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Greetings good citizen, seems as though I've finally done it. I have parsed rudderless so many times that I can't create a new way to draw attention to the fact that we can't agree on what's broken, nevermind what to do about ANY of it.

Like all CF's you just have to pick one thing and start in on it. Strategically speaking that one thing should be universally important to everyone like 'mutual survival'.

We have to stop the criminals from exploiting people out of existence for their own enrichment.

Does this start with criminalizing the owner class (considering survival and ownership are in direct defiance of one another?) It is also in direct defiance of the conventions that prevent us from murdering one another on sight.

So why do we tolerate the 'owner class'? There should be no such thing but critical to the owner's survival is their lock on the media and its control of 'public opinion' [whether it is true or not.]

Banish/prosecute ownership and the media problem takes care of itself. [Sorry talking head, you are going to have to pass a rigorous vetting process if you want to sit in front of that keyboard/microphone/camera again.]

{This creates a 'new problem' of how to we keep the feckless from seizing control of the newly cleaned slate? The thing to be avoided here is the illusion of clean. Changing one liar for one we aren't familiar with isn't the positive forward movement we want/need to achieve.}

Making the system 'accountable' is the only safeguard we can install. Today's lying liars aren't even charged under the 'injustice' system that exists Solely to protect OWNERSHIP RIGHTS instead of protecting the public from the pathological liars among us!

Humanity won't survive if the few continue to be allowed to OWN what the rest of us need to survive.

One needn't be a genius to work out that this isn't the recipe for success.

So is it any mystery that people are unable to work out that elected officeholders are beholden to their campaign contributors/OWNERS!

Shouldn't leaders be required to 'prove themselves'?

What 'use/good' is a leader without vision (or if that vision is psychotic like the current leader's?)

How will we succeed as a species if we fail to understand that survival/mutual is vital to that success?

The world of I is not just 'lonely' it's downright psychotic...only psychopaths think in terms of 'Me First!'

I belabor the obvious when I point out that OWNERSHIP and everything connected to selfishness and self dealing [stock markets anyone?] are the primary targets in putting our species back on the path of survival.

Without each other, not only will none of us survive but our children are well and truly...and you don't want to do that to them.

Understand, we didn't 'lose our way', we were driven to this nasty place by morons who cared more about themselves than the future of our kind!

Society itself has been 'poisoned' against itself. Most of us would kill someone than listen to them.

Which is to opine that the situation is pretty far gone. [Take a bow, conservo-whackos!]

As today's title implies, the choice is as it always has been, YOUR'S.

Follow me if you want to survive.

Not for you? Then do the rest of us the favor of grabbing your gun and mowing down as many fake owners as you can on your way to 'freedom-personal'.

Remember to die with your mouth open, that Valkyrie coming for you isn't going to take you to Valhalla, but she does need to take a squat and she wants to top you up before she sends you to hell, you selfish cunt!

Happy Friday, Head!

Gegner

Stench

Greetings good citizen, the privately owned media expends endless pixels convincing us that communism and liberalism have failed [the latter is still a conservo-whacko pipedream that they are still working on making true using the tried and true method of a lie, repeated often enough, becomes true.]

While the flat earth only has four directions (up, down, left, right) the lying liars who control the 'official' information outlets are telling you (repeatedly) that 'left' is bad, the only way up is to steal and down needs no explanation because new depths keep getting opened up for the beaten and the damned.

[You can be sure that 'righty' will object to the remaining direction being labeled 'stasis' because the dumb believe that Obedience is superior to Free Will.] They don't call 'em stupid for nothing.

Worse, the 'gamemakers', after acknowledging the flaws in three of the four directions on the political compass try and convince you there is a fifth direction, that of the 'center', the 'logical direction' the other four forces push things.

If you LOVE Liberty and Freedom, the smiling BS vendors of the right spare no effort to convince you that those ideals exist [both intangible and unattainable] at the 'mystic center' of conservo-whackodom. [Why do the whackos believe that strict obedience will provide you with all the 'freedom' you deserve?]

But 'magical thinking' is pretty much the essence of conservo-whackdom where the contradictions exist to be ignored.

