No matter how big one
Ego/narcissisticly thinks
They see the “BIG” picture
There will always be a
Bigger picture they can’t see
Besides how much can be
Seen with just two eyes
Or sensed with the third eye
Imagine from any distance
How big the picture is while
Keeping an eye on yourself
Think of how small a gnat is
To how tall you are
To how high a tree is
Growing on a mountain top
That you won’t see the top of
Because it is so big
Let us not stop there
Keep going up or out
Depending on perception
Squeezing through satellites
That mountain is now as big
As the gnat you pictured
Further out you see earth
In relationship to what we
Egotistically call “our” sun
Now a small dot amongst
Nine various sized dots
Up out and away you see
Other stars holding together
Their own planets in orbits
While being part of an even
Larger band of stars surrounding
A black hole in the center
Of the Milky Way galaxy
Fascinated or scared
Matters not for in outer space
No one can hear you scream
Not only that it is fatally cold
Though you are reading this
Somewhere much warmer
Not done yet you now see
The Milky Way as a bright dot
Like once you saw our “sun”
Then other bright dots
Scattered around the cosmos
For no apparent reason or rhyme
Not even approaching the
Fathom-ability that there are
Other bipedal lifeforms
Contemplating similar scenarios
Because they are too busy
Trying to see their big picture
It is only after cycling through
That expansion exercise
Will you discover how
Important the little picture is
The one that is right in front
Of you to realize that the
Little picture is the big picture
Making the significance
In our insignificance
Significant
Meanwhile, we might all just
Be dancing on the head of a pin
Alas though, from a subjective
Perspective we can’t see that
For if my understanding is understood
The same view can be seen
Through a microscope whereas
Instead of planets and stars
Whizzing around the same is true
For quarks neutrinos and
Other subatomic particles
Just depends on how it is observed
Keep an eye on the “BIG” picture
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
A traffic accident
Gawkers paradise
.
Rubbernecking is a
Preventable disease
Keep your eyes
On the road and off
The cold corpses
On the concrete
Lookie-loos only
Exacerbate the problem
Creating more work
For EMT workers
Life flight pilots
Tow truck drivers
Autobody repairs
Insurance paperwork
Guardrail repair people
Doctors and coroners
Casket makers and
Grave diggers
.
Drive wise the life
You save may be your own
Though you won’t be
The center of attention
To repeat the story
Of the horrific accident
You once saw in the
Briefest of moments
That takes longer to tell
Than it did to occur
.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Best
At best
At its best
Is still just
An opinion
Or tallying up
Of telling
Opinions
Making best
Meaningless
As it means
Nothing
Or is that
Just mean
I learned this years ago after Professor William Lutz wrote Double Speak .
Like using “Best” to sell vehicles
Ford or Chevy are the best
“In “their” class”
In a vague set of parameters
Undisclosed in the ad
But still…..each is the “best”
Basically the same material
In slightly different shapes
With “different” features
Let’s see
All have 4 tires and an
Engine that propels them
Either forward or reverse
Brakes to lessen speed
With somewhere between
Two & four doors and all…
With round steering wheels
From robotic automated
Assembly lines with humans
Maintaining the machines
Oooooh!!
Can’t get much better than that
At prices and payments higher
Than some houses and mortgages
All because someone got the
Best deal on the best vehicle
At the best price at the best time (now)
From the best dealer
Language makes us funny
Consumer creatures
Along with icons (stars)
‘Member those from
“Grade” school???
“Gold” foil ones
Were the “best”
Also made-up
Rating systems
Making the two best things
Individuality and intelligence
The first things that are thrown
Out of the classroom window
Even though the parents are sure
They have sent their children
Off to the best schools
With the best teachers
In the best neighborhoods
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
“Or the best ones if
I could only find them.”
– Angelo Devlin
To fill broken containers.
Plastered on trailer doors and plastic bumpers, posing as highway reading material.
Here is company “X”s” empty message.
Printed out over a picture of a wavy flag.
(Which I understand, according to US flag code….is unlawful to use in…… advertising.)
Ooopsie. How, ummm……. patriotic.
