In primitive times, a shaman held responsibility for the knowledge and history of the tribe. Sure, everybody would help, but one or two people would show a capacity for memory, for reading natural signs and for mending trauma and interpersonal relations. And in between their own hunting or providing for themselves, they would devote their energy to shamanism.
As soon as we invented writing, the tribe's knowledge could be written down, and the position of shaman filled by a bureaucrat. Security of knowledge threatened to shift from hinging on the pittance of community acknowledgement required by the shaman, to "who owns the books" and/or "who can read".
Knowledge preserved in books that is not memorized or does not stem from historical or intellectual context, ie: living memory, is knowledge that can actually be destroyed.
A job requiring interpretation of information in context differs from one which requires only reactive response to data. This is a fancy way of saying, a bureaucrat can be accurate, but a shaman is always right.
The miserable human world is contorting a number of ways - high rate of suicide, burgeoning drug abuse, violence and inequality. This is because there is a shamanic deficiency. People equate artistry with shamanism because of the charisma and image of popular artists. But artists are some of the most deficient, useless/dangerous people I've ever met.
Artistry is just one skill. You could have a guy who was a crap father, but if he took his son fishing that one time, and if his son learnt something about life and death and the order of things from the dad, he still would have accomplished more than most artists do in their lifetime. Artists in the mainstream right now inflame people's desires, patch over their spiritual wounds and remove them from their heads to numb their feeling that something is wrong. Those things will always sell.
We have a terrible shamanic/historical disconnect in Canada right now. Our elders from the last generation are almost all gone. It would be bearable if we had an intact shamanic tradition with a sound line of context. We're actually going to have to fake it until we catch up to modern techniques and their consequences because right now they're all out there competing with us and they're not going away. Which is horribly dangerous because our link to the ancient past is severed.
In Nazi Germany in the 1930's and '40's, Jews were marked with a yellow Star of David. They were rounded up and taken to prison camps. There they would be worked heartlessly until they were deemed no longer fit to contribute to the work, and killed.
The whole thing was about the science of work - scapegoating Jews for Germany's ills was clearly a front (though racial hatred is extremely effective for motivating unthinking idiots)...
If the Nazis killed a great number of Jews, it was because so many were dying of work, or were old and not able-bodied, et cetera.
Or they killed many Jews because the sheer number of Jews who were being pulled out of Nazi countries out of the momentum of idiot hatred, threatened to overwhelm their logistics and precious bureaucracy. Extermination is a convenient oversimplification.
The Nazi regime was imploded after the required data had been gathered. The Nazis were suckers, really. All their backers actually wanted was to study a modern working scenario of slave labour.
The slave camps still exist, everywhere:
How naive it is to think, in our global world, that one must be on a particular side of a fence to be a captive...
How easy it must be, now, to mark a citizen, not with a star, or a heart or a rainbow, but with a bureaucratic flag that makes their career prospects fail, their medical tests get lost or mishandled, and their pleas to authority go unanswered...
How tragic and cruel it seems, on the surface, that vengeance is reserved for God alone.
The whole thing was about the science of work - scapegoating Jews for Germany's ills was clearly a front (though racial hatred is extremely effective for motivating unthinking idiots)...
If the Nazis killed a great number of Jews, it was because so many were dying of work, or were old and not able-bodied, et cetera.
Or they killed many Jews because the sheer number of Jews who were being pulled out of Nazi countries out of the momentum of idiot hatred, threatened to overwhelm their logistics and precious bureaucracy. Extermination is a convenient oversimplification.
The Nazi regime was imploded after the required data had been gathered. The Nazis were suckers, really. All their backers actually wanted was to study a modern working scenario of slave labour.
The slave camps still exist, everywhere:
How naive it is to think, in our global world, that one must be on a particular side of a fence to be a captive...
How easy it must be, now, to mark a citizen, not with a star, or a heart or a rainbow, but with a bureaucratic flag that makes their career prospects fail, their medical tests get lost or mishandled, and their pleas to authority go unanswered...
How tragic and cruel it seems, on the surface, that vengeance is reserved for God alone.
Marijuana. They're going to legalize it, they're going to tax and regulate it. And it's going to be agony.
The Conservatives took home growing away, so now we will have some kinda mutant private companies running this newly-decriminalized industry?...
I've been watching business and companies and how they work in the modern era. See, people in their hunger for power skipped selling things, and started selling things that sell things, ie: companies.
