Are
The first three things
Thrown out of the
Economic window
Of ivory towers
Guarded by the wolf
In wolf’s clothing
While
The sheep bleet nonsense
In a dull rhythmic hum
Drifting in like a
Soft hallelujah chorus
Mixed in with the
,
Clinking of counted coins
The lilt of laughter
Suffocating the stench
Of greed and corruption
.
The above triggered the below
Perchance ivory towers mentioned
Or vice-versa impossible sequencing
When everything is happening at once
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“Be Quick Or Be Dead”
“Covered in sinners and
Dripping with guilt
Making your money
From slime and from filth
Parading your bellies
in ivory towers
Investing our lives in
Your schemes and your powers
You got to watch them
– be quick or be dead
Snake eyes in heaven
– the thief’s in your head
//
See… what’s ruling all our lives
See… who’s pulling the strings…
I bet you won’t fall on your face
Your belly will hold you in place
The serpent is crawling
Inside of your ear
He says you must vote for
what you want to hear
Don’t matter what’s wrong
As long as you’re alright
So pull yourself stupid and
Rob yourself blind
You got to watch them
– be quick or be dead
Snake eyes in heaven
– the thief’s in your head
//
Be quick… or be dead!
Be quick!”
– Iron Maiden
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Think
Question
Act
Repeat
Along time ago, wait it is as fresh as tomorrow. I read an article that was very fascinating to me, at the ripe old age of nine, or so. Somewhere at the precipice of the age of reason, for sure.
With somewhat of an ominous tone, the headline read;
US Downfall Plotted 50 Years Ago
Whoa, kind of scary, when your Monday thru Friday indoctrination schedule includes the daily mantra of “Pledging” your “Allegiance” to the “Flag” and to the”Republic” for which it “Stands”. Plus probably repeating that at Cub Scouts.
Nooo, why would anyone want to plot against the US?
Wait, if a plot was discovered, then surely, like a Hardy Boys mystery, it can be foiled. After all, here it is in print for all hard working loyal Americans to see and take counter measures.
All anybody would have to do is be aware of this and take appropriate actions, by not letting themselves get duped or let America fall into this now easily avoidable catastrophe.
Must be careful though, certainly if I run around screaming the warning to all that can hear, might deem me as a little crazy and not listen. Worse yet, if I mention this discovered plot to someone I don’t know or trust, they might be one of the plotters and do something to me, so I can’t warn anyone else.
Going to have to act alone, and lead by example and practically memorize the points and be aware of not participating in unconsciously helping my beloved country go bad. What a task for a nine year old.
Here is the transcribed article below, that can be found on Google as well.
Of course, now it is from 50 years ago.
US Downfall Plotted 50 Years Ago
In May of 1919 at Dussoldorf Germany, the Allied Forces obtained a copy of the “Communist Rules for Revolution”.
Nearly fifty years later, the “Reds” are still “following the rules”. As you read the list, stop after each item and think about the present-day situation and where you live, and all around the nation. We quote from the Red Rules.
A. Corrupt the young. Get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial; Destroy their ruggedness.
B. Get control of all means of publicity thereby :
1. Get people’s minds off their government, by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books and plays and other trivialities.
2. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance.
3. Destroy the people’s faith in their natural leaders, by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule and obloquy.
4. Always preach true democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.
5. By encouraging government extravagance, destroy its credit, produce fear of inflation with high prices and general discontent.
6. Forment unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of government toward such disorders.
7. By spacious argument, cause the breakdown of the old moral virtues, honesty, sobriety, continued faith in the pledged word, ruggedness.
C. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population helpless.
That was quite a list, wasn’t it? Now stop and think, how many of those rules are being carried out in this nation today? I don’t see how any thinking person can truthfully say that the communists do not have any part in the chaos, that is upsetting our nation. Or is it just coincidence? I doubt it!
I had recently found the copy of the copy of that article. That is probably a bad reveal that I had hung on to it for this long, and although it had been vaguely filled away to obscurity it surfaced while looking for something else.
