Sustained

Greetings good citizen, It seems we survived [or perhaps persist is a better word.] As I have peached lo' these past twenty years, nothing will change until the system changes.  

Don't listen to the pundits, they pretend all is right with the world and maybe it is in the stratified, cut-throat land they dwell in. They don't give a fuck about you or your world. You can go twist in the wind.

But I preacheth to the choir. 

[REWIND]

Nothing will change until the system changes...

What is it about 'the system' that needs to be changed?

[STOP]

It's not a topic for debate, almost none of you have thought it through  [because you prefer to let others think for you. A necessary but dangerous trait.]

What's wrong with the system?

It's UNSUSTAINABLE!

And as long as 'the agenda' remains beyond your reach it can't be fixed.

Climate change is literally spanking us silly and only now had it made its way onto the political stage.

Is climate change the crux of the problem?

No! It's Capitalism!

Do the math, ONE planet, that needs to be shared by an exponentially growing population [hint: unchecked population growth is the primary obstacle facing mankind's future on this planet.

What is being done about it?

We have a Supreme court outlawing the abortion of UNWANTED PREGNANCIES!

Cray-Cray, right?

It's also a pipe dream to think we're going to stop people from scratching their itch every chance they get...so what's the answer?

Mass sterilization with the harvesting and storage of sperm & ovum for future use by people qualified to raise children.

Stupid is the belief in dumb things. It is beyond dumb to believe anyone capable of creating a life is also competent to raise that life. [The 'law of the jungle' culled the 'unwary' but civilization has negated the beneficial effects of what Darwin termed natural selection.]

IF we don't get a handle on the population and the criminals running it for fun and profit mankind will go extinct.

Nature doesn't play dice. We have survived this long by controlling our environment. Once stupid is given the upper hand the situation will quickly spiral out of control and extinction will be inevitable, [isn't that right Q?]

No one can deny we are neck-deep in stupid and that has been made worse by fantastical thinking with zero logic behind it.

It is NOT POSSIBLE to 'elect' competence. A leader must have VISION and the ability to demonstrate that vision and its viability. A leader recognizes what needs to be done AND knows how to do it.

We don't need 'lawmakers' we need leaders who can be held accountable for their actions.

That isn't going to happen as long as the feckless can shrug and point at their ideological opponents and claim it's their fault.

Your children's future hangs in the balance...

Thanks once again for letting me inside your head.

Gegner

PS, give your brain a treat and visit Space Cadet on Kindle Vella, maybe learn the answer to why a mother would name her child enemy...

Meaning

 Greetings good citizen, What is 'the meaning of life?' Ask a thousand different people and receive a few dozen different answers. Who answers this question for us? Unfortunately, EVERYBODY has an opinion and some of us are adamant that ours is the 'right' one! Let's start with the most common answer, shall we?

 Most of us don't know nor do we care. This is sort of a blanket phenomenon we use to get through this crazy, mixed-up existence...an existence most of us are acutely aware could terminate before our next eyeblink and we'd be none the wiser. We wouldn't be any closer to knowing why we were here nevermind why we were snatched away...

Somehow, this does NOTHING to put the meaning of life into perspective. A wise old friend was fond of repeating "Life is neither good nor bad, life just is." While this is a 'statement of fact', it is neither an explanation nor a philosophy.

Still, something in human nature strives to attach 'meaning' to something that simply 'is' So we all wander aimlessly through this life 'handling' whatever opportunity presents itself to us, while rationalizing that our actions are rooted in 'good' (regardless of how twisted our logic/motives.)

As the planet becomes more crowded nobody [in the punditsphere] is sparing any attention for the unbridled urge to scratch the itch, a subject that should be front and center on every sentient creatures' mind.

We have become 'the fruit flies in the jar'.

Will the 'sentient fruitflies' succeed in escaping their prison before they deplete their finite resources?

Right now, the short answer is NO. Besides the hair-brained idea of migrating to the desert known as Mars, nobody is doing anything to reverse the strip-mining/plunder of our current home or checking our out-of-control population.

This brings us full circle to the interests of the few outweighing the survival of the many [and why we MUST STOP following the meat puppets elected by the self-serving!]

{THINK YOU elect anybody for anything? WHO funds both parties? (or are you hopelessly stupid?)}

Democracy is anything but, just as justice and equality are non-existent.

The LAW belongs to us ALL and is not the private domain of the self-serving/interested. We will NOT survive as a species so long as we ignore our mutual 'conditions of survival' in exchange for modest, inconsequential gains in the here and now. [These pithy economic buy offs should disturb you much more than they do.]

