IRAQ

The invasion had lasted little over a week, when the Iraq army abandoned their posts and fled. Then, there was, on one side, such utter disarray and, on the other, such systematic deployment that several thousand men were detained in prison camps; and, the oil fields were overwhelmed and became off limits to civilians, except for well paid foreign workers, who soon had the fields back in full production, with new state of the art production equipment paid for by the American taxpayers at great expense.

 

In the next months the American general placed the best equipped army in the world in bases around Iraq. Patrols were sent out to raid the country day and night, breaking down doors, beating civilians, and carrying off citizens, after horrendously terrorizing them in their homes. A few weapons were found, spontaneous resistance arose from out of the ruins, ambushes occurred and mines blew up maiming and killing the poorly paid soldiers, whose salaries and benefits were reduced by the Republican puppet-president and Senate.

 

The armored columns deployed around the country’s national government buildings, various city halls, and the police academy barracks. There, and in any business that served the invading Americans, bombs exploded timed to murder the most troops possible, leaving pools of blood and scattered limbs lying in the wreckage. But, the Republican puppet-president, who deliberately lied to start the war, said we were on the right course to win the fight against terrorism; but, instead, it destroyed another Democracy.

 

Americans,

stamp out terrorism!

Americans,

steal Iraq oil!

 

Eventually, the American army occupied and controlled only a small part of the country. They kept control of the all important oil fields, which they constantly patrolled. And, they tried to establish a puppet government, which the Iraq citizens stubbornly refused to support; and they surreptitiously established their own Iraq terrorist network, in order to kill targeted civilian leaders who opposed corruption and the American occupation of Iraq. No one knows how much money they pumped out of Iraq, some say $150 Billion per year, all of which has simply disappeared, as world oil prices escalated to cost push inflationary levels that were higher than ever before!

 

 

LIFECYCLE

In this greed driven world,

they’ve created a monster

that’s destroyed them. And,

it’s the monster that gains,

while the people rot;

ruthlessly exploited

till of no further use,

the rapacious monster devours them all,

tormentors and tormented alike,

leaving a wondering silence.

 

THE NEWPORT & LINCOLN CITY DIRGES (12)

Dedicated to – Hey Joe, (where you goin...)

- There where 12 tribes in the Old Testament & 12 Major Prophets, too. -

I

The Western reaches of the Empire sinks into night;

gulls fall silent over some precipice of condos and hotels,

on the empty rectangular surfaces fenestras dim from sight,

as a church sign darkens before vanishing among the visual clutter,

like the young radical right prostitutes’ nearly empty beer bottles on the motel’s table.

From the nearly deserted street a passing patrol car’s lights

cut through darkness, like a beacon, warning of unseen shoals hidden in the night.

 

Swaggering across the dirty beach away from the vast wet

sea, a bird struts in pretended nonchalance, as others begin to gather,

opposite from where the people park and congregate. A sign states the usual beware.

The birds bicker and taunt, while others demonstrate signs of stress.

The street lights glisten in rain drenched weather,

like another self-absorbed species on the beech, they’re formally spaced

in great pools of light surrounded by the devouring gloom.

 

Its wet and cold. The field of vision is dominated by neon lights,

whose dominate theme is conspicuous consumption; all along the main strip beer joints

are on parade before relatively empty sidewalks. The heart stops dead outside the room,

the light shines blood red from the intersection and oozes down the darkened streets.

The body sits bolt upright, stiff as a corpse it peers at the noise and confusion on the slot

machine, briefly animated lifts an eyebrow before collapsing into a gloomy indifference.

 

It’s strange to think about surviving, but that’s what happened.

Everything shines polished and bright, in vast fields of tarmac where darkness towers

in spite of Descartes and fractals. And, the deepened night

accounts for the vanished folk, their smiles, and laughter,

and myriad other things that life entails,

and how they’re irrevocably altered by deceit and power;

 

motivated by fear and hate, the ones who’ve been starved and coerced,

extorted and corrupted, while others who were set up have taken flight;

later it was learned a statistically impossible event had occurred,

they ALL fled, and to the same PLACE, where they were corruptly reeled in,

for a generous tax free bounty of course -

besides, what fanatic would ever inform, on fellow extremist’s iniquities -

by newly recruited members of the radical right,

who were so irrevocably wrong,

orchestrating the immoral-criminal show that apprehended contrived murders, and

made society safe, while gaining influence

and splintering the country’s largest ethnic voting block;

and, the loved ones who had suddenly vanished from sight

were somehow discovered in the vast Western wilderness – dead,

by those who miraculously knew just where to go to find them!?!

 

Its freezing. And, the heavy rain’s sad, sibilant sound

is enough to make you feel fear, like a stark palpable presence;

and, near what suddenly appears in a torn cloud, as a diamond in the dark,

is only a star – diminished by the vast distance of space. Abandoned on the beach

a broken kite, a child has lost, its fragile colorful shape has set

shattered, and emerging from the twisted wreckage

a cross entangled in a rent fisherman’s net.

Strange are the workings of fate. The sea shells strong and pungent.

 

II

Like the eagle that soars high over the barnyard

to survey his vast domain and stretch his mind and imagination

only to see the ties that they would tether it to, perched on a velvet gloved steel fist,

or, now a racehorse yoked to a junk man’s wagon;

I fly free experiencing my own thoughts and desires.

A step necessitated by the legions of living dead,

and the crowded city streets filled with mutilated and deformed bodies,

who hurry along as best they can handicapped by their amputated limbs

who all wish to help, by maliciously mutilating me;

and, the acrid stench of burning flesh and hair that’s carried on the air

from all four quarters of the compass,

while the world is consumed by shadows;

I pause at least twice daily for silent prayer!

And, from my eagles solitary height, I perceive the infinity derived from six points.

 

Like a contemporary Odysseus, like six Chinese brothers of old,

I’ve performed extraordinary feats and passed Cerebrus,

though like Odin too late I found out

about the cost of knowledge and wisdom;

and, bailed when I found out on Cerces’ Isle, what it did to men.

And, then the cold wet sojourn back into the waters,

which was supposed to turn my days into so many sepulchers;

 

and, set a course that followed my heart

back into the distant high county.

Below stretched out expansively miniature cities

along serpentine rivers that all looked similar,

and dirty clutter accumulated along the webs of roads, where buildings sprouted

and cars scurried, like insects in the diminished world,

in formal oppression, near and far,

lined up like a scripted game, more like a play – theatre of the absurd –

about to fold, bankrupt morally, economically, and intellectually;

the armies of the night pretended their acts, but the blood and costs,

they were real enough, and they were dirty and disgusting.

 

And then, some one decided to clean up.

Everything went dark. Darkness so thick you could cut it with a knife.

And, life in our fair cities became existence in an open sewer, where wrong was right;

and, people became, well ...what they were.

The machines droned on rhythmically, and my head ached, but only when one thought.

The most stupid were picked to lead,

and, as time surged backward, the world lurched hard to the extreme right;

and, people dressed in uniforms, with shining black boots,

and, everywhere became number one, or at least above average.

Though what number one was, was never explained,

in a world that had suddenly become devoid of light.

And, everyone was reduced to a lowest common denominator,

and, they were always filthy, no matter how often they washed.

 

I suffered chronic pain, felt tired and prematurely old.

I went to bed, when I woke it was dark outside.

The large screen TV’s had strengthened their deadly attraction,

everyone sat in front and just stared straight ahead,

while learning what they thought about everything –

except each and every thing was a lie!

I looked at the new heavens devoid of stars and the moon.

I looked at the new earth, it was naked of color,

all was vague black forms embedded in vast swirling seas of gray.

The earth lay about in utter desolation

everything was turning into the consistency of dirt and ash – as dead things always do.

 

III

Being the basic fundamental state of things,

solitude serves dualistically as solace and mentor, & it teaches us life’s essential lessons.

How happily I float above my shape, whose weight is welcomed by my easy chair;

and, I feel grateful for the clothes warm softness, while the sensations of this moment

seem to be my life. Meanwhile, in the conspiratorial dark, my limbs

seek some form of understanding with the chairs lethargic cushions.

A comfortable beige pattern of material covers its hard wood skeletal system.

And, my mind serves as a blue sky background,

where ideas scoot across transforming like so many clouds beneath a heavenly canopy.

 

Its cold and wet. In the grocery store’s busy parking lot,

someone’s face is harshly framed in headlights,

they appear, something like a Goya woodcut depicting the Iberian campaign,

embedded in the deepening darkness.

The illuminated store front appears like a large aquarium,

a sparse smattering of small shrubs, whose tokenistic texture of foliage softens

the effect of the stores’ snapping jaw doors

and the searching glance of the random passing headlights.

 

Perched disdainfully above, looking distrustfully down on its feast

of customers, sits an inquisitional WinCo sign,

which buzzes pagan red. In the lower class parking lot

vacuumed once every morning, the littered lot

is a lake of conspired comments comprised of shared confidences.

Unable to reveal a jeweled Swiss timepiece to this dull lot,

a listless breeze and steady boring drizzle flattens the fatigued soggy paper,

the torn propaganda and obsolete lies of a hypocritical world

wedged in the incongruous barrier of a baby carriage.

Gripping his toy gun a little soldier prepares to meet tomorrow,

a memorial for the last war. In dull surprise a tire scrapes against a concrete curb,

before departing in a diminishing series of circles down the dirty street.

An exhausted sign creeks its chamber of commerce message, in logo and script,

to the USA’s storm tossed night, suspended from its weary rusting metal joints.

