Under the guise of warning
That the end is near
Sooner than you think
That much is clear
Repeated in a meme
That one, of course
Needs AR-15’S
‘Cause at any time
Military paratroopers
Could drop in on a dime
Visual dog whistles
Revealing with repetition
The fear that bristles
Emanating from a dude
Who has nothing
Of which to be afraid
Except from the bogeyman
Under his bed, he made
So why not, suggest that
Everyone needs weapons
That are already used to turn
Children into corpses
Not knowing the warning call
Is coming from inside the house
(The mind of the warner)
When I know that I am
My own worst enemy
It is hard to imagine
That someone “out” there
Can cause more harm
To me than myself
Regardless of guns
Or ideologies
Political affiliations
Religious rhetoric
Gender fluidity
Etcetera etc
Those are the people
You know that you could
Walk up to them kindly
In their visual presence
And say, excuse me
To hear them say
What?
To which you could whisper
Boo
And it would scare the
Bejeezus out of them
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Why?
Because it is…..moving
How?
In a Planckion nanosecond
I concentrated on being aware
Of myself on the planet
And in that fractional moment
Could feel the earth move
Outside of the ocular illusion
That it is not, that it is still
This occurred while driving
So not only was I moving
Arms turning the steering wheel
Rolling down the street
Felt the earth rotate on its axis
While circling a nearby star
In a helical movement
Surrounded by a moon
Hurling through empty space
Writing this makes me realize
I am one with everything
Everything is one with me
That there is no separation
Between any realities
Or dimensions or theories
Of vibrating on a string
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
“I feel the Earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down, a-tumbling down
I feel the Earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down, a-tumbling down
A-tumbling down, a-tumbling down
A-tumbling down, tumbling down”
– Carole King
Even in principle
The United States
Was not founded
On high principles
Divine morality or
Even evolutionary
Consciousness to
Serve all humanity
Rather
Human ownership
Gender subjugation
Indigenous relocation
Immigration cessation
Race separation
Sexuality brutalization
Religion hierarchy
Wealth monarchy
Under a criminal patriarchy
And yet
Democracy
Is touted as a great
Form of government
Not because it is
Rather that it is
Pounded in one’s head
From the first time
You heard the word
Democracy where all
Could experience the
Tyranny of a majority or
The tyranny of a minority
Depending on which end
One happens to side with
“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
And yet
It is no longer in our
Collective sights
That the female half
Will have equal rights
To have the dignity
Of equality
Of their autonomy
Over their body
With many convinced
To vote to
Perpetuate this myth
And yet
The ride goes on
Which is what the owners
Of the amusement park want
To keep you buying that ticket
On the roller coaster of control
Twists, turns loop-the-loops
Only to get back on to see
If the experience changes
And yet
It doesn’t it is made that way
Unfortunately, it repeats
Until you are dead and
Someone else takes your seat
And yet
“The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it’s very brightly coloured and it’s very loud and it’s fun, for a while.
Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, “Hey — don’t worry, don’t be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride…”
And we… kill those people.
– Bill Hicks
(“Do you ever stop to see who it is, who it is we kill? It’s always people who have told us to live together in harmony and try to love one another. Jesus, Gandhi, Lincoln, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Malcom X, John Lennon. They all said: try to live together peacefully.
BAM! Right in the fucking head. Apparently we’re not ready for that. That’s difficult behaviour for us. We’re too busy thinking around, sitting around, trying to think up ways to kill each other.”)
– George Carlin
Back to Bill Hicks
“Shut him up.”
“We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real.”
Just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn’t matter because:
“It’s just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.”
Here’s what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defences each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”
– Bill Hicks
Methinks always it will be a good post when the trifecta of wit, George, Bill and Doug, are made manifest while writing this.
While no longer trying
To really save fetuses
At least not…………….
Out of the womb ones
“Conservatives want live babies,
so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.”
– George Carlin
How quickly would
These wars stop
If societies could grasp
The metaphor that instead
Of sending money and weapons
Bombs and bullets
Soldiers and air support
To fill caskets and mass graves
We sent scalpels and forceps
Doctors and nurses
Vacuums and tiny body bags
To accomplish
Essentially, it’s the same thing
Filling little caskets and small graves
After calling them fetuses
Instead of terrorists
Think then maybe we could
All get on the same side?……..