What busts my stones is how most of you are incapable of grasping the significance of my arguments, and still you consider yourself 'sentient' because that's what separates us from the animals.

How f'n dumb are you...rhetorical question because you know you are powerless but still you hold out 'hope' that those raping this planet will 'somehow ' manage to pull off a 'save' despite themselves'.

Your (collective) REFUSAL to think condemns our species to history's dumpster as yet another failed experiment.

In this, I reprise the role of Chicken Little/Cassandra.

So I repeat, life is neither 'good' nor 'bad', life simply 'is'.

Follow me if you want (your children) to live...

Thanks once again for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Self

 Greetings good citizen, it is seldom acknowledged but no less obvious/significant that we all live in the world of 'I'. From your earliest instruction, you have been taught that you need to look out for 'number one', a job that was your responsibility alone.

The problem isn't necessarily obvious until it beats you at every turn.

YOU are NOT 'alone'.

Worse, your (continued) survival relies on your 'making yourself useful' to those who control life's resources.

What does this 'breed'?

Mercenaries [and a shit-ton of 'quibbling' over what constitutes 'mercenary behavior'.]

What does this promulgate? Enter Spirit in the Sky and its self-professed 'chosen'.

The other huge factor pinning you down is your worn out bullshit meter.

NOTHING you've been taught is the unvarnished truth, everything came with a caveat, (and in many cases that caveat is 'because I said so...')

You have a head filled with nonsense [pretty much from birth] and no lodestone to let you sort for relevance or importance. Worse, your guiding principles are constantly being challenged or wiped out depending on someone who is equally as clueless estimate of your emotional maturity.

Ever wonder why the penalty for treason is death? First you have to understand what 'treason' is. You have been taught [by the idiots in charge] that treason is betrayal but treason goes deeper than that. Treason is lying/untruthfulness.

This is why the words 'lying traitor' fit so neatly together. Can you pull your head back from the page a few inches so we can take a look at how we went from not being alone to being lied to by the opportunistic mimics that surround you?

Nothing is more fragile than the truth [because it is seen/interpreted through so many diverse 'lenses'...and the only one that matters is YOURS (see the 'problem' Mr/Ms Not Alone?)

Only slightly sturdier than the truth is society, which strives to meld 'truthiness' into a workable compromise. It usually fails at this right out of the box but the imperative to survive keeps the flaps tucked in, everything else is 'damage control', regardless of how insane.

[STOP!]

I don't pen these for the stupid who believe dumb things. EVERY age believes the wheels are about to come flying off BECAUSE the lies eventually start to 'unravel'.

The Original Interpretation of Treason was OPENLY challenging the 'prevailing lie'. Everybody grumbles about the obvious inconsistencies inherent in 'truthiness', which is why the self preservation crowd, who is actually more interested in avoiding accountability than in the health of the society they have deceived, has taken to questioning your understanding of truth [it's ALL 'Fake News'.]  

How do you regain the ability to sort the facts from the (prevailing) bullshit?

It only takes a 'kernal' of truth. [Problem is 'which one'?]

Pick the wrong 'starting point' and you wind up right where you are now, with an impossibly high stack of lies that are all only 'relatively' true.

What is 'true'?

One planet which relies on ALL of it's lifeforms to function in harmony. Alone our species will perish and no individual regardless of the lies they are fed, can survive by themselves or succeed on their own.

To date mankind has failed to acknowledge that their 'superiority' is vanity when held up in the light of creation and that creation is not 'divine' but NATURAL.

Treason is twisting the facts to gain a personal advantage, which flies in the face of the FACT 'we are NOT alone'.

Leadership isn't something to be 'voted' on and never has been. Leadership relies on understanding and if the individual chosen to lead can't see beyond the tip of their own nose then woe be unto those who choose to follow.

Future leadership must be based on SUSTAINABILITY, of society and the PLANET. Nothing will survive the endless rape by the self-serving. Only those who can devise workable, holistic plans for society can be trusted to lead.

I said in these pages after Bernie was sent packing for the 2nd time that Joe Biden was an 'empty suit' and not a dozen days into his presidency it's looking like the hundred million that DIDN'T VOTE had the right idea.

This is what comes from a system where the same people finance both sides and give the orders to the winners.

Don't let the unaccountable ressurect Royalty [and it's defacto exemption from accountability (due to their alleged 'divinity'.)] get away with murdering our species on this planet [too.]

The SLAVER playbook doesn't hold the answer to a SUSTAINABLE future.

Thanks once again for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Holistic

 Greetings good citizen, in the previous post we addressed the self-serving, who view the world through a very narrow and decidedly selfish focus.

