The Insurmountable Reactionary Tide

This is Thursday afternoon and I just went down for a quick coffee. Randy Rhodes is reporting on all the looneys today. They don’t like paintings in Rockefeller Center. There is one painted in 1937 that is supposedly Musselini propaganda showing a little boy leading horses pulling “engines of industry” and in the back there is a strong, powerful hand on the reins controlling the whole thing. You have women in wheel chairs being shouted down by an angry mob at one of these Town Halls. At eleven I watched a British fill-in for Rush and of course he gets a lady caller from Canada saying how awful their coverage is and how much you have to pay. Republicans to a man seem to believe still that what President Obama wants and the bill contains is a scheme for socialized medicine where the doctors are chosen and allocated by the government and where now they have not only “Death Pannels” but the Obama administration is planning to build 42 concentration camps that will be youth retraining prisons for youths. And yes, Americorps is really like the Nazi SS. The hysteria knows no end. President Obama will be getting on TV a week from Wednesday to at last explain his health care aspirations to the American People. In my book he is several months too late and the damage is already done. The Republicans have won, and now the only debate is how many seats in congress are the Republicans going to pick up next year. According to that Brit, it was key that Obama lose in health care now because with Health Care in place, Conservatives would be helpless to run anything but a pro liberal campaign themselves saying not to eliminate the program but only that they would be able to run it better. The republicans have defined all the terms and framed all of the issues, and they have won. Meanwhile Obama, far from echoing the speeches of Franklin Roosevelt, has instead betrayed the left on just about every conceivable issue, even the ones I don’t agree with the left on like public financing of campaigns or this Union card check thing. Banks only have to pay back two thirds of the money the government gave them. Far from making a profit for the American tax payer, America is losing 33% on every deal. The banks are getting fat and sassy again with high CEO pay. None of the finance regulations eliminated under President Clinton have been reinstated. In other words, there is everything to be discouraged about and I really don’t see any silver lining to any of it.

Apparently the idea that Corporations can't be sued does back to Queen Elizabeth and the founding of the East India Tea Company. With legal protection like this, Rush Limbaugh should be at the forefront of protest because it's he who says, "Actions should have Consequences". But for corporate people there are no consequences for Bad Behavior. They say kids who are never disciplined - turn into self indulgent monsters. I wonder where that puts Giant Corporations such as Banks, Drug and Insurance Companies and the giant Media corporations? Tell me, would you be like Hope Brady and desire to pay off an attempted murderer to the tune of five million dollars? Well, people pay drug companies for drugs that might be killing them. We dump all our E waste in places like China to kill off their population rather than ours. Our biggest import as a nation just might be pollution. All of the great crusader news reporters are gone. We live now only on corporate gruel.

This room is really hot today. It feels worse than if there were no air conditioning at all. It’s a good ten degrees warmer in here than right out in the hall. The AC was working fine up to about a week ago. Today is Thursday September 3, 2009, the day Michael Jackson gets officially interred at Forest Lawn, assuming they don’t change their minds. I don’t think there have been any arrests yet. Why not??

