started i've had my eye and 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  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 is 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 discussed because it is not possible to discuss anything serious in a series of soundbites even a whole hour long program of propaganda whether it's from the left or the right will not get to 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  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  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 racist 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 racism 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 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 unarmed black man shot to death on the evening news and what happens next nothing useful a whole lot of angry no it's the useful thing would be to get it 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 this 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 of these i mentioned earlier are forms of hate i hate you 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 let's talk about economic slavery if we want to name a root cause for most of the problems we have in our country we could start with economic slavery economic slavery is the social economic and political system in which we live we are required to earn twelve thousand dollars per year to be considered impoverished and required to earn much more than that and if we want any quality of life to live comfortably in most places a single person needs to earn twenty thirty to forty thousand dollars per year how we earn that money is the problem what we are willing to destroy for that money is the problem what lies we are willing to tell to make that money is a problem who we are willing to cheat to make money is a problem destruction lies and cheating are part of every large business we don't like to hear that but every large business model including universities medical centers and churches in the united states rely on varying amounts of dishonesty and varying amounts of psychological and environmental destruction psychological destruction being the bending of a person's view of reality do chinese businesses lie cheat and destroy less than our own do businesses in europe lie cheat and destroy less than their own it's hard to measure i mention china because many of us few china as having a less attractive way of running businesses and a less attractive way of running their society than our own we assume our ways are better we have specific social propaganda which we all learn in grade school propaganda which tells us meaningful good paying jobs are available to anyone willing to work hard well that is a fundamental lie upon that live we invent many other lies like equal opportunity and freedom of choice when we accept the fundamental law as truth we set ourselves up for a life time of neurotic behavior and the big lie skews our view of reality our view of reality is blurred because of economic slavery and our view of reality limits what is possible rather than creating new and better possibilities our current way of doing things we learn is not the only way nor the best way right now in the twenty first century in the united states there are tens of millions of jobs meaningful good paying jobs are available but not three hundred and one million jobs that is one good job for every adult citizen we're not even close i don't know where our government gets the statistics about unemployment they don't match the numbers at all we grow up in an environment of brutal competition and we are told that is ok a percentage of us fail completely to adapt to that competition some developmental problems some and up homeless we are supposed to be ok with that as well it is ok with the people in charge if a percentage of our citizens live desperate impoverished lives we know this to be a fact because over the past twenty years as homelessness expands no effective solutions have been created we notice our democratic in our republican parties both talk about equality and a fair shake for everyone but they do nothing significant to create viable solutions to the obvious and growing problem national homelessness the opioid epidemic was another problem which got little political notice until it became too big to ignore the tens of millions of people with good jobs naturally believe our social and economic systems are working just fine those systems serve them well and allow them opportunities and freedom of choice they get to go to the gym and get to take vacations and buy new cars and make babies and buy trucks the people in charge the one percenters the leaders of the democratic party and the republican party clearly do not care the middle class grows and prospers given the behavior of our federal government it is clear the people making the decisions are ok with just two classes that is the very rich and the very poor only two classes are necessary to create and maintain a busy wealth producing system of economic slavery where we live corporate money translates into governmental policy we do indeed have the best democracy money can buy if we want to more humane and more honest economic and political system perhaps we all need to move to south korea or iceland the rise in the consolidation of national and multinational corporations is one of the main factors which creates economic slavery while those corporations provide great jobs for millions of people they also control which products and services are available and can push prices pretty much as high as they want i'm grateful as anyone for the magical and useful things like internet my laptop in the software on my laptop and i'm grateful i can buy shoes and shirts jeans and groceries and affordable prices but i'm not grateful for the vicious business practices and limited social responsibility of the corporations who make the things i use i'm not grateful for the increased corporate control over the creation marketing distribution of all things which reach a mass audience corporate control means a few thousand people decide what is and what is not available to hundreds of millions of people in some places the corporations decide where people get to live where the good jobs are how much those jobs pay as well as deliberately limiting the availability of products and services that the corporations do not currently control the battle for internet neutrality is an example of corporations attempting to control the internet just as corporations gained nearly complete control over radio and t v broadcasting lately i notice deliberate fiction is sold to us in glamorous t v ads we see a young entrepreneur creating a startup going national and getting famous getting rich because she uses a teensy business internet and marketing services or because she designs her products on the latest microsoft tablet it is not mention the same designs could have been created with pencil and paper for less than five dollars rather than spending over two thousand dollars on the tablet and the software we're supposed to assume success hinges on the use of products and services from major multinational corporations and as product distribution and