Simple

Greetings good citizen, divided as the media tells us we are, I'm confident we can ALL agree on the basics. For people who were tyrants themselves, the founders babbled quite a bit about 'liberty' [which literally translates to 'freedom from tyranny'.]

The missing piece of the puzzle appears to be that, like Today's 'Libertarians' the only 'liberty' they were interested in was liberty personal, the rest of us could go twist in the wind.

Not exactly the most stable building block upon which to found a nation but 'stupid' doesn't care if the idea was workable...and it appears there was no shortage of morons back then either.

[No, this isn't the part we can all agree on...some of you are ardent defenders of the 'Greatest generation', not that you'd know the difference from one to the next.]

No, what we can ALL agree upon is this planet, our one and only home, must be shared and preserved for future generations. [Only the truly moronic will try to hang a D or an R from that statement...although a truly moronic R knows no limits to their inability to comprehend even the simplest of concepts.] let's assume my political opinions aren't up for debate here either, no need to 'agree' because all mainstream politics are garbage, as Lenin opined, 'the opiate of the masses!'

Since market share and profitability have absolutely NOTHING to do with survival, both should be banished from the economic lexicon.

Pretty sure even the dimmest of you can agree that this [life] isn't about who can accumulate the most JUNK, it's about survival!

It is also apparent that we are approaching the limits of this planet's 'carrying capacity'. If we don't conserve, there won't be a future to preserve.

The ONLY future political conservatives [Republicans] are interested in are the one where they remain wealthy, the rest of us are a waste of perfectly good butt-wipe.

As a species we can no longer tolerate the 'hooray for me and F the rest' attitude of the freakishly selfish! [We aren't talking welfare recipients here Einstein, we're talking about the people who 'manufacture' welfare recipients, the One Percent.]

* Physics: it takes a whole bunch of poor people to make a single rich person! (pretty sure we can all agree on that one too...although in light of the fact that all money is funny means all it really takes to make a rich person is a keyboard and a 'pliable' justice system...
You old fashioned types still think you need a printing press but the bulk of today's trillions are electronic...another, er, 'benefit' of the 'electronic age'.)

Still wanna play 'my pile is bigger than yours'?

Which is to belabor the obvious, until JUSTICE is restored we can no longer afford to let the self-interested have unbridled access to the planet's resources.

Millions have died due to the rapacious appetites of the 'freakishly selfish'.

Justice is a simple thing, we merely need to place the law beyond the reach of those who place their own interests ahead of everyone else's.

Thus do I propose 'direct Democracy'. Our apparent 'inability' to get even the simplest legislation passed is due to the self-interested's capacity to block that legislation [or get it repealed.]

We will NEVER have/enjoy the 'rule of law' so long as only the feckless few have ACCESS to the law.

Two edged sword time here...not only do they 'control' what is and isn't 'the law' but they ALSO control the courts. THEY 'appointed' the judges that decide what the law means...which is why the guilty often walk free even when they're dripping with innocent blood.

So the 'courts' will consist ENTIRELY of people not 'specializing' in the 'practice of law'...and the professional practice of Law shall be PROHIBITED!

Can't Lawyer up because they no longer exist.

The Law is the domain of those who must live under them...no 'special understanding' required.

If those living under the law don't understand the law then justice is impossible.

None of this has to be difficult. It's all fairly simple in fact.

But that's not what the 'experts' would have you believe.

UNDERSTAND 'experts' MUST HAVE PERFECT KNOWLEDGE. Without this all you have is opinion...and we all have our opinions, doesn't make us right, it only serves to divide us.

The above is just the 'tip' of the proverbial iceberg, a thumbnail sketch, a basic outline of the task before our species.

Nothing happens without a plan...and if YOU remain ignorant that such a plan exists...oh well.

Thank you for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Life, Liberty and the pursuit of (relative) Happiness

Greetings good citizen, WORDSMITHS are always weaving, often trying to inspire more so than make sense. Their own fascination with their ability to 'turn a phrase' produces surreal results such as today's title.

How the heck do you 'pursue' happiness? Doing the things you enjoy can make you 'happy'[ish] but that's about as good as it gets.

