YOU, ME AND THE BOURGEOISIE

TANGENT ALERT

There was a 'Boondocks' strip where Huey was watching the evening news, as it described a current event, that what he 'heard' was different from what was being reported in mainstream media.

He turned to the audience and said, "I must not get the same news as everyone else does." I cut it out, because I feel that way. I just don't get the same thing that everyone else gets out of things. Abstract thinking, I like to call it. Taking something from an object other than its literal representation.

When I was a KID, and I do mean KID, maybe seven or eight, trying to make sense out of '1984', I was fascinated by the 'double speak' and the control of images and the use of those same images to control how the masses thought and what they believed. I am sure it was around this time that I found a way to seperate other philosophies ... but my Mother made me read up on it, so I wasn't trying to get out of something because it was unpleasant.

A word that I have been overusing, irony, is a big, big part of double speak. The Apple commercial featuring the song presented, is dripping with Orwellian irony. A gooey, sweet, poppy sounding song, used to sell a product EXCEPT the song itself, is against falling into the group think of consumerism. Yet, they are feeding it to us, to SELL SOMETHING.

Who is driving the freakin' car? How do they get away with this crap?!? Oh, and we do know who 'they' are ... the Knights of the Templars and the Priori who keeps the secret to the codes, that only are discuss at meetings of the Bilderberg groups ...

NOT SO MUCH NOW ...

But in my twenties, I was into the conspiracy thing. But jeeze Alice, how far DOWN is that rabbit hole? I stopped trying to connect the dots, when I adopted the policy of 'thinking globally, but acting locally'. Chaos Theory doesn't mean something bad is going to happen all the time ... just heard the other day about how happiness is infectious. So I was right about that!

As far as explaing why the E Trade commercial with the little boy talking into his blackberry, looking a picture saying, 'Ooh, bad girl', then taking a call from another girl saying, '... can I hit you back?' , creeps me out on so many levels, that I had to send the folks a email objecting to it.

There are some things that I can't fully describe, not just because it is too deep, but that for me, it is such a basic thing, that it is almost instinctive. This is why trusting a potential partner will be a big thing. Not as much as fidelity, because hey, what can you do, if that is what they want. Besides, if I can trust someone like I need to, that should come standard.

I want to trust someone to be what they say they are, so that I can deal with the 'Fritz' that goes on in my head. If I have to worry about day to day with some flake, I would be better off by myself.

For instance, I never mind being wrong. Can't walk around being ignorant. If I don't know something, please, tell me. Because I am not what I call, 'a kool aid drinker'. If I am standing with the masses, it wasn't because I am a sheep. And if we are all sheep and the birds of prey picks me off, then so be it.

ROLLIN', ROLLIN', ROLLIN'

Yes, I am feeling quite 'buttery' right now. 'The Destroyer' in me is up and walking. For those who don't know, 'The Destroyer' is a character in the Marvel Univerese, who in an old story arc was described as, 'equipped to face any foe and destroy him.' That is how I feel about myself. Part of it is because I don't drink the kool aid served up by media bias and social myopia. Nietzsche said if you have a 'why', you need not be concerned with 'the how' you make a plan or anyone else's. So I come to my conclusions differently than many people, even those I agree with.

But because of that 'esoteric quirk' of mine, it leads to stupid conflicts with those who find themselves in line with group think. Growing up, there were certain things you were supposed to listen to, certain clothes you were supposed to wear, certain things you were supposed to aspire to. If I ever found myself with everybody else, it was almost always by accident.

One of the reasons I don't care for my hometown, goes back to the reign of Mayor Coleman Young. He out lived his purposed during his second term. He is credited with coining the concept of '8 mile', and his administration was full of vice and graft, and he stripped mined this city. Mayor Archer tried to turn it around. I won't get into K.K, other than to say that he fashioned himself as a current Mayor Young.

Detroit, has what it deserves. I have to wonder why the populace doesn't want more from their elected leaders. The council members are a joke, and I am going to say it, at risk of being tarred as a 'self-hating Clarence Thomas' (who I have issues with as well, dontcha know ... so you better SMILE if you dare say that to me!), but Detroit is the city you get, when you let ignorant black folks run the show. Detroit is what the race baiters could hold up as an example of what we could expect with an Obama administration, and say, "See what happens when you let the coloreds run things!?!"

THE BIG FINISH

The appeal of 'The Destroyer' is that he acted as a force of nature. It didn't matter what you were, good or bad, hero or villain. He was created to destroy anything in his path ... but more importantly, he was EQUIPPED for the task.

Since Nebraska is the last 'new' person for me to go by, I have been described as 'bigger' than I look. Not 'fatter' but bigger. I look the part, and I use my prescence in converstation and in how I deal with people. Which is why I NEVER fret if someone says something to me, because in a line I borrowed from 'Rose Madder', maybe they need some 'home correcting' and I need to talk to them 'up close and personal'.

I grew up never wanting to live and die here, the opposite of a 'straw death'. But maybe someone in the senior officer grade of life, has determined differently for me, and my 'assignments' is written and the orders will come down later. Can only do what I have to do. Get it together, discover who I am, then be who it is I am going to be.

I want to take a moment to thank everyone who has ever left a comment, who ever even peeked at this and said, 'ooh, he wrote too much today ... PASS!" It is all good. Tee Jay and I are going to do the movie tomorrow, but maybe not, if the Alberta Clipper does what it does. Hope to get this song thingy up and going ... or maybe not. We will see.

Again, thanks to everyone!