Yesterday someone was saying that the Mayan Calendar doesn’t predict the end of the world but only “a new beginning” and a “restructuring of society”. No offence but I’ve heard this kind of bullshit before. I remember when I was in group therapy in Santa Ana at the turn of the decade of the ‘seventies and Al Kaders said something after a particularly bad session “You may feel like we’re sticking the knife in, but a surgeon has to do this in order to operate to make the patient better”. The only problem is that the doctor doesn’t leave the patient sliced open on the table and walk off. And then there are Church Pastors who in the middle of the worst crisis their church has every faced, chose to walk off and strangely at that moment “God calls them away to a better paying job”. If I were God I would slap these people in the face the first time I saw them. And then there is the line spoken when someone suffers a loss of, “Well God has to take away what you have before he can bestow a new blessing”. How convienient for these pastors that God always does the taking away part first. And now we are told that somehow the world as a unit is going to undergo some sort of rebirth or being Born Again. You know what Bob Dylan said on the subject, don’t you. He said “He who is not busy being born is busy dying”, and there is more than one way to take that line. In another song, Hollis Brown, Dylan sings about a man who just killed himself and his whole family “Seven shot gun blasts rang out. Somewhere off in the distance there are seven new people born”. There is also more than one way of taking that line. Some people are so much into the Born Again stuff there’s not even any need for God. The Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that when Jesus rose, it was merely his spirit that rose from the dead into a new spiritual heaven. Perhaps this is what Nicodemus believed. The problem is that in order for a re-birth to be kosher, you have to have some kind of womb, and a birth canal, and oh yes, the new life organism. All of this appears to be missing from this crowd who talks about the Mayan calendar signaling rebirth. I just laid out for you how our national landscape sucks royally. I don’t see any hope. Even in card games or in dominoes, you get a new deal of the deck in the course of an evening. Only in Risk and Solitaire are you stuck with the same hand you are dealt, so to speak for the entire game. In the game of Risk you may have Commander Data’s expertise with the dice, and still lose royally. I ought to know. I’ve done it. Jesus has said this more often than he has said about anything else on the radio and that is “You don’t get do-overs. You don’t get second chances”. The problem is for a lot of people is that they never got a decent FIRST chance. If you don’t get “This important early breaks in your carrier” to quote from Rosemary’s Baby- - -you’re pretty much washed up in your chosen profession. This is how it is in “Risk”. It doesn’t take a freaking genious to look at the Game Board of the World to see the picture. Like Thom Hartman says the game is designed to keep the people who are on the bottom that way for life. Now we hear of this organization called “The Family” which is a Born Again organization that actually looks down on other Born Again preachers like Pat Robertson as “not elitist enough”. No, no. I was astounded this morning to hear someone on the radio pick up my “bee hive” illustration. He was talking about “recruiting worker bees”. These are they who work their buns off but in actuality don’t know what the hell is really going on. According to what I heard, “The Family” almost seems to want to bring back a monarchy or sorts, and has actually been funded by Royalty around the world. There is one thing conservatives used to not like ever being called and that is to be tagged “elitist”. Most “classic” conservatives believe in a strong Work Ethic. But as you know the elitist Neo Cons of today don’t produce anything, either with their hands or with their intellects, but rather just push paper money around all day, and go home each night thanking God that the tax laws are custom suited to their particular “needs”. (That is – if they think of God at all) I am going to investigate “The Family” a little more and urge my readers to do the same thing.

In summary then I don’t see how “The World” at least the one I’m living in, is at all ripe for any kind of a “rebirth”. Because the reactionary forces are well watered with deep and growing roots, and survive well even during democratic administrations. On the other hand the liberals and libertarians among us are a weak and languishing species, and ill nourished and prone to disease. I think it could be several decades before the world is ready for any kind of the Revolution envisioned by these Mayan Calendar people. You know this morning I couldn’t sleep and got up and went out on the patio and the full moon was out. For some reason a light bulb went off and I realized that thirteen thousand was just about half of 26,000 years. As you know the “great circle” of the polar axis takes 26,000 years to make a grand cycle to which the pole points to, kind of like a top while spinning. The last major civilization they tell us was thirteen thousand years ago when the sun was in the sign of Leo. Now it’s in Aquarius. So summertime now would have been winter time then. So I’m wondering- - are we allowed only two great civilization periods per 26,000 cycle. I’ve done other postings where I speak of evidence (structures) all over the earth point to a civilization 13,000 years ago, which was still in the middle of the ice age. In fact even Ted Armstrong (decades ago) states that there was a sudden and violent cold snap that almost froze grazing giant mammals in their boots, with fresh food still in their mouths. I bet those people probably expected something better too, for their future. We’re all optimists. That guy on KCET who is a “Believe it and have it” kind of person- - might not like the idea that reality can be unforgiving. Reality doesn’t tap you on the shoulder and then say “Oh excuse me. You don’t believe in ME any more. I’ll just go away”. If you want to change your feelings, take drugs; take Prozac. If you want a better reality, sue God. Because we don’t know how much time our planet has. And this is the only planet we got, and if we blow it, it will be our collective fault.