Tuesday, April 24, 2007

WHY NOT SOCIALISE GUN CONTROL? Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes These are my reflections in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech Massacre. All gun purchases should be a public record accessible on the internet. In the case of Seung-Hui Cho who was a stalker with a police record, if the women could have looked up his name on the internet they may have taken his nuisance more seriously, and authorities may have insisted on more serious council for Cho at an earlier stage. I suppose it was illegal to have guns on campus, so this would also have been a red flag for school authorities. If the information that he purchased a gun, 2 guns, was instantly posted on the web, perhaps a system of checks and balances might have come to bear in time. If you had certified gun clubs in charge, and the director needed to study psychology before being certified, you would have more restraint, more responsibility. Then if federal regulations apply and no one is admitted to a gun club if they are mentally ill or have a violent police record, that would be one more step to divert criminals from running to the gun supermarket every time they want a new pair of sneakers, a new girlfriend. We need a system of incentives to cure this problem. If we added penalties and fines if the gun club bends the rules, and you needed several sponsors to be accepted as a candidate you would spread the burden and the PRIVILEGE of responsibility. We need a larger safety net here, and we need one with less gaping holes. If profit was an incentive to gun control, you would see more eager solutions. Community service could be part of the process. That could further integrate gun owners into society. The process of getting a gun would then become an asset to the community instead of a threat. This way no decent person would be excluded from earning the right to have a gun, but some hothead could not pop into a store and settle his vendettas the same day. Look to this gun salesman for the symptoms of the problem, not the excuse to turn your head. The comments the gun dealer made which the media shared with us were only examples of how his actions follow the norm and how he can not imagine doing anything differently. But, the man is not a lawyer, not a psychologist, not a mindreader, not Mother Teresa....he is someone who has something to benefit directly by selling a gun. I may sympathise with his sense of feeling powerless but that just isn't good enough. Look at the controls on doctors and drugs. They have to go through expensive and rigorous training before they have their position of responsibility over life and death. So do morticians for that matter. Gun dealers, no qualifications or education necessary, buy a license and BANG, you're in business. I don't blame the gun dealer, I blame society for letting buffoon's like him think he is adequately prepared to prevent this kind of tragedy by smelling somebody's breath and looking at his haircut. I would want to know if my neighbor had a gun, especially if I had kids. A misfired bullet can easily kill anybody. If I was buying a house, if I saw that all the people in the town had guns, I would think twice about living there, or I would ask questions about the crime in the neighborhood. It would be useful information. We should have the right to know about who owns guns because bullets don't respect boundaries, there is no such thing as a smart bullet. Laws and regulations are not a magic wand. Psychological awareness has to start a early. Children should learn about psychology, non-violence, stress management, and not accepting violence in the home. Why wait and save it for specialists? People need to hone their skills to nurture their own sanity just like it is good for them to know about nutrition to have a healthy body. As a society, they need to care a little more for each other too. The internet could be a useful tool here, it is our collective brain we are not putting to use fully. We should look for developing peacekeeping jobs which are not lethal too. Making gun procurement more like becoming a doctor would say a lot about our committment to law and order and respect for human life. America is still a leader in lifestyle trendsetting, so why not set some non-violence trends? Why not make it cool not to punch somebody in the nose when you don't agree with him or her? Look at all the dead canaries in the coalmine. The Collumbine Massacre was a canary in the coalmine. So is this latest tragedy in Virginia. But lets look at this upside-down for a moment. How about Guantanamo Bay as an example of our own potential for corruption and barbary, it may throw the crazy killing spree of a young student in a different light. Many people, given the circumstance, could find themselves on either side of the gun, either side of the cattle prod. We have to get out of these vicious cycles somehow. I think we have to look at our incorporation of violence in our social fabric like giving up smoking. We need to find a patch and ween ourselves off it. For some who are lucky enough to do things in true moderation, a smoke now and then, if it is not soaked in toxic chemicals by our friendly tobacco salesman....can be beneficial to digestion, pleasant, part of a balance. But, uncontrolled and in the hand of many otherwise decent people, it is a killer to them and those around them. If we could start brainwashing ourselves with the mantra, "sorry, no excuses, violence is out of the question" maybe we could fix this problem from the inside -out instead of from the outside- in. Then we have to extend that to cover our leaders too, because I don't think it is honest to profess belief in democracy while we are killing thousands with "smart bombs" and shooting our own tails off in friendly fire. Otherwise, we should just sew a big skull and cross-bones over the stars and stripes and change the slogan on the dollar bill from "In God We Trust" to "SHIT HAPPENS". Having a good excuse to commit violence does not make it less sick. Violence is an illness whether it is against an individual, a group, or a nation. Violence makes a healthy person feel sick. Ask anybody who has committed an act of violence. If they feel good about it, than they are probably nuts. That's my rule of thumb anyway. A few times when I engaged in violence to defend myself, I felt sickened by the experience and realised too late that I did not feel better afterwards, I felt sullied. I regretted giving in to the violent reaction. I was not as cornered as I thought, I only resorted to a violent act partly because I wanted to prove through an act that I believed in my point of view, and I wanted to test my ability to protect myself. Neither of these reasons were a comfort after the act. I learned how to avoid the escallation of a situation into violence after that, because I knew that violence was not rewarding, not even when you may be "right". That is a false distraction....right and wrong......FORGET ABOUT IT! We make our youth ill by training them to become killers in the military. Look at all the post-trauma problems of soldiers. Those are probably the "normal" ones, not the sick ones. Why wouldn't they suffer? Do we have a right as a nation to brainwash our youth to become killing machines? I know I am sounding like Pollyanna here, but I see this all as a vicious circle with too many excuses by society to find middle-men to commit barbaric acts while they (we) hide behind deniability and find a scapegoat or a fall-guy. Sometimes it is not possible to stop a determined, methodical killer. Cho apparently had his massacre worked out for months...but if there were more checks and balances to the process and more people had responsibilty, it could only help. We need to look at the reality of how we function as a people and put our strengths to better use. These suggestions I have outlined, a www database of arms owners, sponsorship and community service and training for people who want to own a gun, and trained professionals to issue guns and weapons, this would improve the fabric of social responsibility and it would give society and the individual more participation in the solution. 7:53 AM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit - Remove

Thursday, September 13, 2007

HAPPINESS IS LIKE A BOOMERANG Category: Life I just speant 20 minutes reading somebody else's recipe for instant happiness, and they mostly talked about everything BUT what makes them happy. Finally at the end of the page it said "Buy my book". I decided I should write my own instead and try to get to the point quicker. Here it is. Happiness is an emotional boomerang, the better you throw it out the more it comes back at you. To become happy, first, you must decide happiness is a worthy thing in itself, separate from money, the appreciation of others, and independent of any other goals or dreams you may set for yourself. Here is how I decided to become happy. I asked myself "Do I want to be happy?" My answer was immeadiate, "Yes!" Happiness is a feeling you can nurture and it can accompany you through hardship and even nurture others. It doesn't cost anything. You can die happy. You can suffer physical pain and still be happy. It is a thing in itself and you just have to look for it and know it is in you anytime you need it, and let it take you over. All you have to loose is your self-pity. That is not such a high price to pay for happiness, is it? We may not always control events around us, but we are the directors of the experience of our lives. Depression, sadness, pain, emotional and physical, is something one can learn to direct and tune out after we have benefitted by the knowledge it can offer. At the worst, suffering in any kind can teach us about the pain of our fellow man, and we may be able to guide them out of the abyss once we climb out ourselves. That is the thought that helps me when I am most unhappy because it helps me to objectify pain and separate myself from the suffering by giving me a useful goal within this pain. Once I have a goal, I can occupy myself with that instead of the primary experience, satisfy that, and move on. Another comforting thought that helps bring me out of misery is the consideration that people who, from their exterior view seem to have all life's chances, beauty, success, wealth, still sometimes commit suicide. If you can have everything that life can offer and still kill yourself, then these goals MAY NOT BE ALL THEY'RE CRACKED UP TO BE! In fact, it is better not to have a goal on a mental pedistal in your head, it is better to just tell yourself, "I'm doin it"...and not "I'm going to do it". When you concentrate on the actual act of realising your goal instead of the goal itself, you gain the first hand benefit of the act. When you focus on the idea of the goal, the myth, then when you achieve it it's like you only read about it, not like you actually did it. When all else fails, I look to my own shortcomings for an advantage. I love to procrastinate and it can ruin my best plans sometimes. So, why not put it to a good use? Why not procrastinate to be miserable? Sometimes happiness is a cruel yo-yo with a tangled rope. Have you ever achieved your goal and had the shock that it did not bring happiness? Some people seem to waste their whole lives pursuing a goal and when they reach it and find it did not bring them happiness, they loose all footing and crash. I think the best prevention against this is focusing on how your goal can serve others and not just yourself. In fact, the joy you bring to others is what will bring you long term happiness, not the attainment of a goal. The memory of joy somebody else brought to you can bring longterm happiness. Sharing that with others can bring longterm happiness. Another way out of misery is to decide you have had enough suffering and just say no. Think of it as chocolate or ice cream or drugs, anything you are tempted to over indulge in. If you are capable of stepping away from the plate before your pants split, then do that with your plate of misery. Don't get out the tupperware, scrape it directly into the garbage. You had enough already. Look at the things that make you happy and arrange time to include them in your life. Some self-sacrifice can also bring happiness, so it doesn't mean you should become a selfish pig. That will probably not make you happy, it could make you miserable. If you think you are ugly, why don't you think a moment about the "you" inside "you". Is there beauty there? Is there something worth sharing, or do you just want confirmation from outside that you are great? If everybody wanted nothing but attention and applause, life would be boring and empty, there would be no give and take. If you are looking non-stop for attention and approval, you probably won't enjoy the response even if you get it, so find another perspective or you will be trapped. Avoid setting traps for yourself. Know your weaknesses and respect them. Find positive aspects for your weaknesses and do not gloat on them like excuses to fail and be unhappy. If your weakness is like fly paper, don't stand in the rosebushes, hang yourself where you can catch some flies and get some use out of your attributes. Every weakness has some hidden advantage, you just have to look at it the right way. Don't avoid looking at your shortcomings, take a good hard look. Figure out what part you inherited. Was grandaddy handed this pitfall like a gold watch, then he handed it down to your daddy to you...if it survived all this time, maybe it's time to learn how to USE it. Once you learn how to exploit your own weakness, you may develope a callous over it and turn it into an asset. Often the drawback has a built in cure. Like with procrastination, for me the best way to avoid the problem of procrastination is to "procrastinate to procrastinate". That is my way to jump-start a dreaded chore. The dread is always more painful than the chore itself. This cuts suffering down dramatically, and saves more time for being happy. See how it works? Robo-fun Robo-kill Robo-eat Robo-love If you feel like you are become a robot and this is necessary because you have a job to do, OK, but sometimes you have to give it up or you get "carpal syndrome"....work related injuries. Just like if you eat nothing but soybeans you can develope an alergy to them. Too much of anything is too much. 1:46 PM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit - Remove

