Demon Lords come from us.

Owners of corporations, CEO's, extremely wealthy corporate board members generally come from a stock of ivy league entrepreneurs, nepotistic bastards, and savvy investors with the means and know how to make a shit ton of money. I look around and that's what I see in these people, or most at least, trying to gain power to the degree their education, resource pedigree, and their faculties conspire. Corporations exist to serve the corporation, to defend the business they're doing, to defend the profits, to ensure the stock dividends. It makes sense does it not? It's efficient for making money, and people everywhere are interested in making money. It's in degree of course, some just want to make money to own a house, a car, and some other junk. Raise a family and so on. Others don't just want money, they want power, and they conspire to rise to the top of the corporate ladder. They become the CEO's, the owners, the fuckwits that lord themselves over the pyramid beneath them. They will do everything to hold that position, as the classes below do everything to hold there spots. Some few, like us, want out. Do we? Maybe we just want some lesser degree of power, some freedom to exploit a land base on our own terms, for our own needs. Owning land is what exactly? Are we not acting CEO's of the stead? Deciding what lives or dies, what grows and doesn't grow, what is cut and corded, who can and cannot walk across? Are we not armed in its defense? Animals we call livestock. Pretty corrupt and vain word is livestock, no? Are we more deserving of liberty than a goat? Are we not just a mammal like the rest? All of which is designed by necessity, a characteristic of the epoch.

Conjecturing more, what I don't believe is they, the rich and powerful, sit behind close doors conspiring to enslave the peasantry, forcing capitalism on everyone, and devising methods of manipulation that is anything more than finding a way to create wealth. They want to make money, and they want power, period. It's merely a symptom of the enclosure development theory.The corporate system is highly efficient in that endeavor, much moreso than mom and pop business of the 19th century pioneer town that some would defend, and even moreso than the medieval feudalism of the dark ages. Every new generation of people since all this craziness got started has been jockeying for a slice of that pie, that power, that accrual. Some succeed more than others, we are not all equal in ability or cleverness. Antonio Salieri, Mozart's nemesis, would agree with this.

Conjecturing more, I believe it all started when man first settled down to farm instead of wander and hunt. Some genius of man found a way to have more than the other and to lord it by force or by indoctrinating passive acceptance into the labor force. Those alpha monkey's took advantage of crop surplus and then the marketing began, the engineering of tools to sell; not just to use, and every other widget servicing the growing needs of a malignant settlement. I believe this psychopathy exists to some measure in any baby born, for we are learning more everyday that newborns are not born "tabula rasa," they have certain characteristics that potentiate on what plays out in their social environment. It's why the HG way of living was a powerful check on these undesirable characteristics. It taught by example that an individual should share instead of horde, and a natural communion with close quarter living creates a system apart from the pyramid mess that grew out of enclosures and farms. On the other hand, today's societies have no ethical check on capitalistic behavior, greediness, and usurious endeavors. Instead, it's encouraged and co-opted into a new ethos, a praise worthy proof of our abilities and intellect. You're rich, so you must be very clever, very industrious, a real go getter. The truth is you're really an exploiter, a miser, a boss at the slave pits, a demon lord of demons. This treasure is not in spirit, it's in flesh. However, let it be understood also, if you wish to comprehend my thinking in true, that we're all together in this thing called civilization, and we're all from those monkey's that first dared the savannah's. It is not fair in my view to label a corporate CEO a born villain, anymore then a hard hitting Crip gangster is born with tatoo's. It's a bad crop of men that Capitalism makes fertile. We are all caught up in this mix, and it serves a violent purpose to brand our man kin wicked and diabolical while presenting ourselves as clean from any such social filth. I thought the great guru's of old taught us to love everyone? If you can't do that, why not at least try to understand these powers, their motivations, their corrupted experiences instead of simplify the evil like the drama of a Saturday morning cartoon. Muhahahahahah, with the lightening bolt thundering in the background when thoughts of the PTB arise. I see it as a bit more complicated than that because these powers are monkey kin just like me in flesh. Not in perspective or vision perhaps, but steaders and bosses the same in larger degree than my own capacity. Do I not keep dogs leased, fenced, and obedient? How about those chickens and pigs perhaps. How about our children? Do we not demand obedience? Do we not train the next generation in the culture we choose, born to, or otherwise demonstrate? Consider the parents the PTB have.

