Being vigilant to the point of exhaustion defeats the purpose of being vigilant.
A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
– “Mary Poppins”
Considering lately that the political news is already a bitter pill to swallow…
Then Rachel Maddow administers it with all the clarity, say a caring second grade teacher might, explaining a math problem with zero ambiguity that the entire class understands it, without further explanation.
Robin Quivers feeds the news to Howard Stern who has already digested the sugar, turns it into burps with leftover energy to throw in a few fart jokes and innuendos, while pointing out the hypocrisies of the news makers to laugh while it is being consumed.
Fox, who serves the pleasures of the president, takes too much sugar, heats it up, till it is a molten mass of malignant molasses, still then splits that in to two batches. One that puts a frosting on the moldy, vile and disgusting behavioral cupcake, obscuring its ineptitude.
Takes the rest, turns the heat up a notch reduces the once sweet sugar to its most base carbon structure, drained if all the energy, now more bitter than the news they were trying to feed the audience in the first place. Save the ones who like to salivate over only the frosting.
The 1 % rule because of “The 1 % Rule”
Rule # 1: “Keep them fighting amongst themselves”
If that fails, use rule # 2
Rule # 2: Use Rule #1. It never fails
“Cause that’s all you ever hear about in this country, is 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
Protest from your couch. Rarely, if at all has any couch protestor been ran over, killed, shot, maimed, tazered, tear gassed, water cannoned, abused, kicked, punched, spit upon, screamed at, glared at, seen, photographed, or incited to riot.
Folks have got to make choices
And choices got to have voices
Folks are basically decent
Conventional wisdom would say
But we read about the exceptions
In the papers every day
It ought to be second nature
At least, that’s what I feel
Now I lay me down in Dreamland
I know perfect’s not for real
I thought we might get closer
But I’m ready to make a deal
Today is different, and
tomorrow the same
It’s hard to take the world
the way that it came
Too many rapids
keep us sweeping along
Too many captains
keep on steering us wrong
It’s hard to take the heat
It’s hard to lay blame
To fight the fire
while we’re feeding the flames
– Rush
Stay home, if only one person shows up for the party, eventually they too will go home.
The glaringly tyrannical mob rule failing outcomes of the Democratic process.
Either by the tyranny of the minority where a small, well groomed and positioned group gets their way by outsmarting the majority.
Or by the tyranny of the majority imposing their will, by shear force of numbers, leaving smaller groups adhering to something not agreed to.
Gluttonous consumption of bad ideas.
Eventually supporting higher taxes to pay for more police, insurance rates jacked to cover costs of damage, more surveillance to keep eyes on the “trouble makers”.
A sadly self inflicted socio-fascist-police state manifested, not from the top down, rather the bottom up. By the puppets themselves tangling the wires. When in reality, there are no wires to tangle. Cut the invisible wires.
Be divine. Stop worshipping those golden calves (Robert E. Lee statues). Ignore those worshipping golden calves as if they were worshipping golden calves. See it for its ridiculousness. Again be yourself divine.
In all the chaos, keep an eye on who benefits, certainly not the people fighting amongst themselves. Banks, insurance and authority, the very things people like the least.
Way to go Donald
Way to lead
Over a cliff
While people bleed
AUSTERITY
“The Billionaires in business, tell the Millionaires in politics, that the rest of us are greedy.”
Anonymous
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice
“Freewill”
– Rush
I am on nobody’s side
And everybody’s side
I do not choose sides
There are no sides
That is my decision
I am sticking to it
Lest of course
I change my mind
“Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren’t………choices……….at all.”