Thursday, February 07, 2008

Can I influence your vote? Category: News and Politics VOTE FOR BARAK OBAMA!!! I was sitting on the fense in a euphoric stupor, so happy was I that George Bush would soon be gone. After reading the candidates' positions and comparing them, I have come to my senses. Barak Obama is the best choice no matter who you are, democrat, republican, religious nutcase, vote for OBAMA, NO EXCEPTIONS. I want a straight talker. I am against government using torture under any circumstances and Obama is the most clear on this topic. If a leader can not be clear about this, he or she is not a leader. Productivity falls when we are sidetracked by zigzagging around the field trying to avoid tripping over lies and double-talk. Barak Obama chooses his battles intelligently, keenly, and he knows how to identify talent and use it. The fact that, after super tuesday Mr. Obama offered positive words about Ms. Clinton in the hypothetical case he doesn't win shows that he does not define opponents as enemies. It is a smart use of resources to recognise strength and build upon it rather than be sidetracked by winning points. (image by Shepard Farley) We need leaders who see the potential in the modern world and have a plan to advance things. The fact that Obama raised so much money without depending on special interests is a clear sign that he could get the economy working better. I read some of his ideas, he offers a plan to use the web to streamline the election process and make it more democratic. He has the sophistication to find practical solutions with today's recources. He has the aptitude for these kinds of solutions because he identifies the problems well, he does not waste anybodies' time fighting straw dogs. Hilary is a tough fighter but she displays a tendancy to be ready to "win at any cost". I thought she showed poor judgement in her comments during the democratic debate that Lyndon Johnson was the key to Martin Luther King's success in the fight for civil rights. Whether intended or not, this gave the unfortunate suggestion that Martin Luther King was over-rated. It was an inopportune comment, misidentifying the target and what is the goal with a lawyer's reflex to win the argument at any cost. For me, that moment in the debate was a turning point. Barak Obama has been consistently sensitive in his rebuttals too. He does not treat Hilary as "the enemy to vanquish at any cost". That is the kind of bridge building we need. My main criticism of McCain is that he is a speech-reader, not a thinker. In debates he constantly relies on slogans and one-liners, and he looks like he is dredging them up by a string running down his leg into his socks. I do not trust somebody who can not "think on their feet". This Q & A video of the head of Google interviewing Obama is a good example of in-depth expression without any struggle. It gives you confidence that he is speaking his mind, and he has one. I don't get that from McCain at all. Stay out of my pants Uncle Sam and good-bye Mr. McCain! McCain's position on a woman's right to choose is unnacceptable. I draw the line against anybody who thinks the government should have ANY rights to decide for a woman whether or not to have a baby. That is a personal choice, whether it involves a single woman, a couple, or a family. I am a staunch "unfertilised egg advocate". A woman has a lot more eggs than she can physically bring to life, so if one of them has to go for whatever reason, that makes way for a different one. If you let government dictate "First come, first born", that is effectively killing the NEXT egg in line. If any politician in this day and age has not understood that fact, he can join the flat earth society, not rule my country OR my crotch. In fact, I would say that this attitude is a dangerous throwback to old battles that have already been won. We can not waste time, energy, and resources fighting old battles. McCain wants to drag the country back 50 years to his heyday. It won't happen. Those days are gone. We need a leader who understands today and is ready to build a better tomorrow. Since McCain is wrong on this life & death issue, and he actually flip-flopped his position on this life and death issue, I REALLY don't want him to be Chief of State....Don't even come close sir. How is this position even qualified as REPUBLICAN? If a candidate is already looking to erode my civil rights before he is even elected....watch out folks, he is capable of anything. Look at George Bush and all the nice things he accomplished. HELLO, anybody home? When I read these position-synopsis in Wikipedia I jumped fully into the Obama camp without any regrets. So, I would suggest this for anybody sitting on the fense. Hilary's positions Barak's positions and the Republican candidates for those who think any of the republican choices are OK because they are all smarter than George Bush, bzzzzzz, wrong answer! Let's accept the gift of hope that Barak Obama is offering and join in to make it happen. It's not only the best choice, it's a great opportunity. 8:31 AM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit - Remove

What’s So FRIENDLY about Friendly Fire?

Saturday, February 23, 2008

What’s So FRIENDLY about Friendly Fire? Current mood: apocolypsy Category: apocolypsy News and Politics The shooting down of a rogue spy satillite to prevent it's toxic payload from hitting innocent targets is making me a bit edgy. I just heard a TV announcer spinning this as a great success story....so much better than hitting a populated zone. This is begging the question. Why isn't anybody talking about the toxic shitstorm we will be enjoying from the exploded satillite? It seems planet earth is under friendly fire. Did anybody get to vote on putting megaton shit in orbit so one day we would be spending millions to blow it up, with the definite possibility that we could miss, and end up wiping Tahiti off the map? Hey folks, I like my sattilite TV, cellphones, internet, but I think we need to get a handle on this potential lethal shitstorm. There is no such thing as "friendly fire". That's a twinkie defense for genocide. I have to think some more about this, but meanwhile I will give up jogging and eating fish just to be on the safe side. 10:52 PM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit - Remove

