Another aspect of human nature seems to be gullibility.
As seen and heard in the most simplistic banal reptilian mindless mantras like
Lower taxes
Build a wall
Ban immigrants
Lock her up
Gobbled up like Pac-Dots whilst trying to outrun the monsters of the game that has been agreed upon to be played in the first place.
Believing first, the first thing you hear or see, simply because it registered first.
Immediately putting subsequent, perhaps more accurate or truthful realities at a disadvantage by circumstantial placement on a linear time line.
I’ve yet to hear a pundit or a certified tax accountant expert remotely suggest that the new tax plan is actually beneficial to those it is allegedly beneficial to.
But an unfortunate many, consume it hook line and sinker without any questioning simply because it sounds good, like a catchy chorus in a pop song that you can not get out of your head.
Lower taxes, lower taxes
Even though its not true
Lower taxes, lower taxes
A new deficit for me and you
Lower taxes, lower taxes
Leaving us with more to spen’
Lower taxes, lower taxes
Saddling the burden on our children
All of the above alleged campaign promises fall flat in the face of reality.
The first one is irresponsible and easy to accomplish by future astronomical debt.
The second one, absolutely implausible as a realistic solution, as planes can go over it and boats won’t go near the wall.
The last two are simply unconstitutional, hateful and irresponsible.
Our existence is becoming less natural, more machine. As though we are moths drawn to a light bulb to whoever or whichever news organization screams the loudest or the longest.
Simply because it is easier and more beneficial to distract and deceive than educate and enlighten.
Telling us what we want to hear that puts us in line with what we accept or expect. Regardless that neither may be true or real.
“In space no one can hear you scream.”
From the movie.
“Alien”
Do I want to play
Fantasy Football
No
Do I want to play
Fantasy Basketball
No
Do I want to play
Fantasy Baseball
No
I wanna play REAL
Reality
Enlightenment
Attainable
Levels
What, no app for that ?
Or RISE
Real
Intelligence
Surpassing
Evolution
No app for that either?
Shit.
Meanwhile, millions, perhaps billions of dollars are wasted, traded, spent, lost, gained, misused, hidden in a counter evolutionary behavioral mindless habit playing a secondary game for the sole and soulless purpose of being distracted pretending to be, either in a park, a court or a stadium by a justifiably well compensated elite, for their uncanny ability to kick, catch, throw, hit, pass, shoot, run with, intercept, rebound, fumble, drop, bounce, a round, oblong, laced, stitched.
……………f#$@ing Ball
Brilliant.
Prisons
Or does it?
Impermanent solutions for
A self inflicted problem
Oh wait, there’s money involved
It is good for the economy
Jobs galore for ever more
Where in the cycle to start
“Prisons. Build more prisons,
……But, not here”.
– George Carlin
OK, let’s start here
Anywhere in the cycle will do
*
First up, construction jobs
Must build the goofy things
Somewhere between towns
Road construction jobs
Utility installation jobs,
Water, sewer and power
Manufacturing jobs
Someone has to build those
Stainless steel toilets
Color television sets
Reinforced concrete
Electronic gates
High fences, razor wire
Surveillance cameras
Unbreakable bulletproof glass
First economic kickbacks
Building permits and insurance
The hiring begins with
Architects and general
And subcontractors
Plumbers, Electricians
Secretaries, laborers
Inspectors, bean counters
Pavers, bricklayers
Forepersons
Heavy equipment rentals
Temporary office trailers
Next
Moving the supplies
From there to here
Truck drivers
Keep them in check
Police, Highway Patrol
Diesel distributors
Lunch wagons
Porta potty providers
Back to the prison
Framers, finishers
Guards and guns
Keys and locks
Cooks and kitchens
Linen and laundry
Visitors and vehicles
Need a place to stay
Need to build hotels
Fuel and fast food joints
Intersections street lights
Sewage and cities
Houses and highways
Power plants and people
Municipalities and movers
Streets and civilians
What a ride
Crime goes down
Cell vacancies go up
Employment goes down
Crime goes up
Just enough to
“Build more prisons,
……But, not here”.
– George Carlin
“Did you really think we want those laws 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
“When I get to the bottom
I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and I turn and
I go for a ride
Till I get to the bottom and
I see you again
Yeah yeah yeah hey”
The Beatles
“Helter Skelter”
Go back to * or
This could all stop
Today
If children were guided
Instead of disciplined
Taught to think
Instead of indoctrinated
Praised not punished
Given love not gifts
Hope not harassment
Same goes for
Using an invisible entity
To control behavior
Whether they’ve been
“Naughty or Nice”
Perpetuating a nonexistent
Authority to rule
By a discriminatory
Rule of law
That does not exist
In nature
Freedom might
Finally mean something
Exploring new world’s
Different dimensions
Experiencing enlightenment
Wrangling waves
Playing with particles
Enjoying everything
Consciousness
Not
Conformity and control
Who am I ?
