"Stillness is Bliss"

                                                           We needn't speculate on the possibility of a place or structure that does NOT 'have" Consequences, you-wanna think  that a Utopia would NOT have consequences, that in a Utopia there is NO SUCH THING AS CONSEQUENCE .   I ain't buyin' "IT" .   For a Utopia to be free of consequences it must somehow exist in a NON-PHYSICAL Dimension, a one that does NOT and CANNOT be 'effected' by ---> Actions .  Here it is where Newton's Laws could not exist .

                        I have long since charged that my Guy and HERO/NERD Einstein never finished his Theory of Relativity because IF he had we would have been given the Math for LOVE and other Emotions that PLAGUE Humankind.  For example, what is the Equation for Love ?   What is the Equation for Peace-----------for Prosperity-------------------for HARMONY ???????????  

                      I have confessed {poor choice} that one of my Life's Goals is to introduce a nu Branch of Zen, and its name is QUANTUM Zen .   Initially I sought to give Mahayana Buddhism an affirmation based on Quantum Mechanics, but not just ANY Quantum Mechanics but the Quantum Mechanics that "holds" that Two OPPOSITES can be True at the exact same time .   I love this  because "IT" affords the possibility and PROBABILITY that Cosmic MYSTERIES are ACTUALLY a FOUNDATION of Science--- a Science that Acknowledges MYSTICISM as a Component of Reality --- that's me. I LIVE there .

                    Note this Buddhist DOGMA {from the Mahayana}=  "Stillness is Bliss"  [where there is no movement {ACTIONS} there are no Consequences {RE-Actions} ] .  

                     Consider... .

The CON in Consequence

                                                          I seek to focus the Attention of my Gentle Readers on the word and concept of >consequences< ..  We hear that trump does shit without consequences, and that he is ABLE to do shit because there ARE no consequences .   More fucking horseshit I CANNOT swallow .    The Freedom callously described as LIBERATION, was felt to be 'Consequence Free" meaning sexual activity could be experienced as "TRUE Freedom", the Pill was POWER, but "IT" could only SUSPEND Consequence NOT eliminate it .   The American Society and Culture continued to REJECT the Hedonist Mindset that characterized Hippies of sub-moral attenuation which was utterly fucked up but produced this repulsion "If a guy fucks a hundred chicks he's a STUD, but if a GIRL fucks a hundred guys, she's a SLUT."   

                            Folks who think that >consequences< do not or CANNOT exist are in abject DEFIANCE of Newton's Law of  Motion which is "For every Action there is an equal and opposite RE-Action" .   In the same way that NO ONE can >Defy< Gravity, so it is that NO ONE can Defy Newton and his Law of  Motion, the Physics just doesn't support such fantastical Defiance .

"The Good, the Bad, and the fucking UGLY"

                                                           It is IMPERATIVE to try and Understand that the Hippie Movement had, as its Foundation, the Use AND Abuse of Drugs and Chemicals and the Use of These afforded a brand-new FREEDOM from (get this)  CONSEQUENCES .    Chicks, Girls, Broads, Dames and Women could fuck whomever they desired WITHOUT CONSEQUENCE due to "The Pill".  During these Times Abortions were EASILY Accessible, further deepening the Freedom I have just cited .    Feminism was now CARRYING a NU FORM of Singular INDEPENDENCE ,  an Independence that itself  signaled the advent of not only PERSONAL Power, but Power that could be harnessed by ALL WOMEN .   There was a CHANGE that reverberated throughout Society and Culture , and which drove the Right fucking NUTS !    Females who wanted to lead a somewhat HEDONIST Life had little desire to be child-bearers, and indeed, children {as Robert Pirsig intensely noted} were NOT considered VALUABLE ;   marriage and children were viewed as something OUTSIDE personal responsibility, where 'personal' also means Societal and Cultural as well .   Strong and SUPER-STRONG Women were Ascending much to the discomfort and dismay of Conservatives who were reluctant to advance Women in he first place .   Where there  had been POLITICAL Fissures within Society NU Fissures, due to GENDER, were now being experienced in that same Society .   Things were getting "Out Of Hand" ,   which caused yet another Conservative >>>"White-Lash" .   

                                                          UGLY nails it .

His Story

                                                           Hippie-ism de-evolved into "Grunge", check that, those Hippies that did  NOT "Join the System" were left scattered about without tether, lifeline or umbilicus, and History has recorded that there was an "outbreak" of tattered Hippie-ism that found its way to Seattle to be re-named and re-calibrated as "Grunge" .   These were the very "DIRTY HIPPIES" that Conservatives and some of the rest of us found blatantly DISGUSTING .   They produced >>>PUNK<<< Rock, of which I am certainly no Fan  and an 'appearance' that 'reflected' a >>>care-less<<< attitude for even normal physical and mental Hygiene .   Where clothing-as-Attire was identified as Uniform for Hippies, that is, beat Levi jeans, tie-die T-shirts, hiking boots and Pro Keds ,,, the Grunge wore filthy tatters, as if to proclaim some sort of  Asceticism, a vomitous REBUKE of Hippies and their Attire-as-Uniform .   {Uni = One,,, Form}.  'Grunge' didn't last---how could it ?

