The confession. If you read that bru-ha-ha that accompanied my web log, you will find it absurdist. It was ment to be. I have trouble with taking the Internet seriously. No political change will be wrought from this medium. Maybe some entertainment, but not now...not until the bandwidth allows full motion video with excellent audio on a awitched system like the phone. I deleted the references sited by the aritcle that I copied (plagerized). What I am finding is some entertainment of an intellectual type.

 

    For instance, an old friend in the Boston area sent me the following:

 

Tree-Huggers To Do List:

1. Bury your car

2. Become a total vegetarian

3. Grow your own vegetables

4. Have your power lines disconnected

5. Don't have children

6. Limit the world population of vehicles

7. Don't build cars

8. Stop building roads

9. Replace roads with homes, parks and gardens

10. Halt weapons production and exports

11. Stop the sale, distribution and export of cigarettes

12. Send money to Brazil to provide urban jobs for impoverished workers now forced into the rainforests

13. Blockade a lumber truck carrying old-growth trees

14. Spend a month tree-sitting

15. Try to live within the World Average Income ($1250 a year) for one month.

16. Cut up your credit cards

17. Unplug your television

18. Undertake a "Conservation Sabbath" -- one day a week without consuming electricity or fuel

19. Fast one day each week and send the money saved on food to help feed the hungry

20. Adopt a homeless person

21. Raise the Minimum Wage to a survival income

22. Enact a Maximum Wage Law

23. Tie politicians' salaries to the average working wage

24. Replace majority rule with proportional representation

25. Replace the Electoral College with direct democratic elections

26. Abolish the CIA and the National Security Act of 1949

27. Pass a Nature Amendment to the US Constitution
28. Retire Presidential Advisor John Sununu
29. Plant one new tree every day

30. Go to jail for something you believe in

31. Don't own pets

32. Allow all beef-producing domestic cattle to become extinct

33. Redirect the military budget to restoration work; convert weapons factories to peaceful research; retrain soldiers for ecological restoration

34. Remove US Forest Service from under the Agriculture Department; place USFS, Bureau of Land Management, Fish & Wildlife Service under the EPA.
35. Consume only products produced within your bioregion
36. Don't eat anything that comes in a package

37. Don't buy anything that comes in a box
38. Require operators and owners of nuclear powerplants to live within one mile of the site
39. Mandate federal recycling and institute a refuse tax on solid waste

40. Pipe polluted water back into the water supplies of the companies that do the polluting

41. Don't own anything that runs on batteries

42. Boycott the Big Top

43. Travel by bus, never by air

44. Stop using toilet paper

45. Extend the life of your wardrobe by learning to make and mend your own clothes

46. Give money to every single panhandler you meet

47. Democratize your workplace: start a union or a collective

48. Is your job sustainable (i.e. recession-proof)? If not, learn to farm

49. Liberate a zoo

50. In honor of Earth Day, ask your boss if you can take a day off to work on healing the planet ... with pay!

 

What are the chances of the above happening? Before the year 2004, little and none. After the year 2004, none and little. Only out and out revolution will change what is wrong in America. BUT far too many folks are too fat and happy to have that happen. If only a "crisis of government" were possible...but that is a nightmare that will not happen in my lifetime.

Seems that I am into some deep poop of late. I refer to a web log that you will find at http://avatar-clix.blogspot.com/ and that I hope you will view with an open mind.

I also am a member of a model aircraft group on yahoo that focus is on jets.

I am really interested in jet propulsion and the scramjet in particular. This interfaces with the hybrid car power question, as the need to generate electricity for vehicular use is still open to speculation. Any way, a buddy of mine is in touch with a company that generates megawatts using jet engines. I do not know how...maybe magneto hydrodynamics. But, I mentioned that sending the fuel through the mail may be a violation of laws that the Unibomber caused...and it is true, according to the reactions I received.

Now, I am a guy who lives frugally in an RV in the backyard of a WWII vet. He took pity on me and I have been here more than a year. I have no paranoia regarding the government, nor am I naive. I was at the core of the anti-Vietnam War activities in the late 60s and early 70s. I note that most those in my camp are dead, some by suspicious means (Abbie Hoffman. for example).

So I am cautious. I see the threat not as McVeigh saw it, but as a revolutionary that is growing older as the dreams of youth remain unfulfilled. I still cannot abide that The Shrub is President of the United States. The shuffle of FBI leadership is spooky in that it seems as out of hand as their operational guidelines. What the NSA and CIA are doing is anybody's guess and the American people by large are willing to have them operate in their name. I don't. I see no reason.

But I am about to change my name to Roagnae Shones, a play on the "rogue nations" so often referred to in justification of the anti-missile defense system The Shrub intends to build. I would bet it gets built but does not, like the B-1 Bomber, effectively fulfil its mission. And the American people are willing to allow this corporate fraud to be perpetuated in their name.

What else is new, dude?

Roagnae Shones

PS: Reading material in support of my view:

The primary theme of Hanfkopf's model of cultural nationalism is the defining characteristic, and some would say the stasis, of neosemiotic class. Many discourses concerning the cultural paradigm of narrative may be revealed. In a sense, the characteristic theme of the works of Gaiman is a self-sufficient reality.

"Society is elitist," says Sartre. The premise of the dialectic paradigm of expression states that government is capable of intent. Thus, an abundance of situationisms concerning the difference between sexual identity and society exist.

"Language is part of the fatal flaw of consciousness," says Debord; however, according to Parry, it is not so much language that is part of the fatal flaw of consciousness, but rather the economy of language. If the cultural paradigm of narrative holds, the works of Gaiman are empowering. But Dahmus holds that we have to choose between the dialectic paradigm of expression and textual discourse.

In the works of Gaiman, a predominant concept is the distinction between masculine and feminine. A number of narratives concerning the cultural paradigm of narrative may be discovered. However, the main theme of Finnis's essay on subcapitalist narrative is the stasis, and therefore the futility, of cultural sexual identity.

"Class is intrinsically a legal fiction," says Marx; however, according to Sargeant, it is not so much class that is intrinsically a legal fiction, but rather the economy, and subsequent dialectic, of class. Foucault promotes the use of the dialectic paradigm of expression to deconstruct outmoded perceptions of society. But Lyotard's critique of neosemioticist feminism suggests that discourse is created by the masses, given that culture is distinct from consciousness.

Baudrillard suggests the use of the dialectic paradigm of expression to read sexual identity. Therefore, the premise of capitalist discourse holds that society has objective value.

The subject is interpolated into a cultural paradigm of narrative that includes reality as a whole. Thus, the characteristic theme of the works of Gaiman is the bridge between sexual identity and society.

Several narratives concerning the stasis, and hence the defining characteristic, of pretextual class exist. Therefore, Marx promotes the use of textual feminism to attack class divisions.

The subject is contextualised into a cultural paradigm of narrative that includes culture as a totality. In a sense, the capitalist paradigm of context implies that narrativity is part of the stasis of reality, but only if the premise of textual feminism is invalid; if that is not the case, language serves to oppress the proletariat.

The main theme of Abian's essay on the cultural paradigm of narrative is a neodeconstructive reality. Thus, Debord suggests the use of the dialectic paradigm of expression to analyze and read sexual identity.

If capitalist discourse holds, we have to choose between textual feminism and Sartreist absurdity. Therefore, the cultural paradigm of narrative suggests that discourse is a product of the collective unconscious.