Jake Epping aka George Amberson
From Stephen King’s 11 / 22 / 63
Storms brewing
Golf balls hailing
Society’s failing
From a beginning
Relative sequencing
Drum beating
Certificate needing
Birth repeating
Obama needling
Sheep bleating
Childlike behaving
Temper tantruming
Election posturing
Calculated bullying
Candidates scurrying
Saturday night spoofing
Brexit not understanding
Small vocabulary using
Dialogue confusing
Women abusing
Threaten suing
Provable facts refuting
Playback recording
Stern interviewing
Daughter fawning
Other females pawing
Private parts messing
Voluntarily confessing
Objectify by rating
Wife disassociating
Where’s she staying
Unelected then divorcing
All very alarming
Subterfuge perfecting
Truth neglecting
Taxes be revealing
For e-mail’s deleting
Returns still concealing
Constant conniving
Public jiving
Not really golfing
Ivanka purse outsourcing
Eric meet taking
Health care repealing
Day one promising
Naught replacing
Kathy Griffin imploding
Bloody head holding
Young son scapegoating
Border wall building
Must be kidding
Neighbors paying
Optics saying
Face saving
El Presidente not playing
Public should be shaming
Immigration banning
Religion deriding
Refugees chiding
Country dividing
Russians meeting
Children adopting
Instead Hillary plotting
Jared security remaking
Forms latest rewriting
T’s crossed i’s dotting
Faux not reporting
Reality ignoring
News not boring
Media blasting
Both ways having
Briefings bombasting
Fake blaming
Constantly perjuring
Collusion ignoring
Behavior deploring
Attorney recusing
Oval Office dealing
Comey reputation staking
Dinner w/wife missing
Alone Flynn leaving
Good note taking
Investigation making
Director firing
Later testifying
Reveals loose wiring
Many heads rolling
Not loyal following
Currency exchanging
Monetary soiling
Banks laundering
Leaders lying
Attention vying
Criminals trying
Ruskiies implying
Elections deciding
Lawyers defending
Rules bending
Military meandering
Transgender tweeting
Thumbs speeding
Rhetoric regurgitating
Not at all winning
Rather constantly losing
Handcuffs cinching
Distraction buying
Decency vilifying
Sabre rattling
Nuclear threatening
Prick waving
Guam frightening
Position weakening
World out freaking
Corruptions thriving
Distractions ne’er ending
Haters hating
Racists baiting
Confederate waving
Flag scathing
Ignorance showing
Alt wrong legitimizing
Wizard thanking
Decency receding
Worlds colliding
Camera’s surveilling
No one’s complaining
Or behavior changing
Base bottom feeding
Popularity diminishing
Impeachment proceeding
.
Good / Evil blurring
Paradigm shifting
Heaviness lifting
Vengeance waning
Bigotry unlearning
Everyone forgiving
Peaceful yearning
Hands helping
Religion ending
Fence mending
Borders ending
Experiences having
Travel planning
Bridges spanning
Brightness burning
Differences embracing
Moments appreciating
Frisbee chasing
Book reading
Music making
Swords forging
Plows shares ending
Happiness creating
Divinity claiming
Future designing
Vehicles flying
Like magic carpet riding
Truth invigorating
Consciousness rising
Moment savoring
Food flavoring
Necessities sharing
Everyone feeding
Build homeless housing
Clean water drinking
Beaches cleaning
Land reforesting
Oil reducing
Solar powering
Wind harnessing
Energy reusing
Perpetual recycling
People accepting
Reduce populating
Body mind educating
Intuition experiencing
Karma graduating
Equality presiding
Wormhole finding
Move speed of lightning
Dimensions adding
Senses increasing
Oneness maintaining
Life sustaining
Love everlasting
Could kept going
Yet it is ending
I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down and still somehow
It’s cloud’s illusions I recall
I really don’t know clouds at all
I’ve ‘ve looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It’s life’s illusions I recall
I really don’t know life at all
I’ve looked at life from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It’s life’s illusions I recall
I really don’t know life at all
– Joni Mitchell
– Both sides now
Maybe we are experiencing of the darkness, so we can appreciate the light.
Allow your tribe identifier to be Gaia consciousness.
What then could you hate or harm?
Once achieved, might be the first big step to cosmic consciousness mirroring infinite intelligence creating infinite infinities.
Inspired by a question posed in the,
Caroline Myss book “Energy Anatomy”
“What tribal rules are you plugged into?”
Gaia Consciousness
(In my best idyllic perception)
Oddly ironic as I do not identify with any group, to identify with the grouping of all the groups, the basis thereof or not at all.
As there may not be any “actual” such thing as Gaia consciousness. Merely a concept extrapolated into a theory for some ulterior purpose we know not yet.
That at any time, based on our collective behavior would not wish to spin a little faster or slower, as a way to extricate its attackers, from each other and it self.
The greatest arrogance of all. Save the planet. WHAT? Are these #ucking people kidding me? Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of our selves yet. We haven’t learned how to care for one another. We’re going to save the planet.
//
The planet isn’t going anywhere…………We are. We’re going away. Pack your shit folks, we’re going away.
//
The planet will be here, we’ll be long gone. Just another failed mutation, just another closed end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac.
The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas, a surface nuisance.
//
Take care of yourself and take care of somebody else.
– George Carlin
“The planet is fine”
Only presidential requirement
A VOCABULARY
Wendy the slow adult, a treasured member of the Howard Stern wack pack has a broader range and I suspect the wherewithal not to taunt North Korea
To martyr yourself to caution
Is not going to help at all
Because there’ll be no safety in numbers
When the Right One walks out of the door
“Lost for words”
– Pink Floyd
People could quit waiting for the one,
If they realized that they are the one.
