Saturday, February 16, 2008

Bush Wages War on Americans

When George W. Bush said of our "Constitution that it is "... just a Goddamn piece of paper!", he declared himself an outlaw at war with the American people. The Bush administration's culture of fear, hate and contempt for law inspires an epidemic of police lawlessness and thuggery that now terrorizes law-abiding Americans all over America. You can be thrown in jail upon a whim. You don't get to make a phone call. You don't get to call your lawyer. You don't get to call your wife or husband. And you don't get visitors. It is a state of treasonous war, a capital crime for which these war mongers must answer to the people.

Che Guevara said:
Of these three propositions the first two contradict the defeatist attitude of revolutionaries or pseudo-revolutionaries who remain inactive and take refuge in the pretext that against a professional army nothing can be done, who sit down to wait until in some mechanical way all necessary objective and subjective conditions are given without working to accelerate them.

As these problems were formerly a subject of discussion in Cuba, until facts settled the question, they are probably still much discussed in America. Naturally, it is not to be thought that all conditions for revolution are going to be created through the impulse given to them by guerrilla activity. It must always be kept in mind that there is a necessary minimum without which the establishment and consolidation of the first center is not practicable.

People must see clearly the futility of maintaining the fight for social goals within the framework of civil debate. When the forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law; peace is considered already broken.

--Guerilla Warfare, Che Guevara

It says a lot about Bush's 'America' that when Che says it, it's considered radical. But it is not given a second thought when, in fact, we have in his own words the same thing said by Thomas Jefferson.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

--Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence

Bush has already assumed the power to wage war on the American people, claiming and aggressively exercising, the "right to use any and all war powers against American citizens within the United States". Like any other tin-horn dictator he insists that he is above all restraints by Congress and the courts. See: Glenn Greenwald: The NSA Fight Begins - Strategies for Moving Forward

When Bush says that the "Constitution is just a Goddamned piece of paper", he aligns himself with Hitler, Mussolini, Mao -- "state absolutists", fascists, and radical communists. Simply, he has declared war on the American people, our Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Democracy and freedom. The peace is already broken. The war has begun. It is time to evaluate the situation.
  • Criminals and traitors have seized power illegitimately and operate outside the law i.e, the Constitution so hated by Bush. So far, this gang of crooks have had nothing to fear from the impeachment process though there is probable cause to try Bush himself for capital crimes. As Bush jokes about remaining in power past his term, Americans as well as Iraqis are brutalized without charges, trial or representation. Under Bush, jackbooted thugs may not bother accusing you of a crime. They need only 'define' you as a terrorist. You will not get a phone call, a lawyer, a trial. You are a terrorist because Bush says you are and he has decreed that he does not have to make a case against you.

    See: Police Atrocities Define the Bush Police State

    Tasers, Torture and Terror Tactics: America Becomes a Police State
  • Bush continues to justify his assault upon the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, indeed, the rule of law itself with one word: terrorism. But, in fact, his "War on Terror" is as big a lie as was the official 911 conspiracy theory and the uncountable lies that were told to the United Nations about Iraq: The proposition that terrorism is the inevitable result of imperial aggressions explains Bush incompetent economic policies as well as America's fascist tilt. That terrorism is always worse under GOP regimes is a demonstrable, statistical fact.

    The CIA creates terrorism two ways by indulging it as a tactic and by inspiring it with its excesses. The legacy of Blackwater USA, an international terrorist organization, will have inspired generations of "terrorists" resorting to a tactic against which top down fascist regimes are impotent.
  • Bush has abrogated or violated every provision of the US Bill of Rights, arguably the most important document standing between you and tyrannous dictatorship! Well, under Bush, it no longer stands between you and dictatorship. [See: Bush's War on the Bill of Rights]
  • Bush has put himself above the rule of law even as he denied you the benefit and the protections that are your under the law! There is a name for this. Dictatorship!
    The Bush administration has been frightening in the way it has nullified lawsuits against its actions. The Justice Department simply laughed at attempts of the ACLU to get lists of detained suspects through lawsuits in early 2002.6 Ellen Mariani’s lawsuit against the Bush administration, accusing it of foreknowledge of, and failure to act on, September 11, may seem to many like the material of a conspiracy theory, but we can be fairly sure that the question will never go to a jury. Quite recently, an ACLU legal challenge against the Patriot Act became news after being silenced for three weeks by the Patriot Act.

