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Raw is Politics

“Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil’s pawn. Alone among God’s primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother’s land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.”

— The Lawgiver, (as spoken by Cornelius in Planet of the Apes)

As I stated in my last blog, “0.” This is an attempt to be the last blog I will write that involves politics directly. If I ever decide to care again about this subject. I will announce it, but I am stepping away from politics as talking points for the foreseeable future. It’s just too mentally, emotionally exhausting, and frankly, pointless. I’ve been trying for so long to see both sides, defend them, analyze them—but really, it’s just a fight over what’s “less bad.” We’re not talking about choosing the best option here, but the lesser of two sides. If one begins to get physically ill due to these things, it is time to move on and ignore them. We’re arguing over perspective, which we both do not have. And that’s not a way to live. At this point, I’m so fed up that I’m considering not even voting anymore. I mean, does it really matter? We’re all just pawns in a game designed by a bunch of rich assholes on both sides. I know I’ve said this before, and yeah, I’ve failed at it before. I get pulled back in. Most of us do. We all cannot help ourselves. I am just making a conscious effort here to ignore it all. The constant political bickering has drained me. The narratives we follow are illusions—manufactured distractions that make us think we have some influence.

But we don’t.

The news and politics do things not to make us think with our brains, but react with our emotions. When the brain is being emotional it tends to shut its ability to critically think off while emotionally compromised. What we’re really given here is a choice between piss and poop. And who wants to choose between those? The real losers are the people who keep playing along, thinking they can change something within this broken system. Living in a burning house while one pretends its not in fact burning with you inside it. I know people might want to challenge me on this, and that’s fine. If you’ve got a different perspective, go ahead, tell me about it. I might listen. I might not, but I’m done pretending this is some peer-reviewed debate where we’re all working towards a better solution. We’re not peers in that sense. We’re not working together in any aspect that could make a difference. We’re just friends trying to navigate a messed-up world. The truth as I see it is, none of this matters in the grand scheme of things. It’s all just noise, self-serving bullshit, and I’m done letting it consume me. I have already been working on projects for the heavy metal band I work with. Been working on fiction projects over commentary. Trying to write some computer scripts, I have no clue how to write. I’ve turned my focus toward more meaningful things to me that are not about fueling the egos of the intellectually and morally bankrupt portion of humanity. I am not interested in having my emotional state on a given day run by either politicians or the FK’n news media.

Politics has become a theater of absurdity, where the only winners are the ones who don’t play. So that’s what I’m doing: stepping off the binary circus. The whole setup is broken, and I’ve realized that my time and energy are better spent creating something new, something that might actually leave an impact, and that actually makes me feel good. Not, “less bad…” The reality is we’re all just bugs in this universe when compared to the infinity of it all, and nothing we do really matters on this cosmic scale. So why waste time on a shit game? Remember E.T. the game for Atari? Yeah, worse than that… I’d rather put my energy into the things and people that bring me joy. That’s where my focus is now—on creation, on things I love, on what little time I have to make a real, personal difference in life. So yeah, I’m unplugging from the political machine. I’m getting there. And I’m okay with that. I have watched approximately less than 15 minutes of media coverage on politics in the last calendar month. I know just as much as I did when I was watching intently.

Absolutely Nothing…

We currently have free speech as a fundamental entitled right shared by all Americans, allowing everyone to express their thoughts and feelings about any situation, in the United States. However, exercising this freedom with good intentionality other than your own personal validation should have higher morality. Not everyone will agree with you, and some will be offended by what you say. Perhaps more than some. Try to think that while you have the right to speak your mind, what is your intentionality behind the words? Your feelings are not always the best guide for making thoughtful statements to make others think; they often don't align with the reality of the situation. Your words, while they are yours, have actions they represent. If those actions do not align with your inner circle’s you may find yourself on the outside, trying to look inside and be shown you are no longer welcome. If that is your intention. I am so so sorry for you. As Bertrand Russell once said, when considering any matter, focus solely on the facts and the truth they reveal. Don't let your beliefs or the potential social benefits cloud your judgment. They may be your undoing when you want support. In a society that is increasingly disconnected even though we are all more interconnected than any species on the planet, we must learn to tolerate differing opinions. If we wish to live together harmoniously, embracing love over hatred and practicing tolerance and charity is vital. This approach is essential for the continuation of human life on this planet. “Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil’s pawn. Alone among God’s primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother’s land.”

