Focus

Greetings good citizen,

In honor of the holiday, today’s treat will be a ‘free-form’ piece from yours truly, essentially starting with what I’m NOT going to write about and ending with the usual rant somewhere deep off of the reservation.

Which is to admit I deleted yesterday’s Alternet article outlining yet another version of wishful thinking of how we could ‘resurrect’ bankrupt capitalism.

Like we all wouldn’t know what to do if we suddenly found ourselves free of indebtedness…

Just an opinion here good citizen but I think the ‘closet Libertarians’ over at Alternet believe the rest of us are ‘one trick ponies’.

Since capitalism is all we know, capitalism is all we can handle.

And these are the self-proclaimed ‘successors’ to the Democratic movement…

No wonder conservatism is looking more attractive to the average citizen, at least they stand for something…something weird and unidentifiable but at least it’s more than a shrug and a sigh!

Which is the main reason why I’m NOT parsing the latest proposal by the closet Libertarians, hell bent on retaining a government centered on private ownership.

Um, while most of you DIDN’T learn this from your history teacher (and you had history every year once you got into middle school) they never once mentioned that the central focus of our ‘constitutional government’ was not HUMAN RIGHTS but PROPERTY RIGHTS!

12 years of school, six years of specific history ‘indoctrination’ and not once do they mention what the ‘primary focus’ of our government is!

You, oddly enough, are led to believe our government was founded on the principles of justice and liberty for all. It is only after you leave school that you learn, if you learn at all, what the ‘central founding principle’ of this nation really is.

And once you know, you sort of understand why they don’t go advertising it, yet another reason why a hundred lawyers at the bottom of the ocean really is ‘a good start’.

Because you learn right up front what this country is all about the minute you enter Law School.

In fact, if you’re headed for law school, chances are that somebody has taken you aside and told you this bit of trivia…along with them telling you in various ways that ‘the rabble’ don’t ‘appreciate the truth’.

Because seriously good citizen, the general public is largely ignorant of the, er, ‘focus’ of our justice system…(although the fact that the post constitution United States still permitted human slavery should have been a big tip-off.)

And literal slavery only ended with the advent of a new kind of slavery, wage slavery.

Part of the reason our civilization is collapsing upon itself is wage slavery. We no longer produce our own food and must sell ourselves in order to obtain sustenance.

This barely worked in a less populous time…now that there are more of us we are left with the question of what do you do when there are no buyers?

And the answer is whatever it takes…with YOU usually ending up in prison for a crime committed out of ‘desperation’.

But try to get the capitalist to admit they created this situation…you’ll have better luck fitting a camel through the eye of a needle!

Which brings us to the second part of this little, er, ‘exercise in education’…that we have a justice system that isn’t centered on justice at all, all they give a shit about is ‘ownership’!

How can we share this world of our if our courts are only concerned about ownership rights?

This is another little conundrum the criminals don’t want you thinking about…

And he’s your old pal Gegner, polluting your mind with this ‘there’s no need to go there’ stuff!

IF YOU CAN’T DON’T ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS HOW WILL YOU ARRIVE AT THE RIGHT SOLUTION?

And that, good citizen, is the essence of the ‘capitalist trap’. By preventing you from asking the right questions, they totally avoid the issues they don’t want to address!

That’s why our politics are rife with non-issues like Gay rights and compulsory healthcare (and just because its compulsory by no means makes it ‘universal’…although there will, like here in Massachusetts, be a ‘free’ version that NO DOCTOR is required to accept. How’s that for You’re On Your Own. (Remember ‘yo-yo’?)

Did I mention this was going to end in a rant that takes us way off the reservation? I think I did.

Gay rights are important to gay people but we can only wonder why they have to petition the government to get them, nobody (except conservative politicians) really gives a fuck.

Which is to say under a ‘just’ government, sexual orientation wouldn’t even enter the equation.

And what would constitute a ‘just’ government to you, good citizen?