So the obvious endgame of all of these "Licensed Marijuana Grower Companies" that are starting to spring up, is the eventual sale of their company, or else an IPO to a group of shareholders.
Buying or buying in, Big Tobacco, Big Alcohol, Big Pharmaceuticals or maybe Big Food will take control of the weed racket. Where is our advantage as citizens?
How can a private company, that survives on profit, take care of a compassionate industry in any way that can be considered ethical? How can a private profitable company take responsible charge of marketing and distributing entheogens?
How is it considered ethical, instead of letting people grow a plant, to have to construct trade pathways for fleets of trucks of pallets of bags of weed, when people could grow it in their yard?
Rt. Hon. Thomas Mulcair wrote to me. Or I wish I could believe that. Rather more what I believe to have happened is that my letter got parsed out of the thousands in his mailbox, into the "Malcontent - Coalition Party" stream.
As usual, I will present Mr. Mulcair's text in plain text with my comments in italics.
As usual, I will present Mr. Mulcair's text in plain text with my comments in italics.
Dear Christopher,
Thank you for your email. I appreciate hearing your views.
As Leader of the NDP, I am proud to lead a party that stands for building a better, fairer, cleaner and more prosperous Canada. We have a positive, optimistic vision for Canada's future—one where all Canadians enjoy a better quality and standard of life. And, we believe we can best achieve this when we work together. I am fully committed to uniting progressive-minded Canadians of all stripes under the NDP banner and I am focussed on building up our organization across the country in order to defeat the Conservatives.
As you know, in 2008-2009 we proposed an agreement to work together with the other opposition parties to remove Prime Minister Harper, but the Liberals backed out. Fast-forward to May of 2011 when over four and a half million Canadians voted for the NDP’s vision for Canada. Now, thanks to our strong team of 100 MPs, the NDP is best positioned to defeat and replace the Conservatives.
I must respectfully beg to differ. The late groundswell of support for the NDP was occasioned by the personality of the late Jack Layton; and was considerably augmented by the overt evil of the CPC and the arrogance and cluelessness of Michael Ignatieff on behalf of the Federal Liberals. Don't be so hasty to rest on your laurels. It must be remembered that the NDP has still never formed a government in this country. Canadians need reassurance that it will not be a complete shitfuck. I mean, the CPC is experienced, and look at the shitfuck they have authored. Moving on...
While common ground can be found on some issues, it is also true that no middle ground can be found on others. The Liberal party is the same old party—the one that for 13 years did not deliver for Canadians. Their record in government tells the same tale as the Conservative record: plagued by scandals, they offered help for their well-connected friends, but nothing for Canadians. They took no action on daycare and they balanced budgets by downloading billions in health and education expenses on the provinces. Time and again we have seen that there is nothing progressive about the Liberals when as government they fail to act on their progressive promises made during an election campaign. On top of this dismal past, their hope for the future, Justin Trudeau, refuses to share his plan with Canadians—perhaps he has no plan.
Oh, no!! O tired, tired, tired. I am so tired of hearing this same tweaked paragraph. It arises every single time an NDP'er opens their mouth. I believe the thrust of my letter in the first place was that it is well past time to attack the Liberals. Like, if you are on a raft in the middle of the ocean with a pig and a bear, and the bear is eyeing the both of you up to eat, don't slag off the pig. That was kinda the entire point of my letter. This response is its antithesis.
That is pretty much a fail in my eyes right there. More evidence this is not a legitimate letter written to ME. If Mr. Mulcair, who is a very astute man, had the time to sit down and consider my letter properly, he would know that the LAST thing I want to hear is a bunch of shit about the competition.
If he took the time to do an advanced search and some background, he would even know that I have exposed MP/MLA spam letters before.
I'm not even saying what they're doing (form letter/quasi-form) is wrong. I'm saying that it doesn't work. Sending me a spam makes me feel even more like I am not represented in the least in Ottawa. Now that you mention it, I still have not heard back from Murray Rankin... T.M. generated a response in mere days. So how about my elected representative??!? Doesn't he have less to do than the Leader of the Official Opposition Himself??!?!?!??! Moving on...
Canadians deserve better. And New Democrats will do better. We will strive for more, for a better life for all Canadians. You can count on us to deliver things that matter; like quality jobs, improved healthcare, protected pensions and seniors retiring with dignity.
And, unlike the Liberals, New Democrats have always been consistent proponents of electoral reform. We have repeatedly called for changes to our first-past-the-post electoral system by combining it with a proportional representation system that more accurately reflects the political will and decisions of the voting public.
