Masopher presents: The Deep-ness

Masopher’s mind is not about me and a semi-notional character lamenting on the inevitable destruction of man. It is a website about freedom of thought and freedom of expression. So yes I say  whatever I feel like within reason but you can too.

I met this free thinker what seems like decades ago and she impressed me not with her ability to talk over everyone else or her firm and clear world view but with her pragmatism, keen listening and understanding skills. Despite her petite-ness she came across as somewhat of a big sister to her friends, an ear and a voice of wisdom. She was also slightly “touched” as are many of her pals; not in the way that little Vietnamese boys are touched by Gary Glitter but touched in the sense of slightly out of kilter with what mainstream wants her to be. A perfect addition to Masopher’s Mind. She and her pack of shy geniuses as well as you other wack jobs are always invited into The Mind to help make it great!

Ok, without further ado: The Deep-ness:

·         they must be healthy,

·         at least 18

·         and protected.

There will never be an Olympics for cynicism. Because cynicism is the opposite of human endeavours and progress. Cynicism is the tool of the weak who should never have been allowed to live long enough to attack the strong. When one sits on ones ass and has food delivered to your pie hole from a nice refrigerated supermarket on a daily basis sprinting and throwing a spear doesn’t seem to make sense, but there was once a time and will be a time when these things were what kept one alive.

The Olympics about being alive. It is the human body pushed to the limits of its potential because like the bomb technicians shirt says, “when you see me running, please try to keep up.” Is not about a fictional place that has been part of a country for thousands of years, its not about the overcrowded factories that make your protest t-shirts or silicon chips, its about the celebration of human achievement.

I can never be cynical about human achievement. I could never indulge in politically embarrassing a country because hypocrites and propagandists have fooled with my mind or because I am too ignorant to find out fact and history for myself.

I am ignorant and stupid and my mind has been fucked with by more people than I care to admit but I cannot be cynical about basic survival. Some sports like the one with the ribbon or the walking races, I don’t “get” but when the zombies attack, believe me I am going to wish I could do the iron cross or 100 meter sprint as good as the best of em!

Swimming, sailing, cycling (if there are still cycles around), running long distances and short, fighting, pole vaulting and javelin: We are going to need that if it ever “jumps off”. And you know what? The faster, higher and more skilled we are at those things the better it will be to escape the nuclear mutant cannibals. And you know what else? Maybe the ribbon thing could come in handy too: Hell, if I can find 22 other guys we can kick zombie heads at approaching zombies….hrmm maybe that’s overreaching it.

But in the post apocalyptic world; cynicism won’t be useful. Bitching about what is fair and unfair and what you prefer won’t help you. Sitting around on your ass tearing down other peoples achievements won’t assist you. I admit, later on when all the athletes have killed all the zombies or (stupidly) spare your life or rescue you, you can use your superior cynicism to rise in the ranks of the survivors but I am hoping that things will get so bad that rescuing you won’t be an option.

Even Tom Cruise is more useful after the apocalypse than a cynic. Strong and skilled people, yes definitely, these people I watch proudly every four years, funny and entertaining people, yeah sure they can come along too if I can lift and carry em but cynical people? I will see you at the other end of the skeet shooting range suckers.

In 1965 during the bowels of the non-war called the cold war. A super intercontinental ballistic missile was created by the Soviet Union to throw a nuclear bomb capable of scorching everything within 68 miles of ground zero at any point on the planet. Russia along with the United States is still capable of killing everything on this planet 100 times over. At the crescendo of the cold war, the 1980s, individuals got very high off Colombian and Bolivian cocaine and who wouldn’t want to be half baked when the first one of those things hit.

An anonymous author quotes that the best place to be when an atom bomb goes off is somewhere else. On any given day for the last 6 decades there is no where else to be but with you head between your legs kissing your ass goodbye if Russia ever decided to be “an aggressor”.

Today the soviet sword is literally being used as a plowshare, the Russian proton rocket regularly launches US, European and Asian commercial satellites into orbit: So that the world as a whole can advance. It is Masopher’s belief that capitalism the love of gain has been accepted as the default human behaviour and that aggression is a fallback when humans feel threatened.

Except demons and Snidely Whiplash, no one endeavours to be a bad guy. Hitler felt threatened by communists, communists felt threatened by capitalists and capitalist felt threatened by fascism and communism. They all felt threatened by their poor underclass populations so they put them to work building weapons of war and then put them to war using said weapons. Poor people die, politicians unite the people against common “threats” and capitalists (in whatever form) get rich.

Once fascism was put aside, the right and the left (represented by their extreems capitalism and communism) fought for supremacy and the right won, but not before absorbing some of the traits of both fascism and communism. America is more fascist and communist than ever, Russia is a prime example of capitalism mixed with KGB ethic and fascist brutality.

One tends to forget that just before German scientists began building weapons of destruction for the soviets, the Russians were the good guys as well! It was the soviets that shed the blood of a million Russians Ukrainians, Georgians and whoever else to slow and stop the fascist engines of war. Surviving the blitzkrieg and landing at Normandy alone did not win the second world. It was the sacrifices of Americans, Brits, free-Frenchmen and Soviets that prevented this world from being enslaved by twisted “German efficiency” and misguided existentialism.

Unfortunately after the war, swords were not turned into ploughshares but instead exchanged for bigger and bigger swords.

Now that the pen has become as mighty as the sword, swords are being used for plowshares and it is pens which are being used for propaganda and destructive information distribution. The legacy of German physicists has been put away for legacies of German psychologists and Russian administrators. Instead of having our bodies vaporized into ash we have our minds melted into homogenous goo. The destruction is not as evident but just as final. We are past the point of mental freedom and voices of independence are now slowly going silent.

Despite this scuffle in Georgia and realpolitik-al countermove in Poland, only we the free have lost out. Both the United States and Russia have extended their influence further into Europe. Aggression, widespread war, it is bad for business and capitalists know this. The shepherd protects his flock from wolves that never materialize but then sheers and eventually kills his sheep. Capitalist Russia sincerely believes that it is protecting the world from capitalist America and visa versa. Even though we are heading to an era of peace it will be a peace that we may not be conscious enough to enjoy.