Would it be one that focused on who owned what they had NO RIGHT TO CLAIM FOR THEMSELVES or one that was focused on liberty and justice for ALL, with a focus on HUMAN RIGHTS, not OWNERSHIP RIGHTS!

So as you settle down to celebrate 236 years of, er, ‘Independence’, take a moment to consider how well that’s working out for the > One Percent…(since the rest of us are ‘non-persons’.)

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Three dog night

Greetings good citizen,

Geez, it seems yesterday’s ‘rally’ had as much behind it as the prior day’s sell-off because today’s market has returned to ‘neutral’. There’s nobody buying or selling…a phenomenon that has been the ‘norm’ for quite a while now but the fucktards in the MSM don’t think that’s news!

You know what a ‘hoodwink’ is, don’t you good citizen? Remove the ‘wink’ and you’ve got the answer, it is an opaque bag they throw over your head so you can’t see.

Well, nobody likes being hoodwinked. The question is whether or not the bag is necessary to accomplish the job?

The MSM realized long ago that it could hoodwink the consumer without the bag because the public has a (deeply disturbing) tendency to believe whatever the media tells them, even when it is demonstrably false! (For an idea of where this is heading you need merely look at Faux News for a sample of ‘newsertainment’ in action.)

Just because nobody has forced a bag over your head does not mean you aren’t being hoodwinked!

Okay, so what if they ‘lie’ about the Stock Market…no harm, no foul…right?

That’s the prevailing belief good citizen, that ‘fluffing’ the stock markets is done to ‘boost confidence’ in the economy. What harm can that do?

Considering how badly ‘mis-managed’ the economy is, it harms all of us plenty!

Worse, the, er, ‘mask’ of creative accounting makes a ‘true accounting’ almost impossible to determine! [Another way of phrasing this is it is almost impossible to guage just how badly we are being ‘fucked’!]

Simply put good citizen, what’s going on is criminal and the bought and paid for MSM doesn’t want you to know about it.

As you know the stock market is the number one argument, in fact, the only ‘tangible’ evidence that the ‘economic recovery’ even exists!

As today’s market ‘proves’, if it weren’t for the trading desks of the big investment banks there wouldn’t be any market activity…or there would be a huge ‘rush to the exits’ IF investors thought they could ‘get out’ reasonably intact. (They know they can’t so most of them stay in.)

ASSUMING I have made myself understood (a lot of people have mental blocks when it comes to this shit!) What should we ‘do’ about the toxic environment we are being ‘stewed & screwed’ in?

If you find yourself wondering what ‘toxic environment’ I’m referring to, you obviously didn’t comprehend my point…so I will explain further:

You are being lied to. Not just about the economy but about pretty much everything. Worse, nothing will be done to, er, ‘repair’ the damage that has been done because the perps, the ‘buyers’ of what passes for a government around here, don’t want it ‘fixed’.

What the idiot politicians don’t realize (but you don’t either) is they can be hanged for what they have, er, ‘neglected to do’.

In the process of explaining what’s going on we have also covered what needs to be done, the first step in restoring ‘liberty’ is to re-establish justice by restoring the ‘rule of law’.

Our politicians have sold the public interest for personal gain…this is treason, a hanging offense.

A Simple Plan contains the details of how we would avoid returning to this same spot. Educate yourself before you argue to ‘save the traitors’ (or worse, to save the system that spawned them!)

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

(PS. I have an extraordinarily full dance card this weekend so consider this ‘fair warning’.)

The Royal Bull's Eye

Greetings good citizen,

The markets had a ‘stellar’ day yesterday (for no particularly good reason, as usual) while the ‘real’ economy continued to tank.

Are the markets really ‘rising’ or are we observing the considerably more disturbing phenomenon of watching the ‘coin of the realm’ being diluted into nothingness?

Think about it good citizen, the markets shed some nine thousand points then, without anything actually ‘changing’, they tacked four thousand points back on. How much trouble do you think we’re in if those four thousand points are what I suggest they are (a subjective value adjustment?)

