Confront Tyranny

One has to only watch the many videos of revolutions in the past 1.5 years to become justifiably frightened.  I can only fight back the tears as military police publicly rape women protestors in Egypt, shoot live ammunition that kills their fellow country-persons, graze over the extensive list of martyrs to the democratic cause all over the world, etc etc.  
This breeds thoughts in my mind that point to the potential violence in the USA if we were to follow a similar course to many regions in social/political/economic upheaval.  I am not a pacifist but I do not want to see familiars pitted against familiars when the world has potential to be such a beautiful place. 
Today I am providing links to videos that some may deem "inspirational".  Whatever it is, I hope it propels you into positive #directAction that does more to construct creatively than to destroy and agitate without due cause.
Do not be afraid, do not back away -- confront tyranny!  
Enjoy:

One People flash mob - Occupy 

Just Keep Going, You Got Nothing To Lose 

We are all Scott Olsen

 

A point to remember before the rant: I am not against dualism's or always see them in a critical light but many remain solidified in our day and create a whole lotta drama and polarization.

I remain stuck in 

Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit

New piece by David Graeber titled, "Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit" is a must read, especially for techies, Trekkies and geeks (oh my!).  
In the future when we analyze this contemporary age with hindsight it will be easy to say what, "should have been done".  We can't necessarily know that, but after reading this piece I stand by creativity being our greatest ally.  Create (it's OK if it's replication of previous known technology, etc.) systems that foster sustainability with all things.  Sound too moo-poo???  Here's a "profound" example: start a garden!!!
'Creativity', not cynicism and paranoia should be the motivator for development/invention/evolution of technologies and systems.

Science Fiction

An insightful comment in response to article:
 Evan Stover
May 02, 2012 1:43am

Hello, Rebecca,
You are the first person I have heard make this comparison publicly, and it does, to me, seem almost too apropos... I had been wondering myself whether the author intended it to be a commentary on our current situation. I was talking recently with a radical East Indian activist who put forth an interesting perspective on it, however, when I suggested that I saw the story as an allegorical attack on our mores and systems. Admittedly she had not read it and was basing her response on my description, but I do feel her take is worth repeating. She feels that the background of the story - that of a global conflict which led to the survivors forming the thirteen colonies - actually feeds into the fear mythos of the powers that be, especially when considering the target audience of the series. She feels that rather than it being a diatribe against inhumanity, it actually supports our whole obsession with the inevitability of war, of doom, of a future which we'll have to survive rather than create.
Someone in a position of influence (could have been someone in Obama's Administration) recently was complaining that science fiction is always too glum about the future, that it is constantly portraying a dismal or even disastrous period ahead which the various protagonists are living through or dealing with in various ways. Personally I feel that there is a lot of that genre that is a serious attempt to look ahead from present trends and tendencies and to mirror the darker sides of our human nature as a warning, to wake us from our fascination with technology and remind us that we must be very careful since it is essentially only a few millennia since our primitive brains were dictating our activities. It is no longer in the interest of the human race to act as if every stranger is a threat, or to feel - like a child of a large family at the dinner table - that we must grab at whatever is near us and hoard it against potential famine, to the detriment of any other unfortunates at the meal.
To the degree that there still seem to be many, many people out there who are determined NOT to see the disturbing aspects of our human civilizations, I think perhaps yet another vision which almost literally throws them back in our face may be helpful: it is so important to wake up and see ourselves as we are - an amazingly creative species which has powerful self-destructive tendencies when common sense is ignored. But I do see the aforementioned activist's point also, that young people need to have hope rooted in a determination to create the kind of world they would LIKE to live in, rather than giving them the sense that - no matter what they do - their best chance is only to survive in the world previous generations are busy foisting on their backs. The Occupy movement is just such a declaration of determination, as I see it: at its root it is a dramatic, vital, radical re-envisioning of human values and relationships, not just with each other, but with the earth itself... a powerful rejection of habitual negativity and short-sightedness. It says, to paraphrase the Hunger Games cry: "We shall make our own odds, in humanity's favor".

a start... 4th dimension

An example:

There is something to this mormon culture… now wait, let me make this clear: I don’t harbor ill or think it folly that some mormons truly connect with the cosmological principles of the LDS faith and see them as a perspective of part of the all that is (and here I feel defeat for yet unable to glance empirical vernacular and feel a bit begrudged for yet still cemented in the metaphysic form). But that doesn't allow us to forget and brush under the metaphorical rug the harmful practices of exploitation exercised by a patriarchal institution. Nonetheless, let's return to cosmology and according to a definition is:

1. An account or theory of the origin of the universe. ----> here I would add "...of the origin and continuing evolution of the universe".
   

