Influenced...

Greetings oh, malleable one! We are influenced by many factors as we are herded along the aisles of circumstance towards the chute that leads to the endless sleep. [Never hurts to be mindful that all of this is temporary.] The process makes us over yet we have no idea what the goal/purpose of this molding process is.

Still, here we are, kicking and screaming despite being unable to alter our circumstances. Existence itself is void of both meaning or purpose (which is not to say that we don't create our own meanings and purposes as we bump along, heedless of the chute.)

Whether we are cake batter or potters clay isn't worthy of debate. There is more than a little karmic retribution in the phrase, "Man plans and God laughs."

Being what we are, it is a human tendency to attach meaning that may or MAY NOT be there.

One thing is a given. We are being lied to, the question is by? (and yet again the word simply doesn't exist.) 

We lie to ourselves (again words fail. Even the verb constantly falls short of the mark.)

Is this why people refuse to 'think'? [Too many dead ends and no 'good' answers?] How many of you survive this squalid existence by reminding yourself that it will all be over soon?

Sadly, most of us are caught up in the need to make sense of it all. In this context, it becomes difficult (if not impossible) to know whether laughing or crying is the appropriate response.

It is this (omnipresent) 'futility' that drove me to create A Simple Plan, a formula for the equitable treatment of our fellow inmates in this otherworldly lock-up for the criminally insane.

Intuition tells me things won't improve until we improve them, even if that means creating (some) of our own answers.

This is no different than what the half-wits in charge regularly do (and each time they do it, something else goes horribly wrong!)

Can't build if you don't know how to use  ALL of the tools/materials. Our society is ruined because the self-professed chefs ignore the most crucial ingredients along with how to utilize them.

Did I mention the plan is simple because it involves easy to comprehend (and explain) concepts?

It ALL flows from Equality. While the authors of this shitshow pay lip service to equality, you can't find it anywhere in the mix and the divides this neglect creates are deadly.

Until a united we correct this flaw in the process the end result will remain garbage.

Shit is neither good nor bad, shit simply is.

Incompetence makes shit so the solution is to remove the incompetent.

Anyone need me to draw them a picture?

Peace, (another seriously neglected ingredient.)

Gegner

Compete or cooperate?

Greetings good citizen, today we learn the Pontiff has denounced capitalism as “terrorism against all of humanity.” Not much is heard about it these days back in the seventies, when companies were downsizing like mad and moving to more 'cost effective' nations, a 'meme' circulated throughout the nation's workplaces that was then attributed to the Japanese and it went 'Business is War!'

Were they wrong? Well, not if you look a today's 'unbridled capitalism' capturing huge sums for the advantaged and leaving destitution in its wake...I'd have to say the Japanese [and their American instructors] were pretty much 'spot on'.

You see, what isn't widely know is the first dozen or so times captalism was tried it failed miserably and along the lines one would expect. People chased whatever provided the best returns and you ended up with saturated markets in some goods accompanied by mad shortages of others and the cycle would begin again!

So it was that 'government' stepped in and started 'regulating' who could do what, when and a burdgeoning capitalism was born. [Ironically they started out issuing 'monopolys' on certain inputs in an attempt to limit the willy-nilly effects of investors chasing the highest returns but commodities wouldn't 'stay monopolized'. [Which is how we ended up with a global supply chain LONG BEFORE 'Globalization'.]

In case you are unaware, 'globalization' is a 'universal scam'...but that's what you get with 'unbridled capitalism' of the variety that was ushered in after 'Morning in America'.

Oh yes, good citizen, many of you are too young to remember and since the victors write history, are unable to find out facts about the, er, 'rapacious' deregulation that lead to the second stock market crash in less than a hundred years.

No irony at all should be lost on the fact that the 'frontrunner' in our current presidential race is the WIFE of the man who single-handedly signed into law the bill to repeal Glass-Stegal!

Which, to be clear, means he had the power to stop it but didn't. NAFTA, also commonly laid a his feet, was a done deal before he assumed office...but the corporate owned media doesn't want you to know that.

The thing to remember is those 'happy days' most Republicans pine for, aren't here today because of what the Republican party has done since [literally] seizing power in 1980.

Those 'Happy Days' are happening in China, sans the fifties music.

Again I am compelled to complete the circle for our younger readers, the ones whose heads are so full of nonsense they don't know which way is up!

Back in the seventies, after Europe had pretty much rebuilt its industrial base, our, er, problematic social model hit one of its most frequent hiccups. A phenomenon called 'market saturation'...notice they don't talk about 'market saturation' now? That's because 'Opening the doors to the Orient' was Western Capitalism's 'final frontier'.

How could they bring the Eastern third of the world's population into the 21st century?

Well, it was to be a 'win-win' [for the capitalists and the billions of, er, 'backwards' (by capitalist standards) Asians...not so much for the tens of millions of Western capitalists who would be forced to 'reinvent themselves' as the job market moved to its new home in the East.

You see, in order to, er, 'entice' the Asains into buying the 'Western Lifestyle' they had to have 'money' and in order to get money they needed jobs. Well, what were the Westerner's going to do? Wasn't the capitalist's problem, their market was already saturated.

