I Have a Scream
by Brian Foley, via CounterPunch
The Scream by Edvard Munch, 1893
I get it. You don’t like Trump.
I’ve wanted to say that to Facebook Friends who’ve spent the past several months hate-posting against Trump. Most posts aren’t funny, creative, or informative. When not merely petulant, they’re raw unfiltered anger. People might as well post videos of themselves screaming.
Turns out someone sort of did. A viral video shows a woman at the Inauguration sitting cross-legged on the ground, with her hands in the air in front of her, emitting a loud, guttural, primal scream at the precise moment Trump was sworn in:
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
At least it was honest, right? Well, actually, it looks staged. The camera was on her, waiting. Nine seconds in, she looks up briefly, as if to make sure the camera crew was ready for “the scream.”
Afterward, the Screamer looked exhausted. The ITV news crew descended, and the Screamer was incoherent:
SCREAMER: There’s just no way, there’s like just no — no way to even comprehend what this means, like. This very – for me, this very moment, is like, like within a cell. It’s like, the dark and the light are so tight right now at this moment. It’s, there’s so much potential, um, for beauty and for devastation, in this one moment it’s just almost incomprehensible that they can exist right now, so, so close!
ITV: How big – how seismic – a day is this for your country?
SCREAMER: I am so sorry to my world. I am so sorry to my world, this is not what we want. I love you people, I love people, and I. This is so alien, this is so false and broken, and…
Self-immolation would have been more articulate.
Even worse was a video many people posted with approval: a black-clad, masked protester silently attacking Richard Spencer, an alt-right leader. It looked like attempted murder, as the assailant came by quickly and hit Spencer in the side of the head with his elbow or forearm.
So much for the reverence paid earlier in the week for the nonviolence of Martin Luther King.
So much for Michelle Obama’s “When they go low, we go high.”
Some Trump-haters have said that, since the election, they no longer “feel safe.” After all, their quiet neighbors, or the guy behind the counter at the DMV, or that little old lady at Rite Aid, MIGHT HAVE VOTED FOR TRUMP. Any one of them might be the racist sexist alt-right Nazi bastard who spray-painted the Swastika on that softball dugout…
It seems that, even more than these people hate Trump, they hate the people who voted for Trump – those racist sexist homophobic uneducated stupid evil people who are so stupid and racist and sexist and evil they voted for him, what a bunch of fools they’re just Putin’s useful idiots!!!!
“I don’t see how anyone could vote for Trump,” many liberals, especially those living in comfort, said before and after the election, with more smugness than curiosity. I mean, how could anyone who’s NOT racist xenophobic bigoted stupid sexist homophobic vote for Trump?
Trigger warning.
If you voted for Hillary Clinton, maybe I don’t feel safe around YOU.
Trump said bad, even deplorable, things about Muslims. But Clinton used her power as a Senator to enable Bush-Cheney’s unnecessary bombing of defenseless Muslims and others (including women and children) in Iraq. As Secretary of State, she was a key player in the unnecessary destruction of Libya, which also killed defenseless Muslims and others (including women and children). She has blood on her hands, not virtual Twitter blood, but REAL blood.
Trump may like offending people, but Clinton apparently likes killing them. Remember how she exulted in the gory, brutal murder of Gaddafi? That’s sicker than any Trump tweet. Clinton also supports the death penalty. She doesn’t much care for live people either. She voted for the USA PATRIOT ACT and its renewal in 2006. She opposed the right of gay people to marry each other all the way up until 2013.
What kind of sick, twisted, anti-human, anti-Muslim, racist, homophobic, LGBTQ-hating, vengeful, disdainful-of-constitutional rights people voted for her? If you voted for Hillary Clinton, you voted for all that.
Oh, wait. You didn’t vote for THAT? You’ve always supported LGBTQ rights? Opposed the death penalty as racist? Long thought the Iraq War was immoral? I see. You voted for Hillary Clinton not because you love her bigotry or her warmongering, but because you thought it would be progressive to have a woman in the White House! A DEMOCRAT!
I believe you. (And I’m not saying that just because I fear you might throw an elbow at my head.)
But look what you’ve done. You’ve given yourself space between your candidate’s positions and your own. Because, well, you’re a good person and you don’t agree with everything Clinton stands for. I get it. I’ve known you for years, and in all that time you’ve never blown up my house, tapped my phone, or sentenced me to death.
