THE SYSTEMS AND FORMULAS OF THE WORLD
Have you ever thought about how the world works, that is, our world on the planet Earth? And did you ever think about how the world worked in the past, before telephones and airplanes, and before cars and trucks were invented? How did peoples and countries communicate with each other, if they did communicate with each other? What did they try to do to make their lives comfortable and how did they measure success in the world of ten thousand years ago and five thousand years ago? Who and how did what in the many different societies that existed over the millennia since mankind emerged from caves and started living in homes that they built on land that they owned and farmed, using tools that they made and materials that they pulled from the earth? And how were leaders chosen, if they were chosen? Who rose to the top and how did they rise to the top of their societies?
Our world generally operates within systems and uses formulas to achieve local successes. The systems are interconnected and the formulas are similar from nation to nation and from one international entity to another. The international connection enables trade for mutual benefit and the internal systems are designed to accommodate differences such as currency, language and cultures, economic level, and political establishments. Except in cases of rogue states or states that are in the process of violent change or collapsing, these statements hold true.
Natural resources like oil that are in huge universal demand and huge populations that provide low cost labor, skew the systems and formulas as much as internal warfare, regime change, and major natural disasters do over shorter time periods. The drive for power and wealth acquisition brings a measure of tranquility to international exchanges that benefit the elites in whatever combination of nations are engaged.
Internal systems and formulas are based on how wealth and allegiance are achieved. Variations between and within the systems reflect the nature of a nation’s wealth, history, government, culture, people, and often, religion. The history, language, natural resources, and geography of a nation are key determinants of wealth acquisition. A typical formula has multi-generational power continuation that regardless of huge disparities in wealth distribution, auger for economic stability. That power can be embedded in government or in royal symbolism or in religious unity within a country. Governments as a matter of course represent power elites that invest the money to obtain government sinecures for their lackeys. “What is good for General Motors is good for the country,” used to be considered instructions for government functioning. With General Motors teetering on bankruptcy at the end of 2008, the slogan requires a name change, perhaps to the more truthful and realistic, “What’s good for the wealthy and powerful, is good for the country.”
Success is measured in accumulation of wealth just as failure is measured in loss of wealth.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
KILL THE JEWS
The daily newspapers are teaching the world, “History in the Making.” Your extensive or limited knowledge of history is distorted. We are watching the world of the Arabs being assaulted by the “People.” Television, the internet, cell phones, and death models are the “teachers” of the People. The revolution taking place is emanating viscerally from the “People.” They did not decide to revolt.
The "People" never decide anything. Compare their intelligence to that of dogs. They sniff. They bark. They eat what's given to them. They piss and shit where they are taught to piss and shit - if they are "civilized." If they are not civilized, they piss and shit wherever they are whenever they have the urge. They sleep where they are taught to sleep. They masturbate or screw at every opportunity. When they are out of the house they are on a leash held by the power that controls them.
Their civilizations comport with the civilizations of the Power Elites. They follow. They do not lead. When they break away from the Power Elites, they perform a revolution. The Power Elite adjusts their condition to that of other civilizations that served as initiators and models for their revolution. After much killing, they restructure their societies so that THEIR leaders can join the Power Elites. The people remain subservient at a different level, a level that is better economically. They are thrown bones with more meat on them.
They settle down until civilizations around them again stagger to a new position that appears better than that of their present position - ECONOMICALLY! The Power Elites share a meager portion of their wealth to pacify the masses and bring them to accept their new circumstances.
Get it?
Now - for Israel. The Jews and Israel are a light to the nations. Smarter, wealthier, better educated, more creative, and, more in control of their lives and fortunes than any other People on the face of the earth. They have contributed more to civilizations than any other geographic, religious, or ethnic grouping. They are easily identifiable by their status and by their religion. They should be killed. Who wants them killed? Power Elites. Arab/Muslim Power Elites overtly. Other Power Elites clandestinely. They set a very bad example to the masses of the world. Let's kill them.
The history of the Jewish People is a study in survival. It all started when the Jews stated that there was only one God. All the idols weren't worth shit. The power Elites of the day needed the People to believe in idols. Moses reinforced the separation from the idols with his Ten Commandments of morality. So, let’s kill the Jews.
And that has happened through the centuries, and it is happening again today. Now, let's see how smart the Jews are.
The "People" never decide anything. Compare their intelligence to that of dogs. They sniff. They bark. They eat what's given to them. They piss and shit where they are taught to piss and shit - if they are "civilized." If they are not civilized, they piss and shit wherever they are whenever they have the urge. They sleep where they are taught to sleep. They masturbate or screw at every opportunity. When they are out of the house they are on a leash held by the power that controls them.
