"People are dropping out of democracy. That’s a very dangerous trend. The voting level is going down. But even more than that, you have people say, "I’m not turned on to politics." Well, history shows that if you’re not turned on to politics, politics is going to turn on you. And the political system, under the corporate domination, is closing out the civil society. Citizen groups can’t get anything done anymore. It’s very hard to get a chance to have a chance in Congress before the regulatory agencies or the courts. It’s like a permanent government in Washington." –Ralph Nader http://www.ontheissues.org/Ralph_Nader.htm
"I mean, first of all, if [the Democratic presidential candidates] wanted to [end the influence of special interests] they’d put front and center public funding of public campaigns. They put front and center cracking down on corporate crime fraud and abuse. They would put front and center empowering the American people in direct democracy format so they can move in when they’re so-called representatives cave in to the interests of big business." – Ralph Nader http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0802/25/ltm.03.html
While Nader refers to our need for direct democracy in the US, some see it as an advancement of his personal political agenda. For example, the article "Democracy? Count Me Out" by Stephen Gowans argues that Nader and other politicians just want to change the rules when they are losing in order to slant the playing field in their favor. According to Gowans, this explains Nader’s attempt to give the people more power while he is actually hoping to give "enlightened" people more power. Citing Richard Swift’s work as an example, Gowans goes on to argue that people who advocate direct democracy might be surprised by the effects of expanding democracy’s scope, such as a majority that disagrees with their own political initiatives. Taking this perspective, both the ’non-authoritarian’ Left and the right-wing policy makers in Washington nowadays are equally "happy to exploit the rhetoric of democracy, as a useful way to distinguish themselves favourably from authoritarian regimes". While equating these two extremes is a bit of an exaggeration, Gowans does have a point about the type of rhetoric being used in politics today.
However, if we step back from the debate about presidential candidates to see what citizens are saying about direct democracy, a different thesis appears. In a recent online debate which included several particpants of the Worldwide Direct Democracy Movement (WDDM), it became apparent that in order to effectively advocate true direct democracy, we cannot be satisfied with mere stopgap participatory responses to problems that can only be addressed through a new system of comprehensive and total participation. Instead of altering the playing field slightly to make it more favorable for one team or the other, or even in favor of the referee, we should be pushing for a new field all together on which we are all players and referees. - Editor
So there's that.
More importantly:
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Oh, you'll be seeing more of this carefree little feller! Just watch this space for ribald tales of animated symbolsets, sassy semantic trickery and tender coming-of-age-at-gunpoint-multiple-times-until-the-bloodloss-mercifully-allowed-repreive stories!
Hey, a heads up for any wandering Daemonkrauts in here that your party still has a viable contender outside the Hillarak Supramacy. A guy with decades more experience. A guy who isn't afraid to take the bold stand against torture and pointless total war. A guy who really has fought the good fight, a guy who secured a paper trail for some of the Pentagon's most corrupt and vile enshadowings by reading them into the National Record during a filibuster in the 1970's, a move that could have cost him much more than the blackballing and cockblocking he's had to endure as one of our last actual statesmen.
He's even gentleman enough to give a tip o' the straw hat for fellow swiftbooti, L Ron Paul. He's still in it, too. C'mon, PaulB0ts! Make him work for the millions you twats gave him in booksales and donations! Keep him running!
Not everyone is aware of the existence of the National Initiative for Democracy, which is an elaborate plan to institute a system of direct democracy in the U.S.A. It would be enacted in the form of a constitutional amendment made binding by a popular vote in which the majority of the nationwide electorate approves it. This bold and visionary plan to create a balance of power betweeen the people and the existing branches of government is largely the work of former senator and current presidential candidate Mike Gravel. Read the following article and follow the links to learn more about it. You can also register your vote right now for the National Initiative. When 50 million have done so, it becomes the law! Find out how. -Editor
AMERICA DOES NOT HAVE A GOVERNMENT "BY THE PEOPLE"
The United States of America is not, in fact, a democracy. In a democracy, the people are the government. Today, we elect people to run the government for us. The people we elect do not, for the most part, run the country in the interest of the people, they run it in the interest of themselves. We are led to believe that we must put our trust in these people. We, the people, do not have the power to create laws in our interest. This leads to an extreme imbalance of power in the government versus the people.
To solve these problems and create a true balance of power, The Democracy Foundation has created a plan named the National Initiative for Democracy.
The powerful elites who control our government will self-servingly argue that the People are not qualified or do not know enough to be trusted to make laws. To counter those opposed to empowering the People, one needs only look to the record of the last 100 years in the 24 states where the People make laws by initiative. In those states the People have legislated responsibly, and many times more so than their elected representatives. Civil service, campaign finance reform, and women's right to vote are but a few examples of the progressive legislation initiated by the People.
