Raincheck

Greetings good citizen, thank you for turning up. As today's title suggests there will be no post today because of the date's long association with pranking.

See you tomorrow Head,

Gegner

Prank

Greetings good citizen, tomorrow is April 1st and you don't need to be a certain ethnicity or religion to understand what tomorrow means. If society weren't screwed up enough, tomorrow is the day where you are shown true human nature because on April Fool's Day all manners of childish pranking are sanctioned.

Perhaps it would be less of a curse if it were known as 'Sportsmanship Day' and the object were to hone one's ability take thinly veiled hostility in stride but that isn't the, er, 'spirit' of this unofficial holiday.

If you are lucky you will only encounter 'sucker' tricks where your perception/morality is tested along with your patience.

The 'trouble' with setting aside a day where this kind of behavior is sanctioned is it sends the message that deception is acceptable.

Never and under no circumstances is deception acceptable. If you are ugly, you know it and you live with it. It is not a 'kindness' to lie just to spare another's 'feelings'. Naturally, what's on the surface matters least, what's underneath is what counts.

Yet tomorrow you will have your patience and alertness tested by those you would ordinarily 'trust' for the sake of a joke at your expense.

I once again point out that this is NEVER 'acceptable' yet here we are with a day dedicated to precisely this kind of behavior!

Understand this day exists to drive home a dangerous point, the point of Trust No One.

Bizarrely this is a two edged sword. We got where we are today by trusting the wrong people so perhaps a day to put you 'on guard' isn't necessarily a bad thing BUT if you (rightly) lose it after being 'pranked' what's the message? Grow Up, it's just a joke!

When all parties know full well it's nothing like that.

That said there is a fine line between 'harmless misdirection' and malicious pot shots that are justified solely because it's the first of April.

What most of you fail to appreciate is what will happen when "It was a joke!" collides head on with "I was just following orders."

When the gun is already pointing in your face it's a little too late to take to heart the message of 'trust no one.'

Obey your instincts, it's how we've survived this long.

That said, the pranksters among us are messing with your 'programing' and not in a good way, it's more of a sorting the sheeps from the wolves way.

Funny that everybody knows who NOT to prank because that individual has made it abundantly clear that the payback will be a hundredfold.

Which leaves what, good citizen?

April Fool's Day is a day for the feckless to rag on the helpless, those who need society's protection but lose it every April first thanks to a stupid holiday that shouldn't exist in the first place.

April Fool's Day is a shitty holiday and should be wiped out of our collective memory.

In the mean time we need to enforce the reality that if you are 'untrustworthy' you forfeit your membership in the tribe.

One thing at a time I suppose...first we need to ask ourselves how the 'custom' of pranking became enshrined in our cesspool of a culture?

I know, when you're up to your eyebrows in excrement its difficult to see anything but the smell should be bowling you over, wake the f up!

Until, er, 'tomorrow', Head.

Gegner

Ire

Greetings good citizen, just as many of us have reached an age where we can't remember when a nap didn't sound like a great idea the same could be said about the last time we WEREN'T angry. Most of us can't remember a time when we were at least peeved.

Yes good citizen, life is annoying and we spend much our of time annoyed.

Is 'simmering anger' our natural state?

Pretty much if we bothered to conduct a mental review of our mood over the course of the average day.

Happy, that thing we included in our Constitution is a highly subjective state, so much so that there is no consensus regarding what constitutes happiness...except, perhaps, being at Liberty.

How sad that most of you have no clue what liberty actually is.

Ironic to see where society is today considering we revolted principally to obtain Liberty. [Don't forget Justice...and it seems Equality is nowhere to be found so sorry ladies and individuals of color/ethnicity...not even in the f'n Bible.]

What does that tell you? [Apparently nothing as most of you believe you're 'free' and somehow equate that with the Liberty the constitution promises.]

Yet today's society is even more tyrannical than the monarchy we revolted against.

