A melodramatic pause of dramatic posturing this way and that, verbose mounds of doom and gloom over theories of what may transpire should the government be prevented from doing its standardized nothing, nothing benevolent or useful for the masses, the USA governmental shutdown over nothing is a nothing burger itself, a small feat of theatricality as just 4 years ago the Senate momentarily reneged another shutdown, reconvening during a holiday break at that, explicitly to rule that the first amendment rights of US citizens on US soil mattered less to their own elected leaders than the financial interests of a foreign nation. How ego justifies itself as anything but evil, is thinking and feeling that it deserves all the consideration which it is forever unprepared to give in turn.
The Hollywood strikes are cut of the same Punch and Judy accoutrements to be sure, with hosts such as Bill Maher abruptly debuting new seasons before talks have even concluded. Mindful readers took note that publicity never actually stopped for any of the Tinseltown machinery, just that every article had to bury somewhere in its contents a one-line disclaimer stating that the review or interview was magically accomplished prior to the boycotts, even if such were months prior to the present. All decidedly bupkiss as the interviews conducted months ago were posted at the time. Nobody sits on that kind of material, especially not when individual protestation lasted no longer than a photo op. But when, as I’ve written before, the core function of the entertainer is to lie, of the politician to cheat and of the executive to steal, then face value is everything. So two-dimensional you can see through it with just the hint of perspective. Regardless, the contrivances of modern culture casually proclaim all powerful characters to be heroes, despite doing considerably nothing heroic. Entertainers who’ve frolicked themselves into corners and thus flirt with truth-telling to assure the entrapment is further projected elsewhere are recast as activists. Politicians who find themselves extorting the public with less success than their cohorts are likened as diplomats. Executives who manage to refrain from exploiting no matter how briefly to lick the shit, blood and cum from their hands are somehow the philanthropists.
But in regards to the current Israeli conflict, perhaps the world leader who named a settlement on stolen land for Trump is not the heroic figure paid media paints him as. Opportunism alone cannot conjure up an explanation for how tragic circumstances fast-tracked his one and only stated goal in life, and so soon after repeating an election until settling with results most beneficial to himself. Nations affording space programs or nuclear power never seem to be the ones to require foreign assistance, and in fact nations affording both tend to pay for all the foreign aid circling the banks of the globe, minus the one superpower that necessitates receiving billions in foreign aid yearly, as with the current predicament of charges led by para-gliders launched from bulldozed homes, where foreign aid gets physically blocked by the Israeli government, nonpartisan flotilla crews jailed with their food and medical supplies confiscated and reappropriated. Presuming the initiating attack was not performed by the IDF upon Israeli peoples themselves, in an ultra-rightwing attempt to unify those people underneath an unpopular government already striving to consolidate power, the byline that self-defense by Palestinians is nothing but terrorism is myopic. It was a rough decade ago when Israeli courts ruled that Israeli police had legal grounds to shoot Palestinian minors suspected of potentially throwing rocks, and the current administration believes quite passionately that those courts have been unfairly confined by humanitarianism. The Israeli government can shut off Palestinian utilities now, because they have always maintained control over the infrastructure. If I limited your household electricity to a few hours per day, you would not be the bully in the situation. But if your asshole cousin then murdered my family in retaliation, I would certainly care to have words with him, but it would not grant me free license to dump chemical weapons all over your neighborhood, or free license to bomb journalists inconveniently seeking out objectivity. As with weapons of mass destruction, the voices most concerned about human shields in practice tend to be the only ones employing them.
In this world where church and state are getting each other off in a live-streamed porno directed by industry, higher learning is only another variety of paid programming. Threats to pride or comfort are not actual threats while survival is very much piecemeal and ongoing, a pound of flesh worth all of 30 pieces of silver by the most fluctuating exchange rates. Nothing is more predictable than ego’s self-importance. The long arm of the law is all about reaching. Sitting politicians should not be permitted to switch parties while in office, rather they should either wait until their term ends or forfeit their seat of authority in the doing, because trading allegiance is not what their constituents elected them to do. We’ve already in our lexicon the phraseology encompassing tax breaks and tax exemptions, tax forgiveness and tax leniency, tax havens and tax shelters, all of which are made possible by the blunt fact that politicians are cheaper for the most self-serving than actual taxation or regulations, but still far too expensive for the constituents reportedly being represented. The larger portion of the population simply does not possess the fun monies for gambling in the stock markets, buying and selling the livelihoods of others by way of investments or sanctions, so why should their elected representatives be allowed to indulge self-interests like so? But then, as a god who needed rest on the seventh day is a god with limitations, then lesser egos surely hold all the more. No matter the personality, the nationality or party affiliation or curvature of buttocks, if one’s will is imposing upon others for any cause other than to save a life, then no higher purpose or greater good is being served. Always is it just some ego affording for itself yet another trip.
