meaning what, pop can't stop it?

I always want to write and usually feel an eqivalent force inside of me, coinciding, that wants to leave all that I might say in it's state of infinite perfection...as unsaid.
I have made some changes very recently to my way of approaching life.
I have decided to revisit my relationship with smoking and drinking.
I have decided to revisit my views on work, my behavioral patterns, my tensions and agitations...
Some things must be left behind.
One flaw in my being super critical is that tension which persists, which steals my composure as a parent earlier than I would like, that steals my ability to grasp the milieu i exist in, in meaningful terms...
Criticism is a never ending intense spiral which cannot yield what it is not based on. That ingredient, satisfaction, relaxation, relief is a counter faculty.
Am I recuperating the devastation of capitalism or of activism?
The real insurrectionary escapes me... like some character in a novel mythologically construed transcendent creature.
At very least i do not want to be first or even first wave... I don't know if I can strategically commit to this national scenario or if I must consider resettlement as inevitable...
I have started to figure out somethings.
For one the problem in this country is that it is designed to deform everybody in it. No one escapes the mutagenic culture which creates a monster in each of us. Tom Tommorrow nailed it in the context of people or rather so called "conventional wisdom" rationalizing torture.
It goes much deeper than that. Much deeper than the ultra individualist who would rather slog through unnecessary paperwork , rejection in the time of greatest need, and likely no possible way to pay for their health failing without the moribund insurance sector providing meager assistance at least.
Much deeper than the total misappropriation of labels when a gay jew and a mixed race president being labeled nazi's by rightwingers with much more in common with nazis than anybody else.
No to cut to the core of it it is this belief that the essential basis for this country is indifference to other people except in as far as they are useful as customers.

It's the malformation of the other, excited and exacerbated by the over competitive, judgemental, scenarios staged throughout upbringing in schools, in experiencing the terrain of social stratification where people access privilege according to capital, and it is all presented as a simple mechanism with simple conclusions.

The problem is that money is not available to all, and not everybody is born to be obsessed about it, but for those who are not, they will be forced by this system to either suffer it's disfavor or to bifurcate their soul to service what they need to get what they want.

The other is always the sneering ne'er do well looking to snatch an advantage, to beat you to the sale, to expropriate your excess., never a creature that could be trusted, nor loved, barely human if at all....
This is the crisis of capitalism, of america, of the west in these settler states. We can never trust each other. not in any large scale type of way. Socialism would be an invitation to new rackets, new shortages, failure would be written before it even began, because the human terrain has been spoiled, almost as a last gasp trick, just in case the soviets succeeded. But it goes back all the way to the original european encounters with the indigenous. It's a feature that embedded itself in western "civilization": betrayal, manipulation, force when possible, win by any and all means possible, ruin and desecrate anything and everything. I'm not saying the indigenous were free of all defects, but what won out in this battle was ugly. Ugly which subordinated all of it's pagans by fire and torture previous, creating a race of people separated from the earth, disconnected from history, connected only through the machinations of power to each other, tenuous at best, but reliably installed with fear, loathing, and an ironic sense of being better despite the persistent outcomes....
This is the legacy we inherit, many of us on the wrong side, the side of the victors burned into our cellular memory.
And americans are it's ultimate culmination. The culmination of those who prefer their own just profits free of all considerations as to where those profits, those products, this economy are leading the world towards. It just couldn't be any other way when the ominous music plays as this civilization poisons and corrupts everything it touches, as it wins despite everything, nature perhaps relieving itself by our self directed suicide.
So perhaps I want to stand back now. Relieve myself of duty. Pop a bag of popcorn and watch the slow moving train wreck as it disintegrates. The wreckage will surely take out a good segment of the stands, and luck has made an inordinately long run in these parts in as far as the ingredients, and our behavior is concerned. Suburban banality can only hold so much longer with the inequality causing people to remember the french revolution more and more each day!
The machine will be left to it's own devices without another one of me there wagging my finger at it as it goes down flaming, so what if I know. No one listens, and apparently it's not up to me to make the clarion call to the future. I now accept that. In my mind my fist clenched as solid as magma in the earth's core unclenches, the heat turns into a cooling light and I am relieved. Completely at least for now. I am relieved. That connection to the core is what counts there is nothing else I can do.

