Is like discarding
A distinct indelible memory
Or, an indoctrinated one
Part of your existence
Is tethered to your beliefs
Without a Bluetooth pairing
Or a wireless connection
To a local area network
Or even stored in a “cloud”
It is just an infinite coupling
In the elusive ether of
Something you can not
See, touch, smell, or hear
Yet, you “know” it is there
Imagine that
How one conducts themselves…
Treat people, work, save, spend
Share, speak, drive, eat, etc…
Stem from neurological
Electrical impulses
Which can not be undone
Or replicated similarly
Where are memories stored
Whatever happened
Happened back there
In both nonexistent time
Plus, un-locatable space
If people believe
That they believe
In the “same” “God”
A small series
Of questions
Will bear out that
Nobody does
But are willing
For the sake of
A convenient label
That they do
My guess is that it is
A safety in numbers thing
Making it fair
Arrogant or
Egotistical to say
I will believe
In your God or
What you believe
When you can
Disprove my
Solipsism
That is how
Easy it is to
Alter a belief
More than you
Fear death
For death will only
Kill you once
Fear will kill you
Constantly and
Mercilessly
Mind numbing
Cognitive dissonance
Dichotomous information
Coming through
Multiple outlets
Generated from
The exact same source
(Advertisers)
Via constant content
Through news and sports
Scandals and cover-ups
Recycled and repeated
Content to confuse with
Competing contexts
Chaos and conundrums
Reveals clearly what
Not who is in control
That of the multinational
Greedy pig corporations
Serving humanity by
Destroying its habitat
Through consumption
Of temporary items
Ready to replace
With recycled rubbish
By reminding you
You are not enough
Without abysmal
Emptiness filling stuff
“I don’t know what word in the English language, I can’t find one, applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life so they can put a few more dollars into highly stuffed pockets, the word evil doesn’t even begin to approach it. ”
– Noam Chomsky
Let this sink in.
“Chomsky is credited with revolutionizing the linguistics field by introducing the Chomsky hierarchy, generative grammar and the concept of a universal grammar, which underlies all human speech and is based in the innate structure of the mind/brain.”
– College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
In an effort to unbend reality, next time you are at a store, look at the stuff you are not looking for. The stuff, usually hanging “randomly” on an extension of the shelf you are walking by.
As I write this, what comes to mind is a “brand”- piece of plastic square two-piece sandwich holder. Retail, about $ 4.⁰⁰ with probably a $ .⁷⁷ COGS bottom line expense. If purchased by whoever, it will probably get used about five times before it ends up in the trash. Then, going back to the disposable sandwich, clear double sealed bags that do the same thing with less hassle.
Whether it be that, or whatever eye-catching garbage is for sale, stop and contemplate that somewhere it was manufactured using petroleum products to make it, cardboard, plastic, and ink to package it. Shipped from thousands of miles away, stuffed into a metal container, unloaded near a shore, transferred to a warehouse.
Organized to be redistributed to competing retailers, for just-in-time inventory to hundreds of various retailers. Only to land in a landfill. Which will require more petroleum to power the bulldozers used to bury the discarded plastic.
If through other means, it doesn’t end up floating in the ocean. Which gets there, by dumping it……in the ocean. Ooopsie. As part of the process of manufacturing the stuff we will throw away anyway.
“Ever wonder why we’re fucked up as a species?”
– Bill Hicks
Whether you buy it or not, look down the burgeoning soda aisle, with all of its brightly colored distinctive corporate packaging. Now imagine, if it was all just black lettering on a white background that read. Hi fructose colored flavored corn syrup with fizzy carbonation, forcing you to look for the “flavor” you wanted in small print. Next to the “diet” sodas, loaded with aspartame. Which aren’t really about diet and more for addiction.
Who knew a glass of water would sound so appealing right now.
“I write to expunge the darkness
So that someday
Light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
“Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach. Then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.”
– Huey Newton
My best perception
Of the parable of
Pavlov’s pups is
Not to play along
With pings of peals
As per programming
Of pupil patriotism
Per paltry pledges
Via public performances
Whew
Here’s where this came from….
Whilst attending a grandchild’s, for lack of better words, brain competition, (finally, not sport). Held early in the school’s gym.
Sitting on the bleachers waiting for it to start, before the participants came out, the bell had rung. Basically, a short, near what could be considered a brief “fire alarm” burst of sound to start the school children’s day. Followed by… a militaristic monotone recitation of the pledge of allegiance, way too loud.
I get it and understand
“The Pledge of Allegiance, ultimately, is coffee for elementary school students. “… And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
FUCK, I’m at SCHOOL! Can we say it again? I need a second cup.”
