when I was thirteen I had a newspaper that sold well in small towns and countrysides. There was nary an article that wasn't uplifting... as a result I wouldn't say it was journalism...but after reading everyone around you was good and no one was out to get you.
My personal escape to calm my heart from exploding became to study the cultures of animals and nature and anthropology as it existed in its earlier days.
When we begin to learn trust, you need to reorient yourself and I chose not to use drink or believe in someday has to be now .
Please keep pointing everyone to now, and please keep showing people now we rise only by looking to ourselves and casting out out own demons that are daily attempting to fire us away.
"They" are always ominous and then I no longer has a We; and I can never be They and so we rocket ourselves into nothing.
No one can be an I without understanding I must be connected...
We cannot let ourselves be led into suicide. But there are many ways to commit suicide...social media...AI...can kill us and lead us into becoming the dead living.
Where can we go?
Maybe to the columns of Akcidentalwriter might be a start.
Hi Ken, So kind of you to the time to write this. Yes it is about the now. #futureisnow Connection is what we do as humans. that connection is our savings grave. It is our way to all of the progressions we have accomplished. it is a time now to forge towards that connection as we are in a time of human disconnection .
Strangely enough I'm currently writing a piece for my own substack blog on the reduction of news coverage to social media soundbites, how this is endorsed by NCTJ and much current "journalism" training and how this serves the Spectacle (and political reaction) in the framing of news and further integration of the alienated working class into its own enslavement. Must read for you and your followers is Guy De Bord's SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE which provides the theoretical framework to understand what I call THE NEW RULES OF THE MANUFACTURE OF CONSENT. Its no coincidence that the Tech Oligarchs provide the immediate social basis for the new fascism and that, as opinion formers, they are now more dangerous than our traditional enemies such as Dacre and Murdoch
Thank you for sharing that you are conceiving something similar. Look forward to seeing it. very cool on the book recommendation! For me it is the concept of empowerment which has ballooned this behavior of the everyday person. Folks either forget or never knew that the internet came from the NSA apparatus. They understood the human psychology and now we have gone so deep down that abyss. Social media is not media in my assessment. It is narcissistic overdose for the everyday person that is built on empowerment not power! I personally never dived into social media on a personal level. Folks I hope assess the time spent there which is not business. The less we are there the less powerful it is.
The reference to the NSA is something I'd known in the past when social media was still being championed on the left due to the anti-capitalist movement and (above all) the Arab Spring. Some guy called Drake who preceded Ed Snowden was quite good on this. The turning point for me was when I covered the crackdown on the democracy protests in Bahrain and saw how the al-Kahlifa regime USED FACEBOOK to incite sectarianism against the democracy protesters, frame the protests as an ethnic Shia Revolt (which Iran happily went along with for geo-strategic reasons) and justify state repression insofar that Hezbollah in Bahrain was basically a social media creation. This, I realised, was the future and lo and behold, along come Robert Mercer, Cambridge Analytica and Elon Musk.
Yes, yes...and! I was thinking you were going to segue into the Puff Daddy road show on youtube. It is so very rich....it provides everything you name and yet, even more....and this is where it all gets interesting. I firstly want to say that I am feeling this may be the house of cards that brings it all down...and I mean ALL OF IT. The dark force agendas are folding in on themselves like mis-programmed fibrin...the occult rules of 'hide it in plain sight' don't work very well when there are those with eyes to see and there are now many who see through the lies and tin disguises. It is no accident that music is the gateway but I'll leave it at that.
It may simply be divine providence that gave "Puff" his nickname or maybe it was done on purpose by puppet masters....and we are seeing that there are many but what is this morass all about really? The spiritual war, the holy war....what is it? It is not about good or bad or even winning...and that is the good news. It is about perception, veils lifting, feeling our truth.
There are ancient philosophical ideas that present the notion that Team Dark is actually us (!!!) playing out the cosmic role of duality that underlays experience...that Team Dark gives us the power of distinction and the right to choose. If we are immortal souls having a human experience with various timelines, this would make sense. If we are all from the ONE divine consciousness, exploring the possibilities of dark and light, this would make sense. Indigenous wisdom, ancient relics and the most valuable writings (most likely still kept in vaults) will converge in this notion that I am you and you are me. I Am That I Am - is the whole of us speaking of the vastness of being, not ego, not duality...simply the great Oneness. As you ponder on this...it opens many doors and connects many dots and brings you to the highest mountain and the deepest cave of the heart. We are Love, love is cohesion. All else is naught....Puff.