the punchline

which I never said in my last long winding digressive discourse is that Venus is emerging from inferior conjunction with the sun. The Xux Ek is the first light to be reflected off of Venus, and may be percieved as an irregular sunrise . That light was the sting of the wasp star. During the five unlucky days, which are a way for the solar calendar to rectify the 5 days of the 365 day year. 18, 20 day "months" with a 5 day unlucky day period. The uayob roam the earth similar to the subjects in this video.

The Uayob (five nameless days) begins

As of this morning with Sahli having rotavirus like symptoms on top of congestion a cough, damn. Five unlucky or nameless days with the unusual co-occurrence of the XUX EK happening on Wednesday morning. The XUX EK for those who may read this website and be like WTF is that name about? How do you say it (xSHooSh ek). looks like an unpronounceable jumble of letters to our harsh and judgemental american eyes (assuming I haven't secretly blown up in some other country.....)Xux, as I understand, it is a Yucatec Mayan word that means wasp. Like the angry scary bugs. Ek is a word that means both black and star, maybe because stars come out when it's dark. In this sense it means wasp star. I'm not going to use positive language because this is a story i've known for some time so maybe I'm missing something but I would refer anyone interested to check out Bruce Scofield's book; "Signs of Time", and possibly also another book he wrote; "Day Signs". They seem faithful to the tradition in as far as I can tell that it is practiced today.
I have been very interested in the indigenous mesoamerican calendars which, ironically some might, say emerged from reading Carlos Castenada's semi fiction book series. Controversy among people who care rages as to the authenticity of his writing, but I imagine that there is a good possibility some of the stuff he wrote was honest non-fiction. Any ways the spiritual tradition he is presenting is called (by western anthropologists) nagualism. The nagual is typically considered the spirit double, e.g. the animal form a sorcerer might assume, or a "familiar" spirit such as the type which terrify people in Appalachia, or which were damning proof for condemnation during witch hunts. It is essentially a form of animism to lump it in broadly, most similar today to probably Santeria or any other syncretized belief system which adapted itself to survive slavery, colonial oppression, or some other collosal form of ignorance.
Anyways in one of Castenada's books be describes the Nagual completely differently, something like yet beyond the subconscious, or some state of meditative existance akin to Dhyana or Nirvana. As I can't say I know enough about it, all I can do is generalize and compare description to description. Having had profound spiritual experiences I can't honestly pin my own experiences with any of these other labels per say, although knowledge of them is a useful form of advanced conscious/spiritual practice, as they can provide powerful themes for mediatative work or thoughtful actions.
The reality we all engage in and which he lumped in our subconcious with also is the Tonal. Tonal basically means time, so in one sense he was advancing that the Nagual is outside of the space time continuum, which makes sense since one of the key precepts to safely accessing this part of reality was to "stop time".
I'll go farther to share a story which illustrates stopping time as well as anything I ever heard.
An old college classmate told me a story about a friend of his who smoked DMT once. DMT is the endogenous chemical in your brain which is thought to flood your brain as it is born, rarely during extreme circumstances, and when you die. It is associated with near death experiences and this stuff is noteworthy because it is found in almost all life forms. It also can be crystalized and smoked or mainlined or imbibed in a concoction called Ayahuasca. The pure form of it is said to be the most intense hallucinogen known and the shortest acting, typically a half hour journey to the moon or something like it. Anyways. the guy smoked it. Went off and lived with the elves for 800 years. Then he exhaled.
So this Tonal thing was actually very important to the indigenous people of Anahuac. In fact they had a count of days called the Tonalpoualli. This is one and the same as the 260 day calendar which was very unique in the world.
While the DMT story is fresh, consider they have more hallucinogenic naturally occuring plants and animals in Mexico than anywhere else in the world. According to Castenada, the cultures there took up hallucinogens as life long divinatory study. Imagine if people actually did so with a purpose other than getting fucked up. Might be profound right? Thats where I think the calendar emerged from systematic use of consciousness expanding naturally occuring compounds.
In the Dresden codex a precolumbian Mayan folded book, one of the last known to have survived Delanda's horrific book burnings upon conquest, there were Venus tables laid out which indicated that according to the 13 day week which cooccurred with the Xux Ek, which group of people would be stung by the wasp star. Some weeks it was rulers, other weeks it was children. Sometimes it was girls only, or old people. The the previous one occuring in August of 07, and this one were not listed in the references I had so i have no idea who the target was, or is.

