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Politics for Poets

politics of the here and now

Active verse Passive.

Active verse Passive verbs. Active verbs, Passive verbs. Active people. Passive people. Don't tred on me people (those who give back what you give them, the essence of Ti Chi.)

Those who make a phrase as such [some active verb] to those who [verb of discussion]. They believe that they have a purpose to be the enforcer. There are others with a newer point of view, much slandered. And touted by many, but often seemingly lacking. It's hard to do it if you just pretend to do it.

When we get into a situation where the 'do not tred on me' aspect, which is basically a don't f___ with us, those who provoke the don't tred on me aspect, those are usually people willfully provokating for . . . an effect.

There are highly regarded entities and institutions of governance that seem to have been, generations ago, coopted into a scheme of rulership for outside and unknown, . . . agency of some unknown quality. It could be anything. We don't really know who the 'they' are. And we say 'they' because we can't give a name. And yet we know that if 'they' are 'very powerful' then 'they' will always have set up their cloak of invincibility which 'they' will then hide behind.

And what about those who suddenly awaken and see the naked emperors prancing around at their Italian pie party? The 'know' what they 'saw'. Or was it all a bad ice cube. An hullcination? If you have never had one, then, well, how do you know when it happens? Or if it is happening.

There are very many out of work actors. Many of them don't have any scrupples about taking work. If they want to get paid to go and do a stint for some gag, why ask questoins. They'll do hte bit. They'll hold the sign. They will make a religion look stupid by holding a sign that says [active verb of violence to kill them] against people [who say what I don't like about my identity group]. It doesn't offer alternatives. It is a clear message. Would a true believer of such an esteamed group really be so vile as to suggeset criminal action against unknowns based upon nothing but a sense of ethnic pride? Do they really thing that all that is right and holy is offended by the person who they choose to not understand? Do they seek to do this work themselves? Do we take them at their word? Isn't that sign, itself, a slander against the very concept of what would maybe be venerated by others, who might say: do to him what that sign says because his concept is a slander it self, that we should do this. But, of course, the answer to such violent misunderstanding, to suggest criminal action against opponents of one's identity group, the answer to such misunderstanding is not to follow through with the demands of the idiot holding the sign, who, bythe way, in the picture, has his face covered. He slanders his own indentiy group with a sign that says to kill those who slander that group. Wow. And does any one who is a student of politics, and interested in knowing what the real deal is about such matters as these coward sign carreirs with their degenerate messaging. It seems more likely to me thta this person doesn't reaslly identify with that group at all, but is sent there to make them all look like fools.

Gets me back to the bad hullucination. When you have a bad hullucination you use nightmare logic. What is nightmare logic? basically: you say this is so bad that I can't attend to this anymore. I must be either having a nightmare, or maybe I got exposed to potent alkoloids, like, if you fell ito a nightshade busch and got the juice of it on you, you could start hullucinating. So you say 'this is too rediculous to be real' so you just put yourself into a deep meditative state, close off your senses to the nonsense, and wait for the effect to wear off. Basic point for all of you dapplers of such substances: if you are experiencing an episode of what might be drug induced dementia, it probably will pass. The best thing to do is to go to a safe room and sleep it off, meditate it off. Don't go to a bright room and a lot of white coated people who want to bill your plan, and would love to have you there for a few night's stay. And just pretend that you aren't, you know, if anyone asks? Or needs to know? They do not need to know 'how you are' if they aren't anyone you know. If it's a cop you might explain it to him/her/? in the best way you can. "I'm not sure what happened to me tonight. I was wondering in the park and I think I got exposed to some belladonna." Ya, that might not be a good thing to say. Best thing: find a safe place and stay there or be with a friend. Wait for it to ware off. Realize that it will pass. Use Nightmare Logic.

If you have a public freakout and end up in a hospital your life might be changed for a very long time. And you might convince yourself that there really is something wrong with you, when all you need is some forgetting, and time, and maybe a vactation in the mountains. Learn to mediate. Be happy to be living. Praise the Lord a lot.

Back to the other point: all of this hate that we see displayed in the news by fauxtestors (paid protestors) with their messages of derision seem to be paid-for operations of a well-known clan. Their deal has been well known for a very long time. And all the hate that they spread are well known tactics of such. One creep holding a sign of hateful division, and close-minded bigotry with the suggestion of lynching those who disagree, one creep holding a sign is just one creep holding a sign. And he probably isn't even what he pretends to be. He's probably a paid op[erative of the great unknown cause of . . . those who would always just deny it's them, if it were really them.

The old school way, the old way of older times, was to say such a person does the work of The . . . . I don't need to give a plug.

