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Control

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Human beings crave control.  It’s our nature to control everything in our world.  But we know we can’t control everything, but we sure can try to.  Our social status is measured on the amount of control we have over others.  Control lies everywhere in today’s society.  Social control is the backbone of keeping us all in line because the society we live in is so insane that the people who cannot tolerate it must be reprimanded through brute force.  A psychogenic mind creates a psychopathic society.  A society where only those who are psychopathic enough can rise to the top.  Those who will use others below them as sacrificial lambs in their quest for domination.  Who are the elites of the world but glorified criminals who do things behind the scenes that are so horrific that no one would even believe them if they did it out in the open.

Remember 9/11.  We were not attacked by some rebel Islamic sect.  We were attacked by our own government so they could tighten the belt on the control they have over us.  A way to get us to comply as long as they kept us safe.  Fear is a very powerful motivator to these people.  They are the ultimate darkworkers.  They’re so addicted to power and control that they spend their whole lives trying to extend their power.  Slaughtering people for oil.  Slaughtering your own people for oil.  Not that we should make that distinction as we are all human.  We all do not deserve this type of treatment.  Central control corrupts so easily and it’s there all over the world.  There are surveillance cameras on street corners in some cities now.  We’re constantly being watched, constantly surveiled.  Pretty soon, they’ll install RFID chips in our bodies.  They’ve already done it with the Real ID act.  They always need to know where we are.  What kind of a free country is this?

We lived in small tribes for millions of years without a need for central control.  Now that we’re all the product of grain agriculture and the need for heirarchical societies, the people at the top knew that they needed to control such a mass of people through all sorts of manipulation tactics.  Why do only five corporations own all the television stations?  Why does the news mostly talk about things that are non-actionable?  Because the people in charge want us to stay passive, stay complacent in a society that sucks.  They make it seem like our priveleges are so good compared to the third world and we should be grateful to live in the freest country, that we should be proud to be an American.  We’re nothing more than a nation of thieves and cowards.  Tracing back our history is so painful that the history books only tell half the story, or probably less.  The public school system is nothing more than a propaganda machine to turn an entire generation into passive consumers who always turn to authority because they’ve never been taught to think for themselves.  They’re given the option of one world and if they don’t fit in it, they’re outcasts, thrown away.

Thinking for yourself is a big step towards getting free of the control structure, at least mentally.  Every day on the television, we’re told what to think, what’s good and what’s bad, and who we should trust.  All these programs are owned by multi-national conglomerates that benefit immensely from keeping the public in the dark about certain things.  And these conglomerates would never rat each other out because then they risk the same thing happening to them and when all the secrets got out, the whole fabric of society would break down.  I would say what you hear in the media is like an iceberg, where only a small percentage is visible, while the rest remains unseen, trapped under the frigid waters of secrecy.  The highest functioning criminals in the world are the owners of the media outlets because omitting the atrocious actions they’re guilty of is not only wrong, but highly damaging to humanity as a whole.

But how do we fight back?  How do we beat a control structure at its own game?  How do we get the world to transcend the fear we’re bombarded with every second of every day via the news?  I don’t know because so many people today are so entrenched in being the obedient slaves of the ruling elite.  It’s kind of like the movie The Usual Suspects, where the people who worked for the crimelord never knew they were working for him.  By lining the pockets of these elites, we are just giving them more and more power and control.  And they already have a multi-trillion dollar deficit to begin with.  But they don’t care about that the same way a gambling addict doesn’t care about stealing from his grandmother to keep up his habit.  The people at the top are so addicted to power that there is no way to stop their destruction.  They’ll make it so taxes are 85% of our incomes and just keep spending.   And the American people will go along with it as long as it stops the “terrorists” from attacking again.  The biggest fallacy is that the terrorists we’re so afraid of are the ones who are running our country and most likely the entire world.

We are prepared for a life of control, though.  As a child, our entire lives are controlled by schedules and rigid time structures.  We only get to play for 15 minutes daily while at school.  And the play is intently supervised, making sure nothing “bad” happens.  We’re groomed for the world of serving the elites and it’s almost impossible to think outside that box because we’re told there are no other alternative ways to live.  We’re not really told of the forager-hunter tribes that used to live in balance with the Earth and had such rich lives that they didn’t consider any of their activities work, but joyful activities.  It’s that whole concept of hiding the truth to gain more control for these powerful insiders.