– Lewis Black
However, the gathering attendees (alleged adults), much to my shock, horror, dismay, incredulity, put down their phones, and or stopped their conversations, to stand and face a flag, put their hand over their heart and……. FOLLOWED ALONG……. to no one, leading the “Pledge” for no reason whatsoever. Aaagggghhhhh.
Either everyone rose to play along and pretend they are patriotic by participating (maybe, they’ll get a trophy) or, more likely they are so indoctrinated in their behavior, since near birth, they fail fabulously at their critical thinking skills, to realize, that “The Pledge” was not intended for them.
“And Liberty…
The meaning of Liberty
The dictionary definition…
“Liberty means freedom from government restriction and control”.
Not only do we not have liberty.
Who has less liberty than the children, you make say this. (Pledge)
That’s the irony. They get the least liberty, you’ve had it. We don’t have, they got… [??] They can’t do shit.
We got the oldest children in the world in this country.”
– Doug Stanhope
Unfortunately, that wasn’t the worst of it. It was followed by an extended slogan of grade school gibberish as to thoughtless conduct of behavior towards fellow students.
Certainly not to behave in an individual way of decency, kindness for its own sake, but rather a group programmed one. Triggered to a tee to salivate subconsciously of social conditioning.
“You know what stickers I hate? The ones that say ‘We are the proud parents of an honor student at Mars High’ or whatever other innocent sounding name, that has been assigned by the indoctrination center where their child has been sent to be stripped of his individuality and turned into an obedient-souldead-conformist member of the american consumer culture.
Proud parents? What kind of empty people need to validate themselves through the acheivements of their children?
Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see:
‘We are the proud parents of a child whose self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic acheivements on the back of our car’ or ‘We are the proud parents of a child who has resisted his teacher’s attempts to break his spirit and bend him to the will of his corporate masters’ ”
– George Carlin
“Pity The Nation”
“Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
and whose bigots haunt the airways
Pity the nation that raises not its voice
but aims to rule the world
by force and by torture
And knows
No other language but its own
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed
Pity the nation Oh pity the people of my country
My country, tears of thee
Sweet land of liberty!”
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Does Pavlov ring a bell?
https://www.simplypsychology.org/pavlov.html
“Humanity” is not very pretty
When it sees itself
In a collective mirror.”
– Angelo Devlin
Well, not technically….
Energy is an infinite
Source / supply of power
Constantly running
Through everything
Anything and “nothing”
So when I write
It’s my energy
I mean the infinitesimally
Small, itsy bitsy, teeny weeny
Miniscule, zeptosecond
Amount I am responsible for
During states of wakefulness
Through receptors and
Neurotransmitters in “my” brain
That I delude myself into
Maybe realizing I might be able
To control in some minute way
Am finally “learning”
After all this alleged “time”
In this soul vehicle of 58
Earth measured “years”
To utilize “my” energy in ways
That is less angry and frustrating
By instantly recognizing
A broken pattern of behavior
That habitually is steered
Towards agitation and pain
Darkness and desperation
Catching quickly the moment
It occurs to redirect it positively
Into personal productivity
With patience and perseverance
Listening and empathy
So far, so, #uck this is hard
Especially now that I know
I have the ways and means
To choose how to use my
Limited free will to overcome
Habitual aggravation triggers
The key factor is using the phrase
“It’s my energy,” which could be
It is my energy. However, by way
Of the contraction, I can make it
What I call a five finger mantra
Imbedding the syllables into my hand
Starting with either thumb
Then, index, middle, ring, and pinky
Realizing now, that either way, it
Moves from the heart outwards
To extend it, may add
“That I must care for”
(Responsibility has one too many syllables)
“I do not know
Where I am going
But I do know
I am moving forward. “
– Angelo Devlin
That which
Does not exist
Can be imagined
That which is
Imaginable
Can exist
How can one
Grasp reality
When it has
No handles?
Besides being
Too heavy to lift
To awkward for
A proper grip
No one can carry
The other end
If their subjective
Shared certainty
Does not match
Malleable minds
All of the cute
Reasonable rhetoric
Used to describe
Detailed definitions
Of how one perceives
A particular point *
If the other person
Does not or can not
Play along perceptibly
Then all is lost
Save for the challenge
Of (if both are willing)
To connect their hand/mind
Michaelangelo style
Of at least attempting
To connect to the
Painted depiction of
Touching the hand of
God / Word / reality
Never quite reaching
But always trying to
See and understand
Each other’s
Subjective solipsism
* is something I call
The communicating pizza dilemma
Which is as follows
If you met a person who had never tried, tasted, or smelled pizza and they wanted to know exactly how it tastes. The best you could do is break down and describe the particular ingredients and their savory sensations combined as a unit.
