Yes. As it was intended.  How clever those Founding Fathers were!  They embedded into these United States in indelible, discrete system of government,  No matter how may weak-minded, simple-minded Americans try to undermine this system with more rules and more laws  and more amendments to those rules and laws, they will always fail!

Back then, we had two bloody revolutions against a King.  Many lives were lost, and many friends of Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and more and more Freedom Fighters who gave everything to AVOID A STRONG CENTRAL GOVERNMENT and to see to it, by their genius in crafting a discrete Constitution, that the central government would NEVER succeed in becoming powerful over the States – the United States…united in the principles of diversity and disagreement,

This is the system of “checks and balances” you may remember from your brief single semester of American Governement – the bare minimum to call yourself a well-rounded Citizen.  (Thomas Jefferson tried to invent a thing called the Public School System, to created better American Citizens, but he was not smart enough to counter the dummies, and it has failed.)

So, Congress attempts to formulate laws, based on the wishes of their diverse constituencies (the States).  There was never any intention that agreement between the Sovereign States would be convenient or even possible!  On the contrary!  By design, the sovereignty of each State was to be sacrosanct in indomitable by the Central Government, lest the Grand Experiment in Democracy perish at the hands of the simple minded peasants who wanted a mommy and daddy to make their decisions for them, and then take the blame for those decisions when they failed.

Not so, the intentions of the Grand Thinkers of a by-gone era!  Struggle is at the heart of discernment! And, by God, if there is no agreement, then there will be no law – because all the People do not agree!  Ever heard of “demos” – “the People”?

And so, even if the Congress can piece together a piecemeal agreement, a President, as a Representative of the United States to other World Nations, can veto it – which is an indication that such a law is not in the best interests of the United States as a Nation among Nations.  It is not the job of the President to tell the States what to do, or how to do it!  It is not in the Constitution for the President to tell the Sates (i.e. the Congress of the United States) what to do, or how to do it!  That would be Tyranny!  And We died for that!

No, the most difficult word for all Americans to swallow is “We”. Americans prefer “us” and “them”.

But the Founding Fathers suspected the petty stupidity of the nation to follow, and guarded against it with Checks and Balances, the last of which is the Judiciary, which will judge the Constitutionality of the Laws passed by the States (Congress) and singed by the President.

And now, lo and behold, the Judiciary is judging one of the central tenets of Obamacare to be unconstitutional – just as they should!  Yes, Federal Judge Roger Vinson  ruled the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. The ruling favors of the 26 state attorney generals challenging the law. The judge ruled the individual mandate that requires all Americans to purchase health insurance invalid and, according to the decision, “because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void.”

That term. nouveau-riche, is probably going to disappear soon. My guess is that it is already only nominally available to the blogosphere (which is the new word for reality).

This disappearance is due not so much to ignorance as it is to uselessness – when you become useless, you disappear. This is written in the Sociology 101 Book. On the other hand, if an old term gets a new use, it’s like a new lease on life. Let me do away with the old word first, and then publish the new one.

Long ago, almost 2 centuries ago, people didn’t work. Work is something that was invented in the 20th century. Before that, there were no classes – like working-class, middle-class: there were Rich and Poor, and Life and Death. No buffer, no education, no One. You were a slave, or not, or dead.

The Rich got rich by getting land, or killing. If you got rich by killing, you were Royalty, and you inter-married; so, no one had to work for money: it was just there, and as long as you continued to kill your enemies and milk the poor for blood, the money continued to stockpile. And I mean stockpile! I think it would be a great (second) PhD thesis for Ben Bernanke to analyze the ROI of the the Blue-Blood. I mean think of the generations of retarded imbeciles in the blue lines, who squandered what would amount to billions in modern times, and yet, successive generations just got richer and richer.

Then there are those who got Rich by getting land – usually given to them by Royalty. In the ancient history books of the 20th Century, we all knew the term “landed gentry”. This was when the term “gentleman” didn’t mean just a dude who didn’t blow his nose in his hands – it was a kind of title. Basically, the Royalty was small in numbers,addled from genetic retardation, and hence, kind of boring, and, bored. So, they “made” friends – people who got to live “at Court”, hang out, be Rich, but, God Forbid, NOT work.

