Is over
They won / win
With nary
A shot fired
A penny spent and
Zero casualties
Just by dangling
Content carrots
In and out of context
Bourgeois bait
If one will not do
Will tease
With 3 or 2
Some even
In rotation
For a short
Memory nation
Singularly focused
On the latest
Distraction
You know the topics
For a people myopic
At any given time
A chance to opine
On
Immigration
Abortion
Ammunition
Via (gun) penis extention
Incarceration
Education
Deforestation
Over fishing the oceans
The latest is a mind bender
People arguing over gender
When one ought to care less
However, I transgress
Except for hermaphrodites
This is easily understood
When it comes to reproduction
There is but one set of goods
Matters not to the forever distracted
Losing their minds arguing over
Something infinitely protracted
The better each works
When people get hurt
Gives them a tally
To inspire the next
Two-minute hate rally
Here’s what I learned
When once was a lad
Thinking, I was rebellious
For the length of hair I had
Made a loose lipped comment to someone older I knew that “I” was “fighting” the system of authority and conformity. When he calmly said, the “they’s” want me to have long hair.
What, what what? How’s that? No way, I’m rebelling. Yet, in an instant, I knew he was right. The system is supported by empty headed distractions, so to speak. Keeping everyone occupied over trivialities of no importance. There is / was no “system” to buck, it is all the system. A system of corruption and consumption.
Did I cut my hair, no, but have since always gone about a lifetime working on my inner self. (The length eventually took care of itself.)
“In a world where self-hatred is a multi-billion dollar industry, loving yourself is a radical act.” – Gala Darling
Shortly followed up by George Carlin’s wisdom.
“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!
You know how I define the economic and social classes in this country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep ’em showing up at those ‘jobs’.”
– George Carlin
Likewise
“Yeah. Another tip. Another tip for the men. The earring. The thing with the earrings. It’s over. It’s been over for a long time. Doesn’t mean anything anymore. It was supposed to piss off the squares. The squares are wearing them now! Doesn’t mean anything.
It’s just fucking jewelry, unless you have an earring with a live baby hanging from it. It’s just jewelry. And I want you to know I’m in favor of self-mutilation and personal disfigurement. I’ve always said there’s nothing like puncturing and perforating your skin in a dozen or so places in order to demonstrate your high self-esteem.
When I see a young man decorating his scalp with a soldering iron I say: there’s a happy guy, thinks highly of himself.”
– George Carlin
Meanwhile in our current state of devolution, people in relative ok physical health are requesting and having Josef Mengele type unnecessary surgeries to be “different”, then how they were born.
Deadly enhancements, alterations, castrations, all in the name of some bizarre rationalization to be unique……like everyone else.
The backstory to this is from reading a former acquaintance meme post that read ;
“Your Gender was assigned by God. He was not confused.”
Holy Fuck
“The God excuse.
The last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument, it came from god.
Anything we can’t describe, must have come from God.”
– George Carlin
Leave God alone, meanwhile, speaking of confused, most of all this bullshit trouble started, by humanity assigning God….a gender.
“God is the Word and the Word is God.” – John 1:1
In its simplest terms God is
“An energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together.”
– Obi-Wan Kenobi
Also known as the Higgs ocean / the God particle.
In other words, too powerful to have a pecker.
“But I want you to know something, this is sincere, I want you to know when it comes to believing in God, I really tried, I really, really tried. I tried to believe that there is a God who created each of us in his own image and likeness, loves us very much, and keeps a close eye on things, I really tried to believe that but I gotta tell you, the longer you live, the more you look around, the more you realize something is fucked up.
Something is wrong here… war, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. Results like these don’t belong on the résumé of a supreme being.
This is the kind of shit you’d expect from an office temp with a bad attitude. And just between you and me, between you and me, in any decently run universe, this guy would have been out on his all-powerful ass a long time ago.
And by the way, I say “this guy” because I firmly believe, looking at these results, that if there is a God, it has to be a man; no woman could or would ever fuck things up like this!
