Political Dump

[waldopaper]

Oh... don't look at the crash. Damn... you looked. "Politics" are useless. But you can't avoid looking at the wreck. Then you wish you hadn't. Dump it on this thread. Maybe we can get it out of our system.

[Mouse]

What I like best about meandering here, when the strict but easing up a little sometimes schoolteacher in my head allows, is that there are so few people about here by the looks of things. And I really like the company. I'm particularly pleased that Lara has joined us. Now we have the fresh energy of youth on our side, to spur us on in our quest for understanding.

You wouldn't hear a word from me today if I hadn't bought a beautiful glass bubble pipe which helps me to smoke the very subtle green which is all there is at present. Was going into a silent decline, unable to tell you anything much, and struggling very much to find a voice at all. This probably seems absurd, since I have a website. But it is hard to say how things seem personally, or what has happened when the censor of experience is tapping on my hand. I have offended people accidentally so many times, incurring wrath in various little ways over the years and have found that there is usually no ally on hand, so I am cautious and craven. This is probably why I fall about so helplessly quite often, laughing at the outraged fury and despair in this incandescent forum.

Being wrong is my familiar. Open thought does fluctuate so very much, its vantage point varying, and this seems important to notice.

I have mentioned this forum to friends and here in England was recommended not to associate at all with Americans (gasp!) and to keep my political lip buttoned regarding the march of totalitarianism. I have given the forum address only to one outspoken friend in Ireland, because I so like the illusion here that we are speaking privately, while in the broad light of the internet.

[BO]

"I have mentioned this forum to friends and here in England was recommended not to associate at all with Americans (gasp!) and to keep my political lip buttoned regarding the march of totalitarianism."

Can't blame 'em for that statement. I try not to associate with Americans myself...and I live here.

It's the principle reason I come here. Those of us that feel like we're hiding in our attics need a place to express our frustrations. I've never pictured myself as a blogger, but when BushCo started the march to war, those of us appalled by the act found ourselves online looking for solace with kindred spirits. Eventually, we made our way here.

Being able to communicate with all you folk is amazingly therapeutic. A much better alternative to being on a street corner with a bull-horn and a sandwich sign and screaming about the end of the world (actually, saw this yesterday).

IMO, this little group is far to insignificant to be of any interest to the PTB (powers that be). Hell, the whole blogosphere for that matter. As long as they can stay firmly in control of the christian element (not hard to do ), they have no reason to waste time corralling the small percentage of 'dissidents' blabbering away on the internets. We just ain't that important.

[pan]

Part of my job is to provide a reader's digest to Medusa (Ms. Pan's tattoo that I imagine she would take as a screen name). She is far to practical and driven to "waste time" on those blogs yet she enjoys getting updates.

[waldopaper]

"...speaking privately in the broad light of the internet." Great thought. Other voices: Alex Ansary's year-end show... talking about backpack essentials... and the collapse. There are others. There have always been others. We are very very few... but we are not alone. The Moishe the Beadles... who have seen.

I got my bug-out bag... it's the size of a day-pack. Only hypothermia-preventing stuff... need to get a water filter. Tony Deis at Trackers Northwest says "crisis creates community." Introducing the idea of Intelligent Clusters... Flap Your Wings to Save the World. I think there are a very small number of RBC members everywhere... thus the idea of the "underground railroad" on the internet. Discussed this with ms. waldo last night... she still thinks I'm crazy. How do I know (that collapse is here)? I wish I had the bread to duplicate my "bug-out bag" for the whole family...

I doubt if my daughter has a pair of shoes that would last an hour outside.

[BO]

"Discussed this with ms. waldo last night... she still thinks I'm crazy."

My wife doesn't think I'm crazy. She simply doesn't dwell on the same shit I do. I think it has more to do with different personality types--she's 'reactive'...I'm 'proactive'. I think proactive people are far outnumbered by the reactionaries.

Proactive personalities are planners--constantly analyzing and formulating strategies in reaction to what they see coming down the road.

Reactionaries only deal with what's in front of them.

I guess you could call us proactive types a little more paranoid. We need to control our environments to keep the anxiety in check. Or maybe it's simply acute awareness. The kind of awareness that seems to generate neurosis -- the kind that keeps us up at night planning our escape.

Whatever. The world needs visionaries. At least it used to.

In the old days, we would have been prime candidates for immigrating to foreign place. Now there's no place to go that hasn't already been fucked up. Talk about your anxiety-producing dilemma. What's a planner to do?

Create a bug-out-bag? OK. If it reduces the anxiety.

Talking with my brother about this same issue a while back, he said the whole concept of survival in the wild--if it came to that--had little appeal for him. He said he rather eat a bullet or take a pill--and bug out in Jim Jones style. I have to agree.

But having a kid makes making a decision like that a little tougher--lets just say, impossible.

So, OK. A bug-out bag.

Whatever works.

[waldopaper]

Global Village or Pillage...

[BO]

Oops. Too late.

Fiddling with figures while the Earth burns
The latest initiatives to stop global warming won’t save us, James Lovelock tells Jonathan Leake

Lovelock’s view is that the world has two stable states: the “icehouse”, when ice covers both poles, sometimes extending far into lower latitudes in the form of ice ages; and the “greenhouse”, when all the ice melts. Both have already happened many times in the Earth’s history.

“Human outpourings of greenhouse gases have flicked the switch that turns the world from its colder to its warm state – and it is probably too late to stop it,” he said. “The warming impact of the carbon we have already released is such that the Earth has taken over and our greenhouse gas emissions are being amplified by nature itself.”

[BO]

So, what to do?....simple

Enjoy life while you can.

[waldopaper]

Shit, Bo... i wrote a big long reply about bug-out bags... but the korporate aktivist link was the only part that survived. Like you, I think "we" are hosed no matter what. "Survival of the species" is way beyond what we gotta /can do or think about.


The bug-out bag is merely my dopp-kit to take into the bathroom of oblivion. The kids are a whole 'nother deal. If it weren't for them, some rich fatties/ bullet-heads would be with me in Valhalla now. I have my standards, ye know.

[BO]

I didn't know Germans could get into Valhalla. I thought it reserved for us Scandahoovians.

What's the world coming too?

;-)

[littleoldme]

Guys................what do you think of either of the two candidates we have left? Kucinich was my choice, I don't like either of these two. The husband says if I don't vote for one of them, I'm basically voting for McInsane. I don't want either of these corporate whores for president. They will change nothing. I'm sick to death of the hold your nose and vote, cause this is all you get, the Dims haven't done anything they we're given the last election to do. We're still funding Iraq and Pinky and The Brain haven't been impeached. Why should I vote for any of them? (Okay all together now............cause McInsane will win if I don't) Fuck, I hate this useless shit. I'm, voting for Nader!!!!!

[Mouse]

That's what I would do if I were there, vote for Nader.