Another Agnostic Bites the Dust

ANOTHER AGNOSTIC BITES THE DUST Category: Religion and Philosophy I am giving up agnosticism today. Not enough holidays. But seriously, I thought it was simple logic to admit we can't ever know some things, so why label them GOD or JEHOVAH, or MOHAMMED ? It only sets huge groups of people bickering so where's the benefit ? Well, yesterday I saw a video that changed my feelings about all this. It suggests a rational explanation for all religions, an evolutionary warp of pagan beliefs that started with sun worship. That has the ring of truth for me, and I have a sharp ear for bells. The video clip included below effectively rationalises all religions to some extent because it shows how they all have a link to physical reality. It looks like this had a poetic metaphorical counterpart that was mistaken for literal truths, whether by devolution of language or from being simplified to pass the stories to non-astrologues who wouldn't follow the math. The most striking thing is that all these similar religious myths repeating throughout recorded history began well before the Christian Bible stories.The fact that they were in some form at the beginning of human records suggests to me they come from simple diaries of the physical world. Obviously MANY people have need of religious beliefs, or at least to go through the motions, and this idea that all these religions could be based on the astrological notes of early humans seems pretty cool. So maybe the need for rituel has not been properly studied. We spend so much time arguing if GOD exists, why not figure out what purpose our brains have for making patterns and representations out of everything, are we receptors for something we can't decode? Are the ranting paranoiacs wearing tinfoil helmets really meant to be our antennas? What simple truths are we overlooking? It seems every generation has their blindspots, what are ours? Why are we ignoring the elephants and the whales? They've been around longer than us and they have bigger brains. So what do we do? Pull out their tusks and make piano keys? Make some candles? Look at how Galeleo was persecuted by his beloved Catholic Church for proving the earth went around the sun....pretty prophetic ! Not so long ago surgeons thought it was undignified to wash their hands before performing surgery, and these were the highest educated people, which illustrates how we can miss simple truths around us. Blind faith in anything, even things we can see and prove exist, can be fatal. Plenty of things we can "see" and prove exist like money, governments, jobs, can mislead us into a false security and then we become tyrants. But respect and even celebration for things we don't know yet....where's the harm in that? What if the grains of truth in all religions are the metaphorical imprints of complex relationships we have not grasped yet? What if studying falacy could unveil great truths? I have heard it said that every year science resembles religion more and more. Certainly in the world of finance, we have economic speculators making numerical suppositions to manipulate and profit from the world's future. That is fantastic and also vampirical. But getting back to what I started saying, I am giving up agnosticism because I think we CAN know, though we may not express it very well yet. A higher power, is power even the word? What if this higher power is not a power, but a pudding? Maybe our understanding of the physical reality and it's relationship to unseen reality is in such an infant state as to render our expression total comic poetry at this point. They say there is a point in the reptilian part of our brains, that when stimulated gives people a feeling of being "touched by god". A sort of "all knowing flow with the universe" feeling. So, maybe GOD has a physical explanation, the need to stimulate the part of our brain which connects us to the outer world or inner world....here again words fail me. But it is fun to think about. Love to Albert Hoffman, wherever you are. 7:44 PM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit - Remove

