A Galactic Look at all this War-stuff and the Fibonacci Sequence in Tool's Lateralus
An Invitation to a Party and a few thoughts from Jake by Jake Towne, the Champion of the Constitution
(libertarian)
Friday, August 8, 2008
Since the very first time I heard this song from Tool many years ago, it resonated deeply inside me, but if you had asked me why, my eyes would have lit up but I would not have been able to say why. Now I know – the lyrics I did not understand back then were all about unleashing your potential in the face of the unknown and 'spiraling out.' Recommend watching the video, although hopefully the below makes sense regardless.
To paraphrase Carl Sagan: all the wars that ever were, all the blood that ever ran out to win over little disputed tufts of earth, all the people who have ever loved, all the dreams, all the happiness, and all the sorrow our race has ever known have occurred on an insignificant mote of dust in the cosmos in less than a blink of an eye. Ultimately, on some year in the future, we probably need to get off this planet for our species to ensure survival, but staying alive on the planet we’ve got is paramount. The American wars of invasion, Amero-Israeli aggression towards Iran all have the potential for a crippling nuclear holocaust, as John Pilger writes here in "The Lies of Hiroshima are the Lies of Today."
Will we survive? If we unleash our potential, yes. If we act to correct the great moral wrongs such as senseless wars and false money, yes. If we honor the dignity and right to self-determination of our fellow women and men, yes. If we seek true liberty as I define it (grin grin, its really open to debate, but that’s the damn point), yes. If we go down the path of indifference to war, feel or show nothing but apathy to the death and torture of our kindred, and expending our passions on traps like earning all the fiat money we can in the corporate rat-race, on red herrings like global warming/carbon cap-and-trade, gay marriage, I fail to see how. If we do not dissent with imperialistic, socialistic, industrial-military-complex-controlled governments, I don’t see how. History teaches us that down that road lies only pure madness.
I reminisce of an interview done in Hermann Goering’s cell at Nuremburg before he committed suicide. The interviewer said he did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction. Here is Goering’s reply:
HG: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood.Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?
Interviewer: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.
HG: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.
In retrospect, it is almost cute how the interviewer replied. "Only Congress can declare wars." Little did he know that just 4 years later, the United States under Truman of Hiroshima fame would start its ‘police action’ war against Korea, and the United States would propagate atrocities all over the world without a formal declaration of war under an interventionalist foreign policy for the next 60 years. All in the name of a greater good, whether the flavor of the day be anti-communist or terrorism.
Reader, if I and other dissenters are ever silenced, when this website gets taken down, watch out because its then your turn. And I don't write that to scare you, it is the simple truth. We have been fighting primarily for ourselves, our friends, and family, and those who have died but also, albeit indirectly in my case, for your freedom too. Will you join the revolution? It’s fairly easy these days, just sign-up at www.CampaignForLiberty.com and join the party! What is a lot harder is to restart your life with your eyes wide open.
Now, if you will excuse me, I am going to spend the afternoon in the park finding what all the Libertarian/libertarian hubbub for Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged is all about, hanging out with some kids, and then strolling over to see some good friends of mine, the first to befriend me in the country where I now reside. They are relocating back to the USA next week, and this article is dedicated to them.
'Spiraling out' to embrace whatever may come, in Liberty,
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A Salute to Malalai Joya - Afghanistan's Tom Paine Published: August 8, 2008 Malalai Joya, a brave lady and banned legislator from Afghanistan, fights for justice, human rights, and democracy. She battles both the Warlords in power, the Taliban... and the American Government, which is probably why you have never heard of her.
Published: August 1, 2008 "It was inconceivable to me that my government would be coming through my door." - the Mayor of Berwyn Heights, Maryland, or a recent police raid on his residence
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