Get a Grip!

Greetings good citizen, Here I am 'agitating' for a strike to end the 'mismanagement of our species' by the self-interested...and it is the one scenario where they don't have a counter-move for, BUT!

What they do have is a deeply embedded 'recovery system' in place. Our self-professed betters are the original 'Surrender Monkeys' because it is in the chaos of 're-organization' that they re-assert their control.

All the while chanting 'up the revolution!'

We consider the revolt in the Colonies that eventually became the USA as 'unique' because monarchy was 'replaced' by meat-puppetry, yes good citizen, even back in the beginning our 'elected leaders' did the bidding of their shadowy overlords. Washington is ON RECORD as wanting nothing to do with the job but he 'served' anyway.

Historians hail his 'sense of duty' but if we were to go digging where things are best left alone we'd probably find some disturbing behind the scene facts that would shatter our carefully constructed 'core beliefs' about the founders.

But I digress, but not much because one needs to be aware that most revolutions are 'hijacked' shortly after their success by those offering to 'put the nation back together'.

Again the thinking is rebels are good at tearing nations down but they aren't 'realistic' enough to build a new nation.

So people revolt thinking they are going to get a 'fresh start' only to end up with the same old, same old because the faces may have changed but the players (or more succinctly, the forces behind them) HAVEN'T!

Well, this time the cards are on the table and A Simple Plan is revolutionary in how the system will be altered, beginning with it's unconventional ban of cash or anything similar to it!

ALL CRIME IS CASH AND CARRY! If your 'customer' can't pay there's no point in stealing, is there? Well, you COULD still do it because you could but then the 'final destination' will also change, significantly!

Gone are warm, well-lit prison cells with regular meal times. Get exiled [and PS by the way, there will be NO prisons so if we can't trust you to live among us...guess where you're headed?

Conjure a mental image of a windswept desert plain...and you're buck naked. This is where you will live out the remainder of your miserable life...although if it's any consolation, you won't be 'alone'...not for long anyway.

Before you start thinking happy thoughts, Exile will be 'separate but equal'...the only people you will encounter are members of your own gender...[and some of you will be fine with that!]

Don't even get started on 'cruel and unusual'. This is what mankind did BEFORE there were prisons and society did a much better job of raising 'decent, respectful individuals' before the 'for profit' hotels for hellions came along!

Don't laugh, some people actually plan on 'retiring' to prison...at least they won't be living in their cars, being harassed by the cops and plundered by their fellow denizens of the street.

Happens in Japan more than you'd like to think about.

Relatively speaking, prison is a pretty cushy deal compared to life in a shelter.

But again I digress.

The 'attractive' part of A Simple Plan is it's not a 'police state', in fact there won't be 'police', it won't be a job...per se.

The laws will be 'Simple and few' with most of the things people fight about becoming the realm of 'society'. A Simple Plan cares for you from the cradle to the grave...end of story. Your success is 'assured' because your failure will be your doom.

Wait, don't go all Orwellian on me, this isn't 'comply or die' [like the Republican's want it!]

You WON'T BE ABLE to borrow or lend money and the very act of claiming somebody 'owes' you is an EXILE OFENSE! Taking what isn't yours then claiming it was 'payment' will have the same results.

And yeah, there will be people that will cart you off to 'a place where you'll be 'free' to live any way you like!

Will there be 'due process'? Yes, but what there won't be are lawyers and judges...those little inventions are part of the 'prison scam'. [Better known as how to make crime profitable...]

Pathetic, isn't it? The sleazy scumbags will 'monetize' ANYTHING!

Another thing that will take getting used to is NOT paying for 'everything forever!'

Then there is the, er, 'personal factor'. A mechanism intended to let the individual redress personal grievances one on one. The hitch here is the challenged has the 'right to refuse' and there isn't anything you can do about that.

You get to call them a coward every time you see them after that and there's NOTHING THEY can do about that...and the rules provide the challenged with an 'edge', the choice of combat! [Which can tip the odds in their favor if they are clever about it!]

Yes, 'dueling' will become legal but we aren't talking about main street at high noon...there will be dueling arenas constructed specifically for the purpose of single combat and NO, these are private affairs! No 'spectators allowed', no 'seconds' either ('the pro's' will handle those duties.)

While EITHER combatant can specify that the duel be 'non-fatal'; accidents happen and should a participant die, those are the chances you accept.

