an aquifer! I really don't mind land ownership, (but how'd you get that land?) BUT Water? Sure, you can have your own well on your own land but can you own an aquifer? Serious question. Serious. And you, We, should be really interested in the answer. We should also be interested in the utter disregard that gas and chemical companies and governments have for said well/land ownership. We should be Disturbed by it. It should make us lose sleep every night until we can't rest until this problem is resolved on the side of the innocent people who have had their rights, their land, their water devalued and poisoned by the powerful. But that level of awareness and compassion is Not happening enough in this world.
The greedy powerful corporations are running rampant on this earth and Our Attitude of meekness and helplessness Is Destroying OUR Planet.
We are Complicit Because WE Believe that we Have No Power.
So, Again, I am Asking you to repeat with me:
I CHOOSE TO BEGIN TO LEARN TO BELIEVE THAT I AM THE SALVATION OF ALL OF HUMANITY ALL SPECIES AND THE ENTIRE EARTH, RIGHT NOW, TODAY, WITH YOU AND EVERYONE ELSE.
What could it hurt? Just try it out. Think about it.
Please.
Now say it again....
The people out there fighting, for the world to be a better place in every aspect of reality, Know that they have to step out of their own limitations to do what is required of them to succeed, to even try to succeed.
They know that they have to psych themselves into doing seemingly crazy risky things to get the issue in the news, to get people to pay attention. So Many people are unconscious, brainwashed, subverted, perverted from truth, goodness, kindness... and they have no idea how perverse they are. We ourselves are deluded and perverse. I myself am cynical and depressed and free falling most of the time. I am writing this to talk myself into doing what needs to be done to make the world a better place, to stop the poisoning of the earth, etc.
We all need to reinforce in our selves and others that we Must do what needs to be done Now. If you have a strong faith that promotes this behavior that is great. But most people have religious and social limitations that tell them that they can't achieve anything or that it is not acceptable to participate in radical activism. Most people are afraid to be arrested, myself included, at a rally or blockade. I am not necessarily suggesting that we should be arrested as a solution either.
What I want to impart to you with this new self concept mantra that I am evolving:
CHOOSE TO BEGIN TO LEARN TO BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS THE SALVATION OF ALL OF HUMANITY ALL SPECIES AND THE ENTIRE EARTH, RIGHT NOW, TODAY, WITH ME AND EVERYONE ELSE....
Is that THIS IS Possible, and with this mantra You can prepare yourself; We can prepare Ourselves for The Day When It Will Be Necessary to Be This Strong. Because That Day is coming, That Day IS Here.
Most religions are based on supernatural unprovable stories with large judgmental punishing deities that they are taught to embrace and to fear. I want to say that this is really not the point anymore, largely because the Sinners are raping the earth, poisoning the air, soil and water, charging us for it too! The Sinners are robbing the poor to feed their fat faces. The Sinners are preaching gospels, and chanting prayers while they kill their enemies. The Sinners are hiding behind God and religion while they starve the innocent and poison the meek. The Sinners are sullying the religions and twisting them into hideous pretzels while the innocent and the meek are looking away, afraid to speak, unable to fight the powerful wealthy abusers. We, the meek, the disenfranchised, the poor, the average, the middle class... are not the real sinners anymore. Were we ever? Sin is contextual, folks.
I ask you to entertain the idea that we are not sinners, or meek, or less, or just followers, just congregants. I want us to entertain the idea, the core belief, that we are masters of our own destiny. More than that, Masters of the destiny of the earth and of humanity as a whole, NOW. With No god, no religion, no doctrine to Divide us.
That is the part that is the most important. There can be no divide, No differences between us. We all must be equal with no god to divide us, no ideal to divide us. No Doctrine, and most especially no Messiah who is going to come and fix everything.
Because WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO WAIT FOR THAT.
The only tenets should be:
Equality and Human Rights for all people,
Sustainable Land and resources for all Species,
Humane treatment for all species,
No resource stripping,
No private-profit ownership of national resources most especially water,
No Pollution or overt damage to the Environment,
No Land grabbing,
No Religious Oppression., and/or oppression by religions.
No War
We are totally brainwashed to believe that this can't become manifest by our weird misunderstanding of free enterprise, especially in this country. For example; It is ridiculous that a person can profit-own an aquifer! I really don't mind land ownership, (but how'd you get that land?) BUT Water? Sure, you can have your own well on your own land but can you own an aquifer? Serious question. Serious. And you, We, should be really interested in the answer. We should also be interested in the utter disregard that gas and chemical companies and governments have for said well/land ownership. We should be Disturbed by it. It should make us lose sleep every night until we can't rest until this problem is resolved on the side of the innocent people who have had their rights, their land, their water devalued and poisoned by the powerful. But that level of awareness and compassion is Not happening enough in this world.
The greedy powerful corporations are running rampant on this earth and Our Attitude of meekness and helplessness Is Destroying OUR Planet.
We are Complicit Because WE Believe that we Have No Power.
So, Again, I am Asking you to repeat with me:
I CHOOSE TO BEGIN TO LEARN TO BELIEVE THAT I AM THE SALVATION OF ALL OF HUMANITY ALL SPECIES AND THE ENTIRE EARTH, RIGHT NOW, TODAY, WITH YOU AND EVERYONE ELSE.
What could it hurt? Just try it out. Think about it.
Please.
Now say it again....
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