Gimme Some Truth
Philip Farruggio
I’m sick and tired of hearing things from
Uptight short sided narrow minded hypocritics
All I want is the truth, just give me some truth
I’ve had enough of reading things
By neurotic psychotic pigheaded politicians
All I want is the truth, just give me some truthNo short-haired, yellow-bellied
Son of tricky dicky’s
Gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocket full of hopes
Money for dope, money for rope
John Lennon
John Lennon wrote that song in 1971, and its value as message resonates even better today. His lyrics refer to some as ‘uptight, short sided (he meant “‘sighted”?) narrow minded hypo critics (he may have even meant those in the media who ‘critique’ the news)’. How sad that almost 50 years have passed and our A) Mainstream Media B) Politicians and C) The Corporate Consumer machine are still at it. They are equal opportunity bullshit artists, undertaking the task of distorting the truth about what is affecting our society.
Of course, behind the OZ curtain stand the wizards who control how we working stiffs should think, vote and shop. There was a cogent scene from Robert DeNiro’s 2006 film The Good Sheperd. In the film Matt Damon plays a CIA official who visits a Mafia leader (played by Joe Pesci), asking for some covert help. At the end of their visit, Pesci says (I am paraphrasing) ‘Let me ask you a question. Every group has something that they are known for. You know, the Niggers have their music, we Italians have the family… what do your people have?’ Damon looks at him and answers ‘We have America, and you’re all just visitors.’
The brainwashing has been going on for so long that it’s tough for minds to be deprogrammed through basic human discourse. Case in point: This writer has written consistently about my idea for a 50% Flat Surtax on any income over and above $ 1,000,000 a year. The first one million would be taxed at the regular rate of around 37% (before deductions) and would have no bearing on the surtax. When I discuss the plan with many working stiffs out there, the overwhelming majority of them tell me ‘Oh that’s too much! Why not start at $5 million?’
There you have it. The American Dream is alive and well in the psyche of our fellows. A good analogy to remember regarding the mainstream news outlets, electronic and print, is this: You will know when you hear of a good, viable idea when the mainstream news rarely or hardly ever covers it. Ditto for our sacred elected officials. As far as our great Military Industrial Empire, stop believing the lies that are filtered out by both the Pentagon and of course the corporate world. Commercials as to our brave military that keeps us ‘FREE’, or commercials about how the ‘for profit’ health care industry cares about your wellbeing…. mute that boob tube! Folks, there is no ‘truth in advertising’!
March 19th will be the 16th anniversary of one of the most heinous acts by our government… right up there, most assuredly, with 9/11. In both cases, elements within the inner circles of the Bush/Cheney Cabal must have skewed all that they could to arrive at what transpired. The sacrifice of tens of thousands (in NYC and environs, what with the after effects of the towers being destroyed) and perhaps millions of Iraqi civilians, along with the destruction of one of the most modern countries in the Middle East, should give any decent person the desire, NO the drive, for truth.
Those two actions by covert actors is why there is such a refugee crisis in Europe. It is also why there even is an ISIL or whatever our government calls those religious fanatics we actually “weaponised” as a global tool of imperial chaos. If not for US imperialist ( a word not used enough nowadays ) actions in the Middle East, there would be maybe just a few thousand fanatics in all those nations.
John Lennon was spot on in 1971. Without the mass of working stiffs demanding just that, TRUTH, our nation will continue to go down that rabbit hole.
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In which Slate worm Justin Peters tries his hardest to keep you away from WTC 7 thoughtcrime with super-convincing words like ‘palpably false’ while running like Phan Thị Kim Phúc from the evidence, http://www.consensus911.org/point-wtc7-1/
https://slate.com/culture/2019/03/joe-rogans-podcast-is-an-essential-platform-for-freethinkers-who-hate-the-left.html?via=gdpr-consent
WTC-7 thoughtcrime
Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
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In a few words, those words by Philip A Farruggio say it so very well . Too bad there are still so many that don’t want to admit to the truth of it.
John Lennon was also a fan of Aleister Crowley.
Turns out he’s been speaking with a double tongue all along.
Why the tax thing? You’re just picking a fight that doesn’t need to be had.
The left keeps shooting itself in the foot by playing the neoliberal game.
There’s Lennon. And then there is this guy:
If Al Capone was alive today he wouldn’t bother with organised crime and bribe public officials, he’d go into Wall Street and own them. Today organised crime earns chump change; organised politics is where the real money is. The Bush and Clinton clans are so rich because they’re as thieving and scheming and murderous as the Borgias ever were, and as ruthless as any Mafia, and tho’ the remnants of democracy stopped Clinton from becoming President they’re working hard to bring an end to all that.
