I feel like from birth I had as much knowledge as I have now. To realise how much time has gone by and
how much should have changed when it hasn't, is really doing my head in. In my early days, invention
and novelty were rife. Nowadays, it seems that it's all petering out. Where new things should have come
along, there is just recycled garbage. Artistically and scientifically, things seem to have stagnated.
Number one on Top of the Pops is another cover version. Go through the stations on your radio, trying
to find one that's playing something that isn't a cover version or has someone else's music sampled
into it. The repetitiveness of modern rock/pop music and its homogeneity across the spectrum of
musicians leads me to believe that the music industry has something to do with it, not the musicians
themselves. The reason I say this is common sense. When CDs ousted vinyl and musical retail outlets
became more streamlined in the name of commercial efficiency and business sense, what was available
for mass-listening could more easily be centrally controlled (eg. government and/or music industry).
As a result, budding musicians' creativity has been stifled by an upbringing which exposed them to little
innovation because of the music that was being played commercially. Commercial playlists are definitely
controlled by the government and/or music industry. Music is just one aspect of this stagnation. The
cost-effective society we live in today, with its ergonomic yet cheap designs, is to blame for the
suffocation of any new ideas. Anyone who manages to trouble the current social structure with
amazing new ways of seeing it will either get stigmatised to render them unpalatable or idiotic to the
rest of the world, or bumped off so they are no longer a threat
(see the Bill Hicks page).
I'm trying so hard to assert my individuality where conformity is the norm. I have to be careful
not to upset people with opinions. This strikes me as ludicrous, as ideas which are novelty-based, should
not offend people. Yet they do. I am fed up of pussy-footing through a lacklustre society. I need to fully
express this novel way of existing or I'll go crazy! This site is a way of publishing ideas without
paranoia. If you feel the same way, E-Mail me with some
of your hitherto repressed feelings, and I will gladly exhibit them on this page.
Remember :- we need 10,000,000,000 people to get to the next stage.
Stage 1 - 10,000,000,000 atoms to make a cell
Stage 2 - 10,000,000,000 cells to make a skeletally-protected nervous system
Stage 3 - 10,000,000,000 skeletally-protected nervous systems to make the next stage in evolution
Stage 4 - ....
Don't forget - we are only a nervous system. Everything we think we are, is a manifestation of our
nervous systems. Our brains are part of our nervous systems. Don't let your nervous system become
a seething mass of neurotic misconceptions instilled by your experiences growing up through the
quagmire of government-controlled stage-shows. If you feel you are good, and know right from
wrong, and think you have been cheated, let your voice show through this site! E-Mail me.
Every valid notion will be added to this Forum.
E-Mail addresses and other identification can be suppressed at your request. How you appear to other
people is largely irrelevant; what is going through your mind and senses is what counts. To the most recent offerings
I tend to agree with you about the rubbish that is aired on the radio today. However, you
are forgetting the discovery in recent years of the tweeny market. Young innocents, barely
out of nappies are who are buying singles today. They don't want anything to deep, they just
want something which they can easily sing along to and make up little dances for. Believe me
I know my little sister is one of them. Over the years I have had my fill of the Spice
Girls, Britney Spears, S Club 7 etc... And in the beginning I reacted in much the same way as
you seem to have "How can you rot away your brain listening to this crap!!!" However as I
have grown older and a little more tolerant I have taken a much more laid back attitude. So
it is rubbish, we know this, but is it meant to be good??? No, it is just meant to be laughed
at and is a good excuse to jump around dancing badly. So to conclude, it is the TWEENY market
that buy singles, adults like myself (and you to I presume) buy albums and only listen to
Radio 1 and X fm. The album chart is where it all happens so stop moaning and enjoy being 12
years old again next time you hear some regurgitated 60's hit. Besides you need mediocrity,
otherwise how would you know within yourself that you are not like everyone else. Would you
want to follow the crowd even if it was towards decent music???
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"Don't stop, never give up, hold your head high and reach the top!"
S Club 7 "Bring It On Back"
I have read every word on your site and can honestly say that you and I think very much
alike. I agree with everything that you say, and I think you are right in your description of
what is now and how things should really be, I applaud you for your effort to portray your
beliefs. Though to try to alter the path in which this global CELL is taking, from an
individual or even a critical mass of influence I think is futile, with the (as you well
described) governments that control us. There is nothing more I would like than to turn this
messed up money centred over political 'commercially mapped' world around and I would back
any true revolution that had a blueprint for a better society. I am a believer in fate and I
take comfort in the fact that I believe in 'good', I promote 'good' and if there is a judge
to my life, (and all others), then we will be judged in a relative way. You and I were born
into this generation against our will (lets face it if you had the choice it would have been
a 'no thanks that place is a hell hole' kinda thing!) along with everyone else who feels the
same. I do not believe in any religion that is interpreted on this planet, though I do
believe in a reason for any creation and I believe that whether your 'good' travels only
yards then you will be happy in yourself. I think the heaven and hell that we all believe in
are within us (good v. bad)........................choose your path!