Americans believing they’re victimized unless they are only ever presented with what’s already familiar and comfortable, from schools and news media to the DIY segregation of the online social networks, means nobody learns anything from the mass of reality beyond the confines of such limited life experiences, as though the universe of life with its very own thoughts and feelings and experiences has no other functions but to flatter. When so many can personally be so casual about allowing others to die, then of course they will find fault in others simply existing. Uncountable leagues of immigrants and migrants and refugees both foreign and domestic homeless, all daring to continue their respective life, and were they as villainous as portrayed they’d probably not be living hand to mouth, not have to develop survival skills more tangible than insisting to see a manager over a slighted fast food order. The notion that slaves learned valuable skill-sets which benefited them later in life overlooks the minor detail that slaves dying in captivity meant that for them, there was no “later in life”. In reality, away from keyboards and what keyboards proliferate, those possessing everything possess everything but gumption, while those affording nothing afford all the gumption of the known world.
Every gun-owner fails to stop every gun crime, but they’d rather go on pretending they save lives than allow others to actually do so, all because every gun-owner is terrified that there might be people out there as crazy as themselves. People who justify ending the life of another are terrified there may be persons out there who justify ending the life of another. Recently I got into a minor argument with someone who considers themselves liberal, but who had accepted NRA talking points without realizing it. The second amendment has nothing to do with defending the people from the government’s tyranny. Composed before law enforcement agencies or police departments or a standing military in this country existed, it was offering the well-regulated militia as a potential alternative to such armed forces, like an ideological bookmark. Not to verbally stand against a misused federal power, but in active defense against threats foreign and domestic. So what its fetishists want to be enabled with would be a society without armed forces or law enforcement, where all constituents are bound to take responsibility for righting wrongs into their own hands. But gun-owners today do nothing of the sort, with the larger population of guns than citizens either being cleaned obsessively of cum-stains or used to exert one’s will upon others for crime or sin. Obviously they are not righting wrongs or challenging the tyranny of the government either one, as even amidst the chaos of the January 6 storming of the Capital most of the participants were waiting for someone, anyone else to do the heavy lifting. But more importantly and gone largely unobserved is the stark reality that every single gun crime in every community is an abject failure by every gun-owner in that community, to simply do as they say. They are not protecting their neighborhoods, or the friends and family they claim to care about. Rather are they sheltering in place from the like-minded egos.
When powerful characters say their censoring books from schools and libraries is to combat indoctrination, they are clearly fighting to indoctrinate, just as the numerous congressional panels claiming to combat the weaponization of government as partisan attacks is clearly itself the weaponization of government for partisan attacks. Not to defend Biden’s administration, seeking headlines alongside striking auto workers as though he bizarrely required proximity to disincline changing the situation himself. As a generic right-winger he is shunting federal laws aside for the opportunity to further torture inconveniences presented by New Colossus sentiments out of sight and out of mind. Indeed, the Statue of Liberty stands in direct contrast to exceptions mustered by every national-level politician today. Western laws, and the courts perpetuating them, service only the whims of the entitled. And I would insist to my dying day that the standards of success achieved by all those who deny this are entirely dependent upon others having been used and abused along their merry way. No matter how great or small, every single ego in the history of humanity justifies itself. It’s almost as if repeat offenders are a thing because, instead of seeing the first step as realistically the only important step, all believe wholeheartedly that the first of any 12-step program can be downplayed or negated altogether. Nobody learns from mistakes when personal responsibility is always pushed and pulled elsewhere and elsewhen.
Any and every icon, be it person, place or thing, is carried beyond reproach by idiots. Grace is generally something other than equating mild critique with prejudice.
Like so, the largest court in the land is ready to pay the largest corporations hundreds of billions in rewards for…not paying taxes. We absolutely do possess the resources to help every refugee, migrant and immigrant, but we’d rather reserve it all for the most selfish among us. Minimum wage increases are flawed for the same reason that UBI is flawed, in that it does nothing to prevent costs of living from continuously being inflated again and again, so as to guarantee the extra monies still trickle upwards with every other morsel. Capping maximum wages would be far, far more beneficial to a functioning society, but if idiots no longer had icons to carry aloft, what would they possibly do with themselves, the idiots or the icons? Survival means adaptability towards change, not demands of personal comfort being appeased. Americans in particular are so obsessed with pardoning their icons that they replicate the ego of their icons to the best of their ability, resulting in situations where a TV season not custom-tailored for the individual somehow reveals itself to be a greater threat than a nation filled with ammunition. I won’t ever subscribe to any personality cult, and I won’t ever deem to be the centerpiece for one of my very own. I have no love to give and I need the love of nobody, because everyone’s love is the most subjective thing in all of existence. If such compassion were truly so important and necessary, then why does virtually everyone justify receiving more than they share?