Starting with the dough, turned crust, covered with a tomato sauce. Spicy salty or sweet. Followed by pepperoni, cheese, peppers, onions, olives, etcetera, so on and so forth. Let alone what it is like to eat it, hot and fresh or cold and / or reheated.
No matter how clear, clever, and concise your detailed descriptions are. The other person will never ever experience the same sensation you understand.
Not only that, when you are describing your experience, you are not simultaneously experiencing how you taste pizza when you are actually tactilely owning that, at a moment when you yourself are actually eating pizza.
All the mind melds of mozzarella, gooey and stringy and stretchy, not quite hot enough to burn either tongue, is going to let anyone else experience your subjective experience.
Meanwhile, I was sidetracked
After describing contrary existence
As a simple stand-alone short blog post……..
That which
Does not exist
Can be imagined
That which is
Imaginable
Can exist
“I never wish to be right,
Only to be understood,
If you have questioned
Your beliefs. Then maybe
I have done some good. “
– Angelo Devlin
What life might be like
On the planet Mars
Save for projections
On what we may have
Seen or heard so far
For years, we believed
There is no water
It is what we need
To live, but who cares
Each of the 8B individuals
Thinking. If only they could
Design their own utopia
To go, they gladly would
A life unbelievably
Imagined with such mirth
When the same could be
Accomplished on this earth
Starting with looking around
Stop terraforming the ground
Destroying habitats so
We can live safe and sound
Here is how we will
Make it safely to Mars
When everyone here is
Housed fed and healthy
Under the exact same star
Then there will be
No reason to go
We will have made
Heaven here
Now you know
“My solipsistic worldview
Does not allow me to see
What may be real reality.”
– Angelo Devlin
Are absolutely fascinating
Starting with the post title
Where did it come from
Was it suspended in the ether
While I moved into its space
Absorbed it in gray spongey matter
To rerelease it as a blog post
Contemplating what it is
Why is it manifesting
Here and now for k(no)w reason
How come is it in the language
I barely understand, yet use
Daily, without proper grammar
Or perfect punctuation
What is the message
Or, If there is even one
Is it just random rhetoric
That serves no purpose
Could it be the key to opening
The secrets of the universe
Not only did the thought occur
In a location “back,” there
On a rapid rotating sphere
Hurling through the cosmos
When the sun was becoming visible
That thought gripped my imagination
Yet, while dissecting it here
Thousands and thousands of
Other thoughts have occurred
As the sun became invisible
Some turned into action
Others into dialog between people
All while hoping to retain the word
Intricacies until I could jot it down
To develop this contemplation
Putting it in pixilated print for
Myself and others to read
Either once or over and again
“But then, I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, which does not change every moment, since there is no consciousness without memory, and no continuation of a state without the addition, to the present feeling, of the memory of past moments. It is this which constitutes duration.
Inner duration is the continuous life of a memory which prolongs the past into the present, the present either containing within it in a distinct form the ceaselessly growing image of the past, or, more profoundly, showing by its continual change of quality the heavier and still heavier load we drag behind us as we grow older.
Without this survival of the past into the present there would be no duration, but only instantaneity.”
― Henri Bergson
(Why/how did I “stumble” across this quote at this “time”, that in my mind seems to fit the content and context of this post, to help, in at least my understanding of thought, either simple or intricate.)
Lending to Einstein’s theory that
Everything is happening all at once
Yet according to Dr. Brian Greene
Time is following an arrow
Seemingly both must be correct
Seeing as how I can not
Unexperience that thought about
The intricacies of a thought
It goes on, yet proceeded from
One thought to another while/as
It is/was presented here, ….. whew
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Your thoughts?
Watching the big
Get way too big
For their britches
Unveiling threats
In not so veiled
Dark disguises
Pony up ‘publicans
‘Cause it is time to pay
The pied piper
The Demo – rats
Are outta the picture
But now you
Has gotsa pay
“You made a million dollar wager, and ya lost! You made a million dollar wager, on spec, with no money in the bank to back it up, and now the mob is comin’ to take your thumbs!”
– Doug Stanhope
At the price of
Your children
Or let’s say your morals
If put another way
For it seems that Donnie
Has a new henchmen
With his side consigliere
An irregular Roy Cohn
Or Luca Brasi, if you will
“Elon and Vivek talked about having a naughty list and a nice list for members of Congress and senators and how we vote and how we’re spending the American people’s money,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. (She says so proudly… until they come for her.)
Trump’s second term comes with the specter of the world’s richest man serving as his political enforcer *. Within Trump’s team, there is a feeling that Musk not only supports Trump’s agenda and Cabinet appointments, but is intent on seeing them through to the point of pressuring Republicans who may be less devout.”
