Comic Book Shaman’s War on Money
Peace and Justice Equation 8th
revision (7/13/2015)
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, us
having learned all of the lessons and achieved all of the technological
advances of every 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
ceiling 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 taken beyond its prescribed use. In
further advancing this propositional equation, it is imperative to be clear
that its primary constituent constant provides that there be no involuntary
loss of capital or of property, required for its considered implementation.
Since all enterprises evolve as they have done, whether government sanctioned
or otherwise, and even those now outlawed as criminal, to any degree: even so must
all even out the same as corporations and churches in this system. This
proposition is not immoral, because contemplation leads to recognizing that sin
and virtue do not live separately from one another, and overlooking the past
means we are no longer bound by the random disjunctions that led us there
previously. Is not even the worst sort of sinner the product of her fate; and
who of us might not have been more fortunate if things had been different?
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 just the same compared with the
actions of men and women. Our War On Money’s second constant 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, the only excluding factor
to be considered is if or not that aspect leads to error.
Next and the third constant is
that persons always add value. In all economic equations this constant is
similarly thought to be true, but 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 universal in
this system is simple fair play. It may at first seem implicit, yet it proves
always at last to be the hardest proposition to achieve in dominant culture.
Once a appropriate 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 incrementally will be improved, one life at a time. So these four constant propositions
underlying this propositional equation system suggest the calculus at last
begins to connect the subsequent 33 variables describing unique aspects of
having peace and justice.
Henry David Thoreau opined that
there is little virtue in the actions of masses of men. We each will find means
to solve our own problems as we are able peacefully, the chief being to share
our planet Earth together. As the pollution and the degradation of earth, sky
and waters abate, and are cured by all us human beings healed by strong
prospects to achieve each one our own life’s purpose. The simplicity of that
assertion is clearly supported by the infinite complexity and the instinctive
feeling of truth given in every fact that you gentle reader, have collected in
your life; facts of any sort, in any way connected by actual concern for
yourself, your loved ones and for any life on Earth. Integrating the
description of variables is demonstrated below, presented in two problems examined as practical
application of this system to real world problems.
The first is a unique political
object concept called quite descriptively Variable Universal Happiness, that
this systems’ results alone make fully feasible. The second propositional
equation purports to examine and describe the nature of a pressing Post
Traumatic Stress Syndrome (P T S D). By these four named constants, factored
with the 33 indicated variables, one may derive infinite combinations of
solutions suitable for application not just to our own problems, but to each
person’s unique dilemma with any conceivable problem or combination of such so
preventing each our own peace and happiness. The efficacy though is not just in
making useful equations, but truly it is in interesting you dear readers, and
luring you to learn that you are capable of understanding and using this system
yourself. It is exactly this realization, and the learning that it gives is
substance to be the stuff of our world’s salvation. The trick of achieving this
yourself is to see the things that the nagual shows back to one (as you?) as
new ways to know what had been inconceivable in the past.
Finally this work concludes
expression of a metaphysical system to demonstrate new ways to think about
seemingly intractable problems. It suggests that each person in our world may discover
a viable path herself to have her own peace on earth and good will among all people
with the assumption of power and intent earned by and with each person’s own
self-worth. This work expressing infinite solutions to all, and every problem
is offered as comprehensive, and asserted to be a definitive system,
all-encompassing and without error. The system, while simple in itself, must be
stated in this complex/simplicity in order to invite your investigation
by its noble brevity.
i.)
Voting is for Suckers 5/14/2014 (709) revised
3/8/2015
“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.”
-Henry David Thoreau On
Civil Disobedience
These
words cut deeply into me as a boy,
and
as it has come about in this present century
that
many of us perceive 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
representing
cell group A'
and
'Candidate representing cell group B' on a ballot,
me,
thus 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
on
my proxy, in any action.
Implicitly
thus in fairness,
my
disaffection for any of these actions
may
only be redressed in the next election.
Too
by that same 'choice'
I
also, by extension
equally
endorse the similar
votes,
speech or actions
of
the 'Candidate B'
in
the event that that other candidate
prevails
in the election.
Clearly
my endorsement of any
candidate
as a voter is
in
all events
impotent
and worthless,
but
yet it is regarded by office holders
as
free justification to do
just
as they like in all cases.
This
system lays all true political power
at
the door of the two principle
political
cell groups,
where
it is catered out piecemeal
to
the moneyed interests of individuals
and
corporations who can
afford
to buy their agenda
no
matter how contrary to
those
other individual's interests.
Red
and Blue etc.
are
termed political cell groups for
their
polar exclusive functions are secretive
and
unresponsive to outside input
as
was said of Communist bugaboos in the past
and
present day terrorist cells
that
serve to justify abuse by
government
overreach
and
institutionalized fear mongering.
Our
elected political officeholders
resemble
pigs at a trough
with
no regard for our own interests.
Even
the Supreme Court of the present
Chief
Justice John Roberts' regime
rules
as if it has been bought and paid for
and
its decisions appear now
to
serve only dishonest ends;
clearly
they serve the people gouging
for
every advantage their wealth can
purchase
for themselves,
not
for those others silent in terms of
political
influence
in
that same ‘real’ (money) sense,
whose
interests they were
ostensibly
appointed to protect.
Even
judicial appointments
result
from the actions and arrangements
of
the primary political cell groups;
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 the analysis this
system
makes of this present
American
government,
the
prescription of its change
and
improvement
is
the result described in the
subsequent
descriptions
of
variables in this work.
The
result of this mass public
withdrawal
from participating
in
voting for national candidates:
at
last the Emperor will be shown
to
wear no clothes!
ii.) Profit (Micro) Requires
Consideration 5/17/2014 (187)
revised 6/24/2015
"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; so to operate day to
day,
and long term;
may be referred to as micro
economic aspects.
This micro-economic designation
in effect
is because your decisions and
actions
largely affect only your own
business
for the most part.
Also with owning the responsibility
personally for one’s own
business,
that includes the liability for
the consequences
of our decisions and actions.
On a micro 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 (558) revised 3/8/2015
"My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot
read
'Twixt every page (for) my thoughts go
stray (to) at large
Down in the meadow, where is (found) richer
feed,
The
Summer Rain, st. 1 (1842) Henry David
Thoreau
When men and women together
decide it is profitable to take a
longer,
macro view, of economic activity
and consider economic activity
as they aggregate their guesses
of the profit and loss within a
given economy,
or of many distinct economies;
they must relinquish the
necessary requirements
of our good existent micro
operation
of all persons, businesses,
industries,
established contracts, and
networks,
and essential processes of
operation
that presently support the profitability
of each
not merely monetarily,
but as it maintains the whole
eco-economics of security
and prosperity that they discount
entirely,
or account it as only another
line item
paid out and closed.
The abstract goal of that goofy
macro study
is that it shifts the variable
positions
of all from parity, to favoritism
of moneyed interests,
and then the affecting of
existing economies
by taking a macro approach within
and across an economy;
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 float all boats
alike
by increasing efficiency,
reducing or eliminating
redundancy,
and eliminating those non-productive aspects
wherever they are targeted.
This is supposed and represented
as
being 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,
only proves that its product is
merely
statistical justification for robbery
of all workers, businesses,
supply networks
and investors of their present employment,
their customers, and their
profits.
Thus making all these aspects abstract,
and thus separated away from
unwary interests
(i.e. voters)
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 including honest care,
pride of workmanship,
and attention to the best
interest of
customers, employees, and
planning
for the future growth and
viability
of individual entities and
employment
within the economy.
It would be a mistake to believe
that
the wealthy ‘interests and
persons,’ who profit by this
macro-economic redistribution of
wealth,
and by the influence over
politicians they have
bought with their wealth,
are entirely nefarious in their
intent or their actions.
Instead they seem affected more
likely
by a short sighted perception of
the place of profit (money)
in the hierarchy of values;
and just who should benefit by
that profit.
What good intentions are believed
by,
or expressed by well-meaning
office holders
and their media talkers,
to be the benefits that
Americans stand to derive from
macro-economic
actions actual institution
in fact fails to include
provision for the mitigation
of the unintended, but yet
undeniable difficulties
that those actions create
for everyone less influential
but who are still negatively affected.
This with no regard for the
persons
who suppose that they themself
granted
that political power by voting,
and whose own labor created the
wealth
held now by others, whom
iv.) Compromise = Governance 5/23/2014
(766) revised 6/24/2015
“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.
Thus so irrationally, but intentionally
polarized
are much of the population,
who are forever induced to
support
prominent political cell groups
controlling
our government, distinct from,
but in cahoots with the elected
office holders
and then again from the correspondingly,
distinctly polarized news media
so that compromise cannot even be
allowed
Any such function, of proposed or
supposed agreement
by office holders of either stripe
with
their opposite number is
immediately broadcast by
both respective lap dog media
platforms,
these claiming ‘betrayal of
principle’ and
‘unworthiness to hold office.’
For compromise serves neither
those in power
on their media in their goal of
maintaining
the monetary conditions of the status
quo
so favorable to them now.
Naturally they only support that
proposition
believing themself that if things
do not change,
then it follows that things will
not change (for themself).
