Morality and Evolution

I was searching around the Web specifically looking for instances of exaggerated moral epiphanies arising out of pathological mental states and conditions. What I was thinking was that if Morality is self generated out of the minds of men, then it would be most noticeable when it is of exaggerated and insane proportions. I was really hoping to find some often repeated Moral Delusion, that is, some eruption of the Collective Consciousness out of which always the same Moral Content would spill (it would amount to the virtual Holy Grail of Collective Consciousness Theory). What I found, however, was that most reputable scholarly papers are password protected and available only on subscription. Nowadays, only the bullshit is free online. So much for the much celebrated Information Age. That didn’t last long, did it? Well, and of the bullshit, I found more than a few essays which were making the argument that Morality is now an innate factor, hardwired into our Humanity, owing to the workings of Evolution. The argument is that we are all Moral Beings, now, because Morality has had a strong correlation in Humanity’s collective survival.

I had to shake my head. You see, knowing a great deal about Archeology, Anthropology and History, well, one can speak of the evolution of some particular group dynamics, but these, in many cases can hardly be spoken of as instances of some Golden and Shining Morality. Of particular instance is that of Group Loyalty and Identification with the Group. The way this works in actual practice is that when Resources in a Territory become scarce, the Group that has the best cohesion through group loyalty and group self-identification is the group that survives because they are the ones who can most remorselessly kill off their competitors. But this is not Morality at all, is it? What we have here is the Barbarian Code, where the only Virtue that they find necessary is Loyalty to the Group. It is just this same Factor that now intensifies all of our Wars and makes Organized Crime proliferate as well as precipitating all the problems we have with Gangs and Gang violence.

Yes, we also hear of the survival benefit of altruism and cooperation, and, yes, I agree that there is such a thing, indeed, that the relatively few and relatively recent Civilizations could not have formed up without just such a Moral Innovation. But the problem in speaking of this in terms of Evolution is that many of the Ethnic Bloodlines that encompass our Humanity today have had very little actual intimate mix with any Civilization Blood at all. This puts me in mind of the NAZI boost only a few generations ago, that the German people were not part of some weak decadent Civilization at all, but had racing through their veins the blood of History’s worst, or in their terms, most successful maraudering Barbarians, the Aryans (when, if truth be told, actually the Mongols might have had more success on that score, that is, of being the Worst of the Worst). Here the Germans were basically correct, at least in regards to the point that Europe has had no long history of Civilization, or not enough to have solidly fixed some Moral Impulse by means of Evolution.

Indeed, another thing we should keep in mind is that, so far, every Civilization has failed. Oh, yes, and while our Species has been long evolving over millions of years, there has not been any evidence of a Civilization before only about 10,000 years ago. Of course, I admit that a lot can happen in a short time with Evolution. For instance, taking into account the most recent Ice Age, ending only about 13,000 years ago, which must have depopulated what we now think of as the Blond Countries, we can conclude that the Evolution of Blood Hair and Blue Eyes is therefore of the most recent event… so recent that we can almost count the individual generations. But then, for any comparison to be valid, we must wonder whether High Moral Social Systems are any more complex then a gene that controls a recessive pigment trait.

Also, we should find that it is of no little importance that Civilizations have been chronic failures. What does it do for us that there may be ten or even twenty Generations of Civilization that reinforce a Civilized Morality, but that when such a Civilization collapses, suddenly there is again a tremendous Survival Benefit favoring Small Group Loyalties and Group Against Group Warfare and Violence? If Selfishness always seems to win in the end, then how can we speak of an Evolving Morality?

So there doesn’t appear to me to be any Evolutionary Morality. Or perhaps they are defining Morality too narrowly. Maybe they are only arguing for why Human Mothers do not devour their young, so often anymore.

All the very comprehensive Moral Systems and Moral Cultures have been the product of Received Transmission, learning and teaching, customs and traditions. Indeed, if people would only study History they would find instance after instance of some very High Moral Cultures. But then these are ordinarily followed by a few generations of skeptics (honored for their intellectual innovations), then cynics (honored for breaking away from the dusty old Past) and then, well, rapid decline and decadence (High Culture replaced by Popular Art) followed by economic and social collapse and inundation by foreign barbarian invasion. You see, Civilization cannot exist outside the strictures of some rather high moral imperatives.

What are these High Moral Strictures? Well, at the most basic level, “Thou Shall Not Eat the Seed Grain”. Civilization’s first concern is to protect its ability to produce and then store a protected Surplus of Food Stuffs. Those who gather the food must relinquish it to those who store it, and those who store it must be able to return it when the land becomes barren. And at every Time of Planting sufficient amounts of Seed Grain must come out of storage and it must be viable. Any Selfish instance of Barbarism caught up in this Civilized Mechanism would cause it to fail – greedy producers, greedy distributors, hoarding. Civilization is fragile. Notice our recent Meltdown on Wall Street which quickly reverberated down to rock every Market in the World. It is clearly an instance where Barbarian Selfishness bubbled up causing Civilized Institutions to fail wholesale and completely. And even now on the sidelines we hear more than a small minority of Barbarians chanting that no rescue is necessary, that the Strong will Survive (that is, without saying so in so many words, “the Strong” being the very people who stole all the money in the first place), and that as far as they are concerned, there is no problem. They will be fine. And as for the people who won’t be fine, well, they don’t matter anyway – not to this elite core of Barbarians who now run our Western Societies.

Of course they are wrong about how “fine” it will be for them. What History shows us is that Collapses of Civilization are far more total than anyone ever expects at the time. The Rich always think they can weather whatever the storms that they create in order Concentrate all Wealth to themselves and totally disenfranchise the Poor, but it always goes way beyond their original intent. For instance, as an example, the Rich now think that they are safe with their gated communities and private security guards. But these things are all part and parcel of a still Functioning Civilization, where people go to work and get paid on Friday. When Civilization really collapses, and currencies become valueless, making Brute Force the Most Valued Commodity, then the Guards and Police would be the first to turn, would they not? Your own Guard is the first to come through the Gate. So far in History, the Rich People have never seemed to be able to think that far ahead.

