Oct 02 2007
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“George W. Bush — the reigning mascot of this fantasyland of infantile omnipotence and instant gratification”
Addressing the origins of the “who’s is your daddy” nation
By Phil Rockstroh
“We must become the change we want to see.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“In any case, I hate all Iranians.” –Debra Cagan, Deputy Assistant Secretary to Defense Secretary, Robert Gates
How many times do we, the people of the US, have to go around on this queasy-making merry-go-round of propaganda and militarism before we shout — enough! — then shutdown the whole cut-rate carnival and run the scheming carnies who operate it out of town? It is imperative the nation’s citizens begin to apprehend the patterns present in this ceaseless cycle of official deceit and collective pathology. This republic, or any other, cannot survive, inhabited by a populace with such a slow learning curve.
Over the last three decades, the authoritarian right has risen to create the nation they have been longing for since their humbling by the Watergate scandal. After being subdued and humiliated by the mechanisms of a free republic, the right has turned the tables — and subdued and humiliated the republic. If the trend continues, all but unchallenged and unabated, we might as well replace the torch held aloft by Lady Liberty with a taser.
How could it come to this? How did so many US citizens grow so apathetic, oblivious, if not flat-out hostile to the tenets of a free republic?
The authoritarianism inherent to the structure of multi-conglomerate corporatism is antithetical to the concept of the rights and liberties of the individual. Most individuals — bound by a corporation’s secrecy-prone, hierarchical values — will, over time, lose the ability to display free thinking, engage in civic discourse, and even be able to envisage the notion of freedom.
This is true, from the florescent light-flooded aisles of Wal*Mart to the insular executive offices of Haliburton to the sound stages of CNN and Fox News. Under the prevailing order, reality, for the laboring class of the corporate state, has become debt slavery; in contrast, the simulacrum of reality, in which, the striver class exists, is a milieu defined by obsessive careerism. Under the hegemony of corporatism, freedom might as well be fairy dust. It only exists in an imaginary land, not the places one arrives by way of one’s morning and evening commute.
In addition, economically, by way of decades of financial chicanery, perpetrated by the nation’s business and political elite, we are eating our seed crop, and the consequences of this harvest of deceit have left the people of the US, intellectually and spiritually malnourished.
As a result, many attempt to sate the keening emptiness and mitigate the chronic unease by gorging themselves on the Junk Food Jesus of End Time mythology, which is a belief system wherein corporeal events and actions (personal and collective) have no lasting consequence because even the human body is to be cast aside, like a junk food wrapper, when the cosmic CEO decides to make the earth a part of his heavenly franchise.
Accordingly, the corporate state requires modes of being that evince obliviousness and obedience (the defining traits of the US consumer) on the part of the majority of the populace. Ergo, the rise of both Christian consumerists and the vast apparatus of the right-wing propaganda matrix that dominates news cycles via the electronic mass media.
All coming to pass, as George W. Bush — the reigning mascot of this fantasyland of infantile omnipotence and instant gratification — is rocked to sleep by his handlers cooing preposterous tales of how history will place him in the pantheon of those men whose greatness was unrecognized by the shallow and petty minds of their own era.
When, in fact, Bush, whose ruinous wars of aggression, deficit-ballooning tax breaks for the wealthy, and policies of crony capitalism (that enabled the economy-decimating, easy credit banking scams of the present) displays the character traits of a man ridden with severe psychological trauma; his attempts to tamp down immense inner turmoil, by means of his grandiose bearing, his absolute certitude regarding his own infallibility, and his bullying behavior, have resulted in an exteriorizing of his pathologies on a global scale, and this is playing out ugly, for all concerned.
Why do the people of the nation (for the most part) slouch, slack-jawed and passive, before this assault upon their collective integrity and personal dignity?
