The SECOND Dark Age

                                      The source of Iranian Hatred toward America and the West in general is Fear .

Hatred is NOT an Instinct but Fear IS .   Islam FEARS its own demise as a result of Western Influence that registers in Societal and Cultural experience .   For Americans who are ignorant of Islam and its tenets, hearing "DEATH TO AMERICA" is Tortuous .   Will we ever hear, "Live and let live" from mainstream Iranians ?   I think it is unlikely .   

                     The Iranian Mil has been pounded into Oblivion but NOT its Religion .   By Definition, Islam CANNOT be Destroyed as it is a MENTAL CONSTRUCT as are all Religions .   

                     We have entered the Second Dark Ages .

Cooked Goose

                                         You can see it rite* ?    Trump declared that the Iranian Government is VIOLENTLY CORRUPT in that even SUBSISTENCE Needs are LARGELY IGNORED by the Government and that Religious Authority is the ONLY Authority required to Rule and if the Peoples don't like it they can eat shit and die .   I argue that trump and his rule with that SAME VIOLENT PATHOS that also seeks to CRUSH ---> ANY<--- Opposition in ALL its forms thereby establishing Oppression as the RIGHTEOUS Conduct of actionable Patriotism .    If we use trump's "rendering" and apply it to Observed Behavior we can determine that trump's >>>RULE<<< MUST-BE decapitated as well .   Kill the Brain Destroy the Body ---------"what's good for the goose is good for the gander" .

SYNCHRONICITY

                                  What is the Purpose of conflating the Protests in Iran with the Protests in America ?   I did so to introduce a Concept we will need as a tool to ai in Understanding and OVERstanding*, that which is "self-evident" and that which is obscure .   Thing is, what do we DO with that Understanding ?

                  The Concept is "Synchronicity" which is "Meaningful Coincidence" .   Stated for our purposes and as an example :  The Peoples of Iran and the peoples of America are Protesting to express their RIGOROUS Opposition to the Policies of their Fascist Dictators .   The Coincidence of both Protestations is meaningful because of the somewhat Identical Nature of their Suffering ---> Corruption and CARE-LESS Governments that IGNORE the DIRE Needs of its own Peoples in order to maintain a Status Quo that serves ONLY the Ruling Elites and their filthy rich benefactors ;  all in the name of ABSOLUTE CONTROL over the Minds and Bodies if its own Citizens who are treated more like slaves and chattel than with Honor, Dignity, and  Respect .  Synchronicity functions as a MAGNIFYING GLASS so hat not only is the OBVIOUS revealed but also its underlying features and characteristics .  Synchronicity IMPLORES  >>>>>PAY ATTENTION !!! 

Under-Currents and Over-Tones

                                        We are looking at two Primal" "Conditions" :  the Condition of Starvation and the Condition of Thirst .   Righteous (awkward but appropriate) Americans [the 60%] who not only Oppose trump but who actually Protest [Revolt] against trumpism and who are STARVED for an UN-CORRUPTED Democracy and THIRST for a Political Altruism that will COMPASSIONATELY respond to the "Demands of the Time" which includes not only internal socio-economic registers but external {masochistic} Foreign Policies .   In both Instances-the Peoples have voiced their OUTRAGE and FURY --  but to little Effect since the FASCIST Dictators of both are HELL-BENT to maintain the Present Day Status Quo(s) of both Nations .

                          Uhhhh Houston  --Erbil ?   We have a problem .

"Soften the Glare"

                                         What are we Global Citizens looking at ?   Iranians "took it to the streets" to Protest their Status Quo -- a Status Quo that has ABJECTLY FAILED to supply (Provide) even the BAREST of Subsistence {Primal} Necessities --Food and Water--, and further: a Government that has SUMMARILY REJECTED  the Populace's unremitting CRAVING for a Modernization (dare I say Revolution ?) that has as ITS Foundation a >Future< that entails TRUE Liberty ---where Liberty is FREEDOM from the chains, bonds and shackles of religious zealotry --- the Liberty I will tag as "Soft" Islamism >>> the one of PRE-Hijrah Majesty .

Brotherhood of Suffering

                                   To feed my own very selfish insanity I will draw parallels between the Iranian People's non-response to trump's "Invitation" to "take over" their Government, and the quasi-non-response of the American People(s) who also find themselves in an "Impossible" Situation .   The Situation is defined as "Impossible" because both sets of Peoples are completely SURROUNDED by Government Forces "HELL-BENT" on seeking nothing less that TOTAL CONTROL of the Minds and Bodies of Its Citizens who Demand CHANGE .   How can both sets of Peoples survive  "in the face" of a Dictator who has issued orders to "Shoot to KILL " ?

"Diana"

                                      We say that "Truth HURTS" ...  

                      "The remembered image is not only benign, however;  [She can be] "the bad mother too---(1) the absent unattainable mother, against whom aggressive fantasies are directed, and from whom a counter-aggression is feared:   (2)  The hampering, forbidding, punishing mother;  (3) the mother who would hold to herself the growing child trying to push away; (4) the desired but forbidden mother whose presence is a lure to dangerous desire persists in the hidden lad of the adult child's recollections and is sometimes a greater force  ."

                        So now one word :  "She who MUST BE Obeyed .

Mistress

                           It's hard to miss the presence of >Miss< , meaning I have depicted Truth as a Female 'Entity'.   Anthropomorphism has a few "drawbacks" one of which is a masculine adoption of the Female Spectrum as 'Register' .   Here are two topic titles from Chapter II, Initiation, from Dr. Campbell's The Hero With A Thousand Faces : 2. The Meeting With The Goddess   3. Woman As Temptress .   Here it is where the Female, Truth, CAN be viewed as "...the paragon of all the paragons of Beauty" and "...the incarnation of >the promise of Perfection> " .

                          If only She was 'just' that... if only .

Miss Justice

                                           Miss Justice is iconographically depicted as a BLINDFOLDED Female holding a scale in one hand while gripping an Excalibur by her side in the other .   We are told She is blindfolded so that She remains free of bias and prejudices that may occur when She views Evidence .   We have been taught "Seeing is believing" yet SHE is BLINDFOLDED so, according to this dictum, She therefore MUST rely on Her other senses to administer the Truth .   Also, She wields a Sword presumably to defend the Truth and to meet-out Exactions .    We can only HOPE that She removes Her blindfold when punitive measures are at stake .   

                      Here's the Question :  Can we TRUST Miss Justice ???

...sounds like bikini...

                                          What follows is the Definition of >Dakini< found in the Shambhala Dictionary of Buddhism and Zen .   I offer this piece because Truth is difficult, no only to Imagine but to actualize in day-to-day Operations and Observations .   You will better appreciate the Significance once you read the Def .

                      Dakini  Sanskrit:  in Indian folk belief, a female demon to be found in the company of gods;  in Vajrayana Buddhism, the inspiring power of consciousness, usually depicted in iconography as a wrathful naked female figure .  ...  The Dakini has the task if integrating the powers liberated by the practitioner in the process of visualization ...  Thus the Dakini is a female figure that moves on the highest level or Reality--- her nakedness symbolizes knowledge of Truth revealed ."

Guide-posts

                                          I am loathe to continue the thinking of the previous day .   However, I must make an exception today because of the  Nature of Truth and the abject necessity to bind one's Self to Truth in the Effort to establish and maintain It as a foundation of Perceptual Reality .   There are four statements which act as guide-posts and billboards to the Seeker and Practitioner of Truth --  they are :

                                 1)    "We create our own Perceptual Reality"

                                  2)  "We act according to the way we see things"

                                  3)   "They became what they beheld"

                                   4)   "Life is what you make it" .

