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union of soviet states & union of american states making same miss-takes - bailing out aparatchik cornies & phoneys -the future is watching.

we in the west celebrated the fall of communism and now we are experiencing the fall of capitalism - socialism, capitalism, communism, theism the isms of schism - we think these isms protect us and bring us together but in the end they tear us apart as we have seen the union of soviet states down fall was because of supporting the aparatchik the aristocracy much like the french in the french revolution was about equality and fraternity whereas the american revolution was about independence - but alas and alac we need to re-invent the future as we see the same thing happening now - and what brought down communism was a financial melt down and what is bringing down capitalism and the union of american states which can now be called the union of american miss-takes - we were so full of ourselves in the west we didn’t learn the lessons from the communist fall that we were next - and that you can’t believe in your own propaganda - you can fool yourself and others for only so long - and after a while the future will catch up and fall out from under you and as we look at the fall of the union of soviet states and the experiment of communism we know its system was fatally flawed and it was too late to save it from itself - in hind sight at the time they realized they need to be more balanced and include more self initiated options of the individual to make a difference and to reap the rewards - but as we see now in russia they still haven’t learned their lesson as russia is becoming more like a totalitarian mis-stake - which never last but we also see our leaders never learn there job is to stay in power at all cost and war is the most efficient was of staying in power - i recently wrote that we are not selfish enough and that if we took selfishness to its end it would simply mean what i want for me i want for you so we can all live in peace and harmony with out fear - so we see the failed bail out of western the corporations which are the 20th and 21st century cathedrals of worship and the union of american states government presenting bailouts but is that not a form of communist solutions i ask myself in you - we already have examples in capitalism of communism in the form of the public sector of government where fire, police, military, sanitation workers are not subject to the daily fluctuations like we see in the private sector -

the union of soviet states had their wake up call years ago after realizing that bailing out broken systems and bailing out aparatchik cornies & phoneys was putting a Band-Aid on a dead person - we need to find a balance and call it by any other name we the people need to stop pretending we are zombies and we the people need to take back our future and we the people need to stop repeating the same mistakes over and over since the beginning of recorded time and we need to stop wars, violence, fear, greed, and going along to get along even though we know it’s wrong - and most of all we the people need to rethink and re-invent our selves and the flawed and failed system we keep hoping will save us but doesn’t we need to stop top down management by fear - we live in a global world of social communications and the our internet family nation needs to stand up for itself and the next time our leaders decide to have a war because that is what leaders do and have been doing since before forever - why haven’t we learned our lesson - that todays revolutionaries are often tomorrows tyrants too and we the people need to come together as individuals and next time they call a war nobody show up

we are faced with some interesting challenges and opportunities in the near future - are we going to survive ourselves or are we going to deteriorate into a self-consumed humanity that eats itself up in the process - the future not only wants to know the future is watching
be well

geo geller

the art of living is making yor life an art

commentary: vitamin deficiency - response nytimes - News Keeps Getting Worse for Vitamins

vitamin deficiency–who protects us from those who say they are protecting us - this is amazing vitamin scandal story - who do we believe the vitamin pharmaceutical industrial military government media complex of global incompetent companies who keep feeding us their propaganda and their take this and leave the driving to us -

we are shocked when we find out we have ben betrayed by our protectors, government, food and drug administration etc - but then again as Saul Bellow says, we are shock resistant maybe the only thing that can touch us is poetry (art) - we are shocked when we hear things like the food and drug administration allowing hazardous food and things out of China and into our mouths and homes and FDA only recently opened up offices in China - but lest we forget who we are trusting to protect us - the Chinese don’t have a history of oversight like we like to believe we have and yet here in the west our western definition of over-sight often means we the people are blind-sighted and blind-sided - we have seen this idiotcracy in all aspects of government oversight that they are blind deaf and dumb to what they don’t want to hear and have a blind eye too - our present government of we the business first have done another excellent job of wearing the emperor’s new clothes and deceiving us all coming on top of the present economic meltdown - the point is we can’t trust what comes out of the mouths of people who keep telling us they are protecting us and who have agendas and protecting their position at we the peoples imposition and expense - but the real mea culpa belongs to the media for being weak and fearful and saying one thing and not reporting on things we the people need to know but are more afraid of unintended consequences of their own agenda which is not protecting the people as much as we would like to think - the vitamin story is something we wanted to believe in and for decades all the research which was often funded by the corporations themselves to get the desired results has been misleading us down the garden path - as Thomas Jefferson said “he would rather see a strong press rather then a strong government” - the future is watching and wondering too - geo geller

