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Zimnoiac Emanations
Feb. 2nd, 2006
03:46 pm - PTSD
I think we in this culture live as victims of post-traumatic stress
disorders, another word for which is Civilization.
Meant to be imbedded within a Gaian matrix we have been removed (we don't
really remember by whom or why) and we long for a return.
We long for connections to our animal cousins but settle for lavishing our
affections on our domesticated pets (who often display the same neurotic
symptoms of PTSD as we).
This "somethng missing" is like an itch we cannot quite scratch. Drugs,
booze and compulsive sex are but temporary palliatives. We addict so easily
to so many things.
We have been removed from our natural conviviality as co-operative tribal
creatures and made to compete to such an extent that we find it really hard
to co-operate on anything of much consequence.
Until, at some point, either through commune with a visionary plant, or being
awakened by a Derrick Jensen book, or some other blessed means, we start to
remember what we have lost.
And are losing.
Then the pain really starts but at least now we can name the disease and
begin a move towards re-integration.
Dec. 7th, 2005
04:22 pm - when a bear shits in the woods
my dog does not shit and then lay down in the pile.
most civilized humans crap and piss in their drinking water, flush it down
into septic tanks which then pollute their rivers and groundwater. They think
this is normal. Imperial mentalities rob from others to enrich themselves;
this becomes a way of life.
Support the Troops.
Growth is good.
Steven King deserves all his wealth cause he entertains people;
he's also a Red Sox fan
Kill a Commie for Mommie.
MY wife
MY child
MY car
The woman is MINE the land is MINE the moon is MINE the womb is MINE
Have a nice day.
03:37 pm - hold the GMO
I was mulling over a common argument put forth by pro-GM technocrats that
goes something like this:
"...well, humans have been hybridizing and doing gene combinations on plants
for hundreds of years and GMO is merely another advancement along that
path..."
Then it occured to me the difference.
...which is that when one does selective plant breeding for purposes of
"improving" a plant (which really amounts making it more suitable for human
use of one sort or another) through traditional means of selective
pollination, the plant has the option of rejecting the attempt. That is, the
result does not "take" all the time.
In the case of "genetic modification", the insertion is forcible, the target
organism does not have the option to reject the attempt. It is viewed as an
object, denuded of choice. This I view as a form of bio-technological rape.
As opposed to a partnership between between organism and human, a kind of
marriage of species with the potential to advance both sides.
Aug. 2nd, 2005
09:40 am - politics and the fall from grace
I think the phrase 'government of the people' is a contradiction in terms.
Besides which, people don't actually need to be governed unless they have
been bought up to depend on on authority for direction in their life and
plenty of us have proven that you can break free form that.
Basically once someone takes up office in a 'government for the people' they
cease to be people. It's an old saying but power corrupts and I have yet to
meet a single person who hasn't been corrupted by power - I mean I can't
even properly handle the power I have over my own children.
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for most of our presence here child raising has been a communal task. the nuclear man-woman-kids thing is an artifact of the last 150 years or so of industrial society. And even in my grandparent's generation there were extended family groupings.
it's like corn is a very "promiscuous" plant and if it becomes too inbred it genetically downgrades over generations.
we are tribal monkeys and we can and have worked out non-coercive ways and means of voluntary organization.
the thing which the current paradigm has done is to strip the memory of this in many but it's still inside us and we have to get it back.
whether it's learning to co-exist on this list or earth it's mostly the same approach differing in scale.
And the Golden Rule is to do unto others as you want done to you.
So why is that so hard?
Cause some of the wayward monkeys have escaped from the group, adopted a faulty model precluding a positive feedback loop are running amuk and destroying the whole thing which is what i think this group calls civilization. Or it's the class struggle, or whatever metaphor we want to choose today.
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Even if there existed a fantasy governator who could handle power perfectly
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things should never get to that point of authoritarian control.
i would propose as a start doing what many indigenous people have done and give the grandmothers veto power over all decisions.
then bring back the archaic values of equality and partnership which for the most part have guided the human sojourn here till fairly recently and by the absence of which the civilized humans are at the brink of blowing the whole planetary pooch into meltdown.
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they would still find themselves having to defend their power base in order
to keep doing their 'perfect' governing and given how keen people are to get
their hands on power
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I think the addiction to power is an indirect result of bad infant toilet training. Actually the invention of the flush toilet might be the root of all civilized evil.
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it would ultimately mean having to kill them to keep
them at bay - thereby corrupting the governors anyway. This, by the way, is
what happens to every bright eyed idealist when they enter politics thinking
they are going to make a diference. They either drop out because they aren't
prepared to play rough or they compromise themselves attempting to grab and
maintain power and become like every other politician that ever existed.
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I like Trotsky's idea of "Permanent Revolution" which I take to mean that things remain fluid and no obstructions of unaccountable power get to establish themselves.
You can see why Stalin had to get rid of him.
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I don't think any 'mass' answer is a real answer - this goes for governments
as well as mass (final?) solutions like steralization - we're just not
capable of handling the power that goes with it and it's naive to think we
can do it without corruption occurring.
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Derrick makes the point in one of his lectures that the only truly "free trade" would be when a group can meet all it's own needs and then it can engage it's neighbors without survival compulsion which leads to war and conquest and etc.
So, if and when abundance can be restored then non-compulsive trade and association can take place.
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This sounds like I'm going to advocate anarchy
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don't be ashamed of it but if you feel the need i think there is a 12-step program for it.
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but every time that's been
tried some power mongering neighbour moves in and ends it.
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that's why we start by giving the last say to the grandmothers. Except that Barbara Bush definitely DOES NOT get to vote.