Miss Kwote

                                                I must assert that Truth and Beauty are Psychological "Realms" and  I  insert "Domain" as  equal  to  Realm  DESPITE  its  OBVIOUS   difference  { authorial prerogative } .   There are these :  The Realm of Truth --- The Realm of Beauty .    I BELIEVE we MUST 'reside' in the Realm of Truth that we may also Reside in the Realm of Beauty .   By doing so we can be comfortable with Dr. Joseph Campbell's  "MAJESTY OF BEING"  and  I supplement   THAT with my own : "Live the MIRACLE " .   Corny I know ---it's all I got .

Haas and Wilhelm

                                           I consider Academia as an island {"I" Land --- "Eye" Land} Paradise in the Ocean of Despair, Suffering , Anguish and Torment--- not just a "safe haven" or "shelter in the Storm" ;  but rather an Impenetrable Fortress of Creative Human RESOLVE .   

                      I contend that the rigorous pursuit of Intellectual Properties is MENTAL NOURISHMENT--- that when one feeds the Mind >it< POWERS the Body .   Engaging in Academic Freedoms is as richly rewarding as the passive Pleasure derived from Listening to Music .   As I have noted elsewhere = Music HEALS !   

                      So it is that Listening (Reading) to Lectures is the same as Listening to Music-- both of which not only provided needed Nourishment but Healing Medicines as well .

                       Here it is where we have the Nature of Mr. Haas's Home and the Lectures delivered by Hellmut Wilhelm .

  

CHANGE

                                             I must, perforce, introduce my Gentle Readers with this 'Preface' from a monograph I have TREASURED my entire Academic Career .   The title of this "little volume" is CHANGE .   So---- "Here goes" .

                                     "This little volume consists of lectures given in Peking in the winter of 1943 .   This was a time when the war in China had been going on for almost six years and Peking was under Japanese Occupation, a time when all creative forces seemed frozen and darkness ruled the day .  During that period there was a group of German-speaking people in the city who kept apart from the activities of the German communitity and everything connected with it .   The group found a center in the home of William Haas .   Wilhelm Haas is a man with the courage of perseverance; even it the most hopeless situations he never yielded to despair .  "    

American Mutilation

                                              We are in the tumultuous midst of an American MUTILATION of World Order - a something that hideously resembles HITLER'S >>>CHOICE<<< to wage WAR that he may satisfy the Darkest Urges of his gruesome-ly DERANGED Psyche .   We {as in "I"} awaken each morning NOT to the Promise of Positive Potential, but to the FEAR, DREAD and LOATHING of a MADMAN `gone the way of! Adolph Hitler, which, at its most bizarre, is actually a DENIGRATION of Hitler who BELIEVED he was Championing the Cause of his People, trump's WARS have but ONE Purpose =  to satisfy the PERSONAL Appetite for UNLIMITED POWER   AT THE EXPENSE OF MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF INNOCENTS AROUND THE ENTIRE PLANET . 

The Superior Man

                                                            Ku /  Work On What Has Been Spoiled

                   " ( . . . )  It is the same with debasing attitudes and fashions ;  they corrupt human society .  To do away with this corruption the superior man must regenerate society ... .   The superior man must first remove stagnation by stirring up public opinion, --- ... and must then strengthen and tranquilize the character of the people... --- ."   I Ching or Book of Changes 

                   EZ-er said than done ,    BUT  there are NO   'Other Options' if we are to survive trump .

The Sage

                                                          "He does not serve kings and princes,

                                                            Sets himself higher goals . .  

          Not every man has an obligation to mingle in the affairs of the world .  There are some men who are developed to such a degree that they are justified in letting the world go its own way and in refusing to enter public life with a view of reforming it .   But this does not imply a right to remain idle or to sit back and merely criticize .   Such a withdrawal is justified only when we strive to realize the higher aims of Humankind .   For although the sage remains distant fro the turmoil of daily life, he creates incomprarable Human Values for the Future ."

                                                                      I Ching

                                                                      Book of Changes

               This is me .

Pirsig

                                                    "What you like is bad, or at  leased you was bad, or at least unimportant in comparison to other things ?  {{It seemed the quintessence of 'squareness' he was fighting. }}   Little children were trained  ot to do "just what they liked" but... but what...?   Of course !!!  What OTHERS LIKED .  And what others ?  Parents, teachers supervisors, policemen, officials, kings dictators .   ALL AUTHORITIES .  When you are trained to despise "just what you like"then, of course, you become a much  more obedient servant of others ---> a GOOD slave .  When you learn NOT to do "just what you like" then the System LOVES you " .

                                                                      Robert Pirsig

                                                                      Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 

Mull-er

                                               Ya-wanna believe that after almost 2 and a half hours of "mulling" SOMETHING would have surface about which to write .  2 words ;  not even a first WORD let-alone a first SENTENCE .   Woe is me --- "Poor poor PITIFUL me" .   

                       Despite my age I still question whether or not I have any REAL Talent---Ability is NOT the question, I have the Degree that's PROOF and yet...  and yet ....... .

                        As far back as February 14th I was on track to build a framework, {scaffolding} upon which I could rest an argument that describes the necessity for ALL of us to find, establish, and maintain our "Center" a 'thing' that the Martial Arts INSISTS is of PRIMARY IMPORTANCE if the Study of the Arts is to be even modestly successful .   Not everyone is even aware of "Center", indeed, the term "Confidence" is used which connotes a Healthy, Developed, Ego .   It is well known that a Healthy EGO is required if the Individual is to navigate Society WITHOUT harm .

I-DOLT-ARY

                                        The rats just sat there apparently CONTENT with their own passivity .   It wasn't just political idolatry, it was political I-DOLT-ARY .   They could have worn their rape whistles --- they could have stood up when the trumpists stood AND BLOWN THEIR WHISTLES --- I mean shit that woulda-been* SOMETHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Instead ---well you know INSTEAD ... .

Rats

                                           I expected NOTHING form the democrats  and I was RICHLY REWARDED !  

                              1st off :  a few didn't even bother to attend

                               2nd off :  some of those that did attend had a few Epstein Survivors nearby 

                              3rd off  :   when teams fail to show-up Officials declare FORFEIT --- which then                                                           GIVES their opponents an EFFORTLESS VICTORY

                               4th off  :   what was the intended purpose of the presence of the Epstein Survivors

                                                IT LOOKED LIKE THE RATS HAD NO PURPOSE

Miss Represent

                                              I watched trump last night hoping to witness a catastrophic mental failure that would resemble a stroke or seizure .   Instead I saw an old man deliver an oration that had as its major component LIES.   His opening statement was a BOLDFACE LIE .   Indeed, after EVERY FUCKING LIE trumpists rewarded him with a STANDING OVATION .   This after almost EVERY FUCKING SENTENCE .   THEY WELCOMED HIS LIES with cheers ad applause to demonstrate their fealty, loyalty and UNITY .   They were up and down like Jacks in the Box.

Enchanted

                                           One's 'livelihood' is most demonstrably a Definition of One's Existence---we have all heard, "You are what you do" .   If you cut hair for a living you may be a barber or hairdresser---there are blue collar occupations-the trades and the like- and white collar professions -- all to be correctly viewed as Definitions of Existence .   I've heard RESOUNDING dismay expressed as "I'm NOT  just a fucking hairdresser,,,I am SOOO MUCH MORE !!!"   I agree BUT  what is this  MORE ?

                      We will explore the More in future efforts .