For generations, the ephemeral dazzle of pop culture paternalism and tabloid Manichaeism, as confabulated by advertising and public relations hacks and corporate news courtesans, has overwhelmed gravitas, history, even self-awareness. As all the while, shallow opportunists have been elevated to the status of pundits, experts and sages. Withal, the present system generously rewards those individuals who have mastered the art of impersonating human traits and responses in utterly contrived environments. As a whole, the majority of the populi have come to garner information about the world at large, and, worse, their own self-image, from a medium where phoniness is a treasured commodity, while authentic human traits and responses are banished to a beggar’s road.
Is it any wonder that the media types who thrive in these artificial settings have come to define authenticity as being only those attributes that appear authentic on television? Apropos, if you ask these “media personalities” about the shortcomings and corruption of the present system, they will plead the careerist’s Nuremberg Defense … of only being a stormtrooper obeisant to the “bottom line.”
Fantasy alert: One would hope that if one were to descend down a ladder constructed of these layers upon layers of bottom lines, one would arrive in a Hell reserved for those possessed with such shameless cupidity.
Reality redux: Yet as much as the human heart might yearn for such outcomes, there will never arrive the terrible majesty and bitter reckoning of anything resembling Judgement Day, heralded by celestial trumpets and legions of naked and cowering sinners; instead, in human affairs, there arises dire exigencies that can no longer be ignored nor explained away. The arrival of such a moment for the US is nearly at hand.
When a nation manifests a mixture of mass ignorance and official mendacity, in combination with uncheck power emanating from an insular and arrogant elite, a golden age of peace and plenty is as possible as holding a tea dance in a tsunami. As sure as a village of desperate fools who devour their seed crop, a nation that refuses universal health care to its children — yet rushes to the aid of its parasitic class of wealthy “speculators” and “investors” from the consequences of their own greed-besotted, fiscal debacles — is doomed.
This is the classic pattern of collective immolation experienced by a nation when power and privilege is increasingly consolidated in fewer and fewer hands. In essence, this is the key to the conundrum paralyzing the leadership of the Democratic Party: In a culture in which an individual’s worth is determined by the degree one can be exploited by the corrupt interests that control both the private and public sector, the public at large has little value to the political establishment … That is: other than, every few years, being bamboozled for their votes in the sham spectacles known as the US electoral process, a scam mostly financed, hence controlled, by the aforementioned big money interests.
In sum, this is the reason the Democratic Party feels little allegiance to their base. In turn, the political classes themselves are only of value to the big money corporate elite, because, by their delivery of staggering amounts of pork, massive tax cuts, and the passage of desired anti-regulatory legislation, they serve as their errand boys.
Moreover, the corporate control of congress is a microcosm of US society as a whole. Accordingly, the increasingly corporatized, ever more submissive people of the US should be termed, the Whose-Your-Daddy Nation.
Yet, since life does not exist in stasis, within this hierarchy of deceivers and dupes, we will gnaw at one another’s ankles until the whole pathetic pyramid collapses.
All around us, we can feel the shoddy structure starting to sway and buckle. Axiomatically, the value of the dollar is collapsing like the smooth facade of a con man called-out by a group of wised-up marks. At present, in the wake of the bust in the housing market, repo men are retracing the tracks of real estate grifters who fleeced legions of wishful thinkers who brought the American dream and now only possess the misery of debt slavery.
One would think the time for insurrection has arrived — that, at long last, an awakened and enraged public would rise up and foreclose on these reprobates and ne’er-do-wells squatting in the White House and skulking through Congress. The power and privilege of the corporately controlled elite of Washington should be repossessed like the Lexuses of Atlanta real estate agents and the oversized pickup trucks of Tucson contractors, confiscated in the wake of the collapse of the housing market. Foreclosure signs and repossession notices should festoon the whole of official Washington.
Turn about would be fair play. Since, the rise of Reaganism, the financial sector has been engaged in selling off the assets of the nation’s public sector to the highest bidders. It is amazing that, at this point, this klavern of kleptocrats haven’t yet torn from the walls and absconded with all the copper plumbing fixtures and fittings on Capitol Hill.