marketing services is more and more controlled by multinational corporation success may indeed rely on making deals with those corporations scrambling for a dollar is nothing new our parents our grandparents and our great grandparents knew all about earning money is expected like death and taxes having a select group of one percenters wanting to control everything wanting to control the production the wholesale buying the distribution the selling and having a desire to control all the national laws which govern production and commerce that is also nothing new but is new is the fact of modern technology which makes thora terry in control and total a tarion control more possible than ever over greater numbers of people than ever before in human history and in our country the control that money has over who gets elected and what laws those elected people create or what laws get eliminated the control of big money is greater than ever in both commerce and in government here's an example of what is now possible in the people's republic of china facial recognition cameras are now on most street corners in most major cities this means your coming and going is monitored who visits you and when and all you say to all the people in your life is monitor much like when you talk on cell phones or use e mail or communicate with faceb it's just one step further we got our eye on you watch your step we're listening we're listening so we can sell you products and tell you who to vote for where listening so we can make the most money possible from your little life our own government our homeland security would love facial recognition software on street corners if they could get it but truthfully that kind of expensive government control is not necessary if our government continues to hand power and control to major corporations on silver and platinum platters the corporations can install the cameras and manage all the data and sell it at a to each other shareholders will be overjoyed with skyrocketing dividends imagine that google and facebook times one thousand fascism made universal here the suffering of commuters living further and further away from their jobs hours and hours away from their jobs and the boredom of jobs trapped behind desks in an economic system beyond their control all darts all adults here are required to earn tens of thousands of dollars each year elsewhere as in india not even basic survival is assured farmers living without water unable to grow food or the chinese poor scavenging in mountains of garbage or being a row hinge on him in mar lately i look at the tall buildings in seattle and bellevue as crematoriums they look like giant roach traps built to crush human souls built to incinerate human imaginations through repetitive behavior and to mold each worker into a cyborg slave for the collective good of corporations fourth of june what interests me most about where i live below the olympic mountains a friend to dear with a sleeping peacefully in my bed what interests me most is the lack of clearly defined reality that clearly defined reality of men and women in seattle and bellevue and redmond people struggling to make a living or people making good money but struggling to define their lives in a meaningful way but clearly defined reality of millions of people is killing them they live and die in giant roach traps millions of people will die this year from a lack of imagination heart disease is not the leading cause of death among men in the united states desperate clearly defined realities and a general lack of imagination are the leading cause of death in the united states of america there is an epidemic of small imaginations especially among the one percenters among the people who run corporations and governments it is the malnourished and deceased imaginations of the powerful which condemn hundreds of millions of people to live in poverty or to live lives of moderate luxury with no capacity for actual freedom or actual free will  percenters who define the shape and content of our slave civilization and the rest of us just go along with it only god knows why percenters strive each day to convince the rest of us they have everything under control their way of doing things is the most practical way the most rational way the logical and scientific way to create and run a thriving civilization their way sounds so much like the way of adolf hitler only dressed up with democratic and republican talking points and tailored to fit or twenty first century nationalist paranoia or dressed up in some kinder and gentler self confiden self serving public television geist and the suffering of tens of millions of people in the united states the suffering the fellow citizens truly does not matter the only thing that matters is preserving the clearly defined reality the reality in which our one percenters remain in charge at the top of the heap in this reality the rest of us exists specifically to serve and to be used to increase quarterly and annual profit margins long ago in my teens i stopped caring about that objective and that suicidal reality my brother was not so lucky he played by the rules of the one percenters worked as an actuary then started his own retirement planning business which crashed and burned then he stole all his family's money to prop up that failed business and then he shot himself in the head in twenty eight the one percenter propaganda dresses up economic slavery in designer shoes promotes clever gadgets and i phones are propaganda tells us the one percenters are hard it work creating useful and fun devices and software for the little people to make the world a safe cosy and wildly entertaining place for all the little people the generous hard work of the one percenters is designed to set the little people free so they might live happy comfortable lives and make tens of thousands of cheerful babies which are in fact essential to maintaining the annual corporate profit margins over the next few decades are one percenters like mr trump and all the members of the house and senate want us to believe they have it all figured out and they are working for the greater good they have it all figured out until an economic crash like two thousand and eight or a heroin epidemic or a homelessness crisis none of those nation killing problems were caused by an act of god or a natural disaster those problems are caused by delusional men and women making bad decisions sometimes the problems are caused by the deliberate and different choices of one percenters to make a billion or two and the suffering and destruction only continues when the rest of us buy into the one percenter view of reality and participate and cooperate with that invented a view of how civilizations work truthfully i would rather spend my days and nights having orgasms with a writing dear and writing outrageous works of fiction i'd rather do that than participate in any of the ugly nonsense which occurs on the seattle side of puget sound or on my side of  bangor my other lovers would be a few little girls in seattle in renton the former hookers are still trapped on the seattle side destined to be economic slaves and there is not one damn thing i can do about it