Miss Givings

                                     I mean, shit, when you're a raging alcoholic is fucking EZ to conduct an inventory, you don't have far to go,,, no need for "in-depth" penetration .  But what about the rest of Humankind---those of us that ca't seem to find "Peace of Mind" ???   We are assailed by doubt, misgivings, quantifiable dis-trust and {obsequious} moral outrage ?

                   Modern Zen Master Mick Jagger has asked, "So what can a poor boy do ?" and answered, "Sing in a Rock + Roll band" .   Almost all of us ain't-gonna be the front man of our local band however, it is IMPERATIVE to note that 'singing in a R+R band' DEFINES Jagger's Existence .  So --- what are the things that DEFINE one's Existence  ?   We can ask, "Who am I" and "What do I DO ???"  Great Start !!

Dr. Allen Wheelis

                                             From the front flap of How People Change Allen Wheelis =

                                    Dr. Wheelis, noted psychiatrist and author,wirtes here of those fears and sufferings which disturb people who have enough to eat and a place to live, but who feel guilty, believing their despair can't be real or justified while others suffer basic physical deprivation .  Acknowledging the differences, he asserts the importance of mental health and proceeds to illustrate various situations in which people find themselves, more damaged by their own self-imposed restrictions than by actual circumstances ."

                   Dr. Wheelis insists that the first necessity of Change is to establish the Mind's PRESENT location .   AA refers to this THIS as `conducting an inventory of one's Self` .  Easily said ... but .

                        

Miss Givings

                                            A quasi-recovering but still sublimely wretched hippie-dude once confessed :   "I use to be all messed-up on drugs and alcohol, now I'm all messed-up on the Lord" .   Healthier rite* ?

                       There can be no true 'beginning' without first a commitment to one's self .   One of the four primary Aspects of Zen is "Seeing into one's self and the attainment of Buddha-hood .    Steve Winwood cajoles, "Look inside your Heart, I'll look inside mine."   This THIS necessitates, HOW do I look inside and further HOW to I look inside my mind ?

The Great Master

                                     "Perfect is the man who knows what comes from heaven and what comes from man .   Knowing what comes from heaven, he is in tune with heaven .   Know what comes from man, he uses his knowledge of of the known to develop his knowledge of the unknown and enjoys the fullness of life until his natural death ."

                                         The Inner Chapters   Chuang Tsu 

                                                  Chapter Six   The Great Master 

                 These words ARE my Heart and Soul ---  they bond me to the Infinite .

Cato the Elder

                                            Plutarch writes of Cato the Elder "

                                                    "But a man who observed the ancestral custom of working his own land, who was content with a cold breakfast, a frugal dinner, the simplest clothing, and a humble cottage to live in, and who actually thought it admirable to renounce luxuries than to acquire them----such a person was conspicuous by his own rarity ."

                                          I LOVE Plutarch and ADMIRE Cato the Elder .

Dr. C.

                                               I wish I could promise that I won't use deception to deliver a message ... I'm not that guy BUT , I  WILL try to stay Honest, Level and Plumb and keep to the tag "Even Stephen" .   I an HUGELY dependent upon Superior Others and their Eloquence and Elegance to transmit Teachings that are both difficult and complex .   Please forgive an old man .

                     I need to establish a "base line", a Foundation from which all >Else< flows .   From this Foundation is one of my Essentials :

                                            "Nevertheless, every failure to cope with a life situation must be laid, in the end, TO A RESTRICTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS .   Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance;  regrets are illuminations come to late .   The whole sense of the ubiquitous myth of the hero's passage is that it shall serve as a general pattern for men and women, wherever they may stand along the scale .   Therefore it is formulated in the broadest terms .   The Individual has only to discover his own position with reference to this general human formula, and let it then  assist him past his restricting walls .   Who and where are his ogres ?   Those are the reflections of the unsolved enigmas of his own humanity .  What are his ideals ??   Those are the symptoms of his grasp of life ."

                                               

                      

"Change, You can CHANGE"

                                          Problems seek solutions .   The Problem in America is its present Trajectory toward Democracy ANNIHILATION.   The SOLUTION IS >>>CHANGE<<< .  It can be stated that Individuals who wittingly or UN-wittingly conform to the Status Quo or Society (and for that matter Civilization) must be introduced or RE-introduced to CHANGE >>>>FOR THE BETTER<<<< .   Nothing is-gonna happen unless the MAJORITY of Citizens commit to CHANGE ----->FIRST !

                           I must save the Scrutiny of this CHANGE for future blogs .

Captain Obvious

                                         Presently, the Goal of my Effort is to supply Intellectual Conditions that as as ITS  Goal the Health of ind and Body and CRUCIALLY the RIGOROUS Health of Heart and SOUL.   I believe a Clear Mind and  Pure Soul have n EVOLUTIONARY Trajectory toward Goodness --- where Goodness must remain UNDEFINED so that it can express the Universal Mystery of SPIRIT (in Biblical terms, "the Breath of Life") .

                         Logic and Reasoning provide these conclusions :   A health society produces a healthy Individual and its opposite; an UN healthy society produces UN-healthy Individuals .

                         Since we KNOW that there are MANY unhealthy Individuals we cannot avoid the FACT that Society is UN-Healthy .  

                         Captain Obvious strikes again .

Miss Informed

                              It is IMPERATIVE to try and understand that the Laws of Karma are responsible not only for the Birth of Individuals but necessarily their ability to receive the Teachings and then comply with their Exactions .   Ya-wanna think and even BELIEVE that being born into Wealth is GOOD Karma as well as GOOD Fortune .    Observing trump should temper that Thinking .   We are experiencing every bot of trump's Negative (BAD) Karma .   OBVIOUSLY, had he been born into Poverty "things" would be VASTLY different .   Zen can be seen here :   "He is what he is because of his Karma", which can be simplified to something strikingly tautological, he is what he is BECAUSE he is what he is .   Ain't no Satisfaction here .

Chief Sick Fuck

                                           CLEARLY , trump is UN-Healthy, both in Body and Mind and many of us will argue his Soul {if indeed he even HAS a Soul} is in the Cosmic Cesspool .   Using the tern, Un-healthy is generously romantic.  Elsewhere I have vehemently insisted that trump is a "SICK FUCK" a parlance from the Street and Gutter, used to describe a someone known to have exercised criminal perversion .   Is it then "self-evident" that ALL his voters are "SICK FUCKS" as well ??   If we suggest that trump is mentally ILL, can we then add that his voters are mentally ILL "

                       No we cannot .

                       Do I WANT to ???     FUCK YEAH!!

Miss Taken

                                           I am KEENLY interested in America's INABILITY to have recognized trump for what he truly is, a >>>SOMETHING<<< devoid of Modern Morals, and Ethics --- a one whose PERSONAL Cruelty has manifested as Governmental [Political] Ideology .

                      We're looking at this syllogism :    If Right and Wrong is taught to everybody  then everybody should know the differences between Right and Wrong, Good and Bad .   It is "self-evident" that trump has summarily REJECTED the Teachings found in the New Testament as well as (almost) ALL the Morals,  Mores and Ethics of Modern Day Socialization .

                     Ya gotta ask, "WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED?"   OBVIOUSLY 'something happened' and it is safe to assume that what `happened` to trump ``happened to the MILLIONS that voted for him

                     "Uhhh Houston ?  We have a problem ."

Rite and Rwong

                                              A congress woman [Slotkin] said something I consider deeply profound .   She said, "My Father taught me Right from Wrong".  It has stuck with me to such an extent I feel I must address that statement .   We ARE taught Right from Wrong when we are children of school age .   Also at this time MAY be some of us have been taken to Church where the Moral, Mores and Ethics are preached with respect to both the Old and New Testaments .   Generally, the Biblical "10 Commandments" are used as a Foundation for Modern Conduct and Behavior .   We must fully appreciate that Right and Wrong are Societal Constructs and that the teaching of them is suppose to Guarantee Social Norms, the observance by EVERYBODY of the Laws of both Nature and Man .