What does this say for you, who are paid in these diluted instruments? Worse, you are expected to work just as hard for money that buys you considerably less…can you say ‘fucked’?

Increasingly, more and more of us are finding we can’t survive on what we are paid, the paycheck doesn’t cut it…what do you think your boss is doing about that?

That’s right, he’s sending your job to the cheaper there, it’s a ‘win-win’ for him!

Left unexplored is how the chiseling fucks who are responsible for these, er, ‘irregularities’ manage to stay alive? Judges have bodyguards these days, you don’t suppose ‘currency manipulators’ have them too, do you?

Um, this crap doesn’t happen by itself, somebody is giving the orders, ‘calling the shots’ if you will and this is the same person who is threatening to crash the world’s economies if we don’t go along with it (or so our idiot politicians believe.)

Well good citizen, what do you do when you discover something is broken? You either fix it or you replace it…although you could ignore it but that makes other problems significantly worse.

We’ve ignored our broken political system for a long time, we will soon no longer enjoy that luxury.

Funny how certain ‘institutions’ depend upon the continued function of other institutions, the political system of a nation with an ‘unviable’ economy is worthless.

For all of the claptrap about economic recovery, what do your ‘lying eyes’ tell you?

There ain’t no recovery, not where it matters…all you have is roadblocks as far as the eye can see.

Naturally, we arrive at the fateful question, is it the system that is broken or is it just the players who have gotten too big for their britches?

Since most of you have been ‘indoctrinated’ to believe that ‘I got mine, fuck you’ capitalism is as good as it gets, you might be inclined to ‘replace’ the incumbents with ‘fresh blood’, wipe out past ‘mistakes’ and start over with a (more or less) clean slate.

Odd that something like this brings us full circle to the old if you took all of the money in the world and divided it equally among all of the world’s people, the ones who had it taken away from them would end up with it back again.

Bizarrely, the explanation for this ‘logical outcome’ is these people ‘have a knack for making money’ (which is an absolute lie!) because the truth is these people ‘get theirs’ through their (legal) control of the markets…no ‘knack’ (or mystery) involved.

While many people suspect ‘money’ is the problem it is not…although it is very close because money is ‘a legal construct’.

Our social problems, ALL OF THEM, lie with the LAW!

The first problem we encountered was the collection of ‘backwoods lawyers’ that gathered (in secret) to write the, er, ‘laws’ of this country (which tended to benefit attendees/invitees considerably more than those who remained unaware of what was going on…)

AND THEN the appointed, not elected Senate of each state ‘ratified’ this treacherous document that conservatives revere, a masterwork so nasty and bulletproof that despots around the world stepped off of their thrones in support of it!

Finally, the ‘Bulls Eye’ removed from the backs of Royalty!

Well, if you consider the origins, the document modern politicians are ‘sworn to uphold’ isn’t as wonderful as some imagine it to be. I has done absolutely zero to protect you from the predations of the powerful as we can see today (and through our extremely bloody national history.)

Understand good citizen, history, as it has been taught to you, is neither the ‘whole story’ nor a true recounting of events past.

The ‘Shot Heard ‘Round The World’ isn’t what it’s been made out to be, the ‘surprise overthrow’ of the world’s mightiest Empire isn’t how it actually went down.

The real ‘achievement’ of the American Revolution was the solution to the ‘Royal Bull’s Eye’ problem. The Royals still call the shots even though most of them abdicated their thrones centuries ago.

Naturally, the ‘test case’ for ‘government in a box’ had to by necessity swear off any connection to Royalty.

Is that how you want your children raised, to bow and scrape to Royals who were never defeated; understand these are people who consider you to be no better than a slave, a servant to be disposed of at a whim.

If you work for a paycheck, you’re a peasant…no matter how big that check is.

I think it’s time for paychecks all around!

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner