Crowding

Greetings good citizen, as the shooting gallery lights up with more frightening regularity we RETURN to the 'elephant in the room' both the pundits and the media continue to ignore and that particular pachyderm's name is OVERPOPULATION!

The 'frustration' that is leading more and more people to become mindless killers is born of the capitalist doctrine of 'competition'.

Nowhere in our social model is 'inclusiveness'. Capitalists only have room for the best, they don't want the 'also rans'...and THAT leaves us where?

Did I mention feckless? Because D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. is omnipresent!

Just as the problem of your job not paying you enough to live on...that's not your employer's problem, it's YOURS! [under capitalism]

A 'more responsible' social model would address these 'inequities'.

What will it take to finally put a fork in this pig cause it's DONE? [as in FINISHED, kaput, no more!]

But wait...there is another side to this coin...the one the 'more for me crowd' points to and and grunts, what about 'survival of the fittest?'

Do you REALLY want to play that card? [Because it both opens up the shooting gallery and ENDS ALL COOPERATION. It is no longer about US once the EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF card is played!

Even the military turns on itself because the military protects US...and that dog don't hunt in the 'free-for-all' the capitalists point to to as the justification for their fecklessness.

We have to STOP being played for chumps.

Here it is...the single thing that separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom is our 'insect-like' willingness to cooperate with one another, putting the welfare of the tribe/herd ahead of our individual well-being.

Isn't THAT what we collectively consider 'the finest quality' about our humanity?

Well, how unfortunate for the rest of us that the none too bright value 'men of action' more!

This is what A Simple Plan's testing will sort for. Given time just about anybody can work out the solution to a problem, the tests sort out those capable of producing workable solutions that can be implemented quickly and with minimal collateral damage.

Isn't THAT who you want in charge during a crisis? Quick and workable rather than "he'll get there eventually, he's just waiting for one of his 'advisers' to tell him what he needs to do..."

But I digress...

Isn't at least PART of the FRUSTRATION you're personally feeling connected to the fact most of the problems facing humanity AREN'T EVEN ON THE DAMN TABLE?

Sometimes it doesn't take a lot of words to come to THE POINT.

Again brevity is the soul of decision-making. We have been saddled with a 'broken system' that CAN'T be repaired, Since the defects are nearly universal, capitalism and fabian democracy must be scrapped and replaced with direct democracy and the Division model of commerce that operates on a 'contribute to withdraw' model [with both sides guaranteed and cheats exiled.]

If you can't live by the rules you will be cast out. Principal among those rules will be the oldest of all prohibitions, the one against treachery...where you get what you want by screwing someone else out of it.

The feckless hate RULES THEY DON'T CONTROL. [Specifically ones that apply to YOU and NOT THEM.]

People like that have NO PLACE in civil society...how unfortunate for the privileged that they are raised to believe the rules aren't for them?

But I again digress...focus!

OVERPOPULATION, it's tearing the fabric of [capitalist] society to shreds...we either fix the problem [end capitalism] or it 'fixes' us...

Thanks for opening your mind, please take this and share it with anyone you think would agree. Numbers talk!

Gegner

The Brink

Greetings good citizen, we can only wonder why the media ignores the elephant in the room as this past weekend produced a bumper crop of psychopathic violence. Never have so many been so isolated or more helpless. The conventions that prevent us from killing one another on sight have worn perilously thin.

Why do you suppose that is good citizen?

Perception is EVERYTHING [just ask the 'just tellin' ya how it is' media...] and what do you suppose the average individual is feeling? Again the answer varies wildly depending on where that individual sits on the totem pole. MOST people are feeling rudderless, there is no justice and equality is a joke. Spirit in the Sky hasn't lifted a finger in almost 2,000 years yet people still pray for vindication. The people at the top of the totem pole are tickled pink over the impending collapse of civilization. It creates the ideal circumstances for pushing the limits to the max!

The priests keep the lights burning but there hasn't been anyone home in millennia.

Wanna know who will 'deliver us from evil'? Find a mirror.

That's right, this whole shitshow starts with YOU! [and your continued inaction is only making matters worse...as evidenced by the news...a phenomenon the talking heads have no explanation for.

Officially it's a 'hands off' topic but as Lenny Cohen told us, Everybody Knows.

