anamnesis

"It's too late to work within the system, but too early to start shooting the bastards" - Claire Wolfe I wonder. Especially reading stuff like what happened to Tracy Ingle . In Little Rock, Arkansas. No knock raid. Shoot the guy 5 times. No drugs found. Put him in jail. Charge him with assault. Tell the media to mind their own business. Well, that tiny sliver of media that's actually looking at relevant things, anyway. What a dichotomy from the post below. And stuff like this , you can only see outside of the country. But we don't censure news in this country. Do we?

At one time in our history, before corporate morality and political pandering replaced journalistic integrity, stuff like this would have made front page news. It seems like the internet has come to bloom at just about the right time. We've got a wild-west, frontier medium (for how long?) that has pried information from "approved" channels, we have portable video capture devices and the unfettered (for how long?) eyes of the citizenry. We have savants tending and screening feeds from sources with varying degrees of credibility, with the ability to manufacture information indistinguishable from raw sources. A case can be built for any point of view using the same accepted formats that previously represented themselves as fair and balanced (talking heads of authorities, video streams, polls, scientific studies, branding.) Truth has always been something we tended to accept by the channels and forms it was presented rather than verifying it for ourselves. (How do most of us ...

Haven't posted much here of late. Good thing you guys aren't paid subscribers, heheh. Been suffering from M.E.S. Yep, Motivational Evasion Syndrome. There's no real treatment for this condition. I'm sure it affects millions, but I'd just rather not research it right now. Who knows how much opportunity costs in new inventions, art, medical discoveries and revolutionary cat toys are lost each year because, meh, "I'd rather play my flute." Here's a video clip, in the interim (if anyone asks for me, that's where I am right now) ---it shows a funny segment where Ron Paul, way back in 1988, is asked if he is just giving up on the war on drugs? I bet the guy who asked Ron that, wished he didn't. Not that I think the answer sunk in. And if you wonder why this title has Sargasso Sea in it, and you don't have MES, you could google it for an interesting read. Or not. And Bright Eyes, who has never suffered from MES a day in her life, has been busy...