    --Anthony Gregory, Bush’s War on the Bill of Rights

  • In fact, a majority of Americans Support a 911 Investigation of Bush/Cheney
An investigation of 911 should have begun the very day it happened. Instead, Bush quashed all attempts to get to the truth of 911, saying that it would interfere with the war on terrorism. What had he to fear? Had 911 been properly investigated the disastrous and counter-productive "war on terrorism" might have been avoided, a real enemy might have been identified. Perhaps Bush had planned such a war all along. Certainly, Dick Cheney's 'Energy Task Force' was carving up Iraq's oil fields long before 911. Bush knew that Saddam did not have WMD. All were lies.

The time has come for Americans to fight back! I don't see a resolution of these issues in an the election process. None of the major candidates of either party have dealt with these issues honestly. The elections themselves could be postponed or cancelled outright in the case of a new "national emergency about which Bush warned recently that 911 might pale 'by comparison'. What is he planning? [See: How a Second Terrorist Attack Will Benefit George W. Bush] Americans must not wait "...while dangers gather". [Bush: Remarks to UN] It's time to act.
I was just reading a post about how Americans need another civil war. This got me to thinking about there being a better way. American's need to go on strike. Quit your jobs. The corporations and government make money from us working. They depend on it. If we are slaves like some have said then just stop. Stop working, stop consuming. Just stop. Of course it won't work if just a handful participate. We have to beat them at their own game. In fact, lets ALL go on welfare. Let's take money from them. (Them being the gov't and corporate scabs that continue to work.)

I think I have said this before with little response but I would like to put it in it's own thread so I can get more minds chipping away at it. Please help me tinker with this idea. How can we make it work? Or tell me how it is doomed to fail so I can get over this and move on to something else. ***Please put some thought into your posts. I really don't want people just posting how stupid I am and how this will never work without an explanation of why.*** Okay, I'm putting on my turtle shell now to protect myself from the hurtful words that I'm probably going to have to endure.... here goes. Post comments here or go to original thread here.

--stellawayten Americans Need To Go On Strike!


AMERICA, GO ON STRIKE!

Updates:

FBI Deputizes Private Contractors With Extraordinary Powers, Including 'Shoot to Kill'

The FBI has a new set of eyes and ears, and they're being told to protect their infrastructure at any cost. They can even kill without repercussion.

Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does -- and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to the government, which alarms the ACLU. But there may be more to it than that. One business executive, who showed me his InfraGard card, told me they have permission to "shoot to kill" in the event of martial law. InfraGard is "a child of the FBI," says Michael Hershman, the chairman of the advisory board of the InfraGard National Members Alliance and CEO of the Fairfax Group, an international consulting firm.

New Bill To Allow Police Misconduct Be Hidden From Public

A new bill proposed at the legislature would allow for police to withhold misconduct reports from the public. Supporters of the bill believe that police misconduct should be kept secret from the public so to not discredit police testimony. Others say that a forthright police unit is essential to the community.

In September, Jared Massey was zapped with a taser by Trooper John Gardner. A video of the incident was recorded from Gardner’s patrol car. Gardner can be seen shocking Massey until he hits the ground while Massey’s wife screams from the side of their SUV.

More than a million people watched the video on “YouTube.” Massey was shocked to see his new found fame. The footage may have never been seen had Massey not made a records request to obtain the tape. ...


23 comments:

Anonymous said...

Len, you are right back in May 2007, Bush enacted two different security directives allowing him to declare Martial Law for basically anything example a flu epidemic, that simple!

I went to a town meeting on june 3, 2007 and asked Congressman Brad Sherman, the Congressman in my District, about it and he was amazingly unaware. They took the paper with my question away from me! Imagine! Brad Sherman is a member of the Judiciary Committee and he didn't know! Amazing or he just did not want to talk about it.

I wish I knew some answers. It certainly feels like were living on a powder keg in this country that could blow at anytime. That this nut case goes to War in Iran, then
declares Martial law, and starts putting people in those currently empty detention centers. At this point all is lost completely the rest of the world will do what's necessary, let the dollar bottom out completely and we the people are really going to suffer.

Unknown said...

At this point a formal declaration of martial law might not even be noticed. Even now, Bush can simply 'define' one a 'terrorist' and that's enough to get you dropped into a memory hole from which you might never emerge.

'Police' across the country are certainly behaving as if martial law had been declared. The 'taser' has turned out to be a pox on mankind. I wish the goddamn thing had never been invented. They should be banned. Cops have proven themselves incompetent nut jobs.

