Taxes are here to stay

What ARE taxes, beneath the CW dollar understanding?

So many “musts”! How many “needs to” demands can we DO at the same time, or even sequentially, that will actually reverse the accelerating trend toward an even larger percentage of GDP going to government?

In a spiritual community, there are specific rules for one who chooses to join it. The uber-demand is, as a practicing devotee, to be a reflecting “mirror”, and make DEMANDS on fellow members, but NOT to dissociate from them.

In a karmic sense, all Americans HAVE chosen to be members of this community, which is, to be sure, most assuredly NOT spiritual, in the conventional sense.

Well, in the old days---which I’d say ended with WWII, for most---survival demands were still inescapable. Now, however, you don’t have to be much more than an adolescent fool and you will still be able to get by, and with the “machines” so productive, even live swimming in the gravy stream they regularly spit out each day.

“Turn on, tune in, drop out”, quote Timmy Leary.

And, CW still thinks he was a weird and far out extremist!

What do you think has happened since he and his fellow LSD “warriors” introduced their radical “gulping” path to all and sundry?

Reality is like an alligator, which “eats” each day’s new emanating “food”, and it just grows and grows, always incorporating (taking into its body) each meal.

So, in a “fat chance!” way, the sum of our American fears, RIGHT NOW, is absolutely the manifestation of “turn on”, except instead of LSD et al, the drug of choice in physical terms is the junk food one sees advertised incessantly on TV, and in psychic terms, is the junk food of inane movies and TV.

Ergo, there’s a whole lot of “tuning out” going on, since when one “tunes in” to so much body-mind JUNK, and therefore logically BECOMES same, how is it possible to tune in to the “taxing” truth, a la what a Peter Ferrara so clearly lays out in today's American Spectator?

Just think! “Drop out!”, as a demand or call to un-action by the drugged out Leary, has been met.

What do you think those people who voted for Obama and other drug purveyors, like the you-know-what sucker Barney Frank, did---and thus ARE?

Drop outs!

They have successfully dropped out of the American Way.

What is the only solution? What is the unavoidable outcome?

When practically a majority, and surely a working and in-control minority, is totally happy with their fat and entertained condition, they will certainly resist, with all their still-powerful tools, any change.

Why, given that Americans are ALREADY a majority overweight or obese nation, many on the right have, themselves, turned on, tuned out and dropped out. (In 2020, a mere 10 years, it is projected that 2/3 of us will be overweight or obese!) It’s just that they have a scintilla of a memory of the previous time before Leary won out. Example numero uno…Gov. Christie. And, Rush Limbaugh provides another in-your-face body of proof of this!

“Eating IS!”

In a true spiritual community, the conditions are not really there for themselves. So, a lacto-vegetarian diet requirement is not meant to make one lean and healthy, although that will be the lawful outcome from such a change of food intake.

It is meant, spiritually, as a way to create HEAT. The friction that necessarily arises when you have to eschew a candy bar and chew some almonds, say, provides the bodily feeling, which can lead to insight.

So, in the current American scene, who thinks the Leary-programmed vast wrong-wing majority can heal itself?

No, the Universe works in mysterious ways, and it will not be mocked. Thus, one way or another, sooner or later, a crisis must come about, which cannot be ignored.

And only such a happening can possibly cause enough people to wake up and change their behavior.

Face facts. It used to be that America existed so that individuals could be free to live their lives as they chose, while respecting their fellows.

Now, America exists to---EAT!!!

Here’s one more myth that needs exposing.

Our fat cat oh-so-satisfied pompous generation raves about how in the old days most people had to work on the farms to produce food, and NOW there are only about 2% who are farmers.

What a self-deluding lie!

Eating to live (which used to be the lawful truth) has morphed into living to eat. And, listen, if one could make love as much as one could eat, AND SURVIVE, maybe we’d be a lot leaner!

From planning and planting all the way to swallowing and then dealing with the health consequences of such a junk food diet, it sure seems to me that at least half of American’s time and effort goes into FOOD---or, truthfully, junk food.

