Rock and a Hard place-360 degrees of abuse

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Rock and a hard spot for many from each of their mostly separated locales and versions of their particular abuse exploitation of the 'ruling class' known on Army latrine stall walls from the point of view of the drafted GI's in '70-'74, 'the Unwilling Serving the Arrogant Ruling the Many in Your name.

Eisenhower's warning of a Mil-Indus-Complex has morphed into a network of enabling oligarchist and wanna-be plutocrats. What was portrayed in Godfather-II of the Havana Meet in pre-Castro Cuba by the mob bosses licking their lips of having financial control of a government existing under an autocratically designed constitution that suited their ends was not lost on those who used Lee Harvey Oswald, who played the part as their patsy in their assassination of JFK, whose planned withdrawal in disenchantment from Vietnam and rapprochement with the Ruskis would be starving the slush fund of over-budget contract being paid out, as well as the Civil Rights tendency that would come after the '64 election (never realizing that LBJ had strong populist equity sentiments as much as the Eastern blue blood Kennedys were coming to accept. Civil rights for the least precipitates the empowerment of assertion of rights and necessary entitlements (health care-housing-wage equity) by the general public.

 

Dems fearing a socialist revolution that would end their pretensions of liberal minded sympathetes and access to the shared good cop/bad cop power with the Dixiecrats/proto-free markets-GOP wanting to maintain their control of the social hierarchy positions they had culturally and economically over their respective under classes have played a game that has its most audacious abuse in the Israeli-Zionist-Palestinian-Arab Nationalist deadlock. Do just enough to keep the Israeli-Zionist power structure as it is while providing feckless rhetoric and ineffectual token aid to the Palestinians.

They feed on money not abstract sentiments. How ever they can contort themselves to look as if they ever had ethical or moral sentiments when the amoral acts of impunity would create a rhetorical backlash, at the least: they do it.

There's NEVER been a democracy, per se. Just a gradual break down of oligarchic and plutocratic privilege. But the breakdown got to the point where the ruling class and those benefiting from it saw that 'Democracy' was too expensive to continue domestically in the form of wide spread distribution of tangible wealth that would put limits on their earnings. So 'over there' to developing countries as China and India, then SE Asia and eventually Africa where the human an raw resources are cheaper to come by then in the democratizing domestic domain.

Like starved pack of animals we fight with each other over the scraps WE ARE ALLOWED to have.

As they exist in their contemporaneous hubris!

 Have what ever reasons you choose.
The reality and depths of the wretched destitution and unwanted misery reside in the fabric of this soulless civic, seeking the solution which their pain has numbed to an anesthetized dystopia avoidance for fear of losing this miserable existence's sensations-the sum total of their cherished being.
 
The sacred vernacular and colloquial that's used more for signifying and social posturing that became a cultural censor and consensus, than a clarifying analysis of 'what is', it is bastardized and prostituted worse than the human representations of those terms.

More insidious is the herd "bravado" that exists in defining what and who is by that vain and feckless 'sacred vernacular and colloquial' that allows shows of social consensus of performance cultural angst for comfort in the absence of engagement in moralistic grand standing in amoralistic circumstances!

As some have asked of my identity...

But first, to answer the comments of my verbalisms. It can be prose, which gives neutered, reductionist facts of instruction-or hopefully-information. Or it can be an abstract art that affects and forces us to no longer be detached, but emotionally engaged.
I see that an "artist" is unconcerned of the value others will place on what's been created. Much as the MGM logo states
, ARS GRATIA ARTIS [art for the sake of art], I attempt to cohere, if not adhere to the spirit of that dictum.

