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21 Sep 2007 @ 03:09, by Astrid Ware
Do we dare to know the Truth of our own behaviour? Only those who truly do/have done so, will be able to go forward and escape the Repeat of History!... Jim Kirwan is one of my favorite Political Writers of all time. And this is a very good one!...
// a-d
One More Time! // by Jim Kirwan [ [link] ]
Jim Kirwan
9-18-7
Actually, this gluttonous festival of consumption began in earnest when Ronnie made it all VERY fashionable with "GREED is GOOD!" (A line from Wall Street memorialized on film).
But that was only the beginning because his polices were founded on this idiotic stone of self-defeat that "Only suckers "give" or give-back to society - "winners" TAKE it ALL, without apologies: and between these two impossibly simplistic statements - the fate of billions of people was sealed.
The world has forgotten just how much people had to suffer these same axioms before: Always the same dominant monsters controlling it all (the MONEY*CHANGERS). In the twilight of the Dark Ages there came into the world what we look back on now as The Renaissance, that 'golden age' that was the artistic and scientific explosion of breakthroughs that coincided with the beginning of the Inquisition, and the penury of most of the ordinary people of the time. In 'art' the church was King, Queen and 'god' to every working craftsman in Europe - and the 'courts' of monarchies were only eclipsed by the Holy Roman Empire of the Church.
Society chose to remember ONLY the Renaissance and skip over things like the Black Death (precursor to everything else - another model for the New World Order's way of death) that killed a third of the existing world then - or the Inquisition that made a total mockery of not only the rights of most human beings, but of any semblance of the individual's right over his or her own life. Because collectively "we" still fail to remember the prologue to our own existence - we must now repeat it at a million times the severity of those early days of massive crimes and tortures so freely dispensed by the rich and powerful.
The hidden beauty in what is happening now lies in how much is just now finally beginning to take root in the awareness of many more people than ever before. Of course in this highly charged and polarized environment very few will notice - and yet the power of what is being given to us all is vast-enough that some of it must get through the jungles of our collective nightmares that keep us from seeing what is right in front of every one of us. Things like Zeitgeist, the film (1) lays out the origins of why and how we came to personify the heavens and later on the worlds of myth and power that stem from all of that - and this left us with George Carlin's five minute take on the needs of 'religion' as the pretext for all that has now come after that. Yesterday Naomi Klein's new book came out - The Shock Doctrine - The Rise of Disaster Capitalism: (2)
These two breakthroughs in the way we collectively view the world and what continues to happen in it - could easily form the foundation for a new renaissance that enables us to finally throw off the heavy chains of the metaphorical along with the very real imposition of slavery, in which we are still pretending that we can "live." To be alive involves a hell-of-a-lot more than just breathing. Actually LIFE is not present in those people who simply follow their dogmatic-routines and remain apart from any real involvement with what they claim to be their existence. Life is about imagination, creativity and promise - it's about hard work and the gratification that comes from being part of the life of others in ways that add to the health and well-being of the society: instead of just stealing from everyone and everything else that's still out there.
The global solution to our problems has always received the same response from those "in-charge in any era" - and that is "It's time to move-on, because CHANGE* HAPPENS." How convenient for those who ought to be in prison or at least before the courts - yet because of the artificially fast-pace of this society that values data over knowledge and accumulation over thought: we have yet to pause and reflect-as members of a society. What we're doing now is tantamount to trying to run full-speed through a tropical jungle of very real dangers - and that simply cannot be done.
Every step in that kind of jungle is weighted with potential problems, quick-sand, poisonous plants and animals, clutches of undergrowth that would stop a bull-elephant - and yet the yuppies think that they can conquer all on the laptop of their lives - if only they have "the data". . . and THAT given this six minute video (3): is never going to happen! Because it is NOT the data that matters but what we do "with it" - that ultimately counts!
Of course the problem for those who really are trying to run through the jungles of their lives - is that within seconds they'll smash head-on into a tree, or step off an unseen cliff, or just be swallowed up within the darkness - maybe they'll be buried- alive in the unseen quicksand of everything that will assail them instantly. It's the same reason that no one tries to drive 200 miles an hour through any city's streets: and yet millions of sheep keep trying to do this in order to obey their political shepherd's orders: and that, by any definition, is sheer insanity!