METAPHOR about the Earth & Mankind The earth is sometimes called a "heavenly body." Imagine now that the earth is like one physical body, your own body. Imagine that all of humanity is like one brain, the intellect, psychology and spirit.... and you are a cell within that brain, and the planet is the body where this mind you are part of resides. Imagine the animals of the earth as lobes of that brain, the memory, the instinct. Using more and more of the fossil fuels is like demanding the heart to pump blood faster and faster. What point is it to give ourselves a heart attack? The icecaps are like our skin, so why burn off our skin? The trees are like our lungs, so why fill our lungs with poison or chop them out? The ozone is like our sunglasses and suncreen lotion. If we bleach the glasses and use up all the lotion, we will be fried and squinting. We are part of a truly fantastic mind which has developed and grown for centuries. Our mind speaks many languages, and because we are one mind, the confusion of language is overcome by other forms of communication which is non-verbal. If we look at problems of health, political strife, war and poverty as a personal problem, we can apply metaphors of psychology, family life, or life cycles in nature to reveal another perspective to solve the problem. Don't forget it is a part of YOU, not some unrelated accessory you can throw in the garbage. Human culture is not an accessory, it is the spirit. Cultural artifacts are like the children, the physical offspring created by a united effort, a cross-polinated effort. Cultural artifacts are not created in a vacume. All wars are made over resources, cultural artifacts, and personal freedom. If the system your cells have devised to protect a local treasure cause neighboring cells to try and steal or "relocate" the treasure, look for agreement that the treasure is worth protecting, then devise a new way to share it, and learn to evaluate the potential value of the negative space of the neighbors. Remember that flow between neighboring cells is healthy for good circulation. When there is violence or destruction going on in part of the "mind" and "body" imagine it as if it was a parasitic desease on yourself, or a cancer. The "cells" are being deranged and acting funny. Are they pointing out a bigger potential problem like an iceberg, are they a warning? Don't forget, it is a war within yourself. Anything that kills part of yourself is not good, no matter what color uniform it is wearing. Sending in the army like surgeons is like amputating the limb. The limb will not grow back, and you will miss that limb. Look at the problems early, before you become totally consumed by this illness. You don't want to cut off your limbs. When there is a flourishing growth from good circulation, nurturing, and sharing of work and play together, make sure this sucess is not hiding a system of theft, slavery, and false hopes that are suffocating an unseen part of yourself. Don"t wake up one day and find you have been eating your tail to make yourself fat. Don't canabalise yourself. Using slaves in one part of the world to glut yourself is like cannabalism. It is uncivilised, like wearing perfumes to hide a bad smell does not cleanse the smell. There is nothing wrong with enjoying a beautiful perfume, but if you have to create an abominable stench in one corner to have a pretty smell in the other corner, have a closer look at the corner you are creating the stench in and ask yourself if there is not a better way to protect all the corners. The bad smelling corner you are sacrificng is your own backside. You will turn around one day and be hit with a poison gas. So, to conclude this exercise in being, I suggest that solutions for a better life are within us. We are part of all problems, because they are part of us. We are part of the potential solution too. If we are the ones in the smelly corner who do not want to turn into a toxic gas, we have to deny the cannibal to continue eating his own tail, we have to wiggle the tail. Since the tail is part of the cannabal too, there must be a way without killing the cannibal or cutting off the tail to transform the cannibal. If we are in another corner that does not stink yet and is not glutted by the cannibal, if we are like the cannibal's conscience, we have to speak up loud and clear and save ourselves! One important question is, are we