"Hard Drivin' Man"

                                                           Previously, I have utilized this line :

                                                                " Have in your Hold the Great Image " .

                             I want to thicken the understanding of "Hold" .   

                             Our Society and Culture employs "Hold" in various uses, "Hold on, I'm coming" is the one that surfaces as most common, but Buddhism and Zen utilize "Hold" as a Mental Construct, meaning, 'Hold' 'means', to 'carry about' and never let go .   This 'Hold' is VITAL to Spiritual >Progress< although it is hidden somewhat because Spirituality isn't exactly OBVIOUS to us reg'lar Folk .   Holding manifests as a Default Setting, meaning,  whenever there is a mental lapse in attention continuity, whatever is being 'Held' surfaces for Consciousness Re-focus . 

                             I argue that We must 'Hold' that >>>TRUMP MUST BE STOPPED<<< .   "Holding" here functions as a REMINDER that We are AT WAR --- and Our Attention SHOULD NOT be Deflected by outside stimulations that seek to KEEP Us from Revolutionary Thinking and  Reformative ACTIONS .  Questions arrive :  Must we 'Hold' that 'Mind' 24-7 ?   Or can we "Put it all down" and seek "R & R" at the end of Our day ?   2 words :   BOTH .

                            I won't put 'IT" down, I blog "for a living" and the Question of HOW ---BY WHAT MEANS can trump be stopped is EVER-PRESENT in my 24-7 Mind, plus, I KNOW the INESTIMABLE VALUE of "Holding" because I have been a Zen Student for what seems like a KAZILLION Lifetimes...but hey....that's just me .

                           

                             

Weaponized Sacrifice

                                                          What can be done PHYSICALLY to help dampen the Effects of FASCIST Economics ?   On a personal level we can employ SACRIFICE as a Weapon to inflict >Pain< on those business and corporations that are nothing short of trumpian SYMPATHIZERS, those that have knelt to trump, kissed his ass ring and otherwise accorded him the most HEINOUS gratuities .   We can BOYCOTT specific items that DEFINTITELY Effect "the bottom line" .   I have noted elsewhere that "Boycott" has NOT "been deployed" as a PERSONAL and PUBLIC  >>>WEAPON<<< because Personal and Public SACRIFICE has NOT reached the Awareness of "Jus' Reg'lar" Folk .  I find that "IT" DEPLORABLE .   But here now the far-reaching "tentacle" of 'self-indulgence' and the INABILITY of americans to "Go Without" DESPITE the DEMANDS of 'War-time Footing' .   There are ANCINET CRIES of "What can just ONE person DO?" and  "My actions DON'T MATTER" .   2 words :                                                                          

                                                                      BULLSHIT !

                               

"Militant Idealism"

                                                           The quasi-Hippie Warrior-of-the-People, Nicole Wallace, has repeatedly asked her guests to supply ACTIONS that us "Common Folk" can do in order to help Neutralize the daily and heavy bombardment of PROPAGANDA .    Her guests have offered Little save Charity-minded Actions that DO NOT help Neutralize Propaganda .  Volunteering in soup kitchens and the like  ARE >>>>commendable<<<   but I am hard-pressed to believe that such Efforts can advance the "Site-Specific" Tactics that can CONFRONT ongoing Iniquities that Assault not only Our Intelligence but Our Hearts and Souls as well .   

                             I have warned my Gentle Readers that I am an avowed "Militant Idealist" and this Militarism is NOT averse to Individual Resistance in the Forms of PERSONAL SACRIFICE and Public Constraint .   My Argument is based on the term "War Footing", meaning, the REALITY  that We, AS A NATION, ---> MUST<--- execute those Tactics that Effect, even tangentially, the CORE of trumpist (terminal) Capitalism, which now has been rightfully identified as "Crony Capitalism" and stronger still, "Kleptocracy" .   Can we-IN FACT- "Hit them WHERE IT HURTS" ???   Two words :   YES !!!

                           

"GET SMART"

                                                           There's a scene in the ancient TV series "Get Smart" : a situation develops between "KAOS" agents and those of "CONROL" who have positioned themselves to form a 'Mexican Stand-off' and Agent Maxwell Smart is convinced that  NOTHING will happen------ as he tries to step away he hears a shot fired, than another and another and another until ALL the agents lie on the ground either dead or wounded .   Agent Smart snides*  "...of course all it take is ONE wise  guy" .   I LOVED "Get Smart" and NOT just because of  "Agent 99" [Barbara Feldon] .   "Those were the days" .