The caliber in the pool of
candidates for higher office
today in the United States is so poor,
and too so self-aware of that
fact,
that these creatures are
virtually interchangeable
once elected, so they do not dare
attempt any action
except to bend to the winds that
may blow from polls
of their donors, and as bid to
them 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 at present
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 all
American citizens and others
world wide of
only moderate income levels, to an
increasingly
narrow group if wealthy persons,
their minions,
and various corporate, government
and media
interests. This is being
perpetrated brazenly
by the open purchasing of power
by the proverbial ‘1%,’
acting thus as if they are buying
elections on eBay,
and also buying up personal control
of entire media platforms as if
they are 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 at all.
International treaties send jobs
and even the capital equipment
that workers here once operated,
to overseas.
So called ‘good jobs’ are now
almost completely gone from
manufacturing,
leaving at best the pursuit of medical,
government,
data services and the arts for
most persons
as the only ways to earn a decent
level of income.
So thus institutional higher
education,
health insurance, a home mortgage
and a family
are largely unattainable for
anyone
who cannot get financial help
from their family or elsewhere.
Even military combat veterans
get snot tissue treatment by a corrupt
Congress
that cares only for the money
that gives them power and
advantage.
Present governance = swindle,
this analysis follows from this equational system
relating great complexity here,
even when broken down to bite sized
chunks.
I want to emphasize strongly that
the state we are in
is mainly perpetuated by a long
life
packed with known and
acknowledged errors
in living it, oblivious to
certain of the political
and economic factors considered
in this system.
These allow others to annually mow
hay
from out of our unguarded distraction.
This equation is offered only 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.
"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 that 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,
and at the time I had no idea
what.
That unknown became so attractive
to me
that an ordinary life, a job, a wife,
or a family became completely out
of the question.
Further, what other comfort or
rewards these offered
had not been defeated for me by
the responsibilities
I forswore along with them
in the times that have followed
in my own solitary life.
Making a barrier for my decision
to
accept the responsibility of a
family,
employment and every aspect these
bring,
chiefly is the loss of valuable
private decisions
about the use of invaluable time.
Pinched for that time, it is thus
so often true
that kindness is the first thing
that we abandon.
Giving our time to another is
often
the kindest thing that we can
possibly do for them,
only we feel that money becomes the same thing astime
because we sell so much of our
precious time for money,
but then fail to realize later
that we would gladly give much
more money
to have a fraction of our time
back.
It is now impossible 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 quid pro quo due to me from
my
actions or my own personality,
or could be thus accounted 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
own life.
In our united way culture of ‘no
time to spare’
we have come to view helping
others
as a deduction from our paycheck,
or a dollar handed out the window
to a proud veteran ,
or other unhappy person standing roadside.
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 it out alone,
into 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 her
to work it through for herself.
Eventually a solution of their
own will 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.
vi.) Rolling Wheel: Out of
Control? or Going the Right Way? 5/27/2014 (742)
revised 6/25/2015
"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 own decision about
whether it is useful,
and if the problem it purports to
address
is important to you at all.
The aim of the equation expressed
in this system
is essentially to encourage readers to perhaps,
fill in any gaps that may exist
in their thought process,
that her own real life may have
prevented
connecting numerous problems
around the world,
nationally, and even in your own
life
to a common source of all of
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
errors concerning the benefits of
collective actions
based on traditional democratic
principles.
Democracy has plainly proven
itself to be 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 has become toxic
and even so in fact, to wealthy
persons
who themselves attempt to purchase
political power
and judicial decisions. In this analysis
the decisions handed down so far
by the present Chief Justice John
Roberts
led Supreme Court of the United
States
have so aggravated the disparity
between rich and poor,
hat these may be termed as
criminal by 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 dominant political
cell groups,
aggravated by the advent of the
24 hour news cycle
that leads persons with little
time to attempt to
even imperfectly understand all
of the important issues
that affect them. Most consume
one sided newscasts
as if it were a brand of beer;
always reinforcing static
perceptions,
because no opposing perspectives
never even come in to their
notice.
Again these interactions of
legislators, and news media,
corporate and wealthy interests
act to divide and conquer
the population who are oppressed
by deficits
both of money and of time, and
have little ability
to know or research the ‘information’
they consumed,
reported to them by media
sources.
As for the executive function of
government,
there is little of substance that
it can accomplish effectively
in light of the stubborn gridlock
that has ground governance into a
mere giveaway to
the privileged persons who are
contributors to public office holders.
This system’ conclusions are
arrived at
by aggregating a lifetimes
observation of and analysis of
world and national events. No
assertion is being made here
that any ultimate ‘truth’ is
established in these observations;
however there is a flat assertion
that they cannot be shown
to be in error. We seem to be today at the cusp
of real change
in our society, by technological
advances in communications,
and present availability of
access to data at affordable costs
make change not just possible,
but certain.
However it is not our phones or better
computers
that make it inevitable, it is only
the intent and self-education
vii) Decisions Are Made One and
One …and One Each Her Own (6/25/2014) (470) Revised 3/8/2015
"I
am a parcel of vain striving tied
by
a chance bond together.”
Henry
David Thoreau -from poem Sic Vita, st. 1 (1841)
As democratic career House Speaker Tip O’Neil
famously observed “all politics are local.”
This from a far past era yet in
this authors brief lifetime
when politicians 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 then after that only
tangentially to the moneyed interests.
I observe today that such ‘honest
graft’
is largely of the far past
decades, and that elected
principal office holders now
serve only their political cell groups,
who endorse them heartily to
hapless fellow travelers
participating in voting.
The many and very interested
financiers of their campaigns,
that they buy for them from
branded media vendors with cash money,
and who are barking only for one
of the two respective
political cells in control.
Using the control of access as
the de facto source
of most news content,
government spokespeople; media
vendors
are made their lapdogs, and so too,
of the political cell groups and by
extension
their campaign contributors’ who aim
to buy both at once.
Sweeping national legislation is
sold remarkably cheaply
to them, and commonly the minions
of these
indicated money dispensers, are even
allowed to
write it themselves for their master’s
profit;
in time resulting directly the spiraling
downfall
of our national economy, debasing
all employment
and so the security of all other
persons.
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
in collective actions or
decisions taken within the status quo.
Linguistic tactics used including
such terms as
‘race,’ ‘injustice,’
‘environment,’ ‘freedom fries,’ 'Benghazi' etc.
are cynical distortions used to
divide and prevent us
from understanding the
misdirection, and into distraction,
emotionalism and fear where the
very opposites of true perception
and thus courage is called for. Our
elected officials
are serving the ends of ignorance
and bound to the crazy calculus
of mutually assured crappiness
that is a remnant
of all past archaic government.
We are controlled,
and pacified by the difficulty
and confusion
built into our lives, and that
saps what energy we have
to labor to dispel it ourself
with all of the responsibilities
we bear of earning our own living
in order to pay
our own bills.
viii) War With Distraction//Peace With Diffusion part 1 5/29/20 (350) revised 3/4/2014
"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 Thoreau -April 26, 1841
Tonight I hit a common snag, that
of tackling a variable that is plainly simple, in my own perception, but linguistically
it offers to balloon so that is takes on itself a greater number of component
variables contained in it, than this system equation it is a part of contains
as a whole. Metaphysically this tends to defeat the main purpose, because to
express this in spoken or written language requires too much exposition to be
useful in this propositional equation system.
So here is an outline to work
from, which in my hour evolved thus far:
Fortunately for this case
virtually everyone is familiar
with the subject
of each part detailed in the memes
above;
enough to forgo defining each of
these
component parts of this propositional
variable
under examination.
As the aim of this system is to
demonstrate
the distraction that has evolved
in dividing the relations,
responsibilities and clear
intentions of each
of the players in our political
system,
from their clear relation to
government,
and thus so to us persons bearing
its yoke.
The simple memes in the above equation
diagnosis’s of many of the aspects
of distraction,
clearly fleshing out the total count
of these causes to be somewhere
just south of infinity;
if one were fool enough to go on
listing them that way.
Every single reader may easily
double the complexity
diagramed above just accounting
their own life,
in well below an hour and without
real effort.
So I say to you: why bother with
this distraction?
How far does it pay, in a
metaphysical pursuit,
detailing the inadequacies of a
system
of archaic governance,
and accounting its nefarious and
systematic robbery thereby?
For myself I have better use of
my attention
ix) War With Distraction/Peace
With Diffusion Part 2 5/29/2014 (383)
revised 3/4/2015
"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)
It left behind a pile of bits of
paper on the table in making the two memes below, contrasting common elements
of distraction with those of diffusion, as they are useful to consider
in this case. If you can decipher my hand there I think my point is made clearly,
both in the labels and the form I present them in these variable memes. Only
the two terms and the labels floating around them express the dharma aspect in
this part of the equation, everyone who reads this will instantly understand many
things about each component label, and each person will have her own
interpretation of how these connect within her own world view and present
reality.
This is ultimately why this brand
of distraction is so deep in our culture, and exists in each of our own lives.
