A Perfect Circle - Imagine

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Masticating the manic minds of millions is no easy task, but its the one I set down for myself, so in this madness I gladly bask. As I progress in my study of this globe and species to which I belong it's becoming abundantly clear my indulgence in learning produces envy in others and lunacy within. The solutions to our rampaging sadistic species does not lie with books or in the four walled prisons we have built to hide from nature. Why play these obsessive games with our precious days when the brilliant sun and resplendent earth so emphatically point the way? Many people walk through life weighed down by centuries of cultural baggage that does nothing more than slow our journey and comfort the cries of 'are we there yet?'. What I propose is that every step we take further down the road of materialism and so called progress the less human we are. I hear the echoes of ages past resounding with blood drenched glory and insatiable passion. These days appear far different when compared with them. Today it all appears to cruelly calculated and carefully crafted that our society resembles a machine more than a group of human beings. People are programmed, processed, then placed, placated and then they pass. All this comes from but one place- the dreams we dream. Captains of Industry dreamt up forests of buildings, rivers of cars, herds of workers, and now here we are living that dream. If an individual dreams it is usually called art or insanity, but when groups dream, it is called power. The most powerful force to fight the mind numbing indulgence of our age is something we do every night when we sleep. If only the exploited masses and mislead middleman could be made to understand that all they need do is conceive of a path, then walk down it. So here we sit, a convict with the key to the cell, but not the courage to use it. However, I do feel a slight change in the wind. Perhaps the endless years of greed will soon give way to a whole new approach to life based on understanding and alturism. I hope that such is the case, but without dreamers, and lots of them, such things will never come to pass.

Can't lose what you never had

“Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
Freedom is one word that in this country has been effectively hollowed out, filled with stuffing, embalmed and then put upon a shelf as though it were a trophy. The modern American is bred to be selfishly subservient and myopically materialistic, freedom doesn't factor into it at all. Some people seem to think of freedom as a fad started during the Age of Enlightenment that went out of fashion and was replaced by the monolithic might of the modern State. Perhaps that is exactly how it went down and when freedom wasn't en vogue anymore we simply kept the word because it had a good ring to it and it was already in our national anthem. In the new world we are all too codependent to be literally free, but we have a piece of paper called the Bill of Rights that makes us hypothetically free. To be perfectly honest, I have no fucking clue what the word freedom means to the English speaking world. I'm sure in the olden days freedom meant not having some other ethnic group dominate you and your people. Then in the not so olden days it was a metaphysical concept that said you were only free if you live in a representative democracy in which you possess certain inalienable rights. But today it seems to have assumed the characteristics of a mantra with a mystical meaning that questioning is treacherous. I tend to agree with the statement that freedom, if it isn't universal, is just privilege extended. Deep down on some subconscious plain I suspect this is what they all mean by freedom. We dominate other regions and are given certain privileges in return for our support of said domination. This would be supported by the fact that our global campaign to root out opposition and test loyalties is called Operation Enduring Freedom. I'm probably wasting my time trying to make any sense of the average Americans mindset. In my personal opinion freedom is a fundamentally spiritual thing that allows people to no longer be tethered by fear and necessity to what we know in our hearts to be wrong. A nation cannot be free just because they say they are, and that is essentially what we are doing.

