INTO THE UNKNOWN

Although it is uncomfortable, life must constantly change, especially when most of the systems and institutions we live with have been manipulated to benefit those who manipulated them.  If we do not change doing the same things we have always done it may eventually kill us all. You need to disrupt and change that.

You cannot expect anyone in a position of power, stability, or comfort to willfully upend whatever position they enjoy, even though it is necessary to continually renew the world we live in. I would imagine it’s the same for you personally. If things are going good why change them?

So when you see articles decrying blue collar workers, the rise of populism, the need for immigration and so on, you need to look through them for the real message which is “things are working the way we want them to, don’t change anything.” The question is who does things working the way they are, benefit?  

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you'll always get what you’ve always got.” - Henry Ford
"It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change." - Charles Darwin

Some trusting folks seem to hope they can affect circumstances appearing to be beyond their control with wishful thinking, prayer, or some kind of magic. These illusions often come with similarities to real world situations that make them seem legitimate, luring and lulling people into a false sense of hope without action, which is no solution at all.

For example the fortune telling Tarot card The Fool is the equivalent of the joker in traditional playing cards. The joker as a wild card is very powerful. Tarot cards in general describe worldly situations that implies some sort of insight. When they are seen upside down, strengths become weaknesses. Some people might equate the meaning in an upside down Fool card to a person like Trump. Click the link to see what I mean.  Credit: Biddy Tarot) 

But there is no divine or mystical interventions from a god, fortune telling or tea leaves coming to fix things. You and millions like you are the agents of change and you must continually exert your influence over circumstances to get the lives you want for you and your children.

"I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself." - Albert Einstein

I have frequently pointed out in other articles that change and disruption are good things, for among other things they expose the exploitation of the public. Trump, for all of his faults is very disruptive. For example, right now the economy appears to be doing very well. What is important to note about that is that fact that in recent years it was lackluster, so what changed to make the difference? Who gets credit is irrelevant, just figure out all of the things that made it happen, understand their impact and remember the lessons. Some may say, oh the rich got a tax break and started investing and hiring. If that is correct they could have done so before too, so why didn't they? Is it because they could not make the profit they want? That does not mean that we should give everyone what they want, but it raises the question if they are rigging the game to get what they want.
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The second thing is to use disruption for your benefit. The Lakota People of the Great Plains call people that are "contrarian, jesters, and satirists, who speak, move and react in an opposite fashion to the people around them - Heyoka." This film about the Heyoka I shortened from the original explains the concept of the Heyoka.  It is not mine, I just modified it to make it shorter.  We might be tempted to call these people deranged, but you will notice the Lakota sought lessons from observing the Heyoka, not shunning them. This idea of the native American Indian approach to mental illness may help to explain why.

It does not matter if Trump is nuts or not, watching what is going on around him is worth a lot. The value is in how others react. His pussy grab statement is just one example.

The Disruptive Benefits of Disrespecting Women Publicly

Women are NOT inferior to men, they are different. They are the only humans born capable of giving life and as mothers are bound to the life they birth. To make them second class citizens subservient to men is simply a stupid invention of mentally primitive yet physically stronger males. It does not matter that some historical myths, fictions and inventions of men say some phantom god meant it to be that way, as history shows anyone can make stuff up and when repeated often enough it may look like fact. But it’s still just a myth. If you can’t see your way past that nonsense, then you better start looking for witches again and start burning them at the stake, another myth that caused untold damage and the persistence of ignorance many years ago.  

Trump, like many other men, talked about women in a demeaning way. If some high school football player talked like Trump in a locker room it would never get noticed. But when someone people love to hate like Trump says it, it had the right level of unexpected disruption and started a badly needed dialog which is resulting in people finally doing something about the behavior. It’s still a long road girls but you need to stay on it and not get bullied out of the way. 

To put the challenge in perspective, do you think the Catholic Church will allow women to become priests any time soon, or that women will no longer have to cover their heads in countries that hold those religious beliefs? And how many women are there in these countries that would do so even if they could, without facing the indoctrinated fear they might be offending some god, their parents or husbands, or face being stoned to death.

The Disruptive Benefits of Trump to the Economy

To the 99%

Trump’s discourse on workers left behind opened a discussion everyone thought they could ignore. They are wrong. The number of people that believe they have to work for someone else far outnumbers those that are capitalists and independently wealthy. To treat these people like exploitable disposable resources to be used up to produce wealth is the single biggest failure of capitalism. When a company digs a mine and ravages the land, they are supposed to take steps to remediate that. Whether they do or not is another topic, but workers used up just like a land stripped of its resources are a problem the exploiters need to remedy.

People are a resource and count, while companies are simply pieces of paper. There is nothing awesome or holy about them and their behavior is not separate from their owners and financiers. Instead of talking about human supremacists of any kind, start talking about corporate supremacists hiding behind a piece of paper. Cut holes in it and you can make a mask.