In this great historical oscillation between Civilization and Barbarian Collapse, one can only wonder which Side evolution seems to be favoring. I think it would be better, in our short term anyway, over the millions of years it would take Evolution to come up with its own firm answer, for us to concentrate on defining a Moral System and establishing an effective and all encompassing Social Instruction. What I have noticed from History is that Civilizations fail from within, and usually because the most affluent and elite Peoples within a Civilization begin acting selfishly themselves, that is, those with the most to lose are the first to begin hammering away at their very own safeguards and protections. They have a lot, but only want more, and seem to be willing to risk everything, and everyone, to get it. They feel favored by Fate or Destiny and can’t imagine that they should fail. It all begins in Skepticism and then Cynicism, and, again, all of that starting in the very highest Social Classes. There is a chronic misunderstanding that Revolutions come from the impoverished Classes, but these Lower Classes are typically the most stable, being the very last to break, but just in time to receive the Blame from a too superficial look at History.

The Challenge for Civilization is to arrive at a Moral Social Consensus and then understand that the Poor Classes will adapt to it just fine, but that a Special Watch must necessarily be put upon the Rich and Powerful Classes, always ready to stomp out even the first trembling vibration of skepticism. If you still need an example, let’s say that should we ever again hear that Government and Economic Regulations only get in the way of our General Prosperity, then we can get some notion of what the first dangerous crack in a great Bulwark looks like.

Oh, no, I am not for entirely clamping down against every instance of Free Thought. We must keep innovating, we must keep adapting. Life does not hold still. But in coming up with a Moral Structure we need to arrive at certain Moral Guidelines even regards to the direction of our Thinking. Ideas whose only appeal is in Selfishness must be regarded as inherently Evil. A Line must be drawn between Civilization and Barbarism, and no Barbarian idea should be permitted to stand. Selfishness must be Exiled.

What is a Lobbyist

For as much as I have spoken of Lobbyists, always negatively, it was only recently that I acquired more insight into their Trade, if you can call it that.

I went to a local Senator and was discussing with his receptionist the reason why I wished to see the Senator, to make licensing procedures easier for such and such and this and that. What she told me was almost like a Satori Experience regarding the Realization of how Modern Politics works. It turns out that I didn’t want to see the senator after all, according to her, a rather glib woman, but that I wanted to make an appointment with a certain Political Consulting Form (what Lobbyists call themselves). They would put together a study to see who would benefit from such a change in licensing procedures, and then they would quantify it in regards to how much money could be made by certain people, and then efforts would be made to bring together and organize these various people, showing them the benefits of pushing forward a change in the law, and getting them to commit a small fraction of their increased future earnings in order to advance such a change in the law. Everyone concerned would be briefed regarding the present state of Election Contribution Laws and would be shown where all the gaping loopholes are, so that contributions could get to the Right People. They would even help me plan Parties and Benefits!

And the Lobbyists would deal with both Parties. Oh, one thinks that everything is decided by Party Politics… that one Party is for something and the other party against it, and it comes down to a vote, all in conformance to whether a particular thing is seen in principle as either being Right Wing or Left Wing. Well, almost, but not quite. The Lobbyists do not just pay the One Party that would be in Favor of an Idea. Of course they arrange Contributions for the Sponsoring Party. But they also arrange Contributions for powerful members of the Other Party so that they will just let things be. Yes, sometimes other Lobbyists jump in and interfere, to try to make big fights out of things, and if it looks like more money can be drummed up on both sides by stirring up a big partisan frenzy it is even welcomed by both sides – who doesn’t like more money coming in, win or lose? But little pieces of Business Legislation are usually just allowed to go through as long as everyone gets a little bit of the grease along the way.

I was not naïve enough to ask if anything is ever done only because it is the right thing to do.

Of course, all cynicism aside, as described above, such a process might even be seen as being a somewhat efficient means of arriving at business and profit friendly legislative initiatives… everyone that will stand to make money from some political scheme puts in a bit beforehand to enact the necessary laws or regulations. Seems fair enough. The problem is that such a mechanism ONLY works in regards to Money Ventures. If the Lobbyists can’t figure out how to turn a Buck with some Idea, it is left to rot.

It reminds me of Our Blessed Messiah Obama… how by some coincidence he sides with All of the Health Care Insurance Companies, to give them what amounts to a Legal Monopoly to distribute what will become compulsory Health Care Benefits. Of course it will be hugely expensive for the individuals who will be forced to pay out these compulsory premiums and for the tax payers who will have to subsidize a lot of it, but it is these expenses which form the Profits which grease the Lobbyists who somehow magically get all of their client politicians elected. The Reasonable Thing would be to have an inexpensive One Payer System, but the problem there is that no Lobbyist saw a single penny of Self Interest in it.

Oh, and by some other equally amazing coincidence, Our Lord and Savior Obama just so happens to believe that the one way to rescue the Banks is to pay out billions of Dollars to the very same people who stole all the money in the first place. Is there any reason to look at the old Campaign Finance Records there?

So, anyway, there is the basic problem with Government by Lobbyist… that if the Devil isn’t in it, it doesn’t get done. The sad truth is that not only is the System corrupt, but it has gone so far that Corruption has become necessary for the system. There is no longer any Legislation that isn’t crooked somehow. Otherwise the Lobbyists would not have wasted their time with it.

The only Change we will ever see in it is change for a dollar.

War: the Refusal to Make Peace

Not much has changed from Bush to Obama. America has not even stopped to take a fresh breath but remains chanting the constant cadence that all of their enemies insist upon marching toward war and cannot be trusted.

