Mother’s Day Thrives In The Cultural Vacuum

The US’s thin culture—anorexic culture—is such a wasteland that a contrived and meaningless holiday (though presumably at the time of its being made “official” was seen as a landmark in the women’s rights movement) can be continuously propped up by advertising agencies and it can stick. Its staying power is a sad commentary on our lack of cultural depth that is made thinner by the termites (corporations) that keep eating away at any would growth. It makes perfect sense that we are so xenophobic every time a new cultural group enters our territory. They have such a greater depth of kultur, that ours will not last; the white canvass is so vulnerable to being “stained” by a Tagore. The body piercing and tatooing phenomenona makes perfect sense, because there is no where else to find any identity. Its called the melting pot, but that’s really just a euphemism for liquified iron searching for but unable to find a form in paper basket.

The good thing is that here, a different world is possible! The bad thing is that a different world is immediately needed to prevent mass suicide.

Reinverting The Wheel: Using Gandhi’s Strategy Of Self Reliance To Free Ourselves From The Corporate Yoke

The most deconstructive weapon we have against corporations is making their services obsolete. This does not mean adopting their version of what progression/obsolete is, where we have to have a more orgasmic touchpad home grown in our basement. That would be buying into the ideology they like to present as teleology. No, we must value our freedom from corporate rule and must take Gandhi’s lead and learn to do it ourselves, so that the “British colonialists” can no longer parasite off our constructed desires. This is not just a fight for freedom from corporate rule, it is a reemergence as a sustainable and self-reliant society—something very empowering that we have lost.
The strategy of becoming subsistence makes them obsolete, it is radiation against their malignancy.

Communism is a bad word, not a bad idea

Communism is good in theory, it ought to be practiced

Pipe Fighters Union

Don’t be fooled—Obama’s approval of a southern portion (Phase 3, aka Cushing MarketLink) of what could be linked to a completed Keystone Oil Pipeline is an allowance of the full pipeline in everything but name only. He’s just pushing admission to that until after re-election (if it happens)… just typical politics. The strategy is simple though: because this country epitomizes the tragedy of the previous investment trap, having part of a pipeline waiting to be completed will be so much political/cultural weight to build the rest (even through the disputed Nebraska area). This southern part will help get rid of an oil glut, but this is just a temporary justification, the main purpose being the extra large aim for a full Keystone XL pipeline.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/22/news/economy/keystone-pipeline/index.htm

Compulsory Miseducation

Like most things in a government organized society, education has become bloated, ineffectual, and is downright a waste of resources (and is it just coincidence that the federal government has become increasingly vested in it over recent decades?). It’s not that it was an issue when it was started, but because people mindlessly adopt precedents as some core tradition that should become part of our unwavering way of life, now we are quagmired in a messy situation where all children before the age of 16 have to go to school, even if there is nothing for them to gain. Mindless carrying out of tradition, combined with a residue of the America’s industrial past, when discipline and rote education were preparing the students for the manufacturing line…

I guess it would have been too dangerous to have the child labor laws go unchecked without some equally repressing activity to consume the time of naturally “anarchist” children. Instead of losing a finger or a leg, now children are losing all practical skills that make the finger or leg worth something. It is the survival skills and practical knowledge that has been neatly vacuumed up because its too messy, too third world… which is precisely why we’ll plummet to a fourth world nation.

A Wake Up Slap From Salp: The Truth In Avatar To Stop The Devil Plant

Jellyfish were able to shut down a nuclear powerplant an undetermined amount of time. We would be wise to take this as a message from the rest of the non-human world, telling us our high-energy exploits are leading to no where good. For most of you who have experienced Avatar—where the blues and the predators in their ecosystem unite against the future human colonialists—this is roughly analogous.

When one plays god, they can’t help but play the devil too

Burning Money’s Value

Money’s value is weighed and calculated against other money—simply stated—this conclusion being gotten to by just thinking about there being more money produced, and the value of the rest goes down. So, alternatively, the lesser of it going around, the more value it is attributed (deflation).

 

However, if the 98% wanted to really take away the wealth of the richest 2%, or even the 90% wanted to take away the value of the 10% (imagining the top 8% would be too comfortable to engage in this activity), they could all just burn their money collectively and work against the theory of deflation. Note: the feasibility of this would work a lot greater in a country where there is a much smaller overall population and this country’s currency is what the wealthiest put stock in, and don’t have foreign currency for purchasing foreign goods to negate the fact that their money would no longer be accepted within their own country (also, a country where there is a solid unity of the lower ~90% enough to all go and do it together, to strip the wealthy of their fictitious yet enduring wealth). It is a peaceful yet effective protest and way of waging a successful class war without needing to go bombard the villas of the rich. It also holds great symbolic value and builds consciousness of money as a social construct, not something of innate value as the masses have recently “bought” into… stupid mass culture being in larger part to blame.

In larger countries where there is much less class unity, this idea may still hold some utility, however it would need to be supplemented by many other revolutionary activities, for the grip money holds on people is very strong.

 

Tell A Marketer Talking Points

I haven’t been keeping with the cell phone number privacy laws, so I don’t know if telemarketers have general access or just select access based on users’ missteps, but I do know that occasionally I get a call about health insurance offers. From what I’ve heard, the telemarketer code makes them a captive audience, and it would be a great chance for those of us with more radical agendas from where this land should go to get our ideas across. Just because its been on my mind the last couple of days, one point of discussion could be the philosophy behind the sovereign citizens’ movement, another a reading of Chomsky’s infamous defense of anarchism (a personal favorite): Cooperation without Constraint.

 

 

*In a related vein (this is what actually reignited this old idea about using the telemarketers as sounding boards) I was myself yesterday a form of telemarketer, reminding people to go out and vote on school board elections and budgets. I made 27 calls in a 64 minute span, and something curious happened that I felt was worth echoing. Not a single call was like any of the others, and 19 of the 27 I received a voice mail to leave my scripted message. I had my paper in front of me to read the script from, but in the moment with that empty voice mail box I made the message into my own, reordering words, throwing in little bits of my idiosyncrasy’s, and generally giving every future listener a novel auditory experience. The message was still the same, but whether or not I tried to keep it verbatim, I had the intuitive sense that this was no possible for me. I take this as an honor of pride, and furthermore as my own coalescence with the philosophy of difference I espouse, whereby the best life is the one that is completely novel, not even repeating parts of itself but always open to evolving, not unlike the Fairy Shrimp.