After forty years of neo-liberalism we’re at the gangster stage of capitalism. The political gangster stage.
I trust the second row of Lennon’s prose “Uptight short sided narrow minded hypocritics” has been incorrectly transcribed.
What does the term “short sided” mean, especially in the conext of that phrase.
Surely the term “short sighted” makes infinitely better sense.
He might be referring to a short hair cut, known in Britain as ‘short back and sides’. In the 1970s, long hair was the fashion except in the military.
Here’s a piece of the truth.. if you can handle it. This interview is old but still relevant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwark7uIhIM
Thank you emariaenterprises. I had seen that enterviev before years ago one it is even more valuable now. All the people mentioned are truthful and immensely interesting…
The American Dream owes its longevity to two factors:
1. The country’s founding by religious zealots and their legacy of love for hopeful bullshit.
2. A relentless media campaign.
As Chomsky observed, “Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
John Lennon was spot on. Truth is such a rare commodity in the endless sea of bullshit that has become the norm, that I wonder if we can even recognise truth when we happen upon it.
Here´s some truth:
„Media, Independent and Mainstream: Fake News and Fake Narratives“: https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2016/12/18/media-independent-and-mainstream-fake-news-and-fake-narratives/
Regards
I wrote this yesterday< and posted it on the "What If" forum. It seems more relevant today. Especially when Phillip says: “The brainwashing has been going on for so long that it’s tough for minds to be deprogrammed through basic human discourse.” The uncritical acceptance of the basic parameters of ordinary language is the entire problem of humanity. It is framed wrongly, and so can only ever frame wrongly, ad infinitum. There is no duality in reality. Logic and language are binary: their twin descriptive power as a self-representational language can only proliferate more and more subjectified self-representaions. Language represents language to language – reality is a priori excluded. Language/the mind – which are metonymic and co-evolved – is the root cause. There is no other cause: because we cannot experience anything outside of our conscious experience. (This is not a denial of the noumenal – the ‘Ding an sich’… Read more »
In other words, everybody is responsible for creating their own reality. Class society and its various pathologies only exist to the extent that you believe in them. Politics is not only irrelevant, but unintelligible and meaningless.
Be the change that you want. Tune in, turn on, drop out. Become one with the universe. Levitate the Pentagon. Crystals and faeries. A New Age is dawning.
If you have ever read anything I have written over the last few years, you would be aware that I have relentlessly critiqued capitalism on Marxist and neo-Marxist principles. So your charge of irrelevance is irrelevant. Politics matters: but so do the terms and principles on which we do politics. You can view what I said as a meta-critique of politics. As I just wrote on another forum: politics without life is life without politics. If the principals of politics are wrong: can it be any wonder that the result is enslavement, ultra-exploitation, and alienation? The Enlightenment Protocols are objective Protocols of continued enslavement, imperialism, militaristic occupation, and domestic tyranny. That cannot be any other way: the Enlightenment encoded life without life …as I have attempted to show on other occasions. Is it not worth even considering how and why? Or do we just accept our acculturated Protocols uncritically: and… Read more »
Errata: ‘politics without life is life without life’ would read better. I told you it is all in the language.
That makes a lot more sense than your first post.
Except for the part about people creating their own reality. It is politically reactionary to assert that people under the Empire’s bombs, or at the point of its death squads, are responsible for creating their own reality. I don’t share your enthusiasm for Buddhism; it appears that it was hijacked millenia ago, exactly to promote ruling-class-friendly obscurantism of this sort. Which is probably why the CIA reinvented it in the 1960s and sold it as “New Age” mysticism, which has been successful beyond their wildest expectations, and is only now being de-emphasized and replaced by Identity Politics.
Question: who creates reality then? What is reality beyond our consciousness of reality? What is consciousness beyond its object in reality? These are not trick questions. They are fundamental to realigning politics with reality, and making politics responsible for the suffering it creates. And, the potential omnicidal annihilation of reality that we face. It is precisely because of the false dichotomies created in raising the questions above that cause our enforced immiseration and war zones. Why do we go to war? Is it not to sustain a pernicious and profligate lifestyle choice in the imperialist heartlands. A lifestyle that we have no right to impose and export as suffering and death on to others. If we take ownership of our lifestyle choices at the group level: can we not end war? Or at least try? Our lives are forfeit under the current regime of power anyway. On reality creation: we… Read more »
Your paranoic obsession with the CIA betrays you.
