Whose World Is It? By Jim Kirwan

Whose World Is It?

By Jim Kirwan

Al-Jazeerah, May 29, 2006

We all try to live in so many worlds at the same time that it is amazing to think that we have any time leftover for any real life at all. Humans have many centers within themselves from which to explore whichever world (or worlds) they personally want to experience. What then seems to happen is that because of overlapping desires, of critical needs – or just the sheer weight of frustration that seems to crush whatever path is chosen – too many are simply overwhelmed. . .

In the very dim past of the mutual histories of humankind, it can be easily seen that people have four basic points that contribute the most to how one’s life is lived. Body, Heart, Mind and Spirit - are all major parts of each of us – and yet these are not always in agreement. When we truly learn something, about ourselves, that knowledge usually comes from what is learned when two or more of these basic paths intersect. That was once a basic touchstone in society, a recognized feature of growth and development in a world that existed before television, before mass communications, and even before the Agricultural Revolution.

Fast forward to these blindingly fast times that seem to know no boundaries, and the entire cultural vista has been totally altered. Today is as different from our mutually related history, as Orwell’s “1984” differs from Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. Both are about the human condition, yet one is future oriented and was a fiction, while the other is fact based and purports to track some real events. But to write anything about conditions now requires a base knowledge that ‘understands’ the new paradigm. This is a parallax view – one with three faces among a multitude of masks, with very few similarities: The only common denominator within all this is that all these masks are about the lives of a lot of people – many of whom have forgotten that those masks – must one day be removed!

The latest addition to the 21st Century and beyond is the Internet, and all that this innovation has now globally enabled. Mostly computers are used to access pornography, or to buy things, but it has also become an Alternative Media for news and information that does not make it onto the pages or the screens of traditional mass media. Those who follow world events in this way have become aware of severe and crushing realities that the rest of humanity apparently does not see. It is this disconnect that has immeasurably created the unreality of the other two ‘worlds’ that most people are tying so hard to live in now.

The second mask in the hourglass that represents this moment is about a world where people are trying to continue to live as they did before the Internet. In this place where so much of what was done, was based on completely different ethics, totally different concepts about work and promise and dreams; than anything that still exists today. So this group seems to be locked in a time-warp that constricts their ability to discern what is happening, because the way the world is moving now is so far beyond anything they could have imagined – that “what IS happening” is simply beyond-the-pale of what’s possible for them to grasp. This goes to the simple phrase “It can’t happen here!” But despite what their senses are telling these people – in their heart of hearts they know that “this is real!” Yet - most of these people keep right on living as though their schedules matter, as if their routines will take place as planned, and their dreams will be realized – despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. This group does not want to know how badly flawed the information is on which they’ve based their current personal beliefs—therefore the arguments against their plans must be wrong!

The third mask reflected in the nearly empty hourglass is of those who are attempting to live the messages sent by those who control the media, the money, and the military. This group is heavily into denial, and deeply committed to things commercial, competitively chic, and cluelessly short-term. For most of this group history is irrelevant, money is paramount, and morality is as passé as yesterday’s news. Gossip, Celebrity and Pipe-Dreams are what fill the chatter on their cell phones, while their minds grow fallow from disuse. In this world purchasing becomes an art-form, and acquisitions are the only symbol of success. “The Journey” of one’s life is of no consequence, because the spotlight of fame and fortune, they believe, lies just ahead. In any case as most of this group is still youthful, they consider themselves and their “friends” to be living proof of the rightness of all their beliefs ~ which makes all the doubts of others just background noise for that ultimate success in all that they believe they will absolutely ‘one-day’ have.

There are commonalities between these last two groups – their inability to question – this comes directly from an over-exposure to the propaganda, and lies that buttresses how they think they think; and by which they embrace the choices they routinely choose. Mostly this group has been indirectly told what to think, programmed by a system that has re-written history to reflect very little of what-really-happened anywhere: Imagination in too many with this mask, has become a quick-sand of indecision, a dead-pool where the fertile parts of being human goes to die. From the real history of the US, right down to current deployments of US troops in an increasingly hostile global worldview. Politics, the actual future of money and investments, based on the true costs of how we’re using up the resources of the planet, and slaughtering the many that are demanding that we stop the colonial push of new-capitalism from taking over all that promise that once belonged to all the people everywhere.

Another disconnect that ties these last two groups together is their willingness to let others do their deeper thinking for them. In every generation there are always some who question, some who challenge and some who can lead the larger population to new highs. These individuals have been targeted for elimination. In most other places that process has been brutal and is blood-soaked round the world. Here this has taken more subtle forms by using the four elements of humanity against each individual, according to whichever of the elements are uppermost. Dreams can be stolen, just as jobs can be sent offshore. Occupations have been absorbed by machines and by computers, just as whole career-fields can be disappeared. Human rights and liberties have been shackled and gagged, just as ‘fashions’ have been used to eliminate beauty and to elevate the hordes. So whether it’s Body, Heart, Mind or Spirit – all those aspects can be controlled and diminished to fit within those personal (even if transparent), prisons, in which all Hope can finally be extinguished.

So it is that we live and move through graveyards of the un-living, amid faceless mobs of pod-people with ‘nothing’ on their minds. Daily the cities are invaded by commuters, that huge number of fugitives that have opted-out of city life for a special kind of hell – or perhaps just a limbo called commuting – in which there is no life except the physical movement of a body from one place to another. So they race between job and home, and have no time to do either very well: yet they believe that this is “life” and are unwilling, for the most part, to reconsider. Here sameness is a virtue, and the party-line is sacrosanct, be that corporate or political, as there can be no deviation from the dictates that have taken over where ‘individuals’ used to be.