But why do you deny Trump voters that space, that distance you allow YOURSELF between your candidate’s positions and your own views? Some women and minorities voted for Trump. They can’t have supported all of his positions. Not every Trump voter is racist or sexist. Even if they were, though, all their candidate did was tweet and say racist and sexist things. Your candidate actually supported and helped perpetrate violence against Muslims. I didn’t see you wearing a safety pin back then.
Have you forgotten what (Democrat) political strategist James Carville said about elections? “It’s the economy, stupid!” Maybe, just maybe, many if not most people who voted for Trump voted for him…because of his economic platform. Trump may not help the economy, but his promise to do so was more conspicuous than Clinton’s.
If you stop and think, if you stop “othering” people who voted for Trump (yes, that’s what you’re doing), if you stop screaming, you might hear that many of these voters just want to earn a decent living, and that they’re keenly, painfully aware that the Democrat Party and its nominee ignored them – except to scold them as “deplorables.” That the Democrat Party decided it didn’t need to court them, as Chuck Schumer announced in July:
For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.”
There’s nothing wrong with wanting an economy that works for workers. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to provide for one’s family – one’s children. Maybe, like decent people who voted for Clinton, many Trump voters decided to overlook the worst aspects of their candidate.
If you want to engage in “resistance,” resist your own hatred. Your beloved Democrat Party won’t help you do that. Its leaders won’t admit they lost the election because of their party’s embrace of capital and abandonment of labor. Democrat leaders want you to keep hating and screaming at Trump to “delegitimize” him, to usher themselves (not you) back into power.
Anyway, don’t blame me. I voted for Jill Stein, because I’m anti-vaccine.
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“It seems that, even more than these people hate Trump, they hate the people who voted for Trump.”
Bingo. Back during the dark days of the Bush administration, I caucused with the Democrats and even voted for John Kerry in 2004. I did this thinking (hoping?) that they would end the wars and come home. However, as soon as O’Bomber was elected, they just completely gave a pass–hell, they gave him a Nobel just for making a speech! And later, when the Arab ‘Spring’ started up, and when EU/NATO overthrew the president of Ukraine, the Democrats just soaked in all the MSM koolaide, bashing the “dictators” Putin and Assad, and calling for war against Russia and Syria.
It was then that I finally realized that the Democrats had never really opposed Bush’s wars at all; they simply opposed Bush’s voters–namely, us “deplorables”: rural and working-class whites from ‘fly-over country’.
Hmmm, women in danger. How about dangerous women. In ascending order. Samantha Power: Backed the war on Libya, backed the US proxy war in Syria, backed the zionist war against the Palestinians in 2014, supports the ongoing Saudi bombing in Yemen. This BTW is called ‘humanitarian intervention’. Victoria Nuland. Architect of the overthrow of Victor Yanukovich in Ukraine in 2014. This led to the secession of the Crimea and the still simmering war in the Eastern Oblasts. To date there has been a conservative estimate of some 10,000 deaths is this benighted country, all emanating from Ms Nuland’s handiwork. Hilary Clinton. Another liberal hawk, responsible for packing out the State Department with neo-cons, the war in Libya and now pushing for war with Russia. (Whoops I mean a no-fly zone). Pick of the bunch:- Madeleine Albright. Responsible for the air war in Yugoslavia, and was Secretary of State during the… Read more »
Have Joe Bidens and John Kerrys sons o’ bitches…I mean, son and son in law still have their gigs in the resource and legal areas in Ukraine? …nothing suss there?
Ms Albright seems ready to attone for her sins (sarc) and register as a Muslim as a protest against the #MuslimBan. That should make the hundreds of thousands of Muslim women (and men) who rightly feel discriminated against, feel a whole lot better about themselves.