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The only time
political anarchism will be possible is when we meet the conditions of the
popular definition of anarchism which is when civilisation falls apart, and
blow me down if I haven't arrived at a point where I might recomend a person
reads one of Derrick's books to flesh out this arguement :-)
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Damn if we ain't back where we started! :-)
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-stu
Jun. 8th, 2005
11:26 am - Whore-O-Witz
This is so lame, it calls a law to outlaw dialogue and rescind free speech rights a "Bill Of Rights". The poor "conservatives" are so persecuted, no one gets to hear THEIR point-of-view. It's a form of psychological warfare to feign persecution which gives then the right to respond aggressively.
Orwell will love it.
Of course there is "bias" all over the place but this does not preclude exercise of free speech whose purpose is to encourage DISCUSSION of biases and points of view. But so many of the proponents of this sort of thing have arguments so undefendable they are afraid to engage in discussion for fear of being exposed so they use the coercive power of the state to supress speech. In the Academy, no less, which is supposed to be a sacred place of free speech and exchange of ideas.
It figures that David Whore-o-Witz would be out front and center on this. He loves the publicity and has made a very comfortable career promoting this sort of trash.
The targeted academics had better stand up against it and refuse intimidation or they will deserve the consequences.
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>> Today, witchhunts seem once again on the rise. The latest attempt to return to the era of red-baiting is called, ironically, the Student Bill of Rights. That has a fine, democratic ring to it. The phrase, however, is being used to restrict the ability of teachers to introduce controversial or provocative ideas into their classrooms. The argument goes like this: Conservative students are offended when "liberal" faculty try to force them to consider ideas with which they don't agree. Political science or sociology instructors, for instance, who support the benefits of minimum or living wage ordinances for workers, should be prevented from advancing such liberal biases in class.
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>> commented red-starred professor Marty Bennett. "But I do teach a lot of labor history in my social sciences classes, and I'm identified in the community as someone involved in the labor movement. That's probably why I was chosen." Other instructors also had had little or no contact with the young Republicans. Bennett says that because of the incident, "some teachers were reluctant to take up more controversial subjects. But it pushed others towards an activism they might not have considered before."
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May. 3rd, 2005
10:54 am - Micro-Swill
when i learned that the film
"Kill Bill"
was not about Gates
i was very disappointed
09:38 am - garden
grows
doesn't need to be begged,
not everything though:
my experiment is to see how much of my own food i can grow
disadvantages:
high desert climate, fairly extreme heat and sun in summer, frost 5 months, late frosts, rainwater avg 8 inches per year (though we MAY be in a wetter trend in winter due it seems to heavier storms coming onto the west coast and making it over the mountains to here)
advantages: fairly long growing season, good for melons peppers onions squash beans carrots corn parsnips leek wheat rye barley (maybe) oats, greens-all-year-round-with-protection;
my one **critical vulnerability** is dependence on city-supplied supplemental water
no real way to overcome that here
and this is being done in the shadows of an airport and air force base in bushamerica with "support our troops" bumper ribbons in fairly prominent display
i figure though that when the techno infrastructure breaks down the cities will tend to get priority
maybe (i think i am allowed a free miracle)
but better by far to be as independent of this crumbling system as possible
ingenious alliances will be the key to survival
09:29 am - the jew
The Jew is the symbolic historic image of the exiled brother,
Cain
sent away without hardly time to pack, rejected by the tribe, the unconscious shadow
not wanted to be seen
first the shaman living on the outskirts of the village,
then the balloon sucking brother in the corner,
the retarded sister reciting poems to flowers all day,
the Son Prodigality,
who must be invited back in to sit around the camp fire
before the melodrama of history is released
and the monkey launched to godhead
09:23 am - A Dinner with Mushrooms
there is a spirit of life on the earth, an overarching presence, that comes and goes
disappears and shows
spirit of truth
the weather gets bad, it recedes for a while;
like Ice Ages,
meteor strikes;
it knows it has to die back to emerge again when conditions are favorable
life comes back, always returns, in
different shapes;
no flowering plants in these parts before 65 millions of years (more or less)
ago
Dec. 21st, 2004
10:30 am - surfing the Kali Yuga
The elite, as a global class (they have forsaken the nation-state as too confining for their harvests) , and as individuals, will do whatever it takes to maintain their privleges and ill-gotten gains. (2% controlling 40% of the resources)
This essentially involves looting the biosphere and the future itself which is the endeavor they have been involved in on this continent for the past 500 years or so. But now the pedal is being pushed to the metal.
The future dystopia, in a world running low on resources, involves guarded compounds of these folks catered to by a small group of serviceable slaves.
This is the logical outcome of the policies they are pursuing and it is why no dissenting views are allowed to reach "the masses" through media conglomeration (they are bedeviled by the internet and are seeking to reign it in), why they are constructing a global police state, a massive prison system.
In previous times there were conciliations to the lower and middle classes here in the US (taking the forms of "social programs") but now that the spout is running dry they need to get it all, damn the torpedos, full speed ahead!
So events and crises are staged (like 9-11, "war on terrorism", etc) in order to control the narrative and the minds of the people through memes of fear, and to create fake demons to try and divert attention away from the REAL pick-pockets.
All is pretty much looted in the US and all they have left is a bloated military and a shell-game financial scam system. They are losing the current military endeavor in Iraq to a group of "insurgents" many of whom learned their trades during the Iran-Iraq war in the early 1980's when they were being trained and supported by the US.
It's all so transparent and tiresome. Utterly and nakedly criminal. There ain't no future to it. It's not what we hairless monkeys are created for, me thinks.
They will implement this unless one way or another we stop them.
-Ironcloudz
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