THE FRAUDTOCRACY

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Trump was the President we have always deserved because the U.S. has always been a nation of noble sayings and filthy doings, like a gift-wrapped box of shit, a Fraudtocracy.

I will not try to convince you of this. If you can’t see it now, you’ll never see it, and I have the advantage of being Black and we see everything, because our very existence as Americans has been an exercise in the most murderous and corrupt politics known to the west.

Fraudtocracy (frãd ‘tok cra see) n. 1. A system of government

that purports to be based on truth, nobility and virtue, but is

actually run on corruption, lies and murder.

Wealthy white men built this nation with guts, faith, nerve and hope. But the tools they used were murder, slavery, genocide and oppression. The result was a country that boasted of its honesty, nobility and honor, but was always using murder, slavery and exploitation to meet its goals.

Yeah, I know you’re tired of hearing this. Me too. But see, it’s all about to end. The safe, comfy denial of white Americans is over. The evil men do has risen up to defeat the shiny words in the Constitution.

Trump and the GOP Senators who covered up a public crime in plain sight, have been pushed to the limit and forced to show all of us what America is really made of, what it believes in, and what it doesn't:

They do not believe in truth for they have always been liars and hypocrites of the highest order. "Storm the Capitol, but don't you kneel at that sporting event, boy."

They do not believe in honor because their intentions and actions have always fallen to the most base level of behavior, willing to do anything to get what they want. Intern the Japanese? No problem. Look the other way at the Holocaust? What holocaust? Kids in cages? Why the hell not? We're the good guys: E Pluribus Fuck You.

They do not believe in equality because they talk it, while embedding racism and discrimination into the soul of the nation. Many of the old race laws are still there, on the books, waiting like zombies in a graveyard, just in case we need redlining on the Moon.

And they do not believe in God because they use Christianity as a sword for conquest, then as a shield to hide their own impure acts. God's sending them hurricanes because of the homos, you know, and this is the same God that blesses America."

And we saw all of this in the impeachment “trials.” Trials where Trump was clearly guilty, caught on tape betraying his country, and then Republicans stand on national TV and tell you the sun is not hot and water is not wet because they said so. 

The men who defended Trump were really defending white supremacy, the philosophy that built a nation. White men are above the law because they created it, made this country, and gave you your freedom, citizenship and Netflix, bitch. So, pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. If I need a heart and a brain, I’ll kill a detainee at the border and take it.

For liberal America, the spectacle is breaking their hearts. Now they know how Black people feel. Trump is every white cop that killed an unarmed Black man and walked free, every white woman who falsely accused a Black man of rape and every person who called the cops because Black men sat down at a Starbucks.

That’s right, liberal America, the system is rigged, it’s fake and now it doesn’t benefit you. You have to suck it down and take it, watch as your nation dies, grimace as a criminal walks, capitols are stormed pussies are grabbed, and no one goes to jail.

This is what we have come to because half the nation is evil, and the other half pretends not to see it. The GOP is really saying “Come on, we all do it. We all commit crimes in office to keep power. You didn’t really believe in voting rights, Native American treaties and The Grammys, did you? The law is whatever we say it is. Now enjoy your legal weed.”

And when I say “liberal” I use the word so you get a reference.  Really, there have never been liberals versus conservatives in America. We have had: Slavers versus Racists. Murderous Racists versus Non-Murderous Racists. Tolerant Racists versus Overt Racists and Racism Deniers versus Hostile Racists.

I know that’s cynical, but I keep hearing how only a third of America is racist. Last time I checked, a third is not a majority, so how did we end up with President Dumbass and his Criminal Senate? No, some of you are lying about what you do in the voting booth when your Black coworkers can't see. Some of you are part of the Fraudtocracy and you know it. 

But more importantly, I know it.

We are in trouble and the time for niceties is over. Trump survived two impeachments not because he was innocent, but because politics, racism and money are a deadly combination, and more important to greedy men that any words written on old ass pieces of paper. 