Welcome to a world where your only limit is your audacity...which is only a few heartbeats removed from that legendary jungle we thought we escaped so many planets ago, the one of 'kill or be killed'. Today's meat-eater revels in the thrill of 'all or nothing' (so long as they don't have to do their own 'wet work'.) Our modern predator wears white because he's never going to be within a hundred yards of his dastardly deeds.

He feigns superiority while others do his bidding...but he foolishly underestimates his henchmen...who only need his protection while civil society remains cohesive. Once 'order' becomes a fugitive, the feckless have outlived their usefulness.

How close are we to that day? It's a lot closer than sparky realizes.

The three pillars, Equality, Justice and Peace [Funny how the ancients held 'Truth, Beauty and Honor' to be vital to civilization but the lying bastards were slavers and thieves back then too. They couldn't promote the most important pillar of them all, Equality.

Say what you want about them but at least they weren't complete hypocrites! [Utter morons is another issue altogether...]

That said, the apple seldom falls far from the tree, the evidence is everywhere!

People who don't value civil society want it destroyed so they can evade justice...it's really that simple. Why does the media insist we are 'divided'? Because divided we fall and the institutions that keep society strong fail.

For some bizarre reason the ancients didn't place much value on TRUST and it is the very cornerstone of civilization, why do you suppose that is?

Could it be the feckless don't want to be branded hypocrites too? Silly, isn't it?

The fact we can't trust the people running things as far as we could throw them speaks volumes about our current perilous situation.

Now the Simple Minded honestly believe our rapidly collapsing situation is directly related to the 'turning away' from an Almighty abject failure who hasn't done a single thing since his inception two thousand years ago. Talk about short attention span theater, they completely forget WHY people stopped believing in the OBVIOUS BS STORY!

The greatest story ever told [pure fiction attributed to the hundreds of self-serving opportunists that were taught to write by the same feckless bastards that dictated the contents of the book!] A book that does not contain the answer to the problem of what to do about the self-serving among us...although those same 'side-steppers' point to the lord as the 'answer to YOUR prayers'...Always with the gospel of how the wicked will be punished for all eternity AFTER DEATH!

I personally have zero use for a 'God' that lets wickedness go unpunished. So imagine how I feel about those who deal in wickedness or preach that vengeance belongs to the totally invisible and completely ineffective 'God'.

This 'fable' was directly responsible for the Dark Ages...but they brush that off to 'unintended consequences', sometimes the ball takes those funny bounces, who knew?

Are we stuck on a treadmill, where the 'superstitious peasant' alternates between slavish devotion and reckless abandon?

Because it is utterly astonishing how quickly the ineffective God can rush back into place like he never left. Worse, when the 'rabidly religious' crawl out of the woodwork like THEY never abandoned their imaginary champion they are thirsty for the blood of the heretics who deny their god's 'righteousness'.

Yup, and now you know where the expression 'between a rock and a hard place' came from.

Letting morons run loose is it's own reward! Only fools think they can be controlled.

Why do you suppose critical thinking skills aren't taught until college?

The answers are manifold but principle among them is the ignorant are more easily manipulated.

Thanks for visiting, don't forget to grab as many free samples as you like!

Gegner

Nuts & Bolts

Greetings good citizen, as it sometimes happens this morning's edition of the paper failed to appear...if it weren't both virtual and free I'd suspect somebody lifted it from my virtual front yard, as tiny that is.

Don't worry, by now most of you know I have an endless supply of topics to rant about and today's choice is the one that drives this blog, the oft referred to but seemingly undiscoverable [even by me and I've posted it dozens of times in hundreds of locations!] is the phantom of all phantoms, A Simple Plan.

Cover to cover that beauty is over 90 pages long so you WON'T be seeing here in a post, best I can do here is the high points, which I try and work into the occasional post just to remind you I'm not doing this just to hear myself scream [in print, such as THAT is!]

My rants have both purpose and meaning. Capitalists are fond of repeating "If you have a better idea we'd all love to hear it! [so they can cash in on it. They don't want the game changed, they want game changers!]

Well, my sights are set somewhat higher than the base goal of creating the better 'bezel'.

Perhaps laying it out the way I created it will help you understand the 'logic' behind my thinking.

It all starts with YOU! I wish this were the unique part but no, if the systems have a common point, they all share the individual as their starting point. Under capitalism it turns YOU into a draft animal intent on chasing carrots until you outlive your usefulness, then they you are put out to pasture to manage as best you can...until a wolf or a bear comes along and eats you.

