tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post4831278046257450825..comments2024-03-15T07:38:08.505-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: I Became the Snail I Always Was Crossing the Field in my HelmetUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-48370339662056953742022-02-15T18:32:10.519-05:002022-02-15T18:32:10.519-05:00Yes, that's Frankie, Napoleon's brother, h...Yes, that's Frankie, Napoleon's brother, hiding in the shadows as always. He's watched Napoleon trust us for fifteen years, watched his mother get brave and trust us and comes running for affection, Frankie still a coward after all these years. Trusts our food.He's welcome to live in the yardBDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-2066641228581738882022-02-15T10:07:23.123-05:002022-02-15T10:07:23.123-05:000/that's a 3rd cat at the top - or so it seems...0/that's a 3rd cat at the top - or so it seems to me<br /><br />1/<b>SOCIAL CRITIC'S PROPHETIC VISION</b><br /><br />caitlin johnstone is the sort of person who writes<br /><br /><i>"If the US wasn't constantly invading countries & dropping bombs & staging coups & starving civilians & fomenting unrest & arming terrorists & torturing people & escalating cold war aggressions against nuclear-armed nations, the world could find itself ruled by bad guys." </i><br /><br />1.1/she begins a piece published a few days ago<br /><br /><i>Propaganda isn’t just about manufacturing consent for wars and ridiculous governmental measures we’d never normally accept. That’s what most people think of when they hear that word, but there’s so very, very much more to it than that.<br /><br />The lion’s share of propaganda goes not toward convincing us to accept new agendas of the powerful, but toward keeping us entranced in the status quo dream world which enables the powerful to have power in the first place. Toward normalizing status quo systems and training us to shape ourselves to fit into them like neat little cogs in a well-oiled machine.</i><br /><br />1.88/but here's her peroration<br /><br /><i>And <b>the good news is that</b> just as your false view of yourself and your world shaped your human expression in the service of the powerful, <b>the rolling back of that mind fog shapes your human expression into something </b>else entirely. Something grounded in reality. Something authentic. Something primal. Something<b> that exists not for the benefit of some faceless oligarchic empire, but for the same reason the grass grows and the galaxies spin in the cosmos.<br /><br />And that’s what humanity looks like on the other side of this awkward transition phase that our species is going through at this adolescent point in its development. Free from illusion. In harmony with the real. Enslaved to nobody. Striding clear-eyed into the mystery of what’s to come.</b></i><br /><br />1.98/my suggested sound track - the 4th movement of beethoven's 9th symphony<br /><br /><br />mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com