The blurred lines
Are written with
Detailed accuracy
Setting precedents
For the President
TV shows like
“The West Wing”
“Scandal”
“House Of Cards”
“Designated Survivor”
“Billions”
Just to name a few
Where life imitates art
Stead of art imitating life
Why
Because
Housing and
Feeding one’s family
Is too mundane
So the carrot
Of consumerism
Takes hold of
Waning attention spans
Enticing everyone to
Keep ahead of the Jones’s
In the hopes life will have
More meaning
With more stuff
Sold between
Collusion and criminality
Treason and tweets
Deals and deceptions
As no one would
Knowingly
Or willfully
Conduct themselves
In the manner of
What is viewed
On the telescreen
While neither trying
To manifest a conspiracy
Nor perpetuate one
For example by
Blaming Hollywood
We all each have
Our own responsibility
In playing this game
How we choose to play
Is entirely on each individual
Accepting irrational
Immoral outlandish
Trumped up arguments
As salve for a bruised ego
By desperately
Wanting to believe
That an outsider
Could fix this
Alleged democracy
Though it is merely
A dog and pony show
With the tail
Wagging the dog
As the rest are
Ponying up
To their puppet master
Dangling by ropes
Strong enough
To be hung by
For being
Fact and truth
Manipulative
Accomplices
“News”
Blurred its way
Into entertainment
As soon as
They were referred to
As “shows”
Profit centers
Peddling disinformation
Between the featured
Advertisements that “pay”
To keep the drama
On the air
And the people
Fighting amongst themselves
Over concepts
That keep them separate
Nothing blurry in the following
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‘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
There is no such thing as
Immigration
* “It’s a round world
Last time I checked”
Everybody is just here
Moving around
Of course
But still
Just here
As for other
Cosmological life forms
That may or may not have visited
Or even stayed
They too are
Nowhere / now here
In other words
It is best we
Treat all
As either
Invited guests or
Spawns of Gaia consciousness
Because if their shoes
Were on our feet and
(If they even have shoes)
We were them
Or US were they
We’d realize that
Is what would best
Serve us
.
* Bill Hicks
Time is a healer
.
Einstein says
Time doesn’t exist
.
I say
.
Linear perception of an event
Isolated as a held moment
Changes one’s perspective
In such a way as to alter
Its perceived affect and effect
Trust the universe
It has all its trust in you
All will be ok
At least to an armchair peacenik
Forget the quid pro quo
For that is a given
By keeping an eye on the money
Since that is the distraction
Ask why your tax dollars
400 milion of them
Are leaving the country any way
“The State Department funding included $115 million for a broad array of purposes, to buy American-produced weapons through the Foreign Military Financing program, but also to provide advisers and training to boost Ukraine’s NATO interoperability: English language labs, medical equipment and improvised bomb simulators. The funds could also pay for spare parts, sustainment and training for previously purchased U.S. gear.”
– defensenews.com
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That is merely military industrial complex corporate welfare socialism trading your tax dollars by “giving” other countries play money to keep US proletarians producing and consuming.
Waving flags and excrementing their opinion on the “evil’s” of “socialism”.
Why?
Whew, I could leave that right there.
.
“What’s gonna happen to the Arms industry, when we realise we’re all one? HAHA! It’s gonna fuck up the economy!
The economy that’s fake anyway! This would be a real bummer. So you can see why the government’s cracking down on the idea of experiencing unconditional love.”
– Bill Hicks
.
There are a myriad of answers.
Here’s one.
The Pavlovian puppet people puppies are so well trained by ringing the “evil’s” of “socialism” bell, they don’t even know they are participating in it.
.
.
“We spend a lot of time talking about the value of an education in America.
But if education is such a valuable investment, why do we spend more than eight times as much of our federal budget on the military than schooling?
One indicator of a nation’s priorities lies in its federal budget. And by that logic, America’s budget makes clear that we prioritize defense over all other expenditures — by a wide margin. In 2015, military expenditures accounted for about 54 percent of our discretionary spending, according to The National Priorities Project. In contrast, education accounted for only six percent of the budget.”
– businessinsider.com
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“People don’t want anything near ‘em… except military bases. They don’t mind that do they? They like that. Give ‘em an army base, give ‘em a navy base, makes ‘em happy, why? Jobs! Jobs! Self-interest! Even if the base is loaded with nuclear weapons, THEY DON’T GIVE A FUCK!!!
They say “well, I’ll take a little radiation if I can get a job!” Working people have been fucked over so long in this country, those are the kind of decisions they’re left to make.”
– George Carlin
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The bigger picture is that the military industrial complex budget is nearly a Trillion $ 1,000,000,000,000.
Strange thing to spend money on, in an allegedly “Christian” nation.
Don’t know much about that Jesus fellow, however, have never gleaned any perceptions, writings or myths that he advocated any one voluntarily give the “state” a sixth of their income to use on wmds.
Wreaking havoc terror and fear on people who would perhaps, just like to eat and care for their families.
Perspective:
1 Trillion divided by 220 million people = $4,500 per each per year
.