 

The sea comes in at night leaving its presence marked

like a hyphon at the end of a line on a page of a ridiculous,

false, blustering, beautiful phrase, leaving its remains

on the beach to dry and disappear in its redundant dichotomous motion,

a repetitive diastolic beating of the booming storm tossed surf

sending its hypnotic waves shoreward,

while a piece of driftwood drunkenly sways in the ocean

cradling debris that have been drifting since time began.

At the piers a few ships still remain of the shrunken fishing fleet,

some a windfall gesture, or rich man’s diversion

across a bitumen no-man’s land from the aspiring tourist shops,

hungry as the ubiquitous gulls that stare rapaciously out

if you should slip desiring to approach those tides

you’ll be viciously hit by several malicious gulls,

as you continue to fall forever towards those tides,

your body stiff as a corpse, but you’ll never make a splash,

all you’ll hear is the sound of distant waves.

 

 

IV

The transformation of Empires is integrally inter-related

to life cycles and rhythms of life, the power of ideas,

the negative impact of hard, sharp edged lies,

the torpor derived from bludgeoning people for years

with deliberate deceit ‘till they’re a human herd

reduced to their lowest common denominator,

the whole socialized sum of mendaciousness, the mystical way

whose parallels converge to a vanishing point in space,

and the straight lines that curve in space and continue to meet

at some distant event horizon.

 

And the change linked to bio-rhythms that are fractals,

like the Brazilian rainforests’ growth that are linked to the corroded linings of life,

in a world turned up side down; and, the enhanced utility

doubling its value if not its use, and, the brain atrophies,

aided by a hardening of the arteries,

till it’s a shriveled kernel hardening in its bone head universe.

 

In general all the external photons that strike neurons

housed in the eye organs activating chemical reactions,

whose timing doesn’t slow significantly with age

and retain their reduced regenerative powers

enabling them to trigger an absolute undifferentiated response, again and again,

or, if fortunate supple and pliant as a dream joyfully realized.

For transforming Empires are usually degenerative affairs

that rage from sea to shining sea, which extends to the offshore limits

and infinity and beyond – somewhere over the rainbow,

there exists, inside each of us a coelacanth

waiting to be discovered and, it resides beside it’s Siamese twin,

the wing waiting to be freed – while the stranger in the mirror

is somehow getting older, with thinning gray hair

and an expanding waste, for perennial adolescent styled clothes

that futilely ignore the plain simple fact that we grow old;

ah, the insults and absurdities of fate inherent in the human condition.

 

And, are linked to my decaying dental work

and, a diet growing strange, with grapefruit and prune juice

somehow finding their way into my shopping cart,

perhaps it happened during the growing intensity of black

when my hair turned a pristine hoar frost. Do you think if shows?

My wife wistfully grins and assures me – yes!

I still prefer my trusty ball point pen,

but, I must confess I enjoy editing on the computer

that my grown sons convinced me to buy,

and, as God is my witness I even enjoy the fact that it’s a lap top;

 

for, after all its still the Truth I search

into the we hours of the night,

lamp burning like a miner, laboring through labyrinths filled with darkness;

and, I’m performing my function as society’s conscience -

regardless of the eternal Truth: that if you want to be disliked lie,

but if you want to be truly despised, then speak the Truth -

developing my Art with personal experiences, expressing “my” voice

with well worn words some hundreds of centuries past.

And, so must suppress my natural aversion & discuss the contemporary aspects of faction

with their fighter bombers, who violate the sacred domain of my clouds,

while they fly precisely towards their computer designated targets.

And, what I really need now, from the confines of my easy chair,

is to catch a passing recondite cloud and wash it down with a drink.

 

 

V

Oregon coastal communities are originally a combination

of historical accident and geographical imperatives

that have become blurred recently ‘till they run on and on,

in the devouring darkness mile after mile

with imbricate commercial ventures

speckling the spars ravaged by exploitive economic practices,

of an exhausted continent first discovered by fishermen

and old fashioned adventures searching for something not there, and beaver.

 

But, the industrious little beaver had the last laugh, pushed to the brink of extinction

so men could wear ridiculous looking impractical hats, it had the honor

to become a school totem and puerile allegorical dirty joke.

And, a double symbol for the state flag’s backside,

where it can be seen comfortably perched today

a cerebral animal one of few who through its own industry

and intelligence controls the environment for its personal benefit,

and the flag that depicts a wagon and the coast complete with symbolic shipping.

 

Rain, so much it seems to fall laterally, schools of sleeping people

descend on weekends, to drink, and gamble, and be reeled in.

A pitiful small black fly batters the bottom of a dirty window,

before it starts crawling randomly upward to the top, only to return

to the bottom, cluttered with tiny fly corpses, where it repeats the process

and proceeds on its journey towards the top, again and again,

baffled by an invisible presence, where its trapped

ambushed by Nature, bang in the middle of the 39^th state.

 

Because, wale watching is a thing of the past, but it’s still popular;

and, it helps to ease the pain of the sundry ills, which accumulates with weary years.

If time is a panacea for boredom it’s only a specious concept

that functions as an accelerating constant, where we

develop insomnia and slowly climb up the years, one by one.

And, the flying dreams of one person serves as a sinister excuse

for its bell shaped curve’s polar opposite

to oppress and persecute, with heinous acts that transform into something wicked.

 

Raining. The last great experiment in Democracy,

cancelled on account of rain. A distant fishing vessel

blinks on an off on a rough gray sea, before being swallowed by darkness

and disappearing from the precarious precipice of memory.

In the great tragedy of our stupid time, the hard earned labor and wisdom of ages is lost;

it’s the individual whose murdered, by the Judas lead human herd, habituated for pleasure

and profit, which finally form an acquired taste; night after torn night, a sadomasochistic,

the serpent that used to proudly proclaim, “Don’t tread on me” – starts devouring its tail!

 

 

 

VI

Obviously, by now it’s too late to say farewell,

and so some parting common place

will have to serve echoing through time and space,

“its better to live in harmony with your time”, except

when you live in a stupid age, one of oppression and retrograded motion;

then, be true to yourself in thought word and deed

least you become something vile and false;

and, you lose your way, as your soul degenerates.

In way of “How come”, I write these words, scribed by hand,

loving their lyrical quality utilizing fricative counter points,

to achieve an occasional cacophonic dialogue

that uttered departs into the night,

there to expand, like an eloquent Schrodinger exponential.

 

I write surrounded by an absolute Empire

that extends circular, in a living fallacy,

which doesn’t understand what that means

and, having traversed two continents and wandered

over half the globe, as well as seen two oceans and swam

in the Mediterranean Sea gazing over its swells towards the unseen dark continent,

I feel I can empathize what it means to be the Earth

trapped in its elliptical orbit with nowhere else to go.

Elsewhere the cold gaping abyss

and a handful of scattered stars remote across an achingly empty infinity.

 

Better to be a butterfly in reverse, ensnared in its cocoon,

the universe woven around itself built of its own secretions

waiting under raps for the prospect of emergence

whiling away quantifying experience, measuring infinity

with a holy trilogy past, present and future tense

carving into subjective slices with Lorenz transformations,

to be dissected and inspected with a few cognitive tools and states

and even fewer senses. Not, with paradigmatic blinders, thank you just the same;

but, perched on some giant’s aggregate shoulders

staring over an expansive stretch of dark sea without a sign of relief.

 

Night, a black feather descends.

After the failed revolution, which the vain driven cuckoos

are loath to admit it, and so they persist with the only thing that they know,

like the compulsive gambler who expects to recoup their loses on the next card,

and so their loses continue to grow mountainous.....The legions of subordinate tyrants

sinisterly close ranks, and the most extreme lean on their co-hurts

beating their shields, with the menace blatantly implied

but left unspoken, behind the malice of their exaggerated mendacious manners;

meanwhile, there‘s still the circus, cinema, and theatre to divert and confuse.

An exile once pointed out the concept of how flora has transformed and homogenized,

expanding clear across the globe based on the nature of profits, as indigent as the fauna.

High in the Night above the tattered ruins of the blueprint

the court has lost the ball, forget about dropping it;

and, not having a clue about how to proceed,

they muddle on, with the same worn out, thread bare, torn and tattered mistakes;

while, the scarred moon serenely gazes down at the pageantry at court,

a computer program’s dream, repetitive, binary, sparse, and not very bright:

and, utterly unsuitable for human habitation.

 

VII

Only, large locked cages are currently constructed

on stamp sized lots that look like condos

laced by a labyrinth of roads; only while under

a cannon barrage of applause do our fowl actors rise from their dead careers,

to perform a vampire part as puppet-president on parade,

while eulogizing over the foul fate of Democracy;

with current constrictions of wealth, only faction can leverage our prosperity for theirs

breaking not only Arcadian laws but Moses laws as well,

shifting the weight of the world onto unobserved shoals;

 

and, only they get to captain the floundering ship of state,

knowing nothing of navigation, blinded by the fog

and over dependent on technology to compensate for their lack of ability,

which dictates a Titanic course that they don’t understand,

nor does the crew of base, self-serving, sycophants

who crowd around like dried out sponges,

whose only function is to loyally handle the dirt.

Turning a laurel wreathed head and pretending to be a Caesar,

and not intending to end up groveling as Caligula in stead:

they dispose of essential characteristics like our inconvenient Civil Rights,

which is like discarding lifeboats for taking up too much space.

 

Our inconvenient Civil Rights burst like a bubble,

with the US Constitution left more perforated than Swiss cheese,

it’s dense as lead yet brittle as opaque glass,

and dirty as the pieces found embedded in the old fashioned sidewalks;

while, progress transforms into a destructive retrograded moving glacial sludge.

Waterfalls accelerate at a gravitational constant,

it’s a little like growing old,

while refracting light arches away beautifully beneath the taught blue Heaven,

as a ray does departing from reflecting hubris human mud.