Ok, so the point is, somebody, not Steve Jobs, but somebody very much like him – maybe V.I. Lenin – created this notion that anybody could be rich if they wanted to. Believe me, this was not well-accepted, even though today, the mind of the blogosphere can barely grasp anything BUT this notion of wealth. The short story is this: stupid, little people got as much money as both the Landed Gentry and the Royalty, just by working – doing shitty jobs like mining coal and drilling for oil. These people got named “nouveau-riche”, by the Rich, because they desperately wanted to exterminate them (note: if you want to exterminate something, give it a classification, a name). Didn’t work. The NR actually managed there money, willed it to their kids, the “old money” Rich died, went crazy, Communist governments (including those that called themselves Democracies) divided the un-earned land of the LG amongst the biddy Peasant-rich, and well, there you have it: Amerika!

But now, luckily, the Royalty and Landed Gentry have reappeared! Shhhhhh! The Democrats and Castes don’t know about this yet: they all live in the Matrix, where there is still Work, a Middle-Class, and American Dream, etc., etc. And right now, there is a Recession in the Matrix! Crazy! Because the Rich are having a great time – there hasn’t been even a bump in purchase of high-end and luxury items throughout this terrible recession in the Matrix. Fendi still sells tons of bags, Bently is cranking out cars, there are lots of families with 2 and 3 children, all of whom have iPads for toys. Aston Martin came out with the DB IX, in the midst of this terrible recession.

But this reality, just like in the movie, “The Matrix”, is absolutely unbelievable to the (imaginary) Middle Class and the Nouveau-Riche-Residue. This is hard to explain, but, it may just be that TV continues to be on all the time, and even the makers of TV don’t know. “Jeez. I just don’t get it! Where do people get the money? Ya know?” You don’t know. You can’t really know, because fundamental things like “money” just don’t mean what you think they mean, anymore.

Meanwhile, the New Era is booming! It’s the Market. Yes. That thing that the Matrix dwellers call Wall Street. Wall Street is like “the Mafia” – something that was really a family at one time, who headed organized crime. But now, organized crime has become simply “reality”. Reality is Business, and Business is the Market. Unlike the movie, the Matrix, the people in the battery cells are Consumers, not Producers. Probably something that could be fixed, although they actually do fuel the Market in just the right way. Consumers drive Industry, Industry goes Public, this translates into Market Instruments, and, the Real People make real money (e.g. Yen, or Yuan). The whole “Wall Street” thing was just a little slip up – a glitch in the Matrix – that spilled out into the consciousness of the blogosphere, not enough for them to really understand it, just enough for them to blog about it, and elect Barack to take care of it.

Here’s how it all ends: there are no jobs, because there is really nothing to do. Remember how work was invented by Lenin so he could convince people to revolt against the Tsar? It all sounds kind of funny now, doesn’t it: “Tsar”, “Proletariat” – c’mon. What kind of words are those? In an Industrial age, there was a great need to make things, and an attendant need for wage-slaves. The bargain was good: give your life in exchange for a car, a house and a TV. But, all that stuff is made now, or, if we need more, there is a whole new world of people who are willing to accept that old bargain – these are the people in the 3rd World (God! What happens when we run out of Worlds!?!?). These people risk their lives to cross the US Border, just to be slaves. Of course, they don’t call it “slavery” – the call it Opportunity, just like our (white) fore bearers did.

The point is, there’s no more ned for you bulky Proletariat – you don’t even know that word any more! This is naturally a very harsh reality, and, if you believed it, it would damage Consumer Confidence. Consumer Confidence is a number, not unlike the number in horse racing, that raises or lowers “the odds”, and, consequently, “the payout”. So, a Recession, and a guy like Obama, provided an easy out: oops! lost your jobs because of China! The Recession! Oil Prices! But really, your “job” was just kind of a waste of time – a hangover from a time not so long ago, but, you know, stuff moves way faster than you think.

