Mein Kamph

I watched “24” just now. What you have now is President Taylor being morally compromised by a guy who blackmailed a Russian official into restarting the peace process in order to avoid the revelation that the Russian government itself, and not a Russian mob or groups in the mideast, were responsible for the death of President Omar Hassan. President Taylor wants to shove all this under the rug and prevent Jack Bower from interviewing Dana, who after a little slapping around, promised to tell Jack everything she knew and name names. Peace built on moral compromise cannot last. But the this is true in any area such as Christianity. Jesus Christ of KFI and all the rest of them are constitutionally incapable of giving an honest answer to anything. So many people live by deception and hypocrisy. I guess you could say that I have a personal bias against deception and hypocrisy. Back on September 27^th of 2007 I wrote a blog posting called “The Final Disappointment” where I pronounced the Democratic party dead, because even at that date I believe it has sold out on so many key issues that it was no longer a viable force and that we all best begin looking for a third party.

Some people say that the purpose of life is ongoing struggle for mastery of our environment. I believe this struggle goes on not only in the “terriestrial realm” but also in the “telestial” or hyper-space realm. Some people view the after life is a place of stasis and no change. But such is not the essence of life. Life is struggle. Scripture says “In this world you will have tribulation but woe to the person by whom that tribulation comes”. Essentially this passage of scripture is saying that there is Good and there is Evil. As you know in my pluralistic view of the universe I believe there are countless moral polarities out there, each with its own idea of what good is and each with its own idea of what evil is. Life in the tellestial realm is not limited by a mere humanoid physicality. One could imagine all sorts of life forms. There may be ectoplasmic clouds out there. You may have life assuming many forms like these dancing Shiva statues with multiple arms, to insect like creatures, or aracnids or crustiations, or squid like creatures, or even stranger shapes like jelly fish or sea fans or rock like coral structures, or serpentine or worm like entities. We do know a thing or two about the after life in hyper space in that we will be exposed, like the internet exposes us today, with forms of knowledge previously difficult to obtain. So anyone could be an expert on 20^th Century authors in the US or playwrights, 19^th Century French artist, 18^th Century Austria, 17^th Century France, 16^th Century England, or 15^th Century Germany. Contrary to the old adage, knowledge is often the key to understanding others. You have to know a person’s or a nation’s history to truly understand and deal with today’s realities. Christians have a basic loathing of any “History” that is not written in their own Fairy Tale books by people like Irenius and Eusubius. Many Christians’ retort to almost any problem is “Well, if you were Dead that situation wouldn’t bother you”. I have a new adage for my Christian friends. “Death can’t beget life”. Yet most any Christian pastor would say almost any problem can be solved by repeating certain mantras he gives you, or pretending the problem doesn’t bother you and becoming “dead” to it, or engaging in the fantasy that your own mind controls how much power Satan has over your life, and that if you just Imagine hard enough, everything in your life will be sweetness and light.

I said a minute ago that in the here and now there appears to be forces of Good and forces of Evil almost everyone can agree on. So do you want to be a white chess piece or a black one, and go from there? This immigration law in Arizona is patently unconstitutional. I believes it interferes with the federal prerogative of controlling the borders. We in California have tried to pass laws limiting immigration only to have them invalidated by the courts, such as proposition 187. People want to limit President Obama in other ways. Rush Limbaugh and others are saying how horrible it would be to have Wall Street reform. Yet I listened to the President’s entire speech yesterday that ran 28 minutes or so, and the applauses were frequent. So at least those people recognize we have a problem. The President divided our basic problems into four areas. I think these credit rating agencies like Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s, was one of the divisions, and derivatives was another. These derivatives were originally started for people working with a certain commodity such as oil, insuring they would get a stable price. Another area the President talked about was consumer protection, and not trying to take advantage that many people who use credit are stupid. Maybe you can’t legislate against stupidity, but we can ease some of the worst abuses. Other areas of concern is the “up-tick” rule they used to have before you could do a short sale, or selling a stock that you don’t actually own. People talk about “digital money” meaning credit and debit cards, as an area where all modes of commerce are facilitated. Back in the old days, for instance you would have to stand in line at a bank to get traveler’s checks. Perhaps there was value in applying some natural friction to our commerce (buying and selling) because it kept it from accelerating out of control. Just think about it.

Sometimes the polarity between Good and Evil becomes more noticeable. Sometimes this polarity seems to build to some Climax, like the Slavery issue did before the Civil War. There came a point where everything and everyone was defined as either pro slavery or anti slavery. Such an issue today is Islam, and some might say foreign culture in any form. Some say that Arab culture is taking over Anaheim. More than ever the Pat Buckhannon types are saying “American culture is at stake”. People see the President as somehow soft or conciliatory tword Islamic culture. Yet in reality there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between President Obama’s foreign policy and that of George Bush. All of the repressive measures such as rendition (abducting and transport to a foreign nature to be tortured) and also American citizens can still be targeted by the Army and executed without a trial. This war in Afghanistan is likely to keep escalating and go on at least another ten years. Christians see War as a good thing. As I have often said, most of us view war as a means to an end. Christians and the tea party crowd view war as an end in itself. In the Bible we are in a continued state of war with Satan, who is called “The Lord of this world”. Satan is quoted as saying “These things are Mine and I have the power to give them to whoever I want”. So if you love the world you are an enemy of the Christian Right. And this presents a basic problem. Christians love their own lives but they hate the world, so naturally they want this world to be done with. So many Christians live in a fantasy world. But when they come off their fantasy trip then they get really scared knowing that Satan has won every contest in at least my life- - where God contests Satan in any area- - Satan always wins. Hence (knowing this) Christians are “necessarily” paranoid. Since they live in fear they want to peddle this fear to others. And therein lies the evil. Because “Fear” in the abstract gets morphed into more refined emotions such as prejudice, bigotry, and xenophobia, that are dangerous.