Is tyranny your proverbial 'slippery slope'? Where does the 'rule of law' end and being bent over to accommodate the selfish few begin?

Se habla Capitalism [which is actually just wage slavery in disguise?]

None are so blind as those who 'think' they are free.

Is it any wonder we are angry all of the time? Is there a cure for this?

Lobotomys all around perhaps?

[Suggestion: Let's try lobotomizing the leaders first and see how that works out!] Theory has it if we stop them from peeing in everyone else's cornflakes life will instantly become measurably more pleasant/tolerable.

If we start at the top we would quickly arrive at a point where it was no longer necessary/effective, people who aren't full of themselves have already been lobotomized or self medicated themselves into the equivalent of a waking coma.

While we'd be hard pressed to prove it I could point out that it is a damn good thing we aren't all 'rage monsters' like Marvel's Incredible Hulk although most of us have encountered the 'green eyed monster' that lives inside us all.

Comics or no, all 'art' is a mirror held up so we can see ourselves reflected in it.

Albeit some are so dense they see nothing and register even less.

Perhaps part of the Ire is caused by getting the basic formula wrong. The American Constitution enshrines Life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness as being it's founding pillars but without Equality, all three are both meaningless and 'unachievable'.

Without Equality there can be no Justice and without Justice there can be no peace...and without peace there can be no prosperity and without prosperity there can be no comfort...and without comfort there can be no rest.

Some opine that resting is a sin (especially when your efforts are what provides THEM with comfort.)

Death to the tyrants whose sole goal is to make your life miserable so they can be comfortable.

Is it any wonder that we are all so 'annoyed' all the time?

Live and learn, Head, live and learn...

Gegner

Collapse

Greetings good citizen, 'Happy talk' will take you only so far as we head into the third decade of failure to launch.

The media ignores the elephants we regularly see milling about, surrounding us with destitution as the meat-puppets make truly outrageous claims about a word none of them can spell much less comprehend.

Doesn't help that the majority of non-readers have no rational idea what an ECONOMY IS nevermind what constitutes a healthy one.

Do YOU know what 'economic success' is and how to measure it?

Of course you don't. You've been taught at down is up and black is white because the 'roaring' economy of today is little different than the years post crash.

Let's begin with WHO is doing the measuring and what is being measured.

The enormous mushroom cloud you can clearly see on the horizon, that represents DEBT and it just keeps growing. In order to shrink that cloud the economy has to 'grow' but with NOTHING 'new' since smartphones the FAKE ECONOMY hasn't expanded in decades.

Nothing NEW means ZERO EXPANSION and the debt cloud has only gotten larger with each passing generation.

How many of you know where the 2-4 % in 'economic growth' comes from?

New customers. How can these 'new customers' be driving economic expansion when capitalism is automating jobs as fast as it can?

Your machines don't buy your products...

How much of a moron are you?

So the 'growth' cited by so called economists is actually the birth rate because the 'economy' itself remains 'stagnant'.

Did I mention capitalism is DEAD? For capitalism to function it must CONSTANTLY expand. Again, what part of STUPID don't you get? It (the economy) hasn't collapsed yet? Worse, you already know why...THERE ISN'T AN ALTERNATIVE! [Wake up call number 2, this AIN'T capitalism, stupid! It's economic wage slavery PRETENDING to be 'capitalism'.]

Um, ASP eliminates the need to expand by eliminating the 'stock markets'...and removing banking as an 'industry'...yeah. that means insurance would also cease to exist but never fear because life was never intended to be a 'gamble'.

How damning those that understand what I share here also know there is more to life than chasing the Almighty Buck?

A vast majority operates on the 'simplified' economics of 'chasing dollars' with criminality being irrelevant so long as they don't get caught.

Trump's roaring economy is economic ignorance writ large.

This is perhaps fitting in a society that embraces fantasy over reality at almost every aspect of life?