For example, in March 2011, the NDP tabled a motion calling for the House of Commons to appoint a Special Committee for Democratic Improvement. Unfortunately, the Conservatives, Liberals and the Bloc voted against the motion. We are now acting on what would have been the mandate of this Committee–-to engage with Canadians, and make recommendations to Parliament on how best to achieve a House of Commons that more accurately reflects the votes of Canadians by combining direct election by electoral district and proportional representation.
We reaffirmed our dedication to this system by a resolution passed at our most recent convention. Please see below a copy of the NDP resolution on electoral reform.
For too long Canadians were told there were only two parties to vote for, that they’d have to settle for less. They deserve better than constant switching back and forth between Conservative and Liberal corruption. Canadians now have another choice—they know that they can choose to vote for the change they want and with the NDP, they will get it.
We have a solid plan, a strong, expert shadow cabinet and we are ready to take on Stephen Harper to win in 2015. What’s more, we will do all of this without abandoning the party’s core principles of fairness and social justice. We are working hard to prove to Canadians that we have the experience to govern and that we are the only alternative to Stephen Harper’s Conservatives.
Please be assured that we will continue working with all progressive-minded Canadians, towards achieving our vision for Canada.
Again, I appreciate you sharing your concerns with me.
Best regards,
Thomas Mulcair, M.P. (Outremont)
Leader of the Official Opposition
New Democratic Party of Canada
Mr. Mulcair, I am pleased that you or by dint your office took the time to craft a reply for me, even if it needed to be generalized to reply to many people. But I am still not satisfied. Despite the positioning of the NDP as a fresh, ethical party committed to reform and fairness, I'll believe it when I see it.
The great tragedy of the Left, the failing that made Ted Kaczynski despise the Left so much, is that they are welcoming and inclusive; and at the same time, refuse to co-operate. Faced with the unified, monolithic, evil of the fascist Right, the Left is consistently infirm of purpose and far too obsessed with their own special unique identities to work together to achieve, well, anything more than spasmodic improvements that are quickly rolled back.
The great tragedy of the Left, the failing that made Ted Kaczynski despise the Left so much, is that they are welcoming and inclusive; and at the same time, refuse to co-operate. Faced with the unified, monolithic, evil of the fascist Right, the Left is consistently infirm of purpose and far too obsessed with their own special unique identities to work together to achieve, well, anything more than spasmodic improvements that are quickly rolled back.
I express Solidarity with the principles of the Anti-Fracking Demonstration slated to take place across the world tomorrow, October 19th 2013. I affirm the graveness of the situation, the need for immediate action, and that it is imperative to avoid violence.
Just because vampires came and ruined swathes of Pennsylvania, doesn't mean it must happen to us. Just because a police car is burning, doesn't mean a citizen is responsible. Just because a bloody shirt is waved in the air, doesn't mean that there must be violence. Just because they are a cop, doesn't mean they are on the side of injustice. And in case you are a violent anarchist Black Bloc planted hypocrite, get the fuck off of my island and take your black coloured gall with you. The Island society rejects you; so leave, before you get hurt.
Ms. Clark, Ms. Redford, Mr. HARPER, Mr. Trudeau, Mr. Mulcair, the whole damned lot of you are as hollow as the most disappointing pistachio in the bag of shells. You are Rightly Dishonourable put next to the lowliest citizen. We have been accountable to you all these decades. We fill your courts and your prisons. The sweat of our brows pays for your meals and houses. YOU WORK FOR US. NOW IT IS OUR TURN FOR ACCOUNTABILITY. THIS IS THE WATER WE DRINK. THIS IS THE AIR WE BREATHE. THIS IS OUR LIFE AND OUR CHILDREN'S LIFE AND OUR GRANDCHILDREN'S LIFE. AND THIS IS OUR COUNTRY. DEVILS BEGONE FROM US NOW. THIS IS ONLY MY WARNING TO GIVE.
Just because vampires came and ruined swathes of Pennsylvania, doesn't mean it must happen to us. Just because a police car is burning, doesn't mean a citizen is responsible. Just because a bloody shirt is waved in the air, doesn't mean that there must be violence. Just because they are a cop, doesn't mean they are on the side of injustice. And in case you are a violent anarchist Black Bloc planted hypocrite, get the fuck off of my island and take your black coloured gall with you. The Island society rejects you; so leave, before you get hurt.