http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2017/01/23/from-the-womens-march-in-edinburgh/#comment-245603 The above is a “speech” from the “Womens’ March” in Edinburgh last week. It’s by Vonny Moyes and the level of hysteria within it is, at times, unbelievable. For example, from the speech: “To be a woman today is dangerous. It has always been dangerous. Once we were literally pilloried and burned until justice evolved a heart. Today we are pilloried and burned in all but stock and flame. To be a woman with knowledge is dangerous. To be a woman with an opinion is dangerous. To be a woman with a voice is dangerous. To be a woman on social media is dangerous. To be a woman with a platform is dangerous. To be a woman in poverty is dangerous. To be a gay woman is dangerous. To be a trans woman is dangerous.To be a sexually active woman is dangerous. To be pregnant woman is dangerous. To… Read more »
The assertion of a victimized identity as a manipulative power ploy is not new. Making a pseudo ‘religion’ out of suffering is not new. Using vilification (guilting) of ‘offences’ against the ‘holy’ victim identity is new – but its all relatively new to the political arena in terms of seeking to shut down and invalidate (control) communication. The assertion that the world is dangerous because one feels afraid – as a basis to demand special protection to those assuming the power of victimhood, has nothing to do with addressing or healing suffering, nothing to do with compassion, and everything to do with using fear of suffering based on the past, to legitimize a hateful agenda. I find it has energetic fingerprints all over it – for the same device blocks genuine scientific and particularly medical honesty, and is part of the foundations of the post WW2 world order. The implication… Read more »
Perfidys’ trick is persecution?
The treachery is in the framing – the coercive force is just coercive force wrapped up in deceits to make it seem like sympathetic kindness to suffering and oppressed people (or self) – but as I said it is USING suffering as a weapon for a hateful agenda so as to make any who do not support it seem to portrayed as hateful – worthy of hate and penalty. This kind of deceit works through the appeal for sympathy – with the intensity of emotional response being the force of another’s identification with the story as it is framed – or the woundedness as it is displayed. We all learn this as children – and it is very common behaviour – but its use as the foundation of social control is a large part of the ‘fake world’ of ‘fake minds’ in ‘fake identities’. The difference is that personal acting… Read more »
As a Scottish woman I can state I and many others who want independence have no need to read Bellacaledonia. And, I am ashamed of the people that went on this silly march and listened to the likes of this woman. Gave up on the Guardian a long time ago as well, more a hate opinion piece paper than a news paper. I suspect any news they give out is trolled from other web sites.
Agree that the hypocrisy and tone-deafness on the Democrat side is appalling. The temper tantrums and unwillingness to take responsibility for their actions is not doing them any favours. Not only that but the vast majority of North American and European mass media outlets are now blatant purveyors of neoliberal globalist propaganda that is the Obama/Clinton party line. At the core is a power struggle within the ruling class between two factions of capitalist rent seekers. Keeping this in mind is a useful way to ground oneself when the rhetoric becomes especially insane. There is, however, a tendency for some on the left to offer soft support for Trump and take him at his word. There is also a lot of projecting going on and “I think Trump will/will not do….” or “Trump said he will/will not do x“. This is basically accepting the frame provided by the media that… Read more »
I agree that Trump was not really the “best” choice available. Had I really wanted to stand by my principles then Stein would have been my choice, how’s that for a first female US President?. Not really having a clue how the US electoral system operates (and having not much faith in its integrity) it would seem that the choice was effectively down to Trump or Clinton, and the clear and present danger the latter presented to Human survival in that case would have made the choice straightforward. Unless the choice was really taken out of their hands by one of those factions you refer to, in which case I will still (for now) breathe a sign of relief.
You call that a scream Munch?….obviously he didn’t see the video of Phan Thi Kim Phuc… exposing to the shareholders (the serpents teeth).. the benefits of napalm:
….Kosher Kola..
Santa Clause killed ge’e’z,
on a contract from the jews
when shanhedrin made the godfather
an offer he couldn’t refuse;
Yes santa topped the saviour,
it was just ihs damn bad luck
now merchants all throw plastic girls
to baal and to moloch..
..and metal boys whose guns are toys that
transform into trucks:
Santa Clause killed ge’e’z
and the pharisees were gay
still the children burn near Gehenna
and Israel’s got all hell Tophet:
I think American elections are a psyop on the unique american idea of itself … the notion that there is some universal conscience and fairness that can be appeased by a president: G.W. Bush..exposed eventually to all but the staunchest patriot as a smirking arsehole.. Barack Obama positioned as the redemption and atonement for the National embarrassment of Bush..Obama himself exposed as a pathetic actor and the American conscience now with nothing left to do but to throw a tantrum and go even further into denial with Trump pushing that lower lip up with a defiant, “No mummy…I will not!” stance. YOU CRAZY USA.
No, Trump is no friend of the people. “Trump did scrap the the TPP” – but I can bet that a surreptitious TTIP will be back on the agenda when May (also no friend of the people) meets Trump today – for May to slip in via the trapdoor of of the Trojan Horse named Brexit.