You’re not going to get your job back. The detail are not clear, because, there is the little detail that the Market, as is is currently designed, needs Consumers, and Consumers need (to believe that they have) money. Currently, Matrix Consumers are under the impression that Money is made through Work. Probably something real people could work with, until the Big Solution comes through. But not these really ridiculous jobs of the past, that produce nothing! Like office jobs – totally imaginary. Automation is so far beyond the mind of the blogosphere that it almost hurts to think about it. For someone to pay for an entire imaginary Human Life – I mean, Cradle-to-Grave, with Kids and College and Self-fulfillment – all because you what? Show up to a cubicle and sit at a desk? Wow. Your weed is cracky!

Services, however, are still quite necessary. Oh yeah. There’s still plenty of dust, and dirt, and small dogs produce a lot of hair. Plus, good food requires preparation and serving. And then there’s still a lot of garbage to get rid of.

This could go on, but it would be too depressing. For example, education really only produces Consumers – the idea of an “intellectual” belongs to the lost generations of the Landed Gentry. We need Content Providers (you know, in corporate computing, we actually use that term! This is, yo, kind of real!). But basically, none of the youth seems to be able to get on board with the kinds of work and discipline it requires to learn languages and musical instruments. So, the rest of knowledge transfer can be done so much better through a desktop interface.

I have to stop now. This is really out of hand. The basic message is: be happy! Everything will work itself out, as it always has. It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand it – no one ever did, did they? For sure, the TV will stay on, and your device will have plenty of content for when you are bored. The Republicans, as you call them, won’t take over, because something infinitely worse has already taken over, while you were sleeping, and this Thing doesn’t want some weird tea party shit any more than you do! Now, they ARE formidable, the Republicans, because they retain something very rare – heart and soul! yeah. These guys have Faith and Hope, and they are crazy-willing to fight for it! But the godless,s sexless, indignant, self-righteous Mass is a pretty powerful antidote. So far, the Rulers have been able to just sit back and watch the Left and Right duke it out. I mean, look how easy it was to let the left wing actually kill and kill again, when the religious fervor of the Mohammedans threatened to interrupt Steve Jobs’ plans! Wow. Bill Clinton throws out the term “regime change”, and suddenly a Stealth Bomber is aimed at Osama’s head! Then,Obama sent Navy Seals to smoke that bastard! No doubt the Republicans would face the same demise, if they got too cocky, too religious, too weird.

To recap:
1) the world is “ruled” by a third party, that isn’t in your book. They are not really into “ruling” – their kind of autonomic, in that their only goal is to make more money, and then re-invest that money in money-making opportunities.
2) If you are white and American, you should become a sommelier soon. Everybody else is already busy working at jobs that the world needs. You’re a little behind.
3) Money is a notion: it equivalent to “buying power”. Buying means paying for a thing, like a helicopter, for example, not a Starbucks, outright, not “on time”.
4) The United States will not go away. It will become something like Disneyworld, where there are people on endless vacation, and then “cast members”.
5) Don’t believe me! I mean, you liked that book, “Fight Club”, didn’t you? It’s kind of the same idea. The only thing I am saying different is that – it’s real! You are the movie.

In earlier days of cable TV, they worried about “availability” – God forbid you should have to plan your schedule around someone else’s notion of “the right time” for the show that would fulfill you (for now). TiVo wasn’t a response to this need – TiVo caused the need. The iPhone taught us to get instant gratification from our needs, whatever they might be.

The gray area, or the “steve-jobs-phrase”, at this stage is that, not everything can be provided by an App. Once again, though, it’s not that we lack the technology to meet human desires and needs, but rather that humans needs and desires are just to complicated anyway.

Men, for example. A woman doesn’t really need or even desire a full Man-thing, with his smelly ass, his insatiable hunger, more for food and blood than for sex, although it’s not a bad sub when you can’t get war. This kind of crazy, instinct-fueled needs matrix is just too much for Woman, who has reasonable needs, at reasonable times, or else, hysteria, every once in awhile. But hysteria doesn’t hold a candle to the testosterone wand, when it comes to right here, right now, and I-don’t-know-what-I-really want.

