Communication and Information
The strength and health of a society depends on the flow of information throughout the community. Without this flow of information a community cannot adapt to changing circumstances.
This is both simple and profound, but unintelligible without understanding the difference between information and communication.
Communication transports messages, words or pictures.
Information provides knowledge by removing uncertainty.
Mom: Where are you going?
Teen: Out.
Communication between mom and child = 100% (Messages sent and received.)
Information exchanged = 0% (Mom already knew her daughter was on the way out.)
If the teen had said, ”I’m going to meet John,” a little info would be provided.
If she said, ”I’m going to John’s house to study anatomy for a couple of hours and will be home by eight.” The quality of information would increase considerably.
The more uncertainty that information eliminates the better its quality.
The mass-media claims to provide information, but saturates us instead with massive communication lacking information or disinforming us. Instead of removing uncertainty, it creates uncertainty. We are made to feel inadequate, uncertain and anxious. We are told what to wear, eat, buy, think and do as though we were incapable of making these decisions ourselves, and are shown celebrity role models who, despite the excellence of their talents, possess superficial or insignificant qualities relating to the health and strength of our community.
Genopartheid (genocide + apartheid) genocide under apartheid form, for example, continues a process in Israel that has been devastating Palestinian lives for years. It progresses in silence while the media reports on TV contests, sports and thousands of of happenings that have no influence on the condition of our lives. Geopartheid is but one example of significant events throughout the world not considered worthy of attention and information. People are suffering and dying everywhere while the media diverts us away from these events, suggesting that only the leaders, authorities and experts are capable of understanding and dealing with these serious affairs. If we knew the truth about what’s going on, if we were informed, we would see that the leaders, authorities and experts are complicit in causing the problems or are directly responsible for them. Truth is an enemy of the rulers.
We need information. We need truth. We are not going to get it from its enemies.
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“We know everything we need to know to find out what we want to know.”
Dartwill Aquila
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Apocalypse and Ragnarok
are throwing a battle
at the Armageddon Arena.
Everyone will be there.
Come as you want to be!
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Let’s bomb them!
We’ll put that monument of medieval tyranny, Saudi Arabia, up front—great practice for their air force—and we, the modern corprocracy empire, will supply the planes and weapons. We’ll allow many of our friends to get in on it and see to it that the UN Security Council gives a stamp of approval. Wonderful. Blood, babies and destruction galore. Nobody gives a shit about the Yemenis.
Great for business. Cheers!
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“Politicians don’t always lie.
Sometimes they don’t say anything.”
Dartwill Aquila
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Silence about Gaza and the Palestinians creates the impression that the genocide isn’t continuing.
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“Power corrupts and so does powerlessness and both of them breed stupidity.”
Dartwill Aquila
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Standing on our little mound of information we look out on the world and try to grasp a picture of our times. We don’t see the deep and powerful currents of the ocean or those moving through the ocean of humanity. We can’t see the shifting of the earth, its magnetic forces or the dynamic shifts of humanity’s energy. It may as well be happening at the restaurant at the end of the universe.
Enormous political changes ripple through the human community. We know they’re happening but can’t gauge the pace. We know so little about so much. WWII lasted for less than 5 years. What will the world be like in 5 years? Much, much different. Here’s where our hopes can find nourishment. Truth, beauty, justice, solidarity and love are also on the move. Life is on the move.
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LIFE LOVES
light feeds
beauty promises
warmth nourishes
harmony pleases
gentleness comforts
breeze caresses
togetherness strengthens
openness encourages
roots support
honesty builds
care cures
justice guides
truth teaches
solidarity unites
LOVE LIVES
Dartwill Aquila
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Base of handle on Thor’s hammer. Text by Dartwill Aquila
Between May 1, 2013 and April 4th, 2015 there were 2,181 people killed by police officers in the United States. That works out to around 95 per month or 3 police action fatalities per day. (Brian Lynch, OpEdNews, April 12, 2015)
Although Blacks are disproportionately victims of cop killings, nearly half the victims are Caucasians. American cops must be superior marksmen compared to their European contemporaries because they bullet more people in a month than EU-cops manage in a year.
The increase in Black fatalities has been dramatic under Obama’s reign. Can there be a connection? If so, American women should start buying bullet proof vests. The next puppet-in-chief is likely to be female.
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“It requires no more strength to pull a trigger than to lift a frying pan.”
Dartwill Aquila
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These aren’t my real eyes. I’m wearing blue contact lenses
In many countries it’s a crime to deny the Nazi genocide that happen over 70 years ago.