The experience of Switzerland is even more instructive. Switzerland, a poor, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, hardscrabble country without natural resources, decided, 140 years ago, to adopt a constitution that brought the People into the operation of government as lawmakers. Even the acclaimed Alexis de Tocqueville had serious doubts that this Swiss experiment in direct democracy would work. The result is without precedent in human history; Switzerland has evolved into the most successfully governed and wealthiest nation in the world.
The National Initiative has been developed and refined over the past decade by former Senator Mike Gravel(D. Alaska, 1969 - 1981) and his colleagues. The Democracy Foundation, a nonprofit 501 c 3 organization, is sponsoring the National Initiative. Philadelphia II, a separate nonprofit organization, is conducting an election on National Initiative at votep2.us, giving the people the opportunity to vote for and enact the National Initiative into law. Both are organizations are led by Senator Gravel.
The National Initiative is a legislative proposal that includes an amendment to the Constitution, the Democracy Amendment and a proposed federal statute, the Democracy Act. The Amendment 1) asserts the constituent sovereignty of the People to make laws, 2) outlaws monies in initiative elections not from natural persons, and 3) legalizes the self-enactment process of the Philadelphia II election.
The Act establishes deliberative legislative procedures for the People and creates an administrative agency (the Electoral Trust) to implement those procedures on behalf of the People, independent of representative governments.
With the National Initiative's enactment, the American People will experience the responsibility of legislating and governing themselves directly, the benefits of which will bring about greater civic maturity. The National Initiative does not alter the existing structure of representative governments; however, it does add an additional check, the People, to our system of Checks and Balances. Bringing the People into the legislative operations of government sets up a working partnership with the People and their elected legislative representatives.
The election by Philadelphia II at votep2.us overcomes the monopoly of representative government over the people and the failure of Congress to share its lawmaking powers with the People, who are already experienced as lawmakers in 24 states where they make laws by initiative, and everywhere, whenever people vote on bond issues.
The Philadelphia II election began on September 17, 2002 allowing people to the use of the Internet to vote on the National Initiative. The successful use of this ubiquitous technology now depends on supporters networking their friends, relatives, colleagues and organizations informing them that they can enact the National Initiative into law without the government by voting at: votep2.us
The ideological foundation of the National Initiative rests on the belief that the constituent power of the People is sovereign and the American People can govern themselves as they see fit in pursuit of their happiness and the general welfare. George Washington put it best: The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
You can best equip yourself to help network your friends by investigating the subjects below and following their links (which are repeated in the left margin of the following pages) to learn more about:
First Principles: The philosophical foundation of the National Initiative.
Partnership In Democracy: How the Legislature of the People, working in partnership with our elected legislators, overcomes the flaws of a purely representative democracy while retaining its benefits.
I've got you now, Batman, you Chomsky-sucking mutherfugg...
Srry, y'all. That one's a particularly hilarious-to-me "joke" that even a Presidential Hopeful™ can't summon the solipsism to elucidate. The RapeJoke of US Foreign Policy is funnier. Moe would get it. Battim, if you find this, know that i won't rest until you get it too. I'm sorry that it won't be as funny as:
USFPIARJ Teaser Wants You And Dresses Like It Too.
Srry, that's the RapeJoke of US Development And Enclosure/Domestic Policy. So hard to keep them separate.
Anyway, that shit ain't funny, and i know you know i know this, and you had best be aware that am fully aware of the former, and am still going to shove it in any and every face i see, even the "innocent" amongst the wellwishers, when ere hence i boil it down to servable dimentia.
Qua? Because...because you fuckers are driving your cars around, paying the banks and companies what They™ tell you to, acting like you've got a fucking say in who becomes Bush's heir to the puppethone, acting like even if you did have a say there was a cunting difference on stage between the 6 wastes of skin offered, and all the while your tax dollars are once again paying for worldwide outsourcing of rape and murder at increasing rates; and you act as if this is understandable given how crazy Arabs are.
Worse, you act like you believe this cockamamie half-assed lie is fooling you, and then...l0lz, get this shit..THEN YOU ACT LIKE I'M SUPPOSED TO NOT CALL YOU ON IT.
Oh Cracka i KNOW you ain't that high.
Which of you females reading this is thinking "Obama or Hilary?" WHICH ONE OF YOU?
Fucking better be NONE. Serious. WTF? You LIKE Rape as a Foreign Policy strategy? Will there be less with either one of those capitulating mealymouthed corporate stooges as Official USA Talking Head? Really?
You think?
You think it matters what you think? Still? Do The Goddam Reading.
Which one of you-wanna be Realists still thinks the 2004 electoral-over-popular count doesn't decidedly prove beyond the standard mean required that the US electoral college is not contingent upon the popular count? Which one, two, or W/e is so fucking committed to the Ideal Armchair of Moderation that following the fucking paper trail from New York through London to Dubai is the job of "Conspiracy Freaks" and not merely another good way to track the obvious actions of a global cartel of multinationalist corporate dynasties?
