Monday, January 12, 2015

The More Things Change The More They Stay The Same

History tells us that some of the ancient people of our day used human sacrifice as a way of worshiping Gods. We often times think of the Aztecs and other Mezzo American cultures when we think of human sacrifice. No one did it better than they in the history books. Never mind the Romans and all the killing they did in the coliseum. That was for entertainment history will argue which is different than sacrifice. Naturally Catholics remember Jesus being executed. This execution was so brilliant that people never want to forget how Jesus died. We as people in this day and age may not know or understand a whole lot about Jesus Christ but we certainly remember the execution, if nothing else. If Jesus Christ didn't get executed, I really doubt anyone would give a crap about all the other things he was said to have done. Not even turning water into wine would have remained in our memories like a good execution. It's not the miracles or the message of peace and hope that we remember, its the way he was able to suffer on the cross. After experiencing this torture, even Jesus had to leave the building so to speak. God must have known that in order to get the attention of the human a human sacrifice had to be made. However, we don't see Jesus as a human sacrifice by the Gods. Even if we did, we would find a way to make this act seem civilized. Thus dulling our minds to the fact that human sacrifice is a part of our daily understanding of religion. Now of course Christianity and the like are not the only religions. However, there is a lot of blood being spilt in the most famous religions. Human sacrifice is an essential part of life. Killing a human before natural death has always been a way of appeasing a God. Though I am sure there are some who would argue that there are cultures of people who did not believe in this human sacrifice, I argue that in life, an early death is necessary to sustain life. We kill plants and animals to sustain ourselves. We for example do not wait for a head of lettus to die of natural causes before we eat the lettus. We certainly don't wait for a cow to die of natural causes before we eat the cow. Indeed all existence depends on the early death of another species. I believe though that this concept is therefore extended to how species live amongst each other. Too many mouths to feed creates an over use of resources. Nature designed species to have certain life spans. Most life spans in the animal kingdom don't last for more than a hundred years. Those animals that do last a couple centuries like certain Whales and torus are for the most part vegan ore eat small plankton. Animals who kill and eat flesh have to live short life spans. Additonally, animals that are in great abundance have short life spans. Most animals on this planet have incredibly short life spans. Therefore, it is natural for a primitive society to feel as though killing by sacrifice its own species is appeasing their God. When you think about this in this way, they may be right. The less people there are, the more abundance there is as a result of less mouths to feed. Though this concept may be considered primitive, I think we still have killing of humans by humans for the same underlying reason. Wars, excecutions are usually avoidable and done to benefit a portion of society. In war, we have to accept that killing the other person or people allows for less competition for resources. It's a sacrifice to God saying "we are willing to die so that others may live. Please give us our bounty." War and fighting of any kind, especially when it involves death, is thus a sacrifice in much the same way as any human sacrifice in ancient history. I'm not trying to judge whether it's right or wrong. Maybe it's right. Maybe not. The one thing that is certain though is that we as a people have a built in desire to kill each other in the name of what is good and right and I don't believe that this is a coincidence. Furthermore, I don't think such sacrifices will end since by the looks of our human growth, we have multiplied ten fold over the centuries. I guess God has been answering our prayers. One minute we are running from lions and the next minute we are driving them into extinction. Dying on a pyramid in Central America thousands of years ago by human sacrifice or on a battle field in 2015, takes honor. Notice the term sacrifice is used when talking about what happened in Mezzo America. This is because those people who were killed were dying for someone else to live. It was an honorable thing to have done. That's why it was not called a murder I imagine. In just the same way, we refer to the people who are dying on the battle field as soldiers who paid the ultimate sacrifice. In short, the more things change the more they stay the same.

Sunday, January 11, 2015

You Owe!

