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Good Riddance, Mubarak!

Good Riddance, Mubarak!

Good riddance, Sarah Palin!

Sarah Palin is collapsing. She’s had it. She’s always been all packaging and no substance. Now, everyone is finally seeing it for that. She has always been a paper tiger, and now she is gone. Good riddance!

Yes, it's all about me

I'm now following my own blog. I wonder what I'll say next.

It Looks Like We Made It

It appears that we have reached a critical turning point in our (social human) history. Nazi tactics, for once and for all, don’t work. We (a critical mass of us) have intellectually evolved past falling for them. If anything good could have come out of the world-War-II-Era Holocaust, it was that it was a major step toward inoculation/immunity against such violent, intimidation, terroristic tactics. Yes, there have been tragic and discouraging backslides since then (since, for-the-most- part-victory of World War II). For example, the assassinations of JFK, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, John Lennon, and 9/11. But now, with the election of Barack Obama and the passage of the “Healthcare Reform Bill”, despite crazy Naziish attacks and threats from the lunatic right, it, indeed, appears that such insanity just isn’t even close to being part of the Mainstream nor any threat to real progress. And, consequently, such twisted tactics will just die and go away, completely.

Yoo, Bibey, and Karma

Yoo and Bibey - No whitewashing of their heinous crimes against humanity will diminish the extreme heinosity of them one iota. Veritable exoneration by cowardly and/or corrupt current Obama cronies will do nothing to obscure or at all lessen the harshest of judgment meted in the eyes of those of us who see, clearly, what Truth is, for all time. I believe that the most “evil” and sociopathic among us, which undoubtedly Yoo and Bibey are in the ranks of, underneath, in their most buried subconscious have a “subconscience”, and know, on the most self-obfuscated level, that they are, alas, who they are, and the true revilent nature of what they have done. Thus, ultimate “karma” and justice exist and prevail. Without attributing it to a “God”-type being, I do believe in ultimate justice or karma in the universe, so that they who do wrong eventually are commensurately and appropriately punished, although I still can’t reconcile this belief with why those of us who do or at least attempt and intend good ever have to suffer as we do, even often way beyond what makes the slightest sense.

I try to connect, but, after all, it’s all about me. Others are only functionaries of me. Of course, I love some of them, and I’d be willing to die for them. But, they are them and I am me. I feel my own feelings, only. Only I have my memories, as they are to me.

What to do

Fuck the insurance companies. Get them completely out of healthcare.

Let the Idiots Vent

Let the idiots vent. Let ‘em yell, scream, rant, and rave, until they’re spent and drained and have run out of crazy things to say. Then calmly and rationally, point out the lunacy of their twisted allegations, as they have no energy or ideas left of how to silence us – we who have good, basic understanding of what’s real and truthful, and needed. Then, we’ll once again see democracy start to work, having gotten much of the psychopathology out of its system.

Why So Much Hate?

The haters are no longer in control. And, being out of control, politically, they feel “out-of-control”, psychologically. There is a huge psychological/psychodynamic 3-way correlation between the need for control, hate, and self-hatred. Fear, too, is right up there, in the mix. Fear, terror, panic – and their response to these intolerable emotions is to project them onto and create them in others, especially those who they perceive to be outsiders. Thus, extreme religious, right-wing whites hate and go after minorities. They see themselves as separate from non-whites and non-haters. They can’t even understand themselves, so they certainly can’t understand others who are not like themselves. The more “foreign” someone is, the more they are not understood, and are feared and hated – and, are “warranted”* targets for attack. This externalization of the “villains” or “culprits” is a primal and primitive defense of self-deception, to avoid the most intolerable truth that it is they who hate themselves most of all and are actually the biggest threat to themselves and the rest of the world. They see a black man as President and can’t help but see that we (as non-haters) have wrested the political world away from control of the haters, and they are in panic, in terror, and feel desperately that they have to terrorize others to assuage that which they are in denial of feeling, themselves. Repression is another primitive defense in which they commonly engage. They are as far from self-aware as anyone can be. They consciously and (more often) unconsciously, lie to themselves and others, and do their best to twist reality and the truth around as far as their tiny heads can manage. They kill or “justify” those who do, as they claim to support the “right to life”. They do their best to terrorize our society in the name of religious righteousness, as they rail against Muslim terrorists and fail to see the similarities between themselves and “other” fanatics.

Our job, as people who want to improve the world and not destroy it is to refuse to be terrorized – not to give in to fear or attempted intimidation. The antidote is courage and resolve that we must continue to act with confidence and knowledge that by firmly remaining on a progressive path, the world will, indeed, be better. Eventually, they will calm down and see that things are better for them, too, and we can enjoy actual prosperity.

*Quotes indicate terms used to represent their point of view, rather than my own.

Empathy Deficiency

How can you get somebody to care about torture if they don’t? And why are there so many so-called “people” who don’t? It’s like they’re genetically empathy-deficient. Or, maybe it’s not “like” they are – it’s that they TRULY, literally are.

Stupid Managers

I’m tired of small-minded people in management/administrative positions having negative effects on so many people’s lives. I wish they’d hurt themselves directly and only when they make their stupid decisions. Then, maybe they’d learn quickly from aversive conditioning.