I wish I had an answer on how to put a stop to this kind of world.  I’m talking about an answer that would actually work in the real world.  Maybe if the whole media broke down, we could start a revolution.  But the media is so important to those in charge that they use taxpayer money to fund converter boxes on old television sets.   Anything to keep our perspectives small through the weapon of fear.  There are very few people in this world that see it for the way it is.  I’d say about 1% of the population.  Maybe less.  What we need to do is set the rest of these people free.  Freedom is more mental than it is physical.  We need to free their minds.  I’ve always found it funny how people blindly accept what they see on TV as real.  Like it is an established authority.  It is the major culprit in all of this.  I say taking down the media is a great start.  Now comes the question of how…

P.S.  The elites don’t want any hint of real democracy.  That scares the hell out of them.  A rule by the people?  All the people?  That would ruin all their plans.  Especially the one about a one-world government.  We’re already the NAU (North American Union).  Just wait until the WU.  

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What Ever Happened to Community?

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

We used to live in self-sufficient communities before the extended familly and eventually the nuclear family.  We’ve been isolating ourselves more and more as time goes on.  Pretty soon two people living in a two-bedroom apartment will be considered disease-causing overcrowding.  But our population continues to increase and we’re not only building more houses, but bigger houses, too.  The only thing that doesn’t make sense is there are less people living in these homes than 50 years ago when houses were half as big.  It very strange how we buy our isolation.  We pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to be in our own home, where we have so much extra space we feel compelled to fill it all up with things we’ll hardly ever use.  There are laws stopping more than a certain number of people living in a certain space.  Why?  Because if we could put 10 or 20 people in one home, we wouldn’t have to work as much or make as much money and could spend time living instead of sitting in cubicles rearranging abstractions.

Look what they did to the Native Americans.  They used to live in those longhouses, where multiple families from the same tribe inhabited the same space, possibly hundreds of humans living in the same space.  When we came to America, and saw their lifestyle, we were so repulsed that we had to break their spirits by kidnapping their children and having the authorities reprogram them that the way they were living was an abomination.  We couldn’t just leave them alone.  And now more than half their adult population are alcoholics.  They’re forced to live on the worst land in our entire nation on those reservations.  They had a nice community going and the Europeans came in and just took it away from them.  “Live like us or you’ll die.”  Kind of like the Crusades in respect to religion, except it was the whole lifestyle they took away from the former inhabitants of this land.

What’s so bad about living in the same space as other people?  How big does our personal space have to get before we feel comfortable?  This is a rhetorical question of course.  The answer is different for everyone.  In other cultures like Asian cultures, the whole family lives in the same house.  I used to have a friend who lived with his grandparents, parents, siblings, sibling’s spouses, and so on and so forth.  What’s so bad about that?  Seriously.  Why do people feel they need to have laws against that sort of environment?  I’m sure the people who live in homes like that have stronger immune systems and a better sense of themselves due to the in-depth support system.  I’m also thinking in terms of a Fight Cllub scenario, where all your friends sleep in bunk beds in the basement and you alternate shifts in making meals and whatnot.  Why can’t we all just live together?  Why does society say you can only live with your significant other and your children or maybe a roommate who you are close to?

I remember watching an episode of Family Guy where they had the Mexican Superheroes.  The landlord is in their apartment and there are like 50 people in the apartment.  The Mexican Superman is telling the landlord that they are just visitors, until the Mexican Batman comes back and says, “Hey, I just went to the locksmith and got like 50 keys, man!”  The landlord looks at the Mexican Batman and then the Superman says, “Shhh.  Don’t say that right now.”  This was all because there were only two names on the lease.  Myself, I would say that 50 people in a cramped apartment is too much, but the minute you put limits on that sort of thing, you alienate people.  Let these people choose for themselves who they want to live in space they are paying to occupy.  Has anyone ever heard the term, “Judge not?”

