To Joe Bageant on Being a Virginian

I grew up in the Bermuda Triangle of Virginia: born and raised in Alexandria, went to Mr. Jefferson's University, and years later, with family in tow, had a delightful time trying to sell our restored farm-house on the Northern Neck. It started as a dilapidated waterfront farmhouse -- a restoration project on Mosquito Creek.

You’d think we would have caught on with the Creek name connection … Looking out over the Creek to the spit of land dotted with duck blinds, I asked the real estate agent, "What kind of name is Mosquito Creek? Anything to do with all these mosquitoes?" Our real estate agent glibly replied in that distinct rural Virginian accent, "Just rained. . . It’s an Indian name. Antipoison Creek's just there over across the road. Where John Smith was healed from the sting ray barb..."

Nothing like standing in History to take your mind off the present, eh? What is it that we can't wa(r)sh away the deep stains of Virginia so thoroughly ground into our soul? How is it that we can watch the HBO series, John Adams, and see our beloved Jefferson move about like the mute mime guy in the comedy duo of Penn and Teller ... but still hold back tears of compassionate conductivity because they were all serious about Liberty? Liberty was a life and death matter to them. What does it mean to us now?!

It seemed like farmers then were part of the vanguard, integral to a movement that could uplift the status of all mankind. And their offspring, who migrated to the cities, had a bit more of an horizon’l perspective than waiting for the next natural catastrophe so they could get a new pick-up with the insurance money.

Given the caked-mud realities of the political motivations of the electorate in rural America (i.e., we elect people who ask us to do as they say, not as they do), what is pulling me towards the Virginia mountains? To a land where my strangeness (i.e., progressiveness) would have to constantly hidden so that I wouldn’t get shorted the next time I’d buy Silver Queen corn?

Are these folk Hobbits, entrenched in their provincialism, protected from the outside world by a mental attitude that is not neutral (so they think)? Do they hide behind the wall of recent memories (one or two generations), certain that this will hold back the dark forces of Mordor? They pin their hopes on Sauron simply looking over their heads, ignoring the intrinsic wealth buried beneath them?

The Soles of our Souls Are Worn Thin

The very soles of our souls are worn thin. Holes clean through. The gangrened rag-covered feet desperately seeking warmth from the puny fires at Valley Forge serve only to remind us. "Snap out of it!" Cold images of solitude slap us on the face. And, slap us again, "Wake up! Wake up… they are coming!”

The psychopaths have worn us out. We're holding on by the skin of our souls. And you look around, The majority of our brethren hold tight to their psychopath-in-training milieu. Have they emptied their psyches of the Old Testament Imagery the array of Sodom and Gomorrahs, the Noatic flood, or the snake-made-me-do-it in the garden of Eden.

For thousands of years (that we know about), these Retardants have been busily distorting this reality. But why?
This reality, this dimension, this evolutionary platform, could very well be what these psychopaths (and the consciousness behind them) believe it is. It's their hiding place. It's Count Dracula's coffin of repose, filled with the dirt of the homeland. This is their hide-out and, as far as they are concerned, they don't want to share it.

Blind to Cause, they are at a loss as to why we are here --
and over millennia, most of us don't have a clue why we're here either. This was the falsehood we have taken on as our own.
They know the Laws of physics (resonance) work here, and they have used resonance ("Power over the Air" is the "biblical" descriptive phrase), the Nada Brahma, to create a den that Spirit/He/The One will never penetrate. But, the Cause (as dim and faint in us as to be microscopic) still has a resonance in us. They can feel and sense it in us. And, to put it mildly, they HATE It. And, hate us for carrying it. But, they are convinced they can resonate It out of us. They have the Power over the Air, they will resonate this dimension, this Hades, of any and all patterns of the Cause’s existence.

The minute handful of worn-thin souls, light-bearers some call them, huddle by the fires wherever they can find them. Resolved, like the champions of Middle Earth, to hold only to hope in this battle to the death.

But, Cause has no death. Whose fear is this? What happens when the lid to Dracula's coffin is opened in the light of day? He, and all he has bitten return to what they really are -- dust. The coffin, though, happens to encompass an entire dimension of existence. The wheat and the tares can no longer be easily separated. The wheat must learn to know itself as the energy that it truly is.

