http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skald
FOR E E:
LOKI IS MKULTRAWOLFEN FROZEN FENS ENDLESS HIS FENRIS. FEW FUTURES RUN FAR, FEWER FREE!
Under skies leaden
(as always)
GreyWolf runs hunting
his future tracking through days of haze.
. . . what if it were once caught?
how would that now wear be?
time fighting dying there
metaphorescent and red on the snow
crystallinecrimson and still
steaming
would should do to be as did done then and when?
Promulgate the past with endless looping leaps,
chasing scent of that which was had
seen if that which won't ever now is hiding somewhen
dead ahead loses the trail in a tearstorm of sleet
fearing a fugue of temper
facing starvation intemperate?
Surely more furthere on . . . bark
at . . . where clear air smells past . . . that tree
feeling having passed hear
no sound receding
whining near
jump to
pursuing, past sophistry turning in a curve
tight view tail cramped and panting
when that which was spurns purpose presently
is hidden in will be infinities fleeing
. . . all ways lead . . . wary, then through
to . . . under skies reddened
(always as)
GreyWolf hunts running
anew he's
future tracking though a haze of days.
(A skald is the spirit of E.E. Cummings)
- J.W. Thrasher, 1973, "Two Toned Too Stalk"
Skepticism As An Asymptotic Function Of Knowledge
Wow, a decent dithyrambic redaction of an old attempt at logomancy, kenning Asutra memes through whimsy. Whence come "kennings" from verse truly free? Still a mystery to me, but at least I know I'll probably be the only since Joyce or McLuhan to even be able make such a
prepostereotyepicalumnious attempt. 'Bout time to look for a publisher for a second edition of my first book of Poetry. How to make poetry pay without submission, or popular appeal, is still beyond my grasp. A F.O.I.A. and a quarter mil. from the rich remnants of the OSS would
do nicely. Then I could redirect the Cherubim to extirpate the Taliban (the only martial organization capable of the task, I trow) and the "Nine" might assist in a little engineering project I've always fancied. We'll know by the 'ides' of Northember.
Ancient, and recent, beliefs and discoveries about Matter, and Space and Time, correspond with such a plenitude of congruence that I and many other "New Age" types, often wonder just why our collective understanding as a species, our 'world-view' (Ger.: Weltanschauung) as it were, has apparently been so thoroughly and effectively overwhelmed for the past few millennia by the "Cognitively Dissonant Self-Limitation Eschaton Paradigm", as I call it, which, when looked at from just the right philosophical perspective, can be seen to have been actively preventing our evolutionary growth as a functioning collective body of biosphere consciousness. Hence, given our penchant as a race for looking beyond our own species for such alternative paradigmatic input, when some of us seem to think that human history has been shaped by the influence of sentient beings, civilizations, and technologies not native to this planet, the clamor of opprobrium and derision these assertions are met with seem quite a bit too strident for supposedly "unbiased" skeptics. So automatic is the response that it is almost tantamount to evidence of some attempt at suppression of the entire concept that we are not alone in the universe, and as such are affected only by what we believe we perceive with our five senses. Yet, when one studies physics, one realizes that our senses DO NOT accurately capture the totality of existential phenomena, yet most human beings think they know what is "REAL" and what is not - but, based on the last 50 years of scientific research, they DO NOT, and yet most still believe they do. Perhaps because they have been "taught" to reject certain conclusions about the nature of personal reality for reasons to which they are not privy, perhaps because if people were aware of forces manipulating mankind with other than mankind's best interests at heart, they might resist and thereby interfere with whatever agenda is in place.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Nixon Promised Me Flashbacks - Yet Another Lie
"The host is riding from Knocknarea
And over the grave of Clooth-na-Bare;
Caoilte tossing his burning hair,
And Niamh calling Away, come away:
Empty your heart of its mortal dream . . . "
- William Butler Yeats
"The Hosting Of The Sidhe"
(Foreword: Little known fact - once again you heard it here first:
Adam Smith, the "father" of Capitalism, and of 'modern' Economics was kidnapped by "gypsys" when quite young. Though the thief was soon tracked down and the wee babe restored to his family, an elvin babe had been 'glamoured' to appear permanently human, in the ancient manner of all 'changelings' of Faerie (read: a race of semi-benevolent extra-terrestrial Wardens, now long gone from this polluted post-industrial
version of Middle-Earth)to alter the course of human history through the mythic resonance of their ethereal thoughtforms. And they wondered why he talked to 'unseen beings' all the rest of his life? I kid you not, look it up!)
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"Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'." - B. Dylan
The "Behavior Modification" Of American Government And Culture
“The father’s a Nazi in Congress today; the mother’s a hooker somewhere in L.A” - ‘The Idiot Bastard’s Son’” - Frank Zappa, from “We’re Only In It For The Money”
Well, I was careless recently and didn't back up about 30 minutes worth of 'automatic writing' - containing a quite detailed explication of the famous Frank Olson CIA case and how he was actually murdered (read: "thrown", not "jumped" out the 10th story window of a bordello/'safe house'/Himmleresque experimental facility) by minions of the "Bundesnachrichtendienstengeisten". The continuation of the Third Reich re-established in stealth in America, and elsewhere, by the flow of Capital from German Industry. The ruling class knew the Reich would fall, but always planned that the future of World History and the plutocratic hegemonies that would shape it be dictated by Prussian Disciplinarian Policy and Ideals in any event.
Thus the 650 + scientists military officers and “Drs.”, war criminals all, with new identities given them by the US Govs. “Intelligence Community” in “Operation Paperclip” at the end of WWII when Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Gehlen convinced FDR, Hoover, Eisenhower and MacArthur, through Patton (The Real "Manchurian Candidate") to form the NSA there and then (all historic fact - look it up) Patton to prevent certain salient details of the Nazi infiltration of our Government, Military-Industrial Complex (Ike knew enough to try to warn us in his farewell address) intelligence community and scientific/research community from coming to light.
Frank Olson’s death was just ‘collateral damage’ in the cover up of (literally!) thousands of “crimes against humanity” by Project Monarch/ MKULTRA/Whitecoat OSS ops unnamed, etc. operations: kidnappings, rapes, maimings, murder and ‘terminal experiments’, sexual torture, systematic experimental child abuse, infections of thousands of American citizens on and on even unto the hundreds of CIA "snuff" flicks of the terminal experiments and worse.
The staggering scope of the depravity is known to few and believed by fewer today. Excepting these . . . the Gnostics, who always knew, surviving Hassidiim, scattered Elohim and those they teach, and the still silently weeping members of the hierarchy of Angelic beings, appalled once again at the scope of suffering meted out to mankind by IHVH . . . and the numbers dwindles as the principles die off.
Even the 'compromising movies' made of scores of members of the House, Senate and Justice Dept. by the OSS, for 'leverage' which became the archives of theFBI/CIA/Mafia. Canisters long buried in the Nevada desert by former 'bag men" and "assets" of the OSS and "The Pond" now eroding into unrecoverable acetate and hubris. The infiltraitors and their scions all secure in their belief in their own successful redaction of the facts from History (read: 'the propaganda of the ruling class') and marginalization of all who question the "status quo uber alles", until the advent of "Channels" and "Mediums" who really could get info from anywhere (even classified files) delivered right into their minds. No wonder the 'takeover' of the largest Michael Teachings Website, by forces opposed to the truthful rendition of facts regardless of the supposed "National Security" implications.
The full and true tale of how Frank’s Olson's son sued the CIA and the Federal Government in the late '60s and prevailed, winning his 'wrongful death' case in 1970 by having a Fed. Court order the release of a large number of pertinent documents which substantiated his claims (an unheralded act of Angelic Intervention, by a few of the "Fallen" actually, and you'll not hear this ever, from any but I. Forever branded as "evil" by vain History, again and again they interceded, unthanked and unheeded, but Gaia, and I, remember!) will be told, and many more.
These unexpected events led to a mad scramble to cover up EVERYTHING because (as none in power realized) "Pandora's Box" (and Fort Knox) had been compromised by agents both invisible and non-human (more on this anon). Disinformation on top of denials under smokescreens of "National Security" as Richard Helms was replaced by Stansfield Turner AFTER Helms and Himmler trained aides and "goodfella" crews destroyed a couple of bunkers filled with semi-tractor trailors full of documents, tapes, movies and more (as well as those things redacted/hid/given/snatched by their Mafia brethren as "get out of jail free" cards if ever needed).
This "chrystallnacht" of evidence is now only the stuff of whispers between aged dons in back rooms in Henderson retirement homes, a pall-like cloacal miasma of cigar smoke and human misery sticking to their souls, moustaches and slippers. I may have a few good years left in me to "set the record straight" about what has happened since the last significant works about the continuing predations of the American "Intelligence Community" (and they DO still continue, even though there is now a significant and visibly ethical partition of even the rarefied strata of cabals 'above' the NSA, and the Prussian Model has been rejected by a smaller, but more effectively powerful and futurehistory allied and protected portion of almost all the agencies, covert and overt.)
The spectre of 'George White', a figure of diabolic proportions in the founding of the OSS, and then MKULTRA and the CIA/NSA apparatus as designed by the 'ubermenschen' of the SS, still hangs over me, personally. He personally was responsible for cruelties to family, and people I loved.
As he once stated, for the record, his career from WWII on to his supposed 'retirement' in '65: " . . . was fun, fun, fun. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, steal and cheat, kill deceive and rape AND pillage with the sanction and blessing of the all highest?" BTW, what "American" would EVER use a phrase like "all highest"?
"Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'."
Before I was twenty I became slowly aware of the enormity of oppression of citizens worldwide by their governments, and the many lives and possible futures at stake. Remembering the struggle WB Yeats (may have been my incarnation immediately prior to this one) had defined as "The Machine" vs. "The Garden" I stumbled into the futures running on fear and impelled by my faith in Chaos Theory to provide opportunities for social change.
On this reflective rumination my training 'on watch' began in '73 with "Scotty" back from The City, 20 lbs of Air America CIAfghan hashish, a copy of the nascent "Gemstone Files", and the deadly 'blackhole" auricstink signature of "George White", retired but still schmoozing with his pals at their favorite SF bar, where they could always hang out to hoist a few, and drug, kidnap, rape, torture, maim and discard various members of SF's ever unsuspecting hippie society.
These spooks were members the same cabal of people who were eager to assassinate Sen. Estes Kefauver, by poisoning a slice of apple pie with 'sodium morphate, and have him then collapse ON THE SENATE FLOOR! To demonstrate thus to the 'do-gooders' opposing (and eventually in internecine pursuit of them) that they should 'back off'. I believe this incident was responsible for the Kennedy assassins and Nazi superiors feeling they could get away with ANYTHING later in Dallas, and was the turning point in the “Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice.“ death knell of Democracy and subsequent well-funded moral and ethical demise of American Government.
The Third Riech's rationale for human experimentation was embraced by a majority PART of the U. S. Military, Intelligence Community, Legislature Judiciary and Executive Branch at this point as the 'Dachau Dolls' slithered into the undefined interstices of the ruling class's lackey beauracracy, vanishing with nothing but a slime trail of contumely left behind, and never again did the "Shadow Reich" feel compelled to inform subsequent Presidents/Judges/Legislators about their
'Bundesnachrichtendienstengeisten' activities. Their Credo had been expressed for all to fear by Barry Goldwater in his famous statement, cited above, rationalizing their Himmlerian/Mengelen amorality.
"Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'".
Notice the audio of a lot of the video records of MKULTRA surviving on YouTube have been altered. If you read lips you can tell. Also the links have been altered to become almost devoid of title info. No SHARE buttons, no site descriptions and the parties responsible for many of my comments having . . . dissappeared . . . along with the contents of my harddrive last week, after my last post and the sabotage of these site HTML codes may well be rewarded by the karmic visitations of vengeful Cherubim, I avow, I saw it happen in the '70s and I feel it flying past me like a fractal chiaroscuro of intent.