Thought Experiment time:

Picture the four points of the compass. In what direction to place freedom and liberty (better defined as the 'right to choose for yourself')

Would they lay to the left towards 'chaos' or would you try and smuggle them past the rigid, dictatorial 'right'?

This is the 'choice' you are faced with when you have to choose political sides based on under which do you feel 'safer', with the 'tolerant' left or the rigid right?

There's your choice yet Liberty and Freedom DIE outside the MIDDLE so both sides claim to be the 'wiser' choice.

With THAT as a given now the 'choice' becomes one of 'up' or 'down'. Do we, stuck in the middle, move in the upwards direction of the 'greater good' or do we move in the downward direction of 'peace at any price'?

STOP:

With the above in mind, what direction do you think we are headed in?

'A FEW' move up while the bulk of us slowly sink while pretending (or perhaps just being thankful things aren't getting worse faster.)

Our society resembles a cow patty with a very slender spike sticking out of it...and while we'd like to think/console ourselves that the spike is in the middle of a pile of shit, think again...the spike is as far from the shit as it can get without losing control.

They'd be on the opposite side of the planet or another planet altogether if they could manage it...and that's not to say they aren't doing this to the rest of us 'over a wire' but one step/problem at a time.

[There is and always has been an 'inhuman' element in the way we deal with each other. Until the reason behind this is pinned down all possibilities remain on the table.]

With that thought in mind we return to the issue of our narrow 'spike of prosperity' vs the illusion of prosperity that quickly gives way to abject, widespread poverty.

Thus the STENCH good citizen.

Something STINKS about this whole deal and until we reveal what's underneath all of the 'posturing & posing' we won't be able to clean it up and rid ourselves of the stench of HYPOCRISY!

So it is the 'privately owned media' pits the 'lackeys' against the expendables in a struggle over circumstances that shouldn't exist in the first place.

If the collective 'we' were doing this right ANYWHERE, nobody would be 'in search of' perpetually 'greener pastures'...yet the refugee crisis is a global phenomenon and the privately owned media pretends not to notice (because you sure as fuck don't!)

Humans have a deeply disturbing habit of letting themselves off the hook far too easily...and oh how we cry when we can't free ourselves!

Freedom and Liberty DON'T EXIST outside the center of the compass, tyranny or chaos will shred them both the moment they stray from the 'safety' of the center where neither tyranny or chaos can survive.

I'd end it here but we haven't 'finished' the equation.

We all KNOW which way 'up' is but we can't get there from here using the current (toothless) political process. Failure isn't punished and 'insubordination is often rewarded by those who butter their bread on both sides using 'our' share.

Should we 'execute' society's failures? [The State regularly kills murderers under the biblical axiom of 'an eye for an eye'.]

In this the process is deeply flawed...and there is no way using the process to fix the process.

History proves humans will NOT tolerate 'frustration' for extended periods of time, the coming presidential cycle is being played in the media to specifically stoke the blazing inferno of frustration that WILL boil over regardless of the outcome. [Because the rich/criminals don't lose!]

The grandchildren of the Robber Barons/Royals believe their progenitors made a mistake pretending to capitulate to the rabble, this time they are going to prove to the lowlifes why they are superior to the rest of us.

Perhaps this time we will erase them from the genepool, privilege has NO place in a 'survival situation'.

I wish to be clear that job one remains SURVIVAL. We will FAIL if we can't 'co-operate' and share this planet because the conventions that prevent us from killing one another on sight are wearing razor thin.

TOGETHER we are MIGHTY, alone we aren't even food.

Your choice. Happy D-Day Head,

Should probably mention that the whole W.W. thing reeks of the same insincerity that brought us to this historic cliff they are preparing to push billions off of...

Same as it ever was...

Gegner

Crux

Greetings good citizen, the privately owned media says the faux opposition (Democrats/Progressives) is rallying around the 'Green New Deal' when climate change is but a symptom of a broken commercial model that 'carbon trading' isn't going to do shit about!

Ahead of that broken commercial model is our broken political system, which has departed from democracy and been replaced with Monarchy's ugly step sister, Oligarchy.

The crux of this crisis is it doesn't matter if your product sucks so long as you're the 'only game in town'.

