USA is full of BullShit

In my country, when people ascend to heights they gotta watch their asses because, in the blink of an eye, they could lose their Order Of Canada or Governor General's Award or, god forbid, fail while looking for a public latrine in British Columbia.
Or get deported, like we did to Wayne Gretzky.

General Hand Granade

I hate the look of the thing, but it sounds good.The guy posted it said it was a song about nothing. It has few lines but it is simply put. It isn't about nothing, it is about General Hand Grenade. In his motorcade, and a women watching him cavort among his drone pilots.

 

[Continuing post from LL's light reading thread]

I hated school because all this PC bullshit made it fucking boring. Nobody has the balls to say stuff anymore. I would participate in "classroom discussion," then it's Homan shut up, we don't need to hear any more from you. They wouldn't say it directly, but I got their point. Apparently, I sometimes offend people when I speak. Who would have thought that? Sometimes in excess of 50% of the grade was "classroom discussion" or do exactly as I do for several mindless courses I was forced to endure on the hopes the professor wasn't a complete retard. Fuck your First Amendment, Yank. We've all got jackboots now. To be honest, I'm proud of all ~16 failing marks I have on my transcript (been awhile since I've seen that rag). It tells me I wasn't able to be tamed into the mindless drone that I'm supposed to be by abject morons with doctorates and tenure. However, this labels me as unproductive, or having a touch of idiocy, a lack of attention to detail, or some other label that people have for me. It's a bit surreal waking up from freedom and becoming conscious in slavery. I'm secretly (now overtly) hoping for a revolution in this country, or for it to all fall apart without the need for revolution (Which has the greatest chances for success. We're fucking idiots over here).

After that nightmare of an "education," I return to the world, and as I start to think, I have an inkling of how much of an idiot I truly am. With all these people complaining about how the system is broken, corrupt, bastardized, and fuck all else, it does make it difficult to determine if I'm the idiot, or if we're all idiots. If people were honest and pointed out that I'm an idiot, I would probably agree, but after having a certain degree of academic success (less the failing marks from college because I pissed off quite a few professors), it is bewildering to understand that I am, in that instance, a moron.

The crux seems to be that we have deprived our people of thinking for themselves. Thus, image is everything. Those who control the rubber stamp that is your academic transcript give you the image that you are knowledgeable, when in reality, most of these "intelligent" folk are absolutely asinine in nature (see politicians, corporate business management, pharmaceutical chemists [Viagra, Cialis, Testosterone pills, SSRI drugs (read: poison)], and pretty much any occupation that falls under this umbrella).

The question I've been trying to answer, since it's all gone very, very wrong, is how did we get into this position. Lately, I've been trying to follow the assumption that we aren't stupid, follow a logical and reasonable approach to decision making, and have the best intentions for our actions. I must be honest, that really warps my mind sometimes when I limit myself to those assumptions. For example, I'm still having issues with understanding how Nixon thought the best way to "win" the Cold War was to sell most all of our manufacturing to China in order to try and divide China and Russia or whatever the reason for doing that was so we could "win." I struggle with how the PC movement was supposed to support and empower liberty by morally restricting our First Amendment rights. I question our system of campaign fundraising, and how it seems to have created a corporate oligarchy, utterly divorced from the people. I cannot fathom how it is right for a company that has a mass layoff of 5,000 people or more to say that it is still viable and a good investment simply because they increased their profit margin for the quarter while only maintaining or, in most cases, having a decline in last quarter's production and/or sales figures, that thing that occurs when there's less demand for whatever that corporation is producing. I am perplexed by the logic of how sending an army after a small group of people that I am no longer sure are the criminals is supposed to reduce the "terrorist threat." I'm still not sure if I'm supposed to laugh when they say we're fighting a War on Terror. I'm not sure that the people elected Bush to a second term. I only see Obama fighting the War on Terror with slightly more intelligence by sending in drone strikes and SEAL teams instead of a large ground force.

