The HUMAN RACE, not just individuals, but the whole she-bang, is Three sheets to the wind, upside down and backwards batshit fucking insane.
I don't state this lightly and I am probably the last one in the blogosphere to come to this conclusion, but it hit me today.
The definition of insanity by Einstein, "Doing the same thing repeatedly, in exactly the same way, and expecting different results."
WE, as a species, have been doing EXACTLY the same lame ass shit, for going on 5000 fucking YEARS. The last great leap forward was in Greece (and this point is highly arguable, some may say Macedonia, others Alexandria, matters not really, whats an Eon here or an Eon there when the point is the same.)
The Greek Society failed and guess what: IT WAS A DEMOCRACY. What is that term that the media is hyping so much on lately with all of the protests going on in the MENA area? anyone feel free to speak up, informal class in session here.)
Then comes the Roman Empire. Started off with some unruly tribes that got an education in, first guess wins a cupie doll,
Greece.
This unruly tribe did what any good minority does when there is a power vacuum. They took the reins in their teeth and ran with the wagon. They created this fantabulous, rockin empire, where everyone had public bathing, even the street vendors had disposable cups for all of that kickbutt Vino flowing out of the Mediterranean basin. And guess what, IT WAS A DEMOCRACY! (well kinda, they elected plebes to show that there was a common voice.) They may have had an emperor but in the long run, he really was an elected official (at first.) He had the blessing of the army since he was in charge of it. And yet again, the COMMON VOICE voted itself all these cool things, for free, so long as they didn't have to worry about nasty things like, oh, Hunger, Evil hoards Rapin' an pillagin', or that the Emperor wasn't debasing the coin of the realm 'too much'. Hey, free food, lots of blood on the coliseum floor, lions tigers and dead Christians; what more could a good Roman ask for?
Fast forward roughly 2000 years.
We have what is supposedly a Representative Democracy. A republic.
Can ANYONE, point out how we are all that much different than the Romans of THEN? We aren't an empire. PHBLLTTTTTT!!!!!! Wrong answer.
- we have military basis WORLD WIDE, our finger in damned near everyones business (after all, the Dollar is the Reserve currency for the world; for now) and have been acting as the world police since I was a zygote (longer actually)
We don't have Bread and Circuses. %!# Cough, Hack, Gag, &#*((!!! Way off base answer.
- Organized sports with DEVOTE fans! Maybe it isn't funded by the Government, but it sure as hell is Reminiscent of the Coliseum days. Hell even our coliseums are based upon their designs. As for the "Bread"; Go dig up how many families, and even many single people, are on Food stamps this month. Run it as a percentage of Population. Don't go into denial when you see the numbers. I won't even go into the entire welfare system, just the foodstamp side of things.
The other side of the Circus is our current level of Media entertainment. 24/7 400+channels, and 99.9% of it is complete and total crap. What isn't crap gets played so repeatedly as to make you ignore it if they actually runs a new episode. Then again, most of that is put together for the "short attention span generation".
-The Romans ended up a Police state, with Centurions controlling the populace and keeping the Emperor in check: We aren't like that at all. !SChoom, Zip, Bang clatter bounce bounce bounce.(the sounds of my head exploding and bouncing off the floor.) NNNNGGGHHTTTTTTTT! Wrong answer, Three strikes, you are out! If ANYONE tries to tell me, TO MY FACE, that we aren't living in a police state: the Bitchslap I will deliver will be heard across state lines. And they will be lucky to only get slapped. We may not be Nazi Germany, we may not have Concentration camps (And we HAVE had them, don't be delusional here) but we are so CLOSE to crossing that line, it will only take the right nudge at the right time and the Masses will scream for it in the name of safety and security. I would say at this point, we are as close to Nazi Germany as Germany was just before the Reichstag fire. And lets not even discuss how our current "leader" acts amazingly like some Roman Emperor or French Monarch from the 1700's. When the shit gets rough, take a vaca but do a speech so it is covered as a 'working Vaca'. (my bad, I went there. sorry. :-( )
The news I was listening into today wasn't fit for lining a bird cage with. I listened to both sides of the aisle. NPR for 3 hours. (maybe that explains the cramp in my gut) then the CONservatives for a couple or three. I eventually had to turn it all off and listen to tire hum. That's when I came to the above conclusion. This species needs a good swift kick in the pants, then locked up on some backwater planet in a corner of our Galaxy. (Oh, wait, They already did that to us didn't they. ;-P )
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Nothing new is done anymore, just redux of old tired crap....
starting to feel like that here on my blog too. Hard to find anything to cheer about, harder still to find the energy to really fight the crap.
Trying to find something different to talk about and other than my projects, which speed along at the forces of the holy trinity, time space and money, I have little good to say.
I can't disagree one bit, the only thing we might be doing differently is the speed in which we are accomplishing our own destruction. Full speed ahead.
Dio, you've reached my level ha ha. To hell with them all, it's every man for himself...
Scott: Full speed ahead it is,
Mayb: So is that level Purgatory or Limbo? I know how you feel though, funny thing is, It was never anything but Every man for himself. I (and maybe you and others) had to come at it sideways to get here.
Dio,you got right Bro! Oh yeah they are about to get that kick in the ass.
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I trust only in myself, and believe it or not, I trust my wife ! She is very unique in today's world, doesn't like the way things are going
yet is willing to do whatever is needed. They just don't make em like her anymore !
I had a woman I trusted a couple of years ago. Least to say, that trust was broken. In hind sight, I am much better off now. She wouldnt be willing to make the changes I have chosen whole-heartedly: no TV, limited use of electric, small home 30+ miles from a mall. She may have enjoyed the gardening but nothing else.
Hang on to her Spud, women like her are rarer then hens teeth.
dio,
you've probably read plato's the republic they actually preferred a tyranny to a democracy. at least the tyrrany of a king can be predictable, while the tyrrany of the mob (democracy) is unpredictable and chaotic.
you've read hologram of liberty and probably the anti-federalist papers.... what was billed as a constitutional republic is not what was advertised.
you have to exhale and just try to look at history as cyclical instead of linear.
the old russian proverb: everything new is well forgotten old.
it's long but, you should read all six parts of this excellent link for you:
http://thepeoplescube.com/current-truth/obama-regresses-to-cold-war-mythology-switches-sides-t3961.html
dont let the imagery fool you, its uber libertarian.
SoL. I have recently read Hologram, Trying to stomach my way through the Federalist papers(now that I see them in the propaganda light for what they truly represent) Thanks for the link, I will check it out when I have a better connection to the net.(IE Tonight)
Federalist papers are propaganda to sell the con to the people.
but the Anti-Federalist papers are much better.
they're the collective works of Cato, Brutus, Centinel, Federal Farmer, and usually include speeches from Patric Henry on the flaws of the proposed Constitution of 1787 and how to fix it and/or why the Const of 1787 shouldnt be ratified. if you read Federal Farmers articles, you'll see alot of what Boston said in Hologram only, from the viewpoint contemporaneous with the con con of 1787 itself!
i'm not all the way through them myself.
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you have to exhale and just try to look at history as cyclical instead of linear."
This is exactly the point I was trying to make with this post. Far too many around me can't see the end of the street without the roadsigns. I was hoping that this could be one for them.
Thanks again, Trying to find an E-book or Epub of the anti-federalists now.
no prob, i got a shtf proof paperback copy of them and the federalist pprs for 5 bucks each at barnes an noble
SoL -out
sorry for clogging up your comments
No worries, I would prefer to see more commentary and dialogue in the comments section than I get. (I think we all would, kinda like a feedback loop.)
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