This comment was chosen by Mod DG from the post “Moveable Feast Cafe 2016/09/16”. Dennis Leary, one of our contributing poets in the ‘Cafe’ wrote this short comment reflecting his emotional reaction to the events of the day. Mod-DG found it enchanting, heartfelt and worthy of wider publication.
Comment by Dennis Leary
I’m feeling the love again this morning with the rising of the sun after a full moon night. Yesterday was a day of internal conflict from entering into the world of politics and personalities. The older I get (nearing 77) the more appreciation I have for the beauty of nature (especially our natural selves), and disappointment with how our species has destroyed so much of that.
Take the lead picture. Strikes me as slaves in the kitchen, forced to work for money to survive, coming from the people with money out front in restaurants and cafes who don’t have to cook for themselves. It’s still going on. I don’t eat out anymore if I can help it. The food is too tainted with money. Besides I don’t cook anymore: eat fresh fruit mostly with a can of oysters. I follow an Eden Vegan diet which is more or less what we ate in the original love culture: mostly fruit from trees and lower life animals that do not have eyes or red blood like we do.
From my reading yesterday, I feel like Hillary is finished, even if she does not have Parkinson’s or is not poisoned. She’s too connected to those who Bush Sr. called “crazies in the basement,” the incipient neo-cons of the time, who rose from the basement to the upper floors of the white house.
The AZ crazies have missed their opportunity. They should have attacked Russia when Russia was weak but now it’s too late, and those in Washington with an once of sense know that the American military is nothing but a jobs program for incompetents. Russia and China are the new hegemon. The rats know this and are already jumping ship. The rich and powerful now realize that they could lose everything in a war with no chance whatsoever of defeating Russia and China.
I’d say Russia has already stopped the war against her. What we have now is bombast and bluffing on the part of the West. It’s just posturing as the seats at the capitalist table get rearranged. Welcome to the new empire with the fancy name of multi-polar. Yes, we feel more secure because international law will lock in the new capitalism with an iron grip.
Where will that leave this vineyard when it’s purpose has been achieved? There will always be mop-up operations to do as the old empire collapses of its own weight and corruptions but there won’t be the drama of life-threatening war as we have now in this uni-polar empire.
The Empire of Evil will have changed its spots and put on a multi-polar cloak. Putin will have moved on after saving the world for the new capitalists. There will be much talk of a new world order of harmony and peace and it will seem so for awhile until the same old problems emerge. Evil will go underground and be even more subtle and powerful. The slaves in the kitchens (and offices, etc) will continue to work for the moneyists.
The pyramid system will be more firmly implanted on the dying earth by the renewed respect for the law that protects it. Those at the bottom will still be crushed by those in the middle, clawing their way to the top while those on the top push them back.
Fortunately, for me there is another way. It’s certainly not the way of patriarchal religions or secularism who offer cures for the problems they create at the price of selling your soul. No, I find my way in the Love Government and the Love Army which will have work to do under the new regime of evil.
Evil spelled backwards is Live. Evil sucks the natural life out of us to build its system of anti-life and anti-love. Love spelled backwards is Evol. Evol-ution has its eyes on some future heaven, and therefore undercuts present earthly love. Evil and Evol turn everything upside down and inside out. Love and Live are the natural order which we have abandoned, and therefore condemn ourselves to misery until we learn to restore the Order of Love and Life.
OK, I’ve said what I needed to say for now. I’ve got to be careful not to become entangled in evil posing as good. I’m not as young as I used to be; one fall can do me in. We used to call it sin. Evil did away with that word as politically unacceptable. I must try to live a natural life with the remnants and scraps missed by the Evil-utionists.
There is no stopping the pyramid system unfortunately, it is a structure to which any society tends to evolve. Disturbances, such as earthquakes, wars, revolutions or whatever are merely inherent hiccups. The best that can be done is flattening down the top a bit and pushing the bottom up a bit via active government policies so that the pyramid reaches a flying saucer type of shape with most being middle class and only a few upper class and a few bottom class. And flying saucers are something that is way, way, way, way into the future.