Are we so 'preoccupied' with the 'pursuit of happy' that we neglect the 'liberty' part of the prescription?

Good, bad or indifferent, life just 'is'...until it isn't. Funny it even occurred to them to include such a 'given'...probably did it for effect.

Perhaps it is that we are ignoring the comma? Life IS the 'freedom to pursue happiness'.

IS that what they were trying to convey, because once again we have 'prose' that has little to do with Reality, in fact most of us would opine it is at odds with our mundane existence.

Many have attempted to put 'the meaning of life' into words, some have produced beautiful nonsense while others are just epic fails,( so relative to the individual or the moment as to be useless.)

Not for nothing will they persist in attempting to 'explain' this existence which, in the end, only has meaning to the individual.

Much of what passes for 'patriotic claptrap' is precisely that...crap!

Part of the 'divided we are' strategy the One Percent is foisting upon us is intended to deflect responsibility and purposefully create an atmosphere where co-operation is viewed as impossible.

No irony should be lost on the fact that conservative 'rugged individualism' is the exact opposite of what civil society requires of its citizens.

UNITED [working together] we have defeated the 'tyranny of nature'...only to have human tyrants fill the subsequent void.

Perhaps this is what Jefferson meant when he opined that for liberty to be preserved it required periodic watering with the blood of tyrants.

What 'tyrants' was he referring to?

Do we have any 'tyrants' among us now, in our 'free and fair' political system?

Hands are pointing every which way...some at the 'injustice system' and other at the banking system and still others are pointing at he commerce system that shuts so many out.

Why is it we are [seemingly] powerless to address ANY of these woes and water the tree of liberty?

Bueller? Anyone? Bueller?

Of the three, life is the only 'given'. Liberty is something we enjoy a degree of [they don't tell us to do EVERYTHING...yet] and Happy, well, if what they show us on TV, that only MONEY makes you 'happy' then we are [again, the vast majority of us] are doomed to a life with just fleeting moments of 'happy' interrupting seemingly endless stretches of debilitating desperation as the keen awareness of our 'fears' dominates our existence.

Did I mention wordsmiths will continue to attempt to 'define' life for us, (even my feeble self?)

I think my, er, 'attempt' hits a lot closer to the mark of what the average person goes through than the more nebulous 'life, liberty and the pursuit of Happi'.

Understand, the 'popular version' was meant to be 'inspirational' [even if the feckless use it to defend their greed or to chide you for not 'settling' for their 'leavings' (usually their 'scat', they aren't known for 'generosity' by any stretch of the imagination.) No irony should be lost that their continued 'tolerance of your existence' is what THEY consider 'charity/generosity'.]

So there you stand, caught between the longing for love and the struggle for the legal tender [yet another 'more elegant' rendering of the same concept...] (Jackson Brown, hard to compete with talent like that!)

Not very accurate but beautiful all the same...let's not forget the poignant! It gets you right where you live.

Hard to imagine a greater tyranny than the pain/loss created by the epic mismanagement of our 'legal tender'. There's some tyrants long overdue to demonstrate their own personal version of The Funky Chicken from about a foot off the ground.

Cruel you say? They'd kill you than look at you and not give it a second thought.

Worse, they'd watch you starve to death while they pretend 'the money' needed to spare you 'doesn't exist'.

It's what they do every day, all day.

Think I'm exaggerating? People around the planet are dying from lack of basic medical attention, these guys know it but do NOTHING. [Worse, they found 'charities' that spend 99 cents of every dollar collected on 'administration'. Does any nitwit really believe cancer will be 'cured' by walking? Since most of the money collected goes toward collecting even MORE money [which does zero to advance the search for a cure] how do YOU define 'exercise in futility'?

People got to die. Until recently, we all did but research proceeds on the cure for death and WHO do you think is going to get their hands on THAT?

You don't suppose it would be the one group that least deserves it, do ya?

With that we'll have at it again tomorrow, thank YOU for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Thumbnail sketch

Greetings good citizen, if you lack 'mental horsepower' you're gonna turn away from this post fairly quickly. Why am I warning you? Because the weak minded dislike having their beliefs challenged...so much so that they would rather kill those that challenge those beliefs than consider their own folly.

