DICK CHENEY’S BRAIN WANTS TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT

DICK CHENEY’S BRAIN

WANTS TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT

Due to a miracle of modern medicine and unlimited funding, death will not stop Dick Cheney's brain from running for President.

CONFIDENTIAL MEMO:

FROM DICK CHENEY TASK FORCE

RE: Dick Cheney’s brain.

Confidential discussions with the 1% of the 1% Republicans (wealthiest of the wealthy Republicans) and they decided Dick Cheney’s brain should be ready to run for President just as soon as the opportunity presents itself.

Dick volunteered to be “harvested” in order to be the first cyborg-enhanced President. Dick said, “Over my dead body!” and we said, “Of course.” (Yuk, Yuk! And you thought Dick Cheney didn’t have a funny thought in his head!) He will live in a small PetSmart fish tank supported by finest advanced technology known to man provided by America's highest high-tech companies.

Dick will be the most experienced candidate for President. And, he is not tainted by the current Republican administration. He worked for Nixon and Ford White Houses and was Chief of Staff; was elected in Wyoming then served as Secretary of Defense, Vice President for “W”, and now, he will have overcome death.

The choice of Cheney for President is obvious. Wouldn’t you rather have a brilliant, experienced, ruthless brain in a secure PetSmart fish-tank than Donald Trump?

Since Cheney will have died and cannot die again, this Task Force can guarantee that if Republicans elect Cheney’s brain, they will have a leader who has proven he is not afraid to take on dictators, thugs and scumbags - not necessarily in that order.

WHY DO THIS?

There are serious, Fake News, court challenges looming. There are weapons of mass destruction poised to do the U.S. harm. There is a coup ready to happen. The FBI and Congress can’t be trusted. If we don’t have THE RIGHT leader who BELIEVES this, and is ready to ACT and ACT swiftly, then our way of life is in peril as it was with the 1st and 2nd Iraq invasions.

You knew Dick. You know that his brain would move whatever political, military and economic levers necessary to remove the terrorists, domestic and foreign.

America needs a strong man in office, and Cheney is the strongest candidate, even if he may be physically floating in a PetSmart fish-tank hooked up by Haliburton, Microsoft and Dell.

Google has provided Dick’s brain with a set of VR glasses. Dragon Naturally Speaking will let him dictate all communication. Blue Tooth makes him smile. He will be on the job, 24/7 which is good because we will need the extra time to undo this court triggered gridlock. This swamp.

Cheney is totally NOT afraid to stand up, or drift up, for American values and take our country back from the dangerous path on which it has been traveling.

Cheney doesn’t have a backbone but his spineless body has more spine than those so-called patriots in Congress! He’ll show us how to overcome gridlock! After all, he orchestrated the War on Terror, pushed through the NSA wiretapping and waterboarding. When he’s President, Congress better pay attention or else a little invitation to visit with the fish tank!

WHAT DO WE NEED?

Look at his track record! He voted against the Department of Education and Head Start. “What a waste of money, educating young poor kids (didn't do ME any good!)! Sorry President Reagan, but I voted to against the sanctions on South Africa because of apartheid – that was bad for business and 1%/1% profits!  I also opposed releasing Nelson Mandella – that man was a terrorist and worse, a Communist!”

Gorbachev and Yeltsin - he was skeptical, VERY skeptical about those guys, guess where he stands (or floats) on Putin? (Can a fish tank snarl?) The Saudis? How did their sand get on our oil? And, remember, it was Cheney who ordered the invasion of Panama.

He wants the Tea Party to remember that a TRUE American KEEPS LOOKING for “yellow cake” until he finds it.

Look at how WRONG the world has been on so many things – Cheney would shake his head in disbelief if he had a head!

What we need is for everyone to look at Cheney’s record and get over any inhibitions about electing “a floater”. He once had a birth certificate, he will have a death certificate and he will have a PetSmart fish tank certificate.

Does the Constitution allow this? The Constitution says nothing about this. This will actually be a refreshing change. After all, how many Presidents have we had with NO brain whatsoever?  Plus with the Supreme Court we have now, no-problemo!

(c) Copyright 2016, Jean W. Yeager

CULTURAL ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS)

WHO AM I?