Why do you think we don’t want other cultures coming into our country?  Because we are so without any real culture that we’re afraid of any real one.  We’re said to be a melting pot, but the melting pot has become uniform after 225 or so years of melting.  You won’t find much difference between Americanized people.  Even second or third generation Americans are so entrenched in the “American way of life” that their original culture is nothing but a distant memory.  They want what the average American wants because they’re told that’s what they want.  The only thing they seem to keep is their food and sometimes their holidays.  Otherwise, they’re your ordinary white bread American citizen.

We seek fulfillment in material goods because we don’t feel a connection with other people anywhere near as much as we used to.  It starts at birth where we are taken from our mothers and put in a sterile room with other babies who are just as terrified as you are.  We are put in sterile bedrooms when we get home and discouraged from putting anything in our mouths.  Everything is kept clean and neat, so therefore we must get immunizations against different diseases that would most likely not be a problem if we were raised in an environment where there was at least some exposure.  Sure, maybe a few super plagues would wipe out part of the population once and awhile, but it would be far less than the ordinary diseases some people die of today because of a weak immune system.  Your immune system needs practice.  It needs germs to practice on.  The only time I wash my hands is when I take a shower or if they’re really dirty.  Otherwise, I feel that building my immune system is worth the slight uncleanliness of my body.

Antibacterial soap and other antibiotics have spawned superbugs that don’t respond to antibiotics at all.  It’s all because we are so afraid of germs that  we’ll kill them at any cost.  Even the good germs.  This is why I think we’re afraid of community.  Do you think people living in Mexico have stronger or weaker immune systems than us?  Just look at the average American going down there and drinking the water and getting sick.  The watch the Mexican drink the water with no problem.  The more we shelter ourselves from the world as it is, the worse we’ll fall when this civilization crashes.  And the more we shelter ourselves from other people and their terrible germs, the more likely we are to get sick and have no one to go to and live with if necessary.

Instead of having loyalty to community, we now have loyalty to corporations and banks that own our homes.  How many empty homes do you think are just sitting there with no one in them with a big “Bank Owned” sign on the lawn?  What are homes for anyway?  Are they there for banks to sit there and own them while thousands go homeless, or are they places for people to live?  If 20 people want to collaborate and buy a home, why shouldn’t they be able to?  They can get 10 bunk bed sets and just live there.  I know this isn’t for everyone, but when times get tougher, and we all know they will, what’s so bad about working together with an entire network of people?  It’s not only versatile, but also supportive in more ways than you can imagine.  It’s how we used to live.  We know it in our bones.

The Idea of “Property”

What is rent and mortgage anyway?  It is a river of wealth flowing from the poor or middle class to the rich.  And the bank or the landlord doesn’t really own the land.  The land is up for grabs.  I know some people value the  idea of property, but it has a fundamental flaw.  How can you own physical space?  Every inch of this world is now owned.  You can’t just go live somewhere and make your own shelter.  You have to own that land.  If the people that own that land don’t even use it, why should they care who is living on it?  You can be thrown in jail for trying to live in the woods.  Why aren’t the putting the animals in jail, too?  They’re occupying space on that land as well.  The only reason this land is able to be owned in the first place was through conquest and force.  We forced animals and other indigenous humans off this “property” and then sold it or said, “I own it.”  It was almost something for nothing.  All you had to do is spend time forcing whatever you didn’t like off that land and then claim it.  This is the root of all property.  So, if the root of all property is fundamentally flawed, why should anyone have to pay to occupy it?

I’m just trying to make a point here.  All these people that defaulted on their mortgages shouldn’t have to walk the streets homeless because the bank said so.  Find a place to build a shelter or live in a tent if you have to.  If you know someone you can move in with, do so.  Our idea that owning our own piece of land is outlandish, a domination mindspace.  “This is MY property.  I can do whatever I want with it.”  Ultimate freedom would be to say, “I’m going to live in this area.  I choose to live here.  No one can say anything to stop me as long as I don’t destroy it.  If I can maintain or enrich the land where I currently live, then I am allowed to stay there.  I am also allowed to invite as many people as I see fit to also live on this land with me, but they also must not destroy it.”  Is that so hard to accomplish?  Right now, I’d have to say yes, but I hope we can live like that someday.

