Again with the Money...

Greetings good citizen, if there is a persistent undercurrent in my writing it's the 'open secret' that we are neck deep in STUPID around the globe!

Nevermind the headline, take a look around the world and repeat to yourself 'the world is being run by people with college educations' then ask yourself if you'd drive a car one of these idiots changed the oil in?

Nobody would blame you if you pulled the dipstick to insure the oil had been replaced [never mind drained...]

(In fact you'd be a fool not to check before you paid!) Although those expected to get along in life without the benefit of higher education have proven considerably more competent than their spoon-fed betters.

Perhaps more frightening is these people [yesterday's 'paper billionaires'] are the same folks that created CDO's...and we're still feeling the after effects of that debacle.

After nearly two decades of ZIRP and they still managed to destroy the Real Estate industry [not that it should exist in the first place but we're critiquing the 'higher mind' here and this is what passes for modern 'genius'.]

Because, sadly, the HOPELESSLY MORONIC still equate INTELLIGENCE with MONEY!

LARGELY DUE TO IGNORANCE! Where does this ignorance come from? The 'well-intentioned meddling' with the educational system by the same people that brought us CDO'S, WTF![AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!] (The scream of mental anguish, for those of you new to my humble blog.)

No chutzpah here, right?

Worse good citizen, these technological whiz-bang's have created more 'exercises in poor judgement' than the problems they claim to have addressed.

But they did create profits for the capitalist, who doesn't give a flying fig about the ramifications of these dubious creations. [Technology is both blessing and curse. It's difficult to accentuate the positive while minimizing the negative, that said, read on!]

How pathetic is it our economy, once based on selling inflated houses to one another, has become one of selling each other phones with better cameras in them?

Is THAT a 'step up'...or even one in the 'right direction'?

Yet these phones [used to snag a drunken car thief in Natick yesterday] Yup, the same fool that left the car running and unlocked outside a downtown convenience store also left her cell phone on in the car too, Yahtzee!

Wonder if she is on the school board?

[mounts metaphysical intellectual soapbox]

IF there is one thing we need to keep AWAY from education it's the influence of MONEY! [wielded by morons!]

Our children need to be educated on the purpose of money and the purpose of government...preferably BEFORE they both become 'meaningless'.

Make no mistake about it, we are rapidly approaching the point where money doesn't accomplish its 'designed purpose'...and that's when the wheels come flying off!

Fuel (and dry land) will become so rare you won't be able to secure either for any amount of CASH! [but they will, more than a little ironically, take a check!] Talk about MORONS...

Stupidity all around, yea!

So, it is far more likely civilization will end not with a whimper but an 'uh-oh!'...(possibly, if there's time, followed with a oops!)

Perhaps it's for the best our society remains like that deer in the proverbial headlights, frozen with indecision, never knowing what hit them.

BUT, like our deer proxy, it is seldom 'over in a flash'.

Those left for dead will curse us for not doing something when we had the chance.

The factor to be mindful of is the feckless few are doing everything in their power to deny you that chance.

When the button is pushed, there will be no running away. Some of us will make it but most of us won't.

The thing to contemplate while you're crouched down in that shelter is certain knowledge that our parents did nothing to stop the criminals from developing the bomb, a weapon they used to 'pay us back' for the 'terror'.

Many of the 'survivors' will be the ones responsible for nuking civilization out of existence and they BELIEVE they will remake the world in their image [just like they did after the plagues.]

They Will too, if you are stupid enough to let them.

Stop them before it's too late.

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Lose the Billionaires

Greetings good citizen, the thing we should all find curious is the narrative that breaks life down into a few successes mixed with a huge number of FAILURES.

IF we're all in this 'together', why are just a few rich? What makes them 'special'...and there is NO RATIONAL EXPLANATION!

Even THEY palm it off on LUCK...(when 'luck' has NOTHING to do with it, unless they consider themselves 'lucky' for not being murdered by their collaborators.)

Is it LUCK when the OWNERS of an enterprise get to pocket the 'profits', which are in fact, and I'm not 'parsing' here, the difference between what it costs to make and what it costs the end user AND BOTH FIGURES ARE ARBITRARY!

