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A week in a new setting can do wonders for a soul, but it makes returning an arduous task. Opening the door at the Rockin’ Frog greets you with the twitter of early morning birds and the scampering of bunnies; the same back in Atlanta drenches you in nasty humidity and stupefying heat.
But upon driving to work I had a satori- as I sat waiting for the state to tell me when it was allowable to turn left and listening to blathering nitwits on the radio discuss how the death of Sen. Byrd was going to matter- I realized of course, that it would have no effect at all. The wars will continue, BP and a thousand more will continue to kill us for profit, and somewhere, some ijit with an “R” or a “D” after there name will be talking out their blowhole about something that they know nothing about, reported by a completely corrupt and failed media.
My satori was this: No matter how many posts I make on TTP, Facebook, et al, the poisoners will continue to poison, the state will continue to arbitrarily order me around while taking my income to fund warmongering maniacs of a thousand flags. The people who read this blog are generally the choir- we already hold the same basic value set, so I’m rarely changing anyone’s mind on anything, just restating the bile.
So, going forward, this blog will either change or die. There is no purpose any longer in simply stating that, for example, Sarah Palin is a dangerous theocratic fraud, or that our government did 9/11. Either you believe thus, or you don’t- but what matters is what it in turn makes you do. I for one am tired- tired of pissing and moaning to limited effect, tired of reading about one more abuse of government power, or one more semi-credible or not account of media fakery- because who cares? I’m tired of pedaling the recumbent bike of stating the obvious, and am ready for action. What that will mean I haven’t a clue at the moment. But I’m currently reading Survival+: Structuring Prosperity for Yourself and the Nation by Charles Hugh Smith, and I recommend that everyone else do so as well. Because we’re living in a failing empire, as all empires fail, and when it does, its gonna be fugly.
And I plan on being here when it happens:
“rest”
Now, the only question remains, getting from here to there. Let’s go.