My hope is that the target is the authoritarian part of our personalities. The excluding, name calling, subservient part of us who sacrafices enjoyment in life for some abstract ideal. I see no reason why people should strive to over complicate their lives. Why should I or anyone pay rent, insurance or interest, or be peddled credit by one group (sales people) then accosted by another group (collections) when they are linked inextricably in the nature of capitalism. Profit is difficult to differentiate from exploitation in my rationale. It's dificult to think a system of rewarding people for things they should do on their own is no basis for any common culture at all. Instead we have individualism and exceptionalism constued on imaginary lines by arbitrary systems. We have people killing themselves to make a buck, to look pretty, in short to propel all this useless parasitical shit forward, unquestioningly. Worst of all the bastards who are pretty good at getting filthy rich use their wealth to manipulate the political system into a charade. Imagine a lobbyist in a direct democracy. It wouldn't add up, because the scope of action required to effect outcome would make it infeasible.
The authoritarian personality shows up all over the political spectrum. It has it's choir whom it preaches to. It has it's routines, it's valorization of this quality or that quality. It always excludes those deemed weaker or inferior based on it's own prejudices and by that measures excludes itself from a range of meaningful experience. I myself have been this person. I was raised this person, and if I'm lucky I will not die back at being this person. But this person did not just happen to tend away from it, I had to be exposed to thought toxic to authoritarian tendencies and modeled on ways that I could change my instinctual reactions away from looking down and aversion to open minded tolerance for things to be not like I am. I have yet to extend it very far into the society at large, but I'm working on bringing up the subject, in short informal discussions to help stir up passions and to help people be more considerate of their assumptions in as far as poverty and oppression are inextricably tied together to the point where dysfunction often is not the personal failure of an individual but the collective failure of our society to give enough of a fuck about it to do something othere than bomb brown people.
Back to the authoritarian personality, it is this latent tension, a pseudo-militancy, a sacrafice that doesn't need to happen. It happens to ritualize and support the individual who in all likelihood has been profoundly negatively conditioned by society, and has retreated to a stronghold of familiarity. But, when it happens the person who gave something up cannot help but looking at the unclean masses with resentment. This is the poison that can turn into fascism. This is the disorder that betrays the unexamined truth it pretends to simply represent. As our closed minds die, as we annihilate the walls and the limits self imposed so do we inch ever closer to some post-capitalist viability, with the potential that we may learn to live thoughtful, mindful lives of purposeful action which does not lead to an exaltation of the one, but a one that is composed of many. In short a world still full of the complications of life itself but minus the added on layer of capitalist exploitation which makes existence for most an insult at best.

thousand year mistakes

Read an article by Bill Mckibben on getting arrested to protest a coal fired plant and some one linked to this article in the comments. That second link is what I call infiltration. I guess doing it once is probably possible for most anything anywhere, but where does the resistance strategy really gel? Does it require too many bumbling and now paranoid scientists and mall cop types now that this shenannigan succeeded? Or can we count on the american inability to identify a map period as a second use reappropriation of the "master's tools" for the manufactured ignorance so unavoidable today?
McKibben doesn't want any rowdy types though, everyone must dress as if they are on their way to a (white) protestant church. Apparently congress owns this thing and they can just stroke their john hancocks around and make it burn another kind of fossil fuel. joy.