So if, if there is a God, if there is, I think most reasonable people might agree that he’s at least incompetent and maybe, just maybe doesn’t give a shit. Doesn’t give a shit… which I admire in a person and which will explain a lot of these bad results.”
– George Carlin
When the flesh has decomposed from one’s rotting corpse and the plastic has melted away, the alien anthropologists*, will know what gender you once were, by the remaining brittle bone skeleton. The one that supported you in this lifetime. The frame to the car you drove and did or did not take care of.
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
“Amused To Death”
Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me
This supermarket life is getting long
What is the heart life of a colour TV
What is the shelf life of a teenage queen
Ooh western woman
Ooh western girl
News hound sniffs the air
When Jessica Hahn goes down
He latches on to that symbol
Of detachment
Attracted by the peeling away of feeling
The celebrity of the abused shell the belle
Ooh western woman
Ooh western girl
And the children of Melrose
Strut their stuff
Is absolute zero cold enough
And out in the valley warm and clean
The little ones sit by their TV screens
No thoughts to think
No tears to cry
All sucked dry
Down to the very last breath
Bartender what is wrong with me
Why I am so out of breath
The captain said excuse me ma’am
This species has amused itself to death
Amused itself to death
Amused itself to death
We watched the tragedy unfold
We did as we were told
We bought and sold
It was the greatest show on earth
But then it was over
We oohed and aahed
We drove our racing cars
We ate our last few jars of caviar
And somewhere out there in the stars
A keen-eyed look-out
Spied a flickering light
Our last hurrah
And when they found our shadows
Groups ’round the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data in their lists
And then the *alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left
This species has amused itself to death
No tears to cry
No feelings left
This species has amused itself to death
Amused itself to death
– Roger Waters
Amused itself to death
Amused itself to death
Amused itself to death
Amused itself to death
Amused itself to death
Amused itself to death
No Rebellion required
“the condition of being successful or thriving”
especially : economic well-being
M-W.com
If someone is selling
You
Prosperity
They do not have it
Or have enough of it
They are getting it
From you
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Have a need to attack
Not because they’re hurt
But rather to distract
As a strange way to
Keep their dignity intact
Away from their shame
So lost in obscurity
It doesn’t have a name
Because for some reason
They are without blame
Pointing across the street
To someone, too far away
Nor will they ever meet
Causing some kind of harm
That they will easily repeat
A universal bogeyman
They know doesn’t exist
Yet in a victim’s mind they can
If for no other reason
It brings them attention
Forgetting the question
What would Jesus do
The answer an easy one
Check if they are hungry
Then feed them some
Or see them move in skelter
Might try and help them
To seek warm shelter
Since Jesus did not teach to
Do nothing but point a finger
The takeaway from this poem
Is do not be a victimless victim
No one wants to hear you moan
An easy way to solve this is to
Turn off the TV when you get home
Or rather doing inaction
Can be easily observed as
A mattress along the road
Which did not get “there”
There by itself, but by those
Who secured it poorly
But had faith it would make it
As did all of the mattresses
You do not see along the road
That did not require faith
But more rope, better knots
Or an enclosed trailer
Instead of trusting in gravity
Over velocity and acceleration
That one would rest easy on
A comfy bed of practicality
Even an old mattress instead of
The new one you’ll need to buy
Damn, faith is expensive.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
When “Supreme” Court Justices
Selected with a contrived agenda
Occupying the “Highest” Court in the land
Typically, making “ethical” decisions
In one shape form or another have to
Hire personal attorneys to defend them
Against (get this) “ethical” violations
Over poorly written vague ethics codes
Accountable to no one or no body
Billionaire bought or leased foxes
To guard the millionaire’s henhouses
Which is why the Supreme Court is
Part of the “criminal” Justice system
Where this should have stopped
Nope
First item on the docket
Remove the word Supreme
It’s arrogant and meaningless
If Supreme decisions are overturned
Regarding half the population
There is nothing supreme about them
Rather a malignantly malleable court
Which does nothing to raise the
Collective consciousness or guide
Bipedal earthling artists towards such
Either supreme court or supreme being
Fosters fanatics like supremacists
My way or the highway type thinking
Trouble for some reason is
People like the word supreme as in
Highest in rank or authority
A linguistic abdication of responsibility
From the thought of questioning
Whatever is being considered supreme
To many, supreme is like ice cream
The concept of it sounds very tasty
However it causes the brain to freeze
Bringing inquiry to a screeching halt
What if instead of a court at all
Supreme, district, county, federal, trial, appellate, state, etc…
( WOW, that puts a whole lotta people judging others)
( In a country supposedly following the words of that Jesus fella
Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the judgment you pronounce, you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.)