One More Email to Bush (Sent)

Subject: Yet further in your descent

To Bush:

You're pathetic! It's the height (or depth) of pettiness, selfishness, and mean-spiritedness to refuse to allow the Obamas to move into Blair House 10 days early. You've done more to destroy America than any president I know of. The sooner you're gone, the better, but it'll still be two terms too late.

Sincerely,

Pete Pearlman

We HAVE overcome! – Yes, we HAVE!

Obama/McCain Dance-Off

Closer than it should be

We Have Seen the Enemy and They Are Pathetic

With all their king’s horses and all their Karl Roves, they won't be able to steal the election this time!

Why

I can’t fathom why it would be anything but a landslide for Obama. But, I know that it’s always been a veritable horserace between smart people and stupid people in The United States. Then again, how can there be THAT MANY plug-for-brains out there so as to make this upcoming election close – never mind the completely crazy possibility that it could even go the wrong way? You see (to borrow one of Michelle Obama’s favorite phrases), in order for the vast majority of people to vote for McCain, they’d have to be voting against their own best interest. Of course, doing so seems to be a traditionally favorite pastime of self-clueless Americans throughout our history. This is probably one of the strongest arguments against evolution. How can these own-foot-shooters manage to reproduce at rates that keep them competitive with those of us who know up from down?

Actually, although I don’t empathize with these fools, I have hypothesized about how such irrationality can manifest itself. In fact, this was the very hypothesis behind the Clinical Psych Ph.D. dissertation that I never finished. This is it: self-hatred. To elaborate, somewhat; for whatever geneses, these people hate themselves, and take out their self-hatred on themselves AND the rest of the world. They don’t just shoot themselves in the foot; they do it to us, too. They run around dumping and projecting their self-loathing and disgust on the world around them. They live in a world of psychic blindness, reinforced by their emotional terror of having to face the truth about who they are and why they are that way. Of course, in so doing, they make the world worse for everyone. It’s unfair that we who feel and know better also have to suffer as we struggle to clean up their and our cage, but, that’s the way it is.

Hopefully, we can all evolve past this pathology, as a people, and get on with having a truly healthy love relationship with our world.

Email to John Yoo (Bush's "Torture lawyer")

Subj.: About and to you

Yoo,

You are a reprehensible pig. Short of calling you, literally, a Nazi (as I don't assume any "anti-Semitic" intent on your part, and I would need to do so to label you a Nazi), you are morally (or rather A-morally or IM-morally) equivalent (get this - NOT lesser, EQUIVALENT) to the Nazi "doctors", who used their profession and academic accreditations to rationalize and facilitate acting as lackeys for their war-criminal regime. Like them, you couch sadism in cold, clinical, twisted linguistic garb. May you rot in hell for all the human and political wreckage you've left in your wake and on the world's landscape. Rest assured, though, we will ultimately put an end to the carnage wreaked by you, Bush, and his other criminal cronies, and we will rebuild true humanitarian democracy; whereas you (plural) will be forever affixed with legacies equivalent to Hitler and his thugs.

I'll end by quoting Bob Dylan from his timeless song, "Masters of War":

"...
You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled;
The fear to bring children
Into the world.
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins.

How much do I know
To talk out of turn?
You might say that I'm young,
You might say I'm unlearned.
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you,
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do.

Let me ask you one question:
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness?
Do you think that it could?
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll,
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul...."

Sincerely,

Pete Pearlman

The Fifth Dimension

Not the singing group, but the next “identifier” after the conventional three and time as the fourth. If we want to identify, describe, “pinpoint” (not literally, of course, because an “object”, including living beings, as I mean the term, encompasses never as nonexistent an essence as an infinitely small point) a three-dimensional object along or across all its dimensions, it has long been contended that we need include time as the fourth; now we know where and when something is, so we can really locate it. But, can we? I contend, “no, we can’t” – we still don’t know exactly what it is we’re locating or identifying. What’s still missing from our dimensional coordinates is its existential reality (or plural, “realities”). So, if we’re talking about a person, we need to know not only where and when she or he is, but also what they were or are or will be feeling, thinking, etc.. Also, what’s going on inside them, in terms of their molecules’ Brownian motion, their constantly kinetic and changing atomic structure, their biochemistry, their synaptic, other electric, and metabolic occurrences, etc.? An inanimate object may not be as complex, but it still has its changing atomic realities going on.
If we want to get to the real me, we must locate me in time and space; let’s say at the intersection of longitude and latitude on December First, at 3:54 P.M., 1954, A.D.; but who is that “me”, at that time and place; I mean, who am I, really? Or, for that matter, what television are we talking about when we say a “Magnavox”, of a particular model, “pinpointed” in time and space? For example, is it on or off, and, if on, what signal(s) is/are it receiving? This we can somewhat know by knowing what programs were being broadcast then and there. We can check a TV Guide© for its time, place and available channels, but if we want to be even more precise, we need to account for the transmissions getting to us at about the speed of light (a microfraction of a light year from source of transmission).

Isn't This True?

Just as you can't keep your eyes open while you sneeze, you can't be bored while you're asleep.