This work is the result of desires, feeling of fear and anger, disbelief at the state of the world I found myself living in, and at 13 years old these two albums convinced me that I didn't have to accept the now, and inspired me to never stop imagining the world I want to live in as well as how to have it. *Donald Rex Jr
Comic Book Shaman’s War On Money text edit one 2/13/2014 (19,792 words)
Comic Book Shaman’s War On Money text edit
one 2/13/2014 (873)
[revised 2/14/2015]
If not for people there would be no money; no thought of
money or need of money: if not for people. Is money the secret strength of
human beings; or perhaps its prophylactic to peace and justice, keeping our
common planet on its course of degrading and suffering? If this observation
appears banal or even puerile on its face, it does beg the question is money essential to the growth of human
prosperity in this century, having learned all of the lessons and achieved
all of the technological advances of all past time? I suggest that money has
morphed from a 14th century boon to bankers and merchants to become at last the
great glass barrier to everyone fully utilizing their great human potential, to
us each husbanding and best using all natural resources, and distributing what all in more fair, economical and
fuel efficient manners. This way, and never by money trickling down on us from
on high is the cure for poverty, war, terrorism and perhaps in time even
xenophobia.
At our worst we human beings are addicted to money as a
palliative drug beyond its prescribed use. Before I can take this equation
further, it is imperative that I be clear that its primary constituent constant provides that there be no
involuntary loss of capital or property required for its implementation.
Since all enterprises evolve as they have done, whether government sanctioned
or otherwise, even criminal, to any degree: must even out in this system. This
is not to say my equation is immoral, but contemplation may lead to seeing that
each ones sin is only a small part of the whole person. Is not even the worst
sort of sinner the product of her fate; and who might not have been more
fortunate if things had been different?
Next constant in my war
on money may be stated don’t believe anything; but be open to
accept everything. Because nothing in the universe is good or
bad, right or wrong, or true or false in all cases, and the only excluding
factor to be considered is if or not an aspect leads to error.
The great and transformative ideas and acts of human beings
are rarely intensional at the start, rather they are mostly defined and
redefined as time passes. It is the same with the actions of men and women. Next
and the third constant is that persons
always add value. In all economic equations this constant is similarly
thought to be true, be that truth is largely shortchanged when participation
stops flat at a paycheck; the future and
mutually earned residual profit is usurped, and claimed to be dispersed to
middlemen, retailers, suppliers, taxes, etc. as is commonly accounted by the
present system devoted solely to monetary gain.
The final
constant may at first seem implicit, yet it seems hardest to achieve
in dominant culture at last is simple fair play. Every dog has his
day so to speak. Once a minimum provision ensures that every person has some
minimum home and food security, each person will then be free and able to gain
education or training to the full extent of her capacity; and by this: flourish personally and thus the world
will be incrementally improved, one life at a time.
So these four constant propositions underlying this
equational system suggest the calculus that at last begins to connect the
previously described 33 variables describing Peace, and the four part offering
outlining my assertion of a concept called variable universal happiness. The
equation describing the nature of the
chief factor my analysis isolates as the largest single human factor preventing
the attainment of both; termed Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. By these four
constants factored with the 41 indicated variables, may be derived infinite
combinations of solutions suitable for application to not just and problem, but
to each person’s unique dilemma with any conceivable problem or combination of
such preventing their own peace and happiness.
Henry David Thoreau opined that there is little virtue in the actions of masses of men. When
we each find our own means to peacefully share our planet Earth together the
resulting options too are infinite. As the pollution and the degradation of
earth, sky and waters abate, and are cured by all us humans healing each our
own life’s purpose. The simplicity of
this assertion is only supported by the infinite
complexity and the instinctive
feeling of truth given in every fact
that you, gentile reader have collected in your life; facts of any sort, in any way connected by actual concern for
yourself, your loved ones any life on Earth.
Finally
this work concludes expression of my metaphysical process. It suggests that each
person of our world may discover a viable path herself to have her own peace on
earth and good will among all people. This work expressing infinite solutions
to all, and every problem; and never yet before, been offered in a comprehensive
manner, or asserted to be a definitive system, all-encompassing and without
error. The system, while simple in itself, must be stated in this
complexity in order to maintain a noble brevity to invite investigation.
i.) Voting is for Suckers 5/14/2014 (602) [revised 2/14/2015]
"All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers
or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong,
with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of
the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am
not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it
to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency.
Even voting for the right is doing nothing
for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to
prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the
action of masses of men.
When the majority shall at length vote for
the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery,
or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They
will then be the only slaves. Only his vote can hasten the abolition of slavery
who asserts his own freedom by his vote."
On Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
These words cut deeply into me as a boy, and as it has come about in this present century that many of us take this as a clear path to political transition from our corrupt and inert political leadership to a new, undefined path to a new way of governance for free people NOT of free people by an unresponsive bureaucratic 'government.'
Consider this simple example of a typical election here in the United States and its results:
I am offered a choice of 'Candidate A' and 'Candidate B' on a ballot in common with all other participating voters.
I choose to cast my vote for 'Candidate A'
With this 'choice' I implicitly support any vote, speech or action that candidate chooses to take as my proxy, in any action.
By that same 'choice' I also, by extension equally endorse the same votes, speech or actions of the 'Candidate B' in the event that that other candidate prevails in the election.
Clearly my endorsement of a candidate as a voter is worthless and impotent, but is regarded by office holder as free justification to do as they like in all cases.
This system lays all true political power at the door of the two principle political parties, where it is purchased piecemeal by the interests of individuals and corporations who can afford to buy their agenda no matter how contrary to individual's interests nationally.
Our elected political officeholders are pigs at a trough with no regard for our interests.
Even the Supreme Court of the present Chief Justice John Roberts' regime rules as if it has been bought and paid for and serves only dishonest ends; clearly not those of the people whose interest they were ostensibly appointed to protect.
Even judicial appointments result from the actions and arrangements of the primary political parties; as chips in their power game that they hold to be two opposing sides, but this is not at all clear to be true.
This is merely my analysis of our present government, the prescription of its change and improvement is the result described by my entire equation; as and as described in the subsequent posts on this work. But the result of the mass public withdrawal from participating in voting for national candidates will be that the Emperor will be shown to wear no clothes!
ii.)Profit (Micro)
Requires Consideration 5/17/2014 (185) [revised 2/14/2015]
"If you are describing any
occurrence... make two or more distinct reports at different times... We
discriminate at first only a few features, and we need to reconsider our
experience from many points of view and in various moods in order to perceive
the whole."
Henry David Thoreau
As a business owner,
tradesperson, creator, marketer or any sort of vendor, the decisions and
actions you choose to employ to operate day to day, and long term may be
referred to as micro economic aspects. This designation because your decisions
and actions largely affect your own business alone for the most part.
Also with
responsibility for ones own business there includes the liability for the
consequences of our decisions and actions. On a mico level our business is
restrained from encroaching onto others properties, or legal prerogatives by the
threat of those others taking recourse
under the law. Thus business operators at a micro level must take every outside
interaction under careful consideration because it can eat away scarce profit,
if not risk fiscal disaster.
iii.)Profit (Macro) Defeats Consideration 5/21/2014 (496) [revised 2/14/2015]
"My books I'd fain cast
off, I cannot read
'Twixt every page (for) my
thoughts go stray (to) at largeDown in the meadow, where is (found) richer feed,
And (that) will not mind to hit their (his thought’s) proper target."
The Summer Rain, st. 1 (1842) Henry David Thoreau
When men decide it is
profitable to take a longer, macro view, of economic reasoning and consider
economic activity as an aggregate of the profit and loss within a given
economy, or of many distinct economies; he must relinquish the necessary
requirements of the existent micro operation of all persons, businesses,
industries, established contracts, and networks, and essential processes of
operation presently supporting the profitability each.
The abstract goal of
the study, and then the affecting of existing economies by taking a macro
approach within and/or across an economy; is ostensibly to improve conditions
for everyone by increasing the efficiencies and also by this, the total
activity and profitability, generally, within the economies. This is said to be
achieved by increasing efficiency, reducing or eliminating redundancy, and
eliminating those non-productive aspects wherever they are targeted. This is
supposed, and represented as beneficial to everyone, also termed ‘trickle down,’ and that is solely an
intentionally deceptive macro-economic concept.
Objective analysis of the actual results of macro-economic
planning, and its demonstrated results in any economy concerned, proves
only that its product is merely statistical justification for robbing workers,
businesses, supply networks and investors of their present employment, their
customers, and their profits, in order to redistribute
this wealth and property to increasingly narrow and wealthy interests.
In fact this macro view
towards increasing efficiencies and max profitability within an economy proves
at last to require us to disregard
all useful established micro-economic practices, especially encluding honest
care, pride of workmanship, attention to the best interest of customers, employees, and planning for
the future growth and viability of individual entities and employment within the
economy. These practices thus become superseded by the narrow interests of creating profits for those who have political power and the financial resources
to affect the latter, and to acquire the former in changing the status quo
to the favor of both. This with no regard for the persons who suppose that they
themself grant that political power by
voting, and whose labor created the
wealth held now by others that disregard them entirely.
It would be a mistake
to believe that the wealthy ‘interests
and persons,’ who profit by this, and by the politicians they have bought
with their wealth, are entirely nefarious in their intent or their actions. Instead
they seem more likely to be misguided by a short sighted perception of the
place of profit (money) in the hierarchy of values; and who should benefit.
What good intentions are believed by, or expressed by their media faces to be
the benefits derived from macro-economic actions, in actual widespread
institution of all such, overestimates that utility in fact; and especially
fails to attend to the mitigation of the unintended difficulties that those
actions create.
iv.) Rolling Wheel: Out of Control? or Going the Right Way? 5/22/2014 (706)
"Is a
democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is
it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the
rights of man? There will never be a really free and enlightened State until
the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power,
from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him
accordingly. I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford
to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor;
which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few were to
live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all
the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit,
and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a
still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but (have)
not yet anywhere seen."
Henry David
Thoreau from On Civil Disobedience
(1849)
One important aspect of any equation is your decision about
whether it is useful, and if the problem it purports to address is important to
you at all. The aim of my equation expressed in this blog is essentially to
encourage my readers to perhaps fill in any gaps that exist in their thought
process, that may prevent connecting numerous problems around the world,
nationally, and even in your own life to a common source of all these problems.