The Bush administration went to work building concentration camps and 'remodeling' some FEMA 'facilities' already in existence. Why? Certainly FEMA has been absolutley INCOMPETENT in every other area. Example: New Orleans! So why the focus on FEMA camps which began even bfore 911.

Bush had intended to make himself dictator all along. He was not joking when he smirked: "This would be a helluva lot easier if this wuz a dictatorship...heh heh heh ...jest as long as ah'm the dictator!"

Bush is an evil cretin and Che is absolutely correct: the peace is already broken.

Bob said...

Democrats, Republicans, same shit, different shove. Bush is only the latest. They fight each other over who controls the power, but either way it's the people who get screwed. Democrats scrapped the Constitution in the 1930s with the "New Deal" and taking away our right to bear arms so we can't rebel against them. Portland where the Pigs are on film is Democratic. New Orleans where the pigs rounded up all the guns and raided local business to steal Cadilacs is Democratic. The police state is independendent of which party is in power. Republicans are bad, but Democrats are no better. They all are scum. The all wage war on America, trashing the Constitution and putting government power first.
Bob

Catch more of The World According to Bobat: http://bobstruth.blogspot.com

Bob said...

In the last 20 years there have been only 2 countries that have used internationally banned WMD poison gas on villages of their own people. 1. Iraq under Sadam Hussein, and 2. The US under Clinton at Waco. Most of the dead men, women, and children at Waco died of "CS" gas which is internationally banned "WMD."

Moral: Clinton is as bad as Bush is as bad as Hussein.

Democrat, Republican, Bath Party. They are all violent control freaks at war with their own people.

Bob

Catch more of The World According to Bob at: http://bobstruth.blogspot.com

Unknown said...

The main body of the Constitution is, in my opinion, less important than the Bill of Rights --the first ten amendments. The main body outlines three branches and divies up the powers and authorities of each. That can always be worked out among reasonable folk IF and ONLY IF the rights of the people are sacrosanct. And that is the job of the Bill of Rights. Certainly, Bush attacked the Constitutional principles of separation of powers and the Supreme Court --idiots that they have proven themselves to be --bent over. Scalia et al would rubber stamp Bush's belches. Congress has become a debating club. That left Bush free to finish off what I consider sacrosanct: the Bill of Rights!

Bush's government is NOT legitimate and his numerous decrees must be denied him by the people themselves.

I see no other alternative but revolution. Che was right. The peace is already broken by this outlaw government that presumes to be above the law.

Enough is enough.

Anonymous said...

Hey Bob that's some philosophy you got there:

Here's an observation for the feminazi hate mongers who may read The World According to Bob YOU LOSE! You cannot win your war on men. You can only up the ante and find more and more of your sisters face down in pools of their own blood. Your gangs of blue gun thugs cannot and will not protect you. They aren't even on your side. They will only come later and parade in front of cameras to milk you and men out of our money. Your hate war can only be won by ending it. You can not win by winning. Your battle between you feminazi hate mongers, hate training professors, and hate sisterhood can only be won by giving up.

The polite version is lighten up Bob, get out a bit more and start seeing women as your mother, your sister or you work colleague (ps, you don't want to know the rude version).

Anonymous said...

Miss Ogeny sez...

Wassa matta Bobby Baby Bukes? Mommie put a bug up yer ass before she castrated you?
Flash yer irrational hatred of the fair sex around these here parts and a certain little lady, who visits kinda regular like, gon get medieval on said ass!

Loathe fascists, love women!
You know it makes sense.

Anonymous said...

Bob, in our better moments we all wish others well and seek to be part of a happy society that can appreciate us for the best in us. Sometimes that's not possible. No matter how good a person is, no matter how sincere, if they've been mugged in the alley and they are hurt, bloodied and disheveled they will not be let in to that ritzy restaurant. Whether it's a business partner that's stolen someone's life savings or a bitter divorce, sometimes life can treat good people bad. When that happens the brain goes funny. All sorts of chemicals start pumping and it colors people's judgments. The trick is to recognize that emotions are formed by chemicals and that not all intense feelings can be relied on to give us good judgment about the world. You ever seen those cats cowering in cages in front of a small mouse? -- all because a part of their brain got electrically stimulated. That's what we are, all of us. It just takes one car accident and a minor bump and our judgments and emotions go out the window along with our whole social identity, everything we take for granted. So what should people do with intense emotions?