McConnell and his filthy, super-hypocrisy crew have ended the Republic and created a monster, the Democratic autocrat, a President who can subvert the law and kill people, as long as he does it right before he leaves office.

It’s not going to be a “one and done.” More Presidents will come, eroding the Constitution and pushing us away from democratic rule into a dictatorship in order to preserve white supremacy and the other half of America will pretend to whine and cry, even as they reap the benefits of the new order.

When I was younger, I wondered if I’d live long enough to see cars fly. I won’t, but I have lived long enough to see a Mars landing, a man win seven Superbowl rings, and what may well be the end of my country.

GRAVITY (Or The Quantum Spiritulization Of Life)

GRAVITY

Or 
The Quantum 
Spiritualization
Of Life

Gravity binds us to the Earth and so to our reality. It is self-evident; a physical world without it is one of chaos, destruction and imperceptibility. It is also a philosophical urgency, a significance of formidable power; it is paradoxically, the ultimate gravitas. 

Transcendent of scientific necessity, Gravity is the validation of existence, a desideratum for life, a relativity of the soul. 

We churn at the center of our own emergency, but could heal every wound we inflict by  using Gravity's simple formula.

Intellect is the gravity of civilization, builder of all we know, a force that creates greatness, then surpasses it by even more astounding achievement. We have gone from crawling on an ocean floor, to walking on the moon, to reaching out beyond our solar system to ask the greatest questions of all. So, why can't we feed the world. balance the health of our planet, and thwart fear, the gravity of ignorance?

Wisdom is the gravity of kindness; the accretion of experience applied through a life lived with passion and nobility. We often dwell in the valley of our worst humanity, while standing at the foot of the mountain of our unused compassion. So why not ascend that elevation, and allow everyone to live without persecution, and defeat greed, the gravity of cruelty?

Hope is the gravity of peace; the intellect and will of human beings to survive and create civilization separates us from all other species. We have lifted billions from harm, hurled heroism at evil, and even when we fell to our lower ambitions, we’ve stayed the hand of ultimate aggression in favor of life, never giving dominion to anger, the gravity of war.

Love is the gravity of life, our existence whether by chance or choice, by science or faith is all that we know, and even while we accept this, we seek answers to both disciplines. Eight billion people with eight billion hearts are still but one atom in the vastness of the universe, and one day, we will extend our life and love beyond our tiny world into the cosmos from whence we came, and so defeat hate, the gravity of oblivion.

The difficulty of any time is always balanced by intellect, wisdom, hope and love. And if we suffer, punish or succumb to weakness, gravity does not hold and the world falls apart.

The mathematics of scientific gravity is complex, the force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center.

Spiritual gravity is much simpler. It is a metaphoric product, the force created by the distance we allow to exist between us. And the comparative equations are thus: Gravity binds us to the Earth, as Love binds us to Life.  

While science controls our bodies, there are no limits on the power of our minds, which can conceive of anything, and bring it into reality. 

One cannot fly, until he dreams of the heavens. 

One is mortal, until she perceives eternity.

I am only human, until I accept Love.

Eight billion people, eight billion souls, and a trillion-trillion possibilities that creates a limitless power. Yet it is only a possibility until we make it a fundamental and inescapable reality of human kind.

Like the sun that warms.

The Earth that spins, and 

The Gravity that binds us to it.

Copyright © 2019

TRANSFUTURISM

Many have tried to define the period in which we are living. Are we the Computer Age, the Information Age, Digital Age or post Industrial? 

Phones are the size of credit cards, credit cards have replaced cash and money itself is now more theory than substance, more deity than currency. Post soul, Millennial, Generation X, Y and Z, we struggle to put limits on the time, so that we can analyze it and we fail because it moves and changes even as we attempt to understand it.

Whenever the American economy has shifted, leaving people out of work and giving more to automation, we get fewer people owning more, and less hope for the future, families fall apart, marriage declines, racial strife rises and along with it comes violence.