“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 defenses 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
Controlled stimulation
For mental masturbation
Guiding one to distraction
With predictable reaction
Impeding our evolution
Ingrained with consumption
Between disinformation
Peak interval saturation
Lose ability to function
Viewing all the corruption
Brain cell reduction
Thinking suffocation
No more imagination
Rhetoric regurgitation
Impossible cessation
Party line explanation
Glued to your station
Full capacity absorption
Lost human connection
Turn off for redemption
With no exception
Soul may give absolution
Or gear towards a solution
“No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.”
― P.J. O’Rourke
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What would it take
Save a live confession
With verifiable proof
Via a “smoking gun” and
Pool of concrete
Scientifically and church
Substantiated evidence
Plus corroborating testimony
By uncoerced witnesses
Including tax return revelation
For the maga hat wearing crowd
To contemplate that perhaps
Donald may just not be the
All wonderful being he claims to be?
.
Just asking for a friend…….
Recent and soon
Are rendered useless
Ancient and modern
Fair about the same
Long ago and future
Blend together nicely
Yesterday and tomorrow
Don’t even count
Beginning and end
Have the value of zero
In the cosmos
Which is
Never ending
Never beginning
Where
Nothing is original
And
Everything is original
Merely repeated
Ad nauseam
Discovering that
There is neither
Time or space
To travel nor bend
Only this moment
Experiencing life
As sparks of
The divinity
With all of the other
Sparks of divinity
At least
In terms of infinity
Plus DC’s distracting puppet
Of course 45’s henchman
Thinks he can (or will)
Get away with whatever
Because he’s done it before
On a grandiose scale
In the dark of night
Plus in the light of day
“On the day of 9/11, while the remains of the twin towers and WTC7 were still smoldering, one of Mayor Giuliani’s first concerns was clearing away the evidence from the crime scene.
Despite reassurances that the rapid removal of the evidence from Ground Zero was important for emergency access, this process went far beyond merely clearing a path for rescue workers.
As Erik Lawyer, founder of Firefighters for 9/11 Truth points out, the massive operation to haul away over 1.5 million tons (3 Billion pounds) of debris and to sell much of the steel to Chinese firm Baosteel at discount prices was not just an overzealous approach to clearing the area, but was itself a crime.”
– corbettreport.com
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As for Rudy’s “Insurance”
I’m guessing everyone has
Enough on everyone else
To run a 12 shell shell game
Letting all the players play
Without any repercussions
Or ejection from the game
Just a greed pig #uck $ grab
Putin
Trump
Giuliani
McConnell
Graham
Nunes
Mueller
Hannity
Carlson
Ingraham
Schiff
Conway
Shuffling around
What they value
At your expense
As to who can pick up
The empty conch and
Speak “freely” (scripted)
Is anyone’s next guess
To cleverly distract the
Millions of minions
From truth and actualities
Corruption and the
Stench of manipulation
Under everyone’s noses
.
Speaking of a “Conch”
“Lord Of The Flies”
“I don’t care for this world anymore
I just want to live my own fantasy
Faith has brought me
To these shores
What was meant to be
Is now happening
I’ve found that I like this
Living in danger
Living on the edge it feels…
It makes me feel as one
Who cares now what’s right
Or wrong it’s reality
Killing so we survive
Wherever we may roam
Wherever we may hide
We’ve got to get away
I don’t want existence to end
We must prepare ourselves
For the elements
I just want to feel like we’re strong
We don’t need a code of morality
I like all the mixed emotion
And anger
It brings out the animal
The power you can feel
And feeling so high
On this much adrenalin
Excited but scary
To believe what we’ve become
Saints and sinners
Something within us
We are lord of the flies
Saints and sinners
Something willing us
To be lord of the flies”
.
– Iron Maiden
The drips and drabs
Of shock and awe…..shit
Really, another day
Of nothing getting done
Congresspersons
Poorly performing in
The dog and pony show
Of endless he said she said
Mindless distractions
Like first time drama students
Primping and preening
In front of an audience
Backstabbing and hiding
Behind the curtains
The trouble with
Getting nothing done
Is that it is
Harder than it looks
Like reality TV stars
Pretending to be pretending
Not to be noticed
By being noticeable
For if their mission
Is truly meant to
Serve the “people”
The first thing
They could / should do
Is follow and apply
Thomas Jefferson’s advice
Regarding governments
Dismantle what we have
Start a new paradigm shift
Evolve into something
That matches our best desires
“As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.”
– Thomas Jefferson
For as allegedly good
That democracy
Is supposed to be
It is inherently corrupt
Because it was
Designed by humans
Which is not to say
A better way of living
Could not be created
(After all it is our “right”)
Plus within our capacity
It is just a matter of
Detaching ourselves
From what doesn’t work
If democracy was a car
You would return it
Under the lemon law
.
Perhaps we could use
The Thomas Friedman model
That ‘The World Is Flat”
(No, not really) rather
We are all
Interconnected and interdependent
Reliant on each other globally
All we have to do
Is become aware and
Start behaving like it
Transcending borders
Languages religion race
Time zones etc…..
I’m sure we could
Accomplish all that
Even if we did it in
Drips and drabs