All the little Countries that America has turned into Enemies insist that they are only gathering their forces together in order to defend themselves, and that if America did not persist in acting as an Aggressor it would have nothing to worry about.

If this were true, then all America would need to do would be to issue assurances that it would never resort to Foreign Invasion, Regime Change, or any too deliberate or sizable funding of dissident and rebel forces. America would only have to commit to minding its own business. Then little countries who are only afraid of American Aggression could afford to relax, and not build up armies and Weapon’s Potentials.

But America persists. They use the Diplomat Phrases “keeping every option on the Table” to mean that they will never renounce War, Aggression, Invasion – the whole Might Makes Right School of International Anarchy. One can sort of see America’s point of view – with its Economy in shambles and the Dollar on verge of collapse, it’s Largest Most Powerful Army in the World is its last and only trump card. America flexes its muscles because nothing else is left to it. One is reminded of the last days of the Soviet Union – economically impoverished, politically discredited, but they still had plenty of bombs and tanks. Well, how did that all work out?

After having seen the relatively recent American History of the United States invading Korea, invading Vietnam, invading Latin America wherever the least opportunity allowed, and then invading Iraq against the Will of the Entire World, then why would we be the least surprised that the Iranians or the Koreans would think it necessary to prepare for their National Defense? Considering that America has a solid history of Aggression, particularly against Nations that it has openly declared to be its Enemies (America never sneak attacks anybody, but precedes every Aggression with a huge Publicity and Propaganda Campaign… some better than others), it would be more surprising if such Nations did not take these Threats seriously. Yet America insists on construing mobilizations for Defense as a Threats to World Peace. What does that mean but that the World can only enjoy Peace as long as it quietly submits to American World Conquest? Peace through abject surrender. I suppose the Nazis would have argued the same thing, if the argument did not sound overly silly to them. Well, just because the Biggest Lies sound the most ridiculous does not mean that most idiots don’t still swallow them whole.

Well, the whole “Resistance is Futile” argument is only as effective as its demonstrable Truth, that any resistance would be immediately and mercilessly crushed to nothing. But America, even at its height has not been able to show such capacity. Countries have indeed been able to put forward effective defenses against American Aggression.

Oh, Peace Through Surrender reminds me of the much lauded Iraqi Troop Surge. Looking back, the most successful tactic was for the American’s to go to the Sunni Insurgency and surrender to them, promising to withdraw troops from Sunni Strongholds, and even promising to deliver arms, ammunition and payoffs of millions of dollars. Everybody knew of these details, but nobody called it and American Surrender. It was a successful Peace Deal. But what exactly did the Sunnis give up, except that they promised to stop spanking the Americans on the Battlefield? And the American General that put together this Surrender, is considered some kind of Military Genius – a National Hero. Well, then, why not simply stretch this same strategy to cover all of America’s Military and Political Difficulties – surrender to everyone and payoff everyone. Why is America pretending it still has the will to fight, when its most successful tactic in years has been to Surrender… oh, and then to so skillfully manipulate the Media into presenting it as some huge Victory! Oh, by the way, all those gains gotten by the Surrender to the Sunnis is about to unwind, as the American’s are reneging whole-sale on continued payoffs and arms supplies to their former enemies. The Brave General has moved on to Afghanistan and we can suppose he is too busy negotiating his next big Surrender then to keep to the details of his last.

This brings to mind American Trustworthiness. Korean, Iran, Iraq have been endlessly accused of violating agreements. Yet if one combs the newspapers thoroughly enough, one finds that in most every instance where some Country pulls out of an Agreement with America it is because they complain that America has not held up its end of the bargain. This is NEVER mentioned by the American Administration or the State Department. Indeed, it seems as though America reneges on its agreements simply to provoke these countries into announcing a withdraw from their previous agreements – to cast them as untrustworthy. It is a safe enough strategy as it seems obvious that the Administration and the State Department have complete confidence on how the News will be reported. Again, nothing has changed since Obama became Messiah.

American Trustworthiness has also been irreparably damaged by the Bush Presidency. Prior to Bush, Americans had always insisted that Partisan Politics stopped at the waters edge, and that American Foreign Policy was unified, and prior Treaties sacred, now and forever. Well, Bush spent his entire 8 years incognizant of any prior Treaty and behaved as though he had an entirely free hand in regards to everything. Most significantly, China policy was completely tossed out and China treated as though it were an Enemy. Indeed, how often is it in the News that America is surrounding China with spy planes and spy boots. And this is how we treat a Nation that hold most the American Debt and from whom America expects to borrow so much more. One often wonders why American Policies are so senseless… even contra productive? Almost equally damaging was America’s betrayal of agreements that had been made with Russia. It had been agreed that if Russia relinquished the Soviet Union and pursued only peaceful economic development, then America would not take advantage by expanding NATO into the territories of the Ex Soviet Union. Not only Bush ignored that, but now Obama is oblivious…. Maybe writing too many books to have time to read any, or pretending not to know about prior State Department Protocols. Oh, does anybody remember Serbia and Kosovo from back during the Clinton Years. Russia was holding fast to Serbian Rights in Kosovo. Finally a Deal was reached – if Serbia was assured that Kosovo would remain part of Serbia, allowed only to have some autonomous state’s rights, then the Russians would withdraw their Armored Divisions. It was reported in the news! But America goes ahead and recognizes Kosovo Independence! Not a single News Agency reports on this boldfaced betrayal of what had been a solemnly sworn Treaty. Now how is Russia NOT to retaliate to all of this?

This brings us to the point of this Essay, after all, and that is that I suppose there is a great deal of Special Interest, Lobbyist Money and Influence, goes toward provoking Military Tensions. Weapons Systems are very expensive, which means that a lot of people get rich when the Government awards a great many Contracts.