Which 20 of you ARE conspiracy fucktards, buying your clique's racist, ethnocentrist, tribalist misdirection legends? WHICH ONE OF YOU FUCKING PEOPLE BELIEVED THE HASHEMSFILMS L0LZFEST?
WHO HERE BELIEVES THE FUCKING SAUCERMEN ARE COMING?
Derp. Dipshits. You aren't fooling anyone by acting as if you think that's within the reach of plausible. It's praetobviously not, and as a matter of fact one WOULD have to be slightly retarded to think that aliens were going to alieviate us of the responsibilties implicit in dealing with the ever-growing gobs of human feces appearing (as if by divine intervention!) in our personal doggie dishes.
I don't care if it's out of fear that you don't face down the FaceLess with me. It's always been so obvious to me that an oligarchy controlled the Western world. One controls Japan, in collusion with the Imperial aristocracy which they kept. One controls India, created by the Aryans when they took over the ArcheoTamil world. Ghandi was a pale motherfucker, huh? They're good at it, them Aryan Cousins of mine.
In the West they didn't fare so well. No Bible. That's key in the beginning. This is why it's easy to blame the Jews; their founding autocrat wrote the bible that the whole of Western Culture looks to as some sort of keystone. Here's the kicker, boys and girls:
No Gods empower these people.
In case you haven't noticed, those symbol sets don't mean shit in physical reality, being as the sky is empty. No MagicMan in the clouds. So that's all just control myths. And you have to be pretty fucking broken to let some other idiot's poorly plaguarized spook story control you into giving real authority to elitist thugs.
Every Jew i know wants nothing to do with Israel and gets no Hanakhah gifts with Tel Aviv postmarks, dig? Every blond i know wants nothing to with Nazi scumbags and has no claim on their ancestral farmland in the Rhone Valley, every Londoner i know has no love for the Royals....
...hmph. I don't know any Londoners, actually. Fucking go back to 1812, everybody. NOW.
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I'll be there waiting. Hurry up, and somebody PLEASE give Paris an AK.
Sorry if i yelled...No, fuck that. Sorry if you think Democracy isn't worth looking into.
Yeah, i decided against the Full Rape Joke For Christmas thang i was cookin' up. Not to scare th' Villagers, and all. Call me puss, call me soft on JudeoChrIslamicist Usurpation of Pre-Roman Custom. Call me Ishmael, W/e; just don't you fucking look at me.
BTW~ RE: Pakistankania- Please, don't say that Democracy may be in danger there, too? OMGWTF?!? They™ said it couldn't happen there.
I love the way this one is unraveling. Al Qu'e D'oh? Ex-KGB? She hit her head on the sunroof handle? We know it couldn't have been recently-civilianized coup-d'creed Demagogue d'Magog Musharef; but any other crazed theories as to who assassinated Sri Benezir Bhutto may turn out to be as plausible and/or mandatorily acceptable in lieu of elections as the latest Official Word™.
(Segue? Way!)
The AntiChrist Dajjal will be a Reptilian ShapeShifter
Allzy'all can't see this blogs stats, so let me explicate what it means to be one of those who are still with Us™ at this point. In the last couple months if deliberately tried to affect numbers one way or the other, at one point getting the bravest of Thee, Nase, to comment cautionarily. I Came upon Thee Rape Joke idea'r, and have now whittled Readership™ down to one quarter what it was in October (On average; i'm not counting the hellza-scary 500+ pageviews day, which i attribute to scripts-n-B0tz)
So i assume that the 50-someodd of you are not one person. I assume that 10 of you are indeed B0tz. I assume 10 more are random cruise-throughs. 10 more are...what, Moderators? Nah. I'm a Mod somewhere myself; either they'd call me on something or pull it. ThierSpace Mods DO watch my pics, since i'm flag'd due to the Pr0nB0t Endorsement, Regardez:
See how long it lasts this time.
At any rate, i assume there's about 20 of you, half of whom are p33pz i personally ACTUALLY know, as in R/L; i have touched some in their sleep (perhaps), or stolen food from; helped move, obtain or dispose of something or one. These are folks whom about 5 of which i have confidence in thier ability to discern the difference between the above and the below.
The continuum explicit in the confluence of money and power which draws our collective along in it's wake even as it drives us to carry it, aka Them™, is a very real nexus of men and lies whose angle of reproach is deliberately obscured.
Yes, yes. They™ always get More. Why? Well, because some of us will take stuff from the rest of us by force if told to do so. Even if its stuff like orchards, or the airwaves. Pretty shitty, huh? The fact that only 5 of you (plus Nase, but he's a Non-American so that don't help us none) care to try to grok this means that of the 10 people i don't know...well, probably 5 are with Them™.