Is a turnaround possible?
If we wake-up and smell the jackboot. From the miasma of right-wing media propaganda, to the proliferation of predatory capitalism, to the corruption and cupidity of the prison industrial complex, to the pandemic of police brutality and the trampling of the rights of the accused, to perennial civilian shooting sprees, to the muzzling of descent, to the rise of the national surveillance state, to the use and acceptance of torture as state policy, to the adoption of an unlawful, immoral foreign policy doctrine that promotes policies of perpetual war, one is forced to conclude that bullying, and deferring to bullies, has become the dominate mode of being in the US.
Remedy: In order to turn this trend around, the people of the US must begin to acquire the anti-authoritarian traits of empathy and engagement. The gaining of empathy alleviates the pathological need to be a bully, while social and political engagement mitigates feelings of powerlessness that authoritarian bully-boys, such as Bush, Cheney, Giuliani, et al., exploit.
In short, remedial human lessons for the US population, in general, and for the corporate and political classes, in particular.
Let us start the process by having a period of grief and repentance for the death and suffering that our government, in our name, has inflicted on the people of Iraq. This should be done as the US begins the process of a complete military withdrawal from their decimated nation, and the bestowing of economic reparations upon the millions of Iraqis who have suffered under the brutal machinations and murderous mayhem unloosed by our country’s contemptible invasion and occupation.
To do so, might save the people of our next target, Iran (as well as ourselves) a world of grief.
Phil Rockstroh, a self-described, auto-didactic, gasbag monologist, is a poet, lyricist and philosopher bard living in New York City. He may be contacted at Visit Phil’s website, http://philrockstroh.com/
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“we will have world gonvernment wether you like it or not wther by consent or by conquest”
Warburg
the NAU is not subject to debate, it will come wether we like it or not
unfortunately Americans are the dumbest beasts of burden on the planet so lazy are they that fewer than 40% of them bother to even vote.
“soldiers are the dumbest animals on the planet mere pawns to be used in foriegn policy”
Kissinger
you see our masters own us we have been sold to them ,and no longer can
bother to even vote let alone stand up for freedom and democracy.
unfortunately as sad as this seems it appears to be the truth
Well hells bells, I’m not apathetic but having MCS (multiple chemical sensitivity), I discovered the hard way about the media. This was treated just like: Gulf War Syndrome and Agent Orange and also the 9/11 Rescue Workers and anybody living/working down wind of the fallen towers …but (CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN of the EPA lied about the air quality) and many of these people are now denied help.
So, being ill and having lost a decent income and now working a really poor-paying job out of my house, I do certainly try, try and try again to email/petician the politicians constantly to: Stop the wars, Stop all the outsourcing, insourcing (HIB, etc visas) and after 9/11 to secure these borders. WIDE OPEN BORDERS & TERRORISM DON’T MAKE SENSE. Also, stop the NAU (NORTH AMERICAN UNION) and the NAFTA Super Highways.
I also constantly tell the few people I know to go for Tancredo, Ron Paul or even Virgil Goode. (they want to stop all this).
I also tell these people not to vote for anybody belonging to the: CFR (Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commision, the Bilderbergs, the Skull/Bones Society or the Bohemian Club.
Anybody belonging to these groups DO NOT SERVE US!
I am not apathetic, but I can only do so much. I’m pretty much stuck being an “Armchair Activist.” Problem is, somebody has to recognize and help people like me so I can actually get better again and hit the road again. But I/we didn’t need the character assassination from the likes of: Stephen Barrett (Quackwatch), Ronalds Gotts (ESRI), Elizabeth Whelan, Michael Fumento (Hudson Institute) or Steven Milloy (formerly of Cato Institute) or John Stossel (Give Me a Break) or even Dean Edell who has to throw in his two cents occasionally: that we just have psychological issues we have to deal with or others who said: We’re psychosomatic lazy malingerers, Chemophobes, Chicken Littles, can’t handle a busy Western lifestyle, had a bad childhood or want money and control and also have “Mass Hysteria.” Of course,….we want “Special Attention” as well. After this, What “Special Attention” did we get? Zip, Nada.