PURE communism is premised on the simple principle of Share and Share alike...with some comrades [usually the ones in charge] helping themselves to the stuff they keep under lock and key although the Chinese have learned from the West and started paying their comrades a share of the spoils...just keeping the machine greased...we all know how it goes.

But A Simple Plan starts with you and the question facing every life form on the planet, every minute of every day.

You know what that question. (no you don't that's why you're still reading!) It is assumed the animal kingdom is only tangentially aware of this universal truth [sorry, you'll have to endure my style of writing. I know this is longer than necessary but I'm trying to make it interesting!]

The question we all face pretty much constantly without being aware of it most of the time is the one of 'How will I live'?

What YOU fail to understand is SOME people have settled on the idea of having others solve this quandary for them. You do 'the work and they collect the 'profits'. A symbiosis on the surface but a less than benign one if you scrape away the BS.

Worse, like royalty, this relationship is often hereditary.

We all know where the bear shits so I'll spare you the melodrama.

Under A Simple Plan it all starts with YOU and returns control to YOU. You do work that needs doing [without necessity work is meaningless] and you are rewarded for your efforts with all of the things you don't have time/skill to make for yourself.

Where does the 'division of labor' concept go sideways? CASH!

Instead of being given your 'fair share' you are given script and told to purchase what you want from the 'open market'...what is the first thing that becomes apparent to you? You don't have enough script to get what you need to stay alive much less pretty much any of the 'finer things in life'!

Se Habla 'failure to launch'?

This is a serious problem and the politicians aren't even addressing it, although the latest incarnation of Santa Claus, El Trumpo won the election by promising to bring back all the jobs lost to fake 'trade deals'!

This is where the rubber meets the road good citizen. In order for money to be VALID it's VALUE has to be UNIVERSAL! Which means a dollar here is EXACTLY THE SAME as a dollar anywhere else on the planet, regardless of what it's called!

When you start cooking the books on the scale the feckless have done it's no longer difficult to understand why poverty is so prevalent. Especially since automation has removed so many participants from the production cycle!

The problem with the feckless (those who 'inherited' critical links in the supply chain from their parents) is they DON'T THINK! (Whether or not they are CAPABLE of thinking is another question entirely.)

There are now too many links and not enough 'slack' in the system to provide for those born with silver whatevers protruding from EVERY orifice! [as evidenced by the growing number of billionaires...how frightening is it that we can't breed fast enough to keep the feckless's children in the lap of luxury?]

What's driving this shitshow? I just told you.

So, first thing we do is 'fix' the money situation by ERASING EVERYBODY'S BANK ACCOUNTS, closing the stock markets and firing EVERYONE in the front office! [pending PROSECUTION!]

None of this will happen until the bought and paid for government is brought to heel. K street will be bulldozed...but these are picayune details.

Fix 'money' and the justice system [A can't happen without B] then we have to 'regroup' because some industries will be wiped out and others will undergo radical makeovers.

Who will land in the unemployment line? Lawyers, bankers, judges, anyone who wore a badge will all be looking for work...but A Simple Plan both giveth as well as taketh away!

Not only will homes be a 'gimme' but so will the maintenance of those homes! Millions of jobs will be created rehabbing worn out housing units across the planet! Which will, in turn, create jobs in each of the industries supplying the housing sector.

So all of those stockbrokers and bankers made useless by the elimination of the fakery we called banking can certainly push lawn mowers or leaf blowers...and shovel snow...which is to say, do something USEFUL FOR ONCE.

How many of these 'nuthin go up top' types will opt for voluntary exile is uncertain but one thing is guaranteed, a few blisters and a little back ache is far better than what is sure to be a return to the stone age [and actually playing 'lord of the flies' for real!]

While the military as we have come to know it will cease to exist, there will still be teams assigned to hunt down the feckless from the corners of the planet and bring them to justice...where possible.

Navies will be maintained to patrol the oceans [the most likely 'refuge' for the feckless that already fancy themselves somewhat akin to 'pirates']

Ground pounders will become obsolete as we return the job of keeping the 'homeland' safe to the civilian soldier.

Yup, that means YOU Sparky!

This is why the full document is 90 pages long...all the details!