Governance is essentially about managing resources for the benefit of all constituents, not for some to benefit at cost to all the rest. But that sort of extortion racket has been what the USA government consists of for the bulk of my life, quite probably longer but I prefer to speak from firsthand experience and not quote search engines or memes. Right-wingers hate when it’s suggested their subservience for Trump comprises a cult, but the reality is that even regarding those conservatives opposed to him or who just prefer the Republican party as it was prior to Trump’s administration, none of what constitutes their party has anything to do with politics. Keeping in mind that Pelosi herself said how at the end of the day both parties are just Capitalists (and capitalism is considerably not the will of the peoples collected but of individual will trumping the wills of others), the rightwing end of the scale cannot provide a platform anywhere because all their ideas amount to arguing on behalf of whichever subset to the greater population somehow warranting diminished rights or resources or opportunities. Governance is not insisting that some subset or other deserves less than everyone else. The GOP is not a political party as such, it’s an ethno-capitalist sect. I’d say every modern government is ultimately rightwing, as even the socialist states devour themselves when leaders decide they deserve more than the rest. If you can summon any exceptions, of leftists in governance or of governments not rightwing in both cause and effect, then really you’re just confessing to which marketing captured your attention. It’s never over-simplifying, not while every problem known to mankind comes about by ego making excuses for itself. As such, I insist all governments are fundamentally rightwing, because you do not help someone by holding power over them. That’ is ego justifying its cost to others.
The more willing someone is to justify killing as an unfortunate but unavoidable necessity in life by themselves or by others, the less willing they are to ever exhaust, much less even vaguely consider, all the many alternatives which fall short of death. No matter the circumstance lethal force is the absence of morality, in that no service to a greater good makes priority of any individual’s success over the survival of another. Heroism definitively regards self-sacrifice, so the sacrificing of someone, anyone else but the self is its absolute opposite. Preventing a threat’s reach without the casual psychopathy of lethal force, now that is risking one’s own life. Nobody gets rich or famous without the sacrifices of others, of their time and space and energy. Power nor wealth nor authority comes by way of good intentions, in fact it is the void of good intentions that wealth and power and authority strive to fill and with no comprehension of enough factoring into the tragicomedy. With great power comes great responsibility, sure, and possessors of that power irrefutably grow corrupted when the responsibility that’s part of the package foregoes its own. Nowhere for it to call home, it trickles down to those carrying the true weight of the world without the luxury of misidentifying the sword of Damocles as a thing to check their reflection. Authoritarians hate due process, but if a person in a purportedly democratic society is guilty of a felonious crime that’s for a judge or jury of one’s peers to determine, not any piece of work granting themselves imaginary authority over life and death. Geopolitics should come across no differently.
Dictating who most deserves to benefit from love’s scarcity is of dramatically less importance than finding ways to keep everyone alive, whether you’re an individual or a nation-state. Just as the concept of usefulness can encompass so much more than merely serving as a toy or a tool or a weapon.
So many of the personalities I’ve crossed paths with or otherwise hear tell of, seem to associate desperation strictly with connotations of lust or of wrath. And though unlike the other vices I do believe both lust and wrath have their natural place in the emotional spectrum, the actual burdens of life’s good survival involve a constant desperation which neither emphasizes or relates to either. My lil sister is bad about wishing had whichever circumstances turned out differently, how much better matters would be. But in my experience I believe the only change is in the problems faced. Nothing gets better, as the human dilemma busies itself with replacing problems and never resolving them. Life is the zombie film in that respect, the gradual descent into the end. Small steps forward met with astronomical forces blasting one back all the further. Almost as though the natural order does not want us to reach our respective ends, the natural order above and beyond our biases, desires, fetishes, quirks, whims and wishes. If people are cool with accepting one side of a particular story, particularly as it relates to any life cut short, that is their right in keeping with self-determination and all, but they really should acknowledge that, how they are indeed cool about accepting one side of a given story at face value, and cool with accepting others being granted a fate they themselves spend their own lives avoiding, one which the natural order seems to strive against. And with no consideration or compassion spared for any alternative perspective, in spite of whatever principles or convictions, or logic, they may ever claim to entertain. Nothing comes out clean in a bloodbath.
None of us have much say over the problems which fate lets loose, but everybody has control over how they themselves respond. For the religious especially, they can choose for the basic morality of sentiments such as “turning the other cheek” or “thou shalt not kill” to contain personal connotations. When the Judaeo-Christian god said that “Vengeance is mine” his followers can choose to have faith strong enough to not interpret the line as begging for their assistance. It really is nobody else’s fault if the people or places or things you invest with your merit and mettle fail to see your suffering through to its end.