The variations of these numerous subjective aspect values in all of these noted examples and countless others are constantly in flux. For this reason I
don't believe in villains or in heroes as the cause of the vast majority of the
suffering that each person experiences. At worst, or perhaps at best, the things
we do to correct are mainly our best guess at going forward without error. Subjectively
any combination of these aspects that we determine as true or false is easy
enough to decide on with consideration for our own intent or our own desire. Objectively
all equations reveal their errors plainly. The amount of exposition we tell ourself
or tell others to justify our equational deviation, that aspect will show
painfully no matter how we may wish to ignore our error.
x.) Every One Has Their Thoughts
and Desires
6/2/2014 (702) revised 6/26/2015
"It
is a great art to saunter"
Henry David Thoreau - April 26, 1841"
This above 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 now going forward,
its sole function has become to
redistribute the money,
possessions and precious time of
the mass of citizens
and residents for the profit of
those with wealth
and the intent to buy even more
power
and influence with that wealth.
In continuing to cling fast to the
beloved illusion
of an American democracy, that in
now archaic;
we cannot help but see that it is
a myth,
and that now it is in fact, the
chief agent
of our national economic decline.
With cold examination free of
prejudice,
it may be seen clearly that
parental government
is the chief systemic cause of much
suffering
to all Americans as well as
everyone around
the world alike. Advocates for
our present
political decision makers and in
explanation
of their decisions, merely defend
their own
inability to imagine, let alone believe that
anything may be superior to the
status quo;
and let me immediately admit:
that my only contrary
claim is now expressed by this system.
Simply put, I advocate that we
shall all aim
to become better educated in every
day that passes,
and that everyone should immediately,
be okay
with every aspect of it, and each
one free
to determine the path of her own life.
In one recent, terrible
misogynistic murder spree
(find date and link) by a
deranged boy who
believed the crap that he learned
all his life
of consuming sterile media
content,
but it did not at last comport to
a
very desirable life for himself. At his end,
even though he felt that he had
done all that
the media had told him to do, so
that chicks would
go for him reliably; regrettably all of that
nonsense
was just a wash for him.
It is only aggravating the broad
issue
to feel punitive towards a
deranged child
badly misbehaving, simply because
that one,
who legally got hold of a loaded
gun,
just as any criminal may do, and
will do
to suit her purpose.
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 so lately.
Why not realize such as these
hopeless killers
are spawned in desperation, not
in a vacuum.
They are born into the clutches
of unfiltered media,
and if without even the rudder of
parental care,
and form without receiving such aid
of
loving mentoring, as is the
responsibility
we each bear towards one another.
The news item at reference here proves
that money
is not a total cure for, nor yet
to me at least,
is mere poverty the logical cause
of suffering;
what do you think?
Hey look! [[[ This is a great
spot to add
punitive judicial sentencing and
penal service
as revenue for the government to
the list
of sad benefits we have won by
cutting tax rates of those persons
most blessed
with dough.]]]
Even after all the past decades
waiting,
believing the necessity that
those tax giveaways
to the wealthy, and the tricky
too surely at last one day can trickle
down?
Down at last onto the families
swimming, swimming
around under their mortgaged
homes.
Persons who are 'informed' by
media sources
that they are themself poor poor victims
of naughty bankers,
and as such who may think that
they must 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 termed as 'debt')
more than it is worth; the same
home that the same family
had lately loved and wanted so
much to live themselves.
Here money clearly supersedes,
and distorts actual
human considerations by reducing
them all to follow
xi.) We Can No Longer Pretend to
Know What Is in Play 6/4/2014 (517)
revised 6/28/2015
"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 our history
government bureaucrats
confidently issued collected
facts and figures
to define most aspects of
national production
and trade in commodities and
manufactured products,
and could seem to account a
reliable census,
and even to a degree, control
immigration into this country.
Thus making the figures broadly
collected aggregate
and so thus attempted to make
some forward predictions,
to be used in central planning to
benefit industry,
and forecast the required
infrastructure
to benefit business and
employment.
Yes there was a time in history
where this was attempted,
if of course, it always
accompanied shameless profiteering
by the wealthy, and so too grafting
public office holders.
No one pretends to really believe
that such
is remotely useful today or are
not of the
drain trade treaties past have made
middle class prosperity
to become a grim joke; to persons
working away
with little prospect for
prosperity
coming out of government planning.
The concept of maximum
profitability
(macro-economic systems)
has undermined many; or perhaps
most of the
countless intangible assets of
all companies,
professions and commodities
and the traditional markets they
have inhabited
or always until now have been
supported.
This makes us merely minnows
swimming, working, waiting to be
swallowed up
by the next big fish that buys
and sells
our livelihood for a fast buck in
their own pocket.
Resulting thus in effect, that
no one can say with certainty;
anything collectively
about anything, beyond the narrow
sphere of aspects
directly related to her own
personal life.
Consider only the auto part your
mechanic needs
to repair your trusty old car.
It lies now far away in a central
distribution warehouse,
waiting to ship, and then to come
overnight,
if the right part can be determined
and
located at all. If it does come,
it is as likely as not
to be, not quite right, or else some other repair
to be, not quite right, or else some other repair
may also be needed. So that
at last you can get on the road
again.
This expansion of the
chronological aspect
of an automobile repair is
reflected by the decline
of the auto industry and the auto
parts industry
indicative mainly, of the steep decline
in the income
of former customers to purchase
fleets of new cars
each year among those formerly
called collectively
‘workers’ but who are
increasingly now accounted
only as consumers.
only as consumers.
The middle class is now rapidly shifting
its savings
out of bank accounts and right into its arsenal gun collections.
out of bank accounts and right into its arsenal gun collections.
This has caused chaos in many
social aspects of our society.
Money, patriotism, family,
self-preservation, mass murder,
politicized health care delivery,
taxation without real
representation, anger, sorrow;
and at last, the end of our own
functional self-governance,
and the murder of old ideas of
American democracy.
And just try to find most indie
comic books offered
xii.) There Is No Legislating Out
of the Status Quo 6/5/2014(415) revised 3/8/2015
"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 and 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 together in the
present moment,
so now we are suffering to be
ruled over
by a degenerate group, posing as
adversarial patriots who are
sworn to be
mainly concerned with the public
good;
and yet every action they take
publicly,
brands them as criminals in
intent and in action.
Like pigs at the trough gobbling up
our ever diminishing prosperity,
and only even looking up briefly
at times of re-election just to urge reform
by which; you vote their own
opponents
out of power.
By diligently voting voting
voting voting;
"we will change,
the 'our party’ has only your
interests in our hearts," etc.
In fact you may notice that the only
aspect of governance
universally agreed by every
participant in
each political cell group:
is that you should register and
always vote
is a telling key to unlock the
truth of their crooked game.
It is a cynical sleight-of-hand shell
game,
we grab for the 'pea' of reform
under the shells
of false promises: that are never
collected, or
have any prayer of derailing the
gravy train
of our own elected public office
holders.
Many such aspects are named in
the diagram below
and sadly, every variable is
understood too well
by each one reading into this system.
This illustration is just a handy
tool
collecting many into one meme;
but I betchaeach of you can
surely
add a few tentacles I have
neglected here.
xiii.) Static Perception Arrested
Thought/ Impediments to Progress (415) revised 6/28/2015
"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 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 that 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 human and only natural in
light of the complexity
of every person’s day to day life
concerns.
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 the confusion plainly
enough 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.
In the world this makes a rich
tapestry
of lives lived well.
But many choose to ignore change,
in favor of clinging to a
comfortable simplicity,
one that, with enough money
accrued on account,
they hope to weave into a cocoon
to shield us
from ambiguous uncertainty,
brought on chiefly by our continuous
regular interactions with others.
This aspect of human nature is, to
some degree
itself the root of suffering in most.
We may cling to favorite T.V.
programs,
sports teams, unhappy employment,
and/ or assign the definition
of our own permitted amount of
liberty
to some ineffective political cell-group;
and its office holders,
just because we have always hoped
that these
are capable of providing us a seeming
security
in this uncertain world,
and in the point of present crisis
causes
that we suppose we have no time
to do this for ourself.
The expression of this single title,
this metaphysical observation, aims
to transcend
the function of language;
the description I have written here
above
would have little weight of
meaning,
except for the fact that you the
reader
may feel the truth of these
assertions
as a fact of your own life.
xiv.) Actual May be (only)
Perception 6/7/2014 (473) revised 6/28/2015
"It takes an extraordinary intelligence
to contemplate the obvious."
Alfred North Whitehead
In the early 1980s I realized
that I was only really able to
observe
and begin to understand that the
world
is a contiguous proposition,
and then I began to make
meaningful artworks
by seeing my subjects thus
with multiple perspectives and
connections.
Otherwise the result of my work
is to show only a partial aspect,
and unless this is my intention
in making a work,
or else if it is made instead
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 meanings crystal clearly
to another person,
and without misunderstandings.
But for the most part we have
only
language to communicate,
and even to think with by
ourselves;
so in some ways every thought,
and every expression deviates in
some way
from our intension.
So in attempting to embroider
with details,
in an attempt to be specific
requires exposition,
whether speaking or in written
language;
and exposition requires an
increased
chronological element to express
it,
and this factor demands
attention,
concentration, and often great
energy
even to guess the result of any
given
extended, complex use of
language.
As I began
studying Principia Mathematica the following proposition immediately leapt
out at me as applicable to all human interactions.