So, having MCS, I realized there was a definite problem when the Media either outright lied about us or is just using outright ommission of us (like we don’t exist).
This led me to try to be very active. In addition, I discovered that the same think tanks that discredited us also approves of rampant illegal immigration and all this outsourcing or H1B etc visas and offshoring of all our manufacturing (all of which helps act to KILL OUR MIDDLE CLASS)!
So, I’m trying even if it isn’t much, but I do recognize that right now, we seem to be up Schtick Creek without the paddles in a very leaky boat and we’re in huge trouble.
Propaganda isn’t anything new. The headlines of newspapers of the 1800’s often read, Exterminate Them All. Meaning all Indians. The Native Tribes were the bad guys at that time. Now the Muslims are the new Indians at this time. The last of the Tribes were rounded up around 1895, and here we all are now!
Time flys while your having fun, and this is the world the white folks built.
Military people were promised 500 dollar bonuses for serving in WW1. They weren’t paid. They marched on Washington, and set up camps in Washington. Here’s what happened. Troops were sent out to disperse them that resulted in the deaths of many of the Veterns as well as injuries.
Took awhile for a young man of European heritage in my area to latch onto what I was talking about that all the reality he knew had been manufactured for him from the time of his birth.
So now you have your manufactured political parties who wrote the elections laws in such a way no one can really challenge their dictorial stranglehold on holding the seats of your style of Govt.
Next you have the manufactured candidates with all their manufactured issues. You also have your manfactured Banks & Corporations giving them lots of loot to write the laws the way they want them written as they have manufactured money and they lots & lots more of the manufactured money than you have so basically your their slaves.
The Book of Revelation talks about them being the buyers & sellers of things, and not in any good light at all as well as Revelation 18 stating..The Merchants of the Earth were great men who deceived all the Nations of the Earth with their Sorceries.
Light & Darkness. This world is a reflection of the Spiritual Realms of Light & Darkness.
Politicians, Business, Religion, and Education make darkness appear as Light through all their time tested methods that guarantee them worldly power including worldly wealth over other people.
All these people have learned to take God’s name in vain in order to accomplish what is nothing more than their own evil ambitions upon the earth.
So, basically only 112 years after the last of the Tribes were rounded up, and this is what you built, and this is what you got.
The Kingdom of Heaven isn’t ruled by Roman Caesar’s or the King Herod’s, or your Presidents. Nor is the Kingdom a Republic, Representative Republic, Constitutional Republic or a Democracy.
The Kingdom of Heaven is a Spiritual Kingdom.
Things not working out for your Nation now? Who could have ever predicted such a thing?
In my readings I read the founders of your Nation patterened your Nation after Rome which wasn’t any surprise to me as I had figured out that one long ago.
Rome was a Beast in Jesus’s time. A warmongering Nation of greedy murdering thieves with their puppet rulers such as the King Herod’s.
The way history reads the Romans found out it wasn’t all about them and Rome eventually.
The same may hold true for Nations that have come after who were just the same warmongering greedy thieving murdering Nations upon the earth.
Of course if they conquered they write in their history books they are good guys, but when other men & Nations do the same exact thing and lose then they are called this thing, Evil.
Interesting to watch, but not all that interesting.
Read the Constitution of the Iroquois nation or the Hodenoshone
find the arguments of Franklin an Jefferson sayin’ the Savages of N. America take better care of there poor than Europe
The Albany Plan
Check Bibliography
I’ll take powerful corporations directing my life long before powerful governments any day!.
Take Bill Gates, the epitome of corp. power and wealth, he cannot kick in my door at night, he cannot seize my assets, he cannot throw me in jail, he can’t execute me, he can’t even make me buy one of his silly computers!,yet governments can and do these coersive things all of the time.