There was a way to guide humans
Towards evolutionary enlightenment
Which would seem to be why we are here
Into both seeing the error of our ways
Then guiding us towards better ones
The distraction controversial contemplation
Is to (get this) add more Justices…..hmmmmm
(How does that definition of insanity go?)
Adding four more nudniks with unearned assigned
Monikers of “honorable” when it doesn’t fit the bill
Why stop at four, why not twenty four, yet people
Not beholden to belligerent billionaire backers
All sorts of people to get a humanistic balance
Of what is in humanity’s actual best interests
Drug addicts, homeless, disabled, teachers,
Rape survivors, clerks, migrants, veterans,
Transgenders, police officers, mechanics,
Entrepreneurs, depressed and anxious, etc.
The true face of America to guide Americans
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
Indoctrination bias
Through no fault
Of your own
You were merely
The absorbing sponge
Soaking up information
Saturated in society
Pumped in by parents
When one considers
What they know or believe
Is essentially
Based on perceptions
Of background education
Triggering reactions
How can one think
They are free when
Subconsciously or
Unconsciously attached
To so many tethers
“Because your beliefs are just that, they are just how you were taught and raised. That doesn’t make them real.”
– Bill Hicks
For example Democracy
Is allegedly the best
Form of government
Really……. WHY?
Because it is an
Unconscious mantra
Repeated over and over
Like a Big Lie
Till it is accepted
Without question
After all
Are all
Housed and fed…..no
Healthy and balanced…..no
Free from debt
Living without borders
Taxed highest to
Build WMD’S
You know
Devices to kill people
In large quantities
Who have no beef with you
Well, yeah, no, but
…….It’s necessary
Till people get lost
In a circular argument
Of emotional exhaustion
Well, yeah, no, but, it’s still
The best form of government
You Hoo…….McFly
“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?”
– Doug Stanhope
Same goes for religion
If you were born
Down the street
In your small town
Or a megalopolis or
Across the country or
A different part of the earth
You would believe
Having been taught
That, that religion
Is the best, even though
All are incredibly similar
Sorta based on
Do unto others……..unless……
“My God has a bigger dick than your God!”
– George Carlin
Sadly the indoctrination bias
Runs so abysmally deep
It perpetuates itself
Like a black hole in space
Growing larger by the
Debris in its orbit
Never escaping the
Dark gravitational pull
Making it harder that one
Has yet to overcome
Their indoctrination
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
How can one speak
Truth to power….when
They can’t even speak
Truth to themselves
Knowing fool well
Rather full well the
Full power is inside
Always there to
Guide all ways
Failing to recognize
One’s divine spark
As the truth source
Desperately searching
Outside themselves
What is known to be
A tiny but brilliant
Quiet internal flame
Burning eternally
Inside their spirit
As one’s true power
Like looking for
The lost keys
Under the streetlight
One does so because
It is “easier” to look there
“A policeman sees a drunk man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what the drunk has lost.
He says he lost his keys and they both look under the streetlight together. After a few minutes the policeman asks if he is sure he lost them here, and the drunk replies, no, and that he lost them in the park.
The policeman asks why he is searching here, and the drunk replies, “this is where the light is”.”