I've got a relative who is a kind middle aged man. He was violently raped by his teacher when he was 9yrs old. His life is a litany of alcohol, assault charges, lost education and menial jobs. He gets up every day and makes the same decision: not to kill himself that day. Before him is the memory of his classmates who were similarly raped, teenagers who hanged themselves, threw themselves in front of trains or died of drug overdoses. Let me tell you, there is suffering and then there is real suffering. This guy has more courage in his little finger than I'll ever know. But his emotions were beyond him. His sense of self had been driven out of him. He felt himself to be just an unfeeling piece of meat with only one way of living: rage. But he started to understand the chemical nature of human emotions and he chose to use his intellect to support his life rather than debase it or waste it. He has found some emotional comfort with QiGong healing. His life will never be at real peace. But he understands that he can surround his life with barbed wire and a rotweiller in the backyard and hate everyone or he can grow some flowers in a tiny corner of his debased world and live in defiance of all the pain life brought him. With the first choice he is at war with the world, with the second he will meet happy and kind people. I won't tell you who this person is, but he is close, and respected.

Wake up and smell the roses, Bob. Life is about choices, so choose wisely. Hatred is death. Hatred is for fools.

Anonymous said...

gracious and wise response damien, also, excellent link on the QiGong, it is the best gift the east has to offer westerners; patience and a form of natural self control, rooted in positive energy.

benmerc

Anonymous said...

I suspect Bob is too lost in hatred to benefit from my words, Benmerc. Certainly his blog is very negative. But one lives in hope that some small good can be done, some thinking can be started. Of course, some hatreds, such as against war criminals and those who exploit the poor, are well justified and necessary. So hating Bush and his brand of politics is just fine. It is the unreasoned, pointless kind of hatred that tends to eat at people's spirits, a hatred that destroys the rights of others. That needs to be rejected.

Bob said...

If you people want to think that police thuggery is caused by Bush you are blowing smoke. Police thuggery has been getting worse every year for the past century, through all Presidents and Congresses of both parties. Only a fool would believe that supporting one or the other will make the evil corruption go away.

Anti-Bush hate only makes you vunlerable and blinds your eyes to the underlying problesm. They are all bad, and they are all against the people.

Unknown said...

Statistics will always prove that police violence, brutality, hotdoggin', and just ordinary garden variety arrogance increases with the concentration of what I consider to be fascist power.

Anonymous said...

Bob, I agree that police thuggery is not caused by Bush and that it's been around for quite some time. There have been plenty of incidents: Rodney King, WACO and undoubtedly a whole lot more under both Democrats and Republicans. Now, Bush illegally invaded Iraq and caused the needless death of a million Iraqis. Clinton and Madeleine Albright killed a similar number through UN sanctions in the 1990s. It is reasonable to publicly denounce these actions and call for political change. That's productive hate in a political context.

But your website praises "Darren Mack, a wealthy Nevada father who was involved in a divorce, stabbed his estranged wife to death and then executed a well-planned murder attempt on a Nevada judge". You awarded him a "Golden Bull Award" for "acting manly". Sorry, but that's not "manly", it's murder. There is no legal entitlement for someone to kill another person because a court judgement has been given against them.

Your blog makes some fair points about this man and his circumstances. I have no doubt that court ordered spousal payments were financially crippling for him -- it's the same in many countries around the world. He deserved sympathy, the encouragement of friends and financial counseling. Hell, if the worst came to the worst he could have emigrated and left the bills behind. But to broadly hate women, courts and police is an excessive hate, one that ultimately drains people and cripples their lives.

Look, I find your blog excessive Bob. There seems to be too much hatred there going nowhere. But that's not to say you're not a nice guy in your quiet moments. My advice, for what it's worth -- put down your gripes for a week and put some happy things in your life. Forget about the all the problems faced by all men in a police state out to get them (the problems will still be there next week if you want to pick them up again).

Human emotions are fickle things, intense emotions especially. Every time someone stands in front of me and tells me with all the hatred they can muster why their feelings are the core of their being and can't ever be changed I long fervently for a snarling rotweiller to suddenly appear just to see those "inviolate" feelings, the "core" of that person's being vanish in a heartbeat, forgotten, as if those feelings never existed. People just don't get it that emotions are based on fickleness and chemicals in the brain.

You want to live with anger in your declining years, Bob? You want to mix with unhappy people, be surrounded by barbed wire, unpleasant memories and the weight of all men's problems on your shoulders? Be my guest. Or step outside those feelings for a moment and give yourself a small holiday, go for a hike in the mountains, listen to music, have a pizza party with friends, sing, join a theatre group, do some gardening, wear a funny hat, help your local charity. Then come back and see which problems are still there and which ones faded away. Your choice. The formula for happiness is very simple: hang out around happy people. Persistent anger is physically and mentally exhausting. I hope things go well for you.