Obviously, there’s no need to simplify the Man – just give him something to keep him occupied, which is something like internet porn. The Woman needs a Cyber Man, or, better, TiVoMan. Simple: set to record; then, play back when you can curl up with a nice glass of wine – Merlot, say – in some comfy booties.

little-know fact that communication, or the art of communication, was not always with us. of course, it was available as an academic discipline, called “rhetoric”, invented by our pal Plato, and dispersed to intellectuals in ivory towers.

but, down on the ground, the sheeple, the masses – even mocked this art. it was a measure of disrespect to say to someone, “ok, let’s get through all this rhetoric”, meaning something artificial, meant to confuse, not to illuminate.

it reminds me a bit of the internet – it was in use, really, full and practical use, in the 1980’s. but, the common goatherd would have spit on you and told you you were wasting your time with electronics, if you had mentioned communicating with someone via electronic mail. until 1994.

so it was with communication. like a lot of things that improved our lives, it came out of the 1960’s exposure to Eastern culture, in which openness and understand were the very foundation of a joyous life. it’s hard for people these days to even believe that at one time, not long ago, no one in the United States knew what yogurt was. Coffee was coffee. Just coffee. Just beer. Just wine.

At some point, psychologists expanded that aspect of psychotherapy which proposes healing benefits to getting in touch with deeper feelings, and expressing them to someone else. now, no one would have said something so ghey as “get in touch with your feelings”, but they would have said “try to tell me how you truly fell, not how you think others would like you to feel”. That kind of convoluted sentence fits perfectly into the psychology of the 60s.

It took the business community to push the power of communication – effective communication – out to the peasants, as something that was “good for you.” I want to say it was Norman Vincent Peale’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People” that broke the sound barrier, and reached white suburbia, with the “good news” that, maybe your only problem is not being understood; that, if you keep your consciousness trained on what it is that you want to achieve with this other person, and you execute your communication with skills that contribute, not detract, from this goal, you WILL get what you want. and you will be happy.

This is dense. The first revelation is: communication is used to get something. At a minimum, the communicator wants to get a nod of understanding. This would have been, and still is for many, a difficult concept to accept. Of course, everyone “understands” what I am talking about. But to accept that we are objective-driven, in all aspects of our lives, and thus our disappointment, our feelings of ennui, come solely from the inability to get what we want – that will ruffle feathers (of chickens).

So, let’s say your goal is to get people to like you. Now, first you have to come to accept that you want this. You know, you might be swimming in your own bullshit, and respond, “I don’t need anybody. I don’t give a shit what people think of me”. All that is confusion, pal. Even Van Gogh wanted desperately from Monet to like him.

The second really hard thing is what Noam Chomsky referred to (a lot!) as the empirical method. Who cares what it’s called. It’s the idea that you want to be objective. We all know that too! Jeez. Why don’t you say something we don’t know already! Well, think of objectivity this way: you have to describe the actual outcome; then, you have to state what your original objective was. If the two don’t match, your method failed. You have to now stop. You don’t get 20 more seconds to come up with external variables that cause you to fail, because God and your mom told you that you are NOT a failure honey. It’s just this” you didn’t get what you want. If you still want it, it’s on you to fix the method you employ to get it.”

Again: here you are in the boardroom, giving a presentation. If you pull yourself out of the situation, Matrix-like, for just a second, you’ll notice that some people are checking their email; others are looking into space; but mostly, people are glaring at you, with their faces set like Stonehenge.

Now ask yourself: “ya think they like me? think they gonna accept my proposal”. Obviously, not. So, here’s where you say, “fuck ’em! I’m a genius, and they are just cattle. I will live on in the hearts of the true, the good forever, while they languish in their own feces”.