Since the criminals among us usurped the law and interpret it as it pleases them they pretend they are not 'criminals' but 'entrepreneurs'!

Adam Smith, the original Gordon Gecko (and author of The Wealth of Nations) was an idiot that couldn't see past his own self-interest.

The only way greed; personal 'works' is when resources are set to infinite [impossible on a single planet] and value is so narrowly defined that only a few benefit from its definition.

Remind you of anybody?

Bueller? Trumpsters? Anyone?

We allow the self-interested to dictate the teaching of nonsense to our children and expect those children to behave rationally for no rational reason, how's that for insane?

What's the most disturbing takeaway from the as yet undetermined election?

That it wasn't the blow-out it should have been.

How, in any sane world, did Republicans not lose the Senate after REFUSING TO HEAR EVIDENCE of criminal wrong-doing when the Flag Humping Pussygrabber coerced a foreign government to gin up evidence against one of his rivals?

How did Mitch Mc Connell retain his seat?

Can anyone say criminal skullduggery?

This voting thing isn't working because we don't vote for the right things. Voting to see who will decide for us has proven to be a scam from the beginning.

Everybody Knows and there isn't anything you can do about it short of revolt.

Conventional wisdom says, 'things aren't so bad' but your mind tells you otherwise. Our kids can't find jobs that pay them enough to move out of the house and numbnuts is crowing about the booming economy his boondoggle of a trillion-dollar tax cut DIDN'T create!

I truly hate to keep asking you this but how f'n DUMB are you? [Stupid is the belief in dumb things like MONEY and Spirit in the Sky (a.k.a God.)]

Who are the biggest supporters of both? Evangelical Republicans.

There is no evidence a 'supreme entity' exists (and if it does it is decidedly MALEVOLENT!) Ask any officer of the court and they will readily admit that money IN ANY FORM is a LEGAL FICTION.

We won't survive following swindlers and cheats.

ASP solves the problem of those who refuse to put humanity first.

Now it's YOUR TURN to choose a side. Will you chose humanity or individuality?

Exile proves that alone on your own you are DEAD. The collective we can only prosper as a team, there aren't enough hours in the day to perform all the tasks nature demands of us.

When are you going to reject the lie that you are on your own?

Chant the refrain, good citizen, 'How f'n dumb are you?'

Again with the abrupt ending but I have already laid too much on your feeble mind.

Find your solid ground and work toward building a team that will end leadership by the reckless individuals among us.

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Criminals

 Greetings good citizen, the vast majority of us are too busy putting one foot in front of the other to spare any time contemplating criminality and the poor job our (appointed, not elected) leaders have done dealing with it.

So yesterday was the national elections and again the same incompetents who have balled the whole situation up got re-elected despite their poor performance and we have to wonder why?

Who isn't amazed that Moscow Mitch kept his senate seat? Do you think there will be a Senate panel looking into this unseemly turn of events? Will anyone dig to the bottom of the question of what the hell is wrong with Kentucky?

We all know the answer, don't we?

Our government is run by criminals and we have no way to correct the situation.

[Ironically, the criminals dare us to try and correct it, which would be a huge mistake.]

Everybody has to sleep sometime, that card offers no advantage to either side.

They may have the authority and the courts on their side but we have numbers and legitimacy on ours... They chose to wear badges and robes, where we are all the same to them.

Nobody can watch their back 24/7, nobody.

So in any 'war of attrition', numbers win.

Nobody can be chief if they can't trust anyone long enough to blink. Thus what we call civilization crumbles to dust.

Without trust, we are just a collection of savages.

Why do you suppose the bought and paid for media insists we are 'evenly divided?' So no one can challenge the treachery.

To be avoided at all costs [if you serve the criminal cabal] is rooting out the traitors and bringing them to justice in an attempt to restore trust and some semblance of civilization.

[STOP]

What do you KNOW about criminality and civilization? It seems most of you forgot [or failed to grasp] that politics is a process and not a team sport.

Our prisons are bulging with criminals but are they really? Most of the inhabitants of the criminal justice system are there for committing victimless crimes, not against humanity but COMMERCE!

When criminals decide what is a crime the whole system gets warped. It stops being about justice and exists to exert control and enforce obedience to a system that routinely exploits them.

Is our justice system wrong? It gets criminals off the streets by handing them guns and badges and a paycheck. The armed thugs are NOT 'heroes', They just turned on their fellows in exchange for a pension and a pretty darn good one at your expense!

The idea of "I can pay half of you to kill the other half " isn't new nor is it unique. What you aren't aware of is it's the bargain early politicians stuck with the robbers terrorizing their villages.