UNDERSTAND, dueling left many families bereft of a means of support and that's why the practice ended...this will no longer be the case.

Since society supports your 'sanctioned children*' from the cradle to the grave, YOU are granted the 'right' to defend your honor...

THAT SAID, dueling arenas are intended to GATHER DUST!

The possibility of being 'called out' is intended to make you more 'careful' of how you behave and of the image you project in 'polite company'.

But I swerve off the intended path yet again! [I am attempting to describe life under A Simple Plan 'in a nutshell' so you'll have an idea of what you're being asked to buy into.

It's all fine and well to say you have a better idea but the facts tell the story!

So, a guaranteed job for life once you finish grade school and free higher education for life. YOU WILL get to select from the fields you demonstrate an aptitude for. Work hours will be adjusted to accommodate all so jobs will always be 'available' and all jobs will pay a 'living wage'.

Considering the subtraction of the many items you are currently required to pay for it might take a while to settle on what, precisely constitutes a 'living wage' so it is better to 'err to caution' and OVERPAY you!

Fat wallets you WILL NOT have...cash doesn't exist and your money is for YOU! The only place to spend your money is at the store and even then they don't get it, it is simply erased!

While some might opine this is making life 'unnecessarily complicated', it's not like we don't need the work AND it teaches YOU to 'live within your means'.

[In a world without the 'regulating effect' of money you'd NEVER get a seat at a restaurant or a room at a hotel! If they were FREE, the 'opportunists' among us WOULD NEVER LEAVE!]

So IN THIS RESPECT ALONE, MONEY DOES SERVE A 'USEFUL PURPOSE'.

Saturday may not be the best day to insert this thumbnail sketch of life under A Simple Plan due to light traffic...but if I've piqued your curiosity a full copy should still be online under my blog of the same title [A Simple Plan]

Why some turkey chose that for a movie title I'll never know but it definitely erases any trace of my proposal should you be inclined to look for it...that said, searching Google should produce a shortlist that gives the desired result.

Just look for my name, Gegner! [a.k.a George Anderson]

Um, I figured 'sanctioned children' would ruffle some feathers so an 'explanation' is provided below.

Thanks once again for letting me inside your head,

Gegner


* Over population is a very real threat. You will only have 'permission' to replace yourself and your spouse...but I speak from experience that two is 'just right' and joy enough for any parent.

Further note...if you can't conceive 'naturally', then you will have to play the hand you have been dealt.

Many females that wait until they are 'established' to start families, that is no longer necessary. You will be invited to have your children while you're 'young & healthy' as opposed to old and barely fertile.

The kicker added here is 'marriage' is obsolete. That said, children are NOT TOYS! You will be required to pass a mental competency test before becoming pregnant. [Making many of you marvel afterwards that you passed, what were either of you thinking?]

Owned

Greetings good citizen, what do you suppose is holding humanity back from achieving harmony and prosperity?

If there is one concept you could eliminate, what would it be?

For your consideration, I submit the idea of purging 'ownership' from the vocabulary!

What am I saying! Doesn't 'ownership' equal 'freedom' (to do as you please with YOUR property?) Funny but in the end nobody 'owns' nuthin. It is the 'illusion of ownership' that is being sold to the gullible dupes who literally 'buy-in' to the idea of 'owning'. [We truly are neck-deep in STUPID around here!]

Back in the beginning, when there was so much 'real estate' the idea of owning ANY of it boggled the mind, people didn't see the need to 'posess' a chunk of ground. Personal possessions were another matter entirely. If you 'made it', it was yours!

So people 'abusing' stuff you worked hard to create caused problems [it also drove branches of our species into some of the most inhospitable regions on the planet just to escape that problematic tendency we call 'opportunism'.]

So how can you have posessions and not 'own' them?

Now we arrive at a concept the dim-witted don't like but we all share this trait and it's called 'decency'. You don't abuse other people's crap and you don't take what isn't yours!

No 'bill of sale or receipt' necessary, it's a concept we call 'respect'.

We all 'respect' what may happen if we take what doesn't belong to us, so most of us don't do it. Still there are some, er, 'retards' out there that like to play fast and loose with the rules, pretending they 'didn't know' it was somebody elses' stuff.