I've already run down the highlights in recent posts. Guaranteed jobs, free services across the board, free utilities [Mother Nature doesn't have a cash register, capitalism is a way for the feckless to BLEED YOU!(in case you haven't caught on yet!)]

We ALL work for each other and we ALL reap the benefits [instead of everything being hoarded by the greedy few at the top.]

Why not make EVERYTHING FREE? Because the 'opportunists' among us would never sleep at home if hotels were free and you'd starve to death waiting for a table at a restaurant if food were 'free'.

Money exists to regulate. The major flaw in the capitalist model is it cost the same to feed a rich man as it does a poor one, which, ironically is also the principal argument AGAINST 'the cheaper there'(that the feckless keep insisting is possible.) How unfortunate repeating a lie doesn't make it true!

By eliminating the injustice system and its 'support system' we can finally outlaw debt, taxes and live FREE!

In as much as the opportunists among us can be kept in check. That's why voting directly on the law and making all proposed laws pass muster with the Human Anti-Exploitation law AND the so-called Golden Rule [Do unto others] BEFORE being put to a vote keeps the feckless from returning to power.

If I don't survive someone is going to have to sift through these posts and piece together all the elements that make a simple plan work...because the intact versions keep being deleted by the feckless.

But that's a problem that's baked into the cake...(soon to be a novel!)

Thanks once again for opening your mind! Don't forget to help yourself to today's special Free Freedom!

Gegner

Blood in the Streets

Greetings good citizen, before you're asked to lament the good old days of Obama or his predecessor, Bush try and remember that, inexplicably, neither of them ended the war W. started...

No solid reason WHY he went where he went and did what he did [the whole 'weapons of mass destruction' thing proved false...and he got a pass on it. [now THERE'S 'justice' for ya!] Just as President pussy-grabber got a 'pass' from both the press and an incredulous public by being appointed Meat Puppet in Chief DESPITE his heinous crimes.

Do you wonder who is REALLY calling the shots around here? Understand, the same meatheads responsible for putting El Trumpo on the throne also decided Romneycare, dubbed Obamacare, had to go...and the end result was massive tax breaks for those who needed it LEAST.

If you WANTED to BURN THIS POP STAND we call America DOWN, they sure are giving it a good start!

People's figurative 'outrage meters' have been pegged/max'ed out for decades and still no one has acted [much less proposed] that we unseat the usurpers...which is to point out if any adults survived the coup they sure as hell aren't stepping in to fill the void left by their peers.

Worse, it is still as simple as 'following the money'. Follow the 'cash trail' and it will lead you straight to the perps, same as it ever was!

But our media is, er, reluctant to pursue the evidence because their owners hands are dirty and the editors are dripping wet'.

Which leaves YOU where, good citizen?

It leaves you here, doesn't it. Reading in a blog what should be making headlines the world over...but now that they have sought the refuge of 'fake news' the media has already absolved itself for throwing us under the bus all those years.

While what really happened is SOME of them hope to escape being HUNG for their crimes!

[Treachery comes in many forms and ALL of them are punishable by death. The guilty know this but it didn't stop them.]

How unfortunate the 'opportunists' among us see the road to instant riches in 'turning the other cheek'?

This is why nobody was prosecuted for crashing the global economy the first time. Worse, failure to permanently remove these cretins from society allowed their progeny to take revenge on an unsuspecting society.

Morning in America is the vengeance of the Robber Barons!

Did you see the Republican on Mahar last night trying to argue both sides of the Deficit Hawk/Tax cuts for the rich...er, it's not really a debate so much as an exercise in mental masturbation, the only way you can have it both ways!

Let us [momentarily] return for two seconds to 'the purpose of government'...IT EXISTS TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC [although it seems today it exists to protect the feckless from prosecution...and nothing more.]

Given the unjust cesspit society has devolved into, what currently passes for government should in fact be pushed aside and purged of the feckless self serving morons who see their job as helping themselves first.

THEY aren't going to prosecute ANYBODY because they have seen it far too often. Paint a bulls-eye on the target and from out of nowhere comes the golden hand of protection, picking up the target and placing them beyond justice's reach but that's not the 'bad part' then the golden hand comes back and the ones who painted the target find themselves on the unemployment line for doing the job they were hired to do.

THAT SHIT HAS TO STOP! [although if anything is to be learned from previous purges the only ones that end up paying the price is the ones complaining about the injustice!]