 

Only fine translucent porcelain suspended from soffits

could appear so obsolete in iterative sequences,

computers and AI lend themselves to redundancies,

but could never make, nor appreciate multi-dimensional space

habituated by beauty like rainbows, sunsets and showers.

If you see one unique being, it instantly perceives a thousand, squashed in space,

mass produced units, but never in its most creative

surge of electrons could it perceive a rose complete,

with a gossamer winged dragonfly drinking in a diadem of dew,

smelling fresh and fragrant.

 

Freezing. Even as the shadow stretches transfixed as a grotesque across the wall,

insipid and anemic as it is, still it parodies a babies first step

and the parent’s beads of sweat upon the brow.

The potent pungent smell of sex is in the air....

thought looses its precise edge and becomes diffuse;

and, the mind becomes scattered and whimsical

grows soft as mush, in its hard soup bone, nutshell, exoderm skull,

our eyes are placed in proper bipolar focus, what we see is carefully placed on display,

and what we think of it is pre-determined for us, too.

 

To let one be manipulated to another’s arbitrary end, is unthinkable.

I sit on the ground, its hard as a skeleton.

When did it first become transparent, suddenly like a transparency complete

through which everything becomes quite clear,

that there were enemies surrounding you,

whose presence was always there, which they proudly proclaimed –

resistant I replied, “So is dirt, and that’s nothing to be proud about either!”

And, so it began, they were powerful; but, their power was limited,

to the ability to hurt others,

 

which couldn’t be done without destroying themselves, their faiths and the nation;

so, unnoticed they changed, always there,

they maliciously attacked their targeted victims – us.

They said, “This is our, which was all the rest and very best.”

I replied, “Let’s explore, and ran away,

while they remained fixed as shadows transforming

and being absorbed by darkness, a modern Stonehenge surrounded

by stone sculpture enemies, I woke and dreamed of being,

in my quivering Isle of Light, I took my tea and observed the strange sights,

like the tyrant’s domain devoured by darkness.

 

 

VIII

Save these words for more future lean years,

times dark and cold, and filled with fear and hate;

there man survives, like a fish marooned,

trapped in a tidal pool, intent on survival,

it doesn’t notice it’s own cellular transformation,

fins that propel toward the sheltering shrub soon extend;

then, they grasp every opportunity to depart

at first, tentatively, towards the great unknown.

 

Predatory harpies and stalking griffins

sharp clawed and strong fanged beasts.

Fallen angels arrogantly strut their vices

sadistically crowing how they make life hell for others,

too, stupid to realize that they have to live there, too;

as do, the foul sphinxes, with empty questions and questionable hollow lusts.

To one who wades through the vast desolation

of darkness and heavy rains, to which one adds their personal pain,

their cherished sorrows extend from the questionable abuse of power,

whose ever expanding concentric circles always factor into zero at the equation’s end.

 

Even laconic space, where labyrinths words worm through

writhing to the center of the universe everywhere, now here, nowhere,

cocooned in its cold ether womb, the amazing iridescent sky.

It’s the journey that fashioned the shoes, just as steps made the path.

Everything transpires for a variety of reasons,

just as each word is weighed and savored for its various flavors.

And, the beautiful border states are enchanting,

the twilight and dawn portals between night and day.

 

Time is a topological measure, a geometric cover for space.

Its an epistemological construct, whose essence is idea,

the thought that interfaces with the external reality.

And, life, with its infinite varying pageantry, embedded in space,

carps as it evolves it from misunderstood paradoxes, through sad iterative mistakes,

like a dying bream gasping on the bank,

its eye more stark than the primordial states of being

one more piece of flotsam; a wave washed ashore – beached.

 

 

Superimposed chaotic days, pitied on entropic states

the sound of a word ringing bell like and lyrical,

a pristine morpheme striking a resonate harmonic deep within the ear,

like love, constricting the heart,

or, that universal symbol – a smile barely discernable in the vague gray fog

impacting the undulating landscape with obscurity

their dark forms soft edged and indistinct.

 

IX

There are some people who brood over life,

like night hovers, as a living thing, around streetlights;

and ideas pour in brainstorms from both the brain’s hemispheres,

as water might emanate from a spring in a continuous stream,

random nocticulae of life’s varied aspects –

down some great continental divide, undoubtedly nocturnal.

 

Its vast amorphous mass is unwieldy;

but, not so immense as to encumber both lobes,

a spinning top exposing Occidental and Eurasia,

North and South America and all other varied points in between,

with space and matter whirling around one central axis

alternating windows illuminated in passing.

Look at Chuang-Tzu sprouting branches of antlers

just as natural as any other of the myriad of wonders that greets us daily.

The varied refrain gushes from a cavern in the dark of a mockingbird,

the mockingbird flits from tree to tree calling to the lovely rose colored dawn.

Caesar calls to Brutus returning from some enraged Senator’s daughter’s soft lit chamber

to meet fate in the harsh glare of some colonnade,

 

flooding the future with unintentional consequences.

And, so it comes to you, in the insomniac hours of early morn,

missing your hard working form, how vast the living space is

that resides between the most intimate relations, my dearly beloved spouse.

And, beyond the border states you share life’s most precious gifts with,

unless its cloistered on the far side of the moon, desolate and barren.

 

Regardless of the infinite distances,

because while your fluorescent reality is way over there,

the darkness still oppresses both of our days.

Still one solar source could create two smallish creatures

soon to meet, whose eyes will burst into blossoms,

and ears pulse with song; and, together, make something so fine, as love.

 

 

 

X

It seems that the hands dangling from the cuff are detached

my eyes notice as they sweep round the room, and a foot extends erroneously.

Transformations plot my relative position this side of Paradise

that mysterious, aspired for, relative place, where all desires are realized.

And, no portal windows open on perspectives, with straight parallel lines

that converge into black whole states, with no expectations at all.

 

The sharp edged furniture sits abrupt, perceive the pen’s hard nib:

there are those cruel sadists who would blind disfigure and hurt.

And yet, the whole universe started from just one such point

complete, self contained and static oh Paradise enow,

where the transhumant herd ends exhausted, the drive over,

the voyage ended without ever hearing the heartening cry marking landfall.

Or, the end.

Or, that’s all folks!

 

Nothing is for certain, all is arbitrarily determined,

held together for a duration, and then disintegrates.

There’s nothing left of freedom, but the police following revolving hands.

The sightless eyes stare in the clock face, as drowning it silently sinks into a vast

bottomless void.

In Paradise the clocks have no hands that would be pointless,

besides the beautiful distant chimes segment the beautiful peace.

 

Exponentiate all absences, and increase by a constant

the ache of absence, and then maybe you’ll have an idea

what its like in the stillness between ticks of the clock,

where a word echoes impaled on a carefully constructed phrase;

and, an expression or gesture that quickly slips away like a wave expiring on the shore,

or, silent shadow racing over the valley floor and mountain peak.

 

XI

Great issues gestate longitudinally, and reassert themselves,

intermittently littering the literary landscape with words and phrases

that ring like antiquity. So, too, do my iterative sojourns to the sea,

body wandering beside the expiring waves, viewing the ocean.

Its silver skin stretches smooth to the horizon

devoid of egotism its an expansive reflective mirror of the day’s darkness.

 

Its many varied thoughts are reflected on its transparent face

which spreads in fractured ripples democratically.

Depositing on the shore just like an expression inside its mind

flotsam from its age, a blend of refuse, love and dirty expressions

the fragility of existence shown in the painful limp,

as I slouch through the infinitely plastic space.

 

My youth’s semen’s fruition journeys further along the shore,

a bow plowing through time, each person his own harbor.

Darkness creeps out of the forested eastern hills,

as the ravaged Empire descends into night spiraling downward,

like progress and prosperity slowing in its helix bearing snails pace

sounding ancient when a phrase springs Athena like to the coils of the inner ear.

 

The precious treasures of our personal experiences, secretions of the intellect,

in a voice of one’s own echoing well worn words

and, exciting reflections, whose sound like the waves is generally dull,

except for one’s own of course, that serves to shape both the sight and sound

of all we see and hear – there’s so much of humanity that must be pardoned.

In the fog laden realm of time, fog horns mournfully extol, warning of the hidden shoals.

 

Mind numbing décor, if your lucky ostentatious homage to tasteless wealth,

oppressive they stifle any just appreciation and separation

of the shameful show going on outside your hollow door;

and, penetrate the thick ceiling of clouds,

there are those who erroneously feel that it conceals their infamy,

with gentle words that speak hard Truths.

 

The country continues to sleep, ignorant of the reign of terror,

as an avaricious revolution breaks on our shores.

A tinker should mend the shop keeper’s new antiques.

This country is ensnared in its topological map,

will it ever rouse itself from its slumbers in these listless latitudes

halfway house between equator and frozen single party North pole.

 

But, the knowledge of the nation’s varied vastness,

and, my own minor part in comparison, rocks me back and forth

like the waves that walk out of the sea and roll up on the shore

an ancient nursery that’s softly singing rock-a-bye...

And, if your door starts knocking as it faces these out of focus towns,

be wise and don’t answer, its sometimes who it claims; besides, that locked door

wont keep out what’s waiting on the other side....

 

XII

Silently, the door knob begins to turn.

A fish laboriously crawls across the spit towards the estuary.

Here we go again. I’m moved by feelings of compassion,

and point out a rough road less traveled.

In parting, I invoke that it have a nice trip.

It leaves, but moments later another fish is insistently pounding at the door.

 

He wares a suite and tie, and wants to sell me something,

or is it sign a petition, or make a contribution;

all night school visits my reef in a steady stream.