You choice has been removed and that isn't going to change until YOU make it happen!

This 'illusion of choice' tells us we need to elect a new leader for every single issue facing the public and we all see how the Healthcare thing turned out...Mandatory insurance that nobody wanted! [The public wants universal healthcare that the capitalist wants no part of...so the collective 'we' didn't get it.

Bend over and say OUCH, I mean ahhhhhhh.

Did I mention the 'illusion of representation'?

Look at the latest Loser, His record low unemployment is due to there being NO FUCKING JOBS! Reagan pulled the same shit!

What is it that the public can't get fast enough? [besides money...] Cars? Can't buy a house? [mostly due to bad/no credit] Can't be furniture because there is no place to put it. [nobody can afford to rent so they aren't buying furniture.]

What part of the economy is overheating?

NOTHING.

So the claims of a 'booming economy' are in fact a LIE!

Up to our armpits in the homeless but it's not because there are no homes, it's because nobody can afford them [working in the gig economy.]

Do YOU need to be beaten TO DEATH with the 'stupid stick' before you realize the Green New Deal isn't even a band-aid for the crises facing our species?

And THAT is the CRUX of the situation, good citizen. The problems the privately owned media admits to aren't unique to any nation, they affect our entire species, planetwide.

Remember, their 'philosophy' remains "They can't help it if 'you/we' are stupid" (choose to believe lies because they are more attractive than the truth and also allow us to neglect punishing the perps for their crimes...[it's the part 'they' like best.])

Hard to believe we have to put up with the current moron for another year and a half but that just comes with 'the republic' they saddled us with.

Again, the 'lies' start at the beginning. Were any of you taught in school that the 'principle' beneath a republic is Ownership and that the dictates of the owner class would dictate the terms of your existence? Trying to remember if you were absent that day or if the teacher just glossed over it, mumbling profusely because nobody was supposed to understand...

Ownership actually dictates your 'membership' in a Republic. You have to be an 'owner of record' to be represented.

Don't 'own'...just a pile of debt for stuff you barely used? Well Bucko, under this here Republic the F'n founders established, you are OFFICIALLY part of the 'surplus population' [that can only exists under 'Republicanism'. OWNERSHIP IS A MENTAL DISORDER!]

The credo of the 'Republican's' is LET THOSE WHO OWN THE LAND, RULE THE LAND! (Why do you think I call them 'whackos'?)

Looks like the founders got their 'monarchy' after all...[screw the 'rabble'!]

The 'politically ignorant' paid the price of 'trusting' people everywhere and this cesspool is the end result.

Ready to stop taking shit and to start handing some back?

The 'choice' (as always) is YOURS!

Until next time, Head.

Gegner

Prey

Greetings good citizen, most are at least tangentially aware they are being manipulated by the media they choose to give their attention (and often their 'allegiance') to but the stakes are higher than your feeble mind can grasp.

The pleasurable effect depends, in part, on the intensity of the signal that dopamine produces after release into the synapses. In neurons as in life, first impressions matter. People keep on doing what their brains tell them is highly rewarding, often past the point where it is still pleasurable or beneficial. Addicts want something after they have ceased liking it, even if they realize its harmful effects. “I hate this shit,” a Swedish heroin addict told his doctor, “and it doesn’t give me much of a high. It is just that somehow, it seems I can’t be without it.”

Researchers identified common risk factors. Genetic variations and life circumstances—stress, social defeat, neglect or abuse during critical periods of brain development—make some people more susceptible to addiction than others. They feel uncomfortable or depressed until they discover that alcohol, drugs, sugar, gambling, computer games or some other thrilling behavior temporarily banishes their blues. Frequent resort to these substances and behaviors further damages their neural control systems and, often, other parts of their brains. What the Victorians called vice really is a vicious circle. Self-destructive habits are constitutionally linked, downwardly spiraling, and socially expansive. “Addiction is a memory, it’s a reflex,” summed up the American psychiatrist Charles P. O’Brien. “It’s training your brain in something which is harmful to yourself.”

