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I have a black whole where my face should be. An Arabic ancestor stalks my veins and sees with the eyes that are set within this faceless vision I do not see. My great, great grandmother speaks the brogueish tongue of Ireland's warmth out of this mouth that focuses attention on the now face of my life.
Catholic and agnostic vie for serious use of the muscles of my mind, reflecting anything they wish over the pool of my features.
I am a cosmopol and I am a thief. I am a country man and I am alone. Each of those within me makes a lonesome wholesome one which walks as I do, matching step for step my stride, my laugh, my tears.
I feud.
Each right within me has its counter-acting wrong. My dark is light my light is gray and red and ochre tinged- sky within a water colour. The mirror and the other lives that cross my path show a differing story.
I am Mark. I am brother, son, husband, father, friend, neighbour. I am boring, I am clever, I am the answer to a prayer, I am the problem. I am the groove that others stick in. I am stuck myself. I fly in my mind and falter over fallow fields. I steal the face of others. I laugh when they laugh. I cry when they cry. Everything I do- am, has been before.
There is one difference.
I am this combination of all these things. I have not been this grouping of differences before. Possibly I have met in past lives with those I meet now, said similar words as My whole produces now. But. I am me.
ME.
A never before uniqueness that builds upon that strangeness every day and night that I am.
I am falling. The words are my weights. Deep into the ocean depths. Deeper. Past light-blind sadness, past the shoals of other thoughts. I am a bottom dweller in dark sub terrania. Yet. I open my eyes, tilt my head and see the heavens. Too clear a view for one so ever-hung with weighty substance. Is the substance all my own imagining? I know I must be alone down here but others move towards me.
Each feels that the depth is theirs- created out of thoughts and singularities. Their spaces are different from my spaces. I visit and feel refreshed. More me and more a-whole.
I can rise, bubbles drift past in soundless expectation of their surface pop. Will I mix into nothing as they will? Am I to become part of the heaven barrier that keeps us apart from the sky jewels? If I am flying now what then happens at the top? Is there a top for me? Questions asked cause me to sink, receding into muddy floors where other questioners drag their weighty wonders in their wake.
Are you really sure that you don't understand why the IRA have re-started their bombing campaign in the United Kingdom?
On the morning after the Cannary Warf bomb blast I was watching the TV. It was the time when children's programmes should have been on. The were late by an hour because of the discussions on the bombing, which my eight year old son and six year old daughter watched because their grandmother lives in London and because the kept expecting the cartoons to come on. The discussion ended and their programmes came on. There was no mention of the bombing- why should there be? These were programmes for little ones, how can anyone expect children to know anything about such things? OK, a possibly valid point, leaving a aside facts such as the numbers of children my sons age who shoulder guns and fight wars in countries world wide. After these 'kiddies' programmmes came programmes for the adults who like to watch tv in the mornings. Taking it for read that the bombing was THE major event that has happened in the UK for some time it was surprising to me how little there was on this event. Lot's about minor life items- it was as if the bomb had happened in another country.
Now, look for a moment at another major happening, The Scott Report. 700 people thown out of work. Directors and their families dragged through mire of public criticism and social disgrace. Machinary supplied to a country that has a proven track record of atrocities against ethnic groups and known affiliations to terrorist groups, including the IRA. government guidelines changed to fascilitate the sales. What happens? Nothing. It is as if none of this matters. Who cares if lies are told in parliament? Who cares if moral values- caring for lives, believing in honesty and straight dealing- who cares if these things can be thrown aside when money and government policy dictates that they are now a block to further goals?
Another seemingly random jump of thought takes me to the Newbury bypass. What has that to do with bombing and maiming innocent people? Think about this. If I belonged to a group of nature loving travellers and we decided to move into the woods that the bypass is going through how long would it be before there were shouts of anger from all corners about us despoiling a site of special scientific interest? Would we be allowed to live in harmony with the wood? Would the law be enforced, and even changed if needs be, so that this site could be cleared of our unnatural interreaction with it? The laws relating to this SSI would be all important. The SSI would be all important. So how come a swathe of it can be completely destroyed? Why is the site of no interest suddenly when others deem it so?
It would be wonderful to think of this country as an honest nation full of hope and cheer; a land of golden opportunity and fairness; A land that offers much by way of advances and advantages over much of the world tobe sure, but is it the country based on the beliefs we should be proud of?
