Showing posts with label Walt Whitman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walt Whitman. Show all posts

Thursday, March 21, 2013

the WORD which is unexamined is not worth READING


the WORD which is unexamined is not worth READING
I never cease to be totally astonished by the huge amount of absolute bullshit that goes on in the world especially on the internet and particularly on sites like Facebook.

Does anyone, and I mean ANYONE ever ever stop to think? I mean just to fucking think.

Many of the statements posted on there at times are mind-boggingly stupid and UTTER BULLSHIT.

There is no proof, evidence or remote rationality to back up the shit that comes out of some 'mouths' sometimes.

Life and the Universe having a will, being entities and other bullshit defying all the laws of randomness.
Statements impossible to prove or to back up are accepted as "gospel" truth and swallowed hook, line, and sinker.

Too many examples to quote but I should start to make a collection.

Bottom line is QUESTION EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING. It is your given right and duty even.

Do not accept any statement at face value, no matter how wise or 'cute' it sounds at first.

Question MOTIVES and PROFITS, and especially PROVENANCE. 
 
WHO said it and WHY!

WHO? WHY? WHEN? WHAT? WHERE and HOW?

Here is an example often overlooked.

W5 is a custom marketing research practice. We focus on answering who, what, when, where and why people relate to products, services, and brands.

I mean FOR FUCK SAKE why oh why does everything HAS to be about money and capitalism and materialism.

Countries COUNTING the COST of illness and suicide in FUCKING DOLLAR$ $IGN$?

At other times it is a serious segment on local so-called news commentated by someone who PROFITS from the situation? Why bother? I mean why don’t you just tell us you are a whore to start with? I’ll tell you why because whores are much more honest than most of these vicious snakes anyway.

I wish I could bring thousands more of example but it would defeat the purpose.

The purpose is that YOU have to think for yourself. 

YOU have to question EVERYTHING for YOUR OWN SELF.

Without turning in some fucked up paranoid conspiracy theorist do not take ANYTHING at face value and always always follow the money trail.

Money talks and BULLSHIT walks.  Profits are most of the time synonymous with lies. 

Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu'il a été proprement fait.
·         The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
·         A variant, "Behind every great fortune there is a great crime," has appeared as a quotation of Balzac; but it may have originated in a paraphrase in The Oil Barons: Men of Greed and Grandeur (1971) by Richard O'Connor, p. 47: "Balzac maintained that behind every great fortune there is a great crime."

Also BEWARE of numbers and statistics.
To throw a number like YOKO just did is devious and deceiving.
To say that

Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980. An average of 31,537 people are killed by guns in the USA every year. We are turning this beautiful country into a War Zone. Together, let's bring back America, the green land of Peace.
The death of a loved one is a hollowing experience. 
Is highly deceptive and LEADS the average person to ASSUME that most of these deaths are homicides like John Lennon was.
Some other numbers deny these by the way leaving 17,500 to 23,000 yearly deaths to ‘explain’.
But the propagandist, publicity hungry and greedy front person doesn’t really bother with explaining and yes the death of a loved one is a hollowing experience but it certainly does not leave one with an unbiased and balanced point of view.  

One only has to stand in a court of law to witness this fact.

I hope you burn in hell and so on when thousands of others have been killed every day, some children by your own government, and you don’t give a single flying fuck about them now do you?
Justice for All?
Yeah right!
Relatives wasting their lives away making sure that their hatred is propagated and that their criminal who killed their relatives remains behind bars and never get parole.  Sour and ruined Tate sister comes to mind here.
My Justice is no justice at all.
Naming too many examples would be offending to some but here is one anyway.
“Sometimes you just have to stop worrying, wondering & doubting. Have faith that things will work out, maybe not how you planned, but just how they’re meant to be.”
FOR FUCK SAKE AGAIN! What the fuck is all this and what the fuck do you think it “MEANS” altogether. Cheap words like faith and “meant to be” are delusionary when life is nothing but randomness.  A “snake eyes” is not anymore meant to be than a seven really or in fact maybe a seven is MORE “meant to be” than a snake eyes from a probability’s point of view and always remember that the house ALWAYS win and there is a perfectly good rational and mathematical reason for that.
It is all bullshit and a “mean nothing saying” posted by the same people who read the National Enquirer, the Daily Mail, forward chain letters, stand at Walmarts and watch soap ops all day while reading other trashy magazines.
It is one of the ‘tragedies’ of this Facebook we love to hate. Mass numbing par excellence.
I have mentioned other examples in the past, like Cherie Carter-Scott and others.
Why is it so hard to think and question everything I will never know but to me it seems the only logical way in this tortuous world  which brings me back to another tortuous being and saying:  Max Ehrman’s Desiderata.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. 
I’d phrase this one a bit differently changing business for daily (again not everything is about money)
But some of the rest of his stuff, as attractive and cute and spiritual as it wants to sound at times, is ALSO Utter Bullshit.
 You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
Puhlease!  Child of the universe!?!?!?!? RIGHT????? Come ONNN!
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Says Who? By what proof? What Evidence? How do YOU know?
What is your Epistemological Substantiation on this?
And furthermore and subsequently where the fuck did you fish that one?
What hat did it come from?
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, 
Here we go again, the foundation of every Anonymous group in THE WORLD.
Include more Gagging, Spitting & Coughing here.
The so devious wording that does NOT ALLOW you  NOT to have a god and not conceive one. What trashy evil lure that was.  What crap that is still prevailing in so many thoughts today. Devious! Devious! Devious! What a Diabolical Trap that one is, and a clever one I might add.
Hard to think BEYOND this one innit?
It makes it almost embarrassing to even QUESTION it.
Read at all cost but THINK and QUESTION every single letter at all times.
Walt Whitman seems to have been the last apostle of good sense at times.