But, now I no longer answer, either my phone or the door,

I’m attired in a casual armor of indifference and ignore

the measured impertinence of the dull sadistic malevolence.

 

Sleep deprivation again. It’s supposed to reduce your will’s resistance,

and confuse an individual, to the breaking point, when their theoretically supposed to

explode;

with perhaps the prospect of a major system failure like a stroke, or coronary thrown in

for good measure.

Remember, “What ever it takes. What if they really meant it?!?!

Listen to the sea. It looks at times like a little wrinkled person

old and gray, whose life unfolds like a long rolling wave.

Each wave is unique, but paradoxically, they merge in a general vague uniformity.

 

And, the nights yawn open, revealing fragrant flowering trees and shrubs,

and ghostly apparitions, a beautiful Paradise populated by dense fallen angels.

Long, contrived, tedious conversations, with insidious intent

that are vacuous as long lives that are lies, with the thought of death a solitary beacon

blinking in the gaping vast blank and empty void....

 

But, through the vertiginous emptiness

I see solitary images wrapped in a soft swirling mist,

as if viewed through the wrong end of a telescope,

only this way can the poor herd of grotesques be endured,

or, for those weary with the ways of the world, high,

and seen slightly out of focus, with corrected vision.

In and out of small store reefs, slipping in and out of dreams,

where calculating dogfish circle seeking for someone who’ll stumble and bleed....

 

Look at your own reflection in a mirror,

now view those of your friends and enemies; and, you’ll find

that all humanity has its fair share

of frailties and faults to bear:

and, as such none of us shows up perfectly,

and as there will always be people you don’t like and who you’ll disagree with:

your potentially vulnerable and you have no Civil Rights and Liberty!

Unless we start today, demonstrating the wisdom to view others with the charity

that the radical right factional tyrants seem to be demanding to be reserved

exclusively for themselves.

 

 

All the essays and discourses are the express opinions of the author.

 

RUMOR MILL

XII

Faction: an inquiry into the social, political and economic consequences of the contemporary rise in faction.

 

Its repeatedly been demonstrated by the radical right faction Republican Revolution that the US Constitution anticipated the abuse of power by greed driven domestic faction and their likely political targets would be the Presidency and our elected Representatives in both Houses of Congress, who’d violate the public trust. Further, the founding fathers made every effort reasonable and prudent men could against these contingencies. However, no human wisdom could have anticipated the extreme concentrations of wealth that currently beleaguer and threaten the nation. On all sides of the political continuum from Communism and Socialism to Fascism we’ve observed states that started out advancing the cause of freedom dead ended in totalitarian dictatorships. And, unfortunately, history has frequently demonstrated how Democracies, too, have lost Liberty through their own fault, by the plain and inexorable consequence of their own conduct, when they’d already acquired it, and had the means to retain it secure in their power. A wise and prudent people will neither be beguiled, nor bullied out of their Civil Rights and Liberties; but, a wise and temperate people may cease to act as such: societies are not stagnate entities, they may degenerate, and they may cease to be wise, and prudent, and free. A nation through ease and wealth may sink into an enervated luxury or, through indifference fall into treachery; or, aid and abet assaults on the government and its Constitution, under the pretence of foreign and domestic threats. They may lack adequate information or be given misinformation by a adjunct media-propaganda machine necessary to discern their danger in time to prevent being habituated to peril to their freedoms, and conditioned to accept it through false populist campaigns that are camouflaged efforts that prepare society to acquiesce to the usurpation of their precious Civil Rights. History provides a literal example of a like circumstance in Rome, which no less a brilliant mind albeit misguided on occasion, than Machiavelli reasonably explains. In the early years of the Roman Republic the Tarquius were thrown out of the city-state and Rome continued a free prosperous nation; but, the Romans during the Civil War after Julius Caesar was assassinated, settle into a lethargic bondage, as clearly reported by the erudite contemporary historian Sallus. The difference was that the people were not conditioned to corruption. A virulent Democracy may be fooled, and it may even be betrayed by domestic faction, but, no nation will betray itself, unless it falls into a state of universal corruption lead by avarice and incompetence; and, when once Liberty has been lost to the people, they’ll surely loose what was formerly their legacy and what they’ve no longer the right to enjoy. And, in a tragic scenario as old as tyranny, in rapid sequence they’ll loose first their rights and then their prosperity. To what effect can our US Constitution protect us from the great concentrations of wealth that assail us resulting from the constriction of wealth derived from oligopoly supplied markets; the derivative damage from this and the rise of faction extending from the industrial-military that originated out of WWII and the Cold War established a power base so vast it procured domination over the entire media, and facilitated these last 20 years by a right wing populist movement that transformed itself into something vicious corrupt and base, until it facilitated in extinguishing the great American spirit, which was the genius of the people that created the US Constitution, and preserved it; ‘till it exists as an ideal paraded before the public as 4^th of July rhetoric, and the rest of the year carefully kept out of the way entombed under glass. All power rests in the people and their form of government reflects the society’s moral character: tyrannical governments, even tyranny by the majority, reflects the people’s apathy, vice and corruption; and, a Democratic government that’s freedom loving demonstrates society’s integrity, virtue and moral courage. Short of foreign invasion, the US Constitution prevents the possibility of the destruction of our Liberty by any sudden precipitous act, or, the duplicitous contrivance of a few individuals, who contrive to fool the majority of their contemporaries; because, while its extremely difficult for sufficient damage to be generated from large numbers of citizens, the good efforts of an adequately informed majority can easily protect itself from permanent damage, so that any injuries that may transpire are ultimately superficial. However, if a manipulated majority are deceitfully lead astray by an evil designing faction, then remember the axiom of human conduct; if you see a large amorphous mass of humanity acting in ways that are stupid and injurious to the common weal, then look behind them for a few wicked knaves, who are secretly conspiring to alter the course of public events and the actions of the misguided herd for their own selfish interests. A brief view of the recent public demonstrations, centered in Washington DC and coordinated across the nation, by the country’s immigrant population, where the temperate efforts of democratic oriented individuals were displaced by the radical right faction agitators, who tried to manipulate the legitimate prudent demonstrations advocating constructive legislation for their own nefarious purposes, like striving to divisively displace the various ethnic voting blocks with base corruption, which fragments the traditionally Democratic ethnic vote; rather than, the radical right faction Republicans developing sound legislative proposals for well conceived programs that address the people’s needs and benefit all Americans, like their counterparts the Democrats America’s only true national political party; however, the US Constitution is relatively powerless to prevent these Machiavellian machinations and protect the people’s Civil Rights and Liberty. Ultimately, the competing complexities of society become to involved, as society grows ever larger, to be able to employ archaic solutions and the obsolete avaricious strategies of faction that actually unintentionally exacerbate problems, like the example pertaining to education that will be developed latter in the essay; besides, the same behavioral characteristics, which necessitated the advent of civilization, require both a government and a constitution, to protect the people from abuses of power by those public institutions. A point clearly made in the Bible in the book of Samuel, when the prophet warned the Israelites of the danger inherent in establishing a strong central government. The systemic corruption presented here can not transpire in a healthy Democracy without conspiring prerequisite actions. First, wealth, which equates power and negates that of the people, must constrict to critical levels before it coalesces into faction. Second, it must manifest itself politically by displacing a major national political party, or developing its own alternative political apparatus (ie third party) like was recently attempted in the Bush verses Clinton Presidential election, when the radical right faction surreptitiously tried to split the massive national dissident vote, by establishing Ross Perot as a Third Party candidate; who they secretly helped to finance, in a failed attempt that was supposed to leave them with enough votes for their Republican puppet-president to steal the election, with only a minority of the popular vote, which would allow the radical right faction Republican Revolution to continue exploiting the public and the nation’s resources for its selfish ends. Third, it must control the information received by the majority of the public, and it must establish the parameters of public debate, and it must determine the issues and the events that are to be considered by the public, in a strictly controlled process that’s tantamount to manufacturing public policy (see Noam Chonsky’s Manufacturing Public Consent) with staged public forums and contrived events like Sept. 11 that presents opportunities for the radical right faction to further their private agenda. And, fourth, a populist branch that can conveniently operate outside the law to distract and condition the public to be oppressed, as it compromises the most active members of society in ways that both furthers faction’s advantage and reflects the tyranny’s prejudices. Meanwhile, we the people are reduced to the bonds of tyranny through our own and our contemporary’s folly, like what has been transpiring in the last quarter of the twentieth century with the radical right faction’s Republican Revolution, with its adjunct Goebel media-propaganda machine and displaced transformed neo-fascist populist movement. And, society is conditioned to wear the yolk of oppression based on the caprice of tyranny’s over weaning ego, which has provided a highly emotional charged pretence that’s deliberately designed to overwhelm reason, when it’s supported by an orchestrated series of heinous events that leaves society over-wrought and without a chance to dispassionately reflect and let reason prevail, before it becomes habituated to fundamental wrongs that transformed virtue into vice. The love of children justified giving carte blanc for actions that never would have been considered, let alone approved, based on their own merits, for immoral crimes that attracted every misanthropic member of society and conditioned the other citizens involved in the operations to be cruel, sadistic, and malevolent subordinate tyrants, who were involved in assault and battery, rape, prostitution, perverse acts, child abuse, and murder, as society was subject to coercion and extortion on a scale never experienced before. The love of children enabled neo fascists to embrace mistaken Nazi ideas like Goring’s infamous, “either being with them, or against them”, which prevented reflection or constructive criticism of frankly bad ideas being adopted by the extreme elements who rose to ascendancy; and, children along with the rest of society became enslaved by people with huge egos and second rate minds who couldn’t see the harm inherent in compelling children to serve as the elders’ vicarious second childhoods, making them behave as surrogate extensions of the parents and even the grandparents, who lived their youths over again through them, and thus preventing the freedom for the children to fully develop as their own unique individuals, to learn naturally from their own mistakes as they grew into complete well rounded men and women, in stead of liars and cheats conditioned to sadistically hurt people they didn’t like and/or disagreed with embracing behaviors that had been recognized as Evil and Wicked for 2,000 years; or, children forced to live lives as someone else’s shadow, a grotesque existence as an extension of an opinionated adult’s over inflated ego. Ironically, the basis of this disastrous travesty of factional oppression is in the sterile illusions of little infantile minds who would avoid confronting the fact that they were growing old, by preventing the natural beneficial process that is the change between each generation, which is as richly varied as the diversity between individual members of our species; they futilely strive to stop change which makes their vanity driven efforts to ignore the creeping nemeses of old age and their mortality more noticeable, by establishing a boring homogeneity that arrests progress and paralyzes plurality by making everything reflect that which they’ve already experienced, this is like trying to make the 50 year old be like a 20 year old in a pathetic attempt that refuses to grow old gracefully. This requires a period of time for the nation to be conditioned to a process of political reprobation known as popular government controlled and manipulated by faction. It will then be our sorry lot to see America’s political process damned, and the hard earned progress and labor of ages lost, during a short stupid age that’s ultimately doomed to failure.