As a species we have demonstrated we are nothing more than clever apes with no morals addicted to drama and driven by emotional addictions we do not even understand.

I am a polite person until I am not. Politeness does have its functional value to people who are narcissists. For them it is not extended from emotional generosity, intentionality to put positive vibes out in the world, but is instead a behavior conditioned by circumstance and necessity. They don’t want or need. They’re entitled. It is their divine right to consume this thing, whatever the thing is. They do not engage in polite conversation to soothe or provide comfort. You’re the bug. Not them. You… In this lesson, my purpose is not to offer reassurances. It is to introduce doubt. I am polite to show my respect for our very human interaction. That courtesy goes so far, but I always attempt that olive branch unless I sense something is wrong about the person, situation, their intentionality and that is always right. Some may use it to disguise their fear—an unavoidable byproduct of confronting uncertainty. Fear arises when you begin to question the certainty of your perceptions, including whether the reality you navigate is as stable as you assume. Is the ground beneath you real, or is it merely another layer of constructed belief? This is worth considering. Fear is a powerful force. It can distort your perception of reality, twisting what’s in front of you into something unrecognizable. We’ve all felt it, that creeping sensation that something’s not right. And, truth be told, it’s probably one of the most defining experiences of being human. Fear pushes us into a corner, makes us question everything. And in doing so, it often reveals how much of our lives are built on illusion, on constructs that we seldom challenge.

Take professional wrestling, for instance. Most people think of it as a staged cartoon spectacle—a performance. Yet, for those in the nearly 25 million plus fans out there, the emotions it provokes are real. They blur the line between what's genuine and what's crafted. The fights might be choreographed, the outcomes predetermined, but the passion, the excitement, the anger—those are visceral, immediate. Those bumps are real though. And isn't that a metaphor for life? So much of what we experience is scripted, controlled, a product of forces beyond our understanding. But the emotions it brings out? Those are real. The actions it creates from those feelings are real. The fear it evokes? That's real. Imagine, for a moment, that life itself is a kind of performance—a carefully orchestrated series of events designed to elicit certain responses from us. The structures of society, the media we consume, the rules we follow—they all serve to create a certain perception of reality. But what happens when we start to question that perception? What happens when the veil begins to lift, and we catch a glimpse of what's behind the curtain? Just like professional wrestling, life is full of these constructed realities, carefully crafted narratives designed to keep us engaged, to make us feel and not think. The media, for instance, doesn't just report facts—it carefully shapes them, creates a narrative that elicits a specific emotional response from us. Lately, it’s a lot of outrage often from that response being fear. Fear is a tool, a powerful motivator that keeps us in check, that blurs the lines between reality and illusion, just as much as any scripted realityTV character. And the more fear we feel, the harder it becomes to see clearly.

Politics and professional wrestling share more than a few similarities when it comes to crafting narratives for their audiences. Both rely on carefully constructed personas, dramatized conflicts, and the illusion of opposing forces vying for power. In politics, like in wrestling, the public is often presented with exaggerated characters—heroes and villains—whose battles are staged to maintain engagement and loyalty. The lines between reality and performance blur, with each side positioning themselves as the ultimate champion of the people, for the people, all while working within a system that thrives on spectacle. Just as in wrestling, where the outcomes are predetermined, politics often follows the same exact script of power dynamics and alliances that shift more for strategic gain than ideological purity. The drama of debates, the tension of elections, and the theatrics of policy announcements mirror the scripted rivalries of the squared-circle. Everything being thrown in and used, even the kitchen sink. Both rely on media coverage to amplify the storylines, ensuring that the audience remains invested in the ongoing saga, even as the players behind the scenes may be collaborating more than the public ever realizes. But there's an odd comfort in these constructed realities, isn't there? They give us something to hold onto, something familiar, something that makes sense in a chaotic world. We follow the script, play our parts, and in doing so, we avoid confronting the terrifying truth that lies just beyond our perception: that much of what we believe to be real is, in fact, an illusion, a manipulation. The lines between what’s real and what’s fabricated start to blur, and we're left wondering how much of our lives are driven by fear of the unknown, rather than a clear-eyed understanding of the world around us.

"I put these glasses on, she looks like a regular person, doesn't she? Put 'em on, from Maldehyde-face!" – John Nada, “They Live”

From John Carpenters, “They Live.” John Nada, a drifter who stumbles upon a pair of sunglasses that reveal the hidden truth about the world. When he puts them on, he can see that the ruling class is composed of disguised aliens controlling humanity through subliminal messages embedded in advertisements, signs, and the media. These messages enforce consumerism, obedience, and conformity. The sunglasses represent the metaphor of "waking up" to the hidden realities of the world, exposing the manipulation that is normally invisible to the naked eye. The real “WOKE…”

It’s easy to look at professional wrestling and dismiss it as fake, as a show designed purely for entertainment. The media and politics stole the book that professional wrestling built. Specifically the era in Wrestling known as the “Monday Night Wars.” This war was a fierce ratings battle during the late 1990s between two major professional wrestling promotions: World Wrestling Entertainment, WWE (then WWF), and World Championship Wrestling, WCW. Every Monday night, WWE's “Raw” and WCW's “Nitro” aired head-to-head, with WCW initially dominating thanks to big-name stars signing with the rival promotion, and the edgy NWO storyline. WWE fought back by adopting a more rebellious, attitude-driven, sexy style that resonated with younger audiences. The competition fueled some of wrestling's most iconic moments. It is this book that basically helped drive realityTV to what it is today and now the news and politics use it, play for play… If you watch wrestling for decades that comparison should be obvious. Or is it… Red pill or the Blue pill? How about no pills… How about both sides are poor for steady societal growth and/or taking the moral high ground in this situation?

How much of what we experience is influenced by carefully constructed narratives, designed to provoke emotional reactions, to keep us engaged, to prevent us from thinking and questioning too deeply? The emotions wrestling stirs—love, hate, fear—are raw and real. We live within narratives created by others, and the emotions we feel as a result of them are very real. Predestination is a philosophical and theological concept that suggests all events in life are predetermined by a higher power or fate, leaving no room for free will. This isn't to say that we should all become skeptics, questioning everything around us until we’re paralyzed by uncertainty. We are not trapped in the matrix. Heck, we could be. We probably are… So what, does it even matter? But maybe it’s worth acknowledging how much of our reality is constructed. How many of the fears we carry are born out of illusions? Like I said above; when the brain is being emotional it tends to shut its ability to critically think off while emotionally compromised. Staying calm under pressure means keeping your cool when things get tough so you can think clearly and handle the situation properly. It’s about controlling your emotions, taking a breath, and focusing on what needs to be done without getting overwhelmed. People who are good at this don’t let stress take over. They stay focused on solving the problem step by step, which helps them avoid mistakes and make better decisions, especially when others are counting on them, like in emergencies or tough situations. When we start to question these narratives, when we confront our fears, we begin to see things for what they really are. And that’s the real challenge, isn’t it? To peel back the layers of illusion and see the world as it truly is—raw, unpredictable, dangerous, and often terrifying. But also full of potential, full of possibilities that we might not have seen before. The fear that once held us back becomes the key to breaking free from the constraints of the illusion, from the limitations of a life lived according to someone else’s script.

How can you choose a side when there are two choices and both sides paint the other as wrong, bad, and evil, all of the time?

In a binary system, both sides cannot be wrong, bad and evil. That isn’t how ying/yang work. When both sides are constantly trashing each other as wrong, bad, or evil, it’s impossible not to be cynical about the whole situation. It often seems like it’s tough to find anything genuine amidst all this noise. Try to ignore the constant bickering and focus on what actually matters on a personal level to you. Forget the bullshit, even if it’s not bullshit, forget it. What can you control about any of that? Focus on that and look at your own core values for guidance. Perhaps some semblance of guidance in a landscape where every side is spinning their own version of reality. It’s also important to question the information coming from both sides. Are they both just manipulating the facts to fit their agendas? They probably are. We cannot even agree anymore on what a fact even is. That word gets thrown around so often now it has lost its core meaning. Facts, means, real… It is the very construct we built everything on –on and at the conceptual level of existence. Understanding the true motivations behind each perspective might offer a clearer view of what’s really going on. I know that is easier said than done, even with a computer and knowing how to look for stuff that isn’t controlled by the legacy media corporations.