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Fuck the Consumer Culture

Friday, February 6th, 2009

Why is it that we look for happiness in things instead of in people?  Because that’s what the consumer culture wants us to do.  I’m not going to cop out and say, “Fuck corporations,” because they are only doing what it is they need to survive in the consumer culture.  If no one bought their crappy merchandise, then they wouldn’t be around.  Of course I’m referring to non-essential things, like a new rug even though the old one still works.  Or a new car even though your current one runs fine.  Taking from the Earth without giving back is what the consumer culture reinforces, an unsustainable practice that could get us all in big trouble.

Doesn’t the average American realize that when you have few, but meaningful possessions that your life is that much richer.  Everything you own has a special value to you.  This is the essence of minimalist thinking.  There is no limit to the amount of items you can have to become a minimalist, but what’s important is that the items are all meaningful to you.  Are you fourth grade arithmetic papers meaningful to you?  If they are, keep them.  If not, get rid of them or scan them on your hard drive then throw them away.

What advertising does is it says that you’re not good enough.  It says you are inferior unless you buy our product.  The iPhone or iMac or new sportsjacket.  They attack your self-esteem and your emotions to get at the core of your being, your driving for acceptance.  “If you buy this brand of cell phone, you’ll be more popular.”  I know most people see through the bull shit for awhile, but advertising keeps bombarding us with constant ads, mostly through TV.  And we finally give in and buy the new fad item just so we can “fit in.”

“The one who dies with the most toys wins” is a common fallacy.  You can’t take any of these toys with you when you’re gone.  Your brand new HD TV with Dolby Surround Sound stays here with the rest of your family.  As the same thing goes, why do we all mow our lawns?  Do you do it to look good for other people?  Or do you crave accetpance so desperately that you’ll spend an hour, two hours mowing your own space to look exactly like your neighbor’s?  The development I live in is kind of like Nazi Germany, only that there’s no death camps.  They sent us a letter once saying we would lose certain priveledges if we did not mow our lawn.  Seriously!  Our urges to control physical space and physical objects are unbelievable.  Our own little habitat.  Isn’t it nice?  With our Dasani tap water and our Monsanto oxygen, we’re that much closer to becoming every techno-utopian’s future vision.  When all our food is genetically modified and therefore there is no need for soil because all our food is created in a lab.  So what’s to stop us from exterminating the rest of the world?

Every inch of the world will be “owned,” which basically means stolen.  All this land was stolen from the Native Americans and they stole the land from the animals that were here before, but to a much lesser extent.  Everything we own is stolen from the Earth by people who no doubt hate their jobs and are only doing them so they don’t freeze or starve to death.  Why maximize their suffering and the suffering of the Earth just so you can buy a new cell phone or wristwatch every year?  Unless you’re going to volunteer to go to one of those silver mines or oil rigs, I suggest you limit consumption to help the exploited.

These are just my feelings.  Sure, you may need a new computer every now and then.  You may need a new car.  But recklessly buying things because your life has so little meaning that you need to define yourself by the products in your home is hurting the world and hurting yourself.  Don’t be a slave to the “Ikea Nesting Instinct.”  Those of you who have watched Fight Club know what I’m talking about.  I feel like most people in America buy, buy, buy and do it for a short-term thrill, but in real life are just going through the motions waiting to die.  Anything to keep their mind off how unhappy they are.  “A new TV will brighten my life.”  Give me a break.  That TV is not going to ask you how your day  went or really listen to you.  It’s just stuff that was pulled out of the Earth and assembled together.  A box essentially.  A box created by people you’ll never meet in a country you probably can’t pronounce, and under conditions so horrific that you probably can’t even imagine them.  Just remember that the next time you go buy Nike shoes or a “new and improved” iPod.