This Nation, now the oldest republic on the planet, was founded [allegedly, there is zero proof of this] with Liberty and Justice for all. [Says so in 'the pledge' if you won't take my word for it.]

Naturally, that was then and this is now. Back then a vast majority of the population was 'illiterate', they didn't know the 'definition' of the words the founders used, just that 'freedom' [which they also didn't understand] was key. They didn't know liberty means freedom from tyranny just as they remain ignorant today that the dictionary definition of freedom is 'a state of being free'...not a particularly useful term because we live in a 'debt-driven' commerce model.

You work because you owe.

In the interests of reality/fairness, if you didn't owe chances are you'd work harder than you do now because you'd be obliged to do EVERYTHING [even the tasks you suck at] yourself.

Depending on what you personally detest, it would define the misery that would be your life.

There's a whole laundry list of things you'd have to do personally if you weren't a 'wage slave' but, and this is a mighty big but...once we decided to 'specialize'...NOWHERE in that game plan is there a provision for 'owners'.

Resources are FREE from nature. The nonsensical belief that I own the land and everything on it dates back to the kings [who pretended to be god on earth...or, at the very least, 'god's chosen'.]

Funny how nobody buys that load of manure anymore but the owner thing persists...

We went from having 'royals' to 'every man a king' and we can see how THAT worked out. The 'merchants' among us quickly started dictating what was necessary to be a 'proper king' and it all went downhill from there.

How unfortunate the average Rube is a 'slave to fashion' and the dictates [reinforced by ridicule] of 'society'?

We have sort of 'backed into' the 'liberty' part of the puzzle but how curious is it that most of you don't know what the word means?

If you actually DID value Liberty you wouldn't be so easily 'bullied' by the dictates of 'fashion'.

Ever wonder why [given how the world as we have come to know it is the product of 'conservatism'] that almost everyone you know professes 'conservative sympathies'?

Most of you don't waste time wondering where this rabbit hole goes, nor do you ponder the fate of the people that brought us 'The New Deal' after the conservatives crashed the global economy in 1929.

Funny how no sooner did they obtain the keys again did they crash it three more times...and they're getting ready to do it again!

All you can do is shake your head and marvel over how stupid people must be to vote Republican, given all they've done since Nixon.

When the truth is much more frightening...the political process was 'financialized' after their first attempt to install an 'Imperial President' and repeal The New Deal failed in 1962.

Since that time there hasn't been a candidate for political office that didn't have to pass a 'sniff test' [as Rummy himself called it] before receiving the 'party endorsement'.

The average voter doesn't spend much time thinking about this crucial factor but if you aren't 'palatable' to the monied classes, you might as well tote your plastic milk crate down to the town square and hope your Radio Shack bull horn has enough juice in it to last until you have blurted out your 'stump speech' [something along the lines of 'wake up America, the political process has been hijacked!' (everybody knows but NOBODY knows WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT!)]

If YOU don't have the endorsement of the One Percent, you're goose is cooked...because there seems to be an endless stream of 'political science majors' willing to whore themselves out to the highest bidder for a paycheck followed by a payday (but only if they please their 'overlords'.)

UNDERSTAND: most of you 'accept' this as 'the way it is' [no matter how frustrated you are with the way things are going, you CAN'T change it because THEY DON'T HAVE TO LISTEN TO YOU! Especially if you aren't willing to make them pay attention!]

My idea is as follows. 4th of July weekend...we ALL take Wednesday off, a one day strike/warning shot. The following week we take Monday and Tuesday off. A two day strike bound to stir things up somewhat. Hot heads will fire people that didn't have time coming to them but it should be their last act as self-important managers/owners. We go 'back to work Wednesday and if we are locked out/fired, the REAL strike is on! The following week it's three days off and the week after that it's four.

At this point the firings will get out of hand...and people will reach a boiling point but the 'alternative' is 'more of the same'.

The economy is ALREADY badly crippled without lifting a finger. It will only take a tiny shove to push things over the edge.

Are you with me?