Luckily They™ are cheap and lazy. Tnx Gawd 4 teh cumbrrsum beurocraci3z.
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Oh, you neednt worry about that either, Raskolnikov went on in the same tone. People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so in fact. One thing only is clear, that the appearance of all these grades and sub-divisions of men must follow with unfailing regularity some law of nature. That law, of course, is unknown at present, but I am convinced that it exists, and one day may become known. The vast mass of mankind is mere material, and only exists in order by some great effort, by some mysterious process, by means of some crossing of races and stocks, to bring into the world at last perhaps one man out of a thousand with a spark of independence. One in ten thousand perhapsI speak roughly, approximatelyis born with some independence, and with still greater independence one in a hundred thousand. The man of genius is one of millions, and the great geniuses, the crown of humanity, appear on earth perhaps one in many thousand millions. In fact I have not peeped into the retort in which all this takes place. But there certainly is and must be a definite law, it cannot be a matter of chance.
Oh yes. We'll be touching on this "Law" some more some future some.
A'ight, Crakaz. Mad love for NYE; anybody in SeaTown who knows of fucking ANYTHING worth going out for or to PLEASE lemme know. Otherwise it's bottlerockets and rattlecans for all your picket fences. Maybe some.
Be Social To Each Other, and Steal Time From Work.
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To be pedantically Kantian about it, our Hero of The Age (Of Reason) is STILL Sri Thomas Paine, World Citizen Pretend and Shit-Stirrer Excelsior. Paine spent time in multiple prisons thanks to his propensity to speak Truth to Power, championing Democracy and secular egalitarian reform. To know his story is to know the history of the Amero-Anglican Schism known as The Revolutionary War; and thus understand why he languished in that Death Row Castle and Deepest of Holes, the Bastille, while the new Nation he helped create ignored his plight and betrayed his work.
Having rebuilt the model of Human Nature according to simple applied anthropod natural historigraphics, ergo checkit:
Given: Humans are social primates who maintain an innately predisposed hierarchy with lies, violence and sexual manipulation.
Given: This situation is not an equilibrium with tendencies towards egalitarian developement.
Our New Post New-Age Age of Reason (or ReasonAge 3.0) is setting out on some disturbing foundations. Indeed, other psuedosocial animals (or true social species for that matter) haven't worked the efficiency gain from distributed labor into the layers of legacy surplus that we humans have. Yet in doing so, we as individuals within the species are just now poking our heads out from under eons of absolute authoritarian tyranny by ruling elites who have generally inheirited thier positions or usurped such positions, enabled by the power politic being institutionally investitured away from redress or recourse by the public at large.
Summation: We can't even challenge our silverbacks to a fair fight. We have an entrenched class of Silverback Mimics.
The AntiChrist Dajjal Will Be A Reptilian ShapeShifter
Humans at this point require hierarchical control systems to manage the distributed labor production that enables them as individuals to make it through the day. In places without adequate infrastructure and/or poorly divided/distributed Labor individuals will wind up having electric lights with no clean water, Twinkies without fruit, or bare feet on fresh asphalt. In this respect we obviously could use a little less laissez faire and a bit more pyramid power.
Other aspects of human Ness should definately have less pecking-order hierarchy.
(I just found out that code for the Codes was compromised...not by Them™, i'm sure. Most likely it was Syncronicity Herself; since Authority is next on our list of to-dos, and i should rebuild and renew our documentation on this most pertainant and insistant Vox Authoritas.)
My fave Anime Princess, Eve, has allowed a certain user (who is not a pimecone, BTW) to fill the Elfin Lied hole with a timely tale of social networks and connectivity.
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Serial Experiments 12
We were looking at the basics of formal modern democratic thought, and had basically reduced the malignant Authortarian toxic meme-mimic of Natural Law to a simple set of truisms based on observable natural history. What we're left with is not a Social Contract, a mysterious extra-legislative all-empowering and perpetually binding pre-natal "agreement" suspiciously familiar in tone and effect, but a simple nexus state from which to chart development.
Toxic Mimics
Toxic Originals
It is the nature of life systems to evolve, as opposed to being intentionally constructed. Few branches of hard science even bother to attempt a divination of inception for traces of artiface, linguistics being a notable exception. Social science loses it's footing as science immediately when it assumes a priori that the institutions and methodologies of hierarchical social ordering apparent in such wide diversity across almost all human cultures are intentional and architectured via Social Contracting.
This is one of the many reasons that sociologists and statisticians sit at the table with the broken leg in the Faculty Dining Commons, while historians and NeoMarxian PolyEconomicists sit with the computer science and anthropology people. It does not explain why the historians occassionally huck ketchup cups at them, nor does it shed light on why all involved will blame the physicists for acts of food violence; but you digress.