The better way to deal with such is to realize that it's an annecdotal presentation of a singular peculiar display of performance art. The mask should give it all away. If it were a good concept he wouldn't be hiding behind a mask when he has that on his sign.

And so two conclusions today: don't believe the hate. Be aware of the ill effects of certain substances. Ideas are a kind-of substance. Fowl ideas might be hard to shake. It's like being dosed with a downer, what used to be called 'bad acid'. You have what was called a 'bad trip'. What some are trying to do right now is to give the whole country a bad trip. They want us all hating each other. They pay people to hold signs of degeneracy. Some people buy into it and post it on their website.

Free speech is awesome. But someone with a mask on and a degenerate idea? Not awesome. Yes, you should be free to say what you want. But that doesn't free you from the effect that your expression makes on other people. My point: anyone in a mask is not to be taken as seriously as someone who lets you know who they are. And in no case should violence be part of it. Free speech of adults means that no one claims false offense. We must use the creed that 'words will never hurt me.' We ought not to be expected to know other people's triggers. And we ought not be shushed just because someone feels uncomfortible. And if we have a degenerate message, we ought to be able to face the blow back. We should not have to deal with sticks and stones in any case. And if any messaging suggests to use sticks and stones, that is called incitement to riot. You are free to say it in one sense, but it's a criminal act. Strange how the law works.

If you need a 'safe zone' you might not be mature enough to deal with actual free speech, and open expression of ideas.

OK, let me restate that: sometimes you do need a safe space, or safe zone, if you really were having a freak out, or a bad trip. In that case, please, retreat to your happy place. We want you being well. We want you to live thorugh whatever panic attack you might be experiencing. In the forum of public opinion, however, there is no 'safe space' where you can then bully others to think and speak the way that pleases you. You wouldn't want them to do that to you, don't do that to them.

When you do need a safe space, everyone will probably pick up on that and want to help you. Which might mean leaving you alone to wait for the effect to ware off. If you enter into debates in the realm of poletics, you really have to expect a shock-jock insult-comic celebrity roast format, of sorts. If you can't handle being maligned and smeared and slandered, for a laugh, then you might not do to well in some districts polling results.

making light of a serious situation

Maybe I shouldn't make light of the very serious situation about free speech. Those masters in young-mind manipulation ought to not encourage the bleeding-heart sensibilities of 'safe-space' 'hate-callers-outers' and the idea of the surity of 'feelings' for those in a debate space. On a religious retreat. Or with intimate friends in your moments of subtle confession. What you worry about. How you feel. That's beautiful, in one sense, in a pure sense of joyous human awareness. In politics? Joyous Human Awareness? That's far fetched. And in a political debate no one should care how someone else's ideas make you 'feel'. It's not feelings.

So, well, ya, hippys. Ya, free love. Libertine. Pills that give you a feeling. And politics. Ya, awesome. Being 19. Being a young person and blossoming into someone who sounds like they know what they are talking about. And captivating others with your oration. And falling in love. Oh, how awesome.

But you shouldn't bring that to the State House. Don't take acid in Senate Building and expect to pull it off. Don't do bits from bad comedy movies from the 1980's, acting them out in real life. Or do it if you want to, but don't expect anyone to think it's anything.

So what is serious? The serious thing is that kids of a certain age, when they get to college, they are hormone driven and often easy to emotionally manipulate. People who take advantage of such social pliability of young people do not do it because they care about the well-being of these individuals.

The war against Free Speech is not going to end soon. They who love to tear down those with whom they disagree are winning their small battles against the more truculent of what some say are opposed to the group thinkers. Ya, they fall by the wayside. But they will pick themselves up. And petty mean people who destroy others are doing it to themselves. The world does not sustain a regime of mean. People, just because they fail once, are not dead and gone forever. We get another chance. We make mistakes.

The war against Free Speech is fated to loose. They loose.

If you really do need a safe space, most people will sense it and want to help you. Just don't pretend that's what it is when you are just being excitible and you need to grow up and respect other people's point of view. This is not about politics so much as it is about being fully adult. We can't all be 'fully adult' all the time, and when we aren't we are usually able to figure that out on our own. We retreat to our place, we put ourselves apart. We meditate. We go to bed. If you are having a panic attack because of ideas that someone is giving you in an open political foreum, the solution for you isn't to attack them. The solution is to retreat to your own place, remove yourself from the discussion group. Not that you can't work it out, present your ideas, and how you disagree, later, no one wants to take away that right.

If you need to be in a safe zone, you might consider removing yourself from the debate for a time, until you feel centered again, and can deal with the slings and arrows of other people jocular volly of ideas.

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Feb 22, 2017

Sean!

  

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Be nice to yourself and others. What other choice?

What we have done
What we have failed to do.

Wake up!

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