Really, I suppose nothing can ever change. Why? Well, however a Society IS, whatever the Equilibrium amounts to, everything arranges so that a certain powerful clique of people eventually come to harness the most salient opportunities for money making and profit. In a Society where the Politicians and Governments are for Sale, putting themselves up for bids and bribery every two, four and six years, then these aforementioned powerful economic interests can simply pay to have themselves perpetuated.

Since ‘Defense’ Spending is one of America’s last thriving economic sectors, one can hardly expect its influence on America’s Foreign Policy to lessen even the slightest smidge. Militarism has already fully subsumed Israeli Politics, and as Defense Spending increases in Europe, so will its hold on Policy (as I suppose in regards to Europe as America, that Democracy behaves the same way – that Campaign Contributions dictate all, which is the long way of saying that everything is equally corrupt, as long as Politicians must be thankful to Moneyed Interests in getting themselves elected).

You know, when they first envisioned Democracy, they were careful to implement side by side with all of the other democratic institutions strict laws against Bribery. When was it forgotten that Bribery is a crime? Instead a thousand regulations were adopted whereby Bribery could be made Legal, which Created the Being called Lobbyist – a person who has studied the law to such an extent that he can funnel money, legally, from Special Interests to Politicians, without ever wandering from the Loopholes. But that only makes it Legal Bribery, and doesn’t that make it worst? Certainly the Founders of Democracy, in both America and Europe never supposed it could all still maintain for the Public Benefit once it was allowed to go corrupt to the bone, to the point of Legalizing Bribery.

Anyway, while the War Mongers are apparently hand-picking our Politicians and dictating our Foreign Policies, we will be doomed to these senseless wars.

America or Mexico: Which the Failed State

There has been a great deal of anxiety expressed in the media regarding the possibility that Mexico is or will soon become a “failed State”, all while tacitly assuming that America is entirely fine. I guess it just depends upon what one considers a “Failed State” to be. You know, there are several ways of looking at it. You know, at least Mexico is fighting. Mexico actually fighting Organized Crime may rather be seen, if not as a positive sign of health, at least as a sign that it is still has a few kicks of life left in it. America, on the other hand, is not fighting Crime in the least, and seems to be entirely surrendered to Organized Crime. Yes, arrests are still made, but such arrests that still take place may simply be made according to the dictates of the Top Tiers of Organized Crime, orders to thin out unwanted competition or unruly subordinates. Yes, it all sounds like Conspiracy Theory, but one does need to wonder why the Mexican Mafia thinks it needs to fight the Government while the American Mafia finds it so easy to coexist in almost complete peace and tranquility. American Law Enforcement and American Organized Crime simply cannot be so cozy together while publicly maintaining to be each other’s worst enemies.

There are several reasons why I suppose the American Government is in collaboration with Organized Crime. First, it would be so easy to simply shut down Organized Crime by regulating currency transactions, that is, by requiring every legal transaction to be recorded and by bar-coding the cash involved and tracking the exact movements and flows of cash money. Such a policy would be relatively easy to implement and it would make money laundering impossible. People would have to account for how they acquired their currency. Criminals can’t do that. Why doesn’t America go in for Currency Regulation and Electronic Transactions Protocol? Well, I would suppose because Organized Crime gives such enthusiastic support to the Political Lobbyist Committees. All that untraced Cash Money has to find a Home somewhere, and I can only guess that much of it gets tucked away at the Nation’s Capital. Oh, it goes without saying that the State Capitols would be corrupt. The State Governments have always been redundant, and only exist to provide slop troughs for the Local Political Pigs. By doubling Government, as America has done with its overlapping jurisdictions of the Big State Little State System, one doubles the opportunities for corruption and exploitation, and therefore makes twice as many of those vultures happy.

Secondly, America could shut down the largest parts of Organized Crime – Drugs and Prostitution – by simple legalization. Yes, yes, yes, every pure hearted Spiritual Seeker abhors Drugs and Prostitution, but we must ask ourselves whether what we are worried about would be any worse than what we have already. In the case of Drugs, if they should ever become legalized, the trashy street drugs we now have with us would soon be replaced by high grade pharmaceutical drugs – designed to have cleaner ‘highs’ and far fewer adverse side-effects. Nobody would continue smoking pot or shooting heroin if better Euphorics were on the market, that wouldn’t ruin one’s memory, slur one’s speech, or shut down one’s digestive track thereby leaving one almost permanently constipated. Legalizing Drugs would give us drugs that we could live with – and be happy to live with.

Legalizing Prostitution. Well, maybe a few Centuries ago we could speak of the affront to feminine virtue. But in a Modern World where the women seem to be in a race with each other to see who is first to toss their virtue aside, then it seems rather stuffy of the rest of us to demand that what they can freely give away can’t form the basis of a contractual agreement for pay. If Men are allowed to sell their manual labor – what they seem to be good at, then why should not women be allowed to sell their physical consolations – what they seem to be good at? And just as with Drugs, legalization would clean up and greatly improve the Industry.

Yes, wives would have to greatly improve their behaviors in order to compete with the Perfections of well trained and affordable Franchise Prostitutes – guaranteed to please and never failing to be polite and companionable. And such competition might be rather healthy, as modern wives seem to be able to find no other reason to diminish their bitter nagging and contentiousness, their willingness to call the police on their own husbands and their constant threat to disgrace their families with divorce, which they so very often actually resort to. Indeed, as it stands now, a Man has got to be an idiot to submit to Marriage, as the institution is now laid forth. Marriage is a hundred Liabilities with not a single lasting advantage. Society needs Legalized Prostitution simply so we can effectively renegotiate the Marriage Contract, giving Women a reason to adopt a better attitude toward their Husbands, and to give men a reasonable alternative to marital enslavement.

