Collapse

Greetings good citizen, I am pained to inform you of what you already know, that what passes for civilization has in fact already collapsed.

The sideshow the media brings to you is precisely what you suspect it is...a distraction.

Wonder what caused them to rip the bandaid off the 'pedigree pretense?'

What pedigree pretense? [Yup, I gonna 'Splain it for ya so just keep yer britches on!]

Constant reader knows I frequently point to the phenomenon where, like money, a degree from the local community college is literally identical to one from an Ivy League school...so why does a MBA from your local CC open the doors to the world of convenience store management while the 'identical' degree from an Ivy League school opens up the corridors of power?

It's not 'what you learned', it's how much you SPENT!

WHO do you suppose started the...'rumor' that money = intelligence?

Wouldn't have been the 'intellectual snobs' would it? Sure it would because we have always been NECK DEEP IN STUPID!

How fortunate for the predators among us that the typical human doesn't/is incapable of thinking?

For the extremely FEW of you that are PAYING ATTENTION...what am I going to share next?

That we have a faction that is taught [usually from childhood] to exploit the average moron's natural inclination to be 'trusting'.

Look at the cesspool [that you and I live in] nobody pays any attention to and understand where it comes from.

This is the by-product of the feckless 'getting over' on each other.

When called to task for their blatant negligence we are suddenly attacked for not being 'more careful' while the legal SYSTEM closes ranks behind/in support of the perp.

See what kind of trouble the mis-handling of money makes?

Almost as much as letting people whose second language is English compose the dictionary in your products!

It's the lack of accountability like this that is driving the recklessness behind the trends that are tearing civilization apart.

Who cares?

We are all affected by it so the answer is...

Until next time Head,

Gegner

Expectation(s)

Greetings good citizen, as we roll towards the nation's hundredth presidential cycle it is obvious to all involved that the process itself is deeply flawed but change is nowhere on the horizon [although the belief that society is on the verge of collapse is nearly universal, how's that for fucked?]

Those who doubt society is imploding to (extremely dangerous, er, 'fragments') do so because there is nothing to take the current messes place and will smugly insist that nature abhors a void, that the pressure to move forward regardless will keep the CF humping until it DIES.

And that is the ONLY way Scrotty Mc Boogerballs sees society coming to an end.

So ferocious are the forces of comply or die.

Sick thing about the badge and the robe is they DON'T KNOW anything else so they just keep on doing WHAT THEY THINK THEY OUGHT TO BE DOING, RIGHT, WRONG OR INDIFFERENT!

So we arrive full circle at how fucked is that?

Not nearly as screwed as watching the election cycle ramp up. Last time the Blue Team fielded one candidate and an outrider also threw his hat in the ring to run for the Blue nomination while the Red Team ran sixteen candidates...and the 'best' they had to offer occupies the White House today because the Democrat's single candidate was seen as Wall Street's puppet.

Why the 'hopelessly stupid' thought the Billionaire scam artist was a better choice remains a mystery to this day.

UNDERSTAND THE FACTS: Numbnuts LOST. The smoke-filled room handed the presidency to Donald the clueless because he needs someone to take him to the restroom so there was little chance he'd wander off by himself and cause mischief!

The media calls the loser's exploits 'boldness' when everybody can see it's A.) Theater and B.) STUPIDITY.

Perhaps the moron thinks he's doing a 'good job', his handlers on the red team media tell him he's doing great but what do they know?

Left to your imagination is why nobody on either side of the aisle is asking if America has achieved 'Greatness' [or what they plan on telling future generations about The Donald's delusional campaign to make and abstract object 'legendary' by merely pretending it is so.

There's stupid and then there's this...

What twisted my undershorts? This morning's front page announced that Joe Biden was the Blue Team's 'frontrunner.'

This is patently untrue but it seems some people get to open their mouth and take a steaming dump on a national forum, just to give you an idea of how dangerous the process is and how bad the outcomes the system produces are.

Yup, push come to shove Hillary won yet the 'shadow government' chose the other guy...mostly because Hillary was/is toxic.

The open secret is 'Everybody Knows' this is NOT democracy. It is something much worse, it's 'pretend democracy' where we pretend to decide and they pretend their bad choices are our fault.

ASP does away with the 'pretense'. Don't perform and you will find yourself out of office faster than you arrived.

Since 'Job One' NEVER changes it becomes the prime directive and the yardstick used to gauge progress.