Imagine if columnists for “the Paper of Record” were truth-tellers like Phil Rockstroh instead of banal liars like Tom Friedman. Imagine if writers like Rockstroh were “syndicated” and appeared in every Newspaper in the country. Imagine such people speaking the truth to Power — or Oprah. Imagine.
The ameriKan sheeple have actually given away their freedoms and rights. This is not a process that started with the current fools in the government. It has been an agenda of the elite and the controllers for as long as I can remember and by studying history of the United States, I have discovered it has been an ongoing process since the nation’s inception. Anyone who doesn’t understand that the various members of the “I got mine” club have done more harm to this nation than supposed enemies, isn’t awake. The corporations won’t kick in your door, they will have their lackeys do it for them. Who do you think controls this idiot government? The people do not and that should be evident to even the most dim witted. The government of the United States is controlled by the corporations and they are accountable to no one. Whatsmore, they do not have a conscience so empathy is out of the question. The educational system is pathetic and the jobs in ameriKa, aside from the “I got mine” clubs, are sent overseas or filled by illegal immigrants. The economy is on the verge of collapse and we have a military in complicity with the bureaucrats that will invade, destroy, and confiscate any nation with any resource they desire. The rothschilds and the rockefellors do not give a hoot about nations or people. Control, power, and greed are their agendas and for complacent fools who allow them to exercise their evil, well, I guess they got it coming. Too bad because what was once a beacon for freedom, justice, decency, the little people, and human rights has been nearly totally extinguished. Look at prevailing human nature throughout the planet. Evil is gaining total control everywhere.
Mr. Rockstroh, a very well-written article … and SHADOW DANCER, I very much appreciate your impassioned comments. The Romans/Europeans certainly have made an unholy mess of the American continents, their avarice and reptilian-like blood-thirstiness knowing no bounds. But, let’s not forget the AZTECS and other native dynasties that reigned in some areas before Columbus, Cortes and all the others arrived - wow, speaking of reptilians!
But today, the here & now … oh boy. The extent of the mind control/manipulation - the staggering scale of the cold-blooded evil - the horrors of the de-humanizing technologies … it all just makes me want to crawl back into the womb.
It’s convenient (and safe) to identify the liberal media as the corporate media. It’s puts the blame on an unidentifiable mass of power and wealth. In fact, there’s a little more to it than that:
http://www.natall.com/who-rules-america/index.html
Authority, all authority comes from voluntarism. Without people agreeing that the authority is just, that it serves all members of a group fairly and without bias or prejudice, then the authority is no more. It no longer has an agreement to exist.
Plus, the principle of authority is communal defense of life, liberty and property. It is nothing more. Nor can it be anything more than this. A so called leader and his/her minions cannot do what you cannot do. Otherwise that leader and the minions that follow him/her are outside of the bounds of their authority. At that point they no longer are FBI, NSA, SS, Sheriff, Police Chief and policemen and women, military, etc. They may have the clothes and the tin badge, but they no longer have the right to exercise authority of any kind. At that point they are bandits and kidnappers, criminals of the lowest sort. They are also fair game for self defense. If the letter A was still stamped on the head of prostitutes, anyone with the means and ability could stamp the foreheads of these non-authority men and women with an NA, no authority.
Look through the uniform and past the tin badges and colored ids and see the man or woman assuming an authority they may not have at all. They may be stupid thugs hired because they are stupid. But the principle is - you can only give the authority (government) the rights you have - not one single step beyond. You do not have the right to take your neighbors food because he/she has twice as much as you do. You cannot give the government the right to take their food and give some of it to you because you never had that right in the first place. You cannot force your neighbors to give your corporation a privilige that would make your corporation more successful than another corporation. The government has no right to do this either. You have the right to face your accusers and for due process to be followed (habeus corpus). No one can deny you a right that did not come from the government in the first place. The right to face your accuser has existed in all societies before there were governments. And any contracts or agreements were the law and a man or woman could not be denied a clear and honest review to see if they had broken their contract. These things never were the domain of any politician. They still aren’t.