Again, if Legalization is such a Good Idea, why isn’t it done. Again, I submit that the Grease the Lubricates the Democratic Process is Untraceable Cash, and Cash resulting from illegal transactions is by its very definition ‘untraceable’. While Visa, Mastercard, or even American Express is good for legal transactions, no one ever has to be told to use unmarked bills for drugs, prostitutes and sizeable Political Contributions. It is a Conspiracy that everyone is in on.

Colonics vs. Enemas

Note from the Future: I found I was washing a lot of very necessary minerals from my digestive track (probably Calcium most of all), which was giving me extremely low blood pressure and Night Cramps in my legs. So don't overdo those High Colonics and try to minimize the amount of water used in your enemas. Aim at only evacuating the lower colon. For the higher colon and the small intestines -- let them do their job of absorbing nutrients and minerals.

I had recently written about the benefits of enemas, but it occurred to me that I should also have examined the utility of colonics, and that I should have presented some kind of comparison between the two kinds of therapy, which have rather obvious similarities.

So I did some research, not as far as actually going out to arrange a course of colonic hydrotherapy treatment, and that is perhaps the greatest difference between enemas and colonics, that colonics are for the most part administered professionally.

I’ve searched up colonic equipment online, and found all the offerings to be very elaborate. These machines filter the water, heat the water while monitoring the heat and having safeguards against the water either becoming too warm or too cold, and pressure is regulated and monitored in the same way, to forestall any possibility that there might ever be a problem.

The way it is described, a colonic involves water being hosed in via a nozzle that seems almost smallish. The water is allowed to settle in order to soften or loosen hardened digestional debris, and then the water is drawn out. Some sites say that the procedure is repeated until the water runs relatively clear. Oh, the system is closed, and the water is viewed through a transparent hose. All return waters are run into a sealed tank. No unpleasant odors are allowed to obtrude.

Yes, the nozzles seem rather narrow. I suppose there is the concern that a large nozzle would scare away many of the clientele – any implement that seems too imposingly phallic would not only be emotionally offensive, but could also present concerns for comfort and even safety. But even with these valid considerations, one still wonders what good a little tiny nozzle can do if its job is to pass both incoming fluids and outgoing materials. While water and thin solutions can run through, it can hardly be imagined that any large amount of solids can make such a narrow transit. The descriptions of Colonic Therapy do mention that the patient is allowed afterwards to go to the toilet and evacuate what solids and fluids remain after the colonic apparatus is removed. So the little nozzle really is not intended to allow the passing of any significant solids. Just like with the enema, eventually one is left on the pot.

What I have noticed in these descriptions of colonics is that there is not really anything that can’t be done at home in the form of an enema. Yes, most enemas are described as using relatively little water, but one can use as much water as one likes. Yes, colonics machines control temperature, control pressure, and even filter the water. Here we need to remember that colonics are administered by Third Parties who, since they do not feel in their own bodies what is going on, need to be able to carefully quantify everything that is happening to their clients. But self administered enemas have none of these problems to worry over, as one would feel if the water was too hot, or would feel if the pressure had gone outside the bounds of careful comfort. Also, the failsafe machines used in the Colonics Industry help them to defend against charges of negligence. Really, with a trained individual standing by, with a machine that self guards against any mishap, the only way some predatory vulture living from lawsuit to lawsuit could make any hey with the Colonics Industry would be to actually poop himself and slip and fall down in it, breaking his leg, before walking out the door.

I would like to say that enemas must always be safe because nobody would ever do anything to harm themselves, as long before anything popped they would feel discomfort and pain, and so back off anything that they started to do wrong. But there is no accounting for some people. Some people have tremendous amounts of Will Power, which they often use to overrule the wisdoms and warnings of their own body’s safety signals. For instance, a person may get it into his head to pump a precise and exact amount of water into himself, disregarding all discomfort in a single-minded concentration to achieve what is really just an arbitrary or obsessive goal. People can hurt themselves, left to their own devices. For such people, Colonic Therapy, as it is administered by trained professionals using very safe equipment, would be definitely the way to go. But if one is not over-endowed with Will Power, strong enough to be Self Defeating, and has a good personal history of being moderate about most things, then enemas should not do any significant harm. Again, as in my first essay, one must discuss all of this with one’s Doctor (and, yes, we will pretend, in America, that we have doctors).

Anyway, once I had read up on Colonics, I somewhat varied my enema procedure. But first allow a short description of my usual procedure for those who had forgotten or not read my first essay. What I would usually do is insert 8 to 10 bottles of water, each bottle being 7.5 ounces, keeping in mind that the bottles cannot be entirely squeezed out and so I suppose each bottle probably only represents about 6 ounces. I guess that 8 or 10 bottles, as administered amounts to about 50 to 60 ounces – around a quart and a half or a liter and a half. One can really feel it as one fills up. After the water has been inserted the literature recommends getting down on the floor and assuming positions which place the abdomen below the water level, so to speak, to allow the water to run deep into the upper colon. I add a few jumping exercises, to help shake things up. The time for evacuation soon comes, and I would not recommend going too far afoot from the bathroom. When one begins evacuating, there is at first a burst of relatively clear water followed soon by digestional materials. Then a period of waiting begins. There are periods of water evacuation and then material evacuation. I usually use a small bucket of water to pre-flush the toilet, to bring its water level down to the bottom, so from there it is easy to judge when about the right amount of water has been evacuated from my bowels. Almost always the last bit of evacuation is loose stool, which usually comes before 20 minutes has gone by. Really, the routine is nearly always the same. But if I ever become impatient, I simply begin cleaning up and going about my ordinary business, and any leftovers announce themselves in the usual way and I go back to the bathroom for a minute. I’ve never had a problem after more than a half an hour. Once cleaned out and settled, then one is good to go.

