Obama Beat Them Black and Blue!

Obama Beat Them Black and Blue

It had puzzled many Political Analysts that Obama had campaigned so strenuously in States he was practically certain to lose. But as the results came in I began to see a very compelling reason. You see, although Obama had a huge lead in the Electoral College allocations, his lead in the Popular Vote was, at least at the very the start of things, only marginal. As the evening went on it became noticeable that even in decidedly Red States, the vote was still close, indicating that it was certain that more than just Urban Blacks had come out to vote for Obama. Obama’s Victory was as much Blue as Black.

It may be the case that Obama had campaigned to keep it close in the Red States so as to forestall the embarrassment of Winning the Electoral College while being behind with the Popular Vote, something that would come to haunt him when he would come to Washington to claim some kind of Mandate to Act.

The true genius of this strategy was that Obama somehow anticipated that he would be able to change some very White Minds in some very Red States. And the payoff of the strategy is that he was able to come in with a healthy margin in the Popular Vote, which he would not have had except for the fact that he took such surprising pains for it.

Clearly President Elect Obama is a skilled and discerning Creature of Politics. I suspect the World will be continually dazzled over the next Obama Years to come.

The October Surprise, the Syrian Attack

The October Surprise, the Syrian Attack

Was that it? That is what I thought in regards to that stupidly provocative attack on Syrian Territory. Yes, the Syrians did react in all the grand proportion that one could expect. But, unlike what should happen in any really consequential October Surprise, both Candidates were able to quite ignore it.

I suppose the Real Plan had been to violate Syrian Territory but then to kill an actual Documented Big Time Terrorist. Well, they say they killed the Terrorist, but probably what was not planned was the imbecility of the idiot Commandos who left a large pile of dead women and children. From what the Reports say, the Commandos shot at anything that moved. Several of the Helicopters landed, but a few remained circling over head, and they had machine-gunners at the doors that also shot at anything that moved. The Americans say they did not use Missiles because they wanted to contain civilian casualties. But apparently nobody had inquired into Modern Commando Training, or at least into what their Combat Culture has rendered into their habitual behavior. It sounds terribly uncharitable, but they are the worst cowards, only concerned for their own safety. They simply find it better to use their quick reaction time to shoot first without the slightest hesitation, and so they are always gunning down women and children even before they can fully realize they are not Terrorists with guns. I suppose they save a fraction of a second in not having to wait to define the threat of their targets. It was a heartless and cowardly training decision they made to incrementally keep down their own casualties by a percent or two. So it is that the Syrian Raid piled up a stack of dead women and children. It is so nice that the Pride of American Soldiery takes such pains to assure their own safety.

The Problem is that the People who planned that Raid obviously did not know what Operational Behavior of these Men was going to be. Maybe orders were given, but the Orders ignored. Apparently there are no consequences for These Men in the Modern Military… they do whatever they please… the Holy Sainted Military in Time of War. The bastards can do no wrong. Anyway, the People Who Planned this Raid should have used their Own Men – trusted Agents. Don’t send cowardly boys to do a Man’s job. It all came off as amateurish.

But this made for a miserable October Surprise. How was John McCain supposed to jump on a Bandwagon of shooting women and children. Yes, he is a Republican, but he is hoping for some Undecideds. I suppose McCain was supposed to point out that Obama would want to ‘talk’ with the Syrians. But, now, after the event, it does seem that talk would be in order.

It turns out that earlier this year Lower Level Diplomats had arranged a Deal whereby Syria would commit scarce resources to police that very long border. Their only request in return, to seal the deal, was that America make an announcement that Syria was no longer one of America’s declared enemies. America refused. America wants the Political Convenience of having so many Enemies (any Enemy of Israel is an Enemy of ours…) while still hoping for friendly give and takes… without having to give anything.

All this is not secret. Had this October Surprise really instigated any discussion it would have soon been apparent that the Republican’s had a deal to seal that border but let it go simply because they did not want to “Shake Hands” with the Syrians on camera.