┠ . (x) . x = x
or I assert “x is true of all values of x =
equals x.” or “everything equals itself.” as a definite proposition. This led
me to devise my very first propositional equation as follows
given:
φ = the class of
all persons as individuals
x^ = the
expression denoting each individual’s intelligence
φx^ = expresses
the set (x^1, x^2, …x^n) containing the aggregate representing each human
being’s intelligence
x^ = . ~∞= each
person’s intelligence is less than infinite since each person’s intelligence
is ~∞ it follows
┠ . (x) . φx^ = . ~∞
or my definite
assertion that no person can rightly be seen more intelligent than another
person. I call this Comic Book Shaman’s Infinite Intelligence theorem. This
is a fine tool to demonstrate the essential function of our system. You may
agree or disagree with my theorem’s conclusion, you may have made a thousand
observations that seem to prove without question that in your experience its
opposite must be true. But this assertion, and all assertions that follow are
not determined by truth or falsehood; only that they will never be proven in
error.
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“Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. This life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.“
xv.) Money Went ‘Round the Bend 6/10/2014 (770) revised 3/8/2015
"Never
give a sucker an even break"
William Claude Fields (film
title)
Money can be simply useful to
anyone.
Money too has a price
like nearly everything in this world
has;
generally all working people pay
that price
with their own precious time.
The time we work for a paycheck,
the effort we give,
forgoing 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 innocuous aspects of money
that we can see that seem to us
to be the root factor in every
problematic equation constituting
all
of the parameters of our life
here on earth,
but they are not finally the core
of our worthiness
or even our chief defense against
all adversity.
Money transcends being only a
simple tool
supporting basic purposes of
commerce
because always as it masses into
the control
of any individual or group;
its aspect changes in certain
fundamental ways,
This is because money’s uses
change
both in purpose and in velocity,
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, any
criminal enterprise,
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 even more importantly
what that nature will display in
the future.
As a particular example, the
oligarchic acquisition
of so many brand name companies
in the food, retail,
entertainment industries,
and as well of oil, commodities,
and transportation
into the hands of a few big
corporations
that are controlled by fewer and
fewer
very wealthy individuals,
and avoiding thus the past
practices that were
more equitable in that
redistribution by way of taxation.
Disappointing is that we everyone
have lost sight
of the origin of these huge fortunes;
and so too have most of the ones
who now control its title,
and by this control, so conceive
that they alone
have earned the fruits of a
million others’ labor.
And consumption seen as the
natural order
rewarding their virtue and
acumen;
and we do that too commonly.
Rest reassured then that by our own
dedication
to static concepts regarding
property rights,
personal prerogatives, and
democratic values.
Thus because money has gone ‘round
the bend'
and out of our sight, it is
natural to forget it,
since we no longer see it or
think about it
as an object of all of our common
creation,
but which it most certainly is.
Still as the level of its velocity
that money is moving away from us
is because in past times when
this nation
was truly prosperous, the
functioning governance
taxed those gains as much as 90%,
and to the howls then of the
extremely wealthy,
but to a huge benefit to all persons
who had such a growth in their
standard of living
that many, and constantly
expanding new sources
of fortunes so derived were to be
discovered.
In past times those hated and
reviled taxes
built roads, bridges, dams’,
culverts,
all types of flood prevention
projects,
national parks and capital
projects in 50 states,
bought 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, or even
completely in error
for the way they serve by dogmatic
hyperbole
a disinterested population..
I do state flatly now that
judged by the specific policies
that resulted in devastation to
our national economy
it is clear that whole crowd had,
and still exhibits
little understanding of the
trouble they cause
in putting their own ideology and
bigotry
at the very front of their
theoretical political
equation of governance,
where that should not have been
at all.
To inject some more present day partisan
balance into this systems’
analysis,
I will flatly state ‘that Clinton
guy’
was equally destructive
with his trade agreement treaties
and arrogant hail-fellow-well-met
distractions;
but I like ‘the Obama,’ he at
least has proven
to be Presidential and
reasonable,
this is the way an executive
honestly
and effectively functions.
Do not take these analytical
assessments
as partisan endorsements, for I maintain
that all political cell
affiliations are to be despised,
and thus here advocate seeing
only the actions,
and the results of men and woman
in elected office
xvi.) Weeping and Gnashing of
teeth 6/13/2014 (570) revised
6/29/2015
“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 too, whether you are a king
or just 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 only 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 moment of our life.
Our mere determination that the
present moment
is “good” or ‘bad,’ is a
perspective that affects
every aspect of our fears, our
unhappiness,
even our satisfaction with the kind
aspects/things
life brings us all.
By attempting to always assure
that our desired outcomes
prevail,
or in one delivering on depraved
promises;
purchased to achieve ideological
outcomes;
that we strive to defeat, only
grow in resistance
and gains ever more power over
us.
For example it is to be observed
that in present governance
the conservative faction seeks every
device
to dictate the parameters of
future legislation;
thus hoping to exclude arbitrary
issues
that they are paid off to despise.
Believing in, and instigating
such legislation
certainly assures the worst
possible outcome,
and we would each find the
results much better
if they would honestly negotiate
those outcomes only when they
arise.
Instead these cowardly acts,
continually done to each of us
by our legislators,
find us collectively
weeping and gnashing
our own teeth.
xvii.) A
distortion of every nature; is at the base of every equation 6/26/2014 (379) revised 3/8/2015
"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 again I think the title is really
the whole essence
of this variable proposition. If
it suggests a certainty to you;
then it’s all good. If you have
read very far in this system,
but still are not comfortable
with how the above title
serves this function, don’t
worry,
this bit effectively just boosts
all of the other,
sister variables.
dichotomies of
distortions
In conventional thought we depend
heavily
upon dual-concepts as 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,
reducing all to one choice or
another.
But we see that: persons, and also
any other
collective interests that we are
fond of,
have ever changing natures to
them;
some that may even thus give us
pleasure.
We each have a capacity to accept,
our own sphere containing
our comfortable ambiguity
and of course this may vary from
person to person.
These distortions free up our
intent momentarily
to do things that normally we
would not do.
don’t let the sound
of your own wheels
It is only in disregarding these
distortions,
that we make serious errors that
divert us,
and change our actions so thus
preventing us
from having our intended result.
When we become convinced of the
permanence
of this or of that about anything
on Gods good earth,
it is yet another sign of
inevitable error coming, sure.
Understand that errors
are frequent in everyone’s lives,
and for the most part they have
little effect,
and in fact sometimes even turn
out for the best;
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 last
xviii.) All Problems integrated,
reduced, and reconstructed 8/29/2014 (630) revised
7/11/2015
"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 very often find that the system
aspect
I am applying does not quite fit the nature
that I want to prevail in it.
Usually it needs to be worn in a
bit,
rethought, and other aspects in
proximity
may even 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 the single narrow,
dedicated course is not really
better
than another more broad series of
interests,
and we will only know in 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 goal 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 all of its
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 each the accumulation of
aspects
layered chronologically; shaped
by effects
of force and inertia upon us.
We drift along accumulating
scraps of identity,
and then shedding them like lizard
skins.
Start to finish, that is a
constant
for all persons alike, and so
many are
trapped solidly by not reaching
beyond their own expectations.
By integrating changes in this
manner,
and always with kindness,
we accrue to us certain power
whose nature cannot be harnessed,
but is certainly to be used.
Used by anyone.
Catch Your Own Perception
Reduce, integrate, reconstruct, there
is
an infinite choice of ways to see
a given problem and we are free
to explore them all, but we only
limit ourself.
You are totally in charge of
what is big or small in nearly
all situations.
Please tax 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 may well control changes
in your own money, your own time,
your own education, your beautiful
appearance
and self-worth by decisions made
as you move through life,
in a way that makes sense to you.
It is no good having our life
dictated
only by finance, by fate or by
luck.
Better to strive to make those
things
suit yourself better by living
the life you want to.
xix.) Care For Distraction 7/1/2014 (426) revised
7/11/2015
“I found in myself, and still
find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do
most men, and (also) 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 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
that
as making too fine a distinction;
but on the other hand a shaman
reckons
that this is 'key' in seeing aspect translation
into 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 have perceived,
and as it integrates with all that
you
already know regarding that
aspect.
Separately but instantly, there attaches’
a chronological reckoning
as each of these variable factors
enter into a given equation. For
example
the trigonometric sequence
calculated
in every driving experience,
or just a delay, spending
unplanned hours
getting ready to go, it is
natural to
fall into a groove of each our
own
individual perception.
It is not very important to
consciously gauge these
chronological factors precisely,
only it can be surprisingly
useful
to be aware that this small
aspect
of distraction exists;
exists in everything there is.
But the more your life is clearly
defined,
and comfortable, these
considerations
hold for mere exasperations sake.
However artists, outdoorspeople,
athletes, gamers, and anyone who
enjoys creativity can play this
little
distraction up into infinite
perspectives.
“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)
Below is a demo of metaphysical process
of expressing innovation in
radical ideas
both written and in spoken language
as here in this system.
To first expand this exercise
into extraordinary syntax,
or even formal institutional language
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
apprentices,
usually involving their own
interests and experiences.
One easily understands all the
aspects of the calculus
depicted below, but each will
interpret them
by their personal tastes and
beliefs, understandings, hopes etc.