Their civilizations comport with the civilizations of the Power Elites. They follow. They do not lead. When they break away from the Power Elites, they perform a revolution. The Power Elite adjusts their condition to that of other civilizations that served as initiators and models for their revolution. After much killing, they restructure their societies so that THEIR leaders can join the Power Elites. The people remain subservient at a different level, a level that is better economically. They are thrown bones with more meat on them.
They settle down until civilizations around them again stagger to a new position that appears better than that of their present position - ECONOMICALLY! The Power Elites share a meager portion of their wealth to pacify the masses and bring them to accept their new circumstances.
Get it?
Now - for Israel. The Jews and Israel are a light to the nations. Smarter, wealthier, better educated, more creative, and, more in control of their lives and fortunes than any other People on the face of the earth. They have contributed more to civilizations than any other geographic, religious, or ethnic grouping. They are easily identifiable by their status and by their religion. They should be killed. Who wants them killed? Power Elites. Arab/Muslim Power Elites overtly. Other Power Elites clandestinely. They set a very bad example to the masses of the world. Let's kill them.
The history of the Jewish People is a study in survival. It all started when the Jews stated that there was only one God. All the idols weren't worth shit. The power Elites of the day needed the People to believe in idols. Moses reinforced the separation from the idols with his Ten Commandments of morality. So, let’s kill the Jews.
And that has happened through the centuries, and it is happening again today. Now, let's see how smart the Jews are.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
MYOB
Mind Your Own Business
Our earth-world, that is, the surface of the earth, is divided into countries. Each of those countries has a name, a language, a society of leaders and led, food idiosyncrasies, religion(s), often unique geographies and sizes, a position on the scale of modernity in a large variety of institutions, laws, education, science, longevity of life, and the use of technology; geographical insularity, unique physiognomy and skin coloration, value systems, and other differences too numerous and too fine to describe here. And we are all different no matter how we act or how similar we may appear.
The one outstanding mutual characteristic seems to be the common request by all countries to all other countries, to Mind Their Own Business – to not interfere with the way things are and the way things are run and done by whoever is in charge in any particular country. This is the MYOB syndrome.
The ramifications of MYOB are huge, as recently illustrated by the Tsunami s generated by earthquakes off the coasts of Japan and the ongoing surge by indigenous peoples in a variety of countries to acquire freedom and representation, mostly in the Arab world, harmful to populations and often deadly to individuals in the path of explosive power that exists in the operating structures in those countries.
The so-called United Nations is helpless to intervene effectively in either the natural disasters or the man-made disasters. A few countries have the capability to move quickly and effectively by having a prior obligation in their societies’ mores to help others in need. Israel tops the list in rapid response to the MYOB syndrome. The earthquakes in Turkey and Haiti brought immediate teams of trained people and dogs plus equipment and supplies commonly known to be in dire need in such situation. Israel was the first “other” on the scene in those countries. It was also among the first in the hamlets of Japan suffering the impact of the destruction of nuclear power plants in that country. Other countries also joined in these humanitarian cries for help. Many countries Mind Their Own Business at all times. The debating society known as the United Nations is often the last to appear with its minions and millions and often stays to harvest little- merited kudos.
The oligarchies of the Arab world have long benefitted from the MYOB syndrome as practiced by the Big Oil countries, the United States, Britain, Holland, and a few others. Blind eyes were turned for decades on societies and hierarchies that treated their lower classes with well designed neglect, their women with a misogyny that stems from religion and primitive cultural intolerance, and maltreatment of the peasantry with torture and dismemberment for minor offenses, simply to assure their power status in their societies. Thus, the oil flowed and the profits were distributed to the few as the affected governments benefitted and dealt with these fake kings in their flowing white bed-sheets, with ingratiating smiles and rewarding practices.
Probably the most devastating impact of the MYOB syndrome lies in the provision of armaments and war-making machines and equipment to the often impoverished countries of the world and their power elites, who then use those arms to remain in power and to aggrandize their thefts from the coffers of their countries and to engage in warfare to subdue neighboring countries to steal their land, highjack their produce, kill their men, and rape their women. One cannot help but believe there is involved the role of arms merchants and agents provocateurs in achieving that monetary success. And in those cases, they were and are indeed, Minding Their Own Business.
The future of Mankind, eliminating natural disasters, lies in everyone minding everyone else’s business for the common good. As humans, we all have the same physical and mental frailties. Were we to live in a family setting, the hope for well-being and happiness stands a greater chance of success than in living disparate lives as we now do. Minding our communal business rather than minding our own business, caring for and about each other, en mass, will provide the only means to achieve that well-being and happiness.