True fact good citizen, the cost of inputs is ZERO [as Mother Nature doesn't have a cash register] and labor is a PROFIT CENTER [Production 'cost', what the worker is paid] is inflated enormously so it becomes a 'price driver' when calculating the end price of 'finished goods'.

With both factors as a given we can only marvel over those who call themselves 'economists', what kind of 'voodoo' are they practicing...and the answer is whatever kind they're PAID to!

I frequently point to the owners of commerce and accuse them of being criminals, not just for claiming ownership of what belongs to us all but for literally STEALING the labor of those who produce.

Rule number one good citizen, YOUR MONEY IS FOR YOU [and YOU ALONE!] You 'earn/make' it, you spend/trade it for the things you don't have time to make for yourself and once the transaction is completed, NOBODY IS SUPPOSED TO GET IT! [spent is spent] THATS the CRIMINAL PART!

Taking 'spent money' and spending it again is the criminal part, you literally did NOTHING for it. YOU get to keep it because they spent it in YOUR STORE...now we're beginning to understand the LUCKY part of this deeply disturbing puzzle!

More 'problematic' is how this 'dilutes' the money supply, creating 'inflation' [too many dollars chasing too few goods!]

The (pseudo) Rich don't want this situation corrected, they would rather the rest of us wallow in squalor than sacrifice their 'privilege' of collecting and 'recycling' spent money. Nice work when you can get it and does anyone else smell a Royal Rat?

THis, of course, brings us to the 'essence of conservatism' and their carefully nurtured grudge against Taxes.

I know most of you already know this so I am baffled why none of you remember that TAXES = TRIBUTE?

It's 'free money' to those who have enslaved us! They don't [and never have] used it to 'fund government programs'!

How F'n THICK are you? All that money for guns and bombs but not a cent for healthcare? Are you SERIOUSLY THAT STUPID? What the government collects in taxes each year is but a tiny fraction of what it spends! [Hint, it's the SPENDING that keeps the (paper) economy going!]

I want you to relax for a moment and imagine a society run 'rationally' where money serves its singular purpose of 'regulating access to perishables'. [Mostly food, hospitality & fuel...clothing, beyond basics, also sneaks in there.]

EVERY Television channel is now 'commercial free' because advertising must be 'true' and nobody has the time or the inclination to listen to that much legalese about ANYTHING! Radio too, for the same reason. Instead of being 'advertiser supported', media outlets will preform the task they were created to do, inform AND entertain the listening/viewing public...with a clearly labeled content. If it's a 'dramatization' they won't be able to claim it was 'based on' true events. [Leaving the viewer confused as to what really happened and what was 'embellished'.]

Deceiving the public at ANY TIME defeats the purpose of their existence...(and is an exile offense.)

[That feature alone (removing commercials) should serve to put the strike on everybody's radar!] (Now that TV is 'pause-able' commercials have outlived their 'usefulness'.)

But wait, there's more! EVERYBODY WORKS [not necessarily 'good news' for the crowd that thinks 'working is for CHUMPS' but the New Sheriff is exiling anyone that 'exempts themselves' from the work requirement.

No cash means a serious drop in the crime rate...at first the 'hustlers' will wiggle and squirm, creating their own 'currency' but that's and exile offense so ANYONE caught with 'faux scrip' in their possession will be awarded with a one way trip to 'neverland', that place on the map from which no one EVER returns!

As the knuckle-draggers are culled from the herd, peace will begin to settle in. It's going to be rough at first. What SHOULD save a lot of innocent people from being exiled, 'leaders' will be targeted and exiled for their previous crimes. Gangs operate almost EXCLUSIVELY on Peer Pressure.

Won't stop the 'ambitious' (or the stupid) from taking advantage of the 'temporary void' but it will provide the opportunity for the smart ones to 'back away' and tell the usurpers 'Hey, Louie was my Uncle, you're nuthin, I don't take orders from you!

