Era of Error

                                                           "Captain Obvious" was overheard stating "Words matter" .   I have ALWAYS been in contention with Zen and its "No dependence on words or letters" .  I insist even Zen NEEDS ---> Words if it is to be expressed verbally .    I told my Zen Sword Students that we need a 'WORKING VOCABULARY' if we and Zen are to be properly received and and Understood ---THAT'S why we need the Sutras and Sastras, as they provide such Words .  We need to become familiar with the words of Communism and subsequently its definition(s) --- Socialism as well, of course.  

                             We live in an Era {ERROR} where the words of Propaganda generate HORRIFIC Effects , but we must NOT succumb to "ITS" deleterious manifestations .  We can avoid "Pointless Suffering" by familiarizing ourselves with the speech and vernacular that has ruthlessly victimized the Kind and Unassuming ---  Propaganda CAN BE NEUTRALIZED by UNREMITTING EFFORT, Effort that employs Logic and Reasoning and a fucking STRONG Lexicography that enhances our Working Vocabulary .   

                             Perhaps a modest definition of Propaganda may be "Weaponized Words" .   "IT" ain't just "A War of the Worlds" [tho it is}, "IT" is the War of the WORDS .   I mean, shit, WE HAVE A HEAD START because trump "don't speak the english no good" .  We Fight Power with Power, and therefore we need to Fight Words with Words .  

                            This is just how "IT" is .

Silk

                                                           This from "Co-Pilot Search" :

                                             "The main difference between Communism and Socialism is that Socialism seeks economic equality through democratic reforms and public ownership within a political system , while Communism aims for a classless, stateless Society achieved through revolution and overthrow and total collective ownership ."  

                       OBVIOUSLY Socialism  APPEARS to be "Non-Violent" whereas Communist sanctions both Revolution and Overthrow, 2 somethings aligned with Force,,, where Force can be VIOLENT .   

                        Trump has weaponized Communism, which implies Violent Revolution, and subsequently considers such Revolutionary Violence as TREASONOUS .   From the quote above we now KNOW that Socialism is NON-VIOLENT and purely dependent upon REFORM -->  RE FORM .   "IT" is NOT a "leap" to suggest that Politics and Political Discussion could and SHOULD lead to REFORM that has as its Goal Political Altruism .   We're talkin' Reformation NOT Revolution SILK not SANDPAPER , WORDS not BULLETS .  There is Nobility in one       Savagery in the other .

                        

Commie-lian

                                                            I am of the Belief that Familiarity begets Tolerance {I love quoting myself} .   In this vein was mined the following definition of Communism :

                                     "...a hypothetical stage of Socialism based on ownership  of all property by the Community as a whole... "   and further; "...to be characterized by a classless and stateless Society and the equal distribution of economic goods, to be achieved through revolutionary and dictatorial, rather than gradual means."  

                           I found it necessary to read The Communist Manifesto and my copy is among "The Norton Critical Editions" which was/is edited by Frederic L. Bender and includes "Prefaces by Marx and Engels ---Annotated Text ---Sources and Backgrounds ---History of Marxism --- Interpretation".

                           I appeared to be mentally Ill when I found a copy of Marx's Capital -- Volume 1, it is a BEHEMOTH  "weighing in" at ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED FORTY-ONE Pages which absolutely defines DAUNT .  I was able to devote barely three hours to IT before I decided I needed something else, something EZ-ER .   As Luck would have it I managed{somehow} to procure The Philosophy of Hegel edited by one Carl J. Friedrich to which I have devoted not even ONE second .  Both stand ready to be consumed should my mental illness abate somewhat --- but I am proud to have them as part of my George Orwell `Shelf` --- {Ridiculous of course} .  

                          In the "Manifesto"   there is one sentence that stands out, it is :

                                                 "Marx and Engels looked to class war and revolution to overturn the prevailing system .  Moreover, they viewed the proletarian revolution as inevitable and as historically determined by economic forces ."

                            Not only does this "look familiar" it FEELS familiar .

The Care in Scare

                                                           I would LOVE to keep "IT" on the level of Kiddie Lit description, and suggest that "Sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never hurt me" --- that trump is using words to attack and condemn "Socialist Democrats" and that these words, because of their self-nature, CANNOT inflict Harm upon ANYBODY, but that would be to Deny the Truth of american gullibility  and naivety ( ... ) .   Words DO hurt, EVRYONE KNOWS THAT .  Trump's labels and tags are WEAPONS , weapons that he and his wield with merciless Precision .   