Conscience

                                              We often use and/or hear the expression "He does't have a >Conscience< " .   And its corollary, "How does he even sleep at night ?", along with, "I sleep like a baby", {a one WITHOUT a 'Conscience'}.   

                     Definition of conscience   "1 a knowledge or sense of right and wrong, with an urge to do right;  moral judgement that opposes the violation of a previously recognized general principle and that leads to feeling of guilt if one violates such a principle     2   b) inner thoughts or feelings ..."

                     #2      "c)   the part of the superego in psychoanalysis that transmits commands and admonitions to the ego"

                     No Conscience No Sense of Right ---  No Sense of what is wrong .  Lakes take note :  animals do NOT have a 'Conscience' . 

The Paramitas {Perfections}

                                             We will need the Definition of >>Paramita<<  it is =

          Sanskrit, literally "that which has reached the other shore," the transcendental .   The paramitas, generally translated as "the perfections," are the Virtues perfected by a Bodhisattva in the course of his or her development .  There are 6 of these ;  Generosity -- Discipline -- Patience -- Energy (or Exertion or Effort) -- Meditation -- Wisdom ."

            Please examine these Attributes so that you can relate your present Condition to them .  

            It is IMPERATIVE that one be FEARLESS when trying to penetrate one's own Inner Being .  Here it is where "half-measures avail NOTHING !"  

            The Kung Fu Student asked the Master :  "But if I look truly, will I see TRULY ?"

             The Master responded :   "It can be done."

My Goodness

                                            Today marks the completion of 74 Solar Orbits .   I almost wrote >successful< but I wouldn't be here if even ONE was UN-successful.

                         I find it necessary to IMPLORE my most CHERISHED Readers to become devoted to the Doctrine of Altruism since it is in complete Harmony with the Dharma and Practice of what I will now coin >Bodhisattva-ism< .   I defend this THIS with the 9th SUPER-Power of a Bodhisattva = "Making people turn toward the Buddha's Teaching..." .  I have no wish to delude my Readers IN ANY WAY , so, I mean,, there's THAT .

                        The Doctrine of Altruism conceived and expounded by Auguste Comte (the founder of Positivism) comfortably comports with Bodhisattva-ism and does so WITHOUT the Psycho-Religious mentations* of fanatics or zealots .   To be a proponent of Altruism MEANS that one Values All Life WITHOUT Religious Significance in that Bodhisattva-ism MEANS All Life is SACRED .   Here now the APPLICATION of Goodness is the Direct Manifestation of one's own Inner Being AND 'Universal Goodness' where Goodness is {somehow} a Cosmic Absolute .

Saint Tom

                                              I've been at this since 5:30a  est -- I haven't had breakfast, I'm famished and tired .   Throughout the morning a GREAT Tom Petty anthem has been ringing through my Mind =  Tom scolds, "There ain't no E-Z way  out" and then declares, "But I won't back down" .   One song ain't gonna Save The World, but as far as TODAY goes, yep, it's gonna .

                         I didn't even get to AA's "Rock Bottom" a place where there is NOWHERE to go but >uP<. meaning, only DEATH awaits the Soul that remains at Rock Bottom, and therefore, a Decision MUST-BE made to save one's Self from utter annihilation .   Since trump is "DRUNK ON POWER" he, needs to hit Rock Bottom if there is even an IOTA of Change .  

                        2 words :  Don't hold your breath .

                      

"Ta ta ta TIMMY"

                                             It's hard NOT-TO bring 1 Timothy 6:10 to the surface .   St. Paul wrote to "Ta-ta TIMMY" = ...the LOVE of money is the root of ALL Evils"  which then requires a slight modification = ...the Love of money is the root of all CORRUPTIONS .  Colleges and Universities are no different from Average Jose and Average Juanita, indeed, isn't Human Kind, on a UNIVERSAL Level, prone to Corruption ???  You CAN'T  say >No< .  

"Dark Money"

                                          I have agonized over whether or not to cite Academia for UNDENIABLE GROSS NEGLIGENCE with regard to its FAILURE to advocate for Democracy and its UNJUSTIFIABLE Reluctance to CONDEMN TRUMP and TRUMPISM >>>AT EVERY LEVEL<<<  .  I mean I know why, but it's fucking BRUTAL to admit that Academia is subject and prone to CORRUPTION in the exact same way as criminal politicians .   "Money Talks" meaning, Academia has chosen a Trajectory AWAY from Honesty and Integrity and TOWARD what is nothing less than  BLASPHEMIC*, i.e., Selling its SOUL to Dark Agents whose sole {Soul} Desire is to KEEP the noxious contents of Anti-Democracy, so that it, Academia, can use those funds to construct buildings and Programs that Honor CONSERVATIST* >>>>HYSTERIA<<<< .   

                       In the Past we were cautioned, "DO NOT LOOK A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH", meaning, noteworthy SCRUTINY should NOT "take place" upon the reception of a Gift .  The scrutiny would expose the receiver's suspicion and LACK OF GRATITUDE, something that would INSULT the giver .   Sadly, Jane Mayers' Dark Money is RIFE with examples of colleges and universities sacrificing their Honor and Prestige to accommodate the wishes ( Nay DEMANDS ) of Conservatives who rightly perceive the DEMISE of their own  with regard to EVOLUTION'S  Exactions*  .  

The Epstein Theory of Relativity

                                              The Epstien Files have added a "Sodom and Gomorrah" component to American and {dare I say} Global Politics ,   which then brings with it, Biblical CONDEMNATION for those who have OBVIOUSLY >>>Ignored<<< the "7 Deadly Sins" to such a degree [at this juncture] that WARS are being waged to COVER-UP and PROTECT the Sodom and Gomorrah-sists that have embraced Hedonism to such an extent that PERVERSION and HUMAN ATROCITY is ACCEPTED as Viable among the FILTHY RICH and SQUALOR WEALTHY .    With Ultimate Wealth comes ULTIMATE POWER .   We are LIVING that Truth .

Patheticism*

                                          After almost 4 hours these are the first words to reach this screen --- such is the result of "mulling over a cup of coffee".  A "first sentence" did not surface, actually, a USABLE first sentence did not surface, amidst a fucking plethora of options and choices, none of which guaranteed a successful blog-- a one that is both readable and understandable -- I'm nothing if not fully pathetic .

                        Despite the necessity of locating and ADVANCING some-sort of Policy of Procedure to regain Control over the American Psyche--- a one that would begin to restore some semblance of the now bogus Status Quo --- I am still clinging to the question "WHY weren't Americans able to recognize trump for the monumental CRIMINAL IMBECILE that he TRULY is ?"   How the fuck was that even POSSIBLE ????!!!!  2 words :   it was fucking E Z .

                      How-exactly- is the American Psyche to be freed from "Animal Instinctuality" and its subsequent Effects on Political Science {{{POLITICAL SCIENCE ???  Now there's a joke if ever there WAS one}}} .   

The Ancients

                                            I am incapable of 24-7 Focus, I'm old and I tire easily .   Still, I feel Guilt when I fail to write since social commentary is my JOB.   If my Readers don't already know, I consider myself "Old SchooL" even the 'old' is, in actuality >Ancient< .   Huey Lewis and the News proudly state that they "have found their home in their songs" and I have a Home in the Ancient Classics, which I contend have MODERN DAY Import .   You can read the problem, how many of us have read the Ancient Classics, among them the I Ching, Tao Te Ching, The Inner Chapters, The Analects of Confucius, The Bible, The Quran, and The Bhagavd-gita ?   I know, not many --- The Wisdom within these texts is deeply profound and as such should be regarded as SUPREMELY WORTHY of our most intense Scrutiny  .    Great Words are INSPIRATIONAL and now more than ever Great Words are NEEDED !!!