Get out your post-its, and expand
or redo.
And think about everything, and imagine
how even
the small things matter
and may affect the whole in
surprising ways.
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xxi.) as obstacles to progress; 7/6/2014 (204) revised 3/1/2015
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 own life
experience/perception
= (equals)
i.e.
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 dressed.
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.
It is my practice to routinely
question, but reserve judgment
as I decide to do.
everyone has an illusory
aspect that we open as a
basket to contain our tonal;
like a Bic in a boot.
there is neither right or
wrong except when
resulting in unkind events.
All conflict rises from persons;
All conflict rises from persons;
this is where growth
manifests, as chronologically
randomly clicks I reckon thus.
And spirits travel.
xxii.) Love thy planet/god as
thyself 7/18/2014 (425) revised 3/8/2015
“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 for each one to be
kind to ourself.
The events in every person’s life
accumulate
value as it goes on, and as these
experiences
accrue she changes daily. And
just as an
elbow in a creek bed catches stratified
micro-layers,
similarly too the metaphysical
applications that one
has available in a given space of
time may enable us
to see persons as luminous, as
they each are.
Depending upon the point we start
to notice it,
we soon are juggling aspects of
our life,
our responsibilities, and as a
result of our desires,
the ‘likes’ and ‘dislikes’ tend
to
interchange their places fluidly,
as do our own perspectives.
we are ‘unruly-Borg’ praise Bob
I can recognize a good case
myself
that the planet earth that we
live on is god.
Thus because I can see new
aspects
of the planet every day, after
many years
I see them all for the luminous beauty
that they each have, and also
that they
have all been put here to be
considered
and to be loved. Our own god/planet,
our own minds, each our own will,
and we exist chronologically,
we exist on a spectrum,
but we can act only now. Now is
the exact time
of extraordinary flux in our
individual human perception and
ability.
As more persons themself awake to
this,
and thus assert that they have,
we must each then be mindful that
many others,
even right around us, are
fighting still
against their own oppression, their
own poverty,
and from war and hunger every day
on this our only god/planet.
Be mindful also that many
advantages
we enjoy also have us profit by
others
who are suffering her own
injustices.
Because we each have only this one
planet,
and our own one mind; our own
single will;
the way to change things is by
your own individual decisions,
one person at a time.
Technology now makes this
conceivable,
maybe even practical,
and participation seems worth
believing in,
xxiii.) Do unto others as you
want back too. 7/22/2014 (738) revised
"It
is never too late to give up our prejudices."
Henry David Thoreau
Many things are different, one
from another.
That helps us in this system to
find out the infinity
in our perceptions, and in all of
the things that come to
each ones’ life. Each of us
having our own individually
n fact, makes for many
commonalities shared
and that on the surface maybe we would
not expect.
I am not certain how much to try
to expound
on the importance that this
variable carries
in making this system viable.
I have no intention to give
further exposition here about this
in abstract form.
Instead please take a breath,
follow along with the
following clarification of the
important aspects of the fine distinctions
underlining all of the notational
aspects 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 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 are
Untenable 7/28/2014 (923) revised
7/23/2015
"If
there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself
would hesitate 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
Cæson 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
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,
on off to grow and multiply
through other hands,
and sold in other places and in
other forms
all created for a paycheck,
and after which we hold no further
or conditional claim.
To clarify this, that aspect is a
potential calculus in all cases,
but in fact is applicable only in
specific cases.
Each case must be determined in
real time;
however an aspect consideration
of this nature is commonly
taken as an offense by the news
media
and political cell group
spokespeople.
It is the prerogative of
discrimination of data examination practices
to see all sides of every issue,
but that is the very opposite
narrow focus that has
always reliably sold products on
t.v. news.
These false structures of power,
held randomly in the incapable
hands of persons who have
either built up or inherited
tremendous wealth are surely inequitable,
but perhaps tolerable; until
hubris leads these persons to
attempt to inflict their screwy
ideas and social philosophy
by grasping onto all that they
can see before them,
by the widespread purchase of
political influence.
That influence is in turn mainly
exerted to further exploit their workers
and minimize the tax liability
for their own wealth gained in that way.
Thus excluding the past manner
that wealth has reentered society,
and our common economy, by
taxation in the past; but never now.
The whole money 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 maintaining intact the
centuries of inequity,
and accounting as nothing
the brutal force that created all
wealth and even now
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 dilemma
without attributing such attitudes,
and their results to the work of
bad guys,
or to some deranged political
scheme to manipulate the system,
to appear to change the faces of
the current wealthy politicians
or media speakers that be, into another
crop of the same creatures.
I want to be clear now in
observing that there is little evidence
that this is a conspiracy as
such, but something more like
natural opportunism, it would be
assigning much more ability
and intelligence to these persons
to specifically plan the disasters,
or even less so the windfalls
that result from,
as much as their in poor capacity
to understand
the calculus of their own
machinations;
I believe they can then possibly
possess.
Rather it seems the work of a
group of persons
each one in beyond their own
capacity to understand
the actual consequences of the
actions they take in office
and service to those in office,
but instead they merely consider
the perverse
political costs to themself of
making a change.
We are living now with an uneasy
remnant of our history
of exploitation of one another.
So without attempting to assert a
quid pro quo,
but instead asserting that there
may come
an acceptance of that past, as
distinct
from the time ahead.
Going forward shall be considered
as each one
a unique point of departure.
We see in our culture that long standing
inequities
are slowly falling away, at least
in the United States. T
his has happened not by
legislation, or law enforcement,
but only by the essential efforts
and dedication of ordinary people
like me and you.
xxv.) Time Does Not Exist. Only
Clocks 7/31/2014 (513) revised 7/24/2015
"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
Time is slippery.
As anyone who has spent a
wonderful afternoon
socializing with loved ones,
in contrast with when one has
endured
travel on a loud and crowded commercial
airline flight.
Dig, that all time is not equal.
This is always measured only by each
individuals’ own perceptions.
Two people strolling in the park
together may each have
very different experiences that
are affected by time,
related to their differing
perceptions;
feeling different emotions,
perhaps caused by changes in differing physical
symptoms
and by each our own intellectual
interpretations of events.
If examined carefully, these will
be found to represent individual,
and specific 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 each deploy
time
and are each effected by time,
so in effect we are each ‘time organs.’
I reckon it is true to suppose
that every person
spends her time in 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 off the
bulk of our time
to a boss, for money, and because
that
money earned thus must then acquire
all things for us in turn,
and accomplish all we are with a paychecks’
blessing alone.
We then naturally feel obliged to
battle for both our money
and at last, our own time,
because we ‘need’ to make some
equation work,
so that it can be supposed to
support us, and all our responsibilities.
This bit of bitter insight, as
each of my described variables,
make this system equation
medicinal in practice.
I must stress plainly that I do
not offer this work to the reader as fact,
discovery, true assertions, or yet
bogus hoax.
My intent is to present in this system
an
accessible metaphysic equation;
exploring diverse ways
to understand, think about, and
discuss with one another
the troubling aspects prevailing,
and perhaps even caused
by our dominant culture existing
here in North America.
You must be able to hold onto 37
ideas
xxvi.) Entering a new economic
cognizance is transformative 8/9/2014 (417)
revised 7/24/2015
"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)
In this variable, by transformative, I mean to indicate
economic diffusion that equals
out without prescribed taking;
or the politically, or economically
dictated decrease
of the anyone’s time, money, or
property assets.
We each have our own piece-worked
conception,
puzzling how we may think or hope
the nations’ money
supply is managed today.
The object of this system is
simply describe
a few critical connections so we
may begin to think
of changing the world view of
money, capital
and our separation by it (money)
from infinite aspects of objects,
commodities and human beings,
presently thought of
as the sole provider of human
redemption.
I reckon that the whole continent
may be transformed
and only with human, neighborly adjustment
of ambiguous reality.
And change cannot mean ‘take.’
Persons must be each on the balance, so that sharing does not mean losing, and
the taking now is only prelude to sharing forward.
Money is the lynchpin of our
system of rewarding labor,
production, and risk. Consider
that all of the money
circulating in cash, bills and
coins, is only
a narrow slice of economic
activity.
Most ‘money’ remains data stored
away;
money put out at interest,
compounding.
This ambiguous state of existence
that money takes on,
is affected by, and is even
controlled by pre-determined
chronological aspects in the Nth
individual's accounts,
all with plotted activities’
outcomes. There is no way possible
to change peacefully anything of
injustice
by taking money away from people
who have it.
However it is certainly in each
ones power
to change her perception, and
just so
peacefully enables changing many
things around us.
Something new and transformative
is coming down the road
and I reckon not too far off.
Today we insist on looking straight
at the faces of atrocity in more
close and immediate fashion
than in times past, and although
the world is
putting on its typical side shows,
arresting the usual suspects,
you are indeed the fountainhead
of change yourself;
your own potential to rearrange
the ideas
you have of life’s living into a better
place,
and by a way that suits you
better,
and that balances things for you.
Then everyone can float together
xxvii.) Bound by misunderstanding
money and time 8/11/2014 (497) revised
7/24/2015
"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 known friends throughout my
life
who are juggling a world of job
and school,
and all the time trying their best
to stretch themselves
in pursuing their artwork, music,
relationships,
faith, family and
profession.