But after reading up on Colonics, I decided to see what would happen if I were to repeat afterwards with more water. The first difference I noticed was that it seemed to take more water for a second run – a bit more than 2 liters where about 1.5 was about as much as comfort would allow on the first fill up. This is rather reasonably to be expected, since much digestional material would be evacuated on the first go leaving the bowels with much more empty space. Now, I was expecting that the water would run relatively clear, the second time, and it did, for a while, but what occurred and was unexpected was that there was a good deal of additional materials involved. Really, with so much from the first time, who would have guessed anything else was left inside. I suppose it can be explained by supposing that the second fill-up of water was reaching the next turn or twist of colon.

Regarding any second run, with an enema procedure, what I have found is that the second set of evacuations goes a bit slower than the first. Although one is assured of eliminating more material with a second run, I would wonder about the utility of taking all that extra time. Oh, there may be some concerns that one is washing out all of one’s food, but the fact is that I go two days between enemas, and so there is always at least a day’s supply of food being left undisturbed. I suppose if one has plenty of time then the cleaner the better. But, honestly, enemas using one fill-up have been so successful for me, that I can make no seriously compelling argument to take more than twice the time simply to be incrementally cleaner. There might be the possibility that one can be clean enough with just one go at a time.

To reiterate from my first essay, enemas are very useful in that they eliminate the straining that very often leads to hemorrhoids, while also putting one in danger of stroke or heart failure – bowel straining perhaps being an older person’s most intense exertion. Now, since these further experimental endeavors have ensued, I have found that it seems that one can stretch the enema, so to speak, into achieving the benefits usually attributed to Colonic Hydrotherapy, that is of significantly cleaning the lower intestine and keeping it clean.

Enemas Will Save Your Life and Ease Hemorrhoids

Note from the Future: I found I was washing a lot of very necessary minerals from my digestive track (probably Calcium most of all), which was giving me extremely low blood pressure and Night Cramps in my legs. So don't overdo those High Colonics and try to minimize the amount of water used in your enemas. Aim at only evacuating the lower colon. For the higher colon and the small intestines -- let them do their job of absorbing nutrients and minerals.

I once read a Study somewhere that stated that most men and many women die on the pot, struggling to the death with their bowel movements. The Public is kept in the dark about this Grave Danger because the doctors who determine Cause of Death, to save the families from embarrassment, write down that all these people died of Heart Attacks. Well, yes, technically speaking, their hearts did stop. But would the Heart Attack have occurred in the absence of some big and stubborn impacted turd? Likely not.

Oh, struggling with one’s bowel movements can lead to less dire consequences than an untimely death. A huge proportion of men, and even some women, eventually have to seek healthcare in regards to hemorrhoids. Now, nothing in this Paper pretends to any official medical authority… I am just a Blogger, and can’t even tell you exactly what a hemorrhoid is, or what piles are. But I have heard anecdotally of people virtually pooping their guts out – that the lower intestine actually projects out through the anus, their intestine being somewhat turned inside out. It is very tender tissue and is prone to bleeding. Of course, these people find it necessary to go to a Doctor. Certainly it is the best course of action… in every Civilized Country but America, where one would reasonably be afraid of alerting one’s Health Insurance Company that one might actually require Health Care, which could perhaps double one’s premium rates overnight. Oh, and once a health problem is declared, it becomes a Pre-existing Condition, and no longer the responsibility of the American Health Care System. It is a Wonderful System for the Capitalists and their Lap Dog Lobbyists and Politicians, all Democratically Elected which makes it all honest right and proper, the proper procedures being followed so that none of the millions of dollars changing hands constitutes Bribery, and none of the deliberate Harm being done to people constituting Criminal Misconduct or Treason. Thank God for Democratic Elections or all these people would be Crooks! You know, it is interesting what happens when the Foxes are so completely put in charge of the Hen Houses. The Health Insurance Companies have been allowed to make all of their own rules, and they virtually write their own oversight Regulations. It becomes almost Perfect, not at providing health care, but at accumulating profits. Just look at it – They Collect Premiums and ever evolve the System so they can approach the Perfect State of having to pay out absolutely nothing in return for all that money they collect. Its approaching Pure Profit. I suppose they can rationalize away any moral concern by telling themselves that the people are inevitably going to die anyway, so where’s the harm? Rich People can always afford to go to their Doctors, and so nobody of consequence is ever inconvenienced. Oh, and Obama, Our Blessed Savior, plans to make the System EVEN BETTER, by making EVERYBODY pay the Health Insurance Companies, for the Nothing that they will give back. You know, we must remember that all that Campaign Money Obama was tossing around must have come from somewhere. I would guess every health care insurance employee in America was pressured into funneling ‘company bonus checks’ to the Obama Campaign, in the same way as things are done by the Defense Industry in both America and Israel – bonus checks being handed out to employees just as Tables are set up everywhere manned with clerks ready to sign all this money over to the Chosen Lobbyist Organizations – Company Money all properly laundered through little individuals… just like the one’s that got Obama elected.

Anyway, enough with politics, and back to trying to stay alive despite not having Medical Care. So, there are probably many people who wonder what they can do about their guts hanging out of their butts if they cannot go to a Doctor about it. Well, again, I don’t mean to pretend any medical authority, but if one is not overly squeamish, one might consider simply stuffing the lower colon back in where it came from. Yes, once the intestine projects out of the anus, often it swells up and it would seem impossible to stuff it back. This is a real problem. Often the swelling is aggravated by bowel movement straining, sending more blood into the area. Anyway, the good news is that the swelling does go down, given enough time. Sometimes it takes hours. An astringent like Witch-hazel can often help with the swelling. Anyway, once the swelling goes down a bit, from what I have heard, the colon can be pushed back into where it came out from.

Well, that can take care of the problem at each time that it presents. But it is the straining to evacuate impacted feces that causes this problem and makes it chronic. What can be done about that?

My mother told me about Enemas. My impression was that enemas were disgusting things – invasive and humiliating. But my proud mother had found them necessary, and had even spoke of them, which would certainly be embarrassing for her, but she wanted me to have the information. That must have meant something.