So in this age of Google, opted to see if there was any background info to it.
Typed in the title of the article in the search bar and voila, several copies of a the same article from various publishers. Guess the media distribution was a bit different in the late 60’s.
One of the things I found was that it’s source was debunked because there are no Communist Rules for Revolution. Or are there? Anyway, it doesn’t matter.
If you watch any documentary or movie from that era, the word communist could have easily been replaced by the word bogeyman. It would have meant the same thing.
Same goes for today, replace terrorism with bogeyman and you’ll see how easily the masses are being duped into being led and controlled.
Somehow it got attached to fear. See what McCarthyism did to this country. Blacklists, circumstantial covert repression of free speech. You can say whatever you want, however there is an underlying understanding that, perhaps if you do speak out, you may lose your family supporting income.
Then where would you be to protend a fight. For the most important thing (family) that you believe in, could face the hardships over a concept. Kind of like fighting for the principle of peace, it gets lost quick.
Whether it be by circumstance or design (Google Manufactured Consent) there are several things on the list worth examing.
A. Corrupt the young. Get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial; Destroy their ruggedness.
A. The young are circumstantially, albeit unconsciously corrupted by their parents anyway. Usually in the form of “do as I say, not as I do” indoctrination. That or Santa Clause and the easy manipulation of you better behave, “a non-existent” invisible entity is watching your behavior, speech and thoughts. Just as a matter of control.
Sex, I’m sure that’s innate. Encouraging or discouraging that is hardly going to make a difference. Distracted by it, might more be the issue.
“Superficial.” Perhaps, not sure, at this point what is available to be “deep” about. Most everything is disposable, and / or easily replaced.
With the new use of the word “optics” might cover this one. A person’s character, being defined by what it is, that they appear to be doing, as opposed to their overall nature, personality and actual actions.
“Some aspects of destroying their “ruggedness”. Might not be such a bad thing as ruggedness can imply brutality. Excusable behavior justifying assault and violence.
B. Get control of all means of publicity thereby :
Objectively points 1-7 seem relatively self explanatory. Just re-read the above then ponder them with eyes even halfway closed and you will see most are frighteningly accurate. Or perhaps this article has ingrained my paranoia for nearly fifty years.
C. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population helpless.
Here is the most current kicker on display. But you have to pay real close attention to who is actually saying what. One side tells you that it the other side is going to take away guns. The other side can not defend words that did not come out of their mouth without using words that weren’t there in the first place. A catch twenty-two of sorts.
Leaving everyone up in arms over the first and second amendments. Ignoring the other twenty-five, if anyone knows they are there.
That was quite a list, wasn’t it? Now stop and think, how many of those rules are being carried out in this nation today? I don’t see how any thinking person can truthfully say that the communists do not have any part in the chaos, that is upsetting our nation. Or is it just coincidence? I doubt it!
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Using the word communist is interchangeable with any moniker to isolate and identify an invisible moving human target, a most capable bogeyman.
If this article were to be written today they could use socialist.
The “ist” matters not, save for scaring the shit out of an unenlightened populace distracted by all of the distractions.
Everything including safety, security, patriotism, jingoism, war, peace, slavery, abortion, flag burning, walls, immigration, subpoenas, pardons, climate change, fake news, absolute proof, etc.
Each one of those distractions and any inadvertently left out each have within them hypocrisy, dichotomy or both.
Deep reservoirs, chock-full of empty opinions, arguments merely for the sake of arguing. Mindless, endless rhetoric built-up to collapse on itself.
Peace: The previous President received the Nobel peace prize whilst engaging simultaneously in two wars, and the collective accepted that in true Orwellian fashion.
War: The dictionary definition states it is fighting between groups or countries, when in truth everyone knows an original definition would have used the word killing. You know killing, aborting out of the womb oxygen breathing 68th trimester fetuses.
Each and every side burying and birthing over theology, geography or a product.
