GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS!
I am going through the motions of existence bereft of hope.
After sixteen years of living in the ‘state of nature’ that exists in South Florida I found existence there unbearable and simply walked away, or more accurately, drove away from my life there.
I ended up in Memphis, Tennessee and in a few short months have discovered that the fundamental problem is that all of humanity has become, over countless millennia, habituated to play the roles of predator or prey in precept and all else is just window-dressing, concepts that make no impact on the everyday lives of human beings.
The experiences that lighten the awesome burden my life has become, is Karaoke night every Tuesday at the motel in which I reside, and the fantasy I read.
A remarkable item in the consummate irony and ultimate paradox that pervades the social system in which I exist is that in creating fiction, whether in novels or television shows writers create human beings of good character who act out the values that we hold sacred, and, others who do not.
Seemingly oblivious of a social reality in which human beings are endlessly confined and consigned to reliving the past, over, and over, and over again, creating and recreating the ‘state of nature’ in which our culture evolved.
Whatever the religious beliefs they espouse, whatever their ideology, whatever the values they hold sacred; all the human beings I have encountered pay lip service to these ideals, opportunistically use them to justify and rationalize the patterns of behavior that they engage in as they play the roles of predator or prey.
I say again, there is only one social reality, that the vast majority of human beings cannot perceive because of economic, social or psychological interests that blind them, as intense thirst predisposes them to witness the phenomena that is a mirage, these interests validates eternally the truism, ‘beliefs are opportune they conceal interest.’
A Muslim leader describes President George Bush as the devil, a construct as old as time, one vested with diabolical intelligence and an entity with a capacity for Machiavellian designs, the epitome, the very embodiment of all that is evil.
I see President Bush as a daddy’s boy, wholly incompetent, an absolute idiot, with just enough sense to trade on his father’s name and reputation and use the results of opinion polls to spout the nonsense to manipulate a corrupt and wholly immoral media, and, dupe a body politic which is incapable of connecting the dots, to become President.
I seem him as a pitiful, mawkish figure with no vision, no ideas beyond that goal and so once he achieved that office, his incompetence, inexperience and stupidity made him a puppet on the strings of Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, a malleable but convincing front for bellicose personalities whose hawkish proclivities would bar them from ever achieving the plurality necessary to be elected themselves.
The devil he is not, just a really good example of the fact that competence can, and often does, breed incompetence; this is apparent in everything he attempts.
President Bush is dangerous because he is incapable of the introspection, rational contemplation and moral character that would produce an admission that he has made an error of gigantic proportions, because he is incapable of remorse so he will continue out of hubris to encompass the destruction of the young men and women of the United States of America; and, he has the spin doctors to provide the rationalizations and justifications that have caused him to avoid impeachment for his patently criminal activities.
This brings me to the root cause of my hopelessness, that the American body politic seems incapable of realizing that this President, and every other politician, is a servant of the people, and subject to the will of the people.
They continue, as do most populaces worldwide, to treat elected officials as they did Absolutist Rulers who had the power of life and death over them, not in theory but in fact.
They continue to be dependent on those they elect to be responsible for their lives, to provide for them the possibility of happiness, they decline to take responsibility for their lives and destinies.
The upcoming elections should be about changing for all time, that status quo.
The war in Iraq, which has for no good reason, taken the lives of twenty seven hundred Americans should preclude any other option.
The tragic turn of events in New Orleans which completely delineated and ruthlessly exposed the pervasive corruption and total incompetence of American political institutions should preclude any other result.
This totality of this situation, the abyss of despair that looms before this nation, should create an unstoppable impetus for change, should produce in every American the realization that the change that is required is not a sterile change in elites, as symbolized by a change to political institutions controlled by Democrats, but a cultural change, a change as fundamental as the total and complete rejection of the roles of predator and prey; a change as fundamental as unleashing an unquenchable desire for real freedom; a determination to overcome the Stygian darkness of the past, of the ‘state of nature’ and the undeniable will to journey into the light of liberty and true democracy.
I exist bereft of hope but find that I can never give up the struggle for freedom so I will continue to put in my two cents worth although it is ignored.
To save America’s soul we need to elect only those who sincerely promise that they will impeach this rogue President, the fool who would be king over Americans.
To ensure that every politician is convinced that the American body politic will no longer be duped by false promises, the people of Florida should recall their Governor because of his role in precipitating this debacle by installing faulty electoral machines in Democratic strongholds.
We should not consider any candidate who is in any way associated with television commercials because such candidates are owned by big money.
Every candidate should be required in town hall meetings to define poverty and construct a viable plan to overcome poverty.
It is time for Americans to realize and do all within their power to bring to an end the Age of ‘Might is Right’ and usher in an Age of Peace, Prosperity and Justice for all human beings.
