Magical Magic

Every sentence is an incantation,
Every string of words a spell.
Soul is cipher, and
Sweet words are key.

Five Ways Occupy Protesters are Either Morons or Monsters

There are five ideas underlying the claims of Occupy protesters, all of which are profoundly false.

1. The cause of one person's poverty is another person's wealth.

Good dancers might make the rest of us look bad. Pretty people might make the rest of us feel less attractive. But the idea that they are the cause of our suffering is juvenile. Who exactly has Oprah robbed to be in the 1%? Whose billions did she steal? And who can morally justify the idea that she should be punished, instead of imitated?

2. Wealth is a limited resource that should be forcibly shared.

If wealth were a limited resource, then we would all be a lot poorer today than when there were only 6 billion people on the planet. There are only so many dollars, right? Obviously this is wrong. Wealth is created. And it is created in collaboration with others. The lifespan and quality of life of every person who lives in a society where people are free to create (and keep) as much wealth as they can imagine has steadily and drastically improved for the last 500-700 years. We can't really say about before then because freedom to create and keep your wealth is a relatively new invention - one that our "noble heroes" would happily destroy.

3. Protestors are the sincere and noble heroes of the people. 

The fact that those who believe the wealthy should be forced to share - which is the opposite of encouraged to share - has caused over 100 million violent deaths in the last century. This doesn't count the untold suffering of people in every place the idea has been applied. That Occupy protestors are not considered morally linked to the crimes of the Khmer Rouge or the Soviets or Che Guevara the same way that neo-Nazis are linked to the Holocaust is quite curious. Considering they are attempting to link the suffering of the poor to the existence of the wealthy, this would only seem fair.

4. Protesters are driven by compassion rather than ego and repressed ambition.

To appoint yourself as a sincere but noble hero of the oppressed is the oldest and most obvious power grab - and substitute for creating true self-worth - in history. And those who do so either remain irrelevant (since they are not creating), or gain political power and then reveal the monstrosity of their ideas.

Demonizing, rather than imitating, those who have created wealth has a long history - and it's not a pretty one. In contrast, innovating and creating wealth for others and yourself is the most amazing fact of human history. Thomas Edison and Sam Walton have done more to improve the lives of the poor than every “noble hero of the people” who has ever claimed to care - ever so deeply, with the sincerest of tears in his eyes - for those who suffer.

5. This is just about money and who has it.

There is another dark shadow lurking in the Occupy movement's psychology, and the most interesting thing is how genuinely ignorant the American protesters are about it. For the last several hundred years, "Wealthy International Bankers Who Won't Share And Are Destroying the Common Man" has always been code for "Jews." In Europe, most protesters know exactly what this means. The Occupy Protesters of the last century certainly knew what it meant. I'm not sure which is more disturbing - that this dark and evil caricature is resurfacing yet again, or that the participants in the American version are so clueless about history that they don't even realize what they're saying.

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Poorly Mixed Metaphors

I had run from the forest so long,
I crossed the street not to speak to it.

At times a madness came over me and I dove into it, hacking my way in, only to become tangled, wrapped in its vines, til my struggling against it would eject me back onto the road.

It has kept me me up so many nights, with long calls of mysterious creatures. What are they doing?

For a while I tried to burn it, inhaling it's ash, hoping to get it inside of me, marking myself with it like a warrior, like a boy playing war.

And then one day it had grown up around me, and in general I was no longer afraid.

The forest is not home yet, but it is becoming my friend.

Location:Tatum Waterway Dr,Miami Beach,United States

Integration Now, Integration Forever

The highest form of integration is to do while being. To be fully present and emotionally connected while acting with no hesitation is fulfilled presence. The samurai described this state repeatedly. After mastering technique, their goal became to fight like animals - no division between action and feeling, no second-guessing. How they found simile between putting brush to canvas and blade to body then becomes apparent.

Location:77th St,Miami,United States

Ratatat tat tat... Poem!

Late at night he writes
And feels
With a softness
That the day does not allow.

The sun and the moon do not give the same brightness

Nor demand the same attention

Nor balance one another equally

He chases the shade
Relishing every moment of coolness
Every wisp of respite
From the demands of masculinity.

Monsters Among Us, or, How the Author Feels About Young Socialists

While the young socialist would love to ascribe the most infernal ambitions to everyone around him, he is shocked - horrified, even - when accused of having any of his own. These ambitions are always eventually revealed, and then understood to be of the basest kind. Those truly concerned with the care of their fellow man engage directly in it - they bind wounds, dig wells and feed (or employ) the hungry. But the socialist, who manages to do none of these things, demands to be seen as part of some moral nobility. This noble status is his most cherished possession, and like the nobles of old, he claims that he deserves it, and decries as corrupt any insistence that he might bother to earn some of it.

He then makes war on art and enterprise by attempting to claim as his own (i.e., the People's) total ownership of all creative product. He makes war on the poor, claiming to act on their behalf while villainizing as demons responsible for their condition all the role models they could emulate to change it. He makes war on those who accomplish and create because he lusts for their possessions and self-respect.

He ascribes guilt to every being on earth who does not aid him in his quest for power, though he will take no responsibility for any of the innumerable deaths and sufferings that his ideology has created. He creates every logical contortion and excuse imaginable to explain why his ideology is not responsible for what it has produced, even though there have been countless attempts to create a workable model. That every one of these models has ended in bloodshed he considers none of his responsibility, but the bourgeois he finds responsible for evils a million miles away.

His ego and his power-lust know no bounds - yet he will likely never bother to create a single thing that might would earn him a modicum of respect from the fellow man he claims to serve. Also, his girlfriend is sexually unsatisfied.

Location:75th St,Miami Beach,United States

When The Fall Guy Takes a Bath, He Requires Assistance

Things I find important about this scene.


1. The Fall Guy has a tub in his barn.

2. The Fall Guy has a phone installed on the tub in his barn.

3. The Fall Guy has girls who bathe him in his barn while wearing matching high heels and bikinis.

4. The Fall Guy has room for two in the tub in his barn.

5. When not being assisted with his bathing and phone calls in the tub in his barn, the Fall Guy likes to garden. In his barn.
 
Way to go, Fall Guy. Way to go.