Do YOU remember what Job One is? [It's NOT 'profits for the shareowners', moron!]

Job One is Survival and not personal but survival of the species.

Using that vague benchmark as our guide, what kind of results do you think the current system is producing?

Some are prospering at the expense of the majority...and for those prospering, that benchmark is 'acceptable' until the consequences of their gross mismanagement come home to roost.

It's NOT overpopulation that is doing civilization in, it's the lopsided outcomes produced by the 'winner/loser' model [especially when the model produces far more losers than winners.]

Thinking, it's not just for breakfast anymore...

Until next time, Head.

Gegner

Animal

Greetings good citizen, it is human to have a 'hair trigger' on certain topics and for as many humans there are, there exists as many triggers

Under A Simple Plan we would begin the process of weeding out society's mental midgets, those with 'zero tolerance' who idiotically believe life must be lived on their terms or not at all.

Again, I nod in the direction of the cognizant who keenly appreciate how the decision-making process known as politics has been bastardized by the self-serving OWNERS of commerce and the media:

My starting point is a weekend tweet from Representative Devin Nunes of California, who headed the House Intelligence Committee until the House changed hands after the midterms. In that role, he basically acted as Donald Trump’s stonewaller in chief, doing everything he could to prevent any real investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin.

But his tweet wasn’t about that. It was about a waitress who, citing the “straw police,” asked his dining party if they wanted straws. “Welcome to Socialism in California!” Nunes thundered.

If this seems like a weird aberration — he wasn’t even denied a straw, just asked if he wanted one — you need to realize that rage explosions over seemingly silly things are extremely common on the right. By all accounts, the biggest applause line at the Conservative Political Action Conference — eliciting chants of “U-S-A, U-S-A!” — was the claim that Democrats are coming for your hamburgers, just like Stalin. (They aren’t, and for the record, Stalin was a mass murderer, but objectively pro-burger.)

[Paul Krugman did explanatory journalism before it was cool, moving from a career as a world-class economist to writing hard-hitting opinion columns. For an even deeper look at what’s on his mind, sign up for his weekly newsletter.]

One would think the outraged would be all over my blog because I pose a threat to those who believe in 'My way or the Highway' but perhaps what I propose [if you are unhappy living in civil society, leave] concurs with what they want to do although the main difference is I use the scales that weigh 'the good of the species' vs my personal list of pet peeves...like those listed above attributed to our 'representatives' that allegedly reflect 'us'.

If the current batch of meat-puppets is the best it's going to get, we are definitely going about this whole process WRONG.

Which is why under A Simple Plan leaders will win their posts by besting all competitors to solve society's problems in a holistic manner. [Your solution shouldn't create more problems than it solves...in case you were wondering what holistic refers to in this instance.]

The media 'distracting' you from the gross mismanagement of the planet by its 'owners' stymies even the possibility of peaceful solution to the crisis created by those who claim to own the planet and therefore reserve for themselves the right to 'rule' the planet.

Where does this claim of ownership stand in light of the FACT that money is FICTION?

Do you need more proof that we must stop following the STUPID?

Brings us to the second part of this article; the one where the morons refuse to acknowledge there is no 'human flag' so they wrap themselves in the flag of the usurpers [those who 'assume' power from those chosen to lead] and mindlessly support insanity because 'loyalty' is more important to them than equity or justice.

We DESPERATELY need to cull the herd of the STUPID.

The percentage that honestly believe that those who disagree with them and their stupidity are a waste of buttwipe need their membership in society revoked.

Where do 'we' draw that line? With the 'Adam Smiths' of society. People who can't spell treachery never mind recognize it when they are doing it are also candidates for the One Way Naked walk in the Badlands.

Um, here's a 'universal' litmus test...if you think Dr. Smith on lost in space is 'funny' your membership in society is forfeit, a worthwhile individual is stupefied that the Robinsons didn't space the bastard immediately!

If you are that incapable of recognizing loathsome behavior in others chances are excellent you don't recognize those same traits in yourself.

Sadly, most of us fear mirrors and are incapable of accepting the idea we may be flawed or harbor false believes.

Yup this is why mirrors are part of the 'big three'.

People hate them because they dislike what it shows them.

Mind is a funny thing, eh?

The ONLY one that can change it is you...

Until next time Head,

Gegner

Jaw-boned

Greetings good citizen, one of my favorite hobby horses was the in your face lies the media shamelessly broadcasts for a paycheck.

If you or I did that in the performance of our jos we'd be fired with cause...or made CEO.