– David Freedman
Meanwhile, the multitude
Stays staggering around
Searching for approval
Or UNNECESSARY rescue
While fearing reproach
An unconscious catch-22
If 45 didn’t need his base
To continue his grift
Would in all likelihood
Make the revelation that
He considers them to be
Trash and reprobates
If such a word landed in
His limited vocabulary
Ignoring the obvious
That the keys are in the dark
And no one will ever be able
To help you find them…….
They are your keys
To drive your vehicle
The keys one had when
They “started” this “trip”
Until parents* and pressure
Politicians and pundits
Pastors and priests
Rules and restrictions
Society and surroundings
Intentionally or unintentionally
Became guises of power
A subtle, slow indoctrination
That your spark isn’t enough
By itself when it al/lways is
Mostly, one could suspect
By looking back to realize
How it occurred in various ways
I’m leaving Santa Claus out of it… for now.
“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.”
– George Carlin
As to how the politicians come into play….
“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
So few recognizing that murder is a sin (Thou shalt not kill) and “illegal” except……….when religion and the state decide it is okay.
“Hey if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death.
Has been for thousands of years. Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Christians, all taking turns killing each other because God told them it was a good idea.
The sword of God, the blood of the lamb, vengeance is mine, millions of dead motherfuckers, all because they gave the wrong answer to the God question.
‘You believe in God?’
‘No.’
*BANG* Dead.
‘You believe in God?’
‘Yes.’
‘You believe in my God?’
‘No.’
*Bang* Dead.
‘My God has a bigger dick than your God!’
That’s how it is, isn’t it?”
Wasn’t it the “state” that killed that Jesus fella ?
Whose only crime was promoting peace? WTF
* HONOR THY FATHER AND MOTHER.
This commandment is about obedience and respect for authority; in other words it’s simply a device for controlling people. The truth is, obedience and respect should not be granted automatically. They should be earned. They should be based on the parents’ (or the authority figure’s) performance. Some parents deserve respect. Most of them don’t. Period.
– George Carlin’s partial take on the “Ten Commandments”
This is longer than usual, thanks for making it to the end.
Brought about by a subjective perspective from
“Looking at the world through a windshield”
Unbeknownst to the company I work for that thinks
They are paying me to drive are paying me to think
What better gig one could ask for I do not know
Sitting on my butt with my hands on the steering wheel
Listening to music, books, news, or nothing at all
Save for the wind and where the rubber meets the road
Trying desperately to make sense of this world
With all of its fun fomented foibles and fables
Into a workable framework from practical theory
Sometimes when you see things over and over
In different light, shades, shadows and temperature
Coming towards you or speeding up from behind
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
George Carlin
One can not help but to experience things differently
If for nothing else at least metaphorically speaking
One of the rabbits I keep chasing down the rabbit hole
Is that it is impossible if not extremely unlikely that
An all powerful omniscient being is only masculine
Therefore have adopted the notion noted in a Bible
“In the beginning the Word already existed.
The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
That Word is interchangeable with the word God
Devoid of gender therefore no patriarchy or matriarchy
Seeing as how they are one in the same as essentially
Everything emanates from derivatives of Word(s)
Knowing that all W/word(s) occur infinitely all ways
In all languages every translation infinite interpretation
In other words, Word(s) exist beyond “beginnings”
Also brought about in this lifetime by Einstein that
Everything is happening all at once and was quoted
“All I want to do is learn to think like God (Word).
All the rest is just details.”
— Albert Einstein
What better way to experience experiences than to know
Like protons neutrons and electrons make up matter so do
Words and their vague or defined definitions make up realty
Which make up words like food, water, shelter, breathing,
She, he, they, them, individuals, all as sparks of the divine Word
Pooping, peeing, believing, hoping for love, laughter and truth
Here goes,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that everyone who believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
– John 3:16
A Different Take
“For Word so loved the world, that Word gave to this world, the word Forgiveness, that everyone who forgives shall ever be forgivable.”
– WORD
Seeing how as life is already eternal, merely changes shape
Has nothing to do with an invisible man in the “clouds”
So detached he “allowed” savior filicide to “prove” his “love”
To something that already has “eternal” life, belief (ve, it) or not
“I don’t even understand the connection with ‘died for your sins’.