Just a little thought experiment that [like so many before it] went screaming off reservation because, push come to shove, EVERYTHING is RELATED. [They called Einstein a genius for sharing THAT observation, one worthy of Capt. Obvious!]

But genius, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

Many things people consider genius are quite frankly just plain dumb.

Where were we? Picturing a New World free of 'predatory capitalism' and Funny (recycled) Money!

If we don't start removing the feckless from our midst we aren't going to live to see any of this. We are fighting on two fronts, the terminally stupid and the freakishly selfish BOTH want things to remain the same, if the rest of us want to live, something's got to give...and the title points to the 'first step'.

Thanks once again for letting me visit, Head. Same time tomorrow?

Gegner

Fumbles

Greetings good citizen, we all 'drop the ball' every once in awhile [serving two masters is never easy.] Oh how much easier life would be if El Trumpo were a dictator. [Like W., El Trumpo is only concerned about the ease of El Trumpo's life, you don't even enter the equation, him Tarzan, you not even a tiny blip.]

Shouldn't put that out there because he has probably already taken stock of who would support such a move on his part. for the moment he is lacking critical pieces of the puzzle to even attempt a coup.

Remember his whole 'base' is mentally challenged, stupid if you want to remove the kid gloves. More than half of them DIDN'T vote for him so much as AGAINST Hillary.

Leading us to the question of who will the 'Fake Democrats' make as our only alternative to the Clown posse regularly fielded by the Conservo-whackos?

Choices are no longer 'bad vs worse', they are 'insane vs. unthinkable.'

Who are you going to vote for when the next contest is between Paul Ryan and Ted Cruz (running as a D)?

What are the odds El Rushbo will make a bid for The Oval Office next time around? If all it takes in Name Recognition, he should be a shoe-in! Maybe he'll even appoint Steve Bannon to be his Attorney General!

White Power baby! Can't you hear all the rabid conservo-whackos chanting 'take Murika back' at El Rushbo rallies?

Be a tiny bit weird, taking Murika back from the guy who's slogan [and remember it was never anything more than that!] was Make America Great (again? Like it ever was?) How F'n sad is it the only people who think Murika was ever great are the same people protesting the removal of monuments to the Confederacy.

There is NOTHING 'GREAT' about F-U Pay Me! and that's all Murika stands for, the oldest surviving government ON THE PLANET is best known as the DEFENDER not of Human Rights but OWNER'S RIGHTS!

Naturally, the 'real problem' we face is the 'illusion of choice' provided by a stuffed ballot box announced by a media with a very definite agenda...and agenda that DOESN'T align with anyone's but those who cut their paychecks.

Se habla Economic blackmail?

This is why under ASP SOCIETY cuts your paycheck! YOU aren't held hostage to the 'My way or the Highway' edicts of those who rob you of what you need to live!

Verily, good citizen, tis TYRANNY of the highest possible degree.

How pathetic NONE of you even recognize it nevermind being willing to DO ANYTHING about it.

So as the 'sock puppet' for Murika flushes the nation's 'ideological legacy' down the crapper on the world stage (using something he understands not at all as his reason) will we mark this as 'the beginning of the end' of our somewhat prolonged slide into obscurity?

Mission objective since 'Morning in America' has been to flush this 'beacon of Hope' into it's own cesspool as the self-interested moved 'capital' and capitols to the wholly fictitious 'cheaper there' to maintain their status of 'wage slavers'.

How disconcerting it must be to suddenly realize their motto, "F-em all and the dumb ones twice" refers to YOU?

America was only great to those who migrated here with hearts full of hope [and heads full of lies] only to have reality sink in as their dreams shattered on the shoals of despair.

Yes good citizen, the late Mr. Carlin had it right, they call it the American Dream because you have to be dreaming to believe it!

Want to staunch the bleeding and cobble together something better?

STOP 'buying in'. No more 'nothing for nothing', make the comply or die crowd do their own heavy lifting, you quit!

No more paychecks held hostage!

If you want to STOP the criminals, YOU have to stop them!

7/5, 'save the day'...

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Specialization

Greetings good citizen, I have pointed to 'specialization' several times recently and I just wanted to 'drive home' WHY this is IMPORTANT.

