Muddled

                                                           I confess :   I thought I knew the Nature of  Muddle, and for the most part I do, but there remains the muddle in "the Sage seeks to muddle the Mind of the empire" and THAT muddle is muddling* .    On the surface muddle is another word for "DISTRACTION", used by trump effusively :   Propaganda IS >muddle< and "IT" has been SAVAGELY Successful .   But why would the Sage attempt this Muddle ?   Reason asserts it CAN'T-BE the Same muddle .  If not, then What ???

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                                 I am being called by a batch of fresh kim-chee I prepared yesterday afternoon, plus the Sun is BRILLIANT and my own Inner Children are SCREAMING for "Recess" .

                                I will work on finding a proper description for Muddle .   Please forgive an old man .

                          From Looney Tunes :    "THAT'S ALL FOLKS".

Muddle Trouble

                                                           You can see "IT" rite ?    White, non-educated folks, those who don't like to read, ACT in the same was as CHILDREN .   Children LOVE Cartoons, {AS DO I} and what better cartoon IS there than trump ?????   Parents, check that, GOOD parents, try to expose their offspring to Learning that helps identify "Good" and "Evil", Right and Wrong {Rwong},,,if this Early Learning is NOT accessed,, then, results are DISASTROUS .   Look at the american electoral Profile .   In the same way that Children are EASILY scared, so it is with trump's "adult children", both are susceptible to Lies, Deceit, gross Fiction and in Modern Times,,  PROPAGANDA .   Here it is where the father comforts his children by telling them HE will PROTECT them from MONSTERS, in Modern Instance, DEMOCRATS >>>> "I Alone Can" 'Fix' "It" ;;; I ALONE CAN PROTECT YOU BUT YOU GOTTA VOTE FOR ME .

                             I will address cartoons at a later date, but I will tease you with Truth that I consider the Characters of "Looney Tunes" manifestations of my own, PERSONAL, Psyche .   I have ISSUES !!!!

                             Ya-gotta ask,  WHY doe the Sage seek URGENTLY to muddle the Mind of the Empire ?    What is >muddle<  ???

Miss Tickle

                                                                          TAO TE CHING

                                                                                XLIX

                          "The Sage has no Mind .   He takes as his own the Mind of the People .

                            Those who are good, I treat as good .  In doing so, I gain in goodness.

                            Those who are of good faith. I also have faith in .  In so doing I gain in good faith .

                            The Sage in his attempt to distract the mind of the empire, seeks urgently to muddle it .

                            The people all have something to occupy their eyes and ears and

                                        the Sage treats them like children .

                  I KNOW you qids* see it ;   "...treats them like CHILDREN ".    

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                              I have actively sought to acquire "the Mind of the People", to be their Voice, blah, blah, blah, blah, BLAH .   I  WANT to be the "Universal Everyman" as is "Piers the Ploughman" .   I have always VALUED that the Sage "has no Mind"  because it is SOOOO  >Zen< .   But this shit on the bottom, what does Lao Tzu MEAN when he writes that the Sage "seeks URGENTLY to muddle the Mind of the Empire" .   Until now, "IT" troubled me, and Troubled me GREATLY .

                            But wait...there's more ... 

The Little Dumber Boy

                                                           Republican {trumpistanian} campaign rhetoric has reached something of a 'fever' pitch :  they have resorted to FEAR in order to "energize" the "base" [comprised primarily of non-college educated voters, mostly White] as an Effort to ensure [that] they actually Vote .   Pundits, opinionists* and the Brain-ful* have agreed that the republicans "have nothing left" on which to promote, given the desultory vacuity of trump's own speech and savagely self-serving 'policies' .   

                         In keeping with my most recent Effort to utilize "Kiddie Lit" as a scaffolding to view PROPAGANDA,,  I offer  "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" .  The original title is :  "The Shepherd Boy And The Wolf", and it's one of Aesop's Fables .  We must s---t---r---e---t---c---h our Imagination to apply it to republican' s use of FEAR and I do so via Authorial Prerogative .   