Our earth-world, that is, the surface of the earth, is divided into countries. Each of those countries has a name, a language, a society of leaders and led, food idiosyncrasies, religion(s), often unique geographies and sizes, a position on the scale of modernity in a large variety of institutions, laws, education, science, longevity of life, and the use of technology; geographical insularity, unique physiognomy and skin coloration, value systems, and other differences too numerous and too fine to describe here. And we are all different no matter how we act or how similar we may appear.
The one outstanding mutual characteristic seems to be the common request by all countries to all other countries, to Mind Their Own Business – to not interfere with the way things are and the way things are run and done by whoever is in charge in any particular country. This is the MYOB syndrome.
The ramifications of MYOB are huge, as recently illustrated by the Tsunami s generated by earthquakes off the coasts of Japan and the ongoing surge by indigenous peoples in a variety of countries to acquire freedom and representation, mostly in the Arab world, harmful to populations and often deadly to individuals in the path of explosive power that exists in the operating structures in those countries.
The so-called United Nations is helpless to intervene effectively in either the natural disasters or the man-made disasters. A few countries have the capability to move quickly and effectively by having a prior obligation in their societies’ mores to help others in need. Israel tops the list in rapid response to the MYOB syndrome. The earthquakes in Turkey and Haiti brought immediate teams of trained people and dogs plus equipment and supplies commonly known to be in dire need in such situation. Israel was the first “other” on the scene in those countries. It was also among the first in the hamlets of Japan suffering the impact of the destruction of nuclear power plants in that country. Other countries also joined in these humanitarian cries for help. Many countries Mind Their Own Business at all times. The debating society known as the United Nations is often the last to appear with its minions and millions and often stays to harvest little- merited kudos.
The oligarchies of the Arab world have long benefitted from the MYOB syndrome as practiced by the Big Oil countries, the United States, Britain, Holland, and a few others. Blind eyes were turned for decades on societies and hierarchies that treated their lower classes with well designed neglect, their women with a misogyny that stems from religion and primitive cultural intolerance, and maltreatment of the peasantry with torture and dismemberment for minor offenses, simply to assure their power status in their societies. Thus, the oil flowed and the profits were distributed to the few as the affected governments benefitted and dealt with these fake kings in their flowing white bed-sheets, with ingratiating smiles and rewarding practices.
Probably the most devastating impact of the MYOB syndrome lies in the provision of armaments and war-making machines and equipment to the often impoverished countries of the world and their power elites, who then use those arms to remain in power and to aggrandize their thefts from the coffers of their countries and to engage in warfare to subdue neighboring countries to steal their land, highjack their produce, kill their men, and rape their women. One cannot help but believe there is involved the role of arms merchants and agents provocateurs in achieving that monetary success. And in those cases, they were and are indeed, Minding Their Own Business.
The future of Mankind, eliminating natural disasters, lies in everyone minding everyone else’s business for the common good. As humans, we all have the same physical and mental frailties. Were we to live in a family setting, the hope for well-being and happiness stands a greater chance of success than in living disparate lives as we now do. Minding our communal business rather than minding our own business, caring for and about each other, en mass, will provide the only means to achieve that well-being and happiness.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Prediction - HOW WILL IT END?
Tunisia started a revolution in the Arab World. How will it end?
The most reliable way to forecast an answer to this question is to look back at other revolutions in other countries and compare what is comparable and use the differences to make quesses.
Unrest caused by poor economic conditions that have led to two-class societies where power is held by an upper class protected by well-fed loyal armies, and the lower classes suffer deprivation in their lives and have been powerless to change their condition. Powerless until the masses are ignited by a unifying act by one of their own or by some egregious act by the masters of their existence.
The revolution takes place and the portraits on the walls of the houses of power are changed. Some careless oligarchs lose their heads and some lucky ones, with their families, are wafted away by fellow power brokers in foreign lands. With the change, grievances are addressed and economies manipulated to raise the standard of living of the masses - at relatively low cost to the power elites - and just enough to pacify the revolutionaries. New laws are put into place that provide the appearance of equality. The equality is not of power but rather of pacifiers.
So it was with the French, American, and Russian revolutions. So it was with the removal of the Shaw of Iran and the deportation of Idi Amin. So it is with the Chiness revolution. AND SO IT WILL BE WITH THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION.
And that is how it will end. With hollow voting power, increased standard of living from abject poverty to food pacification, honking horns of patriotism and calls of religionists to heed the opium words of God.
The rich will get richer and the poor will get children.