Now, you wouldn't mind if someone came along behind you and ate your poop, wouldn't bother me (in the respect I was 'missing' something anyway) but if knothead is sleeping in your bed, another story altogether!

So, either you have 'decency & respect' or you don't...and if you don't, word is going to get around...and then you'll find yourself shunned!

In a world where 'respect & decency are in short supply [because the self-serving have seized the justice system that now kills with impunity!] Don't you think these two 'values' are worth 'nurturing'?

It really does come down to the question of 'what kind of world do YOU want to live in?'

One where you're pauperized by all the stuff you're forced to own so you can participate in society. [Some places won't let you vote if you don't own/rent property, same thing with a driver's license!]

Or one where participation is your RIGHT and your efforts help create a better world for us all!

A world where more workers means less hours of the day devoted to making ends meet! {and a better quality of life overall!}

A world where you can 'slow down' and do it right the first time!

There are many benefits to be reaped from eliminating 'ownership' from our species, but we have to accept it means we have to 'SHARE' what there is.

Our reckless 'for profit' operating system is destroying the planet and likely the galaxy. If we fail to replace it with a sustainable model like 'A Simple Plan' we will destroy this planet, our only home.

Um, tell a 'rabid capitalist' or worse, a Libertarian that you don't think ownership is a wise idea and suddenly they're threatening to eat your food and shit in your bed. [A word of caution to those of you considering voting 'Libertarian' as your 'protest vote'.]

Is that why we let these self-serving scumbags get away with it?

That's what I put forth to you good citizen. It's all about the kind of world YOU want to live in...

Thanks for letting me inside your head...hey, it's purple in here! Calm down a minute and take deep breaths!

Did you take your meds this morning?

Ah well...tomorrow then!

Gegner

Is Thinking optional ?

Greetings good citizen, this could be one of the most difficult essays I've ever tackled, it is one where I ask YOU good citizen, 'What are you thinking?'

One of the 'points of pride' of this page, one in a vast blogosphere competing for your attention, is my candor regarding my 'mission'...my mission is not to TELL YOU WHAT TO THINK, it is to provide you with SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT!

So when I look out across the rubble strewn landscape I often ask myself, 'what are they thinking?'

I, er, 'discount' much of what I witness from the corporate owned media because it's usually the 'wrong' message/part of the story. What bothers me is what are the people I know on Facebook thinking when they parrot the ugliness being fed to them by the corporate monster-making machine?

[If YOU are parroting their BS then YOU are a MONSTER that THEY 'created'!]

Which is to tell you something you're definitely old enough to know...THINKING ISN'T 'OPTIONAL'!

I'm a member of the 'Never Hillary' club but that doesn't mean I support the other side of the same coin, Trump!

If there is one lesson to be learned from this 'charade' the media calls an 'election' that message is 'WE'RE DOING IT WRONG!'

The question I have...and this is pointed at my 'Facebook Friends' (although 'peers' is closer to the mark.) Did YOU drink the 'Fiscally conservative, socially Liberal Kool-Aid' that was so popular when we were young?

Worse, are you a 'closet Libertarian?'

Do YOU vote conservative because they support a 'strong military'? Does the conservative stance on 'Law & Order' [resulting in our burgeoning Police State] only strengthen your conservative ardor?

Have you come to believe that the non-working public is generally a waste of perfectly good 'butt-wipe'?

Did you spend your 'downtime' listening to Rush Limbagh?

Because I've got some bad news for you...you have a head full of rocks, making you about as smart as said rocks.

EVERYTHING Mr. Trump is complaining about is ALL DUE TO [your beloved] CONSERVATIVE IDEAOLOGY!

It is the very definition of INSANITY to keep voting for 'more of the same', each time expecting a different outcome.

Now, most of you are OLD ENOUGH to have early stage Alzheimers, are you so STUPID that you are unable to think outside the box?

If the 'left/right' choices don't work, pick the middle!

The left doesn't exist and the right is absolutely INSANE so, what are you gonna do? Hold your nose and pick one or do you think it's high time we change the system?

If the choices presented to you are 'unacceptable', DON'T ACCEPT THEM!

This need not be difficult. [In fact it's crap like this that brands our species as 'lazy'.]

Understand, I fully appreciate the 'real problem' facing us is the 'lack of choices', even YOU aren't 'completely stupid'.

Nobody wants to 'stand up' because standing out is what gets you killed and a dead patriot does no one any good.