Please, try to stay on message.
The alienation of humans from the basic aspects of what they as a society and as individuals actually are has accelerated in recent years, at least on the apparent level. It's noticable by the most casual observer; and i highly suggest you try this little experiment.
First, think about the last time you walked around the neighborhood in which you live. Not as exercise; no, just to walk around the block, even better a 2-block radius. How many people live within that area? How many do you know? How many do you talk to?
Now go take that walk. Women should of course wait until daylight, or go with a freind/razor knife. If you see somebody, say "Hi". If you don't know them, introduce yourself as a neighbor.
According to most summations i've recently reperused, Rousseau had ditched the Nobel Savage for Competitive Man prior to hashing together Enlightenment Natural Law. Everybody seems to agree, as they always have, that Rousseau's Social Contract begat Locke's, which begat modern Populism, Socialism, Democratic Theory, Marx, Disney, The New Yorker (especially those witty and urbane cartoons), and Unified Field Theory. John Locke: Rebel Genius.
Bullocks.
First of all let's finnally do away with the Swiss-born Frenchman, Rousseau, whose "genius" determined natural humans to be individuals moved by animal needs and whims, only cooperating begrudgingly to better thier fortunes. These are the ideas of either a complete dullard with no picture-book encyclopedias at his disposal or a Cheneyesque attempt at meme vectoring. I think we can easily pick it out as the later, given the young Rousseau's rapid navigation from immigrant footman to Ambassador with apparently no merit other than nice hair. He was writing in the late 1700's, a time misty in collective memory, the height of Enclosure.
He was writing treatises on accepting Authority, implying that common citizens need control, desperately so, exhorting on on hand that majority will should be the Rule of Law and on the other implying that the majority were a lawless bunch bound together for thier own good, like it or not.
Recognize it now? "Work with the System We all agreed to live under, it's reformable and just at heart; otherwise the Abyss of Mob Rule will swallow us all!"
Contra Rousseau: The New Savage And Natural Law
Given:
Humans are a subspecies of hominid primates. Like all such creatures, these social animals organise themselves into either matrialinial or patrialinial clan hierarchies to control breeding priviledges and establish territorial boundaries. Like thier cousins the gorrillas, these primates have a dramatically divergent morphology between sexes, which tends to emphasise and reinforce divisions of labor. Females, equipped with lactal glands, tend towards tasks involving caring for the long-developing offspring, facilitate nesting maintainance and gathering of utility items of low unitary weight. The stonger, agressive males will defend territory and fulfill the hunting requirments of the human omnivour diet. These roles may be altered, swapped, or abbandoned altogether as local environment dictates; the human is nothing if not virulently flexable, a quality enhanced by thier innate social instincts. Humans in solitary situations often suffer rapid mental degradation even in otherwise favorable conditions, and are generally prone to death rates that quickly eclipse birth rates in areas where populations are spread too thin. Although formidable in numbers, even prime Alpha males and females of Homo Sapiens are weak of vision, brittle-boned, feeble in musculature and poor of hearing compared to other mammals.
Natural Law is such that we need to cooperate. We unfortunatly inheirited hierarchical tendancies from our family, who all organize in pyrimids. We also have an odd mix of ourangutan/gorilla bluff, Bonobo sexual reaffirmation, and murderous chimpanzee psychosis techniques that we innately draw on to navigate and organize our social groups, and we innately love feeling we have a strong leader to the point of...
...well, to the point of US President and Evil Puppet of Choice, Ronald Reagan. A piss-poor human being, B-list actor on the skids, and yet convincing in the Uber-Alpha role to the point that the worthless casual butcher of a shit-stain would be freaking elected TODAY by a landslide if i dug his ass up, put new strings on him and shoved a loop-tape of the 1984 debate highlights in his neck. A new coat of Grecian Formula, America would have Morning Again, and every nation in the world would fear us the way we like. Like 1984.
I hated every minute of Reagan, from his local closing of the assylums in my homestate through his declaration that ketchup was all the vegatable a public school kid needed through his drugs-for-missiles rape and torture of every nation south of Houston and WTF shoot him AGAIN, Hinckley you fucktaRD....
I digress. Hated him. Never felt safer.
Never. Not even when he was dancing with Brezhnev over the Afgahnistan sunset, trying to re-start the Race for Atomic Supremacy we had lost, LOST, flat out, 10 years prior. The Old Guards were smiling, astonished, knowing we hadn't yet caught on to the fact that our Naval Inteligence office was moled out by family of traitors who had been selling secrets on demand. Smiling, but backing down. Brezhnev, i think, died prematurely just to not have to deal with the cognitive dissonence he was experiencing as a result of buying into the Reagan Myth; knowing he could draw John Wayne in for a decisive deathblow by the Bear at his command, but finding himself at the table making unnessesary concessions to an arrogant moron.
