Trying Not to Make It So Darned Complicated

The contrast between conservatives and liberals isn’t terribly complicated;  but the reality of it can indeed be unsetteling.   For instance in 1968 there was a book out called “The Population Bomb” that stated that world overpopulation was a serious problem.  You know the drill if you grew up in the sixties fifty years ago.  They said “If we don’t do anything about the birth rates around the world- - the world’s population we know it today- - will double by the year two thousand.  Now it’s fifty years later and the world’s population has doubled.  And we don’t care.  Yet Thom Hartman tells us a simple way to cut birth rates in women is to educate them and liberate them from the sexual tyranny of men keeping them “barefoot and pregnant” all the time out of some sort of tribal loyalty.  We are told we waste untold amounts of soil and energy resources on growing food for - - animals, for humans to then eat.  It’s a highly wasteful and inefficient use of energy- - both the physical and the nutritional kind.  Yet we do it.  This guy on KNX just now stated “Rather than wage a war on coal, the coal industry ought to be protected – and all the jobs and energy that come with it”.   Yet experts tell us coal cannot be made cancer free – as the “clean coal” advocates suggest.   When it comes to government spending- - we do not have a government spending problem; we have a revenue problem.   We have taken deliberate steps over the past few decades to deliberately create a revenue crisis.   Now some like Pete Richards would say “No- - I know of examples of extreme government waste.  They have all sorts of money if they will use it right”.    Let me torpedo this logic with a simple example.  Suppose you have a leak in your radiator hose and your engine isn’t getting enough water and is in danger of overheating.  Is the answer to say “Well then I’m just going to make sure my radiator is never completely filled up- - and that way I’ll waste less water”.   No.  Not unless you want your engine to fry.  Since when does cutting revenue cut waste?  Hummm?  Because if you still have the same political crooks in power such as Chris Christie, Scott Walker, Rick Scott, and Rick Perry (though he is not in the same league as the other three).   These right wing republicans are the biggest crooks and nest featherors on the planet!   I’ll use a personal example that may drive the point home.  Since about 2008 I have been running a “food deficit”.   If I were in the same room with Dr Phil Mc Graw talking to prospective dieters - - I would tell them “Be prepared to say good-bye to any personal happiness you’ve known with food all these years, because from personal experience I will assure you will never get enough food on these diets and years later- you’ll still be looking for every opportunity to get more.   Some people- - maybe even me have toyed with ideas like “Getting used to the new normal”.   OK unions and pension funds are a thing of the past.  The California renters tax rebate is a thing of the past.   Living in a world without continual war (like under Clinton or Reagan) is a thing of the past.  Constant fear of terrorists and terrorism is “The new normal” for us.  Disfunctional government is “The new normal”.   We hear it announced as if an edit from On High- - months ago - - that “The democrats will lose big this November in congress” and we all blindly accept it.  When Chris Matthews said a few weeks before the Iraq War started in 2003 “Well, we’re all pro Iraq war now” we all blindly accept it.  I have doubts as to whether God Himself regards a democratic victory of any sort as even theoretically possible.   The average bub-bah in the red states is also sold the ego-feeding line of ‘You have rights as an American.  You have the right to be ignorant and proud and never question your own inadequacy or think for one moment some more educated person might know more than you.  You have the Right to expect the sort of first class elite medical care that Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity can get- - you know- - if you you’re your nose to the grind stone and keep voting conservative.  Dr Levy sees nothing wrong with an elite class of the very rich getting new transplant organs all the time and to live to be a hundred and fifty years old, so that not only does your Wealth live forever with virtually no fear of inheritance taxes these days – but you yourself can go on living in your permanent privileged elevated status consuming way more than your share of the world’s resources.  You have the Right to believe that all of these economists and their forecasts- - and energy experts- and their forecase- - and all of the sociological surveys done in society and gun violence- - you have the Right, by God- - to regard ALL these things as some gigantic left wing socialist conspiracy of the ‘College elite” or whoever.”  I would only comment to these same rednecks- - that “You ALSO seemingly have the right to be insulted and LIED TO by these posers and hypocrites who don’t even believe themselves half the things they are telling you.  They may have family members like with Eric Cantor or Rob Portman- - that are as queer as a three dollar bill- - and they love and accept these people- - but they know it’s in their own interests to fan YOUR hatred to get YOUR votes!   Like I say this problem may be unsolvable- even for God Himself.