The real Brexit plan is for deepening the integration of the European Federation and a European budgetary and military union – armed principally by the UK’s nukes (which are actually American nukes – which will be ceded to France then ultimately to German control. Extraconstitutional nuclear proliferation?)
Mad? Check out David Ellis’ analysis at Strategic Defence Initiatives.
http://www.ukcolumn.org/article/eu-military-union-budgetary-union
Does anyone in the UK remember voting for (or even against) such a proposal?
Nothing ‘real’ is allowed into the apparent ‘debate’ – perhaps a little leaks into RT but the predator class runs the henhouse.
Post-truth society could also mean – fake society.
The whole world becomes psyop.
It’s complicated these days..in the good old days pre, post-truth..all the pre Columbians had to do was take someones loved one to the top of a truncated pyramid, tear out their beating hearts and throw it down to the hoi polli to remind them who was in charge and what they were prepared to do to maintain dominion….Hell! , even back then the citizenry in their collective loss of nerve, convinced themselves that it was for good providence from the gods.
Yes terror as power is nothing new and ‘truths’ operate to shield from such or mask the intent to deny another. Such as the imposing of order upon a fragmented mind limits the loss – it also uses fear to mask and limit fear, hate to eradicate hate – and so it does the thing it would defend against – but in disguise of deceit. Terror is god – by which all things align to ‘survive’ within its light of hot and cold rage. Is that true? Those who seek to be predators rather than prey – as if that is the only choice – fight to live another day – nearer the top of the pyramid of sacrifice to such power. Living for another day can never rest in the good of the day and know itself good – but only seek substitutes that hollow out by usage. So… Read more »
Good article. Good comments!
I think I saw that hi-viz rent-a-griever at Sandy-Hook…..no not really, just made that up. Anyhow, the article explains how politicians don’t only lie per se….but more so, give confirmation to the lies the voters tell themselves.
If they don’t feel safe here, they could try Saudi Arabia, the good friend and $$$ of Hillary who chop off more heads each year than all of the CIA-backed terror groups combined.
Is what we’re seeing the end result of all the warm and fuzzy feelings being taught at US schools, now including safe rooms that upset students can hide in when they don’t get their way?
On a personal note, I am still struggling with the sequelae of a heavy blow to the side of the head 30 years ago. That’s a very sensitive spot, and you can easily die from any blunt force trauma there. Nice one, anti-Nazis, you’re certainly showing the Love there!
Given the dismal choice on offer once Sanders was seen off by the DNC, I would have had no choice but to vote Trump myself had I been a US citizen. My own motto was, “Anyone but Trump EXCEPT Clinton!”. Nice one, anti-Nazis, again. You can’t always get what you want, but what we certainly needed was averting immediate overt war with Russia (and China). Phew!
I don’t know if I can articulate this – but there is a level of hate that is masked and ‘lidded’ by ‘special love’ – which is NOT love – so much as attempt to manipulate and maintain conditions in which a self-narrative identity of the wish or sense of love and worth and justified force can and does operate to deny that which is associated with the underlying hate that is unconscious by definition because the ‘masking’ persona is made as the device of its suppression. This is why getting to what is really going on is often impossible – because no one wants to own or feel or revisit their own conflicted pain. Joining in ‘hate’ is the modus operandi of ‘uniting’ against the other or the enemy or the scapegoat. Those who so join may SEEM kind, loving and moral in their own bubble reality of accepted… Read more »
That makes excellent sense, as do all of your comments I’ve read, but for the Love of all that is Holy, can you make it more accessible? It would be a pity to see the message go astray as I fear it may from the difficulty for the ‘average’ person to scale that very dry wall. This is something I have been accused of myself, mind you.
Speaking way out of line, get yourself a copy of ‘A Course in Miracles’. It explains in specifically spiritual terms what Binra seems to be saying in a more secular manner. In fact, I’ve often wondered if this might be the source of his perspectives 🙂 .
Worth a look. Be prepared to be challenged 🙂
‘A Course in Miracles’ brought to you by MK UItra.
Care to be more specific? There are so many spiritual and healing modalities which the CIA has meddled in that it’s hard to make out just to what extent they were initiated or compromised by them. For instance, the Orthomolecular Medicine modality which saw my sanity resored was ‘tainted’ by the involvement of Drs Osmond and Pfeiffer who worked for MK Ultra while at the same time being dedicated and effective healers (the latter especially in my case). Many people did, unaware of its wider ramifications or ultimate purpose, and their work may have been purely incidental. I’m hoping for the latter.