William E. Virtue
Memphis, Tennessee
Ph:901-322-3800
After sixteen years of living in the ‘state of nature’ that exists in South Florida I found existence there unbearable and simply walked away, or more accurately, drove away from my life there.
I ended up in Memphis, Tennessee and in a few short months have discovered that the fundamental problem is that all of humanity has become, over countless millennia, habituated to play the roles of predator or prey in precept and all else is just window-dressing, concepts that make no impact on the everyday lives of human beings.
The experiences that lighten the awesome burden my life has become, is Karaoke night every Tuesday at the motel in which I reside, and the fantasy I read.
A remarkable item in the consummate irony and ultimate paradox that pervades the social system in which I exist is that in creating fiction, whether in novels or television shows writers create human beings of good character who act out the values that we hold sacred, and, others who do not.
Seemingly oblivious of a social reality in which human beings are endlessly confined and consigned to reliving the past, over, and over, and over again, creating and recreating the ‘state of nature’ in which our culture evolved.
Whatever the religious beliefs they espouse, whatever their ideology, whatever the values they hold sacred; all the human beings I have encountered pay lip service to these ideals, opportunistically use them to justify and rationalize the patterns of behavior that they engage in as they play the roles of predator or prey.
I say again, there is only one social reality, that the vast majority of human beings cannot perceive because of economic, social or psychological interests that blind them, as intense thirst predisposes them to witness the phenomena that is a mirage, these interests validates eternally the truism, ‘beliefs are opportune they conceal interest.’
A Muslim leader describes President George Bush as the devil, a construct as old as time, one vested with diabolical intelligence and an entity with a capacity for Machiavellian designs, the epitome, the very embodiment of all that is evil.
I see President Bush as a daddy’s boy, wholly incompetent, an absolute idiot, with just enough sense to trade on his father’s name and reputation and use the results of opinion polls to spout the nonsense to manipulate a corrupt and wholly immoral media, and, dupe a body politic which is incapable of connecting the dots, to become President.
I seem him as a pitiful, mawkish figure with no vision, no ideas beyond that goal and so once he achieved that office, his incompetence, inexperience and stupidity made him a puppet on the strings of Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, a malleable but convincing front for bellicose personalities whose hawkish proclivities would bar them from ever achieving the plurality necessary to be elected themselves.
The devil he is not, just a really good example of the fact that competence can, and often does, breed incompetence; this is apparent in everything he attempts.
President Bush is dangerous because he is incapable of the introspection, rational contemplation and moral character that would produce an admission that he has made an error of gigantic proportions, because he is incapable of remorse so he will continue out of hubris to encompass the destruction of the young men and women of the United States of America; and, he has the spin doctors to provide the rationalizations and justifications that have caused him to avoid impeachment for his patently criminal activities.
This brings me to the root cause of my hopelessness, that the American body politic seems incapable of realizing that this President, and every other politician, is a servant of the people, and subject to the will of the people.
They continue, as do most populaces worldwide, to treat elected officials as they did Absolutist Rulers who had the power of life and death over them, not in theory but in fact.
They continue to be dependent on those they elect to be responsible for their lives, to provide for them the possibility of happiness, they decline to take responsibility for their lives and destinies.
The upcoming elections should be about changing for all time, that status quo.
The war in Iraq, which has for no good reason, taken the lives of twenty seven hundred Americans should preclude any other option.
The tragic turn of events in New Orleans which completely delineated and ruthlessly exposed the pervasive corruption and total incompetence of American political institutions should preclude any other result.
This totality of this situation, the abyss of despair that looms before this nation, should create an unstoppable impetus for change, should produce in every American the realization that the change that is required is not a sterile change in elites, as symbolized by a change to political institutions controlled by Democrats, but a cultural change, a change as fundamental as the total and complete rejection of the roles of predator and prey; a change as fundamental as unleashing an unquenchable desire for real freedom; a determination to overcome the Stygian darkness of the past, of the ‘state of nature’ and the undeniable will to journey into the light of liberty and true democracy.
I exist bereft of hope but find that I can never give up the struggle for freedom so I will continue to put in my two cents worth although it is ignored.
To save America’s soul we need to elect only those who sincerely promise that they will impeach this rogue President, the fool who would be king over Americans.
To ensure that every politician is convinced that the American body politic will no longer be duped by false promises, the people of Florida should recall their Governor because of his role in precipitating this debacle by installing faulty electoral machines in Democratic strongholds.
We should not consider any candidate who is in any way associated with television commercials because such candidates are owned by big money.
Every candidate should be required in town hall meetings to define poverty and construct a viable plan to overcome poverty.
It is time for Americans to realize and do all within their power to bring to an end the Age of ‘Might is Right’ and usher in an Age of Peace, Prosperity and Justice for all human beings.
William E. Virtue
Memphis, Tennessee
Ph:901-322-3800
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