All of these problems are rooted in deficits in individual
human beings' perceptions of objects; including money, government, education
and responsibility. Archaic structures of government are based on fallacious
conceptions concerning the benefit of collective actions based on traditional
democratic principles. Democracy has plainly proven itself a clumsy, wolf in
sheep’s clothing, perhaps once it was the very best human beings could manage
to govern themself, even while always acknowledging its shortcomings. Today democracy
is toxic to all but the wealthy who purchase political power and even judicial
decisions all the way to, in my analysis, the present Chief Justice John
Roberts led Supreme Court of the United States. The decisions handed down in
his tenure have so aggravated the disparity between rich and poor, that these
may be termed criminal in their apparent brazen redistribution of wealth and
thus political influence to an increasingly narrow cohort of corporate
interests and wealthy individuals; whose interests are plainly regarded as
taking precedence over those of less privileged persons.
The legislature is not less culpable in this drastic
transfer of wealth over the past decades. The polarization of interest by the
two important political parties, aggravated by the advent of the 24 hour news
cycle that leads persons with little time to seriously attempt to understand
all of the important issues that affect them. Most consume one sided newscasts
as they choose a brand of beer; always reinforcing static perceptions, because
no opposing perspectives ever even come to their notice. Again these
interactions of legislators and news media and corporate and wealthy interests
act to divide and conquer the population who are oppressed by a deficit of both
money and time, and have little ability to know or research the ‘information’
reported to them by media sources.
As for the executive function of government, there is little
of substance that it can accomplish in light of the stubborn gridlock that has
ground governance to a mere giveaway to the privileged contributors to public
office holders.
These are only my own conclusions by analysis of world and
national events. I do not assert any ultimate ‘truth’ in these observations;
however I do assert that they cannot be shown to be in error. We seem to be
today at the cusp of real change in our society, and technological advances in
communications and availability of access to data at affordable costs make
change not just possible, but certain. However it is not phones and computers
that make it inevitable, it is only the intent and self-education of individual
persons that in the end will prevail.
v.) a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank - Compromise
= Governance 5/23/2014 (795)
“ If…injustice is part of the necessary
friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it (the
friction) will wear (it) smooth — certainly the machine will wear out. If the
injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for
itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy (your trouble &
effort to change it) will not be worse than the evil (the injustice), but if it
is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another,
then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter friction to stop the
machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to
the wrong which I condemn.”
Henry David
Thoreau from On Civil Disobedience
(1849)
Our present political system of operating our government is
completely broken. So intentionally and irrationally polarized are the
prominent political parties controlling our government, in cahoots with the
elected office holders and correspondingly distinct news media; that compromise
cannot be even allowed to appear to exist. Any such function of proposed
agreement by office holders of either party with their opposite number is
immediately broadcast by the respective lap dog media platforms, these claiming
‘betrayal of principle’ and ‘unworthiness for re-election.’
The caliber of candidates for higher office today in the United
States is so poor, and self-aware of this fact, that these creatures are
virtually interchangeable once elected, so they do not dare attempt any action
except bend to the winds that may blow from polls of their donors and as bid by
media reportage.
This state of events can hardly be termed government at all;
from its undeniable results plainly observable in the acts of our elected
office holders in 2014, and rooted directly back to the Ronald Reagan
administration. Rather than a functional government, we are experiencing a
systematic redistribution of the savings, labor and even homes and possessions
of American citizens and others living here, of moderate income levels, to an
increasingly narrow group if Wealthy persons, their minions, and various
corporate interests. This is being perpetrated brazenly by buying power by the
proverbial ‘1%,’ acting thus as if they are buying elections on eBay, and also
control of entire media platforms like bush league sports franchises.
So, news cycle to news cycle, election cycle to primaries to
election cycle, we have gone about our lives knowing something is badly wrong,
but not quite able to see it, or actually believe what is happening to us all.
International treaties send jobs and even the capital equipment that workers
here once operated, to overseas. And so called ‘good jobs’ are almost
completely gone from manufacturing, leaving at best medical, government, data
services and the arts as the only way to earn a decent level of income. ‘Higher
education,’ health insurance, a home, a family are largely unattainable for
anyone who cannot get financial help from their family or elsewhere. Even
military combat veterans get tissue treatment by a corrupt Congress that cares
only for the money that gives them power and advantage.
Present governance = swindle, that is my analysis based on
ate result of the equation I am presenting in this blog. I am relating great
complexity here, broken down to bite sized chunks. I want to emphasize strongly
that the state we are in is mainly our own fault; in living our lives oblivious
of the many factors, political and economic that mow hay out of our
distraction. It is the incredible escalation of greed and disregard for their
fellow persons that have attracted these wealthy and powerful pigs to the
though. Dick Cheney, Carl Rove, Mr. Burns, while certainly evil in intent,
cannot be seen as capable of engineering this money drain by design. Life does
not happen that way, only thus in comic books. Look into the mirror to see the
person who can change this economic and class based tyranny.
I offer this equation as a tool to put all the things you
already know onto a framework that will give you a perspective not only of how
we got to this sad economic and political state; but how we can win back our
nation by peaceful means.
If you would like to learn more about advanced equation-al
thought, such as is practiced by native new world shamans for thousands of
years, go to my Logical Philosophy blog HANblogLAKA to read my interpretation
of Bertrand Russell’s contribution to Whitehead and Russell’s misunderstood
‘Principia Mathematica’ a stiff workout for the mind.+ Russell stumbled into
thinking like an Indian.
vi.) Service of Random Kindness 5/26/2014 (698)
"The fate of
the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls — the worst man is as
strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you
drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man (person) you drop
from your chamber into the street every morning. "
Henry David
Thoreau from 'Slavery in Massachusetts'
(1854)
The most important thing in my life has proven to be giving
my service to other people. All of my ideas and intentions have self-serving
aspects I admit, but this does not diminish the good that incorporating service
and kindness to others has done for me, as much as for those I mean to serve. I became a Buddhist monk ‘in fact,’
that is I took my 6 vows and have faithfully kept them for 25 years. I took
this path as a means of learning, concentrating, observing, listening to find
out, I have no idea what. The unknown became so attractive that an ordinary
life, job, wife, or family became completely out of the question for me. What
comfort or rewards these offered has been defeated for me by the
responsibilities they brought with them.
Making the decision to accept the responsibility of a
family, employment and every aspect these, brings this; the chief causality of
every person is the loss of their time. Pinched for time, it is thus so often
that kindness is the first thing that that we abandon, for giving our time to
another is often the kindest thing that we can possibly do for them. We feel
that money becomes the same thing as time, because we sell so much of our
precious time for money, but then fail to realize that we gladly give much more
money to have some of our time back.
It is impossible now for me to separate responsibility from
service to others. I can’t believe that all of the help and the love others
have given me throughout my life was only due to my own personality; and fully
deserved at all. In fact it is clear that I am selfish and self-serving in the
bulk of my decisions and actions. That said, still I can say that each kindness
I have received, eventually I have recognized as such, even when it didn’t
always seem as such in the moment. So in time I became able to recognize the
suffering in other persons who I meet; and come to recognize it as my own. In
this light it becomes natural to spare a moment to be with a person who wants
comfort, as so many have done for me in my life.
In our culture of ‘no time to spare’ we view helping others
as a deduction from our paycheck, or a dollar handed out the window to a
standing vet or other unhappy person.
Don’t mistake kindness for a hurried handout; that is welcome, do doubt,
but beyond a bite to eat many persons really need a kind ear to pour out their
suffering, for that is truly different from talking to the air. And remember
most, that in listening to the suffering of others, that you cannot solve their
problems for them really, but in listening to them it is possible for one to
work it through for themselves. Eventually a solution may present itself to
them. We can never really know the result of the kindness we do for others, and
maybe it is best that way.
This blog presents an equation with 33 distinct variables,
each of which every reader already has some familiarity. The key to my
intention is to show that there is no hierarchy of importance to these ideas,
but instead they are harmonious and meaningful separately but more so taken together
as a whole. With the ability together to guide us to a clear understanding of
who, what, where and when and why the agents of deception in society are
getting away with their special crimes, we have to figure that for ourselves
today, cause the media is paid to confuse us.
vii) Decisions Are Made One and One and One and One Each Her
Own (475)
"I am a
parcel of vain striving tied
By a chance bond together.
Henry David
Thoreau from poem Sic Vita, st. 1
(1841)"
Tip O’Neil famously observed that “all politics are local.”
This from a far past era when politicians yet felt some responsibility to their
constituents; and even often still worked to reach reasonable compromise, in
service of course, to the interests of home districts primarily, and after to
the moneyed interests, only tangentially.
I observe today that such ‘honest graft’ is of the far past
decades, and that elected principal office holders now serve only their
parties, who endorse them to hapless participating voters; and to the various
moneyed financiers of their campaigns, these bought from branded media vendors
supporting one of the two respective parties in control. Using the control of
access to the source of most news content, government spokespeople; media
vendors are made the lapdogs of the political parties and the ‘campaign
contributors’ who buy both at once. National legislation is sold remarkably
cheaply to them for they are even allowed to write it themselves for their own
profit; causing directly the downfall of our national economy, employment and
security.
We are fed confusion by a 24 hour news-cycle composed
chiefly of one to three minute bites of the apple representing the knowledge of
good and evil done to us in our governance by our corrupt and deliberately
ineffectual government. Clearly the result is this: all politics are now
individual.
Activism is personal, and solutions are nowhere to be found
collectively or within the status quo. Linguistic tactics used including such
terms as as ‘race,’ ‘injustice,’ ‘environment,’ ‘freedom fries,’ 'Benghazi'
etc. are distortions cynically used to divide and misdirect us from
understanding, and into distraction, emotionalism and fear where the very
opposites are called for. We are controlled, pacified by the difficulty and
confusion built into our lives, that saps what energy we have; to labor to
dispel it, on top of our all of responsibilities of ‘earning our living.’
I will expand in coming variables on political linguistic
distortion tactics used against us and how the deliberate imprecision of
government spokespeople and the media, in service of wealthy interests and
corporations, (distinct from the shareholder’s actual interests); and as these
affect every aspect of our society. This ‘cancer’ goes to the very ‘marrow of
government’ and the patient is terminal. Redemption lies only in individual
self-determination of us each our own-education, time, and money resources.
American democracy is now as archaic as empire, and the cause of the demise of
each system is the rise of corruption in each of those ruling systems; and the
corresponding rise in the power available to their subject populations.
Quoting the bard: “war is over if you want it.”
viii) War With Distraction//Peace With Diffusion part 1 (
Shaman Process) 5/29/2014 (374)
"The
Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her
guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the
habits of the house. His house is a prison."