I don’t think so.
To me this is a country based on the old beliefs of warlords and tribes. Our whole system is a battle for those who had power to still maintain that power no matter the cost.
That we are now in the twenty-first century with many differing views being expressed, and heard, and acted upon means to me less stability rather than more.
Just three or four years ago I thought that the world was on the mend. Getting better.
So many pointers to it – World Health Organisation statistics showed that the balance of obese westerners was on a par with people dying from starvation.
Any way, the state of the world was supposedly getting better. Now Amnesty International points out that there is a decline in values – not a decline in wealth but in the abuses of power that the wealthy have over the rest of us.
Deep sadness and anger fill my head and my heart. I can still laugh and prat around with my sister and cry over social stupidities with my friends but I no longer feel that ‘getting better’ feeling that I had.
I can’t see the world getting less complex, can you?
A world where the more you really know the less you can really believe in the system… or maybe the more you can take from the system.
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Even that sentence is too complicated!
I’ve been working on something for the last x number of years which, initially, looks like a technological super Filofax come Smartphone come all sorts of other things that could help life work better…
…but, it hit me the other night that what I am really trying to do is sort out the problems caused by lack of knowledge and misunderstanding. More, I want to get rid of the battle between good and evil or, at least bringit out into the open and see it for what it really is.
Whatever that is.
Who do you believe regarding the happenings of today?
The government? The opposition? The Press? The Media? Your religious leaders? Your workmates?
“If you look into the Abyss the Abyss will look into you”. Nietzsche. Just heard it on TV – BBC1Spooks – now there’s a programme designed to twist the mind. How much of our UK TV programming is just that? Programming. For our minds. So we keep on being either frightened or angry or whatever is needed for others to control our realities.
Or if they are they are in limited supply when lots of people want the same thing.
So money is there to enable the well off to get those few things for themselves rather than lose out to the others who want these things but don’t have the money.
If you build a system that runs on money it means that commodities that are scarce go up in ‘value’ where as commodities that are plentiful or in over supply lose ‘value’.
Capitalising on commodities, whether these are necessities such as food and water, or items of social value like jewellery or speciality things like art, has a good side in that it allows for the skills of mankind to have an overall beneficial drive towards a better and more fruitful society – that is if you believe that without tools like capitalism the world’s population would remain ignorant savages...
It has a downside in that it devalues too many things too often to allow for a complete system to be in place that works for everyone under its aegis.
It does look as if one power group has build this system in order to maintain control over all the ‘things’ that group needs to the exclusion of a large proportion of the rest of the World’s benefit.
… and the truth is that is exactly what has happened… and is still happening.
The realities of the structure are being changed but the power still remains in the hands of the few over the many.
Non violent pressure from massed groups of people will change the way things are done but only if those people are willing to carry on the social structure that works whilst throwing away that which doesn’t. This way of changing society usually takes far longer than other direct methods because there is usually very little effect on those in power, mainly because whilst they have what they want they find it easy to ignore words – no matter how loud they are. Direct peaceful action which disrupts the economics of a country does tend to have a better effect but getting a country full of people to move their asses is hard work, especially if many of that country’s people are content with their lot… especially when they view what they have in comparison to many countries not to far from their backyards.
If that country is tightly controlled by the economic set up, the plutocracy is a long standing system, bureaucracy is a group of people who stand between the plutocracy and those without – or are those who want the changes to come now but still rely on money as a core belief which allows control to be maintained by the plutocracy – then people are malleable… social causes get their ‘dander’ up but real fighting for life is something best left to the professionals… besides which society is trying to make people mellow so that there is less friction … better to send an angry letter.
It seems that only by enacting a complete breakdown of society can any major changes take place otherwise most people are content because ‘now’ always seems better than ‘before’ – all the more so if the country they live in is one where power has had to be struggled and fought for by one group over another for years.
So, over years and centuries a system is built that is an interlocking set of ways that doesn’t allow for a complete breakdown except in the most violent or repressed of incidences.
Yet this system is completely controllable. There need never be a class who have nothing. Never need there be people who die from lack of something that is in supply. Never again those with whilst others die because they don’t have the money to buy what’s needed.
Imagine calming down the human race whilst turning them on to the joys of being a human being on planet Earth.
A dream.
One of those idealistic futures of mankind where it all works out because it can.
We are starting to see the global meaning of cooperation. Of clarity of word and deed. Of honesty of trading and of purpose.