The most reliable way to forecast an answer to this question is to look back at other revolutions in other countries and compare what is comparable and use the differences to make quesses.
Unrest caused by poor economic conditions that have led to two-class societies where power is held by an upper class protected by well-fed loyal armies, and the lower classes suffer deprivation in their lives and have been powerless to change their condition. Powerless until the masses are ignited by a unifying act by one of their own or by some egregious act by the masters of their existence.
The revolution takes place and the portraits on the walls of the houses of power are changed. Some careless oligarchs lose their heads and some lucky ones, with their families, are wafted away by fellow power brokers in foreign lands. With the change, grievances are addressed and economies manipulated to raise the standard of living of the masses - at relatively low cost to the power elites - and just enough to pacify the revolutionaries. New laws are put into place that provide the appearance of equality. The equality is not of power but rather of pacifiers.
So it was with the French, American, and Russian revolutions. So it was with the removal of the Shaw of Iran and the deportation of Idi Amin. So it is with the Chiness revolution. AND SO IT WILL BE WITH THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION.
And that is how it will end. With hollow voting power, increased standard of living from abject poverty to food pacification, honking horns of patriotism and calls of religionists to heed the opium words of God.
The rich will get richer and the poor will get children.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
THE POWER OF RELIGI0N
THE POWER OF RELIGION
And what to do about it
As much as the destruction of religious institutions appears to me a desirable goal, the world has been mesmerized by religions into believing they are not the evil force they truly are. Wiping out religion and replacing it with ethical humanism is too formidable a task to accomplish in the next millennium. The more modest goal of separation of church and state throughout the world should be reasonably attainable.
This is a war for the hearts and minds of masses of people. This is a war of education, of propaganda, of enlightenment. At every turn and in every instance where religion is shown up for what it is, a supporter of power structures and an instigator of death by religicide, the course of action to be pointed out must lead to political separation. A constant din must be maintained to alert people to the dangers of religion and religious input and control of the political process.
Atheists, humanistic ethicists, and agnostics have been too reluctant to buck the strong tides of religious oceans. For the most part, they try to keep their heads down. After all, how far can they get in their own lives of work, school, love, family, friends, all of whom have what is called "respect" for religion. This ingrained respect is a huge deterrent to effective action. The first step must be to separate the attack on religion from its association with an attack on belief, humankind's fundamental need. Also, care must be taken to separate the charlatans of religious institutions from the poor deluded good religionists who will defend their institutions to the death. The point of attack must be to convert deluded ethical devout religious leaders to the awareness that they are involved with murderers and panderers of death through religicide.
The second point of attack must be in identifying and exposing the charlatans who have earned the respect of people as leaders of religious institutions. That has to be performed in both delicate and coarse ways. This is a war to be conducted over centuries. I do not suggest nor imply that this is the way to achieve peace in the Middle East in the near term. For now, it is sufficient to identify the mullahs and rabbis who preach death and hold them up for the anti-gods that they are.
A variety of perceptions have colored the reaction to my proposition that religion is evil. They range from, "Not my religion!" to "They are not ALL evil." What I posit is not really related to the nature of religion as a vehicle for worship per se. That is, I do not contest that what religion says it offers is not delivered. But religion has a superior goal to the mere structure in which believers can make obeisance to their gods. My claim is that religion is a creation of power elites to be used as a tool for controlling people; individuals, small groups and huge masses of people. The power elite may be the single witch doctor or Shaman, the chief of a tribe, the king who is himself the representative of god on earth, the combination of the Vatican and Nazi Germany, or the government of the United States with the varied and diverse religious establishments of the country. The need for people to believe in a higher power has made them susceptible to the lure of religion; they are told how to pray, when to pray, and where to pray - and they can do it with others to reinforce the rightness of their need and the righteousness of their belief. The fact that missionaries may have the purest of motives does not detract from the fact that control of their converts passes to the power elites that supported the missionary work in the first place. The fact that various religions and religionists have cultural and historic aspects unrelated to power but only concerned with the true well-being of their adherents does not detract from the fact that all religions enable evil to flourish by their affinity to power elites. All religions without exception are prostituted by power elites. Even the religions that claim "Peace" as an integral part of their very essence - like Judaism - are prostitutes because they sell their wares to pacify, to lure, to inveigle the masses into actions detrimental in cataclysmic ways to their well-being and the well-being of others.