Nobody likes a snitch...or a whiner for that matter.

Oh well.

D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. ?

Nope.

Boil away the BS and the question becomes 'how much more of this are you going to put up with...because when you can't take it anymore you will be witness to the awesome destructive power of the clinically insane.

It's that or STRIKE...your choice.

Thanks for stopping by, don't forget to help your self to all the free samples you can carry!

Gegner

GREED is highly destructive

Greetings good citizen, we are taught from a early age that pursuing our own best interests serves the interests of us all.

Um, statements like that only provide cover for the self-interested who ruthlessly hold hostage what we all need to survive. Doesn't look so 'benevolent' when it's put to you that way does it?

The right to own denies others their right to prosper because whoever got there first has claimed for themselves what there is. Sure they will let you BUY some but if you can't afford the price, 'keep shopping'.

This 'me,me,me-mine,mine,mine' mindset is re-enforced by adults from the beginning of life and at no time during your youth was this cycle broken...except, occassionally, at church where you were taught the 'sanctity of sharing'.

They provided lip service to the idea life is to be shared but stopped short of actually enforcing a concept so contrary to capitalism and it's central premise of 'Greed is Good'.

Just to give you an idea, Adam Smith, the man credited with immortalizing the concept in print From Wikipedia:

Adam Smith was an economist and philosopher who wrote what is considered the "bible of capitalism," The Wealth of Nations, in which he details the first system of political economy.Aug 17, 2016

Your greedhead progenitors don't know why they hold personal greed dear to their hearts although many mistakenly credit Gordon Gekko, the fictional 'anti-hero' of the film Wall Street.

So it is the Republicans [the party YOU vote for but deny being a member of] has just declared a 'permanent' tax cut for the ONE PERCENT [in the what by now must be 100th consecutive attempt to 'jumpstart' the economy by giving those who already have more than they can spend even more that they have no idea what to do with...although I have explained it in detail to you many times. [Who arms the warlords? Who is smuggling the drugs? Who is trafficking in humans? and who is lobbying for a smaller, 'privatized' government?]

Because in case you don't realize it, that's the REAL GOAL of 'tax cuts'...to defund the government so they can't meddle [more commonly recognized as protect] the consumer from the feckless who HAVE (in the past) AND WILL (in the future) commit any attrocity 'for a buck'...and since GREED IS GREAT is our unofficial national coda, they defend their actions, regardless of how heineous, as "hey, I wuz just tryin' to make a buck!" Some of 'em even have the chutzpah to add 'honest' in there.

But 'sensitivity' has never been the stupid's strong point.

So as we enter the 17th year of the War without End [did you notice NEITHER candidate campaigned on the promise to end the war? Most of you forget we are still bleeding money from the eyesockets for a senseless, unwinnable 'military adventure'.

Yup less taxes for those that already have more than they can spend! The rest of us can 'tread water' as best we can while the feckless raise 'fees' to cover the latest 'giveaway' to the already wealthy.

The global bumper crop of billionaires is the only evidence of (again) global tax cuts FOR THE RICH. While much massaged 'metrics' indicate humanity as a whole is only minesculely better off than they were forty years ago and it is only when you look at the barely preceptible improvements in abject poverty measures that there is ANY noticable difference. That and the billionaires.

Which is to tell you WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW...GUESS WHO IS 'PAYING' FOR THESE TAX CUTS?

I don't even need to direct you to a mirror...besides the face you're making would scare anybody...except a politician, they are used to people making faces like that.

Worse, this 'more for me' nonsense has already decimated the global economy. The service industry has already converted to a 'by the gig' payroll model just to keep their doors open...no work = no pay and the 'too rich' just don't consume that much [relative to the size of the 'gig' workforce.]

IF we don't put the brakes on the 'more for me' mindset the coming 'social implosion' [what EVERYBODY is 'prepping' for] will return us to the stone age.

Guess what, even if you have a years worth of food put aside it won't be enough. [there can be NO prosperity without PEACE born of order and rule of law.]

How good are you at keeping a secret? Because that's how long your stash will last [provided you did an outstanding job of hiding it in the first place...most of you should plant 'free food' signs pointing the marauders to your stores because they are hiding in plain sight.

Didn't your pappy teach you that locks only keep honest people honest?

