Greetings good citizen, it is with a saddened heart that I acknowledge the passing of that musical legend Leonard Cohen; thus is today's title is also a hat tip towards a brilliant songwriter.
Mind you, I can't carry a tune with a crane but that doesn't dampen my appreciation for artists with the ability to lay our souls bare with their words and instrumentals.
For those of you that suck at 'name that tune', 'On the turning away' [which ends with NO MORE TURNING AWAY] is just one of many stirring creations by the greatest composer of our time, Pink Floyd.
The tune points to the truly frightening human tendency to 'ignore' what we can't [and should] do something about.
We let THEM send our children to foreign lands to get maimed for NOTHING.
If you're 'soft' enough to think they are 'protecting our freedom' then you are too stupid to be making decisions for anyone else!
The Brown-shirts are coming good citizen and if we don't nip them in the bud, the herding to the concentration camps comes next.
Because you can take it to the bank that a 'coalition of concerned nations' are meeting as I type this to draft plans to invade the USA if the 'war drums' start beating with too much fervor!
While NOBODY wanted Hill-Billy back in the White House, it was foolish in the extreme to turn over the launch codes to such an, er, 'unstable' personality type.
Will we be able to resist an invasion?
Probably not.
But I think we can all appreciate the millions of needless deaths such an invasion would result in.
Left to our imagination is whether or not the 'civilian population' would be warned?
Such an undertaking couldn't hope to escape detection so yeah, at the very minimum, OUR LEADERS would know...but would they tell us?
Again, the answer is 'doubtful'...
They'd want to take advantage of your 'outrage' over being invaded! You'd fight like caged wildcats in the defense of your homes...and that's NOT what the invaders are here for.
But that's what our military industrial complex wants...you to fight like a caged animal to retain control of America's 'military might'.
Who said the battle of Armageddon has to take place in the Middle East?
But if there is a League of Global Scoundrels, that dread association of exploiters we established governments to protect us from then no such 'summit' is taking place...and the situation gets geometrically 'darker' because the 'true mission' is to severely reduce the 'surplus population'
Is the goal to dial it back to the 'good old days' when unemployment wasn't a problem because there literally weren't enough workers?
This is what comes with from that failure of the imagination that excludes huge portions of the population in order to protect a status quo intended to keep the workers [literally] 'too tired to revolt.'
I'm sure they were quaking in their knickers when the workweek got reduced from 6, 12-hour days to 5, 8-hour days, that the workforce with more 'free time' on its hands would start thinking about doing something about the shitty deal they were being handed.
Worse, people often think of nothing but what a shitty deal they've gotten and how they'd change that if they could!
But, and here is the big irony, they seldom think of exacting 'revenge', they dream of becoming part of the 'idle rich', traveling as far as they want and never running out of money to spend because they know that's when the boredom sets in.
They DON'T think about liberating their loved ones from a life of drudgery, their own kids are an after-thought, a source of worry because kids ARE demanding...and we all know our kids would DEMAND we set enough aside so they could enjoy the lifestyle we envision becoming accustomed to.
While this sound terrible it's not. we aren't really so shallow so much as it comes from living in the world of 'I', a world few of us ever venture from.
May not be able to 'set it to music' but I think I hit most of you right where you live!
Once again I implore you to think about what you CAN do and not just be content to simply sit on the sidelines thanking your lucky stars it's not you [this time!]
Thanks for letting me inside YOUR HEAD, now let me hear a rousing chorus of NO MORE TURNING AWAY!
Gegner
Mind you, I can't carry a tune with a crane but that doesn't dampen my appreciation for artists with the ability to lay our souls bare with their words and instrumentals.
For those of you that suck at 'name that tune', 'On the turning away' [which ends with NO MORE TURNING AWAY] is just one of many stirring creations by the greatest composer of our time, Pink Floyd.
The tune points to the truly frightening human tendency to 'ignore' what we can't [and should] do something about.
We let THEM send our children to foreign lands to get maimed for NOTHING.
If you're 'soft' enough to think they are 'protecting our freedom' then you are too stupid to be making decisions for anyone else!
The Brown-shirts are coming good citizen and if we don't nip them in the bud, the herding to the concentration camps comes next.
Because you can take it to the bank that a 'coalition of concerned nations' are meeting as I type this to draft plans to invade the USA if the 'war drums' start beating with too much fervor!
While NOBODY wanted Hill-Billy back in the White House, it was foolish in the extreme to turn over the launch codes to such an, er, 'unstable' personality type.
Will we be able to resist an invasion?
Probably not.
But I think we can all appreciate the millions of needless deaths such an invasion would result in.
Left to our imagination is whether or not the 'civilian population' would be warned?
Such an undertaking couldn't hope to escape detection so yeah, at the very minimum, OUR LEADERS would know...but would they tell us?
Again, the answer is 'doubtful'...
They'd want to take advantage of your 'outrage' over being invaded! You'd fight like caged wildcats in the defense of your homes...and that's NOT what the invaders are here for.
But that's what our military industrial complex wants...you to fight like a caged animal to retain control of America's 'military might'.
Who said the battle of Armageddon has to take place in the Middle East?
But if there is a League of Global Scoundrels, that dread association of exploiters we established governments to protect us from then no such 'summit' is taking place...and the situation gets geometrically 'darker' because the 'true mission' is to severely reduce the 'surplus population'
Is the goal to dial it back to the 'good old days' when unemployment wasn't a problem because there literally weren't enough workers?
This is what comes with from that failure of the imagination that excludes huge portions of the population in order to protect a status quo intended to keep the workers [literally] 'too tired to revolt.'
I'm sure they were quaking in their knickers when the workweek got reduced from 6, 12-hour days to 5, 8-hour days, that the workforce with more 'free time' on its hands would start thinking about doing something about the shitty deal they were being handed.
Worse, people often think of nothing but what a shitty deal they've gotten and how they'd change that if they could!
But, and here is the big irony, they seldom think of exacting 'revenge', they dream of becoming part of the 'idle rich', traveling as far as they want and never running out of money to spend because they know that's when the boredom sets in.
They DON'T think about liberating their loved ones from a life of drudgery, their own kids are an after-thought, a source of worry because kids ARE demanding...and we all know our kids would DEMAND we set enough aside so they could enjoy the lifestyle we envision becoming accustomed to.
While this sound terrible it's not. we aren't really so shallow so much as it comes from living in the world of 'I', a world few of us ever venture from.
May not be able to 'set it to music' but I think I hit most of you right where you live!
Once again I implore you to think about what you CAN do and not just be content to simply sit on the sidelines thanking your lucky stars it's not you [this time!]
Thanks for letting me inside YOUR HEAD, now let me hear a rousing chorus of NO MORE TURNING AWAY!
Gegner
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