Ms. Clark, Ms. Redford, Mr. HARPER, Mr. Trudeau, Mr. Mulcair, the whole damned lot of you are as hollow as the most disappointing pistachio in the bag of shells. You are Rightly Dishonourable put next to the lowliest citizen. We have been accountable to you all these decades. We fill your courts and your prisons. The sweat of our brows pays for your meals and houses. YOU WORK FOR US. NOW IT IS OUR TURN FOR ACCOUNTABILITY. THIS IS THE WATER WE DRINK. THIS IS THE AIR WE BREATHE. THIS IS OUR LIFE AND OUR CHILDREN'S LIFE AND OUR GRANDCHILDREN'S LIFE. AND THIS IS OUR COUNTRY. DEVILS BEGONE FROM US NOW. THIS IS ONLY MY WARNING TO GIVE.
Mr. Mulcair, if the Federal NDP and Liberal Party do not co-operate to remove the CPC from power, your party will dwindle to a rump party and the CPC may win anyway. It is well beyond time to stop attacking the Liberals and work alongside them in a partnership, which I remind you should have happened all those winters ago before the Conservative majority win.
Only co-operation between the NDP and Liberal Party will begin to extricate our beloved country from this hell; for which we are the more responsible the further we stand from a hand-to-mouth existence. Give the voters something to vote for!!!!
I am writing Mr. Trudeau now.
Regards
Christopher X BFA
Victoria
Mr. Trudeau, I regretfully inform you that your party's presence in the West is weak and uninspiring. The Federal Liberal Party must co-operate with the NDP if we wish to unseat the Conservatives and save our beautiful country from this hell. Otherwise we risk another Conservative majority. Attacking and battling the NDP only chills the political environment on the left and is the cause for the leftward voter's cynicism and detachment.
Bleak years ago, there was the prospect of a coalition which could have prevented the Conservative majority win. This was a shocking opportunity for the parties to forgo.
I have also written to Mr. Mulcair.
Regards
Christopher X BFA
Victoria
To: INFO
Subject: Marc Mayrand and why young people don't vote.
Hello, my name is Christopher and I am 32. I regrettably only had time to scan Mr. Mayrand's editorial piece in Victoria's Times Colonist newspaper today. I am sure it is an astute analysis from the official standpoint, drawing on a vast amount of useful data.
I wish to provide a layman's opinion on the matter. Young people don't vote because they see politics as a depressing game where everyone wins except themselves. Take British Columbia's recent upset election. I didn't vote because I didn't trust ANY of the candidates/parties further than I could throw them. I read extensively and agonized over this decision, which was frustrating to take, especially in light of the outcome!! The problem, in my eyes, is not that insufficient people voted for the NDP. The problem is that so many people STILL VOTED LIBERAL.
From my standpoint as a print shop worker making about $25,000 yearly, these people who vote for serial liars and criminals (going for the federal Conservatives equally) must be accepting bribes.
Disengagement is the direct result of the corruption and filth evident throughout politics. Young people are pretty sharp, and they know snakes in suits when they hear them talk! So they stay out of politics, since it is depressing, and expel the nervous energy of denial into crime, drugs and other forms of social discord.
Thank you for your time.
Stop Firing My Girlfriend
History demonstrates that she doesn't need for her employer to be polite, or even competent. She's the hardest-working, most pathologically honest and fair person I've ever me. So tell me, Employers, if you're just going to fire her at intervals, WHAT IS THE POINT?
What the FUCK is the point of building up skills and experience, of networking, of being polite and making yourself available, of working like a slave, if it can all just be snatched away out of the blue?
Be careful, employer. You are breeding a fatalistic, suicidal generation. NOTHING will save you when you are old and weak. It's obvious, really.
What does it mean to be Canadian? Well I know how it feels.
It's a feeling of moral cleanliness. Not because we are flawless, or blameless. No people is perfect!
A true Canadian finds out everything they can, pushing themselves to do right by everyone around them. That's what it is to be Canadian. Be peaceful, strong and clean.
It's a feeling of moral cleanliness. Not because we are flawless, or blameless. No people is perfect!
A true Canadian finds out everything they can, pushing themselves to do right by everyone around them. That's what it is to be Canadian. Be peaceful, strong and clean.
So a Liberal, a Green and an NDP'er come on The House with Evan Solomon. Sounds like the start of a funny joke, right?