                             Enter Madonna and her Generation of "Wanna-be's" ---  a Generation that declared "I'm a 'MATERIAL GIRL' and my insular favorite, "Girl's Just Wanna Have FUN" .   

                             Hello 80's .

Make MONEY not Love

                                                          Ya gotta figure that after the Fall of Saigon in 1975, Hippies claimed victory, {I don't remember Hippies claiming victory} and that the Hippie sub-culture was exhausted AND that their own Efforts to establish some sort of Utopia or even Sanctuary in Haight-Ashbury, was a drug-induced crime-ridden DISASTER .   Not only couldn't Hippies Farm, they didn't know how and had never been ON a Farm, they steadfastly REFUSED to enter ANY "Political Arena" within which they could advance the more digestible aspects of Hippiedom, those of ULNIVERSAL Love and PLANETARY Peace .   Not only didn't they maintain allegiance to their own Values they de-evolved to the nearly BLIND Acceptance of Conservative Values evidenced by this >>>  "I HAD to cut my hair, I NEEDED a job !"   Although    not coerced, they "came to their senses" , meaning, they HAD-TO >>>Conform<<< if they were to advance into Life with a paying job, a job that could support (get this) THEIR VERSION of the >>>>>> American Dream .  Here it is where Hippies "became" Yuppies signaling the dissolution of Altruistic Values and the riSE of Conservativism , the same STATUS QUO Conservatism that was the Cause of the Hippie  Movement in the First Place .   I think THIS is why I think so poorly of the Hippie Movement, they CAVED .

You can't if you Kant

                                                           Ya gotta figure 'something' went rwong* .   From the inception of the League of Nations in 1920 after the First World War, which was based upon Immanuel Kant's "Perpetual Peace ;  A Philosophical Sketch" which he penned in >>>>1795<<<< to the abject FAILURE of the United Nations which was origined* in 1945 , there MUST have been certain 'Conditions' that brought about hitler and Nazi-ism and then, within 70 or so years, saw the entry of trump, whom vance tagged as "America's HITLER", the SUPER Decline of Universal POSITIVE Values , that resulted in a resurgence of Nazi-ism cloaked as Anti-Migration-ism .   

                             My Gentle Readers recall that recently I sought to locate >Blame< for trump and his almost Sociopathic Politics of Cruelty --- I feared that it was MY Generation that somehow 'developed' those same Conditions that promoted {tough word} trump to advance politically to the point of "No Return";  the point where Conservatives could USE trump to RE-Establish THEIR Version of Political "Law and Order" , the one of the Antebellum South, that of most VILE HATRED toward HUMAN BEINGS .   

                             I have recently learned (Lucas Bean et al) that it WAS My Generation that is responsible for trump and the now Ancient Confederacy that has presently achieved Ascendency .  As I just mentioned, I sought to Blame Hippies for this, "Tune in, Turn On--Drop out"-- a singular expression of "Fuck You, we want NO part of the System"--- that cleared the Way for Anti-Hippie-ism, and also for the latent Conservatives to gain a 'foothold' in Politics, a foothold that ultimately led to the MARCH of Reagan and Conservative ..."White-lash" .  

                           I can't tell you how much THAT  Hurts .

The Ideology of Cartoon

                                                          Some of us are completely familiar with "The Politics Girl" one Leigh McGowan, who resembles one of my fav all-time actresses Kristen Johnston [of] whom  we know from watching "3rd Rock From The Sun" .   Recently Leigh {who is also an Author > A Return To Common Sense} , posted that we, as a Nation, are living in a CARTOON Reality, and she cited the "Green-Water guy as PROOF .   I love this  since living in a Cartoon is kinda pre-school for living in a Myth, which is what we are doing, at least as far as I 'go' .   Cartoons are barely one step away from "Kiddie Lit" -- indeed, some cartoons are dependent upon the Kiddie Lit Genre, and I MUST include the various Myths, Stories and Fables that are a TREASURE to the Nations of the Planet .   Just to be CLEAR =  the guys with whom trump has surrounded himself are NOT "True Men" in ANY Sense of "True Men", since they do not ACT "like" True Men, in ANY Way, Shape or Form .  They DO "Act" like Cartoon Characters the likes of "Snidely Whiplash" and "Cruella de Vil" to  note {randomly} .    Look at trump, listen to trump .  All the garish and garrulous 'discharge' of "Foghorn Leghorn" and the dim-witted stubborn-ness of Elmer Fudd .   

                           I NEED to showcase the CONDITION of TV Commercials, that many of them are CARTOONS , and Cartoons are a VEHICLE OF COMMUNICATION for Capitalists who NEED to make things appear EZ, because of the True Nature of the American Collective Conscious .   I inject this,  "They Became What They Beheld ".