Human Needs vs. Government

If you asked most people what would make their life complete, they might respond with things like: to be independently wealthy, or own a nice car or home or go on a vacation, or to find a significant other, a spouse and maybe have a family. There are underlying principles behind all of these things and most other ‘material’ answers. People look for wealth because they equate it with peace of mind and joy. People look to things like cars and vacations because they equate it with joy. People look to relationships and family because there they will find joy and love.

In the most basic form, people seek to find peace, joy and love. I think it’s apparent that material things can’t provide sustained joy or peace, and unless you love yourself first, relationships and family are not going to cut it. Really, peace, joy and love all come from within; these cannot be provided from an outside source for any extended length of time. Even ‘Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness’ are riders on the basic human (spiritual) needs of peace, love and joy.

In no way, shape or form can any government provide peace, joy or love. If you examine the machinations of government in any time period of the history told to us, you will find that government is the opposite of providing these things. It is necessary for government to take these things away under the guise of providing them in order for government to survive and grow. The carrot of peace, love and joy being lead before the horse of humanity is hung from a stick that is fear, hate, enemies, war, angst, anguish, worry and stress. We know that we can never reach the carrot as long as the stick is there, but for some reason we believe that the stick has purpose, and without it the carrot would disappear.

I keep seeing sales pitches. I keep hearing slogans. I keep finding that my enemies are declared for me, as are my allies, and they are always nations or factions or organizations that threaten government. And I keep seeing the same loop that I see in every organization, a loop wherein the many are lead to meet the goals of organization, always to their behest and dissatisfaction (lack of peace, joy and love) and always to the profit of organization and the few that command it. It’s a 'give this of yourself and you might get this back, but don’t count on it'.

It is my heartfelt belief that if we, as intelligent creatures of mind, heart and spirit do not break away from the covenant that government is absolute and necessary we will have set the stage for our permanent demise. Every man, woman and thing we ‘vote’ into office under the promises and salvations that this time it will be different, has harmed Americans and the planet in heart, mind and soul to a greater degree than did the officers preceding. If my mind is sold on the truth that government is a necessary thing, and my mind tells my heart this, yet my heart knows that government is anti-peace, joy and love, then inevitably I will suffer, as will the vast majority of the populace. I hate to sound so new age wishy-washy, but governments are lies in my mind and that is something my heart can believe in.

The D, The R, and the You...

The D, The R, and the You...subtitled the Ugly, the Bad, and the Good...

I enjoy the banter between the partisans on either side of the aisle in this 2 party Federal government. I have to enjoy it, because despising things just generates the negative, mind clogging emotions that just plain zap the life out of you. I think the most entertaining thing is that a change from this man to this man, or no change at all, is somehow going to make matters all better. If that were the case, then it would have happened in the last 50 election cycles, through which every conceivable combination of D and R mish-mash has occurred and still the downward trend on the graph of middle class American life has ensued.

If this nation were operating according to the prescriptions put forth by the constitution, the presidency and congress would have far less impact and power. America would be a republic instead of the top down single point of all decision-making oligarchy that it is. There would be localized and accessible domestic power of state and local government, and the diversity of the separate republics would dictate strength and fiscal responsibility.

Washington is only accessible to Washington. It is a district in a foreign land where dictations spew forth from bankers, lawyers and statesman, people that have absolutely no stake in your life or anyone else's but their own. They have farm sold the economy to foreign bankers 100 years ago and have created every possible type of bastardized law against the people that their twisted little doublespeak minds can nightmare up.

Vote change, vote status quo, it makes no difference in my estimation. The pace of degeneration in everything the Federal government gets its grubby hands on is at critical mass, and the world we believe exists is untenable. It is this way because men are expected to deceive as their employment, and we the people look for the best deceiver, and champion that person as re-presentative of ourselves. The people we choose to admire from afar are people that we do not know and would never be allowed to know. What we do know of them is cleverly scripted bites of doublethink that we are so desperate to hear, and know it’s a lie as we hear it, yet still believe it as our own moment to moment gospel of salvation. These teleprompted spells become the image of them to such a degree that we will fight against and betray the very people we know and love if they dare to question that image in the least.

One of the greatest disappointments of this presidency is an extension of the disaster that was the last. If anyone wants a fiscal turnaround in America then step A (and the only step IMHO) is to end the war machine. There is no greater expenditure, and no greater waste of life and capital, with absolutely zero benefit to the citizens on either side of the conflict. I’m sure there are pundits out there pointing fingers at every nation but their own, screaming national security and global peacebombing necessities. For those so entrenched in the value of the military industrial complex, there’s an old saying that goes, live by the sword, die by the sword. The Federal government that is living by the sword can only survive with your participation, with your labor as their credit, your capital as their card, and your vote for whichever of the two previously chosen candidates as a clear sign that you still believe that your life matters in their world.