Ultimately, choosing a side might be less about finding a “good” side and more about recognizing that neither option is ideal. Aligning with whichever side seems less flawed or has goals that might lead to a somewhat better outcome can be a logical approach. If neither side feels right, it’s perfectly reasonable to dismiss both and focus on actions that don’t get tangled up in their endless, polarized conflict. Unless you are a spiteful cynic like myself… So maybe it’s time we all start questioning the reality we've been given. Maybe it's time we confront the fears that have been placed in our path which seem daunting. What better way to distract people than by making it all about them. Ah, validation on social media, the modern-day equivalent of a pat on the back from a thousand strangers who couldn't care less about you in real life. It's where you post a carefully curated snapshot of your existence—usually more fiction than fact—and wait for the dopamine hit from a flood of likes, hearts, comments, and shares. Because nothing screams "I've made it" like approval from people who are just as lost and insecure as you are. It's a glorious cycle of mutual validation: you stroke my ego, I'll stroke yours, and we’ll both pretend it means something; you know, real. That selfie you took? It’s not just a photo; it’s a desperate plea for someone—anyone—to affirm that your existence isn’t as hollow as it feels. But let's be honest, those double-taps and heart emojis are about as meaningful as a politician's promise. Your carefully crafted posts, dripping with faux authenticity, are just bait for the algorithm, designed to keep you hooked and scrolling. Meanwhile, the social media overlords are raking in ad revenue from your neediness. And let's not forget the comments section, that cesspool of insincere compliments and backhanded jabs. It's like a high school popularity contest, except now, it's open to the whole world, and the stakes are your mental health. In the end, all this validation is about as satisfying as eating cotton candy: it looks substantial, but dissolves into nothingness the moment you try to savor it. So go ahead, chase those likes, rack up those followers, and keep telling yourself it matters. Because in the grand scheme of things, who needs genuine human connection when you’ve got a perfectly filtered photo and a bunch of virtual thumbs-ups?

Power possesses the ability to delve into the psyche of a human being and manipulate us against one another. There is no difference between Democrats or Republicans anymore. It’s just Power, now. It employs social, religious, and sexual issues on us to divide us.

Go to New York City, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. What do you see besides the obvious? Lots and lots of bitterness. I see a lot of, ‘alleged,’ smart people who do not have the sense to use that, ‘alleged,’ intelligence and who do not have it mentally, emotionally, and intellectually together. What I see is a lot of people who say they are smart by default based on where they went to school. I see these same people, bitter, living in interconnected boxed right angles, stacked onto one another, like how one would organize the useless things they own and then sit back and be proud of that. Working dead-end jobs, being jealous of others that live free, outside in the sunlight, eating fresh non-processed food. We see the people in the mainstream establishment trying to appear to be intellectuals, but what they are really doing, in doing so, making stupid decisions or saying illogical things. What we are seeing now isn’t just illogical, it is just really dumb. This collective attempts to make minority issues displayed as majority issues and those issues be labeled as normal and/or everyday ‘FACTS...’” They keep telling us everything is great and the country has never been better. It isn’t just black and white. Most people live, work, play and interact with reality in the gray. Only a very small percentage of these people actually live in the black and the white. Go outside, take a look around. Does it matter the person in front of you at the coffee shop voted for Biden or Trump? Does it matter that they may or may not believe in God? Does any of that matter? What is the goal? A goal of self-enrichment and the retention of power? The most effective means to maintain power is through the control of narratives and influence, compelling individuals to believe they are right, good and just.

At the end of the day, my point is simple: be aware of how the media and politics are designed to manipulate our emotions. If we can recognize that, we have a better chance of keeping our heads clear and not letting our feelings take over our understanding of the world. This is my attempt at a final word on the subject. The system is broken, and I’ve realized that my time is better spent creating something new. Something that actually has the potential to leave an impact, even if it’s just a tiny one. So yeah, I’m unplugging. Slowly, but I’m doing it. And after this, I’m hopefully done. No more political commentary, no more wasted energy. Just moving forward with what really matters.

While this all may indeed appear as a complex and manipulative construct, it is not a reason to submit to despair. Even amongst the noise and apparent futility, there exists the potential for change and growth. By directing intention towards meaningful pursuits and embracing value, one may survive. Forward, though challenging, holds the promise of contributing to a better understanding or not…

That’s it…

Rudis est Politica Latin for Raw is Politics by David-Angelo Mineo 8/19/2024 3,857 Words

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mineofilms · 4 months ago

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Okay… Let’s get real and let’s get dark… Isn’t that what “horror” is all about?

I am taking an extended break from politics/social media. I will still be here, but I am done defending both sides of this BS. We're not getting anywhere anymore. Both sides are terrible. What we all actually argue over -is over the concept of "less bad." Not which one is better, but rather which one is “less-bad.”

That isn't the way to be.

I am considering not even voting now I am so disgusted and mentally exhausted from this struggle. Probably fabricated by a few different groups of rich assholes on both sides. I might write one more essay on the topic of political theater because I have one started and a lot of notes on the topic. After that, I am making a very considerate effort to ignore both sides moving forward.

