Churning

For every thing there is a season, churn churn...

I'm pretty much in agreement with Glenn Greenwald regarding the neocons having conned the liberals into being neoliberals, or something along those lines. 

The more vocal pro-war pundits of the recent past, have been elevated on defense contractor TV, and made to sing those pro-war songs even louder, as folk music for liberals driving to work, listening to NPR.

However there's a two-way disconnect between the political grid of mayors and governors, and the Wall Street casino with arms bazaar roots.  The mayors create sister city relationships and compare notes on street camping, while the District of Columbia goes off the deep end into fighting a Qanon interpretation of world events.  

I'm not saying Qanon is winning (or whatever big lie theory), only that the general public has long since ceased to follow.  There's no real logic to it, so change channels.  Leave DC to fight its own inner demons.

Then what happened was: oligarchies like in the soap opera Dallas, continued their battles over tax havens and business jurisdictions. 

Europe is somewhat afraid to compete with Russian capitalism and is using a protectionist NATO to keep the old dead horse narratives alive.  

Is it working?  Will the people believe? So far it is not.  

The fear drums over Eurasia and the rush of action, merely advertises the willingness of these people to lavish money on their own melodramas, and neglect our more serious concerns.

The disconnect seems to be permanent, which doesn't preclude a somewhat business as usual attitude on the part of city governments.  

Work with the truckers and universities to make life more livable for people on the city campus.  

Reach out to rural areas for local supply agreements.  

Pass the torch to a next generation, regarding agriculture, mass production, and life long learning.

MLK / FBI

The title refers to a new movie, which we rented from Movie Madness and watched on MLK day (yesterday).  The movie focuses on the FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King and his associates, in connection with the former's paranoia regarding communism, a memeplex deemed controlled by the Soviet Union.  

The military industrial memeplex embraced the threat of communism as its nuclear material, that which would justify all that followed, by fueling fears.

MLK was a product of his time and not really in a position to counter the psychosis of the over-simplifiers and their HUAC.  Weak thinkers such as Nixon would later make it clear how little structure or historical information really went into this toxic blend.  

One might blame Hegel in some ways.  

Americans just didn't know how to deal with their own European heritage and could barely help themselves when it came to staying out of elective wars they had no real business joining.

Germany was seized with a virulent nationalism focused on a "manifest destiny" sensibility just as surely as any expansionist power.  When ideological ambitions express themselves in the form of contiguous landmasses called "nations" (to be drawn and redrawn) we get that political data layer the Fuller Projection tends to dismiss as irrelevant.

The upshot is a conquered people, with Americans these days subjugated by Eastern philosophy, as much as the neo-Roman religion (heavily nationalist).  By Americans I of course as much mean the peoples of the Americas, the West.  I don't mean Anglo-Euros who carry these meme viruses and have succumbed to them, becoming creatures of the soulless corporations (animated by law).  Some of them seek enlightenment and liberation, but most seem content with their programming.

Four Directions

 

A lot of bellyaching goes on with regards to this concept of "cultural appropriation". I do agree that one culture may seize upon the memes of another, and from the standpoint of the originator, the new uses may come across as abuses.  "Are they mocking us?"  Maybe.  I'm not denying the "reality" of "culture wars" per se.

In my ethnicity, we have this idea of "class extends" as in Java.  The equivalent notion of "subclass" gives rise to different mental pictures.  The "extend" is to expand into a wide open space, it seems, wheres "to subclass" since like going inward to create yet a more specialized version of something.  Both connotations have their echo in actual computer programming.

Having done the Wy'East Lakota-based training, with sweat lodges, talking sticks, other accoutrements, especially the Medicine Wheel, I'm thinking to extend it (not steal it) to mean what it already means:  the four directions.  This is not a new thought for me, but perhaps my powers to propagate have amplified over time.

By "four directions" though, I mean "in space".  Paint the four faces of a tetrahedron:  yellow, white, black, red.  Four faces face the fullness of space by dividing it into four quadrants.  We might call this "the arrowhead" and its four points are likewise four pointers, indicative of space's 4Dness.

Wherever three face colors meet, the vertex might be of the missing color.

If made of stretched skin or hide, you'll have the connotation of "drum" and also "resonance".