The beings who leveled Sodom have been itching to "smite" all the Reich War Criminals that escaped, and those that follow their logic. Nixon was given phlebitus (I still refuse to apologize) and where is Herr Cheney lately, after all that mouthing off he did in defense of his jackbooted Prussian OSS inspired "Retro"-Conservative Patriot Act redactions Of essential-to-all-but-Himmler-inspired-Americans liberties and rights?".
Some spirits can be vengeful when interfered with in pursuit of a discarnate search for justice. I've never been able to shake the feeling that millions of the victims of TRULY evil men like: ‘George White’ (SS to the core, NOT American) or Maitland Baldwin or Kurt Plotner or Walter Neff or Winfred Overholser or Gen. “Wild Bill” Donovan or Richard Helm or Stanley Lovell, et. al. still wish the truth of just how much the of the Third Reich escaped Nuremburg and then subsumed America's leaders and culture might be told!
“Ye shall know the truth and the truth will make you free.” So be it! Here in the next few years, after my 6 decades of abuse and damage and revelation and preparation and pain and something akin to an aspiration towards an apprehension of wholeness, and the weight of the world's pain for the Holocaust, and more, I shall endeavour to tell the stories that the myriad friends of mine (and those I never knew) who died in their struggle to free themselves from the yoke of mental, emotional, psychosexual and philosophic oppression that America’s rulers placed upon us (WHEN MOST OF US WERE CHILDREN, REMEMBER) in the search for “Behavior Modification” to "combat communism", would tell if they could.
Some can still reach from beyond the grave I recently realized - Woody Guthrie evidently still smoulders somewhere on the Astral Plane, hoisting mugs of "Old Ectoplasm" beer in the heavenly IWW Hall with Joe Hill, and Huey Long, toasting the martyrdom of Leon Trotsky and Sacco and Vanzetti and the Rosenburgs.
NOTE: Here is fair warning: Attempted suppression of the Logos as it manifests will prove destructive to whom and/or whatever tries to hinder the epiphanthetic eventualities this entails. I have never threatened anything or anyone then or now 'cause I never needed to. All who pursued or troubled me or mine, since the '60s and about my 200th trip, have mysteriously (through no actions of mine, other than the occasional Golden Dawn spell or two) been shown the "error of their ways" in eerie and quite memorable fashion. All I’ve ever been able to do is try to warn of the irresistible epiphenomenal inevitability of the ’wrath’ of my aforementioned Cherubim, identified by more than half a dozen psychics and New Age mavens as my "Guardians", when attempts at obfuscation of any Message they promulgate through me arise. (My prose is really quite innately obtuse enough to render these missives unsuitable for 'soundbytes' and mass dissemination anyway, have no fear).
DOD/NID folk PLEASE note: requested quakes can‘t be faked, neither in ’91 when last I was asked to confirm my supposed delusions of chthonic grandeur, nor now. Those few of you remaining, steeped in the historicity and esoterica of “Intelligence” who remember, know of what I speak (hell, it was even the subject of a "Helen, Queen Of The Internet" comic strip). “Something is happening but you don’t know what it is. Do you, Mr. Jones?”
Great evil often generates its own counterbalance, even through the sequipedalian paronomasia of an old agent provocateur and autodidactically eccentric tectokinetic channel such as I. “The Men Who Stared At Goats”, because they were military and therefore subject to orders from a human chain of command that had been subverted through insidious insinuation of the Nazi inspired NSA into both the U.S. Military, and Civilian command superstuctures, never achieved anything close to the "Wildcard" paranormal talents or Gnostic abilities and perceptions extending all the way to the Buddhic Plane I have seen in others and/or personally manifested since I and my brother and sister human guinea pigs, “in the defense of Liberty”, had “alterations” forced upon us unawares, at the behest of America's Himmlers and Mengeles.
Think what SHOULD have happened to the hundreds of German War Criminals we protected from Justice if the the survivors of the Holocaust had had any of the advantages we, the surviving families, lovers, buds and bros of the many hippies, vagrants, third world citizens, and "desaparecidos" of the 50's, '60s, '70s, '80s and on, have today. Propelled by the same righteous indignation against THE SAME WAR CRIMINALS, SOME STILL IN POWER we can scour the data and "higher planes" of existence all the way to the Akashic Records in our search for justice and recompense.
"Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'".
Strange that our commonly ridiculed "Aquarian Ager's" well honed 'fortune telling' abilities worked so freaking well (93% accuracy, over 13,000 years by my count)and thereby produced the plans for us all to incarnate here and now to usher in a "New Age". Imagine the silent satisfaction of plans laid and history nudged, without notice, over so many lifetimes and years.
All of we who had so long ago collectively planned this - thus - and so . . . colloquiums contingent on colloquys on contingency ongoing . . . synods on stealth . . . never "leaving our footprints in the sands of time" as we tracked across parallel timelines and reality matrix analogs, some familiar, most strange . . . "Poised. Delicate. Consent . . . in mute nostril agony" . . . for millenia we waited you know (Edgar Cayce picked up on it though)to meet up where and when we did and live as many as could through to here and now.
Incarnate now, I believe, to most effectively leverage and "right" some wrongs longstanding (dark times like the Inquisition come to mind) Here to wedge our corporeal forms withal into the gears and racks and slings and arrows and karmic clockworks of the Causal Plane mechanisms running the Wheel Of Dharma, singing: "We're all normal and we want our freedom." in park meadows greened by the fungul effulgence of the "Summer Of Love". At least that's the way this Sage has seen it since before even the "Word" began the expansion of the last Singularity. But what do I know? "A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country." right?
I speak from long experience about believing that just retribution for all cruelties we, the Children Of Light, have suffered WILL manifest, one way or the other, and sooner rather than later. Maybe because I "hunger and thirst after righteousness", or perhaps 'cause there once was a boy who believed, and continued lifelong to feel, that one of his 'multiple personalities' was some sort of "Arbiter" (he knew the word before the meaning) lifetasked with resolving an arcane and longstanding point of metaphysical dispute. Now then, this boy, grown to a much older man, might just (have planned) to happen to be in an appointed place at an appointed time with an appropriate surrajoinder prepared airtight and waiting to be applied with the proper kind and degree of force, through the proper medium to the proper object! Et voila: "Instant Karma"! Just like Magick! (It may even be the prophesied: "hard rain's gonna'fall".)
As always, as proponents of change we all have faced the same verities as our tormentors. I have NO idea why I've survived this long, to be here, now. I know many better folk have fallen, and passed on. I attempt to 'keep the faith' and champion causes like "Social Change Through Freedom From Wage Slavery" and quaintly axiomatic cultural notions like "Truth, Justice and the American Way", and "Peace, Love and Good Vibes".
The '60s taught me that if I make sure everyone I can help is helped if and when they need, then in turn, I of care taken will be as well. If I try always to be "devoted to a noble ideal", doing nothing for “lust of result” and work for what I believe to be the greatest good for the greatest number, I find I always fare far better that any attempting to interfere with me, The Medium, OR The Message.
"The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The (old) order is
Rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'." - B. Dylan
Anyway, the 'worm has turned' with more 'castings' to come. Our friends who have passed know what we still can't clearly see: "We are forces of chaos and anarchy. Everything they say we are,WE ARE! And we are very proud of ourselves)!" - Jefferson Airplane. Within a couple thousand years "No living being will ever have to be sacrificed." Allow me to say it again then: The "Summer of Love" will work! I divine we have successfully shaped all probable alternate futures to the ancient agreed upon collective "Will", using "Love" as that long ago proposed basis of the "Law" for this "New Age". (Exactly as another "Prophet without honor", and friend of WB Yeats infamously foretold: “Love Is The Law, Love Under Will”.)
" . . .The winds awaken, the leaves whirl round,
Our cheeks are pale, our hair is unbound,
Our breasts are heaving our eyes are agleam,
Our arms are waving our lips are apart;
And if any gaze on our rushing band,
We come between him and the deed of his hand,
We come between him and the hope of his heart.
The host is rushing 'twixt night and day,
And where is there hope or deed as fair?
Caoilte tossing his burning hair,
And Niamh calling Away, come away."
- William Butler Yeats
"The Hosting Of The Sidhe"
(To which I'll add, in a wee Wiccan stagewhisper:
"Blessed Be We All, Each And Every One")!
And over the grave of Clooth-na-Bare;
Caoilte tossing his burning hair,
And Niamh calling Away, come away:
Empty your heart of its mortal dream . . . "
- William Butler Yeats
"The Hosting Of The Sidhe"
(Foreword: Little known fact - once again you heard it here first:
Adam Smith, the "father" of Capitalism, and of 'modern' Economics was kidnapped by "gypsys" when quite young. Though the thief was soon tracked down and the wee babe restored to his family, an elvin babe had been 'glamoured' to appear permanently human, in the ancient manner of all 'changelings' of Faerie (read: a race of semi-benevolent extra-terrestrial Wardens, now long gone from this polluted post-industrial
version of Middle-Earth)to alter the course of human history through the mythic resonance of their ethereal thoughtforms. And they wondered why he talked to 'unseen beings' all the rest of his life? I kid you not, look it up!)
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"Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'." - B. Dylan
The "Behavior Modification" Of American Government And Culture
“The father’s a Nazi in Congress today; the mother’s a hooker somewhere in L.A” - ‘The Idiot Bastard’s Son’” - Frank Zappa, from “We’re Only In It For The Money”
Well, I was careless recently and didn't back up about 30 minutes worth of 'automatic writing' - containing a quite detailed explication of the famous Frank Olson CIA case and how he was actually murdered (read: "thrown", not "jumped" out the 10th story window of a bordello/'safe house'/Himmleresque experimental facility) by minions of the "Bundesnachrichtendienstengeisten". The continuation of the Third Reich re-established in stealth in America, and elsewhere, by the flow of Capital from German Industry. The ruling class knew the Reich would fall, but always planned that the future of World History and the plutocratic hegemonies that would shape it be dictated by Prussian Disciplinarian Policy and Ideals in any event.
Thus the 650 + scientists military officers and “Drs.”, war criminals all, with new identities given them by the US Govs. “Intelligence Community” in “Operation Paperclip” at the end of WWII when Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Gehlen convinced FDR, Hoover, Eisenhower and MacArthur, through Patton (The Real "Manchurian Candidate") to form the NSA there and then (all historic fact - look it up) Patton to prevent certain salient details of the Nazi infiltration of our Government, Military-Industrial Complex (Ike knew enough to try to warn us in his farewell address) intelligence community and scientific/research community from coming to light.
Frank Olson’s death was just ‘collateral damage’ in the cover up of (literally!) thousands of “crimes against humanity” by Project Monarch/ MKULTRA/Whitecoat OSS ops unnamed, etc. operations: kidnappings, rapes, maimings, murder and ‘terminal experiments’, sexual torture, systematic experimental child abuse, infections of thousands of American citizens on and on even unto the hundreds of CIA "snuff" flicks of the terminal experiments and worse.
The staggering scope of the depravity is known to few and believed by fewer today. Excepting these . . . the Gnostics, who always knew, surviving Hassidiim, scattered Elohim and those they teach, and the still silently weeping members of the hierarchy of Angelic beings, appalled once again at the scope of suffering meted out to mankind by IHVH . . . and the numbers dwindles as the principles die off.
Even the 'compromising movies' made of scores of members of the House, Senate and Justice Dept. by the OSS, for 'leverage' which became the archives of theFBI/CIA/Mafia. Canisters long buried in the Nevada desert by former 'bag men" and "assets" of the OSS and "The Pond" now eroding into unrecoverable acetate and hubris. The infiltraitors and their scions all secure in their belief in their own successful redaction of the facts from History (read: 'the propaganda of the ruling class') and marginalization of all who question the "status quo uber alles", until the advent of "Channels" and "Mediums" who really could get info from anywhere (even classified files) delivered right into their minds. No wonder the 'takeover' of the largest Michael Teachings Website, by forces opposed to the truthful rendition of facts regardless of the supposed "National Security" implications.