The complexities inherent in these
simple aspects
of a life 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,
or teachers, or movie actors and
rock stars;
but unless we manage to eventually
shed these false idioms
that serve us as props, we are
obstructed by them
because only in gaining our own
experiences
can each person eventually achieve
the feat of being human.
It is 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 labels,
rules and principles
constituting our tonal; this
contain merely
everything we have learned so far
in our lifetime,
and just so, our humanity desperately
longs to escape from it.
By each one’s own constant,
continual constraint
that each of us is wrapped into,
layer by layer by our tonal,
we can no longer see the world,
but live life only by 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 own mind.
I don’t suggest that you ‘do’
something;
rather I am telling you that you may
see
and perceive and think for
yourself.
Understanding will come along naturally
with these,
provided that you have not previously
nailed it down somewhere else.
xxviii.) Person Migration,
Shipment of Goods
and
Educational Propagation 8/14/2014
(645) revised
7/25/2015
"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 festering long standing
problems without apparent cure that,
it is useful to broaden the scope
of our perception
of what the problem really is;
and so thus where it came from in the first place.
Villainous equations of ‘max
profit,’ individual greed, deceit, ancestral hatred,
bogus ideologues and other deadly
sins are perfectly clear and well documented,
but the gigantic overlap of
interests that exist,
are chiefly only legacies of past
hatreds and injustices,
begotten by the worship of money.
Even at that these too are all
chiefly the result of
well-meant but ill-considered
legislation
by politicians unfit for their
office
simply because of their tiny
capacity
to understand the consequences resulting
from the votes they have sold
themself
to their masters ($$$) for to
cast for those narrow interests.
Working out solutions to these,
and all other societal sufferings,
is a task that will never be
legislated or accomplished by committee,
much less by armed force, border
walls, concentration camps,
terror, or weapons of mass
destruction.
When one sets out to unravel the
knotty tapestry
of greed, fear and injustice this
world has come too,
the very things that seem to make our lives possible;
money, jobs, school, state,
prisons, segregation from ‘the others’, etc.
are only attached to us by our
tonal and thus we never
even think to question them in
any serious way.
Professors in universities and
pundits in the media
suggest endless schemes to
rearrange the existing pieces
on the board, all while pointedly
never claiming
they will solve anything; but
only shuffling around who gets rich,
and who are left in the dust.
The roots of all these problems
appear to me to be very much linguistic,
and so metaphysical. Politicians who
try to address any societal problem using,
for instance plural pronouns;
they are thus defeated from the start.
We lose sight in the confusion that
all problems at last are personal,
no matter how many other ones 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.
If immigration of ‘undocumented’
persons causes fear and anxiety,
it is fear of the same sort of
person that have always been your neighbors,
your employees, even your friends
and relations; and then odds are
that you are a dupe member
of a political cell-group. One that whips up your fear by rhetoric
coming from that cell-group's attached media delivery apparatus'
announcer
sheading crocodile tears for the
‘injustice’ of their jumping ahead
of persons who are patiently
waiting their turn
(as my Uncle did for three years
in the 1950s),
I reckon those newcomers typically
are also despise
because they rarely join that
political cell-group.
Those motherless children from
Central America
and Mexico now attempting to come
here in unprecedented numbers
are not seen by politicians or
their lapdog media as human beings at all;
but mainly as a political threat
to their sinecure
from a more diabolical candidate
n the next cell-group primary
election.
No consideration is ever given to
the advantages of welcoming
those children to the United
States, and helping them become
solid, healthy, well-educated
adults who love us for our attentions.
Nor do those pious hypocrites
have any moral compunction
against treating persons in need
as they would not be allowed to treat animals.
This political bullshit denies
the bald fact that these
persons are now, and will in
future be the bonanza needed to heal
our dysfunctional economy (i.e. a
fully funded Social Security trust fund).
xxix.) Distortion = good/bad over
useful 8/19/2014 (320) revised 7/5/2015
This point is so important to my
own understanding of the world
that it comes up in relation to
everything.
Distortion caused by our own past
perceptions color
the new things that we encounter
every day.
It is natural for intentions to
skew our perception towards our fond intent.
Those distortions are necessary
in fact to actually attain our intentions.
Because we take language for
granted and so speak, and listen both
in a sloppy way, we become ever
distant from new people me meet,
and so become ever further from
our own ability to express ourselves
and our ideas to them, or
likewise understand them in return.
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,
by listening closely to the speech of others
we are better able to discover
their meanings.
Understanding this helps us to
quiet mental formations
that prevent hearing past
objectionable words or phrasings,
thus just that, allows us to hear
out what we miss-perceived at first,
the thing we think that another
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 for past suffering;
each of these, if not defused
safely,
may fester and cause great
injustice and devastating heartbreak to all.
xxx.) Resources are the moving
parts of the economy 8/25/2014 (738)
revised
7/5/2015
"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 [thus]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
The origins and the nature of our
own national economy are not recognized,
and is even denied to be
inseparably tied to global fortunes in every region,
encompassing every person
everywhere equally.
Clearly then, perception of, or any
thought about isolated national economy
or economic union is a recipe for
disastrous miscalculation.
We grind up all economic activity
into mere dollar signs
in musty ledgers and media
programed stock market crawls.
We feel imprisoned each one of us because our own
tonal is bound in these,
so at last we are defeated, as
all the labels we have attached to everything contain us.
Peeking wistfully out at a
freedom, that stays seeming just out of reach,
we tell ourselves that we must
accept that this is all there can possibly be.
But inside of every one of us,
our nagual claws with a nagging,
incomplete feeling of loneliness that
we all have;
a feeling to some extent, that something
is terribly wrong with our culture
or maybe ourself or just the
whole world,
and that the deck is stacked to convince
us,
as Voltaire’s young protagonist
Candide repeats,
that this is indeed the best of
all possible worlds.
Now what is needed is for each
one of us to be the best possible individual person
that we are able to be, and
absolutely recognize that 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;
these are all then reduced to
money figures in columns on countless ledgers.
To our sorrow we seem to forget
that in fact a carrot is not a number,
and a haircut is not a tally of
figures,
even though they are generally
accounted to be just that.
Such miss-perceptions have
evolved over centuries and for good enough reasons;
political, diplomatic,
logistical, technical, military, and criminal.
All of these have blurred distinctions
of reality,
they seem to offer us
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
only as persons change
one by one can a new balance of
perception be considered.
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 same 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 all of these, and
they can be had by every person in the world
in an economical fashion, but
that can never be quite possible, monetarily,
this last in fact, is quite
impossible.
Only when you seek that equality
in your own equation,
by calling out your own nagual,
even if it is reduced in you now,
to only the soles of your feet,
each one adds your weight to the
balance for peace and justice.
xxxi.) The deadweight of
government can just fall away 8/27/2014 (237)
revised 7/25/2015
The reason world societal
problems seem unchangeable
is chiefly because we think that
there are no agreeable,
or workable alternatives.
We take an odd comfort in looking
to government officials
and their irrational laws to make
the hard decisions to protect us
by keeping those other, less
reliably law abiding citizens in line.
It is strange that we do not own
those problems ourself,
so then to work to actually solve
them ourselves.
Why not begin to dismantle the
crooked structures that defeat our freedoms,
and that we have earned by voting
carelessly
for their Congressional malfeasance?
Congress has demonstrated
definitively in this century
that they are of no value to us
whatever,
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 bond is generally only
disregarded
for specific, personal desires
and reasons,
chiefly caused by a past, and the
present clumsy,
inefficient and dishonest
juggernaut of injustice attached to it,
raging constantly out from our
archaic form of paternalistic government. \
All of this can truly disappear, and
practically overnight,
if we each one of us declare our
intent that this shall be the case.
xxxii.) Individual Attainment
(unwitting) 8/31/58 (292) revised 7/25/2015
"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 free will and a brain in
common,
and so everyone has options that we
may choose among
to make each of our life as well
as may be, for us and our own loved ones.
It is not useful to predict how
any persons' path may turn and change
as time passes them, only that the
intentions bolstered
within each person by learning,
and life experience
may determine that for each individual.
At last the talents and abilities
we attain
combined with the desires and
actions we undertake in that attainment,
sprout in each ones wonderful new
perception of each one our own nagual.
We each one must labor,
this and each find our own way to
survive and be happy as best we may.
Each variable included in this
metaphysic equation
relates a step many others before
this author have taken on their own path,
and just as this is my own
expression, I know that each reader has her own too.
The solution to all the worlds'
challenges is a little bit in each of us,
and so much more in the young
ones who will come after,
but also do not give up on the
elders who have longed for it
but have had no way to even think
about it,
only because a life’s injustices
have pressed them down so hard for so long.
P T S Dharma (12/8/2014) (948) revised 3/8/2015 (total 3029 words)
A warrior who serves in the
military is trained to function and to endure to the maximum extent of her
training, I suppose. The process of assimilating the 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 back into our much
changed communities at home to sink or swim as they are able.