They are talking about co-operation between non-CPC parties. A topic very dear to my heart! Yeah!! Let's heave Steve and stop the water from rising. That's the most important thing, right? Then we can get back to being the greatest country in the world!! We can come together to do this!!! Go Canada!!!! Alright, what do they have to say? Coalition party?
Evan: Can political parties set aside their differences, and collaborate in an election campaign?
Liberal Joyce Murray: "Well, we're running a great candidate, and we want everyone to..." Completely missing the point, off in their own little narcissistic, sycophantic world.
NDP Megan Leslie: "We've got to defeat Stephen Harper at this crucial moment in history... so we can change the electoral system." Whaaat!?!
Green Elizabeth May: "Our Party is run by our membership, and during our last convention we passed a number of resolutions permitting co-operation..."
Me: Yes, yes??
Green: "... With the goal of changing the electoral system." Aww!
Maybe it would be nice to come up with another electoral system, but THAT'S NOT THE BIGGEST FISH WE HAVE TO FRY RIGHT NOW. So FUCK ALL OF YOU. WE NEED TO RECLAIM OUR COUNTRY FROM CPC PUPPET MASTERS. SO WHY DON'T YOU COMMUNIST SHITS JUST CO-OPERATE? And why are we talking "one-time co-operation" NOW when it could have happened in the last election? NONE OF THIS ANGUISH WAS IN ANY WAY NECESSARY. I'll say that again: NONE OF THIS ANGUISH WAS IN ANY WAY NECESSARY.
These people are all lying, manipulative actors. Worried that the pie might get smaller for politicians. That is what sets policy; that and warm and fuzzy feelings of being smart and righteous.
They are talking about co-operation between non-CPC parties. A topic very dear to my heart! Yeah!! Let's heave Steve and stop the water from rising. That's the most important thing, right? Then we can get back to being the greatest country in the world!! We can come together to do this!!! Go Canada!!!! Alright, what do they have to say? Coalition party?
Evan: Can political parties set aside their differences, and collaborate in an election campaign?
Liberal Joyce Murray: "Well, we're running a great candidate, and we want everyone to..." Completely missing the point, off in their own little narcissistic, sycophantic world.
NDP Megan Leslie: "We've got to defeat Stephen Harper at this crucial moment in history... so we can change the electoral system." Whaaat!?!
Green Elizabeth May: "Our Party is run by our membership, and during our last convention we passed a number of resolutions permitting co-operation..."
Me: Yes, yes??
Green: "... With the goal of changing the electoral system." Aww!
Maybe it would be nice to come up with another electoral system, but THAT'S NOT THE BIGGEST FISH WE HAVE TO FRY RIGHT NOW. So FUCK ALL OF YOU. WE NEED TO RECLAIM OUR COUNTRY FROM CPC PUPPET MASTERS. SO WHY DON'T YOU COMMUNIST SHITS JUST CO-OPERATE? And why are we talking "one-time co-operation" NOW when it could have happened in the last election? NONE OF THIS ANGUISH WAS IN ANY WAY NECESSARY. I'll say that again: NONE OF THIS ANGUISH WAS IN ANY WAY NECESSARY.
These people are all lying, manipulative actors. Worried that the pie might get smaller for politicians. That is what sets policy; that and warm and fuzzy feelings of being smart and righteous.
Very angry right now.
In the morning and on my breaks all I read about is how politicians are stealing and wasting our money. And how taxpaying citizens, some of them vulnerable, suffer.
I make less than $22,000 a year while in Ottawa crooks make hundreds of thousands. They just lost three billion dollars, god-knows-where, in some counter-terrorism budgetary fuck-up. Why isn't someone sitting in jail right now??
... They say they give me a representative I can contact with my concerns, but that craven sack of crap won't even answer a simple letter. Fuck him!!
The left in this country refuses to co-operate even at the crack of doom. I suspect communist subversives, and I'm not fucking kidding. Youtube Yuri Bezmenov. Watch some old Alex Jones. You've got neo-fascist ogres pitted against Pollyannaish people who think rocks and trees should have the same rights as human beings.
You've got people everywhere who think the purpose of life is to make some money so you can be comfy and watch entertainment or do hobbies or raise more kids that are not as unique as they may think.