I do it for those souls living in muttering resentment to their secular overlords leverage of economic or emotional power over them. I do it for those inspiring souls, who-for me-were prematurely aborted by their Icarus lifestyles that were a misfit for their time and place. For these and others who aren't allowed or unable to have such a platform to procreate into the moment, I do this.
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Speaking of 'procreation', I will address the defamations about my 'identity'. Unlike those who bind themselves to their provincial place in this time and space, I've come to see myself as an extrapolated, metamorphic reincarnation of the history of my birth date's agelessness heralding of endings/beginning of things. I am the progeny of the eruption of Vesuvius which buried Pompeii, the bringing to end of Rome by the Goths, the brutality done to the Huguenots in France, the winds of Hurricane Andrew upon the shores of southern Florida-the announcement/pronouncement of the change's advent-historically and seasonally. What dominated before was no more. I unconsciously, at first, and now more compulsively consciously now am and have been that irrepressible new moment which is an inherent challenge to those of smug presumption of what is in form and substance. THAT IS WHO I AM, beyond the identifiable an from the anonymous and anomalous.

Beyond your temporal ego to your timeless being

 

Beyond your temporal ego to your timeless being < Pi-edPiperHound > 

Once you get home and unwind, if at all. Where does your mind and soul reside? In the irksome agitations of the day. In the exhilarations of your engaging the day's moments? The after-work physical and mental venues of escape?

In one of those venues of escape, are there insights on things you noticed about yourself that were more applicable to other things 

than the time, place, and 

events in which they 

were taken note? Were 

those things transcendent in quality 

and for your present thinking and future behavior?

If that former narrative rings true in your memory of things, have there been other similar insights

             

that are related in the nature of being transcending thoughts and perspective changes of behavior?

It's these things that remove you from the immediacy of your present circumstances and the roles you choose or are obliged to assume for those circumstances, does it bring you to a stoic place of detachment and connected to grander principles and their aesthetic trappings that envelope those principles?

Those aesthetic trappings bring you to an attitude that what your expressing or exhibiting isn't for the benefit of your ego's admiration or status for itself or from others. What you 

first see retrospectively and now is prospectively being a channel and 

the vessel-pawn of a perceived imperative of Time's demands in its visitation to the doings of the temporal moment.

In that retrospective insight and prospective willingness, you acknowledge yourself being a citizen of eternal Time, that has its own standards that go past doing things for your standing among others in your physical and social space in the present, but in support of the future consequence beyond yours or your contemporaries presents angst of conceivable thoughts and emotions

  

de Ol'Hound

As relevant to day as it was on my graduation day in June 1972!

Elijah Anderson on the burden of being Black in white spaces
Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, discusses his latest book, “Black in White Space,” which documents the unique challenges facing Black people as they navigate overwhelmingly white settings and struggle to overcome stereotypes that continue to stigmatize them.

The  pressures to be cohesive and acculturated in micro-social interactions and the indirect institutional manifestations and decorum have created the friction that E. Anderson expounds upon. The lack of a nuanced, intimate empathy by most non-minority, white students to the ethos of Black people who are descendants of their ante-Bellum-to-Jim Crow progenitors and the ethos they developed as a reactive, coping mechanism to those environments that were repressive and terroristic to Black life has its latter-day modified, evolved, coping forms of non-minority attitudes of today.

Even with more integrative and pluralistic interactions that allow more latitude in the micro-interactions, the macro-scenes resistance to Critical Race Theory doctrine, per se, and other contemporary progressive (but short of hype-sensitive and over-the-top, so-called "wokeness") aspirations reveals the present nuanced distinctions of friction between Black and non-minority culture.

It's NOT that you gave your word..

 

 

It's NOT that you gave your word.. It's [to] whom (or to what) you give it to is the qualifier and caveat for the inherent virtuous value of your "sacred" word or vow.-From 'The Wild Bunch' (1969). Loyalties based on less than reasoned altruism leads to the kind of zealotry and nihilism which is wrongly equated with the natural and the spontaneous.

The genetic instincts of the pre-neolithic era have become corrupted by the layers of culture which prostitute the instincts for projected fictions than imminent signals of the moment. Much of the self-righteousness of contemporary preconceptions finds its basis here. 

Any designs of "liberating progress" come with an analytical deconstruction of the contemporary presumptions, which are a necessary, concurrent process for any aspirations we presume for ourselves or for others.