So let's examine this hand we've been dealt and think about our 'options', shall we?

We can march in the streets and beg for the self-interested to cut us down, en mass [they'd like nothing better!]

OR we can just stop participating, go on strike and let the chips fall where they may.

They'll play 'stupid' at first, then they'll 'order' us back to work. Then they'll threaten to fire us and replace us with 'scabs'. Then they'll follow through on that threat.

And that's when the riots will start. [Our 'counterplay' to their 'strike breaking' playbook is blocking transportation so the scabs can't report.] We won't be 100% effective but it will work 'well enough'.

Now, I'm open to suggestions but like all potential solutions, they 'must be effective'. We don't have the time to 'circulate a petition' and 'lobby' politicians to gain their support, both are 'non-starters'.

Things won't change because we 'wish' they would. Change comes when all of the alternatives are exhausted. If they were 'listening' we wouldn't need to have this conversation.

Making the fact we are here in the first place more than somewhat disturbing.

Remember, it's NOT my purpose to tell you what to think, my goal is to provide you with 'SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT!'

Thank you for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

PS: To my overseas readers, this isn't a USA party, you too are invited because it's a Human Party!

On of the central pillars of A Simple Plan is that it will eventually be 'universal' (because anti-exploitation is EVERY human's right!)

Election day is November 8th here in the US...when they 'coronate' the 'queen' (or, the horror, the new Oaf) the strike begins!

Please join us if you want a better planet for us all!

Magical Thinking

I'm already behind schedule but I think I can manage a 'quickie'!

Yesterday I received an e-mail advising me that as a loyal FIOs customer I was getting 'free Showtime' until Nov. 30th. This caused me to surf the channels where I wouldn't ordinarily be and I came across The Donald giving a speech in troubled Wisconsin.

He speech was touted as one in support of Law Enforcement and showman that he is, The Donald even evoked the 'War on Cops', citing something like 600 plus police fatalities thus far this year.

Could our mental midget be confusing the nearly 700 CIVILIAN deaths at the hands of police with being exactly the opposite of the true problem. If there were that many police fatalities it would be ALL OVER THE NEWS, so I think it's a safe bet that Donald [once again] got his facts reversed.

Anyway, in a prime example of chutzpah, he then proceeded to stump for black votes!

Um, I [for the first time] watched his whole 'stump speech' and sat there agog because EVERYTHING THAT HE COMPLAINED ABOUT WAS DUE TO REPUBLICAN POLICIES!

Donald is older than me so he remembers 'Morning in America' and he, like me, lived through the aftermath. HE KNOWS the first time he ever heard the acronym NAFTA it came tumbling out of the mouth of Saint Ronnie himself!

What he's counting on is the morons who came AFTER 'Morning in America' will only remember what they've been taught, that NAFTA was signed into law by that DINO Bill Clinton

He also remembers when Democrats were just Democrats...so there isn't a good answer to when those currently PRETENDING to be Democrats decided to adopt the NAZI pejorative of calling themselves 'progressives'...a term dating back to and closely linked to EUGENICS! [Remember all that 'Master Race' BS? They gloss it over in the history books but it was large and in charge back then!]

Anyway, he wasn't done with the 'magical mystery tour'...the next thing you know he's promising to break ties with China, thereby creating new and better paying jobs here!

It is a classic 'kiss in the dark' move ALL politicians make because when they DON'T deliver there isn't a friggin' thing YOU can do about it!


Hell, it you'll elect ME grand Pooh-bah I'll give everyone a BAR OF GOLD!

Which is to point out I can promise anything that comes to mind (including the 'second coming') because if I don't deliver there isn't a damn thing the voting public can do about it!

In this respect we once again question the 'veracity' of his quest for the Oval office [which I still believe he maintains this 'fraud', quite ironically, to avoid prosecution for his previous frauds!]

Again, the oligarchs 'promised' the job to Hillary and they're going to deliver so The Donald can be as 'silly' as he wants when it comes to 'deluding the customer'.

Will his followers 'punish' him for leading them on? Maybe. There may also be riots the likes we haven't seen in quite some time but that may not be all Donald, the public is 'angry' and The Donald is merely reminding them WHY...

Wonder when the public is going to realize that NOBODY voted for the B-list actor back in 1980 and we got him anyway?

