i've been considering the word spontaneity spontaneous what we do because we want to i keep thinking about a river otter i saw on the beach a few weeks ago his life is all about spontaneity he does whatever he wants to do whenever he wants to do it and that could be called freedom it is certainly not the definition of freedom we have in our democracy more and more our personal freedom is not protected by any democratic process more and more the purpose of democratic process is containing our freedom and making us believe we still have free will when our free will is actually completely totally entirely reliant on the size of our bank accounts the less cash you have the less freedom you have our democracy has not done well at all in solving the problem of poverty poverty here in our own country our corporations now prefer to think globally that is doing business and hiring people where it is the least expensive and who cares if that results in the loss of jobs in america the shareholders are what matters their profits are what matters our corporations want to global reach and that means our own poor people get to stay poor and there is nothing the decision makers in government or in business want to do about it the one percenters who almost everything and run most everything like the set up the way it is they like it when the one percenters are on top with a subservient upper middle class and with no actual middle class and a growing lower class to harvest as slaves harvesting citizens of the united states of america as slaves and the poor people of the world as slaves for the purpose of making four thousand or five thousand individual people billionaires this seems to be the ultimate goal of global business and global economics but i digress my little river author doesn't know anything about all this and his freedom remains as long as there's enough forests and enough water for him to find whatever he needs the rest of us do not get to find whatever we need we are told what we need but it's available to us is available to us only because the one percenters make it available to us what is invented what is mass produced and sold to the general public is only what the one percenters allowed to be invented and mass produced and sold to the general public the cash flow the creation of jobs the creation of anything and the structure of our civilization is only what the one percenters decide benefits them the most what the rest of us think about it has become almost entirely irrelevant casting votes in a state or national election is a curious sideshow it's true sometimes a few things get passed to benefit all and those benefits last for a while but make it changed in a year or two over all the general and inevitable trend is the consolidation of power the consolidation of economic control over every aspect of our lives what we buy where we live wh who we get to visit all this making every single river otter and every single dolphin and most birds more free and more spontaneous and in general more happy than hundreds of millions of people it's true our children are allowed to be spontaneous until they start grade school and by the end of grade school most have been whipped into shape that is they have been taught to curb their enthusias and get with the group by the end of high school the children who are destined to be one percenters have no spontaneity left at all and the other children will have little freedom they will be trained as slaves in one profession or another again without much room for spontaneous thoughts or actions by twenty five most of us have learned spontaneous actions are anti social no churchgoing republican and no progressive liberal democrat wants one moment of spontaneity from their constituency both camps have specific agendas in which they are certain will lead us all to the best outcomes the best outcomes for freedom the best outcomes were pressed parity for everyone and prosperity for the  the huge lies of our major political parties can be considered the best standing comic routines ever made they all take themselves so very seriously and we the voters are supposed to take it seriously as well to vote them in to let them make those serious decisions and what does it matter if their entire worldview whether democratic or republican is fictional invented having little to do with the actual needs in the lives of millions of people hundreds of millions of people they take no lessons from the river otters or the dolphins or the birds the serious minded politicians and the one percenters who run corporations and own corporations require agendas and they require the rest of us to get on board to get with those programs to sign on with those agendas this art all the different kinds of art music poetry dance theater programs on public television art of all kinds is not important unless it can be used to make money as in a major t v series or a major motion picture and he person such as myself who chooses to compose music or write  or write novels or hear a community access t v spouting anarchists philosophies well we we cannot adapt to the new world order to the order of economic slavery we must be stopped we must be stopped at all costs we must be defined as the criminal element the outcasts the other important fringe of society we are to be stopped by controlling the perceptions of our audience you the people watching this program you are controlled by definitions imposed upon you by one percenters the one percenters don't really want you to hear independent ideas at all they only want you to hear their ideas they only want you to get with the program they don't want spontaneity spontaneity it gets in the way of the program the purpose of your life from the point of view of the people in charge in charge of government in charge of corporations in charge of your jobs your only purpose in your life is to make the one percenters more wealthy that is your only purpose listening to people like me on late night t v does not advance the agendas and the one percenters at all people like me are a nuisance a distraction static on the radio and