In combat we are rapacious in our
drive to survive it, and our comrades in arms are our womb of safety to make
our passage, and to allow a discharge of each one’s own duty and return then back
home as a unit, return to a now perhaps distantly recalled life that each
decided to leave behind to honorably serve it, each one with all her heart
devoted to defend it. Post trauma stress disorder is a sweet, crazy description
of a need that others have to describe us as we seem in common; but it is up to
us, only up to each one at last to disarm, one by one, the traps her right
defenses have left in her, after these are no longer needed. Because these
defenses are completely individual, but yet had served each warrior well
enough, the same desired goal of moment to moment, day to day survival. For as
long as these defense mechanisms are needed. It is natural that individual
differences lead those we return to, to recognize that the sufferings many
warriors experience appear so similar that a label P T S D has palliative
effect and meaning for them, but in fact many of the ones who have served and
who are labeled thus are deprived by that label of the device to learn at last
that the problem is truly only individual, and personal to each one. And can
only be overcome by this perspective and in time.
This is distinct from the class
issues in terms of the disjunction of considered risks VS benefits any parent
and child will encounter ‘viz a viz’ all decisions going forward. Micro family
health issues are granted the widest prerogative in every one but in a few key
aspects. In exchange under the law we accept controversial propositions for the
greater good as may prevail or especially how we may promote or detract from a
given consideration of any type or any class. I refer for example to social
disputes such as fluoride in water supplies or of relative risks to a child
from vaccination as a ratio compared to risk suffered by exposure to a society
experiencing reduced vaccination or fluoridation results concurrently in
retrospect.
When we are young and are
powerful; and wanting to defend our country, protect our heritage, or just to 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 so visibly
ghastly, not just suffering our own private hell in silence, as so many have in
past wars and conflicts. Today our warriors are suffering a peril and danger
that is laid out graphically to be viewed everywhere, and knowing that loved
ones at home are affected in that way adds weight to the pack each warrior carries
in and then home from battle. When we reach out beyond our past limitations the
results can have a great and sometimes a horrible, unintended effect by the
consequences that may be triggered inside her head 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 human beings do. In general we are reaching
out to the unknown, trusting it holds fortune, but demanding in return all that
we feel we are due.
In harms ‘way we build up our own
individual and constant defensive equations. We believe that it will best
protect us; and so it must shift to fit each need, or each occasion of danger.
Maintaining this crisis condition, even over only weeks or months can cause us
actual physical changes in our human brain. Of course I am not, nor do I claim
to be completely current in all technical neurological research, but by
observation with an artist’s continuous diverse perspective, and confirmed
perhaps by your own life’s experience. If this is indicated by changes remarked
in loved ones behavior and complaints in tandem upon return, and reflected
largely sadly in the passage of time,
sometimes it is very evident in the difficulty the warrior feels adjusting to
the obvious and also uncertain aspects they typically see, forward movement changed
family and friends as it has ourselves; can these be reconciled?
In fact P T S D strongly
resembles the non-physical, non-medical indications arrived at similarly to a
similar diagnosis of any mental condition; that indicates both the P T S D and
bipolar disorder diagnoses only describe broad spectrums of symptoms that have
been observed in people who may share similar descriptions of behaviors that were
diagnosed from differing individual but on each one labeled called P T S D
alike. Each one of us who have develop important capacities and processes that,
under threat were, or seemed to be vital to our survival, but as circumstances
changed, became more static, and perhaps safer, so no longer serve us usefully.
Alas, now that a warrior is ‘safe’ at home these defenses that have been
hardwired into us do not just fade away.
12/7/2014
part one of four
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P T S D: Lost in the
bi-cognizance 12/14/2014 (439) revised
3/8/2015
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
or write are the result of this process, and those are always only the thing
that I feel must be said, and that thing be stated plainly. This is of course
the very opposite of being polite; but has the two-fold advantage of saying my
point clearly but in fact the other may not be so clear on my intention, and
also doing it in the smallest possible part of time, but so often the time I
meant to be saved is lost by that anyway.
As a result nearly everyone I
have encountered 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 that polite process is that the communication soon shifts
at last into old and worn channels of capitulation and hurt feelings anyway. I
saw that my returned G.I. father make his own path in going along with my
mother’s wishes, and that he perceived of that as his sole refuge, and really
his best hope to maximize his chances of having some peace and quiet.
This perception I developed
growing up is always the first pin prick of my own p t s d that equates a loving family as taking on my own
ball and chain; and that is always a given every time I look into a woman’s
eyes. But now, 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. As another layered defense I despise signals and
signs in this context, although I understand they are polite. But perversely It
is of the backwards nature of me that I do not allow myself to see these honest
signs, leading me over and over, always to social disaster. Thus today I remain
unencumbered by a wife, and close friends, but free to remain without their
charms, comforting attention or human touch.
part two of four revised 2/20/15
*******
There and Back, to and from P T S
D 12/15/2014 (812)
revised 3/8/2015
The only way I can live my life
as I have done is with the supposition that I am invisible, and thus I reckon
that, when I leave her presence, she forgets that I was ever there, and
practically immediately too. Also I simply accept anything she tells me at face
value, shrugging off any ambiguity. Of course this one system aspect started
out as wishful thinking and evolved into what, in dominant culture is seen as a
sort of psychosis, and with reason. Looking back I can now understand that I
will certainly never ever hook up with anyone believing, just so, the things she
tells me, only that she tells me with words. Because myself as such, give out
largely only love, and thus direct communicative language in my own words, I
hope so in all conversations in which love appended may immediately indicate
itself clearly to a child of my own delay by focus of intent, ‘this so that’ prevents
immediate focus in too many sad cases of love lost or misconstrued in chicks
past..
My perception of polite
rejoinders is that they always constitute a clear disjunction, that feels
deeply ill advised to consider at all, or that at least not without a real
understanding of the speaker. This because whether they prove to be right or
else prove in error, a decision in either case can be, at best uncertain.
Keeping with this view of all disjunctions is vital in logical, philosophical
and artistic fields of study, because one cannot build reliable equations on
untested hypotheses, for down the line these may collapse due to having been
built on an unstable foundation. So when a warrior does not trouble to
distinguish her own mental obsession for keeping clean data she and it may soon
become corrupted, made useless as a stable basis for building a romantic, or
any other human relationship. So with this one may remain suspicious of all
persons in dominant culture and for that mere fact. See always instead that those
other persons too have each their own fractured and conflicting intentions from
infinite sufferings. This is reason enough to always speak plainly, and to wish
that others could grant their own temerity, in turn, if only for the sake of
brevity. I do not overlook the seeming dumbass contradictions of this
paragraph, because of course we are each at our core, all suffering very similarly
rooted in in a warrior’s life
lived without recapitulation.
Still some persons are going one way on the money path, while others choose the
warpath backward to that former time when money was unknown on the North American
continent.
There are numerous pin-prick
stress sticks that I feel in me frequently, to change my attention each time I
catch a woman’s eye and she returns my tiny smile. They make me turn and walk
away so to prevent a relationship from flaring with any woman that I have met
thus in my monastic role. In two decades of Buddhist practice and service I have
heard so many young women each recapitulate to me all the sufferings of her
life, and in turn heard each one of them
say why she came to the terrible unhappy place that I met them, out on the
night streets. They spoke to me when they saw I would hear them, and I heard each
one say that she was suffering from a painful and undeserved betrayal. So often
numbingly, the abuse they received was from their own Father, or from another
man who should have loved her instead, and listened to her, and treated her
better. I don’t know whether or not I was in error with this thought; but for
the hell of it, that felt right to me then. Rightly or foolishly I decided way
back to gather power in becoming just
one man in each apprentices’ life that loved and respected her; and that too, without
fucking her in the bargain, because I saw that if a girl cannot ever trust a
man, she is defeated by that, all through her future adult life.
It is these gestures of helping
others just so, that accumulated power within me, and with that power I reached
for intellectual goals of spirit that may come to a man who steps on the path that
I have chosen, and surely that has come to define me. By this the unknown
aspects of life are plain to see reveled. From childhood I have understood that
the things that I could feel only viscerally, were against the flow of the
intentions and purposes of everyone around me.
Still the more I fell into conventional channels to gain acceptance in
social situations and financial success, the more disoriented and unhappy I
became.
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Neither Either if you please
okay? part four of four 12/15/2014
(818) revised 3/8/2015
The form I have chosen to couch this
dharma on has struck me as odd, and perhaps that is true. The most telling
symptom that so many share in common suffering post trauma, is the inability to
give and to receive love or to trust ourself and/or trust our lover. It is
valuable to see infinite connections to our own suffering, by seeing another
person’s at first seemingly disconnected complaints; and learning to recognize
solutions useful to heal ourself in them. There is so much more to learn and
express about this subject, and few are more important for healing of us than
our own capacity to find our own healing path.
Those who served us in military
adventures overseas, suffer neither more or less debilitating symptoms, as
those who have suffered traumatic violence or sexual assault at home, or away at
school too, and from infinite other causes, oblique suffering and debilitating
ennui from countless internal, individual symptoms we suffer in common. Thus
too equally so in every nation, from the
after effects of the traumas each one has also endured. These mental formations
do not dissipate without time, effort and continued personal consideration and
attention to each one our own healing.
So the more I come to care for a
woman the greater becomes the terror that wells up in me. Not fear of love, or
of commitment, or losing my perceived freedom; nothing of that nature, for I am
now beyond being hurt in that way by any other person as every warrior must be.