I realize I have said that before, a few times I can actually recall. I realize this. I am aware. My failures are obvious.

I am also finally shifting my writing focus to horror/science fiction, telling stories, freaking people out, maybe do something cool, and creating characters over dealing with think-tank BS for Rich Assholes and Intellectually Challenged Groups of People or ICGPs...

We all get sucked into this bullshit and I am just done allowing this to affect me.

I ain't nobody's tool or puppet.

People want to know what I am all about. I am a decent, too honest for my own good, dude who suffers greatly for a long periods of time. I am brilliant when I write, while sounding like an idiot when I speak live, in the moment. Scatterbrain is an understatement when talking live. That is why I write long-format, to begin with. So that I can slowly break down, disseminate and assimilate information. I know nothing else. My brain literally works different and connects dots to things in different ways that NONE OF YOU CAN UNDERSTAND. Most of you do not even try. I notice… The only thing that motivates me to be this way is spite.

I have a tendency to push buttons, do things to make others upset with me because I am addicted to the reaction of knowing I made someone so mentally-off their rocker, that they cannot function till I am no longer included in whatever activity we were in. I am more addicted to that in recent years than sex. I literally look at this feeling of spite as something better than sex. I know it isn’t right. My wiring is off. Been saying it, few listened, I am fine with it. That is why I try to stay away from most things or just make fun of everything, or bring some lighter humor to it. I realize it’s only funny if one is a cynical nihilist, like myself. I know most of you probably are not. I will lean with probability on that one. I will assume most of you are not.

So yeah. I hear that. I can lighten up. I can do that. However, if I pee my pants-laugh, I am posting it… I only really care about showing how both sides are fundamentally wrong. That this is a big illusion. We act like reality is supposed to be in a binary world but we're not. We as a species do not understand nor respect 4D… Politically; we get ‘terrible’ and ‘not-as’ terrible, piss/poop. You have to choose which one you want. I want neither, most would never want piss and/or pooh, ever... Yet, here we are. We are supposed to choose one. Now, that to me… Those are the dummies. The ones that concede to this, accept this and vote anyway for piss or pooh. No winner can exist under those conditions and here we are.

If you want to explain your side of that or want to prove that wrong, please, do so. I'd invite anyone to do that. I wrote this as a response to someone who wanted me to look into something political from the right and make a judgment on that.

This isn't a peer review… We are not peers... We are friends... Remember that…

I am too FK’n good for this and so are all of you…

I am sorry this is the world we live in.

This is why I plan to punch God in the dick the first chance I get.

Not kidding…

Nihilists don't believe in belief as the main attribute to make a thing real.

What is seen and inferred by the observer is.

We all should be working to get away from negativity. Not attract it. If these things in reality that macroscopically you cannot affect bug you so much.

Unplug…

I do it...

I am doing it again…

Granted not at the level I should. However, I will start with this and see how it goes. If I feel I need to completely unplug, I will do so.

I have spent the last two weeks working on fiction rather than talking shit about politics that I have no control over and just giving my opinion based on what little I infer from. During some downtime I’d made up memes because they made me laugh. Yes... I am that guy that will straight-up laugh at others' misfortune. I won't apologize for that.

I sin… I sin with intention to sin… I am the worst kind of sinner. I sin because others expect me to be the opposite. Who are they? Nothing and no one... That is the real reality out there.

Do what you love with who you love because, after all this suffering, yours, mine, our impact on the universe is zero... This is a real science theory; known as the Zero-Energy Universe Hypothesis. It suggests that the universe's total energy is zero, with the positive energy of matter balanced by the negative energy of gravity, making everything ultimately cancel out.

Let that sit in for a minute…

Everything you do, and affect in reality will at any given moment of the Universe’s everlasting timeline will equal ZERO. You do not affect Jack… Nothing you do matters from this Point of View. This does not include the fraction of time you do exist in. You affect reality as long as your energy can. Once it changes back to/from/whatever/wherever/everywhere/all at the same time, the influence and evidence of that effect drops to zero. If you are an above-average human, it might last longer. Look at David Bowie. How long do you think some entity, anywhere will be able to know what Bowie did and created? It only lasts as long as it lasts, after that, good luck trying to convert that energy back to its original form.