[Listen to me, I haven't worked in years and the above is partly the reason. To be a 'member in good standing' of the capitalist management system you have to sell the lie.

My employees and my customers liked me because I never lied to them...and I like to delude myself that my readers like me for the same reason. Conversely, My bosses lived in terror that I would expose them but I didn't because that would have made me totally unemployable.

That said, I tired of the management path that typically ended with being terminated for no reason despite much of what we do regularly defying logic...

Even back in the employee saddle I still managed to vex my superiors because they knew whose fault the problems really were...theirs.

If your assignment is flawed in the first place, whose fault is it when it goes sideways? Yours or the person who accepted it?

What am I talking about? Being given ten minutes to complete a twenty minute task, it's how I landed in management in the first place. I'm rather adept at pulling rabbits out of roasting pits [thinking my way out of tight spots usually with acceptable levels of collateral damage.]

But if the whole operation was flawed (and they ALL are due to the 'central premise' being flawed) the best I could manage was to re-arrange the deck chairs into their most favorable position.

And down they went.

Most of my resume is 'phantom' and I am in good company in that. The greatest generation would pride itself on having worked their entire career for one employer.

The ONLY people who manage that feat under 'fiat capitalism' are the progeny of the operation's owner.

Back when it was one of the nation's largest employers [due to war] the manufacturing sector was commonly referred to as 'The Gypsy Trade'. Unlike auto mechanics, machinists had wheels on their tool boxes because the only way to get a raise was to quit.

If the 'prevailing wage' in a given area was X and the guy that owned the shop down the street needed to hire more guys to meet contract he just won, that was 'raise time'. If you didn't quit, your would get nickel and dimed. If you pushed your tool box to the next shop you'd get at least quarter!

So we find where 'loyalty' died. Some blame the 'skinflint' capitalist while the capitalists blame the worker for 'taking advantage' and truth be told they were both wrong 'economically speaking'.

I remind you that it is not my purpose to tell you what to think but to provide you with something to think about!

IF 'job one' is Survival and Specialization greatly enhances our prospects for survival, this makes money 'necessary' for specialization because the learning process prevents the individual from accomplishing the tasks they need to perform to ensure their survival.

Money exists SOLELY so you don't have to do EVERYTHING yourself.

Misusing money is a crime.

One of the greatest crimes being committed society wide is not paying a worker enough to live on although that crime has long since been eclipsed by denying those who refuse to live on wages that can't support them from making any money at all. [The classifying of jobs that prevent the environment from being poisoned as 'unprofitable' or, at the least, damaging to profitability are a prime example of the WIDESPREAD MISMANAGEMENT I refer to in just about every post!

The ARMY of the UNEMPLOYED has waxed enormous...were somebody to arm them the resultant bloodshed would be 'unimaginable'.

So how long [and it's already been a horrendously long time] will you put up with the 'jaw-boning' and all of the 'happy talk' coming from people who obviously don't know their ass from a hole in the ground?

Nobody [not even the mythical Trumpsters] believes things are getting 'better' or going gangbusters because the evidence to the contrary is everywhere you look.

Um, I once again belabor the obvious when I point out that this is NOT and 'Accident' or intended to be anything more than 'plausible denial'.

The 'Happy Talk' is a fig leaf. We all know what's underneath but the fig leaf pretends to cover it.

Does it disturb you that the infamous 'they' [And I mean 'the criminals'] regularly 'jaw-bone' the stock markets and the Justice system does nothing?

Why do YOU suppose what passes for our economy 'doesn't work' [despite all the myopic 'happy talk'?]

That concludes today's broadcast, tune in tomorrow when we explore whether you are an idiot or merely a simpleton?

Until next time Head,

Gegner

Regroup

Greetings good citizen, when life wipes out plan A you have to dust yourself off and put plan B into action while you formulate plan C because the 'whipsaw' will keep cutting the pins out from under you as the endless battle for market share devastates every and all markets.

Did you catch today's headlines? The gig economy is going tits up just like the service economy did because both were based on the concept of a consumer with free cash to spend.

That bird has become a rare one indeed as the 'more for me' crowd scours the landscape looking for the next big swindle.

With Uber & Lyft sucking pond water because business travel is going the way of the postal service will the multi-generational mortgage save the banksters from extinction?

When management turns predatory [they barely make payroll because their product isn't particularly competitive/unique the only place a flat product/market offers gains is from the employees.