He died for your sin, well, how does one affect the other?
‘I hit myself in the foot with a shovel for your mortgage”…
– Doug Stanhope
Also
“Why would you die for someone’s sins? Your sins are the only thing interesting about you, you dreary, bleak motherfuckers.”
– Doug Stanhope
Back to my rant….
Based on words like miracle, karma, reason, purpose and service
Methinks it would behoove us as a species who is
Conscious of having consciousness of consciousness
Better use that in peaceful advancement of our evolution
That we can access so much more from infinity
Than a Santa Claus caricature willing to expend his children
In an intentional malicious drowning or nailed to dead trees
“I just think it is interesting to see how people act on their beliefs you know what I mean. Because your beliefs are just that, they are just how you were taught and raised. That doesn’t make them real.
– Bill Hicks
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
By the way, if one doesn’t think that words make up everything, try holding on to a thought that doesn’t have a word, then try describing that thought without using words.
Will close this with some more words by George Carlin
“I love words. I thank you for hearing (reading) my words.
I want to tell you something about words that I think is important.
They’re my work, they’re my play, they’re my passion.
Words are all we have, really. We have thoughts but thoughts are fluid.
Then we assign a word to a thought and we’re stuck with that word for that thought.
So be careful with words. I like to think that the same words that hurt can heal, it is a matter of how you pick them.”
George Carlin’s prelude to his famous 7 word bit.
You would think
One would find
Truth in advertising
Would be in a
Bible sales ad
That was found
Using the term
Limited supply*
*(A hyperbolic ruse
Suggesting scarcity
Triggering fear that
You won’t get one)
As a sales tactic
To get you to buy theirs
For a mere $ 70.00
Plus shipping unless
You buy three
Before they are
All gone forever
When the content
Can be found free
Online or at a library
Even the KJV, as in a
King James rendition
V meaning “version”
Suggesting immediately
There are other versions
Imagine that ………..
God’s “Word” altered
By a man of wealth in
Power and control to
Keep his subjects
The bourgeoisie
Poor and Proletariat
In line
Oops, got sidetracked
Back to this “Bible”
Which includes copies
Of the Constitution
Declaration of Independence
Pledge of Allegiance and the
Bill of Rights
More documents
Available free
Without limits
Written by white men
Vague and alter-able
In their constant battle
To return to the notion that
All men are created equal
When it really meant men
Who were land holding
Slave owners as in
“All animals are equal,
but some animals are
more equal than others”
– George Orwell
“A proclamation by the pigs who control the government in the novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell. The sentence is a comment on the hypocrisy of governments that proclaim the absolute equality of their citizens but give power and privileges to a small elite.”
– dictionary.com
Without further distraction
Methinks God’s Bible
Is written in the
Individual’s heart
The One Place
With some version of
“Do unto others as
You would have them
Do unto you”
That quick research
Reveals are easily found
In all theologies
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
That many are addicted to is
When you live in a VR world
Then you put on a VR headset
While distracting, it is still designed
To show the user how much better
The original VR / PR (perceived reality)
Is, and is as “real” as it gets
To have conversations worth having
Actual human inner interactions
With other bipedal earthling artists
Not yet quite fully deprogrammed
From their original divine programming
Hard wired in to their soft ware
“Welcome my son
Welcome to the machine
Where have you been?
It’s alright we know where you’ve been
//
Welcome my son
Welcome to the machine
What did you dream?
It’s alright we told you what to dream”
Pink Floyd
“Welcome To The Machine”
“The problem’s plain to see:
Too much technology
Machines to save our lives.
Machines dehumanize.”
Styx
“Mr. Roboto”
But only…….if we let them
“The people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens long enough to notice what is happening.”
– George Orwell “1984”
Lest of course we start here
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first”
Jim Morrison
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
“Or a newer “head” set.”
– Angelo Devlin
Looking at the world through a windshield. 