So I came up with the idea to write this piece and celebrate justice. Justice in the face of ~10,000 years of bad decisions, rewarding those who made them with power and legacy, technology and all of the other accoutrements that go along with the fly paper we huddle from and get stuck to in this wonderful modern world. First: I must google how far back does it go? Could've guessed, John Zerzan interviewed by Derrick Jensen provided an answer. Oddly enough, now that i think of it, I've seen both of them speak to, Zerzan in Syracuse 2-3 years ago, Jensen in Binghamton last year. While Zerzan wasn't nearly this cogent when I saw him speak, this piece was easier to digest and jibed with my understanding of anthropology, which too has made me sympathetic to anarcho primitivism/ eco-anarchy for many moons now (not that i'm counting).

This just provides a backstop. It is politically useful that we all share the belief that primitive life was brutal, harsh and short. But only after we switched to agriculture. Agriculture allowed people suplus from excess crop and thence: wealth. Maybe it started with the Joneses who everybody apparently has either been trying to keep up with or whom the our rebellious forebears badmouthed and were thusly repressed by their barbarian hoarde.

First mistake: agriculture, boo! booooo. end result: franken food, factory farms, ecological devastation, corn syrup, obesity, false scarcity from commodification and globalized trade in cash crops leading to preventable deaths form starvation, malnutrition, anorexia, obesity. oh and food poisoning too. Starts here but the population problem gets in the way of it ending here because coupling the worlds population of us , a tertiary level predator with the worlds remaining mostly devastated ecosystems= dieback. Can't sell the die back, at least not honestly even with truth in advertising. People must be manipulated in the abbatoir towards the killing floor if we are to believe what we see everyday.Agriculture is the mother.

The stream of thought then jogs to the right in the development and progression of authoritarian personality, culture and society on my way back to the next big mistake: monotheism replacing tribal spiritual practices. Much like direct democracy, which at least was somewhat practiced here by our indigenous neighbors whose stolen land we now inhabit, some people are a good fit with the 'process". Those people facilitate other peoples experience of mystery in the world and embracing mystery as an unavoidable fact is a great reminder to all of us on our pursuit of critical transivity. It isn't about celebrating our ignorance but finding ways to be that minimize the harm ignorance exercises on us when left unchecked to form it's peculiar morbid routines. It isn't about some crass personification of the forces of nature but a direct experience with life beyond the known boundaries and the mystery of existence. When people started forcibly converting each other, they set a really, really bad precedent into motion. unfortunately for everybody, those with obviously more sophisticated spiritual practices were fought violently in the name of the current normative spiritual traditons. My suspicion is because the behavior patterns needed to repudiate the onslaught was incompatible with their spiritual constitution at some level. It was still intact and it is always easier to destroy than to build.

Second mistake: militaristic forced conversion to synthetic religion. BOOO! BOO! BOO!
This also conveniently welded the aggressive personality with an alien concept of morality, thus, now discipline(read regimented, preoccupied with rules, obsessed with the right perception and inherently lacking self esteem sufficient to question inequality as they create the lesser other to be sacraficed in themselves in their gesture of loyal abasement to the soverign then project martial judgement on all who are unwilling to folow suit) is frequently confused with the types of value we are taught to desire so we can attain wealth and the favor of our cruel and cold god. This abberation set the foundation for two things. One was a demystification among "thinking" people no longer attached to outcomes of their actions as severed form the earth which accompanied the scientific breakthroughs and the development of empirical scientific process. Second was a capacity for cruelty towards others and nature that could only arise from a hoard of ork like creatures who were denied the connection to beauty and meaning in everyday life and who would hunt down anyone, child, elder, woman, man suspected of cavorting with the devil in similar ways. To me this seems inextricably linked in crucial ways to the eventual rise of colonialism, the slave trade and it's logical conclusion of fascism replete with an ethnic cleansing and social darwinist moral philosophy. Evangelism is the warped and addicted father. Empiricism is the estranged but equally absolutist uncle, who may still be of some use were he to come down from his pompous ivory tower, learn to laugh or something.