I mean, you really have to look at this. It’s tricky. Because, in terms of self-communication, you WILL try to fool yourself. Just believe me for one second – one second of true acceptance that you are stuck in a cycle of blind entitlement, and that you are a bulldozer – you are shaped like a bulldozer, you look like a bulldozer, and people talk about you behind your back.

Now, what do you want to do? What can you do? It’s overwhelming? Like losing 100 pounds? Do you need TV show?

No. You just have to examine your communication in a very clinical way. After you do the above – what the Buddhist call “waking up”, you can begin to see. Extended examples to follow.

Gentrification. Pretty clearly, the White Man’s Manifest Destiny. And in Miami, the White Man includes the affluent Cubans and Colombians – just so no one feels left out.

The funny thing is, the only people that would take offense at that statement are, indeed, the “gentry.”

It’s funny for so many reasons. The first reason is that it’s so obvious, and yet some well-to-do will have the absurd audacity to deny it, or defend their position. Absurd because, who are they struggling against? Like,who, among the serfdom, cares about the sensitivities of the Baron? Go ahead and eat your mutton in peace!

But this denial is even funnier as “the elephant in the room.” I mean, we are talking about highly visible housing development – trophy houses sprouting next to tenements. Funny.

Nevertheless, those neighborhoods sucked anyway: shitty housing (as in “container”), designed for human waste, by human sanitation bureaus. Overseers building shanties for slaves. At least the mess is cleared away.

But the humans,abandoned by everyone in the world, don’t get washed down the drain, to the horror of the sanitation department.

They live on. And this is because, unlike the landed gentry, who are ultimately the true transients, the hood rats are real. They actually have a culture – the only culture there is in America.

I’ve complained about this before. Getting into Canada for perfectly legitimate reasons is difficult. In fact, I am going to re-up my previous vote that Canada Customs and Immigration is the worst in the world. And I’ve been to the world before.

It’s worse than the United States, which by all rights should be the worst.

By worst I mean something not so profound something like crazy inefficient, in the name of efficiency. When you walk into Customs hall and see that it is completely packed with people – every time I come to Canada – it is valid to wonder if there isn’t some obvious improvement they couldn’t make. Because it’s not more populated than say, Berlin, or more dangerous, or more prone to attract illegal border activity. So why the Disneyworld lines?

And then there is the questioning procedure. I read that at least 1/3 of connecting flights are missed due to this questioning.

So, do the United States and Canada simply have such great treasures – in such abundance and of such higher value than any other country? Of is minimum wage not attracting the highest grade personnel?

O, ‘sti!

I am not a Man right now. I used to be a man. I know what it’s like to be a man.

A man provides strength to those who depend on him. His wife holds onto his arm for stability; his daughter, he holds in his arms, carrying her to safety. His son watches him – this is the most frightening, because this is where the cycle is maintained. This cycle has caused the deaths of billions, due to eons of false men, killers, rapists, who will their shit onto their sons, and onto the world.To be dependable, the man must be selfless – almost completely selfless.

And he must be disciplined.

Now, at this very point in my life, I am not dependable. I am selfish. I was truly selfless before, most of all when I was married. And I was happy. Happier than anyone around me, in my discipline, my dependability, my selflessness. The obedience of the son of man is true freedom, true happiness.

Now, I allow myself to fail – to fail myself and to fail others. Not all the time, but sometimes. But, to be dependable, to provide strength to others, a may may never fail. There are those, the new age, who would say this kind of thinking is unrealistic. Don’t rely on them.

I realize that I know these things, but I can not do them. The only reason I can not do them, is that I will not do them. I have lost the inner sense of the strict adherence to discipline, to the aesthetic of discipline, that I was (apparently) born with. There was an inner law. A discipleship. My discipleship.

So now, I am a good guy. Just not a good man. A good man is hard to find. Good guys are everywhere, wearing costumes, wearing capes. It seems to be good enough.

when I see the hustlers on Washington Ave, selling designer perfume and cologne out of a Saks sack, for like $10 a bottle, I’m reminded of the qualitative difference between “making a buck” and “paying $2000 a year in taxes.”