The blind ambition of capitalism was fine when we were an agrarian economy and a manufacturing one. Greed fueled incentives and expansion brought opportunities. But in the computer age, innovation fueled by greed comes at the expense of human resources and leaves vast numbers of people without jobs, purpose and hope.

You can tell the worth of humanity in a society by how it lives-- and dies. Men used to farm the land by hand and then we used big machines to do it and now we genetically modify the very seeds that grow our food, effectively making Soylent Green a reality.

We used to be bound by communities and now we are separated by the vastness of digital life and social media which allows us to talk at each other but not with our fellow man.

And we used to crucify men, burn women at the stake, shoot bullets and drop bombs on enemies and then we gained the capacity to destroy the world if we wanted.

And now we use robots to kill.

We are in a state of transfuturism, the belief that we can live in the future in our present time by thinking and doing as one might in that supposed future.

But what is our future?

Will we really obliterate ourselves or is that just fear, the nightmare of a civilized mind, the anthesis of our instinct for self-preservation?

So if Klaatu from The Day The Earth Stood Still was wrong and we will not destroy ourselves, then what? Maybe our future is brighter. Maybe we will get past our petty animal aggression and embrace life for the sake of it, minimize strife and not live off the lives of others through fiat currency and artificial boundaries based on superficial theories.

The future world we see in movies and literature is taking shape right before our eyes. One by one, the tenets of individualism are falling, and we accept laws, rules and traditions born of a collective thought, framed and focused by social algorithms and limited in character length. But must we plunge into a dark dystopian world, or can we shift our progressive hunger toward humanity and love? This would make a terrible sci fi movie but a great world.

So, buy your cryptocurrency, sync your cell phone to your brainwave pattern and store your memories on thumb drives so you can relive them again and again but do it with a sense of hope because no matter how much we innovate, we are still carbon-based, fragile and subordinate to the laws of science and our capacity to love.

copyright 2018

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The GDP of Love

If Love was an economy, we would be in a full-scale depression.

A friend recently posted a statement that got me thinking about how America treats relationships and it occurred to me that we have a dilemma related to the behavioral economics notion of choice.

Because we are a capitalist nation, we view relationships in terms of ownership and that forms the basis for our problems. We qualify looks and quantify sex and reduce one another into product that can be bought, sold and marketed. But this economy is failing.

The basic relationship between men and women has changed in the last century and like it or not, it is not going backwards. We have decided that within our species, the males and females are of equal value, at least that is the prevailing view.

Unfortunately, most people do not believe this is true. We say it, but in practice, if not in belief, men are still more valuable than women and as that idea crumbles, the heavens fall.

The American relationship economy is faltering as we move through the transition from patriarchy to a societal system based on something other than gender.

Women who have decided to embrace the new equality and pursue an education and career before a family are finding that the years spent in that endeavor are in a sense wasted when it comes to finding a mate. While you are grinding, men are uninterested and even repelled by your assertiveness and when you stop and begin to look around, you find all the marriageable men are looking at women younger than you or have so much baggage, that the airline fees would bankrupt them. And if a woman curtails those years spent on an education and a career, then she has given up on herself and made the attainment of a man her life's occupation which eventually fosters unhappiness and resentment.

So how do we change this? Listen carefully for this is wisdom: Equality of the sexes is not women emulating men or vice versa. It is accepting an equal societal value for all things intrinsically male and female.

But men and women must let go of ideas and beliefs made from the previous, flawed society and that will be painful and repugnant for some and require that many of us let go of the selfish and shallow commodification of the opposite sex in the old economy. Only in this way, will we attain a true equality, topple the one-sided value system and revive the relationship economy.

How you ask?

Lets go back to our example. A woman deciding that her career has to take precedence over a family is bullshit and is the choice given by a once male-dominated society which has built in penalties for either choice and thereby mind-fucked women from the start by giving them no clear and fair alternative. A woman like this should seek instead a man who is not on the same educational or economic footing, but somewhere else. If you think of this as settling or marrying down, just know that: 1. Those are creations of the patriarchy you have escaped, and 2. You don't get it.

