The Plastification Process and the Dark Side of a Psychic Moon

Posted by Matthew Crouch at 01:52

If you're reading this blogette for the first time or are checking back again then I have to say that I must make an overt apology. The Experiencing Belgium desk has been a bit cranky and incoherent and that grammatics have fallen to bits of late. The past few months have been a personal challenge. It's been an adventure of sorts - you could say to be poetic that I've been traveling to the dark side of my psychic moon. That would be putting it mildly. In reality the confession is that I've been unaware how depressed I got in '06. I'm prone to depression - that's my challenge in life - it always has been. Sometimes though life over powers me and I become lost and fall victim to my brains swamp like murky eco-systems. No doubt that morass I call my brain easily gets toxically polluted by an unhelpful mind controlling mass media that seeks not to inform or educate but to further the exploits of a brand of Capitalism without ethics or beliefs.

A few posts here recently have been incoherent and though I checked and re-checked the essays obsessively prior to posting them I missed too many glaring mistakes. Much of the writing has been a survival technique and a catharsis which I didn't have the better sense to file away and not post. I've gone off on in unfriendly ways about "the Americans" who I find all too willing to devolve into shameless consumers and patrons of the freeway who then wile away their life while sitting in traffic (when not transversing the endless parking lots of North America).

I confess I go on much too much about "the Zionists" while trying to grasp the repercussions of the swelling corporate-o-cracy bubble in the West in my minds machinations of conspiracies to explain that which cannot be comprehended about planet Earth. And I have gone on to no end or what end just so I could know something. No matter what I think or what I write I can't much less talk back to the likes of the US media or the BBC or change what is being done and to whom much less really know anything about actual people or places and unnecessary suffering so that the rich can get richer in their wars with each other.

I used to think we were all explores in the information age but we all know this is the misinformation age. We are all being blinded with information which easily enables those with money and power to get away with exploitation. Maybe the world will end when the Mayan calendar runs out. Our world's ecology is falling apart obviously. Just look up at the sky. It's not falling but it is over run with con-trails from the sky ways -it's no longer a clear blue day, ever. Our night sky is lit up with light pollution so that we can't read the stars so we follow Hollywood stars instead.

I just don't trust a political system which asks me to turn off little lights and save on energy sources when there are international departments of energy over the planet lighting every road and highway beyond belief. Just like no one protests the ugliness in Iraq which has become a Biblical bloodbath. Who is refusing to not fill up their cars gas tank with war based petrol? And in this age of plastification brought about by oil products if you want to protest the war you better stop shopping too - but then what are six billion earth bound souls suppose to do?

Forced apathy hurts.

 

Why We Fight

Posted by Matthew Crouch at 14:03

EB note: This documentary explains everything one needs to know about the present Corporate-o-cracy that every American founding father warned the future of. A message reiterated last by Eisenhower. Heart breaking look at where the United States over the last sixty years has gone wrong. The following text comes from the Google Video description of the documentary and is worth a read. (EB) Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions The American Documentary Grand Jury Prize was given to WHY WE FIGHT, written and directed by Eugene Jarecki. http://festival.sundance.org/2005/docs/05Awards.pdf What are the forces that shape and propel American militarism? This award-winning film provides an inside look at the anatomy of the American war machine. He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order. Upon departing his presidency, Eisenhower issued a stern, cogent warning about the burgeoning "military industrial complex," foretelling with ominous clarity the state of the world in 2004 with its incestuous entanglement of political, corporate, and Defense Department interests. Deploying the general's farewell address as his strategic ground zero, Eugene Jarecki launches a full-frontal autopsy of how the will of a people has become an accessory to the Pentagon. Surveying the scorched landscape of a half-century's military misadventures and misguided missions, Jarecki asks how--and tells why--a nation ostensibly of, by, and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a system whose survival depends on a state of constant war. Jarecki, whose previous film, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, took such an unblinking look at our ex-secretary of state, might have delivered his film in time for the last presidential election, but its timing is also its point: It does not matter who is in charge as long as the system remains immune from the checks and balances of a peace-seeking electorate. Brisk, intelligent, and often very, very human, Why We Fight is one of the more powerful films in this year's Festival, and certainly among the most shattering.— Diane Weyermann http://www.whywefightmovie.com/