Then people went and turned excess driven wealth into a paradigm that the entire world must engage in. Compulsory capitalism! land not owned or used by bussiness interest became manifest destiny from this sensory deprivation disease that infests the minds of those who are blinded by its bling, deafened by the ca ching of cash and dumbed down enough to be spoon fed whatever those in power need you to believe today. War was declared on those against the will of the masters of the universe. Of course only the innocent and the pawns died. Blood stains us all, and it will not disappear no matter how you try to wash it off.

Capitalism is the child, the child that tantrums when it does not get its way. The child who over simplifies the world. The fickle child who has no self esteem but cannot keep itself from showing of. The selfish child. Capitalism, always with the next thing to sell, the dream of wealth without work, miraculous, growing, like vines, suffocating everything, cancerous. Capitalism, the child who just can't learn and has no one to step in and say "stop! NO!" Spoiled, vindictive, unkempt. Capitalism would rather despoil the entire world than let us try, in case we are right. In case they are wrong. And if they can't have everything, then no one will have anything....
Capitalism is ready for a nap, or better yet ready to grow up dialectically.


In summary, the thought I started out with is that we keep making these awful choices as a species. Not everybody because there are still some isolated people who are lucky enough to not have had contact(or very much contact) with this disease, and there are those of us who have made it through and seen their way of life as a natural conclusion to the sustainability question. Who do we follow, what we do, what we think about, how do we allow ourselves to be lead by fear. These questions keep coming up in our dialect, because the answers just aren't what you might hope they would be. This current dilemma, the econopocalypse is the end result of ten thousand years of failing to make the right choices and we've finally been pinned down by it. The triumphalism was never more than cheering and jeering by the fans in the stand watching the game but never knowing what the rules should be, nor what would happen at the end of the game. Most just always just rooted for the team with the better marketing gimmick, and that was what it was all about, that was the substance to their triumphalism. The future is plain and has no wrapper, it simply is because there must be more to why we exist with all of these complicated thoughts and emotions that to divert our attention or to indulge in some eternal consumerist hunt for deals or whatever. We're not just going to die off, and I'm sure arrogance will drive people to draw the line in the sand with their creature comforts. That is auto selection I guess so adaptation is a key survival skill now.



You(probably to some extent) and I make the pendulum swing, and i keep looking for a good place to jump off before I just say FUCK IT! and jump off wherever I am. because where else will i ever be otherwise, just the same back and forth. work, home, work, home, hope, despair, hope, despair, seasons go by ever faster. no time for this, no time for that, family's getting older, closer to death... will I ever see my grandmothers again? no time, back and forth running in circles, debt, wealth, debt, wealth, death................

all the while the sound of flowers dying.
As they die, so do I watch the terxture fade of true wealth in hope and dreams of life not for profit, but just to be lived. It must be realized before the portal closes.
In the spirit of total resistance.- Orphelin de Nephilim

