ThE MaN WhO SoLd ThE WorLD.....

so i have been granted the wonderful power to "ban" by my fairy god professor.... well, the "ban" i would put into place is actually more of a preservative matter. something that society got way to much of at once, and now it has sadly slipped by into 'the nothing' (yes, i like "the never ending story" too). i am talking about those old merry-time jingles they use to open every sitcom with. primarily, it all began (or so it seemed, based on recollection) with shows like "three's company", "good times" and "different strokes". in the early nineties it evolved into musical cheese with way to many synthesizers, and lyrics that read like those posters you find hanging from the most miserable of all work places. "INSPIRATION: its what gets you back here every day, sucker". i miss the catchy, accidental train wreck that got you started on the downward decent of the following plot from "pefect strangers", "family matters", hell, the entire disney afternoon line-up. we should lock this shit up! then, little by little, we'll release it again. "i don't believe in the beatles, i just believe in cheese".... i think Lennon actually meant that, but it got twisted somewhere.

we are the egg men.... you are the egg men.....

well, well, well,
i don't know what is more obvious, the fear they propogate every day, or how many people are starting to question it all. i think the negativity they are trying to spread is in fact a decoy to distract us from the enlightment on the horizon. what pisses me off is that when the people rise the media will try to join them (as if they have been on the side of good the entire time). like a person walking the thin line of a battle field that separates two armies, with a sign that reads "i'm on your side" for everyone to see. what you call "personal censorship" i call "boycott", and i have been trying to avoid these bastards (with their bastard stories) for a long time. i find myself changing the channel on the commercials as well. have you seen the new channel 13 news pitch? it opens w/ a car chase and a pretty bad wreck, and then some plastic, SMILING lady encourages the viewer that this is "my 13 news". SHANANAGANS! we should all file a class action law suit.
oh, so what i meant by the enlightment on the horizon was.... it's kinda hard to define, but here it goes. people are able to communicate all over the world. language barriers can now, more than ever, become a thing of the past. people have mass amounts of knowledge at their very fingertips, and the ways of the things in which we trust are starting to diminish (we are losing faith in our gov't, economy, doctors, toy makers, etc.). so what this may create is a reaction, an era of Renaissance people. can't you see the line being created? there are those who blindly accepting it all, and others who feel they are constantly being pushed to raise their hands in question. how do you act when the alarm clock stars to go off?

conservative rebels without a cause

The group founded by Mel and Norma Gabler has had a greater impact on the textbook adoption policy than any other. Although the founders are now dead, the group they founded is still flourishing. Discuss at least one good and one bad aspect of the work that the Gablers have done through the years.
Fuck all generalizations, and the notion that these two examples of people do not represent an overview of a lot of americans. it would seem that they do most. the worst aspect of all that the gablers fought for was the censorship of information in our text books. giving personal views that out weigh information and/or fact. right about now Mill would be rolling over in his grave. the irony in all of this is that the gablers wanted to deny authority to government control. this brings my point full circle. so many of us talk and walk our shit against the roles of our politicians and corportations, but if in the same situations we would turn around and exploit the public just the same. i call it 'the adam and eve' syndrome (that is copyrighted statement, and should not be used by anyone else but me). an original starting point if you will, that makes every person project the coolness of a free, easy-spirited person who infact hides their fangs until the opportune moment when some others disagree or refuse their products.

The No Arm Claws (words to a recent song i wrote)

don't get too close,
i'll only hit you twice.

sedate & roll & smile.....
i like to secream out fire.

so i'll answer it wrong,
i don't do anything write.
but tonight
with you & me
we'll conspire,
conspire to rule.

sedate & roll & smile....
i like to scream out fire.
so i shroom
all through the night!
everybody yell,
just to get a rise!

you have such pretty hair....
you have such pretty hair......

sedate & roll & smile....
i like to scream out fire.
and i shroom
all through the night!
everybody scream,
just to get a rise!
and we'll go
riot!
riot!
riot!
riot!

so i guess i will go,
i'll see you all in hell.

It Ain't Fair, John Sinclair

What happens when you wake up one morning to discover there has been bars put up all around your life? Secretly, and silently, someone you had depended on for years was working on a prison. The most horrible thing about this incarceration is that it was designed specific to you. So you walk around testing the walls to see what they are made of. Fear, manipulation and popular opinion are the mortar that keep the indestructible bars in place. The bars themselves have a reflective material on them so that you cannot see it from far away, and if you do ever happen to recognize it, all that you will see is your own face to blame. But you are not alone. As you begin to see your prison remember, that others are being built all the time. If you were to read John Stuart Mill you could see that he was warning us all along "and speaking generally, it is not, in constitutional countries, to be apprehended that the government, whether completely responsible to the people or not, will often attempt to control the expression of opinion, except when in doing so it makes itself the organ of the general intolerance of the public". This prison is not okay. Surveillance on every street corner is not okay. Being made to believe that if you question authority, you are a threat is not okay, "for the majority of the eminent men of every past generation held many opinions now known to be erroneous, and did or approved numerous things which no one will now justify'. I know, I know, this may be all in my mind. This fantasy world of individual prisons. Perhaps. Why don't you call the whitehouse and ask them? Oh, and don't forget to describe yourself, so that the van will have no problem recognizing you.

Your Neighborhood Prison Watch,
John Sinclair

In Man We (have to) Trust

The most dangerous thing Milton seems to address about the commandments of a person's government and/or religious leaders is the opression of the majority. Truth becomes twisted by the intentions of those with growing power. This power monster can only lead to a bottleneck of the populace, where any thoughts or creativity outside the allowance set forth by their authority will have severe consequences. Why? Are people easier to control if you take away their God given abilities? Milton talks about the conditioning that started first within the catholic church "wherein Bishops themselves were forbid to read the Books of Gentiles, but Heresies they might read: while others long before them on the contrary scrupl'd more the Books of Hereticks, then of Gentiles". There seems to be something hidden behind the curtain of church and state besides the distrust of an individual with his or her own soul. Milton declares every person should have the ability to decide what is good and evil, "but herein the difference is of bad books, that they to a discreet and judicious reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate". If people were able to see all aspects of a story being feed to them, in a majority, by those who had the same ability to reason, there would be a problem in future tyrannical control. The actual problem lies (and is created) within the government and church and unfortunately they are very aware of it "Good and evill we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably". Milton does not suggest we rid ourselves of government and church, but rather of quietly laying down our rights one by one. We are being dumbed down on a mass scale, and rather than recognizing it, we jump on band wagons and protest that which suppresses our very existence of expression, "Seeing therefore that those books, & those in great abundance which are likeliest to taint both life and doctrine, cannot be supresst without the fall of learning".
I find a certain affirmation in Milton's text. There is a wave growing all around me, of the most intelligent and talented people, who are stuck working their lives away for someone elses glory. Someone elses power. Someone elses war. I recognize the same atmosphere in the ideas of the 'Areopagitica'. It's funny how relative we are to our past, even if the language is archaic. So I'd like to give a shout out to Milton and whole-heartedly repeat what he says "FUCK THE MAN!!!"
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth" Albert Einstein.


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