Monday, July 30, 2018

Of Course We're Not Ready, But You Can Bet Every Authoritarian, Dictatorial, Government Out there Is

Sadder still are all of the dictator wanna be's that are out there salivating at the possibilities. And how easy it could be with the right partnership with the right corruptible holders of great quantities of electrons we now absurdly refer to as money. And isn't it also interesting just how corruptible Capitalism can make human beings. Getting rid of Capitalism won't change the fact that we are frail, mistake prone, and too prone to give in to fear, creatures. Creatures who now must balance our basis as coming from the animal world, and just doing what we needed to do to survive, with the fact that we also now have sentience, and the absolute requirement to make choices; choices becoming ever more difficult precisely because our ability to grasp, to wield, and effect, has given us instrumentality, as extensions of ourselves, far beyond any formerly ordinary concept of reach. And because of that we must do things in a completely new way or we will perish. And the only choice then will be to the degree of ugly we make this suicide, and how long we drag the suffering out.

Facial recognition gives police a powerful new tracking tool. It's also raising alarms.


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THIS SEASON OF 'BIG BROTHER' LOOKS WEIRD


With such a grave threat to privacy and civil liberties, measured regulation should be abandoned in favor of an outright ban.


[Post Note: If you transform the world around, whatever Tech Titan you might want to talk about, do you think they will have any choice but to change? And if you don't think that the people that still make up You Tube, as well as the present user community, can't be persuaded to what do what really needs doing now, then you have no clue as to what American's with a shared vision are capable of. You just need to provide them a meaning system that makes both practical sense, and feels right morally, and spiritually. J.V.]
GOOD LUCK TAKING DOWN ZUCK


Despite some critics' glee at the latest earnings report, the planet's most powerful business remains unstoppable.


[Post Note: We really do need to direct ourselves into some very important "New Beginnings." J.V.]

World's Most Emotional & Powerful Music | 2-Hours Epic Music Mix - Vol.1 -- New Beginnings











Friday, July 27, 2018

What Do You Imagine

What do you imagine
imagination is
as you distance yourself
from actually connecting
to your own fantastical needs,
relying on the base
instincts already thought of,
and so cleverly packaged,
and branded,
with Hi-Fi that is it's own
cutting edge
of advancing.

And you think
you're paying upfront
the price of not
thinking you can
imagine anything
but the quick
fix to the itch
that off the shelf keeps you coming
back for without
having to look forward at all.

But if you've been edged
on the sharp line
of imagining everything
imaginable, knowing too far
is a cut you have to
risk the recovery for.
Always wondering.
Always nearly lost and
always only nearly
found, because finding
changes everything all over
again. And you must
turn.

The funny thing
is most of what can be
found finds you
and gobsmacks a fusion
of you into it
and it into who
knows what you will be.
For you soon will be
yearning for more
turning. But the joke
you see is not
what you now see
as something new,
but the question
of its previous existence.

So what
do you tune into
when you think you're imagining
something more fantastic
than the spectacular realization itself
that infinite potential has already
made it possible, and maybe
you and it create
each other simultaneously.
Or you were already created
so many times before
by so many other imaginations
wishing something
from you, and making
the someone
who couldn't begin to know,
that the wished for
could find you.

Whos to say
as you continue to play
the children's game
of making something up
and believing it. If
it's believable at all of course.
And maybe that's all
you need to add. That extra
bit of believability,
however you might entangle it.
To then imagine
so many others turning
with you, but
with their own twist
of yearning.

Do you think
that turn has already
reimagined what a better you
could turn out to be?
Do you want to leave it
only to the imagination
of others?



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2-Hours Epic Music Mix -- Most Beautiful & Powerful Music - Emotional Mix Vol. 1







Wednesday, July 25, 2018

This Is So Important

Even if you look at it only from the perspective of one aspect of the rights of the individual.

I say it that way because it helps to illustrate the common ground that men and women should have on this issue. And you can understand that if you realize that this is the case because, should this country fall to some form of Authoritarian Capitalism (which is about the only way it might survive at all--if you could call that surviving), and the trend of the commoditization of everything continue as it has been now that money seems to be the only true supremacy now; in those conditions will you see the all to probable instance where woman will be reduced, once again, to the status of chatle, and even worse, to the type of chatle reserved for the sex meat needed for commercialized sex (and for which too much slavery still exists). And even worse still will be the second class nature of that kind of property once electrified experience retrieval makes fantasy women all the more appealing; for both their fantasy output capability, and their considerably less support costs (once the lead time costs are paid for).