You have been lied to and it's a pretty safe bet most people know it...so it will be 'interesting' to see how things urn out come November.

Are there any 'wildcards' in play...will one of the two choices be suddenly removed from the picture at the last moment?

Won't find out until we get there, will we?

Thanks for letting me inside you head!

Gegner

[Looks okay, you're a little 'dazed' but that should wear off in fifteen or twenty. If not, have a stiff shot of something that curls your toes!]

Backlash!

Greetings good citizen, as 'the War on the Poor' escalates, rioting connected to the latest shooting death of a civilian during a traffic stop yielded a new wrinkle, guess who was, er, 'put on notice'? THE MEDIA!

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said that its reporters and photographers were chased from the scene of the protests, and one of its reporters was punched. A local television station, CBS 58, said its journalists on the scene were attacked and its equipment stolen while covering the demonstrations. Another station, TMJ4, said it had pulled its crews from the streets because of threats of violence.

Other news organizations were similarly removing their journalists from the field and assessing how to cover the story while ensuring that their reporters were not caught in the crossfire of gunshots, bricks and rubber bullets.

It is not an idle question when we ask WHY 'Homeland Security' purchased a billion rounds of 9 mm ammunition...what are THEY 'preparing for'?

No explanation has been offered, good citizen but it appears those bullets are being returned to the taxpayer, one at a time, [usually lodged somewhere in their vitals.]

So it is we have police officers shooting civilians and walking away uninvestigated with judges and prosecutors turning a 'blind eye'.

One of the 'Blue Walls' biggest complaints is how the average officer 'puts it ALL on the line' to bring perps to, er, 'Justice' but their high priced lawyers get them off on a 'technicality' and the 'guilty' [in their mind] walk.

The public has quite a different perception. (Especially the portion of the public that is being used to fill 'for profit' prisons.)

So we have the long-simmering 'War on the Poor'. You don't have to be a person of color to play but 'white trash' gets a pass more often than not...less they do something stupid...and we all know there is no shortage of that going around!

Says something when those living in abject poverty remain stubbornly unaware/ignorant of what is responsible for their suffering.

So, before the recent eruption of 'Backlash/Blowback' caused by decidedly 'Heavy-Handed' tactics puts YOU in the crosshairs, are YOU even remotely aware of why we live in a world INFESTED with 'poor people'?

What I'm pointing to here is NONE OF THIS happens in a 'vacuum', it's all related!

Dang, 'thar she blows' [again!] You know, you really do have to use that thing for more than a 'hat rack'!

Damage is done anyway, may as well let 'er rip! People have finally smartened up to how the media is working for the, er, 'Enemy' of the poor and is largely responsible for the criminals NOT BEING BROUGHT TO JUSTICE!

Many of you remain ignorant of 'The War on the Poor', hell, most of the poor only know is that if they didn't have BAD LUCK they wouldn't have ANY!

The 'voice of reason' [which is how the media presents itself,] IS NOT on the side of those society has made DESTITUTE!

[Don't make me rub your nose in it!] Capitalism is a game where there are too few 'Winners' and a whole boatload of 'Losers'

Well, the 'losers' are finally coming around to the fact that the deck has been stacked against them and that things ARE ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE if THEY don't DO SOMETHING about it!

Now WHAT could they be after? What is it EVERY human thirsts for? Come on, YOU KNOW THIS!

It's the thing vigilantes are made of and we call it 'Justice'! [Solemn reminder, Justice is one of the most 'relative terms' out there. How fortunate for us all that we have built in mechanism that tells us when Justice has been served!

[this 'mechanism' is one of humanity's 'saving graces'...]

If the courts refuse to dispense it, the public is more than willing to 'make it's own!'

The 'purges' of the past will keep being repeated so long as justice is denied.

The 'question' is, will this incident prove to be a 'tipping point'...will the war escalate or will those who have placed themselves 'above the law' back off and let the clockwork of justice work unimpeded?

NOBODY kills 'with impunity'.

Um, this place is a wreck, man, that's gotta hurt! Busted up pretty bad in here. You NEED to lie down and just rest!

Er, thanks for letting me inside your head...although I suspect I'm talking to myself now because most of you bailed two paragraphs ago...or the moment you saw the words 'War on the poor'

Tomorrow then?

Gegner

WTF

Greetings good citizen, you know I just rejected this phrase as a title for a different topic, partly because it wasn't specific enough and partly because it has become ubiquitous!