Or having your brain trained. The deeper truth is that we live in a world nominally dedicated to progress, health, and longevity but in fact geared toward getting us to consume in ways that are unprogressive, unhealthful and often deadly. Understanding this paradox—the burden of my new book—requires going beyond neuroscience, beyond disordered neurons and defective genes. It requires understanding the history of novel pleasures, commercial vices, mass addiction and limbic capitalism’s ever-growing power to shape our habits and desires.

Humans are predisposed to certain kinds of behavior and you can bet your boots there has been more than just a casual dissection of what makes a 'superfan/patriot'. Not only is there a certain 'type' that is more receptive to hyperbole but the feckless undoubtedly know just which buttons to push to stimulate those feelings of fierce loyalty triggered when an individual's patriotism is 'questioned'...(don't make us question yours!)

What makes the wealthy rich?

YOU do. They 'take' your labor and sell it for far more than you are paid and they do this with hundreds of employees so it's not 'personal' when in fact it IS!

Nobody likes the idea of being preyed upon but that is exactly what the capitalist does, he pins you down and eats your productivity...and if that falls below a certain level he gets rid of you and replaces you with a fresh victim.

Words are things of power and you need to start thinking in terms of absolutes.

Employment is turning your competitors into 'prey'. [Where is the system where you work for you because capitalism ain't it!] (the answer is ASP which substitutes management for OWNERSHIP...no more SLAVES!)

What's the global race to the bottom all about? [It's about controlling the 'value' of Money...which is ever and always ZERO to the OWNER!]

YOUR 'inability' to recognize you are being PLAYED is born of your 'learned ignorance', you have been raised and schooled to simply 'accept' money for whatever they are willing to give you for it and it is this shrinking return that makes the feckless howl with laughter because they are swindling you! You know their paper is worthless yet you have no choice but to accept it.

And THAT, (oh feeble one) is what CONTROL is all about.

Worse, do you KNOW what POWER is? [When reduced to the binary...]

Money is an 'attribute' of power, accept the money and keep your questions to yourself. Reduced to its binary form, power is live or die.

The State holds the monopoly on power because the State can kill you [for the 'public good' of course but also to avoid prosecution, personal if the situation presents itself.] (Did I mention our society is run by criminals...do I need to?)

It's only a short step that provides money with 'value'. Accept the money and we won't kill you (now.)

Remember why these litanies end when they do, time to put your 'thinking cap' on, Head!

Until next time,

Gegner

Fuggit!

Greetings good citizen, yeah, the near F-Bombs look silly but the topic behind today's expletive overrides the triteness, seems Ke-mo-sa-bee has hit the end of his tether thanks largely to the poison his mind has been infected with by the 'well-meaning'.

The 'headline' tells us that White males make up the bulk of US suicides, which is counterintuitive to media's constant attack on 'white privilege' and this disparity, like the huge swath of the destitute who 'mis-identify' as Middle Class is because being white doesn't automatically make you 'successful'.

That is not the only, er, 'slant' the article took almost right out of the box; it quickly swerved straight into the handgun controversy (although it did connect '*conservative values' to the epidemic) too bad for the rest of us that it won't act quickly enough to crush movement conservatism out of existence.

[* it does not specifically name conservatism as a cause of suicide, it does point to 'rugged individualism' as a central common factor shared by most of those too discouraged to attack the true cause of their difficulties which is the DUMB shit they believe because they choose to believe it! [making them, by definition, STUPID.]

Like many choices, suicide is the 'cowards way out'.

You're gonna die regardless, there is zero need for you to hasten the inevitable...yet society's (poisonous) 'expectations' often leave no alternative.

You are born into a hive/herd of 'superstitious peasants' who can't remember which hand they wiped themselves with (or if they washed afterwards.)

As children they are taught how life is 'supposed to be' and if you don't follow that blueprint then the problem isn't with their expectations, the problem is YOU, you are marked a 'failure' who is 'worthless' all because of some granny who wanted their kids to have a 'plan'.

Guess what Granny, kids? LIFE AIN'T LIKE THAT! But adults (especially females) cling to these childish expectations and regularly condemn those who don't measure up to the standards they were taught as small children...

So what's driving the suicide rate? Conservative values with ZERO basis in REALITY...the principle cause of suicide is failure to measure up to unrealistic expectations.