New World Order

"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it." - H.L. Mencken

Amid all the dramatic flourishes of international diplomacy a new spectre is gathering power to itself like some shadowy black hole. Trying to apply names to this new world order is like trying to name every raindrop in a downpour. The bourgeoisie is in the process of completely subverting all power from ordinary people, primarily embodied in the State. All the most powerful organizations and corporations in the world today frequently have more sovereign powers than the nations in which they operate. The Council On Foreign Relations writes US policy and then has the US Government implement it. The International Monetary Fund systematically ensures that no developing nation will ever have the financial capacity to do anything other than remain in crushing debt (the World Bank helps out in this task). The three groups I just referenced have more power than any other force on earth, and they serve only one master- the wealthy. They are the three most salient members of the NWO, but supported by a bureaucracy of such mammoth proportions that it boggles the mind. As wars are waged and antagonisms agitated in the old fashion, they only serve the proponents of one world government. Conflicts these days are only between the sophisticated western armies and the rag tag indomitables that would rather die than live in the world that is being forged. Even pollution has played right into their hands, allowing them to find a 'moral' way to impede the economic development of poorer nations desperately trying to claw their way to the top of the capitalist pyramid. A global carbon taxing system is such a thinly veiled NWO ploy that even environmentalists can see through it. The end game appears to be a world in which no person, no place and no culture is outside the all pervasive power of the market, and the market is naturally lorded over by the monetarily endowed. It brings sadness to my heart to see the blind patriotism of my fellow Americans being harnessed to make them the foot soldiers and facilitators of the New World Order. The true brilliance of this behind the scenes power grab is that they don't use brute force and aren't motivated by short term goals- these guys are big picture people. So big picture in fact, that most people can't even wrap their head around the concept, and thus dismiss it as absurd. They have in a very orderly fashion got the whole world hooked on money and education, the free market has done the rest. The omnipresent market has made the word 'politics' a euphemism for 'economics'. I suspect that by the time the world figures out what is going on it will already be far too late to do anything. Our NWO overlords are already binding, with mortal cords, the masses to their economic policies through artificial agriculture requiring massive amounts of pesticides, fertilizers and GMO seeds. Not to mention the fact that if trade ever broke down, or any nation attempted to limit the economic free for all, starvation and chaos would inevitably follow. Leading the elite to point ecstatically at the consequences of deviance and the benefits of obedience. Within ten years it seems unavoidable that the masses of the earth will have to chose between being the chattel of the rich, or finding a viable alternative for global governance. My only fear is that most people won't even acknowledge the choice because they are too busy licking the whip to hear its crack or taste their own blood.

US Foreign Policy 1991-Today

The past 16 loops around the sun have been very eventful ones in terms of political change. Sadly most Americans have little or no concept of how this change has affected our place in the eyes of the planet's populace. The mindset of the majority is cemented in an ideology that sees us as a benign and just force in a wicked world that we must set right. Somehow Americans missed the fact that Clinton deployed more troops overseas than any president since FDR. They didn't realize that we have a military presence in over 100 countries. The masses also missed the fact that with our unprecedented military superiority and economic might we could end every single war before it started; not to mention the majority of disease and famine. They also seem to not understand that using our army, navy and air force in the current political climate can't be disguised as anything but opportunistic aggression. Sure, at home we can play it off as 'peace-keeping' or enforcing UN resolutions, but no one buys this shit that isn't programmed to believe lies, or benefits from doing so. The fact of the last 16 years is that as soon as the balance of power tipped in our favor we immediately began ensuring that the US could run the world as we see fit. All the petty little shit they cover in the media is a complete smokescreen intended to confuse the smart and infuse the stupid with hatred. Example- 1999: we attack Serbia in support of the KLA, a Muslim extremist group seeking to secede. 2001: we attack Afghanistan to free the country from Muslim extremists. Or how about our favorite rally word, Democracy- 2002: the CIA supports an attempt to overthrow the Democratic government of Venezuela. 2004: Iraq is invaded so we can depose a dictator and set up a Democracy. It makes me want to scream until my lungs bleed that no amount of evidence, persuasion, reason or logic will make these fuckwits admit the omnipresent truth that we are ruling the majority of the planet so we can consume as many goods as is feasible. If ignorance is strength then that explains our present power, because this land is the most benighted mental environment one can imagine. An entire nation of self-obsessed savages that will believe any lie, stomach any atrocity and sacrifice anything just so long as we can buy, consume and breed without being bothered by the details of how it is all accomplished. A lot of people blame the government for what has gone down in these tumultuous 16 years, but that is simplistic scapegoating of the most pathetic kind. Until America owns up to the fact that we instigated and sustained this not a damn thing will change. So what if the government lies to the people, they clearly want to be lied to. Over 2000 years ago another person saw the same drama unfolding and said 'The more they drink, they more they thirst'. Today I see my countrymen drinking so deeply that I fear the only solution is to let them drown.

40 years of mistakes

As you probably guessed, Blue is Democrat and Red is Republican, the Green is Independent. I just thought this graphic was so telling that I had to post it. In a very colorful way it demonstrates why two party rule has always split opinion just enough to keep the balance of power. If one side ever gained total supremacy their authoritarian nature might become more visible to the myopic drones we call voters.