The equipment and desire is already there regarding a system rebuild – a service pack for Life I. A set of patches that work to update what we have now, the setup of which is inadequate to all our needs, that sorts out thewrinkles made from old material. Don’t throw away everything just because part of the man made operating system of life doesn’t work. But do sort out the bits that don’t work.
It’s likely to happen though – throwing all of it away in order to remove the, perceived or even real, shackles. Using in-depth profiling tools for each person can only go so far in giving them what keeps them quiet. Situations can be controlled by media output but only if the media wants to, or are forced to, be part of the mechanism for control – and only if the population allows it through compromised standards, apathy or lack of knowledge of their true rights as defined by the majority of other humans on this planet.
One day has to be planned for. The day of crossover where those ‘with’ cannot keep hold any more. Or where they have to share on an equal footing with rest of mankind… or will the man ‘with’ buy the power to give him ‘all’ whilst everyone else goes without?
No. because it always goes pop, like an erupting spot, except it’s the real lives of, sometimes, millions of people. Let alone the animals and flora that get roasted because the system is inadequate and antiquated. Are the Chinese going to decide that they deserve everything? Are the Americans? The Russians? The Israeli’s? The Europeans?
Or is it really true what The World Bank and others say? Does everyone want freedom and prosperity for every single person? They seem to be saying that’s what they want. Darvo. Non stop talking about trying to get to this point in time.
But, as ‘they’ say ‘slowly slowly catch a monkey’ and, even, ‘don’t rock the boat’.
Do you feel capable because you know what you know? Are your skills worth having?
Are you glad that you are one of the few people who can make a specific item or one of the few who know so much about a particular subject?
Do you love your home or your land and see each as a living entity with history and a future?
Does your Art fulfill you yet leave you questing for more?
Are you satisfied with a lot of your life?
Do you really know how lucky you are?
Has the fact that we are the only life of our kind for light-years around here really made you stop, think and understand the awe inspiring nature of that fact?
Now …
… go and count your worth.
First of all. How are you doing this? What tools or add on are you using? Is your first step to be towards a work of great learning or towards a calculator?
Which counts for the most in your head? Which counts for the most in the reality you are surrounded by? Your every day life.
If you removed money from your life and from those around you would you all survive in the world of today?
If your spiritual life can sustain your earthly body then you are a lucky human being. If you need money in order to live then chances are that you live under some form of control that means your spiritual world is limited by your daily need to sustain life and soul through dint of labouring or through the receiving of charity.
So…
Jumping back to the beginning. If you are pleased, proud or contented with what you know and where you are then you should be able to pin a fairly good score to the doors of the spiritual growth path of life.
And that’s quite a lot of people in this world, from all walks of life, who are happy to be alive.
So, it should be possible to make a few alterations to some of the core basics of this artificial system that mankind has built that should help the rest of the human population, whoever needs it, to sort out their struggles and build something that has the qualities they desire in the space they live in.
Times of plenty are usually times of deliciously full living. Even if that is the ability to stare into space without a care in the world – other than those of every day living – the cares that society imposes as part of its feeding rituals long gone.
For the first time in the growth of the civilisation called humanity we have the tools to progress to the next step in our own social growth.
Controllable thanks to the internet, computers (of course) and the many systems worldwide who now use digital communications and data as part of their cores.
And thanks as well to the tons upon tons of history that is now being collected and digitised for all to study and ponder upon.
With a bit of judicious tinkering it would be quite possible to rebuild the financial roll of this society into one based on the losses of any negatives regarding money.
Taking the core principle of the Local Exchange Trading System model – that money is created where and when it is needed – money suddenly becomes as available as air.
What doesn’t happen is that everything shoots up in price or that businesses collapse or that suddenly, because they have endless amounts of money people start forcibly buying anything they set their eyes on.
The capitalist/ money system already built into this world along with the governing systems with all their laws, rules and regulations will stop this happening.
Money is an invention – or more truthfully it is a token system used to facilitate trade and, now, living as well.
These tokens have assumed far too great an importance. Their lack can mean the difference between life and death.
It is very obviously not the tokens themselves that are at fault. It seems to be the fact that mankind has decided that these tokens only grow at their own rate and are linked to prices of scarce metals.
Rather than seeing this world and its systems as capable of working without the pressure of a token system that has got too powerful for its own boots – we tend to see that without money we are stuffed.
