Masopher's Mind

As it turns out, Fannie Mae and more poignantly Freddie Mac had the campaign manager of John McCain on the payroll. Barak Obama is also a recipient of contributions from the mortgage giants. In fact (and this is a fact) everybody in and associated with congress and the senate is a recipient of very legal and above board donations and contributions. In DC you are either a politician a lawyer a lobbyist or a hooker, all very similar and well respected professions! Here I am talking from experience.

 ”And what is so wrong?” Masopher has asked. The bastardized American Democratic model creates an atmosphere of old men who can buy publicity and influence therefore buying (re-)election buying power to influence. And these men in turn are bought by big businesses and special interest groups. using money to speed up or slow down change. There are just as many people working for Fannie mae Freddie mac and lobbyists as there are politicians in Washington, and most politicians when not in the senate work in lobbyist firms. That is another fact. But no one talks about it; at least not until one of them has the audacity to hope to become the president. Once you become president you start receiving a whole lot more gifts, contributions and dinner parties in your honour, and of course they task of leading the country sending in the troops, sidestepping scandals, etc. And thats just too ambitious!

There is a little know liberal republican (WHAT?!!!!!) called Ron Paul who (God bless him) advocates that Congress not be given so much power. He thinks that if these men had less power, companies would not want to (try to) buy them off. Ron Paul despite being rather popular with the independent and liberal population in the United States will never be taken seriously by the voters that count: Just in the same way that tofu eaters are not taken seriously at an Outback Steak house and in the same way that 50 Cent will never be taken seriously by the acting community. The reason you go to Outback Steakhouse is to eat steak, the reason you go to see a movie is for Al Pachino and Bobby D and reason you run for congress and president is so that you can use and get more contributions to bring about change. Ron Paul bringing about change that essentially cuts off the congressional and presidential impetus for change (money) is like a man cutting off his penis to improve his sex life.

My objection to John McCain is not that he is a bad guy colluding for the last 10 years with his pal for a few thousand Freddie Mac bucks. McCain-Feingold is an act attempting to stop soft money from financing campaigns. McCain too knew that companies like Fannie Mae, AIG and Lehman Brothers spend a lot of money attempting to influence senators and he wanted that to be stopped. However McCain believes in an ancient and untenable form of politics where people sit around on the steps of an acropolis and the poser of the best rhetoric gets to fondle the handsome boys. I object to McCain because he is not a proper republican nor is he realistic. He is not a crackpot like Ron Paul but he is pretty cracked. If he can’t raise money for a squeeky clean campaign, how can he raise money to donate to African dictators and South American banana republics? How can he put the economy in a position to support “friendly” dictators in the Middle East and American Bases in Eastern Europe? He was beaten by Bush back in 2000, because he is just too liberal! Similar to Ron Paul, the other liberal Republican, he is like a kind hearted executioner; his heart is going to bleed when he does what he has to do. As a soldier and a senior citizen he doesn’t have the heart for subterfuge or the brain to gimmick the crowd like slick Billy Clinton and Reverend Obama can. McCain is an evolutionary dead end which will fortunately be dead soon anyway.

To be continued….

Here are the words of this humble disciple as I listen to the demon Masopher and learn nothing more than what is already written in the heart of every man.

It won’t happen. The backward society of apes self elevating to godhood just won’t pull it off. We neither have the balls nor the brains to kill off the planet nor everything on it. Here I examine a few end of world scenarios that sadly didn’t and shall not come to pass.

Nuclear Armageddon. Despite the fact that more than a few countries in this world can exterminate a few million humans with nuclear weapons, only two can technically kill billions. This is a claim based on the reported nuclear capability of both sides. But what if it isn’t true? We all know that at considerable expense a few explosions have been performed. Grainy black and white footage of essentially field experiments sinking retired boats and knocking down ply board houses have been released. And just like the guy that broke into the tent of the ark of the covenant, no one has lived to tell if its just Hollywood lights and magic or a bonified boogy-man. If the claims are true then a lot of the world could be dead within a few years; but not all of it. Animals, plants, even humans would reappear soon after and all that would have been destroyed in the large stockpiles of weapons and meat-cicles. And it won’t happen. Both Communist and Capitalist empires want to rule the world, not die on it. After fighting the Nazi’s and spending millions supporting former Nazi scientists, none of these former allies would benefit from using these scientific experiments. They benefitted a hundred-fold from not using the Nazi scientist experiments but instead using Nazi Gestapo weapons. Fear subterfuge propaganda and intimidation.