FWIW
http://www.miraclestudies.net/BillCIA.html
🙂
As someone who identifies as a Taoist (I meditate and stuff), I see nothing untoward with the assertions of the proponents of that Course, they are as old as time itself. Whatever the CIA did with that, if anything, would have been to find out that attempting to control minds does not work when you come across the concept of no-mind in actual application. Same with LSD in the case of Osmond I imagine, though much better results can be achieved with regular practice in non-drug techniques I am told. The Way is long and any journey begins with but a single step.
BTW I feel the linked page is fair comment. I actually feel A Course in Miracles offers a true mind reprogramming course. When fear is NOT used , our true nature comes through of itself. Part of the globalist theme is destruction of the old order (perceived obstruction) to make way for a new. But destruction is the old order unchecked – and nothing new comes of it – excepting its exhaustion. The new is the transformation of perspective by which fearful, guilt-ridden or hateful self-definition is undone or healed. It is generally found difficult to maintain inner vigilance or awareness amidst the thought and activity of our day. So much so that it isn’t hard to see we are run by our thoughts of conditioned or learned reaction much of the time. That is already a kind of ‘mind-control’ where there is a presumption that it is ‘my’ mind… Read more »
Anyone can say or assert or associate anything. I cant substitute for your mind. Nor would I want to. Everything of any capacity to question or challenge the mind of orthodox ‘reality’ is a matter of ‘free will’ – that is to say proof NEVER forces any mind to accept truth. It really IS a free will that you have and are – including the freedom to give or assign power to thoughts and beliefs that represent a false sense of self. LSD and the ‘Hippy’ generation were a CIA project – but that does not mean the CIA ‘controlled’ that generation. My sense of truth is that you can publish it in the open and nothing changes because no one recognizes or can match it – and if they did – no one would listen to them There is simply no communication that can tell or reveal truth to… Read more »
Amen to that, or whatever Word of choice you percieve to apply here.
Could’ve just said the instinct is for the mob in the chook pen to peck the weak chicken to death…..Sorry, too much Kafka.
I see the thought you share and of course have wondered about it at times. Part of the issue of our world is that of taking – or seeming to take – living information, OUT from its true context – just as abstracting money from true wealth can seem to make wealth more accessible, shareable and easier to move about and use. Congruency of thought word and deed is older than the gold standard, and even more degraded by derivative ‘meanings’ that can serve to operate against their original intent. Turning an inheritance to a wasteland, a greater family to debt and enslavement, pharmed sickness and destruction – and by ‘choice’! I find there is a vibrational barrier to communication – such that only like qualities can resonate and recognize themselves in each other. No amount of ‘rational’ simplification or simple blunt word usage can make visible that which another… Read more »
I can (and do) certainly resonate with that. These days I find humour and the vernacular (snark to be avoided at all costs) to be more useful, but that may be redundant when addressing people susceptible to respond favourably in the first place.
I don’t feel that many appreciate the nature of the transformation of consciousness being called forth. The old ideas lose currency – yet seem to be all we have. The need for fresh perspective finds embodiment in whatever ways we each live it – insofar as we do.
Gathering around ‘problems’ frames everything in terms of ‘impact’ or effect on ‘problems’ – but problems are framed in terms of definition that may render them insoluble – and by design. “Seek but do not find…”
In the immortal words of Tyler Durden, “only after losing everything are you free to do anything”, or at least that’s what I heard Brad Pitt say in a techno ‘song’.
or ‘When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose’ – Dylan But I feel there are contextual subtleties that qualify what otherwise becomes a personal claim to insight (which is something to lose 😉 The idea that honesty of being is sacrifice of our personal life is culturally ingrained – but it is dishonesty of being that actually gives life up in sacrifice to maintain and protect the lie of a partiality against wholeness of being. This is culturally pervasive as our idea of freedom to operate as if independent of the whole (of Life). The attempt to limit sacrifice protects core investments and profits while outsourcing as much pain as possible – which is really just a redistribution of pain or dissonance of being – and manifests as power struggle – which winds up such a world as is held in shared focus today. But investing in… Read more »
…….THINKING IN TONGUES…
The quicksand effect, of alphabet soup;
if coursed last will astound and then drown you:
That analogue broth, brews there in the trough
for the terms of interminable sentence:
Albeit Shemitic, if aeiou is phonetic..