Idiosyncratic Ideas

I find it utterly hilarious how people act like Plenipotentiaries for God, and keep a straight face in the process. I don't care if you're Muslim, Catholic, Evangelical Christian or Hindu, saying you know what God wants and are empowered with the ability to negotiate deals on his behalf is something you should be locked up for. It seems to me that anyone with a brain would understand that God isn't stupid, and consequently would never delegate power to these degenerate opportunists with fancy clothing from centuries past. Another thing that blows my mind is that we are very likely going to fish the oceans to the last fish, slaughter all the great herds of both land and air, and turn the all fertile land into a farm in the next couple decades. I'd advocate population control, but this would require people acknowledging a one world government, or using their brains before they use their genitals, which is far less likely than the former. Humanity's three companions- plague, famine and war- are proving unable to keep pace with the people proliferation, so a remedy must be found to alleviate hunger. The only easy and ready made alternative I see is cannibalism. It would be a panacea for so many problems on this planet that I think the time has come to drop the cultural stigma and get cooking. A strange thing for a vegetarian of many years to advocate to be sure, but it seems the only possible way to avert turning the whole planet into a human hive. Seeing as how genocide and starvation are the inevitable consequences of overpopulation, cannibalism is a rather humane alternative. Just as you can donate your organs if you die, why not those meaty thighs or succulent ribs? We are going to see more Rwandas and Bosnias if something isn't done, mark my words. I've always thought it a great injustice to see fat people amongst the poor emaciated masses, this will forever solve that. All I'm saying is that with mankind's seemingly infinite capacity for the grotesque and cruel we might as well try to make such behavior practical and environment friendly. The only people to ever officially escape being conquered in the New World were the Amazonian Head Hunting tribes. Living deep within the impenetrable jungle they kept their population from adversely affecting their surroundings by requiring everyone who wished to be called a man to first go get the head of another man from a different tribe. If you wanted to get a wife, you had to take anothers place, and thus was their population stable and their culture durable. Of course when the Brazilian Government finally outlawed the practice and starting putting them on reservations it has been a shit slide into oblivion for the these once proud warriors whose jungle is quickly fading into memory. It seems clear that the primary obstacle impeding the progress and development of the human experiment is an uncontrollable fear of the unknown. We are creating new problems every day, but seem to think new solutions aren't equally important. Sort of in the same vein as those impostures who speak in God's name claiming that He wants us to be subservient narrow minded dimwits instead of living up to our full potential.

The Good Book

As my years wear on me I find myself less and less able to feign interest in the vast majority of man made entertainment. Politics seem a pathedic parody of all that once was life, and most social environments seem decadent or fraudulent. The more I come to terms with my perception of the world the more I leave behind the mindset of my contemporaries, and the better qualified to take it all in without letting the glory and the gastly disturb the calm waters of my consciousness. The only real thing I've ever found any solice in is a good book. Anything well written was transcribed for the ages, perpetually immune to the passage of time and fluctuations of humanities temperment. What I would call a great book is a volume that cracks the shell of your personality to show you a world you would have never known otherwise. Endless vistas and pertinent lessons await those who would learn from the experience of those few humans who had the vision and vocabulary to turn but one small existence into a window into the mind of mankind. Countless personal problems have I overcome with nothing but a stirring story from another age. It is easy to lose ones head these days. We are inundated with so much fantasy and so many lies that sitting by oneself to scour the pages of the past for guidance has become something of an atavistic practice, usually left to the recluses of academia to comfort their lazy lives. The more i see people turn away from books to 'the neon god we made' the more I realize that it must be so. Modern people have very little in common with those who passed before, and less so with each passing day. We have entered a brave new world in which all cultural, religious and political sanctuaries are being razed to the ground in order to make way for the passions of the present. Without ever having to admit it so, we have opted for mass produced people programmed for 13 merciless years in favor of the insolent individuals that once walked this earth. I sometimes sit and wonder if i'm the last of a dying breed, or part of something new, which has yet to take full shape and thus be acknowledged. Whatever the case may be, I find immeasurable consolation in the charm, wit and brilliance of those torch bearers that kept the flame lit for so many centuries. Though their bodies be turned to dust and their names all but forgotten, their contribution is still greatly appreciated by me. No matter how alone this life may make me feel, a reasuring word in the worthiness of human life is only a page away.