This could happen. A lot of crazy people on the right would like to see it happen in my opinion in fact. And if we don't take Capitalism off the table as an option at all, and very soon indeed, even if we could save the planet, what kind of second class slavery would we be saving it for people to live in in the first place, should this toxic monster not be removed?

Revolutionary must be not only new ways to turn to conceive of, and conduct work, and the process of providing for the common good, but also of how we view the socialization process of both men and women. And that revolution must recognize that men haven't hardly ever been properly socialized to handle their status as being a woman, and something else. And I say that because I do believe that woman is the base class of the species, with there being a vagina variant, and a penis variant. And the sooner we realize that the better.

Bringing down the patriarchy

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THE FUTURE IS FEMALE


The prominence of women candidates in this year's races has catapulted a host of fresh faces onto the national stage. Here's a look at nine breakout stars from the midterms so far.


[Post Note: This I present as just one presentation of the issues surrounding why men are not being socialized properly at present, not for some time now in fact, and with little hopeful prospect for the future, if we don't start taking the matter a great deal more seriously; especially as it relates to the part that a toxicaly out of date economic operating system is involved, at least in my opinion. J.V.]

SUPER MOB MENTALITY BROTHERS


Experts tackle the phenomenon of angry men, trolls, racists and misogynists who hover around the video game industry.








This Might Explain Quite A Bit About My Behavior In The Past

I can say that because, at any one time during my last forty years of existence I have never been with less than two cats, and have had as many as six on a regular basis (my Friend Mickie and I did quite a bit of cat rescues during my years living in West Seattle). And of course, nearly all of the women I've been involved with were cat people, and also prone to take risks.

Parasite in cat poop could be reducing our fear of failure, study finds








Thursday, July 19, 2018

Never Let Yourself Get Caught In The Firefly Mist

For it will make you up
to imagine it
imagining you
as the lightning
softly particulated
in many points
discharging brilliance
clouded only
by the ethereal
magic you hope
is the power
charging you now
to Illuminate
even more.

Can you
elevate even
that much of your mind?
As you taste
the tones that
shiver every connection
of your being
able to sound
what any of it means,
even as it hears you
hearing it even better.

Will it know
you enough to know
it even a little?
Will it help?
To help you
know it even more?
And can you make
that change
be your being
in a better tune
to changing
all the time?
Taking hold
of a lot of letting go?

But there
you see they're
already flying away
with you
taken up and
made anew.
There's nothing
you can do to want
anything else now.
You are the mystic
ether of neither
here nor there, but
everywhere. And
every wonder in between.
Can you play
them all in time?
Only the will
to keep wondering at all
will tell
the story another might read
by the light
of that brilliant mist of fire.

Sonic Librarian - Firefly Mist

Monday, July 16, 2018

Remembering The Parallels Between An Old War

That the Roman emperor Constantine had to contend with, between the Pagans and the, let's call them the "Divine Father, and Son" faction of what was probably becoming a majority of the growing Catholic Church of Rome; at least as it is presented by the wonderful movie "The Da Vinci Code."

A lot of what was presented in that movie as supposed expert dialogue between two, old, scholars, was controversial to say the least. Was Constantine a pagan first and a "Catholic of political convenience" second? Was what motivated the war so much related to how the "Patriarchal" view of a higher power saw the other side's idea of "balance between both the supreme Patriarch, and the essence of the feminine as the "ultimate chalise," as not only an attack on whether Christ was divine or not, but also of whether the feminine should be considered at all as a source of divinity in the first place?

What then made a big part of the movie so intriguing was the very idea that Catholicism might, in some way, be a "Fake Church." A fake church hiding what would then be an historic coverup about Christ's own, quite human, mortality; as well as the fact that the church might have been intended to be lead by a woman. Which then, of course, made it an institution capable of horrible atrocities in order to shield the faithful from what the movie suggests quite clearly as a distinct possibility.

From my point of view the notion that this would necessarily make Catholicism fake is absurd. Just as absurd as saying mainstay institutions now are "Fake" because they don't necessarily support one side, or the other's, idea of what should be the dogma of the belief system in question; a dogma unfortunately carved literally in stone of the most intransigent of substances. What it might certainly make it is conflicted, but not Fake in any way, shape or form. But such is the nature of battling for not only ground, and further resources, but for how people are to be allowed to see things.

