{∅, {∅}, {∅, {∅}}} : Rage Against the Meat Grinder

Thanks for the encouragement.  You are correct.  Thinking is not an activity the establishment desires in its subjects or even of its hired guns and enforcers.  Consume product.  Go goo-goo ga-ga over the Automobile Show ... Get a "smart" phone ... vote for somebody, anybody ...

“Owners of the new mechanical technology created a new technology of social control through abundant use of police, spies, sabotage, propaganda, and legislation … In the society just ahead, one profession has astonishingly good prospects. I’m referring to the various specialties associated with policing the angry, the disaffected, and the embittered. Because school promises are mathematically impossible to keep, they were, from the beginning, a Ponzi scheme, like Social Security.” (Gatto)

“School is a jobs project for a large class of people it would be difficult to find employment for otherwise in a frightening job market, one in which the majority of all employment in the nation is either temporary or part time.” (Gatto)

I'm not sure about this, but I don't think it would take much to get the attention of the "Nanny State".   Now everything is disguised as "mental health care" and the "concern" is justified by all the "public shootings" by mentally unstable and/or ideologically radicalized individuals. 

Sure, the establishment types even like to credit the Internet as the medium in which lone wolves are radicalized.  I suppose all it would take to be considered "radical" is to question what the mainstream takes for granted, such as reporting to a boss, seeking a marriage partner, procreating, owning a car, following sporting events ...

Yes, I suspect anyone who shamelessly takes his or her education into their own hands, without paying homage to the corporate bosses. 



And we don't have to fear the Official Gestapo.  The guards and police have seen me up close, and they find me rather comical, something of a joke ... As long as I don't disturb the public with any rants, I think I will be left in peace to study mathematics and computing to my hearts content.  What natural born intellectuals have to fear is not so much the secret police, but the purposefully miseducated masses, slave morality, and the fascistic desire of the silent majority to punish those who they feel are "not carrying their weight".

Then I wonder ... what if there are countless others who feel the same?  What if the whole point of all this "terror" is to keep most everyone suspicious of everyone else?  It is a bizarre world with so many dangerous people ... not all the dangerous people are in positions of authority.  Everyday unstable and angry psychopaths driving their cars like maniacs.   Madness is the norm.

Wow, there seems to be quite a lot of danger, huh? Civilized gone insane. 

One would like to believe that one is free to express doubts without fearing retribution, and yet there are those who might become violent over someone disrespecting their religious beliefs ... guns and gods ... chimpanzees and baboons ... 

It is what it is. 

That's why Holden and I decided to just correspond on this little message board that could disappear at any moment.  We'd continue our discussion via email.  Using a message board helps us somewhat organize the chaos of our dialogue.   I'm glad you decided to check in here every now and then since I don't really update the blog.  I'm too engrossed in studying mathematics.  I once had a passion for it, and I am riding this wave of enthusiasm while it lasts.  It keeps me out of trouble.  I really like where my head has been at lately.  I am in my own little world ...  I have become "politically" apathetic.  Wherever I end up, I want to continue studying at least a fraction of what it is that interests me.

Now, someone the Gestapo definitely did keep an eye on was John Trudell.  They did not care for his thinking because he was able to express his thoughts in speech.

A speaker reaches more hearts than a writer.  As long as I don't speak, I don't think I can be accused of sowing the seeds of discontent.  I'm really not even trying to reach out to anyone ...

It's really cool, though, that I have a couple people to bounce things off of.  That's enough for me.  As you may have noticed, I also like to store links here to technical areas of interest.  It's cool to just have a "dynamic" place to organize things.  I've always liked a little old school message board.  No advertizements ...

Peace Raul.

Somewhere a wild horse won't be broken ...