We’ve heard about this strange younger generation, Generation Y, whose collective life experiences are so different from my own growing up in so many different ways - - such as heightened dependence on parents- - how they view their own job prospects - - or even things such as human values in general or character and discipline.  In a Little Rascals thing- - this one guy Tubby was always talking about his father taking a razor strap to him to keep him in line.  And we’ve all heard Granny Clampet talk about “cutting a switch” to take after Jethro when he gets out of line.  I don’t know how they discipline in Texas, but this one Minnisota Viking, Adrian Peterson- - - used a “switch”  (traditionally a hickory stick, I guess) to discipline his son, and now the  NFL is accusing the player of child abuse.  Just how far reaching is the domain of the NFL anyhow?   We hear that the term “Redskins” is offensive.  The new mayor of New York wants to eliminate horse drawn carriage rides through Central Park- - no doubt a hallowed tradition people come to the city for- - since the nineteenth century.  We hear that this younger generation is more altruistic and want to save the world- -- seemingly much more in substance than my own Hippy generation ever was.   We hear that in technology not only is the CD on its way out, but that even E mail is considered old fashioned.  We hear that “flex time” and working at home- - is becoming the norm- -but I’m not sure- - maybe in that mythical land Lisa Simpson wrote about called “Equalia”.   Certainly not in any sort of real life I’m familiar with.

I feel like doing the Joan Rivers thing with my readers, “Can We Talk?”  By the way as we all suspected- - there was medical mal-practice involved with Joan’s death, just as there was with my Dad.  If human life is worth little to you- go and vote YES on 46.   The logic of that ad is about as crazy as “There is a conspiracy of the uniform manufactures - - to have a bill calling for more police officers on the street.  Don’t Make The Uniform Manufactures Rich!”   But it is a reminder that death can come at any time when we don’t expect it.  You could go into a hospital for the most minor and routine of procedures and end up dead.  In my writings you may have noticed I have an tendency to complicate things.  Perhaps this obsession for “detail” is part of my mental illness - - like I have a little “Rain Man” in me.   Some people say that the reason why Autistic people can’t hold conversations- - is because their visual cortex doesn’t link up properly with their auditory cortex- - and they view everything out of synch.  So autistic kids will often cover their eyes or cover their ears- - because they can’t process the mental input they are getting.  That’s a new theory anyhow.  Dr Levy doesn’t have that problem.  He simplifies things down WAY too far for my taste - - - so that the average viewer of FOX news can understand it, but when you’ve simplified it THAT far you’ve lost the essence of whatever you are trying to convey.  So how would Dr Levy handle a topic like “The Rapture” or a sudden snatching away from this world to another- - -and not look back.  He might discuss the shock of “Everything in your complete existence being stripped away from you - - even your own body.  Perhaps even what we come to know as material objects and special relations and language.  This would be quite an adjustment for anybody.  You might have to get used to a whole set of alien moral values (and I use that word in its generic sense).   As I myself have pointed out- - don’t assume even your Memories will still be a part of you.  You may have a whole other identity- - and if someone were to tell you what this present life was like for you- - you’d think they were telling you some fantastic story.  The possibility of different Afterlives is endless- - and I confess it might be something even me with my fertile imagination- - have never thought of.  And I would not insult either you or God Himself – by claiming I know what’s “out there beyond the veil”.

Last night the realization hit like a ton of bricks that in my writings I still have ways of presenting things in a way that overly complicates things and makes them too detailed.  And worse yet I play this “hop scotch” game of leaving clues referring to other clues on different posts you have to hunt down.  This is demanding way too much patience from my blog readers.  Last night I made it my mission to hunt down the original truck load of “Beatle Federation releases”.   And I found them.   There are eight single disk things – at least the first seven are based on the number Seventeen, and I call it “The seventeen club”.    There is an eighth disk in this “Boxed Set” – titled “The Best of the Rest of the Beatles’ or something – and I specify the use of the picture from Beatles Anthology II for that one  - which draws mainly from the Anthology series- - which is a real entity and can be found in any record store, assuming they have those any more.   This was done in early February of 2013 in case anybody wants to go looking for it- in Psychic Balance, which should be renamed ‘Psychic Imbalance”.  Now- - if you go down a few posts - - to late January of 2013 you will find that illusive “Red Album”.  It’s shorter than I imagined it.  There are only thirty songs in two disks.  And it too relies amazingly heavily on Beatles Anthology.   And there ARE post Beatle tracks on that album, but not as many as I had imagined.  "Cold Turkey" is on it.  Most all the tracks on side two are in alphabetical order.  It’s pretty easy to remember which tracks they are.  You have the Ringo single from 1971.  That’s it for Ringo.  You have the George single from July of 1971.   There ARE no Mc Cartney singles from 1971.  Instead we use the last three songs off of the Mc Cartney album of 1970.   That leaves John, and there aren’t most of those Lennon singles I talked about either.  “Shaved Fish” has been in the stores since 1975 and anybody can find most of them there.   I pick my two favorite tracks off the Imagine album and use those “Give Me Some Truth” and ‘I Don’t Want to be a Soldier, Mama”.   "Sour Milk Sea" and "Come and Get It" were demo tracks done by the Beatles for other groups.  This RED album - - is the one with the ‘Hey Jude” picture cover.  The thing with that vinyl thing of “The Beatles” this is all in black décor, no doubt for the sarcasm of it.   So that’s back - - early February of 2013.   You have to go back to mid January of 2013 (a few weeks earlier) for our “Expanded White Album” CD - - which is the WHITE in the whole RED and WHITE and BLUE thing.