As such, we are now in a place not so much different than what Constantine faced a great while ago. And what is especially sad here is that, whether it was just pragmatism or not, he let the Divine Patriarchal view have its sway; and whether that actually caused a virtual purge of "Free Thinking Woman" or not, as the movie suggests, we'll all have to just wonder about I guess. The fact remains that a lot of woman did die, and more importantly, that woman were made to be presented not as even possible vessels of divinity, but of satanic corruption through temptation. Something other belief systems have also made terrible choices on.

My bias being what it is, of course, I can't help but feel that this was a huge mistake made by Constantine, if this was indeed the case (even understanding that, mistake or not, it may have just been inevitable given the population mix of Rome at the time). That we could not find a way to negotiate the balance between the two, assumed elementals here, back then, however, should not dissuade us from asking ourselves if now might be a really good time to consider it again. Perhaps with a good deal more wisdom now? Especially if we consider that woman are the base class of our species (based on my contention that the species boots up, if you will, from the X chromosome, and converts to universal socketing after the ninth--if memory serves--initial period of undifferentiated, geometric expansions of cell division; which I think then triggers the Y to do its thing).

Just take a moment, sometime soon here, and watch that movie again. And then ask yourself if it has brought up questions we ought to be considering now. I think it has. What do you think?








 

Sunday, July 8, 2018

Let's Not Forget That We Are In The Age Now Of "The Absurdity of Growing Up"

That's as opposed to "Growing Up Absurd" as conceived by Paul Goodman, who represented a good portion of not only my development as both a potential delinquent, as it might have been thought of in the late fifties and early sixties (played out for me, though, later on, as I would catch on to him as part of my last, crazy, counterculture wave, out of the sixties, that was, in fact, my life from the end of my first marriage in approx. 1973, to about the mid eighties (and the start of the end of my second marriage), when the practicalities of existence brought the naive part in that that wave to a temporary end); but Mr Goodman would also play a part in my development as a progressive, because of the underlying criticism he had for consumerist society.

We should also remember that maybe this ought to be a massive suggestion that continuing with an organizational model so out of date that not even a Twinkie could stay useable, and filled with even more toxic things than a Twinkie has, or any other junk consumption thing you might want to mention any kind of planned addiction of for (by one sugar or another) is a really bad idea, because that's pretty much what "Business As Usual" has become. And with that, then, the follow on of a whole lot of corruption.

More things to think about as you also ponder important decisions you aren't going to be able to put off making for very much longer.

Failure to launch -- Why so many American millennials feel adulthood is a lie






Tuesday, July 3, 2018

You Are The Miracle That Can Turn Anything Around

So much time spent,
as you buy
your branding,
burning away the old
idea of identity,
foolishly thinking
time is money
going by
that you don't have,
when time is just
what you can imagine
what it needs to be
processing better ways
to be turned around
and around,
feeling the freedom
of real revolutions,
that take you up
on an ever changing
path of balance
for a thoughtful kind
of loving embrace,
and exchange.

So much love lost
foolishly thinking
it can be traded
for better kinds of more;
when all that more brings
eventually
is more problems, and the loss
of what you could have kept
without trading anything
away.

So much wonder lost
foolishing thinking
that the miracles
you yearn for,
touching transcendance itself,
can't be found
the love never regained,
or that wonder would ever want
you back together,
with the joy of amazing finds,
that are beyond you,
or the ability of reason to measure.
Because sooner or later
we just end up
measuring the amount
of affect our probing has done
to change what we hoped
would be reasonable
to measure in there in the first place.

The top spin
of what you are in
is that you are
the miracle that matters
You are the love
and the energy to want
the embrace that has giving
go both ways,
back and forth.
And you are the wonder
to be trying to think and love and
wonder at all.
Because choices have to be made,
even when you use them,
in the chaos of your own making,
foolishly.

Do not worry though
they will forgive you
if you can forgive
forgiving yourself
and just keep trying
to see yourself
and those around you
for what you truly are.
A divine part of a divine
higher power or
higher purpose or
some balance of same.
And isn't that just something to wonder about
as you love the other miracles
that you let be a meaningful part
of the miraculous life
you could find
right in front of you
if you could just turn
the right kind of revolutions.

You do that and
you'll have magic too
in what finding out
what cooperating can do
in helping others
turn themselves around
with you.