How do we 'combat' these 'truisms'? Education.

It's why 'formalized education' exists.

Sadly, the people that fancy themselves to be 'educators' are unaware that they screw up their charges more than they aid their 'understanding'.

The poor kids come out of school understanding nothing but their instructors/parents prejudices.

For this reason education must be 'holistic', completely devoid of the lever 'as long as you live under this roof!'

This threat of withholding parental love for failure to comply is the most damaging tool in the development of a united humanity.

Why do you fail to see that before you introduce them to the 'fantasy' that is God, YOU are their 'creator' and pleasing you is all their young heart yearns for?

It is also the failure to live up to these 'values' that they teach in school that they come to lose respect for most of you...or respect you for all the wrong reasons.

For this reason education MUST BE holistic, where all humans understand that their 'purpose in life' has ZERO to do with the 'Glorification of God'.

Understand, your failure to fit into this mold we are taught as children is considered (often by the victim themselves) as 'the judgement of God.'

Automation and globalization be damned, GOD has found you 'unworthy'!

Funny how conservative values teach that if God has chosen to single YOU out for punishment, you should already know what awaits you in the afterlife so why put it off?

How unfortunate for the IGNORANT that the REAL reason they can't hold a job has more to do with a beancounter desperately trying to keep their own situation by cutting YOUR salary so the boss's stock award is large enough to pay for that new yacht he's has his eye on?

[Most executive compensation is derived from payroll reduction due to the rapidly diminishing customer base driving profits down.] What do you suppose is driving the dwindling consumer market? [Bean-counters?]

Why did the CFO throw YOU under the bus? Because the CEO told the CFO to dust of their resume if he didn't get enough to buy a bigger yacht than his neighbor just bought!

Yet you wind up eating a bullet because you are an over forty white man that NOBODY wants.

This need not be but it's going to keep on happening until we send the feckless on the one-way naked nature walk...

Until next time, Head.

Gegner

Center

Greetings good citizen, nowhere will you find a more perplexing puzzle than that of human history and the failure of humankind to get its house in order.

What is the current 'driving force' behind society? Pursuit of the almighty buck because EVERYTHING has a flippin' price tag on it!

Your very survival depends on your ability to accrue dollars...and it doesn't matter HOW you get' em!

[Ironically this is the first 'factor' that needs correcting.]

Taking the 'long view' (of history) humans toil, plot and conspire to BUY the kind of life they want to live. Worse, most toil and make due while with what it provides but stand ready to exploit any situation that comes their way.

The typical human isn't beyond taking the 'easy out' when it presents itself.

That doesn't make us rotten, it just makes us 'opportunists' (that aren't particularly trustworthy.)

So what's this clap-trap about getting our house in order?

I write these for the cognizant and as a cognizant individual you can't deny that our civilization is run by criminals.

Worse, the criminals refuse to police themselves...so we have to or we end up with serious 'environmental issues'.

The 'tendency' is to pretend we are the only people on the planet so the 'tiny bit' of the planet we torture really won't matter in the overall scheme of nature but the lesson the feckless media refuses to drive home is humanity it rapidly overtaking nature in being the most destructive force on the planet!

Mental exercise: If every human took a shovel and dug up just one shovelful of dirt that would be nearly 9 BILLION shovelfuls of dirt.

Humanity is multiplying so rapidly that we are nearly at the point of overrunning the carrying capacity of the planet.

How did we get here?

Mismanagement.

The people that butter their bread on both sides don't care how many humans are born, all they care about is having as many as they can working FOR THEM!

Yeah good citizen, in case you didn't know it the rich are rich because every worker is an 'income stream' so THEY don't have to work.

This is also why you 'do without' because you can't afford to have anybody 'working for you'. [Every nickel they pay YOU flows back to THEM!]

These are the 'secrets of capitalism' laid bare! Ownership and income streams and the judicious management/retention of 'market share'.

Globalization for those of you too dumb to understand is really just the consolidation of what markets already exist.

Redundancy is 'wasteful' and 'inefficient' so only the owners of the most efficient sources will prosper.

It's economics 101...just another little known fact that leaves the vast majority of us on the outside looking in.