..then gods’ name is mighty;
unpronounceable:
If you wish, play this shtick, this, interlocutory quiz..
..and curious sink where the silence is coming.
Which will make you a very bad listener:
The Silence calls to notice
what understanding fails to see
and trying…
fails
and fails again.
One cannot listen for truth
while insisting stories are true.
Knowledge protects & together with discernment helps us to decode & unmask truth. Working with other enquiring minds helps to raise awareness & is necessary for keeping ego in check.
Indeed, egocentric identification is the basis from which to reactively persist the problem while thinking to solve it. Yet such is not only the trained and acquired reaction – but defended from ‘interruption’ as a necessary and justified exclusivity or ‘exceptionalism’. In simple terms; self-specialness. I felt to write on this theme – beyond a personal response. The capacity to listen is dependent on the willingness to pause this ‘mind’. Within the freedom for communication thus opened, a spontaneous sense of worth can arise as both a recognition of the other and an extension of value. This sense of communication is miraculous or synchronous – in that it is not transactional effect of a past upon a present into a future – but a presence expanding as its own unfolding. We have learned and in a sense become a certain kind of linear consciousness in which self-definitions condition our sense… Read more »
To a certain extent, we each create our own reality but the ego is a practised manipulator requiring constant vigilance. Otherwise, the I’s have it.
The ‘I’ of the ‘Me’ usurped can be, by image and thought to seem to be, unlike, apart – as if thinking alone, dreaming of exile while sleeping at home. Manipulation of form doesn’t change the truth of the purpose so embodied – and a wolf in sheep’s clothing is a deceit to those whose mind is fitted to forms as meanings. Regardless the form, your experience of it – is your gift to yourself – and therefore to everyone. Because ‘reality’ is defined in form – creating reality is judged as effects – and the cause is denied – where one wants the meaning of the form to stick. The making of a world through mutually agreed definitions, is a framework of culturally interpreted experience. When the reality does not ‘agree’ with the model – the conditional identity loses support and is exposed to the underlying sense of conflict… Read more »
Is this demented delirium a simple consequence of the entire Mass Media being controlled by Jews? It’s a fair question having watched an outbreak of the same Jewish hysteria on BBC2’s Newsnight the night after Trump was elected.
We surely need to re-establish the Monopolies Commission and diversify media ownership. Jewish media barons will love this idea. They are ALL FOR diversity. It’s their favourite thing ,,, as we all know.
The cultivation and manipulation of split minded identity under a protection racket is not unique to the Jewish identity politic – though that has its own contribution to the struggle of powers arising from exceptionalism or an exclusive self-specialness. Perspective upon the nature of identity conflict cannot be found within it. The clever and quick have always had the opportunity to fool others into doing their bidding, but deceits come undone or are sooner or later found out – AND the cost to the deceiver is a world OF deceit – how could it be otherwise? Mental-emotional issues can be magnified into passive aggressive defences against communication just as they can be invalidated, suppressed and denied by heartless sadistic pleasure at the pain of others. I notice that clever hidden agenda works through legitimate suffering to weaponize it. The ‘immune system’ is co-opted by some disease vectors to operate in… Read more »
Was that anti-semitic?… Was it an a’semtic?….Or is that stuff just Greek guff to you:
Well according to theo, you can’t do that to Shem..but by george he can do it to you:
“You don’t know me from the wind / You never will, you never did / I’m the little Jew who wrote the bible.”
………vale Lenny Cohen..
PS: even the spellcheck machine made me write Jew with a majuscule:…..
….’.Not that there’s anything wrong with that!’
The whole of that song seems to be more relevant as time goes on. I really do pray, and it’s not some idle claim, this is just a vision of what may be. Sort of like the Fatima revelation is supposed to be, even now that Russia has returned to Christ. Or so I’m told.
The stark recognition of a future of destructive insanity is the ‘Call’ to Sanity – but as Leonard’s last work says “You want it darker”. Participation in insanity is hidden – partly by focusing on what Others do. Blame is the redistribution and manipulation of guilt such as to substitute for true response-ability. Guilt-backed responses are attempts to excommunicate or expel and deny guilt. Guilt feelings are a deep sense of dissonance that truly felt is the ‘Call’ to Sanity. But guilt is also the basis of the ‘power’ to manipulate – and so the attempt to limit hate operates the narrative control of a surface ‘reality’ made to block out and substitute for truth. One of the things coming up for many who thought the bubble was real is finding they have strong hate feelings. Being anti-something is being defined by that something – so anti-fascism depends on fascism… Read more »
This is the cosmic tragedy that is identitarian politics. A world full of morons capable of becoming hysterical at what they deem an inappropriate tone of voice, yet seemingly careless of the fact that their own government has slaughtered one and a half million brown-skinned people and utterly destroyed at least three countries over the past 13 years.
