Pancakes and Iced Tea for the Faithful

So it's a Bauhaus night. Introspection. Mood lighting.

I haven't posted on the blog since the inception. Mainly because there's been quite a bit going on. Too many extraordinary wrecks to pass on the highway not to slow down and stare.

I am the passenger, I ride and I ride. Cigarette out the window with the A/C on. Country as hell.

But it's a philosophical battle I have with myself and my inner Gandhi. Life from the passenger side has it's limitations. Thus, I want to share some of my thoughts on recent events, both personally and globally. If you agree, great. Let's start a revolution. Give my shit a hashtag and post a link on your Myspace, bro.

(Disclaimer: The author reserves .5 percent of his good judgement to thinking reptilian overlords rule us from under the earth. so please do research and thought of your own.)

Big thing with me is the Islamic State. Seriously. This is even a thing. First, it's a direct creation of the United States of America, or our government and military industrial complex. Of course I hate to be on the agreein' side with Iran, but let's just be honest with ourselves. We armed the rebels that were opposing the Syrian President. We've had our intelligence resources rooted in the area, to some degree, for quite a long time. The powers-that-be know exactly what IS would become, and still provided it material aid to do so.

Why? Why the fuck would we create another enemy? Is John McCain raising a shadow army of cyborgs? Will I ever have sex with Kristen Schaal?

These are all hard questions we have to face about our future. I think at least the answer to the first two questions, specifically, are easier to answer:

Control: Let's be honest. The average American is, sadly, easily distracted. We are all compartmentalized - by variety of culture, background, wealth.... but fear is a uniting force. Fear is an emotion anyone is capable of when it comes to harm to themselves or those they love. Am I calling the Islamic State Big Brother essentially? No. Sadly I believe honestly there are people - has nothing to do necessarily with being of the Muslim faith - who de-value life as such to create the atrocities and earnest threat that they do. I believe they exist (thousands of miles away, in a different land and in a different culture). I just think they are being used as pawns themselves to a bigger purpose and agenda that truly none of us who care to ponder it will ever know.

By the way. Please watch this speech. George Galloway in the British Parliament:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/26/galloway-iraq-war-debate_n_5887298.html

The fact of the matter is, I have a few friends whose entire life, from puberty to adulthood, has been living with a background of war. If you believe in reptile overlords or not, you have to at least at a surface level agree with what Mr. Galloway has to say.In bombing the Islamic State, in bringing in troops, in trying to engineer a healthy fungus to eat the infestation we've created, what is the point?

Control. I mean fuck. Please can we just get together and collectively call bullshit? While these people are now legitimate enemies of the state, so to speak, and threats to American lives, they also accomplish certain objectives for our government. Fighting terrorism has gotten us nothing but where we are now. And in fighting that terrorism, we have lost a good deal of our ability to speak of the inherent goodness of democracy and free speech (being that our First Amendment rights can't extend into the electronic age). We have spoiled blood and treasure throwing money and our children's bodies into a desert pit. Have we come any further when you'd hear, offhand, that the alert for the day was "orange" because the government was nervous? No. I am too wrapped up in Google's Kool-Aid to move on from their services just yet, but that's primarily why I quit using it for the most part in disgust. I realize some people won't give it up though. It's the phone book of our times.

ANYHOW

Control. I cant italicize it enough. A good deal of the people I know are nervous this will be a reason to curtail gun rights. Possible. I just mentioned a moment ago the hindrance to free speech that the ongoing oversight the neverending atmosphere of war propagates. It sucks being watched for your own good. Are they really building FEMA death camps? Fuck if I know. I like Jesse Ventura and all...

I don't like to think about conspiracies, I really don't. This, I don't consider a conspiracy exactly. I think it's more "the most goddamn obvious thing in the world". Why it is what it is, I don't pretend to know.

I do know however i will support my troops. I just wish they were fighting for us.

One thing that does surprise me. Honestly makes me a little ashamed of my country. Call me a bastard if you want but if we were not moved by the act to start bombing and organizing ground troops until we see one American and one Britain beheaded on camera....not moved by the mass slaughter of innocent women and children en masse beforehand... what does that say about our invested interest in the politics of the region.

I could go on, but I won't. I want a grilled cheese sandwich. I bought real butter at CVS last night (by the way fuck CVS for not selling cigarettes anymore. How can you sell liquor by the jug, as well as those entirely-sugar $1.00 bags of cookies and say you give a damn about health?). I'm hungry. I love all you people. Most of you, anyhow. I am good....didn't talk about me personally. I am okay. Hoping to do some fun changes soon.

Love, Peace, and Rastafi
-Joe

Ps: Also, if all this is too heavy for you, my thoughts are best summed up by this performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPZydAotVOY

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Select, Start.

     So hi everybody. I promised Facebook would go and I meant it. I apologize for taking off to those who might get lost along the way, but there's always a way to find someone in the world we live in. For better or worse. And now I am another douche with a blog who thinks you might be interested enough to read it. Maybe not as simple a process to find out what's going on in my head, but that's what I am aiming for.

    I'm not going to really get to political or too involved today on anything. You can put the cigarettes and lotion away. This is more just a test. I have a lot of shit I am personally concerned about both globally and internally - as always - but screw it. Jah is love. It's Sunday and the clock is ticking. Working on a portrait of Redd Foxx which hopefully I get most of today. Results when they are noteworthy.

   Nothing much else. Hope you're all well. Keep it real.

   Love,

   - Joe