IF 'you' were forced to do EVERYTHING yourself, there would be a long list of things you'd NEVER be able to do, not for lack of will but the inability to see what you were doing!

It takes YEARS of STUDY (nevermind practice) to become a 'competent surgeon' but performing surgery on yourself...and if we hadn't 'specialized' NOBODY would have had the time to write what they knew about anatomy or procedure down. So you wouldn't have anything to study!

If you DID have notes to look at it would be because you were the progeny of someone that took the time to leave that information behind.

Worse, if we had to be our own physician most of us would have died in childhood of relatively easy to cure diseases. As recently as a hundred years ago the leading cause of death was diarrhea!

But wait, that was the 'low hanging fruit'. What you can produce for yourself is governed by where you live! If you don't live in the right climate caffeine is a non-starter! If you live closer to the polar regions, your 'growing season is significantly abbreviated and you really can't tolerate 'crop failure' because the time between harvests increases!

So let's take another look at the 'rugged individualist' who really doesn't do very much for themselves at all.

Those who take pride in being 'self-made' really just lack 'humility'...they commit that most grievous of human crimes, the failure to appreciate the efforts of others.

[This is why the exiled are stripped of everything 'man-made' and turned loose into the wilderness in just what they were wearing when they arrived. People who do not APPRECIATE the efforts of others (and thereby refuse to live by the rules) DON'T DESERVE THEM!]

Not only is the 'rugged individual' a MYTH but it exemplifies the very pinnacle of hubris and conceit.

Imagine what your typical day would look like if your circumstances forced you to survive like Robinson Caruso?

Your crusty eyes crack open at daybreak. Your mind rebels, it's too early, let me go back to sleep BUT your full bladder says nothing doing Bub, wakey, wakey! Then you 'remember'. You're not in your clean comfortable bed, you went to sleep in a pile of leaves last night because there isn't any bedding material here...and the hard ground also sucks the heat out of your body, causing you to wake up shivering in the middle of the night.

You want to wash your face but first things first...and in order to wash you need to drag water back to you hidey hole and your bladder is telling you NONE OF THAT is going to happen before you drain it!

So you amble over to the edge of your 'camp' and let loose. History has taught you NOT to pee too close to the camp site, doesnt' matter if it's yours, it still STINKS.

Now it's time to get something to drink, you rubbed the crust away from your scratchy eyes and washing has taken a backseat to thirst.

It's been dry for the better part of a week so all your water caches are gone. Now you have to hunt down another water source because the nearest 'running water' is a couple of miles walk from the camp.

Water attracts both predators and prey so you ruled out camping close to the water source because you had to sleep sometime.

You wisely decided to make camp a good distance away because of what might happen if a 'minor predator' caught you asleep.

So you resolve to make the 'long walk' but you intend to bring some back with you to save footsteps, besides, you can't hunt AND haul water, it's just too awkward. [After you get the water back to camp you HAVE TO go hunting, you haven't eaten anything 'substantial' for days now either.]

You make a mental note that droughts suck and head off towards the river.

You get a quarter mile from the camp before you remember you were going to bring your bucket with you to save a repeat trip tomorrow...so you turn around and go back.

On your way back to the camp you swing by your 'field' and note some of your plants are wilted. There is no way you can haul enough water to revive them and you note once again that droughts suck. If it doesn't rain soon it's going to be a pretty meager harvest but there isn't much you can do about it.

You pick up the pace as daylight is wasting and you still have to go hunting (or at the very least, fishing...neither of which comforts you because you're DAMN hungry and trying NOT to think about it!) The quicker you get back with the water, the quicker you can go hunting (because you suddenly remember you lost your tackle on the last fishing trip and don't have time to MAKE more.)

Thinking about making fishing line reminds you your 'clothes' (such as they are) need repairs and you don't have any sewing materials. You mentally beat yourself up for letting your 'weaving' slide because you go through a ton of that stuff! (partly because you suck at making it and partly because GOOD weaving material is a real bitch to find! Time is the one thing there is never enough of!)