The full and true tale of how Frank’s Olson's son sued the CIA and the Federal Government in the late '60s and prevailed, winning his 'wrongful death' case in 1970 by having a Fed. Court order the release of a large number of pertinent documents which substantiated his claims (an unheralded act of Angelic Intervention, by a few of the "Fallen" actually, and you'll not hear this ever, from any but I. Forever branded as "evil" by vain History, again and again they interceded, unthanked and unheeded, but Gaia, and I, remember!) will be told, and many more.
These unexpected events led to a mad scramble to cover up EVERYTHING because (as none in power realized) "Pandora's Box" (and Fort Knox) had been compromised by agents both invisible and non-human (more on this anon). Disinformation on top of denials under smokescreens of "National Security" as Richard Helms was replaced by Stansfield Turner AFTER Helms and Himmler trained aides and "goodfella" crews destroyed a couple of bunkers filled with semi-tractor trailors full of documents, tapes, movies and more (as well as those things redacted/hid/given/snatched by their Mafia brethren as "get out of jail free" cards if ever needed).
This "chrystallnacht" of evidence is now only the stuff of whispers between aged dons in back rooms in Henderson retirement homes, a pall-like cloacal miasma of cigar smoke and human misery sticking to their souls, moustaches and slippers. I may have a few good years left in me to "set the record straight" about what has happened since the last significant works about the continuing predations of the American "Intelligence Community" (and they DO still continue, even though there is now a significant and visibly ethical partition of even the rarefied strata of cabals 'above' the NSA, and the Prussian Model has been rejected by a smaller, but more effectively powerful and futurehistory allied and protected portion of almost all the agencies, covert and overt.)
The spectre of 'George White', a figure of diabolic proportions in the founding of the OSS, and then MKULTRA and the CIA/NSA apparatus as designed by the 'ubermenschen' of the SS, still hangs over me, personally. He personally was responsible for cruelties to family, and people I loved.
As he once stated, for the record, his career from WWII on to his supposed 'retirement' in '65: " . . . was fun, fun, fun. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, steal and cheat, kill deceive and rape AND pillage with the sanction and blessing of the all highest?" BTW, what "American" would EVER use a phrase like "all highest"?
"Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'."
Before I was twenty I became slowly aware of the enormity of oppression of citizens worldwide by their governments, and the many lives and possible futures at stake. Remembering the struggle WB Yeats (may have been my incarnation immediately prior to this one) had defined as "The Machine" vs. "The Garden" I stumbled into the futures running on fear and impelled by my faith in Chaos Theory to provide opportunities for social change.
On this reflective rumination my training 'on watch' began in '73 with "Scotty" back from The City, 20 lbs of Air America CIAfghan hashish, a copy of the nascent "Gemstone Files", and the deadly 'blackhole" auricstink signature of "George White", retired but still schmoozing with his pals at their favorite SF bar, where they could always hang out to hoist a few, and drug, kidnap, rape, torture, maim and discard various members of SF's ever unsuspecting hippie society.
These spooks were members the same cabal of people who were eager to assassinate Sen. Estes Kefauver, by poisoning a slice of apple pie with 'sodium morphate, and have him then collapse ON THE SENATE FLOOR! To demonstrate thus to the 'do-gooders' opposing (and eventually in internecine pursuit of them) that they should 'back off'. I believe this incident was responsible for the Kennedy assassins and Nazi superiors feeling they could get away with ANYTHING later in Dallas, and was the turning point in the “Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice.“ death knell of Democracy and subsequent well-funded moral and ethical demise of American Government.
The Third Riech's rationale for human experimentation was embraced by a majority PART of the U. S. Military, Intelligence Community, Legislature Judiciary and Executive Branch at this point as the 'Dachau Dolls' slithered into the undefined interstices of the ruling class's lackey beauracracy, vanishing with nothing but a slime trail of contumely left behind, and never again did the "Shadow Reich" feel compelled to inform subsequent Presidents/Judges/Legislators about their
'Bundesnachrichtendienstengeisten' activities. Their Credo had been expressed for all to fear by Barry Goldwater in his famous statement, cited above, rationalizing their Himmlerian/Mengelen amorality.
"Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'".
Notice the audio of a lot of the video records of MKULTRA surviving on YouTube have been altered. If you read lips you can tell. Also the links have been altered to become almost devoid of title info. No SHARE buttons, no site descriptions and the parties responsible for many of my comments having . . . dissappeared . . . along with the contents of my harddrive last week, after my last post and the sabotage of these site HTML codes may well be rewarded by the karmic visitations of vengeful Cherubim, I avow, I saw it happen in the '70s and I feel it flying past me like a fractal chiaroscuro of intent.
The beings who leveled Sodom have been itching to "smite" all the Reich War Criminals that escaped, and those that follow their logic. Nixon was given phlebitus (I still refuse to apologize) and where is Herr Cheney lately, after all that mouthing off he did in defense of his jackbooted Prussian OSS inspired "Retro"-Conservative Patriot Act redactions Of essential-to-all-but-Himmler-inspired-Americans liberties and rights?".
Some spirits can be vengeful when interfered with in pursuit of a discarnate search for justice. I've never been able to shake the feeling that millions of the victims of TRULY evil men like: ‘George White’ (SS to the core, NOT American) or Maitland Baldwin or Kurt Plotner or Walter Neff or Winfred Overholser or Gen. “Wild Bill” Donovan or Richard Helm or Stanley Lovell, et. al. still wish the truth of just how much the of the Third Reich escaped Nuremburg and then subsumed America's leaders and culture might be told!
“Ye shall know the truth and the truth will make you free.” So be it! Here in the next few years, after my 6 decades of abuse and damage and revelation and preparation and pain and something akin to an aspiration towards an apprehension of wholeness, and the weight of the world's pain for the Holocaust, and more, I shall endeavour to tell the stories that the myriad friends of mine (and those I never knew) who died in their struggle to free themselves from the yoke of mental, emotional, psychosexual and philosophic oppression that America’s rulers placed upon us (WHEN MOST OF US WERE CHILDREN, REMEMBER) in the search for “Behavior Modification” to "combat communism", would tell if they could.
Some can still reach from beyond the grave I recently realized - Woody Guthrie evidently still smoulders somewhere on the Astral Plane, hoisting mugs of "Old Ectoplasm" beer in the heavenly IWW Hall with Joe Hill, and Huey Long, toasting the martyrdom of Leon Trotsky and Sacco and Vanzetti and the Rosenburgs.
NOTE: Here is fair warning: Attempted suppression of the Logos as it manifests will prove destructive to whom and/or whatever tries to hinder the epiphanthetic eventualities this entails. I have never threatened anything or anyone then or now 'cause I never needed to. All who pursued or troubled me or mine, since the '60s and about my 200th trip, have mysteriously (through no actions of mine, other than the occasional Golden Dawn spell or two) been shown the "error of their ways" in eerie and quite memorable fashion. All I’ve ever been able to do is try to warn of the irresistible epiphenomenal inevitability of the ’wrath’ of my aforementioned Cherubim, identified by more than half a dozen psychics and New Age mavens as my "Guardians", when attempts at obfuscation of any Message they promulgate through me arise. (My prose is really quite innately obtuse enough to render these missives unsuitable for 'soundbytes' and mass dissemination anyway, have no fear).
DOD/NID folk PLEASE note: requested quakes can‘t be faked, neither in ’91 when last I was asked to confirm my supposed delusions of chthonic grandeur, nor now. Those few of you remaining, steeped in the historicity and esoterica of “Intelligence” who remember, know of what I speak (hell, it was even the subject of a "Helen, Queen Of The Internet" comic strip). “Something is happening but you don’t know what it is. Do you, Mr. Jones?”
Great evil often generates its own counterbalance, even through the sequipedalian paronomasia of an old agent provocateur and autodidactically eccentric tectokinetic channel such as I. “The Men Who Stared At Goats”, because they were military and therefore subject to orders from a human chain of command that had been subverted through insidious insinuation of the Nazi inspired NSA into both the U.S. Military, and Civilian command superstuctures, never achieved anything close to the "Wildcard" paranormal talents or Gnostic abilities and perceptions extending all the way to the Buddhic Plane I have seen in others and/or personally manifested since I and my brother and sister human guinea pigs, “in the defense of Liberty”, had “alterations” forced upon us unawares, at the behest of America's Himmlers and Mengeles.
Think what SHOULD have happened to the hundreds of German War Criminals we protected from Justice if the the survivors of the Holocaust had had any of the advantages we, the surviving families, lovers, buds and bros of the many hippies, vagrants, third world citizens, and "desaparecidos" of the 50's, '60s, '70s, '80s and on, have today. Propelled by the same righteous indignation against THE SAME WAR CRIMINALS, SOME STILL IN POWER we can scour the data and "higher planes" of existence all the way to the Akashic Records in our search for justice and recompense.
"Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'".
Strange that our commonly ridiculed "Aquarian Ager's" well honed 'fortune telling' abilities worked so freaking well (93% accuracy, over 13,000 years by my count)and thereby produced the plans for us all to incarnate here and now to usher in a "New Age". Imagine the silent satisfaction of plans laid and history nudged, without notice, over so many lifetimes and years.
All of we who had so long ago collectively planned this - thus - and so . . . colloquiums contingent on colloquys on contingency ongoing . . . synods on stealth . . . never "leaving our footprints in the sands of time" as we tracked across parallel timelines and reality matrix analogs, some familiar, most strange . . . "Poised. Delicate. Consent . . . in mute nostril agony" . . . for millenia we waited you know (Edgar Cayce picked up on it though)to meet up where and when we did and live as many as could through to here and now.
Incarnate now, I believe, to most effectively leverage and "right" some wrongs longstanding (dark times like the Inquisition come to mind) Here to wedge our corporeal forms withal into the gears and racks and slings and arrows and karmic clockworks of the Causal Plane mechanisms running the Wheel Of Dharma, singing: "We're all normal and we want our freedom." in park meadows greened by the fungul effulgence of the "Summer Of Love". At least that's the way this Sage has seen it since before even the "Word" began the expansion of the last Singularity. But what do I know? "A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country." right?
I speak from long experience about believing that just retribution for all cruelties we, the Children Of Light, have suffered WILL manifest, one way or the other, and sooner rather than later. Maybe because I "hunger and thirst after righteousness", or perhaps 'cause there once was a boy who believed, and continued lifelong to feel, that one of his 'multiple personalities' was some sort of "Arbiter" (he knew the word before the meaning) lifetasked with resolving an arcane and longstanding point of metaphysical dispute. Now then, this boy, grown to a much older man, might just (have planned) to happen to be in an appointed place at an appointed time with an appropriate surrajoinder prepared airtight and waiting to be applied with the proper kind and degree of force, through the proper medium to the proper object! Et voila: "Instant Karma"! Just like Magick! (It may even be the prophesied: "hard rain's gonna'fall".)
As always, as proponents of change we all have faced the same verities as our tormentors. I have NO idea why I've survived this long, to be here, now. I know many better folk have fallen, and passed on. I attempt to 'keep the faith' and champion causes like "Social Change Through Freedom From Wage Slavery" and quaintly axiomatic cultural notions like "Truth, Justice and the American Way", and "Peace, Love and Good Vibes".
The '60s taught me that if I make sure everyone I can help is helped if and when they need, then in turn, I of care taken will be as well. If I try always to be "devoted to a noble ideal", doing nothing for “lust of result” and work for what I believe to be the greatest good for the greatest number, I find I always fare far better that any attempting to interfere with me, The Medium, OR The Message.