Last time i saw The General in public was a Mayday parade vid, and the bastard looked like he just didn't know who to kill anymore, or why. Like Stalinism had lost it's glow, and he knew why: No Stalin.
Stalin. Reagan. Hitler. That's Natural Law, kids, and you know it.
Given:
Humans are social primates who maintain an innately predisposed hierarchy with lies, violence and sexual manipulation.
Given:
This situation is not an equilibrium with tendencies towards egalitarian developement.
These are divisive times, and the fractous ebb of popular action signals an accademically developmental era for democratic unionists.
⋇
So let's try to do better than our Forebears and Betters™. Let's get the principles of populism down to provable precepts.
∀
For All to inarguably accept a precept as Givens, it has to become Law.
∵
This is a lengthy and nebulously defined "scientific" phenominon. Regardez the declention ofPythagorias' Theoreum -vs- Boyle's Law.
The reasons for this obviously skewed, specialty-dependent and arbitrary nomenclature being bandied about by our Expert class of Authorities are variously incompetence, corruption and petty stupidity in differing ratios. In general, though, the gestault of the Academic Authority will move towards acceptance of a given principle if it is arguably true (and stated falsifiably), or at least gives them enough to chaw on that Papers can be written, thus affording the individuated Authority Units of current Academia opportunity to advance thier own personal Status.
Unless of course it proposes a direct danger to the Dominant Culture or it's Control Authority, in which case a discovered principle, it's technological applications and quite possibly it's proponer and thier adherants are generally bashed, banned and burned in public.
∴
Therefore the Populist in search of a Principia Primae upon which to rest a less-Elitist Demagogiae Democratii, one which forgoes the repugnant and lazy side-step towards the hated Republic By Patricians, must belabor a bit the methodology, lest an obvious Truth™ be badmouthed as balderdash too simple to besmudge another blog entry with.
V ≣ L
Take our precious Labor Theory of Value, which should rightfully be a Law. I mean, think about it. Even gold is valueless as is, especially in a State of Nature. It's Labor, applied and layered, that gives an object of gold any actual Utility Value that it has. Bread has more Value than raw wheat, and good 9-grain bread more again due to increased Labor enhancing the Utility Value.
UV ≝ L
Kenysian Value theory, and economics per Authoritee Academe, shied purposefully away from such and abandoned the Utility based science that had been built in favor of an quantatively aggregationist, statistically specious, psuedo-science cum propaganda platform far more useful as a soapbox for industrial appologism than as a tool for inquiry. Oh, maybe it could be used by a marketteer to describe preference changes of a target demographic in a given set of circumstances, since Preferences are MainGod for market economics and it's flimsy, mutable excuse for Value. We can suppose also that one can use Thier™ stats against Them™, but why?
∄{∑∞⇅⋓ॐ≢x(n+1)}≣¡|Justice + Equality|!
(There Does Not Exist a Theory of Everything that is Strictly Equivalent To a Strong Argument For the Absolute Value of Justice and Liberty)*
In light of the task at hand, being devising or divining a logical expression of principles governing Human Social Macrodynamics (political economics), let the following operators be (re)defined THUS:
∀ means Authority. ≣ means Strictly Equivalent To. ∵ means Given (Because). ∴ means Therefore. ⇅ means Dialectically Reciprociprocal.
This expresses a relationship which may be negative, neutral or possitive with regards to impact. A model to consider here is English and spin on a poolball, which impart with reversed direction when vectored off another ball.
∵⤴⤷A⥤B=⤵⤶B+⤵⤹A or ¡A!-⇅¡B!
where ¡! is indicative of an integrated unity of the multi-phasic set of vectors and forces describing the movement of the enclosed Variable Unit.**
∃ means There Exists ∄ means There Does Not Exist. ≢ means Is Not Equal To.
These are our Operators; let us pray that we never have to use them against the Innocent™. Except ∄ and ∀. They're cool looking. ∀ with a circle around it is of course the traditional "Authority" symbol, -v- the Circle A™ of our Beloved Future Perfect, Anarchy. Go figure why they aren't standard unicode characters.
Better yet, go remind yourself of the Twin Tards, the Authority Agents whose "Enlightenened" ideas we need to supplant and surmount to succeed in seeding Democracy.
To make his arguments John Locke had to re-write some of the "Noble Savage" drivel of J-J Rousseau, upon whose Natural Law our idea of the Social Contract is hung, tacked up like a Proclaimation the Sheriff was told to nail onto the doors of our peasants' hovels, en masse under the cover of an Absinthe-flooded night.
Refresh your heads as breifly as possible (if you wish) on these gentlemen and thier odd ideas. Ruminate about thier Class, perhaps, and what thier goals were, if you think they indeed had any. Then we'll move on.
