Voting: An Exercise in Futility

This recent, brief article from The Onion is just plain awesome.

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Struggling Lower-Class Still Unsure How Best To Fuck Selves With Vote

WASHINGTON—As election day nears, millions of the nation's poorest voters have reportedly yet to settle on the most profound and enduring way to completely fuck themselves over when they head to the polls this year.

"On the one hand, I'm pretty sure Barack Obama will undermine my best interests by maintaining the same centrist, pro-corporate policies of previous Democratic administrations," said Jim Estey, 34, a recently laid-off assembly-line worker. "Conversely, I agree with McCain and Palin on abortion, which might just balance out the fact that they'll further marginalize people like me by supporting deregulation and slashing social programs. So it's pretty much a toss-up at this point."

Though such behavior appears to directly undermine their own well-being, lower-income voters have historically supported candidates determined to screw them six ways to Sunday, including Bill Clinton, who incarcerated them in record numbers and cut the welfare benefits many depended on for day-to-day sustenance, and George W. Bush, who widened the gap between them and the rich and sent thousands of them to die in Iraq. This year's election is reportedly unique in that the nation's poor must not only weigh how deeply and painfully their chosen candidate will penetrate their rectums, but must also consider unforeseen outside circumstances—such as economic collapse and terrorism—that might allow the next president to bend them over and brutally rape them in ways they never thought possible.

The latest polls indicate that a majority of lower-class citizens might choose not to vote at all Nov. 4, preferring instead to leave the details of how they get fucked to the moneyed classes.

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Simcity

So I'm looking at the new Google Earth app for iPhone and I realize, hey, that looks exactly like SimCity.

I remember when I was a kid, about 10 or 11, playing Simcity 2000, and thinking the city I made was so cool, and I wished I could live in it.

Now I look at Google Earth's satellite view of Atlanta and realize I'm living in that city.


Scene from Simcity 5


Viewing Atlanta in Google Earth for iPhone

Pointless Polls

Look at this recent poll found on the front page of Drudge. It's pretty self-explanatory (at least in one sense): roughly half of people are voting for one guy, and roughly half for the other, and for some reason we make a big deal out of the marginal difference.

The election is never split 40/60 or 30/70. Why? Because both candidates are the same. You could just have everyone flip a coin and you'd end up with the same pattern, roughly half for this guy and half for that guy.

I'm not quite sure how to say it; it just looks silly to me. All these polls, every day, about who's ahead by so many percent, or behind so many percent. Can't we find something more productive to do than constantly bicker about who the next president's gonna be?

Mindless Robots

This is what happens when you allow yourself to be brainwashed by religion, television, nationalism, and other forms of propaganda. The mind closes shut, critical thinking stops, and you become...well, just click play.

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Republicrats & The Plutocracy

The following letter was forwarded to me by a friend. More and more people are declaring our political system broken.

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I have been a registered Republican since I was 18. I am now 54. I have voted every year for every candidate, local, state, and national who was a Republican because I believed that because they SAID a lot of things I agree with, that they would actually DO what they said. I am sorry to say that the Republican Party has been hijacked and has left me completely. I could go on and on with a list of reasons but it would bore you all to tears, and might even convert some of my old time Republican buddies who still have scales on their eyes and can't see that these neoconservatives have screwed us to the wall (with our permission).

I am no longer blindly supporting the Republican Party. I am not supporting the Democratic Party either. They are one in the same. We can have war mongering socialism or welfare spending socialism. It is still socialism. By the way, in case you haven't noticed, the welfare state has prospered quite well (and hasn't gotten any smaller) since our compassionate conservative George W. Bush has been in office pissing our money away.

There are more Obama supporters who agree with Ron Paul and a true "Freedom Agenda" than there are McPain supporters. I know I know, it just shouldn't be. But it is. The "Christian Right" has been totally supportive of unconstitutional pre-emptive war against a country which had done nothing to us, incredible, out of control socialistic spending which has DOUBLED the national debt (from about $5,000,000,000,000 to over $10,000,000,000,000) in 8 years of Mr. Bush (who I voted for twice). We just concluded the fiscal year with the largest deficit ever recorded in our history - almost $500 BILLION in one year, and that doesn't even count the bailout. We may even be set up for a TRILLION DOLLAR deficit in the next fiscal year if we're lucky.