Don't look now but we are neck deep in greedy, selfish, untrustworthy, STUPID people...so your 'locks' are useless.

After they KILL you they'll have plenty of time to bust the place up looking for your stash.

I know...I'm doing it again, those three things people hate, cameras, mirrors and the truth.

Well, ignore this at your own peril as well!

I'm going to close with my new admonition to take as much as you like...when it come to knowledge or wisdom, greed truly is 'good'.

Gegner

Yakitty - Yak!

Greetings good citizen, while today's title may appear strange to you, stop and consider for a moment just where/how these 'homegrown terrorists' are getting 'radicalized'.

Yup, the net. For people who claim they don't read they sure spend a lot of time gawking at their smartphones...and NOTHING ELSE!

People don't talk anymore because the net has someone who 'gets' them, and speaks to their pain.

Couple that with the fact 'nobody listens' anymore and we learn what's driving this 'retreat' from that most human of activities, socializing.

We have pretty much stopped greeting one another...why say 'hi' if you don't want to talk [or be bored to death because the other person has nothing of interest to say to you...(how will you know if you don't listen?)]

Is socialization [talking to others about current events] a time waster? Does our 'plugged in' society no longer need the input of others to temper their judgement?

El Trumpo has already shared his OPINION that the NY attacker should receive the death penalty!

Is that, that? Trial by social media; execution at 11:00?

A society that recognizes NO social graces will soon have none. [listening is a courtesy for those who fail to understand the inference.]

The 'formality' of a 'trial' will be eliminated if the 'court of popular opinion' convicts you on 'hearsay' fabricated by people who just loves themselves some gratutitous punishment...and if the person they made shit up about dies as a result, 'yachtzee!'.

People don't need to 'discuss' the news anymore, they know all they need to know from slavishly checking their portable device, just like everybody else does...and since they already know...what's to talk about?

Each of us is 'plugged in' to sources that reflect our political beliefs, would be Republicans get their information from the fabricators at Fox News [who source half of what they receive from Breitbart]

More 'liberal' minded people get their news a layer removed from the source but since there are no 'real' liberals anymore, what they get are stories run through a weak liberal filter, mixed with a dash of outrage!

The result of this 'mushroom farm' is we no longer listen because we 'already know'.

Allow me to quote Einstien and his assessment of the situation: 'We KNOW one tenth of one percent of NOTHING!'

The talking heads may keep you 'informed' but they tell you NOTHING! We are no closer to knowing WHY the freakshow in Las Vegas happened than we are to learning who, precisely, murdered JFK.

Why don't you know you know nothing? Because you don't talk to anybody! [Perhaps I am off the mark, the real problem is YOU DON'T LISTEN!]

First you look around and see injustice everywhere you look but you don't question it because nobody wants to hear what YOU have to say.

If it were a 'real problem' the talking heads inside the little box that has enslaved you would tell you...[wouldn't they?]

That said, not everything that gets posted to the web is worthless...you simply have to 'know what you're looking at'.

I have told you repeatedly that my 'aim' is to raise awareness that you are being MANIPULATED by some very self-interested individuals who don't give a F what it does to society.

Consider me the 'Anti Mr. Robot' because I value what society represents...Mr. Robot wants to set society 'free' but society isn't about 'freedom' because society can't exist in chaos.

Society is about order and rationality...people who want neither are insane!

The problem, for those who repeatedly fail to see it, is not society but those who want society to see things 'their way'.

That's where the trouble starts. The current version of F-Society wants to decimate the tax base to the point where the government becomes paralyzed.

Then they'll holler bloody blue murder that their interests aren't being 'protected' and do the job themselves...and when NOBODY enjoys the 'protection of the courts, the 'law' will be dispensed from the barrel of a gun, just like it was in the 'wild, wild west!

When justice is 'whatever I say it is' you'll regret not striking up a conversation with that guy from Timbuktu when you had the chance to.

If you had 'listened' to him you would have learned for yourself, firsthand that he was loco!

But we don't 'listen' to people anymore so we don't get their 'measure'...and they don't get our (more valueable than you know) 'feedback'.

We are a 'reflection' of everyone we have ever encountered...our failure to engage those people when the opportunity arises is a gross failure indeed.

You can't catch a monster if you only sense/suspect something is 'a little off'.