Find out on the 5th.

Thank you for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Solution set

Greetings good citizen. I opined here, back after the coronation of El Trumpo, that this 'tactic' of crowning a 'political outsider' as our latest 'leader' was a move intended to provide cover for yet another cataclysmic event, known world-wide as The Unthinkable.

They NEED to do something about the population problem and keeping us alive isn't one of the options they're considering.

I suspect this recent move of a naval battle group to the waters off the Korean peninsula is just the first of many more to come. Do not discount the implications of the 'out of the blue' retaliatory attack on Syria and the position this puts Assad's ally, the Russians in.

Nice how they like to put multiple options on the table to confuse the public and keep you guessing which nation is the 'bad actor' when you know damn well it's the One Percent...a decidedly 'global' club.

War is ever and always an exercise in 'comply or die' and the coming nuclear conflict is the criminal act of a select few...whose identites could be known IF our 'free press' wasn't OWNED by someone that had a vested interest in your never finding out the truth!

That's what we're up against, good citizen, this is the danger of having a 'for profit' mass media system.

Something the founders knew but like the rest of the edifice they saddled us with, they believed 'fear of god' would never go out of fashion, a fairly stupid justification when they themselves didn't believe either!

Assuming the 'threat' posed by a nation with maybe a handful of nuclear weapons is genuine, what would be the 'logical' solution here?

Oppression world-wide thrives because of the 'prohibition' against 'regime change' via 'assassination'...if they murder you by putting a bullet between your eyes from a half mile away, it's not 'assassination'...because YOU aren't a 'global leader'.

If they take the trouble to send a sniper after you, they will label you a terrorist and make any further investigation into your death illegal and the whole affair gets swept under the 'national security' carpet.

We COULD demand that our elected officials do EVERYTHING above boards but like I said, the people that make the laws don't want to 'pay the price' for their underhanded dealings so we have what we have today, world-wide...a cabal that operates 'above the law'.

Just want to take a sec to point out that this would be prohibited under the Human Anti-Exploitation Law, violations of which are an exile/death offense.

Since EVERYBODY has a vested interest in TRANSPARENCY [and there is NOTHING to BRIBE anyone with, see where I'm going with this?]

By NECESSITY people entrusted with authority must be prohibited from using the 'cloak of secrecy' AT ANY TIME!

But I digress...a little.

My point is that the coming war, like all preceding it IS A CRIMINAL ACT!

Worse, since the primary purpose of such an atrocity is 'selective population reduction' [the public will never know the surgical precision of this strike because the affected regions will remain 'off-limits' for at least a generation, insuring the guilty won't be held accountable for their crimes.]

Then there's the 'shooting war' that follows, imagine the casualties caused by fighting in 'hot' areas?

Who will be held responsible for this blatant attempt to 'save capitalism' ? [a.k.a. legalized slavery]

Depends on who wins.

Understand, be mindful that the 'secondary purpose' of an all out cataclysm is to diffuse the bubbling resentment created by 'political disenfranchisement'. Your supposed to be too caught up in the war effort to be asking yourself 'why did this happen?'

It might also be good to remember that under 'martial law' not only are your 'rights' suspended [for the alleged 'greater good] but so is the entire political process.

YOU won't get to 'elect' anybody else.

Who thought THIS was a good idea?

We can't think of anyone except...the people who routinely deny being in charge...[hint: the One Percent!]

Living under the muzzle of an automatic weapon will 'rankle' [get under your skin], add in how much of what they do will be just to remind you of who is in charge and you'll be positively chafing for 'regime change'!

The 'hope' is you'll be to preoccupied with regaining your freedom that you'll forget to hunt down who was responsible for the whole mess in the first place.

That's when you'll first hear the 'whispering'...it starts with 'I've got an idea' and it turns into the rebuke : that's NOT how we do things!

And the next thing you know, you're right back where it all started, playing 'comply or die' all over again!

This is WHY you must revolt as soon as Martial Law is declared! Wait too long and people [who were raised to believe the lie that a B list actor was the greatest president of all time!] won't remember when we weren't under martial law...and the dark ages will remain with us for another 500 years.