I thank you for taking time to communicate!! I didn't mention Puffy because I was active in the music business from 1999 -2017. I was aware of Puffy's parties!!! Folks wanted to be invited. It was a hot ticket. Those writings are definitely in vaults. I said to someone if I was offered 10 million dollars or a year in The Vatican with a translator , I would take the Vatican.
If more people wrote like you, we'd have better-educated readers. By the time I hit Jr. High, I was reading on a 12th-grade level. As an HS grad, it was college. Math was my big hang-up.
I just read Sen. Paul's sub; Grammarly caught all the errors. Now he needs to get off his tush and CHARGE FAUCET under both the NUREMBERG AND HELSINKI ACORDS AND HANG HIM PUBLICALLY! Get his wife, Redfield, too. If Redfield thinks I'm going to forget his roles on Pain Patients or Covid, he has bird POOP for brains.
I concur with you, AKcidentalwriter! I'm putting the film "Trvth" on my watchlist, as it were. I have many films (probably too many) that I'm planning to watch, study & muse about, in order to distill something worth writing about. But the films on my watchlist are not in any particular order in terms of priority - at least they aren't at present.
One film will call to me, & perhaps another in the same vein... or not. Then I come upon others through detours, tangential trajectories, as well as by associates & dissociates! So, onward I go. I'm never quite sure what to expect! But "Film Studies" as a science & an artform remain one of my serious interests, & this has been true since I was in high school. I'm studying PR as well at this point in time & I'm attempting to do so with a "Beginner's Mind."
I will have more to say later on these matters. Life has a way of pulling one in many different ways at once, but I'm centered on my visions concerning what I'm going to write & then publish, utilizing various topics. We are on similar pages in similar books, & in very similar libraries, to to speak - in a metaphorical context. The Vatican! Such esoteric/occult sources have always fascinated me & from a young age. But I don't consider myself a credentialed scholar in any of these areas. I'm just a seasoned acolyte. "The more you learn, the less you know."
Now I'm off to do the dishes! With my musical accompaniments. I may play Wang Chung's "To Live & Die in L.A." or Joni Mitchell's "Dog Eat Dog"... both albums have been my auditorial companions lately. Or I may choose an album by Don Henley or Leonard Cohen. Or Morrissey!
when I was thirteen I had a newspaper that sold well in small towns and countrysides. There was nary an article that wasn't uplifting... as a result I wouldn't say it was journalism...but after reading everyone around you was good and no one was out to get you.
My personal escape to calm my heart from exploding became to study the cultures of animals and nature and anthropology as it existed in its earlier days.
When we begin to learn trust, you need to reorient yourself and I chose not to use drink or believe in someday has to be now .
Please keep pointing everyone to now, and please keep showing people now we rise only by looking to ourselves and casting out out own demons that are daily attempting to fire us away.
"They" are always ominous and then I no longer has a We; and I can never be They and so we rocket ourselves into nothing.
No one can be an I without understanding I must be connected...
We cannot let ourselves be led into suicide. But there are many ways to commit suicide...social media...AI...can kill us and lead us into becoming the dead living.
Where can we go?
Maybe to the columns of Akcidentalwriter might be a start.
Hi Ken, So kind of you to the time to write this. Yes it is about the now. #futureisnow Connection is what we do as humans. that connection is our savings grave. It is our way to all of the progressions we have accomplished. it is a time now to forge towards that connection as we are in a time of human disconnection .
Strangely enough I'm currently writing a piece for my own substack blog on the reduction of news coverage to social media soundbites, how this is endorsed by NCTJ and much current "journalism" training and how this serves the Spectacle (and political reaction) in the framing of news and further integration of the alienated working class into its own enslavement. Must read for you and your followers is Guy De Bord's SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE which provides the theoretical framework to understand what I call THE NEW RULES OF THE MANUFACTURE OF CONSENT. Its no coincidence that the Tech Oligarchs provide the immediate social basis for the new fascism and that, as opinion formers, they are now more dangerous than our traditional enemies such as Dacre and Murdoch
Thank you for sharing that you are conceiving something similar. Look forward to seeing it. very cool on the book recommendation! For me it is the concept of empowerment which has ballooned this behavior of the everyday person. Folks either forget or never knew that the internet came from the NSA apparatus. They understood the human psychology and now we have gone so deep down that abyss. Social media is not media in my assessment. It is narcissistic overdose for the everyday person that is built on empowerment not power! I personally never dived into social media on a personal level. Folks I hope assess the time spent there which is not business. The less we are there the less powerful it is.