Henry David David
Thoreau April 26, 1841
My plan is to do a daily post and knock this equation out in
about two months maintaining a five post a week schedule and get this out of my
system and down in readable form. My manic bipolar mind crunches equations like
this all the time, frankly several at a time is my want as my 'normal' life
progresses. My routine is to go for a couple of double espressos and bat out a
post in less than an hour.
Tonight I hit a common snag, that of tackling a variable
that is plainly simple in my own perception, but linguistically balloons into
greater complexity of itself, that is a greater number of component variables
is contained in it, than the equation it is a part of contains as a whole.
Metaphysically this tends to defeat my purpose, because to express this in
spoken or written language requires too much exposition to be useful to that
purpose.
As I began tonight, I realized I needed an outline to work
from, which in my hour evolved thus far:
Fortunately for this project, virtually everyone is familiar
with the subject; enough to forgo defining each of these component parts of the
variable under examination. for the aim of this post is to demonstrate the
distraction that has evolved in the relations, responsibilities and clear
intentions of the players in our political system and its relation to
government and so to us all, we persons bearing its yoke.
The above simple equation clearly fleshes out to somewhere
just south of infinity; if one were fool enough to go that way. Every single
reader can easily double the complexity above in well below an hour with no
real effort. So I say to you why bother with this distraction, in metaphysical
pursuit, or as a system of archaic governance and systematic robbery thereby?
My self I have better use of my attention.
ix) War With Distraction/Peace With Diffusion Part 2 5/29/2014 (374)
"I came into
this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in
it, be it good or bad. They who know of
no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and
wisely stand, by the Bible and the Constitution, and drink at it there with
reverence and humility; but they who behold where it comes trickling into this
lake or that pool, gird up their loins once more, and continue their pilgrimage
toward its fountain-head. "
Henry David Thoreau from On Civil Disobedience (1849)
Of course anything you read on line is iffy at best; some
things are true and some are not. I put a
lot of work finding the truth about my future wife I met on Facebook and
who has lived in Lagos Nigeria.
Another hour over,
coffee this time, and leaving behind a pile of bits of paper on the table I
took these two pieces to complete this post. If you can decipher my hand I
think my point is made clear both in the text and the form presented in this
variable. Only the names, or labels floating around tell my story in this part
of the equation; I will wager everyone who reads this will understand many
things about each component label, and
each will have her own interpretation of how the pieces connect in her own
world view and present reality.
This is ultimately why the distraction is so deep in our
culture and each our own lives. The variation of subjective values among all of
these examples, and countless others are constantly in flux. For this reason I
don't believe in villains or in heroes. At worst or at best the thing we do are
mainly our best guess at going forward without error. Subjectively any
combination that we determine as true or false is easy enough to decide on
based on our intent or desire. But objectively all equations plainly reveal
their errors plainly. The amount of exposition we tell ourself or tell others
to justify our equation point to how we wish to ignore our error.
x.) Every One Has Their Thoughts And Desires 6/2/2014 (634)
"It is a
great art to saunter"
Henry David
Thoreau - April 26, 1841"
Everyone has their own thoughts and desires
This is an obvious truth, and its practical amplification by
the advent of technology and affordable world-wide communications, goes far to
support my contention that democracy has become undesirable and inadequate to
serve our needs in this Century, and going forward. Its sole function has
become to redistribute the money, possessions and precious time of the mass of
citizens for the profit of those with wealth; and who buy power and influence
with that wealth.
In continuing to cling the beloved illusion of archaic
democracy we cannot see it is a myth, and that it is now in fact, the chief
agent of our national economic decline and much suffering to all Americans,
alike. Advocates for our present political decision makers and their decisions
cling fearfully to their own inability to imagine, let alone believe anything
superior to the status quo; and let me immediately admit: that my only idea is,
and that is now expressed in my latest equation discussed in this blog, simply
put that I advocate that we shall all become better educated every day that
passes: and that everyone should be okay with their own life.
The terrible recent misogynistic murder spree by the
deranged boy who believed the crap his life of sterile media content consumed
could not comport to a desirable life for himself. Even though he felt he had
done all that media told him to do and have that chicks go for reliably, but it
was just a wash for him. It is only aggravating the broad issue to feel
punitive towards a deranged child, one who got hold a loaded gun legally. I
can’t think of a thing to justify this behavior, certainly nothing to excuse
this person’s crime. And so now this one is dead too, as I reckon they all end up lately.
Until we realize these hopeless killers are spawned in
desperation, not in a vacuum. They are born into in the clutches of unfiltered
media and without the rudder of parental care and with not even receiving loving mentoring, as
is the responsibility we all bear towards one another. The latest 'news' item
noted, proves money is not a total cure, nor poverty the logical cause of
suffering to me at least, don't 'ya think?
Hey look! This is a
great spot to add penal service and punitive judicial sentencing as revenue for
the government we have won by cutting tax rates of those persons most blessed
with dough; and all the past decades waiting, believing the necessary tax
giveaways to the wealthy and tricky too must one day trickle down. Down at last
onto the families swimming, swiming around under their mortgaged homes. Persons
who are 'informed' by media scources they are poor victims and who may think
they will drown dead; if they were to pay more to keep the house, keep it by
struggling and suffering poverty (not consuming), because it is said to cost
(here commonly represented as 'debt') more than it is worth; the same home that
the same family had lately wanted so much.
This of is all stuff we can handle ourselves with the
depressurization of our time allocation, and things would be better almost
immediately for most people if the ambiguity of my proposals yet merit
consideration and transmission. I am presently preparing to publish as E-Books
a body of 11 finished texts of my own Manic Recapitulation of my experiences as
an artist in four decades In Life, Art, Logical Philosophy, and all else
interesting to me. In this full chapter of my forthcoming volume of pre-towers
work, I expand this post.
xi.) We Can No Longer Pretend to Know What is in Play 6/4/2014 (474)
"I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was
timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its
friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied
it."
Henry David
Thoreau from On Civil Disobedience
(1849)
At some point in history government bureaucrats confidently
put forth collected facts and figures to define most aspects of national
production and trade in commodities and manufactured products, and could even
account for a reliable census, and even to a degree, control immigration to
this country. Thus making aggregate, the
figures for attempting: forward predictions,
to be used in central planning to benefit industry, and creating infrastructure
to benefit business and employment. Yes
there was a time in history where this was perhaps feasible, if of course, it
always accompanied by profiteering by the wealthy, and grafting public office
holders. No one really believes this is remotely possible today in terms of
meaningful statistics leading to any real national benefit; and the drain of
middle class prosperity has become a grim joke to persons working away with
little prospect for prosperity.
The very concept of maximum profitability (Max/Prof) has
undermined the countless intangible assets of all companies, professions and
commodities and the traditional markets they have inhabited or always until now
supported. This makes us minnows swimming, working, waiting to be swallowed up
by the next big fish who buys and sells our livelihood for a fast buck in their
pocket.
Resulting thus in effect, that no one can say with
certainty; anything about anything, beyond the narrow sphere of aspects
directly related to her personal life. Consider the part your mechanic needs to
repair your trusty old car. It lies far away, waiting to come overnight, if it
can be located at all. If it does come, it is as likely as not to be, not quite
right, or else some other repair may be needed to, at last, get you on the road
again. This expansion of the chronological aspect of an automobile repair is
reflected by the decline of the auto and auto parts industry indicative mainly,
of the steep decline in the income of former customers for fleets of new cars
each year among those formerly called ‘workers’ but who are now valued only as
consumers.
Shifting of middle class savings, from bank accounts into
gun collections has caused mass chaos about every aspect of our society. Money,
patriotism, family, self-preservation, mass murder, health care delivery,
taxation without real representation, anger, sorrow; and at last, the end of
our own functional governance, and the murder of American democracy. And just try to find most indie comic books
for sale currently in a typical local comic shop (lcs).
xii.) There Is No Legislating Out Of The Status Quo 6/5/2014 (348)
"All men
recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to,
and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great
and unendurable. But almost all say that such is not the case now. But such was
the case, they think, in the Revolution of '75.
If one were to
tell me that this was a bad government because it taxed certain foreign
commodities brought to its ports, it is most probable that I should not make an
ado about it, for I can do without them.
All machines have
their friction; and possibly this does enough good to counterbalance the evil.
At any rate, it is a great evil to make a stir about it. But when the friction
comes to have its machine, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let
us not have such a machine any longer.
"
Henry David
Thoreau from On Civil Disobedience
(1849)
We are here in the present moment together, ruled by a
degenerate group posing as patriots and concerned with the public good; while
every action they take publicly brands them as criminals in intent and in
action. Pigs at the trough of our ever diminishing prosperity. Looking up at
times of re-election to urge reform by voting their own opponents out of power
by diligently voting voting voting. "We will bring change," "the
'our' party has only your interests in our hearts," etc. etc. etc.
It is a cynical game they play, slight of hand where we grab
for the 'pea' of reform under the shell of false promises that never come to
pass.The problems and obstacles preventing any prayer of changing the gravy
train of our own elected public office holders? I explore aspects in the sub equation below- every variable is
sadly understood too well; by most anyone reading this blog. This is just a
handy tool collecting many in one meme; but also i betcha each of you can add a
few tentacles I have neglected.
xiii.) Static Perception Arrested Thought/ Impediments to
Progress (364)
"My work consists of two parts: the one presented here
plus all that I have not written. And it is precisely this second part that is
the important part one."
Ludwig
Wittgenstein
An individual aspect such as this is difficult to describe
sensibly, so I will just rely on the title of this equation to express the
major part of my meaning. I think the best I can describe my thesis of this
phrase is this: everything is in a constant state of change, but often we just
cannot notice it.
This is a human, and natural in light of the complexity of
every person’s life and of all its concerns, day to day. We go on in a
comfortable routine most of our lives, pausing in confusion when our old habits
no longer serve us as they once did. We don’t see ourselves this way of course,
but can see it plainly in others around us. A parent seems not to realize that
we are now adults, and insist upon patronizing us. Friends may go on attached
to old ways that we now have lost interest in doing; those wedding bells are
breaking up this old gang of mine.
These changes are rooted in each our individual
chronological needs and desires. This makes a rich tapestry of lives lived
well, but many choose to ignore change, in favor of clinging to a comfortable
simplicity we may weave into a cocoon to shield us from ambiguous uncertainty
brought on by continuous interactions
with others. This aspect of human nature is, by itself a root of tremendous
suffering in everyone’s life to some degree. We may cling to certain T V
programs, sports teams, unhappy employment or ineffective political cell-group
and its office holders; because these are capable of providing a seeming
security in this uncertain world.