Understand, we don't have 500 years to 'throw away'...

If YOU don't act our species is doomed.

If that isn't something to consider then what's it all about?

Thank you for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Repression, the bleeding edge of tyranny.

Greetings good citizen, considering the 'course' war takes [with an abrupt attack by the 'repressed' followed by an all out effort to 'eradicate' the attackers (as brutally as possible) via a well armed (but moronic) fighting force is the equivalent of trying to kill a fly with a bazooka.

It all starts with 'tyranny'. Some ONE decides to take control of a resource and those denied continued access 'resist'.

What happens after that can only be described as 'insanity' [especially these days when the 'war machine' has gone 'multi-national' so the 'effort' no longer enriches the manufacturing sectors of either combatant.]

Modern warfare has nothing to do with profit, it's all about COMPLY OR DIE!

The price tag for the 60 missiles fired into Syria was nearly a hundred million dollars but not 1 US manufacturing job will return because of it.

That's because the 'military-industrial complex' vends to ALL sides now because, what do ya know, 'war is good business'...(and those factories are expensive.)

Besides, the 'real point' here is 'COMPLY OR DIE'.

The One Percent [not all but a majority of them] have made it their mission to take the words of John Jay to heart.

How many of you need a reminder of the quote that made John Jay, er, 'notorious' [famous but not necessarily in a 'good way'.]

He said "Let those who OWN the land, rule the land!"

Now the repetition of 'comply or die' makes sense, doesn't it?

Maybe not, the people who regularly cheer 'nationalist aggression' [regardless of the cause] have thinking parts that they have NEVER USED...and they aren't likely to either.

These 'My country, right or wrong' types are enamored with the 'bravado' of war [just as long as Panzers don't turn up on their street it's all good!]

With this as a given, how many of you are, er, concerned that ALL of the presidential candidates in the last election ran not as our 'national leader' (and by extension, the leader of the 'free world') but rather as 'Commander-in-Chief'?

Did W's war set the stage for electoral politics for the foreseeable future?

It sure shone a spotlight on what the 'Party of the One Percent' stands for...the John Jay's of this WORLD.

Make no mistake about it good citizen, what's happening in the US is reflected around the globe.

Why does no one else find it curious that the monarchies of old just stepped aside and let 'democracy' take over?

I suspect 'the reason' is quite clear some two hundred years later [but you need your thinking parts to be in working order...wanting to understand isn't enough.]

ONE PEOPLE, ONE WORLD and the HUMAN ANTI-EXPLOITATION LAW to protect us ALL. If our species is to survive we must first remove those who would prey upon the rest of us!

Wake up and smell the naplam!

Can't put it any more bluntly. IF [because many of you obviously DON'T] YOU LOVE YOUR CHILDREN you will ACT!

[Now play mickey the dunce...I dare ya to say 'and do what?']

One word, starts with S...6 letters...it's what pitchers strive to throw...rhymes with 'like'

But no...none of you love your kids more than your miserable lives...

Oh well.

So 'united we stand' is 'lost on you', eh?

I tried.

Gegner

P.S. After thought: War is NEVER EVER about Freedom, human rights or liberty. It is always about COMPLY OR DIE. Look to your politicians and be afraid, be very afraid.

Law & Order

Greetings good citizen, Still doling out the guide to liberty here as current events continue to log our civilization's death spiral.

Acts of war that cause mainstream reporters of corporate America to wax poetic about their overlords military might only create confusion among the teeming masses who no longer think for themselves largely because they are tired of learning afterwards they were wrong.

Yes, good citizen, people who are constantly told/taught to doubt themselves eventually accept they will reach the 'wrong conclusion' and this extends to other areas of life, like the laws and its interpretation.

Yes, good citizen. You, who have heard 'you're wrong' all your life, regularly get told what is and what isn't 'the law'.

Do you think you're 'qualified' to even understand the law?

How ironic the 'official answer' is YES but step into any courtroom and you're told to sit down, shut up and keep your OPINIONS to yourself!

Without a LAW DEGREE [and often, even when you have one, your still told what you think doesn't matter]...such are today's courts.