It is nor even an ad to conjure up more business, it is just an empty message.
“We support our troops wherever we go. No aid or comfort to the enemy – NO WAY!”
For God’s sake, is that what Jesus would do?
It is not even a rallying cry
It is a cry of desperation
To feel significant of being
Able to conquer bogeyman
Conjured up by invisible power
Through manufactured consent
To keep all too many distracted
From their own divinity by
Projecting projections onto
Fellow divine space travelers
As somehow being an enemy
It is without logic and reason
And various core religious beliefs
Save their wackadoodle fringe
Making their own interpretation
Who likes to think “their” God
Has a bigger dick than other God’s
If X really supported troops. I mean really supported troops, they would do everything to keep individuals from becoming a “troop” in the first place. By recognizing that we are all borne out of Gaia consciousness with no meaningful separation of our fellow space travelers. None that I’ve ever found.
Instead of maintaining an environment of toxicity. That it is just a ruse for commerce, stealing otherwise shareable resources.
Under the guise of greed pig capitalism.
Sold to this country’s crass consumers of crude as democracy. Which on the down low and the wink-wink is better known as..Want lower fuel prices, all power has to do is to convince some, it’s okay to kill your siblings.
Speaking of which, aren’t we due for another major war soon? It has been almost twenty years, since our last focused distraction.
As long as I’m editorializing on roving roadway reading material, read recently off of a red rusted rideable wreck.
Read the following.
Don’t believe fake news.
Hmmm, really “fake” news. It is almost all fake. It is presented in an entertainment forum, why do you think most programs are called “shows”?
Show:
“to present as a public spectacle: perform.”
M-W.com
The key words on that bumper sticker are believe and fake. Regardless the topic or action, if one doesn’t believe in it, or rejects it because it is personally unliked then it is “fake”.
Well who is going to be the arbiter of whatever is real or fake. Some dude with a red hat and red tie, that could be Santa Claus and we all know how real he is.
What one must try to comprehend is that beliefs are just ideas indoctrinated over time under the constant torturous drip of information into plausible perceptions that something tangible exists as “true”, when nothing could be further from the truth.
But that is how the human mind operates, when nothing is questioned to assess individually what is real, against what is believed.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
“At least while I’m driving”
– Angelo Devlin
I heard a news report that this current administration, (Most of that sewage flows through my auditory canal) has two main focuses.
One of which is to do everything to foist the lives of children. Health care and education etcetera.
“Here’s another platitude they jam down your throat”
“Children are our future”
“Children are not our future and I can prove it with my usual flawless logic.
Children can’t be our future because by the time the future arrives they won’t be children anymore.”
– George Carlin
The other is to do anything or everything (meaning nothing) to protect the environment. (Watch and wait with the brown polar bears as the glacial ice caps are re-frozen.)
“You know, there’s environmentalists and there’s people who just hate environmentalists. People get angry at environmentalists because they think they’re slowing down the economy and creating restrictions and a lot of these people are Christian.
A lot of these people are very devout Christians and that’s such a confusing thing to me, that if you believe that God gave you the Earth, that God created Earth for you, why would you not have to look after it?
Why the fuck– Why would you not think that when he came back he wouldn’t go, “What the fuck did you do?” “I gave this to you, motherfucker.
Are you crazy?” “The polar bears are brown.” “What did you do to the polar bears?” “Did you shit all over every polar bear?”
“What did you–who did this? Who spilled this shit? Who spilled this?” “Come over here. Did you fucking spill this? What is that?”
“It’s oil. It’s just some oil. I didn’t mean to spill–”
“Well why did you take it out of the fucking ground?”
“Because I wanted to go faster.” “I’m not fast enough.” “And I was cold.”
“What the fuck do you mean, ‘cold’?”
“I gave you everything you needed, you piece of shit.”
“Well, because jobs, and I wanted–”
“What is a job? Explain to me, what’s a fucking job?”
“Well, like you work at a place and people call when their game doesn’t work and you help them figure it out.”
“What do you do that for?”
“For money.”
“What do you need money for?”