Me thinks, I am a thinker
Humble rationale will not
Let me think I am
A future thinker
Arrogant narcissistic ego
Tells me I am just
A long term thinker since
Past thinker is so yesterday
Confounding doublethink
Either way as time is described
As future, past or long term are
Constructs of the human mind
Placing perception in peril
As to the original question
Who am I
If so, like zero or I
Can not be divided by
Or multiplied by
To substantiate existence
Save an infinitesimally small
Dot of consciousness that
Ables the question to be
Asked in the first place
As in ornery
An unhealthy skepticism
To perceive the world
With grains and grains
Caverns of grains of salt
Corrosive as the mineral
That eats through metal
Melts ice regardless temp
Shipped in bulk considered
A class 8 hazardous material
Not exactly piquant to be around
Finding the contradiction
In nearly every thing present
Even stuff and people I like
Making me, my worst enemy
Good thing I have learned to
Keep my mouth shut and
Post most of it here
“I don’t fit in anywhere, man, I really don’t. I don’t agree with anything either, not even what I just said, so, I think you see the problem here. Stranded without a clue.”
– Bill Hicks
I don’t care what you say about me, just spell my name right.
– Gene Sarazen
Just in case, what’s his name wins in Alabama you’ll know why. Only on the rarest of occasion do alleged news outlets ever mention Doug Jones. Doug Jones, the candidate that has not been accused of pedophilia and sexual misconduct. Doug Jones, spelled D o u g J o n e s. Doug Jones.
Guess about half of that state’s voters do not have wives, mothers or daughters.
Of course when your biggest named supporter married someone 24 years younger. What’s his name marrying someone only 14 year younger doesn’t seem so bad.
Who would have thunk
That such a horrific
Communicator
Would be the
Voice of the voiceless
Rousing racists
Wasting walls
Endangering immigrants
Courting communists
Romancing Russians
Placating Putin
Twisting taxes
Lavishly lying
Alienating allies
Pardoning police
Condoning criminals
Gaining guns
Violating values
Ignoring islanders
Misguiding masses
Aggrandizing anthems
Fumbling football
Grandiosely golfing
Daring dictators
Nudging nuclear war
Harassing homosexuals
Tweeting tantrums
Trashing transgenders
Killing constitution
Rescinding revelations
Flogging females
Malignant misogyny
Propping pedophiles
Knocking natives
Pollution pipelines
Embracing ignorance
“I loves the poorly educated, I do well with the poorly educated.”
– Donald Trump
“Of course he loves the poorly educated and of course he does well with the poorly educated.
How else do you explain, how a bragging narcissistic pathological billionaire, who is constantly telling you how much money he has, just throwing it in your face, ostentatious, I’m a billionaire, I’m worth billions. I have billions of dollars.”
//
And how else do you explain how a guy, a billionaire is able to get people who are suffering financially…to..give..him..money.
Of course he loves the poorly educated, a smart person wouldn’t do that.”
– David Cross
Gangsters Whitehouse?
Too much television watching
got me chasing dreams
I’m an educated fool
with money on my mind
Got my 10 in my hand
and a gleam in my eye
I’m a loc’d out gangsta
set trippin’ banger
And my homies is down
so don’t arouse my anger, fool
//
Power and the money,
money and the power
Minute after minute,
hour after hour
Everybody’s running,
but half of them ain’t looking
What’s going on in the kitchen,
but I don’t know what’s cookin’
They say I gotta learn,
but nobody’s here to teach me
If they can’t understand it,
how can they reach me
I guess they can’t,
I guess they won’t
I guess they front,
that’s why I know
my life is out of luck, fool
“Gangsta’s Paradise”
– Coolio
Doubleplusungood.
I have dwelled too long in Room 101 strapped in a dual chamber cage, secured comfortably over my noggin.
Time to open the cages.
“You asked me once,” said O’Brien, “what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.”
“1984”
– George Orwell
In Winston Smith’s case it is rats.
“The cage was nearer; it was closing in. Winston heard a succession of shrill cries which appeared to be occurring in the air above his head.
But he fought furiously against his panic. To think, to think, even with a split second left – to think was the only hope.
Suddenly the foul musty odor of the brutes struck his nostrils. There was a violent convulsion of nausea inside him, and he almost lost consciousness.
Everything had gone black. For an instant he was insane, a screaming animal. Yet he came out of the blackness clutching an idea.