Newsflash good citizen, THE LAW and the interpretation of it are EVERYBODY'S domain.

IF YOU must live under the law, you MUST be able to understand the law...

How ironic, good citizen, that corporate criminality is often 'forgiven' when the criminal claims ignorance.

How much of that 'fine' do you think goes straight into the judge's pocket?

We live in a society run/controlled by CRIMINALS who ARE the LAW!

Can't catch a break? [Are you even remotely confused as to WHY?]

This 'realization' brings us full circle to the question of 'what do you expect ME to do about it?'

By yourself, not a damn thing. En masse, same answer but different tactic.

Understand, the 'system' exists because YOU LET IT.

You accept that you have no control over the laws you're expected to live under and that has been the problem THROUGHOUT THE AGES!

Humanity CAN'T PROSPER under a 'double standard'...yet you sit there and count your imaginary chickens in your 'castle in the sky'.

Definitely something very wrong with your head, it's only a small comfort that YOU aren't responsible for it, the grifters are.

We have NEVER enjoyed the 'rule of law' because it has always been the 'rule of man'. There isn't a law on the books that hasn't been 'sidestepped' at one point or the other to protect the guilty from justice.

Sometimes [rare but it happens] the guilty only broke the law to bring an even worse offender to justice...in stories anyway.

Our culture often turns its outlaws into heroes...which has some deeply disturbing implications if you take the time to think about it.

Shift mental gears with me as we travel once again into the future and the world as it might be.

The laws are simple and few. 'legislature' doesn't exist and neither does war [the ultimate crime.] There are no police and no judges, there is also very little 'crime'. This is partly due to education and mostly due to the outlawing of cash and all of its substitutes. [99% of crime is 'cash and carry', no cash, no customers!]

No police? who investigates crime and criminal activity?

There IS a thing I call the 'uh-oh squad'. YOU are the 'patrolman on the beat' who calls the uh-oh squad when you encounter a 'situation'.

Many of the crimes will be 'obvious' and in most instances there will be very few wild goose chases. How obvious? You'll find dead people that didn't just 'drop in their shoes'...murder tends to be obvious that way.

You'll encounter a shady individual who wants to know if you're 'interested' in 'trading' for [fill-in-the blank]

Since there is no cash, trades are the only way two individuals can 'exchange' personal items...problem is if you don't know the individual you risk accepting stolen property, an exile offense.

Often these crazy/shady people will be looking to trade for gold...your gold for their [likely] stolen item that you'd have to part with some of your credits to obtain.

Gold is useless to the individual as it will be to those who want to trade for it...be that as it may we can change governments but we will still have a surplus of stupid to deal with.

Make all currently 'illegal' substances obtainable, throw in 'quality control' and safe-dose packaging and you'll still have opportunists seeking to 'enhance' their personal situation at YOUR expense...and it WILL get THEM exiled.

Friends don't ask friends to get involved in shady dealings. [Note the punctuation there, end of story, no exceptions.]

Worse, you can't 'legislate' responsibility. Where there's a will, there's a way. Making behavior you 'don't like' illegal serves no one. [Yet the 'self-important' pull stunts like this all the time!]

So no more 'speeding tickets', no more 'illegal substance' busts.

No more cops harassing otherwise innocent people for doing what everybody else is doing.

Seriously, the 'blue wall' goes bye-bye.

Besides, truth be told, it doesn't exist to 'protect you'...it's there to protect THEM [the REAL criminals!]

No irony should be lost on the fact that our current legal system EXISTS to protect the guilty from prosecution!

Who makes the laws? YOU do? How? You propose a new law and it is 'tested' against the Human Anti- Exploitation Law, if it passes, it is put to the public for a vote. If the public agrees, your 'idea' becomes law.

Who will 'fight' for your law? NOBODY, if it's a 'good idea' others will see it for themselves.

Leadership is charged with keeping 'frivolous' laws from being put to a vote. As our current society demonstrates, a majority of the people are easily fool into thinking they are voting for one thing when it really just opens the door to something altogether unanticipated.

The Law belongs to us all...and anyone that tells you otherwise is handing you a bag of crap they want you to rub all over yourself.