Just asking for a Gaia planet.
“It’s way beyond ironic that a place called the Holy Land is the location of the fiercest, most deeply felt hatred in the world. And it makes for wonderful theater.”
George Carlin
Are at it again
“With the bravery of being out of range
With the bravery of being out of range
We play the game
With the bravery of being out of range”
– Roger Waters
Speaking with all the bravado
They can muster from their
Nice comfy air conditioned studios
Relatively safe high rise bunkers
To declare that you do not
Negotiate with terrorists
Unlike Reagan, who started that shit
And what did he do..?……?
Negotiated with terrorists
Ooopsie
Freeing a set of people
From a northern hemisphere geographical area
So those hostage takers (people) could murder
Freedom fighters (People) in a southern hemisphere
Trading people for weapons to murder
People they really want to murder
Negotiating is not the problem
Slapping a moniker on
Bipedal earthling artists to
Dehumanize them in the
Eyes and hearts of the public
By calling them “terrorists”
So they are much more
Easy to eliminate like
Extracting a fetus from a womb
And calling the procedure an
Abortion to alleviate the act
Of murder with euphemistic
Language for the soft sell
That it is okey dokey
Which, in the amygdala as the
Sub(un)conscious part of the brain
Justifies sacrificing twenty percent
Of one’s hard earned income to go
Towards the building and usage of
Weapons of mass destruction
Feeding the never satiated appetite of
The military industrial complex
That other countries can now
Freely purchase or borrow
To murder bipedal earthling artists
Because they believe in a
Different invisible man than they do
The above may or may not be relatively
Historically or factually accurate
However, hopefully, this makes the point
That the reason everyone can get in a stir
And condone murdering people is based
On the dehumanizing language used
If the collective mass of “alleged” humanity
Realized every individual earthling artist
Each have similar skeletons and blood
Holding them up and
Running through their veins
To feed their brains
We could use that information to
Stop all this deadly violence and
Build a world of kindness and sharing
How many more eons
Of nonexistent time
Will it take till all realize
We are, the our, we need to save
Apparently from ourselves
I’ll wait while I watch my fingers
Drivel this nonsense out of my head
And onto this blog
Because, ultimately there is
Nothing else I can do
“I watch television news for one thing and one thing only: entertainment. That’s all I want from the news; entertainment. You know my favorite thing on television? Bad news. Bad news and disasters and accidents and catastrophes.
I want to see some explosions and fires, I want to see shit blowing up and bodies flying around!”
– George Carlin
Never mind, I am going back to listen to another audio book or music or comedy bits while looking at the world through a windshield. Thinking of more stuff to put here.
Thanks for reading.
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
To be or not to be
That is the question
“Hamlet”
– William Shakespeare
A simple suggestion
Just Be
Which is harder
Than it sounds
As by definition
Be is not a noun
That I learned
A long time ago
Was a person
Place or thing
Be, being a verb
Is an action word
Present tense: am
Past tense: was
Present participle: being
So how can one “be”
Without be-ing
Something else
Even if declared
* “I gotta be me,”
What is that but
A collection of
Indoctrinations
Of my surroundings
That is not being “be”
Rather, a molding
Of an invisible mold
Out of my control
Am I the oxygen
I just breathed
The food I just ate
The thoughts I think
Hmmmm
“Be
2a : to have an objective existence
: have reality or actuality” – M-W.com
How can that be
In the realm of solipsism
Which would suggest egotistically
That I am, was, and “be” all that is
Is there any balance between
Stoicism and nihilism
Yet, if I were to “be” an
Existentialist, then I would be that
Which would not be, to be
It would be something else
“Be” kind of seems like being
In a restful state, which would be good
Even peaceful, perhaps
Yet, would still entail being
Aware of one’s beingness
A coagulation of atoms
Acting independently
Though in concert with all
The other atoms making up
The perception of consciousness
Manifesting all at once
Every moment as a sentient being
Interacting at times with
Other sentient beings
Going through the same
Miraculous process while
Riding on a sphere
Spinning and rotating
Through the cosmos
At breakneck speeds
Infinitely forever
Who knew it would be so hard to
Just be
When we are all……
“Living In The Present Tense
When You Lose The Past
And The Future Makes No Sense
You’re Living In The Present Tense
Crawling Out, Secure And Confident
Imbued With Innocence
Ready For The Whirl
Suddenly The View Was More Intense
Living In A Different Kind Of World
You’re Living
Living In The Present Tense
There’s Nothing To Blame
No Victim Of Consequence
You’re Living In The Present Tense
Something You Said
It Made Me
Step Outside ..the Moment
Eyes Pan Right And Left
Around My World
Open Yourself
Up To The Possibility
Aware of Some Reality
Outside Your World
In A Silent Universe
The Moment Can Be So Real
You Almost Can’t Stand It
In A Distant Universe
Distracted From Ourselves
You Can’t Help But Wonder
In A Crowded Universe
When The Talking Turns To Noise
You Almost Start Laughing
You’re Living
Living In The Present Tense
When You Lose The Past
And The Future Makes No Sense
You’re Living In The Present Tense
Nothing To Blame
No Victim Of Consequence
You’re Living In The Present Tense”
– Geddy Lee
“Present Tense”
*
“I gotta be me, right? I gotta be me.