"The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The (old) order is
Rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'." - B. Dylan
Anyway, the 'worm has turned' with more 'castings' to come. Our friends who have passed know what we still can't clearly see: "We are forces of chaos and anarchy. Everything they say we are,WE ARE! And we are very proud of ourselves)!" - Jefferson Airplane. Within a couple thousand years "No living being will ever have to be sacrificed." Allow me to say it again then: The "Summer of Love" will work! I divine we have successfully shaped all probable alternate futures to the ancient agreed upon collective "Will", using "Love" as that long ago proposed basis of the "Law" for this "New Age". (Exactly as another "Prophet without honor", and friend of WB Yeats infamously foretold: “Love Is The Law, Love Under Will”.)
" . . .The winds awaken, the leaves whirl round,
Our cheeks are pale, our hair is unbound,
Our breasts are heaving our eyes are agleam,
Our arms are waving our lips are apart;
And if any gaze on our rushing band,
We come between him and the deed of his hand,
We come between him and the hope of his heart.
The host is rushing 'twixt night and day,
And where is there hope or deed as fair?
Caoilte tossing his burning hair,
And Niamh calling Away, come away."
- William Butler Yeats
"The Hosting Of The Sidhe"
(To which I'll add, in a wee Wiccan stagewhisper:
"Blessed Be We All, Each And Every One")!
Monday, October 11, 2010
Free Trade vs Finity (Channeling The Spirit Of Woody Guthrie)
"To each his onus" - J.W.Thrasher, 1969
"Still, write it down, it might be read. Nothing's better left unsaid." - Procol Harum, 'In Held Twas In I',"Shine On Brightly".
Obviously, to me, the current "Great Recession" is a media/government economist defined event, I just think world economics are manipulated by the ruling class, and as such all these predictions of worldwide economic collapse because of deficit spending (by WHICHEVER of the two parties are currently supposedly "in power") are just attempts to prove the other side wrong, because nothing a single government can do is ever going to change the fact that global economic effects are rarely influenced by anything other than a completely secret hegemonic consensus of the weathiest individuals and corporations.
I've thought about and studied this subject for 40 years, and the "truth" as I see it, must delineate 'causes" from 'effects', and you can't do that with a 'sound-bite'. Here we go then, as THE Firesign (Theatre) put it:
"You Know, Everything You Know Could be Wrong."
("One knows, Everything One Knows Could Be Wrong"? ) To wit:
"As every individual, therefore, endeavours as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestick industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value; every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the publick interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it . By preferring the support of domestiek to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this , as in many other eases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention . Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it . I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the publick good." - Adam Smith, 'Wealth Of Nations', 1776 (substantially true to original text, depen. on edition)
This is where and when I believe the system of mass control of worldwide human evolution becomes 'self-aware', in a sense, with Locke and Hobbes, and Paine's "Age Of Reason" ; and so, with the contraindicative dispositive dialectic of capitalism, feudalism, with its "Divine Right Of Kings", devolves/evolves into the plutocratic and oligarchical hegemonies that today are nation-states and multi-national corporations, with their almost absolute economic power to dictate the very quality of life to humanity on a global scale. Few today seem aware that monetary policy, ultimately, is primarily a mechanism for control of the masses by the wealthy (plutocrats) IMNSHO (as I was first informed in "The Art Of War", by Lao Tzu).
Adam Smith, also, came to believe that the gluttony of the rich was a form of "unproductive labour" as do I, but he could not free himself from the philosophical constructs and beliefs of his milieau to make the requisite ratiocinative leap of faith and demographic probability vector calculus summation (not even a concept then) to conclude that this self-defeating flaw in fact would quite logically then imply that capitalism per se would lead to ubiquitous oppression of the poor by the wealthy (read: exploitation of the proletariat by the 'ruling class' - or read some Dickens or Upton Sinclair).
Yet, such is the case today, I humbly avow, for I believe that capitalism has subsumed and thereby actually annulled the basic precepts of democracy, and defeated that noble ideal at least for the present in this republic. Alexander Hamilton and his 'royalists' made sure of that, the prescience of Paine, Jefferson, Madison and Morris notwithstanding.
REMEMBER, ORIGINALLY HERE IN THE LAND
"OF, BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE"
TO VOTE - YOU HAD TO BE:
RICH ENOUGH TO OWN PROPERTY,
MALE ENOUGH TO KEEP YOUR WOMEN FROM SUFFRAGE &
"WHITE" ENOUGH TO NOT BE MISTAKEN FOR A SLAVE!
The electoral college, and our irrational 'representative' (instead of 'participatory') electoral system is 'part and parcel' of that inculcated 'classist' ethical structure. As evidenced in part by the fact the phrase:
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
originally read:
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of PROPERTY" ! (emphasis mine)
Our society was deliberately and with great diligence engineered to be a Plutocratic Oligarchy! NOT a Republic & NOT a Democracy! Seems History can be ignored in general or generally missapprehended even before it is obfuscated and revised with contumely and disdain by the powerful ("History is only the word of the victors").
Anyway, back to the here and now, and the so called "great decline". I just see this as no more that the reality of the inequitable, anti-egalitarian and insufficiently rational nature of capitalism finally becoming apparent to all, based in fact on the vanishing prospects of future generations to live in an economy as opulent and resource wasteful as modern day America.
I have been an Anarcho-Syndicalist since the '60s when I first read Lao Tzu, Thomas Paine, Norman O. Brown and Marshall McLuhan. Thus I knew of the probable gradual decline and inevitable collapse of a system based upon a fundamental error: 'development' as an rationale for acquisition and investment of capital eventually fails when there are no more goods of "real" value to be produced (based on something like, oh say, Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs") and/or there ceases to be nothing from which anything can be produced. So it has to end sometime, right? This is a well foreseen (if one was paying attention to cutting edge social theorists during the 20th. Century) and evolutionary cultural denoument.
Capitalism is a social and cultural construct, no more. It was not "Divinely" inspired - read Adam Smith's biographers - the dude spent much of his waking life in jocular and animated audible conversations with beings that were not visible to anyone else, and as a Deist never once asserted that his inner voices were divine. Such is the legacy of the social theorist (along with John Locke) who most impressed our Founding Fathers, upon whom in turn much of the mores and folkways, the "gloss". if you will, of our society's interstitial structure depends.
The Founding Fathers did the best with what they knew then, no doubt.
WE NOW KNOW MUCH MORE !
We have the right (and also the duty) to modify this revered, but perhaps obsolete, or rendered less than ideally efficacious, social structure (capitalism) at will if a preponderance of the evidence can be agreed upon by a majority of the voting populace, having thus ascertained our new assertions may provide us with clues to what might modify or amend it to achieve a greater good for a greater number, so where's the beef, eh? "They got the guns, but we got the numbers." said Jim Morrison.
Given the current ossification of political chutzpah and judicious ability to question the 'dogma' of attitudes relevant to the Deists, Masons and tipplers (and make no mistake - almost to a man, the Founding Father's "original intents" were well steeped in rum on a daily basis) who crafted our Constitution, though, I despair at there being a 'populist' solution to this slow decay of "Truth, Justice & The American Way".
Now remember I'm talking here about changing the nature of "capitalism", NOT the Constitution, lest I be accused of being a "Communist" (I am not), or a "Socialist" (I am not, either). The Constitution was, in its ineffable Beauty (yes, I mean the Platonic absolute, because if I worship at any altar, it is at that of the Contitution) designed to evolve, and quite legally and properly, can be changed by a concerted vox populi, applied through the amendment process. It may have to develop the "Taft-Hartley" type teeth that it should have had before the Hamiltonians pulled them to sacrifice all economic justice for the concept of governmental 'laissez faire' practices, I don't know.
As an example, the "Wobblies" - The International Workers of the World, started out as basic Anarcho-Syndicalists (as far as my research has shown). They were of course 'tarred with the same brush" as the 'pinkos' that (I actually use the following word AS DEFINED BY THE OED - which, if everybody adhered to its 'prescriptive' definitions: IOWs - a word means what it meant WHEN FIRST USED IN PRINT; would end these stupid debates over what some vested political interest on either side WANTS the word to mean) . . . Fascist (!) "Tail-Gunner" Joe McCarthy used to forever besmirch the egalitarianism of social theory by anyone other than John Birch. What was lost was the IWW's initial alliance with the "America First" movement ("domestick" economic self-interest as delineated by Smith - see above) and the IWWs noble ideal of freeing mankind from 'wage slavery'.
They also were the only group to hold services yearly for the victims of the "Ludlow Massacre". That occured in 1914 when 19 people were killed (including 2 women AND 12 CHILDREN)! Workers and their families on strike against inhuman working conditions in COAL MINES in Southern Colorado were machine-gunned/burned/asphyxiated/hand-cuffed and beaten to death by THE COLRADO NATIONAL GUARD, sent by the 'ruling class' owners of the mines, ordered to do so with State and Federal complicity, to protect said owner's profit margins (none of the murdering Guardsmen ever served time for their crimes). Why? Because they were doing the bidding of the ruling class! Are mines that much better today? NO, given the vast progress of technology since! Why? Because our society favors greed, and oppresses the poor, as designed. Can the rich still 'buy' more Justice than the poor - You Betcha!
Unfortunately for the proponents of "Free-market growth", economies CANNOT expand forever (unless there really are extra-terrestrials somewhere to whom we can attempt to market our old atom bombs and iPods) because at some point there will be no-where and no-thing left in/to which to expand (unless we colonize space, and seed colonies on habitable planets 'out there', but the vast distances involved, combined with the limitations of light speed on travel, will make commerce irrelevant except in singular cases) .
The current diminution of standard of living was, and is, inevitable, given the finite nature of the biosphere, and the expansion of human population (read: consumers) which will eventually reach an economic "point of diminishing returns" where 'money' will no longer be able to "grow" in "value", because (as you and the' Paul's' , Ron & Rand, so rightly assert) "Treasury Notes" are not based upon the "value" of anything concrete, only the relative productivity (GDP) of the issuant nation-states or corporate hegemonies, AS DEFINED AND MANIPULATED BY THE RULING CLASS (you think the World Bank even cares who is in the White House? NO WAY!) This value will decline as room to grow, and natural resources dissappear.
But NEVER FEAR FOLKS, the 'captains of industry' will devise various and sundry means whereby the populations of "have-nots" will be guaranteed JUST enough of a standard of living as to preclude gross revolution. "Bread and circuses" and "a chicken in every pot" will mollify most into passive acceptance of their diminishing lot, and eventually even the most strident of the "free-trade" crowd will be forced to concede that everyone has enough 'widgets' and 'gizmos' (when the material of which these consumer products are made becomes more valuable than the manufactured items themselves as predicted by Mcluhan).
So, I personally truly see no huge world-wide economic collapse looming because the powers that be will find it in their best interests to continue to delude "man'un'kind" into complacency by manipulating currency standards to prop up this ultimately senseless insistence on 'economic growth'. Or perhaps some plague of global proportions will be engineered to only wipe out those least able, or least favored, to afford consumer products (uh - er - hmmmm - that may have already happened ).
(BTW, I claim copyright to "Probability Vector Calculus" as a means of "remote viewing" most probable futures from my MKULTRA/civilian "Men Who Stare At Goats" type training & "looking down the road" I still don't see it happening as a worldwide catastrophe - gradual decline, yes.)
I have many 'survivalist' friends, though, who have always stockpiled supplies and such and do so to this day. Most of them do it because they still remember their "atomic bomb holocaust" dreams from growing up in the '50s/'60s. Then, there are my old LDS buds in Wyoming, where I helped out at "Freedom Arms" for a couple years. They usually have a year's supply of stuff cached somewhere, just as a matter of principle. "Be Prepared" - Say The Mormon Church & the Boy Scouts. Anything happens, I'm puttin' a couple hundred gallons of gas in the RV and headin' Northeast to the gun plant.