It’s not a crime to deny the American genocide in Iraq that happened over the past decade.
It’s not a crime to deny the Zionist genocide of the Palestinians that has been going on for over 60 years and continues as I write.
It seems some things are crimes depending on who commits them. There must be some very fine print efter ”Thou shall not kill” that we’ve failed to notice.
Recently Putin gave a talk encouraging the international community to confirm commitment to international laws. What a naive guy. It wouldn’t surprise me if he starts demanding adherence to the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. What a weirdo!
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“As the US sinks ever deeper in problems and lower in influence,
its propaganda soars to ever greater heights.”
Dartwill Aquila
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We are in an apocalyptic struggle for the survival of humanity. It doesn’t get seriouser than that. It is therefore important to remind ourselves of the joys of life and the honor of being part of this struggle.
1. Lock into your humanity. Your nation, religion, race, sex or any other identification or affiliation is subordinate to your humanity. We are in this together as humans. This is our unity, our strength, our key to survival. Without this unifying force our enemies will find ways to get us to fight among ourselves. As humans we are invincible.
2. Don’t waste time and energy on the clowns in the circus of the rulers. What they do and don’t do as well as what they say and promise have no bearing on anything. They are diversions, junk entertainment. Elections, debates, scandals, etc. are distractions. The strategy and tactics of the empire on the other hand hold significant interest, but are rarely accessible to the public before they come down as packaged laws and policy.
Specific questions at local elections can have significance.
2a. Implied in the encouragement to avoid getting interested in the circus of the rulers, is the plea to avoid their communications as much as possible. The mainstream media produces predominantly disinformation spiced with a little real information to give it a bit of taste.
Many people are as addicted to their daily newspaper as crack-head is to crack. These good and otherwise knowledgeable people consuming their daily dose of mainstream media are dependably ignorant of the forces in conflict today, but pride themselves on being well-informed.
3. Get together! Even if with one other person to start with. Meet regularly. Discuss what you can do to help, inform and support the people around you. Make plans and set goals. Remember, you need only do what you can.
4. The empire runs on consumption. Don’t buy or consume any UNNECESSARY corporate products. We need, for the most part, smart phones, cars, medicine, etc. We do not need fast food from corporate chains, sodas, cigarettes, sugared breakfast cereals and packaged junk in general. Let’s sanction them. Why should we only boycott, divest and sanction Israel? Isn’t the US just as culpable?
5. What tasks or services can you exchange under the radar of the authorities. Flash restaurants, for example. John will be making dinner for – cheap price – on Thursday and can accommodate 6 to 8 people. Bring your own drink.
Wash my windows and I’ll paint your fence. Pick up my kids and do your shopping. And so on…
There are 1000s of things we can do because we must start doing everything. We are the new world. When the old world falls because of our efforts, the new one should already be operational.
6. Suggestion for a world campaign. Stopping bombing. Everywhere. The world should be a non-fly zone. Anyone dropping bombs is an aggressor. Anyone!
What do you think? Comments marked Private will not be posted, but I’ll answer them.
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“Everyone doing what they can
is enough to do everything that needs to be done.”
Dartwill Aquila
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Texts by Dartwill Aquila
Any ”progressive” site or blog reporting about Hillary Clinton declares ignorance of the American empire. She is of no significance. The presidency of the empire functions as a doormat at the entrance of a dungeon or the cover on a garbage bin. It reveals nothing of what is happening inside.
The reporting qualifies as progressive celebrity gossip, a vulgar and humiliating distraction.
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Must people believe that there are limits to what the rulers are prepared to do. Some things are just too crazy, destructive, counterproductive, insane, whatever.
Wrong! History bulges with examples of rulers who acted against their own best interests. No basis for belief in rational rulers exists. We don’t have to wonder if they will act compassionately, because bodies, blood and screams throughout the world testifying to their psychopathic nature.
The rulers, those in control of national decisions, are diseased with greed. (That is not a metaphor.) Despite how that sounds, it accurately describes their mindset. They are locked into maintaining and increasing the size of their wealth and possessions. Other considerations don’t appear within their field of vision. Proof of their indifference to nature and life itself accumulates daily.
Today’s rulers, unlike those before them, possess an extraordinary arsenal. Never before have such powerful weapons, humanity-annihilating weapons, been at the disposal of demented commanders.
Frightened? You should be.
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“Humanity is willing to share its strength with you.
It merely asks that you use yours to do what you can.”
Dartwill Aquila
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System Humanity 