We’ve glanced cursorily at the four pre-requisite steps necessary for these injurious prospects to transpire, and we’ve looked at the paradoxical Quixote efforts behind the radical right faction’s efforts to oppress, besides old fashioned greed and corruption, which has reduced our nation to this nadir political state. Their import deserves our closest scrutiny and culminates a year of reflection on the contemporary aspects of faction in the USA and their political, social, and economical consequences.

A nation that has been the oldest and largest Democracy, and a land that’s the leader of the freedom loving world these many years deserves a better eventual fate than to suffer having its Liberties ravished and Civil Rights usurped. But, stupid people who no longer stand wary and ready to bravely defend their heritage deserve by direct effect to be enslaved, because a treasure as precious as Liberty is a right and responsibility to be earned and protected, and never complacently taken for granted, while mere material wealth enervates us. The nation has thought that law and order equated a protection not discerning the difference between Liberty and license. The nation didn’t understand that the most virulent and injurious forms of that arbitrary will and popular license manifest themselves, under the boldly asserted guise of popular prejudices, rather than a just and temperate state that equitably and firmly rests on true Liberty, which promotes a triad necessary for a stable society safety, prosperity, and progress. The virtuous courage of our forefathers, who provided us with our precious heritage of Liberty on which all of our other many blessings are based, only exacerbates our current collective guilt and shame that our present moral degeneracy and enfeebled infamous state represents. We’ve experienced Guilded Ages and Ages of Troubled Feasts, in our expansive land protected from foreign threats by two great oceans. But, in what state do we currently exist? And, how will future generations characterize us, if not under the tyranny of the radical right faction Republican Revolution? This at least to our honor can be held true that for approximately two centuries the USA was the guardian of Liberty and Mecca for the freedom loving world. And, while we supported military dictatorships abroad like Iraq’s deposed leader Saddam Hussein, the Philippine’s Marcos, Argentine’s Perez, here in the USA we jealously protected Liberty. However, after defending ourselves and proving the efficacy of Democracy over totalitarian alternatives from first the political right and then the political left of political ideological extremes during two major tests in WWII and an ensuing Cold War. The USA finally succumbed to faction, as a direct result from our internal efforts to protect ourselves from foreign threats. The USA has finally fallen and the floodgates of a popular tyrannical Hell have opened subjecting us to base servility and demeaning servitude, which we corrupt the world with, using stolen oil and natural gas revenues and contrived industrial-military profits to bribe a whole world with injustice, while Liberty which is the basis of all virtue sadly retires from the world’s stage and our present significance is reduced to representing a mournful last presence of honor and integrity in ignominious retreat.

The cradle of Western Civilization is the ancient Greeks. Their origins are wrapped in shrouds of pre-history. The single element which raised and exalted them above their larger and wealthier Eastern neighbors was Liberty. They were free men. The moment they succumbed to tyranny, as so eloquently described by Demosthenes their place was taken by another upstart rising nation whose power was based once more on Liberty, ancient Rome, who lasted as long as their freedoms. And, when they fell a dark age followed that finally ignited based on the emergence of light which was based on the personal rights of Norman nobility, who expanded into Italy and the Renaissance to the South and England to the Northwest. And, which of the newly arising nation states should win ascendancy and a world commercial empire? It wasn’t the wealthiest with a continent of untapped mineral wealth and virtual slave labor the Hapsburgs, and it wasn’t the nation favored with gold deposits and geography France, but it was the small emerald isle poor and isolated, who favored only with Liberty rose to rule an Empire on which the sun never set. The history of mankind is one long striving between various forms of the abuse of power and the attainment of Liberty.

One need not descend into greater detail to prove one’s point about the efficacy of Liberty in terms of promoting progress and facilitating prosperity and the efficiency of Democratic government in protecting and promoting Liberty that produces the previous mentioned two benefits to society. Another great theme of history most literate people with average educations are aware of is the on going struggle against Liberty conducted by various elements in every form of government from monarchy, the varying forms of oligarchy, and finally the most highly evolved Democracies. In the longer reigning reactionary states, which subscribed to various forms of autocratic regimes the eventual inevitable Democratic state was ushered in by violent conflagrations, as substantiated by the French and Russian revolutions and the Italian and Spanish civil wars. But, Liberty ultimately prevails over the abuse of power, over deceit, over corruption and even in instances when subject to oppression. In the later circumstances the temples of tyranny have been destroyed after their retarded development were interrupted by radical discontinuous processes that created needless tragedies and resulted in the radical redistributions of private property without religion serving to effectively mitigate moderating against extreme examples of violent behavior. In the regions and nations that acquiesced to peoples benefiting from Civil Rights and Liberty, they correspondingly experienced continuous development with some form of a well regulated Democratic government directed by a constitution witness the advanced states of safety and prosperity in England, the German principates unification and transition into Democratic states and finally the Scandinavian region with their Constitutional Monarchies subordinate to Democratically elected Parliaments that were socialistically oriented. The later examples were not such great fools as to alter their constitutional states once they were established and where not established they directly corrected the situation without the tragedy of oppressive tyranny and the resulting dysfunction and impoverishment that all too often resulted in fratricide and revolution. This extensive digression documents in a linear context the honest benefits that our country’s forefathers industry, virtue and courage generated; and, to incite a reasonable appreciation for the shame and disgrace our nation has infamously incurred when we lost the legacy of Liberty that was earned and preserved by the countless sacrifices of sweat and blood through so many ages and mixtures of humanity in the great course of human history.

The American’s Liberty has gradually been stolen and our Civil Rights ravished since the radical right faction’s Republican Revolution and their deceitful terrorist attacks that spawned ill advised measures, like Homeland Security; but, the accumulated losses experienced by us must first be arrested and then reversed, because a nation’s Liberty can not be lost by domestic force, or through a process of fraud alone generated by the corrupt surrogates that are the willing tools of faction who displace and dishonor our US government, as they rule the land for their radical right faction’s ruling elite masters’ exclusive benefit and everyone else’s expense; our Civil Rights and Liberties can not be removed, without the collaboration of the people acting as accomplices; and, they that act as accomplices are corrupt people devoid of sound judgment. Our nation suffers the additional ignominy of receiving its yoke of servitude with only a minimal struggle in Congress, which admitted to basely receiving a President by fraud ratified by the Supreme Court; and, in that cowardly act that lacked all that could rightfully be characterized as honorable and considered as well reasoned America attained infamy. It is shameful to apathetically sit and be passive, but to be an active participant is to be an unmitigated fool and behave in an unprecedented infamous fashion. In order to become enslaved, this nation, in 20 short years accomplished what took decades for other countries people to be reduced by a long process of base servitude; we’ve become the most morally degenerate, most sadistic, the most stupid, the most perverse, the most cringing sycophantic nation of wretches whose impregnable ignorance ever disgraced humanity; for a force adequate to condition society to be oppressed and habituated to immoral-criminal conduct instigated by means of duplicitous double standards required a displaced right wing populist movement that degenerated into contemporary organized crime without even having the wit to recognize it, while the radical right faction dominated media-propaganda machine (Goebel style) practiced the art of the big lie announcing erroneous election results covering illegal wars of aggression and now lately trying to justify a nation built on informants by pretending that one of the arch villains of history was really a misunderstood angelic friend who wasn’t betraying for gold but was merely doing what he was told, and conveniently forget the gold that motivates the radical right faction’s subordinate tyrants as they rape, murder, pillage, and plunder, prostitute, pervert and child abuse sexually and physically the children they say their saving by conditioning them to lie and cheat and behave as vicious sadistic thugs, as if right can ever come out of a thousand wrongs – so long as its covered with a hypocritical layer of manners; nor can the process necessary to steal Liberty from us, be employed without the negative consequences, as again this month sees another Republican Congressman resign because of corruption charges, this one from Texas and holding a leadership position for the Republican Party in Congress, add that to the 20 on the last round of scandals who included Republican Party leaders, too, in a process of systemic corruption that has sanctified their iniquities and converted their very virtues into nothing but despicable vices. The result of 20 years toiling under the radical right faction’s Republican Revolution is the Greatest National Debt in the History of the World, the World’s Greatest Trade Deficits, tens of millions of uninsured, plummeting standards of living to Third World levels, three phony foreign wars of aggression, energy policies that support oil increases that result in cost push inflation, economic depression, stagflation, job flight, worse education for the majority of children that leaves them chained to ignorance and poverty afflicted futures, the most unfair and expensive health care in the world, and ongoing efforts to steal public Social Security and Medicare programs and replace them with private programs that only benefit the radical right faction’s business interests in the financial sector and the insurance industry, to only mention a few of the countless negative effects of the radical right faction’s morally bankrupt system that has among other disastrous accomplishments made wrong right and right wrong, and good evil and evil good.