Foremost lately is the product or resources to make products thereby needing to make more humans, i.e.(products) to extract, form, mold, build, assemble, test, market, box, package, store, warehouse, distribute, buy, sell, waste, discard, restart and repeat. Those are just the descriptions, on the human “products”.
Alas, it matters not. This, now or then could have been another distraction in a dizzying deluge of distraction. ‘Tis one of the reasons I started this blog to communicate this in a clever way.
Building on it in drips and drabs, a way to explain my beingness and thought processes (or my paranoia) till I realized it was bumping up against the alleged article’s 100th anniversary.
At least, if it has not been either informative, entertaining or enlightening, then maybe it explains the nature of the rest of most of the posts on this blog. Would certainly explain my voraciousness for questioning everything.
Thanks for reading.
Shoplifting is a crime
You will be caught
You will be prosecuted
.
Lest of course
Your shirt has a white collar
Jacket is blue, tie is red
And you occupy an oval office
Stealing is perfectly legal
If legislated in the form
Of tax breaks for corporations
Collusion-less
Aiding and abetting
Of elections
.
Funny how
What is accepted
As a “crime”
Is based on the context
Of who is profiled
As the thief
Steal a loaf of bread
To feed your family
Get punished
Steal loaves of bread
Because you can
Slice it up with your
Gluttonous cronies
Is
Business as usual
Just a
Sign of the times
Can’t decide if this will be revered or the final nail in my writing coffin.
So if I haven’t lost every reader by now, hang tight and enjoy the ride.
“This next song (post) is written about religion, or about washing your car, or … actually it is about opening a pair of curtains. Called Revelations, this one!”
– Iron Maiden
“Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don’t want to know about you. They don’t want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re preborn, you’re fine; if you’re preschool, you’re fucked.
Conservatives don’t give a shit about you until you reach “military age”. Then they think you are just fine. Just what they’ve been looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.”
– George Carlin
Here comes Gilead
Here comes Gilead
Right down Hypocrisy Lane
Dangling a fetus like a carrot
Driving everyone insane
Georgia ‘n’ Alabama ‘n’
All of their faux fear
Are causing so much strain
Women are cringing
Freedom’s diminishing
All is scary and fright
Get your passport and
Pack your bags
Cause Gilead comes in the night
Here comes Gilead
Here comes Gilead
Right into Piousness square
Doesn’t care how far along you are
As long as you stay a brood mare
.
“Hey look! A fetus. Whatever you need.
Let’s go. Whatever you, the apathetic docile masses
Need to get behind, here, here’s a fetus.
Come on. Look a little fetus.
//
That little fetus got more TV time than I did last year.”
– Bill Hicks
.
It is neither the act
Nor the intention
Of killing humans
For whatever reason
Regardless the stage
We are all going
To die eventually
It is the hypocrisy
Surrounding it
That makes
My blood boil
.
Smoke and mirrors
Of distraction played
Like a weak
Jedi mind trick
On the feeble minded
Not equating
In womb fetuses
With grown
Out of the womb
Fetuses
.
These are not the
Fetuses you’re
Looking for
.
Oh, okay carry on
.
“I loves the poorly educated, I do well with the poorly educated.”
– Donald Trump
Just because
John Bolton
Wants to go to Iran
To instantly perform
Thousands of
Post natal abortions
With the taxpayer money
Having a “volunteer” staff
Using crude tools
To satiate his
Hateful fantasies
Makes it not only “legal”
It is done en masse
With no justification
Save poking a bear
To justify
Killing the bear
Because (and I’m assuming)
His parents weren’t fit to be
.
Justifications based on
Perceived meanings
Clouds judgements
Fires fundamentalism
.
‘I’m against abortion, except like in cases of rape.’
That’s like saying, ‘yes, a fetus is a human being,
Unless his dad is an asshole.’
Doug Stanhope
.
Rape and incest become bizarre loopholes
Under every circumstance a fetus must be saved
Less of course the father (seed planter) is an asshole
That would not only make every abortion legal
It would make them mandatory and necessary
Must be the metaphorical equivalent that it is okay
To kill a country’s kids, if the leader “dad” is an asshole.