Which, in this day and age, is just plain stupid. But true.
If the top end of our social structures had little or no tokens then we could be justifiable if we altered the system to one that worked. Why is it that we are not justifiable in changing it when those at the top have but those down at the bottom struggle and even die through lack of buying power.
It can be changed and that change need not be as destructive as past attempts have been. Those 'with' need not lose what they have. Those who have never ‘had’ will be able to finally build lives that are as fulfilling as those lives of people ‘with’.
come together and I end up amongst friends helping with a show that is being premiered at the fringe.
Bleep ‘n Grind…
So much known and tried and working but other parts fail on stage…
Change… on the fly… post play talkings and all day meetings… working out the changes.
Add the bad bad revue and the sensitive caste member… ready to fly… needs to succeed…
Such skill buried within these people… and the tentative showings are slated… by a blind Twat.
The spirit of the fringe lives on in such as these… in spite of journalists with high brow overload.
The show grows… the troupe grows… the judgement carries on… the bad nights are felt as the faults of each single member… tears… frustration… anger at failing… the focus on the bits that worked… the growing towards the next performance…
The comments of the other performers… the comments of the so few audience… good comments… uplifting comments… observant comments… different views of same scenes… thoughts.
Image via WikipediaWe do not inherit the earth from our forefathers, we borrow it from our children
Chief Seattle.
Our forefathers decided they could own the earth – then borrowed against it and left appalling debts for our children’s children to pay
When you build a society and define a process that acts as a control and as a cover for acts of human failing such as self obsession, greed, cruelty, over the top pride in one’s own importance, arrogance and the like then you build something that can never be sorted out properly until that control process is altered or removed.
Capitalism has such a thing. It’s called money. With it being in control of so much as it is at the moment it is very unlikely that poverty and death from lack of necessities is going to clear up at all, let alone in the time periods being touted as possible, whether this be the 2015 of the UN Millennium Declaration or the revision of 2165 put forward by those who had to respond to the Declarations requests.
Which means that people in their multiple millions upon millions are going to die unfulfilled lives during that time. Children are going to die in their millions upon millions without adding to this thing called the Human Race. Think how many Stephen Hawkings there are out their who will never say the first word of something that could alter society for the better, for ever.
Look around. Use the most powerful instruments you can. Count the other species of carbon based life forms on any of the bodies you can see out there in the rest of the Universe. So far I hear they have found none. Nothing for light years.
A flea is light years ahead of anything living out there within reach of our most powerful technology. The germs we kill in our kitchens every day are more together than anything we know is actually out there in the billions of square light years around us.
So, shouldn’t we suddenly learn, wholesale, that this whole planet, with everything on it, is a most amazing resource. As the surfers say ‘totally valuable’.
Which suddenly means that every living thing becomes invaluably valuable.
It also means that we need to start building on the moon and other planets ASAP!
Remember the huge machines of the Victorian era? Nuts and bolts as big as a horse? The super machines of the comic books? Why haven’t we built a spider legged monstrosity that can walk with computer controlled precision through houses or forests to deliver forest fire stopping capabilities or flood rescue facilities bar none?
Have you seen the true size of a super tanker or the full engineering extent of a valley spanning bridge? Why are there no such sized ‘weapons’ against pollution by plastic in the pacific basin or oil spill cleaning tools in the main oil delivery lanes of the highways of the seas?
… because human kind has intelligence.
… ……..?
What has big machines got to do with money and its way of locking the social structure?
The same lock on society is also a lock on capital projects.
The very capital projects that offer viable solutions to a single planet’s people, flora and fauna.
With the system in place today, with it’s locks built by monetary controls, economic theories, power structures seemingly solely based on amounts of cash available, it is no wonder that World problems of pollution, population, decreasing resources, etc., are being left to our future heirs to sort because the powers of today cannot have all they want if everyone gets as rich as they are overnight.
More to the point though is that pride and position over others cannot be maintained by money alone if the power of money is removed.
Imagine how many crimes would stop happening if everyone had enough money!
But it won’t stop whilst money is in short supply.
If you lock a system whereby, without money there are no goods or services, then that system cannot work… especially if that system is based on historical performance and artificial controls… controls that are often in the direct hands of people who have their own personal agenda’s… which often include large amounts of money - which have to be siphoned out of the system somewhere - creating a shortfall somewhere else.