If Obama can be just one-tenth more reasonable than that then he should be President.
And whoever thought of this particular October Surprise – that entire Agency needs to be disbanded and the people, well, exiled. What a combination – deadly dangerous and profoundly stupid.

Paying for Wars Perpetuates War

Paying for Wars Perpetuates War

Years ago an AIDS Activist told me why they would never cure AIDS, or cancer for that matter. The Government gives out far too many Grants for the study of AIDS, and cancer. If anybody ever cured these diseases, the Money would stop. If anybody ever came across a cure, they’d hide it. Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden egg. Since then I have kept my ear out, listening for the whispers of conspiracy, and, sure enough, more than several Cures have been thrown away for the interest of maintaining the stream of Federal Grant Moneys. Don’t cure the sick Goose that gets such great health care benefits.

If the Government wants to help, they should offer a Prize for the Cure. They should buy the Fait Accompli. Instead they have institutionalized a process that will go on forever, if self interest has anything to do with it.

The United States has been giving Israel about 5 billion dollars a year since who know how long in order to defend itself. Well, with that kind of money coming in to ‘defend itself’, why would Israel ever see any interest in actually making Peace with its neighbors. Do a study. Ask a few questions. How many people in Israel depend on that 5 Billion dollars a year for their livelihood? I expect most of the people in Israel make a living on maintaining a state of War with the rest of the World. Peace is therefore completely impossible while Israel has anything at all to do with it. If Peace means National Poverty, they will keep their Prosperous War.

The same dynamic is developing in Taiwan. America is turning that little Island into a War Economy. Soon they won’t be able to live without menacing War. Isn’t anybody the least bit afraid that Mainland China won’t back down as the tensions are ratcheted up. Nobody is paying them to go along with this farce.

Now the United States is giving billions of Dollars to Mexico and Columbia in order to Fight the Drug War. Do we see a trend yet? These billions of dollars will represent far too large a proportion of their National Economies for anybody to do anything so rash as to actually bring the Drug War to a conclusion by actually arresting any of the principal parties.

Speaking of ‘Principal Parties’… might it not be more than a coincidence that Osama Bin Laden has not be captured or killed yet. Again, there is probably too much money to be made on this War on Terror to take a chance that that Public may fall out of love with it. It may lose focus if Bin Laden should ever be brought to justice, and all those Commandos now making their living shooting women and children would have to find honest work, and in such a recession as we have now!

Paying for War perpetuates War. President Eisenhower, who had been the Invading General of Europe, warned that every precaution should be taken against supporting and enlarging the Military Industrial Complex. Is that not exactly what America is doing by effectively making War the number one product of so many National Economies. What about America. With every economic sector having been ‘out-sourced’ the only vibrant businesses left in America are the Bomb Makers. With their Lobbyists paying off Politicians to sustain the Business of War, how can the People ever hope for Peace.

So don’t pay for War. Pay for Peace. Cut Israel off until they come up with a Peace Deal. If we want Mexico and Columbia to bottle up drugs, then offer money for Results, not endless activities and cats chasing their own tails, for money. For Taiwan, well, do we want a peaceful turnover of Power or do we want World War Three? The Billions of people already under Chinese Authority, well, they aren’t doing so bad, are they? It really isn’t worth destabilizing the whole world, with a War that could kill millions and spill over everywhere else, just so a handful of Taiwanese Billionaires can keep a low tax rate, is it? Oh, could it be that these Taiwanese Billionaires are paying Lobbyists to support American Politicians in their Pro-War Policies. Of course so! This is just one more reason why we must be so imaginative when we give reasons why Democracy is the Best Form of Government ever created by man… and why we must ignore every Civilization or Empire that ever institutionalized a Bureaucratic Meritocracy. That is, Government by honest Civil Service. The only people who complain about Government by honest Civil Service are just the kind of people who cause all the problems that need such Government in the first place.