Reality is never perfect in the concept of what we humans think of as perfection. In reality perfection and infinity are one-in-the-same. That; “on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”

Remembrance of Earth's Past or known as (The Three-Body Trilogy) by Liu Cixin • Book 2: The Dark Forest

This series is sometimes referred to as “existential horror.” You get lost in the concept of “what if” this could all be at play at some point in Humanity’s near or perhaps distant future. That “what if” this is all some sort of simulation or video game where the plot is so fixed that any choice you make has no impact, imprint or evidence on the outcome of the game. That no matter what you do in the game; you end up at the same boss fight at the end, with the same life, the same weapons, the same everything. It's these types of environments where the lack of realism is felt and where we eventually realize that something is not right with said reality. Human beings possess a kind of intuitive alarm in our minds. I hear my father’s voice, as loud and clear in my mind. I know that voice. He is no longer with us. I hear a voice that isn’t a voice. It is a thought, but we describe it to others as a voice. Others do not hear what you heard. They only know of it because you described it to them. However, they do not actually know for themselves. Another example would be; we trust when we look up at the Moon that it is there, but you, I, most, have never been there to touch, see, step foot on it to know it if is actually there or not. Granted, we do know that it is there. We see it from Earth, we see its impact on the tides. We feel its gravity. Our mind alerts us when something doesn't feel real. That is usually how we know we are in a dream. Some things seem real, some seem normal and then you see a giant spider with I Heart Mum tattoos on all its legs in the sky where the Sun should be. Eventually, the brain will tell you what is real and what is not real. It is when our realities are flipped upside down and inside out, like a tesseract, that feelings on reality become existential horror. If we were in a simulation of reality and everything was so perfect that we’d begin to perceive the artificiality of our surroundings. We already do this. Social Media… It is plastered everywhere on our social media. No shit…

Apply all that to your common sense. How does reality feel right now? Especially with the political arena we are in. Something ABSOLUTELY does not feel right here… Yeah, we mean nothing. God cares not for you, me, your kids, your freedoms, their suffering, your suffering, and mine.

With all that...

All we have are those moments of love with those we love the most.

Become obsessed with that!!!

Not this Bull-Ass-Shit and it totally is.

It doesn't matter who we vote for.

We all lose…

It's ALWAYS been that way…

Love, Respect but even this is fueled by spite more than those other two put together.

That is my great addiction, SPITE…

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mineofilms · 4 months ago

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Ascende tuum...

“Alright You Alien Assholes… In the Words of My Generation! UP YOURS!!!” ~Russell Casse (Randy Quaid), “Independence Day” (1996)

A somber Independence Day… Craziness is all I see…

I live in South West, Florida. A little port-stain called Port Charlotte. Most here tend to be Red/Right/Republican/Trump supporters. So anything Blue/Left/Democrat or against its binary opposite is not ultra-rare among the locals but significantly less than Red/Right/Republican. There are some. They do exist here. I have friends on both sides. I myself identify as NPA, which stands for “No Party Affiliation.” I am not even labeled as an Independent, as they are labeled a political party as well. Independents still believe in this current system but want more choices than two. Me… Yeah. No. It’s broken. Broken is defined as ‘unfixable…’ So what in the hell are we doing??? I took a real serious look at why people are so crazy about these binary choices or at least the one side that is losing this battle. I tried to think like them. I do not think I can actually do that but I did try. I went through the motions. I’d throw on MSNBC/CNN to see and I am just blown away people outright believe this crap. It’s fiction-fear-generating at its worst.

Not that FOX is much better. They do the same damn thing.

They just happen to frame it a way that makes it look ‘less’ crazy-talk than the other side. We cannot get the President, alone, on air, to answer any serious questions without a minion or three to come save him. The other side, we have a rich college frat boy that most will vote for because most agree that Biden cannot do the job, but not only cannot do the job. He never did the job to begin with. His age and his inability to form coherent sentences, right now, did not create this situation. What created this situation was a poor four-year performance, which he still continues to blame the other side for, or flat-out says is not the case, which is now seriously laughable and is a logical fallacy. Probably all of them…

I look at this binary debate about the two-party system as this:

“Welcome to America. Your air is free here. You can breathe as much as you can but every four years we strongly urge you to vote on what odor the air smells and tastes like. You can choose Piss… Or you can choose Pooh… No other viable choices exist. Thank you for your obedience, Citizen…”

Both, piss and poop, smells/tastes are bad for your health, suck and will make you miserable, but you have to choose one so you can have your free air citizens. If you do not choose you will be labeled as a domestic terrorist against Freedom, a fascist, racist, some kind of gender/sexual phobe, choose one, there are too many to list. You will be advertised by the media and social media alike as “part of the problem” why people won’t accept the free air our Freedom-giving Government gives to you all. We cannot ad anymore choices because it’s a problem we cannot solve but act like we got it all figured out and can do no wrong. The other side is always bad, wrong, evil and we are always good, right, and just. Groups of people getting angry at each other because they’d prefer a different odor where almost half but not really half will accept that as normal for us all, is your fault for not picking the correct side of history.