Beginning to experience many of the above mentioned problems, I went on line and read about enemas, being forced by circumstances to give them some consideration. What I found was that many people use enemas in lieu of laxatives, even using them combined with intestinal irritants, the case being that most laxatives are really just intestinal irritants. But if one has hemorrhoids then many sites suppose it is extremely ill-advised to use intestinal irritants, as they would only intensify the urge to strain the bowels which make the hemorrhoids worse than before.

So the logic of the situation would indicate that enemas should not be used in conjunction with laxatives or intestinal irritants. Other sites propose additives to the enema water, which may help incrementally, but I have found that water additives only present one more complication to something that is complicated enough already and should be kept as easy as possible.

The pre-mixed enema bottles that one can buy are relatively small. I think the normal sized ones come in about 4.5 ounces, while the large extra-big sizes are about 7.5 ounces. The fluid that comes in them has a laxative effect. In its proper place it all may be quite good, but I would empty them out and save the squeeze bottles which can be reused and then use them with just plain old warm tap water.

How much water should one inject? I have heard of colonics and such, but have not found much solid information. When I started using enemas I started with a few bottles of water, but found that it was possible to fill up my bowels with about 8 bottles of the 7.5 ounce size. One quite feels when one is getting full of water. The instructions tell one that one can get down on one’s knees and learn forward, or lift up the left leg. I do that. I let the water swish around. I even jump up and down a bit to shake things loose. Soon enough there is the urge to evacuate it out.

Now, it does not all happen instantaneously. It may take about 6 to 10 minutes after one has sat down on the pot. There may be 3 or 4 periods of evacuation in addition to just instances where just water seems to come out. It is important not to strain. Just let it come and go as it will. Just sitting on the pot may not be the best thing to do, and sometimes standing up for a moment or two will bring on the next evacuation episode. Experience will tell you when you are finished.

My grandmother taught me a terribly harmful practice, that only seems to be very useful, and that is to massage the gut while taking a bowel movement, in such a way as to force the materials downward and outward. Yes, it apparently works, but the problem arises where this massaging gives one the urge to strain. Also there is often bleeding accompanying this kind of intestinal massage. I wondered what could cause the bleeding, and it occurred to me that if there were any fecal solids, or edgy contaminants (such as little woody sticks from the spice jar, or nuts that were not completely chewed), then the action of the intestinal massage would only push these hard and edgy materials into the delicate tissues of the lower intestine. Anyway, no matter what your Grandma taught you, DON’T massage your gut. Keep straining to a minimum. After 6 to 10 minutes, what wants to come out will come out, and you will feel finished. That’s fine. You don’t have to rush it.

If any of your bowel becomes distended, projecting out of your anus by a fraction of an inch or so, well, if you have managed not to strain, then it should not be all too swollen. Simply dab it with some toilet paper soaked in Witch-hazel, an astringent, and then push it back in where it came from. If one is squeamish about touching such a nasty part of one’s self, then one can use a delicate cotton handkerchief, maybe folded over once or twice and soaked in Witch-hazel, to push the projected intestine back where it belongs.

Are these enemas effective. I would decide yes. In just a few weeks while adopting these practices, all my problems ‘south of the border’ entirely disappeared, or became so manageable as to become hardly worth worrying about anymore.

Oh, enemas may seem to be inconvenient, but really they have an advantage. Now I hardly ever go to the bathroom out of the urge of necessity. Now it is largely a scheduled activity. I schedule my enemas for every two days. Now, this may vary from person to person. Myself, I do not eat a great deal. I am on a perpetual diet. I skip breakfast and lunch, only allowing myself an afternoon snack and an evening supper. People who are eating all the time may have to schedule their enemas more often. However, you can compare my schedule of enemas, once every two days, to what had been happening before when I relied only on the urge to have a Bowel Movement, when I averaged only about one and a half bowel movements per week. So of course the fecal material was impacting and solidifying.

Oh, I can guess from experience that Nature has its own way of dealing with impacted feces, and that is that after too long a time the fecal material actually rots and thereby liquefies, giving one symptoms akin to diarrhea. Of course, having rotten fecal material in your system would probably make you feel sick, and that in addition to perhaps making one’s general health turn toward the morbid side.

As for the scheduled bowel movements that enemas make possible, one feels clean afterwards. One has a certain sense of security that one can go out in public, without gassiness or the possibility of having the embarrassing interruption of having to go to the bathroom, even of stinking up somebody’s house. Only rarely am I ever confronted by that old urge to go to the bathroom.

I suppose in time one learns better and better to sense when there is fecal matter in the lower intestine which is when one can benefit by an enema. In time I suppose one could be so expert as to never be taken by surprise by the urge to have an unexpected bowel movement. I myself am getting better at appraising the gradations as the nice feeling of clean emptiness is replaced by the sense that there is something in there that could be flushed out. Keep in mind that there is fecal material in the lower colon long before there is the traditional Urge to evacuate.

Oh, in regards to gassiness. Yes, there may still be gas, but what I have found is that gas coming out of a cleaned out lower colon will not have a very strong odor. Apparently the truth of the matter is that a very strong odor from digestional gases comes from the smell of the feces with which it had just been in very close contact. The smell of strong gas is an indication that there is fecal matter in the lower intestine, that is, that it would be a good time to administer an enema. Oh, where does gassiness come from if there is no fecal matter in the intestines? It is an interesting question, and, remember, I am not a doctor, but I can guess that a certain amount of air is simply swallowed down during meals and during the day and must eventually go out from somewhere.

I wish I had known of enemas back in my old athletic days. I used to do amateur foot racing – 10K’s and Marathons and such, and it would have been perfect to have given myself enemas the night before a Race, to clean out all that useless… weight. I had once run a marathon, where more than a few contestants had to waste the time to wonder off the course to have emergency bowel movements in the bushes. A pre-race enema would have saved them the bother and would have significantly trimmed their final times.