In this I find myself a modern day Cassandra. While none heed my warnings I can only watch in terror as the stupid suffer hideous deaths that were totally avoidable.

Happy Friday folks,

Thanks for having nothing better to do,

Gegner

Allocation

Greetings good citizen, accident of birth governs what kind of 'future' you will be afflicted with. That said even the progeny of the affluent aren't guaranteed an 'allocation' and it is here we should stop once again and ask ourselves why our share of the planet is denied us.

Perhaps it started with Adam and how Eve was described as his 'plus one', Eve only enjoyed what Adam let her have. Sexist? Where do you suppose 'it's a man's world' came from ?

Yup ask your friend Thumpy if this 'corporeal existence' was intended to for man or man and his 'help-meet' and you Biblical scholar will tell you without hesitation that the Almighty created 'creation' for those HE created 'in HIS image' and not those he crafted from that his 'most perfect creation's' rib.

Naturally, priests and holy MEN agreed, the Almighty was their 'mate' without ever laying eyes upon the product of their mental masturbation.

But I digress. The sexual orientation of the imaginary isn't our concern. Today's topic is what's your 'lawful share' considering you have sacrificed your right to a share in the hunt/harvest so you could work for the Capitalist.

Sorry, full up doesn't cut it yet those who stupidly believe there's work out there 'if you want it' regularly turn a blind eye to the fact that work doesn't pay you enough to live on.

Worse, as the labor force swells and the 'need' for labor diminishes, today's employer is as more inclined to fire you than deal with your protests or even a modicum of inconvenience your problems may present.

[This is what 'right to work' and the current 'at will' employment contract has wrought.]

Facts are facts and the current fact is you are allocated precisely ZERO. If you weren't born to a family that couldn't afford to set you up with some kind of income stream, you are ON YOUR OWN.

STOP:

Where do you think this is going?

'Wild' humans would band togethers, pooling their labor to harvest the fruits of the land as best they could to achieve at least a modicum of security. Now if you don't own the land you are trespassing and not entitled to anything on it.

You are EXPECTED to find employment and sell yourself to meet your needs...and if the only work that you can find doesn't pay enough, oh well.

The 'answer' is ever and always 'less'. Worse, if you can't find work due to the slack labor market the feckless have only grown more emphatic that you aren't trying hard enough.

It's not their problem, it's YOURS.

Did you know that under A.S.P. a job that pays you enough to meet your expenses is your RIGHT? [Caveat: Much of what you are currently forced to pay for will become a 'gimme'.] Your only remaining expenses will be food and fashion.

How did we arrive at a place where advocates for big Agra is able to claim the public can't afford to pay pickers a living wage?

What does that tell you? [Besides that you are stupid beyond belief.]

Even our modern media does humanity zero good, you are just as ignorant as you ever were...don't suppose that is due to the politicization of the educational process?

Did our elected official decide a stupid populous was going to be easier to manage?

Society as we are currently living it is a self-inflicted wound and it only cost us EQUITY that NOBODY is interested in.

If you can't survive on what the job pays your economy is being mismanaged.

Not too tough to figure out, when a few prosper while the rest struggle something is wrong with the 'system'.

If the system is flawed it is up to YOU to fix it.

Corruption is EVERYWHERE and that is due to CASH being omnipresent.

Outlaw cash and everything starts to return towards Equality and Justice.

All crime save those of passion are 'cash and carry'.

Eliminate cash and take a bite out of crime.

RECAP:

The current 'make yourself useful' system is unjust, you can't have it both ways. Claim to Own what's worth having them claim that you have to 'make yourself useful' if you want 'your share'.

The Not in the labor force' numbers are EQUAL to the number of the 'marginally attached' thanks to globalization/automation.

For every worker there is another human capitalism 'can't afford'.

If you CAN'T make it NATURE offer a singular alternative, YOU TAKE IT.

Welfare exists so we aren't overrun by marauders!