therefore you are encouraged to consider anything i have to say as radical nonsense the rambling or you will laugh and say what a freak where did you find this nut job and perhaps you have the who is this dr most what does he hope to accomplish what is he hope to accomplish with all this nonsense he looks like another old lady and moaning some sexual relations with some young woman i've had my own humans for over sixty years and i can no longer keep my mouth shut so much of human behavior is blatantly ridiculous and bizarre there is a constant tendency toward slavery economic slavery and also intellectual slavery the slavery of the imagination so much continues to go so wrong so often and this is from a lack of imagination as well as deliberate well planned evil few people seem willing or able to do much about it for always talk our great president our supreme leader is really not qualified to accomplish much and neither is our senate or house of representatives their public statements are almost exclusively party propaganda which prevents any real consideration of facts and prevents the creation of solutions making our national legislature pretty much a worthless group of senile old men and women with not a whole lot to say our former president jimmy carter recently said the united states is suffering from a complete lack of faith here's the quote to a great extent even in the united states we have lost faith in democracy yep that's for sure and there are good reasons for losing faith in the same interview he mentioned the supreme court he said the supreme court seems to be eager to see rich people become more powerful and see corporations more become more powerful than individuals most nights i see talking heads on the t v talking heads talking about irrelevant things in short soundbites the really important problems the country killing problems are mentioned but never fully discus because it is not possible to discuss anything serious in a series of soundbites even the whole hour long program of propaganda whether it's from the left or the right will not get to the core of the problems this is the huge failure of broadcast media print media is better at these issues but who cares as of twenty sixteen only two in ten us adults got news from print newspapers that's a pew research fact so all those millions of adults tens of millions are forming political and economic opinions and social opinions based on sound bites or based on rush limbaugh or some other big talker this brings me to notice the resurgence of racism and the media frenzy the angry white man the angry black man and not one of them ready to solve the problem to stop racist behavior we need to know why racist behavior happens we need to look at various examples multinational racism against jews jewish racism against palestinians white racism against other whites white racism against blacks black racism against whites that is the habit of lumping all white skinned people into one group and calling them rhesus we can also discuss black racism against blacks many blacks were sold into american slavery by other blacks also we can talk about japanese racism against chinese and chinese racism well chinese racism against everybody after we talk about all those varieties of racism then we will have a place to start in getting rid of rac i personally take offense when some blacks point accusing fingers at whites without always specifying which whites and where to a black man i might look like an old white guy but i'm half armenian my grandfather's first wife and all his first children were cut to pieces by turks with swords that was just over one hundred years ago just one lifetime ago so my bloodline my own bloodline also knows about racial violence and i'm not alone ask older irishman or hunger ariens were senior citizens from czech republic ask them what they know about oppression some angry young black men seem to have no knowledge of the oppression of other races and our current sound bite media encourages the idea that blacks are oppressed everywhere and other people just don't understand their suffering we see the  black man shot to death on the evening news and what happens next nothing useful a whole lot of angry noise the useful thing would be to get leading white supremacists on p b s or on sixty minutes and give them a full hour to say why blacks need to be eliminated from our civilization by the end of that hour we will all see just how stupid and fanatical and ridiculous that kind of talk is and there will be no further need to discuss the views of any white supremacist of course p b s and c b s will never do this because they are afraid they would be accused of promoting racism or worse a few thousand people in the audience will agree with the white supremacists and want to sign up with his group so large media prefers not to broadcast the unedited views of leading white supremacists to that i say how else will we know exactly what they think unless they tell us after they tell us we can all decide whether they're worth one more moment of our attention or one more second of air time my guess is twenty million viewers would no longer want to listen to anything any white supremacist has to say if the goal is to change the behavior of racists to change their world view well that's just not possible if we do not know exactly what their worldview is and how they got that view and learn why they are compelled to hate other people that is the heart of the matter all racism all over id as i mentioned earlier are forms of hate i hate me i don't care about your life so i will destroy you or i will use you to my advantage because i hate you because i'm better than you i might not even hate you i might just think you are worthless such hate gets inherited often silently from one generation to the next are we ready to get rid of hate you yelling really doesn't change people's minds giving people an opportunity to make fools of themselves works a lot better than yelling one group of anti racists in oregon showed up at a white supremacist rally wearing clown masks well that's the perfect response