Being the public isn't easy. We the public get screwed and then blamed for everything. The most common blame we the public get issued on us is voting. The people didn't get out to vote so now we have a republican house and senate. This is confusing since regardless of who votes, the republicans are going to win no matter what. They have made it so that although they have a 5% approval rating, because only their district votes are counted, they stay in power. How is that the publics fault? It's not our fault our votes don't count. Not to mention the voter suppression laws requiring people to have state ID as well as the ending of early voting and voter laws to compliment the legal cheating of voters. Now there is the voting purge accusing people who have the same name of voting twice regardless of the fact that the social security numbers don't match. Yeah but with all this it's still the public's fault. This is a common strategy of blame the victim. Progressives are good for this. It becomes confusing. We are told by progressives to get out and vote then in the same sentence we are informed that our votes don't count. The public is not stupid. We know we're being screwed. We know that elections are for the most part rigged. This crap I just mentioned is completely legal. It's just the tip of the iceberg. This is just the slop that spills out of the pan. The stuff they can't hide. I really don't think that this country is held together by a lousy vote by the people. Since when have what the people wanted ever mattered? None of the decisions that are made are made due to humanitarian reasons. Gas prices didn't fall because there was too much of a burden put on we the public. No one came forward saying that we lowered prices at the pump to help you people. In fact, the news is trying to make us feel guilty about falling gas prices by explaining how these poor oil companies are loosing money. Boo hoo! Where was the oil company's feelings for the last decade and a half? I don't see them feeling sorry for us. From mortgages to credit to student loans, the underlying reason for anything the public gains has to do with the corporation. The public is nothing more than a resource to be exploited for the benefit of powerful. Indeed we are taught to believe this is good. Indeed we are brainwashed to serve the corporate good putting ourselves last. We live a life of guilt. We constantly have to owe money to this company and that company. Phone bills, rent, mortgage, electric bills, education bills and the list goes on. We live our lives feeling like we owe and when you owe, it implies guilt. The words YOU OWE A DEBT usually precede something that indicates you're being ungrateful. Let's face reality, if there were solutions that gave us free unlimited energy and a huge decrease need for money, how likely would we be to have this luxury since we the people owe so much as it is? We are indebted to pay since we owe. Since this is so, it makes sense that we the people are getting screwed in the ballot box. After all, what right do we have to pick our public leaders when we are in fact the ones who OWE. Our leadership doesn't feel like it owes us, with the exception of a few. Yes we are the victims being blamed. We don't vote because we haven't earned the right since our votes dont count because we didn't pay our bills so therefore we OWE and we don't count. Instead we are being counted. We are indentured servants with no rights until we pay off our debt. Unless and until we pay back what you owe, we will never have democracy since in the minds of our political corporate economy, we are the ones screwing them. They who gave us electric, education, cars, homes and everything else. We are ingrates who should be punished and we are punished by a lifetime of guilt, rigged elections and ownership of our lives through debt, malnutrition, greed, need and unrest. But hey things could be worse.

Saturday, January 10, 2015

TV Is Good

Some people believe that watching TV is bad. I can understand this belief. However let us not forget what people did for entertainment before there was TV. Before television we people used other forms of entertainment. One popular form of entertainment was public execution. In the United States invitations would be sent out for families to watch hangings. Death was very popular to watch before TV. Sure there were plays but nothing could draw a crowd like a good hanging. Mark Twain wrote about how people behaved during public executions saying it made the crowd vicious. Let us remember Rome. The Romans built the world's biggest monument for killing attracting thousands of people. These people watched other people die for entertainment. In contrast to watching television, I think that this entertainment was far more deadly. I further believe that the mind was impacted far more negatively than the mind that watches TV. So while we might not like the way TV influences us, I think it's safe to argue that we people have come a long way. Indeed violence is human nature and there must be a way to satisfy our blood lust. In prison, TV calms the housing areas. Without TV in prison, there would be riots everyday. People should be aware that TV has saved us in many ways. We people need entertainment and the bloodier the better. I'm just thankful it's done these days with actors pretending to die rather than with real people who really die.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Make Hacking Relevant!

Why do hackers always hack things that no one cares about? For example, we already know that the government does bad things like torcher other people. Let us not forget that America has the largest incarceration population on the planet. If not you, then someone you know has been in the hands of our government for a crime of some sort. Thus, we are well aware of how abusive our Militiristic policing can be. Since Vietnam, we have been aware of war crimes seeing the true horrors of war. This is callous of me, however, if anyone in this country does not know by now that we have created horrible atrocities through illegal wars killing tens of millions of people, then that person is an idiot. This country was born of blood. The indigenous were slaughtered. Slaves from Africa were brought over through a ruthless invasion brought on by Eurpoean desperation. This is not new information so why do hackers waste our time bringing us this trivia? Why hack Sony? What does anyone gain from Sony being hacked? Hackers need to hack things that are useful to the public. I have always thought of hackers, for the most part, as people who stand up for the little guy against powerful elitists. These people who hack are so mysterious that we can neither vilify them nor commend them. Some people love them and some people hate them. In any event, they are always taken seriously. They are taken seriously because these hackers bring home a sense of reality. Through their hacking, we are able to be set free from the bondage of corporate control. These hackers let everyone know who is really in control. Even Sony had to bow to the all mighty hackers. I never saw a major company so scared. Even our President Obama had to tell Sony to pull their skirts down and man up. I wish hackers would take their hacking were it really needs to go; all the way to the student loan office! Hackers need to wipe everyone's student loan debt clean! Now that would be useful! A hacker needs to clean everyone's credit! I'm not asking a lot. I mean it's not like I'm asking for money. Of course money would be nice. Perhaps a hacker with a sense of humor could take money from the 1 percent and put it in the bank account of the 99 percent. Now that would make hacking relevent.