How may I best serve
Must be something I can do
That is the question
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.”
Philip K. Dick
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Religious conjecture
Is not a compelling argument
Towards proof
Of beliefs
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Touting ones faith
As a reason to believe
Just because you do
Is like suggesting that
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An invisible lucky charm
In your pocket is
What makes the
Sun come out everyday
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The only reason that words
Have a perceived meaning
Is that somehow in the
Aeons of evolution
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Grunts became groans
Groans manifested syllables
Syllables turned consonants
Consonants needed vowels
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“For millions of years
Mankind lived just like the animals
Then something happenend
Which unleashed the power
Of our imagination
We learned to talk”
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– Stephen Hawking
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Cave walls were canvases
Canvases displayed art
Art spreads communication
Communication requires thought
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Thought necessitates transference
Transference utilizes sight
Sight moves at the speed of light
Light makes no sound
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Sound wanted to be special
Special hath meaning
Meaning is open to interpretation
Interpretation grants definition
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Definition defines words
Words build sentences
Sentences grow paragraphs
Paragraphs establish chapters
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Chapters divide stories
Stories tell tales
Tales entertain or instruct
Instruct leads to control
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Control manipulates reader
Reader reads book
Book written by many
Many collaborate message
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“Here’s how it happened: About five thousand years ago, a bunch of religious and political hustlers got together to figure out how they could control people and keep them in line.
They knew people were basically stupid and would believe anything they were told, so these guys announced that God—
God personally—had given one of them a list of Ten Commandments that he wanted everyone to follow.
They claimed the whole thing took place on a mountaintop, when no one else was around.”
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– George Carlin
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Now that we see through that
The new mystical deity is still
The “Rule of Law” waaaay beyond the 10
As our “saviour” yet, like God is invisible
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We only keep hearing about it
From the new preachers
That we allegedly elect
Telling us how good it will work
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If we go with their interpretation
Hoping for quick implementation
Bringing supposed salvation
Hiding typical regurgitation
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Seems only a repetition
Of a permanent distraction
Merely a continuation
Of sped up procrastination
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Apparently the rule of law
Does not apply to the
Makers and breakers of law
Seems quite an obvious flaw
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Yet like Lucy, Charlie and the football
We trust each time it will not move
With a woomph and on our back we fall
Are you not just puke sick of it all
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Not like me to end on a sour note
Looking up, can hardly believe I wrote
You would think I’m at the end of my rope
Always a little room for some hope
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The splattered egg is on our face
Look in the mirror to see what’s up
No more negativity from me, am
Trying to see things, sunny side up
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Every word he utters
Every tweet he tweets
Not only lacks
Anything presidential
It takes the most
Expeditious route
To a new moral
Low ground
Forget Mueller’s
Investigation
The evidence is
On full display
His perpetual portrayal
Is our psychic betrayal
Having visions of any kind
Of enlightenment
Elevating humanity
Descends into darkness
Shadowed in shadows
Dire dank derision doing
Donald’s deception daily
You can not praise
The military whilst speaking
Heaps of laudations
In the same breath while
Wiping your ass with
Casket draped flags
With one hand as the
Other hand keeps every
Hair in place over your
Narcissistic empty head
Fearful it might get wet
Including sliced hypocrisy
Chopped up reality
Diced dichotomy
Shredded humanity
With broken bread
Toasted
Combined together and
Jammed up in the
Eagle’s carcass
As “Thanksgiving” approaches
Along with the “Caravan”
Homeless, country less
Weaponless, partly shoeless
“What” an invasion?
What “timing”
Even with a distant
Not so distanced reminder
“Give me your tired,
your poor,
Your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse
of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless,
tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
– “Statue of “”Liberty”” poem.
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Will it be served warm
To the new guests
Or like unwarranted
Revenge
Served cold, or
Discarded out of spite
By an uncompassionate
Angry racisct narcissistic
Xenophobic
Head chef
You know what I wonder?
I wonder W T F W J D?
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Thanksgiving :
Celebrating the day, Americans fed undocumented aliens from Europe
– Facebook meme
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This land is not your land
This land is not my land
It was stolen from
The Mexican and Indian
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From the burnt down forest
To the oil slick water
This land was decimated
By you and me
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White people, when you landed on Plymouth Rock……….
You did not have a visa.”
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– Carlos Mencia
Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to his daughter in which he disapproves of the country adopting the bald eagle as our national symbol. He claims that the drawing that had been produced looked like a turkey anyway and that such a bird would actually be preferable to the eagle.
Franklin explained that the bald eagle had a “bad moral character” and was a “rank coward” that merely steals from other birds.
About the turkey, Franklin wrote that in comparison to the bald eagle, the turkey is “a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America…He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage.”
So although Benjamin Franklin defended the honor of the turkey against the bald eagle, he did not propose its becoming one of America’s most important symbols.