“Food.”
“Just eat the shit on the floor.” “I left shit all over the floor.” “Fucking corn and wheat and shit. Grind it up, make some bread. What are you doing?”
– Louis CK
Whether it be reducing the consumption of fossil fuel or coal in exchange for solar or wind power, the resources all have to be extracted from the Earth. Causing different damage it will still be slow to recover from. All the while using petroleum products to move it from point A to Z.
At least for now, it is less deadly as no wars are being waged over resource stealing, under the guise of democracy and freedumb.
Encouraging and enabling the former while trying to protect and save the latter is merely two locomotives connected together on the same track heading in opposite directions. Going nowhere fast.
“Save the planet!” What?! Are these fucking people kidding me?! Save the planet?! We don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet! We haven’t learned how to care for one another and we’re gonna save the fucking planet?!
I’m getting tired of that shit! I’m getting tired of that shit! I’m tired of fucking Earth Day! I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists; these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren’t enough bicycle paths!
People trying to make the world safe for their Volvo’s! Besides, environmentalists don’t give a shit about the planet. 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 some day in the future they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.
The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages …And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference?
The planet isn’t going anywhere.
WE are!”
– George Carlin
There is not a footwear manufacturer large enough to make a boot to cover, the carbon footprint the exponential burgeoning population is leaving behind. That is jackbooted against the carotid artery of mother earth’s neck.
“Her love rains down on me
As easy as the breeze
I listen to her breathing
It sounds like the waves on the sea
I was thinking all about her,
Burning with rage and desire
We were spinning into darkness
The earth was on fire
She could take it back,
She might take it back some day
So I spy on her, I lie to her,
I make promises I cannot keep
Then I hear her laughter rising,
Rising from the deep
And I make her prove her love for me,
I take all that I can take
And I push her to the limit
To see if she will break
She might take it back,
She could take it back some day
Now I have seen the warnings,
Screaming from all sides
It’s easy to ignore them and
God knows I’ve tried
All of this temptation,
It turned my faith to lies
Until I couldn’t see the danger
Or hear the rising tide
She can take it back,
She will take it back some day
She can take it back,
She will take it back some day
She can take it back,
She will take it back some day”
– Pink Floyd
“Take It Back” from The Division Bell
“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”
So instead of meaningful legislation and incentives* to reduce the population. The children / environment focused distraction is there to brighten and polish a comfortable pot to cook the tadpoles and frogs in.
Ribbit
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
*
“If I had any cause over the course of my career that I’ve bitched the most about, It’s overpopulation, which is the root of most of the other problems you care about.
//
The only solution that I’ve ever come up with, Which I think is great, but no one’s gotten on board, incentive-based eugenics.
Eugenics was a practice of sterilizing people. Hitler got a lot of the credit for it, but it was actually done in this country long before Hitler even knew who he was mad at. We were practicing eugenics in this country.
Eugenics was the practice of forced sterilization of undesirables, which sounds bad. And the way they did it was bad ’cause they would…
First of all, the force is wrong. You don’t force people to do things they don’t want to do. And, “b,” who decides who’s undesirable?
They were doing it in this country At the turn of the 20th century, Which is the 1900s, for a lot of my fans. Early 1900s. To criminals, perverts, which is way too vague, the mentally ill, mentally retarded, homosexuals, which makes perfect sense. We don’t want them breeding.
//
But if you took away the force, And you just made it incentive-based for people willing to sterilize themselves. Offer up some white trash prizes. You know, Nascar pit pass, meet your favorite driver. All you’ve got to do is snip the sac. “Really?” Year’s supply of sunny delight. You want some sunny d, don’t you?
//
What do we got to do? “Are you telling me, if I cut off my balls, I’m going crossbow hunting with Ted Nugent?” Well, shit, yeah. “No. No, sir, sir, sir. Wait, no. “We don’t actually cut off your balls.
We just make a small incision with a local anesthetic.” “F%@! you. I want you to cut off my whole balls. “I’m gonna hang them from my rear-view mirror “like a lucky rabbit’s foot. “I’m going crossbow hunting with the Nuge. I ain’t never won nothing in my life.”
