Ah, how the high and mighty crowd together on center stage while we, the closely-packed audience, sit in the shadows and gape.
We have been trained to do this, of course. From birth. Unthinkingly, we accept our lowly status, our powerlessness and, decade by decade, we watch while the main players speak all the lines and do all the actions and enjoy all the applause, the status, the perks. We squirm in our seats much of the time, not liking what we’re seeing.
But the truth is that the audience is in the majority and if we don’t like the actors or the play, we could rush the stage and get rid of the whole production and write our own script and participate in the running of the world ourselves. Couldn’t we?
Sorry. Do you find this thought disturbing? Does this idea make you feel uncomfortable, uneasy, less secure. After all you’ve always left it to others. You’ve always thought that others know best, that all you had to do was to watch and applaud at the appropriate time.
Do you suddenly feel under some kind of pressure? After all, you never imagined that you could write a script, that you could be a lead actor in the play of life, did you? But then you were never encouraged to think this, were you? You were encouraged to conform, to salute flags, to sing moving anthems, to close your eyes when men in gold robes spoke to their gods, to doff your cap to the Masters of the Universe, to know your place, and when someone said, “Jump!”, you simply asked, “How high?”
We who make up the audience, almost 6.5 billion of us, are watching a play that has a terrible, amoral script. The play also has terrible actors who don’t care about us one bit. They have their noses deep in the golden trough and the truth is that most of the time they don’t even know that we’re there.
Let’s write a new script, one that is based upon more worthy goals than greed and elitism and endless war. Let’s push the crumby actors off the stage and assume the main roles for ourselves or even the minor roles depending on our talents.
Let’s stop being the audience and take over center stage!
We can do it together.
Yes, we can.
Does this mean bringing back the Guillotine in order to change the current/ongoing script?
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If I had it to do over again, I would have found out how local government worked and gotten involved. More effective than protest group potlucks. Now of course, I could start presently, and be a late bloomer. I think getting involved in local politics is the answer. The trick is to find aspects to feel impassioned about and show up at the meetings when I would rather be in bed already.
So far it has been creatures of a certain breed that are attracted to the power of holding seats in local power and that thrive on the social network involved.
Indeed, re-writing the script, David; Get back to local counsels of elders to settle disputes and mete out judgement. Keep it local. The sure way to protect the environment as well. We wil lneed an environment to exist. Minor detail easily forgotten..
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The few hundred that come here are sold. Now if we can just convince the 40,000,000 that catch MSM TV disinfo everyday, we have it made.
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Not sure about the guillotine, Kemosobi! Could be a pain in the neck!
Grace, getting back to the local level has merit. Then people would feel more a part of things.
Ken, if each one here converts ten more, well, you know how the maths work.
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Don’t rush the stage…it’s a trap!
Go underground…
http://www.mindfully.org/Technology/2006/M134-Gatling-Livermore3feb06.htm
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I checked that link, Ironhead. Frightening, isn’t it?
The human mind is wonderful at creating weapons of destruction yet it operates at a moronic level when it comes to creating peace.
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Ironhead Reply:
January 27th, 2009 at 4:13 am
Note the expressions on the faces of the ‘operators’ who would gleefully mow you down in the name of gawd, guts and glory. Note that an elementary school is in the range of this weapon.
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Omg, re: that link from Ironhead, my 6 yr old would think that was awesome!! He builds things that look simply similar (though not deadly one bit) with his physics sets. I will not even show him that picture because then I would have to explain what evil it is used for.
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Ironhead Reply:
January 27th, 2009 at 4:23 am
Dear Grace, I hope all is well with you and your family. Please show that picture to your son. It is most important that children learn about the Evil before they are indoctrinated by the media.
As distasteful as this may seem it is our only hope. The truth is our power. Our children deserve to learn the truth from those they trust…their parents. Once Hollywood gets in their brains it will be tough for the parents to teach them right from wrong, reality from fantasy.
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Anyone who actually expects substantive change to result from the recent U.S. coronation of a new figurehead is going to be very disppointed. No doubt the facade will be renovated in various way and many will accept that as good and sufficient reason for rejoicing and playing along with the same old corrupt system for yet another republicrat cycle. It’s already quote clear, however, that any major shift in either U.S. domestic policies or geopolitical strategies is utterly out of the question.
The newly drafted executive order fulfilling a campaign promise to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay is just one example of the kind of window dressing that can be expected. The detentions will continue, they will just do so at a handful of yet-to-be-determined military bases in the United States.
As for the whole range of economic issues and bailouts, both implemented and proposed, they can be summed up by a lately seen bumper sticker: “Don’t steal; the government hates competition.”
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Ken Reply:
January 24th, 2009 at 1:07 am
Correct. More fake, phony. But they will buy it. Especially if is dressed right on the Tube, which is will be. Total control marches on.
Gullibility, the gift that keeps on giving.
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Grace, it was pretty awesome I guess, especially to those who like killing!
Arvy, just love that last sentence. Good to have some humor sometimes, lighten the load!
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The status quo will continue, and people will allow it to because Obama’s gonna make it seem a helluva lot better than Bush. Of course, the Hamburglar could make it seem a helluva lot better than Bush. But Obam has the tools and the talent. He’s great actor; he can make you love him while flipping you the bird. Like Clinton, he’s charming and articulate. Even now, when I watch him, I can understand how the average sheeperson would have an impossible time believing this guy could be full of shit. So Obama will make a few gestures like freezing his senior staff’s pay, leaving out the fact that they have millions in the bank so they’re not exactly sacrificing there. They’ll probably even get a raise when they do start getting paid again. But the sheeple hear this and think, “What a great President…It’s about time!” Sheeple don’t examine past what they initially hear. “Research” is a meaningless word. BAAA!
So here we go for an eight year ride (and we already know it’s gonna be eight years, don’t we?) where nothing really changes except the American sheeple’s perspective on things, which will be “Thank God for Obama…He’s so much better than Bush!”
Well, Lamb Chop, I have to ask, “How much is so much?”
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Ken Reply:
January 24th, 2009 at 1:12 am
If obomb were serious, the number of the staff would be reduced to 10 percent of the present, with nothing lost for the citizen. Don’ t hold the breath. Same with congress.
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You make a good point, LR, concerning Obama not having to do much to be much better than Bush. Thing is he’ll have to do more than make gestures otherwise, with Israel calling the tune, we’ll be engaged in WW3 before we know it.
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For Guantanomo and torture, I’ll trade you Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yeah, that is the liberal deal as perfectly explained by Justin Raimondo at antiwar.com. The Obama crowd is definitely more sophisticated than is the Bush crowd, but are proving to be also more vulgar.
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From the foto seems you just have to wear a blue tie and a suit if you want power.
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David G Reply:
January 25th, 2009 at 10:19 am
Welcome, Bill. Yes, it’s one of the preconditions!
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“I love a man in a uniform,” Gang of Four.
It reminds me of my artschool dayz when we played hooky and went to San Francisco. Down in the Embarcadero at 5pm we turned a corner and there at the bus stop were at least 30 men all wearing the exact same beige raincoat!
In the seats of power, uniforms are mandatory.
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swan Reply:
January 26th, 2009 at 3:53 am
The Nation magazine named CodePink4Peace the most progressive organization during the Bush-Cheney years. Grace, thanks for being a tithed member. Me too.
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cool site…just found it via link…plan to look more
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