The absence of rational perspective is dumbfounding.
Masturbatory solipsistic narcissism rules.
God help us all.
I think the evidence suggests that god was invented by his favourite tribe…wouldn’t think he’d help you…..unless of course, like Larrys’ buildings..you were insured for a motza:
Everyone seeks and finds what they set out to validate – no? The god idea is the self idea. If you hold yourself a random mutational process of no purpose but to persist – then that is your ‘god’ from which you source and image yourself. – No? Of course one can use different phrases or words to point to this – but if you pause to consider… the attempt at power is not just of dominant force – but of getting upstream. Insider trading operates upstream and can crash the many to enrich the few. But the notion of god as coercive power is a reflection of our own mind. And while such power is god – it is sacrificed to and worshipped in thought word and deed. When seeking power to effect change on others and the world – such a god is presumed true – as if… Read more »
Bullshit….
Bull’s shit comes from a bull. The nature of what a thing is or does embodies its source. Cynicism does not embody joy – except as a perverse gratification in attacking it in others. The ‘Father’ idea is the Source Idea. All Idea has a Source. The Idea of you has a Source – just as your own thoughts do not really LEAVE your mind – even though you can perceive them as if they are out there in the world. And you can have great force of emotional investment in keeping it there – as if to escape your own thought. But all thought has consequence at some level – and unconscious hate leaks out as well as working like a bot-net to empower evils in the world. I don’t invite the god-idea as an argument, weapon or shield, as a persuasion or morally superior position or as a… Read more »
Of course he’s vile but given that both candidates have flawed characters & low morals, the election was farcical! Ultimately, when it comes to pretence, voters decided they would rather have Donald Trumps lies & pretence than Hilary’s.
@ J jones
Indeed, especially when Hillary’s sort of lies tend to be accompanied by many, many dead bodies in countries abroad.
The root cause being narcissism.
One can say that everyone who identifies in self-image or self-concept rather than in relational honesty – is a narcissist within their own reflection and ignores the calls of others. I see addiction to power for its trappings left Hillary hollow – as a result of being whored out politically to whoever paid to play. Addiction is destructive. Including addiction to our own thinking and our own image. It is a Faustian pact by which to ‘gain a world’ at expense of Soul. While psychological terms may serve some function, they soon become the invalidating terms of ‘official’ scientifically backed vilification. And I see that those without the sin they hate are not the ones throwing stones. And even questioning the use of the term may be smeared as ‘defending’ narcissists – because that’s the way the mob-mind works. Waking up to a true sense of worth doesn’t have to… Read more »
Indeed. There are plenty of reasons to criticise Trump but all this anti-Trump hysteria is just noise. Nothing articulated. The media have told them to jump and they jump. That’s the scariest part. You can’t have any kind of debate. They don’t want to listen, just repeat cliches about Nazis.
Even funnier I see people wanting to defend the mainstream media as the stalwart of truth – oh we need to defend our independent press before Trump destroys it! Seriously?
I feel sorry for many of these people on videos acting out for the media. One day I’m sure they’ll feel stupid and they can’t erase it. The people who have screwed with their heads are sitting pretty lunching and buying their designer clothes. Of course they’re not going to get their hands dirty or end up with criminal records.
Although I am not an U. S. citizen I was really anxious. United States people were heading to a terrific Scylla and Charybdis trap.
First: Frankly, it was a huge relief I have been feeling reading the new Killary was not elected.
(Second: I am hoping that the murdered Colonel – or Colonel the Murdered(?) – is haunting her dreams and turning her nights into nightmares. Time-to-time, at least.)
“… reading the news …” was the correct word
I thought Richard Spencer was a nazi ? I we supposed to feel sorry for him ? Attempted murder? hilarious.
You don’t have to feel sorry for him but that footage probably gained him more support.
No it didn’t
Having been on the receiving end of such an attack, I can only feel some kind of sympathy however limited.