The expression of this metaphysical observation has to transcend
the function of language, the description I have written above would have
little weight of meaning, except for the fact that you the reader have, to some
extent, encountered the truth of my assertion as a fact of your own life.
xiv.) Actual May Be (only) Perception 6/7/2014 (188)
"It takes an
extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious."
Alfred North
Whitehead
In the early 1980s I realized I was only really able to
observe, understand and make meaningful artworks by seeing with multiple
perspectives. Otherwise the result of my work shows only a partial aspect, and
unless this is my intention in making a work, or it is made for a commercial
purpose, such work has little satisfaction for me.
If we could read one another’s minds, perhaps we could
completely convey our ideas and our meaning clearly to another person without
misunderstandings. But for the most part we have only language to communicate,
and even to think with by ourselves; so in some way every thought, and every
expression diviates in some way from our intension. So in attempting to
embroider with details in attempt to be specific requires exposition, whether
speaking or in written language; and exposition requires an increased
chronological element to express, and this factor demands attention,
concentration, and often great energy to attempt to know the result of any
given extended, complex use of language.
xv.) Money Went ‘Round The Bend 6/10/2014 (634)
"Never give a
sucker an even break"
William Claude Fields (film title)
Money can be simple and useful to anyone. Money has a price
like nearly everything in this country has; generally most all working people
pay that price chronologically, with their precious time. The time we work for
a paycheck, the effort we give, the forgoing of other desired activities or
repose. Also we may pay for our money with objects we create or have acquired
to later exchange for cash money. These things and others are innocuous aspects
of money that we can see and even trust, if making money seems to us to be the
root constituting the parameters of our life here on earth, the core of our
worthiness and our defense against all adversity.
Money always transcends being the simple tool supporting
these purposes as it masses in the control of any individual or group. Its
aspect changes in certain fundamental ways, in its own nature, but also its
uses change, according to infinite perspectives of those who control it. A
bank, a large business interest, a corporation, a university, a hospital, a
church, a philanthropist, a money market manager, a stock or commodities
trader; each of these has different perspectives on raising and using huge
amounts of money, and the results of each constitutes a separate and distinct
nature of the affect that money has and also what that nature will be in the
future.
As a result of the oligarchic acquisition of so many brand
name companies in the food, retail, entertainment industries, as well as oil,
commodities, and transportation into the hands of a few big corporations controlled
by fewer and fewer very wealthy individuals. Disappearing is that everyone has
lost sight of the origin of these huge fortunes, and the ones who control it
conceive that they alone have earned the fruits of a million others labor and
consumption as the natural order rewarding their virtue and acumen; by our
dedication to property rights and democratic values.
Thus, because money has 'gone ‘round the bend' and out of
sight, we no longer see it, or think about it as an object of all of our common
creation, which it most certainly is, at this level of velocity, that money is
moving away from us. When this nation was truly prosperous, the functioning
governance taxed those gains as much as 90%, to the howls of the extremely
wealthy, but to the huge benefit to the middle classes who had such a growth in
their standard of living that new, and constantly expanding sources of new
fortunes were to be discovered.
Those hated and reviled taxes built roads bridges, dams,’
culverts, flood prevention projects, national parks and capital projects in 50
states, fleets of vehicles and equipment; and also education and employment for
millions of ourselves and our neighbors. I’m not suggesting that the asshole
Ronald Reagan and his ideological progeny were not patriotic and honest in
their well-meaning belief in their doctrines of economic and governance; but
judged by their resulting devastation to our national economy it is clear
that crowd had, and still exhibits
little understanding of the trouble they cause by putting ideology and bigotry
at the very front of their theoretical political equation of governance, where
they should not have been at all. To be complete in my analysis, that Clinton
guy was equally destructive in his trade treaties and arrogant hail-fellow
-well-met distractions; but I like the Obama, he is Presidential and
reasonable, this is the way an executive functions, honestly and effectively.
Do not take these analytical assessments as partisan endorsements, for I
despise all political parties, and see only the actions and the results of men
and woman in office without partisan filter.
xvi.) Weeping and Gnashing of teeth 6/13/2014 (542)
“1 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables,
and said,
2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which
made a marriage for his son,
3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden
to the wedding: and they would not come.
4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them
which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings
are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.
5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his
farm, another to his merchandise:
6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them
spitefully, and slew them.
7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent
forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
8 Then saith he to his servants, the wedding is ready, but
they which were bidden were not worthy.
9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall
find, bid to the marriage.
10 So those servants went out into the highways, and
gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding
was furnished with guests.
11 And when the king
came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding
garment:
12 And he saith unto
him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was
speechless.
13 Then said the king
to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him
into outer
darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
14 For many are
called, but few are chosen.”
Jesus of
Nazareth - Matthew 22; 1-14
That great New Testament economist/philosopher Jesus points
out in this parable that life is good for everyone, but also whether you are a
king, or a guy off the street invited to a wedding party, shit happens, so we
have to just deal with it and keep going. We are alive in the present moment
and in a very real sense each moment is an eternity that we cannot escape. How
we chose to regard the moment we find ourselves in, is largely indicative of how we are likely to feel about each of our
lives’ moments. Our mere determination that the present moment is “good” or
‘bad,’ is a perspective that affects every aspect of our fear, our unhappiness,
or our satisfaction with the things life brings us.
In attempting to always assure our desired outcomes prevail,
the opposites we strive to defeat only grow in resistance and gain ever more
power over us. For example it is to be observed that in present governance the
conservative faction seeks to legislate the parameters of future legislation;
thus hoping to exclude arbitrary issues they despise. Believing in, and
instigating such legislation certainly assures the worst possible outcome, and
they would find the results much better if they would honestly negotiate those
outcomes when they arise. Instead these
cowardly acts, commonly done by our legislators, find us collectively weeping
and gnashing our teeth.
xvii.) A distortion of every nature; is at the base of every
equation 6/24/2014 (332)
" Every poet
has trembled on the verge of Science.
If you are
describing any occurrence... make two or more distinct reports at different
times... We discriminate at first only a few features, and we need to
reconsider our experience from many points of view and in various moods in
order to perceive the whole."
Henry David
Thoreau Quotes from Journals (1838-1859)
Here the title is the whole essence of this variable
proposition I think. If it suggests a certainty to you; then it’s all good. If
you have read very far in this blog, but still are not comfortable with how the
above title serves this function, don’t worry, this bit here just boosts all of
the other, sister variables.
dichotomies of distortions
In conventional thought we depend heavily of concepts true
and false, good and bad, wrong and right; and applying them as labels onto
people, ideas, objects, and all sorts of aspects of our lives. We want these to
simplify our life. But we see that persons, and other interests that we are
fond of, have ever changing natures to them; that may even thus give us
pleasure. We each have a capacity, for our sphere containing our comfortable
ambiguity, and of course varies from person to person.
don’t let the sound of your own wheels
It is only in disregarding these distortions, that we make
serious errors that divert and change our actions, preventing us from having
our intended result. When we are convinced of the permanence of anything on
Gods good earth, it is just another inevitable error coming sure. Understand
that errors are frequent in everyone’s lives, and for the most part they have
little effect, or sometimes even turn out for the best.
Remember that nothing is ever true or false in all cases,
and when one attempts to assert a truth to be ‘eternal,’ or ‘natural;’ she
arrives at nonsense.
Systematic Ambiguity
Dedicated to Angelique and Ashley
The universe
consists
of objects
which occur
having
various qualities
and standing
in
various
relations. etc.
xviii.) All Problems integrated, reduced, and reconstructed 8/29/2014 (576)
"Unjust laws
exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them,
and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men
generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until
they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should
resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the
government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse.
Why is it not more apt to anticipate and provide for reform? Why does it not
cherish its wise minority? Why does it cry and resist before it is hurt? Why
does it not encourage its citizens to be on the alert to point out its faults,
and do better than it would have them?
Why does it always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and
Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?"
Henry David
Thoreau On Civil Disobedience (1849)
Metamorphosis
I find very often, that the plan I am working on doesn’t
quite fit the nature I want to prevail in it. It needs to be worn in a bit and
rethought, and other aspects in proximity may have to change as well for it to
be a good fit. Remember that it is never just one thing that defeats you, or
just one thing that drives you forward. You always have a choice; to pursue a
single narrow, dedicated course is not really better than another more broad
interest, and we only know looking back, what actually was the result of our
intent.
The problem is the bigness
When our plans are born of a budget, and a plan to profit as
a main consideration; then I say that the result is as likely to be an
albatross as a attainment. This is an inherent drawback inevitable in any sort
of collaboration, even with oneself. The real problem is the bigness of the
project’s aspect nature cuts off and stilts the surrounding natures. By this I
mean any people, businesses, contracts, time etc. affected by this bigness.
This may be good for some and less good for others. So, life goes on.
Monkey See
Like the sand in a stream we are all made; shaped by effects
of time and force upon us. We drift along accumulating scraps of identity, and
shedding them like lizard skins. Start
to finish, it is a constant for all persons alike, and so many trap themselves
in not reaching beyond their own expectation. By integration in this manner,
and always with kindness, we accrue certain power that cannot be harnessed, but
is certainly to be used. Used by anyone.
Catch Your own Perception
Reduce, integrate, reconstruct; there is infinite ways to
see a given problem. You are totally in charge of what is big or small in
nearly all situations. Please catch your own perception. If you can allow
yourself to change your perception of variables when the need is apparent the
plan comes closer to integration. You control changes in your own money, time,
education, your beauty and self- worth as you move through life in a way that
makes sense to you. It is no good having our life dictated; by finance, by fate
or by luck. Better to use those things to live the life you want to.
ixx.) Care For Distraction 7/1/2014 (484)
“I found in
myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named,
spiritual life, as do most men,
and another
(''instinct') toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them
both.
I love the wild
not less than the good. The wildness, and adventure that are in fishing still,
recommended it to me. I l like sometimes to take rank hold on life;
and spend my day more as the animals do.”
“The man who goes
alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that
other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.”
“There are
nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to
profess; because it was once admirable to live.
To be a
philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school,
but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of
simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.”
Henry David
Thoreau – Walden
Having recognized that every word, thought and action we
take, ends up a distortion of our own perfect intention; perhaps we would
become immobile and unable to move forward at all, except for our own
tendencies to be easily distracted.
