Surely the described outrages pale.. in mid-'13.. when we raise the Scale one? 3 or 4? notches:
Don't get sick in Murica (that is: eat right; evade as many pharm-chem nostrums as.. your own immune system can already manage.)
Assume that some %large of any formally-paid Authority Figures have chosen to wield Power as a career: because of (known?) (unknown?)
personal-psych 'Issues.' Humor them (where possible without being next actually maimed.)
Flatter their testosterone-enhanced egos (even the females: All have some %testosterone too.)
Failure to properly assuage those--in forced-contact--who are acting-out: compounds the possible outrages which are in the arsenal.
Be grateful when calm techniques save you from the extreme/sadistic perps in various uniforms (including chortling nurses inserting catheters: they wear White uniforms, note.)
ie Yep: WE'RE THERE already.
And there's No Place to Hide from the banana-Plantation Owners.
..even lovely Bhutan, with its Gross National Happiness / annual [Real!] survey: treats females ~~ the same as your average Murican WASP-misogynist. Pity.. that.
If you think I am here exaggerating.. go read the ENRAGED 16 yo's 2010 event.
It's now 2013--anyone think it's gotten Better since?
Soo Then ... Which -?- cooks US First, next:
Door #1: a, say exponential rise in frequency/duration of 105-115°F daily temps, not just in fly-over backwaters?
(Water aquifers poisoned by fracking fluids, droughts, more movement of ΣNationalWealth into the 0.1% offshore collection points;
Lousier supermarket-food-like substances at higher prices: Little Fun-Shopping-for-Stuff, as the Consumer Dream evanesces into: 85%-at-Official-Poverty-Level (we're nearing that already)
________ any here can add n more symptoms. (And yes, every topic WIll generate T.M.I. paralysis.)
Door #2: an even more rapid deterioration of Civility (verbal/physical/penal forms, etc.) towards some Mad-Max tipping point
--where Revolution happens [amongst the Active/Aware/Outraged] and the vast majority of the Otiose/Complacent/Gullible stand about ... ... ... in that
'helpless confusion' which Confucius described as the Cost of 'language not being [kept] correct'
(If there's a Door #3: it would have to be simultaneous #1 + #2, wouldn't it?)
From my POV: Yesss we still have a slim-chance to salvage much that was fine, but the momentum is clearly towards -->
More of the Same which empowered the Cheney Shogunate to Act Crazy, Then and still.
The USSC is unlikely to be impeached for their obvious 12th Century bias in all things.
[ NOW: One fucking Man/Kennedy!!-- 'Decides' whether to Bury Us All / Give us a Reprieve. ¡Verdad! ]
The Koch Bros. et alia: Rule all the government pseudo-choices; hold ALL of the $$$-cards, permanently.
I shall tune-out the Deluge, feed the feral cats (who, like all Other species on the planet--get No Thought) within the techno-Dream kultur
--which daily expands its planet-rapine--for something which addled minds call 'Profit', while burning their nest, along with ours.
(Who needs to imagine 'species-cide' when we've got All-species-seppuku ... should all those perfectly-programmed nukes fly,
amidst some next series of mistaken-data or Mistaken-psyches?)
Am glad to have the maya hypothesis: all this stuff is Just a Play.
But is [Something] dreaming-it-All-Up? (like Leibniz' metaphor of sitting in a 'room', watching a screen??)
It's BEST, never to be Certain of such matters. IMO.
Time to cool off a couple spots for ferals to escape (the mere ~100F of today.)
Cats, via physiology: always live in The Present-moment. / ergo: Superior Beings to homo-saps.
Ed: LeVar Burton explains how not to be killed by police
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