Why do you have to be you? You’re awful. Why not find someone better than you, and be that person? You knew what I mean?
Just throw a rock, hit someone better than you, and do whatever shit that person does.
You don’t have to be you, ok. There’s no secret you, that the world has to know about. If you want to be a good person, just do good things. You are what you do.
If you steal someone’s wallet, you are a thief..
If you give lots of money to a charity, you are a philanthropist.
//
My point is, saying, I gotta be me is not like a hall pass just to be an asshole.”
– Christian Finnegan
“WAR”
How hard is that?
No more war.
“Two Tribes”
Ladies and gentlemen, let me present-
FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
Possibly the most important thing.
This side of the world……..
Oh yeah, well I……..
Let’s go
When two tribes go to war
A point is all you can score
When two tribes go to war
A point is all you can score
Cowboy No. 1
A born-again poor man’s son
On the air America
I modeled shirts by Van Heusen-yeah
You know
Working on the black gas
Switch off your shield
Switch off and feel
I’m working on loving-yeah
Giving you back the good times
Ship it out-out
I’m working for the black gas
We got two tribes
We got the bomb
We got the bomb-yeah
Sock it to me biscuits-now
Are we living in a land
Where sex and horror are the new Gods?
Yeah
When two tribes go to war
A point is all you can score
– “FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD”
At least one thing is for sure
That all corporate mass and manipulative media
Mini and manufactured media can agree on is
War gets good ratings
“You know my favourite part of that war? It’s the first war we ever had that was on every channel plus cable… and the war got good ratings too, didn’t it? Got good ratings! Well, we like war!!! We like war! We’re a war-like people! We like war because we’re good at it! You know why we’re good at it? Cause we get a lot of practice.”
– George Carlin
Normal competing agendas, where one side is against “allegedly” the killing of fetuses, (murdering people) and the other side is against “allegedly” the killing of criminals, (murdering people) can all happily agree that when it comes to war……
Dead civilians, military personnel, children, “friendly” fire victims, collateral damage, are all perfect fodder for Super Bowl sized audiences to salivate over to keep their eyes glued to the commercials betwixt the distraction dialog and pontificators of why and which side is “winning” and which side is “losing.”
“I don’t mind about the war, that’s one of the things I _like_ to watch, if it’s a war going on, ’cause then I know if our side’s winning, if our side’s losing…”
Roger Waters
Because the color commentators know, it is good for the economy. On one hand, people exposed to more ads, will buy more shit. People tuned in to particular talking heads, will get more ratings, thereby increasing their personal economy.
So why not question and expose the warring factions are basically all the same as bipedal earthling artists, just wearing different hats.
“You ever notice that? Any time you see two groups of people who really hate each other, chances are good they’re wearing different kind of hats. Keep an eye on that, it might be important.”
– George Carlin
Apparently, Russia at war with Ukraine is too blasè to stir any long-term emotional attachment.
(Besides 45’s shenanigan drama just about has everybody ready to puke in their soup. Except for the lapdogs who will lick it up until the day he dies, only to carry on with false and exaggerated impossible conspiracy theories to hold themselves over, till they die.)
Best move around the globe and get religion involved so the people can really pick sides. Even though, once again, both sides are made up of the same bipedal earthling artists, riding on the same spaceship going through the infinite cosmos.