More with less is the new profit center, just as multi-tasking [not because it improves performance but it reduces overhead] becomes a do it and like it strategy.

So what's your plan C? [Are you] keeping the shotgun in top working order (because your next job will be marauder, stealing what you can no longer afford to buy...because management spent all it could borrow buying shares in the company and there wasn't anything left over for raises...and the one measly percent you got last year was a third of what inflation took.

Now [thanks to Trump's 'trade war'] you won't get anything this year because the company isn't 'competitive'. Nor will it ever be so long as we let the banksters value money within a nation to THEIR best advantage!

Yet another wake up and smell the napalm moment. Money hitched to nothing is nothing.

Worse, the people demanding you do more with nothing are ripping you off because it's not their problem if you can't live on what they pay you. [You know full well whose problem it is.]

So what's YOUR plan C?

Aren't thinking that far ahead because you can't see where any of this is headed? Funny how a postcard in the mail can send you off to war but you can't do the same thing when the nation is being forced under the waves of tyranny?

Where's our Liberty Tree? Where do the angry meet up to take on the feckless that are stealing our children's future?

Because in case you are too STUPID to see it, that is exactly the situation here. Your future is fried and for reasons unknown you seem to think the kids will be fine...W T F is WRONG WITH YOU?

How insipid of the truly foolish to tell us to 'run for office' while the legal system remains under the control of the criminals.

Nothing is going to change if we can't restore justice...not that we can even remember a time when justice reigned and that is a mighty sad statement all by itself.

The liars will point to the second 'Great War', ignoring that it was waged by the same people that are running civilization into the ground today.

We are literally inches away from the return of slavery [and if it means three squares and a roof over your head most would gladly embrace it because they don't truly understand just how greedy and demanding 'Massa' really is.

ASP is there for the taking but nobody seems able to make 'common cause' with their fellow humans, thanks to the machinations of the feckless that also happen to be the slavers.

Look sharp because NOBODY'S got your back...

Gegner

Smokescreen

Greetings good citizen, as we approach the end of this website the 'fog of obfuscation' grows thicker as the noose tightens around the neck of faux democracy. Funny how cinema mirrors reality because this is the End Game for life as we have come to know it.

Yesterday's travesty of justice is just one more example of a corrupt system run by criminals.

Will ANY of the candidates from either side of the faux political divide take on the fetid pool that serves as the justice system?

Nobody DARES and until that changes we are all living in a cesspool.

Before becoming the Military-Industrial complex they were better known as the Robber Barons and before that we called them 'your majesty' because every one of them was a ROYAL!

They considered themselves 'noble' for letting you LIVE!

But I digress.

Our focus is on who is responsible for this shitshow that is devastating society and ruining the planet?

WHO is both money AND power?

The CRIMINALS!

We aren't talking Al Capone or John Dillinger, we're talking the Morgans, the Mellons and the Rockefellers who are part of the Rothschild criminal organization.

Who keeps the world's greatest Ponzi scheme operating in plain sight? The planet's 'stock markets' are the by-product of the planet's crime family.

There is a coup being plotted [thus the emergence of the Bit-coin] and when they cap off their criminal enterprise with an 'untouchable' layer of faux government there will be war on a level heretofore unseen.

Most know they have zero say in their national government, well, only the leaders of national governments will be allowed to vote in the new global government, which will provide the criminals with the cover they need to operate with impunity world-wide.

In case you were wondering where all of this kabuki bullshit was headed...

Now you know...it's your worst nightmare, times ten.

Your 'need' for food has painted you into a 'comply or die' corner. The 'resistance' will naturally turn renegade and steal what they need to live while the usurpers declare them 'outlaws' and order them exterminated by those too stupid to ask questions, nevermind reach logical conclusions.

And you think you're afraid of the people handed badges now? Just wait until you get a load of what's coming!

If you haven't been paying attention, this is how it's ALWAYS been done. [That's why the cops are quick to exonerate one of their own, because nobody wants to have the conversation starting with the question 'what was numbnuts doing with a badge in the first place?']

Do I need to point at the people running things (again) or draw your attention to the gross mismanagement/incompetence?

If we FIRED the fuckers and told their replacements they would suffer the same fate if they didn't straighten up do you think we'd see some 'results'?

Sure would but we'd need to start weeding out 'the corruptors' while we were at it or the shit show would return in weeks if not days.