We now have a true Big Brother government who has spent 2 trillion dollars making the "illegal" drug market incredibly profitable and ruinous to our nation. Who really gives a rat's ass if I sit on my porch and smoke a left handed cigarette? We will make nearly ONE MILLION arrests this calendar year for the terrible crime of pot possession. And how much more is this war on drugs really costing us when you look at the costs of taking a potentially productive person out of society and putting him in a cage and feeding him and we pay for it? How many lawyers and courts and judges and jails and wardens are sucking the milk from that gigantic tit?

Oh, and they can now spy on us whenever and wherever they please. Oh, and we now have TSA screwing up airports everywhere, and just this week, those geniuses let me right through security with a knife in my carry on luggage while my wife had a bottle of shampoo and a bottle of lotion confiscated. Geniuses. Any WE are paying for this horseshit!

Oh, and another small endeavor. We have military bases in over 100 countries around the world, making sure the world does what we tell them to do. Oh, and this is only costing you, me and all the other suckers paying the bill about ONE TRILLION DOLLARS per year. And more to come. Of course, Halliburton and all those other who patriotically "support" our military love it. They do actually get paid you know.

If anyone who considers themselves to be a true patriotic American, who believes in the values this once great country was founded on, then you should take a couple of hours and read Ron Paul's "The Revolution; A Manifesto". http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Manifesto-Ron-Paul/dp/0446537519 You will begin to have the scales peeled back from your eyes and see what this crazy establishment has done to our country.

Not me. Not anymore. I will not support either of these socialists. There is no such thing as the lesser of two evils. I thought there was up until I finally had my eyes opened. Was George W. Bush really less evil than Al Gore? They are both socialistic idiots.

Is John McCain less evil than Barack Obama? They are both socialists. One is a complete idiot socialist who has been latched on to the government tit his whole life, and his father's whole life. The other is a young, charismatic, pretty intelligent socialist who talks change. What a joke!

In Support of Anarchy

Most people, when confronted with the idea of anarchy, casually assume it could never work. "Wouldn't we all just go around killing each other?" is the standard reaction.

But what if there were no law against murder. Would everyone just start killing each other? I don't think so.

We live in a world that is organized in a hierarchical structure. Authority and power are wielded by a handful of men at the top of the pyramid, who make decisions which affect the lives of everyone below them. They will never be able to elicit lasting happiness for their subjects, simply because they cannot know each and every desire of each and every individual below them.

This top-down organizational paradigm is an anomaly in nature. Look at ant colonies, for example. There is no king or queen ant directing the rest of the ants. (The queen ant just lays eggs.) Each ant behaves autonomously; it knows what to do. There is spontaneous communication going on, through feelers and chemical messengers. But the whole colony is one super-organism, self-organizing itself. This concept is also known as swarm intelligence. Other examples of decentralized systems include the Internet, and more specifically, peer-to-peer networks like Gnutella.

So why not human society? Anarchy, the absence of government, is the natural order of man. To be governed is tragic; to govern is pathetic. I believe we would all be happier in the absence of government. Sure, there would be problems, but the U.S. government seems to create more problems than it solves. The drug war, a monopolized monetary system, endless laws, taxes going to pay for bloated bureaucracies that do nothing, stupid wars. The list goes on and on.

Chaos creates order. Order creates chaos. The state imposes artificial order onto this land, creating chaos in the forms of crime, poverty, and depression. If we dismantled the government and let anarchy ensue, a new order would arise out of the chaos. An order that reflected the needs and desires of each and every individual. An order whereby each local community could direct its own fate. An order based on mutual respect and understanding. An order where people would come together to solve problems instead of relying upon unresponsive elected officials.

Is it possible to live in a world where everyone's desires are fulfilled? A world free of boring work? A world where every day is another day in heaven? Or should we just settle for this so-so world? The change starts inside of you. As you change, people around you begin to change. And slowly (or quickly) our world/consensus reality starts to reflect our most imperative dreams. I will end with the following quote from Nelson Mandela.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Finally, ABC recently aired a great segment by John Stossel questioning the necessity of government. He uses an ice skating rink as an analogy for anarchy. Really gives you something to think about... (Skip ahead to 5:10)

Freedom to Choose

It's great to live in America, "Land of the Free". We have real freedom here.

Take our election for example. We get to choose whoever we want, as long as it's a Republican or Democrat. You know, just like when you're at the grocery store. You have the freedom to choose: paper or plastic?