"Possession in Great Measure"

                                               "To bless means to help .   Heaven helps the man who is devoted ;   men help the man who is true .   He who walks in truth and is devoted in his thinking, and furthermore reveres the worthy, is blessed by heaven .   He has good fortune and there is nothing that would not further ."

                   Confucius 

"Run Spot, run..."

                                              I don't think ANYONE is a fan of tedium and drudgery, thing is I AM A FAN OF >WORDS< and we still need to build a viable "working vocabulary" to assist our understanding of "prevailing conditions" and the like .   Brilliant Generals have stated emphatically that 'one must know his Enemy BETTER-THAN one's own self' .    Toward THAT end is this definition of   >Egoism< :

                        " 1  The tendency to be self -centered, or to consider ONLY oneself and one's own                                         interests  :  selfishness  

                          2  egotism; conceit 

                          3  ETHICS   the doctrine that self-interest is the proper goal of all human actions ;                                            opposed to Altruism " .

                    We need to e-x-p-a-n-d Egoism  to include and encompass NATIONAL Consciousness --we can do so because of "The Body Politic", a national ONE "body" which has a ONE "mind" --  a something I have elsewhere tagged as The Collective Conscious ---> a bastardization of Jung's "Collective Unconscious".   We can safely input that trump's >mind< is, in hideous FACT, the mind of America .

The ICE in Sacrif-ice

                                          I have contended elsewhere that there ARE Battle Strategies that can be formulated as well as Tactics .   I argued that Boycotts can be EXCEEDINGLY EFFECTIVE but Americans are reluctant to observe them ---  NO ONE WANTS TO SACRIFICE their well being --- here it is where selfishness is some perverted form of Ideology .   At this level EVERYONE IS IN IT FOR THEIR OWN SELF INTERESTS which MIRROR those of the Fascist Government .   

                     Since it is OUR OWN TAXES which fund trump CORRUPTION is it even CONCEIVABLE that American WITHHOLD their tax payment THIS YEAR and UNTIL TRUMP IS SOMEHOW FORCIBLY REMOVED ?????????    I mean, it SEEMS plausible .   Thing is, what are the ramifications of such a Possibility ?????????????

China -- Russia -- U.S.A.

                                               NOBODY want s to read that the End of the World has ALREADY transpired, and I argue that it was DEMOCRACY that brought about the World's Destruction, and I cite Hiroshima and Nagasaki as PROOF .   What nation in its RIGHT MIND would seek  to INCINERATE Millions to End "The War of All Wars" ?   Democracy did that .

                        The ascendancy of trump WILL NOT END considering that trump is in putin's pocket and that China will NEVER interrupt trump's plans .   America HAS FALLEN and I cite the images of the "Stars and Bars" being victoriously paraded in the Capital --- Democracy LOST .

                       Recall Ukraine :  the Protesters took it to the street in SUB-ZERO temperatures and were LAUDED for their Bravery and Courage but where are they NOW, indeed, look at what democracy has done to Ukraine !!!  That very same is America's Trajectory .

                      America has taken to the streets WITH WHISTLES and CAMERAS for weapons .   There is NO >>> REAL <<<< Power to be held by just us common folk .

                      What then, is to be done ???

                       

                      

Miss Take

                                               Remember what transpired after J-6 :   the American Houses, the House of Representatives and the House of Senators, DID NOTHING to confront those members that DENIED the Validity and TRUTH of trump's LOSS .   It's a MIND FUCK of GARGANTUAN CATASTROPHE .  

                      Ya-gotta figure that even if they had been confronted, it, the confrontation, would result in members asking members to resign their seats, a something EASILY countered with a sneering FUCK YOU .   

                       Even IF they were charged and convicted TRUMP WOULD PARDON THEM ANYWAY, just as he did with EVERY J-6 "soldier" .

                      

      

"The Unmoved Mover"

                                              Trump's deployments, despite the disapproval of Governors, has now been TESTED and PROVEN horribly EFFECTIVE .  His troops encountered NO military or [local] police interdiction .  American Police, the local "Fuzz" are castratingly* IMPOTENT  and besides that, American cops will NEVER "go against" their own, there's no such a thing as "Blue on Blue" .   

                      In America VIOLENT CORRUPTION is "the Order of  the Day" EVERY FUCKING DAY !

                      Here's an exquisite transmogrification =  TRUMP CANNOT BE STOPPED !!!!!!!!

Miss Informed

                                               Trump has ALREADY informed us that he plans to surround MEGA-Blue polling sites with his GESTAPO/SS troops supposedly to ensure election purity .  I mean that's fucking PRICELESS . !!!

                        I want to know, and I think EVERYONE whats to know, what the democrat counter-action will be .  Thus far, democrats have only VOICED their Concern and ALARM, but to date, we've yet to hear of ANY counter-measure .   Know why ?   THERE ISN'T ANY !!!!!!!!!!!

DIABOLICISM*

                                             Trump's most recent attack on Democracy is the extraction of votes and voting materials executed by his personal goons.   Nothing  could  be  done  to  prevent  removal .   Both BIG and SUPER -Brains have identified this extraction as a "Test Run", a practice effort , for upcoming elections SHOULD THEY BE HELD AT ALL .  I am steadfast in my insistence that Elections will NOT be held, that trump in some way, shape or form will claim INSURRECTION and DECLARE that Elections CANNOT be held until Law and Order can be re-established .   Genius I say DIABOLICAL GENIUS .

Kung Fu

                                               There are various Codes that influence our Conduct and Behavior --- the 10 Commandments is an example .   I must offer an Ancient  Kung Fu  >Code of Engagement< that has survived as both Viable and Valuable .

                           When Confronted by someone or something that has intent to harm :

                                                               "Run away .

                                                                Deter rather that hurt .

                                                                Hurt rather than maim .

                                                                Maim rather than kill .

                                                                 Kill or be killed . "

                      All of these are considered by  "Good"  Kung Fu Master .   

"Double plus ungood"

                                               It MAY be that we must assign >Relativity< to "Good" and "Goodness" in the EXACT same way we have noted that Truth itself, is RELATIVE and that BOTH are 'contingent' upon prevailing Conditions, and worse, that Good and Goodness are PERCEPTUAL .   We have the phrase, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" ---  can we not now ascribe THAT conceit to Truth, Good, and Goodness ?????   Here's what THAT shit looks like :   Truth is in the eye {Mind} of the beholder .   Goodness is in the eye {Mind} of the beholder .   Where we sought "common ground" among 'perceivers'* we find instead perplexity and bewilderment, the result of a DESIRE for a Cosmic ABSOLUTE .   In Societal and Cultural cognizance a 'thing' can be both Good and NOT Good at the exact same time .   You can see it rite* ?

                        

"Moralism"

                                              "Moralism  >>>    1  moral teaching;  2  moral maxim   3 belief in or practice of a system of ethics apart from religion .   