Should be noted that only the winners of wars write history. Not the losers. There shouldn’t even be war, yet, here we are… Happy Independence Day, 2024.

That is how I see this. I lean right, sure, but only because if I must choose between the two, (piss and poop), I choose piss over pooh. I have serious digestive issues so I know what one is like on the worst of days and I am not doing that as my free choice for, ‘free breathable air.’ Where we all tend to be fixated on is our definitions of which side is pooh and which side is piss.

That point is, does it even FK’n matter?

So I choose piss over pooh, red over blue but that doesn’t mean I love red, want red, and freely choose red. No. I made a calculated, logical decision based on my own experience with both. I have a very concrete definition of what words mean, what they are at the conceptual level. That is what semantics is… When I step out to walk in the dark that ground is solid. It isn’t solid because I believe it to be solid or have faith that it is. No. It is solid because it is concrete and concrete is solid. Air, clouds, fog, water, no matter how much belief one has or faith that they can, when they take a step out on the dark bottom, it is not solid and one’s foot goes right through. The only time that ever happened in recorded history was the bible and the bible as a conceptual tool for documenting the real story of human history is as follows:

“Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then edited, then rewritten, then given to kings for them to take their favorite parts, then rewritten, then re-rewritten, then translated again, then given to the pope for him to approve, then rewritten, then edited again, then re-re-re-re-rewritten again… all based on stories that were told, orally, 30 to 90 years AFTER they happened. to people who didn’t know how to write... so…” ― David Cross

With that said, if you want to believe a person that said that he was the grand creator’s son and walked on water. Go for it. I don’t have to. Just like a lot of beliefs. Nothing is required by my life to believe anything but what I feel is believable to me. Granted people do this all the time. Most do not do it to the level that I do. Everything to me is about intentionality. What do you or anyone intend to do? Your actions are what one is judged for. What they do is real. What they say is supposed to be real but often never comes into play because they never did the hard work to make it happen.

Back to politics; people should vote for the person they can relate to and support. I seriously doubt most people can look at what we have to choose from, piss or pooh and call that, “that is what I want and that is what I want to support for the betterment of all of us.” Right…

And Winny the Pooh isn’t a homicidal killer…

Only in fiction where the fictional character can be anything it needs to be to drive the story and characters through their journey. The almighty, MacGuffin…

339.5 million People in this country and this is our two best? People need to wake up. I know RFK has no chance to win, but what if he did? What if in some “Twilight Zone” logic the people vote RFK to be president? I think that would be a statement of the common person in our country. Whatever, they are or identify as. Ultimately most people want the same freedoms. We only really disagree on the smallest of things that have been exacerbated by mainstream media and influencers alike. It’s not even a clear half either. Each side cannot even gain 50% or better. If it was 75-25, I’d get it, but what we have is closer to 47-42 with a carryover of the independents. No, these numbers are not exact but you get the point right?

When diving into any topic or philosophy on our politics, stick to the facts. What is a fact? That is up for you to decide… I know what a fact is to me. What a fact is to you may not align with mine. I have accepted that. There is truth and there is accepted truth. The only difference is truth must have its criteria met by the truth happening whether an accepted truth believes that or not. If it still happens independently of this person’s accepted truth, it’s still a truth. It is all about what happens independently of whether a person will accept that concept as real or not. Avoid letting personal biases or desired outcomes influence your understanding. Focus solely on the truth. “Morally, it’s simple: love is wise, and hatred is foolish. In our increasingly interconnected world, we must tolerate differing opinions and learn to coexist.” A quote by philosopher Bertrand Russell at the BBC in 1959. This version of progressivism twists minority issues into mainstream crises, declaring them untouchable facts with no room for debate. The media’s role in this? Massive… They spin imaginative narratives, completely detached from reality, just like propaganda machines of old. It’s all about control, and it’s been creeping in since 2008, folks. Perhaps even sooner. And let’s talk about censorship. Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit. I don’t know who else to mention here. Its ilk are the new wasteland-battleground for free speech. These platforms stifle necessary debates and diverse viewpoints, reminiscent of Nazi propaganda. Free expression is dying, and with it, our ability to solve real problems. When dissent is silenced, society crumbles into a one-sided echo chamber. We need change, but we must be cautious about how we pursue it. Emotional compromise clouds our judgment. We need to highlight diverse perspectives and foster open dialogue to address complex issues. Think logically like Mister Spock. Without this, we’re just wrapping the same mistakes in a new package, called “choose your odor of free air, piss or poop,” doomed to repeat history.