* One should likely insert the words "Piss-Poor, Senseless and Hastily Fabricated" prior to "Theory of Everything" in the refering sentence to get more literal translation from the equation above it; however, this is contrapositive to it's given and nominatively eponymous raison d'etre.
**(Luckily, we won't be doing physics proofs with demographics, per se. Your Candidate is notably weak on the quantificationisms.)
One thing that can be* asserted to be a valid critique of Your Candidate** is that i haven't been very good at winning Hearts And Minds over to The Struggle on a broad scale. Sure, we've penetrated the Target Demogaphic deep, with the C_j Ultraz hooking successful pitches into the temporal lobes of a few not-so-much-key-placed-as-hoped-for Citizens. This may pan out to be invaluable during a future Food Riot or some such,*** but to my knowledge no electoral delegates number amongst the hapless and happier victims of our ongoing brainwashing experiment.
Hence the impetus giving rise to this Appologia. I'm not The Great Communicator™, but i'll try to be as holistic yet coherant as...
*(and very well may have at some point by someone) **(i can only assume that you, dear Reader, are indeed bold and brave enough to have chosen a Constitutionalist™ pony to champion this Electoral Season and are a rabid C_j_08 Delegate, natch) ***(sub-commitee study groups now forming to explore meme-implant transmorgraphibility, see me after class)
...well, as i feel like. WTF. kid. This crap ain't paying the bills, getting me Action or making me younger and thus better able to provide for both myself. It has brightened my whites some, but i am unmoved; i crave greater Liberty than afforded by Linen.
If you want to start with an synappetizer of the Boznia-Hergotz'ian Voice Of Reason, please do.
The course of action proponed by this campaign, which is to secure the guarantee of direct democracy through popular vote for the US Executive, strikes many as premature in proposal and preposterous in practicablity. Pundits from all sides reveal thier true elitist leanings and wave off talk of a direct count as an affront to the intent with which our Founders created and cast this Republic™ using this eponymous nomenclature as if they've found the perfect circular argument to win the Junior Debate with. Surely advocates of a popular vote know that the wisdom and indisputably nobel intentions of the Constitutional Congress provided the peasants of America with the fairest of all representative process in the crafting of the Electoral System? The US is the most democratic republic ever, rationnally conceived on Natural Law with respect given to the Individual's Soveriegn Rights™.
I hold no card against these fishwives' recitations of Thier Masters' Voices. I am an Individual; i do hold my own Soveriegn Rights as i perceive them to be Inalienable, Immutable and Sacrosanct; and thusly the cognitive dissonic yelp of withdrawing from the challenge and promise of developing our society further along the Populist Path with such an Authortarianist set of arguments repells me. Liberty in Her simple beauty begs the Post-Enlightenment heart to pound in rythmn with an egalitarian drum, not to shy up from the press of the common hand and turn back toward the vague Authority of the Unseen that is the omnipresent bulwarks of Oligopoly Autocratic Tyranny.
That shite's an Intolerable Act, and this Peasant doesn't do those.
Let's instead see what Natural Law we can find to rest our elbows on, since the crux of the matter is really a simple duality:
Given that Her Citizens will continue to be governed by the triple-tiered Federalism (with Bicammeral Legislate™!) of the current United States governmental system, & that that said system, dynamic as all systems are, will tend towards equilibrium but develop if acted upon, would it be preferable to:
A - Maintain current levels of Citizen power reflected in the beurocracies and policies of the Nation, regardless of effect;
B - Maintain current overall social atmospherics, or find a better equilibrium state and call it an Epoche for the American Empire, by any means neccessary;
C - Increase Citizen power and involvement in the affairs of State, so long as this doesn't change other social equalibriums; or
D - Increase Citizen power and involvement in the affairs of State by any means neccessary.
The Quadratic Duality: Should we work to keep things as they are or work towards the functional idealogical goal we as Americans hold to be our Uniting Cause and Founding Purpose, Democracy; one Nation, by the People, for the People, of the People; where one person equals one vote and the King is dead forever?
To work towards the lessening of Citizen power or the lowering of social equalibrium values are both now Federal offences triable under the Patriot Act; sitting on the sidelines and doing nothing will add to the inertial drag that's pulling the current equalibrium into a whirlpool bound for stagnancy at best, perhaps leading us right back into Obliege Britannica. So action is, as always, a True Patriot's Endevour™ encumbent upon all Citizens to engage.
I'm sure that things in this space appear a bit as if your Candidate thinks hisself the only populist left on the Left Coast; an exagerative self-agrandizement only inflamed by the fact that i've said as much outright. What can i say, this racket is hyperbolically inclined.
Let's shine a light on the popularity of populism. I give Thee the Demokrazy Playa.