Not for the last time do you lament not having a squaw to help out with this growing mountain of 'sit down work'.

But he's also not in a position to take on more mouths to feed.

We end our 'slice of life' story there, with the realization by our central character that he'd be better off with someone to share the burden with.

Far too many fail to appreciate the level of hardship they are spared because others 'take up the slack' in the supply chain.

Without the 'specialization' money allows life would be very primitive indeed!

The puzzle remains, why do we allow a few to use money as a noose when we should be making these miscreants do their own 'dirty work'?

Is it because the ones with the guns decided it was easier to take it than to make it?

Yachtzee! Right in one!

Well, nothin' from nuthin' leaves NOTHIN!

If those of us who CAN refuse to do it for the clueless, where does that leave THEM?

They play a VERY dangerous game and come the 5th [of July], they are about to receive a 'wake up call'.

Few appreciate just how fragile the supply chain is, especially the criminals that consistently fail to appreciate the efforts of others...

Those who get things where they need to be, when they need to be there hold the future of our civilization in their hands.

Enough said.

Thanks once again for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

FUBAR

Greetings good citizen, watched HBO's M last night and all he had was 'we need to get more democrats elected.'

What dummy doesn't appreciate is first he needs to FIND some Democrats, the opportunists running with a D after their name have no clue who they are nevermind what they stand for.

Worse, Two parties or six the 'base problem' remains the same, the whole process runs on control of the media and we all know who controls that.

Why do these 'bloviating morons' think the public has 'checked out' of the political marketplace? (where all you can find are the same ideas painted different colors.)

Obviously electing Republicans changes nothing. Electing Democrats accomplishes the same thing as electing Republicans because THE MONEY ALL COMES FROM THE SAME PLACE!

Even if the much vilified Left were able to 'grassroots' funding on the same scale the deep-pocketed [self-styled] 'patriots' regularly do, it's who owns the media that makes the difference.

So real issues like rampant inequity and injustice never enter the political arena nevermind the discussion.

This results in the dangerous situation of blocking the path to peaceful conflict resolution. If only 'one sides' issues are on the table, the rest is ignored.

Guess who 'has the floor'? The democracy hijacking One Percent.

THey own the media [and pump the airwaves full of unwatchable dreck, simply because they can] they own the 'political process' hand picking who runs on what issues across the nation [ON BOTH SIDES of the political divide.] So by extension they own the political process...through the gross mismanagement of...you guessed it, MONEY!

How do we solve this crisis?

Good thing 'money' is a 'legal construct' because it's structure and purpose are subject to 'legal interpretation'.

Since the CRIMINALS control money, they also control the Courts/Justice system.

Last night Mr. Mahar had a republican guest on that argued the 'economic impact' of climate change legislation.

WHY DOES NOBODY APPRECIATE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE CLIMATE AND THE ECONOMY?

It's EXACTLY this 'profits before people' BULLSHIT that has fueled the 'political divide'...with the (monied) Powerful on one side of the fence and the rest of us standing there baffled because there is no way to effectively combat the money interests.

HOW FORTUNATE for our children that money is 'funny'?

When will we wake up to the fact we can NO LONGER TOLERATE the 'Self-Interested FEW' to act upon the environment in their own ECONOMIC INTERESTS, leaving the mess for the hapless/clueless public to clean up [when clean up is even possible...many times it isn't.]

Crimes are committed all the time but the guilty aren't held responsible because MONEY makes those charged with upholding the laws turn 'dumb'.

Time for one more 'reality check'. All it takes to alter this crapfest is WILL.

The LAW is the EXCLUSIVE DOMAIN OF THOSE WHO MUST LIVE UNDER IT.

It is OUR WILL TO CHANGE that will result in an end to the criminal behavior that dominates our society.

It [naturally] will require some 'physical' changes as well, like exiling the miscreants that allowed the cesspool to form under their watch...as well as those who did nothing or turned a blind eye to the situation.

They won't stop because we holler STOP, it will stop when we frog-march them up the scaffold to the gallows [because the public needs the closure these executions will bring regardless of how you feel about 'public spectacles'.]