... I am totally in agreement of your views and I only wish that sites like yours and people
like Bill Hicks were in more numbers as the whole world needs a good shaking and told to wake
up and realise the world in which they are living is becoming unconscious to the fact that
Governments are trying to run the world in a way so that every single person becomes a
'number' used to generate money and control for these authority. I have tried explaining my
beliefs and ideas to friends and the majority are unconscious to this fact and I believe this
just proves the point that Bill Hicks made with regards to American people being controlled
by this false consciousness that is used to generate money and power to fulfill certain
persons' greeds. ...
Looking at the Roman name for my home island it strikes me that ' Hibernia ' is very close to
'Hibernation' , this reveals to me that our own natural and supernatural character is due to
a deeply somnolent people. Today I can tell you that we are being waived of this character
as being Irish is now a fashionable commodity , ( Theme pubs etc. ). Once a being is aware
of what it is it ceases to be that being , thus Ireland is only now falling victim to
Westernism , for the first time large numbers of Irish are doting on what it is to be Irish ,
this is because they feel isolated from there nature. The truth is that our people have been
bastardised from our aboriginal truth , largely by alcohol and the Catholic Church . We are
now part of the one God ( one money ) network that poses a threat to all wholesome life. I've
worked as a barman for a winter in a local Donegal pub , It's a harsh and grey time , before
me I see great minds fall to self- doubt and intoxication . Our richness is being pissed
away. I am nearing the end of a trip within Thailand and Laos. In many places where opium is
the aboriginal drug , the western abyss of cultural neutralisation has now found that if they
introduce stimulants that will counter the effects of this natural drug they will thus create
a method of control. The market is flooded with variations of Red Bull in medicine bottles .
These are pure liquid amphetamines in highly concentrated forms , they are priced at 10 baht,
(15p sterling) and are sat beside the Soy milk and water. The populace lap it up as a token
of Western aspiration , I frequently turn down these drinks from Thais trying to engage me in
conversation , it is becoming another social medium , through which many prefer to relate
through , they are hooked and then the price rockets and they too are controlled as we are in
our part of the world with alcohol and cigarettes . It will happen soon . Control of the
people in Indo-China is a priority as if full realisation of what the U.S. did in Laos occurs
then it should easily be the lynch-pin of the ' Free World '. I find the very existence of
your site a relief , keep the wheel turning and the clockworks of many minds may soon get
oiled and used again by that momentum.
My mind is awash with an infinity of ideas and where in the past I discussed these ideas
alone (in dreams or waking thoughts) I feel compelled to join the global discussion. So
enters a highly spiritual, often frustrated but loveable anarchist, intent on improving this
world before I leave for a future plain of existence. Roll on the mind revolution.
Hello. I would just like to say you truly have a great mind. It is rare for me to be saying
words of such complementary nature but I feel that you deserve them. Although we would appear
to share a great deal of thoughts and opinions I have to give credit to the composure of your
explanations, the delivery is something that I could never master and is why people come up
short on my theories and explanations. You, however, do not appear to have this problem and
this site proves to be insightful and your opinions very satisfying.
Your imagery of the average person is, in fact, quite alarming. Though, I am curious. How is
it that you can say what an enlightened individual can do when the very personal and moral
acts that individual make are that which make the person enlightened? eg. "those who
are enlightened do not use alcohol or drugs". You describe the fact that those who are
enlightened live for themselves and that they care nothing for what others think. But in all
fairness, what if they choose for themselves they want to live by the rules of current
society. What if that is what makes them happy. Then are they not enlightened also? I am
quite curious on these issues. I would appreciate a response about these topics if your
schedule permits. Thank You.
"Morality is perception
Tolerance is an acceptance of that perception"
"Freedom is the power to do as one desires
Let your freedom stop when it affects another's"
"Hatred is for the ignorant
It is only through education that peace can exist"
"The acceptance of change is the signature of maturity"
"True genius is the product of creativity"
"Golf is a test in anger management"
My reply :-
What I am saying is that it should be, but currently isn't, a free individual choice as to
how one can contribute to society and the livelihoods of those people around you. At the
moment, monetary wealth drives society instead of a proper skills base. The choices become
constricted to just those that could in some way be remunerative in monetary wealth, as if
that could be cure to all woes. Any other possible outlets for creativity, like science or
art, are ideologically so well-explored, few great achievements seem left. There should be a
right to change in a democratic society, not mass acceptance of an inevitable sorrow for good
ideas that never flourish.