They had 'seized' the governments of the Western world and installed meat puppets to preach their message of 'change' to a restive public. [Something that wouldn't have been possible before television...or captive governments/monopolistic global media, the true lynch pin of the whole fiasco!]

Now that the Eastern world has been brought into the 21st century they are no longer pointing to 'market saturation' as the cause for the slowing global economy but let's face it good citizen, the badly flawed capitalistic system is FUBAR.

There is NOTHING that will 'repair' the debt driven social model.

While most of you don't 'see' it, our civilization is tottering towards collapse...all so 'a few' can be rich (for a while longer...)

The Major Malfunction here is we have a social model that is built on 'competition' and a world that was meant to be 'shared'.

With the GLOBAL unemployment rate approaching fifty percent, the 'losers' in our little 'competition' have a different, er, 'value'...and our self-interested leaders know it...in fact, they're betting on it!

We might even call those capitalism can't exploit by their 'terrorist designation' of being 'enemy combatants'.

Ever wonder why politics the world over have taken on the appearance of a circus sideshow lately? It's to distract you from the looming collapse of civilization!

You never really cared about politics before this, did you? Now that the 'clown car' has taken over the center ring you can't tear your eyes away!

By the time you realize it was all a distraction it will be too late.

So join me in doing the only thing we can do in a last ditch effort to save our species, let's go 'on strike!'

The end will soon be upon us and if we don't head it off then what passes for civilization will devolve to square one, leaving your children/grandchildren at a decided disadvantage...

The choice, ironically, is yours and it's far preferable to the alternative you're NOT being offered.

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Ride my Seesaw!

Greetings good citizen; once again I find myself confounded by the facts. Hillary received 'the nomination' last night but I still don't know a single Hillary supporter. What makes this worse is I do know several Trump supporters...and they are STUPID beyond belief [but that's pretty typical for a conservo-whacko.]

Trump continues to rail against NAFTA 'remembering' the conservo-whacko talking point that it was signed on 'Slick Willie's' [Clinton] watch but apparently forgetting it was developed and implemented on none other than 'St. Ronnies' [Reagan] watch!


NAFTA was a REPUBLICAN idea, just as Obamacare IS ROMNEYCARE [Identical to the system he implemented in Massachusetts when he was governor.]

Um, since there haven't been ANY democrats in politics since LBJ 'abdicated' in 1968, how long will the 'stupid public' keep buying Republican ideas that republicans turn around and demonize are their fault in the first place?

This 'hang it on the other party' ruse is wearing thin.

But then there's the 'stupid' thing to contend with.

Apparently the people who like being told what to think are fine with it...making life itself a very risky proposition indeed.

But that has always been the case.

While the 'success' of this tactic is depressing we have only our own lifetimes to compare it too. Those who pull this stunt may have been doing it for centuries but the mentally challenged among us have yet to catch on.

Admittedly, the public DOES [eventually] catch on...and they've been more than a little 'sloppy' lately, bringing the day of reckoning closer and closer.

But they seem to control that too!

So I was thinking this time WE could try something that hasn't been done before.

Part of the reason it hasn't been done is the fortitude required to 'stay with it.'

General Strikes are a fairly commonplace events in Europe but the organizers tell you how long to strike for and when it's over nobody is held accountable so it's not an 'effective tool'.

The original 'general strike' was intended to last 'as long as it takes'...and since this time the goal is the total abdictation of the government that so effectively ignores us, we could be in for a long haul.

Problem with this 'strategy' is those who control money have much more than they need so we are NOT attempting to 'starve them out'. YOU are much more likely to miss a few meals than they are. [If their servants continue to serve them in defiance of the strike.]

But the knife's edge of this ploy is to shut EVERYTHING down until a deal is reached.

So know up front that people will die but likely a lot less than during 'conventional warfare', not that this makes it any more palatable. [There can be no change without pain.]

But face facts good citizen, we only have ONE CARD to play and the G.S. is IT!

Um, integral to the strikes success is the marking and shaming of collaborators.

Nothing like 'peer pressure' to maximize the strike's effectiveness! AND the more 'effective' the strike is the quicker it will end.

I'm sure the civil engineers out there have a handle on how long the lights will stay on without anyone minding the power plant but that's how long the 'predators' have to stand down.

When the lights go off it's game over and the GS becomes 'Helter Skelter'.

Now, the scary thought here is Helter Skelter is what they had in mind in the first place. It would be simple enough to achieve [especially if you 'own' the power plant!]

Lights out and let the savages do the rest.

So the important thing to do is insure the military isn't able to mobilize it's reserve forces by telling your sons and daughters to refuse to report! [This is crucial, once 'in uniform' they are subject to summary execution if they refuse to fire on innocent civilians.]

Squad leaders usually only have to cap one resister and the rest go along quietly. Squad leader will likely get fragged later but later doesn't matter, he needs his people bloodied even if he has to bloody them.

Eyes wide open people, we are dealing with a ruthless, implacable enemy bent on robbing you and yours for as long as WE LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT!

That last part is KEY, good citizen. If we fail to act things will NEVER get better.

Sort of puts a new emphasis on that old saying 'If you aren't part of the solution then you are part of the problem...'

Thank you for letting me inside your head,

Gegner