But I digress, step one is recognizing the scope and depth of the problem, can't fix the problem if we can't agree on what's wrong!

For that reason alone we can't rely on the corporate owned media, the same institution that failed to report a single whisper regarding the coup of 1967 when LBJ 'abdicated'.

We have to roll it all the way back to the beginning to figure out where it all went wrong or how our 'experiment in democracy' turned into an abject failure.

We need to place the law beyond the reach of the self-interested...and the only way to do that is make the justice system self-policing. No more Lawyers, no more judges and no more COPS!

Who will protect us?

From what? the 'criminals' are GONE! No cash means no CRIME! Nobody can hold you up, you couldn't give ANYBODY money even if you desperately wanted to...and understand, anybody STUPID ENOUGH to commit criminal assault for financial gain will be 'paid back in kind'.

We don't need cops, we never have.

THE CRIMINALS NEED COPS! To protect them from US!

Just another thing (or three) to think about as you go about what passes for your 'weekend' [not sure weekends exist anymore. If you don't have a gig it's just one day stretching into the next and if you do have a gig, time off is almost never on the weekend so, are there still 'weekends'?]

Thanks once again for opening your mind,

Gegner

Current Events

Greetings good citizen, since it is Friday and El Trumpo has continued to remain 'true to his nature' [that of a wealthy man that despises the nation of 'lesser beings' that surrounds him; regardless of how adoring, they are still morons.]

A leader is both a problem solver and a decision-maker...since it took El Trumpo 3 days to decide if 'his peers' [not to be confused with his constituency] wanted him to back out of the climate accords [just to save the already extinct 'buggy whip' industry] it proves he's neither.

That said, I doubt there has ever been a sitting politician less concerned with re-election...and THAT means it's 'time to worry'.

While term limits are considered a 'wonderful thing' it gives the 2nd termer a 'blank check' to poison the well in a way that will greatly enhance their retirement.

Look at Willy-Jeff, he blew up the economy during his 2nd term and walked away the second richest president in history...and he came from virtually nothing.

So, as the scandal surrounding the last election and the inept Mr. Trump's many perceived mis-steps are coming to a head we can only wonder if those truly running things are prepared to let the curtain fall on the charade they call 'democracy'. [We have NEVER enjoyed true democracy just as there has never been 'true communism', both are unworkable due to our 'opportunist' nature. For a social plan to be viable, it must first address this tendency and take steps to circumvent it...like A Simple Plan does.]

IF THE PEOPLE PULLING THE STRINGS OF THESE PUPPETS REALLY CARED ABOUT THE "INTEGRITY" OF THEIR SHOW...and it goes without saying they don't so the public/media 'persecution' of El Trumpo will continue as the rest of us ponder whether or not the average Trump voter has come to their senses or not.

People will persist in supporting an unpopular leader just so they can avoid taking the blame for that leaders blunders [this is YOUR fault, YOU voted for him!] a very common conservo-whacko taunt!

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly, each time expecting a different outcome. While it is easy to lay this debacle at the feet of 'conservatism' the problem is deeper than that because we truly suffer from that proverbial 'one note song' when it come to politics and that is the omnipresent 'ding' of the cash-drawer flying open.

Money rules us all.

The morons among us keep voting for what they think money wants and they keep getting what money doesn't want...and what DOESN'T money want?

CHANGE!

So we face the true problem...are we a society of psychopaths that simply don't know better?

The evidence points to yes but we have the ability to repair this defect because most of what we are seeing is 'herd behavior'...and those calling the shots view us as exactly that, MINDLESS ANIMALS.

How bizarre they ignore the perils of that judgment but they aren't the brightest either, making the whole situation that much more dangerous.

Until we fix who controls what, when there is little hope for anyone not 'born to it'.

Don't have a bottomless trust fund? Too bad because if you did all this would be yours, free!

Don't be comforted by the idea at least some pampered segment of society will survive the collapse, they most definitely aren't the best our genetics have to offer (despite what they think/were taught to believe.)

Tick - tock good citizen, time is slipping away and we need to act before we're acted upon. If El Trumpo is capitalism's 'closing act' the curtain is already nearing the floor.

