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Saturday, 08 December 2012

  • it's been a long time!

    I haven't been around Xanga much over the past year or so, not that my absence would attract much notice.  I'm just as annoyed as I usually am, and the source of that annoyance is the same as it usually is:

    Is it ME, or is the greater portion of the American citizenry asleep?  The political/economic climate these days reminds me of the Matrix movie (the first one) which should come as no surprise, since I've used it as allegory so often before.  All the "sleepers" are the batteries that power a system that serves only itself, harvesting fresh batteries when they're ready for picking, and turning the over-ripe ones into food for the new ones.  As far as the eye can see there are these towers of pod/batteries. There are so many of them that it's easy to presume that such is the normal state of affairs and everybody, everywhere lives in that condition.  But that's a mistake.  Not everyone is living that way.  Some are marginalized, some are incarcerated, some are off the grid, and some are in rebellion.  So far, the "Machine" seems to be winning the conflict between itself and all of the ones who aren't "sleeping".

    But wait.

    Some of the sleepers are stirring.  How many are there now?  How many more will there be?  What's going to happen?

    Scary things.  Everything held dear and sacrosanct will be ripped away from anyone who lays asleep in their pod.

    The revolution will not be televised.

    We're beyond racial differences, although race issues are still relevant.  We're far into class struggle, as the old Middle Class begins to resist demotion toward poverty, as the already low standard of living for the poor is reduced even further into abjection.

    Something is coming.  Something that will surprise everyone, that no-one will want and will blame on everyone else.  They'll call it "EVIL", but the time is here when we should reconsider who "the DEVIL" is.  He's HERE, and he's convinced us that HE is who we want to be like.  We're all scared kids on a dark street, trying to scare each other so we can feel a little less scared ourselves.

Sunday, 08 July 2012

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Wednesday, 04 April 2012

  • Crack-Pot strikes again

    Remember that movie "Independence Day", the one with Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum?  There's a scene in there that's the reason for me mentionig the movie at all.  It's right after that scene in which the Randy Quaid character drunkenly sprays crops in the wrong field, where he's in the luncheonette and some of the other locals are harassing him about his mistake and one of them brings up "wild stories" Quaid had been telling about extra-terrestrial abduction, etc.  As their laughter escalates the ground begins to shake, and as they look out of the door, they all see the monstrous alien ship cresting the mountains.  That's the scene, and I'm referring to it for a purpose that unrelated.

    I think I felt a little bit like that character while watching this VIDEO.  Know what?  I don't think there's anything I can do about this except put up this link wherever I can think of a place, maintain the change in habits that I've been cultivating for some years now, and talk about it when the opportunity presents itself.  I get shouted at pretty often, told to shut the f*** up, had my familial relations speculated on, etc.  I guess a couple of people got pretty upset.  I remain unconcerned for them.  A time is coming, I'm sure, that I can expect the odd death-threat.  Those came thick and fast when I questioned the Iraq and Afghanistan escapades, and I'm still meandering about on the face of the planet, sooo ....

    This isn't a joke.  Really, it's not.  This isn't just more belly-aching.  I'm convinced that before much longer, a whole lot of things will be coming to a grinding halt.  "Peak Oil" is a concept that's not new to me, but the best expression of my ideas of what's coming were expressed by T. Boone Pickens several years ago, when there was much public scoffing at the idea of paying $100+ per barrel of crude oil.  It's okay to keep making smart-ass remarks about it, but that will make the wake-up that much more harsh.  The politicians all blame each other for the world's problems including energy depletion, the public is inclined to blame politicians too, plus "our enemies" from across the seas.  Fingers point just about everywhere, except in the appropriate direction: at ourselves.  Yes, WE did this.  Yes, it IS happening.  Yes, WE are the only ones who can make the changes necessary.

    Here's a bit of a MOVIE from 1981, starring Darren McGavin.  Just for your amusement.

Tuesday, 27 March 2012

  • changing my approach:

    I have another venue for venting, so that has become a thing of the past where Xanga is concerned.  My new mission is to inform, entertain, and occasionally console.

    Some things will come from Happy-Happy-Joy-Joy Land, others will not.  HERE is an example of the latter.

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  • And finally the moment came when I pushed aside what I had done and started to begin again with the announcement that Jupiter himself had never existed; that man was alone in a world in which no voices were heard than his own, a world neither friendly nor unfriendly save he made it so... How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives... —Julius Caesar, in Thornton Wilder's novel The Ides of March

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  • Solarhead
    tomesara, wherever you are, I hope everything's well with you!
  • Solarhead
    Where: upper Bucks County, PA When: 1992 it was a dark and stormy night ... really. I'd never seen such a display of lightning or heard such thundrous rumblings. I had been planning to take down a couple of the trees near my house, because I was afraid that if they fell, they'd strike the house.
  • Bapspal
    Re: your intended mid-atlantic swim.... I'm so glad you didn't.....you probably would have frozen your nuts off (english speak, lol) and not have resurfaced in time to sign up for xanga.......your memory was really intense.....thanks for putting it in writing.;-) Tomesara.
    • Posted 10/24/2006 12:39 PM
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  • Solarhead
    Where: the North Atlantic When: 1976 it was really, REALLY dark... it was night-time everywhere, outside and in. The darkness had been blanketing everything forever, or so it seemed. Looking back, I recall the pervading sense that I had no control over ANY aspect of my life, yet I seemed to be t