Encountering Deceptive "Optics"

"Ye hath heard it said on a song on the "Elvis is Back" album that "Seeing is believing".  But I say unto you that "Seeing may be Believing - - but Seeing is NOT knowing for a Fact"

"Just remember, your feelings will lie to you.  So if you've getting feelings of self doubt from listening to my words on the radio right now, remember those feelings are lying to you".

"If the tea party hates government and trusts only in the private sector, then logically all tea party members should resign from government and retire to private life"

People now use the term of ‘optics” to describe the political realities of our time.  For instance Jerry Brown will be displayed as “hostage to supreme court” rulings that gives those retched poor people like myself “power they don’t deserve’ in dictating how much California government money is spent on us.  They will point to the current state budget crisis as “Just another example of how liberals like Jerry Brown can’t balance a check book”.  They portray the “Optics” of today’s socio-economic situation like that Ten Years After song of “Tax the rich to feed the poor – till there are no rich no more”.  They really believe this.  That the government is out to “conthiscate” the rich to cover up their own spending ineptitude and drive all the “good, responsible people” into the poor house”.  It’s all those Liberal’s fault.  People like Judy regard the ideal governmental spending money as zero.  “Then everything would be perfect”.  Michelle Bachman’s stance isn’t that from from this position.  I first heard the term of “Optics” applier to Lyndon Johnson’s conduct right after President Kennedy died.  He had to portray himself as nothing but honoring JFK’s memory.  So there are White House tapes that wouldn’t be made public for years, that none the less support these sort of “Optics”.  But from a metaphysical stand we can let this idea of “Optics’ throw us all off the track.  For instance “we all know” that the Universe is a giant sphere.  How do we know this?  We’ve been TOLD it ever since the ‘sixties.  The whole idea is based on the idea that light curves in a circle by pure physics laws when there is an inequity of mass pull on light more on one side of a light beam than on the other- - and the light will curve naturally in the direction of the greater mass.  I’ll show you how beliefs like this apply to the Tea Party.  It’s the whole idea of “Limited Good” since that Ten Years After song is a major champion of.  We have these propaganda weapon words such as “Class Warfare” there ANY attempt to criticize the well to do is seen as “Warfare”.  That their side “fired the first shots” of this war, not to mention the second, third, and fourth shots of this war- - is something the Tea Party would rather not have you be aware of.  But the whole concept of “limited creation” stems all the way back to God and the “I’m only human” doctrine, touted by people such as James Dobson.  People like Dobson will say “Well, even God is limited by circumstances and natural laws and such and thus there are certain things even God is unable to do, because he just isn’t Powerful enough.  However this is not my theory.  Someone else on the radio was confronted with this sort of talk about science and natural law, and time and space and infinity.  And the caller said to the host “These things have an a prior existence.  They are things that have always Been and so did not need to be created”.  The host then fired back with zinger remark.  He said to the caller “You know- - - you’ve just described God”.  You’re making a God out of all these things.  So the “optics” of the Creation Story goes something like this.  In the first day God created the Universe and all the stars in it, but there came a time when God looked up from his work and saw the sun going down and said “Oh oh- - the first day is coming to an end.  I better stop this phase of creation and tomorrow I will continue with phase two, with the stuff already here.  The idea that “Infinity” itself is a finite creation or an “Artifact of God” as I first proposed to Dr. Levy - - - is utterly lost on people like this.  If God is really God if he doesn’t like a physical law he can change it.  Let me pose this question - - “If God is unable to change it, then who can?  Who is greater than God”.  I’d like to meet them.  I myself an a Deist rather than a theist, so my metaphysics doesn’t encounter these problems.  But sometimes a conception error can throw off all the rest of your deductions- - - much as the tea party’s bogus “memes” will throw off all the rest of YOUR deductions, you who are listening to a tea party spokesman.  It has thrown off mine.  So I had this concept of “Convex” space and “Concave” space.  Convex space is like you look at a chart and see a circle and it’s shaded in some color.  The portion shaded in represents the bounds of the known universe.  Then we (meaning “muah”) has “Con-cave space or hyperbolic space.  Now look at a graph of the national debt.   I’m sure your tea party friends have one of those.  You see the chart start off flat for a long time and then go into a hyperbola type formation and it shoots way up to nearly infinity.  The portion of the area below the line or as it were the “body” of the graph, is now shaded in a different color.  This represents hyperbolic space.  This all stems back from that flip-flop certesian, pythagarean equation that is the foundation of “natural trig” or I refer to it as “optical” trig.  Now listen to this next line carefully.  The MISTAKE is to make the ‘Optics’ of the matter the SUBSTANCE of a matter.  This is what the tea party would have you do with reality.  If you Believe it- - then naturally it HAS to be true.  Therefore you have just concluded the “Optics” IS the substance of reality.  And this is MY error in metaphysics and perhaps YOUR error as a Tea Party disciple.  (Selah)