Don't you find yourself exclaiming WTF a dozen times a day [if not more] ?

Hell, the term has become so common they even used it as a movie title!

Can't say we weren't warned though...they told us they were 'history creators' and that we would 'marvel' over their actions! As we dawdled/wasted time trying to 'make sense' out of their last action, they would be doing something else, 'equally as confounding' so we could scratch our collective heads and stare in disbelief, exclaiming WTF! the whole time...

Mind you, the phrase didn't become commonplace because it wasn't deserved, it fits the situation perfectly! Many times we would stare in disbelief, muttering WTF (sometimes followed by NOW and other times followed by NEXT) because these actions were taken to 'shake you up' and rattle your faith in 'human decency'. Much of what we found ourselves goggling at was an 'outrage'. Who were they to do such things and then question our 'values'?

Well, it worked. While you were, er, 'distracted' they stripped you of both your citizenship AND your 'rights' (which were tenuous even under the best of circumstances.)

I'll prove I can get a WTF out of you too. These days, thanks largely to the current 'above the law' policing/justice system, your so-called 'rights' depend on the arresting officer BECAUSE 90% OF JUDGES ARE 'POLITICAL APPOINTEES'!

So if you haven't before maybe you should be asking yourself what a person's 'political affiliation' has to do with their interpretation of the law?

I mean WHAT THE PUCK!

Just as religion has NO PLACE in Government, Politics has no place in Justice...so maybe that's why things are so...goofy?

But that's just the tip of the iceberg and you know it! If we were to compile a list, just off the top of your head it would be staggering...with most of you chiming in 'oh yeah' as people mentioned outrages that had been pushed aside by other outrages.

If you believe people 'complain a lot' you'd be correct, what you might have to allow for is much of it is for 'good reason'.

Doesn't help that pseudo-conservatives put 'complainers' down as malcontents that aren't satisfied with anything...(and you only have to disagree with them ONCE to have that moniker hung on you!)

Although, to be fair, so polarized are today's politics that one seldom takes exception to just one miniscule portion, most people that despise conservatism revile the whole package, making you go WTF again as you marvel 'who ARE these people?'

If we're all in this together, what planet do these people wake up on?

Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?

While the corporate owned media doesn't want you asking yourself these kinds of questions it eventually becomes 'the elephant in the room'. Who are these whack-jobs and what are they doing to our country?

I mean WTF? Right?

In order to understand how we got here one needs to keep in mind that creation made possible by 'Morning in America' ; the 'Right-wing echo chamber' that serves to propagandizes neophyte conservative apostates in the ways of conservo-whacko-dom and other precepts of 'magical thinking'.

Like 'tax cuts pay for themselves' and enriching employers will 'super-charge' the economy...yeah, that same economy that is currently on 'life support' because of you can't export jobs and import goods for long before the bottom falls out.

What part of 'ALL ECOMOMIES ARE LOCAL' don't these morons understand?

Because the part that is playing out now is 'no one can live in an economic desert'.

WTF!

But I preacheth to the choir.

[Hopefully I'm getting you good and agitated too. If we don't DO SOMETHING about it, It WON'T STOP!]

A worthy exercise indeed! Start pondering all of the things that made you think WTF and then consider 'why did this happen?'

Did the answer come back 'So a few could be/remain rich'?

Because that IS 'the answer'.

Um, things got pretty messy in here yesterday and I'm trying to avoid a repeat {I honestly don't think your 'gray matter' can take much more punishment. The sensory overload is bordering on 'overwhelming!}

Nope, a couple of minor leaks but that shouldn't even cause a headache!

Alright then! Thank you for letting me inside your head! [WTF!]

Gegner

A Perfect World

Greetings good citizen, let me be the first to side with the majority of the writing community and opine there is no such place, kind of like Heaven where all but the simplest of us have difficulty imagining. [I know I can't! Not even a tiny bit!]

Here's a cute question: how many of you imagine being RICH in Heaven? [Even death doesn't cure STUPID!] How many of you fancy the idea you'll have 'servants' in Heaven?

Okay, how many of you think Heaven is roughly equivalent to being lobotomized?

So we return to A Perfect World where the wildcard is 'Perfect for who?'

