Indian see white man about to shoot self in foot. Indian say NO... Common sense - more important than greed._________________________featuring: reality, Faux "News" kryptonite
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The People of Las Vegas are Finally Waking Up
The list of expensive boondogles, etc. is even more impressive in print. See the list here.
Oh, and by the way; most of the watergrab water isn't actually for the people who are going to get stuck with the bill. They already have water. And if they ever have to ration water, it would be far cheaper than draining Rural Nevada - so that they can continue to waste.
Taking action before the commitment makes much more sense than complaining afterward. Take Action Now!
Monday, February 27, 2012
This Is Your Wake Up Call
Almost 70% of U.S. corporations pay NO federal corporate income taxes.
Some of our most rabid patriots are FAKES intent on destroying America.
In the long run, this only hurts us all.
And I mean really hurts us all.
Friday, February 24, 2012
It's READY!
Yeah!!!
It's ready.
I'm ready.
It took three years to get
here... (Actually, it took a lifetime.)
I'm ready to take a stab
at a full-length feature – about crowd-source designing a new
culture – adapted to real-world conditions.
No small task, I admit.
But it's what we need
most. We need a vision.
No, there won't be any
drugs involved. But that's more your decision than mine.
The vision I'm speaking of
is one of insight. We need a vision of our ideal. We need a vision of
empowerment. We need a vision of freedom. We need a realistic concept
of our ideal future – without being too idealistic.
But what is too
idealistic? Is the dream of a true democracy too idealistic? Is
living tomorrow, after living like there's no tomorrow, too
idealistic? Is working together towards a goal that satisfies us all
too idealistic? ...If so, we're dead.
Common sense should not be
too idealistic.
Common sense wisdom has
kept our species alive for tens to hundreds of thousands of years.
Television news personalities haven't even been around for a hundred.
Much religious wisdom is
common sense wisdom. When you here it, it just makes sense.
We need a common sense
vision of who we want to be.
I need your help in
creating that vision. I need your ideas – so that I can group them
into a video – which hopefully will be much more than just a
collection of ideas and wisdom. With your help, we hope to
assemble a plan.
Please visit my Kickstarter presentation to hear my offer.
Monday, February 06, 2012
What Is The Matrix In The Real World?
In the movie The
Matrix, the matrix represented the system of lies we are told to
keep us from understanding the real world.
But what happens when we
get past that system of lies? What is the truth?
Is there is an authentic
matrix in the real world?
I would offer that it is
the system of life that makes up our world.
...the matrix of life.
It is all around us, even
in the air we breath.
In the real world, the
“construct” was not constructed – it evolved. It developed,
over billions of years into an exquisite Environment that is far more
advanced than anything humanity has ever created – or even
imagined.
In the real world, the
matrix is the cocoon of life that brought us into existence – and
keeps us alive and happy.
We're barely beginning to
understand what the real world matrix (of life) is – as we destroy
it – and replace it with a matrix of lies. The biggest lie is the
lie that this is good for the economy.
In the real world no
economy will have snowball's chance in Hell if our matrix of life
collapses – and it's beginning to collapse. Every ecosystem on the
planet is in decline. So what do we do about it? In our real world
full of lies, we pay to make our eminent collapse inevitable.
The next biggest lie is
that we have no alternative. All of our lives, Americans have put up
with our own tax money being used against us. We've grown to accept
without question that we are essentially being led to slaughter for
short-term monopoly profits. Very few have been willing to commit
their life to saving everyone's lives. And now here we are; past peakoil per capita, past a global warming tipping point, and past the extinctionrate that was the end of the line for the dinosaurs. We are now
cornered. We now have no alternative but to fix things
– whatever the cost. But everyone keeps hoping somebody will do
this for us. No one person can do this. Not Obama. Not anyone – can
do this alone.
We have to break away from
the system of lies that keep us from understanding the real world. We
have to make the effort ourselves. We have to make the effort
together. We have to realize that there is no long-term plan. THERE
IS NO PLAN!
In the movie The
Matrix, a spoon was used as a metaphor for imagined reality.
Inside The Matrix, a young prodigy exclaimed “there is no
spoon.” But in the real real world, there definitely is
a spoon, and it continues to exist long after you throw it away.
The third biggest lie is
that what is good for the GDP is good for humanity. We have accepted
a system that only recognizes money as wealth. The matrix of life is
real world wealth. Money is just paper. And maximizing paper at the
expense of real world wealth is simply shooting ourselves in the foot
– and then the leg – and then the torso...
And finally, the most
underrated lie we believe is that; what we do as individuals doesn't
matter. I'll refer to a fortune cookie I recently received:
“No snowflake in an
avalanche ever feels responsible.”