Global Temperature Armageddon. 30 years ago scientists and governments agreed that if we didn’t drastically change our lives the world would become a frozen wasteland. Today if we don’t drastically change our lives the icecaps will melt and drown us all. Neither of these things will happen. Through-out the history of earth, the world has gotten hotter and cooler, some places are cold, some are warm. Sand and water collect more in some places, turn jungles into deserts visa versa and cover and uncover other places. Some times it gets dark and sometimes it gets light. Now mankind lives long enough to realize that after a few hours of darkness there are a few hours of light and it is not human pollution that is making the world so heavy that it is turning away from the sun. We know now that a giant frog isn’t eating the moon and disgorging it. Our sins don’t make stars fall from the sky and our wickedness doesn’t make the sun turn to blood. Just like day, night, the lunar cycle and an eclipse, wiser more experienced scientists will scoff at our naïveté. Give earth some fucking credit for crying out loud, the old bird has survived meteor strikes and iceages; I am sure that a few smarter than average monkeys burning fossil fuels wont put a sizable wrinkle in her petticoat. Very marginally smarter than average because we eat where we shit , literally living and wallowing in our own pollution, if it wasn’t noticeable then we are dumber than we give ourselves credit for. Monkeys are alarmists too, so humans naturally see their own shadow and get scared.

Computer aided Armageddon. Computers became popular in the 80’s and 90’s and in less than a decade computers were rumoured to be the source of our doom. Yeah. I was lucky enough to see the turn of the century, and luckier to see people believed that somehow computers were smart enough to know that after 99 comes 00 but dumb enough to not know that after 00 comes 01. Life went on and not a single computer exploded or spontaneously developed human-like (un)intelligence. Time, an old and imperfect invention of man and computers, a new and imperfect invention of man get along quite well, because unicorns and goblins also get along. Time computers unicorns goblins and the fear of these things are all mental inventions, fantasies and at the end of the day, none of these things can of their own volition hurt us, let alone bring on Armageddon.

WMD?

Somehow scientists and uneducated pundits believe that two beams of light colliding can mimic the beginning of the universe or initiate the end of the world. Sit for one moment and consider how many times across the universe and in the world two rays of light have ever collided. Think about it now. Shine a flashlight at another flashlight…What happens? Exactly what happened and what will happen: Nothing. It is so masturbatory to believe that a scientific concept unproven and unobserved can begin or bring an end to the universe. But after the ejaculation one realizes that Jenna Jameson has not been even near your cock and that it was your own rough unsexy hand that wipes your ass and picks up the phone that was giving you pleasure. Man is not an all powerful or all wise being; causing two beams of any particle to smash into each other will not do anything more than cost a lot of taxpayers money that they would rather spend shopping or buying hello kitty products.

Masopher has seen many of these civilizations rise and fall and the one thing in common is the people, which have not changed much in the short span of millennia. We are just as conceited, arrogant stupid and superstitious as they were. Just as prone to living in self imposed fear and self stimulating awe. We have changed but not much, there will be no revelation, no apocalyptic titanic movements. Sure a lot of crackpots will write books, make money and start religions because of our fascination and hope for the end but in a few thousand years crackpots will still be doing exactly that.

 The Russians, the climate, technology or supernatural events will not kill us off. We die, grow change and move every day as individuals and a collective, like the inexorable dunes of the desert. Where we are going we do not know but we are going and there is nothing that can stop us, not even ourselves.

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Well I am a man pretty much like many other man, I worry about my penis, my health, my penis’ health. I work in one of the biggest richest cities in the world, though you wouldnt be able to tell by looking at my paycheck and bank statement. I love my partner, my parents and I love my job, despite the fact that they all are a pain sometimes.  I HAVE A SHORT ATTENTION SPAN JUST LIKE YOU. I travel, try to maintain a social network and live a balanced slightly above average life. I am influenced by what is set to influence me, perhaps not as much as other people but thats because Masopher is in my life reminding me of his superiority, reminding me that no matter what I have or get, I am just me.

Some people say I am smart, but I dont know about that. I wear glasses and I know a lot about some things but in reality I am blind and I dont know much about anything. I might look smart or even sometimes sound smart but I know enough to know that I am not smart. Einstein was smart, Carl Jung was smart, Thomas Edison was smart, Kissinger was smart, lots of people living now are smart. I on the other hand, I am just a (perhaps) slightly above average guy, too stupid to realize how out of depth he sometimes gets.

And this is not humility either. Average people are not humble. I am not humble and neither are you. Both you and I labor under the delusion that everyone else is just a little stupider than we are. Thats probably another reason that people even accuse me of being smart, so they can feel privaledged to talk to someone smart. Sorry folks, you are just talking to another average numbskull like yourself.

Who doesnt?

But even though I am a numbskull I am trying to better myself, and I hope you are too. Bettering ourselves is what we do very well in my opinion. And I dont mean just because I came from humble beginnings and now live in a not as humble place and plan to move up to a not humble at all place in life. That part is nice but you and I only have 100 years or less to get that trivial peice of activity out of the way. I actually mean bettering myself by making sure that my kids will be one day born with a better start than I had. And I am not talking just about running water and consistent electricity (something I wasnt born with) and I am not talking about a big screen tv trips around the world and a view onto some monument  (something that I achieved). I am talking about mental and genetic things that I dont have. I hope that they are smarter, more driven and better able to understand themselves and their world. I hope that they are just a little less average than I am.

So you see, I am pretty much like you though you might not know it now, but I think you do.