I saw a man upon the stair,

a little man that was not there,

he wasn't there again today;

Gee, I wish he'd go away.

Dualism... Without it there can hardly be good literature. With it, there most certainly can be no good life.
"I" affirms a separate and abiding me substance, "am" denies the fact that all existence is relationship and change. "I am." Two tiny words, but what an enormity of untruth! The religiously minded dualist calls homemade spirits from the vasty deep; the nondualist calls the vasty deep into his spirit, or, to be more accurate, he finds that the vasty deep is already there.

Living under a fascist regime

An unjust, abusive government still has a lot of interest to use the means of propaganda to preserve the image of being a democracy, with equal rights for all. It's simply unlikely that any leader turns around and bleakly states his disregard for the voting majority, only rarely those comments surface. But it takes just a little bit of thinking to unveil the ruling class in a so-called democracy as a bunch of hypocritical liars.

Today's news in SBS offered yet another chance to convince anyone capable of thinking for themselves that fascism has already arrived, and is here to stay. I just mention Israel's act of state terrorism (the murder of a Hamas leader in Dubai using forged Australian and other nations passports) as a sideline, and skip to the outrageous hypocrisy related to events closer to my temporary home.

Let's start instead with the Australian's government protection of corporate criminals. Not, I'm not referring to Richard Pratt, who was honoured with a state funeral for ripping off each and every Australian, that's old news. This time it's about Stern Hu, the Rio Tinto executive who has finally admitted taking bribes. Rio Tinto starts distancing themselves now from their manager, while Kevin Rudd doesn't look like he is ever going to excuse towards the Chinese government for whitewashing Hu without any other evidence for his innocence besides Hu's Australian passport and employment for a multinational company with Australian headquarters. Rudd ranted about the 'injust' judicial system in China, vouching for a now confessing criminal.

Considering the cases of David Hicks, Benbrika and Dr. Haneef it becomes obvious that the Australian judicial system no longer deserves to be called just, or even democratic. A country that abuses its own secret service to set up a terror cell, and then sends a patsy for an ASIO suggested thought crime for 20 years in prison has lost credibility in pointing out flaws of other countries legal system.

Fingerpointing, however, is typical strategy of fascist regimes, which no longer need a personalised flaghead like Hitler, Mussolini or Stalin. It's a systematical denial of responsibility for the removal of civil rights in their own country. Germany didn't invade Poland, they just defended themselves against the threatening invasion, at least according to their own propaganda. Australia doesn't neglect international rights of refugees when patrolling their Northern water, they just 'defend themselves against a flood of illegal immigrants', at least according to their official propaganda.

Which is the second outrageous bit of hypocrisy in today's news. While the ADF engages in two illegal wars that produce masses of refugees, Australia deny these refugees shelter. Now that's fascism pure. Not only do they destroy the livelyhood of people in other countries, they do their best to make the lives of those who escaped from the terror that was brought into their home countries even more miserable.

All of that happens in a country with the lowest population density in comparison to other industrialised nations, where imbecile politicians actively prevent intelligent solutions that could easily extend the opportunity to host more people. Fear, violence and paranoia are the services provided by the government for its population, while public assets have been handed over to international companies. But like in Germany 80 years ago, the general population is distracted by governmental propaganda and outright lies, and as long as citizens wait for historians to declare their country as corporatist state they happily pay ever more taxes for their own imprisonment and withdrawal of civil rights.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think Australia is an exemption. Globalisation, and the development of technology, make it now possible to pervert the idea of democracy on a planetary scale, which makes it even more important that citizens reclaim their rights locally, instead of deluding themselves in the false security of pointing their fingers to other 'evil' societies. Ignorance helped Nazi-Germany flourish, and it has helped Australia converting into a corporate controlled political puppetry. And more TV and less free internet access complete the process to reinstate this continent as massive prison.

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It is not just a riot of blots and blurs and disjointed jottings linked by spurts of speed... it only looks as like it as damn it.

Fairness? Decency? How can you expect fairness or decency on a planet of sleeping people?

The apparent

randomness by which Universe

reveals

itself is

but a signal from a still higher sense of intrinsic order

The message is the response you get. That's why face-to-face communication still beats any asynchronous interaction like books, articles, recorded music, artworks or blogs. The time-binding qualities of art can create the illusion of efficient message transmission - if we still enjoy Beethoven's 'Ode to joy' it seems to have some specific meaning which extends over the contemporary context of its creation. Actually, Beethoven musical interpretation of Schiller's words must have shocked authorities so much that they decided to censor the lyrics. Celebrating 'joy' is much less anarchistic than celebrating 'freedom', so that Beethoven's inspired musical masterpiece could survive for centuries.

