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Dear Readers,
As I’m prepping and typing this ezine, attempts to highlight matters of the absurd are becoming more absurd by the minute! Here I am thinking and writing ideas, stretching my imagination with a clear yet simple definition for the word absurd. Existential varieties of absurdities can become so complex that I actually didn’t want to go there, but that’s probably where we’re headed with ideas swaying feelings right from the start!
For our purposes, consider the simplest definitions for absurd: utterly or obviously senseless, illogical; contrary to all reason or common sense; laughably foolish or false. Consider now what would utterly senseless or illogical mean; for whom and in what context is senselessness meaningful; for whom and in what context is reason meaningful?
You and I are not the only ones on this planet doing the best we can do for ourselves and for those around us while there are people doing their best to maintain absurd levels of angst. Too many global, combative spectacles demonstrate psychological benefits in powers of upset.
We get to decide whether an idea is absurd, more or less absurd, not at all absurd, or more absurd than absurd. We may consider one person’s treasure as another’s absurdity; the example of lipstick comes to mind.
Depending on expectations and goals in our particular worlds, we are always choosing whether to choose as we’ve chosen before. If we’re accustomed to a certain choice in a certain condition while at home in USA, that same choice might be considered absurd, for example, in Kenya or Venezuela.
The more we read, the more contradictions make boggling a common nuance that comes with fitting latest scientific interpretations and stories into our personal cosmologies. We are keen if aware of cosmologies blended with ecology, economics, poligions, which can be obviously moralized and mass marketed by racist memes to persuade populaces. It appears misunderstandings, contradictions, contentions, absurdities—mostly attributed for male dominations wielding illusive power—insure divisive projections from the media industrial complex into industrial lifestyles.
Observing rulers’ absurdities in world purview, the notable Walt Disney did us all a favor by producing a film depicting the Chicken Little fable. If we were awake to it, Disney revealed his 1943 satirical version of the fable by cartooning a despot in the chicken yard, and distinguished despotism by putting the word totalitarian into the script. If sensibilities allow, notice the musical score also creates an air of grueling satire. I gawked remembering films that early on depicted males’ terror over others as in Citizen Kane (1941), Manchurian Candidate (1962), and The Mad Woman of Chaillot (1969).
If you’ve wanted some insight for despotic tyrannies present on Earth, this video ought to stir curiosity. Fear not, for there are things worse in life than cartoons, albeit, the stinger at the end could raise eyebrows: we are reminded of vigorous male domination as we observe global financial and military fiascos.
The Disney Studios’ 1943 production
Chicken Little
As we put perspective to propaganda by which we USA citizens have been trained during the last one hundred years, we experience many citizens uneducated, not caring a tittle for education or book reading, and seemingly proud of it while swayed psychologically at the slightest command via Internet and TV. What inactions of at-large USA citizens, professors, scholars, scientists, preachers, public servants supported the regime put in place after Patriot Act 2001? What is your understanding of Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003 dubbed Patriot II as described in Wikipedia?
By way of reminder, Wikipedia might be good as a primary information source, but believing everything written there is an error. Retraining ourselves to question everything is what we were supposed to have done, for instance, before despots pledged oaths to serve their North American countries.
We Are Being
We are being eaten. I’ve already told a number of people, and I’m announcing still again that my next mom and dad have been put on notice: I do not wish to be born again within the Universe I’ve lived all my life. Which universes are not just like the one I am at this moment living in? Are there other choices for existing without the consciousness we know about? Unless they’re all the same, please choose another universe in which we won’t get eaten. I hope they’ve gotten the message; I’ve sent it every way possible except by pigeon!