This is Tuesday afternoon at a quarter to three and I am not a happy camper.  Let’s pick up today’s narrative at the noon hour where I largely dozed through Randy Rhodes.  Finally I ran the coffee grounds through and added one new table spoon for more coffee and had that.  It’s just the necessary money stretching these days.  On the soap opera Bo and Hope let that guy keep the coin they were after allowing him to break into a safe to steal it right from under their noses.  Now they have some new plan of John that’s probably going to fail.  Then we were treated to more of Samantha’s naked hypocracy.  She doesn’t care what kind of an asshole she is.  She has no conception of it.  She’s kind of like the tea party or my own family for that matter.

[name withheld] began calling names for Money draw around one thirty.  Bill reminded me they’d called my name and so I forwent the final segment of the soap opera.  There weren’t that many in line ahead of me but of course I had to give Arleen cuts.  Each person took at least three or four minutes in conversation with [name withheld].  My situation is this.  I started with my account with [name withheld] with fifty six dollars.  Out of that I have only spend $25.00 till now but I only have fifteen left.  I know the medical co pay is tripled now and that I owed a few dollars from last month that was carried over.  The math still doesn’t quite add up, though.  I only had fifteen left and I took all of that out to save me a trip next week.  She had no candy this week.  I went to the liquor store and bought one pack of John Black grape.  Then I went to see Dr. Saran.  My blood pressure was 132 over 70 which isn’t bad considering the stress I was under.  I was worried about some blood test results that were never given me and Dr. Saran looked at my chart and just says “There’s nothing”.  I didn’t know what to do.  So to keep the line from backing up I just left.  Of course trying to ask money from Mom would be counter productive.  If I got a seven percent increase to match inflation now it would be a slightly different story.  Not smoking cigarettes isn’t going to turn me from a poor man to a rich man.  The reality is if I want to gain weight I have to buy my own snacks and I don’t have money for that.  Dora did have a piece of bread pudding left.

I had Ed Schultz on the computer.  It seems that Scott Walker plans to, as the next phase of his “campaign” to remain in office and save the tea party’s butt, is going to release some doctored unemployment statistics to convince people somehow the jobs picture isn’t as bad as they all know it is, which seems downright silly.  Ed, like myself, is disturbed by the D N C’s decision not to get involved, as if Scott Walker staying in power would have no adverse national consequences.  We’ll know everything in three weeks and suddenly June 5^th isn’t that far away.  As top proposition 29 the way I feel right now I’ve voting against it.  Hell if I’m going to squeeze my meager monetary reserves further.  Then I had that Latino (?) lady at ten on KTLK talking about corrupt immigration agents.  It seems the drug smugglers not only give bribes but also use a gun to enforce their point in case “being nice” doesn’t work.  The host was concerned about employers in this country who make a racket out of hiring illegals and driving down the wage base.  Of course the tea party complains about illegals f or the political advantage of doing that and all the while love the fact they’re taking jobs of people who need work in this country.  And then the topic moved on to Facebook addiction, and how many billions the company is going to rake in.  They don’t call it a public “offering” for nothing.  Just pass the plate.  It seems there are still states where you have to prove wrong doing in any divorce case and P I’s are kept busy doing cyber-snooping on husbands.  As if we needed a new thing to help drive up the divorce statistics and break up more marriages.  As far as the campaign therefore- - it’s not all just about the economy.  Other issues like immigration and women’s issues and Romney’s war plans for Iran and who knows where else- - now come to the forefront.  I can remember not so long ago when people were saying “tea party members are against foreign wars” but those days are long gone, because there is “Just too much money to be made by supplying the Army with the tools of the trade” as Country Joe and the fish put it over a generation ago. 

Of course my blog hit numbers are so bad you’d think just by chance people would accidently happen on a blog.  Even if they didn’t bother read it just going to one of my pages would score as a hit in Google’s tally.  They have that thing at top called “Next Blog” and you’d think my blog would have come up countless time in people’s random searches.  But you know what they say, “Oppinions are a dime a dozen”.   Sarah just rousted Bill to see Dr. Saran.  Fine. The nation is going to go to Hell in a hand basket next year and President Romney will major at explaining away all the fresh adversity by doing what he claims to despize, and that is to blame the previous administration, and people will buy it because Romney is a Republican and we know Republicans never lie.  It’s totally disgusting but what are you going to do?