And Yet

Even in principle

The United States

Was not founded

On high principles

Divine morality or

Even evolutionary

Consciousness to

Serve all humanity



Rather

Human ownership

Gender subjugation

Indigenous relocation

Immigration cessation

Race separation

Sexuality brutalization

Religion hierarchy

Wealth monarchy

Under a criminal patriarchy


And yet


Democracy

Is touted as a great

Form of government

Not because it is

Rather that it is

Pounded in one’s head

From the first time

You heard the word

Democracy where all

Could experience the

Tyranny of a majority or

The tyranny of a minority

Depending on which end

One happens to side with


“Democracy is the worst kind, I am sorry,  but it is. We get to pick our leaders..well…

What if I don’t want a leader? Where does that vote go? I do good on my own, I don’t want to be “led”. Is that freedom?”

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“American Idol (Idle) was the number one show on television // those are the people picking your leaders with less insight then they put in to whether or not Rubin Stoddard should win an award. It’s dumb”

Doug Stanhope


And yet


It is no longer in our

Collective sights

That the female half

Will have equal rights

To have the dignity

Of equality

Of their autonomy

Over their body

With many convinced

To vote to

Perpetuate this myth



And yet



The ride goes on

Which is what the owners

Of the amusement park want

To keep you buying that ticket

On the roller coaster of control

Twists, turns loop-the-loops

Only to get back on to see

If the experience changes


And yet



It doesn’t it is made that way

Unfortunately, it repeats

Until you are dead and

Someone else takes your seat


And yet


“The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it’s very brightly coloured and it’s very loud and it’s fun, for a while.

Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, “Hey — don’t worry, don’t be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride…”

And we… kill those people.

– Bill Hicks

(“Do you ever stop to see who it is, who it is we kill? It’s always people who have told us to live together in harmony and try to love one another. Jesus, Gandhi, Lincoln, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Malcom X, John Lennon. They all said: try to live together peacefully. 

BAM! Right in the fucking head. Apparently we’re not ready for that. That’s difficult behaviour for us. We’re too busy thinking around, sitting around, trying to think up ways to kill each other.”)

– George Carlin


Back to Bill Hicks

“Shut him up.”

“We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real.”

Just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn’t matter because:

“It’s just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.”

Here’s what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defences each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”


– Bill Hicks


Methinks always it will be a good post when the trifecta of wit, George, Bill and Doug, are made manifest while writing this.