Talk about mismanagement.

I wish I could type 'enough said' but unfortunately for all of us there are still those 'too stupid to live' going through the motions because they don't know any better.

Ponder which one YOU are...

Until next time Head,

Gegner

Symbiosis

Greetings good citizen, commerce can be symbiotic or it can be predatory and our screwed up legal system takes the stand of 'buyer beware' rather than being rigid on fraud/treachery.

But that's what 'fortunes' are made of.

If humanity is to succeed in saving itself (from cascading systemic collapse) it needs to abandon its 'buyer beware' stance and embrace symbiosis with both, nay, all four limbs.

Trade implies the mutual benefit reaped from exchanging surpluses for deficits. I don't know of a MBA program teaching this basic cornerstone principle anywhere on the planet.

The ONLY factor propping up what we know as commerce is market consolidation, period.

There are no 'new markets' making the system itself viciously predatory. It can't grow so it becomes a survival of the, er, most diseased meaning only the cannibals survive.

The media ignores this despite seeing it occur right under its nose...worse, it is happening in their 'industry' as well, which likely accounts for the dearth of pointed commentary that should be accompanying this hellaciously huge elephant in the room.

All most of you know is that jobs provide us with the income we NEED to continue living. Good job, bad job all you know is that you need one and jobs on the other side of the law pay better.

This too isn't an accident.

What do you do with a system of commerce that doesn't have an exhaust pipe? Good old ducat number one, minted in order to pay the very first tax is still floating around out there in today's economy.

How f'n stupid is that?

Is society run by morons? See above.

All of this 'cannibalism' is being driven by now enormous pools of cash that have nowhere to go.

As with any 'closed system' the pressure will eventually kill us all.

The people with the largest pots of money don't have the intelligence to fend for themselves so when the talent that keeps the wheels turning starts to starve to death what is STUPID going to do? Panic, naturally!

Did you know ASP has an 'exhaust pipe'? Once you spend your money, NOBODY gets it, it is merely erased...as it SHOULD BE.

We allow cash to pool today solely because the feckless don't like explaining themselves and using 'their cash' regardless of how recklessly is beyond the laws purview until it's too late and this should NEVER be.

What does longevity research mean to you, good citizen? That you are going to live longer? Given what you know about how society operates don't you think the people that will reap the benefits of longevity research will be the people paying for it?

Like most things medical, cutting edge research is done by publicly funded institutions [so the public pays to run down the 'dead ends'] Only the most promising discoveries are pursued privately.

So longevity research, like the race for operational, controllable AI isn't being done FOR you, it is being done to eliminate you.

If you 'project' what you are seeing today to its logical conclusion, what do you see?

Nuthin, when I awaken I can only see as far as when I'll return to my pillow.

Ask yourself, why it is that humanity is allergic to thinking? The answer lies in where you see this whole shitshow headed.

IF you allow yourself to think about 'tomorrow' it is probable that what you imagine your 'retirement' will be like is a highly unlikely set of circumstances.

First fallacy we all entertain is that we will actually live to collect the funds we set aside for retirement, secondly is that we will survive the cessation of our paid employment.

Third is that we will be able to liquidate our 'hard assets' for a favorable price. This one is laughable because the gulf between what a buyer is willing to pay vs what you think your asset is worth is growing. You're gonna get a lot less for your stuff than you thought because the 'puddle' of buyers is drying up society wide, this is how 'cannibalism' ends.

The people YOU thought you were going to sell your junk to already have everything they want. Worse, the market keeps getting flooded with more and more junk that people are DESPERATE to convert into cash.

Did I mention we're doing this whole money thing WRONG?

Se habla 'market share'?

Capitalism is done.

That's all for today, Head.

Gegner

Truth

Greetings good citizen, had an exchange yesterday that resulted in yet another epiphany, that we make our own truth.

