The Great Purge
An
appetizer:
I find the
very notion
of any form
of governance
based upon
a system
of
hierarchical control,
be it
democratic or otherwise,
to be
completely repulsive,
repugnant,
and antithetical
to natural law
and basic human freewill.
Broccoli
and cheese soup:
What was it
Gandhi said?
“To change
the world
one should
enter into a booth
and cast a
vote upon an electronic Diebold machine
that is
controlled by the very fascist interests
who already
have their puppets in place
throughout
every corridor of public influence,
and who
have already chosen behind closed doors
the
candidates whose names are represented
on said
rigged device.”
Breadsticks
and butter:
No, wait,
what that dude actually said
was much
more simple.
“Be the
change you want to see in the world.”
Meat and
potatoes:
In a
certain sense,
from a
detached state
of pure
Buddhist observation,
I find it
somewhat amusing
how every
few years
new Pied
Pipers, false idols,
and
purported God-Men and Women
are
strutted out in the public sphere
and pumped
up by the corporate media
to give
false hope to a populace
that is
understandably fed up
with the
status quo of the declining culture.
From a more
down to earth,
of the
flesh, living in the midst
of the
chaos point of view,
I find it
terrible and horrifying
that the
masses continually
fall for
the same old song and dance routine
over and
over and over again.
After
dinner coffee:
I find it
absolutely disgusting
how so many
Republicans and Democrats
line
themselves up blindly
behind
their respective political party
and defend
the crooks and criminals
on their side
of the fence
from the
very same atrocious behaviors
that they
rail against
when
committed by members on the opposite side
of the
two-party, broken eagle system.
I find
political ideologues
to be far
more dangerous
than
religious charlatans and evangelists,
mainly
because spiritual institutions
do not (in America,
at least) have the authority
to control,
tax, imprison, and dictate corrupt laws
upon
individuals, while governmental institutions
do assume
such an implied authority,
which they
are very happy to implement
using the
force of guns, courts, and metal cages.
Strawberry
shortcake (with vanilla ice cream):
The system
in place is intrinsically flawed
at its very
core
because it
operates from the absurd notion
that
majority opinion trumps individual sovereignty.
It is not
necessarily true
that the
mob is always wrong,
but as a
rule of thumb
you can
pretty much take it to the bank
that 99% of
the time it is.
Voting a
new President into the oval office
is not
going to solve the problems
that the
corporate crony fascist government
of the
American Empire
has created
around the entire planet.
Bernie (the
socialist) Sanders is not going to vest away power
from the
Federal Reserve, IMF, and World Bank.
Donald (the
toupee) Trump is not going to end
the
meddling influence of the Military Industrial Complex
in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine, and elsewhere.
Hillary
(the sociopath) Clinton is not going to take on
the AMA,
Big Pharma, Big Oil, and Monsanto.
Jeb (the
nepotist) Bush is not going to turn his back
on generational
ties that connect U.S. foreign policy
to the
reprehensible Saudi Arabian royalty.
It’s simply
not good enough
in this day
and age –
when all
the information needed
to wake up
and become self-actualized,
fully
alert, and spiritually autonomous
is readily
available
to anyone
who knocks at the door
and seeks
to find the truth within –
for any
person to pretend as if they are
actually
part of the solution
just because
they cast a vote,
got a shiny
sticker, pat themselves on the back,
and now act
all smug because they chose to play along
inside the
comfortable boundaries of socially acceptable behavior.
If you want
to see change start to take place
then look
yourself in the damn mirror
and come to
the realization
that your
political hero of the hour
isn’t going
to be the one to initiate it…
You Are!
If you want
real change
then stop
buying into the empty promises of hope
proclaimed
from wolves in sheep’s clothing,
stop
playing the games
that the
current structure dictates the rules to,
stop eating
the foods
that wreck
your DNA and cloud your mind,
stop taking
the drugs
that
suppress your immune system,
and stop
giving your time, money, and energy
to the very
forces
that
created this mess to begin with.
If you want
change
then change
yourself first
by cleaning
up your own soul,
then you’ll
start to realize
that no
politician espousing a political platform
is going to
swoop in from the sky as a savior
and do the
job for you.
If you want
change
then quit
projecting outward
and start
doing some serious shadow work within.
Post meal
bulimic purge in a dirty D.C. bathroom stall:
That pretty
much says it all.
- "The Great Purge" originally appeared at Dissident Voice
Bio:
Scott Thomas Outlar hosts the site 17Numa.wordpress.com where links to his poetry and fiction are listed. He can also be found tapped into the Beast System on Facebook and Twitter.