Try telling people in Chile, or El Salvador, or Korea, that the CIA is a figment of their paranoid imagination, and see what kind of reaction you get.
you are just blowing hot air if you think anything I have said is apologist or obscurantist of either the state or the mediaeval death cult known as capitalism.
sure, telling Syrians and Iraqis that the CIA has no control over their experience of reality, isn’t obscurantist at all. DAESH will cease to exist just as soon as they stop believing in it, just like the drone war in Somalia, Yemen, and Pakistan.
More emotive BS and deliberate recontextualisation. These are exactly the points about language I was trying to make, but you do not want to address that. Statements and propositions are fully contextual and limited in relevance. If you take a statement, any statement, and reframe it within a different context, it decoheres in meaning. This is true for EVERY statement. All views are wrong views when you try to universalise them. Any fixed, reified, substantiated POV is ultimately logically flawed and does not reference anything outside language. This point is lost on you I’m sure. Nearly all of what we say is metaphoric. Again, this cognitive neuroscience has passed you by. The ‘Correspondence Theory of Truth’ is compromised by this: particularly if you read George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, or any of the cognitive linguistics. Language is more poetic than objective. It is never concretely real unless it is reified. Then… Read more »
I should point out that I am using two different parameters. Reporting on events, using the norms and conventions of language is one thing. Language is entirely competent for this as it is. Searching for deeper meaning, exposing the lies that cause the suffering, requires exposing how they arise in language. And they do, there is no question of that. Whether this is conventionally recognisable is another matter. Once again, if anyone wants to get to the bottom of why capitalism is killing us – the answers lie in the root of the linguistic symbolic conceptualised culture. As soon as you have self, you have Other. Repeat otherisations over deep ontological time result in alienation, destruction and death. That’s it. The rest is whistles and bells, levitation, crystals and faeries.
Hello BigB
I find your posts fascinating but am struggling to understand how to put your concepts into practice? Any suggestions?
Political and economic gangsters will keep getting away with it because they are never held to account – ever.
On the other hand those who report their crimes (Assange, Manning, Snowden) – well, just look at how they have been treated.
Why aren’t more people angry about this?
There are many more angry people around than you think – think Brexit, the Yellow Vests, Salvini – all are the tip of politically deep volcanic rumbles – it is just that their views do not get a hearing since the air space is taken up by MSM – but nothing is going to stop the eventual explosions. Closing the valve on the social pressure cooker isn’t going to stop it, in fact the explosions when they come will only be bigger and more comprehensive. I would prefer ‘People of the World’ but the following will do. ”We hear men speaking for us of new laws strong and sweet, Yet is there no man speaketh as we speak in the street. It may be we shall rise the last as Frenchmen rose the first, Our wrath come after Russia’s wrath and our wrath be the worst. It may be we… Read more »
Or as JFK said: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.”
Fire, chaos, shadows. Events trickling from a thin line of flame On into cries and combustions never expected The people have the element of surprise Where are the kings today? What has become of their solid and fastened thrones? Who are the temporary puppets holding sway while anything, “‘God only knows what,” waits around a corner, sits in the shadows and holds an ax, waiting for the appointed hour? “The czar has eight million men with guns and bayonets Nothing can happen to the czar The czar is the voice of God and shall live forever Turn and look at the forest of steel and cannon Where the czar is guarded by eight million soldiers Nothing can happen to the czar” They said that for years and m the summer of 1914 In the Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Fourteen As a portent and an assurance they said… Read more »
“Sometime in New York city” got Lennon the bullet, a protest album if ever I heard one.
There do seem to be some parallels among JFK, RFK, and Lennon in terms of m.o. You aren’t hinting at that are you? Nothing seems far fetched anymore.
My sentiments exactly. I no longer laugh at “mad conspiracy theories”. Lennon was one of the few remaining popular figures who could summon up mass audiences, who was regarded as an oppositional voice and who had not lost the most dangerous attribute of all: naivety.
After the patsy malfunction depicted below, the deep state resolved that future operations must preclude the possibility of such embarrassing incidents. For this reason, the use of MK-ULTRA patsies was decided upon. The function of MK-ULTRA patsies is to be observed at the scene, firing a handgun loaded with blanks, while the target is eliminated by professional assassins. Subsequently, the MK-ULTRA patsy can be paraded around as the paradigmatic “lone nut”, their obvious mental incompetence diverting any consideration of the possibility of a political assassination. The RFK and Lennon events are prominent examples of this pattern. The Reagan/Hinckley event may have been another, which failed because the professional sniper’s aim was slightly off.