Obama Riots Win or Lose

Obama Riots Win or Lose

Earlier I had worried that the Black Masses, in the event of an Obama defeat, would turn out to riot, effectively burning down much of Urban America. But then I saw a Black Comedian on Dave Letterman, and his point was that the Celebrations that could follow an Obama Victory would go beyond any imagined bounds. That put me in mind of some mere Sports Victories, in America and in Europe, where the victorious and deliriously happy fans took to the streets and, well, burned cars and looted, much as we could have expected had they been very unhappy.

Drunkenness may have something to do with it.

Well, yes, if there were to be some excessive exuberance just on Election Night, the Nation could easily survive. The true worry is that the Happy Riots could escalate, for instance, if Police or shop owners (exasperated themselves at their own defeat) too quickly come out with guns and summarily execute Blacks on the street. From there the Happy Riots could expand into the Real Thing.

This, again, could explain why the White Militias have been holding back during the Campaign. As stupid as we may expect they are, maybe the White Supremacists at least had enough sense to hire a team of Sociology Consultants who were able to convince them that SOMETHING will happen during Election Night that they will be able to exploit in order to justify their initiation of the Race War they have been preparing for, for generations now.

I suppose that Black Community Leaders are now too busy just working to have Obama elected. But very soon the Word has got to go out that the Black Community must act with the utmost sobriety and discipline on Election Day and the night and day that follows, Win or Lose. Unfortunately I expect that the Blacks, even the Leaders, will see this as their well earned celebration party, and nobody will be in charge, and everybody will be drunk, and the Crowd will develop a mind of its own – a drunken mind senseless with euphoria.

Oh, and then there is the problem with Uneducated Assumptions concerning how Power works, particularly to minds already debilitated by drunkenness. More than a few Black Celebrants may think along the lines of “The President is Black now, so they can’t arrest us anymore”. That is, they may suppose the President is some kind of an Absolute King who rules all by fiat, forgetting that their own Mayor is the one who really most closely holds their lives and fates within his hands. Besides, it will be months before Obama is actually sworn in. But, yes, such fine logical distinctions may be beyond the capacity of these impaired Celebrants we are speaking of.
Perhaps, Obama himself needs to give a speech, before the Election, with reminders during Election Night itself, imploring the Local Clergy and Political Leaderships to take charge of the Crowds, to cut off the Alcohol and to exert a very firm discipline. Win or Lose they need to keep the lid on, or it could all be just the beginning of America’s Second Civil War.

Its God or Us

Its God or Us

People think of God in far too small terms. God, acknowledged to be defined in terms of every Absolute, is yet set apart categorically while Humanity pretends some smug Superiority, some right to judge and decide.

But any Sophistication at all in one’s Spiritual or Metaphysical Bearings would neutralize such pretensions.

Nobody should pretend to know anything about Religion, Spirituality, or Metaphysics until they have some acquaintance with Sanskrit or Eastern Philosophy. And, no, its not any kind of ‘Ancient’ Knowledge. The great thing about Eastern Metaphysics is that it continued, over the last several Millennia, to grow and develop. While Greek and Christian Theologies collapsed into circular nonsense, moral depravity, or walked away into the starkest Materialism, the Sanskrit Traditions were able to approximate a synthesis between, well, everything that matters.

Here are a few basics. If one is still thinking in terms of Duality – subject and object relationships, individuals separate from their fields and fellows, then what one lives in, as a Frame of Reference, is the Godless World – Maya. It is the Material Dimension.

But in what Frame of Reference does God exist… what is God’s Dimension? Well, Duality is opposed by Unity. If the Individual rises above his individuality, transcending it, to become part of the Great Extension of God, then God is Realized, Experienced.

While referring to things within the Duality, in terms of Duality, it is really quite ridiculous to speak of Divine Things at all. It is not that God does not ‘Exist’, but only that God is not within that Frame of Reference, that Dimension. Its Apples and Oranges.