food for thought - i think the problem with selfishness is we don’t take it far enough - we aren’t selfish enough - we don’t take it to the end of the examination the exploration - which to me is if we all were truly selfish we would want to live with out fear to be happy healthy wealthy content and live in a creative and humane society and be able to enjoy life to the fullest - i believe we all would want that both individually and collectively - if we think about it how can we enjoy all these things if we are alone and have everything we wanted and everybody else is struggling - that’s only half way down the road of selfishness but to go to the end who would we enjoy our selfishness with if we were alone and paranoid like most leaders of the world - they get to the top and then they have to worry about being toppled and protecting themselves - that is no way to live - but this is as far as our world has taken selfishness too - by the very nature and concept of selfishness as i see it we aren’t selfish enough i personally would want to live in a world where i and everybody had what i/we/they would want for themselves and everybody else too - a content and full world - but we live don’t live in that world we live in a paranoid schizophrenic world where the politics of fear and poverty prevail and where we go along to get along even though we know its wrong - its short sighted selfishness = the status-quo and that is why we need to be collectively selfish if we are going to survive ourselves and the future is going to have a future too - food for thought -

geo

you might wonder what happened to the yellow brick road - well all i can say is there is more to this then meets the eye

food for thought on reading The Social Reformer - philosophy of history

interesting how you take us on a voyage of science and art of history - when i believe as a documentary filmmaker that everybody has a point of view - and also in doing a documentary called - Who’s Wearing the Emperor’s New Clothes - if so many people believe in something how can it be wrong - exploring the media, propaganda, the power of fear and the fear of power the point in reference is everybody has their own truth as they see it - ie. the Palestinian people have their truth and the Israelis have theirs - to me truth is a convenient lie we want to believe in - or more to the point we all change the facts to fit our needs and history is a fiction of facts or a faction - we tend to believe because we want to desperately believe in something even if it is in our own propaganda - it is said that the hunter tells the his side of the story and the lion has his side which is often never told - so we only get half the story anyway the truth of the matter is that matters of truth are often seen as matters of fact but in fact they are often going along to get along even if its wrong - some food for thought - g-oh

NYC Council Votes, 29 to 22, to Extend Term Limits

below is my comment in nytimes article

so the question is who’s wearing the emperor’s new clothes - we are - “we the people” this smells like so much self interest and believing in their own propaganda - what do we expect for the foxes who are guarding the chicken koop - the reality is who protects us from those who say they are protecting us - we have to wake up and stop pretending we are zombies these politicians always tell us when its election time that they are for us “we the people” and these types of acts are only another nail in the coffin fo democracy which is more and more looking like an idiotcracy

food for thought

geo geller

commentary: on WSJ - PEGGY NOONAN - Palin’s Failin’ What is it she stands for?

my response to peggy noonan wsj article received this response so i put it up on my blog

This topic is locked: you cannot edit posts or make replies 

i ask myself in you - what are people of the future going to say about us today

well needless to say you seemed to have nailed not only the mind set but the mindless set that goes along to get along - you made some impressive observations and i think anybody with a brain would have to think twice no matter what side of the fence or aisle the think they are on - but then again mark twain said it best to miss quote him -  if i was a fool and a politician - oh there i go repeating myself again - politician believe in their own propaganda - and we the people are the ones who are also wearing the emperor’s new clothes too - because we believe in their propaganda - the problem is we have been going along to get along so long that we have become or more like pretending we are zombies - but we all deep inside know better that some is not right - today political asylum is an insane asylum -

we live in an idiotcracy and what brilliant stroke of genius picked this woman out of the rat pack of running mates - who could imagine this woman, this absurdity being a heart beat away from the president in what use to be the dream of people around the world and what use to be the guiding light experiment of freedom loving people and country in the planet -