It may be argued that the Democratic Party alternative disagrees about how to proceed in governing the country, maintaining public safety, foreign policy and domestic economic policies; and, they, too, have unintentionally promoted policies that served to injure American Liberty, by promoting a traditional model of Democratic government that was consistent with government by the people who generated programs that benefited people, instead of oil interests, and increased industrial-military profits and closed mineral and energy mutual funds and insurance industry based on increasing numbers of uninsured, or insured at the most expensive costs in the industrial world to create the most unfair health care system in the world and health care that’s ranked worst in the industrial world for children and families and is only one of three industrial nations to not have some form of universal health care. All of the preceding provides ample incentives to regain our lost Liberties, before the repeatedly advocated radical right faction Republican education proposals further impairs, by collective ignorance, the USA’s ability to correct its problems; if one considers the loss that tracking students into two groups, with 20% having better student teacher ratios and instruction models that doom the rest to lives of relative ignorance and poverty (like the Republican Party has been consistently advocating for over the last 10 years) merely because we were too stupid to realize that significant numbers of children bloom later in childhood and under the radical right faction Republican education models they will never get the opportunity to bloom at all, and further, that because of worse education due to less money available because of the staggering national debt and phony foreign wars and the resulting bad education models, the vast majority of citizens will be robbed of the education background and business experience necessary that result in the fact that people reach their peaks at various times, a few while young, many more at middle age, and still others as they mature and grow older, and the Republican plans stop the personal development and society’s efficient utilization of the majority of its citizens, and this will impair consumer demand, the production possibility curve and retard the rate of progress: all this will come from one stupid and incompetent radical right faction Republican measure – the bifurcated education plans of the Republican Party. The negative impact of the radical right faction Republican Revolution has had on education and the country is profoundly terrible. The fact that the radical right faction would reduce life for everyone, by forcing them into narrow little ruts whose worth is measured exclusively by the cheap labor they can provide for the radical right faction’s business interests; and, everyone’s uniform life becomes amazingly similar to that of an insects whose existence is only viewed in terms of how it advances that of the insect colonies. What an impoverished view of life, people are multi-dimensional miracles of life whose lives all fit together in an infinitely complex varied mosaic comparable to the universe in beauty, diversity and wonder. When one objectively examines products of the radical right faction Republican Revolution with their phony foreign wars domestic coercion, and educated ignorance who can not be overwhelmed by the incomprehensible corrupt delirium and self-serving delusion that has gradually lead them astray. Observing such systemic incompetent corruption, based on avarice, it’s a wonder that reason could be so completely overwhelmed by irrational emotion, ‘till society became habituated to debauched interests combined with coercion parading their popular Democracy around, like a modern king of fools; rather, than society jealousy guarding the public weal and our citizens’ Civil Rights, eternally wary of every extraordinary demand, and consistently constantly denying every ill conceived proposition whose aggregate impact resulted in the erosion of our Liberty and reduced the public’s strength relative to the radical right faction’s power, which was derived from the unchecked process of the constriction of wealth. The adjunct media-propaganda machine blinded the American public, who suddenly found itself not just teetering at the brink of a precipice, but already falling over the edge with labor markets and corresponding standards of living free-falling sacrificed by the avaricious radical right faction’s incompetent computer generated economic models, which hope to recoup in world markets what it looses by exploitation at home. But, it’s like a feast that devours next year’s crop of seeds, while warming itself by bonfires that burn down their own homes. The tyranny which daily demonstrates its impaired labor inputs by repeating the same worn out ploys, in order to compensate for their leaders’ and labors’ lack of ability who depend on computers to determine what to do, about issues to complex for them to understand, consequently society is over dependant on technology. We dispute about fundamental issues with a media-propaganda machine that thinks it cunning to lie, distort, and omit facts to the public that pretends to have differing opinions; while the issues discussed and parameters of looking at them are carefully predetermined in their staged media events with scripted participants whose function is to reaffirm what is already known, when in fact if we bothered to define our terms would discover we only vary about trivial details and within slight differences we basically agree; witness the current campaigns where select candidates collect a designated amount of money and than are directed to the media’s airways where they tell the public what they’ve literally been paid to tell them. This is to lead the public with known deceit in order to cheat, rob and oppress. Obviously, by not attending to the Truth and deliberately reducing the viable alternatives we impoverish our Democratic process and doom ourselves to pursue less than optimal solutions. We need to practice ever greater amounts of Democracy, where plurality is viewed positively, and honest people who have accurate knowledge converse with individuals with free and active minds who range freely over a wide range of ideas, limited only by their intellect’s capacity. Then we will play to the strengths of the system, which is a natural political product of a free social and economic environment. Is it any wonder Democracy is held in low esteem and it is said to be running out of steam. The fact that the country has experienced a radical right faction Republican Revolution goes unrecognized by a large percentage of the population who retain antiquated ideas and expectations about what good Democratic government entails; and, so America is governed based on whatever its disputants are told and paid to pretend, in order to conceal what its not safe to honestly discuss. It’s a sad Truth when reality reflects such an oppressive, morally bankrupt and systemically corrupt political system, when the time honored Truths about Democracy are already known commonplaces, so clearly understood and determined at a fundamental level as to be beyond dispute and irrefutable, and it forms the nonexistent basis on which our Liberty now rests.

If Liberty is the major drive spring which activates all the beneficial characteristics that have been built in the USA for the last 200 years, and all the advantages of our prosperity, power and blessings are based, the US Constitution is the essential part of the great mechanism’s blue print that produces all of these positive attributes; and, they’ll resume once more, if we’re wise enough to correctly identify what the system’s essential features are, and, we’re intelligent enough to understand how the intricacies of these complex systems work and how these systems’ sets of dynamics interface: which our American political system forms the ground floor. The preceding two centuries of American experience has clearly demonstrated that maintaining the US Constitution is crucial in any attempt at recovering US preeminence, besides a stupid unsustainable bellicose posture, whose exploitive ploys are injurious abroad and impoverishes us domestically, too; overextending us with global military commitments while we hemorrhage the American economy. Or, by redeveloping the essential social, political, and economical features the USA reproduces the essential environment that made the American government possible, which then will be able to continue serving them by reestablishing the fundamental features which made America secure and prosperous throughout its long illustrious history blessed by Equality, Liberty, Justice and private property rights. To what purpose “did we the people” come together, if not to realize the highest amount of Happiness for the greatest number of people. And, is this not the purpose for religion, and market driven economies, too? Rather, than religion comprised of two groups, a small number of saved elite, and the rest who they disagree with and who they self-righteously damn; or, all economic activity transpiring for the exclusive benefit of a dwindling number of people. The only reason Democracies won ascendancy over the Communist and Fascist alternatives and Western Civilization experienced social stability and prospered, was that political institutionalized freedoms enabled labor to benefit from the fruits of its toil, during the rise of the merchantile classes and Guildes as surplus population moved from the agrarian country side into commercial cities and towns; and, later during the industrial revolution, with the resulting elevated standards of living developing to the point that the Occident eventually evolved to a state of global domination. The US government must re-affirm its basic function, not as a conduit for transferring large amounts of society’s wealth from the public’s pockets to the private accounts of the radical right faction’s ruling elite, but it’s function should be based on the US Constitution, which meets the needs of its citizens; rather, than the corrupt alternative of ruling class avarice, whose campaign contributions currently represent investments in politics that seek to optimize short term yields, by pursuing the worst courses possible that maximize exploitive short term returns, at everyone else’s expense, and proves so devastatingly dangerous to American Liberty. Those who pretend to support Democracy based on security in contrast to a US Constitution which protects people’s Civil Rights and Liberty talk impertinent ignorance at best, and incredible naivety is required to not comprehend much worse of them. But, people who fail to understand the pragmatic base of Liberty from disguised efforts of security, in order to insinuate their egotistical prejudices; or, further their selfishly corrupt effort that impoverishes, and mean nothing but disguised tyranny; and, they who contend our 200 years of Democracy are misguided, and their disastrous speculations and poverty producing practices are preferential, even though they deviate from and pervert the forms and functions of sound government, and destroy the very purpose of Democracy and the function of the US Constitution: these people are corrupt enemies, these people are would be tyrants who would replace American Liberty and prosperity with the yolk of their personal prejudices and by consequence their shame and iniquities. The simple fact is Democracy and Liberty can not be supported without certain key characteristics, which produce an essential environment that’s inherently necessary.