This is not very well understood in the West, by the Old Greeks, by Christians, Jews, and Muslims. The idea of Individual Salvation, Immortality, survival in Paradise of the Individual Soul – all such Doctrine is only a perpetuation of the Dualistic Frame of Reference, the Godless Dimension, or rather, the Non-God Dimension. Indeed, the Offer of Eternal Life is probably only the most elaborate of the Satanic Temptations and Deceptions. Any True Knowledge of God would have to involve the EXTINCTION of the Individual Soul. God and Other cannot Exist side by side. To Experience Divinity one must surrender Individuality and become the Everything. After that Experience, it simply no longer makes any sense that anybody would even WANT to return to Individuality…. Unless as a painful Duty or a tedious necessity.

What is the Experience of somebody who has moved from Duality into Unity and back again. After having lived in the Consciousness of the Universal, can one really be happy in the Particular, the parochial, the local, the Individual? I would expect, and all the anecdotal testimony points in the direction that most Individual priorities and concerns collapse after the Universal Experience. The Little Things no longer seem quite so important. Standard of living suffers. Personal hygiene declines. In this day and age, Homelessness becomes very likely… may even be characteristic.


But many of the Spiritual Traditions that advance this Way toward the Universal, also inculcate a severe training in Duty and Obedience, covering almost every detail of living morally and even neatly. Where one may suddenly lose one’s wants, desires, concerns and preferences, after having been awe-struck by the Universal, it would prove useful if sheer habit and conditioned behavior could keep one on the Path of self-sufficiency and decency, above from being a burden or a bother to others.

Still, it should be noted that a prominent portion of the Spiritual Literature involves the very deep depression that is experienced by those who, once having experienced the Universal, come back to pick up their lives as individuals. Where the Ego has not been totally extinguished, it tends to become totally depressed. I guess it might be compared to Drug Withdraw. Or, for those who cannot relate to the Drug Experience, maybe the end of a Summer Vacation with a pretty girl. Down from the Summit of Ecstasy to the muddy tracks of the mundane.

But there does seem to be an established record of these Between the Dimensions People – Transcendent and back again, who seem to arrive at a kind of balance between the Two Spheres, going so far as to even be able to maintain a level of activity even after they die. Indeed, there is a long History of Catholic Saints, and even other Saints, that is, of Deceased Souls somehow being linked enough to the Transcendental that they may intercede to answer the Prayers of others. I suppose these Saints must see some necessity in fulfilling some kind of obligation, some kind of Karma.

But what I noticed in the History of the Saints is that their careers do not last forever. The Stories of such Saints would continue for some generations, yes, but then would quit out. What happens? Well, the Painful Duty of Separation from God in order to benefit Humanity could only go on for so long before the Saintly Soul would shake off the job of having to be the Eternal Go Between. Particularly as Humanity seems less and less worth the Trouble. To spread the burden, if Saints are necessary at all, then New Saints must replace the Old Saints, the ones that simply, for their own Good, must eventually move on to their Dissolving into Unity. Their rest.

Yes, I wish the Saints would persist, but really, in all of their so called ‘help’ are they not only reinforcing the Illusion of Duality. In what Prayers are they ever helping anybody to give up their divisive Individuality?

Maybe it’s best to let People suffer… and let the Saints rejoin with and disappear into God.

Yes, the Realm of Duality should be better. Conditions of Suffering should be relieved. But such details are well within the grasp of those still caught up in the Duality, those who still see the importance in all the small details. It’s not really important to involve God or the Saints in what is really only a Worldly Set of Problems. To blame God for the condition of the World is to abrogate our own Responsibility. We know whose fault everything is. The Republicans, surely.

What about Spirituality? Well, yes, people should not live and then die still entirely caught up in the Duality. As one ages one should engage more and more into Meditation and Such Things, to free oneself psychologically from the Material bonds that must come asunder anyway at the time of Death. Mostly one should not be so silly as to hope for some Individual Survival, some Immortality of one’s separate Soul. As one dies, one should be happy that God is able to Survive. What is the Great Life Force that subsumes all living beings anyway but the Unity of God? Individuals may die but Life itself, well, Lives. Life Goes On. Birth and Death is like a burning flame, like a blooming flower, petals dropping from the edge as new petals form in the center. No one thinks to save the Dead Petals. It’s only the Flower that counts. Life. God. Sweep the fallen petals away.