                            We have been held captive by Religion since Religion "surfaced" .   I LOVE Religion and I HATE   Religion at the exact same time .   I think my relationship to Religion is common among my fellow countrymen .   Thing is, we have derived our sense of Good from the various Religions that popularize Mainstream Civilization .   Recall "The Code of Hammurabi" the First Step of Civilization toward a "Just" Society and Culture .   There is VIOLENCE in this Code .   Consider just one of its >aspects< .   "An eye for an eye".   EVERYONE is GROTESQUELY Familiar with this ATROCITY .  How fucking BIZARRE is it that Modern Consciousness actually VALUES this HORROR ?????   On the Surface you MUST consider this WHOLLY Justifiable, "What's Fair is Fair "  and Millions upon BILLIONS  >>>> BELIEVE that this THIS Concept is Justice , I mean shit, Ya gotta agree .  So now here we go ---  This Concept is NOT --------Good--------- .   What the fuck just happened ?????

The ICE in Nice

                                          "Moral implies conformity with the generally accepted standards of goodness or rightness in conduct or character ... --- Ethical implies conformity with an elaborated, ideal code of moral principles ... --- Virtuous implies a morally excellent character, connoting justice, integrity, (and chastity) ... --- Righteous implies a being morally blameless or justifiable . "

                        These descriptions are {for me} FRAUGHT with the Fog of  Blur .   To be Good is to be Moral, to  be  Moral is to be Good .   I don't like ANY of this --->Reasoning {?} .   And --------it gets worse .

                        "Ethical Altruism is a Moral Duty, while Psychological Altruism is the Idea that people FEEL Good doing >nice< things (like helping a friend) . "    --->  nice ???  <---   Are you kidding me ?!

                      

                         

Goodmess*

                                               I got down into my cave at 5:30a .   I've spent the last 2 and a half hours trying to devise a "first sentence", a launch point for a blog, shit,, ANY blog,,, but the ideas and topics are as fireworks in my tiny monkey brain , and,, alas, all I could think to do was to provide (supply)  the definitions of words needed to establish "common ground" .    It's tedious, I know , but without the vocabulary, communication falters .  

                       The Foundation is simple =  Good People will administer Good Government .   You can read the problem straight-away --->  What is meant by "Good" ???   We say someone is a "Good" person, but what is the True Nature of their Goodness ????   

                           

Trajectory

                                          The Ancient Chinese believed that "The Individual is the foundation of the Empire" and in keeping with this somewhat socio-political expression I wish to advance the so-called Doctrine of Altruism by gently INSISTING that the Ancients had the proper Trajectory for both an Individual's Development and concurrently, that of Society and Civilization in general .   I remind my Readers =  I consider myself a 'Militant Idealist' and because my Spiritual Career has as its foundation the Teachings of Taoism, specifically, that of Lao Tzu and his Tao Te Ching , I MUST offer what I know best, since it would be gruesomely RIDICULOUS to offer that of which I am only intellectually familiar .

                   I contend that Evolution has its own DEMANDS, and that regarding Human Development, a Consciousness that is INTIMATE with Instinctual Animality* is VASTLY inferior to a Consciousness of Modernity =   The one wherein LOGIC and REASON reside.  

                   

Avalokiteshvara

                                            Please forgive an old man .  It has taken me several hours to locate my dictionary on Buddhism--- old age both SUCKS and BLOWS . 

                   I present Avalokiteshvara perhaps the MOST IMPORTANT Bodhisattva {Saint} in the Mahayana .   The description of Him [or Her] in Shambhala's text does NOT adequately reveal His Inmost, so I present this as a supplement .   Avalokiteshvara is known for this Declaration of Compassion :  It is "All others before me" --- and His Commitment that He we NOT enter Nirvana UNTIL ALL OTHERS ATTAIN ENLIGHTENMENT BEFORE HE DOES .  

                I am DEVOTED to Avalokiteshvara and still use the repetition of His Name as a Mantra .   In many ways, too numerous to cite here,  He has SAVED my Life .  

                Altruism, I Believe, can 'use' a face, and since I am a Zen Buddhist I proffer that HIS and His Existence are PERFECTLY SUITED .

Altruism

                                              "The "Doctrine of Altruism" is an ethical framework stating that individuals have a moral duty to help or benefit others, even at a significant cost or sacrifice to themselves, viewing service to others as the highest moral value, sometimes summarized as "live for others" .   It contrasts with egpism, asserts that self-sacrifice is the only moral act, and emphasizes that toe moral worth of an action depends solely on its positive impact on others, not the actor, leading to debates about its demanding nature and potential conflict with self-interest , ... ."

     Google and AI 

Change to spare ... .

                                          The closest we can 'get' to an American (and British) quasi-understand of karma is "You made your bed, now you must lie in it" a "common proverb" of Victorian Times .   Roughly, {EXCEEDINGLY Roughly} --  One must be responsible for one's {thinking} and ACTIONS .   We now know, from the blogs above, that our Past Actions have resulted in our Present Conditions ---and that in order to Chang  the Present Conditions we must Change the Mentality that produced those Past Actions so that NEW {desirable} Actions can then manifest .   

                     America is in the throes of trump's thinking and actions -----  OBVIOUSLY if trump is >removed< so too will the results of his thinking and actions .   By LAW and Definition 'Things' WILL Change .   Simple right ???   Not really .....

From Tibet, with shove ... .

                                            If you are like me, you found the definitions I provided as somewhat inscrutable and at the very least, perplexing .   It took me  YEARS  to  finally  chance  upon  an UNDERSTANDABLE  representation  of  Karma  and  I  can't  express  what  a  fucking  RELIEF it was .  Teaching the Concept of Karma was difficult because just the IDEA of Karma seems perfidious .   No matter, the Tibetans rescued me and to Them I bow 10,000 times .

                    I URGE my Readers to invest in their Interest by procuring Practicing The Path ---A commentary on the Lamrim Chenpo delivered by Yangsi Rinpoche .   He devotes an entire chapter on Karma, titled "The Law of Cause and Effect" .  I confess, when I finished this chapter I was inwardly EXULTANT such was his purity of expression, his precision and the resultant lucidity .   I mean, who figured the Tibetans could express the {seeming} UN-expressable .   Well THEY DID and our GRATITUDE should be AND IS --->  Infinite .

                    I offer one brief sentence as an example .   "When we say that karma is definite, we mean that everything we experience arises as a concordant result of past actions ."   (p. 158)

                    I insist :  Ain't nothin' easy and this BRILLIANT Text is unimaginably Precious .

Karma of Zen

                                          In his Compass of Zen Teaching the late {GREAT} Zen Master, Seung Sahn, stipulated >Karma< thusly :

                                                               Bodhisattva karma ---> complete compassion

                                                                Good karma --->  happiness

                                                                 Bad karma --->  suffering

                                                                 Accumulated karma ---> predispositionsn form 

                                                                Same karma ---> same action 

      He adds :   Everything appears through karma, and disappears through karma

                        Mind appears, the Dharma appears; Dharma appears then form appears; form appears, then suffering appears .

                        Mind disappears, then Dharma disappears;  Dharma disappears then form disappears; form disappears; then suffering disappears .

Then this BOMB =   ALL THINGS ARE CREATED BY THE MIND .

Karma (cont.)

                                 "The effect of an action, which can be of the nature of body, speech, or mind, is not primarily determined by the act itself but rather particularly by the INTENTION of the action .   It is intention of actions that cause a karmic effect to arise .   When a deed cannot be carried out but the INTENTION toward it exists, this alone produces an effect .   ONLY A DEED THAT IS FREE FROM DESIRE, HATE AND DELUSION IS WITHOUT KARMIC EFFECT .   In this connection it should be noted that also good deeds being "rewards", engended karma and thus renewed rebirth .   In order to liberate oneself from the cycle of rebirth, one must refrain from both "good" and "bad" deeds .