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Oh yeah.
Happy Thanksgiving
Or perhaps acrimony?
MEDIA
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Or what is technically known as
Fourth branch of the government
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Make
Everything
Divisive
In
America
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“I have certain rules I live by.
My first rule, I don’t believe anything that government tells me, nothing, zero, none.
And I don’t take very seriously the media or the press in this country.
Who in the case of the Persian Gulf war were nothing more than unpaid employees of the Department of Defense and who, most of the time, most of the time, functions as kind of an unofficial Public Relations Agency for the United States government.”
– George Carlin
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Not much has changed in 30 + years. All seem to be in lock step with the party.
Albeit from different vantage points.
Time and time again regardless of their initial reporting of obvious interpretation of evidence.
Umm, free fall collapse, characteristics of a controlled demolition. Nevermind, shuffle those “facts” off to the conspiracy theorists. Dismissing the plausibility the buildings could have been “worked” both inside and outside by the same group.
What group? Hmm, what “group” gained?
Forget that, we have a script and an agenda to follow. Buy some shit, otherwise the terrorists “win”
“Yeah. That’s our latest mindless cliché. Go out and buy some jewelry and a new car otherwise the terrorists win. Those business assholes really know how to take advantage don’t they?”
– George Carlin
Quietly take some marching orders, and start falling in to line, regurgitating the “official” story. Or completely back off as if it never happened.
Dare I say Vegas massacre, I’m sure the LVS chamber of “commerce” doesn’t want to keep any would be tourists away.
Therefore the “news” is directed by profit. Profiting ensuring spoils of war, or profits gained by nor reporting.
If it bleeds, it leads, till every last commercial viability has been bled out, or until something bloodier comes along.
Maybe because they are broadcasting in the realm of short attention span theater and it really won’t matter if they get to the abysmal bottom of truth or facts.
Recently saw Lewis Black in a live performance point out (I’m paraphrasing) that the “news” is not news *, it is speculation and prognostication.
* : new information or a report about something that has happened recently
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Happened is so yesterday.
To keep ahead of each other, what you hear and see on the “news” is what they are trying to project on the American psyche as to what each media would like to have happen. Or what the viewer / listener / choir enjoys getting preached.
Depending on each’s perspective.
Life victims, need a scapegoat, watch Fox
Glass fuller than empty watch MSNBC
Fortunately or unfortunately it is not Fear vs. Love for love would win out.
Rather it is Fear vs. Complacency.
Uselessly swinging the pendulum when neither side has the best answer, yet combined, both would. There is no profit in that though, now is there.
Meanwhile, both are catering to their sponsors. Which if you surf the channels, find they are the same ones. Pushing unwitting consumption on a society deeply indebted to it already.
For example, bed mattresses last a really long time. Not so you’d notice, as custom bed in a box or somehow “different” than the other kind, 100 night free trial mattress. (so the actual likelihood of it getting returned is practically nil.)
Keeping you awake with “bad” “news” thinking it is what you are sleeping on.
Instead of the turmoil assembled in your cranium at the expense of you well-being for what is projected, fear, hate, blame, victim hood mentality, isolation and greed.
How many mattresses can one go through till it is realized it is not the mattress, it is the news for your inability to sleep?
Mattresses, pillow and magic sheet commercials are not played in the morning. Hmmmm?
Here is one of their divisiveness tactics.
Both sides are guilty. They have a good portion of the public believing that they monochromatically live in a “blue” or a “red” state.
Either making you feel smug and righteous that your thinking “matches” your state. Or angry and upset, no one is thinking like you.
Manipulated obediency
From all sides through
Manufactured consent
Utilizing divisiveness
That at any given point
One side ranks superior
To an opposing side as a
Means of controlling all
In a mindless tit-for-tat
Regarding the following
“Your” “Team”, “Your” “City” etc..
The “Brand” you “prefer” sometimes
Based on nothing except a
Jingle, slogan or logo
Droned on and drummed into
Your subconscious as programed
Through audio and visual repetition
Malware infecting gray matter
Race, religion, ethnicity
Gender, sexuality, orientation
Independent, democrat, republican
“Red” state “Blue” state, even “Purple”
Wealth, poverty, social status
None which exist
At anyone’s core
Just you being
A being
A spirit
A consciousness
A ghost
In the machine
A pilot within
The * microscopic dot
Navigating the world
Filtered through
Layers of masks
Either imprisoned by self
By obediently following
Their “rules” “they” change or
Self imposed castle walls
Or a state run cell block
You are your own warden
Who has the skeleton key
To open the cage
Set yourself free from
Obedience
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It is all for what?
If it is all for naught.