                              Folks, Pundits, Brains and SUPER-Brains are insisting that trump, himself, is TERRIFIED of "Democratic Socialism", that what he FEARS is a DEFEAT delivered at the hands and Swords of Democrats ESPECIALLY the "Up and Coming" Socialists .  I'm not gonna use [the] "Blue Scare", instead, I'm gonna apply the tag, Blue CARE .   Korny* rite* ?   Red Scare versus Blue Care .  

                              For a while I had two Marxist-Leninists for house-mates --- these guys were my closest friends but I must confess, I HATED that I knew so little about popularized Communism, that I may have had to become familiar with their Ideologies so I could be a "good" friend ~~~~ but ultimately I just sed* Fuck it, I had my own issues as a struggling English Major, German Philosophies were NOT on my Agenda, so, I mean, there's THAT .  

Red Scars

                                                           "And the hits just keeeeeeep on comin' " .    Trump and his are now conjuring Communist Demons through the use of the 'NU' "Red Scare" .   BRILLIANT I say, true GENIUS .   Ya-gotta hand it to these freaks , they access Demonic Energies like they OWN all the Negativity on the Planet and dare I include the Universe .   It doesn't matter that trump may or may NOT be responsible for the Conjure, no one wants to give him credit for ANY sort of Intelligence but I am DONE with that .   Demons and Sorcerers do not need a High I.Q. they just need the Curses, and the Will to inflict Suffering on the "Huddled Masses" .    I mean, shit, ya jus'-gotta "Give credit where credit is due" .    I do so now.

                             We've learned that there were actually TWO "Red Scares" the first from 1917 to 1920 and the second from 1947 to 1954 :  it is the second within which trump was born --- he was born into the Red Scare as his birthdate indicates .  He was certainly VERY young,  but the so-called "after-effects" still influenced American Society and Culture --- I insist he was aware of the Red Scare as a kid, I also contend that, like certain commercials, the  "IT" stayed with him to surface now as Propaganda .   As the "Big Bad Wolf" he won't just "Huff and Puff and Blow your house down", he will huff and puff and SCARE YOU TO DEATH .   

                            Ya-gotta figure that Kennedy, too, was subject to the Red Scare Propaganda, remember that he and his brother made the Determination to Confront and Obstruct the Advance of Communism in Viet Nam .   Kennedy felt "obliged" to try and HALT the Advance and he and his embarked on a Campaign to rally Americans around the Flag of Democracy that he and his gain Sanction and Affirmation to enter War .   "We seen that movie" we KNOW "it don't end nice" .

T'ai / Peace

                                                                           11. T'ai  /  Peace

                                  "Everything on Earth is subject to change .  Prosperity is followed by decline :  this is the eternal law on Earth .   Evil can indeed be held in check  but not permanently abolished .  It always returns .  This conviction might induce melancholy, but it should not ;   it ought only to keep us from falling into illusion when good fortune comes to us .  If we continue mindful of the danger, we remain persevering and make no mistakes .   As long as man's inner nature remains stronger and richer than anything offered by external fortune, as long as he remains inwardly superior to fate, fortune will not desert him ."

Gullible's Travels

                                                           I find it IMPERATIVE to supply Context to trump, a Context that describes the Societal 'Milieu'  [so] that we may see OURSELVES in that very same Milieu .   It is "Self-Evident" that rump treats us all as "suckers", sees us as BENEATH him, economically and politically and I hazard, with prejudice, Intellectually .   "Don't give a sucker an even break', translates to, Don't give a sucker a FAIR DEAL, why ?  because they DON'T DESRVE IT and WHY don't they deserve it ?  because we are LESS-THANS >>>> UNWORTHY<<<< of not only a "Fair Deal" but the TRUTH as well .   

                           It is utterly PAINFUL to accept >gullible< because the BEST adjective may be >Innocent< .   Here it is where Innocence should serve as synonym which then makes the expression "Never give a sucker an even break" turn into  "ALWAYS take advantage of the INNOCENT" .   Ya can't miss this .

                           I'm leaving this here for now ------

                           Tare forward .