     I am 1-billion Facebook users, 5.5 million Twitter users whose Tweets or posts flow through our Technological Social Media arteries. My virtual friends “share” items that flow through my Social Media accounts. Because my “friends” are “friends” to others who are “friends” to others, and so on to others; I imagine the sense of “self” of this largest group is a giant cultural bloodstream of real-time, unedited, and uncontrolled messaging. After all, the theory of “3-degrees of separation” might be in play here.  Friend-to-friend, post-by-post we “share” with one another good things and bad things: nice celebrations, reports of wrongs by governmental agencies, pictures of my vacation, death by cops, violence and corporate greed; incidents which none of us individually, our family, or friends, can control in any way. We are really sharing cultural powerlessness. We are powerless over what technology reports, and in some cases causes to happen in and to our culture.

     In many ways, we are powerless over our own bodies as well. In the physical disease of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) the body’s capacity to resist “foreign” cells or “infection” fails because the number of white (defensive) blood cells is diminished. The white blood cells defend the overall system by going to all of the cells in the body and determining which are “me” and which are “not me” (foreign). The white blood cells destroy the “not me” cells (the infection) and protect the integrity of the body.

     What plays out day-to-day in Technological Social Media are reports of political gridlocks, terrorist attacks, protests, fear over anger, and hatred which go against our personal values, ideals or morals which once we shared with genuine friends before “virtual friends”. That’s what made them friends. We shared values and priorities. Once it was genuine and real. Now it is pretense.

There is no technological “white blood cell” mechanism (no Technological Immune System) to test whether or not the things flowing along via Social Media are “me” (my values) and they go unfiltered and unchecked directly into my consciousness. Many are false posts. Some are real ads. Some are lies consciously planted by provocateurs who wish we would buy their “remedy” to the fear they promote, support their “cause” so they can “save” us, or work for someone else.

     This media stream is overloading my heart. Sometimes I feel revulsion, sometimes my “friends” say they are going out to buy guns, sometimes I get a dose of fear, my heart grows hard, my capacity to know my community as genuine “Friends” is compromised, my life is gerrymandered away by foreign (“not me”) forces. I am losing my strength. Am I suffering from technological Social Media AIDS?

WHY AM I HERE?

     The French Revolution happened within a society when one sub-culture within that country was overwhelmed by the values and priorities of another, more dominant culture. The peasants got out their technology – the guillotine - in order to eliminate the overly pernicious, fiercely greedy, aristocracy. They performed “Cultural Surgery”. It was a revolution that instituted the “rights of men.” “All the Kings horses and all the Kings men could not put Humpty-French-Monarchy together again.”

We don’t have Monarchy – we have Corporatism. Technological Social Media serves Corporations and the message flow down the technological arteries show that the “old order” of “me” values like citizenship, brotherhood, equality, and civic power is being swamped or infected by economic priorities, partisan values, and sectarianism. Regardless of which cultural values you treasure, you probably rarely see yours reflected on technological Social Media.  We are unraveling.

     When you treat actual AIDS you may find that the amount of medicine and its power may kill the patient. Treating technological Social Media AIDS, if such a thing were possible, maybe so painful and require such sacrifices many citizens would object, the same way “loyalists” defend the “crown” in previous revolutions.

     Those in control, sometimes called “tyrants”, never want to lose control, and so respond, gain strength and push back against any attempt to curtail their power. The AIDS virus actually degenerates all parts of the body to feed itself. The Social Media AIDS will do the same.

WHAT DO I WANT?

     Resist the urge to blame: we are not the only “Social” who have chosen to use “Social Media”. The Media serves multiple corporations, governmental agencies, international states, and their paid provocateurs, who are your and my friends and relatives.  Data gathering, based on words we use is shared to marketers and Governmental Security agencies. So, there are very large, powerful entities who value technological Social Media and they arise from multiple directions at once. But, this is only technology. You control all technologies by using the “off” switch. Or, you can change the dynamics in the technological stream by flooding social media with messages of other principles and values. You as an individual choose to change the message.

The U.S. was founded on universal spiritual principles: religious liberty, economic brotherhood, and equal rights. If we, each of us as individuals, reclaim these principles in our own non-technological, human lives; our own personal actions with one another, we can, from the inside, build a new Human Social Media which will create Cultural White Blood Cells and our renewed Culture will reject the forces of greed, fear and hatred, the “not me” forces of the oligarchy and their supporters which flow through the Technological Social Media.

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TAMIR, HUCK FINN AND THE SENSE OF ADVENTURE

By Jean Yeager

WHO AM I?