Society always contains elements that would push their interests to the fore at the rest of society’s expense, and that this is done for the best possible pretence, usually camouflaged by emotional excuses that play to people’s most base fears, which help to hide the true danger that they represent. A danger greatly increased because being domestic it remains concealed and unrecognized until already developed to an advanced formidable state that’s capable of large amounts of damage. The consequential effect is society must retain a posture of eternal wariness and in a story as old as civilization, with fair Paris and beautiful Helen, through the passion of love and over weaning pride, a great nation of antiquity was destroyed. The people who undermined the legal safeguards that the Constitution represents simultaneously assault moral restraint in a pattern as old as the book of Deuteronomy with the efforts to displace American religious institutions and use them as adjuncts in this instance to their corrupt tyranny – see last months issue for a more detailed account. There doesn’t seem to be an adequate response from the professional communities required including lawyers, theologians, sociologists and political scientists to develop the necessary structures that a new religion, new constitution and new norms and morays would entail. Consequently, we find ourselves aimlessly (unless avarice and incompetence can be considered as rudders) adrift in uncharted dangerous waters, without a government, ours currently functions only to make money for the ruling elite all other functions lie neglected, and without religion who are now being lead by men of business instead of theologians, to provide solace during times of travail and a source of restraint to those who need such help. The first act of our radical right faction’s subordinate tyrants was to remove all moral restraints from their populist movement and the effect was to transform it into contemporary organized crime, whose most recent operation was to flood Mexico with two tons of amphetamines, not unlike when they used their cocaine, to flood the USA with their crack, in a lucrative effort to track all the participants down and take over any residual independent capitalists in the recreational hard drug trade. Then, if that weren’t bad enough, they shipped the two tons back into the USA for greater profits and to reestablish the pretence of another stimulant epidemic just like they did with crack 20 years ago, once more demonstrating the impoverished nature of tyranny’s labor inputs whose lack of ability manifests itself with a paucity of ideas, hence the redundant nature that their operational ploys represent. The latter demonstrates the lack of restraint and poor judgment by our would be tyrants, who ironically would restrict everyone else’s Liberty but that of their own, while removing all legal restraints and moral limitations including the only one necessary under Democratic government, the moderating restraint of not behaving in any way which would prevent another person from the full exercise of their Civil Rights and Liberty, which with the help of the US Constitution determines how the complex machinery of our government and state should operate. The results are a compete collapse of manners – except for examples of exaggerated unctuous hypocrisy among the exclusive elite of the subordinate tyrants, or when they try to expand their influence and start with excessive friendliness and mendacious manners that soon evaporates unveiling itself into a dictatorial tyranny – dissolution of moral restraint and the resulting cruelly sadistic and sexually promiscuous behaviors openly displayed by their participants, whose double standards flagrantly embrace vicious immoral criminal behaviors that oscillates between extremes of chaotic excess and oppressive states, where islands of wealth are surrounded by seas of poverty supported by infrastructure in relative states of dysfunction, congestion and grid-lock, and garbage and pollution; and, the subordinate tyrants moral behavior that largely are reserved for Saturday and Sunday depending on your denomination and around the place of worship, which also functions as financial and social institutions. It’s curious to observe people’s responses given a choice between organized theft and an egalitarian assault on citizens’ Civil Rights and Liberty, and the states of relative anarchy and random acts of violence.

One aspect of our current difficulties is the ambiguities that are inherent in a term that has universal application, like Liberty. People are taught contradistinctive definitions for the same term, which creates confusion when efforts are made to resolve differences without first resorting to the expedient of carefully defining the terms; and, each side proceeds to pretend to justify their prejudices, by referring to the Constitution in a process that is circular and generally irrational and erroneous and results in efforts singular in and no better than misguided attempts at self-justification, leaving society where it was before the start of these circular exercises, without legitimate rule and subject to the same social afflictions that necessitated the function of government in the first place, with no rule but greed and ignorance to sustain it. All of which is very frustrating because the solution is readily available. Currently, the media-propaganda machine functions to obfuscate circumstances and the great arbitrary determinant in vain attempts to justify policies that aren’t justifiable by any process dependant on reason, and the result is either the perpetration of overt lies, or to bombard the public with misinformation that’s designed to deliberately be divisive and confuse; and, all the lies and misinformation united together don’t make any sense and so those who can somehow make sense of this bewildering mass of misinformation deserve to rule, which are the owners of the adjunct media-propaganda, who view government as the political expression of their collective interests which utilizes government as a conduit from the public’s pockets to their private accounts preferably without being bothered to provide any inconvenient goods or services, but where absolutely necessary, and then, as little as possible, in an attempt to maximize their returns. The efforts that are legitimate to government of developing programs that equitably help the entire nation are ignored, under funded and eliminated. And, so we spend public money to protect an oil industry pipe line in Afghanistan, while pretending to hunt down a terrorist threat al-Qaeda that was catalyzed by a contrived terrorist assault on Sept. 11. in New York; an event that took place while the puppet-president was staged to be reading with children in a heavy handed obvious attempt to be symbolically perceived as the father to the nation, as cynical as it was phony and foul. How we’ve lost our Liberty to such media based ploys, by embracing such doctrines that utilized such consequences and engaged in practices built on them has been examined in previous essays on faction. The progression from a free and prosperous Democracy to a slavish state of tyranny commenced with the radical right faction Republican Revolution with the election of their puppet-president actor Ronald Reagan over 20 years ago, and the course has degenerated over a quarter of a century to a point where over 30% are so habituated to Evil that they think the abysmal record of this incompetent, corrupt and avaricious administration’s long litany of failure of government to provide for its people’s needs and which is the radical right faction Republican Revolution’s legacy is acceptable for anything but contempt, disdain and outrage. Further, the documented evidence is irrefutable for impeachable conduct, and still 50% do not think the radical right faction Republican cabal’s puppet-president and puppet-vice-president should be impeached. A situation that’s explainable, when prominent figures in the media still try to white wash the Republican Party, whose voting record, for not just one vote, or on one issue, has for the last 20 years been correctly described by a Pulitzer prize winning journalist as lock-stepped, a fact that can only be explained by the predominance of the radical right faction, which has displaced the integrity and of the Republican Party from what once was a pluralistic national political party.– They think that the Largest National Debt in the History of the World, the World’s Largest Trade Deficits, phony terrorist assaults, three phony foreign wars of aggression and a blind feeler for a fourth with Iran, greater numbers living in poverty, more children chained by poverty and ignorance to enslaved lives of despair, without adequate housing, tens of millions without health care, without heat for those fortunate enough to have shelter, without enough food, fewer jobs, stagflation and depression, free-falling standards of living for the majority of citizens, but given just enough free clothes to hide the extent of the shame from the rest of the public, deteriorating infrastructure that collapses and floods our nations cities while a puppet-president lies on national TV saying no one could know when he in the company of the national security chief were specifically warned of the prospect over 24 hours before landfall of hurricane Katrina and did nothing to intervene, to only mention a few of the radical right faction Republican Revolution’s record of failure that the deceived people believe is an acceptable performance. – The efficiency of the Goebel media-propaganda machine is demonstrated by the fact that such blatant faction can still be termed as a national political party. There now exists extremists who pursue the same goals as the fascists at the turn of the century – the century before last century at the end of the 1800’s ! Its true their economic policy and social and political designs are precisely the same right down to the borrowed phrases, like a slightly more recent 75 year old vitriolic expression of profound ignorance and blind hate, as 2^nd in command Goring spouted, “your either with us or against us” in a false arbitrary dichotomy of humanity. The former were more honest and utilized strong arm military dictatorship sanctified by a phony election, too; while today’s tyrants find it just as cost effective to use an adjunct media-propaganda machine, but retain the pretence of Democracy, and thus saving them of the expense that the military dictator’s take would entail, while corruptly afflicting society with the most virulent form of tyranny known to humanity by abusing power facilitated by the same media-propaganda machine as previously manipulating the majority of society’s participants, in a pattern recognized and identified over 150 years ago by no less a genius than J. S. Mill. The relatively new teleported virtual reality technology is the only new development, and it allows mediocre individuals to afflict society with immoral-criminal operations that circumvent the law without any regard for due process and presumed innocence, thus making society subject to losing legal restraints and egalitarian safeguards, four essential features in a free Democratic society that help make citizens safe in their persons and their private property rights secure, too. The aggregate impact is pathologically stupid, it undermines our society’s Civil Rights and Liberty while simultaneously removing the restraints on the misanthropic elements who are attracted to the subordinate tyrants’ ranks guaranteeing that corrupt extremes in cruel and injurious behaviors become epidemic, which will combine to seriously impair the progress, and broad based prosperity, and Happiness of society. The former fascists were cruel, brutal and callus; and, like the extremists who preceded them, today’s neo-fascists share their viciousness and are sadistic, malevolent and impenetrably ignorant, but the current members of this unfortunate ideology also employ an immoral dimension their predecessors omitted, which causes them to embrace vicious seductions involving prostitutes, perverts and the systematic sexual abuse of children, which they then hypocritically pretend to oppose. Their organized crime conditions the subordinate tyrants to morally degenerative sadistic behavioral norms, with special emphasis on sexual improprieties and deviant behavior, which self-servingly leaves the radical right faction’s political pawns falsely claiming the moral high ground as they cause the crimes and contrive crises which publicly they duplicitously lament, and that facilitate their efforts toward pursuing policies of tyranny; and, the radical right faction’s contrived political terrorists (see the essays on the politics of terror in the post Cold War Era in previous issues) who serve to legitimatize and institutionalize their abuse of power, which leaves society caught in the middle of a three tiered attack comprising contrived sexual, criminal, and terrorist acts highly profiled in the media-propaganda machine, in their ongoing efforts to shape public behavior to reflect the personal prejudices and economic interests of the radical right faction’s ruling elite. In one particularly nasty variation, where the subordinate tyrants’ encouraged by considerable economic incentives deliberately destabilize targeted citizens, first subjecting them to social isolation, then they are tormented often introducing children, even pre-pubescent ones, for optimum propaganda value in the media, for they can then claim to be the defenders of children, who are used as a sordid live sex bait; and, when that doesn’t work, they are unctuously paraded, in what is really an effort to taunt the victim with children and condition the victim to view children as adversely as possible; meanwhile, the children are first taught to sexually entice the targeted adult, and then, they are trained to taunt the targeted adult, if their sexual advances are ignored; in an effort that is intended to cause the person to reach a critical point, where they break and acting in a way dangerous to society, they lash out against the object that is viewed adversely, in this type of operation it is the children who are deliberately established as adverse stimulus, and thus set up to be physically abused. Ironically, the radical right faction’s subordinate tyrants then come along, after the police have cleaned up from their dirty business, and the radical right subordinate tyrants cynically claim to be the champions of children. I apologize for this digression, but the consequence on children who are systematically being abused in this type of operation, by being taught to be prostituted and placed in fearful circumstances where they could end up hurt; and, the negative effect to be conditioned to be deceitful in your interpersonal relations and sadistically to set people up in various ways that is deliberately designed to hurt them, makes learning honesty, good citizenship, and hard work, and to persevere under dull adversity which is necessary to develop essential work skills an almost impossible task for the poor children who are shamelessly exploited during these operations. What other negative effects besides being conditioned to be liars and cheats and vicious thugs who assault and batter anyone they dislike and/or disagree with occurs to these children. And, the negative effect on society is quite extensive, and its part of the subject of these essays, some are predictable and others not, but it’s already been observed that they are serious and severe. Remember, “you’re either with us or against us” doesn’t encourage constructive criticism and objective reflection, so what the eventual effect will be one thing is certain, it can’t be the product of reason and it only has a random chance of being an optimally beneficial solution to our present tyrannical circumstances, with its inherently impaired leadership and labor factor inputs. We face the danger of becoming a society of two legged insects that does only what it’s told. The only difference beside lower reproductive rates is our two legged bugs have two emotions hate and fear that are used to overwhelm God’s two greatest gifts to mankind: humanity’s ability to think and to be free. But, for thinking to be beneficial to the individual and society, people need to be able to act on their thoughts, which coincidentally is the basis of a moral universe and all virtuous behaviors. Corruption and subordination are the two leading characteristics of our nation subsequent to the radical right faction Republican Revolution. The first, is a natural derivative of a bifurcated society that compels others to behave in ways that are perceived unreasonable and do not promote Happiness; and, those who compel soon become malevolent and indifferent to hurting others, which is augmented by making people behave or taking advantage of circumstances and manipulating events for personal advantage, all of which we perceive as more reasonable than behaving in a way that’s not perceived as beneficial. The radical right faction frighten reactionary responses from society, and they confuse the issues and obfuscate the circumstances confronting our communities and country; and then, they present the idea of freedom as a dangerous and disadvantageous social disease; and, next, they try to advance their hidden private agenda; and finally, government should not be by the people that meets the needs of all of the people in a fair and equitable way. What government is and its function are somehow never clearly determined; but, it includes engaging in ill conceived extremely expensive $300 Billion dollar adventurist military operations that rob our neighbors of their natural resources and bleeds us of our youth’s blood and nation’s prosperity; and, it pursues ignorant policies of avarice, while all branches of government soon echo the same sycophantic litany of lies. This is both false and absurd. It is false, because the US government is specifically designed to separate power into discrete independent components, which is known in Constitutional Law as the Separation of Powers Doctrine and its designed to protect American citizens from the domestic abuse of power, particularly from the danger that faction represents; and, further, the fact that each branch of government has particular distinctive functions delegated to them specified by the US Constitution. The intent is obvious each part of government is to function as an autonomous unit in an integral whole; and, they’re to operate independently in exercising their duties in an honest, efficient, and unbiased fashion. Further, it is essential to the common good that public business be conducted by each separate branch in a satisfactory manner and not submit it in a perverted form for the corrupt benefit of private faction, like occurred when the Congressional head of the Judiciary Committee publicly stated that members of the judiciary must be ideologically acceptable to the radical right faction dominated Republican Party, which is a clear and obvious violation of a fundamental doctrine of American government that has held this nation in good stead these 200 plus years; or, like is being blatantly attempted when the puppet-president’s family is heavily invested in the industrial-military and oil industries who primarily benefited, when we went to war three times in the first term of office, and the family is invested in the health insurance industry that benefited the most from recent attempts to privatize part of the public Medicare Program and resulted in an additional 10 million more Americans not having any health insurance, and the families extensive portfolio investments in the financial sector that would initially benefit by short term gains from privatizing the public Social Security Program, in a move that would eventually undermine the stability of the World’s Financial Markets, disassociate the price structure from the value that would lead to a series of stock market crashes greater than the 75% one that the return of the radical right faction Republican Revolution to the Presidency catalyzed, and would further erode the decimated American consumer demand and return the national disgrace of abject poverty among American Senior Citizens. Perhaps invading Iraq was the strategy for making up the loses the radical right faction incurred during that stock market crash, with stolen oil and natural gas profits said to average close to $150 Billion a year from what constitutes the second largest oil deposits in the world, when they defrauded the American public for the first time and lied about winning the Florida election and the American Presidency. It goes without saying such political corruption can only occur after society, too, demonstrates a like degree of complimentary corruption; but, the subordination of the various parts of government is only one aspect of the radical right faction Republican Revolution that has its counterparts actively irresponsibly injuring society and corrupting its most politically active members, who then become no longer free to criticize, (if they ever dared to suggest that there might be something wrong with a Nazi philosophy that resulted in and was responsible for the extermination of millions of Jews, intellectuals and dissidents like the paranoid irrational dividing of humanity into two contending parts) to the full extent that is permissible and potentially benefits the country under the existing US Constitution and still be under the dominion of the radical right faction, whose private influence usurps the theoretical public control that’s supposed to exist under its triad of independent parts. The self-evident pre-requisite, for an integrated function of government’s independent individual parts, whose autonomous functioning is supposed to prevent the factional abuses of power under discussion, is that a Constitution exerts complete control. From this point power flows from the people, before it can be diverted by faction for its own nefarious purposes. To discuss that members of Congress must reflect the political opinions of a PAC funded and controlled by the radical right faction, or to publicly state that all members of the Federal Judiciary must be acceptable to the ruling elite’s bought and paid for Senators is impertinent, and demonstrates a callous disregard for Democracy and arrogant disrespect for the US Constitution that so many worthy men and women have sacrificed their very lives for, and whose Congressional members have sworn a personal oath before God and country to uphold and not destroy. It’s absurd, because it paradoxically destroys the very construct it’s been created to protect: the US Constitution. The people are the source of power and the good products produced by this nation, and the people in accordance with the August document the US Constitution should control the conduct of government, and it’s the people who should equally and equitably receive all the emoluments produced by government employments. This is irrefutably reasonable, prudent, and just. The fact that the radical right faction Republican Revolution currently converts and diverts the government’s expenditures into a thousand channels that serve their selfish interests, and that causes the American economy to alter into a massive cumulative-circular-causitory-spiral in a negative direction, a pattern that’s arranged for its exclusive benefit, rather than the people’s, by unifying and subordinating the three branches of government for their own corrupt goals, which has created a scenario that should be viewed as an absurd state of affairs; but, for the fact that its already damaged the American economy to the point that its overwhelmed the self-correcting mechanisms inherent in the negative phase of the business cycle, and it’s a dangerous situation that’s already injured the nation and hurt many of our citizens several beyond repair; rather, than a subject of mirth this is a situation that must be quickly ameliorated and Democracy re-established beyond an empty, superficial, external, façade, it must heal and become whole complete with the free diverse environment that produces Democratic government as an integral extension before the radical right faction Republican Revolution irrevocably ruins society and destroys Democracy at its point of origin.