Oh, I would not do an enema within just a few hours of a race. The process does take about 15 or 20 minutes and it makes one feel drained for awhile. I recommend doing one’s enemas in the evening. If one is to go out, then give one’s self a couple hours to recuperate… time for the exhausted and spent feeling to turn into a feeling of clean wellbeing.

Sometimes I do worry about whether I am allowing the large intestine to do all of its God-intended Duty, by flushing it out with these enemas. For instance, might the large intestine be intended to pull all possible useful fluids and minerals from the fecal material before it is evacuated? I have heard that people with chronic diarrhea present with deficiencies of potassium, and find their muscles cramping up. So I have taken to supplementing my minerals a bit.

Anyway, remember that all of this is coming only from a Blogger, who, living in America and not having access to Medical Advice, has to do the best he can with his own devices. But if you live in any other Civilized Country, please discuss all of this with a doctor before taking any of it too seriously.

XP Service Pack 2 Without Crashing, After the Crash

I have been so much dreading doing my taxes this year. Anyway, there I was, laying on the futon with the kitties at 7:30 this morning. I thought that it would be a good time just to walk out to the computer and get the Turbo Tax thing done. I thought it was going to be easy… done in 20 minutes.

It didn't work out that way. I met a virtual alligator along the way.

“Turbo Tax cannot run because Windows XP Service Pack 2 has not been installed on your computer”.

Oh God! I had innocently tried to install Service Pack 2 years ago when it first popped up just the same as any ordinary Update. It crashed my computer and I lost six months of writing. And there it was facing me again.

At first I thought that I had a complete month to do my taxes, due April 15th of every year. I could take my computer into the shop and have the experts install Service Pack 2 or SP2 as they call it. I remember years before that some Blogger had said that installing XP SP2 was “easy”… you only had to remember to about 35 things first, followed by some incomprehensible Nerd List, telling me what sort of things to do, but supposing that ANYBODY would already know all of the specifics… file names to look for, ways to determine that specified conditions have been met. Of course there was no way, outside of attending 2 years of Nerd School that I could figure out what he had meant by any of it. Easy, yes, if you already knew everything you needed to know. I simply could not find out what I had to do to install that Thing safely. So I didn’t.

Comfortable years went by, with only occasional hints that I was not doing my duty by the defacto Lord of the Universe, Bill Gates... the same guy who failed to get Xp right the first time. Just because we are all quite used to his chronic stumbling, while taking our money, doesn't make it right. There should be a special Ring in Purgatory for a bastard like that.

But now it has been brought to issue. The World was now demanding me to do something about this SP2 Thing. I had to Comply or I would be exiled. If it were the Government we would all bitch like crazy. But thank God Corporations have the Freedom to screw over as many people as they like.

Anyway, with resistance being futile, I went back online searching for “Installing Service Pack 2 without crashing”, and found that relatively few people were reporting it nowadays, though I could easily suspect that Windows could have the wherewithal to cleanup the entire Internet of any reference to any severe difficulty with any of its products. The Truth is that Big Brother will NOT come from the Government but from some all-powerful Corporations… or the Russian Mafia. Louis the IVX was right, that our real fear should be about private Tyrants, from whom One Good Public Tyrant could protect us.

Continuing my searches, the only indications for possible trouble were about instances of Spy-ware or malicious software screwing up the Installation. Again, there is the warning but no solid information as to what to do about it. I could only guess about whether my machine was in compliance. My computer has McAfee anti-virus, and recently Windows has been issuing monthly Virus Eradication Updates. And I have been running them. And a few years back my ISP Company finally seemed to crack down on letting Viruses just slip through their systems completely unfiltered. You know, ISP’s can tell when a good many of their client computers have been hijacked, turned into Zombie Computers by some worm or virus, sending out thousands of spam emails and virus laden crap, all without the user’s least suspicion (outside of the computer seeming to act funny, but computers ALWAYS seem to act funny, no? In the Bill Gates Universe, when has a computer ever acted right? We simply have no standard of reference, no computer that has simply just worked right without sweat and tears and those annual expenses). Well, the ISPs finally seemed to do something about all those Zombie Attacks. Oh, I was even notified that my own computer had been a Zombie for awhile but was subsequently 'exorcised' or whatever they do to Zombies.

Anyway, 'no guts, no glory', and I decided to install the dreaded XP Service Pack 2. I made sure that the March Update for Virus Eradication had successfully run (from my ALL PROGRAMS, I clicked on Windows Updates which brought up the appropriate 'Wizards'), and I pushed the SP2 Go Button… and waited for almost two hours with bated breath. Scared a few times, once when it was almost completely installed it came up with an Error Notification “Service Pack 2 ran into a problem. Sorry for the inconvenience. Would you like to send a notification to Window’s so they can fix the problem (that has been sitting in the software for now going on 4 years)”. I thought that was that. I thought I would be left dead in the water. Its a good thing I didn't just exit out there, which might have really screwed me. But I hit YES, and then it allowed me to continue through, all the indications being that Service Pack 2 had successfully installed.

But then you have to do a restart. God! If only they can make movies that are so suspenseful. It seemed to take forever. To scare the crap out of people they made WAIT screens entirely of the same color Blue as the Crash Screen. Two or three times the screen went completely black. I tried to remember what had happened when I had crashed before. I think it was relatively early in the boot-up process. So maybe just getting the first WAIT screen, and then the WELCOME Screen… I don’t know when I was entirely safe. The last horror was when some strange box popped up about my Desktop, as though Windows was going to give me a new Desktop, leaving me lost to finding any of my old cluttered things, but even my old Desktop finally popped up.

Thank God! Where do I go to light a candle?