OZ is looming large
Pulling levers and scaring
From behind curtain
It’s always Showtime.
Get some popcorn and butter
Relax and enjoy
Kardashian who ?
Jenner what? What gender now?
Turn on cable news
Oh what you will miss
If you do not stay so glued
Besides sanity
Presidential words
Are so simple, yet confused
Pure entertainment
The set is setup
The stage is already built
Players are tax paid
Your health care, schmelth care
The tail is wagging the dog
Distracted again
Immigration lies
Wail against a non wall
Another deceit
Putin on the Ritz
Another calamity
Subterfuge abounds
Can’t win while losing
Dignity global respect
Reputation dies
On to who knows what
The zombie apocalypse
Report roaming dead
Revenue increasing more
As dead not charge for acting
Litterbugs
: a person who throws or leaves trash in a public place
: one who litters a public area
First use: 1947
M-W.com
Sometimes it feels like I am just now dripping out of the primordial ooze.
Yet, seem to have some innate and albeit usually unwanted awareness of a comprehensive understanding of duality that I can not shake.
Like being both Pandora’s box and its contents. Not quite open, just a bit unhinged.
By definition, we are all litter bugs.
Leaving trash in a public place.
What is the difference between throwing a wrapper out the window or gathering all of your trash, pay some company through taxes to haul it away into an even larger public place?
The PSA I remember and since Googled, was scene after different scene of small amounts of debris being tossed from cars, and scattered on streets, closed out in the sad ending of a First people’s person crying.
When a public service announcement is sandwiched between ads, selling you more stuff to be thrown away.
It is a hypocritical, contradictory, mixed message, bewildered, incongruous, juxtaposed, dissonant theory, mind #uck.
That wreaks havoc on your psyche of not wanting to live in a filthy environment then immediately switching to the consumer impulse of buying more landfill fodder
Besides, environmentalist don’t give a shit about the planet, they don’t care about the planet, not in the abstract they don’t, not in the abstract they don’t.
You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that someday in the future they might be personally inconvenienced.
Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me. Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet, nothing wrong with the planet.
The planet is fine. The people are #ucked. Difference. Difference. The planet is fine.
– George Carlin
“The Planet is Fine”
I get it, I am guilty to. I shop for my share of shit too. So, opting for a mathematical solution put it to numbers.
If I am 1 of 8 billion (rounding up…as of this writing)
1 ÷ 8b = .000000000125
Or
1.25 x 10( -10th)
The daunting numerical self-realization in all likelihood that anything I do at all will affect / effect any change whatsoever.
Regardless of what I may write, say, do, eat, drink, buy, sell, store, consume, waste, recycle, paint, pick, wipe burn, drive, flush, observe, tell, instruct, remind, believe, share, love, hate, wear, dump, lose, find, keep, destroy, break, repair, see, interpret, hear, misinterpret, create, alter, disguise, expose, highlight, warn, build, bend, twist, configure, file, think, feel, smell, taste, touch, kill, free, save, desire, expect, reject, dismiss, cherish, esteem, bank, respect, diminish, extol, add, subtract, multiply, scream, whisper, cut, heal, cancel, prescribe, measure, adjust, sail, dock, skip, rewind, play, work, watch, read, tell.
That is just for this moment, right here, right now, forget the past, ignore the future, enjoy the present, saved for tomorrow, what I could not put off today.
Even though yesterday I was up to the minute, a day late and a dollar short. Timing it so I would finish when I began.
Therefore, the realization is, the only thing I can do is be kind and compassionate to the individual .000000000125’s surrounding me.
I’m way closer to dead than I
Am life of the party, and I
Don’t have children, so why am I
Getting so enraged about all
This nonsense?
I don’t care.
I don’t care getting all upset
About the fucking planet.
I’m gone pretty soon.
I left no litter behind.
That’s your problem.
I’m treating this planet like
The fucking rental car that it
Is, and I’m turning it in
Trashed with a bumper hanging
Off, fuck your insurance, fuck
The environment, I didn’t ask to
Be here.
(audience cheers and applauds)
Someone created me.
Yes, I know that’s a selfish
Thing.
It’s a selfish thing.
But you know what?
I’ve cared about other stuff,
And, yeah, me not caring about
Stuff, well, affects it as much
As me caring about stuff, which
Is none.
– Doug Stanhope
“Before Turning the Gun on Himself”
Looking at the world through a windshield. 