Anyway, I believe perhaps 200 years hence, barring some breakthough in theoretical physics before then, and only then, will things settle into a scant semblance of economic equilibrium, after quite a few people starve, though, and most of the 'heavy metals' and stuff like coltan are mined out.
This hoped for new balance MUST be based upon some notion other then the frightful illogic (see "Life Against Death", by Brown) of:
"Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the Earth." Genesis 1:28 Vulgate
An admonition which is still keeping the Catholic Church from sanctioning the use of condoms, so the poor can overbreed and starve, or die of diease, because the Vatican asserts that is "God's Will", evidenced by that verse.
This same verse I believe is the 'cause', implanted in the collective conservative subconscious, for the "Religion Of Free Trade" effect, to this day.
You know, this whole "recession" could easily even be a ploy by the ruling class to lower wages, disenfranchise workers with 30 and 40 year of seniority, bust unions and wage economic warfare upon the 'proletariat'. They have done the same and worse in the past. Who was responsible for these inequities in divestable capital in the first place? Poor people or rich people? Think about it. Who gave our manufacturing base and bases to the slave-labor wagemasters of the Third World anyway? That's right, you heard right - the ruling classes!
So that's my rant and I'm stickin' to it. "Thank you for encouraging my behavior." - Bobcat Goldthwaite. I'm am truly sorry if I have offended anyone, but "Let us stop talking falsely now, for the hour is getting late." - Bob Dylan
It's kinda' like something another whacko such as I said to me long ago when I mused then (during the anxiety of the Energy Crisis of the '70s) upon much the same issue/argument as you have raised here, Denise, my esteemed 'sister':
" You know, the sooner we use up all the fossil fuel, the sooner things will get back to normal, Grasshopper!" - David Carradine
"That's a butte!" . . . "No, it's a mound." . . . "And right purty, too." - FT
AFTERWORD: Channeling Woody Guthrie
My channeled prose (and this is honestly 'automatic writing') is always 'sesquipedalian' in nature (multisyllabic words). I learned a long time ago that it is really hard to put any "spin" or "Beckify" or misunderstand/misconstrue... words like: "floccinaucinihilipilification". The concepts I attempt to communicate are singular, hopefully incisive, and hard to see through all the "15-second-attention-span" pablum that passes for political commentary today. Read Marshall McLuhan's "The Medium Is The Message". Even the title requires thought. It took me years to plow through it. That's like "The Way is the Goal." Taoist koan.
THE RULING CLASSES DEPEND ON JOE SIXPACK NEVER BEING MOTIVATED TO CRACK OPEN THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY TO SEE WHAT THE WORD "SOCIALISM" MEANT THE VERY FIRST TIME IT WAS USED IN PRINT, IN ENGLISH, OR FOR HIM TO THEN COMPARE AND CONTRAST THAT WITH THE MEANING IT HAS FALSELY COME TO PORTRAY AS A SOUND BITE, OR FOR HIM TO REALIZE THE FACT THAT ACTUAL UNEMPLOYMENT IS TWICE WHAT THE GOVERNMENT AND 99% OF ALL ECONOMISTS, SAY IT IS. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT GEORGE ORWELL CALLED: DOUBLESPEAK !
Hang in there. A paragraph a week, that's all I and my 'Spirit Guides' and channeled 'collective disembodied entities' ask. (lol);{>
Who knows, once I sleep off this hangover from drinking Irish Coffees until 4:00am and channeling the absolutely RIGHTEOUS spirit of Woody Guthrie (or at least the SIMS model of him I keep in my head) I may just renounce my 10 year long self-imposed 'anchorite' vows and start going to Mermen shows, or even . . . political events. This whole writing experience has caused me to remember what it was like in the '60s trying to separate 'truth' from fiction. . .
I'll never forget being chased down the street in Oakland by some Hell's Angels I actually grew up with, 'cause I was protesting the Draft, trying to close the Army depot. But they had held a 'moot' (read: drunken) court and decided to go bust some 'pinko' hippie heads. My first protest. I was a half block away from James Rector when he was shot during People's Park a few years later. Younger people these days have no idea what it was like being there, then.
At least, unappreciated by all the draft age dudes these days who "Ain't no Senator's son"; we killed the Draft, got all my forever damaged buddies out of the jungles, and stopped WasteMoreLand and crew from napalming any more babies.
My sincere regret though, is that NOBODY in Congress remembered that the "Gulf Of Tonkein Incident", the justification for the Congressional vote to enter the war in Vietnam, was proven to be a TOTAL FABRICATION (I actually talked to a former swabbie years later who had been on one of the supposedly attacked ships - NO ENEMY FIRE!) But very few politicians even knew or remembered, when the bogus spectre of WMDs in Iraq was raised, I believe because:
WAR IS GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY! WE CAN MANUFACTURE STUFF TO SELL TO OURSELVES THAT GETS DESTROYED, SO WE GOTTA MAKE MORE STUFF!!!
Yippie - more planned obsolecent profit for the Military Industrial Complex.
WELL, YOU MAY HEAR THIS HISTORICAL FACT HERE FIRST. I HAVE SEEN NO MAINSTREAM (OR ALTERNATIVE) MEDIA REPORT THIS STORY, SO HERE GOES: MY SOURCES(NONE INCARNATE OR HUMAN - DOD/NSA, IT WAS THE "NINE", THE GUYS FROM THE SUN THAT LOOK TO MIND'S EYE LIKE PLATONIC SOLIDS) TOLD ME ON THE FIRST NIGHT OF THE LAST IRAQ INVASION THAT THE REAL REASON BEHIND OUR INVOLVEMENT WAS THE PRINTING OF "BILLIONS" OF DOLLARS WORTH OF AMERICAN CURRENCY, UNDETECTABLE AS COUNTERFEIT BY EVEN OUR TREASURY EXPERTS, BY THE STATE (READ: SADDAM) OF IRAQ AND ITS GOVERNMENT TREASURY PRESSES.
THE PAPER WAS PERFECT, THE INKS WAS BOUGHT FROM US MINTS, AND THE PLATES WERE US ISSUE (COVERT, FOR BLACK OPS FUNDING) TO AN INTELLIGENCE/MILITARY AGENCY THAT SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS. MUCH OF THIS CURRENCY IS STILL IN CIRCULATION TODAY - IT'S GENUINE!
REMEMBER RIGHT AFTER OUR INCURSION, AMERICAN MONEY STARTED TO LOOK DIFFERENT - DUH! SO MAYBE THE 'GLOBAL CURRENCY CRISIS' IS DUE TO A WORLDWIDE GLUT OF NON-FED ISSUED CURRENCY. YOU HEARD IT FIRST HERE. THANK YOU WOODY FOR FINALLY GIVING ME THE COURAGE TO PASS ALONG THE MESSAGE!
"And it's one, two three, what're we fightin' for?" - CJ&TF
"Still, write it down, it might be read. Nothing's better left unsaid." - Procol Harum, 'In Held Twas In I',"Shine On Brightly".
Obviously, to me, the current "Great Recession" is a media/government economist defined event, I just think world economics are manipulated by the ruling class, and as such all these predictions of worldwide economic collapse because of deficit spending (by WHICHEVER of the two parties are currently supposedly "in power") are just attempts to prove the other side wrong, because nothing a single government can do is ever going to change the fact that global economic effects are rarely influenced by anything other than a completely secret hegemonic consensus of the weathiest individuals and corporations.
I've thought about and studied this subject for 40 years, and the "truth" as I see it, must delineate 'causes" from 'effects', and you can't do that with a 'sound-bite'. Here we go then, as THE Firesign (Theatre) put it:
"You Know, Everything You Know Could be Wrong."
("One knows, Everything One Knows Could Be Wrong"? ) To wit:
"As every individual, therefore, endeavours as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestick industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value; every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the publick interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it . By preferring the support of domestiek to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this , as in many other eases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention . Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it . I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the publick good." - Adam Smith, 'Wealth Of Nations', 1776 (substantially true to original text, depen. on edition)
This is where and when I believe the system of mass control of worldwide human evolution becomes 'self-aware', in a sense, with Locke and Hobbes, and Paine's "Age Of Reason" ; and so, with the contraindicative dispositive dialectic of capitalism, feudalism, with its "Divine Right Of Kings", devolves/evolves into the plutocratic and oligarchical hegemonies that today are nation-states and multi-national corporations, with their almost absolute economic power to dictate the very quality of life to humanity on a global scale. Few today seem aware that monetary policy, ultimately, is primarily a mechanism for control of the masses by the wealthy (plutocrats) IMNSHO (as I was first informed in "The Art Of War", by Lao Tzu).
Adam Smith, also, came to believe that the gluttony of the rich was a form of "unproductive labour" as do I, but he could not free himself from the philosophical constructs and beliefs of his milieau to make the requisite ratiocinative leap of faith and demographic probability vector calculus summation (not even a concept then) to conclude that this self-defeating flaw in fact would quite logically then imply that capitalism per se would lead to ubiquitous oppression of the poor by the wealthy (read: exploitation of the proletariat by the 'ruling class' - or read some Dickens or Upton Sinclair).
Yet, such is the case today, I humbly avow, for I believe that capitalism has subsumed and thereby actually annulled the basic precepts of democracy, and defeated that noble ideal at least for the present in this republic. Alexander Hamilton and his 'royalists' made sure of that, the prescience of Paine, Jefferson, Madison and Morris notwithstanding.
REMEMBER, ORIGINALLY HERE IN THE LAND
"OF, BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE"
TO VOTE - YOU HAD TO BE:
RICH ENOUGH TO OWN PROPERTY,
MALE ENOUGH TO KEEP YOUR WOMEN FROM SUFFRAGE &
"WHITE" ENOUGH TO NOT BE MISTAKEN FOR A SLAVE!
The electoral college, and our irrational 'representative' (instead of 'participatory') electoral system is 'part and parcel' of that inculcated 'classist' ethical structure. As evidenced in part by the fact the phrase:
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
originally read:
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of PROPERTY" ! (emphasis mine)
Our society was deliberately and with great diligence engineered to be a Plutocratic Oligarchy! NOT a Republic & NOT a Democracy! Seems History can be ignored in general or generally missapprehended even before it is obfuscated and revised with contumely and disdain by the powerful ("History is only the word of the victors").
Anyway, back to the here and now, and the so called "great decline". I just see this as no more that the reality of the inequitable, anti-egalitarian and insufficiently rational nature of capitalism finally becoming apparent to all, based in fact on the vanishing prospects of future generations to live in an economy as opulent and resource wasteful as modern day America.
I have been an Anarcho-Syndicalist since the '60s when I first read Lao Tzu, Thomas Paine, Norman O. Brown and Marshall McLuhan. Thus I knew of the probable gradual decline and inevitable collapse of a system based upon a fundamental error: 'development' as an rationale for acquisition and investment of capital eventually fails when there are no more goods of "real" value to be produced (based on something like, oh say, Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs") and/or there ceases to be nothing from which anything can be produced. So it has to end sometime, right? This is a well foreseen (if one was paying attention to cutting edge social theorists during the 20th. Century) and evolutionary cultural denoument.
Capitalism is a social and cultural construct, no more. It was not "Divinely" inspired - read Adam Smith's biographers - the dude spent much of his waking life in jocular and animated audible conversations with beings that were not visible to anyone else, and as a Deist never once asserted that his inner voices were divine. Such is the legacy of the social theorist (along with John Locke) who most impressed our Founding Fathers, upon whom in turn much of the mores and folkways, the "gloss". if you will, of our society's interstitial structure depends.
The Founding Fathers did the best with what they knew then, no doubt.
WE NOW KNOW MUCH MORE !