The only thing that would have all of these actions make sense is if only one of these assumptions are false. Here in the United States, though, we are overachievers. I can see one or more of these assumptions failing in all of the above examples. My country has become an animal all to it's own, an abomination of what was first envisioned for it. This is what I currently believe. I'm probably a dumbass for posting it on the internet, and now marked for writing this, but there it is. How this country will return to the Republic it once was I may never know, but I do hope that for the good of the nation that we do become a government of the people, by the people, for the people under a rule of law once again. This rule of the corporations, by their government, for the profit has ruined us, and is nearing the destruction of the United States. I'm not sure how this benefits anyone, but if we don't return to the roots that made us what we are today, nothing could survive to grow out of the ashes. I'm not even sure how a "world currency" will save us. It only delays the inevitable destruction of any conspiracy that may or may not exist. Any corruption at a movement's core shall destroy it, no matter how successful it will become. Just look at the [insert Empire here]. They never survive long once their excess allows their virtue to diminish. It leaves nothing to support those who support the Empire, both the willing and unwitting. I look at my leadership, and all that I see is madness. Insanity. Inexorable greed. Usury. Deceit. All to a degree seemingly beyond what people in history have drawn and quartered people for. They rule us by imposing fear, determining that they are the security against it, and yet, provide no such security. This will be bloody if it does not cease, and I dare not think of the scale. What a waste it will be if that plan does come to be realized.

 

At which point did this shining beacon of liberty you're glorifying there really exist? The current state of affairs sucks, now doubt about that. But I can't for the life of me think of any point in the past when things weren't actually WORSE than now.

(And that goes pretty much for the entire "Western" world, not just the U.S.).

 

Mumble:
I am gonna quote that [verbatim] on my Google+ stream.
I am widely read. By 23 people....

 

Did you drop your classes, or are you still in college/uni? Usually it's best to stick it out if you can afford it. It can't hurt.

What are you reading? The gloss of idealism fades with inquiry.

You can always fall back on Epictetus if you're feeling down. I like to think of stoicism as the secularist's version of "this too shall pass."

While I find myself cursing at the world daily, I try to remember that I'm witnessing interesting things -- even if they are "bad" -- which is better than any alternative.

And, of course, the more you know of history, the more you recognize that so-called "current events" are really late-night movie repeats (that's more of a baby boomer reference).

Last night I started to re-read Father's and Sons. First book I bought with my new e-reader. Setting all of the academic crap aside, I think this novel conveys a lot of universal truths. Thinking about it now because of events in Russia, the USA and elsewhere.

Not much is new in this world

 

Blah, I don't even know what that was about anymore. I guess I got frustrated that I'm still selling the big issue. Things should turn up eventually. Shit happens in cycles.

 

We Americans like Vonnegut. Because I must drive for hours on our horrible highways, I listen to stuff to keep sane. Check out this site: New Books Network.

Looseleaf? You know Vonny

 

Ya, if if you listen to that interview with the biography's author, the guy sounds almost human Imagine that: an author being human

 

Ever imagine what went through Eric Blair's mind? Do you know who he is? The guy that wrote 1984. George Orwell. Is he of any relation to Tony?

 

well said mumble..if it makes you feel better you are not alone.
Like i said before most political systems only last about 300 years then there is a revolution. the US is due for a big one soon..

My own personal opinion, if you care to hear it, is that the US has taken afghanistan and Iraq and will now need to manufacture an excuse to invade Iran. Also, there are concrete plans to invade syria and Jordan as well.

In ther next 10 years or more likely in the next year or so there will be some sort of catastrphe in the US, either a nuclear hit on a city or bio attack that will kill thousands and make 911 look like a baloney fart. This will provide the justification for martial law and the imprisonment of all non conformists. Laws have been passed by the Obama administration regarding this. You now have laws in the US whereby anyone deemed a terrorist can be jailed indefinately without trial or charge or legal counsel. They just grab you and say you are a terrorist and you go to a place like guantanamo. Forever.

The average american, sitting at home watching gerry springer and drinking the new coke, has no idea about any of this.

Hopefully all of this will backfire and some sort of anti masonic government will be formed. many years ago in the US there was a lodge in gettysburg PEnnsylvannia and some of the local townsfok figuered out just what the fuck the civil war was really all about, and they put together an anti masonic newspaper and a petition to close down the fucking lodge down and BY GOD IT HAPPENED. (FU albert pike and the knights of the golden circle too)

Your best bet

you hoo

 

You wouldn't be a big fan of David Icke, would you?

 

So far, there have been NO "eye witnesses" seeing the planes with naked eyes. EVERYONE so far quoted or commenting saw it on TV monitor, mostly via a digital TV camera.

I noticed later on the first day, the 11th every time the major companies broadcast the hits on the towers, the broadcast banners covered the moment of impact.

CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, ALL of them blanked-out the actual impact without any commentary as to why.

I smelled a very large RAT and then discovered one.

So just like when they killed JFK. I started immediately to collect information because I knew the bastards could not hide all of it all right away.

 

You know you're insane, right?

 

Mad as a hatter.....


... I don't advocate insanity for everyone, but it works for me!




you may recognize that I am paraphrasing H.S. Thompson