Tagged with 'America'

This little film shows Tuesday's simulcast between the London and New York OCCUPY communities. I flew out to the encampment at St. Paul's Cathedral, and we sang the 99% song together, across the Atlantic - what a wonderful moment! That made the whole London visit worth it - when Londoners held up a sheet to show the Stop Shopping Choir from Wall Street.

There's a term for the present American system: "Totalizing." That means that consumerism/militarism comes all the way across the landscape - into every nook and cranny. It kills all the smaller systems, like the neighborhood economies, the gift-economies.

Liberty stands clothed in the sun, the mother of a manchild hidden within the beast. America has been spoiled by invisible enemies in plane sight, made fat for slaughter, poor from excessive war. Freedom is only available to few, but attainable by all who pursue liberation. Racial slavery has been "abolished" but the U.S. is still a slave to its false sense of freedom.

Announcing our doom and damnation? That’s as American as apple pie. We tell pollsters we believe in ghosts, angels and the Second Coming. The current style of apocalypses dates from the days of Jesus’ death 2000 years ago. The rapture was supposed to be hours away.

Journal Entry April 11, 2011

The 8-Foldpath of Buddhism

1. Right View

The Role Of The Artist; The Role of Creativity in Mankind

A Journal Entry by Kevin P. Harloff
January 23, 2009

How important it is to realize the importance of the Artist--to do so is to configure a source of contemplation on the nature of Man himself—that which is YOU.

You didn't ask, but I'm telling you

God is the fool in the masquerade dancing into your arms

God is the joker at The roulette wheel, betting on 21 when you are nearly done.

God is the banker at his Swiss challette sipping on cognac and couvoisie

God is the she devil at your command beckoning you to surrender to her every demand

And he died for America

He died for America

die for America

What the fuck does that mean anymore

And I light my cigarette in kerosene

load my gun and run and shoot

we are men

and we are brute

and we will kill

on command

and we will kill

for this land

but we wont care

when you die

wide-eyed stare at the news segment

Have you ever sat back and thought about the IDEA of a "DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE" and a "CONSTITUTION?"

The United States Constitution ROCKS!! We have soooo many RIGHTS that we CAN EXCERSIZE in America (we need a few amendments, tho). :)

I think it is a Duty to excersize our Political Rights. I have a duty to be involved politically. This is called Civic Duty.

Now that I've emerged from my symbolic journey through the desert that took place over the last few months, I need to start cracking away at a variety of topics that have sparked my interest lately. The timeliest of those topics is WikiLeaks, a site that I heard about a few weeks ago via an NPR column.

What ever happened to the land of the free?
The homesteaders?
The restless pioneers pushing beyond intrusion
A place where a man can live as he pleases
To succeed or fail by the sweat of his brow and ingenuity?
Able to shed his identity and reinvent himself anew
Where did that place go?
We had it once

America is a strange country. It's somewhat of both a curse and blessing to have been born here. The blessing is the ideology of the forefathers, in which the doctrines state, "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This has been an inspiration and encouragement to the spirit of the individual.

A Mogul’s Jungle Dream

By STUART FERGUSON

(this is a book review of Greg Grandin's book, "Fordlandia")

I find it hard to think for myself, or know when I'm thinking for myself when it seems like the agenda of everyone else is to dictate what I am thinking. Yes I mean me personally. But not individually. Collectivley we are all victims of mind control on a manipulative level. I don't mean like puppets on a string but more like through suggestion and manipulation of our desires, and our fears.