What part of the human spirit sends a Tamir Rice to the most dangerous place near where they live, a small city park, so they can be alone and play and dream and imagine with a toy gun beneath a hard, bare, concrete picnic canopy littered with heroin needles? What sends Tamir into such a place where adults would not go alone?

Young boys, the Tamirs, like the Hucks of previous generations, have an indefatigable sense of adventure up until the time grown-ups shame it, blame it, or otherwise constrain it out of them. Adventure is the air which children breathe, they “sense” adventures like people with eyes can see or people with ears can hear. Children are a receptor for the spiritual medium of adventure which exists around us all.

Grown-ups sense the danger in adventures.

Grown-ups know the reality. Grown-ups have grown into reality, have created the reality in which they live. Grown-ups try to numb ourselves to adventure because life has damaged us, beaten us down, told us we can’t win or covered up our adventure senses.

Grown-ups are jealous of kids who still walk hand-in-hand with Dame Adventure. Grown-ups warn children against small cottages made of candy in the dark woods and the old people who live there, of dealers in old houses with broken windows, of the wild beasts who lurk and wish to devour them, of black sedans or squad cars; and always, always grown-ups tell stories of young children who were never clever enough, never strong enough, never brave enough because grown-ups want the child to be what? Cowardly and fearful like ourselves? To avoid risk like us? To not get involved?

 

WHY AM I HERE?

Young boys, like Tamir and Huck believe themselves brave enough, clever enough, strong enough to overcome an addicted Pappy, a lack of privilege like our friend Tom, a lousy education from a poor school, a heartless community of auntie Pollys, and the dangers of the River. Like Tamir and Huck, we started our journey breathing adventure floating on a raft down a big, big river with deadly currents and dangers. We loved it.

We are now grown-ups who breathe anxiety. We are afraid to look upstream. We know what we will see. Our River has been dammed and diverted. The water of our lives is now used for watering golf courses, McMansion suburbs, and factories whose technologies transform the living into plumes of acrid, killing smoke into the air and dumping toxic effluent back into our lives.

            Education for what? For a maintenance job that kills the soul and pays so little, we have to get a second job or a third? How did we become fearful Aunties or absentee Paps drunk on our self-importance?

Adventure in our neighborhoods has been transformed into racial profiling sludge, Army-style cops, soul pollution, and community doubt; far deeper and more treacherous currents than ever ran in the River before.

Why can’t we grown-ups be brave enough, clever enough, and strong enough? We live on the River of life, too.

 

WHY AM I HERE?

We can breathe adventure again, too. And, when we do, our spirits will light up. We have arrived at a place downstream from where we started that we never imagined, at a future we now dread. In a strange land with which we must cope. But, why?

We can put the past we could not imagine, our fears we wished we could avoid, our shame, our blame, our failures, scars, and weaknesses into the soles of our Nike’s and walk, like Tamir into the park, the garden, the dark woods, away from our homes, in our ’hoods, away from the self-made prisons in which we have locked ourselves away. Give away our privilege. Go where it is not safe. Go meet the danger we have created, you know it well – it matches up perfectly with our personal short-comings.

Go for adventures. When you feel fear, you will know you are close. You have hidden long-comings to transform the fear. Be a lonely Huck on a raft, floating away from un-civil civilization. Be a Tamir and take a walk into the park.

Things will be different when Tamir, like Huck, has a companion to journey with him. He needs a powerful individual, once enslaved, but now free - you. You can be free and strong.

Tamir would not be dead if he had not been alone and someone like you was with him.

 

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WHY DO WE TOLERATE THE PUBLIC LIE?

WHO AM I?

   Who understands the source of their beliefs? Do the people who are supporting the different candidates know the source of their own beliefs? If so, are they willing to say that the candidates who utter the Public Lie are saying things they themselves stand for. If not, then why do we tolerate the Public Lie? 

   When lying with impunity or ad hominem becomes the status quo for those who would become President of our United States, then this leads to the situation where there are various “camps of believers” who support candidates and their Lies. Or, perhaps worse, people support candidates without knowing why they are supporting them. These then become hierarchies which influence the candidates. These camps of believers remain separate and quite distinct from one another. In the end, is our country no longer sustaining the ideal of being a “melting pot”? Has this also become a Public Lie? Are we now armed camps which rail against each other and even seek to promote their group's safety with gated communities, militia or guards to protect ourselves from ourselves?