As the adherents of any true Teacher will tell you, we are not the body. We are energy beings encased in this dimensional body. As the old admonishment says, "Know thyself.” “Where your mind is, that's where you are." These words are no longer nice sayings or things to think about. They are the requisite, our tools, our ... only hope."

What Matrix?

The only real freedom that exists can only be experienced in the present. Whether you feel good or bad about the past, the certainty is we can't do anything about it... except emote. In our left-brain linear thinking we look into the future just as the IRS and the Marxists do: the past indicates the patterns of the future. We are all fated by our past with only a sprinkling of environment thrown in to juice-up the statistics.

Social engineers and behaviorists have proven to their satisfaction that our human behavior is as easy to read as ... well ... lab rats. They know which bar we will push, what maze we will avoid, and which stimulus causes which conditioned result. Anything less than Chaos, the behaviorists (including any and all marketing) can give a high degree of certainty to what our responses will be to our conditioning.

And it is understood by these "scientists" that all of us with IQs over 80 firmly believe that we, as individuals, are not case-hardened in our behaviors and reactions. That we believe that we are free from being conditioned is in fact our conditioning. This delusion of individuality is nothing more than a variable in the experiment: "buy a dodge or a ford pick-up" "vote for this or that candidate" "react to this or that world event." These are all variables to determine the success rate of the particular operant conditioning.

Those in the industry of modifying our behaviors count on our belief that we have "independent thoughts and actions." They rely on our pseudo independence because they know (it has been proven)we will not look past this glass ceiling of assumed individuality. We will not look at ourselves as we really are. If our conditioning were a machine, its engine would be our infinite capacity for self delusion.

If you study Operant Conditioning (our very own Matrix), there is an axiom bordering on scientific law that holds all of our conditioning together. What makes it all work is the fact that "the most difficult thing for any living thing with a brain to do is to UNDO their conditioning."

Our masters function under the assumption that our conditioning is analogous to a perpetual motion machine. Any psych department in the last century that received generous grants almost always referenced/couched B.F. Skinner's remarks about the purpose of Behaviorism: it is not sufficient to have people and societies perform duties and react predictably, no, the purpose of Behaviorism is to have them all as slaves and have them fight to the death to maintain their slavery. Where do you think old Dr. Joe Mengele got all of his ideas?

So, how in the world is it possible for anyone to break out of this Conditioning? Given that one regards the human condition as conditioned ... If we see ourselves as we really are -- just as in the Matrix movie -- we are asking for it. We see no coinage in the proposition of freeing our souls. Most of us don't even believe we have one.

Even though our conditioning has convinced us that we are not conditioned, that we are soulless, that money is everything, that God is to be feared and worshipped ... there are elements of consciousness that behavior modification and operant conditioning cannot touch.

Every great spiritual teacher -- whose words and actions always get substantially manipulated by the conditioners -- have all said the same things. The all say to study the Cause, not the effect. Science (distorted beyond belief) has us all watching only the effect. The Cause is irrelevant to them because they do not have the measuring devices to analyze the Cause. However one does it, get to know the Cause, leave the Matrix of Effect behind for someone else to bury.

Have a nice day.

We Are All Insurgents

We have more in common with the occupied citizens of Iraq than we realize. In 1776, the American Colonies were occupied by the British Empire, who's hubris of invincibility lasted well into the Twentieth Century, basically until the Pound Sterling no longer occupied the position of the World's "Reserve Currency." The United States now, like the British Empire then, has had limited success in quelling sedition and self-determined revolution where the fields of battle are rooftops, backyards and bedrooms.

You could be commuting over the Delaware River every morning and you would miss the connection. Few of us associate the place with the historical event two-hundred plus years ago. Our entire warp and woof of "freedom" "independence" and "democracy" like a pebble in a pond, resonates out from an "insurgency" center. It appears that we have forgotten the essence of “the” American holiday of July Four. Who did what to whom and why is no longer part of the marketing strategy for that day.

General G. Washington, and his collection of insurgents ("rag-tags" they were called) paddled through the ice flows on a pre-dawn Delaware, to surprise the "private contractors" aka Hessians, fighting for an over-extended British occupying army. This bold insurgent act surprised the mercenaries, and they retreated.