Who are the corrupters? These are people pretending to be officials but they are simply posers with flimsy credentials. They walk in and take over, asserting their FAKE authority until they remove the people charged with straightening things out and assume the job themselves.

Sadly it's a simple as that and they have done it EVERY TIME regime change has threatened them with 'exposure' to a legal system they didn't fully control.

Hung from the nearest light pole.

When these posers are discovered, that will be their fate.

You gotta step up and be vigilant.

The situation is salvageable if only because corruption at this level is unsustainable.

Nobody is more astonished than they are that they've kept it together for this long.

While they are preparing to shoot the moon [global government] the whole leaky edifice is collapsing underneath them and chaos is staring them in the face because there aren't enough of them to hold it together...and there ain't a damn thing they can do about it.

Somewhat ironic that you aren't the only one suffering from delusional deception disorder, the 'useful idiots' who are just following orders don't have the mental horsepower to realize they are attempting the impossible with absolutely nothing.

Sort of redefines the creed that starts with "We the unwilling, lead by the ungrateful" doesn't it?

What's worse? That it won't work or it's too late to stop it?

Good thing we have a 'back up plan'! [I double dare ya to ask 'what back up plan?']

Thanks once again for stopping by and having a look see, there's not tellin' how much of this you understand...

Gegner

Compass

Greetings good citizen, like maps, compasses tell us what direction we are headed in but like so many other things in life, if there is more than one choice humans have a tendency to argue about which one is accurate, often for no other reason than to be 'contrary'. Show them the map and the compass and they will argue both are upside down despite the evidence of either.

Where is this going? Today's sojourn started with trip down the 'happiness' rabbit hole and ended with puzzle for the MAGA cap wearing morons regarding the record high suicide rate.

Are we 'Great' yet or do we ALL need to off ourselves?

Encountered a similar puzzle yesterday with the markets poised to launch a new batch of millionaires thanks to another IPO boomlet.

Property prices in (of all places) San Francisco are spiking just in anticipation of this fresh demand.

Why would anybody buy in the land that burns and shakes? [What kind of sense is that again? Somehow I don't think that's what term 'common' refers to.]

Let us return briefly to this morning's encounter with a 2 year old article from the Atlantic that raised the question of why 'Smart' = unhappy...and then proceeds to chase that thought across the landscape losing sight of both truths.

Smart is not the font of 'happiness' just as money has zero to do with intelligence.

If you have money in this society you are a criminal, easy-peasy.

Um, the now ancient observation that to a thinking man this life is a comedy [because almost everything we do is stupid, often hilariously so.] and to a feeling man this life is a tragedy (sometimes of epic proportions) as we idiotically discard/bypass what is most precious in the pursuit of our baser desires.

The world is not a happy place largely because most of us have no frickin' clue what happiness is. Doesn't matter if you are smart or dumb if you fail to appreciate the entire package.

[Preacher mode: ON] Life is 'holistic'. Tyranny isn't enjoyable (not even for the tyrant, contrary to popular belief.) Living as we do, drowning in a sea of injustice because our belief system is totally devoid of equality [even God is our 'Master' that doesn't want us to thrive, his principle commandment is OBEDIENCE!]

Humans seem incapable of understanding that there is more than one factor involved in building a 'happy' life. Worse, those who have lead in the past have ignored Equality because it meant 'more for them'. More for them is the ONLY reason anyone seeks the mantle of leadership which is why it is foolish to bestow such a powerful gift upon the self-serving, it is a double curse to hand it to the stupid.

ASP is designed around Equality, Justice and Peace. [We are] One people with One goal, survival. Survival relies on managing what there is so it will be there for future generations. Do ANY of our 'meat puppets' 'politicians' even nod at this basic necessity?

Don't think on that one too hard because the obvious answer is the correct one, it is also the short answer...no.

Because you 'assume' it doesn't mean they are even thinking about it.

One last thing before I disable Preacher mode, Life is neither good nor bad, life simply is. [The good or bad comes entirely from YOU.]

Were we, er, 'insightful enough' to appreciate the 'duality' of fate we would be able to appreciate that our happy often comes at the price of someone else's dreams being dashed.

[Preacher mode: OFF]

Can't resist the urge to 'pontificate' a bit more [what some consider 'belaboring the obvious' is still educational to the befuddled!]

It is from the observation that 'luck and doom' are two sides of the same coin that we derive the eternal struggle for 'balance', not so much between good and evil but between action and inertia.

Stasis is death, the end result of 'conservatism'.

Viva chaos!

Gegner