                             I watch and listen to the Admirals and Generals invited as guests to both MSNOW an CNN ,    and as a group they register GREAT Concern regarding the Mexican Stand-off existing presently .    They are concerned that there IS "just one guy" who can brainlessly fire a 'round' that results in CATASTROPHIC FAILURE ---> the destruction of MULTIPLE oil refineries, tank reservoirs, and coastal pumping facilities that would then cause Immense if not MASSIVE Damage to oil and petroleum transport ABOVE and BEYOND the Destruction that has already occurred .

                             

"Mexican Stand-off"

                                                           We're gonna be "here", awhile, 'here' being a state of "stalemate" and "Mexican Stand-off" .   I had to resort to getting a decent description (definition) of 'Mexican Standoff' from Wikipedia .    Here it is .  

                                                  " 'Mexican Stand-off' is a confrontation where no strategy exists that allows any party to achieve victory .  Anyone initiating aggression might trigger their own demise .   At the same time, the parties are unable to extract themselves from the situation ... "  

                               "When you steal, steal from the best."   The above may NOT "be the best" but the above is clear and understandable and that's all we need for today's consideration .

                              To >>>>ME<<<<<  the "Situation" in the Strait of Hormuz is OBVIOUS as a 'Mexican Stand-off' and I wonder WHY 'Mexican Stand-off' was NOT   IMMEDIATELY 'given' to the public as a way to Understand the present "stalemate" a term that hasn't been applied either .   I'm OLD, and me and Mine learned about Mexican Stand-off (s) at an early age through contact with films and movies and even Early TV .   I have NO 'love' for present day journalists who IGNORE Pop-Culture references, and cinematic tropes .   I mean there's that brutal scene in Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" where members of a gang are standing with their weapons pointed at each other, and where just one shot will be the extinction of all .  "Killer" scene pun intended .

                             

"The Great Society"

                                                           Back in "The Day"---MY Day, the early 70's, which seems like 27 "FOREVERS" and 15 HUNDRED Lifetimes, there were 'slogans' that were utilized as Inspirations as well as communications among those of Us who Protested the War in Vietnam and the Government that waged it .   Further, there were Protests over Civil Rights Inequities that UNIFIED an entire Generation .  We had "Skin In the Game", meaning, OUR classmates, team-mates, friends and cronies were being shipped off to Vietnam AGAINST OUR WILLS to wage a War NO ONE WANTED --->   EXCEPT THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX .   We weren't just getting 'Fucked' we were getting RAPED and we Protested to Express Our AGONY !!!!!!!!!    

                            EVERY DAY PROTESTS Registered as UNIVERSAL MALCONTENT, and it FORCED    LBJ and his    to End the Carnage in Vietnam .   America SURRENDED and was a BETTER Nation for it .   You can see "IT" rite ????

Groucho Marx delivers ...

                                                           I utilize Quotations because, at their optimal, they  >>Inspire<< .   A look at 'Inspire' offers this :  within Inspiration is s-p-i-r  short form of Spirit, and Spirit is the Life Energy not only of the Universe but ALL its Inhabitants .   Thus, the employment of Quotations is the employment of Spirit, where employment connotes >>>Infusion<<< .   If we are "Dis-Spirited", lacking in Spirit, Quotations afford an Infusion of Spirit, thereby imbuing us with the so-called Energy of Life .   'IT' helps us passed our "limitations" and can even Guide us toward a HEALTHIER Direction .   

                                The second "Fail Safe" Mechanism in which I rarely indulge is, personal depictions, meaning 'stories' of my Life .   I must note that these stories are Extreeeemly subjective, and that the only Reason I would employ them is to make my Gentle Readers Aware of mistakes, sins, and Cosmic  >transgressions< that have led me to misfortune, Misery and Suffering ALL OF WHICH SHOULD BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS.    My Duty to my Gentle Readers is to AID them in their own Life Journeys .    Here it is where my own FAILURES must be BILLBOARDED so that My Gentle Readers get a "Heads uP" to the disasters and calamities that ABOUND in Existence as TRAPS and PITFALLS .

                                 The Goal of Pure Authorship is to ADVANCE CIVILIZATION --- to Contribute SOUND  Advice and  offer WISDOM as an Agent of  Change and Transformation .   This THIS is what I learned from Hermann Hesse and SUPERIOR Others .   

                                   My Mentor the Great and Wise Groucho Marx delivers this :

                                          

                                  "Is that 3 quotes ?   Well put in another and make it a gallon."