               The Teaching of Karma does not constitute determinism .   The deeds do indeed determine the MANNER of rebirth but not the ACTIONS of the reborn individual-----karma provides the situation, not the response to the situation .  "

Karma

                                                                     Karma  as defined by The Shambhala Dictionary of Buddhism and Zen ,

                             From Sanskrit, literally > deed < .    Universal law of cause and effect, which according to the Buddhist vies takes effect in the following was :   "The deed (karma) produces a fruit under cirtain circumstances; when it is ripe then it falls upon the one responsible .   For a deed to produce its fruit, it must be morally good or bad and be conditioned by a volitional impulse, which in that it leaves a trace in the psyche of the doer, leads his destiny in the direction determined by the effect of the deed .   Since the time of ripening generally exceeds a lifespan, the effect of actions is necessarily one or more rebirths, which together constitutes the cycle of existence [ Samsara ] . "

        (translation from German edition of A. Bareau 1964)

 But wait , there's more ... .

Survival of the Fightest

                                              Ya-gotta ask :   HOW can Fear be neutralized ?    Let's look at this .  What is Fear ?    The Ancient Kung Fu Masters asserted :   "Fear is the Body's Wisdom that it is Weak, Bravery is the Body's Wisdom that it is Strong ."   How, then, can we summon "Bravery" (Strength) .   We recall 10th Grade Biology Class where we learned the Instinct of "Fight or Flight" in which we can see Bravery and Fear .   Are we to confront Instinct with Rationality ?     Not me, I ain't gonna ---  I say let's Fight Fire with Fire, meaning let's use Instinct to combat Instinct and the Instinct that can be applied with a "Heavy Hand" is "The Instinct for Self-Preservation"  which GUARANTEES the Release of Adrenalin which then ignites the Feeling of Strength and Power .   This THIS HAS-TA 'Work' because It HAS since Humankind was Formed .   

                         American Democracy is in a WAR FOR SURVIVAL --- "Flight" MUST BE SUMMARILY REJECTED if the American Way is to be continued .   

                         There IS no Other Choice .

Compensational*

                                               What can be done when HALF A NATION is MENTALLY ILL ?????   Despite trump's >RECORD LOW< poll numbers (61% DISAPPROVE of him and his) an astonishing 81% of republicans steadfastly believe he is doing a SPLENDID job !   What the fuck is the 'counter' to THAT ?????

                       Keep in mind that America's Mentally Ill have EXTRAORDINARY ACCESS to conventional and UNCONVENTIONAL Weapons and that those that aren't Rabid are FERAL .  Their HATRED for their fellow Human Beings is ALL-CONSUMING --- it is as a CONFLAGRATION that seeks to INCINERATE every one and every thing in its Path INCLUDING ITS OWN .  

                     I am of the Conviction that it is none-other than FEAR which ignites this CATACLYSMAL INFERNO .    Trump FEARS he will be viewed as Weak and Stupid so he Compensates as ALL --->Bullies<--- do .

SUPREMELY QUALIFIED

                                             Trump VEHEMENTLY Rejects Criticism---he abjectly REFUSES to see ANY flaws or shortcomings in his mind or body .  His EGO subsumes the Universe ,   such is the nature of his MEGALOMANIA .   Let's read its definition :  1   a mania for grandiose performance    2   a delusional mental disorder that is marked by infantile feelings of omnipotence and grandeur .

The definition of Mania =   1  ....disorganization of behavior, and elevation of mood specifically the manic phase of manic-depression ...

The definition of Maniac =  Madman    LUNATIC .  

Humpty-Trumpty

                                              The unforgettable what's-his-name wrote, "A country deserves the government it has".  What  is  transpiring  in America  is the DIRECT RESULT of Americans electing trump .   I must insist that what is 'inside' trump is also what's inside those that identified with him and subsequently voted for him .   EVERY >>>ANTI-HUMAN<<< trait, characteristic and presentation found in turmp IS found in his voters whether or not they believe >it< or don't.  Clearly Americans are --->Fucked-Up< , rather, they are just a Fucked-Up as he is .   Logic and the Transitive Principle GUARANTEE this Conclusion .        

IRONY

                                         "These are the times that try men's Souls."    Written by Thomas Paine before EVERYTHING "...hit the fan..."   We are here again .   Americans are surrounded by  "Enemy Forces" whose allegiance is NOT ---> TO the People but to a MADMEN intent upon demolishing Democracy with every tool and device available to him and his .   Not only are these Forces HELL-BENT on satisfying this MADMAN , but to satisfy their own SADISTIC PERVERSIONS .   Theses Forces are paid with "We the People" taxes .  This is absolutely PUNISHINGLY IRONIC .                                    

"You got that Right"

                                              I would LOVE to use Jimmy Cliff's "The harder they come, the harder they fall" in relation to American Insurgency, OBVIOUSLY I cannot .   >>>They<<< are too BIG and WAAAAY too fucking STRONG ....   So be it .   What CAN be offered is, The harder they come the GREATER our RESOLVE .   I LOVE THAT WORD --->  RESOLVE.   Resolve intimates WILL-POWER as well as a DEVOTION to One's INNER SPIRITUALITY , a CONVICTION OF FEARLESS RIGHTEOUSNESS , and the COMMITMENT to ALTRUISM !!!!   Thing is,,, one-on-one,,, Jimmy Cliff fucking NAILS IT.   Lynyrd Skynrd voices this stand, "When it comes to a Fix, ain't afraid to Fight".  Added:  "You got that RIGHT " !!!!!

Country Joe and the Fish

                                                   During "Woodstock" Country Joe and his Fish did a protest song which featured this Existential Question, "What the hell are we fighting for ?"  .   Applied to this OUR Protest , what is it EXACTLY that we are "fighting" for ?   It's SELF-EVIDENT that our "Inalienable Rights" have been SAVAGELY alienated and because of these obscene VIOLATIONS We, as in "We the People", have "hit the streets" in "Declaration of Independence" PROTEST .   However, when asked "Why are you Protesting ?"  Good, Honest and Decent Folks have insisted that they are Protesting in order to CONDEMN trumpocracy AND TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS !   This seems somewhat askew in that Protection SHOULD be within the realm of NORMAL policing .   Clearly, we have witnessed that NORMAL Policing has, in fact, AVOIDED ANY CONFRONTATION WITH TRUMP'S SS AND GESTAPIC MURDERERS !!!!   

                           This THIS is mournful opportunity to RE-EXAMINE what it is that defines "The American Way of Life" ---- what are its Principles, Mores, Morals, Ethics and Principles ???   Make no mistake here ,   this THIS is no mere "inflection" --- it is URGENT RECKONING .

"Believing is Seeing"

                                               Let's lay some "dots" down .   {{We may or may not connect them later}} .

                          Everyone agrees, "Seeing is believing", yet there remains an obvious, if not ODIOUS, illusion (ill- usion) that "BELIEVING is >Seeing< .   Robert Pirsig wrote that very same in his Zen of Motorcycle Maintenance .   He WANTED-TO-BELIEVE he had reached a specific point along the coast and when he read his maps he found affirmation which was shockingly short .  He wasn't even CLOSE .  He had to smirk, his Mind had played a trick on him .  THIS IS WHAT MIND DOES under even modest duress .   

                         Remember ,  "We ACT according to the way we see things", and this Gem ;  "We create our own Perceptible Reality" .  The "Way we see things" is actually the result of Educational Conditioning, meaning, we are TAUGHT >>>How<<< to see , and worse, we are Taught >>>What<<< to see .   

                          If you "Believe" in trump YOU WILL NOT SEE EVIL --- and even if you "sense" something is amiss , your Belief will FORCE you to "Turn a blind eye" .   Such is Human Nature .