The hypocrisy of the “so-called intellectual elite and their obsession with identity politics.” Eleanor Roosevelt nailed it when she said, “Great minds talk about ideas. Average minds talk about events. Small minds talk about people.”

Your average middle-class American is curious, asks questions, and listens to different viewpoints. They aim to make sense of the nonsensical. Visit any major city—New York, Chicago, Seattle—and what do you see? A bunch of supposedly smart folks who can’t apply their “intelligence” beyond their college credentials. They’re stuck in their bitter, boxy apartments, envious of those living freely outside, eating fresh food and getting all the air and daylight, free of charge. The Woke Progressives try to look intellectual but fail spectacularly with dumb decisions and statements. They can’t even define what a woman is or condemn blatant anti-Semitism on campuses. Their logical fallacies are as bright as our Sun but these people wear those goggles that can make one stare directly into a nuclear blast. The disconnect between this extreme faction and everyday citizens is blunt. They push bad ideas, use poor reverse psychology, and brand dissenters as “anti-intellectual.” But being an intellectual requires actual intellect, not just a degree from a fancy school or even being a bartender turned politician.

This brings us to the concept of controlled dissidence—believing you’re free while being more oppressed than those still plugged into “The Matrix.” Both use red-pill/blue-pill-logic of lies mixed in with some facts; that choice is an illusion. We must recognize logical fallacies and avoid presentism—the tendency to judge the past by today’s standards. Life’s tough. I’m not going to sugarcoat that. This feel-good positivity and manifestation nonsense are just distractions. People need to wake up, take action, and stop dreaming about magical solutions. Your life sucks because you either don’t do what’s needed, or you just suck, period. Want real change? Work for it. Stop waiting for the Universe to hand it to you on a silver platter because it won’t. The idea that not voting for Trump means you’re automatically endorsing Biden or vice versa? Give me a break. This binary thinking—if you’re not LEFT, then you must be RIGHT—is pure nonsense. It’s a forced dichotomy that doesn’t reflect real life, but we’re all supposed to play along. Biden and Trump are terrible choices. Neither understands the common person. This whole system is a mess, pushing narratives most people don’t even believe. The constant blame game between Biden and Trump is exhausting. Biden’s accusations against Trump? It’s just projecting his own administration’s failures. No wonder people are disillusioned. None of these candidates inspire any confidence. The political landscape is a joke, with narratives that don’t match reality and a binary system that oversimplifies everything. Until we break free from this mess, it’s hard to see a positive way forward. But let’s ignore that inconvenient truth for a moment and dive into the fascinating world of guilt by association. Just because someone knows another or even took pictures with them ten, fifteen, twenty-plus years ago doesn’t mean they’re guilty of any crimes. The media and conspiracy theorists might want you to believe that the mere appearance of a name equals villainy, but that’s just lazy, binary thinking. It’s like saying if you’re in the same room as a criminal, you’re automatically a criminal too—ridiculous, right? We should take a step back and recognize the difference between suspicion and evidence. The media sensationalizes and social media spreads unverified claims, but real justice demands solid proof and fair investigation, not just chasing shadows that cannot even agree what a real, fact is, let alone proving it.

More fantasy, and fiction than real life.

Logical fallacies plague political discourse. From ad hominem attacks to false dichotomies, recognizing these fallacies is crucial for sound arguments. My writings often challenge conventional views, sparking discomfort but promoting critical thinking. Remember, I’m not here to please everyone; I’m here to provoke thought. My nihilistic, cynical, and objective outlook keeps me detached from mainstream politics. I write for me, not for validation. Don’t agree? Fine, don’t. If you are reading this, you chose to do that.

“The essence of America, that which really unites us, is not ethnicity, or nationality, or religion. It is an idea — and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.” — Carl Sagan

Ascende tuum… (Latin for “Up Yours…”) by David-Angelo Mineo 7/4/2024 2,388 Words

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