Anonymous said...

Oh C'mon len, you're just jealous because you weren't a Male Cheerleader at a rich preppie school in New England and at Yale, and didn't get to hang with those cuties at the drama club, like Dubya.

Bush is as queer as a three dollar bill. Victor Ashe.

And, I don't mean to insult open, honest homosexuals here, but this dangerous fool is John Wayne Gacy on steroids.

Yes, indeed, we need to address (after the revolution, no, I don't think a general strike will work, the sheep are too frightened) allowing military security personnel from being allowed civilian police employment.

I still recall "The Big Dog's" solution to having more Americans in prison than ALL other nations combined: Put 100,000 more cops on the streets. Remember?

Frankly Len, like a drunk, Americans have embraced the nectar of fascism like a wino at a Greyhound bus station, it is easier than thinking, which they might not be capable of.

We'll unfortunately need to hit rock bottom before we arise again, reborn.

I have always thought the reason Bush appeals to so many Americans is that they identify with another complete idiot, and embrace one of their own for "making it despite being stupid."

keep up the good work, and convince me why a general strike might work, and how it needs to be accomplished. Goodness knows, I wish a non-violent solution to tyranny.

But end, this must.

Thomas Jefferson, my favorite fellow Virginian, advised it has to happen otherwise.

farang

Unknown said...

farang said...

Oh C'mon len, you're just jealous because you weren't a Male Cheerleader at a rich preppie school in New England and at Yale, and didn't get to hang with those cuties at the drama club, like Dubya.

That's a good one! Bush's problems is that while in Texas, he had to 'act' macho or get his ass kicked. But anyone can see through the charade. Bush --especially the flight suit episode --always reminded me of one of the Village People. (Remember them? That's when 'fag' went prime time.)

As for 'cuties', Texas was and remains full of them --especially my Alma Mater in Houston, TX. GREAT SCHOOL : )

Anonymous said...

Some time you are white some-time you are black, some-time you're the spitting image.

Anonymous said...

Obama may have the “Audacity of Hope” but how about George Bush’s “Audacity of Arrogance”? Whatever his role as ‘leader of the free world’, the President has hardly been a protector of individual freedoms at home. Orange alerts and clever speeches continually serve up terrorism as the unassailable rationale for executive overreach. What is so offensive about the President’s position is that it is unnecessary. Basic tenants of limited government authority already exist or could be easily adapted to accomplish what is needed without wholesale destruct of personal liberty.

Anonymous said...

Len:

I know Texas has plenty cuties, I spent 7 weeks in '04, and 12 weeks in '06, performing some projects in CenTex.

Took a ride down to Houston to pick up some piping, and really enjoyed the drive down, lovely state.

I even met a gal, had to be of Korean descent, with the sweetest accent I ever heard, and was eager to let me know she was ALL Texas girl. A doll.

THOSE aren't the "cuties" I was alluding too, partner.

I was referring to an article I read that stated Dubya used to hang with the Drama QUEENS belonging to the Yale drama club.

Just to clarify, Tex. I wasn't denigrating the sweet sounding, good looking ladies of Texas, believe you me.

farang

Anonymous said...

Some days you wake up and realize that there are ideas you shouldn't be considering, people you should never be acknowledging. I guess I extended some courtesies to Bob either because I've always wanted to believe there's hope for people or because I haven't grown up enough to see people early on for what they are and immediately show some of them the door. Bob rails against the Bush haters and hints at America's "real" authority problems. His blog tells you that 14 year old girls are ready for marriage (but only to older men) that they need to be "given away" by their fathers and that women are property. He applauds a felon who stabbed his wife and shot a judge, describing his actions as "manly". I won't repeat here the words he uses to describe women. I'd like to apologize to any bloggers here, women especially, who may have been offended by any courtesies I extended to this person. I can only put it down to some persistent bad judgments on my part about the nature of people. Some people don't want to change, they are happy with their bad choices. Here's hoping, of course, that Bob will take some of my earlier suggestions and act upon them and put some decency and joy into his life. But I'm not holding my breath. I think Bob and others like him have their date with destiny -- usually involving a SWAT team. Good luck with that one, Bob.