Prosperity will NOT be yours. [Unless you use one of the more exotic interpretations like happiness or good health.]

To 'Re-Center':

Job one remains UNCHANGED. It is not about MONEY but SURVIVAL [Yesterday's post illustrates what happens when 'representative wealth' meets a bare cupboard.]

In order for YOU to survive you have to UNITE with the like minded (others dedicated to surviving) and remove the 'incompetents' from their stranglehold upon the largely FAKE ECONOMY!

Nothing is possible until 'like minded humans, DEDICATED to surviving the predations of the freakishly selfish UNITE!

We have passed the point where 'I got mine, f-u!' can be ignored.

IF we SLAM ON THE BRAKES NOW we can avoid driving our species of a cliff from which there is no return but to do that we must UNITE!

[That's why the other site is named 'Humanity United!']

If we miss the turn we are fucked.

Not 'what to think' but definitely 'something to think about'.

Still puzzled regarding what you are up against? Watch Oliver Stone's 'Untold History of America' for a stark look at who is doing what to whom.

Since the Empire thing always ends badly you have to wonder WTF is wrong with these MORONS?

Until next time, Head.

Gegner

Finite-0

Greetings good citizen, today's parable is about limits and the consequences of ignoring them.

Today's bitchslap goes like this: you are about to witness what happens when 'infinite money' encounters the proverbial empty cupboard.

All money is funny and those who control the printing press will always have more of it than you will...so guess who is going to 'win' the battle of the empty cupboard? [That's right, the guy with the gun!]

[The 'true finale' will be when the guy with the gun faces off with the guy with the bomb. The ultimate 'no-win' situation.]

There are many 'open factors' in this equation including is there enough of anything left to tide the gun group over until the next growing season? If there isn't then walking away is a non-option and even the standoff itself becomes the final act of insanity.

REGARDLESS of WHEN the huddled, shivering and largely helpless masses hit the (somewhat flexible) wall of finite resources [Which is to suggest that hoarding will be a big factor long before the dog hits the end of its leash at full gallop] and our standoff situation will likely play itself out repeatedly as the 'remnants of humanity' continue to 'allow' those who control money to seal their fate.

It is here we encounter the test of 'who is 'smart', who is 'intelligent' and who is 'clever'?

The ones who control money think they are 'smart' because they were able to 'outbid' everyone for what they needed (and they made sure there was excess for the destitute to fight over rather than coming after their hoard which they keep under heavy guard.)

It is here that the guessing game begins. Did they squirrel away enough to keep themselves and their guards fed for the duration of the artificial crisis? Underestimate and you're dead but there is also 'pilferage' and theft to consider once the guards figure out they are sitting on a gold mine...(Who is the 'smarty-pants' now?)

Then we have the intelligent who know how to survive 'off the land' [as slender as those resources have become.] The intelligent will 'raid' the pantries of the 'smart' and barter with the guards for what they need.

The intelligent will manage their resources by keeping their numbers minimal, if you are going to be part of 'team intelligent' you had better have a skill they need because nobody skates!

Which brings us to the clever. Like the legions of old, they too will unite with the like minded and prey upon the softer targets the enablers of the civilized predators offer. [You already know this ends poorly, after the 'soft targets' are exhausted these rag-tag armies will eliminate one another until the 'Man with the gun' (and his 'army/crew') is the last one standing.

Dead or dying are those who worked hard and kept their mouths shut while everything turned to shit. [Hint: The 'time to act' is N-O (f'n)-W!]

If you can't find the refrigerator without a roadmap and a cheat sheet you are a dead man walking.

If you are content with not knowing where food comes from or how it is processed you will die in the first weeks of the crisis along with the bulk of the 'ignorant'.

Worse, many of you will hasten that process by eating things that were not meant for human consumption [not all of these suicides will be 'intentional'.]

Did I mention I pull no punches? Life is grim and so am I.

The planet isn't played but the people driving the bus are out of 'tricks' and they have no idea how to stave off a revolt that will lead to collapse.

That is why NOW is the time to save ourselves...wait until after and there won't be anything left to save.

Chew on that, especially if you think you are so tough.

Until next time Head,

Gegner