We have the right (and also the duty) to modify this revered, but perhaps obsolete, or rendered less than ideally efficacious, social structure (capitalism) at will if a preponderance of the evidence can be agreed upon by a majority of the voting populace, having thus ascertained our new assertions may provide us with clues to what might modify or amend it to achieve a greater good for a greater number, so where's the beef, eh? "They got the guns, but we got the numbers." said Jim Morrison.
Given the current ossification of political chutzpah and judicious ability to question the 'dogma' of attitudes relevant to the Deists, Masons and tipplers (and make no mistake - almost to a man, the Founding Father's "original intents" were well steeped in rum on a daily basis) who crafted our Constitution, though, I despair at there being a 'populist' solution to this slow decay of "Truth, Justice & The American Way".
Now remember I'm talking here about changing the nature of "capitalism", NOT the Constitution, lest I be accused of being a "Communist" (I am not), or a "Socialist" (I am not, either). The Constitution was, in its ineffable Beauty (yes, I mean the Platonic absolute, because if I worship at any altar, it is at that of the Contitution) designed to evolve, and quite legally and properly, can be changed by a concerted vox populi, applied through the amendment process. It may have to develop the "Taft-Hartley" type teeth that it should have had before the Hamiltonians pulled them to sacrifice all economic justice for the concept of governmental 'laissez faire' practices, I don't know.
As an example, the "Wobblies" - The International Workers of the World, started out as basic Anarcho-Syndicalists (as far as my research has shown). They were of course 'tarred with the same brush" as the 'pinkos' that (I actually use the following word AS DEFINED BY THE OED - which, if everybody adhered to its 'prescriptive' definitions: IOWs - a word means what it meant WHEN FIRST USED IN PRINT; would end these stupid debates over what some vested political interest on either side WANTS the word to mean) . . . Fascist (!) "Tail-Gunner" Joe McCarthy used to forever besmirch the egalitarianism of social theory by anyone other than John Birch. What was lost was the IWW's initial alliance with the "America First" movement ("domestick" economic self-interest as delineated by Smith - see above) and the IWWs noble ideal of freeing mankind from 'wage slavery'.
They also were the only group to hold services yearly for the victims of the "Ludlow Massacre". That occured in 1914 when 19 people were killed (including 2 women AND 12 CHILDREN)! Workers and their families on strike against inhuman working conditions in COAL MINES in Southern Colorado were machine-gunned/burned/asphyxiated/hand-cuffed and beaten to death by THE COLRADO NATIONAL GUARD, sent by the 'ruling class' owners of the mines, ordered to do so with State and Federal complicity, to protect said owner's profit margins (none of the murdering Guardsmen ever served time for their crimes). Why? Because they were doing the bidding of the ruling class! Are mines that much better today? NO, given the vast progress of technology since! Why? Because our society favors greed, and oppresses the poor, as designed. Can the rich still 'buy' more Justice than the poor - You Betcha!
Unfortunately for the proponents of "Free-market growth", economies CANNOT expand forever (unless there really are extra-terrestrials somewhere to whom we can attempt to market our old atom bombs and iPods) because at some point there will be no-where and no-thing left in/to which to expand (unless we colonize space, and seed colonies on habitable planets 'out there', but the vast distances involved, combined with the limitations of light speed on travel, will make commerce irrelevant except in singular cases) .
The current diminution of standard of living was, and is, inevitable, given the finite nature of the biosphere, and the expansion of human population (read: consumers) which will eventually reach an economic "point of diminishing returns" where 'money' will no longer be able to "grow" in "value", because (as you and the' Paul's' , Ron & Rand, so rightly assert) "Treasury Notes" are not based upon the "value" of anything concrete, only the relative productivity (GDP) of the issuant nation-states or corporate hegemonies, AS DEFINED AND MANIPULATED BY THE RULING CLASS (you think the World Bank even cares who is in the White House? NO WAY!) This value will decline as room to grow, and natural resources dissappear.
But NEVER FEAR FOLKS, the 'captains of industry' will devise various and sundry means whereby the populations of "have-nots" will be guaranteed JUST enough of a standard of living as to preclude gross revolution. "Bread and circuses" and "a chicken in every pot" will mollify most into passive acceptance of their diminishing lot, and eventually even the most strident of the "free-trade" crowd will be forced to concede that everyone has enough 'widgets' and 'gizmos' (when the material of which these consumer products are made becomes more valuable than the manufactured items themselves as predicted by Mcluhan).
So, I personally truly see no huge world-wide economic collapse looming because the powers that be will find it in their best interests to continue to delude "man'un'kind" into complacency by manipulating currency standards to prop up this ultimately senseless insistence on 'economic growth'. Or perhaps some plague of global proportions will be engineered to only wipe out those least able, or least favored, to afford consumer products (uh - er - hmmmm - that may have already happened ).
(BTW, I claim copyright to "Probability Vector Calculus" as a means of "remote viewing" most probable futures from my MKULTRA/civilian "Men Who Stare At Goats" type training & "looking down the road" I still don't see it happening as a worldwide catastrophe - gradual decline, yes.)
I have many 'survivalist' friends, though, who have always stockpiled supplies and such and do so to this day. Most of them do it because they still remember their "atomic bomb holocaust" dreams from growing up in the '50s/'60s. Then, there are my old LDS buds in Wyoming, where I helped out at "Freedom Arms" for a couple years. They usually have a year's supply of stuff cached somewhere, just as a matter of principle. "Be Prepared" - Say The Mormon Church & the Boy Scouts. Anything happens, I'm puttin' a couple hundred gallons of gas in the RV and headin' Northeast to the gun plant.
Anyway, I believe perhaps 200 years hence, barring some breakthough in theoretical physics before then, and only then, will things settle into a scant semblance of economic equilibrium, after quite a few people starve, though, and most of the 'heavy metals' and stuff like coltan are mined out.
This hoped for new balance MUST be based upon some notion other then the frightful illogic (see "Life Against Death", by Brown) of:
"Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the Earth." Genesis 1:28 Vulgate
An admonition which is still keeping the Catholic Church from sanctioning the use of condoms, so the poor can overbreed and starve, or die of diease, because the Vatican asserts that is "God's Will", evidenced by that verse.
This same verse I believe is the 'cause', implanted in the collective conservative subconscious, for the "Religion Of Free Trade" effect, to this day.
You know, this whole "recession" could easily even be a ploy by the ruling class to lower wages, disenfranchise workers with 30 and 40 year of seniority, bust unions and wage economic warfare upon the 'proletariat'. They have done the same and worse in the past. Who was responsible for these inequities in divestable capital in the first place? Poor people or rich people? Think about it. Who gave our manufacturing base and bases to the slave-labor wagemasters of the Third World anyway? That's right, you heard right - the ruling classes!
So that's my rant and I'm stickin' to it. "Thank you for encouraging my behavior." - Bobcat Goldthwaite. I'm am truly sorry if I have offended anyone, but "Let us stop talking falsely now, for the hour is getting late." - Bob Dylan
It's kinda' like something another whacko such as I said to me long ago when I mused then (during the anxiety of the Energy Crisis of the '70s) upon much the same issue/argument as you have raised here, Denise, my esteemed 'sister':
" You know, the sooner we use up all the fossil fuel, the sooner things will get back to normal, Grasshopper!" - David Carradine
"That's a butte!" . . . "No, it's a mound." . . . "And right purty, too." - FT
AFTERWORD: Channeling Woody Guthrie
My channeled prose (and this is honestly 'automatic writing') is always 'sesquipedalian' in nature (multisyllabic words). I learned a long time ago that it is really hard to put any "spin" or "Beckify" or misunderstand/misconstrue... words like: "floccinaucinihilipilification". The concepts I attempt to communicate are singular, hopefully incisive, and hard to see through all the "15-second-attention-span" pablum that passes for political commentary today. Read Marshall McLuhan's "The Medium Is The Message". Even the title requires thought. It took me years to plow through it. That's like "The Way is the Goal." Taoist koan.
THE RULING CLASSES DEPEND ON JOE SIXPACK NEVER BEING MOTIVATED TO CRACK OPEN THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY TO SEE WHAT THE WORD "SOCIALISM" MEANT THE VERY FIRST TIME IT WAS USED IN PRINT, IN ENGLISH, OR FOR HIM TO THEN COMPARE AND CONTRAST THAT WITH THE MEANING IT HAS FALSELY COME TO PORTRAY AS A SOUND BITE, OR FOR HIM TO REALIZE THE FACT THAT ACTUAL UNEMPLOYMENT IS TWICE WHAT THE GOVERNMENT AND 99% OF ALL ECONOMISTS, SAY IT IS. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT GEORGE ORWELL CALLED: DOUBLESPEAK !
Hang in there. A paragraph a week, that's all I and my 'Spirit Guides' and channeled 'collective disembodied entities' ask. (lol);{>
Who knows, once I sleep off this hangover from drinking Irish Coffees until 4:00am and channeling the absolutely RIGHTEOUS spirit of Woody Guthrie (or at least the SIMS model of him I keep in my head) I may just renounce my 10 year long self-imposed 'anchorite' vows and start going to Mermen shows, or even . . . political events. This whole writing experience has caused me to remember what it was like in the '60s trying to separate 'truth' from fiction. . .
I'll never forget being chased down the street in Oakland by some Hell's Angels I actually grew up with, 'cause I was protesting the Draft, trying to close the Army depot. But they had held a 'moot' (read: drunken) court and decided to go bust some 'pinko' hippie heads. My first protest. I was a half block away from James Rector when he was shot during People's Park a few years later. Younger people these days have no idea what it was like being there, then.
At least, unappreciated by all the draft age dudes these days who "Ain't no Senator's son"; we killed the Draft, got all my forever damaged buddies out of the jungles, and stopped WasteMoreLand and crew from napalming any more babies.
My sincere regret though, is that NOBODY in Congress remembered that the "Gulf Of Tonkein Incident", the justification for the Congressional vote to enter the war in Vietnam, was proven to be a TOTAL FABRICATION (I actually talked to a former swabbie years later who had been on one of the supposedly attacked ships - NO ENEMY FIRE!) But very few politicians even knew or remembered, when the bogus spectre of WMDs in Iraq was raised, I believe because:
WAR IS GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY! WE CAN MANUFACTURE STUFF TO SELL TO OURSELVES THAT GETS DESTROYED, SO WE GOTTA MAKE MORE STUFF!!!
Yippie - more planned obsolecent profit for the Military Industrial Complex.
WELL, YOU MAY HEAR THIS HISTORICAL FACT HERE FIRST. I HAVE SEEN NO MAINSTREAM (OR ALTERNATIVE) MEDIA REPORT THIS STORY, SO HERE GOES: MY SOURCES(NONE INCARNATE OR HUMAN - DOD/NSA, IT WAS THE "NINE", THE GUYS FROM THE SUN THAT LOOK TO MIND'S EYE LIKE PLATONIC SOLIDS) TOLD ME ON THE FIRST NIGHT OF THE LAST IRAQ INVASION THAT THE REAL REASON BEHIND OUR INVOLVEMENT WAS THE PRINTING OF "BILLIONS" OF DOLLARS WORTH OF AMERICAN CURRENCY, UNDETECTABLE AS COUNTERFEIT BY EVEN OUR TREASURY EXPERTS, BY THE STATE (READ: SADDAM) OF IRAQ AND ITS GOVERNMENT TREASURY PRESSES.
THE PAPER WAS PERFECT, THE INKS WAS BOUGHT FROM US MINTS, AND THE PLATES WERE US ISSUE (COVERT, FOR BLACK OPS FUNDING) TO AN INTELLIGENCE/MILITARY AGENCY THAT SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS. MUCH OF THIS CURRENCY IS STILL IN CIRCULATION TODAY - IT'S GENUINE!