Didn't take long for this arrangement to descend into 'organized crime' as the thugs saw as a win-win from working both sides of the proposition. The chieftains of old were swept aside by a more 'polished' set of scammers.

There are now billions of us and is 'criminality' a problem? Only in the most impoverished areas and that's because the criminals play King of the Hill' among one another on the lower rungs of the artificial 'worlds' they carved out for themselves.

Like the Royalty of old, the criminal 'families' set up their fiefdoms using the models they were familiar with. [Not a bunch of original thinkers these criminal types!]

Worse, they modeled their worlds on the Empires of old where commanders worked on 'commission' preying on one another...which is why our prisons a bulging with the criminal 'competitors'.

What you don't see is the 'long game'.

This is what the fourth or fifth consecutive 'dead heat' in a presidential election while the term republican became synonymous with criminally psychotic?

How does THAT happen, good citizen?

Pussy-Grabber the Flag Humper is in a dead heat with Joe Biden and the ONLY thing Joe has to do is not be TRUMP.

WTF?

Trumpsters: Be VERY afraid, the world is watching YOU.

Trust

 Greetings good citizen, no matter who you are or what ideology you subscribe to your continued survival relies on trust. If you can't trust yourself (to make rational decisions based on facts) how can you trust someone else to make those choices for you? 

Sounds dumb that anyone would admit to being that 'weak-willed/minded but many of you form your beliefs based on the rants of some shill paid to say what they themselves don't believe. They are reading a script.

Sounds sinister when you strip away the pretense but back to your inoperative Bull Shit meter, the one you don't trust because the nitwit on the radio sure sounds like HE believes it. [And it's almost always a he, only recently have females been recruited to provide 'depth' to their self-serving arguments.]

Who would do such a thing? 

The swindlers that rely on your not connecting the dots.

Naturally, they don't refer to themselves as criminals, they are life's 'winners' and if it takes a degree of deception to keep their swindle from being scrutinized there is plenty of pie ($) to share with the cooperative

The 'Rabbit Hole' is deep because they have been building on top of lie number one for a long time. Here's the rub; the lie all of this is based on is right under your nose and never far from your thoughts yet you don't see it for the fraud that it is.

Worse, because you have been trained to believe it doesn't even occur to you to question the greatest lie there is. Some of you [and only some, that's how deeply you rely on trust] have 'questioned' this substance and the multiple contradictions it presents daily but you keep your suspicions to yourself because this whole shit-show is glued together by 'go along to get along.'

That phrase was coined to protect the lie.

Why does nobody expose the lie? Because without trust society cannot exist.

I would say even the densest of you know which lie I'm talking about but no, that is not the case. A significant portion of the human population has discarded the ability to think for itself because they can't reconcile the lie or what life would be like if it were exposed.

What currently passes for 'civilization' would collapse if the truth were, um, 'recognized' which is why the simple-minded will refuse to believe the lie isn't true.

Not because the lie works but because their entire life is a lie.

Too many of you bet your daily survival on MONEY and MONEY is a LIE. It has no value nor does it have any meaning. 

The problem money solves is the one where (the illusion of) prosperity creates peace, a false peace but peace nonetheless

There are better answers than money but the fraudsters (desperately) adhere to the devil they worked so hard to promote. They (foolishly) tied their personal success to the success of the money fraud.

Where does this leave YOU, oh hapless one?

It leaves you sinking in a quagmire of lies. Worse since every lie needs a dozen more to prop it up your mind is so overwhelmed it shuts down and rationality is rendered moot, irrelevant.

Worse, since critical thinking skills are something you are born with most of you are scratching your head if you've read this far, dumb is a terrible thing. [Remember dumb is the belief in things that aren't true...and if you are forced to trust dumb people you're kind of skunked, aren't you?]

If you don't know what to make of the puzzle the fraud you're living presents and the people around you can't figure it out either well, who do you trust?

That would be the liars paid by the fraudsters, wouldn't it?

The lies are unraveling before you fearful eyes and the nitwit in chief can't put the genie back in the bottle. Will the fraudsters pull the plug and let civilization collapse in the chaos of contradictions they have woven?

The trouble with the 'crazy train' is you CAN'T get off.

Either you stop it or it crashes and burns (taking the dupes/stooges with it.)

Where do you begin? Starts with the lie and accepting the truth. One thing hasn't changed, job one is SURVIVAL and we all live better cooperating and sharing what there is [it would be much better if it were shared EQUITABLY but one trainwreck at a time, eh?]