Win or Lose, Republicans in Trouble

Win or Lose, Republicans in Trouble

The big problem is this, with all the news even now that the Republicans are doing their worst to fix the election, with vote rigging, voter intimidation, scrubbing the voter rolls, etc; then the great number of African Americans, who have put so much hope in this Election, will never suppose they have a duty to be good sports if they should happen to lose, even if the case may be that they have somehow been honestly beaten.

The Republicans already have a reputation for Election stealing. Gore, to prevent a constitutional crisis, or perhaps because he was constitutionally a weak willed coward about getting into any kind of hard hitting scrap, conceded quickly, and never pursued redress for any of the crimes committed to put the Republican’s ahead. He allowed the Coup to stand. Unfortunately, with Gore going into hiding, to grow his beard and make his Hit Movie, the Democrats left behind who may have had more spirit, were left with only a moot point to argue. But a Constitutional Crisis was averted, and America did not Burn to the Ground.

This next time may be significantly different. Even if Obama should concede early for just the same reason as Gore, I mean to save America from a Constitutional Crisis, it is still rather suspect that his tens of millions of supporters would bow their heads and go home quite as quietly as those lukewarm followers of Gore the Bore. And if they don’t go home, they will take their Anger to the Streets. And once the trouble starts, it might be quite difficult to stop.

To compound an already volatile situation, … I have wondered why the Right Wing Militias had not already moved against Obama. It has occurred to me that they do not wish to seem the aggressors (which indicates more of a Conspiracy among all these groups than I would otherwise have suspected). The Militias are hoping for a McCain win and the ensuing Riots, and then they will pounce, pretending they are doing so in the interests of Law and Order.

The White Militias may be seriously underestimating their enemies. The Whites think, with their NRA Memberships and their fluency in bending the literal intent of the 2nd Amendment, that they have all the guns, but the Gangs have been arming up for years, and not for such nice reasons. And, now, with all the many Blacks in Military Service, the White Militias cannot seriously expect to have much of a Tactical Training Advantage over the Blacks – the Blacks they will fight against are Experience Gang Thugs or toughened Ex-Convicts or even War Veterans, and many will be all three in One. The Pot Bellied White Beer Drinking Militias might be provoking a fight they can never hope to win. Unlike the American Government they do not have Nuclear Bombs to suppress superior enemies.

My advice? Let Obama win. Republicans, go out and vote for Obama. Don’t even take a chance that all that Election Rigging will takes its effect. Believe that Obama being President will not be half as bad as the alternative – America burning to the ground. Besides, some very racist friends of mine have pointed out to me the consolation prize for Racists should Obama win, and that is that the Blacks will no longer have an argument for Affirmative Action. No more special favors. “You’re equal now. Mo Fo, so get in the same line with everybody else!” Now, wouldn’t that be worth it!?

What’s more, while Obama may be liberal in regards to many social policy issues, in matters that the Right Wing really cares about, War, Obama is quite on the same page as almost any Nazi Skin Head – spreading War throughout the Middle East and South Asia as well as provoking Russia to World War Three. Obama, really, has been as reckless, in his threats and blustering, as any White politician out there.

Actually, I hope that Obama has been simply lying lying lying, about being such a Militaristic “Big Stick” Nut Case… to reassure Middle America that he was not being ‘soft’ on America’s Enemies. I indeed have heard rumors that Obama was not nearly so flipped out and blood thirsty BEFORE he ever had to appeal to the American Electorate for their Vote. Let’s hope that after Obama has sold his soul to the Devil in order to get Elected, he may be able to lease it back, so that he may be able to lead the World better than he had Promised to.

