Some things in Life are Free

The Big Debate
seems to be between whether the government can intervene in the constant issue of some people are more educated, serious, motivated, intelligent, relentless, ideological, ethnic, who by their natural instincts, education, training, effort, dedication and perserverance tend to leverage the remaining humans into service (to survive).  The process viewed from a historical perspective really resembles slavery, the Company Store, subjugation, monopoly etc..  During the 1960's authors like Vance Packard discussed the inevitable leisure class  that would be the by-product of computers and machines that raise productivity as population increases.  It was projected that it wouldn't take nearly as large a workforce as time went on, and that the remaining population would need to be subsidized from the perspective that work not being available for all, those who stepped out of the way to let others have the "good jobs" should be given subsidies greater than poverty, allowing the gifted to perform the necessary tasks.

Lets be clear about history here. Labor of women in the home , or for that matter, man in the home
has never been considered in the world of finances.  Somehow their labor is relegated to the same consideration as slave labor which remains off the books, but has to be managed.  In the factory model only productive work in the factory is compensated.  Expenses of the home are not Tax Deductible.  One is tempted to ask, Why?  That's just the way it is, just like Slavery.

The desire among the 1% class is to minimize the impact of all the "labor" needed to run the world to a minimum lifestyle.  The relocation of labor to areas of sleepy low paying places wherever they are found tends to wake up the world to the presence of this activity, this mongering for paying less.  As people are awakened to modern lifestyles, insofar as pay levels allow the workers to participate as consumers it will work.  The suppression of the minimum wage,  the choking of salaries is very limited thinking as the power of the economy depends on exchange from the bottom up.  If the bottom is dead the top is feeling like these millions of poor people are being supported by them.  Those who have totally forget that the earth, the sun, the clean air were here before their existence.  They forget that the vast continuum of life is given by forces beyond their control and certainly beyond their ownership (the very idea that humans can own the earth is quite ego-centric).  If the whole process is just savage competition with vast poverty on one side and luxurious excess on the other, aren't we missing the point.  The beauty available with a loving consciousness. Which I actually think we all crave rather than making up s story about scarcity rather than abundance and the possibility improved distribution.

How amazing is this temple.  I love it

Quantum Adam and Eve

In the Quantum Adam and Eve Landscape

HOW DID THE GARDEN GET THERE??

We are in the garden, generally air and water are abundantly available from space, from nature, whatever, they are present and conspicuously consumed continuously by all life, Humans included.  Somehow the freely present resources of the earth, when the opportunity is seized by “private enterprise” to develop the resources, to mine, purvey, extract, excavate, reduce, and eliminate or deliver these natural resources shared by all and seek to “own” the resource.  It’s all in the fine print.  Classes of people develop theories about the priorities of sharing, amazingly in a self-serving manner.  But how can the “right of ownership” ever by legitimate.  Absent brutal force and “claiming” by offensive might, what sort of man or woman would feel justified claiming a resource of God, of Higher Power, “that which existed before our thinking”  with the insane claim “IT’S MINE!!”.

The responsibility of the Managers of Affairs, the government, the regulators, the public utilities is to honestly respond to human conditions.  To make the services (resources) available as the organs of the human body make the resources in the bloodstream available to the cells.  There is the reality of an organism with the humans as cells and energy replications that transmit a networking grid on a thin parabolic layer of the Earth.  Every material presence in the life of human beings is integrated, part of the consensus.

If the nutrients are not delivered to the population (of cells) the organism loses vitality. If the current medical system is not productive it will be transformed by Nature.  By Necessity.  The Universe loves patterns of itself with the colors and transparency to reveal a  mystery and a Beginning without end.  Any individual or group who stands opposed the the miraculous distribution of life to the planet CANNOT STAND!!