Regardless of the worst efforts to displace our US Constitution and make it irrelevant by people who previously benefited from its prerogatives, leveraging the weight of contemporary faction’s vast constriction of wealth, and compromising the integrity and morally bankrupting the morals of a right wing populist movement, and displacing media, which transformed it into a Goebelesque media-propaganda machine that functions as an adjunct for the abuse of power, in a coordinated misguided effort that is among other things unintentionally quickly obliterating the main principles of the US Constitution and the chief social characteristics of America’s pluralistic society that produced it, before even realizing what is occurring, let alone being able to adequately evaluate their consequences. America is witnessing the destruction of time honored Truths that are inherent in the human condition regardless of cultural circumstances, replaced by the most corrupt deterministic ideas and avaricious objectives that faction is capable conceiving, but, whose consequences are beyond the limitations of the radical right faction’s computer generated models. The US Constitution provides a readily discernable rule that makes determining the health of our Liberty a relatively easy matter. The degeneration of one is symptomatic of decay of the other in a reciprocal commutative relation, unless we lack the judgment to maintain the structural integrity of our Constitution intact; nor, lose its relevance to contemporary developments, like the usurping constricting concentrations of wealth, and the technological advancements that represents knowledge we lack the wisdom to weald; and, we become morally bankrupt and so void of reason that we engage in the folly of actively participating as accomplices to its destruction; for the US Constitution is the greatest document of its kind, there are many similar documents who compliment it by virtue of their emulation, but none has ever been able to surpass its relative state of perfection, no better instrument exists in the history of humanity that has been devised to protect Liberty and correspondingly provides a better guarantee for Progress, Prosperity, and the ultimate goal of Life, optimizing society’s Happiness through the right’s of the individual.

Society constitutes a derivative dynamic state that is constructed of a variety of subsidiary dynamic systems. The current challenge is to increase our knowledge about these underlying subsidiary systems, whether they, too, are derivative, and if so what can be learned about their underlying states, and what comprises their constituent constructs, and any influential factors that might mitigate on them; and, what is the exact nature of the internal dynamics operating within these subsidiary systems, and what is the nature of the interrelations between their component parts? The knowledge extrapolated from our evaluations on the individual subsidiary systems must then be applied to increasing our understanding of the interrelations between the respective underlying subsidiary systems, and thus our understanding of society’s derivative dynamic state. Remembering at all times that it’s the theory that influences the body of data under evaluation, and, ultimately determines what is perceived.