That’s a workable plan. Can’t argue with that. It just won’t happen.”
– Doug Stanhope
‘Tis the season…….
This has been in the chamber for a while.
I would extinguish myself, if I didn’t think life was such a meddlesome joke or that I would have to do it all over again.
“My spirits are low in the depths of despair.
My lifeblood…
…Spills over…”
Rush “2112”
“Death makes angels of us all
& gives us wings
Where we had shoulders
Smooth as raven’s claws “
Jim Morrison “An American Prayer”
“Feel the sweat break on my brow
Is it me or is it shadows that are
Dancing on the walls.
Is this a dream or is it now
Is this a vision or normality I see
Before my eyes.
I wonder why I wonder how
That it seems
The powers getting stronger
Every day
I feel a strength an inner fire
But I’m scared
I won’t be able to control it anymore
There’s a time to live and a time to die
When it’s time to meet the maker
There’s time to live but isn’t it strange
That as soon as you’re born you’re dying.
Just by looking through your eyes
He could see the future penetrating right
In through your mind
See the truth and see your lies
But for all his power
Couldn’t foresee his own demise
There’s time to live and time to die
When it’s time to meet the maker
There’s time to live but isn’t it strange
That as soon as you’re born you’re dying…
…and reborn again??”
“The Clairvoyant”
– Iron Maiden
Fear not, this is merely a dark post on the topic of suicide and unintentionally reincarnation.
Besides I understand the following.
“And if you die by your own hand
As a suicide you shall be damned
And if you try to save your soul
I will torment you – you shall not grow old
With every second and passing breath
You’ll be so alone your soul will bleed to death”
“Moonchild”
– Iron Maiden
Still find it an inherently interesting contemplation as a means to paradigm shift into an elevated degree of consciousness of consequences. Or consciousness alone.
After all, if things thought, make decisions so desperately dire demanding demise, then the turnaround is as equally optimistic for an alternative. Why not, at that critical point, what have you got to lose. You will go through it all again anyway.
“Infinity is so big, that everything that has ever happened, on earth in the exact same order, down to………. that … pause has happened an infinite number of times, all through out the universe.
Everywhere in space, there is a you, making the same colossal f**king errors, that you’ve made your entire life.
So if anybody ever tells you, you can do better. Go, apparently not.”
That’s infinity.”
Joe Rogan
Besides, I have infinitely more reasons to stick around than not to than I do to not.
Just need to apprise myself of them more often.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Or a crystal clear crystal ball.
“Sometimes I try to do things and it just doesn’t work out the way I want it to
I get real frustrated and I try hard to do it and I take my time and it doesn’t work out the way I want it to
It’s like I concentrate real hard and it doesn’t work out
Everything I do and everything I try never turns out
It’s like I need time to figure these things out
But there’s always someone there going
Hey Mike:
You know we’ve been noticing you’ve been having a lot of problems lately
You know, maybe you should get away and maybe you should talk about it, maybe you’ll feel a lot better
And I’m all like:
Oh nah it’s ok you know I’ll figure it out, just leave me alone I’ll figure it out
You know I’m just working on it by myself
And they go:
Well you know if you want to talk about it I’ll be here you know and you’ll probably feel a lot better if you talk about it
So why don’t you talk about it?
And I go:
No I don’t want to I’m okay, I’ll figure it out myself
But they just keep bugging me and they just keep bugging me, and it builds up inside
So you’re gonna be institutionalized
You’ll come out brainwashed with bloodshot eyes
You won’t have anyting to say
They’ll brainwash you until you see their way
I’m not crazy – Institutionalized
You’re the one that’s crazy – Institutionalized
You’re driving me crazy – Institutionalized
They stuck me in an institution,
Said it was the only solution,
to give me the needed professional help
to protect me from the enemy – Myself”
//
MY best interests?! How do you know what MY best interest is?
How can you say what MY best interest is? What are you trying to say, I’M crazy?
When I went to YOUR schools, I went to YOUR churches. I went to YOUR institutional learning facilities?!