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So anywho, our species next evolutionary diffusement? Wrapping our mind (more like unwrapping our brain) around the 4^th Dimension (sound the trumpets)! 2 break the dualism of ‘outside’ and ‘inside’ our self. As a collective (all fucking last one of us) face the tribunal (i.e. the liminal phase where we more or less are accepted or not into whatever margins we are touching that we have not yet entered) and then pass into what we could generalize as the 4^th Dimension by being able to perceive and comprehend all that contains what our temporarily limited (not statically) perception allows. We will be able to glance back as we do now to the spatial references of the 2^nd and 1^st dimensions.

We need a lot of help and a holistic approach to complete such an intrinsic feat… that includes and not limited to cosmological perspectives (pagans, catholics, mormons, muslims, buddhist, hindu, wiccans, etc.), philosophies, metaphysical, mystics, wizard-like-folk … and what we majorly lack is the empirical approach of hard science. Let us begin.

Can we do it?

unfinished "money" opinion.

We have to keep money out of occupy because that holds it in check only to grow as a true grassroots and populous movement. Money begets agenda…

- When necessity for money (e.g. bail funds, etc.) the populous will rally around cause and quickly bring funds forward. When fundraising is a motive to store up cash then the money is a forethought and agenda is directed toward that. And we all know what happens after that don’t we? Poop.

- If we want to get past a monetary system (which begets evil, 1% sorta thing!) we act as without that system (i.e. live our ideology directly) and without doing so only are doomed to repeat the continuous mistakes of past “revolutions”. Paradigm shift, not reform. Fuck reform.

- Keep money autonomous. One-time use, etc. when needed. Not appropriate to make an agenda that’s formulated around allocating money. Same ol’ same ol’ and does nothing to exemplify the change we desire. If we do not want an economic system which begets inequality, etc. (all the issues we harp and protest around) then we have to minimize our participation in such a system. Having a job is not a fault, especially when it’s to maintain a familial unit, but the fault is found in organizing in methods all too familiar to failure or exploitation. Example: let’s not ever lobby congress or raise money to have the funds to battle an issue. This creates alienation and marginalization of those who disagree. To remain grassroots one has to remain fiscally inept, “under-funded”, etc. so it cannot act as the corrupting/manipulating power that it is. The true rallying point is not the money raised and the direction that money takes when agenda is created, but rather, the ability to remain loosely organized, transparent, all-inclusive, etc. Money corrupts and takes us away from those grassroots principles. Money in Occupy will not get anymore of the 99% out in the streets than any other lobbying group, mainstream media news source, bourgeois NGO, etc. Occupy will then be lost to those elite groups pushing their own agendas rather than the agenda of the 99%. They will no longer be an appendage of this movement, i.e. the global paradigm shift.

- AGAIN, lack of money creates broad and general rallying cries which unify the 99%. On the other hand excess money creates competition between affinity groups who view their cause as more important and pressing than another. Let affinity groups store and constantly raise money and do with it as they wish.

- OCCUPY IS AN IDEA, IDEA’S ARE HARD PRESSED TO KEEP A FORM AND THAT IS ONE OF THE KEY SURVIVING ELEMENTS TO A MOVEMENT THAT OCCUPY SHOULD BE SYMBOLIZING. IF OCCUPY FAILS TO SYMBOLIZE THAT THEN ANOTHER SYMBOL WILL EMERGE AND THE REFERENT WILL REMAIN THE SAME.

the internet will save us

Want some inspiration of how the internet can save us? Skip to minutes 45: youtube link

The internet will save us and those that want to control that will soon see that you cannot disband this community.
Welcome to the broadest, most diverse and all encompassing community ever created in our short human history.
How does one expect to gain control of that?
Beats me.
Simply, measures of legislation are a feeble attempt. Fortunate for the populous, legislation cannot control the flux of institutions that politics created -- then how can legislation and law enforcement control a culture, realm and entity that changes and morphs an enumerable amount of times in 24 hours?
Rather than fight it and attempt a few last power grabs the elite should acquiesce and participate positively in this paradigm shift that has initiated.
WE ARE IN AN ONTOLOGICAL SHIFT, TAKING ALL THE GOOD WE HAVE WITH US...WELCOME TO THE AGE OF US. ONE WORLD.