Rich is as Rich Does

Yesterday I wrote…All money is simply the value of a man's labor converted into a form of capital. Unfortunately for Americans, that capital is not backed by anything tangible and so is easily manipulated. When the Frauderal Reserve banks inflate the money supply without care, and ship all Federal Income Tax to their coffers as 'interest' on the fraudulent debt, they are devaluing a man's labor, making him 'worth' less than he was the day before.

Meanwhile, filthy stinking rich scumbags exist with more capital than they or 5 subsequent generations could ever spend, and even if they did it would be on worthless material crap. When a man says he is worth millions of dollars, what he is really saying is that he is worth the labor output of millions of people, which he has confiscated and hoarded to the detriment of the masses. The wealth of a rich man is built in increments. Each increment represents a poor person. How many poor people will it take to make your corporate fantasy of riches to come true?

A reply to this statement was this...'Chewy I am glad it is always someone else’s fault!! I am upper middle class/lower upper class and I got that way by joining the army, getting good grades in high school, going to college, taking out loans AND paying them back, I don't have a criminal record, and sacrificed to get ahead. Now I have some @#$% like you trying to act like I did it on the back of poor people. Stop blaming everyone else and take some responsibility.'

First, I'm not talking about 'upper middle class'. That is not rich, and if you think it is your just stroking yourself. Rich means never having to work. Rich is pushing paper around to double then triple exponentially the pile of dollars, hoarding it and piling it forever. If a man has the ability to work and then enjoy the fruits of his labor, so be it. Make the capital, and then spend it. This is the only way any system can work. It is the line that is passed where the money is never spent, and grows so monumentally that it can never be spent. It is used as a giant weapon against humanity. It becomes a giant trophy made of poor people glued together with fear and doubt and sorrow. If this man that replied is interested in reaching that point, of living and walking on the backs of millions then guilty as charged. And you know the most glaring indicator of the guilt? The fact that he replied at all in defense of himself, and all his worthless curses, which I have dispelled, are icing on the cake.

Never would I wish everyone to be poor, but instead everyone should have a chance to gain an equal share, and any argument saying that arena exists is misguided and foolish. If it is necessary to destroy and crush anyone in your way in order to gain your castle, and it is all about the survival of the fittest in nature, then we truly have not evolved beyond the basic animal.

The Value of a Man

What is the value of a man? We have in the Declaration of Independence of 1776 the great statement that all men are created equal. If that is the case, then when does the diversion take place that makes it so some men are created more equal than others?

Can a man’s value be placed on his work output? If this is the case, then shouldn’t a man that works with more energy than another be of greater value than any other? Shouldn’t the farmer have the fortune due to him for his work?

If this is so then where does intellectual energy come into play? If a man can think of a better way to farm, and then passes that information to the farmers, making their output greater according to their labor, then shouldn’t that man have a greater value than those he aids?

What if another man discovered a way to gather groups of thinkers with groups of farmers and came up with many original ideas as well as hybrids of existing ideas. Shouldn’t that man have an even greater value?

And what if other men came up with ways of gathering together many groups and conglomerates, and offered them infrastructure and security from invasion, as well as regulating the groups that created better farming, or industry, or fishing, etc. Shouldn’t those men be given even greater value than any others?

Then there’s bankers that have capital to loan to the men that create the world that provides the ability for select men to decide the fate of all the groups and all the conglomerates and all the organization. Shouldn’t their ability to print money to create loans give them an even greater value than any other?

How many more levels can this keep going until nobody is working but the farmer? What value is there in people that push paper around and determine the value of others? When do we as mankind take ourselves into consideration, and with humility decide that each of us is worth no more than any other. Just because you see a homeless man on the street doesn’t mean that man would not have incredible contributions to us all if it weren’t for the world the system has thrust upon us. It also means that just because a group of men have finagled their way into unquestioned authority does not mean they have an ounce of greater value than most certainly the farmer, not to mention the homeless man.

The pre-apocalyptic world contains the greatest division between two classes of people. The first is the destitute. This great majority has slowly and completely been pushed into a position of subservience, and restriction and continually de-valued labor. They are reliant on large corporate organizations to determine their particular situation of living.

The second is unbelievable wealthy. They are masters of converting a man’s labor into capital. They can devalue a man’s work output step by step until it is worth next to nothing. Their goal is to not have to ever actually labor, physically or mentally, and so by continually manipulating men by manipulating the value of their labor, they conquer nations and civilizations. These people hoard wealth in any way possible. They create situations where they hold all the power over a mass of people, and then all of the resources, and then direct events so that they will have an even greater grip on as many men as possible. Their contributions to mankind are increasingly negative until their machinations harm everything. Their existence is completely egocentric and their empathy towards life is zero, while their addiction to corporate things is unending.

A level of greed has been reached where a few people are quite capable of destroying the entire planet we call earth. These few consider their version of bliss of greater importance than any other men, or even the earth. They hide behind corporations as a tool and disguise by which they can pollute or destroy or harm anything with impunity. They are faceless, soulless hoarders of the units of value of a man’s labor.

They are worth no more or less than the least of us. It is time they were treated that way.