At the moment world leaders are talking about taking about a hundred years or more to just break the boundaries of actual poverty. The Millennium Declaration Goals of the United Nations - many to be achieved by 2015 were shown to be totally inaccurate based on the actions of signatories to it in the few years after it was published.
Countries put their own people first and themselves first - it’s a human thing J
There is a way of rebuilding the way money is used so that it never gets in the way of creative living or even the simple necessities of human, animal or plant life - let alone the planetary needs of a group of fauna and flora and history like we are - we deserve to live and enjoy because we are unique and amazing - leaving the tools to do that job up to a set of old era based economic ways instead of building a new, working system for the modern era is not only criminal on any world scale but also wasteful and backward thinking.
How and when are we, the world, ever going to
Feed, clothe, educate and supply the world?
Get off world and colonise the planets?
Colonise the sea?
Make sure we don’t loose any more creatures or plants of this planet?
Capture for posterity everything that is happening from now on?
Save all world languages?
Sort out all the mental health problems directly attributable to living and working in a bad system
Let alone anything else each of us wants that we cannot do or have at this moment because of the severe restraints that money imposes - certainly in the UK if nowhere else (I can only talk about the UK because this is where I have spent most of my life).
If your life has allowed you a direct plug in to normal financial lifestyle tools then you will have credit, debt and work that pays just enough to keep you going whilst you build up a stock of money for retiring or speculating.
If you don’t live in this way then usually you live in debt with little or no money to add to a steadily increasing bank roll and no way to aim for anything other than drug and drink induced hilarity or sadness and anger.
If poverty was a lonely thing, suffered in silent, boxed in solitude then maybe poverty would only feel like a lack of a few things but, when confronted by multimedia presentations of how good life can be if you have money then poverty becomes unbearable - especially when you know that with money you would be alive and capable instead of barely just alive.
At the moment most world systems are run on the trickle down effect - huge sums fed in to a single person who then trickles it through his fingers down to the next people down the line who, in turn, trickle it through their fingers etc. The effect of this is to ensure that the top few get all that they want whilst making sure that those at the bottom get little or nothing because of the abstract concept of quantities… as each person lets some of their money go what they retain becomes less…. In a world of unknowns and costly prices for some of the simplest dreams you never know how much you might need in reserve - you never know when the next large dollop is going to land - so each of the tricklers withholds just a little bit more than they need and before you know it the bottom is coping with full drought whilst knowing, deep in their hearts, that money would solve their problems - would allow them to eat, to sleep safe, to grow and expand.
There is not enough money in the system at the moment to cope with any major new needs of the planet. There is not enough money now to cope with the needs of the poor. There is no more evidence than that needed. If something is dying somewhere because of something that money could buy then the system is failing.
But there does seem to be a way that keeps everything fairly balanced and doesn’t create waves except where waves need to happen… There are so many systems and sub systems running in this world at the moment that re styling money would only enhance what is happening - being designed to do exactly that - enhance.
Enhanced Capitalism - where money is only an accounting and performance tool - no longer a life or death tool. Where everything is capitalised when it has to be - Where each individual has a respected part to play in the whole, even if that part is not instantly apparent.
Each and every life is special and individual and important. Look around - it’s rare stuff - nothing as far as our life finders can see - light years and real years of time spent looking and no one yet.
So we have what we have. A whole ecosystem which we can learn to balance with but not while one lot of men are trying to kill off another lot of men.
Capitalism will always have its adversary because it is designed as an aggressive system - has had to be in order to gain ground - yet people don’t see that none of the money side is necessary in life at all - except maybe as a metering system with regards to the system as a whole. Money can be all of the things it is at present whilst being a readily available substance - like air… not like gold or diamonds or a Faberge egg.
This move effects quality of life in the profoundest of ways - Things change and they change fast. All the other systems and subsystems support the change - or are adapted to do so.
How does it work?
Take away the right of any country to starve any of its citizens of the currency of that country.
In five years time give everyone in the world an account with 1 in it.
Then add on 1,000 zero’s.
Between now and then start talking about what will happen… prices staying the same etc… actual and relative poverty explained….
Build lifelong learning tools into the account - and easy access to answers and desires, needs and even whims within reason and possibility…
Ask workers if they will stay on after five years or walk off … and sort other workers to take their places…
Sort out the ramifications of such a drastic change in world running… five years of talking and sorting…