she might win the miss America-ah pageant but as you say she ain’t one who can think aloud with out a script and short snippets of cliches - and her working man’s joe six pack charm only goes so far but then again george w won over gore because he had charm - so maybe we are missing something -

and her interviews as you mentioned are like putting her in a padded cell a corral of trainers (handlers) who are the same ones who trained our fearless el presidente to answer questions from those who know she already knows the answers too -

in any case we are in trouble as a country and as a planet and we keep repeating the same mistakes the same wars the same violence the same fears since before forever and each time it gets more expensive - we need to re-invent oursleves and we keep on this revolving door of top down management by fear - what are people of the future going to say about us today 

geo geller

 don’t you just love it - i call it the politics of poverty - the poor have to bail out the rich - and the guy who ran one of the largest brooookerages is the guy who wanted 700 billion to play with no strings attached (3 page proposal) to bail out his cronies - the latest sweetened bailout is now 450 pages pure electioneering spin for the public soap opera - these guys in congress and big business and media are poor looooosers who want a bail out or else they will take the rest of us with them on their bumpy road to humpty dumpty meltdown land anyway - and just to refresh your memory these were the very same guys a few years ago who made it hard for the working folks to file for bankruptcy - there is more to this then meets the eye and why is this happening around election time i ask myself in you -  so who res-skews the rescueeeer

on the Politics of Poverty - there is a reason why there is so much poverty - “We the People” who make up this IdiotCracy/DemoCracy/Media-oh-Cracy on the backs of  the poor people the workers, the soldiers, the drones - we are like toilet paper - they use us up and throw us away - look at the people coming back from wars - the poor don’t want to be poor they not lazy they are some of the hardest workers around - they often work themselves to death and when i lived in brasil in 1992 people would work hard and at the end of the day would still not have made enough to feed their families - and with the price of this manufactured chaos of oil, food prices, banking meltdown its the poor around the world who feel it the most - this 700 billion buy out is also on the backs of the poor and the middle class if you haven’t figured out who the tax payers are - but the point is somebody benefits from poverty, war, violence, fear and its not “We the People” - it is said that the trade of kings was in war and propaganda - we have to stop pretending we are zombies and stop going along to get along -  and flap our mouths and wings and say what we know in our hearts - the power of one person is more then the power of none -

Thomas Jefferson knew very well that this was going to happen and wrote and spoke about it even on his death bed - he worried for us the children of the future

” We are to guard against ourselves; not against ourselves as we are, but as we may be; for who can imagine what we may become under circumstances not now imaginable - Thomas Jefferson to Jedidiah Morse 1822 ”

“I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on steady advance.” –Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1821

“We are bound, you, I, and every one to make common cause e even with error itself, to maintain the common right of freedom of conscience,” Thomas Jefferson to Edward Dowse, 1803

more food for thought from Thomas Jefferson quotes
http://emperorsnewclothesproductions.com/jefferson/

commentary: ny times How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers

my response
from where i stand this is a who’s wearing the emperor’s new clothes scenario of believing in your own propaganda - when you believe in your own propaganda you are in trouble - the other factor is i ask myself in you is “who benefits by all this melt down and fear?” and then again could all this oil , food price, banking, war crisis be manufactured chaos? and how will this all play out at election time?”

in the end it is we the people who pay for all of this 

food for thought

geo geller

commentary: shelly palmer end of broadcast tv

hmmm shelly - i think we have to ask ourselves also who is wearing the emperor’s new clothes? - i think the traditional media - tv broadcasting world and governements and biz included have been believing in their own propaganda for so long they can’t believe it ain’t reality and now with the internet and broadband they don’t know what to do - today i read the outrageous amounts the media is getting from the election process its not a bottom line affair - we are re-inventing ourselves and we the people are taking back the future and what i think Thoreau said “we need to learn what we need to teach” and what i believe we need to learn from the so called social sculpture - social media movement is that the we vs them is fractured and that we are them and them are we and social media resonates with “we” as in we the people - the traditional goal keepers, gatekeepers goal is control while the “we” goal is engagement being involved, we the people get this intuitively - and so it’s not only the end of broadcast tv its traditional top down management by fear that is threatened

Winston Churchill once said, “The farther you look back, the further you can see into the future.”