Still this is not the end, but it shall be an accepted (even if not kindly
accepted) new beginning for every warrior and all loved ones.
Rejection burns me instantly, I
admit that is true, but that is over in a moment, and my life of practice has
given me tools to process and release negative feeling quickly so that they do
not linger. I am fifty something years old and never married, and though there
is nothing stopping me from asking any woman for a ‘date,’ as we called them in
the day, still I feel a reluctance to be absurd and that to me is more
difficult than rejection. I am concerned about how my own nature will effect
and distress her too; for as Motley Crue sings it: I’m a ‘live wire.’ I am
liable to go off in infinite directions at the slighted incentive as my artwork
leads me.
This aspect is important and distinct
from obsession; for trauma brings one to an altered state that may change, and
perhaps redirect a person’s focus away from the world of dominant cultural
social norms, out infinitely into any direction. The distinction between the
two is just this, obsession is intentionally pursued for a purpose like money
or power or control or sexual, or any other desires; while infinity is directed
by spirit and carried outside of the norm at last only for the hell of it.
Don’t think that only military
warriors suffer from their personal p t s d. Each person’s own recurring points
that have ever in life been affected by trauma, and those defenses persist in
her own day to day life. Just so, as my own monastic vows cannot be swept away
by a simple decision that they do not well serve me any longer; so much worse
and more difficult it may become to face the defenses inside each service man
and woman in harm’s way, when the time comes to go back home after a long
continued service in perilous duty . Remember that those described traumatic
aspects were very likely instrumental in each person’s survival in combat. Understanding
this point alone is a key to each person finding her own way back to a ‘normal’
life at last. I have struggled with my own problems, twisting, testing whatever
I can think of changing myself; for a full year now as I have blogged about them
and my struggle, painfully, honestly, and maybe even numbingly, for my work has
no value otherwise. The solutions are never cut and dried, no two persons
suffering are exactly alike and so even knowing what hurts does not effect a
cure right away. Please believe that if you can isolate what the heck they are,
I am confident any one’s own symptomology now thought adequately described as p
t s d, may be overcome at last if we do not give up on ourself or forsake our
loved ones by removing our own self from them. Isolation seems to relieve the
worst immediate causes we suffer from those clear sore spots that one feels;
but we step into an array of worse problems that will never recede from us
until we take a stand, and battle now for our own life.
Variable Universal Happiness (total 2417 words) first
variable of four 12/11/201
I. Our Human Capacity May Be
Better When Delighted (393) revised 3/8/2015
“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 Matus
If
set free of the financial demands of survival all persons are likely to seek
the education and advancement that
fills up their capacity for desires that come to all persons who see them clearly. The key to having one's
desire is to care 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 of misplaced negative emotions that keep arising inside.
-don Juan Matus
“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
I reckon that all negative and
persistent bad feelings that we accumulate cause us sometimes to face a long
walk back down to that disjunctive split that happened, and only then back to
the sidetracked path that was to be left behind. Recapitulation reveals for us
to know clearly all of the missing parts that we could not reconcile; between
what has been and what we desired, feared, hated and forgot about in turns. The
disparity between those and present desires is what make up our compromises,
and recapitulation can bring reconciliation, that helps one to forget those
sufferings from doubts and remorse and uncertainty about past persons and
events that may have left lingering shame as a bitter result.
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Variable Universal Happiness second variable of four
II. Continuous Education Entitles
Greater Expectations 12/14/2014 (686) revised 3/8/2015
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 that we
should agree 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. Resentment is
similar for of teachers who are caught by imposed burdens that exhaust their
joy and energy, so that some who do not, or cannot 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.
-don Juan Matus
Teaching and learning are
synonymous in practice. If a teacher does not experience stimulation in working
with students, she will become frustrated and bored; and that brings out resentment,
too often in their teacher mind rigid categories are formed separating good
students who are not a bother from bad students who are then given little
credit for what work they do manage.
These are the time worn paths that students are herded down not because
they deserve that, but because budget restraints have lead to larger class
size, that divides the time the teacher has to share with students. Pressure
from above to then have students perform measurably better year to year further
aggravates that good student/bad student dichotomy, so that learning has become
completely problematic. The sad part of all this is that with all of these distractions
from the goal of education, it is not possible to predict which students in
this mix of tonal and expectation/abandonment will emerge from a given class
educated in its subject. Success in teaching/learning in schooling in the new
century may easily be achieved by following this simple equation below:
Learning
= Fun
Expression
= Lesson
Listening
= Hearing the Other
And so in adopting these simple
changes the present dilemma of children not wanting to learn, will go far to
reduce and even eliminate altogether misbehavior in most students. This simple
trilogy of altered perception of educational intention may spell the death
knell for the present system, and that has been ringing for decades. 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. While the students may yet gain 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 the fire inherent in the inertia now built into 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 freely available to be had elsewhere with free
or inexpensive tools, and many persons world wide are availing themselves of
these, to great effect. Perversely there is a growing pool of highly
credentialed persons entering into the work force, but employers are now
incapable of evaluating these person's merits without some credential to do
this for them. So even with so many students graduating with expensive degrees,
those are in fact only credentials; and are promises too many graduates prove unable
to live up to.
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Variable Universal Happiness third variable of four
No borders that cannot be crossed 12/16/2014 (790) revised
3/8/2015
“The
world is unfathomable. And so are we, and so is every being that exists in the world.
-don Juan Matus
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.
-don Juan Matus
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 Matus
As many different senses of meaning as that
title No borders that cannot be crossed 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 helping 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 with the fears we each have. But these fears have root in resentment at
always placing financial obligations above all other desires to enjoy or
precious time as we would otherwise prefer, these resentments only keep growing,
because of our own refusal to face our fears caused by specific personal p t s
d –like things inside ourself and these fears and suffering are identical in
those of every other oppressed or post stressed person. Indeed both sides, for
and against more open borders have similar fears and false perceptions each of the
other group. Our leaders do not step up to their responsibility because in
their view, reform must come only by consensus not by leadership; and this statescraft
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 and all substantial progress to
having Variable Universal Happiness must assume that the debilitating hatred,
fear and suspicion of all perspectives can, eventually be evenly reduced, and
set aside, such as has been happening in baby steps around the world for
decades. In seeing right decisions and right actions as improving free ability for
all persons to cross borders, that will benefit us all more than only a
privileged group that up to now have unduly influenced our leaders who so because
they have sold themselves for wealth and power, to narrow moneyed interests.
Too often the status quo just carries forward, at any cost, as if change were
not rolling downhill and upon us, and because such change 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 for our
own concerns. A useful result of liberating persons oppressed by our fear and
misgiving is that object promises to cost us much more in the future than
allowing each one now to have their own freedom of movement will, even only as allowed
by regulation, and with practical and described limitations.
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
Without being limited by old set
misgivings now currently sold politically among cell group proponents, and
broadcast to spread fear and xenophobia by interests who fear it or profit by
it. Easily we may 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 not only in the United States,
but so too all around the world.
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Variable Universal Happiness fourth variable of four
Enough to well go around;
Equitable distribution of the world’s resources 12/24/14 (544) revised 3/8/2014
All barriers to Variable
Universal Happiness are merely in the nature of
human
beings’ (miss) perspectives.
1. Unity in examining ourself, in reflection
by:
§
principle
§
perception
§
perpetual (continual/constant)
§
punctual (forgoing self-interest courteously by habit)
2. See the Barriers in the Necessity to
Monetize Values
§ Labor
§ Risk
§
Education
§
reducing time to a monetary gauge
3. Barriers to perception from unrealized
distortion indicated. 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 create
barriers of communications breakdown
§
Idioms/roles
§
Syntax/Sentence Structure - simple/complex
§
Elocution/Persuasion
5. Barriers of fear, insecurity and mistrust
are the P T S D in any individual; and is actually
only a custom collection of each persons’ own particular aspects including:
§ Personal Priorities
§ National Governmental Decisions
§ Inequality and Injustice World Wide
§ Racial Differentials
§ Cultural Traits
§ Fear
6. Barriers from inescapable errors
in ideological vehicles that maintain the status quo:
§ Authority Apart from Persons
§ Accepting Surface Appearances
§ Created Desires/Wants
¨
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”
7. See money in new aspects
and thought evolves new perceptions that they show:
§
money is occasional
§
money is chronology ¨ I’m late for a very important date
§
¨ DON’T YOU DARE PLAY WITH THE BANKERS KITE
§
GIVE DEPOSITS A SECOND "JOB"
8. Our chief barrier
is of our bitter fear forged by Statistics that cause busy persons to
conclude, unfairly, oppression to
be justified, reasonable and economical.
§
Name results rather than dollar amounts/percentages
§ Crime
reports and statistics are worthless in preventing future
crimes, and in fact the opposite
implications have been indicated true in accounts of trends.
§ Statistics
allocate funding.
§
Statistics ⥱
create fear ⥱
create poor choices.
Maybe it is simplistic to say
this Variable Universal Happiness 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 imagine that it can really happen. I
present here my most current analysis of this subject in outline above. 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 metaphysical expression gleaned of my own life,
in trying to see to express how this aim can at last be achieved.