Anonymous said...

damien -

I think I understand where you are coming from, but do not let misjudgment or mistakes drive you from your humanitarianism and decency, rare qualities in todays world views ( i do not think you really made either in this case...you just made an effort to reach out to some one with some disturbing beliefs, and offered some real advice, which everyone could reflect on )

Also, when outside the the social norm or mores of the day, you are always at a higher risk whether right or wrong, good or evil... few, if any will have your back. I think that is how societal mechanisms work, they protect the group from the extremes, the normal course of human nature is "self preservation"...and the most efficient way for today's society to deal with aberrant types is typically, sadly, with a swat team.

Truth or knowledge beyond rote reponse is the most elusive commodity in the universe sometimes, except for those who dare to step from the common paradigm to seek it. You probably realize all of this, and I may just be clarifying it in my own mind, nevertheless, your episode sparked thought and response, indeed let us hope Bob gets some help.

benmerc

Anonymous said...

"...and the most efficient way for today's society to deal with aberrant types is typically, sadly, with a swat team" - benmerc

as a caveat to that above, and again I think most here are aware of...If a society remains on this path, in the end it will destroy itself. At some point the violence within the society will be coming from the same core, on a level that will not be controlled. In an organized fashion, we generally call it "civil war", beyond that it may be triggered by numerous and varied disruptions, but the core reaction will be the same. We are troop-tribal, and really need to evolve.

benmerc

Anonymous said...

Thanks benmerc. I don't think I made any mistakes either. What I know is that I had to challenge many ideas in my life, confront many personal beliefs. I really had to make quite a journey. I went to a lot of effort to read, meet new people, try new things in my life. So I've never been very impressed with people who anger easily or pin all of life's difficulties on others. It's the lazy way. And I especially hate violent people or those who endorse it. Being angry is pleasurable because of the brain chemicals and some people are addicted to it. My basic instincts are kindness but I'm past the stage of losing sleep over people who have no real interest in learning. In a world where we come with nothing and leave the same way the only wealth we have is keep our innocence, our untainted joy in life, and people can't do that if they're selfish. The essential task in life is the Socratic one, to know oneself, which means people need to challenge the very ground they stand on. Some people just aren't really prepared to do that. I worked as a school teacher for many years so my basic instinct is to use the right words and facilitate growth. In fact, I can drum up counseling skills without even thinking about it and hop into caring mode, acknowledging others and moving their egos, hopefully in positive directions. But sometimes its just not worth the candle. It's like a mechanic offering to fix a car that the owner has neglected for years. Sometimes I just stop and figure that if the owner doesn't give a damn then why the hell should I (even if they are likely to drive themselves or somebody else off the road in the meantime). Often people don't even understand how vulnerable they are driving such vehicles. And it's the same with human emotions.

You say -- We are troop-tribal, and really need to evolve.

This is the problem. Our intellect's are fine, but we overrate them. They are fit only for what they do, a tool that we can use or abuse. And we are emotionally more primitive than we are prepared to allow. So we insanely believe that nuclear wars are "manageable" etc. We are also more closely tied to our social definition than people really appreciate. All it takes is a job loss, car accident, marriage break down and "we" cease to exist. We then need to redefine ourselves and it can often be difficult.

I remember meeting one middle aged lady in a country pub here in Australia. She described a failed marriage. Her mind was fixated on her wedding in Naples with 600 guests and the cream of society. She couldn't find the reason why she had been abandoned in mid life. So time had stopped for her and she just collared people telling them her tale like some modern day version of the sailor in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. (LOL)

Don't worry, benmerc, I'm not particularly troubled even if it may sound that way. Your kind words are appreciated -- and you've got some wisdom yourself. Cheers mate.

Unknown said...

damien said...

I remember meeting one middle aged lady in a country pub here in Australia. She described a failed marriage. Her mind was fixated on her wedding in Naples with 600 guests and the cream of society. She couldn't find the reason why she had been abandoned in mid life. So time had stopped for her and she just collared people telling them her tale like some modern day version of the sailor in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Poignant story, damien. Reminds me somewhat of a C&W song by Tanya Tucker --'Delta Dawn'. There must be one in every community. At some point, an 'evolved' individual realizes that every moment we live is a 'peak experience'.

I can also relate to your 'journey'. Having experienced this 'process', you might not learn anything from Chris Vogler's 'The Hero's Journey'. Still --it's a good read. As an 'existentialist', I believe that we write our own scripts with the choices we make every day. It's a yin and yang of identification and separation, of loving and letting go.