You see, all the concern with “health insurance” is also a vital part of the “farming” food chain.

Farmers grow it, illegals pick it, truckers move it, stores sell it, ads push it, doctors try to heal “it”, and all the other ways people live, while spent making other things, like houses and cars etc, they are still, at least subconsciously, wondering where their next meal is coming from!

“We have met the enemy, and it is us”. Pogo

How do you “meet us”?

Let’s get personally responsible, HERE!

“I have met the enemy, and it is I”

In order to meet I, I need a---MIRROR. Well, such an instrument needn’t be the one uses to “do one’s face” in the morning.

No, real demands that cause real changes are the actual “mirror” required to see oneself, with brilliant clarity.

Come to me, big daddy---the Crisis Mirror!

posted by James at 9:13 AM
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A Fool and a Witty

“What do you take me for, a fool?”

The whole enchilada of human relationships, epitomized by the higher “art” of elite political wrangling, can be usefully understood , IMHO, by considering the many ways the concept of “fool” can be applied to them.

We just (it seems to me!) endured the last great “fool” hope, from Hope, Arkansas, who enlightened us with his insightful reminder to us, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me”. Saying this, while HE, HIMSELF, was, and is, the essence of fooling!

And, now, the “fool” dimension has evolved even higher, almost unbelievably, with the arrival of the anointed one, BHO! Talk about the greater FOOL theory---in practice!

Well, I have, MYSELF, a couple of pithy and witty old “fool” ditties, that I think help us play the BHO “recording”---

We all know a fool when we see one, but never when we ARE one.

Let THAT swish around in your processing brain for a while, and expand its shining light of Truth on both BHO and each single other human who has to deal with him—including you.

First, way too many Americans---and, non-Americans, in spades!---did not see BHO as the fool he is, and were thus fooled: ergo, they ARE fools! A fool, fooling others?

Second, as witnessed by the latest presser by BHO, he absolutely does NOT know that he is a fool! He definitely sees the American public as---FOOLS! Why don’t they recognize his greatness? What fools you---we---are!

Here’s another hoary “fool” saying---

You may look like a fool, but why remove all doubt by opening your mouth?

NOW, I, personally, have lived quite long enough, thank you, to have learned the value of SILENCE! (That other old admonition, to not say anything about someone unless it’s a compliment, seems to stem from this wise take.) Boy, was my youth ever a living hell, because I couldn’t keep my mouth shut, so eager was I to tell the truth as I saw it---young Narcissus, in diapers, for way too long!

What is a “fool”, anyway?

Another linked memory---wasn’t it once reported that the Catholic Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia was an admitted “fool for God”?

You could have fooled me!

It takes one to know one!

Somehow, this rant about “fool” has brought me to a wonderful choice paradox that took my own foolish life into sheer---what?

“The moment a man attains Prajna (Enlightenment), he is swallowed up in the absolute. There is no stage when he can declare that he is freed; he cannot leave any kind of record. Logically, he cannot even know that he is free; as long as he is in bondage, it would be false to if he took himself to be free; and when he is free, he is no longer there to know that he is free as he is immediately merged in the absolute.”

From “The Central Philosophy of Buddhism”, by T.R.V. Murti, 1955, a book about Madhyamika Buddhism from the “point of view” of Nagarjuna (circa A.D. 150) page 279

These words are meant as a set up; and next, in the book, the author resolves the paradox, in his own way, basically “proving” that there exists Enlightened Beings, like Buddha, Jesus, Krisha, and many other lesser know humans, through time, who can be in both the phenomenal AND the absolute realms, simultaneously.

My favorite metaphor is the spinning pottery wheel.

We, as humans very much resemble one, and so if/when one attains Enlightenment, while spinning, the inertia of the “wheel” = the human one means that even as it slows down, such an awakened one CAN be at once in the phenomenal realm and the Absolute ONE.

Me---life’s ONLY paradoxical!

Pity the FOOL!

posted by James at 11:08 AM
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