                         We know the story, it has been "ingrained" in our Collective Psych as a MEANS to keep our children from 'telling lies' for `amusement`, as did the Shepherd Boy, and to keep them "on the straight and narrow", a Path of Honesty {"Honesty is the Best Policy"} .   >"IT"< gets UGLY in Modern Times, as Paranoia, is expressed in Fear---Fear that the democrats will 'over-run' the Country and with it, the elimination of Ante-Bellum Sovereignty the South, so TREASURED by White Racists and Bigots .   

                         The Shepherd Boy PROOVED he was a LIAR, after having fooled the Villagers not once, but TWICE .   The second time was all it took for the Villagers to tag this nit-wit kid a LIAR .  Recall this :   "Fool me once shame on you, fool me TWICE SHAME ON ME" .   

People of the Lie

                                                           Some of us may enter the Realm of Childhood Studies unprotected because we consider ourselves 'normal' ;  others, like me, [of my ilk], may be susceptible to dread, bitterness and remorse .  It is imperative to fully appreciate that the Study of Children's Literature, is a Journey into one's own rearing and as such, an actual Investigation into the parenting skills or lack thereof of one's own .   As I have stated in the Before Times,  we ARE our Parents, unless and until we confront our Rearing, [up-bringing] , and 'become' our 'Own Persons' .   

                             There are Protections .    I strongly Urge my Gentle Readers to procure CHILDHOOD and SOCIETY by Erik H. Erikson "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award" .   There are others of EXTREME Value, among them :  TOXIC PARENTS by Dr. Susan Forward ;   THE ANGRY BOOK by Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin ;   PEOPLE OF THE LIE by M. Scott Peck, M.D. ;   THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED  A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth also by M. Scott Peck .   These Texts are TRANSFORMATIVE so be WARNED .  

Wasteland

                                                           I have insisted that we, as a NATION, have been living trump's UNRESOLVED Childhood Issues .  We don't know if trump's mom read to him or didn't, I speculate she didn't, and as a result trump favored his father, to the point where it was his father that dominated his life, I suspect, at his mother's expense .   There is vibrant speculation that trump was a "problem child", a one who could not receive even ordinary lessons with any receptivity whatsoever .   His father bribed teachers and probably entire school districts, to prevent his son's grades from becoming Public, as he did in trump's collegiate years .   "Numb-skull" gets us there .    His mother was quoted, "I hope he NEVER enters politics because he would RUIN everything".   "Truer words..." .

                           Further, I insist that trump and his childhood can be utilized EFFECTIVELY because he encapsulates all that is Negative in an adult {a-dolt} Human {hominid} .   By Studying trump we can determine how  NOT TO be raised, how NOT TO >>>Be .  Problem with that is = he isn't just TOXIC he is RADIOACTIVE and even the slightest exposure to his life results in DEADLY Contamination--- which is why the Generals that 'served' him were FORCED to leave, less they DIE from his Radioactive Lethality .   

                        Trump's Radioactivity has turned america into a WASTELAND .  

...Intensive SCARE...

                                                           Yesterday, before yesterday reached noon, I was satisfied with what I had produced in my blogs,,, it's rare, but it happens .   Outdoors was the second day of an almost VIOLENT Wind Storm, a perfect excuse to remain indoors and allow my body to rest and recover {I HATE THAT WORD > RECOVER BECAUSE OF RE-COVER} from what I suspect was an ALIEN form of the Flu, which I shouldn't have experienced in that I got inoculated a couple of weeks ago .   I wrote a gag for it :   I was so sick I had to check myself into Intensive SCARE .   

                          The afternoon unfolded like a fucking night-mare, democrats believing that a LANDSLIDE was somehow GUARANTEED, that the trumpistanians were eating their livers because of their impending SLAUGHTER, and trump's non-stop propagandal BOMBARDMENT straight-outta Orwell's BIG BROTHER'S maw .   Trump has FULLY re-positioned the Untied* States to be an ALLY of putin, which means trump is giving putin MONIES so that putin can attack and KILL AMERICANS .  I mean, shit, why not "eliminate the middle man" and have ICE Agents savage Camp Lajeune, cap a few soldiers in their brains, and get out in time for supper at macdonalds ?    Trump could save on jet fuel AND diesel thereby re-establishing Frugality as VIRTUE .   Trump is the APEX of Virtue, is he not ???