We are all just people. At the moment we're still smarter than the machines, and the one thing that makes us different are our cognitive abilities to think, to reason and to critically weigh the choices that we face: after which we must act on what we finally decide to do - because that's what makes 'humans' into "BEINGS."
kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
1) Zeitgeist the movie
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2) The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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3) The SHIFT
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Category: Activism
4 comments
21 Sep 2007 @ 04:50 by vaxen : Hey...
good for you that you've a fast connection but for dialup users the endless buffering is tedious and, well, that's probably why only a wee small percentage ever view these things. There has to be a better way! Internet clog and fast connections, videos and rhyming beasts.
I absolutely HATE Youtoob! So...the ones behind all this are actually doing the world a great disservice by 'blocking,' really, content and blocking minds. Not that 'we' need any of it, mind you, for we are 'in tune' with that which is over all.
I'd say "Thank God!" But En Ki(a) isn't my favorite amongst the HU. SInce he is HU! Oy Vei! It's already Freyas Daegr! Lady of Rutting and Combat...wears green, too. ;) And now I shall go forth to hunt the sacred Boar.
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21 Sep 2007 @ 05:47 by a-d : .... mutta se Suomalainen
Karhunpaisti on paljon parempi! hehehhe ;)
I'm so sorry that the UTube is not compatible with Dial-up!.... It SHOULD!... What if we shoot the Makers of Dial-up -or UTube, eh? *!*.... Just a thought... : )
24 Sep 2007 @ 08:51 by jazzolog : From This Vista
Hard for me to tell just what computing is like these days...given this maddening Vista deal that came with our new Dell. From other machines I use at work and libraries however, I get the impression a great gridlock is in the making. Not sure though, since OU students just returned to town as well...and suddenly you can't breathe the air anymore (Cleveland daddies have to be sure every kid has his/her own car and a dog) and cyberspace shuffles to a staggering freeze. But why should computing be any different than everything else in this trickledown drought of a society? Even the corporations are asking Democrats for some regulation---to save them from their own excesses. Nineteen thirty-two all over again.
24 Sep 2007 @ 18:31 by vaxen : Yes!
Thats a great analogy, jazzolog! 1932 all over again. The endless repeat of the endless drone whirling on and on and on...And soon V2 Rockets will rain down on London town and the hidden Crown. Nah, the Crown (The real Crown, not the Pseudo royals), is behind it all.
Dutch East Indies Trading Company in collusion with the British East Indies Trading Company established Imperialism to the nth degree- neverending - London bridge is always falling down but never seems to hit the ground.
As the crowe flies? Skull and Bones!
You might enjoy doing a little research on "Frequency Fence 2004." Brave New World? Infinitely worse, or better, as the 'case' may be.
[link] is a fun place to die. So, by all means, please...
Chin up! It will get worse before it gets better. But, after all, what is IT? Georgie Groeddeck knew. Frodo stole his work. Hubbard took some Frodo, ONI did the rest with a little DIA and CIA and NSA tossed in for spice. Good reading for a radioactively-rainy day?
Shivering thought, that: 1932 all over again!
Jazzo, did you ever go to lockergnome? If not you should and let them know what problems you are having. I decided not to install it based on all the flack and I like XP. You know that you can go back, yes? I have XP business and am quite happy with it. Got Vista business, too, and it would seem that it is a firmer model yet...
I'll email you a copy of the Lockergnome newsletter plus there is a lot of help on the net if you have some spare moments to do the research. What are your students opinions on Vista? Maybe the PC Lab could give you some tips and/or drive you a little crazier?
I've thought of that, A-d. Just quitting the net and going to Iraq or Tibet or Kun Lun Mountains. I mean what is it good for? Research! But "This too will pass" remains uppermost in my mind. Mind Control by any other name is still...invasion of your thought space by those willing and able to use it for their very own profit. ;)
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PS: jazzolog, as an ``educator,'' you may be interested in psycors' products. You may be able to interest your admins in them as well.
On the basis of the above-described methods of psychosounding and psychocorrection we have developed a series of products to be used in various areas.
"Our products are designed to assist consultants and Human Resource (HR) managers in their job, as well as child psychologists, psychotherapists, and family consultants. These products make it possible to obtain comprehensive information about a person or a group of people, reveal pathological inclinations, talents and abilities of a person. Therefore, the user can select the most efficient way of utilizing the employee, help young people to choose the proper field of activity, promptly notice and correct undesirable behaviour of a teenager, etc."
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