only you can prevent false scarcity

I have been increasingly thinking about survivalism. Today I read a post from the Washington Post about this computer programmer guy and his family. They (he?) figured out the safest place in the world based on a number of criteria and decided to relocate to New Zealand. Not sure having things like that broadcast in articles confirms the status, and I've thought of relocating to places ranging from the rural locales outside the city where I live to the Canadian Maritimes, British Columbia, Virginia, a Caribean island, Hawaii, somewhere in central or South America (Costa Rica, Belize,Venezuela, Chile, Peru, Argentina, ) to Europe, the steppe, anywhere peaceful, and relatively uninhabited.
What I came to realize a bit earlier, it's not where you locate, it's who you locate with. Maybe I'll be fine just outside of town, or even in town, who knows. What I do know is that it will be different everywhere. I know that I don't want to be an outsider stranded halfway around the world from where I belong.
So I had an idea to form a survivalist collective with friends and family. I will ask people who I know if they are interested in agreeing to try to meet up and find each other somewhere safe and liveable. We can come up with ideas and probably multiple networks and work on pooling our resources without dislocating and bugging out too early.
I'm not your typical survival type. I believe a society is reinforced by it's tolerance and it's ability to resolve conflicts in ways that benefit the most people. I believe education as a tool of critical thought is the defacto foundation for sound decision making crucial to any participatory democratic society. I am pro gun, pro self defense, eco-imperitive, anti authoritarian, inclusive wealth equals sharing anomaly. The next world will be on a smaller scale, with spiritual challenges and rewards, with human interaction and celebration the root source of our will to go on as opposed to the techno-economic straightjacket that suffocates us and ransoms us out piecemeal with paychecks and gadgetry. I believe rent and interest equals exploitation, and things on too large of a scale poison their surroundings . We should only pay as far as things cost, and scale can yield us a livealble sustainable world with plenty of room for everybody to contribute what they are good at, or to further develop what they could be good at. Overcoming the scarcity mindset is a meditative purpose of mindfulness. Also, by the time we actually produce the things that sustain each other we will find the cure to 90% of mental illness and alienation we experience currently. We will experience the evaporation of the idiocy of opinion replaced with the dull grit of practicality which can polish us into something evolved instead of obscuring us in a cloud of hot air. The fall will be marked with people dying foolish deaths and in as far as society can prevent sectarian bloodshed such as has been found in Iraq, sub saharan Africa, or Afghanistan so will it be successful. Once a place goes down that road, don't expect it to end, time to move on. So we have to preserve peace in as far as possible and first order is destroying conventional notions of ownership and distribution to alleviate the despair that would otherwise arise from false scarcity, thereby restoring a sense of community where we are all ultimately responsible to each other to preserve the liveability of our surroundings and the safety of our families and friends.

BIG TIME!

Yes everybody, we've arrived. And departed?
I've been saying this for way too long. I should be in a primitivist bunker(cave?) somewhere living off of rations but apparently I'm just not that talented or organized. Instead I'm congratulating myself for fighting off a bread crust of illegal debt thanks to this website. When what we need is more of this guy's ideas. Write down NOW! why should anyone be honest when it comes to debt when we can be assured they are going to follow a straight line trajectory into catastrophe which we're all lined up to hit. It's all going exactly as someone planned it to go, because there is just no logical excuse otherwise unless incompetency has been purified into some everyday substance the gross majority of people have no chance of avoiding exposure to. That kind of plausible deniability on this scale just doesn't add up, and even if it did, we really are fucked either way as far as capitalism saving anything for its lumpens who are now the bottom 95% of us thanx so much popular culture and MSM....

I guess it's a good time to blow whatever credit you have left on doing those things you wanted to before you died, because for most of the people out there, that's going to be the next phase. We won't see a debt write down without a population write down, and now that we can all be sure some military/ nsa intelligence wonk is proof reading all of this after that first article.

Here's a note to you and all of your buddies: your superiors lie to you, they make shit up to get you thinking they know something no body else does because the world can't handle the truth. Ever heard of this speech by Gen. Smedley Butler? Or Eisenhower's warning about the military industrial complex? Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel's backyard wars are all just weapons testing exercises in live fire conditions and assymetrical psychological operations so you all have the practice to control a huge well armed country full of angry people here. Refuse the orders to repress your fellow citizens when we rise up against our debt slavery. Join us. Don't be a tool for the ruling class, use your intelligene to make a better world. Lead the way with your bravery of dissent and perhaps many of your comrades will see your example and recognize your leadership. The Milgram experiments were shown to be less effective when somebody had the courage to defy authority and bear that unknown consequence. You may well find yourself at the precipice of a moment when you will be asked to do things that may catch up with you in a trial of crimes against humanity if you don't find the strength to refuse.

Maybe there is still some spark and shadow of heroism left in military service despite the rote brainwashing they force everyone to go through ... I'm almost certain we will be finding out in the next few years when they are called up to confront those of us who actually believe in the realization of freedom, not it's mockery in this current form, not it's inversion as it's mirage of the abstract higher ideal. Freedom as tangible practice, practice which encourages more of it, wealth as generosity in proportion to what you have and as a common good so that everyone has something and we find that shared something to be what's worth defending... the terms of the debate are getting starker by the hour even if you don't want it to go there. It's like the countdown to hide and go seek has started on some grand scale.