Ask any mercenary, then or now, what is their prime motivation for fighting. It’s always money. Ask any rag-tag insurgent, then or now, what they are fighting for, and almost always the response is the same: they want to be left alone to determine their own fate, regardless of the outcome. If their world is going to go to hell, they want to be the responsible party, not some occupier.

Yes, history is written by the occupier, the “winner.” The obvious reason that history continues repeatedly to be written in the theme of war is that war does not work. It’s a great tool for wealth generation, but a lousy mechanism for expanding the evolutionary potential of the human race.

Re: SCIENTISTS CLAIM CELL PHONES BEHIND BEE COLONY COLLAPSE“

"Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious 'colony collapse' of bees.”


This is an example of what I call “Asymmetrical Human Engineering” -- creating massive “sea changes” that can result in quantitatively massive results. To do this -- without having your plans detected -- requires “strategies” that are irregular,
and hence go unnoticed.

It makes complete sense that “their” operational objectives -- carried out in plain-sight -- go unnoticed by the masses. If you are part of this “team”, and, say your objective is to eliminate “1/3” of the world’s population, what are your options? How do you ratchet-up to “Biblical Proportions” without drawing attention to yourself? War? Brutality? Man-made catastrophes?

You go after the “nail” . . . as in “For want of a nail the kingdom was lost.” You do this because you and your cohorts are well aware -- and the masses are not -- that the Butterfly Effect is in fact true. If you find the “right nail” in ANY system, and you extract it, you will collapse the entire system, and it will look as if this was a natural (read not engineered on purpose) occurrence.

Even though you can readily find out, say what bees do, and how critical they are to the propagation and maintenance of our food system, we have been entrained not to do that. We will accept, and yes, demand, the wide-spread use of genetically engineered “food.” We will do anything in order to eat. And whatever is provided, we will gladly consume.

In the ol Hegelian construct, having the public demand genetically-engineered food has been the desired synthesis. And yes, there will be masses who will not be able to get to the new food in time. Those living outside the sphere of influence -- the untouchables -- will be left on their, as per design.

Asymmetrical Human Engineering has many applications, and requires very little stealth. It is done right in front of us -- just look up at the sky. It is also being implemented in the world of the Patriots and Survivalist. The Second Amendment folk. You don’t have go through the tedium experienced by the Nazis to disarm the people, to take their guns away. Simply restrict, then eliminate the flow (the nail) of the material that goes into the ordinance required for the guns to have any effectiveness.

The first book I ever read of B.F. Skinner’s stated quite openly the objective of what is now known as “Social Psychology.” (originally known as Human then Social Engineering). To paraphrase: It is not enough to have the subjects desire the conditioning. The subjects have to want, desire, then demand their conditioning, even to the death.

And, that’s where we are today. We are at war with anyone or anything that gets in the way of our conditioning. We will demand EXACTLY what our conditioners want us to demand. Simply read the newspapers to keep score as to how successful our modification is going.

It's Hard out Here for a Pimp...

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We should all be troubled that America and American Empire can be posited in the same breath. But, as a nation, we could care less. There is a plethora of analogies to use to define this obvious, though justifiable, sarcastic perspective on our reality today. Empires always seem to indicate helplessness, impotency. In the microcosm of hiphop, the world is comprised of bitches, 'hoes, dogs, and the man. This is how empires are structured.

The 'man' in the empire is the smallest piece in the pie-chart, but carries the most weight because the man has the baddest weapons, the most wealth, and the baddest dogs guarding the castle. The rest of the society (easily 90%) is made up of dogs (crackers), bitches and hoes. The difference between our empire and say the Soviet empire is in ours, we can (still) bitch in writing read-by-the-public, whereas they would go to the gulag if they posted written complaints about their empire.

We here in amurika can (still) bitch and whine in public/in writing, they could not. And the only forum left to bitch and whine is the Internet, which the man is working fulltime to turn our Net into the Chinese model (crime families, because they are basically stupid, steal ideas from each other so that their bitches and hoes don't figure it all out, turning first on their own dogs before coming after the man.).

Hiphop, like true gangstas, take it all down to the basics, to the street-level of life. They existentially accept the ground rules: don't fuck with the man, but you can fuck anything and everyone else. In fact the man encourages and promotes this divide-and-conquer motif, knowing that the dogs, bitches and hoes will come after him if they stopped fighting among themselves.