Will we make it until 7/5?

We'll see. We might well have bigger things to worry about come Independence Day...and like the song says, what a difference a day makes.

What's that up ahead? Is that the Rubicon?

Thanks once again for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon spelled the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire just as our (alleged) election of Ronnie Reagan spelled the end of the American Empire. Those who would rule with impunity over us [the laws apply to US, NOT them.] have waited patiently for their return to power. I suspect the 'wait' is almost over and the veil is about to be torn off the sham we call 'electoral politics'.

We WON'T get another King, they will call him an 'administrator' or Manager, something neutral to keep the public ignorant of the new [permanent] leader's true nature, a puppet that serves the crown alone while the self-styled 'royals' remain in hiding.

Justice and equality will remain words and legal will be whatever they say it is...and if you don't like it, tough!

Ain't I the 'cheerful' one?

The Enclaves

Greetings good citizen, yesterday I provided the outline of how I would alter this trainwreck we call society, I'll continue with another proposal intended to keep the peace between our various personality types I call the Enclaves, 'clubs' if you will where the like minded can share the kind of life THEY enjoy, knowing they are surrounded by people who accept that motorcycles are LOUD and don't have a problem with it.

Surfers would chase the ultimate wave on a communal beach, back to nature types could enjoy 'primitivism' with fellow enthusiasts and vintage muscle car restorers could race their 'suicide machines' on desolate tracks away from the ears of those who crave peace & quiet.

The 'fly' in this ointment is 'thinking' you want to live the biker lifestyle and the reality of that lifestyle. It will be difficult to accommodate those who are attracted to adventure but once there decide it's 'not for them'.

For that purpose there will be 'guest accomodations' in each enclave so you can take the lifestyle for a test drive to see if it 'suits' you.

While I give a few examples, enclaves, in essence, can be established for anything people are 'passionate' about.

AND they get to make their own 'rules' regarding how they AGREE to live together. [All enclaves start with a blank slate...not completely blank, military/soldier of fortune enclaves will not be permitted ALTHOUGH Warrior enclaves and martial arts enclaves will!

Turning to the 'nerdier' side, there will also be 'fantasy enclaves' where the members 'roleplay' when they are away from their 'real world' jobs and responsibilities.

The 'idea' is to make life more 'enjoyable' [and to build communities that co-operate with one another through the appreciation of our differences.]

The limits of enclaves is HARM. NO Enclave will 'actively recruit' members, these are communities NOT CULTS! While the gathering together of religious people is permitted they MUST keep their beliefs to THEMSELVES. There's a world of difference between petitioning and proselytizing.

One gains you new followers, the other gets your cult exiled!

Expressly forbidden is any lifestyle based on its 'superiority' to any other. Intolerance [somewhat ironically] won't be tolerated. It's okay for YOU to believe that being vegan is superior to the alternatives but DON'T damn anyone else for their choice because no matter how well YOU take care of your body, the final destination remains unaltered.

Might as well have 'Born to Die' tattoo'd on our foreheads...maybe that will change when we have more than this solitary planet to choose from but despots are everywhere and they all think 'their way' is the ONLY way...[despots don't give a flying F what YOU think...about anything.]

Had a reader ask me how I'd change the world but I think they were asking the question on most of your minds...what's in this for him [meaning me.]

I get what EVERYBODY ELSE GETS, a 'sane world' to leave my children, where accident of birth has no bearing on their future security. They won't be homeless nor will they starve. They won't be condemned to do work they hate just to keep food in their stomachs and a roof over their heads.

They won't die young because they couldn't afford treatment for some common ailment their insurance refused to cover.

They would also be able to have a family and not worry about any of those things happening to their kids [or theirs]...and a little peace of mind can go a long way!

Just another piece of the puzzle for you to think about...and I'm sure most of you had exactly that on your youthful 'wouldn't it be cool' lists.

THere is NO reason why we can't do it except those who think we should be kept as miserable and humble as 'inhumanly possible'.

That's all for today Head, see you tomorrow!

Gegner