Think of what your needs truly are.  You have about four or five:
Food
Shelter
Water
clothing
Fuel

And if you’re a raw foodist and don’t mind the cold, you don’t even need fuel.  So why do we feel like we need to prove how superior we are to those lazy poor people by buying a bunch of shit we don’t need?  Why are we in America so obsessed with status?  We lust to become one of the elite.  Because we want to be called “priveledged.”  We want to have all the things we can’t right now.  But it is a disease..one called greed.  And I don’t blame people for feeling this way because they don’t know that having more money won’t get them happier, they think the opposite.

It’s not their fault.  They were born into this life.  They were born into this world.  We all were.  But we don’t have to choose to stay in it.  It’s not mandatory.  We can shift from the high-budget universe to the low-budget universe.  Your expenses are your chains.  The more you need to buy, the more you need to work and the more suffering you cause across the globe.  I know most of the suffering is hidden because that’s where they want it to stay.  Nike isn’t going to show you the conditions in which their sneakers are made, and GE is not going to tell you about all the toxic dumping it does.  Just realize that even though you may be doing a good thing by stimulating the economy, you are contributing to a hidden evil as well.

This idea is not unique, but I find it helpful.  I don’t pass any ideas off as my own, but from a greater consciousness.  The idea of intellectual property sickens me.  Just because you came up with an idea, why cling steadily to it with a death grip, so fearful that someone else might use it?  I think that ideas are in the public domain and if you want to take them and use them, go ahead.  I won’t stop you from “consuming” my ideas for free.

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Happy New Year?

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

It’s really getting tough to think of new material.  What else can I possibly say on this blog that I haven’t already said?  My fingers won’t move on the keyboard.  This is painful.  Why don’t I talk about living in the deep South?  Because it’s boring.  Or what about a current event?  That’s even more boring.  Everything that is happening now will happen again, hence the term history repeats itself.  I could wish everyone a Happy New Year, but it seems too cliche.  All I thought about while watching it on television was how a bunch of morons froze their bodies off for over 12 hours to watch a mechanical ball drop.  The view is much better from your living room.  I’ve always wondered if the Chinese tape the ball dropping and replay it whenever they celebrate their New Year.  I guess I’ve picked my topic.

It’s a new year, but what does that really mean?  Sure, the Earth has moved around the sun another time and we’re all one year older, but has anything really changed?  It may seem cynical, but celebrating the passing of another year is pretty much pointless, like exercising on a stationary bike in hopes of getting to the store.  Boy, that was a bad analogy.  It was worse than watching the movie Seven Pounds.  Boy, Will Smith has really taken a turn for the worst, hasn’t he?  He really showed his acting range with his barrage of awkward facial expressions.  Why do they make movies they know are going to fail?  I bet when they finished shooting that movie, they said, “Well, it’s a good thing we got Will Smith on board, otherwise this movie would’ve tanked.”  I feel like he’s gone downhill ever since Men In Black and Ali.

Oh, and the holidays passed by, too.  Christ-mass and Haunakah, and Kwaanzaa, not to mention whatever other holidays are out there.  I wonder if this practice will ever get old.  Celebrating birthdays of people who are dead by giving gifts to each other.  Seriously, Jesus would be pissed.  He didn’t get nailed to a couple pieces of wood for us to do this.  He probably saw the cross as a waste of natural resources, just as he sees people getting a real tree in their living room a waste.  And don’t get me started on people who decorate their lawn with lights and reindeer.  Just trying to keep up that whole Santa Claus illusion for all the kids.  He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake.  That guy is a pedophile.  A man who makes his living watching children around the clock.  That’s pretty sick if you ask me.  He’s like an exaggerated version of Michael Jackson.

I have a major headache today, so forgive my cynicism.  Too much caffeine yesterday or something.  I was thinking to myself yesterday about what year it really is.  And I settled on, for the Earth, 4.5 billion plus 2009.  It’s probably more or less, but who’s counting?  I don’t put Jesus at the beginning of my calendar.  Didn’t he believe the Earth was flat and that it was the center of the universe anyway?  Boy, was he off.  We’re not even the center of our solar system, never mind the center of the whole universe.  That just shows how self important we thought we were.  I’m surprised astronomers don’t kill themselves when they find out how small we are relative to the universe. They went from being the center to practically nothing.  Sure, they could go around and try to live a good life, but what would it matter compared to the size of the universe?  It would be relative to a car accident on Earth, probably much, much less so.  So why do we get so excited about the New Year?  Because most people are ignorant and think it’s a big deal.  No offense to any of my well-educated, informed readers.