We get to choose between two paths: the McBama way or the Ocain way. There's no other alternatives. There are only two solutions two every problem: the Democratic solution and the Republican solution.

Because that's how the world works. Black or White. Yes or No. Easy or Hard.

Monkeys with Bulging Brains

Cuz we're all just a bunch of monkeys.

The System

This election is a charade.

If you're a "democrat", you throw all your anger and frustration with the government at the Republicans. If you're a "repbulican", you throw all your anger and frustration with the government at the Democrats. It's all a scam designed to decieve people from targeting their indignation at the true culprits.

And who are the true culprits? International bankers. Multinational corporate CEOs. The Trilateral Commission. The Bilderberg Group. The United Nations.

Basically, the people at the top of the power pyramid, who hoard all the wealth and use their inherited power to keep everyone scared, in debt, and peforming unnecessary, boring labor.

The rich banksters and power brokers: who are they? And why don't I hear people talking about this more? Is this not wrong, that a handful of privileged individuals have something like 50% of the money/power? Isn't it time to do something? It's going to continue to worsen unless we do something.

A small handful of selfish, greedy individuals is exerting a disproportionate amount of influence over the world. Greed, fear, and misguided intellect are the personality traits of our so-called "leaders". Shouldn't we have people leading us who are humble, selfless, and, above all, intelligent?

Don't vote. Voting sends a message to the establishment that you comply with their fraudulent, disfunctional system and are willing to play by their rules. Their game SUCKS!

Don't Vote.

Good News!

More people are waking up. This crisis is actually a good thing. It is exposing the elite for the crooks that they are. Americans will not put up with this much longer.

Read more on LewRockwell.com

The Two Candidates

Don't listen to anything they say. It doesn't matter.

Cracks in the Establishment

The rich keep getting richer. The poor keep getting poorer. And the middle class is getting poorer too.

I feel that the gap between the rich and the poor is becoming so large it's reaching a breaking point. After the recent bailout, more people are becoming aware of the division between the ruling/elite class in power (probably 1-2%) and the vast majority of people (probably 98-99%). We see ourselves at the mercy of government officials and corporate executives who, for the most part, show no regard for us.

The feeling of injustice is brewing in this country. The old institutions, structures, and bureaucracies are starting not to work; they will soon be obsolete. What emerges to replace them is up to us.

END THE FED

Now that Congress has ignored the people and passed this immoral bailout for the rich corporate executives on Wall Street, it is time to take action and fight back!

You have a choice: sit idly by and watch this country fall apart, or stand up and make your voice heard.

We must shut down the Federal Reserve. Ron Paul has introduced a bill to dissolve the Fed.
CALL AND E-MAIL YOUR CONGRESSMEN. Tell them to SUPPORT and PASS HR 2755, the Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act.

Do not relent. Our representatives will not be able to deny the people's will once we have begun flooding their inboxes and phones demanding to END THE FED.

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Mind Control

Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come.

Nothing is impossible. Unless you think it is.

I see people's minds as biocomputers. Everyone is running various programs. Most people are programmed by the corporate/governmental power structure, via the media.

Anyone can reprogram their mind. This is called self-meta-programming. Right now people's programs contain 'beliefs' such as:

• there is scarcity in the world (there is not enough stuff/resources to go around)
  
• money is necessary
• if there were no government/central authority, everyone would go around killing each other

Our beliefs are completely arbitrary. We can reprogram at will. Try believing the following for a day:

• Everything I want and need, I already have and am.
• I love everyone, and everyone loves me.
• There is nothing to worry about. Everything will work out even more perfectly than I plan.

Observe what programs you are running.

For more on the human biocomputer, and how to master it, I highly recommend Prometheus Rising, by Robert Anton Wilson.

Zeitgeist Addendum

This new movie, "Zeitgeist Addendum", is amazing.

I don't even know where to begin. Just watch it.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=zeitgeist&hl=en&emb=0#

Our monetary system is fraud. Rethink everything. We are on the cusp of the biggest transformation in human history. All the old systems and obsolete institutions are about to be purged.

Heaven on earth is not only possible, it is inevitable.

It all begins with a change inside each one of us, inside me, inside you. Stop expecting the same. Nothing is impossible.

Watch this movie.

On another note, I saw Bill Maher's "Religulous" last night. Phenomenal. Hilarious! Religions are stupid.