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The Weekend Music Thread-Creatures Great and Small

In the words of KilgoreTrout, you owe me a Coke…already posted it I believe… {grin}

Miles “Music Man” Long

» Posted By Miles Long On June 28, 2014 @ 10:58 am

And then there’s this:

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Jesus, name the horse already!

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I have absolutely no idea how I thought of this one:

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» Posted By Miles Long On June 28, 2014 @ 9:49 am

Where’s the Headline on Human Extinction?

“What is a pity is that it will probably take more major disasters brought about by Climate Change until enough of the wealth class come to the screamingly obvious conclusion that destroying the planet is bad for business.”

I hate to disagree with this assertion, Adlib, however their business models will produce revenue for their carbon-based businesses until irreversible disaster is visited on us for one simple reason: they believe their wealth will insulate them from the deprivations that will occur.

Enlightenment is not something that is in their personal or corporate makeup. The selfishness of the rich is as endemic as it is obvious.

Let’s take the example of when Goldman Sacks cornered the market on wheat in the mid 2000s and directly caused the deaths of millions worldwide when they jacked the price up so high countries could no longer afford to feed their neediest citizens:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/27/how_goldman_sachs_created_the_food_crisis

Compassion is completely absent in the business mindset at this level, and to expect that even the prospect of somehow making money on sustainable green technologies that could save man’s existence on the planet be on their radar is doubtful.

We’re talking about people so dissipated that they justify their continued rape of the world’s resources at the expense of a future by believing that they’ll always have money for expensive food, air conditioning, $20/gal. gasoline, etc, until they die.

They don’t care, and nothing we can do will ever make them do so because they have denatured the public. They own the politicians, they own the courts (remember affluenza?), the control the money supply down to the poorest person making minimum wage in this country, and if you have a job working for someone else, they probably own you too.

The wealthy have turned this country, and most of the rest of the world, into a fearful, pay-as-you-go existence where animus toward one’s neighbors, coworkers and even friends is automatic in the face of the threat of financial ruin…which, in most cases, is the simple fact of losing one’s job.

The psychology of our culture has been upended in one generation epitomized by the character Gordon Gekko’s missive uttered in the original movie, Wall Street: “Greed is good.”

When people ask the question, “What can be done?” I have to answer that I don’t believe anything can or will be done owing to the ubiquity of the dumbing down of America.

We have a class of citizen so infused with fear, fear of the “other,” fear of losing what little they have, fear of colored people on welfare getting what they deserve, fear of ______________<- insert the latest fear-stoking talking point here, that about half of the people in this country are incapable of understanding or evaluating effectively what's really good for them.

This circumstance is deliberate, it all started with the Nixon administration. President Nixon declared war on the intelligentsia during the Vietnam war because the anti-war movement was born on college and high school campuses.

Ever since then the goal of educating Americans has been absent from our national policy. I submit as evidence the fact that since 1972 the scoring indexes of the SAT and ACT have been revised downward nearly 20 times, maybe more by now as I have not kept up since the mid 2000s when we did the study.

A student who scores the same today as I did back then is, well there's really no nice way to put it, educationally retarded. This is by design. The movie "Idiocracy" is now a Documentary.

And the most visible evidence recently was the unfunded mandate No Child Left Behind. Following the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy the mandate was turned into a means of defunding whole school systems and turning out "graduates" of high schools little better equipped than to make change at McDonalds.

Ignorant people lack the necessary resources to even begin to bring those responsible for the effects of global climate change to change their practices for they have no clue.

And to expect our media in this country to somehow produce any objective report on the coming disaster is foolish. That ship sailed when all the news divisions of the major networks were rolled in under the entertainment divisions and were required to start making a profit.

And as we all well know, the boards of directors of the media companies wield considerable influence over what their employees in the "news" divisions report.

So, in conclusion {chuckle}, the Headline on Human Extinction is right where it's supposed to be…out of sight, out of mind to a populace less than 90 days from financial ruin on any given day.

Miles “SSDD” Long

» Posted By Miles Long On June 27, 2014 @ 10:05 am

McDaniel Lost…The Shot Heard Around The World

Racist white folks crack me up…their apoplexy is epic.

“Republican” is an official synonym for the term “Racist.”

Miles “Oprah Was Right” Long

» Posted By Miles Long On June 27, 2014 @ 9:03 am