Problems in Studying Collective Consciousness

Just how Collective is Collective Consciousness? I had read up on Cross Cultural Psychology and its conflict with Cultural Psychology (the war between those who recognize Collectivity versus the strict materialists who insist upon an entirely isolated individuality for every soul) and all the studies are almost entirely bound up in Behavior. Well, what does Behavior have to do with Spirituality these days?

The problem with Behavior is that it may be opposed to the Inner Spiritual Impulses. Behavior may be dysfunctional or neurotic. But the trend in Psychology is to simply itemize behaviors and endorse those Behaviors that have large followings – if enough people participate in a certain Act, it becomes Normal only because it has become Popular. And remember how Society works – “To get along one has to go along”. Behaviors reinforced by the positive loop of Social Conformity. So it is that the exterior Culture can exert a very powerful influence against any inner collectivity in spirituality.

Remember that the domain of Collective Spirituality only becomes apparent during dreaming, during deep meditation trances, and within psychotic delusions. Well, we know that most people are dismissive of their dreams, and that many people don’t remember their dreams at all. Most people never achieve any deep state of meditation. And the vast majority of people will never have a psychotic delusion. With these people Culture, Societal Influences, Peer Pressures and Family Dynamics will have more effect on Behavior than any Inner Spiritual Impulse. Yes, one might suppose that if ones Behavior is totally at variance with one’s Inner Spirituality, that there will be some conflict, some resistance. But in this Day and Age we could probably expect the person to simply pop an Anti-Depressant, have a strong cup of coffee and march on in the Paths of Materialistic Glory. Several decades ago it would have been a drink and cigarette… and a cup of coffee.

What needs to be done is that Cross Cultural Psychotic Experiences should be studied. Dreams too, but my experience there is that Dreamers, because of some popular fads in Lucid Dreaming, and the wide availability of Dream Literature, well, these dreamers are suspect to be prone to a great deal of exaggeration, or even absolute lying, as there is simply too much awareness of a difference between ordinary dreams and really cool neat dreams. Psychotic Episodes may present more honestly than Dream Questionnaires. But of course Dreaming is more prevalent. Maybe Dreamers could be interviewed while some kind of Lie Detection can be applied to standardize the information received.

Once we know what the Collective Spiritual Impulse is trying to tell us, then we will be able to recognize exactly to what extent that the various Cultures, particularly Globalized Western Culture, go toward suppressing this Spirituality. What makes me believe there has been some Suppression? Well, many Societies once had distinct Spiritual Components, where Spiritual Impulses arose and were not substantially modified because of social, economic or cultural demands and conflicts. Such Spirituality was allowed to focus itself and intensify. And we had documented Miracles and Saints from all that. Nurtured and gathered Spirituality had some actual Power. But the Forces of Western Materialism has all around the World largely suppressed these Zones of Spiritual freedoms and liberties.

If we had a better picture of the Spirituality that was being suppressed, we would have a better idea of how much we have been victimized and damaged by what sees itself only as a kind of benevolent Skepticism (while it ridicules, reduces and even ruins every career which doesn’t pass its test of Skeptical Purity).

The greatest obstacle might be from the Scientific Community and its reluctance to examine any hypothesis not based on the severest orthodox notions of materialism… that all human thought and behavior relates purely mechanically, and while almost every dream tells us that we each know more than we had ever officially learned, heard, or seen; still, proper Scientific Doctrine demands a material connection for everything. Even the suggestion of a Spiritual Undercurrent will have the whole business tossed out as Prema Facia False… False on its Very Face – “we don’t even have to look at it since our Pure Doctrines already tell us that it cannot be True” (a Study of a man in India who hasn’t eaten in years was tossed out, without even being read, only because its conclusions and not its process violated Acceptable Scientific Doctrine). Gone are the days of going where the Facts lead, if they lead away from Cherished Pet Materialistic Beliefs. Science has come full circle and now Francis Bacon and even perhaps Galileo would probably be surprised that the Science of simple observation and recording data, Empiricism, is being rejected for the sake of a New Orthodoxy in Belief Systems, this time Materialism. Putting on Blinders has not become a good thing simply because they look in the Other Direction now.