How do you think the fellow in NY got 'radicalized'? How many MORE are out there BECAUSE nobody listens?

Here I sit, preaching against the toxic environment the self-interested have created for us and my reward has been silence.

Some of you are listening, and come 'crunch time' I hope what I have shared helps more than it hurts...but there is no way to know that.

Wisdom is a seldom sought commodity, one of little value when it is received but priceless once the tide turns...

Knowlege is power...use it 'wisely'.

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

WHY?

Greetings good citizen, the headlines are screaming over the latest act of domestic terror and, again, the 'starting point' returns us to Morning in America and the sudden halt to the institutionalization of the mentally ill.

That was 'square one' of the 'privatization' of the healthcare industry. If you were 'criminally insane' then you remained under lock & key but if you were merely a 'menace to society' you were cut loose. If your family had the resources, you got treatment...but if your family couldn't pay you were 'on you're own'.

Yes, good citizen. Society once saw the benefit of caring for the, er, 'unwell' [kept them off the streets and away from guns and sharp, pointy things.] But St. Ronnie Reagan shut down mental health facilities wholesale, nationwide when he kicked off his HMO offensive with it's $2 co-pays...

How many of you remember when co-pays were just $2?

They aren't $2 now, are they?

Whack jobs wandering the streets? They don't have ANYWHERE to go. But that's not who presents 'the danger'. Most of these people aren't capable of caring for themselves much less harming others. It's the ones who aren't completely helpless but are otherwise 'rudderless' [right is one of their hands and wrong is wetting themselves...the end.]

These people take jobs nobody 'in their right mind' would do, often becoming the 'wind-up toys' of anyone with an agenda because these otherwise helpless individuals only know what they're told...and there are a lot of them!

These institutions attracted their own variety of monsters and turned many of the institutions that employed them into living hells...but gross mismanagement isn't a new phenomenon.

[And some of the cruelest outcomes are born out of 'kind intentions'. The people that used their 'influence' to land their progeny a job inside said institution KNEW they should have been signing commitment papers but if he worked there, isn't it the 'same thing without the stigma'?]

Yeah, that 'poison' we call money has more 'uses' than intended...and it has caused endless grief from the very beginning.

Which is just one more reason why we need 'responsible people' in charge because our 'inner opportunist' can't resist a 'win-win' and out inner moron can't foresee the inevitable until after the fact.

Look at the people Mr. "Make America Great Again" surrounded himself with? Is he that poor a judge of character or does the error roll all the way back to the Reagan Revolution when the 'wrong people' seized the reins of the political system and started 'stacking the deck'?

Shift mental gears with me as we circle back to last night and the 5th consecutive 'childless halloween' shall we?

Zero coincidence that Halloween has become a 'phantom holiday'. Kids no longer go forth and meet their neighbors because they are taught to fear them!

Our damnable 'lack of a village' is nurturing fearful children who will soon have to be homeschooled so they don't have to 'socialize' at all.

Because a divided population is a conquered population.

When EVERYONE is the 'other' you have NO FRIENDS.

Think about how isolated you are and the position that leaves you in?

The ONLY 'team' you're a part of is at work and when the feckless decide they don't need you anymore, you're toast and none of your 'teammates' will stand up for you because it's always 'team first'...(and you did mock the boss's tie that one time two years ago so you sort of asked for it.)

Because the other thing plaguing society is this 'better them than me' disease.

Zero empathy is its own reward.

So when your kids have nobody to help them and no future who will they blame?

Don't look at me...um, got a mirror nearby?

In case you haven't (mentally) taken the time to peek over the edge of the cliff society is headed off, that's just one of the hideous things you'll see staring back.)

Until we can restore 'community' [And A Simple Plan does that with the 'enclaves' places where birds of every conceivable feather can band together to live the life they LOVE!]

Better, in the end there is only ONE TEAM AND that is Team Humanity, caring for the planet and ALL of it's inhabitants!

[Tragically mosquito larve are basically 'fish food' so if you want healthy fish stocks...you gotta suffer a little.]

We have to stop this remote control 'division' [fear-mongering] being done by the feckless 'owners of the planet' [a grievous wrong in itself.]

To live in harmony we cannot be 'divided'.

Not by God, not by Money and certainly not by 'I was here first' [to which we reply, good, then we'll EAT YOU FIRST!]

Thanks for letting me inside you're head,

Gegner