Although it's straight forward to communicate with most bloggers (the only hurdle on this blog is some easy verification to prevent most spamming), it's a rarely used opportunity. Some bloggers don't even like feedback, or do their best to destroy random communication attempts. A lot of media recipients have been thoroughly infected by the mind virus 'political correctness', which often creates a 'can't touch this' attitude. Another brick in the wall that prevents people from interacting more with each other in the interwebs is the perceived opposition of 'real life' and 'online'.

I enjoy deliberately playing with different online personae, yet without entertaining the schizophrenic delusion that my online selfs are separate entities. This attitude prevents me from acting like a bot, and even helps me identifying humanoid bots appearing in traditional media. Check out any TV interview with Australia's Goebbels Stephen Conroy (or about 90% of all political parasites in demo-crazys) if you want to study 'real life' spam bots.

Anonymity hardly exists anymore in electronic media, most people are simply oblivious to the amount of transparency that has been implemented with networking technology. Anonymity does not really exist for all the 'illegal' street art I recycle here, fame and admiration that street artists crave for just requires a certain level of been unknown by authorities. Unless you change your spraying/art style a lot, it's easy to pick up who did what (tag names makes that easy and straight forward, writing messages as well, pieces without deliberate incorporation of a 'name' pose a bit more difficulty in identification).

Of course, I have no idea whether the message in the photo refers to this blog. In a universe where everything is connected, I like to entertain the idea that anything my attention is drawn to might contain a personalised message. People just cannot prevent being the center of their own universe, although they can deny or stay ignorant about this fact. Once you identified yourself as the creator of your own universe in the multiverse of consciousness, it comes quite natural to make it more enjoyable.

true wealth

is the already accomplished

organization of human capabilities

to clothe

shelter feed

protect, inform

and accomodate

the initiatives of human life

the magnitude of true wealth

consists of the number

of forward days

of the number of human beings

already provided for

Plants catch the mist

Storms pass by

Thunder comes from thin air

Torrential rains come

from floating clouds

A pine cone falls

A bird cries

Reality without poetry

is like squaring

something round

The initiatory cycle can likened to a snake ploughing off its skin. So too, we must be prepared to slough off old patterns of thought, belief, (about ourselves and the world) and behaviour that are no longer appropriate for the new phase of our development.

Utopic space - a space that has been hinted at all through recorded civilisation. There exist no external clues as to its existence or actual characteristics.

Me as I think I am and me as I am in fact - sorrow, in other words, and the ending of sorrow. One third, more or less, of all that sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subjects to the laws of nature and under orders to keep on marching, through irreversible time, through a world wholly indifferent to our well-being, toward decrepitude and the certainty of death. The remaining two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

The historian of a century or two hence will be able to produce evidence of the psycho-physical state of the peoples of the twenty-first century which will show that in this regard they have progressed little on the evolutionary plane beyond the man of the Stone Age, whilst, on the other hand, he will only have to to refer to human activities during the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan to convince the most sceptical that human beings of our time have developed a new form of devilry and brutality that surpasses the best efforts of pre-historic man.

"The blind panopticon of Capital remains, after all, most vulnerable in the realm of 'magic' -- the manipulation of images to control events, hermetic 'action at a distance'."

PS: I-nigma might help with this enigma.

Every form of "morality" is, of course, irksome at some level to everybody, because no individual ever has exactly the sexual imprint desired by the tribe. The sophisticated totem-cults (the "higher" religions, so dubbed by themselves) take account of this by the doctrine of atonement. In one form or another, this allows the individual to be ritually "forgiven" periodically for not being the perfect sexual robot degreed by tribal morality.

This becomes hilarious only when one realises that most of what domesticated primates are asking their priests to forgive them for consists of that Kinsey so accurately called "normal mammalian behaviour".

Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there.

If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am, and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am.

What in fact I am, if only the Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed experience of Not-Two.

In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

Because his aspiration to perpetuate only the "yes" in every part of opposites can never, in the nature of things, be realised, the insulated Manichee I think I am condemns himself to endlessly repeated frustration, endlessly repeated conflicts with other aspiring and frustrated Manichees.

Conflicts and frustration- the theme of all history and almost all biography. "I show you sorrow" said the Buddha realistically. But he also showed the ending of sorrow - self-knowledge, total acceptance, the blessed experience of Not-Two.

Hood rules

I love strolling through my neighborhood,
unsolicited art makes me feel real good.
Humans sharing their vision,
without asking for permission.

Still images producing movement,
tuning me again into the moment.
Life will prevail, they seem to say,
and make me smile on my way.

Isn't that pure anarchy,
or just the creator's vanity?
Freedom of speech needs no words,
freedom of thought needs no swords.

If you feel attacked by art,
it's time to get more smart.