    Young black men in inner cities arm themselves in order to protect themselves. Where are the Peace Keepers?

    Is our country now a Lie? This was the case in Ancient Greece where the family (okios) was the prime force. Today, we can see that our citizens are strongly in favor of families. In this election we have the Clintons, the Bushes. Coincidence? Family’s represent one motive force within our nation which feels good, safe, protected by families. Have we simply become tolerant of these old forces and have come to tolerate them because we are too lazy or too busy for any alternative? But, it is a Public Lie. Our country was created as a revolution against monarchy or the family rule.

    We once rebelled against monarchy, family, okios. The family of the monarch was considered to be an extension of the gods. These families were ordering their societies, were elites, had way more money and properties, possessions, castles and towers named after themselves. Oh yes, they thus kept citizens from shooting one another by keeping soldiers under their family command (before ”law enforcement”). 

What replaced okios rule was rule of law. Law was above families - "under law". The idea was once that each person was equal before the law and the laws were enforced on all equally.  Black Lives Matter, all lives matter, under rule of law and not families, each person is equal before the law. Not corporations. Corporations were not people. The Public Lie today is that there are forces working against the rule of law and the individual. We have seen many recent killings of black people. We have seen corporations killing democracy. Public Lies which now seem to be above the law. We are tolerating this for how long?

WHY AM I HERE?

  I bring you Polis! Polis is the opposing approach to life to okios, corporatism and oligarchy.  In ancient Greece, the Polis came to be seen as the opposing philosophical construct to okios – family, monarchy, centralized wealth. Laws were thought to be transcendent ideals which were above all families, gangs, corporations or countries. Humans gained access to laws through groupings such as representatives which were truly representative of people – human beings-  rather than being rather than corporations (okinos groups) technologically groups or economically “bought” – financial okinos groups.

   Vaclav Havel, a revolutionary in Czechoslovakia during that country’s recent Soviet/totalitarian era, wrote an essay during the time of the totalitarian state entitled “Power To The Powerless”. We should read that. In that essay Havel, who after being released from prison after the “Velvet Revolution” became President, described a parallel polis during the time of totalitarianism. One polis was the State which was based on wealth and power. The parallel polis was based on powerless human-to-human relationships. We have a parallel polis in our country, too.

It seems that today we have an interesting   mirror image of the totalitarian state of Havel’s time where we have an uber-Capitalistic, greedy 10% dominating 90%. In his lecture. Havel actually describes this capitalist / totalitarian mirroring. Each has a different form of Public Lie. Totalitarian states today continue to tolerate leaders lying with impunity, and so perhaps, our current experience is preparing us for a time when honesty is no longer a requirement for governance.

If the state becomes a Lie, then are Liars the best to govern?

WHAT DO I WANT?

   The shadow side of the polis is also something with which we are experiencing. It is a different version of the Public Lie. It is when the leader is leading a public which no longer feels it can do anything if the leader is lying. The leader can then freely speak the Lie. There is no notice. There is a mass psychosis.  Here’s how it is done: “Truth” is now created with forceful argument rather than reasoned argument. Those with great wealth appear to be the ones who are “believed” – even when they speak blatant untruths.

    One of the most memorable examples of this was Donald Rumsfeld who said (regarding the lack of evidence of WMDs in Iraq): 

"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.” 

    Such circular statements should begin to test the inner strength of citizens. The game was rigged.  We allowed those in power to continue to rule. The world has become a worse place, tens of thousands of Iraqis suffered and died and U.S. troops died because of the Public Lie. It is a Public Lie some would like us to repeat if given the power and feel they can repeat.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power. ~Abraham Lincoln

The situation today seems to beg us to become “judgmental”. We do not need citizens being judgmental and driven by power and emotion.  What we need is to form judgments, seek Truth outside of our silos. The first step is to know that you don’t know. That we have come to live in silos. That leaders have tried to isolate us from one another as they sought to prove their families are experienced and know what to do. However, their solutions to all problems are to let them lead again.

Here’s what the poet Rilke said:

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart 
and try to love the questions themselves
Like locked rooms and like books 
that are written in a very foreign tongue. 
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you 
because you would not be able to live them. 
And the point is, to live everything. 
Live the questions now. 
Perhaps gradually, without noticing it, 
you will live along some distant day into the answer. 
~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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