Women must also get over the notion that beauty and attractiveness are earned and have great value in a relationship commensurate with wealth, intellect and other earned commodities. Again, this was the assigned value of women from the old world and it is a fallacy that bore vanity and created women as a depreciating product. As a woman once said "pretty don't spend."

And for men, this will be disassociating ourselves from the idea that every man must rule a personal kingdom with a woman as his vassal. It means not associating shame or ignominy with being chosen by a more successful female and turning our backs on the violence and abuse associated with that mentality. And it means above all, revering children and the process by which they are made.

If this sounds crazy to you, then you are getting it, because as of right now, it is crazy. And I know some of you ladies will read this and see some wisdom in it, but you will not be able to stop the feeling that your man should at once be older, taller, wiser and richer but somehow nonetheless equal to you by some nature you cannot describe. That is just your ambition talking.

I know some men will read this and think it is an abomination and an affront to God Almighty to elevate women with men in a way that gives equal power to choose and dominate men. To you I say the God is the old one who was made by men to subjugate women, in an equal society, no one dominates, they balance, and that is just your fear talking.

All of this is wild speculation, of course. I have no idea where all of this is going but we should all be excited that we are moving, albeit slowly, to a new paradigm, a new economy of the heart.

I just hope there's full employment there.


copyright 2017

Republican Gangsters, Democrat Bitches

The GOP are gangsters.

And the Democrats are their bitches.

I know it sounds funny because all politicians are lying, corrupt pieces of shit. But I am not talking about morality. I'm talking about strength, aggressiveness and "Don't-Give-A-Fuckery."

And we know this from our gangsta education. Don Corleone beheads a horse to get what he wants, Michael whacks everybody while christening a baby. Joe Pesci kills Billy Bats for telling him to get his shine box.

In politics, it's the same: Mitch McConnell, steals a Supreme Court pick because he can. George W. Bush starts two wars because nobody had weapons of mass destruction, Donald Trump betrays his country and becomes President then commit extortion and treason in plain sight and is acquitted by his conspirators on national TV.

Correspondingly, the Democrats are a bunch of weak punkasses who will not own their corruption. Democrats get majorities and will not move to change economic disparity. Democrats fight amongst themselves and lose an election they should have won. And now they throw each other under the bus while the GOP laughs in their faces and ends the American Republic, replacing it with an supremacist autocracy.

I don't like either party because they are all corrupt, like our system. The difference is, GOP embraces this and the Democrats resist, opting instead to pose as moralists even as they are outed all over the place as immoral. Don't get me wrong, both parties want to screw you. The Democrats just want to use protection. The GOP wants to impregnate you, force you to have the baby and then incarcerate it for free labor.

And why? Why is this so? Well, it's not complicated. Conservative philosophy is about not giving a fuck about your fellow man because you have crafted a God that forgives you for it. Liberal philosophy is about pretending to care about your fellow man, appeasing the same God, but never really helping your fellow man and blaming it on the Republicans.

Real Gangstas don't care. Michael Corleone murdered Hyman Roth, even though he was already dying. Mitch McConnell passed a tax bill that will enslave your grandchildren and forever create a ruling class and then he had a Kentucky bourbon. Meanwhile, over on Bitch Island, the Democrats commit 600k to defeat their one of their own progressive candidates and allows a billionaire to buy his way into a debate.

The Democrats used to be gangsters. FDR was a serious OG. If anyone threatened the New Deal, he threatened them with the end of their careers. He threatened to pack the Supreme Court with new justices until they did his bidding and ratified the New Deal and they did it. JFK was a gangster. Missiles in my backyard? Fuck you, Russia. Shit, JFK was so G, in the end, they had to take him out gangster style. And yes, Bill Clinton was a gangster. Faced with impeachment for a blowjob, he outed every politician and his mistress on Capitol Hill. This is why there was such vehement opposition to Hillary. A female gangster scares the fuck out of everybody.