So how can you say I’M crazy?
They say they’re gonna fix my brain
Alleviate my suffering and my pain
But by the time they fix my head
Mentally I’ll be dead
//
From the much longer, killer song…….
“Institutionalized”
– Suicidal Tendencies
On a lighter note, from George….
“Suicide is for people who can’t wait to find out where the hell it is you go,
“Holy s___, I been waiting a long time”
I don’t have many nights like that.
But when you think about it,you know, *mumbling*
Suicide.
I always pictured myself on the ledge. There’s gotta be a little show business involved. You know, you don’t wanna slump over a porcelin fixture.
“Let me get up here.. Hey-y-y-y-y-y!”
Set the record, be the first guy to reach the double yellow line. Have you picture in the centerfold of the newspaper. Actually, a picture of the building with a dotted line showing “Leaper’s Path” Suicide!
Suppose you worked on the Suicide Hotline. Helping people talk them out of it.
That’s your job,
“Hello, Suicide Hotline.”
And one morning you wake up a little depressed. Should you call in sick?
I’d like to see a top salesman commit suicide. A really persuasive guy up on the ledge. And the Priest talks him out of it. And he talks the Priest in to it.
People say maybe you’ll come back. Reincarnation. Do you think so? Well, it doesn’t seem mathematically possible to me, man.
Ah, ’cause at one time all we had on the Earth was 6 people, you know. I avoid 2 because it’s controversial, but 6. Most people will agree,
“Oh f___ ya, we had 6 at one time, yeah”
6 people, 6 souls. Cool! They died, souls went back to the place. 6 new people, souls *Whew* Still 6 souls.
Now we have 4 (almost 8) billion people claiming to have souls. Someone is printing up souls. And it lowers their value, you know.”
“Death and dying”
– George Carlin
Other lyrical ways to prevent suicide
“Don’t
Forget
Your
Second
Wind”
“You’re only human”
– Billy Joel
“Don’t try suicide, nobody gives a damn”
“The Game”
– Queen
“This is the only life for me – yeah
Surround myself around my own fantasy
You just gotta be strong and
Believe in yourself
Forget all the sadness
‘Cause love is all you need
Love is all you need
Do you know what it’s like
To be alone in this world
When you’re down and out on your luck
and you’re a failure
Wake up screaming in the middle of the night
You think it’s all been a waste of time
It’s been a bad year
You start believing
Everything’s gonna be alright
Next minute you’re down and
You’re flat on your back
A brand new day is beginning
Get that sunny feeling and you’re on your way (way)
Just believe – just keep passing the open windows
Just believe – just keep passing the open windows
Do you know how it feels when you don’t have friend (friend)
Without a job and no money to spend
You’re a stranger
All you think about is suicide
One of these days you’re gonna lose the fight
You better keep out of danger – yeah
That same old feeling just keeps burning deep inside (inside)
You keep telling yourself it’s gonna be the end
Oh – get yourself together
Things are looking better everyday (day)
Just believe – just keep passing the open windows
Just believe – just keep passing the open windows”
“Keep Passing” from “The Works”
– Queen
Unlike the well worn cliche
History will not judge us
If you can picture killing someone
While committing suicide or
Planting a seed while
Birthing a baby
You will understand Einstein’s theory
That everything is happening all at once
Making history what it is
A word the collective made up
Like all of the other words
Good, bad, God, Satan and orange
Threw that in since orange
Doesn’t rhyme with anything
Which we really could if we wanted to
Like the numbers we made up also
Just inquire with a search engine
Something like when did zero (0) appear
History is one of those words
That was made up to placate
Our sensations that somehow
Everything occurs linearly
Fortifying the fantasy that there
Was a beginning therefore an end
When deep in your soul
You know that is not true
Yet it allows us to play the game
On the journey each has chosen
In a useless parameter in infinity to
Maybe modify some current behavior
I wish I knew where this stuff
Comes from or if it makes sense
To anyone anywhere at all
I guess History will be the judge
Nevermind
Where this should have stopped.