– ABC News
Just for balance, I found the same article in Newsmax with AP given credit. Maybe, maybe there is only a few or one news source that disseminates the public’s propaganda for power.
*
“People have asked, uhm, and wonder how it could come to pass that business in this country could get completely out of control, and it’s pretty understandable now.
Everybody knows what the truth of the situation is now. Because it’s obvious and the is the fact is that business and government have been in bed together our whole lives.
The difference is that they used to keep it hidden. They used to be #ucking each other, but we didn’t know about it.
//
Now they do it right in front of us. They have no guilt whatsoever. They are just like two big dogs that are stuck together and can’t separate. Even a glass of water won’t stop them.
They are out of control, but that is just the way it is. I don’t care if you are Democrat or Republican. Okay, doesn’t matter. Both parties are up to their neck in this.”
– Lewis Black
“I have this feeling, man, ’cause you know, it’s just a handful of people who run everything, you know … that’s true, it’s provable. It’s not … I’m not a fucking conspiracy nut, it’s provable.
A handful, a very small elite, run and own these corporations, which include the mainstream media.”
– Bill Hicks
Meanwhile, the stringless meat puppets, follow along, via dopey daily distractions, like a consciousness kayfabe that keeps the collective calm. Pointing their fingers at the entertainment unbeknownst to them that it is themselves in the mirror, they are amused by.
“It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don’t want that.
I’m talking about the real owners now.
The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions.
Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant.
The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice.
You don’t.
You have no choice.
You have owners.
They own you.
They own everything.
They own all the important land.
They own, and control the corporations.
They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.
They’ve got you by the balls.”
– George Carlin
With the assistance of
Brilliant comic minds
“I write to expunge the darkness
So that someday
Light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
Are made up by the collective
As they go along, making rules
To cover not having any rules
Or having rules being ignored
With such exceptions to rules
That rules are made to be broken
Which seems to be a silly rule
Which is not quite as wacky
That not all the rules are
Fair in love or war, even though
Both seem to be direct opposites
Rules with exceptions
Seem to be the rule
“The kids have rules to live up to, but most of the rules were tough. They had some good rules, y’know, I don’t mean to put them down. Parents had some pretty good rules. No running with the scissors. That’s one I never disobeyed. Made sense to me. This big mother’ll go right through me.
“What are you doing?”I’m not running with the scissors…for one thing.” They had a couple more good rules. They had another one: No sticking your head out of the high-speed railroad train window. Say, goddamn, Dad, good rule. Doesn’t want our heads chopped off. Fantastic, Dad.
But then they had some dumb rules: No running in the hall. Where ya gonna run? In the rooms? Gotta keep turning in the rooms, man, s**t! You can’t get up any speed at all, man, s**t! Hallways were made for runners. The hallway sprint – try to take that quick right before you crash into the statue of the Sacred Heart- man blow everybody… blow the whole feast day.
They had another dumb rule: No singing at the table. Why not? One guy with a bad voice fucked it up for everybody else? No singing at the table. How about humming? No, by extension, humming and whistling included. There’s no such rule as no screaming at the top of your lungs at the table. That ought to be good to try that. Show me the rule. You could stand right next to the table and sing your ass off. Just don’t sit down, man.
🎵”I’m standing near the table during dinner and I’m singing and it isn’t even covered by……….. your rules.” 🎵
“Sit down, you.” That was your middle name…you. “Come here, you.”
– George Carlin
The kicker is that now
The rule of law will be replaced
With the rule of Murphy’s law
Anything that can go wrong, will
Competing with Yhprum’s law
Which is a pretty good rule
Anything that can go right, will
Not like that ever gets followed
Some rules seem to have more weight
Since they were allegedly written in stone
Others preserved on papyrus in an
Underground bomb proof shelter
When not on public display holds rules
Which are mostly malleable and
Convenient to placate the proletariot
Whether in stone or on sacred paper…….
“Did you really think we want those laws (rules) observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against…
We’re after power and we mean it… There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone?
But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt.
Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
While still giving the supposed
Adherers of those rules that they do
Not really need to adhere to those rules
With near minimal to zero research
There does not seem to be any rules
Covering any impedance for greed
The unspoken rule as immortalized
In the movie “Wall Street” “Greed is good”
“The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind”.
– “Gordon Gecko”
Gecko – a small cold blooded reptile feeding off insects. Hmmmm.
The dismissed part of greed
Is that greed also kills
Which is more of a devolutionary grind
Than capturing an evolutionary spirit
I guess it depends on how we want
To proceed with the collective rules
“Humanity” is not very pretty
When it sees itself
In a collective mirror.”
– Angelo Devlin
Looking at the world through a windshield. 