You can only TRUST those who admit the fraud, that all money is 'funny'. [The concept is useful but misapplied!]

That's square one. If you can't admit we only have one planet that we all must share please move to the front of the train/as close as you can to the point of impact.

If you're not part of the solution it makes you part of the problem.

For those slow on the uptake, you might notice that the truth is closely interwoven with trust and who is worthy of such a gift.

If you trust fraudsters you will squander your future making them comfortable.

I will once again sign off with the declaration that I don't pen these missives for the dumb.

Thank you for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Galt

 Greetings good citizen, the deeper we are sucked into this quagmire of mindlessness it becomes increasingly apparent that we will fail to stop it because we have failed to identify the problem.

The strong survive and the weak perish [or at least that's how the dumb perceive it.] Being binary in a complex world marks you as a victim ripe to be exploited because you can't process complex systems and become suspicious at the wrong time about the wrong thing.

Temper that with Incorrect = Dead, [stupid kills.]

This is why your inability to analyze condemns you to perpetual victimhood. You think you are winning when you are actually being played for a chump.

Go, Galt! 

At the cornerstone of modern conservatism is the Randist version of the "Law of the Jungle" which dictates that the strong survive (mostly as slaves) and the weak perish.

What the followers of John Galt fail to realize is there can only be one Galt. Everyone and everything works for him. This is the teaching of the Christian Bible, everyone (including Eve) who isn't Adam is superfluous.

Go, Galt!

This is the truth but the binary, knowing they aren't the one, rejects this truth, preferring to believe every (good) man is 'John'.

Kill or be killed is the law of nature and nature favors the strong, it also favors the many against the individual but that doesn't stop the binary from choosing individualism.

Go, Galt!

All you rugged individual types who are sick of the weak parasites leeching you dry were going to leave them behind and build a paradise where the hard-working could build a life free from the tyranny of being forced to support those who couldn't take care of themselves.

But wait a minute? This isn't new, it's so old that Ayn Rand is dead and nobody ever did get around to Going Galt and we can only wonder...why?

Do you know 'why'?

We need to look no further than the Self-Promoter-in-Chief for the true reason why Going Galt never got off the ground. What does Fat Donny and John Galt have in common? They don't do anything. Most of the complaining morons out there are more concerned with feelings than reality because they, like Fat Donny, are FAILURES who don't DO anything!

All they know how to do is complain and blame others for opportunities they never had.

You live in a society run by thieves. The only thing the thieves have to do to keep you 'docile' is make certain the shelves of the grocery store don't go barren and the rest is all your fault.

The thieves TAKE, making is for chumps who have to punch a clock and work all day, you know, the Galts who do all the heavy lifting around here.

Worse, 'real jobs' that actually produce something are rare, most of capitalist society is comprised of 'make work' [like banking and insurance] Then there is the educational system and the entertainment sectors which both specialize in pedaling ignorance. Fat stupid and happy not to lift a finger.

What do you suppose is the fly in this crazy ointment? Why are these pampered parasites so worried? Well, if the people who actually DO the work start looking for fair treatment then the idle complainers will have to do something and they are good at nothing...

Then everyone will know how hollow their constant complaining really was.

Feeling is not thinking and you can't solve a problem by complaining about it considering all the complainer knows is they are unhappy with the choices life offered them.

The greatest irony is there is no lack of things that need doing! Everybody could have 'meaningful/useful' work if we made some elemental changes to the badly broken system.

But you can't fix anything until you agree on what is broken.

Sounds simple enough but the first barrier that derails all efforts at changing/challenging the status quo is the question the non-thinkers always have poised on the tips of their tongues...and that question is, "Who is paying for this? (and by extension, WHERE is that money coming from?)

Considering money is a 'legal fiction' and all money is 'willed' [Green Lantern-like] into existence the truly thick start objecting saying you can't pay for something with nothing when in fact they do it all the time. [Deficit spending, it's not just for governments!]

If the collective WE didn't will things into existence there would be NOTHING! We would still be chasing down our next meal with a stick and beating it to death, starvation would return as the leading cause of death. [This is the 'reality' the John Galt conservo-whackos routinely ignore and why nobody has EVER 'gone Galt' despite the concept having millions of disciples.]

Did I mention the high correlation between stupidity and death?

Stupid remains the number one cause of preventable death.

Don't believe dumb things and we all have to learn to get along, nobody but YOU and the lies of the thieving liars are holding you back.

Probably more 'truth' than you can handle. If you are looking for sunshine and lollipops read a child's book.

Reality is for adults.

Thanks once again for letting me inside your head.

Gegner