Ahh Scheisse
Now I remember where it came from
An alleged news broadcast where
Info is used by distract not inform
I heard some commentator make a
Loose lipped crazy comment that history
Will judge us if we don’t save democracy
Really. Really. I am now so afraid of how
History will judge us to save something
That we made up which doesn’t work
Like its purported purpose is supposed to
Wouldn’t we be much better off if we contemplated the miracle that we are all made up of atoms and molecules that somehow coagulate into the appearance of humanoids and somehow we can communicate with each other to make all this stuff up in the first place. While traveling through the cosmos on a relatively comfortable green blue spaceship.
That might be historic.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
It is music to my ears
Even Christmas music
Except……
It regurgitates an already
Indoctrinated message
By a wide array of artists
In various genres
Of celebrating the birth
Of a teacher
Instead of his teachings
Of peace and forgiveness
Helping the poor
Healing the sick
Comforting the infirmed
Slipping in that “that” baby
In-different circles would
Be considered a bastard
Was a king or lord that
Will somehow reign
Forever and ever
Where though….oh yeah
On that invisible throne
Somewhere in the clouds
But…only if you believe
I believe that is called
The Tinkerbell effect
All because some book
That was written long ago
With inaccuracies and
Misinformation edited
By kings for convenience
And you guessed it… control
Teachers don’t rule
They guide
With the humility such
That properly taught
The students will
Carry on the lessons
Ooopsie….nope
The choir is too busy
Singing incantations
Of sacrificing one’s divinity
For and from an impossible birth
Forget the alleged miracle part
Of immaculate conception
I’m talking about being born
As a white Caucasian from
A place where there were
How can I put this
………………No Caucasians
Ooopsie
Also………
Initiating a child’s
First disassociaton
Of parental rules to
Be kind respectful but
Wary of strangers into
Go sit on that man’s lap
Tell him your consumption
Of electronics and plastic
Landfill fill fatal fantasies
Who is supposedly adhering
To some morality clause by
Seeking behavior modification
Towards good yet merely control
Under an ever watching eye
When in reality we know he
Delivers more of that garbage
To rich kids then poor kids
Regardless their behavior
Not sure if that is what
Christ would do????
“Ever wonder why we are
Fucked up as a race?”
– Bill Hicks
Enjoy the music
At the airport
If a thief stole your
Murse or purse
If you shouted
There’s a bomb
In there
Who would get
In more trouble?
Nevermind… that is
A rhetorical question
To lead this post
As that would be an
Untestable theory
Any way in anyway
Flying in and of itself is fun
When you realize you are
Voluntarily stepping in to
A large aluminum tube
Crammed with other people
Breathing the same
Clean *cough sniffle* air
That is about to be
Suspended in the atmosphere
At either side of 600 mph
Amongst the clouds
Over a spinning sphere
Hurling through the cosmos
At over one million MPH
Before slowing down quickly
To land miraculously safe
Looking smugly down at
Big and little boxes around
Gray lines filled with toy cars
While self testing your
Geographical knowledge
Planning and packing is good
Wondering what you will forget
Getting up early is the best part
Driving to the airport whilst
Constantly calculating time as
Check-ins are getting easier
Now largely void of humans
Even waiting as you eat the
Most expensive breakfast
You’ll ever eat is okay too
Be damned the captive consumer
Then…
“First thing on my list tonight… airport security. Tired of this shit. There’s too much of it; there’s too much security at the airport.
//
Haven’t found anything yet! Haven’t found one bomb in one bag! And don’t tell me “well, the terrorists know their bags are gonna be searched so now they’re leaving their bombs at home.” There are no bombs.
The whole thing is f*cking pointless! And it’s completely without logic! There’s no logic at all!
They’ll take away a gun, but let you keep a knife! Well what the f*ck is that? In fact, there’s a whole list of lethal objects they will allow you to take on board.
Theoretically, you could take… a knife, an ice pick, a hatchet, a straight razor, a pair of scissors, a chainsaw, 6 knitting needles, and a broken whiskey bottle, and the only thing they’re gonna say to you is “that bag has to fit all the way under the seat in front of you.”