Once a government has shown itself to step beyond the bounds of their single rightful obligation - to protect the life, libery and property of every volunteer member of the group, justly and without bias or prejudice, it no longer has any uniforms or military or badges that mean anything at all.
The solution is one at a time. That’s it. There is no system solution since the system has no power without being continually given power. It may be a strange process but - the process of change starts within, in the heart then in the mind (a good computer but poor master). Anyone who could force such an internal change on another would be a criminal as shabby and pathetic as the squeaks at the top of the imagined pyramid of world control. If a man or woman is not ready or willing to know that all authority is limited to common defense - they will feed and empower the squeaks. Getting a mob to make a single change is all part of the chessboard and the world chessboard has rules you and I as men and women know nothing of. Do you think there are not already embedded sleepers in the Ron Paul movement? Will they have any eventual power? Patience is the number one virtue of a sleeper. They may be years from activating to do the global thing. And of course, the one and one and one that do see a future with strictly limited government, they are also sleepers.
Ron Paul may be the best choice right now BUT what if something were to happen to him? Would it all collapse? Is this a torch driven by individual men and women that truly understand that freedom is not a word but an activity. How many people in this impassioned group are responding to a few popular (and needed) items and have no real understanding of what limited government eventually means? I haven’t voted for years (the last time was a write in for myself - since I am the only person that can be responsible for me) - it’s possible I may enter the odd contract of voting for this temporary possiblity of a positive change. Yet, I see only the one at a time that can work and I am always pleased to see another one who has awakened. Plus there is a great deal of hope that more of such ones are opening their eyes even this moment.
This is for Dave,
He says,
“I’ll take powerful corporations directing my life long before powerful governments any day!….Take Bill Gates, the epitome of corp. power and wealth, he cannot kick in my door at night, he cannot seize my assets, he cannot throw me in jail, he can’t execute me, he can’t even make me buy one of his silly computers!,yet governments can and do these coersive things all of the time.”
Get your head out of the dark smelly tunnel where it is. That’s asshole thinking. To prefer corporations because “they don’t kick your door in, throw you in jail” is a reasoning so profoundly stupid as to defy analysis. How do you get thorough the day? Who helps you to tie your shoelaces? I pity the kids who must have you as their “model” parent or your spouse (of any gender) because that person is very tolerant or as stupid as you are!
Think about this: The corporations OWN the US government, and the corporations are owned by the super-rich. Your libertarian manure logic doesn’t seem to get something as basic as that. A whole structure of power determines what the “rules of society” are and how and when they will get enforced by the police and US marshals who WILL kick your door in if commanded by the system. Are you going to deny that money helps a huge deal when you face troubles in the “justice” system? It’s a society where the law of the jungle rules, and money walks. By now, at long last, a large number of Americans have finally figured that much, which they should have figured eons ago, that’s how elementary a truth that is. But you, noooooooo. Let’s remain attachwed to teh same bullshit, the same false prophets.
Well, I’m just wasting my time. An imbecility so malignant can’t be helped with reasoning because reasoning left the house a long time ago, that’s why you keep on cackling about Ron Paul and Tancredo as the solution to our troubles when they represent more of the same, extreme rightwingers still in the GOP fold, which out of sheer decency they should have left a long time ago. But you can’t read history either, so what’s the use. Vote your idiotic ignorant and braindead beliefs and reap the harvest. Too bad that by the time YOU learn anything, you and your kind will have pushed the world deep into an incurable tailspin. Thanks pal!
This guy Rockstroh is something else. I’ve been reading him a lot lately, and he pisses me off. He has the ability of a poet…he lets the reader understand what he is saying even though the reader may not understand exactly what he has read. Does that make sense? This guy is quite a wordsmith and truth-nailer…he should write a novel…and I should just get out of the business.
