Empires always fall leaving rubble where their glory had been. Conditions vary, but the trajectory follows a predictable pattern. As the end approaches the rate of decline increases along with the desperation of the rulers. The rate of the North Atlantic Empire’s fall has reached dizzying proportions. It threatens here, there and everywhere attempting to stop the leaks in its dike of control. It sanctions and tariffs trying to prevent the drain of liquidity from its drying economy. And, typically, commands its choir to sing louder and louder about fear. The fear-refrain recently reached comical proportions. “There are UFOs out there!” claimed the lead singer of the choir, the New York Times. The crown jewel of the media joined the crazies.
Seen from the day to day perspective of development, the decline is barely noticeable. Seen from a larger, historic perspective the decline looks more like a dive. We’ll all feel the waves when this colossus falls. Unless its desperation pushes it to try some apocalyptic stupidity. Then we won’t feel anything. There will be nothing to feel.
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”Silly seriousness is a sign of serious silliness.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
An oxygen atom that united with iron to form rust
might have been part of you,
excreted on a laugh.
It might have been in an ancient drop of passion.
Perhaps it sat on the tongue of the first human
to pronounce the first word
… in the beginning.
It,
like every one of the of trillions of atoms
in every cell of your body,
has,
like you,
always been part of everything.
What will it say about you
when it talks with the other atoms of rust
tearing apart the fibers of steel
that was so arrogant about its strength?
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”From the stars have we come. To eternity shall we pass,
at times as mighty oaks, but mostly as grass,
always both energy and mass,
whether part of mountain or a fart from a dung beetle’s ass.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
Threats
The USA threatens China. Picture a feeble old man on gold-plated crutches threatening a young athlete carrying a samurai sword.
Privacy Policy
“We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners.”
Translation:
We install a surveillance devise on your computer to profile you. This allows us to impress our advertisers, and to sell your information.
Nolternatives
Beyond the Main Stream Media (MSM) we have the Alternative Progressive Reactionaries (APR). Based on what the MSM says the APR reacts critically. The MSM acts, the APR reacts. Instinct. No plans. No strategy. As useful as the tears on new jeans.
Quiz
Which maker is unnecessary? The one who makes
1. money
2. things
3. love
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”ABC shouts the fairy-tale of the day.
DNA whispers the drama of life’s way.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
-They don’t vote for us anymore.
-They don’t vote for us either.
– Maybe if we joined forces and became orange-topped?
– That’s not going to help. They want roses.
– Oh, gimme a break.
– White roses!
– Suck my bulb!
– Some of them are even clamoring for dandelions.
– What’s the world coming to?
– Next thing you know, they’ll want grass.
– Or vegetables!
Everyone gasps.
– Let’s hear more about that orange-top idea of yours!
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”If you’d rather be rich than right, you’re wrong.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
The one thing you need to know about history:
History shows us the rise and fall of power. Whether a small group, kingdom or empire, we see the growth, consolidation and fall of power. Always. Everywhere. Sometimes several entities grow at the same time, but eventually one (an empire) dominates a great territory. And falls.
AND
The configuration of this power always takes a pyramidal shape. A little group at the top lays claim to most of the resources, uses the labor of the majority, and determines policies. Always. Everywhere.
AND
The dynamics of the rise and fall of power are characterized by conflict, violence and destruction. Always. Everywhere. The periods of consolidation are relatively calm because injustice and exploitation are formalized, and the violence occurs individually or on a small scale.
AND
The cause of this history falls solely on the principle of private property*. Individuals are geared to compete for the ownership of the resources of the earth, and, by virtue of their ownership, command the course of events. Violent and destructive conflicts cannot be avoided. Waste of energy, resources and lives cannot be avoided. Always. Everywhere.
Peace is always a temporary state to recover from a war or to prepare (aggressively or defensively) for the next one. The ambitions to find lasting peace and security in a society based on the principle of private property are as unrealistic as ambitions to live in paradise alongside vegetarian tigers and wolves.
The good news is that our minds have evolved oriented toward a community where everyone works for the benefit of everyone, and the chance of the leadership making a decision to the advantage of a few at the expense of the majority is zero, as was the case for 100s of 1000s of years of hunter-gatherer societies.
A world where everyone is secure in their needs is not a utopian dream, but the only hope of sustaining the existence of Homo sapiens.
Know your history or perish!
*Private property (as opposed to community property, not personal property) permits individual ownership of the resources of nature with the right to dominate anyone who uses these resources. A society based on the principle of private property is nothing other than a vicious winner-takes-all battle where the Last Owner Standing dies.
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Fantelius, The First May Day, 2019
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”A fool like me speaks truth to a tree
that doesn’t shout, “Fool!” and claim to be free.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
Within the body of all life
lives the strength of the spirit.
It can’t be measured, seen or heard
because its power has no limit.
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
Three creatures from the planet Farwaystan
made a short visit to planet Earth
and reported home:
Avoid this planet at all costs.
The species in charge, the Sapiens (clever ones),
exhaust their energies on weapons
while neglecting the needs of health.
We need not detail the other absurdities
but mention in passing
that their main flow of information
deals with gossip about administrators
of this order.