Pssst. No one knows this, but a peaceful economy would be just as lucrative as a war time economy. Sanely and lovingly lucrative, but lucrative all the same.
Imagine all of the houses that could be built, clean drinking water systems that could be produced, and food distribution that could happen if each country quit wasting valuable resources trying to out penis each other.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
“I look at war a little bit differently. To me, war is a lot of prick-waving, okay?
Simple thing, that’s all it is. War is a whole lot of men standing out in a field waving their pricks at one another.
Men are insecure about the size of their dicks and so they have to kill one another over the idea.
That’s what all that asshole, jock bullshit is all about. That’s what all that adolescent, macho-male posturing, and strutting in bars and locker rooms is all about, it’s called “dick fear!”
Men are terrified that their pricks are inadequate and so they have to compete with one another to feel better about themselves and since war is the ultimate competition, basically, men are killing each other in order to improve their self-esteem.
You don’t have to be a historian or a political scientist to see the Bigger Dick foreign policy theory at work. It sounds like this:
“What? ! They have bigger dicks? ! BOMB THEM! ! !” And of course, the bombs and the rockets and the bullets are all shaped like dicks.
It’s a subconscious need to project the penis into other people’s affairs. It’s called: “FUCKING WITH PEOPLE! ! !”
– George Carlin
By making made up rules
Because most
Of the ruled
Have not figured out
The rules are made up
Of the rich people
By the connected people
For the powerful people
“Who are these people?”
– Jerry Seinfeld
These are the people we feed
Who do well enough on their own
Because too many people
Want to be like those people
Instead of feeding the hungry people
Or housing the homeless people
Or healing the unhealthy people
You know, the stuff Jesus would do
The treadmill is run
By the runners
Running on it
With very little room
Or time to get back on
Should one fall off
Plus, the longer it goes
The faster it gets
Which is what the rulers
Of the treadmill want
Dangling their opulent carrot
As a motivation of distraction
To ignore the fallen and injured
Who are one in the same
With all alleged “classes”
Even the alleged one percent
Once again, a rulers rule
To keep making rules
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
What you know
Question
What you accept
Presume
You do not understand
Assume
You do not know
Believe what you want
After you strip it
To its core
If you still believe it
Then it is true
For no one else
But you
With no need
To convince
Others otherwise
It neither strengthens
Your perception
Or negates theirs
You have already
Cleared out the doubt
Doubt
Also comes in handy
As a conspiracy filter
Especially when one
Considers the source
Some powers that be
Are obliged to just
Confuse and distract to
Maintain their power
A healthy dose of doubt
Will keep you from
Following a blinded follower
Usually led by ego
Not leadership
When in doubt
Check with your “self”
Is this a reasonable path
Given a chance
Would you lead similarly
If not
Fall out of line
Start your own path
“Have you ever started a path? No one seems willing to do this. We don’t mind using existing paths, but we rarely start new ones. Do it today. Start a path. Even if it doesn’t lead anywhere.”
— George Carlin
Enjoy your new path of
Doubt
However
You will be sure
Of what you know
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Is not even a microcosm
Of a three dimensional reality
Rather a granular glimpse
Into a pixelated place
Generating a glow
On one’s face
By many light emitting diodes
In constant concert
Crammed into consciousness
Plus heat on your hand
There is no depth
To an experience
One has at a device
Save to fulfill
A meaningless vice
One dimensional
Near flat surface
Offers no advice
On how to quit
As a digital addict
Losing to time’s grip
Which we are ill equipped
“Mirrors on the ceiling
The pink champagne on ice
And she said;
“WE ARE ALL JUST PRISONERS HERE,
OF OUR OWN DEVICE(S)”
And in the master’s chambers
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives
But they just can’t kill the beast”
“Hotel California”
The Eagles
Yet here I am
Using the same tool
To divulge observations
As a means of self reflection
“What you see is not real,
Those who know will not tell
All is lost sold, your souls
To this brave new world”
– Iron Maiden
“Brave New World”
Is the alternative pen and paper
To get this scheiss out of my head
Buried in a notebook to be discarded
“The people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens long enough to notice what is happening.”
– George Orwell “1984”
“My solipsistic world view
Doesn’t allow me to see
What may be real reality.”
– Angelo Devlin
Looking at the world through a windshield. 