I really enjoyed your thoughts on the actual state of the world, which I share with you in the same way, even if not in the same manner but the essence is the same. As you may found out, the situation is changing very fast, emerging news are coming in and what we are discussing today, tomorrow will have another turn. Now, the engines are again at work, the Evil has shown again her ugly face, laughing at us. Al this has to have and end, the culture of “partners” has to go to a new level, and that is rupture. The hand is forced in such a way, that has to answer to the steady provocations which comes from the Evil.
Thanks, Mod DG. Just when I was ready to throw in the towel for the umpteenth time, and howl at the moon, I receive this surprise. I’m embarrassed.
You’re welcome, of course, Dennis; We mods do actually read the posts, no blanket approvals here to bloat the screed, and at the same time, we can spot ‘good stuff’ when our readers post them. As one Irisher to another, I enjoy a good turn of phrase, and yours has resonated with me, and many others too it seems. Keep up the good work!
Good to have you back Dennis!
Keep ‘menacing’ the paradigm in your own, idiosyncratic way.
:-)
“The rich and powerful now realize that they could lose everything in a war”
What, and giving it to these guys will make everything better?
http://www.forbes.com/china-billionaires/
“…The 2015 edition of the Forbes China Rich List published today identifies a record 335 billionaires from mainland China. That’s a big increase of 93, or 38% from a year ago.”
It is concerning, but the Chinese government has actually been prosecuting gangster billionaires. That’s certainly a massive difference from here!!
Chinese Billionaire Tycoon Executed
http://www.crescentcitytimes.com/?p=10417
Unfortunately the motivation of Chinese billionaire’s is the same as that from anywhere else – “billionaire” and “crook” are synonyms. “China” is currently only 40% as bad as the “US” – but coming up fast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_the_number_of_US_dollar_billionaires
335 billionaires in China, wow, are they communists ?
ioan, i’ll tell you what they are not – working in the apple factory…
” There will be much talk of a new world order of harmony and peace and it will seem so for awhile until the same old problems emerge. Evil will go underground and be even more subtle and powerful.”
Dennis summed up the fear lurking in the minds of many of us (including me). My sixth sense has been suggesting (after failed coup attempt in Turkey, and Eurasian Resistance team welcoming Erdoghan in their camp) that Evil is rapidly changing its colour like a chameleon only to wither the current storm. Probably, geopolitical moves can not be always backed by wisdom.
”There will be much talk of a new world order of harmony and peace..”
I remember this one better /moveable-feast-cafe-2016-09-09/comment-page-1/#comment-273886
Pushing through Globalist trade treaties: this is why he was put in the White House.
This is his appointed task.
This is his real job.
His bosses are watching.
“I pledge allegiance to the Trilateral Commission, and to the domination for which it stands, one planet, indivisible, with tyranny and poverty and top-down order for all…”
Of course the 335 Chinese Billionaires are just another spoke to make that particular wheel go round.
Nice ….
(once I got past my initial disappointment that this wasn’t an embed to a rare video of Dr. Timothy Leary reading Alan Ginsberg) …. :)
The sad part is that avoiding a civilization ending nuclear war from the current crisis is only the beginning of problems to be avoided. Humanity now needs to run the table with a string of impressive bits of problem solving. ….. the linked crisis’ of population growth, global warming and general meeting of energy and food needs all need to be solved. Preferably sooner rather than later, as all of these problems are getting worse with time. These would have been tough problems to solve if we’d started 20 years ago. Instead we wasted 20 years on war and militarism and greed and empire building. Quite likely, that’s what future versions of archaeologists might discover brought the end of this era of civilization.
Oh well, I know I’m on the way out anyways. Just trying to get to a place where I can get out of the way and try to watch from a distance in case I have the bad luck to live through the next 20 years. At least I got to see Timothy Leary speak once and dance to the peak of the era of the electric guitar. :)
Excellent Mr Leary, you do surpass yourself upon occasion if I may say, and your posts also, are never dull, though they may elicit varying responses at times . . .