One would not be wrong to dismiss this; as making too fine a
distinction; but on the other hand a shaman reckons that this is 'key' in
aspect translation into a determined chronological factor. By this I mean to
say that every aspect of life, an object , an idea, perhaps a person, each of
these we interpret as a translation of the information we perceive and as it
integrates with all that you already know, of that aspect. Separately but
instantly there attaches a chronological reckoning as each of the variable factors
into a given equation; sort of a boy girl spectrum deal. Whether it is the
trigonometrical sequence calculated in every driving experience, or spending
unplanned hours getting ready to go, it is natural to fall into a groove of
individual perception,
It is not very important to consciously gauge these
chronological factors precisely, only to be aware that this small distraction
exists; exists in everything there is. But the more your life is clearly
defined, and comfortable, these considerations hold for mere entertainment
sake. However artists, outdoorspeople, athletes, gamers, and anyone who enjoys
creativity can play this little distraction into infinite perspectives.
I believe after some time I will expand on this and other
posts into a more conventional English language narrative, as this bit
presented is 4d thought, that is, it is most useful with a good deal of
pretext. However it is my intention to present in this blog, as simply one step
expanded from my original equation; Why Don’t I Have More Money; Why Don’t I
Have More Time.
xx.) Commerce and industry must be viable without subsidy 7/5/2014 (244)
“I went to the woods because I wished to live
deliberately(;) to confront only the essential facts of life, and see if I
could not learn what it had to teach (me)(;) and (so) not when I came to die(;)
discover that I had not lived.
I (do) did not wish
to live(;) what (is) was not life, living is so dear; nor (do)did I wish to
practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep, and
suck out all the marrow of life, to live so;sturdily and Spartan-like(;) as to
put to rout all that was not life(;) to
cut a broad swath, and shave close, to drive life into a corner(;) and reduce
it to its lowest terms.”
Henry David
Thoreau Walden: Life In the Woods (1854)
This following, is a demo of process; in both metaphysics
and written/ spoken language. To expand this exercise into proper blog
language, or even formal institutional standards remains as simple labor for
anyone conversant in the English language and able to perform and document
everything; nice like.
I often pose similar problems to my apprentices, usually
involving their own interests and experiences. One easily understands all the
aspects depicted below, but each will interpret by their personal tastes and
beliefs, understandings, hopes etc. Get
out your post-its, and expand or redo. And think about everything, and how even
the small things matter.
 The
first part is my analysis of the variable, very macro |
 This
is one suggestion of possible threads of remedy |
xxi.) as obstacles to progress; 7/6/2014 (179)
arms trade/ warfare/ environmental neglect/ poverty/
government/ pro façade
file rez
resolution
hi rez seems
to us safer;
and to
reach such
resolution,
hone in
sharp; then
adjust
resolution;
clear.
x (times)
your life
experience/perception
= (equals)
hello; your
socks are attractive;
and we
dance;
I knew we
are
two
time is
always one aspect;
I am
comfortable now
inhaling your
kind
intention
as(when) you
undress.
= (equals)
hello; your
socks are attractive;
and we
dance;
I knew we
are
two
time is
always one aspect;
I am
comfortable now
inhaling your
kind
intention
as(when) you
undress.
Don’t be a
prick, that is
not kind,
please
observe the
wake
you have
made by your
intentions
and activity;
take it out
on people who
do trouble
you with
tyranny or
chew up your
time to pass
their own.
but speak
truth and
shelter by
it; it is a beacon
that some
others see or
notice.
I have a
practice; to question
routinely;
and reserve judgment
as I decide
to do.
everyone has
an illusory
xxii.) Love
thy planet/god as thyself 7/18/2014 (354)
" How can a man be satisfied to
entertain an opinion merely, and enjoy it?
Is there any enjoyment in it, if his
opinion is that he is aggrieved?...
... Action from principle — the perception
and the performance of right — changes things and relations; it is essentially
revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was.
It not only divides states and churches, it
divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in
him from the divine."
Henry David Thoreau -On Civil Disobedience 1849
It is okay
to be kind to ourselves. The events in every life accumulate value as it goes
on and changes daily. And like elbows in a creek bed catch silted micro-layers
of the particle dust amounting to the metaphysical applications one has
available; in a space of time. Depending upon the point we start to notice, our
responsibilities and our desires; soon we are juggling aspects of our life, and
the ‘likes’ and ‘dislikes’ tend to change their places in fluid equations.
I can see a
good case myself that the planet earth that we live on is god. As I can see new
aspects of the planet every day, after many years I see them all for the beauty
they have; and that they have all been put here to consider and to love. Our own god/planet, our own minds, and each
our own will; and chronologically we exist now, and in a time of extraordinary
flux in our individual human perception and ability. This is fine, and as more
awake to this asset that they have, we must be mindful that many others, even
right around us, are fighting against oppression, poverty, war and hunger every day on our god/planet.
Be mindful also that many advantages we enjoy have us profit by others who are
suffering injustices.
Because we
each have one planet; one mind; one will, the way to change things is one
person at a time. Technology now makes this thought conceivable, maybe even
practical, and participation seems worth believing in, and so I do.
xxiii.) Do
unto others as you want back too. 7/22/2014 (718)
"It is never too late to
give up our prejudices."
Henry David Thoreau
Do unto others as you want back too.
Many things
are different from one another, which helps point out infinity to us in our
perceptions, and the reception of the things that come to each life. Each our
individually in fact, makes for many commonalities shared, that on the surface
that we would not expect. I am not certain how much to expand a post such as
this variable tries to address. I have
no intention to give further exposition here about this in abstract form.
Instead please take a breath, follow along, this describes important aspects of
the defining notational aspect of our system.
hanBLOGlaka
5.
Definitions
definiendum: that which is defined (noted to the left).
definiens: that which it is
defined as meaning (to the right with =)
“p É q . = . ~p v q Df.”
Three primitive ideas have been introduced above which are not
“defined” but only descriptively described. Their primitiveness is only
relative to our expansion of logical connection and is not absolute; though of
course such an exposition gains in importance according to the simplicity of
its primitive ideas.
These ideas are symbolized by
“~p” and “p v q” and by “├” prefixed to a proposition.
Three definitions have been introduced:
p . q . = . ~(~p v ~ q) Df,
p . É q .= . ~ p v q Df,
p ≡ q . = . p É q . q ) p Df.
Primitive propositions: some propositions must be taken without proof,
since all inference proceeds from propositions previously asserted. These, like
the primitive ideas are to some extent a matter
of arbitrary choice. Though, as in the previous case, a logical system
grows in importance according as the primitive propositions are few and simple.
It will be found that owing to the weakness of the imagination in dealing
with simple abstract ideas no very great stress can be laid upon their
obviousness. They are obvious to the instructed mind, but then so are many propositions
which cannot be quite true, as being disproved by their contradictory
consequences.
The following are the primitive propositions employed in the calculus
of propositions. The letters “Pp: stand for “primitive proposition.”
(1) Anything implied by a
true premise is true Pp. This is the
rule which justifies inference.
(2) ├ : p v p . É .
p Pp. i.e. if p or p is true, then p is
true.
(3) ├
: q . É .
q v p Pp. i.e. if q is true then p or q
is true.
(4) ├
: p v q . É . q v p Pp. i.e. if p or q is true, then q or p is
true.
(5) ├
: p v É q v r) . É .
q v (p v r) Pp i.e. if either p is true
or “q or r” is true then either q is true or “p or r” is true.
(6) ├
:. q É r . É :
p v q . É . p É
r Pp’ i.e.
if q implies r, then “p or q” implies “p or r.”
(7) “The axiom of identification of real
variables.” When we have separately asserted two different functions of x where
x is undetermined it is often important to know whether we can identify the x
in one assertion with the x in the other. i.e. if φ(x,y,z…) is a constituent in one assertion,
and φ(x,u,v…) is a constituent in another.
*3·03, *1·7, and *1·72 (which is the statement of this axiom).
Some simple propositions:
The law of the excluded middle: ├
. p v ~p. (*2·11)
The law of contradiction: ├
. ~(p . ~p). (*3·24)
The law of double negation: ├
. p ≡ ~(~p).
(*4·13)
The principle of transposition: this principle has various forms,
namely:
(*4·1) ├
: p É q .≡ .
~q É ~p,
(*4·11) ├ : p ≡ q
. ≡ . ~p ≡
~q,
(*4·14) ├ :. p . q . É . r : ≡ : p . ~r . ) . ~q. as well as
other variations of these.
xxiv.) False Structures of Power (Government Bought for Money) are
Untenable 7/28/2014 (654)
"If there were one who lived wholly
without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him.
But the rich man — not to make any invidious comparison — is always sold to the
institution which makes him rich.
Absolutely speaking, the more money, the
less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them
for him; and it was certainly no great virtue to obtain it. It puts to rest
many questions which he would otherwise be taxed to answer; while the only new
question which it puts is the hard but superfluous one, how to spend it.
Thus
his moral ground is taken from under his feet. The opportunities of living are
diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are
increased. The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to
endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor.
Christ answered the Herodians according to
their condition. "Show me the tribute-money," said he; — and one took
a penny out of his pocket; — if you use money which has the image of Cæsar on
it, and which he has made current and valuable, that is, if you are men of the
State, and gladly enjoy the advantages of Cæsar's government, then pay him back
some of his own when he demands it; "Render therefore to Cæsar that which
is Cæsar's, and to God those things which are God's"— leaving them no
wiser than before as to which was which; for they did not wish to know."
Henry David Thoreau On Civil Disobedience 1849
for Money) are Untenable
When wealth accumulates
into narrow or personal control
by individuals; its origin is
thus dismissed , finished by
a deposit
into an account.
This ledger sheet spell
works for the wealthy,
a time machine
Punch and Judy show it
gives amusement along
with bitter
uneasiness.
This finders-keepers ethos
maintained by privilege and
blindly swallowed by the
authors of this booty bought
shrewdly by the hour with
the wealth acquired by
their own
labor.
The work she is paid for
on Friday still goes on off
to grow and multiply;
through other hands
and sold in other places
and in other forms all
created for a paycheck but
for which we
hold no claim.
These false structures of
power, held in random
hands of persons who
either built up or inherited
tremendous wealth.
Inequitable but perhaps tolerable;
until hubris leads them to the
wide spread purchase of
of political influence.