As part of that conversation on workers left behind the immigration issue has flushed out a conversation we need to look at.  The reality is immigration has nothing to do with kindness and everything to do with exploitation of immigrants who have few options and are vulnerable for some company to make a buck. The immigrant workers are used to obtain leverage over American workers they are exploited to threaten, all in a bid to lower wages.

Immigrant's vulnerability and the chains of relatives immigrants leave behind are simply chains made out of love instead of metal. You can be sure the slavers could care less as long as the immigrants shut up and do as they are told and work as cheaply as possible. The only reason it became a Democratic issue is because they got there first in a cynical attempt to use the fear of deportation to turn immigrants into long term Democratic supporters. Its called vote rigging. Does anyone think the Republicans would not do the same thing if they had figured out how to chain immigrants to votes for their members and got there first? 

Accumulated wealth, power and position are weapons. That is not to decry capitalism, it just that most people are not capitalists any more than a person walking off the street and climbing in the ring with a professional fighter can be called a fighter. You can put them in gloves and shorts, surround them with a cage or a ring, but they are simply victims to superior training and experience. The thought that the exploitive capitalism practiced in America is the only way to go is nonsense.  People are the most valuable resource in a nation and treating them like cattle and slaves is not nation building. Creating jobs for American citizens, raising wages, building a strong economic base which includes technology, manufacturing and inventiveness is.

And think very clearly about this. Have you ever noticed no one ever talks about the fact that buying things is voluntary and people can stop? On what basis do people believe, or perhaps hope, consumption is a never ending form of behavior? Even more troublesome is the question of what a world will look like that produces essentials rather than a lot of disposable useless junk. If there is such as thing as being possession obese, then the growth of storage lockers and garages we can't park cars in is an indication we are.

To Foreign Nations

Trump has disrupted American foreign policy. Good thing. American diplomacy is simply gunboat diplomacy.  Baa Baa bullshit - we will eat you if you don’t submit. You only have to research the subject at length to figure it out. Now that Trump threw off some of the sheepskin the wolf is highly visible. As far as American diplomacy being destroyed by Trump, that's nonsense.  Every worker in America that is left behind by America's economic policies knew damn well they are being screwed, and not talking about it does not mean they don't get it.  American foreign policy leaves the same feelings under the covers as its America's domestic economic policy does at home, there are just a bunch of paid off politicians letting America get away with it, simple as it is.

It’s about time everyone looked at their relationship with the US in a clear light. American diplomacy as dictated by military industrial complex could give a damn about people, allies, and others’ interests. The wars they fund prove it. It's all about about profiting from wars and murder.

And on the subject of America’s interests abroad.  What interests?  When I look over my neighbors’ fence I don’t get to steal their car or the produce in their garden, or the assets in their house just because I am interested. America is behaving like an insane 800 pound gorilla in a day care center looking for bananas. With a military budget greater than the next 10 countries combined, and open infiltration of foreign states with over 900 military bases, all operating under the propaganda of peace and stability, America is an updated version of the British exploiters the founding fathers threw out by force.

If you take away the idea that somehow America has any interests in states that it does not own, then the United States is simply a gun for hire service, assuming they are invited, otherwise the military is simply a mercenary occupying force. That does not sound nearly as attractive as "we are on a mission from God."

Are there dictators out there? Sure. Are there people who abuse their citizens? Sure. America has its share of them both, just study it. There are many reporters who can supply you with the information. 

Think not then consider the Vietnam War which was not a love-in like Woodstock.  The war was based entirely on lies and falsehoods by American leaders which resulted in the death of 58,000 Americans, 950,000 Vietnamese soldiers, and somewhere between 1.3 million to 3.9 million civilians. And it cost an estimated $168 billion then which is now roughly $1.05 trillion dollars today, adjusted for inflation. That is more than $3,000 per person for everyone alive in the US. Really? You actually get to pay taxes to support murderous behavior?

The Vietnam War was the product of a few hundred people claiming to be your wise leaders and was simply a love-in of hatred for gooks, decency and total disregard for you and your children. Not only did it kill millions, it laid the foundation for the hatred of America, which is not you or your children, but simply the lying scumbags who pull this stuff off in your name and make it look like it was you that did it.  Talk about identity theft.

The few thousand people conducting this crap in your name are simply identity thieves using the American flag, murder and mayhem propagandized as patriotism, honor and integrity. Behind the identity theft are a few hundred robbers and murderers posing as average Americans and they have been getting away with it for years.

To Everyone Everywhere

America is expanding the surveillance of everyone everywhere to facilitate an Orwellian nightmare of state control on world populations.  This apparatus is being operated by unaccountable, out of control bureaucrats in the intelligence community who have been engaged in criminal activity since they started. They are simply thugs and have had their way with every administration since Hoover started blackmailing them. 

Trump's ego, thin skin, an independent streak and New Yawk hubris pushes him to face off with their type, which he apparently learned to do in the construction business in New York.  The only difference is the thugs in the intelligence community wear fancy suits, don't know rebar from a deli sandwich, and their corruption is permanently hidden as a national security flim flam. Trump’s battles with these guys have broken the first rule of covert operations, which is silence.  Good thing for all of us.