What is lost in this confusion are those things that keep people motivated and alive! Human dreams have to do with doing something that contains real meaning (personally) beyond just money. The people that they care about, and those events that mark the passage of any other life besides their own: not to mention whatever it might be that anyone actually owes to those who have been displaced or maimed or slaughtered – just to enable how so many choose ‘to live’ today. The criminality, the brutality, the inhumanity of the world now will not allow the herd to catch a whiff of death or view the literal slaughter of so many who were only in the crossfire’s of the wars and in political situations in which they had no part at all – except as road-kill on the path to power.

These things have left their marks upon the unwritten pages of history that are recorded in the hearts and minds of those who loved the victims: and no amount of spin or bribery shall erase the truth of what so many have done to elevate the riches of the very few.

This ‘life’ that is given to each of us, this fantastic personal mystery that we did not choose for ourselves is not something that ‘others’ should be allowed to trash with such vehemence on the one hand: and with such contempt on the other. The artificial hierarchical ladder of superiority is nothing but a construct – because in nature there is no real difference that is bequeathed by birth. NO people are intrinsically “better” than any other people. Consequently the disaster that humans have made of the world situation now, is all the more severe because it is based on literally nothing at all – while the sheer act of the existence of such treachery confounds those who care at all about anything worth doing. . .

“The Economy’s” of this world are lies because they do not measure the real costs of anything “produced.” What people actually create can be patented, as a way to reward human ingenuity and creativity. Now corporations, with the help of the Courts, have perverted that process to include “the right” to patent other life forms: seeking control over the food, the water and the air we all must breathe. Currently science seems determined to begin to create life in the laboratory – ostensibly to begin replacing those parts of life that either do not follow the commands of the self-appointed, or to enable things to live that do not answer to the nature of actual life itself - like Super-killer troops, or human lab-rats that can be killed with impunity to further more un-needed medicine in an artificial world that is consumed by frustration, by unholy fears and a world that is marked by deep depressions that have changed the way we view responsibility.

In brief the human race has overstayed its welcome on this planet – having begun now to alter the eco-systems, the bio-systems, and even the rhythms of the ocean’s currents. We have created so much death and destruction in the name of “profits” that the entire structure of what we say we “value” has become a global farce that no sane person can condone.

Now we’ve added the final tipping point to our primitive and totalitarian ways – religions are now reason – for the destructions of whole peoples, along with other races, other interests and other cultures. How far we have fallen and still it remains “unspeakable to even question” what we do for money, lust, and greed! Cowardice has replaced pride in accomplishments, just as Individuality has been murdered by the concepts inherent in being a “Team Player” at the expense of any real purpose or achievement in life or occupation.

The beauty in the Masks – is that one day they must come off—just as all parties must eventually end, from exhaustion if from nothing else. The ancient’s: the Romans, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Chinese, and even the less ancient but just as flawed, the Mayan’s the Toltec’s and the Inca. Every people that over-reached their own needs at the expense of the viability of their own ways have met the same end – how can anyone alive today not know the simple facts? That’s easy if the populace has no interest in the history, no real interest in anything beyond themselves—and no desire to learn!

Commerce has had its day, and will die accordingly with the collapse of the banks that will follow the monetary crash that looms not far away. The distraction of the wars, along with the new ones being contemplated, continues to grow and yet already they have reached the end of possibilities and shall collapse into the chaos they created. This must happen because the human race is being led by criminals and murderers, by men and women without conscience, mind or purpose, beyond the greed and violence in their every touch. Strange as it sounds the human race cannot survive without truth, without freedom, and especially without dreams of one’s own to cherish and pursue: Today we are living in a Prison-Planet that others built for us – with our own money, and indirectly with our too willing permission that we instantly gave them, out of that cowardly fear of what they created for us to fear. “Programming” is not an excuse that can hold back the enormity of this sell-out of ourselves that has brought us to this point! This was done that we should become the assassins of our way of life – willingly doing – what Americans say they would never allow others to do to us: This is so bizarre!

It is not an oh-so-clever ‘enemy’ – too many have clearly seen through the smoke and mirrors. No this is about the serious conditioning of the public to accept the unacceptable, to drink the Hemlock that is offered with the raising of the flag each day. And to the amazement of the few – behold America has swallowed all of it! The shoddy and deceitful congress, the criminals in every major post of government – all together in an orchestrated chorus that always shuns the public, and yet continues unabated with the filth and murder that we now call liberty and justice. That ‘one-crime-too-many’ is coming, with the approaching storms of crisis in nearly every area of what was once called Life! The sooner reality gets here the better – for the planet, and for people everywhere!

kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net

ps - For those who say that actions do not matter:

“If any should say, it is in vain for them as individuals to be vigilant, zealous and firm in pursuing any measures for the security of our rights, unless all would unite, I would reply: Ages are composed of seconds, the earth of sands, and the sea of drops, too small to be seen by the naked eye. The smallest particles have their influence. Such is our state, that each individual has a proportion of influence on some neighbor at least; he, on another, and so on; as in a river, the following drop urges that which is before, and every one through the whole length of the stream has the like influence. We are not at liberty to lie dormant until we can at once influence the whole. We must begin with the weight we have. Mighty floods have their rise in single drops from the rocks, which, uniting creep along till they meet with another. These unite, proceed, enlarge, until the mountains tremble at their sound.”

- Nathaniel Niles (1774)

Earth, a planet hungry for peace

Apartheid Wall


The Israeli Land-Grab Apartheid Wall built inside the Palestinian territories, here separating Abu Dis from occupied East Jerusalem. (IPC, 7/4/04).

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank, like a Python. (Alquds,10/25/03).

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