 “Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.”
Walt Whitman

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
~ Socrates
 and that the life which is unexamined is not worth living —(that you are still less likely to believe.)
~ Socrates
and that the WORD which is unexamined is not worth READING
~ Moi 








Thursday, September 20, 2012

In a perfect world


Which will never ever happen but it is fun to dream.

If there was a universal truth it would be this that this perfect world will never even happen never even remotely come close to it despite what some philanthropic other dreamers think, wish, or expect.

But in my perfect world anyway as I have a feeling that there are 7 billion plus perfect worlds out there here it is in its best approximation.

Hmmm where to start? With today’s news?

The French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, said today and I translate literally that he is
“hostile to all provocation in this hostile era”.  The context being another “offensive” caricature in the French paper called Charlie Hebdo.

Laurent Fabius, s'est déclaré depuis Le Caire, en Egypte, "hostile à toute provocation en cette période hostile".

Some journalism site goes as far as pixelating the drawing as if we were talking royal boobs here again.
Well! Well! Well! Two wrongs don’t make a right they say and also one of my favourite quotes from Walt Whitman: 

“The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.”

In a perfect world there would be no need for provocation as there would not be petty religious or nationalistic affections in all the senses of the word to be attached to and be provoked by.

There would be no need for censure as well as all would be free to decide for themselves and all could use cold logical critical thinking as opposed to hot ignorant inflammable passions.

So how serendipitous as I am writing this and listening to my modern “mixed tape” of music titled CHESS and the song I had in mind just popped up, a great help in reflecting on a perfect world wonderfully well expressed by Alanis Morissette in her song Utopia of which I will paste and copy the lyrics for sure if anyone knows me at all.

My perfect world seems to have a lot of No’s if not too many Yesses as most things in my life I am much more aware of what I don’t want and what I don’t like than the opposite.  

For the same reason I suppose I prefer what I call the negative golden rule as opposed to the golden rule.

Do Not Do Unto Others What You Don’t Want Them to Do Unto You

As opposed to

Do Unto Others What You Want Them to Do Unto You.

The latter being much more complex than my negative form.



So here it goes

No Religion

No Country (John Lennon was on to something here)

No Bullying

No War

No Hostility therefore

No need for Resilience

No poverty and by extension

No riches

No Greed

No Lies (here’s a big one) no deceit etc

Hmmmm what else?

That alone would be a great (though impossible already) start

No Censure is definitely a must too in this scenario

It gets complicated though when ones is trying to define Freedom.

My perfect world seems to be a lot like the Eloi WITHOUT the Morlocks.

Now people if you read only two books in your whole life forget the bible even though I like some of its attempts at ancient wisdom and I should attempt reading Shakespeare along with Dostoyevsky, Balzac, Dickens and what not but then again I could read over and over these 2 absolute must in anyone’s life curriculum:

  • George Orwell’s 1984 and
  • H.G. Wells Time Machine.


Even though here the Eloi are still far from a perfect example. I would like them with a little more intellect appetite but then again intellect appetite seems to be the perfect antidote to “perfection” or at least a great friend of ethnocentrism, schisms, and hostilities of all sorts. As Denys Arcand once said in The Decline of the American Empire: Intellectuals make lousy parents

Pierre: “Les intellectuels font rarement de très bons parents.”

So what now? 

Does the human species need to be a dumb species to survive?

It would certainly seem that our great intellect has compounded the problems rather than solving them.  

I mean chimps have much less complex problems than us. 

The old mythical stories tell us apparently that this Promethean gift from the gods or the devils, this “Knowledge of Good and Evil” has created an irreversible downfall.

The human species will not stop short of flushing itself right off this planet while hoping for a better Ha Olam Haba : a hope I might say that might in fact precipitate that downfall in a form of self-fulfilling prophecy.

So in the meanwhile maybe if luck, fortune, destiny, fate and all their cousins have mercy on me I will leave this planet one day leaving behind me an excellent dystopia to remind us all of my passage for as long as this planet exist anyway and there is someone to read old fables.

Because paradoxically enough in this world the best way to try to describe a utopia is by reverse psychology in a good dystopia showing us all where the future could lead or has lead us.

We'd gather around
All in a room
Fasten our belts
Engage in dialogue
We'd all slow down
Rest without guilt
Not lie without fear
Disagree sans judgement

We would stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and
enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and open and reach out and speak up

This is utopia 
This is my utopia
This is my ideal 
My end in sight
Utopia 
This is my utopia
This is my nirvana
My ultimate

We'd open our arms 
We'd all jump in 
We'd all coast down 
Into safety nets

We would share and listen and support and welcome 
Be propelled by passion, not invest in outcomes
We would breathe and be charmed and amused by difference 
Be gentle and make room for every emotion

This is utopia 
This is my utopia
This is my ideal 
My end in sight
Utopia 
This is my utopia
This is my nirvana
My ultimate

We'd provide forums
We'd all speak out
We'd all be heard
We'd all feel seen

We'd rise post-obstacle, more defined, more grateful
We would heal, be humbled, and be unstoppable
We'd hold close and let go and know when to do which 
We'd release and disarm and stand up and feel safe 

This is utopia 
This is my utopia 
This is my ideal 
My end in sight
Utopia
This is my utopia
This is my nirvana
My ultimate