I hope that Brexit will wipe the tax havens for the EU countries, at least partly. That means for EU earnings, no tax haven sweeteners from British territory will apply. If we look for taxes (= public demands for funds) only in the direction of individual taxpayers the show will collapse. The companies who benefit from the military conquests need to pay more. Stop the militarization, that should heal some of the budget and stop the appetite for violence/wars.
I never heard that Lennon song. I did however see that ghastly film “The Good Shepherd”; it was unmitigated crap on so many levels that it could only have been conceived, written, produced (and acted?) by the CIA themselves. What was it all about? I had to sit through it a second time! My take: the black girlfriend/fiancee of the son of the Matt Damon character, had pillow-talked from Jr. the Date Time and Place of the Bay of Pigs Invasion i.e. she was a spy for the Communists, and her info was the reason why the coup failed. She had to die, so gets thrown out of an aeroplane. (Stay with me, folks. You couldn’t make this stuff up – not sober anyway). So some 46 years after the BOP, the CIA was still trying to peddle why they lost. This is extreme disinformation because it is more than… Read more »
Note to self: the other creepy thing about the film “The Good Shepherd” is the utter corruption of that title, originally denoting Jesus Christ, not James Jesus Angleton. (Maybe he had a twin called Judas Angleton?).
We’re well into an era when people pick and choose what they want to believe, and call the rest “fake news.”
if they were given enough truth in the msm to make informed opinions about what was, and wasn’t, “fake” they wouldn’t need to be reading excellent sites like off-g, moa, craig murray etc etc.
nearly all “news” in mainstream outlets IS fake, or editorialised to the point of uselessness, so not sure what your point is?
Actually, some of us would nail that shameful mainstream ‘news’ sham, a tad more precisely >>>
d’Faked’h Fabian Society of disinformation, or
Ashkenazi Corporatist Weltanschauungskrieg 😉
Subliminally aligning perceptions, faked & false . . . traumatised young minds.
Go figure 🙂 dhFab.fakin’innit ! ?
Personally, i think mark’s suggestion for an Anti-Sem-Pandem™news detector, calibrated in Corbyn’s could be a hit >>> a bit like, (just imagine the notion, one moment)
IF We were “… well into an era when people pick and choose what they want to believe”
Imagine that dhfab, just firkin’ fabulous , imagine feeding them the Fabian Society.
May i ask if you consider Tony Blair in any way culpable or criminal
for his declaration of War against Iraq, with George Bush ?
Obviously you don’t believe the official ‘fable’ re. WTC 7, do you ?
Actually, some of us would nail that shameful mainstream ‘news’ al-sham, a tad more precisely >>> d’Faked’h Fabian Society of disinformation, or FFS for short 🙂 Ashkenazi Corporatist Weltanschauungskrieg 😉 ACW’s Battle of Stalingrad Suggestions B.O.S.S. Subliminally aligning perceptions, faked & false . . . traumatised young minds. Go figure 🙂 dhFab.fakin’innit ! ? Personally, i think mark’s suggestion for an Anti-Sem-Pandem™ news detector, calibrated in Corbyn’s could be a big-seller >>> a bit like, (just imagine the delightful notion, just for a moment) IF We were “… well into an era when people pick and choose what they want to believe” Imagine that dhfab, just firkin’ fabulous , imagine feeding them the Fabian Society ? May i ask if you consider Tony Blair in any way culpable or criminal for his illegal declaration of War against Iraq, with George Bush ? Obviously you don’t believe the official ‘fable’ re.… Read more »
https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/25518/Linking+MI6,+BP,+LSE+and+Libya The Fabian Society has foundational elements & exceedingly strong consistent historic links to the LSE. May i ask your reason for choice of name dhfabian@OffG & any loyalties you may have felt you disguised ? (chuckle) i’m sure i can speak for @Admin when i say, Yer’ quite welcome to comment, as we are collectively neither for censorship nor hidden agendas here@OffG, it would seem, unlike most today: when trying to face problems, we tend to find the collective ‘truth’ as we know it, shared, speeds the evolution of constructive thought processes, speeding clarifications, especially if someone’s paid to comment or just plain observe, periodically interjecting . . . ! ? Rather than the more pro-active role of the 77th Brigade Mi6@theGuardian, herding d’Sheeple 🙂 ***************************************** The people could only know what to believe , if they were in possession of the full facts, in real time, otherwise, decision… Read more »
Yes, it is all the fault of the reader. Is that it?
And here’s his other classic song for all us shitkickers.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w_7_lEOaU10