Is there one piece of dirt or rock worth the life of a single individual? Not really! Yet religion religicizes dirt and rocks into holy entities so their believers will die for them. Young men die for god and country. Who benefits? God? Surely not! The martyr? No. The power elite does. The sellers of arms do. The oil companies do. The Sheiks and Shahs and Mullahs do. The country is said to benefit. Who is the country if not those who lay down their lives in the wars that religion and patriotism tout as good and necessary? Religion has religicized love of country and patriotism. Religion is evil incarnate. Religion is the actualization of harm to its believers. As to its murderous affect on non- religionists, non-believers and "other"-believers, no knowledgeable person will deny the religicide the inquisition inflicted on its victims nor the religicide of the Crusades nor the religicide of the poor Irish who need to die their Protestant deaths at the hands of the Catholics and vice-versa.
Rational enlightened self interest is the road out. But people must be willing to take that road.
And what to do about it
As much as the destruction of religious institutions appears to me a desirable goal, the world has been mesmerized by religions into believing they are not the evil force they truly are. Wiping out religion and replacing it with ethical humanism is too formidable a task to accomplish in the next millennium. The more modest goal of separation of church and state throughout the world should be reasonably attainable.
This is a war for the hearts and minds of masses of people. This is a war of education, of propaganda, of enlightenment. At every turn and in every instance where religion is shown up for what it is, a supporter of power structures and an instigator of death by religicide, the course of action to be pointed out must lead to political separation. A constant din must be maintained to alert people to the dangers of religion and religious input and control of the political process.
Atheists, humanistic ethicists, and agnostics have been too reluctant to buck the strong tides of religious oceans. For the most part, they try to keep their heads down. After all, how far can they get in their own lives of work, school, love, family, friends, all of whom have what is called "respect" for religion. This ingrained respect is a huge deterrent to effective action. The first step must be to separate the attack on religion from its association with an attack on belief, humankind's fundamental need. Also, care must be taken to separate the charlatans of religious institutions from the poor deluded good religionists who will defend their institutions to the death. The point of attack must be to convert deluded ethical devout religious leaders to the awareness that they are involved with murderers and panderers of death through religicide.
The second point of attack must be in identifying and exposing the charlatans who have earned the respect of people as leaders of religious institutions. That has to be performed in both delicate and coarse ways. This is a war to be conducted over centuries. I do not suggest nor imply that this is the way to achieve peace in the Middle East in the near term. For now, it is sufficient to identify the mullahs and rabbis who preach death and hold them up for the anti-gods that they are.
A variety of perceptions have colored the reaction to my proposition that religion is evil. They range from, "Not my religion!" to "They are not ALL evil." What I posit is not really related to the nature of religion as a vehicle for worship per se. That is, I do not contest that what religion says it offers is not delivered. But religion has a superior goal to the mere structure in which believers can make obeisance to their gods. My claim is that religion is a creation of power elites to be used as a tool for controlling people; individuals, small groups and huge masses of people. The power elite may be the single witch doctor or Shaman, the chief of a tribe, the king who is himself the representative of god on earth, the combination of the Vatican and Nazi Germany, or the government of the United States with the varied and diverse religious establishments of the country. The need for people to believe in a higher power has made them susceptible to the lure of religion; they are told how to pray, when to pray, and where to pray - and they can do it with others to reinforce the rightness of their need and the righteousness of their belief. The fact that missionaries may have the purest of motives does not detract from the fact that control of their converts passes to the power elites that supported the missionary work in the first place. The fact that various religions and religionists have cultural and historic aspects unrelated to power but only concerned with the true well-being of their adherents does not detract from the fact that all religions enable evil to flourish by their affinity to power elites. All religions without exception are prostituted by power elites. Even the religions that claim "Peace" as an integral part of their very essence - like Judaism - are prostitutes because they sell their wares to pacify, to lure, to inveigle the masses into actions detrimental in cataclysmic ways to their well-being and the well-being of others.
Is there one piece of dirt or rock worth the life of a single individual? Not really! Yet religion religicizes dirt and rocks into holy entities so their believers will die for them. Young men die for god and country. Who benefits? God? Surely not! The martyr? No. The power elite does. The sellers of arms do. The oil companies do. The Sheiks and Shahs and Mullahs do. The country is said to benefit. Who is the country if not those who lay down their lives in the wars that religion and patriotism tout as good and necessary? Religion has religicized love of country and patriotism. Religion is evil incarnate. Religion is the actualization of harm to its believers. As to its murderous affect on non- religionists, non-believers and "other"-believers, no knowledgeable person will deny the religicide the inquisition inflicted on its victims nor the religicide of the Crusades nor the religicide of the poor Irish who need to die their Protestant deaths at the hands of the Catholics and vice-versa.
Rational enlightened self interest is the road out. But people must be willing to take that road.
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