We feel powerless to invent choices for ourselves, because merit without remunerative benefit
is regarded as a waste of time in this society. In the "money cage" (the globally inescapable
impact of money on the way of life), ideas and creativity flow to the metal bars
encapsulating it, rather than to forming a cool and imaginative centre of an ever-expanding
"ideas cage" instead. That would be the next thing in evolution of global mindsets. We have
to stop polluting ourselves under coercion from the powers that be, and start cleaning up our
acts. Everyone knows how to do that - we all know good from bad, right from wrong, and
others, from a mixture of perspectives, and we can see those in charge currently, as not
adhering to values that the average person knows only too well - values that the average
person applies to him/herself and others. That makes for a lot of stress. MJ 30/7/2003
People are not stupid. But here I refer only to the ability to mechanically connect information
intelligence. As Erich Fromm argued, modern man has manipulating intellect, but is without
reason, awareness, creativity and imagination. he cannot penetrate the "surface" of things,
events, structures, societies. He is an automaton. Chronically anxious, he tries to overcome the
feelings of emptiness by being a sadist, masochist, destructive, conformist etc. But aside
from that, his higher mind is dead.
Here is the original posting. Mark Jacobs says :-
What a fantastic reply! You're so right in your observations and it strikes me that this
drubbing down of mankind's imaginative and inquisitive spirit has been occurring relentlessly
for years, ever since the population reached a certain level and communication of that fact had
become global and almost instantaneous (the telegraph and so on). People could then
justifiably say that they were unimportant and get away with an air of being "realistic".
Basically, they are blaming the presence of everyone around them, for their own conditioned
shortcomings. The simple solution is to undo your own conditioning by simply becoming aware of
it in an honest light.
He replied :-
I would not say that it strikes me. I mean, it is really not surprising that society which is
based on hierarchy, exploitation, competition, psychic violence, discrimination (racism,
sexism, ageism) and sexual repression, uses various means to anaesthetise human awareness of
suffering inflicted by all these "practices". Among these means are the schooling system (the most
important, because it identifies knowledge with coercion and domination, worst of psychic
pains), church, TV programs, radio, press, computer and playstation games, alcohol, drugs,
Mc**** food, marketing, posters.. It seems like every piece of system has its own role in
maintaining of the whole. This is amazing. Certainly, all this is not invention, is not planned
by some monsters on the top. It came spontaneously, probably from the human unconscious, as a
result of repressed drives, capacities and positive strivings. As Yoda said in the "Star Wars",
"Once you step on a dark path, forever it will dominate your destiny". It is obvious that
civilisation's "journey" started a long time ago.
Government (an incorporated enterprise like any other) is little more than an organized crime
racket. They have guns and can use deadly force. They can break and enter. They can kidnap
(arrest) and hold hostage (jail). They can extort funds and seize property.
What separates government organized crime racketeers from a non-state sponsored private
enterprise organized crime racketeers are mere semantics. They both work the same turf.
Typical person, wake up! Break out of that Duracell battery pod 'The Matrix' placed you in.
You're living in a dream world if you think the government is a benevolent force there only
for the greater good.
People like you cannot and should not be trusted. For it is certain you'll act out in
accordance with The Matrix's (government) wishes, i.e., betray private confidences and serving
as a snitch and witness for the police state, just as you and many others are programmed to.
I initially started your rants page thinking that you're seeing sensibly, but the nattering
eventually got to me. I could bare no more of your pseudo-intellectual banter. You're quite
welcomed to have your own feelings and ideas, and I think your choice of medium is quite a good
one as well. However, to generalise our whole race as basically mindless, drooling sheep,
willing to follow anyone who will bark orders at us, is grotesquely inaccurate. We all have our
own opinions. Not all of us are willing to accept that we cannot do anything. But surely you
would concur that it's very hard in today's society to find a voice that's large enough for the
masses to hear. Hell, how many people have hit your website? I agree on a few points:
Organised religion is a fallacy. You're right. It should be strictly internal. War is not
necessary. At least not in all cases, but when the people are being kept stupid and poor as
well as ruthlessly dictated, something must be done. Still, war isn't the obvious choice.
Science is far and away the best place to look for knowledge about our surroundings and even
ourselves whilst bearing in mind that science is limited to what we are able to comprehend.
I'm happy I've "bumped" into your site. It IS good to see that someone other than me isn't
fooled by the media and the government as some people are only to happy to believe every printed
word they see...
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