The reference to the NSA is something I'd known in the past when social media was still being championed on the left due to the anti-capitalist movement and (above all) the Arab Spring. Some guy called Drake who preceded Ed Snowden was quite good on this. The turning point for me was when I covered the crackdown on the democracy protests in Bahrain and saw how the al-Kahlifa regime USED FACEBOOK to incite sectarianism against the democracy protesters, frame the protests as an ethnic Shia Revolt (which Iran happily went along with for geo-strategic reasons) and justify state repression insofar that Hezbollah in Bahrain was basically a social media creation. This, I realised, was the future and lo and behold, along come Robert Mercer, Cambridge Analytica and Elon Musk.
thanks for this insight. Very interesting here.....
Yes, yes...and! I was thinking you were going to segue into the Puff Daddy road show on youtube. It is so very rich....it provides everything you name and yet, even more....and this is where it all gets interesting. I firstly want to say that I am feeling this may be the house of cards that brings it all down...and I mean ALL OF IT. The dark force agendas are folding in on themselves like mis-programmed fibrin...the occult rules of 'hide it in plain sight' don't work very well when there are those with eyes to see and there are now many who see through the lies and tin disguises. It is no accident that music is the gateway but I'll leave it at that.
It may simply be divine providence that gave "Puff" his nickname or maybe it was done on purpose by puppet masters....and we are seeing that there are many but what is this morass all about really? The spiritual war, the holy war....what is it? It is not about good or bad or even winning...and that is the good news. It is about perception, veils lifting, feeling our truth.
There are ancient philosophical ideas that present the notion that Team Dark is actually us (!!!) playing out the cosmic role of duality that underlays experience...that Team Dark gives us the power of distinction and the right to choose. If we are immortal souls having a human experience with various timelines, this would make sense. If we are all from the ONE divine consciousness, exploring the possibilities of dark and light, this would make sense. Indigenous wisdom, ancient relics and the most valuable writings (most likely still kept in vaults) will converge in this notion that I am you and you are me. I Am That I Am - is the whole of us speaking of the vastness of being, not ego, not duality...simply the great Oneness. As you ponder on this...it opens many doors and connects many dots and brings you to the highest mountain and the deepest cave of the heart. We are Love, love is cohesion. All else is naught....Puff.
I thank you for taking time to communicate!! I didn't mention Puffy because I was active in the music business from 1999 -2017. I was aware of Puffy's parties!!! Folks wanted to be invited. It was a hot ticket. Those writings are definitely in vaults. I said to someone if I was offered 10 million dollars or a year in The Vatican with a translator , I would take the Vatican.
If more people wrote like you, we'd have better-educated readers. By the time I hit Jr. High, I was reading on a 12th-grade level. As an HS grad, it was college. Math was my big hang-up.
I just read Sen. Paul's sub; Grammarly caught all the errors. Now he needs to get off his tush and CHARGE FAUCET under both the NUREMBERG AND HELSINKI ACORDS AND HANG HIM PUBLICALLY! Get his wife, Redfield, too. If Redfield thinks I'm going to forget his roles on Pain Patients or Covid, he has bird POOP for brains.
Clear,concis,H.I in it's best,thank you.💯🎯
I concur with you, AKcidentalwriter! I'm putting the film "Trvth" on my watchlist, as it were. I have many films (probably too many) that I'm planning to watch, study & muse about, in order to distill something worth writing about. But the films on my watchlist are not in any particular order in terms of priority - at least they aren't at present.
One film will call to me, & perhaps another in the same vein... or not. Then I come upon others through detours, tangential trajectories, as well as by associates & dissociates! So, onward I go. I'm never quite sure what to expect! But "Film Studies" as a science & an artform remain one of my serious interests, & this has been true since I was in high school. I'm studying PR as well at this point in time & I'm attempting to do so with a "Beginner's Mind."
I will have more to say later on these matters. Life has a way of pulling one in many different ways at once, but I'm centered on my visions concerning what I'm going to write & then publish, utilizing various topics. We are on similar pages in similar books, & in very similar libraries, to to speak - in a metaphorical context. The Vatican! Such esoteric/occult sources have always fascinated me & from a young age. But I don't consider myself a credentialed scholar in any of these areas. I'm just a seasoned acolyte. "The more you learn, the less you know."
Now I'm off to do the dishes! With my musical accompaniments. I may play Wang Chung's "To Live & Die in L.A." or Joni Mitchell's "Dog Eat Dog"... both albums have been my auditorial companions lately. Or I may choose an album by Don Henley or Leonard Cohen. Or Morrissey!
Thank you kindly for your continued writings!
he y Mick, You are jumping in some deep pools! Go to the deep part!! Lol. What does a scholar mean in the A.I era?? Take the dive. Morrissey!!! Nice