We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Einstein

Did Einstein walk the talk of course not but he is right and when you look around what do you see in this mad mad mad World today? A kind of optical delusion of consciousness, yes. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive and soon. Can it be done why not I am starting to see some signs but still to slow and I will keep trying. PBS tomorrow Extreme Ice

“Those that think they are wise, surely do not know”. —maybe—

Those that follow, well, they “eat the dirt”. You know of whom you are!.

Those that ‘stand with’, stand outside.

These days anyways.

Can’t wait for the next version of,

MAN MY LIFE SUCKS

or just maybe ‘how to build your next house of cards’

Jeff what are some examples of the illusion of knowledge? No pressure

“WE” have a communication breakdown. “THEY” know it and are taking full ‘advantage’ of it. No, actually, “THEY” are “CAPITALIZING” on it.

Educating one self makes for a weaker opponent.

Where is the balance?

Should there be a balance?

Sometimes you just have to except the ugly, —maybe—

some call me frank

My friends continue to quote from Obama speeches as if they mean something, while they chastise me as a negativist for pointing out actual policy decisions, like the increased military budget. It makes them feel good to believe words and ignore actions.

At a certain point, optimism in spite of the facts is no longer useful. I think we’re near that point.

as i have often said it wld be a crime if i wld approve of socalled twostate sol’n which means one is rewarding criminals with a state to which they have neither the legal nor moral right.

as we know, it had been mafioso org’s which legalized the illegality.
League of Nations was largely composed of land robbers; UN slightly less so in ’48. tnx

Unfortunately Chomsky is guilty of helping to maintain that “ignorance” with his apologetic of U.S. Zionism

On the climate change issue, there is not enough arable soil to have 6 billion people return to an agricultural based society of any kind. With natural resources being depleted, this seems the most likely turn of events, whatever the means taken.

The “middle class” has never existed. There has only been during the last 150 years or so an allusion perpetuated at little cost to the perpetrators that any class but one has existed. This rise and fall has been seen during all the “great(sic)” societies we have of history. “We” have used up all our ‘blood,sweat, and tears’ to run along side this allusion. Look what we have paid for it and see what will it will cost “us”.

Pawns we all are in an elaborate chess game, just like the foot soldiers of then and now. “For King and Country” the cry has been. I always thought you fought for your land. Show me any pawn whom owns any land. Tell me, do any of you actually own land. “For Bankers and The Kings of this World” we must fight for, for only they will allow “us” the illusions of property and freedom.

There is no way of backing out of this one folks. It is full steam ahead. Those that do survive, may the Almighty bless them and hopefully these brave souls will not let the snake enter again.

Then again, as has been brought up article after article, response after response, we are ignorant. We are also arrogant. One in each hand. What is in the middle of the two? Maybe nothing! Maybe our only road to sanity and salvation.

“Glaciers everywhere across the Rockies, Indies, Alps and Himalayas are in their death throes,” the narrator says.
While talking about the film, Alley said ice shows the changes that are occurring better than other things do. “If you pull an ice cube and a rock out of the freezer and put them on a table and watch, you’ll see the ice cube change, but you won’t see the rock change,” he said, even though they’re both getting warmer.

“If you want to see how things are changing, ice is the easiest place to see it,” Alley said.

Tuesday PBS. Extreme Ice

“Glaciers everywhere across the Rockies, Indies, Alps and Himalayas are in their death throes,” the narrator says.

Who needs Glaciers anyway 1.2 billion people in India for one.

To attribute all these responses to conditioning is nonsense, though we are subjected to conditioning from cradle to grave. Such attribution is simply a cop-out, a way of letting oneself off the hook, a way to blame others for the sorry state of affairs. Conditioning is not that difficult to overcome. All one needs to do is look around and apply ones reasoning ability to ones surroundings … and reject the human tendencies at this state of the species evolution (which may be its final state) to respect hierarchy, to look for “leaders” to “save” us. That latter tendency was so well demonstrated with the last election, one in which candidates representing real change were discarded in favor of those peddling snake oil, as usual.

It did not take long to realize that it is actually their own personal ignorance alone that they were so defensive about – unwilling and unable to face the fact that they’d done no serious, independent researching of the “slogans”, “soundbites” and slander against Nader of which they endlessly puppeted as their own trove of “facts”. Proven again and again, as those of us who had made ourselves knowledgeable would ask pointed questions about policy, solutions, and easily checkable, documented history were met with blank stares which would quickly erupt into self-conscious rage. Other more sensitive folks would almost involuntarily look down in embarrassment – or look immediately away – literally in shame – at being confronted with their own willful ignorance over such an important issue as whether or not, as American citizens, they were being wholly swayed and lulled into making a decision so crucial to their own lives – and to the world.

It was telling….and sad.

We can all only hope that this trait of Americans to swallow whole the corporate line of dangerous propaganda – not even recognizing that it is corporate propaganda – will reverse itself.

Yours Truly
World Voter

(PS gotta go now……..attention span running out………………)

I don’t think the majority are particularly ‘willing’ victims – they’re just too busy trying to survive, and have become convinced of their unimportance; which is of course the intention. As Ron Horn points out above, he has the time now to discover the truth only becuase he’s retired.

The majority is the only real hope for the future. The task is to properly educate them, to help them see that they have real power. All that is required is for the majority to be properly informed and given the tools and the authority to use that information to make their own political decisions; and because most people are good and humane, good and humane decisions will result.

The only force on earth that truly terrifies the US administration are US voters, and it spends vast amounts of its time and money keeping them subdued, subservient and ignorant; it’s not really a question of willingness.