Seems to be John Bolton’s argument for starting a war with Iran. Preparing to send in over a hundred thousand abortionists to kill and extract full grown out of the womb fetuses
.
“We gotta come to some new ideas about life folks ok? I’m not being blase about abortion, it might be a real issue, it might not, doesn’t matter to me. What matters is that if you believe in the sanctity of life then you believe it for life of all ages.
//
They’re killing children!” What does that mean? They reach a certain age and they’re off your fucking love-list?
//
You either love all people of all ages or you shut the fuck up.”
– Bill Hicks
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While contemplating this post, noticed one of those “pro-life” billboards with a little pink kid standing in a field of green grass with a sky blue background, with raised hand. Underneath it the words.
Take my hand, not my life.
All well and good, however couldn’t the same message apply if the image was of a brown kid standing on sand with buildings burning in the background.
Take my hand, not my life.
.
Wouldn’t the same apply to an Iranian or whichever enemy, the latest hawk hole opts to kill in the constant mix of who is who or where is the next bogeyman who resides in Eastasia, Oceania or Eurasia?
If you’re so pro-life, do me a favour: don’t lock arms and block medical clinics. If you’re so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.
– Bill Hicks
Starting with the military cemeteries, where somehow celebrated soldiers get the most attention they will never receive.
The stereo is broken
In my truck
Which allows
Me to hear
Clanking and
Other odd noises
Like it is ready
To fall apart
Best get
The radio fixed
Then the rest
Will take care of itself
Is not normally a problem
However, with all my deliveries done
I was making my second to last pickup
75 miles from home and my honey
In the alley of the shipper
Across from a bar with a back patio
Behind the main street historic district
At about 1:30 in the afternoon
The lunch crowd was gone
Empty glasses clinking being removed
The temperature was perfect
Wafting in a slight breeze from the south
Was a sweet blend of
Barbecue sauce and Chris Stapleton
Blues-ing out Tennessee Whiskey
Wishing I was done and out of uniform
In comfortable jeans and a t shirt
Sharing and savoring the sensation
With my sweet – ums
Feeling the warmth of the
Sun and her smile on my face
Basking in both glows
With nary a care in the world
Save wanting those
Magical moments to last forever
Like when we were at a beach side bar
With no place to go and no where to be
Enjoying surf sounds and Jimmy Buffett
Some suds and succulent shrimp
.
“God made beer because he loves us and wants us to be happy.”
.
– Attributed to Benjamin Franklin adapted from his writings.
The world you see and
Sensorially experience is
Based on projections
On a holographic screen
Broadcast by the mind’s eye
The knock on wood that
You feel and hear is at best
Based on projections
Of the reality in each moment
You choose to experience
The voice that is reading
This to you is your voice
Received by non-existent ears
Think not, try whispering
In a voice that cannot be heard
From time to time it is necessary
To test the projector, so here goes
First you must grab a lemon
One that is as cool as a cucumber
Bright as the morning sun
Feel its dimpled texture
Let it roll a bit on the cutting board
Grab a really sharp knife and
Slice it slowly seeing and feeling
The mist of juices gentle spray
Set down one half and hold
The other, removing a seed or two
Bring it up to your nose and mouth
Squeeze a bit then bite into it
You will realize what to do with
A mouthful of saliva that was
Manifested from a non-existent lemon
One based on a projection
By reading words
Projected from a screen
Or are they
It probably would be easy
To prove me incredibly wrong
Even though I am always right
But alas
That is based on projections
* “Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto”
.
A mind molested
Fraught with fear
What parents suggested
That much was clear
.
What they did do
Is not what you saw
Having no proof or clue
Was a glaring flaw
.
Irrevocable things they did say
What hath meanings of a word
Haunt me to this very day
Guess I’m just being absurd
.
Leaving me to question
Reality and existence
With no reservation
Paying the penance
.
