Saturday 26th, September 2009........

Morning early, dawn in a couple hours..

Woke thinking about world situation and human nature.. its looking
fairly ugly of course... both, because they are interrelated to the
extreme...

Its taken me a long time to figure out, generally because its so well
hidden by friendly glad handing and warm social trips, but humans
are mostly two faced....

I've seen it again and again, even in myself, and still not gotten
it.... too naieve certainly......

basically how we are, is like sharks, with hungry egos, and we
have invented a mental construct we call money, and to us its like
blood in the water... Reality is a feeding frenzy... and we are so
busy biting hunks out of each other and creating more blood in the
water, that few will escape intact before its all over... a limit to
the top of the food chain perhaps? That when you are too successful
in nature, and make it to the top of the pyramid, limits on your
population are few, either you can eat yourself out of resources,
and over populate, and then start fighting over your resource base
and kill each other off, or you can start running out of resourses and
food stress allows a foothold for microbes to limit your
population.... in our case it looks to be both coming over the
horizon....

money is nothing and everything...

in real terms, money is nothing, paper currency, credit, even gold &
silver etc. all pretty much imaginary..... they work only because we
believe in them, not because they have any actual value...

gold and silver etc. Are better in most ways than fiat currencys...
at least their use prevents some well known problems like inflation,
which is debauching or siphoning off wealth by some behind the back
watering down of the currency, while pretending up front that its
still the same value...... This technique had its origin in metallic
currencies, kings etc. Were quite fond of watering down the gold and
silver with cheaper read; more common/available metals, and thus
creating the perception of more wealth than there actually was...
this is nothing more than thievery... and the technique was easily
transferred into paper & now digital currencies... gold and silver
in pure state are theoreticaly imune to this, if you insist upon
maintaining there purity... but it was found in the case of gold
that it could be alloyed with other metals, and still not corrode when
in contact with body acids or salt water etc. And also it hardened up
the very soft gold and made it more durable and less prone to bending
and deformation.. this is where we get the karat system, 24 karat
being pure soft gold, 18 karate being a quarter base metal, 12 karat
being half base, which is likely where we get the word debased....

there are many who believe in gold and silver... And insist they are
much better as currencies than paper money or digital credit etc.

they are correct. but their paradigm is inside their own mental box,
along with the wolf that bites..

and thats the other side of the dichotomy pair, that money is
everything.... if you can trade it for anything, it is limitless,
and so reflects human insanity; sex, drugs, materialism, power over
others, all can be had with money...

gold is no different than fiat currencies in this area...
People killed for gold for thousands of years, people kill for paper
money, and now people kill for digital credit.... no matter what you
use for currency, the insanity works with it.... the insanity of
runaway vanity.....

Jesus said the love of money is the root of all evil...

in other words its not the money's fault it creates problems, its the
human mind's fault....

well, I would rather be poor and sane, than rich & insane....

so I live a humble observer, and not a wealthy partaker in the
feeding frenzy...

I like materialism, or did, until I moved enough times to realize
materialism in excess was also insanity...

Which is why I eventually stumbled onto the concept of using an
indigenous or nomadic mindset to limit my materialism somewhat.....

I'm still suseptable to materialistic excess, but less so... The
mindset along with my disinterest in money keep me poor, and fairly
sane for being a nutcase... disinterest in money has gone a long way
toward keeping me single also... women being very attracted to wealth
thru their vanity & insecurity....

so once again I am the outsider... observing the paradigm from
outside the box...

and being good hearted, I try to point out ways to fix problems...
but nobody listens....

They are too involved in the feeding frenzy to connect where its going
with their own actions...

And too busy biting hunks off each other to wonder where it all leads.....

And some see where its leading, but still keep biting hunks...

I guess the insanity is incremental....

Nothing I can do or say will change the outcome...
No one really cares about anything except what they can get for
themselves the easiest way possible....

unfortunately we aproach the end game....

the end of insanity road now in the foreground...

and we have many now seeing it, but very few changing how they
themselves think or do things..

more of the same, instead of changing course or back tracking in
search of sanity, safety, or stability...

Well, I try.... I try to point out truths, I try to solve problems
and come up with solutions, and I try to get people to realize the
collective insanity, but so far my only reward is in knowing I at
least have tried... its like being sane in a mental hospital...

I keep seeing a pattern; the others in the hospital call me crazy,
and go on about their business....

beating their heads on the wall, grabbing things they dont really
need and sitting on piles of such that they have taken from others,
who do need the items, lying and believing their own lies.... welcome
to Bedlam hospital..... life in the modern era is exactly that, very
like the 8edlam mental hospital in England during the 1800's.....

listening to short wave radio and trying to figure out what it all
means, is like listening to the inmates of Bedlam and get meaning from
the collective roar...

Internet is similar.... Any sanity is lost in the insanity,
and anyone who points out the insanity is told they are crazy and to shut up....

fine....

but I dont think this is going anywhere sane any time soon....

and in fact, I suggest if you are even in part sane that you begin to
prepare to escape from the hospital, as I think I smell smoke..... I
think we have a short circuit somewhere, and that if you cant figure
out a way to get past the guards, when it all goes up in flames you
will be one of the screaming fools tormented in your dying....

I have found a way out, a hole in the bars....
All you have to do is become sane in the insanity, and you can leave it....

But it looks like everyone is too insane to believe when I point out
this or that hole in the security enclosure... I get told I'm crazy,
there is no way out..... Or I get ignored by the head beaters and
blanket and food thieves... They are too busy doing their thing to
care about the smoke smell, or wonder or even hear the wires sizzling
in the wall....

its a wooden building.... imaginary security...

what do you suppose it will be like when the fire happens?

the guards are locked in too you know...

The bars of 8edlam are made of gold....

I'm crazy, I know... But thank you for pointing it out to me, I'd
almost forgotten...