Immigration

                                                   Immigration

When the Law is to harsh, it must bend, to avoid cruel punishment.  Thus when taking into account the present spectacle of Mexico writhing behind the activities of anarchist gangs, powered by the wealth of plunder, influencing many politicians in Mexico and the US.  Capitalizing on the Drug policy of the US.  A Delicate balance to be sure, however, inconveniently there is the stream of workers bound for the US who are plundered, kidnapped, made to serve as required constantly pulled into this tragedy.  Not to mention corruption throughout the web of banking and commerce linked to the Drug Trade.

When the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world also statistically loaded with drug related crimes, the costs will eventually overcome any reasoning about the merits.  A more effective approach, considering drug use a “medical issue” could create a huge savings and eliminate epidemic violent crime.

The approximately 13 million Latinos who work in the US already pay taxes, and have formed communities, families and consumer links in US business.  The idea of returning all illegal immigrants to their country of origin would definitely leave large scars and what purpose would be served?

1.Employers of undocumented workers punished or out of business

2.Families displaced, women and children thrown into the uncertainty of crossing    through the dangerous border areas.

3.Loss of taxes paid by undocumented workers.

If those are the results, what’s the point, what benefit is served? Less people for the health care system in the US to deal with? 

Occupy This!!

.Occupy Movement, Banks and “The System”  

The Occupy movement has appeared spontaneously across the world.  As a crowd forms seemingly of diverse middle class folks.  Maybe they have lost their job or the unemployment is worn off, can’t pay rent, parents are dead or not available, maybe they just don’t know what else to do.  But when they gather to signal their dilemma and manifest their solidarity the appearance of the group does not resemble the photos in Golf Magazines.  The message coming from their body language is that politics and law enforcement are broken.  Congress is a Charlie Macarthy dummy run by strings of money from large pools of the 1% paying what it takes to increase the influence over the lives of the 99%.  The 99% can’t take it anymore. Not because of any moral principle, just have no life.  If that fact interferes with Business As Usual, well, that’s the point. 

It’s One World.  Without considering genocide or intentional abandonment there seems to be a responsibility given by the existence of the living as the sentient human mass which includes the the gamut of power to powerless.  Does the successful strain intentionally cannibalize the powerless.  Is it really that simple?  The occupy movement wants the following:

Attorney Generals of all states file lawsuits to force return of the Real Estate Equity stolen by a slight of hand.  Say take the value in 2005 and return the asset to that leverage.  The difference should be made up by the players who orchestrated a loaning frenzy, created fraudulent securities and profited by betting on their failure.

Berkeley Years -Summer of Love

Berkeley  (Freshman 1961)

 Berkeley in 1960 was a quiet academic place.  The biggest uproar was the fraternity party life.  The Leftist politics were low key.  It was a perfect eye of the hurricane for the  60’s Revolution to erupt.  Children raised during the 50’s were spawned in the suburban bliss known as the conforming years.  Jobs were for life with a stable retirement plan.  The heroes of the 2^nd World War were not kidding around about the values of life.  Their parents, witnesses of the Depression, had buckled down to a serious effort at creating financial results, buying houses, getting educated on GI benefits, there was a consensus of the mutual welfare, an innocence of the spirit.  The prevailing atmosphere was so…serious.  The brink of nuclear war loomed.  This climate bred the dropout hippies of the 60’s.  Getting a good education, a good job and retirement appeared so Bourgeois and a status copout.  Being born into a life of ineveitable patterned certainty was kneejerk and not a sane response to the absurdities of status politics. Dropping out happened.  The Back to the Earth Movement happened.  Draft eligible persons went to Canada and attempted to re-enter the Agrarian Age.  Of course most did not have appropriate mental apparatus to function this way.

The drugs of the 60’s helped create the Psychedelic Revolution, a picket line of dispersed articulate educated persons abandoning the opportunistic status of their life as a student or job structure to re-enter society as transformed characters invented by introspection and the company they kept.  There were thousands of mini social nets composed of Astrologers, Commune freaks, Tarot Readers, Weed Growers, Gaia Believers, actual collections of people serious about discovering the secret of life and the Mind of God, following rumors with nothing better to do than camp out, backpack, hitchhike, converse and be high on Life.  Many souls were released from the Yoke of Materialism and never returned to a normal life.  History does not honor these folks who gave up their traditional identities and re-entered life because there is no record kept (No question line on the US Census that asks “did you become disillusioned with the materialism in your life and drop out of the Social Contract you were born into?”.