Do you really want to go there? Sorry, I don't read minds...I have no way of knowing what YOUR 'Perfect World' would be like, the only thing I think I'd be able to nail is there aren't any mosquitoes there...

After that we run the gamut of it being perpetually 'your favorite season', it always being the weekend (despite that 'getting old' a lot quicker than you'd think) and an endless parade of eye candy taunting you from dusk 'til dawn.

Well, last time I checked there weren't any individual planets we could craft to our individual tastes despite there being no shortage of individuals who are convinced they 'own' this planet and screw what you think!

[Sort of begs the question of what if this place exists to 'teach us how to share?']

Don't laugh! I'd be the first to mark that one down as an epic fail but, ironically, the current spike in selfishness is due to overpopulation and the resultant 'navel gazing' of trying to escape a world that doesn't need you breeds.

It's a fact that people 'make you crazy' [largely because they are 'annoyingly self-absorbed'] but a, er, 'insufficient' amount of human interaction results in serious mental instability...which indicates the 'world of I' isn't the 'sanctuary' you'd hope it would be.

You have to be real comfortable in your own skin to withstand long periods of isolation and even then spending long periods of time with just your thoughts will make you appear 'strange' to those that have remained immersed in mainstream, er, 'mind-pollution'.

Meaning YOU will have had time to ponder things that NEVER OCCUR to those trying to keep up with the piles of garbage slung in their direction every minute of every day.

Like I pointed out yesterday, your mind filters EVERYTHING it receives, seeking 'useful information' (often survival related.) This is a 'throwback' to ancient times when we were genetically coded to recognize anything that even resembled a 'face' because that's the part that was going to EAT you!

But you get the idea...this is what they're referring to when people say they need to 'decompress'.

But I digress...

What would a 'Perfect SHARED World' look like?

Interesting question because the slightest advantage is leveraged into making the world more 'becoming/hospitable' to the wielder of that 'advantage'. Not about 'sharing' at all. SO we take ANOTHER 'step back and try to imagine a quiet place nobody already holds sway over.

But we'd be doing it wrong. You're not going to learn how to share by being satisfied with a tiny slice of someone else's pie! You want YOUR SHARE...NOW!

Now there's a contradiction I'll bet you didn't see coming? How do we share without sharing?

The fundamental concept of sharing is compromise...it's not all me and screw you! we agree to put up with a certain amount of not getting things the way we would prefer them so the other guy will allow you to have things 'more or less the way you like.

Um, this is the sticky business of 'division' and the media campaign to convince you that you are unique and deserve your own space [to do whatever you want, emphasis on 'whatever'!] in a world unable to accommodate such 'luxury' [if you don't own it...]

So, yeah...in a ''finite world' we all at least want our 'share', problem is nobody KNOWS what that is! Sure we have computers that could figure out how much, er, 'space' each of us is, er, 'entitled' to but it's the 'quality of that space' that would sow the seeds of contention as well as accusations of 'unfairness'.

So, are we 'doomed'? It's never going to get 'better than this?'

Wait a minute...if we shrug and say what are you gonna do? We've failed before we've even begun!

The KEY to building a world, er, [word doesn't exist so I have to use two] 'accommodating/accepting' of everyone's RIGHTS, (yup, the key lies in conception!) Is creating a playing field that is 'truly level'.

Impossible you say...you aren't thinking outside the box!

Where would YOU begin? [I know, stupid question. If it were up to YOU we'd be 'stacking the deck' in your favor!] So let's assume it ISN'T 'up to you' and we're crafting a deal you'd have to 'live with' too.

Wouldn't you want to have the 'same rights as everybody else?'

Despite 'lip service' to the contrary, that is NOT the case today!

But you don't need me to tell you that. We all want the problem to be fixed but we don't agree on how to do it...which is a media born lie [if we discount the 'misgivings of the terminally stupid' who won't ever get off the dime they don't even know they're standing on!

Which is to say some people will have matters decided 'for them' because they can't grasp what is at stake.

If your objection to Justice and equality starts with 'I don't know' then you're right! Step aside and let those who do move forward.

Short of everybody getting their own planet (or a lobotomy) Leveling the playing field is the single most important factor towards creating 'A Perfect (shareable) World.

Thank you for letting me inside your head. This was pretty simple stuff, you'd think nothin would happen but it looks like a bomb went off in here! Sorry about the mess...take two Quaaludes and come back tomorrow.

Gegner