//
Airport security is a stupid idea, it’s a waste of money, and it’s only there for one reason, to make white people feel safe. That’s all. The illusion, the feeling and illusion of safety cause the authorities know they can’t make an airplane completely safe; too many people have access.”
– George Carlin
“Airport Security”
Performed prior to “9/11”
Though it is absolutely relevant today.
Regardless of what color anyone’s epidermis is, I am not sure how any individual can feel safe, when they have essentially been forced to remove their shoes and belt.
Marched through a full body screening device with almost bare feet planted on specific markings as you are told to raise your arms into a pseudo torture position, hoping your unbelted pants don’t fall off.
At the same time you are separated from your identity… *keys, wallet and phone. Being rolled and conveyed through its own routine** screening.
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Keys – protecting “things” you “borrow” & love
Wallet – holding ID & money to keep traveling
Phone – showing your only “boarding” “pass”
As you won’t be able to keep an eye on it or run after it. So safe and secure. Where is the psyche safety in that?? A commonplace violation is still a violation.
Compelled chronologically by artificial necessity to be at a location that you might otherwise travel to another way.
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Routine, as how could anyone possibly stay alert after watching various shades of gray on a screen for hours on end while mindlessly chit-chating with coworkers who would obviously rather be anywhere else.
Other than having found a government job that has been layered into the economy so people have things to do to feed their family.
Which will always continue to add layers upon layers because people keep adding people to the economy as a matter of routine. Even though their spawn may wind up in careers of guiding their fellow cattle through a series of fences and conveyer belts.
For the brief sensation of flying in an aluminum tube.
Please put your tray tables up and your setback forward.
Thank you for traveling Convoluted Air
Hope you enjoyed this flight.
Knowing what we know now
How do we unknow
What no longer
Not only
Does not serve all
Bipedal earthling artists
But rather is detrimental
To our divine evolution
The bondage of human suffering
Begins with the bondage
Of human beliefs
Where different sections
Of different sects
Varied by geography
Or imaginary borders
Lay literal claim
To an invisible force
“An energy field created by all living things.It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together.”
– Obi-Wan Kenobi
Into that of invisible men
That were fabricated
Eons ago to explain
The seemingly unexplainable
With variations on a theme
Of how to behave peaceably
Get along together with
The humility of understanding
Everyone’s differences
Lest of course they differ
……….Slightly………
“Personally, I think it’s a bunch of shit. Well I mean, life is sacred? Who said so? God?
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?
Thousands of years, and all the best wars too, the bloodiest, most brutal wars fought all based on religious hatred, which is fine with me.
Anytime a bunch of holy people want to kill each other, I’m a happy guy.”
– George Carlin
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So now that we know that
Literally metaphorically
Actually and comedically
How do we unknown that
To free the collective
From their suffering
Both pointed and perceived
That we may accomplish
True freedom and peace
Maybe we need
To invent
A global sized
Men In Black
Flashy thing
To eradicate
From our minds
All of the biblical
Mistaken indoctrinations
Like a root program
Imbedded in our
Hard drive of
Illogical beginnings
An irrational flooding
By a supreme being
Guilty of globalcide
Letting the survivors
Divide themselves into
Made up hierarchies
Tribes with violent leaders
Who fought over
Not water or food
But rather because
God would help them win
If they followed “his” laws
Which did not apply to “him”
Guilty once again of murder
Known as filial-cide
After “sending” his son
To teach and guide by example
When that didn’t work
He “allowed” him to be killed
“Thanks dad”
– Jesus Christ
Scapegoating society’s sins
As the bizarre justification
“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
BS like that and all the rest
Has befallen our collective psyche
Causing a whole lot of
Mistrust and suspicion
Simply because someone
Doesn’t look like you
Or sound like you
Too many conjuring up
Similar images of
Omniscient bogeyman
When in reality
All were spawned
From the same
Mother
Earth
How do we not
Know that?
Perhaps because
That is not
What is
Known
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
If we could only
“Imagine”
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…. Aha-ah…
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace… You…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world… You…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
– John Lennon
Looking at the world through a windshield. 