The whole trick is to maintain the assumption that everything is as it
should be in terms of the overall local, national and international
distribution of wealth and privilege among people, based on thousands of years
of inequity, and the brutal force that keeps so many toiling without a chance
to live a better life. We are held back
by the lame assumption that the past binds us and prevents a future of improved
prospects for all.
It is difficult to approach this without creating bad guys or or some
deranged political scheme to manipulate the system and change the faces of the
same wealthy powers that were, into another crop of the same tyranny. I want to
be clear in observing that this is hardly a conspiracy as such, but more,
natural opportunism. It would be assigning much more ability and intelligence
to these persons than I believe they can possibly possess.
We are living today under the remnant of our history of exploitation of
one another. We can see in our culture that
long standing inequities are falling away, at least in the United
States. This has happened not by legislation or law enforcement, but
essentially by the efforts and dedication of ordinary people like me and you.
xxv.) Time
Does Not Exist. Only Clocks 7/31/2014 (445)
Time is
slippery. As anyone who has spent a wonderful afternoon with loved ones, or has
traveled in a loud and crowded flight; dig-all time is not equal. This is
always measured by individuals’ perceptions. Two people at the park together
may have very different perceptions that are time-related; related to differing
perception; feeling different emotions, changes in physical symptoms and each
our own intellectual interpretations of events. If examined, these will be
found to represent individual differences of perception. All of these aspects
and many others may be seen to manifest as what I describe as, stretching and
contracting time.
Time may be
thought of as a natural, human sense. Analogous of having a nose to experience
smells; our whole being, in each our physiology from birth to our demise we
perceive, and deploy time, in effect we are each time-‘organs.’’ I reckon it is
true to suppose that every person spends her time the best way she is able to,
but generally in our culture time is fractured, refracted, clicked off in a
tally by clocks of all description, but the true utility of time is that it is
part of, and available to all, if we only knew it.
Because we
mainly sell the bulk of our time to a boss, for money, and that money must then
provide us with everything. We feel obliged to battle for both money and our
own time, because we ‘need’ to make an equation work, that can be supposed to
support us, and all our responsibilities.
This bit and
each of my expanded variables, make this (blog) equation medicinal in practice.
I must stress plainly that I do not offer this work to the reader as fact,
discovery, true assertions, or bogus hoax. My intent is to present an
accessible metaphysic equation; exploring diverse ways to understand, think
about and discuss aspects troubling and perhaps caused by our culture here in
North America.
"Have no mean hours, but be grateful
for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere
record respectable. No day will have been wholly misspent, if one sincere,
thoughtful page has been written. Let the daily tide leave some deposit on
these pages, as it leaves sand and shells on the shore. So much increase of
terra firma. this may be a calendar of the ebbs and flows of the soul; and on these
sheets as a beach, the waves may cast up pearls and seaweed. "
Henry David Thoreau July 6, 1840
You must be
able to hold 35 ideas into a consideration; to ride this ride.
xxvi.) Entering a new economic cognizance is transformative 8/9/2014 (341)
"Public opinion is a
weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of
himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
Henry David Thoreau Walden (1854)
By transformative, in this variable, I mean to indicate economic
diffusion that equals out without prescribed taking; or decrease of economic
time, money, or property assets. Here we are with each our own piece worked
picture of puzzling how we think or hope the money supply is managed today.
Along with the object of changing the world view of money, capital and our
separation by it (money) from infinite aspects of objects, commodities and
human being; as the root of human redemption. I reckon the whole continent may
be transformed with human, neighborly adjustment of ambiguous ‘reality.’ And
change can’t mean ‘take.’ Persons must be each on the balance, so that giving
does not mean losing.
Money is the lynchpin of our system of rewarding labor, production, and
risk. Cash in bills and coins are only a narrow slice of economic activity.
Most ‘money’ remains data stored away; money put out at interest, compounding.
This ambiguous state of existence money takes on, is affected and is even
controlled by chronological aspects in N individual's accounts with as many
planed activity. There is no way possible to change by taking money from people
who have it. However it is in each ones power to change her perception, and
changing things around us peacefully.
Something is coming down the road and not too far off. We insist on
looking at the faces of atrocity in more close and immediate fashion, and the
world is putting on its typical side shows with the usual suspects. You are the
fountainhead yourself; your potential to rearrange ideas of life’s living into
a place and way that suits you better, balances when everyone can float out of
the status quo and to imagine sweeping change.
xxvii.) Bound by misunderstanding money and time 8/11/2014 (439)
"The night in prison was
novel and interesting enough... It was like traveling into a far country, such
as I had never expected to behold, to lie there for one night. It seemed to me
that I never had heard the town-clock strike before, nor the evening sounds of
the village; for we slept with the windows open, which were inside the grating.
It was to see my native village in the light of the Middle Ages, and our
Concord was turned into a Rhine stream, and visions of knights and castles
passed before me. They were the voices of old burghers that I heard in the
streets. I was an involuntary spectator and auditor of whatever was done and
said in the kitchen of the adjacent village-inn — a wholly new and rare
experience to me. It was a closer view of my native town. I was fairly inside
of it. I never had seen its institutions before. This is one of its peculiar
institutions; for it is a shire town. I began to comprehend what its
inhabitants were about. "
Henry David Thoreau On Civil Disobedience (1849)
I have long known friends juggling a life of jobs and school, and
separately stretching themselves in pursuing their artwork, music,
relationships, faith, family and profession.
The complexities these simple aspects of a life can weave; are worth at
least acknowledging. By taking life for granted we have abandoned our own time,
never to have it back. We model ourselves after our family and teachers, movie
actors and rock stars; but unless we shed these eventually, we are obstructed
and only in gaining our own experiences can we eventually achive the feat of
being human.
So interesting that we are each born fully human, then by the acts and
attentions of everyone we meet and everything we learn, our nagual is squeezed
practically out of existence by the rules and ‘principles’ constituting our
tonal; these contain everything we have learned in our lifetime, and that our
humanity desperately longs to escape from.
By that containment, we can no longer see the world, but only its
descriptions. Find your own path, and use money to bring you time; that is a
happy transaction. Don’t imagine I am advising you to quit your job and chase a
dream. The change I am prescribing is
completely inside your mind. I don’t suggest that you ‘do’ something; rather I
am telling you that you can see and perceive and think for yourself.
Understanding will come along with these, provided you haven’t nailed it down
somewhere else.
xxviii.) Person Migration, Shipment of Goods and Educational
Propagation 8/14/2014 (334)
"In the long run men hit
only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had
better aim at something high."
Henry David Thoreau Waldon (1854)
To fix long standing problems that fester without apparent cure it is
useful to broaden the scope of our perception of what the problem really is;
and so where it came from in the first place. These villainous equations of
‘max profit,’ individual greed and deceit, ancestral hatred, bogus ‘educators’
and other deadly sins are perfectly clear and well documented but the gigantic
overlap of interests, chiefly legacies of past hatred and injustices, and the
worship of money; but considerably too, the result of well-meant but
ill-considered legislation by politicians unfit for their office.
The task of working out solutions to these, and all other societal
sufferings, will never be legislated or accomplished by committee, much less by
armies, terror, or weapons of mass destruction. When one thinks of unraveling
the knotty tapestry of greed and injustice this world has come too, the very
things that seem to make our lives possible; money, jobs, school, state,
prisons, etc. are so attached to us by our tonal that we never even think to
question them in any serious way. Professors, and pundits in the media suggest
endless schemes to rearrange the pieces on the board, never claiming they will
solve anything; but only shuffling around who gets rich and who is left in the
dust.
The roots of all these problems appear to me to be very much
linguistic, and so metaphysical. When politicians try to address any societal
problem using plural pronouns, they are thus defeated from the start. We lose
sight that all problems are personal, no matter how many are seemingly affected
in similar or even identical fashion. The simple change from thinking of
‘people’ to thinking of ‘persons,’ in our calculus, cannot help but alter the
course of all stemming thought.
xxix.) Distortion = good/bad over useful 8/19/2014 (174)
Too much top end, and the recording begins distorting. A wah-wah petal
worked by a tasty player just as she likes is wonderful to hear. We make allowance for distortion; in
conversation we always do our best, but always what we say deviates to some
extent from our exact thought. Talk is
slippery, just so you notice. If we try to make allowance for this distortion
in language listening to the speech of others we are better able to discover
their meanings. Understanding this helps quiet objections to what she at first
seemed to be saying.
The little bit of grace that we grant to one another, is the building
block to resolving misunderstandings, even conflicts. It must always be
individual and intentional. That seems like a very small thing; but I assert
that fleeting pauses allowing grace can
ripple around the world. We all suffer in our own fashion. Conflict, hatred,
fear, thirst for revenge of past suffering cause great injustice and
devastating heartbreak to all.
xxx.) Resources are the moving parts of the economy 8/25/2014 (677)
"Most men, even in this
comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied
with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its
finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Their fingers, from excessive toil, are
too clumsy and tremble too much for that. Actually, the laboring man has not
leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the
manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has
no time to be anything but a machine. How can he remember well his ignorance-
which his growth requires- who has so often to use his knowledge? We should
feed and clothe him gratuitously sometimes, and recruit him with our cordials,
before we judge of him. The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on
fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not
treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."
Henry David Thoreau
("This a bit strident I think, but on reflection..." Comic Book Shaman)
Until the nature of our economy is recognized, and thought of as
global, encompassing all persons equally; any thought about, or perception of,
an isolated national economy or economic union is a recipe for disaster. We
grind up all economic activity into mere dollar signs in musty ledgers and
media programed stock market crawls. Our tonal is bound in these; and we are
imprisoned. And at last we are defeated by all the labels we have attached to
everything. and that we tell ourselves we must accept as all that can possibly
be. But inside of every one of us, our nagual claws with a nagging incomplete
feeling of loneliness to some extent. We all have a feeling something is
terribly wrong with our culture and the whole world, and the deck is stacked to
cause us to believe, as Voltaire’s young protagonist Candide, that this is
indeed the best of all possible worlds. Now what is needed is for each to be
the best possible individual person that they are able to be. Persons are at
last the most valuable parts of every economy.
Commodities, raw materials, manufactured products, information, books,
artwork, and everything that holds a value in itself are at once private and
also public objects. Add to that transportation services, food preparation
work, medical, tonsorial, auctions, insurance and everything persons make and
trade away that is real in life; is then reduced to figures in columns on
countless ledgers. To our sorrow we seem to forget that a carrot is not a
number, and a haircut is not a tally of figures, even though they are thus
accounted to be.