The False Face Sky.

I was gonna post this thing I wrote the other day. Same call for the same shit that I don't expect to happen. although it is amusing that the economy has collapsed, albeit who knows if the shell game is really up or if the illusion makers can pull off another convincing scheme to get the majority believing in belief again. I hope it's really on it's permanent way down, not because I wish peoples dreams and expectations to fail, just so we can come up with a real solution when those people finally give up on this shit brained idea of ...... whatever form of expletive capitalism you prefer to call it. The word expletive represents all expletives not any particular one since I couldn't think of just one descriptive word for it.

Believing in belief. sounds absurd doesn't it? The one useful thought I had recently had to do with that old beaten dead horse I always drag out from under my bed for these blogs: the Mohawk Valley Formula. No link, guess you'll have to google it or swallow the big pill and read some of the older shit on here. This interview with Michael Hudson caught my attention and filled in the missing intellectual link.
besides finding his debt writedown solution the only reasonable one so far, this quote caught my attention:

" I learned the reality a few years ago in London, talking to a commercial banker. 'We’ve had an intellectual breakthrough,' he said. 'It’s changed our credit philosophy.'

'What is it?' I asked, imagining that he was about to come out with yet a new magical mathematics formula?

'The poor are honest,' he said, accompanying his words with his jaw dropping open as if to say, “Who would have guessed?'"

There it is. The end result of the formula is a mass audience with some significant portion watching or, reading it for a pastime, finding themselves in the hall of MSM illusions and simulacra believing their artificial and cherry picked narratives which tend to filter heavily any appearance of class. Thus we are given the bootstrap philosophy, the blame the weak philosophy, the rich are just like you and me philosophy... and here we have it, the annointing of the rich as a self made nobility. It scaffolds the illusion of support and legitimacy over our whole society. It redefines their legitimacy in a shared landscape with the default state of existence in the larger culture. While it doesn't share the wealth, it does share in this mystical simulacra common the filtered reflection of reality. This creates a false consciousness bolus among the conventional which lends to the myth that you can work hard and be honest and some day merit a larger share. That being possible makes it a fair system. That myth being extremely unlikely makes it's representation as such the realm of speculation amongst the cynical, the jaded, the agitators, those who appreciate irony, and those who recognize it for what it is. In short it is an enormous, shrouded lie that leads to wasted lives in so many avenues and is of such a scale most people can't recognize it for not being the real sky, because it has filled up the sky for their entire lives and the lives of their recent ancestors.

Maybe no one even believes any of this shit any more beyond the incredibly naive. But of those that do how many possess the aptitude for self reflection to sort out the fact or fiction that models their actions? What I'm looking for is some reason as to why no one reacts. Are they really happy enough as it is? Is it learned helplessness? Is it some combination of fear and greed? Is it some variation of the Milgram experiment and a majority just go along with whatever anyone who seems to fit the archetype of someone who knows what they are doing regardless of the outcome?

The bigger question, and the better one to me is how do we interrupt this meme? Can anybody do anything about it, and could anyone know what the next step is beyond this incredible collective hangover which hasn't seen daylight yet? Do we co-opt it or better yet modify it into a vaccination against obedience to the point of stupidity and self destruction. Or is that a fool's errand? Do we help it crash or do we try to figure out where we can avoid it's chemical reactions as it decomposes violently? I guess reaction is up to the individual. How many out there would rather talk about action in it's pure context, only to find that everything is a reaction from this monstrosity, navigating it's communicative medias, dealing with it's pre-fab opinions, and it's legions of dysfunctional waste. So many things ruined, and when the tsunami comes, then comes a whole new scale of reaction, a whole new set of parameters, a whole new development in the war for control versus decontrol and the possibility for untethered action.