My patience is at an end. So let's make this simple. If you're planning on voting May 14th, in BC's shitty-ass provincial election, vote NDP. If you vote Green, it is the same as voting Liberal. If you don't understand why I'm not telling you as I've been over this. Do some damn research. I will not be voting because I hate every single one of our politicians. Party politics is a rigged game with two equally unappealing sides to the coin... and a bunch of starry-eyed idiot idealists whose purpose is to sideline as many other starry-eyed idiot idealists as they can.
And an end-note that might sound odd coming from me. Don't let yourself be radicalized. If you are considering blowing something up or killing people, go out to the forest and stay there. Chop down a tree and beg it for forgiveness. Chances are you'll feel better. Violent action will only lead to more hurt and more radicals, and more of our decisions made for us. It's about as useful as getting the cheat codes for your favourite video game. Don't expect feelings of justice. Don't associate with anyone who espouses violence. They are lighting your fuse for their own reasons, and won't be there when you fall down.
This is how evil triumphs over good, in this world at least. This is our civilization, rotted and evil notwithstanding all its comforts and joys.
In the morning and on my breaks all I read about is how politicians are stealing and wasting our money. And how taxpaying citizens, some of them vulnerable, suffer.
I make less than $22,000 a year while in Ottawa crooks make hundreds of thousands. They just lost three billion dollars, god-knows-where, in some counter-terrorism budgetary fuck-up. Why isn't someone sitting in jail right now??
... They say they give me a representative I can contact with my concerns, but that craven sack of crap won't even answer a simple letter. Fuck him!!
The left in this country refuses to co-operate even at the crack of doom. I suspect communist subversives, and I'm not fucking kidding. Youtube Yuri Bezmenov. Watch some old Alex Jones. You've got neo-fascist ogres pitted against Pollyannaish people who think rocks and trees should have the same rights as human beings.
You've got people everywhere who think the purpose of life is to make some money so you can be comfy and watch entertainment or do hobbies or raise more kids that are not as unique as they may think.
My patience is at an end. So let's make this simple. If you're planning on voting May 14th, in BC's shitty-ass provincial election, vote NDP. If you vote Green, it is the same as voting Liberal. If you don't understand why I'm not telling you as I've been over this. Do some damn research. I will not be voting because I hate every single one of our politicians. Party politics is a rigged game with two equally unappealing sides to the coin... and a bunch of starry-eyed idiot idealists whose purpose is to sideline as many other starry-eyed idiot idealists as they can.
And an end-note that might sound odd coming from me. Don't let yourself be radicalized. If you are considering blowing something up or killing people, go out to the forest and stay there. Chop down a tree and beg it for forgiveness. Chances are you'll feel better. Violent action will only lead to more hurt and more radicals, and more of our decisions made for us. It's about as useful as getting the cheat codes for your favourite video game. Don't expect feelings of justice. Don't associate with anyone who espouses violence. They are lighting your fuse for their own reasons, and won't be there when you fall down.
This is how evil triumphs over good, in this world at least. This is our civilization, rotted and evil notwithstanding all its comforts and joys.
From Globalnews.ca:
Lawyer Robert Shirkey says the warning labels on [gas station] nozzles would be similar to those found on cigarette packages and would act to warn users of the negative effects of fossil fuels.
“The future of the planet is literally in the palm of your hand (when you pick up the nozzle),” Shirkey, founder of Our Horizon, told an audience Thursday at the Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto.
“A lot of people won’t like seeing them but the placement is important because it speaks to diffusion of responsibility,” he said. “Collectively, we’re endangering the planet.”
The labels state that demand for fuel products may harm wildlife, damage ecosystems, cause drought and famine, cause anxiety and depression in children, and put 30 per cent of species at risk of extinction.
Pictures of at-risk arctic caribou, starving families in Africa, and a sad child looking at his own reflection accompany the warnings.
“Imagine if we see these labels every time, how long will it be before we demand more from government institutions,” said Shirkey.
Give me an alternative to using gasoline, then you can lecture me. Convince me that we lowly citizens who are just trying to survive, are more culpable than large companies that float cargo ships and expend jet fuel. And good luck getting that more from government you demand. A pie in the face of an elected official gets more reaction than ten thousand little sticker cultists ever will.
A label telling me I'm a bad person for buying gas when I don't have any choice will cause me anxiety and depression. These labels will even cause some people to act out and waste gas or rebel against good conservation suggestions. Shirkey's idea = part of problem. Not eco-prop at all but part of the web of programming intended to make us hurt ourselves and others before we can actualize.
