Cynical Faith

                                                          I just remembered I must prepare some cucumber kim chee .   "It" is a sure-fire recipe to help my dour evap------or--------ate .   sometimes just the "small things" may be enough to alter a dour disposition .   

                          A new oxymoron =  Cynical Faith .

Miss Construed

                                                            When the now infamous Steve Bannon informed us that his Intention was to DESTROY DEMOCRACY one beam, one board, one screw and one nail at a time, my reflex was to dismiss him with both SCORN and CONTEMPT.   I mean NO FUCKING WAY !!!   Look how RWONG I was, how wrong WE were .   Bannon took his Intentions to trump and was received with VIOLENT Enthusiasm, now we are living Bannon's Destruction via trump and trumpism .   When "Project 2026" arrived "IT" was the same, I mean HOW could "IT" NOT be recognized for anything BUT a "Communist Manifesto" 'look alike' ?   Still, democrats largely IGNORED the "Project's" Forecasts, very little was done to warn Good, Honest, and Decent Folks that THE GATES OF HELL WOULD BE OPENED .    

                             "Project 2025 (6)" only served to deepen my Cynicism .   If there was ANY >Anti-Project 2026< backlash it was scant and paltry just "Ho-Hum" from Status Quo loving democrats who figured as I did, that  NO FUCKING WAY WAS THIS GONNA-BE INSTITUTED .    

                             We've been taught that it is better to be Positive than be Negative.   Being Positive is dependent upon having SOMETHING about which TO BE Positive, and as far as scant and paltry go, we are, ALL OF US, hard-pressed to locate ANYTHING that can be construed as >>>Positive .   We are taught to "Look for 'Silver Linings' " amidst the THUNDERCLOUDS almost dead BLACK from the DEPTH of their structure and composition .   Not "Silver Linings" but DE-SILVA linings, linings that carry taint and noxious-ivity* that can be FELT as Shadow .  

Dour Power

                                                           I am hard-pressed NOT to add 'mean spirited' to the definition of dour, it may be `off ` in that being dour MAY lead to being 'mean spirited' which is just a short step to being Cruel .    To claim that trump is being "Mean Spirited" is to recognize that HITLER was also "Mean Spirited", an observation both HEINOUS and GROTESQUE .  Yet I FEEL that my own Spirit IS AFFECTED by being Dour, that my Spirit DOES indeed become Mean, a Mean-ness I inflict on my Self because of my own inability to INSTANTANEOUSLY  remove the Condition of Dour from my Presence here at this desk, before my screen.    This question just arrived, How can I USE my Dour ?

                                 Is to be dour to be Cynical ?   Definition of Cynic =  "a person who believes that people are motivated purely by self-interest rather than acting for honorable or unselfish reasons."   Further :  "a member of a School of Ancient Greek Philosophers, founded by Antisthenes,  marked by an ostentatious contempt for ease and pleasure" .   My Membership is MORE than Valid .

                                

"The beam in thy own eye"

                                                           ALL of Us would argue that a "Clear Mind" is absolutely NECESSARY to possess if  Observation  is to result in  Valid Conclusions   and a "proper" depiction of Reality .   Attaining a Clear Mind is surely a "proper" topic if the definition of "Global Citizen" is to be achieved which would then lead to Understanding --->  Influence resulting .   Obviously, I am at odds with my Self, being dour clouds one's Vision, dampens Creativity and hampers Imagination .    Being dour impedes one's "Flow" ,  meaning, just trying to get something on the screen becomes irritating, words don't arrive because Thinking is "jammed up";  blocked so to speak, although "CHOKED-UP" is far mor accurate .   I'm like the Strait of Hormuz, I'm choaked-up .

                           I try not to carry the previous day's alarms into a new morning, most often I am NOT successful .  The fact is, I NEED those 'alarms' because they provide the Topics I must consider for that day's blogs .    Each day is NOT "Fresh and New", quite the opposite .  As the WAR draaaaaaaags on, so too my most bitter Frustration and Anger and when THEY become "out of control" RAGE enters further depleting what little Resolve I SHOULD have .   