I don't think TPTB see that what they're doing is morally wrong. They have a different perspective, different values fostered by their families, diverse sources of education, and widely different talents in controlling those around them. Subject to their own peculiar stereotypes and discriminatory vices. As we in our degree control our little worlds. A boiling pot of trouble that occasional spills over like so many wars.

So in conclusion, I say we to mean they come from the we, the people, the global family of man. All of which deserve to be understood as to understand. Also, to suggest the only solution, a totally miraculous event, would be the people, the mass of humanity, would open their eyes for once, to wake up in mass from the stupor of meaningless labors, and to do the total opposite of what's been done since Mesopotamia. Tribalize, meet their own needs without genocidally carving out their territory from brother bear and sister Salmon, and to develop the animus as much as the animal. To get along agreeably with only the occasional skirmish to weigh the warriors testes. That is what all the other animals do, and I propose might be the enlightened society so imagined by the great thinkers.

Weathering our Error

Hence, the error of our ways, our ways of living. It is an error that we can weather and persevere for only as long as a good constitution allows, but there's a point where it cannot, we cannot, and it will be that time. It is the penance of living when tied to the till. That which is taken must be given back.  This is not the ancient world anymore where humans lived as they should: together, close, and raised in communion with a singular vision. Sewn together with culture, song, and dance. Where work was play, and hunting was a ritual. Where man was a man, free from laws that did not originate from the universe within. As Euclid offered geometric proof, their life was the theorem in practice. It bore good fruit. The free whales swimming in our polluted oceans now and the few wolves still left hunting are all free thinkers, free creatures, and mans kin to the same. We have become something else from that which we originated.

So here we are, plop down in a world of ecocidal perdition, anachronistically mismatched for a life that is out of order with the animal. Watch a cycad unfold or a dragonfly maneuver over a dazzling field of daisy's is to understand the old ways. They are not out of order and their needs are met, so why do we fret?  "I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself." - DH Lawrence. Why? We are different now, we live in our futures, obsess over that which has not happened yet, that which may only happen but hasn't. We form a knot in our thinking, and cannot find our way back to the present. Right now you breathe....make note, for it is better than some. I know this, I live and weave a life in out of others disease and disability, and I cannot help but have lingering residues of their pain. I carry it around like so much mud and dirt placed in camouflage. I say what can only be said - live presently, the future does not exist, it is a fiction made in the human mind. Focus on your immediate constitution, and trouble not with tomorrow.

Now for the practicality of it, what can you do? If you have the means have plenty of stored food that would not necessitate heavy toil in procuring more. How much is what you expect or want in the life that is left. Unknowable for true, but not impossible to tempt. Take a stock of all family, friends, and neighbors that you have established trust and communion with and flame those bonds right on into the collapse. Do it now, and do it everyday hence. That means calling them regularly, sharing with them, and above all teaching those without any understanding of that which you currently do, and why you do it. This work may be more taxing than the till and milking, but equally important. The grace of old age naturally gives talent to this just as a tree sheds leaves in the fall for the benefit of the Earth below. The pattern is the same in all things - know it. Meditate daily, be alive now, and the rest will unfold without your worries.

This is nothing new, as "nothing is new under heaven." Wisdom is an echo of the seers calling out from everywhere.

A shutdown is long overdue

What, we can't us the people's credit card anymore?

16 trillion in debt, a 821 billion dollar deficit, and 125 trillion in unfunded liabilities. How long do we want to pretend that the US is solvent? Economic recovery? It's debt, and nothing but debt. Concrete real economic outcome is pathetic. Your buying power has been destroyed by federal reserve machinations and Wall st corruption that all political parties and presidents have been culpable to. It's time we realize the hocus pocus spell of nationalism and reap the whirlwind.