This trait is closely related to the phenomenon that it isn't possible to teach a mind what it believes it already knows. You can't recognize this disturbing trait in yourself but you can instantly recognize it in others.

Unfortunately this 'misinterpretation of the facts' results in instant hatred...solely because you both can't be 'right' [which does not discount the possibility that you are both at least partially 'wrong'.]

Like 'common sense' that people are honestly baffled by other's failure to exercise it, it likely isn't the case. You have arrived at a difference of opinion because you may both have made faulty 'assumptions'.

Why we chuckle when we discover [repeatedly] that the mind is a 'funny thing' [when in most contexts funny is actually standing in for disturbing rather than humorous.]

Um, don't have the pixels to parse what makes humor funny [or why some sit stone-faced while others are doubled over in laughter.] Like truth itself, funny is 'relative'.

It is here we collide with the perplexing problem of how much 'consensus' can there be if we all believe/are convinced that our truth is the one that matters?

Enter the media, who tells us what to think and why if the news doesn't match/mesh with your personal worldview.

More damning is money. Besides knowing that you need it there isn't a clear, generally accepted definition of what it is because the lies are so diverse and change given the circumstances.

Money is wealth but wealth can be any number of things so which is it...and the only coherent answer you will get is 'yes'.

Money, like god, is a matter of FAITH, it's whatever you BELIEVE it is. [Ironically Bitcoins help illustrate money's 'fantasy' element.]

Why don't you 'understand' life? Because you cart around a head/mind full of nonsense placed there by swindlers.

Why do you 'avoid' thinking? Because the media regularly contradicts your musings (or worse, ignores them.)

Most of us can no sooner conceive of eternal bliss anymore than that of eternal damnation/torment [although this thing we call 'life' comes dangerously close.]

Perhaps this is why we are generally speaking a 'thoughtless' bunch. The more you analyze your situation the stronger your conviction becomes that you are already in hell, which is populated by raving psychopaths.

If you are already in hell does heaven exist (outside your simplistic mind?)

Nope, it's waiting to be created...by YOU!

ESTABLISH Equality and Justice and the rest will fall into place.

ASP contains everything you need to establish an equal and just society, anywhere.

It all flows from a more concise Golden Rule of Share and share alike, one that forbids using what we all need to survive to advance your personal comfort. Treachery and self-dealing need to be restored to the capitol crimes that they once were.

The people that ended vengeance did so to protect their own treacherous behavior.

We were already living in a 'contentious' society and now the media tells us that a 'vindicated' POTUS is seeking revenge on those who 'persecuted' him.

This clown needs to be removed from office NOW! [Despite the whole situation being a kabuki dance, a show.]

Dangerous people have seized the microphone and they are intent on ruining civilization for the 'not them' crowd.

It is obvious that the poor outcomes suffered by the majority of humanity are the direct result of a tiny percentage of self-serving individuals that have lined the corridors of power with their lackeys.

It is also obvious that they number significantly fewer than 1 percent or even a percent of that.

How do they get away with it? They control what you think you know. Remember, we started today's post with the revelation that we all make our own 'truth'.

Why are there so many 'radicals' floating around in the world? Because what they were taught is the truth conflicts with what they have convinced themselves is truth.

Where do you suppose the 72 virgins came from? {most of us yearn for a sexual Green Beret to turn us inside out...that ain't gonna happen with a partner that doesn't know the first thing about any of it.}

Naturally, the fantasy weavers are alluding to 'purity', confusing it with 'desirability' to those who don't know any better...

[Can you say Child Soldiers? I knew you could!]

Again with the 'funny' of how putting the context sexually makes the whole concept of making our own 'truth' more transparent...

The cognizant understand and those that don't will pray the eye that never blinks will explain it for them [but naturally it won't.]

Try not to jostle your head too much or this is going to spill into your consciousness, rendering you catatonic.

Remember, not what to think but something to think about...

Until next time Head,

Gegner