                          I am Angry at my own Country-Folks and Anger is code for FUCKING FURIOUS .

Dour Straits

                                                           I overslept a whole hour and got out of bed at 5'oclock.   I stood up--something wasn't "rite"*.  I took a few steps toward the toilet room, nothing bad there .  I settled into "Chairy-Chair" and did my Recitations, they were cloudy with emotions I couldn't ' put my finger on' .....  Moments of blankness* and then "Dour" arrived .  That was it --->  I was dour ~~~ and then this gag arrived mini-seconds later =  I was in (get this)  DOUR Straits .   I gotta tell ya, I LOVE and HATE myself at the exact same time .  

                          I had a 'sense' about the meaning of dour, but I had to resort to a dictionary =   "relentlessly severe, stern, or gloomy in manner or appearance"---good but not enough to satisfy my interest .   Origin of dour =  from the Middle English probably Scottish Gaelic = "dull, obstinate, STUPID" .   THAT made me feel better .  {{{I LOVE Etymology}}} .

                         This morning's Consideration was suppose-to-be >Communism< , and the use of the Word Communism as a Weapon to "beat on" Liberals, Progressives, Dumbocrats {{{ I devised that word months ago}}} who have insisted that what the Country needs is Socialist Democracy [Democratic Socialism] .

                         I wuz-gonna* rely on what was in my Head, rather than provide some sort of Academic Critical Evaluation, which would have been a s---t---r---e---t---c---h, in that the only Communism I studied was tangential to my Western Civ. Studies .   I knew my knowledge was scant and I was uncomfortable to deliver information based only on "vapors" and "whisps" ~~~   Which then begged the Question --->  Why was I so fucking DOUR ???

FORWARD into the Past

                                                           I have been more than reluctant to deliver "Shih" to my Gentle Readers around the World mainly because of just one line =  "It requires a strong man who captures the hearts of the people and awakens their enthusiasm."   Present 'Times' has yet to `provide` such a Man or Woman for reasons that appear as either Invisible of Impossible .   I think its TOOO >Romantic< to use "Build it, and they will come."  =   Build the Army and He of She will come .   "Wishful Thinking" get us close .   

                            Of vital Import to me is the line, "WHEN DANGER THREATENS, EVERY PEASANT BECOMES A SOLDIER" .   I insist "We" as in Global Citizens, are indeed at War and further, that this War is, in SELF-EVIDENT FACT,  THE THIRD WORLD WAR .   Please recall that this War EFFECTS each and every Planetarian , no one can escape and worse, "No One Here, Gets Out Alive".   "IT" may be violently PREPOSTEROUS to issue the "Butterfly Effect" as a defense for my Position, I do so anyway {{{one of the sublime rewards for being a raging Polemicist}}} .   We are in "THIS" together, like it or not, ready or not .   I WILL use cliches :   "There is STRENGTH in Numbers" and "United We Stand [but] Divided We Fall".   It may very well be that NO ONE shows up to become OUR General, but this is MODERN WARFARE and We must NOT be CHAINED by Status Quo History even though it is HISTORY that must be relied upon, in that IT offers examples and paradigms that can and MUST be Utilized if we to TRANSFORM the World and make it THE WAY WE  WANT IT .   

                            HISTORY IS the Future .    Go figure... .

7. Shih / The Army (continued)

                                                                   7.   Shih  /  The Army

                                    "Ground water is invisibly present in the earth .  In the same way the military power of a people is invisibly present in the masses .   WHEN DANGER THREATENS, EVERY PEASANT MUST BECOME A SOLDIER; when the war ends, he [returns] to his plow .   He who is generous toward the people wins their love, and a people living under a mild rule becomes strong and powerful .   Only a people  economically strong can be important in military power .   Such power must therefore be cultivated by improving the economic condition of the people and by humane government .   Only when there is this invisible bond between government and people, so that the people are sheltered by their government as ground water is sheltered by the earth, is it possible to wage a victorious war . "

                                  Purport* follows .