People are naturally upset and horrified at waking up to their governments inability to fund itself, but truth be told we haven't funded ourselves in decades. Not since Andrew Jackson in fact back in 1835! We have incessantly incurred more and more debt to spurn economic growth that it's now become a national pastime, a racket of convention. It's literally a Ponzi scheme that is setup to make a tiny percent prosper. A pyramid of haves, and have nots. A ideological machine that gobbles up finite resources in order to metastasize human productivity. We have our heads too buried in the virtual thought calabra of blogs and facebook to be taken seriously by those merrily robbing us. Those folks are the ones smiling every time the fed says they will continue to pump and ease interest rates, the same ones that are relieved when the debt ceiling is increased, the same ones that smile when the petrodollar is forced onto the Middle East oil barons. They are robbing farmers, mechanics, nurses, teachers, truck drivers, salesman, secretaries, and all the rest by subtly stealing their buying power and giving it to the ones with Lear jets and offshore bank accounts. Political power is fully vested with this national mafia. You don't pay, we destroy your life. You still don't pay, we destroy those that will.  

So you think the Republicans are awful for making demands, than I say where's the better leadership from their opposites, the Democrats? Where's a balanced budget that would begin to pay the debt (not just the deficit by way of reducing interest rates on said debt) and deal with this nations long term unfunded liabilities? Instead, we get more borrowing, more use of capitalized medicine to rape people when they are at their most vulnerable (Obamacare) - it does nothing about actual treatment and drug costs which is the root of what's impossible for people, more debt spending to falsely produce a positive GDP, and continued shenanigans from the Fed to continue 2% annualized inflation to pretend we have a real economy. Based on that why shouldn't this government shutdown? Why shouldn't the elected GOP (however repulsive they may be to some) - the people put them there by way of a vote - withdraw consent to incur more debt? Why shouldn't we realize that we're dependent on the petrodollar? Because the old will suffer? Because the gov proles, obedient to the nationalistic fervor that is unwarranted patriotism over illegal wars and global atrocities, won't get a paycheck? Yeah, I care about people, but I also care about a living world too. I care about peace and forgiveness. I care about communities who are instead acting like government two stepping serfs. A ugly painful default is exactly what we need to wake people up and stop the global engine that's melting our glaciers and ice caps, an engine that is sending us all straight to McCarthy's road. Enough is enough.
I have no illusions that the same political parties won't bargain before it's too late, and they will because they're too scared of the consequences. I'm too scared of the consequences if they do. We should all be too scared, but we're not. We're continuing to take sides politically by blaming one side or the other, and this right here shows who really wants to do what is necessary to stop the planetary genocide. It's definitely not the Republican ideology, and neither is it the Democrats hiding behind the poor, the minorities, and the old to justify the continued rape of the planet and the petrodollar murders.

You support this government, you are supporting hell on Earth for the whole. It's well past time we find a way to stop our support and withdraw consent. It's totally peaceful to do so. As Dignity said, it's a state of mind that we believe we need a functioning government to carry on. Carry on with what? Carry on with Capitalistic destruction so we can continue to be clowns and baffoons over trivial nonsense and shopping? The old don't need a government check, they need us. They need their people, the person next door to step up to the plate and honor them with compassion and service. That's the nationalistic campaign I'd like to see. That's the real pride of a nation when its people say "HELL NO," we won't support anymore bombings, anymore Wall st ensurient swinishness, anymore consumption for the sake of clean water and air, anymore spying of our citizens, anymore imprisonment of our distressed shut out people's, anymore desperately sad forays into our warp societies uncaring corpulence, anymore maddening incidences of mass shootings, child raping, shooting down innocents, gang banging glory hoping street thugs, and Takeisha's litter of twelve for the sake of this month's need for bling bling. It's time we say "no," we won't pay for that. We won't pay unless we are obeyed by the rich minority. It's we that have made them rich by our consent to be pilfered. It's we that have left our brother out in the cold needing a government check. It's we that have said, sure, go ahead, I'll pay. It's not enough to say, "well it wasn't me, I have no choice, I'm nobody, I'm the minority," that's the trick of the matrix, the trick of the tube, the programming, that vices our embroglio to do nothing.

Many people do exactly that, we withdraw consent and live below the radars. It's not enough though. We need to campaign it, to do everything possible to usurp the financial support that enslaves us, and most importantly we must support this shutdown. I support this shutdown. Not because of the GOP masquerading as being fiscally conservative, but because letting things continue is suicidal for all of us. For the entire world. Economic growth is murder.