So, we’ll keep doin what all punks do: pretend'n to be bad, pretend'n to be a big dog, pretend'n to keep our bitches and hoes in line, fine-tuning the hydraulics on our Escalades … just like the man wants.

Quote:

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You know it's hard out here for a pimp
When he tryin to get this money for the rent
For the Cadillacs and gas money spent
[1] Because a whole lot of bitches talkin shit
[2] Will have a whole lot of bitches talkin shit

Pain and the Bill of Rights

You see, if we have a problem, it would be that we are not aware of what has been taken from us. Because we are not experiencing the actual pain from the actual event (like using a local, and in some cases, general, anesthetic to block pain) we fail to feel, sense, or see what is happening to us.

Is there any hard and fast statistical data that shows the percentage of Americans on meds which dull, anesthetize, or block various physical and psychological pain? I don't know, somewhere I'm sure there is. But it would seem there is a correlation between the percentage of Americans who are medicated and the percentage of Americans who see nothing wrong with what is happening to what our Forefathers bequeathed to us, with their lives and sacred freedoms.

I would imagine that a case could also be shown that the percentage of Americans who use strictly "natural" (i.e., not pharmaceutical) remedies for pain and long-term malaise, would equal the percentage of people (for numerical explanation purposes) who are currently experiencing the pain of loss, the loss of our core morality. And, what is this core morality?

America, divinely inspired (yes, by a “Christianity” that present-day Christians would, without objection, burn-at-the-stake), was created as a society that would not, could not, revert back to what had plagued the Western World since the days of Hammurabi.

You remember the Code of Hammurabi: the earliest set of laws initiated in the hell-hole we are creating in modern-day Iraq. It was all about cause and effect: you commit a crime, you pay for it. This was Babylonian Law, for better or worse it has been with mankind since 1780 BC.

And, around 1780 AD, the Founding Fathers, after three thousand years of elitist abuse of the basic laws of behavior, came up with a conglomerate codification that would set the stage for the equality of mankind. Yes, they had slaves, yes they were basically the aristocracy of the Colonies. But among them, there was enough foresight to demand the placement of the Bill of Rights into the Constitution. If it were not for these Jeffersonian initiatives, the new American Constitution would have quickly degenerated back into a system of aristocratic exploitation. Read the Constitution -- without the Bill of Rights -- what do you have? A garden variety set of rules and regs to maintain a status quo with force, money or religion.

The Bill of Rights set a new standard, a new code of ethics and morals, that spoke to the requirements of goodness. Take the time to read them. They were given to you as a hard-earned gift by enlightened souls who declared their independence -- not from a British Monarchy -- but from thousands of years of monarchies, and eons of religious determinism. When they signed their name to it, they signed their death warrant. When was the last time you took a stand like that for the betterment of your fellow man?

Some of the Founding Fathers saw to it that the base inclinations of man could be thwarted when (not if) avarice, dishonesty, wickedness, and all the other indications of the base and self-absorbed centralization of government creeps in. The use of the phrase enemies foreign and domestic meant exactly that. When the government no longer serves the people, but the people are forced to serve it, the Bill of Rights gave us the Right and the DUTY, to expel these interlopers from our midst.

So, how do you KNOW that there are interlopers in our midst? That we are living and working for the government, not the other way around? How do you know? The only way to know if and when requires a sense of goodness, of decency, and to regard the Bill of Rights as a checklist. If our (our meaning anyone of us citizens) basic Freedoms are being curtailed, withheld or removed, we are no longer living in the Republic for which the Bill of Rights stands. And, it was understood at the Founding, and for many years afterwards, that the PAIN of experiencing oppression, or the absence of the gifts inherent in the Bill of Rights, would cause an uprising; actions to throw the yoke off. The Founding Fathers assumed that living without the yoke was of a sufficient positive moral experience that oppression would not be tolerated. They realized intuitively one of the maxims of Behaviorism: taking away causes the greatest pain.

So what has happened? Why have we passively allowed the current systematic neutralizing of our inalienable Bill of Rights? Where’s the reaction? There is very little reaction because it appears that whatever medications we are collectively on has deaden our sensitivities to the soul-pain that we should be feeling. We are anesthetizing not only the pain, but we are blocking out the ability to see the cause of the pain.

Ignoring or desensitizing ourselves to Natural Law does not suspend Its operation. The sowing has been done, it’s time now for the reap.