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How Much Is Enough?
May
9, 2004
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If we want to know what's really happening now we have to go deeper into
how we behave, and how that behavior has affected the nightmares we're
living in.
Too many have forgotten how to have a conversation, we no longer think for
ourselves, and we have accepted the fact that everyone, every one, now lies
about everything. To "expect" the lies is to have lost all
personal responsibility in or for, anything that matters. For the most
part, most no longer actually read the news for themselves, instead they
just accept the headlines - and this is easy when "news stories"
are just a sentence long - three if it's major.
San Francisco Chronicle 5/9/04: "With troop commitments growing, the
cost of the war in Iraq could top $150 billion through the next fiscal year
- as much as three times what the White House had originally estimated.
And, according to congressional researchers and outside budget experts, the
war and continuing occupation could total $300 billion over the next
decade, making this one of the costliest military campaigns in modern
times." And that's only a dollar figure subject to change, and does
not count the loss in human lives.
This began when we entered Regan's 'Morning in America.' You remember that,
when Ronnie began his presidency on the backs of the 444 American hostages
in Iran. That was a cozy little deal that erased Jimmy Carter, and
handed Ronnie his office.
'The Gipper' went on to introduce America to lies unending and to
deceptions on a global scale. Look it up! You'll find the current criminals
from Iran-contra are now all back in government, and now at the highest
levels. For his parting shot Ronnie left us with 'Greed is Good.' But all
politicians often do dastardly things - the crime is that we obviously
bought all of it!
What did we become? For one thing we've become putty in the hands of a
thoroughly corrupt government that LIES about everything they do. They
still have not finished the 911 investigation, and now it's been discovered
that they destroyed the air traffic control tapes of that day: "The
destruction occurred even though the FAA sent a directive three days after
the hijackings: ``Retain and secure until further notice ALL
Administrative/Operational data and records. ..."
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2004/05/07/a8.nat.sept11tapes2.0507.html
Will anyone really care? Will anyone go to jail? Why not? Because too many
believe that this behavior is now normal, and therefore excusable.
Or this: Rumsfeld admits the tortures happened, and are horrific, but calls
any attempt to remove him 'partisan' and that he is capable of handling
this - what's up with these people who think they get second, third, or
fourth chance? Hey they got away with stealing the White House, and 911,
with zero consequences - so why not this as well? "The groundwork for
the current policy of pre-emptive war and for the U.S. to conduct its
affairs as the sole superpower that permits no challengers, was established
in the 1991-92 Defense Policy Guidance, drafted in Cheney's office, while
he was Secretary of Defense." Has anyone bothered to nail Cheney for
his design for the criminally insane Bush Doctrine so long ago? Of course
not, because that's ancient history and could never have any bearing on
anything today!
They KNOW we're frozen in time, and that we will not act against them. Are
we going to prove them right by continuing to look the other way?
http://www.canada.com/calgary/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=e2216d50-85ea-45c7-b925-195da3e2c24f
We have the attention span of a gnat, and all the determination of a
butterfly in a typhoon. Many look to others for any kind of direction,
physical, mental, moral or spiritual - and would never dream of actually
formulating their own point of view and especially NOT outside the norms.
In all of this the "polls" are used to justify the summation of
the average temperature of the herd, while signifying absolutely nothing
relevant at all.
Americans want to see themselves as powerful, dominant figures in the
world. But Americans tend to run from everything, stand for nothing, and
fight for even less. Most are personal cowards, self-indulgent to a degree
last seen during the collapse of the Roman Empire. Given our "new
status" under the Bush Doctrine, we largely exist upon the land as a
plague of consumption, a continued blight upon any necessary introspection.
Our behavior is deeply disturbing in our dark tendencies toward violence
and hate that show themselves in everything we do and say. An instance that
proves this is that many in Iraq used images of torture as screen savers.
We believe that we can lead the world, when nothing could be further from
the truth!
http://blackcommentator.org/89/89_cover_change_world.html
There's more than just what we've allowed our government to do. There's how
we see ourselves, and what we fail to notice there.
Whatever people may be thinking is usually, not relevant to much of
anything at all. That sounds harsh, but there is no other explanation for
the shallowness of our world-view, the obsessions that tend to dominate
personal ambitions, not to mention the fact that we've killed and buried
most of our real emotions decades ago.
Having overdone this escape from reality, we've come to see "the
polls" as some kind of magic lantern that can point the way to what we
need to do.
Not only do polls NOT matter - neither does that vast and recently created
herd mentality have any bearing on what we call "our precious little
lives." It seems we've become a nation of machine parts, flesh and
blood as cogs in the mechanical plans of others for our lives. Or as
Lawrence Durrell said: We're only footnotes in the pages of other peoples
lives.'
Americans are fond of saying "maybe we've sold out" - but that's
a lie as well. No one can sell what was never possessed in the first place.
We for the most part, were never really anything but an ambulatory
collection of appetites and reactions. 'We' could not "sell
out" because we never were anything at all to begin with.
Take all of the above, and let those who believe in that, become involved
in "electing anyone to anything" and the outcome is as obscene as
Bush on drugs. To watch any "election cycle" play out - is to
subject oneself to tedium and rage. To "become involved" when
involvement is only part of a party directed organization, is to compound
existing problems; by adding mechanical texts to conflicted thought that
can never equal anything but deeper failure. This society is broken and to
seek answers from those with the sledgehammers still in hand is idiocy! In
fact, actions such as these 'organized involvements' tend to shatter far
more of what's left of this place, than they have ever contributed to it.
What context does all this happen in? What's missing still is the
realization that politics is a contact activity, not a spectator driven
sport. When we stop talking about our troubles on the net, and take our
complaints directly to the streets, then things will change, and not
before!
Many say they want to "just get out." That's no solution. That
just moves the failures to a new address. And this presupposes that there
are other places in the world that would have us; that those places would
tolerate the fetishes and preferences that we might bring. Those who want
to flee are also indirectly part of that hive-mind that have devoted their
lives to becoming active and "influential" members of what used
to be called the establishment. This then is self-delusional, as well as
incorrect.
Reading back over the above, the situation looks very grim - but that's
because it is. "We" didn't get here overnight; indeed we've spent
well over the last half-century becoming the blob within the bubble that we
are today. About the only thing on most horizons now are lots of very
sharply pointed objects, that all seem to be aimed directly at the bubbles
that we're living in. Not all of those objects will stop at penetration of
the outer membrane. Many of the sharp things are actually quite deadly and
some will destroy not only a few bubbles, but also maybe even the mechanism
that is churning out the bubbles in the first place? This event will not be
televised, nor will a poll be taken on the outcome. The group mind and the
hive mentality will be destroyed when those bubbles finally fail to protect
us from the truth.
There will be survivors of course. Most of them won't be among the ones who
lived without reality; but when those bubbles become just so much shattered
glass the survivors will have to live in what reality is really like!
The only thing certain then will be change, and changes will continue, the
question is will you?
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