A label telling me I'm a bad person for buying gas when I don't have any choice will cause me anxiety and depression. These labels will even cause some people to act out and waste gas or rebel against good conservation suggestions. Shirkey's idea = part of problem. Not eco-prop at all but part of the web of programming intended to make us hurt ourselves and others before we can actualize.
I just finished writing a book.
I grabbed a graphic novel at random and flipped to a story of an alien spacecraft slaughtering and harvesting dinosaurs and people, destroying a whole planet in horror. There might have been some shining heroes on the next page who would prevent this from happening elsewhere. But I'll never know because I was TOO DISGUSTED TO GO ON.
What is the point of creating heroes to triumph against great evil if you're creating great evil?? A distraction, that's the point.
That is why what I am proudest of right now is that my book creates no evil or distraction.
I grabbed a graphic novel at random and flipped to a story of an alien spacecraft slaughtering and harvesting dinosaurs and people, destroying a whole planet in horror. There might have been some shining heroes on the next page who would prevent this from happening elsewhere. But I'll never know because I was TOO DISGUSTED TO GO ON.
What is the point of creating heroes to triumph against great evil if you're creating great evil?? A distraction, that's the point.
That is why what I am proudest of right now is that my book creates no evil or distraction.
Condo dwellers must now sort their refuse into compost and garbage. This (like all eco-regime programs) is happening in the name of money, namely of taking ours and keeping it away from us. It is being done in the name of taking our time out of our lives and expending it. Of taking our energy and wasting it and frustrating it and subverting it...
If inorganic material makes it into the compost stream or vice versa, the waste collection company will penalize the residents. BECAUSE, if blah blah blah makes it to the dump, the dump people will penalize the waste collection company! It's a typical, Soviet Russia-style cascade arrangement that makes more work for everyone, makes everyone suspicious of everyone else, and defines no authority for final appeal. Stiff fine causing you financial difficulty? "Sorry, just doing my job!" says the guy who wants to show you leniency but can't.
Whether the WORKERS in this equation are levying fines, or picking out bits of garbage so they don't have to upset the nice old lady on the corner, everyone must work harder and the world becomes more prissy. People become more likely to act out, or turn inward and become sad and hurt themselves.
How will all of this sorting and separation be enforced? That's simple. By "RANDOM INSPECTIONS". How do you find your name on a RANDOM INSPECTION list? Simple! You offend the host. You are the teacher their kid doesn't like. You criticized the wine. That's how you end up on a list in the eco-regime. It is a scientific-sounding regime articulated by very human tyrants.
If inorganic material makes it into the compost stream or vice versa, the waste collection company will penalize the residents. BECAUSE, if blah blah blah makes it to the dump, the dump people will penalize the waste collection company! It's a typical, Soviet Russia-style cascade arrangement that makes more work for everyone, makes everyone suspicious of everyone else, and defines no authority for final appeal. Stiff fine causing you financial difficulty? "Sorry, just doing my job!" says the guy who wants to show you leniency but can't.
Whether the WORKERS in this equation are levying fines, or picking out bits of garbage so they don't have to upset the nice old lady on the corner, everyone must work harder and the world becomes more prissy. People become more likely to act out, or turn inward and become sad and hurt themselves.
How will all of this sorting and separation be enforced? That's simple. By "RANDOM INSPECTIONS". How do you find your name on a RANDOM INSPECTION list? Simple! You offend the host. You are the teacher their kid doesn't like. You criticized the wine. That's how you end up on a list in the eco-regime. It is a scientific-sounding regime articulated by very human tyrants.
Why does no-one ever push for the separation of State and Culture?
My girlfriend was in the military (awesome.) and has a true-to-heart if slightly idealized outlook that "If it's military, it's better." Military goes with what works because mucking about will get you killed and cause your mission to fail!
Similarly I think the trappings of mucking about in Culture detract from the health of a State. I go to my Canadian government for help. If I get there I won't care for graphics. I won't care for cushy chairs. I won't care for slickness. In fact it will turn me off. Because I know how much that stuff costs to design and produce, and to what extent it all represents inefficiency for the sake of a Cultural, ie: emotionally charged look. This is why sometimes I get pissed off walking around P3 buildings. The government partners with business to... why? I don't know! Get access to high-end finishes?!
If you're a State sworn to look after the health of your citizens, how anyone feels about it shouldn't matter. Just help me, or anyway leave me alone if it's only in the name of Culture. Or don't pretend like you're helping me.