Civilized Barbarism

                                              It may be that the depth of Human Depravity cannot be fathomed because this Depravity appears to be infinite .   Sorrow-stricken Latina's have implored the American congress and Americans in general, to actively confront trump and his trumpocracy* to HALT its FASCIST Rule-by- Cruelty that INNOCENT CHILDREN be removed as targets for I.C.E. ATROCITIES ----   2 words :  Good luck with THAT .

                       These Latina's (somehow) have forgotten that NO ACTION WAS TAKEN BY THE AMERICAN CONGRESS AFTER THE SLAUGHTER AT SANDY HOOK .  Therefore it is woefully ABSURD to even THINK that a self-castrated congress would move, IN ANY WAY, toward Justice it its classical sense .

                       The same can be said of the Victims of Epstein .   They are RIGHTEOUSLY Demanding Justice but YEARS have expired and yet NO ACTION WAS EVER TAKEN AGAINST THEIR PERPETRATORS .   Trump and his would rather a WAR than the Release of ALL the files -  such is the True Nature of their IGNOMINIOUS DEPRAVITY .

The Mirror

                                               Clearly America is no longer THE Global Paradigm for Democracy .  Instead,  America as become a Crucible for the most HEINOUS Human Atrocities equal to that of Iran and a level of CORRUPTION found in putin's Russia .   Trump has KILLED American Citizens AT POINT BLANK RANGE AND EXECUTED A CITIZEN >>>> IN THE BACK<<<<<  the MOST COWARDLY ACTION POSSIBLE .   

                       I Stand with Steve Schmidt and warn ALL NATIONS to view America AS A FAILED STATE, indeed, a model of WHAT >>>NOT<<< TO DO ---WHO >>>NOT<<< TO ELECT if True Freedom and Liberties are to be maintained .  

                       The Days of Reckoning are upon EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US .   Battle Lines have been drawn and Civilization MUST be rigidly SCRUTINIZED in order to rid the World in which MURDER AND DEATH are the only answers to the question, "How are we to govern?" 

                        America is SICK, DISEASED and fucking ROTTEN TO ITS CORE  all because SICK and DISEASED people voted for a MADMAN . 

ALTRUISM

                                              Below is the definition of ALTRUISM :   "1  unselfish concern for the welfare of others;  selflessness     2 in Ethics --->  the DOCTRINE  that the general welfare of SOCIETY is the proper goal of an individual's actions  {{{ as opposed to EGOISM}}}" .   (Upper case used by me) .

                    My Faithful Readers know that I am a self-avowed "Militant Idealist" who happens to be a Zen Sword'sMan* and Devotee of the Buddha's Teachings .   This is my Socio-Political and SPIRITUAL Foundation so it is within Reason to feature Altruism as it relates to Societal Socio-Political Trajectory .   

                    I have vehemently argued that we, as in "We the People" MUST "take it to the Streets" in an 'ALL OUT EFFORT' to not only confront >I.C.E< but to OPPOSE trump's DOCTRINES of Oppression, Subjugation and Suppression .   We say that we "FIGHT" for Democracy but the word fight has within it the meaning of actual PHYSICAL execution .  Physical Exertion, in the form of classical combat, is NOT part of the Protests, since American Protests have resolved themselves to 'stay within' the Spiritual/Political parameters set forth by Dr. King and Maha* Ghandi -- who extolled the Virtues of "Non-Violence" .    

                   I found Need to stipulate the abject NECESSITY for wordship* that identifies RIGHTEOUSNESS as a VIABLE Mental Construct for one's >>>involvement<<< with the American Counter Insurgency .

An "AMERICAN HITLER"

                                              It was Ivana Trump who told her lawyer that trump kept a copy of Hitler's speeches titled,  My New Order, mis-heard as Mien Kamph >>>BY HIS BEDSIDE<<<.  In my Mind that should have triggered a NUCLEAR EXPLOSION in the both the Political Culture and that of Pop .   It was received with bemusement, where bemusement expresses a CRITICAL lack of CONCERN and a wholesale UNDERESTIMATION of trump's PERVERSIONAL* DEPRAVITY and MAY HAVE resulted in the execution of  his Pied Piper Ability to harness hitler's >mind-set< as his own, and then to UNLEASH his version of Hitlerism* upon an  American  Public  that  failed  to  recognize IMMANENT potential Calamity .  Americans elected a HITLER WANNABE !

Logic

                                           No trump no Murders .   The Logic is irrefutable .   We must try to use Logic to formulate correct views and understanding(s) .   No ICE no EXECUTIONS .  No Commands to "Shoot to kill" -- No Assassinations .   From this Logic and the "Transitive Principle" we can state an Abstract --->  Trump is RESPONSIBLE for "PULLING THE TRIGGER"  in other words :   TRUMP KILLED  Good and Pretti .   They held Hitler RESPONSIBLE ---SO IT SHOULD BE WITH TRUMP !!!  

Raw WAR

                                     The Protests PROVE that Americans have "True Grit"  .   They are on the Streets in ARCTIC Weather such is their LOVE of their fellow Countrymen and their PASSION for TRUE Democracy .   Thing is THESE >>>OUR<<< Protests must be continued EACH AND EVERY DAY in keeping with the MASSIVE ONSLAUGHT of trumpian CRUELTY generated by a MADMAN and his ARMIES .   

                                                                    IT'S WAR !!!!!!!!!!

Iran IS America

                                     I fear that America is on the same trajectory as Iran .    Trump will give the order to "Shoot To Kill" ANY Protesters ,,,  look at what his commands have already done ,  KILLING TWO AMERICAN CITIZENS AT POINT BLANK RANGE . It  will be only a matter of TIME before he gets the tech billionaires to shut down the Internet, and from there to COMMAND the FCC to halt all TV broadcasts that oppose his administration .   It won't just stop there --- ... .   What will happen when his gov goons surround super-markets ???   His ARMIES can prevent the sale of foodstuffs -- denying AMERICAN CITIZENS OF FOOD ???  TRUMP IS CAPABLE OF THE MOST HEINOUS HUMAN ATROCITIES EVER COMMITTED BY A MADMAN ---  If that isn't "self-evident" by now then we are WORSE than COULD EVER be Imagined .

The Revolution WILL BE TELEVISED

                                     Is there a remedy for NATIONAL Mental Illness ?   If so, what is it ??   Is there a remedy for "zombie-ism" Restated, is there a remedy for the condition of zombies ?  Can we make steak from hamburg ???  Is there a remedy for the mental illness of trumpists ???  Is there truly a "something" that can return trumpists to HUMANITY ?????  I'm inclined to believe NO FUCKING WAY !!!!!  What, then, is AVAILABLE to the American Resistance ????

                    Thus far only Street Protests have been the tactic, but you gotta ask, "How far can whistles go?"   What remains ?   

                     We can de-fund trump's STORM-TROOPERS by UNDER-PAYING yearly taxes, a NATIONAL "Pay-less" .   We can BOYCOTT  pro-sporting events until they JOIN our Revolution .  We can BOYCOTT Hollywood until they apply pressure on trump .  W can LEARN TO SACRIFICE FOR A CAUSE GREATER THAN OURSELVES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                    Keep in mind, trump is using OUR TAX MONEY to pay for his soldiers to INFLICT PAIN ON US .   Plus, our own Mill HAS FORSAKEN OUR CAUSE !!!!

                     We MUST CONCLUDE that until the ENTIRE Nation DEMANDS an END TO TRUMP we will wallow in FILTH and SQUALOR .

Challenger: "Nurse Duckett"

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"The Patient Conquer "

                                                IT'S A MIRACLE !!!  I'm back at my favorite Blog Space  ----   The new computer was shit rite out of the box ...    Please forgive my computer Ignorance .