It's like this: if you want anything out of human society, you're going to have to become a more democratic person. Sorry. If you leave it up to Them™ things are just going to get increasingly more lopsided. Individuals will have less power, meaning collectives of individuals (like churches, lodges, neighborhoods, trade unions, PTAs, etc) will accordingly have less power to pool. Political power is defined right now by leveraged contracts which are mostly brokered by Congress, and that's where you have to strike. Think about this carefully. Supporting either Democrats or Republicans is counterproductive; it merely reifies bad behavior on their part, marginallizing our voices even more. As for Presidential races...c'mon. Do the fucking reading.
Decisions, decisions.
One Head - One Vote - One Choice (visualise direct democracy)
There's a saying amongst the Vedicly-inclined that it's hard to keep it, shall we say, real when one is permuttated in Kali Yuga. Too much decadence, the story goes. The cycle of four ages is full of Maya at that point, making the last age one in which simple acts of selflessness garner more Dharmic Credit Points than in others, comensurate to the difference in overall general turdishness the rest of the biosphere would be exhibiting. Thusly, the Buddha-emulation clique (a subset of the Vedicly-inclined demographic) often remark that Enlightenment™ is easier to attain during Kali Yuga, on a sliding scale that approaches 0 as T(ime) approaches End.
If D'J33pZ(0rX) swings past this entry, maybe she'll be kind enough to comment and tell the stry of how she reintroduced me to G0D and Grotus via explicating the principle of Kali Yuga to yours truly whilst dodging SoDo traffic to thier hit Top 40 cut from thier seminal disk, Slow Motion Apocalypse.
It really doesn't seem reasonable that this particular global bloom of Alpha sapiens will maintain a tenable possitive growth pattern with regards to that species' growing personal and collective institutional resource requirments and the biosphere's current rate of resource depletion. However, h. sapiens has been virulently responsive to extreme environmental shifts in the past, showing a stubborn resiliency that could mean aeons of additional torment for all terrans (and possible extraterrestrius effects).
Will there be trade unionism in the Off World Colonies™?
Fuck trade unionism and the little bossman it rode in on. One Big Union.
Found my old pledgecard whilst digging to the bottom of the bivouac here at Last Daze InterBai HQ.
This is what i wanted to show y'all.
Discuss amongst yourselves.
Society needs to be social. The means of production ARE common community assets, and as such communal use/access guarantee assurance is the primary job of any oversight institutions that proport to be acting in the civic interest.
There's a good FCC/streetball tie-in somewhere. For those readers who Fear The Linkz, the above pictured Saudi tagger X5 is lobbying the wet-gherkins of the Haus o' Saud government to fund some neighborhood playareae, which really isn't too much to ask. One shouldn't have to ask one's master for the occassional bone; decorum dictates the regular flick of gristle from the head table towards the shadows skulking the floor at the edge of the candlelight.
(the newly appointed official in charge of Jiddah's beautification, Jiddeh city official Mohamed Jamal) Abo-Umara, 45, said young men like Alwani should not be held accountable until officials are sure they've done right by local youth.
"What have we done for young people? Have we asked them what they need or want?" said Abo-Umara, wearing a flowing white head scarf and long robe. "Until I talk to them and find out why they are scribbling all over Jiddah and do my part in offering them the services we're supposed to provide, then I can't punish or criticize them."
Look.
It comes to this. Always.
It's all us. The future can be one long-ass dreary unending clusterthroating of compounding institutional usurption of our common resources or we can grow up, stop putting fucking fences around our increasingly drab walls, claiming every toy in the percievable world our personal private slave-object and learn to share like civilised toddlers. Looking up to "authority" percieved resident in the wealthy elite who really do run things for the edification of global business ventures with whom they have more than casual invested interests in is the number one crippling cognitive prion that the governed can cure themselves of.
Ask your Doktor if shedding your need for a shepherd is right for you.
I just want to note that if Greenspan is coming out of retirement just to poke strawmen and soundbite about the Iraq Adventure revolving around oil, he's got more free time and less grasp of American industrial economics than i had thought.
As threatened in commentary i left on and inspired by this post by Sri Lo, i present the above playlist of videos relating to CIA traffic of drugs, guns, perhaps slaves, definately money, and inteligence information as a memorial to the reporter who lost his life for investigating it.
Or maybe he commited suicide.
Maybe. Hey, it's OK; look, here's some indy reporting:
Mosaic
code:
Notable holes in Mosaic coverage are, i'm told, the paucity of Turkish, Farsi, and Hebrew sources. So here's some Hebrew.
I know i bash Dr. Chomsky some; but that's just because i'm a political economist in grubby dungarees and he's a linguist deconstructing his way into tweed-clad anarchy. We're like clowns and mimes. His analysis of the dialectic between industry media and the citizenry of "democratic" nations is fairly spot-on, and his grip of modern history is solid.
While Nader refers to our need for direct democracy in the US, some see it as an advancement of his personal political agenda. For example, the article 