Such miss-perceptions have evolved over centuries and for good enough
reasons; political, diplomatic, logistical, technical, military, and criminal.
All of these have blurred the distinctions reality offers to us as alternatives
to our present win/ lose dichotomy of living together here now on the planet we
share. When we individual persons decide to shake off historic oppressions, the
grudge hatreds, and inflicted sufferings; and stand straight and tall together
without fear of want; the trick will be turned! But one by one.
Our planet yet contains abundant resources; but political expedience
has brought us now to a tangled web of past errors in judgment; perpetuated by
those whose interests are richly served by those old errors. Are you
conditioned by our culture to want? To want riches, want security, want an
education, want peace and want love; Clearly we need these and they can be had
by every person in the world economically, but that can never be quite
possible, monetarily. Quite impossible in fact. Seek that equality in your own
equation by your own nagual, though it may be now reduced to only the soles of
your feet.
Darlings the answers are not to be found in the mind, but only in each
our own intent.
I love you Yoko. War is over if
you want it.
xxxi.) The deadweight of government can just fall away 8/28/2014 (196)
The reason world societal problems seem unchangeable is
chiefly because we think that there are no alternatives. We take an odd comfort
in looking to government officials and their irrational laws to make the hard
decisions to protect themselves and keep
law abiding citizens in line. It is strange that we do not own the problems and
work to actually solve them ourselves. Why not begin with dismantling our
federal Congressional presence in the nation’s Capital? Congress has
demonstrated definitively in this Century that they are of no value, and
completely superfluous to our well-being.
Additionally the economic benefit of Congressional demise felt nationally
is surprisingly great in every respect, not a single person would not benefit
greatly by this event.
The bond of co-existence is well understood by all persons
in the United States; and that is generally only disregarded for specific,
personal desires and reasons, chiefly caused by past and present clumsy,
inefficient and dishonest juggernaut of injustice attached to our archaic form
of government. This can truly disappear, practically overnight, if we each one
declare our intent that this shall be so.
xxxii.) Individual Attainment (unwitting) 8/31/58
"One cannot too soon forget his errors
and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense. Repentance
and sorrow can only be displaced by something better, which is as free and
original as if they had not been."
Henry David Thoreau January 9, 1842
Each one of us has a mind, a will and a brain in common, and
so every one has options that they choose among to make life as well as they
can for them and their loved ones. It is not useful to predict how any persons'
path may turn and change as time passes them. Only the intentions bolstered by
learning and life experience determine that for any person herself. At last the
talents and abilities we attain, combined with the desires and actions we
undertake in that attainment, sprout in each wonderful perception of her own
nagual.
We each one must labor and find a way to survive and be
happy as best we may. In each variable included in this metaphysic equation
relates a step many have taken on their own path, and this is my own
expression, I hope that each reader has her own too. The solution to all the
worlds' challenges is a little bit in each of us, and the young ones who come
after, and also the elders who long for it but have had no way to even think about
it, because life has pressed them down so hard.
XXXIV.) P T S Dharma 12/8/2014 (554)
Warriors in the military, are trained to function and endure to the
maximum extent of your training, I suppose. The process of assimilating your
various components of training is in fact medicinal; to ones’ mind, and shall
we say your ‘spirit.’ This goes far to
account for the countless service men and women and veterans who daily
demonstrate excellent and honorable military service, and then enter our
communities at home to sink or swim as they are able.
In harms ‘way we build up our own individual constant defensive
equations, that we believe best protect us; and that must shift to fit each
need, or each occasion of danger. Maintaining this condition, even over only
weeks or months can cause us actual physical changes in our human brain. Of
course I cannot claim to be current in neurological research, but by
observation, and by your own life experience, this is indicated. In fact it
strongly resembles my own diagnosis of bipolar; which only means we are people
who develop capacity and also process that, as changes make more static and safer
circumstances, no longer serve us.
When we are young and are powerful; and wanting to defend our country
and protect our heritage; or just get out of Dodge, it is an age old impulse to
step up to duty as we see it. But war, politics and carnage today is at last so
immediate and visibly ghastly, not just as our own private hell, but laid out
graphically for all to see; see that the forms of wars’ horrors seem to
diminish in scope but flare up as if blowing steam out of a boiler all around
the globe. When we reach out beyond our past limitations the results can have
great effect, and terrible consequences at the whim of fate or a moments’
inattention to duty. We focus on our nation’s interests, our company’s
interests and our own in turns, as humans do. In general we are reaching out to
the unknown, trusting it holds fortune, and demanding in return all we feel we
are due.
In combat we are rapacious in our drive to survive; our comrades in
arms are our womb of safe passage to reach a discharge of duty and return to a
distantly recalled life that we left to defend. Post trauma stress disorder is
a sweet, crazy description of a need others have to describe us as we seem in
common; but it is up to us at last to disarm, one by one, the traps our right
defenses that have been left in us after they no longer serve us. Because these
defenses are completely individual, but yet at last serve each warrior to the
same desired goal, moment to moment, day to day survival, for as long as it is
needed; it is natural that these individual differences lead those we return
to, to believe that as the sufferings we experience appear so similar that a
label p.t.s.d. has meaning for them, but in fact the ones who are labeled thus
are deprived of the window of learning at last that the problem is truly only
individual and personal. And can only be overcome from this perspective and in
time.
part one of four
Love
Comic Book Shaman
12/7/2014
XXXV.) P T S D: Lost in the bi-cognizance 12/14/2014 (352)
In dominant society where I exist day to day; me and it operate in a
bi-cognitive parallel that, for this discussion I will term ‘polite.’ In contrast however; my own cognitive system
is unique and the object of a lifetimes crafting. My aim in every action and word is
impeccability; that means simply that I take responsibility for my own words
and actions, even the smallest thing.
It flows from this that I consider my world closely and from infinite
perspectives; and the words I speak are the result of this process, and the
thing that I feel must be said, is stated plainly. This is of course the very
opposite of being polite; but has the two fold advantage of making my point
clear, and also doing it in the smallest possible part of time.
As a result nearly everyone in dominant culture gladly trades the time
they spend in polite fashion in hopes of a little civility for themselves and
some peace, but in my own experience with polite process the communication soon
shifts into old and worn channels of capitulation and hurt feelings at last
anyway. I saw my father take the path of going along with my mother’s wishes;
and came to see it as his perception of his sole refuge, and hope to maximize
his chances of having some peace and quiet.
This is the first pin prick of my own p t s d; and always a given, but
looking back I’m not sure this should have been so important to my decision to
exclude certain women from my consideration, especially when they had signaled
an interest. I despise signals and signs in this context, although I understand
they are polite. It is of the backwards nature of me that I do not allow myself
to see them, leading always to social disaster, and thus I remain unencumbered
by a wife and friends, but free to remain without their charms.
[[Got P T S D but different? More symptoms
exaimined in coming posts I betcha.]]
XXXVI.)There
and Back, to and from P T S D 12/15/2014 (492)
The only way I
can live my life as I do is by the supposition that I am invisible, and thus
suppose that, when I leave ones presence she forgets that I was ever there, and
practically immediately. Also I simply accept anything she tells me at face
value, shrugging off any ambiguity. Of course this one started out as wishful
thinking and evolved into what, in dominant culture is seen as a sort of
psychosis, and with reason. You will never hook up with anyone believing that
they tell you with words.
My perception of polite rejoinders is that they constitute clear
disjunctions; that I am ill advised to consider at all without a real
understanding of the speaker. This because if they prove to be either right or
prove in error, my decision in either case is at best uncertain; and very
unstable as a basis for understanding others' intentions. This is because
people in dominant culture, by that mere fact, have fractured and conflicting
intentions so very often. This is the reason I always speak plainly, and wish that
others could grant me their temerity to answer me thus, if only for the sake of
brevity.
There are numerous pin-pricks stress sticks in me, to change my
attention and prevent a relationship from arising with women that I have met in
my past monastic role. After I had heard so many young woman recapitulate all
the sufferings of their life, an that drove them to the unhappy place that I
met them at, on the night streets; nearly all were suffering from the betrayal
and abuse they received from their Father, or another man who should have loved
and listened to her, and treated her better. Rightly or foolishly I decided to
become the one man in each their life that loved and respected them; and
without fucking them in return. I don’t know whether or not I was in error with
this thought; but it felt right to me, and many girls looked me up as
referrals.
It is the gestures of helping others that have at last rewarded me with
reaching the intellectual goals of spirit that may come to a man who steps on
the path that I have chosen. Perhaps I can describe that as ‘learning
everything I can about every subject as I encounter it.’ By this means I arrive
at the unknown aspects of life ready to see them and with hope of piercing
their meaning and adding them to my arsenal equation of the world I live
uneasily in. From childhood I have
understood that the things that I could feel viscerally and that I did for a
real, if usually inexplicable purpose; were against the flow of the intentions
and purposes of all around me. Sadly I
gave way and the more I fell into conventional channels to society and success,
the more disoriented and unhappy I became.
XXXVII.) Neither Either if you please okay? 12/15/2014 (720)
The more I care for a woman the greater the terror that wells up in me.
Not fear of love, or of commitment, or losing my freedom; no, nothing of that
nature, for I am beyond being hurt in that way by any other person. But I
become very concerned about how my own nature may affect and distress her, for
as Motley Crue describes it: I’m a ‘live wire.’ I am liable to go off in
infinite directions at the slighted incentive my artwork leads me. It is the
very aspect of me that attracts a woman to me, that so often has at last become
unlivable for her. My heart has become hard because it has been so soft, and
while I am now unaffected by heartbreak, I still suffer its pain reflected. And
even more I suffer the pain that I must at last give to her.
Any rejections I have had from a woman I cared for slightly have become
cemented into my perception of all women I meet subsequently. This one made a
stink that I had her phone number without asking her for it; as I rarely know that I am interested in
someone without reflection, I illogically I gave up asking any woman for so
much as her full name, let alone for her contact information. Contributing to
this crazy position is perhaps my own experiences with unwanted attention from
women who have pursued me. I find that
unpleasant in deed, and so my advances are only very tentative in the
beginning.
As an extension of this I resist chatting up girls at their workplace
and never go so far as to ask them out even if I have romantic intentions. As I
recognize that at work most girls are kind to everyone I discount any perceived
attraction on either part. I have
approached a few young women for other reasons, mainly my interest in making
them subjects I would like to model for my paintings. However of late this has
been disastrous as they have understood my advances as ‘normal’ hook-ups and
one such caused me such great desire when we got together that I was ready to
abandon my vows on the spot, but it
somehow caused me in time to see that this was not out of reason, and in
hindsight I recognize that dragging her down to the car and taking her home was
not my finest hour.