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“Intelligence has its limits,
but not stupidity.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
The sphere of commercial drinks is a major cause of pollution and environmental fever. Although not the only cause, it is one which can be remedied. *
The Water Campaign (WC):
- is easily to implement.
- is concrete.
- includes everyone.
- promotes the economy and health of the people.
- improves the environment.
- can sink a flagship of the corporate empire.
- is not an alternative.
- empowers the individual
- illustrates people’s potential
- exposes false friends
Number 1. WC is easy to implement. You don’t have to climb a barricade, travel to a demonstration, occupy a government office, confront police or even rearrange your weekly routine.
Number 2. It’s concrete, not an abstract cry for action. It’s doable, as opposed to many idealistic but unlikely or impossible campaigns. People do not have the resources or the inclination to engage in enterprises with doubtful chances of success.
Number 3. The WC includes everyone and therefore cuts through the sticky and tricky web of special interests, political affiliations and ethnic bindings.
Number 4. The WC promotes the economy and health of people. All too many idealistic actions involve sacrifice and costs. The WC does the opposite.
Number 5. The WC will relieve significant pressure on the environment. It is a workable and powerful part of the environment movement. It could develop into the most effective environmental improvement in decades.
Number 6. The WC can sink a flagship of the corporate empire, the ruling force in the prevailing order locked into the demands of profit. The tyranny of money reigns. The WC can win a great battle against this tyranny.
Number 7. The WC is not instead of or in opposition to any other action. Joining the water campaign permits people to continue doing what they have been doing, or to initiate other actions. There are thousands of other things to be done to create a world oriented to the needs of people. The WC integrates with them all.
Number 8. The WC allows everyone to take personal responsibility without the need of directives, representatives or an organization. Individuals empower themselves and become their own commanders.
Number 9. The WC can show the people what they can accomplish by taking responsibility for the conditions they encounter instead of expecting others to solve their problems. Once they realize their own power to execute meaningful change, the barriers keeping them from building the future of their desire will have crumbled.
Number 10. The WC will expose false friends, stupid experts and bullshit pundits. As soon as the WC gains a little traction, all forms of authorities and impotent champions will journey out from their intellectual slums to condemn the efforts to avoid commercial drinks. “Progressive” forces who haven’t accomplished anything for decades will explain to us why the WC will not accomplish anything. They will all say the same thing, “There are so many great problems, don’t waste your time doing what you can.” and threaten with the dangers of disturbing the prevailing order.
Hasn’t the time come to flush the prevailing order down the WC?
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* Facts about commercial drinks
The production and distribution of bottled water in the USA spits as much hydrocarbons into the atmosphere as 400 000 cars every year. To that figure can be added the rest of the bottled-water sales in the world. Note that I’m talking exclusively of bottled water, a modest consumption compared to all of the Cokes, Pepsis and other sodas pouring out from the sphere of commercial drinks. Cans of Coca-Cola, for example, and only cans, not bottles or any other form or brand, are sold to the tune of 200 million per day world-wide. What happens to the tons of special paint on these cans, and other packaging, that resist the stress of industrial production and tough distribution conditions? We don’t have to entertain our imagination with the numbers to realize that serious pollution is excreted from the process of producing, distributing and discarding commercial drinks.
Water is a basic condition of life. No water, no life. That rule applies to bacteria, beetles, bears and bald Baptists from Boston. Life needs water, H2O, hydrogen and oxygen. Together with carbon they are needed for every particle of life, whether a building block of protein, the wall of a cell, or strands of DNA. You can’t improve water. Whatever you add must be removed by the chemical process of the body to utilize the hydrogen and oxygen. Whatever we do to complicate access to water complicates life. Survival is difficult enough without adding complications.
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”The coward speaks bravely for the bully’s demands.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
Humanity is one species
composed of neurotic individuals
who believe their 1% differences
are more important than their 99% similarities.
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The Big Bang is the god of scientists
created in the image of mathematics.
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Intelligence is the ability to choose,
and the greater the choices
the greater the chance of making the wrong choice.
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Love can’t be bought,
and its cheap copies cost a lot.
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If you’d rather be rich than right, you’re wrong.
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Rulers employ ruler-enhancers
not people-empowerers.
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Religion is a good way to avoid the holy force of life.
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A rain dance is a group prayer with rhythm.
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Beware of sharp individuals claiming to ease your pain.
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Even if you are willing to do anything for money
you can find yourself sleeping on the streets for nothing.
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You are not going to be satisfied with a future
that you haven’t helped to create.
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
When I listen to the ocean of history flowing through the
calm of the moment, I hear a voice that need not speak.
“Love,” it says, “is no mystery. It’s the gravity of life, pulling us together.”
I tell myself that I don’t understand. How can anything so simple be understood?
The voice smiles and whispers on the current of eternal truth.
“You are nothing and you are everything.
You are a piece of life, a reflection of love.”
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My words are atoms forming molecules of thought
struggling to the womb of your mind
in hope of fertilizing your imagination
so that we can give birth to new ideas
to build the strength and beauty
of our future
in the light of love.
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”They collect information about my interests and behavior …
for my sake.
I’m moved to tears by their concern.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
System Humanity 