Someone needs to proofread him, though…it’s “dissent”, not “descent”. Are you using a thesarus, Rock, or making those words up? It’s a really old thesarus, ain’t it? “Obeisant”? I gotta use that…!
I call shenanigans. Everybody grab your brooms.
Silence = Consent
The American people don’t know the truth. The news is controlled by a few companies. People trust what they are being told in the TV and paper news as truthful. It isn’t. People are self-editing out uncomfortable news, in other words, people are cognitive screening out what they cannot stand to know. People don’t see the crimes committed by THEIR government and the corporations that rule the earth for profit. The corporate news, instead, plays up the daily crimes of people against people. News won’t report on ‘organized crime’ working inside the government.
“You cannot really have democracy without a free press” Thomas Jefferson
The majority of people are not voting. You cannot have a Constitutional Republic if people don’t vote. You cannot be democratic if most people do not vote. By definition we are no longer a government by the people; only a government by the few manipulating the news and the voting results against the good of the general people.
“We live in an electoral world now where most people do not vote and turn out rates are particularly low among the poor and less well-educated”…
Alexander Keyssar
“Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy. http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/Alexander_Keyssar
Psychological immaturity:
Most Americans are stuck psychologically.
The Stuckness of the American people is in staggering proportions. You can find the Stuckness of the American people by the unwavering support and attachment to the perceived left/right political ’system’, to childhood ideals of America as ALWAYS no. #1 , to firm belief as America as ALWAYS right and ruled by the best, to unwavering concepts that America IS the only free country. Being unable to see and admit the fall and decline of America is a symptom of the Stuckness of the American people. Being attached to what used to be, or what they thought was, is enabling criminal agents to operate inside the country like pirates.
“The construct of psychological immaturity has been with us as an intuitive concept for ages, but only recently has developmental science advanced to point where the idea of developmental arrest can be spelled out and employed as a powerful explanatory tool for problems in learning and behaving.”
“Stuckness is both the least recognized and most common problem of childhood. Many are stuck in a psychological immaturity that prevents them from growing out of such problems as aggression and counter will as well as any other dysfunction or disability that exists.”
“To the degree that children remain immature, they also remain creatures of attachment by default.”GordonNeufeld.com - Stuckness
Being kept in the dark about real news and being stuck psychologically are only two reasons out of many causing dysfunction in the American people today.
There is a good message athwart integral interstices humbled amid the locutional laminations. Unfortunately, the people most in need of understanding the message, if even able to navigate the didactic dilemmas of inflationary hyperlexiconologies, might too often be left holding a WHAT? instead of a message, and by the time they reach “the muzzling of descent,” may be wondering if, whosever dog that is, descent, maybe it oughta just be put down?
Endlessly it seems people write about, chronicle, outline, and expose problems. On one hand I suppose this is a necessary component to finding the truth but when analyzed objectively writing about problems WITHOUT solutions in hand does nothing but empower those vested in furthering the problematic agenda that has the world held hostage. The simple fact of the matter is that all problems are created for economic reasons/gain at the expense of others. One can argue pro/con all they want that this economic belief is a good/bad thing but when push comes to shove it is clear that economics is guilty of killing billions throughout history. This cannot be a good thing in my opinion. Therefore, to fix things economic reform aimed at solving problems should be everyones first and only priority. My idea of economic reform is contained at www.planetization.org/soulutions.htm. I am selling nothing but freedom from economic tyranny. Pass it on worldwide and together we can make a difference. Or, formulate a solution of your own. Stop with problems without solutions!
David Roblee
Phil, I stooped watcching TV about the time of Lennon’s assasination, I didn’t quit, I just stoped, newspapers to, now I’m not #%6ge* related to the majority of the humansssss I come into contact with, In my wierder moments I feel alienated and want to go back, so I can sleep the sleep of the comforted sheep. Can’t do it. so I go on watching the show called
“This is what it is” TV, Dope, most new music, it all changes your perception, like a matchstick shade over the window, and after a point, that shade never gets raised.
Fred