Just to reassure
They meant no harm
Emotionless future
Tripped no alarm
.
Do nothing wrong
You will not get caught
Go along get along
Become a good robot
.
Dependent and small
On them you’re reliant
Do not stand up too tall
Keep remaining compliant
.
Truths were quite malleable
Depending on their need
Making them infallible
What a dastardly deed
.
It is not my desire
Though it’s been suggested
To write the world on fire
From a mind molested
.
.
* From
“Mr Roboto”
“Styx”
“You’re wondering who I am
(secret secret I’ve got a secret)
Machine or mannequin
(secret secret I’ve got a secret)
With parts made in Japan
(secret secret I’ve got a secret)
I am the modren man
I’ve got a secret
I’ve been hiding
Under my skin
My heart is human,
My blood is boiling,
My brain I.B.M.
So if you see me
Acting strangely,
Don’t be surprised
I’m just a man who
Needed someone,
and somewhere to hide
To keep me alive
Just keep me alive
Somewhere to hide
To keep me alive
I’m not a robot
Without emotions.
I’m not what you see
I’ve come to help you
With your problems,
So we can be free
I’m not a hero
I’m not the saviour,
Forget what you know
I’m just a man whose
Circumstances went
Beyond his control
Beyond my control
We all need control
I need control
We all need control”
However
.
The dragon understood
What was necessary
Burn down the throne
.
The paradigm shift
Lasted too briefly
To sink in and grow
.
Still adhering to
The way it was
With modifications
.
To not serve all
Only to serve
Those deciding
.
To serve themselves
Expecting many
To kneel or bow
.
When all it is
Everyone needs
Is food and shelter
.
Love and compassion
Healing and guidance
Forgiveness and understanding
.
From “Rush’s” “2112”
.
[V. Oracle: The Dream]
‘…I guess it was a dream, but even now it all seems so vivid to me. Clearly yet I see
the beckoning hand of the oracle as he stood at the summit of the staircase…’
‘…I see still the incredible beauty of the sculptured cities and the pure spirit of man revealed in the lives and works of this world. I was overwhelmed by both wonder and understanding as I saw a completely different way to life, a way that had been crushed by the Federation long ago. I saw now how meaningless life had become with the loss of all these things…’
.
The lyrical adaptation.
.
I wandered home through the silent streets
And fell into a fitful sleep
Escape to realms beyond the night
Dream can’t you show me the light?
I stand atop a spiral stair
An oracle confronts me there
He leads me on light years away
Through astral nights, galactic days
I see the works of gifted hands
That grace this strange and wondrous land
I see the hand of man arise
With hungry mind and open eyes
They left the planet long ago
The elder race still learn and grow
Their power grows with purpose strong
To claim the home where they belong
Home to tear the Temples down…
Home to change!
The vault door
To our soul
Has been
Left open
The contents
Have been
Removed
Unlikely to
Be returned
Leaving us
To be
Catatonic
Shells
Zombielike
Automotons
Controlled by
Consumption
Manipulated by
Media’s
Driven to
Debt
Rhetorically
Regulated
Subconsciously
Subterfuged
Must keep
Looking though
One soul
At a time and
Protect
Permanently its
Preciousness
Was going to leave this end here.
However, the following started rolling around in my head, like the steel ball at the bottom of a freshly emptied can of spray paint. So am putting it here, before it dries.
Which is usually how most “bits” and lyrics end up in each post. I don’t recall what I had for breakfast, can barely remember how to tie my shoes.
Yet, the other stuff lines up, stage right, waiting for its cue to go on.
.
“What you see is not real,
Those who know will not tell
All is lost sold your souls
To this brave new world
//
Dragon kings dying queens,
Where is salvation now
Lost my life lost my dreams,
Rip the bones from my flesh
//
Silent screams laughing here,
Dying to tell you the truth
You are planned and you are damned
In this brave new world”
Excerpts from
“Iron Maiden”‘s
“Brave New World”
Looking at the world through a windshield. 