If the Democrats ever want their power to actually be used to help people, they will stop their charade, especially when it comes to black people, who they treat like an Irish consigliere, and embrace their inner gangster. America after all was founded on violence. I know taking the high ground feels like evolution from that, but in politics it is not. A good politician, if there is such a thing, will purge all of his immorality in the execution of the greater good. Don Corelone did bad things, but never to innocent people and he always did it for family.

Protect the American family, Democrats. Cut off Bill Barr's head and put it in McConnell's bed, slam Mike Pence in the trunk of a Cadillac, go to the bathroom in Congress, then come out blasting, leave the gun and take the political cannoli. Grow a spine and do it now.

Or go get your fuckin' shine box.

Copyright 2019

Harry, Meghan and Diana

I have seen many people ask why Prince Harry's engagement is a big deal. I think I know and no it's not about race.

Prince Harry had panic attacks and other mental issues for years after the death of his mother Princess Diana. Who can forget the picture of him being forced to walk behind her casket in front of millions, fists clenched, face red, trying to hold it together at 12 years old? I can't. And little Harry knew none of his status could ever bring back the woman he loved.

Now, I know some of you are thinking "He's a wealthy royal prince. He got money. I don't feel sorry for him. Well, I remind you:
1. He was 12.
2. No one ever gets over the loss of their mom, and
3. Fuck you.

Harry battled his issues for a time, acted out socially as we all know and at one point, wanted to leave the Royal Family. But as time went by, he got older, better and found some sense of balance in his life.

And that is Meghan Markle.

Every man's choice of a life mate comes back to the woman who carried him, connected him to life, his past and the Creator. Even if he doesn't know who she is, "mother" is the essence of his choice. Harry has found in Ms. Markle the same quiet grace, charm and love of humanity that Diana had. It has helped him further overcome his demons and emboldened him toward his own family.

This is why it's such a big deal to women. This is bigger than little girl fantasies, bigger than race, class and even love.

This is a spiritual equanimity.

KAEPTAIN AMERICA

We all know Colin Kaepernick is right. So, I will not debate any of you who say the NFL has a right to shun him. Of course they do, but that does not make them right.
Kaepernick is being punished for exercising a God-given right, a right that defines Americanism at its core but one that flies in the face of business and selective patriotism and outright hypocrisy.
The silent collusion against him is the same kind that black people face in business each day. Some of us ignore it and it drives others of us crazy because we are never sure just what is behind the rejection and we always suspect the worst.
Colin Kaepernick is a multiracial man who was orphaned and blessedly landed in the bosom of a God-fearing family who loved him and nurtured his athletic gifts.
And then one day, he realized that he could not separate part of himself from the indomitable soul of his people and that famous or not, rich or not, he could be murdered and the same society that gave him the money and fame would allow his death to go unpunished because of the color of his skin. He could not abide this and not only because he's black but because he was raised by a Christian family who taught him better, who told him that he was indeed his brother's keeper.
All these players telling him to let it go are just the kind of damaged meat the NFL loves, weak, pliable men who do not have a tenth of the principle and nobility in the heart of the man they criticize.
I know most people will not turn off the NFL this year, but I will. I know it won't do a damned thing but it will make me feel better. The NFL season is 16 games long and so each Sunday, I will watch one of these 16 films instead.
1. MALCOLM X
2. THE FIVE HEARTBEATS
3. FRIDAY
4. I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
5. SOUL FOOD
6. BOYZ IN THE HOOD
7. DO THE RIGHT THING
8. FEAR OF A BLACK HAT
9. NEW JACK CITY
10. BLADE
11. LOVE JONES
12. BOOMERANG
13. MENACE TO SOCIETY
14. COMING TO AMERICA
15. COOLEY HIGH
16.TRADING PLACES
I know you're thinking "It's easy for a Detroit Lions fan to give up football." Well, if you think this is about football, then you haven't been paying attention.