My girlfriend was in the military (awesome.) and has a true-to-heart if slightly idealized outlook that "If it's military, it's better." Military goes with what works because mucking about will get you killed and cause your mission to fail!
Similarly I think the trappings of mucking about in Culture detract from the health of a State. I go to my Canadian government for help. If I get there I won't care for graphics. I won't care for cushy chairs. I won't care for slickness. In fact it will turn me off. Because I know how much that stuff costs to design and produce, and to what extent it all represents inefficiency for the sake of a Cultural, ie: emotionally charged look. This is why sometimes I get pissed off walking around P3 buildings. The government partners with business to... why? I don't know! Get access to high-end finishes?!
If you're a State sworn to look after the health of your citizens, how anyone feels about it shouldn't matter. Just help me, or anyway leave me alone if it's only in the name of Culture. Or don't pretend like you're helping me.
Again the damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't groan of an upcoming election in the country Canada. And again the choices fucking stink, I have to say.
All politicians are the scum of the Earth. They all pretend to be crusaders for the people, or at least to be fostering strength and stability; and they all are twisted behind the scene by influence peddlers and pure criminal instinct.
Good is good; evil evil. Beyond good and evil IS EVIL. Nothing is great unless it is good. We are all sinners. It is the ones with the arrogance to believe otherwise who are damned.
All politicians are the scum of the Earth. They all pretend to be crusaders for the people, or at least to be fostering strength and stability; and they all are twisted behind the scene by influence peddlers and pure criminal instinct.
Good is good; evil evil. Beyond good and evil IS EVIL. Nothing is great unless it is good. We are all sinners. It is the ones with the arrogance to believe otherwise who are damned.
It would appear I and the cable company have reached detente.
The first time the guy showed up late, and I had to send him away. I had work!
Today he showed up at the end of his 2-hour window. He did everything I needed for my household.
I would like to think that my yelling and screaming (more like being quite reasonably condemning) toward a succession of cubicle-dwelling CSRs would translate down the line into more than just a pittance of waived fees for me. For example, if this installer fellow is so put-upon with extra work, or paperwork, or whatever, it ought to be the responsibility and pleasure of the company to give him help so that he can arrive on time. It should be the company's pleasure to improve their service!!
Rather more what I suspect will happen is that this fellow will keep on doing the extra work, fielding indignant crap from unhappy clients who don't understand, until he one day decides he wants to do a different job where he can hold his head up with pride, do his best and be respected.
... And be replaced by some more or less foreign person (if it is not outrageously snobby of me) lacking the Canadian work ethic of quality. The type of person who understands just three things: hiring, pay and what will get them fired.
Or the kind of pasty white bespectacled assface like those at the celphone outlet who appear to thrive on getting shouted at, wasting people's time and telling them "no" for someone else's bullshit reasons.
The first time the guy showed up late, and I had to send him away. I had work!
Today he showed up at the end of his 2-hour window. He did everything I needed for my household.
I would like to think that my yelling and screaming (more like being quite reasonably condemning) toward a succession of cubicle-dwelling CSRs would translate down the line into more than just a pittance of waived fees for me. For example, if this installer fellow is so put-upon with extra work, or paperwork, or whatever, it ought to be the responsibility and pleasure of the company to give him help so that he can arrive on time. It should be the company's pleasure to improve their service!!
Rather more what I suspect will happen is that this fellow will keep on doing the extra work, fielding indignant crap from unhappy clients who don't understand, until he one day decides he wants to do a different job where he can hold his head up with pride, do his best and be respected.
... And be replaced by some more or less foreign person (if it is not outrageously snobby of me) lacking the Canadian work ethic of quality. The type of person who understands just three things: hiring, pay and what will get them fired.
Or the kind of pasty white bespectacled assface like those at the celphone outlet who appear to thrive on getting shouted at, wasting people's time and telling them "no" for someone else's bullshit reasons.
Companies or corporations are literally like demons.
They don't inhabit the visible world the same way you or I do. They don't want the same kinds of things we do, or think like we do. And you can't fight them the same way you can fight us.
Instead they build their little armies of cultists through payment and intimidation. They construct elaborate, evil plans to maim humanity and turn it more towards corruption and despair.
They don't inhabit the visible world the same way you or I do. They don't want the same kinds of things we do, or think like we do. And you can't fight them the same way you can fight us.
Instead they build their little armies of cultists through payment and intimidation. They construct elaborate, evil plans to maim humanity and turn it more towards corruption and despair.
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