REMEMBER RIGHT AFTER OUR INCURSION, AMERICAN MONEY STARTED TO LOOK DIFFERENT - DUH! SO MAYBE THE 'GLOBAL CURRENCY CRISIS' IS DUE TO A WORLDWIDE GLUT OF NON-FED ISSUED CURRENCY. YOU HEARD IT FIRST HERE. THANK YOU WOODY FOR FINALLY GIVING ME THE COURAGE TO PASS ALONG THE MESSAGE!
"And it's one, two three, what're we fightin' for?" - CJ&TF
Free Trade vs Finity & The Recession
My dear Friends, I really wasn't am not being flippant talking 'bout the "Great Recession", I'll try to explain: I've thought about and studied this subject for 40 years, and the "truth" as I see it, must delineate 'causes" from 'effects', and you can't do that with a 'sound-bite'). Oh well, "To each his onus." (as I claim I first said in front of witnesses, now lawyers, in 1969) So then, as THE Firesign (Theatre) put it:
"You Know, Everything You Know Could be Wrong."
("One knows, Everything One Knows Could Be Wrong"? ) To wit:
"As every individual, therefore, endeavours as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestick industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value; every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the publick interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it . By preferring the support of domestiek to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this , as in many other eases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention . Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it . I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the publick good." - Adam Smith, 'Wealth Of Nations', 1776 (substantially true to original text, depen. on edition)
This is where and when I believe the system of mass control of worldwide human evolution becomes 'self-aware', in a sense, with Locke and Hobbes, and Paine's "Age Of Reason" ; and so, with this contraindicative dipositive dialectic of capitalism, feudalism, with its "Divine Right Of Kings", devolves/evolves into the plutocratic and oligarchical hegemonies that today are nation-states and multi-national corporations, with their almost absolute economic power to dictate the very quality of life to humanity on a global scale. Few today seem aware that monetary policy, ultimately, is primarily a mechanism for control of the masses by the wealthy (plutocrats) IMNSHO (as I was first informed in "The Art Of War", by Lao Tzu).
Adam Smith, also, came to believe that the gluttony of the rich was a form of "unproductive labour" as do I, but he could not free himself from the philosophical constructs and beliefs of his milieau to make the requisite ratiocinative leap of faith and probability vector calculus summation to conclude that this self-defeating flaw in fact would quite logically then imply that capitalism per se would lead to ubiquitous oppression of the poor by the wealthy (read: exploitation of the proletariat by the 'ruling class' - or read some Dickens or Upton Sinclair).
Yet, such is the case today, I humbly avow, for I believe that capitalism has subsumed and thereby actually annulled the basic precepts of democracy, and defeated that noble ideal at least for the present in this republic. Alexander Hamilton and his 'royalists' made sure of that, the prescience of Paine, Jefferson, Madison and Morris notwithstanding.
REMEMBER, ORIGINALLY HERE IN THE LAND
"OF, BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE"
TO VOTE - YOU HAD TO BE:
RICH ENOUGH TO OWN PROPERTY,
MALE ENOUGH TO KEEP YOUR WOMEN FROM SUFFRAGE &
"WHITE" ENOUGH TO NOT BE MISTAKEN FOR A SLAVE!
The electoral college, and our irrational 'representative' (instead of 'participatory') electoral system is 'part and parcel' of that inculcated 'classist' ethical structure. As evidenced in part by the fact the phrase:
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
originally read:
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of PROPERTY" ! (emphasis mine)
Our society was deliberately and with great diligence engineered to be a Plutocratic Oligarchy! NOT a Republic & NOT a Democracy! Seems History can be ignored in general or generally missaprehended even before it is obfuscated and revised with contumely and disdain by the powerful ("History is only the word of the victors").
Anyway, back to the here and now, and the "great decline".
I just see this as no more that the reality of the inequitable, anti-egalitarian and insufficiently rational nature of capitalism finally becoming apparent to all, based in fact on the vanishing prospects of future generations to live in an economy as opulent and resource wasteful as modern day America. I have been an Anarcho-Syndicalist since the '60s when I first read Lao Tzu, Thomas Paine, Norman O. Brown and Marshall McLuhan, thus I knew of the probable gradual decline and inevitable collapse of a system based upon a fundamental error: 'development' as an rationale for acquisition and investment of capital eventually fails when there are no more goods of "real" value to be produced (based on something like, oh say, Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs") and/or there ceases to be nothing from which anything can be produced. So it has to end sometime, right? This is a well foreseen (if one was paying attention to cutting edge social theorists during the 20th. Century) and evolutionary cultural denoument.
Capitalism is a social and cultural construct, no more. It was not "Divinely" inspired - read Adam Smith's biographers - the dude spent much of his waking life in jocular and animated audible conversations with beings that were not visible to anyone else, and as a Deist never once asserted that his inner voices were divine. Such is the legacy of the social theorist (along with John Locke) who most impressed our Founding Fathers, upon whom in turn much of the mores and folkways, the "gloss". if you will, of our society's interstitial structure depends.
The Founding Fathers did the best with what they knew then, no doubt. WE NOW KNOW MUCH MORE !
We have the right to modify this revered, but perhaps obsolete, or rendered less than ideally efficacious, social structure (capitalism) at will if we as a free people so choose, no matter what a skulk of greedmongers, outnumbered 99 to 1 may say. And that is what they fear, and for what will bend any rule, break any law, buy any judge or politician, rewrite any History book. Look at what happened to Allende in Chile, for example, or the US invasion of Costa Rica because the price of bananas went up a dime for the popular benefit of its citizens. This stuff still goes on, and it is so sad because the wealthy are trying to combat Entropy itself, and they honestly can never win. If a preponderance of the evidence can be agreed upon by a majority of the voting populace, having thus ascertained our new assertions may provide us with clues to what might modify or amend it to achieve a greater good for a greater number, where's the beef, eh? "They got the guns, but we got the numbers." as Jim Morrison said.
Given the current ossification of political chutzpah and judicious ability to question the 'dogma' of attitudes relevant to the Deists, Masons and tipplers (and make no mistake - almost to a man, the Founding Father's "original intents" were well steeped in rum on a daily basis) who crafted our Constitution, though, I despair at there being a 'populist' solution to this slow decay of "Truth, Justice & The American Way".
Nevertheless, economies CANNOT expand forever (unless there really are extra-terrestrials somewhere to whom we can attempt to market our old atom bombs and iPods) because at some point there will be no-where and no-thing left in/to which to expand (unless we colonize space, and seed colonies on habitable planets 'out there', but the vast distances involved, combined with the limitations of light speed on travel, will make commerce irrelevant except in singular cases).
The current diminution of standard of living was, and is, as I say, inevitable, given the finite nature of the biosphere, and the expansion of human population (read: consumers) which will eventually reach an economic "point of diminishing returns" where 'money' will no longer be able to "grow" in "value", because (as you and the 'Paul's', Ron & Rand so rightly assert, Denise) it is not based upon the "value" of anything concrete, only the productivity (GDP) of the issuant nation-states or corporate hegemonies, which will decline as room to grow, and natural resources dissappear.
But never fear, the 'captains of industry' will devise various and sundry means whereby the populations of "have-nots" will be guaranteed JUST enough of a standard of living as to preclude gross revolution. "Bread and circuses" and "a chicken in every pot" will mollify most into passive acceptance of their diminishing lot, and eventually even the most strident of the "free-trade" crowd will be forced to concede that everyone has enough 'widgets' and 'gizmos' (when the material of which these consumer products are made becomes more valuable than the manufactured items themselves as predicted by Mcluhan).
I see no huge world-wide economic collapse looming, because the powers that be will find it in their best interests to continue to delude man'un'kind into complacency by manipulating currency standards to prop up this ultimately senseless insistence on 'economic growth'. Or perhaps some plague of global proportions will be engineered to only wipe out those least able, or least favored, to afford consumer products (uh - er - hmmmm - that may have already happened ).
Then, perhaps 200 years hence, barring some breakthough in theoretical physics before then, and only then, will things settle into a scant semblance of economic equilibrium, based upon some notion other then the illogic of: "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the Earth." (see "Life Against Death",by Brown) when even a fool such as I can see we're faced with obviously finite room, and resources.
It's kinda' like what another whacko such as I once said to me long ago when I mused then (during the anxiety of the Energy Crisis of the '70s) upon much the same issue/argument as you have raised here, Denise, my esteemed 'sister':
" You know, the sooner we use up all the fossil fuel, the sooner things will get back to normal, Grasshopper!" - David Carradine
"You Know, Everything You Know Could be Wrong."
("One knows, Everything One Knows Could Be Wrong"? ) To wit:
"As every individual, therefore, endeavours as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestick industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value; every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the publick interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it . By preferring the support of domestiek to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this , as in many other eases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention . Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it . I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the publick good." - Adam Smith, 'Wealth Of Nations', 1776 (substantially true to original text, depen. on edition)
This is where and when I believe the system of mass control of worldwide human evolution becomes 'self-aware', in a sense, with Locke and Hobbes, and Paine's "Age Of Reason" ; and so, with this contraindicative dipositive dialectic of capitalism, feudalism, with its "Divine Right Of Kings", devolves/evolves into the plutocratic and oligarchical hegemonies that today are nation-states and multi-national corporations, with their almost absolute economic power to dictate the very quality of life to humanity on a global scale. Few today seem aware that monetary policy, ultimately, is primarily a mechanism for control of the masses by the wealthy (plutocrats) IMNSHO (as I was first informed in "The Art Of War", by Lao Tzu).
Adam Smith, also, came to believe that the gluttony of the rich was a form of "unproductive labour" as do I, but he could not free himself from the philosophical constructs and beliefs of his milieau to make the requisite ratiocinative leap of faith and probability vector calculus summation to conclude that this self-defeating flaw in fact would quite logically then imply that capitalism per se would lead to ubiquitous oppression of the poor by the wealthy (read: exploitation of the proletariat by the 'ruling class' - or read some Dickens or Upton Sinclair).
Yet, such is the case today, I humbly avow, for I believe that capitalism has subsumed and thereby actually annulled the basic precepts of democracy, and defeated that noble ideal at least for the present in this republic. Alexander Hamilton and his 'royalists' made sure of that, the prescience of Paine, Jefferson, Madison and Morris notwithstanding.
REMEMBER, ORIGINALLY HERE IN THE LAND
"OF, BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE"
TO VOTE - YOU HAD TO BE:
RICH ENOUGH TO OWN PROPERTY,
MALE ENOUGH TO KEEP YOUR WOMEN FROM SUFFRAGE &
"WHITE" ENOUGH TO NOT BE MISTAKEN FOR A SLAVE!
The electoral college, and our irrational 'representative' (instead of 'participatory') electoral system is 'part and parcel' of that inculcated 'classist' ethical structure. As evidenced in part by the fact the phrase:
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
originally read:
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of PROPERTY" ! (emphasis mine)
Our society was deliberately and with great diligence engineered to be a Plutocratic Oligarchy! NOT a Republic & NOT a Democracy! Seems History can be ignored in general or generally missaprehended even before it is obfuscated and revised with contumely and disdain by the powerful ("History is only the word of the victors").
Anyway, back to the here and now, and the "great decline".
I just see this as no more that the reality of the inequitable, anti-egalitarian and insufficiently rational nature of capitalism finally becoming apparent to all, based in fact on the vanishing prospects of future generations to live in an economy as opulent and resource wasteful as modern day America. I have been an Anarcho-Syndicalist since the '60s when I first read Lao Tzu, Thomas Paine, Norman O. Brown and Marshall McLuhan, thus I knew of the probable gradual decline and inevitable collapse of a system based upon a fundamental error: 'development' as an rationale for acquisition and investment of capital eventually fails when there are no more goods of "real" value to be produced (based on something like, oh say, Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs") and/or there ceases to be nothing from which anything can be produced. So it has to end sometime, right? This is a well foreseen (if one was paying attention to cutting edge social theorists during the 20th. Century) and evolutionary cultural denoument.