“ We are to guard against ourselves; not against ourselves as we are, but as we may be; for who can imagine what we may become under circumstances not now imaginable - Thomas Jefferson to Jedidiah Morse 1822 ”

geo

Commentary: Power of culture - response to PFAW Kathryn Kolbert
excerpt of email to kathryn kolbert

response Kathryn Kolbert on ways we PFAW (People for American Way) can creatively
use culture to make social and political change

hi kathryn

hope all is well

kathryn the quick response to your ways we can creatively
use culture to make social and political change is first we
as in we the people need to stop pretending that we are
zombies and go along to get along - because we all know that
our leaders of the world are changing the facts to fit their
needs and that things are not what they appear to be - we
need to change the conversation from we vs them to just “we” -
and to do that we have the courage to be creative and be
like the butterfly flapping its wings can change or create a
storm - the creative use of culture to effect change is what
i call the power of one person to make a difference - we
need to re-invent ourselves and ask ourselves what the
future will say about us and then try and change that -

the longer side of the above including the above
usual i just plant these seeds with ron feldman and
sometimes they get carried to who knows where

but in your request for feed back on ways we can creatively
use culture to make social and political change

>>>i joined with the thought that if we are going to
have a more human and creative society artist needed to be
part of the dialog and not just spectators and in essence we
artist need to be more engaged then just commentators about
the state of how bad things are - one of the masters of
cultural in-sightfulness and in-citefulness was leon golub
you can see a 3 min and 19 min segment i shot of leon
golub as part of MyOwnPrivateRevolution documentary in
progress about people who are challenging the status-quo,
the imagination and themselves too -
http://myownprivaterevolution.com/

but aside from that i have been getting your newsletters for
years and every once in a while i would think that there was
something missing and though i am sympathetic with the
mission of pfaw i have always felt that the problem is we
are in a conversation with ourselves preaching to the
converted i know that is its progressive purpose to have a
voice for the people and i often quote thomas jefferson- .
“We are to guard against ourselves; not against ourselves as
we are, but as we may be; for who can imagine what we may
become under circumstances not now imaginable - Thomas
Jefferson to Jedidiah Morse 1822 .
http://emperorsnewclothesproductions.com/jefferson/

the problem i have with pfaw as i see it is that it is not a
conversation with all the stakeholders but often a reaction
to what i call the we vs them syndrome - if we are going to
every stop this revolving door we as in we the people need
to take back the future not take sides or have a position or
even a reactive progressive position but a more inclusive
comprehensive position - and by i think we need to not
look at sides but the whole and we are all in this
together and we all want the same thing we all need the
same things -

the thing as i see it is that we are addicted to fear and
have lived in a top down management by fear society since
forever and keep repeating the same wars, violence, fears,
propaganda since before forever and here we are - it is our
turn and look what we are doing and why - and i ask myself
in you what can we as individual do to make a difference
locally - and i ask myself in you what will the people of
the future say about us today - the people of the future
wonder not only who they are but who we are/were too and
what we a mess have left them to deal with

so i have issues with the concept of culture and culturalism
some times we think it brings us together but often it tears
us apart and is used as a propaganda tool to perpetuate the
myth of history into the future - history is the fiction of
facts a faction - even thought i think of myself as a social
sculpture and suffer from a social conscious i realize that
cuturalism is along with the other isms of schism what
creates the division of we vs them - but then again to echo
saul bellow “we are so shock resistant that maybe the only
thing that can touch us is poetry (art)” and yet to me art
cares for our imagination - as individuals and collectively
as a peoples

food for thought

What happens now for Zimbabwe?

wake up people we are living in an idiotcracy - we need to stop pretending we are zombies and don’t know what is going on in Zimbabwe, many places in africa, around the world, the USofA are heading for melt down - our leaders of the world care only about staying in power at any cost. We the people are addicted to fear and afraid of not belonging so we go along to get along - whats going to happen in zimbabwe is predictable just like kenya, rwanda, darfur - more propaganda mixed with blood - gg