There was one and only one way to save himself. He must interpose another human being, the body of another human being, between himself and the rats.”
“1984”
– George Orwell
It is not the yellow eyed, ravenously starving foul stenched rats with razor sharp teeth that I fear.
The thing I fear most, is the fear of love and acceptance.
Knowing that, should the “thought” police, ever need to torture me, there would be no harmful betrayal done to my “Julia”.
Suddenly the friendly warm emotion entered his awareness of being loved and accepted. There was a violent convulsion of nausea inside him, and he almost lost consciousness.
“Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her”
“1984”
– George Orwell
Imagine that the betrayal of “torturing” the one you love, with love and acceptance. Simply because you do not want it to happen to you.
“Room 101, The worst thing in the world”
“1984”
– George Orwell
Col Jessep: I’ll answer the question. You want answers?
LTJG Kaffee: I think I’m entitled to them.
Col Jessep: You want answers?!
LTJG Kaffee: I want the truth!
Col Jessep: You can’t handle the truth!
– “A few good men”
While it might seem incumbent
Upon our collective self to seek
Discover and cherish the truth
Before each linear moment passes
The unfortunate first realization
That occurs simply by dissecting
The clarification of the words used
To even define what truth may be
Comes with it the stark rationalization
Hahaha for it to be “provably” true and
What is unequivocally defined as truth
truth
\ˈtrüth\
noun
: the real facts about something
: the things that are true
: the quality or state of being true
: a statement or idea that is true or accepted as true
M-W.com
Again
What is unequivocally defined as truth
Is still only a word that is made-up
Merely something we’ve vaguely sort of
Agreed to somehow accept and use
Not only that, the words used to
Define truth are made up as well
Besides that the above definition
Is just one word in one language
How it gets translated into another
May completely lose its meaning by
Circumstantialy being out of context
Truth could have been spelled and
Pronounced completely differently
It is still a concept assigned a word
Analyzing something to its base parts
Only show that it is not what it seems
“The opposite of profound truth is another profound truth”
– Niels Bohr
It is an alleged given that people with
Children want them to always tell the truth
However they verbally manifest invisible
Bogeymen to manipulate and control
Behavior to their disillusioned liking
Simply because it is what is “easy”
And it is how they were taught not
Willing to “trust” the newly created being
Having just traversed time and space
From an enlightened dimension that
Perhaps they “know” more about this
World than obviously the ones here do
Making the statement that children
Are our future a dissmissible cliché
Trial before Pilate from Jesus Christ SS
I look for truth and find that I get damned.
– JC
What is truth?
Is truth unchanging law?
We both have truths.
Are mine, the same as yours?
– Pilate
Reinterpreted via – Andrew Lloyd Weber
Great question Is truth unchanging law
Unchangeable like say the law of gravity
A bowling ball falls faster than a feather
Save when dropped in a vacuum they tie
Like declaring as a truth iron doesn’t float
Except when crafted in such a way that
It displaces water to sustain tons afloat
I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me blablabla.
If I don’t post this now, it will be entirely too long and no one will read it.
Unintentional shameful indoctrination
Police play kits, for sale
Guns, badges and shackles
Pervasive us against them notion
Plastic bullets nary emotion
In a mimicked imitation
Of dominance and death
As an errant solution
Playing with power
Playing for keeps
Playing for real
State power approved
Screened images as
To who gets shot
Taught by products bought
Taut as souls are lost
We will pay the price
Without counting the cost
Moving up to real bullets
Buried down in closed caskets
To serve and protect
The served and protected
Preserve, don’t neglect
The gods have you, selected
Creations you manifested
Indoctrinating the next and
Subsequent
Subjugated generations
That their world will
Be constricted down to
A limited two behavior
Option, of either good or bad
Arbitrarily decided by those
Not adhering to similar rules
Forging and forcing the
Entropy of their psyche
Into a permanent residence
Of cognitive dissonance
Having emerged from a realm
Where that does not exist
Blurred from their vision of
How things could be
Heaven on earth perhaps
Peace and tranquility
Easily worth a chance
Excerpt 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 reinterpretation)
Rush “2112”
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
(musical interlude)
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!
How it is now, has not always been
Must recognize that to change it
Quit playing along in the game
That manufactured consent
And ego perpetuates ad nauseam
Being played and your being, played
The rule of law is not natural
For it goes against your nature
Your divinity you must recapture
Can no longer maintain silence
Condoning adolescent violence
Perpetrated by the hour
Robbed of their true power
The infinite force at their birth
Certainly an incalculable worth
Which we have no right to destroy
It is this world they should enjoy
Not learning that it is fun
At either side, the barrel of a gun
Looking at the world through a windshield. 