Anyway, I thought I’d brighten your day with some of my oh so enlightening thoughts.  Keep watching out for more of these because I feel the more I write, the more people will read.  And if that happens, maybe I’ll develop a cult following.  Because isn’t everyone’s dream to start a cult?  I know mine is.

Edit:  Oh, and by the way, when you die, you just rot in the ground.  Just thought I’d add that.  Just kidding.  I have no idea what happens.

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Musings on Death and Nature

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Hi, how is everyone?  Good?  That’s good.  Working hard, but hardly working?  I’m trying not to waste this day by writing something here.  Going to leave my mark on society for the day.  Will it be of high quality?  Maybe not.  But it will exist regardless.  It’s not a TV show.  There are no standards on the net.  I don’t need to prove myself to anyone to get this post up.  Whether it’s great or terrible or somewhere in between, it will be there in cyberspace and perhaps get a few hits because of my other posts.  It’s either posting it here or on a bathroom stall, like I used to do while in college.  Posting things just for the hell of it.

Those were the days, weren’t they?  Before we all had to “grow up.”  Before we all had to conform to a system that forgot about us 50 years ago.  Where can I buy my satanic isolation in the form of an apartment or a condo?  Where can I buy something that will make me feel better and tell me everything is okay?  And where can I score some booze to forget who I used to be?  What is this all for?  We spend most of our existence dead and in the ground, so are we trying to overcompensate by trying to fit all we can into the short time we’re alive?

And why is it a law that we need to have our corpses embalmed anyway?  You’d think it would make better fertilizer if we didn’t do that.  All our dead loved ones could be feeding our garden, but instead, we’re pumped full of carcinogens and thrown in a hole six feet under.  And all that meat that’s going to waste.  If we find a dead animal, it’s not a big deal and we just leave it there.  If we find a dead human, if we just leave it there, we’re suddenly the prime suspect in a murder investigation.  Like we’re so much better than a raccoon.  A raccoon does far less damage to the environment than one human does.  Ten thousand raccoons do less damage than one human.  I’m sorry, one “civilized” human.  Humans don’t adapt to their environments, they adapt their environment to themselves.  You don’t see birds cutting down trees or polluting lakes, do you?  They try and live in balance and they do a much better job than we do.  So why hasn’t our planet snuffed us out yet?

It’s because we’re just getting started.  We have thousands of years of destruction left in our spirits and will stop at nothing to get the next cool gadget or piece of furniture.  But hardly any of us ask where those things come from.   They come from the Earth and the more we take without giving back, the worse off our children and so on will be.  If we were a mindful species, I would think we would either turn things around drastically right now or accept the fact we all have to snuff our lights out.  For the good of the planet.  But that won’t happen because we are like a cancer.  You never hear of a cancer stop consuming more and more cells without some kind of intervention.  I wonder if the Earth sees all these buildings we’ve built as tumors.

The Earth is in the state of the average American man, smokes cigarettes, drinks every night, and is overweight.  I’d say about two packs a day and two pints of booze a night.  I’d also say about 50-60 pounds overweight.  He is aware that there is destruction afoot, but does not see it as a big deal right now, but does see it as something to resolve in the future.  But when the future comes, will the Earth still exist in its current form?  A dead Earth can still be there, but it will be like a dead tree, just taking up space.  Kind of like all those planets who have no life on them.  Perhaps at one point they did and the same happened to them.  But since we’re one planet of quadrillions (at least), the universe probably won’t care if we kill the Earth.  But the creatures living here will.  But to each his own.  If it strikes your fancy, keep killing the Earth.  You’ll certainly have a lot of company.

I’m not here to judge you, just to inform you about how almost everything us humans do contribute to the killing of the Earth.  Unless we live in balance, without “progress” in manufacturing and the distribution of widgets and work on our consciousness and scorn the material world for something so much richer, the world will be dead.

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