really evolving as a planet, a culture, a species? Are new generations of an old species really ever young? This would be a similar question to the religious theory of "original sin", are we born with guilt? I would argue we are born with intellectual and instinctual inheritance, not guilt. The more that information becomes free to access, the more we are free to learn and recognise the larger base of resources we have to offer collectively, as a "world-mind" and "world-body". You could say that having potential open access to the world's useful knowlege and intellectual treasures is a paradise, and the portal to paradise has been opened. The new religion that can unite the species is an audio visual ocean of music, art, and testimony available 24 hours a day. So, where is Ben Laden and why is he such a pain in my ass? What is Ben Laden? If Ben Laden is part of us, what is he? If part of us is a liberated and educated female that has no interest or credence in the Koran, and the other part of "me" is a religious madman that is busy uniting my unhappy cells to destroy my happy ones....what does that mean? Can I communicate with Ben Laden? When you get sick from a cold, you don't know exactly what it is. You have behaviors you suspect can aggrevate or bring on a cold. You try to balance your activities, but somehow, kissing everybody at year's end cellebrations, or studying all night and leting the dust accumulate on the bookshef...you find yourself sneezing. You don't cut off your nose though, you look for ways to get back in balance. What metaphor helps me get back on my feet and regain my strength and happiness? If this cold causes my nose to swell up and I start suffocating, I may panic and cut my nose off. Even if I reason that the unseen thing causing the problem is unpredictable and dangerous, I don't want to loose my nose. A diamond would be an irritant in my nose and if my nose was filled with diamonds, I could die. If I look at this irritant as something that may have value but is in the wrong place, then I have to find the good pocket for that diamond and find a way to let it shine in the light again. This is a thinking diamond after all. The worst problem I get into philosphically is to try and think of where I draw the line morally, and then ask myself if compromise is unavoidable no matter where you draw that line for survival? Does it come down to an unavoidable question of cultural suicide or cannibalism? Raping children is an easy place to draw a moral boundary. There are no excuses to tolerate that. If it is children raping each other, then what do we do? That changes things a bit. Maybe the child-rapist learned this behaviour from being raped himself, and he is a damaged child, but not a monster. And what of human moral monsters? At some point does an animal, human or otherwise, reach a pont of no return where he or she can not be salvaged? Well, we don't ask ourselves so many questions when it is a monkey and not a human. Either we isolate and study the monkey, or we kill it. If it is a clever monkey we might supervise it and keep it away from other monkeys, but only to the extent that we still benefitted by the monkey's talents. The crazy monkey becomes a tool. As we all know, sometimes we even take a fine healthy monkey and drive it crazy with special training so it becomes a trained killer monkey. In fact, we take a lot of fine healthy humans, turn them into killers. Most do re-adapt, but they are scarred. Unfortunately, some of them snap mentally and physically and never revert to their fine healthy status. As a society, we are taught that this is OK and our killers are patriotic heros and THEIR killers are rebellious terrorists. Most of us civilians are so hepped up on drugs and tv we don't think twice about it and just don't give a damn. We are clever enough to avoid this killer indoctrination by sidestepping that whole process however we can, and we make a paralel world where we buy and trade with the profits of the warriors but we try to keep our distance. So, here we are at the threshold of a new delemma, we have been eating our own tail, sold to us by kamakazi money junkies. That is what I see on the X-ray anyway. As I said at the beginning, I see how the salesmen are part of ourself, just like the warriors and the happy pheromones flying around. To be continued...

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