Don’t think that only military men and women suffer from their personal
p t s d, for the points of recurring suffering that served me as a monk cannot
be swept away by a simple decision that they no longer serve me. So much worse
and more difficult to face are the defenses each service man and woman in
harm’s way, took on with a long continued basis. Remember that those p t s d aspects were very
likely instrumental in those persons survival in combat. And this point alone
is key to every person finding her way back to a ‘normal’ life at home. I have
struggled with my own problems a for a full year now as I have blogged about
extensively. The solutions are never cut and dried, and do not take effect
right away even if we can isolate what the heck they are. I am confident p t s
d may be overcome at last if we do not give up on ourselves or on our loved
ones.
There is so much more to learn and express about this subject, and few
subjects are more important to the healing of us all resulting from the poor
capacity of the men and woman we have trusted to lead us thru troubled times.
Those who served us in military adventures overseas as well as those who have
suffered too from infinite causes here at home share in common, and too in
every nation from the after effects of the trauma they have endured. That does
not dissipate without time, effort and continued personal consideration. Your comments, concerns and observations are
welcome here and very much sought after. We are at last left to face this
together, for the relief we seek cannot be legislated or arrived at by committee.
XXXVIII ) (cnd) Variable Universal Happiness first variable of four 12/11/2014 (333)
I. Our Human Capacity May Be Better When Delighted
If set free of the financial demands of their uncertain survival all
persons are likely to seek the education and advancement that fills their
capacity and the desires that come to all persons who see them clearly. The key
to having one's desire is coming to know what to want. Many unhealthy desires
are born of deprivation or as post traumatic mechanisms medicating our
suffering from other causes, other sources, other misplaced negative emotions
that keep arising inside.
I reckon that all negative
and persistent bad feelings we accumulate leave us facing a walk back down from
that spot back to the path that was sidetracked. Recapitulation reveals all the
missing parts we could not reconcile between what is and what we desired,
feared, hated and forgot in turns; to make our compromises and forget their
shame and bitter result.
Our fellow men are black
magicians. And whoever is with them is a black magician on the spot. Think for
a moment. Can you deviate from the path that your fellow man has lined up for
you? And if you remain with them, your thoughts and your actions are fixed
forever in their terms. That is slavery. The warrior on the other hand, is free
from all that. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible to pay.
So, fear your captors, your masters. Don't waste your time and your power
fearing freedom.
-don Juan Matus
http://magicalshamanguitar.blogspot.com/2014/12/evolutionary-consideration.html
The flaw with words is that
they always make us feel enlightened, but when we turn around and to face the
world they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have,
without enlightenment. For this reason a warrior seeks to act rather than to
talk, and to this effect he gets a new description where talking is not that
important, and where new acts have new reflections.
-don Juan
XXXIX.) Variable Universal Happiness second variable (of four) 12/14/2014 (551)
II. Continuous Education Entitles Greater Expectations
A warrior chooses a path with heart, any
path with heart, and follows it; and then he rejoices and laughs. He knows
because he sees that his life will be over altogether too soon. He sees that nothing is more important than
anything else.
-don Juan Matus
It is past
high time to abandon the educational practices of the past century. The concept
of segregating young students by age groups, and expecting them all to learn
the same curriculum at the same time has proven a failure at best; and a
disaster for those who fall behind, and even for those who have mastered the
work and are bored into a disdain for her fellow students and resentment of
teachers too, some who, so do not go the extra mile to meet their students'
needs.
Intent is not a thought; or an object, or a wish.
Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him he is
defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what
makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through
space, to infinity.
-don
Juan Matus
Teaching
and learning are synonymous in practice. If a teacher does not experience this
stimulation in working with students, she will become frustrated and bored; and
these bring out resentment and rigid categories of good students who are not a
bother, and bad students who are given little credit for what work they do
manage. These are the time worn paths
that students are herded down. Success in teaching/learning in education in the
new century may easily be achieved by this following simple equation, and in
adopting some simple changes, the present worries of children not wanting to
learn, and go far to reduce and even eliminate misbehavior in most student
altogether.
Learning = Fun
Expression =
Lesson
Listening =
Hearing the Other
The death
knell for the present system has been ringing for decades, but now that every
student has a personal device with which to chat away; in lieu of paying
attention to the teacher, the profession has degenerated from teaching into babysitting
and while the students may yet make an an education for themselves; in fact the
status quo is a huge waste of time and money all around, and the result is we
still play with fire with the inertia inherent in the system.
When a man embarks on the warriors' path he becomes
aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary life has been left behind. The means
of the ordinary world are no longer a buffer for him; and he must adopt a new
way of life if he is going to survive.
-don Juan Matus
The good news
is that with our present resources, education is available and many are
availing themselves of these to great effect. Perversely there is a growing
pool of highly credentialed persons entering the work force, but employers are
now incapable of evaluating these person's merits without that credential to do
this for them. So even with so many graduating with expensive degrees that are
only promises; and promises too many graduates do not live up to even the least
bit better.
XL.) III. No borders that cannot
be crossed 12/16/2014 (743)
The world is unfathomable. And so are we,
and so is every being that exists in the world.
A (shaman) as a teacher, must first of all
teach about the possibility of acting without believing, without expecting
rewards – acting just for the hell of it. His success as a teacher depends on
how well and how harmoniously he guides his wards in this specific
respect.
To be a warrior is not a simple matter of
wishing to be one. It is rather, an endless struggle that will go on to the
very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same
way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or another.
-don Juan
As many different senses of meaning as that
title may convey are a totality that, considered dispassionately, only small
progress here seems to, at last relieve a majority of the intractable problems
thought to be beyond help in the world today. But still, I’m thinking that
Horatio Alger guy had the right idea after all.
Whenever the internal dialogue stops,
the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though
they had been heavily guarded by our words
-don Juan Matus
We close
ourself off from the others by the fears we each have. But at last these fears
only grow, sometimes exponentially; because of our own refusal to face our own
fears caused by things p t s d -like inside ourself. Many are angry at our greedy and incompetent
leaders in Congress; because each is not accountable to the whole, and
fractured interests are all rooted in finance and money. But this is just a
side show that goes on around the globe. The fears and suffering are much the
same, and identical in to those of every oppressed person. Indeed both sides,
for and against more open borders have similar fears and false perceptions of
each the other group. But our leaders will not step up to their responsibility
because in their view, reform must only come by agreement; and this agreement
is one that has been engineered to be impossible to achieve in fact.
The average man is either victorious or
defeated and, depending on that he becomes a persecutor or a victim. These two
conditions are prevalent as long as one does not see. Seeing dispels the
illusion, of defeat, or victory, or suffering.
-don Juan Matus
Any
substantial progress in variable universal happiness must assume that the
debilitating hatred, fear and suspicion of all perspectives can, and may be
evenly reduced, and set aside such as has been happening in steps around the
world for decades. Seeing as right the decisions and actions that will benefit
us all, rather than a privileged group who heretofore have influenced our
leaders to act chiefly in terms of their own narrow interests. Too often the
status quo is defended as being: what has always been seen to be the case, as
when change is rolling downhill and upon us, and is clearly in the interests of
all persons.
Denying oneself is an indulgence. The
indulgence of denying is by far the worst: it forces us to believe that we are
doing great things, when in effect we are only fixed within ourselves.
-don Juan
The object we
intend in closing border access completely is apparently to allay our own fears
for ourselves and our own concerns. That seems to result of liberating persons
oppressed by our fear and misgiving, and
that promises to cost us much more in the future than allowing each one their
own freedom of movement will. Even allowed by regulation, and with described
limitations.
Without being
limited by our set misgivings we can see that cooperation and good will are
more profitable than barriers of intransigence born of fear, greed and hatred;
as rule our leaders and those who are frankly buying their infamous support in
heartlessly maintaining the tragic inhumanity of excluding persons who have
become absolutely unable to freely cross borders, and all around the world.
The
hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use
to be sad and complain and feel justified in in doing so, believing that
someone is always doing something to us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody,
much less to a warrior.
-don Juan Matus
XXXXI.)
IV. Enough to well go
around; Equitable distribution of the world’s resources
Maybe it is
simplistic to say this is a reasonable goal to aim for, but at least most of us
have some concept of what this may minimally be in an ideal world, but many
will say that it is impossible to believe that it can really happen. I present
here my most current analysis of this subject in outline below. To me it
indicates that the peace path John and Yoko expressed is the most useful to
adopt, and I offer my work as a metaphysial expression gleaned of my own life,
in trying to see how this aim can at last be achieved
All barriers
to Variable Univeral Happiness
are in the
nature of human perspectives
1. Unity in confronting ourself
§
principle
§
perception
§
perpetual
§
punctual
2. Necessity to Monetize Values
§
Labor
§
Risk
§
Education
§
reducing time to a monetary gauge
3. Each following variable may be considered
to contain four separate and distinct aspects that I arbitrarily term BOB and
CAROL and TED and ALICE; as titles of these bipolar factors that affect the
nature of all human experience in polar positive/negative and male/female
aspects, depending on the case, each may/can have great or slight affect.
§
BOB = male/positive (+) ⥱Id
§
CAROL = Female/ positive (+) ⥱ Id
§
Ted = male/negative (-) ⥱
Ego
§
Alice =female/ negative(-) ⥱ Ego
4.
Language/Metaphysics
§
Idioms/roles
§
Syntax/Sentence Structure - simple/complex
§
Elocution/Persuasion
5. P T S D in any individual; is a custom
collection of particular aspects including:
§
Personal Priorities
§
National Decisions
§
Inequality and Injustice World Wide
§
Racial Differentials
§
Cultural Traits
§
Fear
6. Ideological
Vehicles that Maintain the Status
Quo:
§ Authority Apart from Persons
§ Surface Appearance
§ Created Desires/Want
¨
physical/sexual
¨
mental/educational
¨
emotional/emotionless
¨
religion/you must
¨
spirit/I must
§ Underlying
⥱Cause/Remedy
¨
Poverty
¨
hunger
¨
lack of access to health care
¨
ignorance
¨
crime
¨
war
§ Connections
⥱Obvious/Obscure
¨
nationalism
¨
economic doctrine
"
religious dogma
¨
imperialism
¨
Freedom
¨
“Free Trade”
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