Berkeley went from sedate to insane.  It was then called Berserkeley.  The student rebellion with Mario Savio came down.  Malcom X spoke on campus.  Ronald Reagan ordered teargas attacks on students from Helicopters.  US Marshals tackled 18 year old co-eds.  San Francisco State became a riot zone.  The Simbianese Liberation Army formed on delusionary chutspa, kidnapped Patty Hearst and dominated the News until slaughtered by a swat team in Los Angeles.  Their “communications” were played over the radio with a Jazz Crusader tune in the background and always ended with “Save the Children”.  The general dispersal of LSD to a wide population caused a rippling panic among authority persons.   There were marches, clashes, arrests, incarcerations, inter family schisms and national terror over the possibility of Nuclear Annihilation.  The Vietnam War was generating a sharp division in the population making the distinction between the government trusting conformists of the 50’s and the horrible fears of the anti-war crowd.  Government positions seemed uninformed, expensive, and karma-wise, risky.  During this period the “Counter Culture” sprang forth, meaning freedom vs. the inevitable servitude to The Man, living for people instead of things, being excited about the beauty of life rather than protecting national prerogatives, being witness to the miracle of the present.  The Green Movement was born as the collision between the endless expansion of the technology and machinery of The Man (namely the Industrial Revolution) in the proscenium of Nature, ignoring the continuity of it all being One, but as if Man and Nature could compete.  The psychedelic experiences of various cultures had been discussed in anthropological texts, and in the theme which Carlos Castaneda popularized in his Don Juan series.  The Hippies were living this dream without a supporting culture, so they invented one.

Like electrons in a magnetic field, new Counter Culture initiates came to San Francisco from many places East like New York, Boston, New England and either stayed or returned East.  When the flow reached high volume, flumes of long-haired travelers were cast North in California up Highway 1 and Highway 101 following Neal Cassidy to experience “it”.  Colonies formed in Laytonville, Trinidad, Eureka, Arcata, Navarro, Albion, Whitethorn, Guerneville, Monte Rio, Sebastopol and Occidental and everywhere else in Northern California.  The previously sparsely populated areas were open to people stimulated to think of the Earth as a finite blessing deserving respect and even awe.  The “New Age” layer of humanity teaching Yoga, Meditation, Vegetarianism, Peace, Protestant middle class culture waged an unconscious search for the truth about how to live in spiritual and metabolic harmony with the Earth.

Books like “The Whole Earth Catalog”, and “Other Homes and Garbage” addressed implements, practices and resources for the Back to the Earth people who felt like our culture makes an adversary out of Nature.   The machinery, weapons and exclusionary paranoia of National Identity seemed like a death wish in action.  Reacting to momentum toward Babylon, nuclear destruction and what seemed like a forming police state, a philosophy of non-violence began to appear.  The wave of hippies spread in a strong vibration of hope and possibility dropping out of the System and going to the Country much like a flower and met the real world.   California would never be the same again.

Living in Berkeley I began daydreaming about the cities in Sonoma and Humboldt County.  I would read the names on a map and try to visualize the towns.  We took a trip to the Russian River in Sonoma County when our first baby was an infant.  The countryside was covered by apple orchards, prunes, Redwoods and grassy rolling hillsides.  In many places the trees grew over the streets and lanes like arbors.  The towns were very lightly populated.

On another occasion we drove our 54 Ford station wagon up to Eureka.  Manila Beach is a large area across the bay from Eureka.  At the time there were mounds of driftwood literally miles long and 40 to 50 feet high.  Burls were common to the piles.  Interesting pieces of ocean and wind formed wood were piled in the thousands.  It was overwhelming, we filled our car with all sizes and kinds of miraculous pieces, drove back to Berkeley, bought copper wire and artistic ornaments and made mobiles in the attic of our loft.