Capitalism is a social and cultural construct, no more. It was not "Divinely" inspired - read Adam Smith's biographers - the dude spent much of his waking life in jocular and animated audible conversations with beings that were not visible to anyone else, and as a Deist never once asserted that his inner voices were divine. Such is the legacy of the social theorist (along with John Locke) who most impressed our Founding Fathers, upon whom in turn much of the mores and folkways, the "gloss". if you will, of our society's interstitial structure depends.
The Founding Fathers did the best with what they knew then, no doubt. WE NOW KNOW MUCH MORE !
We have the right to modify this revered, but perhaps obsolete, or rendered less than ideally efficacious, social structure (capitalism) at will if we as a free people so choose, no matter what a skulk of greedmongers, outnumbered 99 to 1 may say. And that is what they fear, and for what will bend any rule, break any law, buy any judge or politician, rewrite any History book. Look at what happened to Allende in Chile, for example, or the US invasion of Costa Rica because the price of bananas went up a dime for the popular benefit of its citizens. This stuff still goes on, and it is so sad because the wealthy are trying to combat Entropy itself, and they honestly can never win. If a preponderance of the evidence can be agreed upon by a majority of the voting populace, having thus ascertained our new assertions may provide us with clues to what might modify or amend it to achieve a greater good for a greater number, where's the beef, eh? "They got the guns, but we got the numbers." as Jim Morrison said.
Given the current ossification of political chutzpah and judicious ability to question the 'dogma' of attitudes relevant to the Deists, Masons and tipplers (and make no mistake - almost to a man, the Founding Father's "original intents" were well steeped in rum on a daily basis) who crafted our Constitution, though, I despair at there being a 'populist' solution to this slow decay of "Truth, Justice & The American Way".
Nevertheless, economies CANNOT expand forever (unless there really are extra-terrestrials somewhere to whom we can attempt to market our old atom bombs and iPods) because at some point there will be no-where and no-thing left in/to which to expand (unless we colonize space, and seed colonies on habitable planets 'out there', but the vast distances involved, combined with the limitations of light speed on travel, will make commerce irrelevant except in singular cases).
The current diminution of standard of living was, and is, as I say, inevitable, given the finite nature of the biosphere, and the expansion of human population (read: consumers) which will eventually reach an economic "point of diminishing returns" where 'money' will no longer be able to "grow" in "value", because (as you and the 'Paul's', Ron & Rand so rightly assert, Denise) it is not based upon the "value" of anything concrete, only the productivity (GDP) of the issuant nation-states or corporate hegemonies, which will decline as room to grow, and natural resources dissappear.
But never fear, the 'captains of industry' will devise various and sundry means whereby the populations of "have-nots" will be guaranteed JUST enough of a standard of living as to preclude gross revolution. "Bread and circuses" and "a chicken in every pot" will mollify most into passive acceptance of their diminishing lot, and eventually even the most strident of the "free-trade" crowd will be forced to concede that everyone has enough 'widgets' and 'gizmos' (when the material of which these consumer products are made becomes more valuable than the manufactured items themselves as predicted by Mcluhan).
I see no huge world-wide economic collapse looming, because the powers that be will find it in their best interests to continue to delude man'un'kind into complacency by manipulating currency standards to prop up this ultimately senseless insistence on 'economic growth'. Or perhaps some plague of global proportions will be engineered to only wipe out those least able, or least favored, to afford consumer products (uh - er - hmmmm - that may have already happened ).
Then, perhaps 200 years hence, barring some breakthough in theoretical physics before then, and only then, will things settle into a scant semblance of economic equilibrium, based upon some notion other then the illogic of: "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the Earth." (see "Life Against Death",by Brown) when even a fool such as I can see we're faced with obviously finite room, and resources.
It's kinda' like what another whacko such as I once said to me long ago when I mused then (during the anxiety of the Energy Crisis of the '70s) upon much the same issue/argument as you have raised here, Denise, my esteemed 'sister':
" You know, the sooner we use up all the fossil fuel, the sooner things will get back to normal, Grasshopper!" - David Carradine
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Michael Teachings: Leather Kites In A Land Of Sacred Cows - Priceless
"TRUTH IS THE GREATEST GOOD, AND LOVE IS THE HIGHEST TRUTH." - MFM
("The movement is accomplished in 6 stages, and the 7th. brings return." - Pink Floyd, "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn", via I Ching,)
"THE RULE OF SEVEN: THESIS, ANTITHESIS, SYNTHESIS; AND EXPRESSION, INSPIRATION, ACTION."; - MFM
("All human behavior is a process of re-shaping reality to meet your demands." - Phillip Jose Farmer, via 'Kilgore Trout' in "Venus On The Half-Shell".)
"CREATURES OF REASON SEEK TO JUSTIFY THEIR EXISTENCE THROUGH EXPRESSIONS OF INDIVIDUALITY, ISOLATION, ALIENATION, CREATURES OF REASON SEEK TO JUSTIFY THEIR EXISTENCE
BY ASSIGNING THEMSELVES A ROLE, EVEN A NEGATIVE ONE,
IF THAT BE THE CASE." -MFM)
("The only performance that makes it, truly makes it, is the one that achieves madness, right? Am I right?" - Mick Jagger, as 'Turner', in "Performance".)
""This business of wanting Truth with a capital T was a real problem," . . . One women kept mentioning religious doctrine and insisted that such teachings and the statements of various esoteric masters must be regarded as absolute and immutable. Michael did not agree."" - MFM
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
"So long and thanks for all the fish." and please - wucka, wucka. I'll be voting myself off the island soon because, as Groucho Marx said: "I wouldn't be
a member of any club that would have me as a member!"
I REALLY DID SAY THAT I "CHANNELED GROUCHO" IN MY FIRST INTRODUCTION TO THIS GROUP! ("Nobody EVER listens to Zathrus.")
"The Michael Teachings.com" has been a truly 'tough room' ever since The Michael requested I play the essential role left vacant by the banishment of Troy Tolley. I have always proud of my counterculturally proactive "Guerilla Street Theatre" skills, which were well honed in the back-alleys of Berkeley during the drive to destroy The Draft and the obscenely unwarranted War it supported.
Though the 'devotion to a noble ideal' thought-form/aura disc of 'powder blue' that looks like a tiny 'flying saucer' levitating above the back of my head is visible to adepts and drunks alike, "A prophet is not without honor, save in
his own country" . . . so to the person who asked about William Butler Yeats when they first felt a need to know (what was so familiar about) my Overleaves:
"You said the Secret Word! Duck, and the $50.00 will come down and give you a clue or two about how an entire culture can be dismissed and their historicity dissed in an attempt to cast doubt on the Eurocentrically non-corroborated (except in about 100 oil paintings and religious icons produced all over the lands surrounding the Mediterranian during the Dark Ages and quite easy to find on the Internet) meticulous descriptions of flights, by hundreds of humans, and 'other' beings, crossing the continent in hours within the dozens of large, completely enclosed - clearly desribed as "metallic" - self-propelled airships, never described as leather by ANY passenger or witnesses! Stories of their weaponry as well as aerial battles, cover scores of pages the in the Vedas, the Gitas, and the Ramayana.
Numerous illustrations are shown sometimes, in some old copies, clearly showing aerodynamically designed craft, and not balloons or kites - known as "vimana".
What could POSSIBLY be the reason some folks believe they need to go to such; lengths to deny a preponderance of easily seen to be credible evidence they have never even bothered to lift one finger or eyebrow to try to "VERIFY", as the Michael INSISTS is the proper reactions, by students with Michael Agreements, to their, or any, claims of ANY such things.
All I Know is that my Art, as I consider myself a 'wordsmith' has been redacted for reasons with which I cannot abide. This is then the full text of the post that was so butchered. Choose for yourself whether or not this post is somehow in violation of anything other than disagreement with the 'powers that be'.
I have a Yahoo Group, "MKULTRAONES", long dormant, which I will be starting up again, seeing as The Michael is apparently acting as my 'marcel proust' these days, assisting me in channeling long forgotten pieces of my own past. I should have this site up and running again in a month, check it out. -JWT
("The movement is accomplished in 6 stages, and the 7th. brings return." - Pink Floyd, "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn", via I Ching,)
"THE RULE OF SEVEN: THESIS, ANTITHESIS, SYNTHESIS; AND EXPRESSION, INSPIRATION, ACTION."; - MFM
("All human behavior is a process of re-shaping reality to meet your demands." - Phillip Jose Farmer, via 'Kilgore Trout' in "Venus On The Half-Shell".)
"CREATURES OF REASON SEEK TO JUSTIFY THEIR EXISTENCE THROUGH EXPRESSIONS OF INDIVIDUALITY, ISOLATION, ALIENATION, CREATURES OF REASON SEEK TO JUSTIFY THEIR EXISTENCE
BY ASSIGNING THEMSELVES A ROLE, EVEN A NEGATIVE ONE,
IF THAT BE THE CASE." -MFM)
("The only performance that makes it, truly makes it, is the one that achieves madness, right? Am I right?" - Mick Jagger, as 'Turner', in "Performance".)
""This business of wanting Truth with a capital T was a real problem," . . . One women kept mentioning religious doctrine and insisted that such teachings and the statements of various esoteric masters must be regarded as absolute and immutable. Michael did not agree."" - MFM
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
"So long and thanks for all the fish." and please - wucka, wucka. I'll be voting myself off the island soon because, as Groucho Marx said: "I wouldn't be
a member of any club that would have me as a member!"
I REALLY DID SAY THAT I "CHANNELED GROUCHO" IN MY FIRST INTRODUCTION TO THIS GROUP! ("Nobody EVER listens to Zathrus.")
"The Michael Teachings.com" has been a truly 'tough room' ever since The Michael requested I play the essential role left vacant by the banishment of Troy Tolley. I have always proud of my counterculturally proactive "Guerilla Street Theatre" skills, which were well honed in the back-alleys of Berkeley during the drive to destroy The Draft and the obscenely unwarranted War it supported.
Though the 'devotion to a noble ideal' thought-form/aura disc of 'powder blue' that looks like a tiny 'flying saucer' levitating above the back of my head is visible to adepts and drunks alike, "A prophet is not without honor, save in
his own country" . . . so to the person who asked about William Butler Yeats when they first felt a need to know (what was so familiar about) my Overleaves:
"You said the Secret Word! Duck, and the $50.00 will come down and give you a clue or two about how an entire culture can be dismissed and their historicity dissed in an attempt to cast doubt on the Eurocentrically non-corroborated (except in about 100 oil paintings and religious icons produced all over the lands surrounding the Mediterranian during the Dark Ages and quite easy to find on the Internet) meticulous descriptions of flights, by hundreds of humans, and 'other' beings, crossing the continent in hours within the dozens of large, completely enclosed - clearly desribed as "metallic" - self-propelled airships, never described as leather by ANY passenger or witnesses! Stories of their weaponry as well as aerial battles, cover scores of pages the in the Vedas, the Gitas, and the Ramayana.
Numerous illustrations are shown sometimes, in some old copies, clearly showing aerodynamically designed craft, and not balloons or kites - known as "vimana".
What could POSSIBLY be the reason some folks believe they need to go to such; lengths to deny a preponderance of easily seen to be credible evidence they have never even bothered to lift one finger or eyebrow to try to "VERIFY", as the Michael INSISTS is the proper reactions, by students with Michael Agreements, to their, or any, claims of ANY such things.
All I Know is that my Art, as I consider myself a 'wordsmith' has been redacted for reasons with which I cannot abide. This is then the full text of the post that was so butchered. Choose for yourself whether or not this post is somehow in violation of anything other than disagreement with the 'powers that be'.
I have a Yahoo Group, "MKULTRAONES", long dormant, which I will be starting up again, seeing as The Michael is apparently acting as my 'marcel proust' these days, assisting me in channeling long forgotten pieces of my own past. I should have this site up and running again in a month, check it out. -JWT
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