…on memorial day….

I know I may be alone in this:

Another holiday in the US –  Memorial Day is a shameful experience.  A sham to make us feel better about the bad things we do and have done in the name of politics, war and nation.   More national self-victimization promoted, celebrated, paraded and justified as we sink/slink further and further toward totalitarian rule (in the name of democracy).   A certain despicable presidential candidate has as his Hitlerian slogan “Make America Great Again”.  But I think we need to ask, “Does America deserve to be great?”

Is anyone asking the tough questions anymore?  Or is it actually like one of my favorite headlines from the satirical paper, THE ONION – REPORT: NOBODY FUCKING CARES.

New Millennium Exile

EXILE

No religious identification

No media driven
obsessions, opinions or obfuscations

Oblivious to the world of professional sports;
my “team” IS humanity

The “causes” of others are not mine;
others ARE my cause

Not bound by technology;
no mobile device to drive dependency

All original biology;
no replacement parts

No political affiliation

Living in the absence of corporate control

An observer
in exile

Shunned, ignored and left alone
is the exile in cultural alienation

Cultural exile is preferable
when the alternative is slavery

Aren’t we all working for the enemy?

“I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of “Admin.” The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.”

― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

Consider this…

MESSAGES FROM THE FUTURE #82
messages from the future #82 wm sm
Do you want to feel more empowered?
Do you want be be happier?
Do you want to experience bliss more frequently?
Here’s what you do…

1. Stop watching news programming!
2. Ignore advertising!
3. Exit politics.
4. Tune in to your immediate environment.
5. Take responsibility for your self.
6. Control your self.
7. Step away from your monitor.

Isn’t it interesting that a computer screen is called a monitor? Do we monitor it or does it, by our constant viewing, monitor us?

NEW BOOK – finally here.

Here is the cover of the new book. Click on the title below to be redirected for a preview on blurb.com.