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“Dreaming about some kind of life
We say, it could have been different
But it wasn’t, because we weren’t
No matter what, it turns out the same”
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– John Trudell
From “Rich Man’s War”
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* microscopic dot is a Wayne Dyer reference
Behind the curtain
You are OZ running the show
Run it as you wish
If you can willfully choose to “tone it up” when you can knowingly “tone down” your rhetoric and choose inciting the degradation of civility.
You are not a leader. You are a narcissistic nincompoop that is so self serving it is incomprehensible you still have a job.
Perhaps it is just a matter of him wanting to be a glaringly obvious grandiose narcissistic archetypal example of the “Peter Principal”.
“The Peter principle states that a person who is competent at their job will earn promotion to a more senior position which requires different skills. If the promoted person lacks the skills required for their new role, then they will be incompetent at their new level, and so they will not be promoted again.
But if they are competent at their new role, then they will be promoted again, and they will continue to be promoted until they eventually reach a level at which they are incompetent.
Being incompetent, they do not qualify to be promoted again, and so remain stuck at that final level for the rest of their career (termed “Final Placement” or “Peter’s Plateau”).”
– Wikipedia
Since it never seemed like he really wanted to be president, simply rose to a level of incompetence and stayed there.
Apparently the Republican star#uckers are turning away both blind eyes to all his bad behaviors. Riding some, practically demonic coattails for some reason they can’t let go. Regardless how hot it gets.
Likewise his base, still defending the indefensible. What is indefensible? If you would not behave exactly the same way in similar circumstances doing what he does, would be impossible to defend.
“Starfuckers, Inc.”
“my god sits in the back of the limousine
my god comes in a wrapper of cellophane
my god pouts on the cover of the magazine
my god’s a shallow little bitch trying to make the scene
I have arrived and this time you should believe the hype
I listened to everyone now I know that everyone was right
I’ll be there for you as long as it works for me
I play a game
it’s called insincerity
starfuckers
starfuckers
starfuckers, inc.
starfuckers
I am every fucking thing and just a little more
I sold my soul but don’t you dare call me a whore
and when I suck you off not a drop will go to waste
it’s really not so bad you know once you get past the taste, yeah
(asskisser)
starfuckers
starfuckers
starfuckers, inc.
starfuckers
all our pain
how did you think we’d get by without you?
you’re so vain
I bet you think this song is about you
don’t you?
don’t you?
don’t you?
don’t you?
now I belong I’m one of the chosen ones
now I belong I’m one of the beautiful ones”
– Nine Inch Nails
Of a representative democracy
No one represents me, boo hoo
Not even close, I want meritocracy
No vote required including you too
Each person doing what they enjoy
What else would you rather want
As if doing it for free without employ
There’s absolutely no reason we can’t
Beware the phrase *”we the people” please
For it does not include you you you or I
Consider who gets away with legalese
Pay attention to the lawmakers, it’s a lie
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“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
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“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
– Dr Wayne Dyer
“In Order to form a more perfect Union”
For whom? It certainly is not the people.
It is for those who write it down or choose to erase it.
Free health care, lifelong pensions, etc.
Insure domestic Tranquility.
How are they going to do that, more stormtroopers? How about the guy walking down the street or driving his car is disproportionately assaulted or killed for BWBB: being, while being black.
Where is his Tranquility?
Provide for the common defence.
That’s quite the ruse, for invading sovereign nations and stealing their shit.
Promote the general Welfare
Definition interlude.
Welfare : the state of being happy, healthy, or successful.
m-w.com
Seems more like discontent is promoted.
“Cause that’s all you ever hear about in this country. It’s our differences. That’s all the media and the politicians are ever talking about–the things that separate us, things that make us different from one another.
That’s the way the ruling class operates in any society. They try to divide the rest of the people. They keep the lower and the middle classes fighting with each other so that they, the rich, can run off with all the fucking money!”
Fairly simple thing. Happens to work. You know? Anything different–that’s what they’re gonna talk about–race, religion, ethnic and national background, jobs, income, education, social status, sexuality, anything they can do to keep us fighting with each other, so that they can keep going to the bank!”
– George Carlin
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Secure the Blessings of Liberty to “ourselves” and “our” Posterity.
There it is in black, against a white background.
“Establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
Section 8
1: The Congress shall have Power
(Out of context, but you get the idea)
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“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?”
“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
* The “we the people” perspective was inspired by Ta-Nehisi Coates book “Between the World and Me”.
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People : plural : human beings making up a group or assembly or linked by a common interest
m-w.com
Common interest. Hmmm, having a good time traveling on the spherical spaceship we are all on.
When you have nasty narcissism nestled above your neck, vile bile spewing from your hate generating ornery orifice, malevolent disregard for fellow space travelers, corruption, deception, and greed bleeding from every pore.
Regardless, how well you try and shower it off, orange is the best you will get.
Looking at the world through a windshield. 