And as long as so many continue to have such a naive and forgiving disposition

And this is really the essence of what’s happening – the people are being educated, awakened. There’s no way to teach oneself that one is naive, by definition, so it’s an awareness that can only be given to us from someone outside us.

As soon as the people wake up and start acting like mature adults and not helpless children this will stop.

And so the ones with whom lies the responsibility for our condition, and the power to change it, are…us.

There’s a SOPA debate?

Blondi looks like another one of the StepFOX Wives on-air clones. I wish I knew where the factory was. Maybe they have an outlet mall?

But regardless – hubba hubba housing housing! That’s one serious corpus delicti!

Hi Suz, muddling through I suppose. You’re well, I hope?

With the understanding that Rick Santorum is a manufactured diversion to give the media something to talk about as a way of avoiding talking about the issues Ron Paul raises, here’s an interesting question for him:

Jakadrien Turner, a 14-year-old Texas girl who was deported to Colombia by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials even though Turner is American, black, and speaks no Spanish, has been returned home to America – pregnant.

So if it turns out that Turner doesn’t want to be pregnant, should she be forced to have the baby?

Personal comment: G*ddammit, if she’d just said she was a Martian we’d still have a space program.

(Sorry if this gives away any of the new Muppet movie.)

But “strategic inaction to secure” has a totally different meaning than “passive” – and this difference is crucial to an understanding of, and an appropriate reaction to, Obama.

To suggest that Obama is merely “passive” implies he might still do what the marks in the voting crowd want, if he simply can be roused to action. It prolongs the harmful fantasy that Obama may someday do what his self-deluded followers – or even those who might reluctantly consider him as an alternative – hope.

The truth that his active choice is “strategic inaction to secure unfavorable outcomes” (though the question must be asked, “unfavorable” to whom? Certainly not to Obama, or to the people for whom those outcomes are secured) reveals that Obama has both intentionally acted the way he has, and there is no possibility he will ever act in the way his potential voters would want.

These are not simple differences of a turn of phrase. The first promotes the harmful and dangerous delusion that Obama might someday do what the people want, the second reveals to them the truth that he never will.

Obama’s approach to the presidency: Passive

Utterly, totally wrong.

Obama is “passive” in the way that an aikido-master bodyguard is “passive” – he skillfully defends the oligarchy by intentionally, actively directing the energy of the people away from real change.

Any appearance of passivity is just part of his schtick, giving him plausible deniability amongst the pishers as to his true agenda.

Gag me with a fucking spoon.

I’d always heard that women loved “spooning,” but I had no idea that’s what it meant.

But a more compassionate caring imaginative humanity could be just around the corner.

It’s already here.

Now we have to nurture and care for it.

And that begins by thanking what came before as we compassionately help it move on to whatever awaits it on the other side.

Thank you for being a warming light on a cold day.

After how categorically wrong the establishment media has been

The media aren’t supposed to be right or wrong, because that would mean they function as a means of observing an objective, external reality and drawing conclusions about it. This is completely backwards from how collective perception occurs.

The media exist to rationalize the public’s already chosen beliefs. The media tell us the stories we want to hear and that support the beliefs we want to hold.

In other words, we don’t look at the world and then decide what’s true. We decide what’s true and then filter what we experience to support what we’ve already chosen to believe.

(This is the way the ego works at the collective level, with the media, and individually, with our personal experience of the world.)

When I saw this, I realized that America was lost. Evil had prevailed.

America as we have known it – or more accurately said, as we imagined it – is over, as I’ve written for years.

But while we should rightly grieve, we shouldn’t give up.

The end of the old is always necessary for the new to have room to grow. That’s what’s happening now. The old is being cleared away because something new is coming. And in our sadness and grief over the end of our childhood, we shouldn’t forget that part of ourselves for which we have chosen to sacrifice our innocence: our full, adult, awakened humanity.

Old Southern advice: it’s probably best to resist the temptation to engage the tar baby.

(And thanks for the PCR clipping, he’s been very good since his political awakening (he’s much like an insider version of Greenwald). I’m glad Roberts decided to not give up and has returned to writing.)