From what I understand about stars bursting in our Universe, even as we read this, matter pushed out from bursting stars is eaten by hungry energies that were probably standing by for the event. Then the eaters, that have consumed just the right amount of just the right kinds of energies, collapse into ittybitty dots but instantly burst forth into energies scattering all over the place. We call the process the creation cycle, which occurs over and over again at speeds as unimaginable as zeptoseconds (an order of magnitude that equals a trillionth of one billionth of one second). Plants and animals and all other life as we know it on Planet Earth eat sunlight, turn sunlight into nutrients via photosynthesis or kemosynthesis, then grow and reproduce and die.
With no little amount of evidence, say not less than 250 thousand years, humans have been and are being killed by each other day and night as more humans are birthed, only to get maimed by other humans, or die from catastrophe or bad weather, or in other ways perish from sickness. It appears we humans live out life cycles our Universe performs—stars eat, then burst—we birth, then die—stars eat, then burst—we birth, then die: here we go again in a creation cycle. We live in tasty states of being eaten.
Is That All There Is?
Let’s think for a moment about absurd possibilities of mongers of wars making so many errors in judgments and behaviors deliberately violent to an extent of ending the creation process in a large geographical area like the entire Earth. Well, that won’t happen ’cause no thing would be around to work in corporations ’cause corporations wouldn’t exist. No thing would exist to pay taxes or pay debt installments to bankers who can’t bank any longer ’cause bankers wouldn’t be around to be eaten.Humans without being in bodies can’t imagine no thing ’cause no thing would exist to imagine out of. No thing would be around to imagine the Gods ’cause one God, Son, Lord, Savior, Redeemer, Messiah would be unimaginable.
Apparently, we humans cannot release ourselves from a continual birthing and dying process, and I think the process of Universe’s life cycle is absurd. Is death, the final absurdity, all there is?
Pretentious Respect
Let’s remember early passages in Ecclesiastes paraphrased: vapor of vapors, and futility of futilities, says the preacher, all is vanity—emptiness, falsity, and vainglorious [absurdity]. What profit remains after having toiled under the sun? One generation goes, and another generation comes, but the Earth remains… For in much wisdom is much vexation, and who increases knowledge increases sorrow. ¹
For about ten years, we’ve noticed engineered banking vagaries producing massively relevant foreign policy upsets—bordering preposterous—until those relevancies are in 2008 replaced over night with other absurdities, which are actually bankers’ best guesses from computerized models. On September 14, last Sunday, an unprecedented opening of the market commenced redistributions of extorted wealth. From millenniums of inflations into deflations, pretentious respect and lacks of trust among today’s money changers cascade into financial upsets for billions of global taxpayers.
That’s what the seclusive ruling families and money changers have always accomplished: vagaries in bad faith by suddenly calling in debtor loans; upsetting public servants’ plans for citizens’ well being, threatening to ridicule and shame leaders by claiming to the populace malfeasance when leaders will not conform; by contracting to threaten leaders’ and their families’ lives if financiers’ stratagems are assumed absurd by the leaders.
Playing politics properly at higher levels of hierarchy forces walking a line between showing pretentious respect in public for the set of ethics of Average Joe Citizen, and another set of ethics pretentiously respectful of blending nouveau riche with old family wealth. ²
So It Goes
Since September 11, 2001, millions of USA citizens have awakened to ideas that international laws and actions, and the politicians who proclaim their good will in the name of nations, do not match what we’ve been trained to believe. Blends of hierarchies and Abrahamic traditions over millennia have been the great psychical, viperous travesty thrust into humans’ perceptions.
And it seems the abyss of early twenty-first century will not be different for our children and theirs. Out of fear or perhaps lack of curiosity or appropriate language, despotism will likely remain disguised, nay, unquestioned. Children could develop, like many of us, doing anything other than remembering the bankers,’ political and religious shills,’ and warlords’ legacies of perception management to which the children may unconsciously adhere.
So much knowledge cycles into darkness as it did when the Ancient Library of Alexandria, Egypt, was looted of all manuscripts—another colossal, senseless error by human passion for power and diverse superstitions and ignorance. And so it goes without curiosity and choice, and love and laughter.
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