Again, they can't help it if you're stupid, don't be that idiot!

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Social cohesion

Greetings good citizen, my other computer is still out of commission so I borrowed my son's.

Fun historical fact, while a majority of the colonists 'supported' the revolution, less than one percent actually fought in it.

England, then, is like we are now, one of the world's most powerful militaries...but, paralleling our modern situation, the government was so screwed up nobody could 'agree' on what to do about the rebels (despite the fact the king ruled by decree and his word was law, his 'advisers' had him so confused and fearful of making a 'political mis-step' that he proved 'ineffective'.

Now we have people that imagine themselves to be Kings and via their control of the congress, also 'rule by decree' although they have to 'maintain the illusion' that our deeply divided public is still in control and that 'temporarily insane' politicians are responsible for acts that defy logic like the recent 'nuclear option' that rammed through the conservative choice for the open seat on the Supreme Court. [maintaining the conservative majority.]

Besides, it also maintains the 'illusion/'narrative' that the nation is [and remains] deeply divided.

Show of hands, good citizen, how many of you would support a 'revolution'? Some would support it only if it served to eradicate the 'opposition' but I suspect greater support [more unity] would exist for sweeping the deeply corrupt existing system from power.

Keep your eye on the ball, good citizen, the REAL division is between rich and poor, with the rich comprising but One Percent of the population!

ALL of our problems are DIRECTLY ATTRIBUTABLE to the 'freakishly selfish'...and all they do is wave their checkbooks and the 'wannabes' do the rest!

[Rhetorical question] Who else thinks it's Ropes and Light poles time?

Problem with our modern 'mass communication' system is the people operating it for their own purposes. The people watching the 'show' become mentally removed FROM THEIR OWN REALITY! They think what they are watching is real when the fact is they're sitting in front of their TV screen because they can't AFFORD to do anything else!

Worse, a majority of these sad sacks the media calls 'the working poor', er, 'mistakenly' self-identify themselves as 'middle class' just because they have a roof over their heads, food in their stomachs and a car [likely 2nd hand] in their driveway.

Ignorance, once again, proves to be a scourge upon our species. [Who, one might ask, is responsible for this? Why it's that 'free' education provided by the indirect employees of the king [wannabe.]

The, er, 'rich' buy the politicians who do their bidding and keep OUR kids ignorant [THEIR kids go to private schools] which isn't quite right because all money is funny but the power is very real...and sadly we are indeed a race of selfish opportunists.

In as much as the 'tendency' (in our thinking) is to place ourselves first [every time and in all things] the 'realization' is that we can't be first ALL THE TIME, the world as we have come to know it WOULDN'T EXIST if some degree of 'social cohesion' didn't exist.

That said, it truly is a miracle to have come this far without the 'me first' bug tearing it all to the ground!

[Again, miracle is too strong a word. We have only gotten as far as we did because 'fear of God' was pounded mercilessly into our heads [by the same morons that have always robbed the rest of us blind.]

Untold numbers were murdered for 'heresy' which translates directly into not thinking the way they wanted you to. Didn't matter that the people doing the killing didn't believe either, 'comply or die' was [like the little signs attached to the speed limit posts today tell us] STRICTLY ENFORCED. [Where the F do they get off, huh?]

Soon, if you don't buy the 'deeply divided' tripe or refuse to regurgitate 'f'n liberuls' on demand it is YOU that will be put to death...most horribly too (gotta make an 'example' out of ya, can't 'waste' a senseless killin'...can we?)

Social cohesion is what prevents you from being dragged into the streets and murdered by soldiers masquerading as 'death squads' because you 'spoke against' the high & mighty 'self-anointed king'.

This is what its coming too, good citizen, you will either toe the official line or you will be put to death for 'heresy' [a.k.a the crime of daring to be 'yourself/different'.]

Will you die for your individuality?

Guess that depends on how 'attached to it' you are...

There are your choices, good citizen, live a lie or die because you refused to comply.

[See why we NEED the Human Anti-exploitation Law NOW?]

Thank you for letting me inside your head,

Gegner