War Preparers Anonymous by Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut on the @@ scheme

"Compulsive preparers for World War III,
in this country or any other,
are as tragically and, yes, as repulsively
addicted as any stockbroker passed out
with his head in a toilet in Port Authority Bus Terminal.

"For an alcoholic to experience a little joy,
he needs maybe three ounces of grain alcohol.
Alcoholics, when they are close to hitting bottom,
customarily can't hold much alcohol.

"If we know a compulsive gambler who is dead broke,
we can probably make him happy with a dollar to bet
on who can spit further than someone else.

"For us to give a compulsive war-preparer a fleeting moment
of happiness, we may have to buy him three Trident submarines
and a hundred intercontinental ballistic missiles mounted
on choo-choo trains.

"If Western Civilization were a person --

"If Western Civilization, which blankets the world now,
as far as I can tell,
were a person --

"If Western Civilization, which surely now includes the Soviet Union
and China and India and Pakistan and on and on, were a person --

"If Western Civilization were a person,
we would be directing it to the nearest meeting of
War Preparers Anonymous.
We would be telling it to stand up before the meeting and say,
'My name is Western Civilization. I am a compulsive war-preparer.
I have lost everything I ever cared about.
I should have come here long ago.
I first hit bottom in World War 1.'

"Western Civilization cannot be represented by a single person, of course, but a single explanation for the catastrophic course it has followed during this bloody century is possible. We the people, because of our ignorance of the disease, have again and again entrusted power to people we did not know were sickies.
"And let us not mock them now, any more than we would mock someone with syphillis or smallpox or leprosy or yaws or typhoid fever or any of the other diseases to which the flesh is heir. All we have to do is separate them from the levers of power, I think.
"And then what?
"Western Civilization's long, hard trip back to sobriety might begin.

found poem in "Fates Worse Than Death" page 134, 135

The Great Deglobalization

1 sky needs 350
350 needs 1 sky
they both need
a political party

do i have to tell you why?

peace department needs teaparty
teaparty needs peace department
we can cut tax dollar in half! @ home (eco)
& make the world safe for
EVERYONE
freedom
democracy
Great Transition Great Relocalization
via Great Reskilling
[fullstops the killing]

give the children
all the skills
they need
for
joy!

God is GOOD. . . ALL the time!

God is GOOD... ALL the time!
She don't do genocide. She don't do crime.
Path as secular 24/7 12/8 religion
May 23rd Pentacost (Christian and Eastern Orthodox) on my Blake calendar 2010
writing from 4 to 9 is fine, breaks for tuba
since the politics of Path not working get back to liturgy
people play the way people grace the space
wordless and let the spirit move
treat nypathtopeace as a founding document
amazing grace our aspiration
have words for every song unuttered on zurna&dauli principles
find words of surrender and peace in your own language
started the day at 4 a.m. after contemplating sir herbert read's chapters of to hell with culture the night before. good saturday night read. this morning spent better part of two hours with "soteriology in other religions" at wikipedia.
pagan -- a grain god who becomes bread and beer
christian -- following the Oneness tendency from polycrates, polycarp, ignatius thru abelard, servetus, swedenborg, blake, elvis presley (baptised twice in Oneness @9 and @14) so why did elvis and jocko grow ugly, distorted,
allow themselves to be drugged to death?
they got commodified, alienated, turned into monsters, absorbed into
barfield's appearances/idolatry syndrome
discover the pelagians -- vico's humanity in full control
hence responsible for crimes
against humanity, etc. in need of repentence, baptism, receipt of Holy Spirit, a constant quest for grace, 4 ease (edenic equality eternal essential) joy
church of christ, scientist -- only new testament, multiple schisms
fred's dancing Socrates no one spread the word
at one ment atonement a tone meant
so many afirmations of the Path as a path including jesus & socrates & buddha
as teachers of at one ment atonement a tone meant
seek juncture phenomena juxtaposition
Receipt of the Holy Spirit is musicking-for-ecstatic-dancing
Simple
Natural
get better at it do it daily in public spaces and many other places
mobility inclusion funny hats just a start
booth led boldly with his big bass drum. . . . . . .
tuba mira spargens sonum . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
let's live the world we believe is best . . . . . . . . .
fewest possible compromises with corpstate and techno cold evil

true conservers conserve

in the 21st Century

from an anarchist=libertarian=decentralist=eco-perspective
"government that governs least governs best"
the his-torical political spectrum has always revealed
a statist=totalitarian=authoritarian right
[20th century corpstate fascism]
a statist=totalitarian=authoritarian left
[20th century statecorpse communism]
both of which have been delusional destructive and deadly
in relation to both humanity and Nature
both statecorpse left and corpstate right
been hell bent on militarism
power control using different delusional ideologies
to achieve the same power-over control domination goals
nowadays militarism war and obsolete megaweapons
no longer assert power control populations achieve goals
no matter how worthy or unworthy they may be
radicle ("rooted") decentralization and conserving consensus
locally and bio-regionally
are the only paths any rational citizen can take
toward peace the common GOOD eco-balance
common decency

daddy bush's iraq war
clinton's iraq war
shrub's iraq war
obama's iraq war
a million dead inside iraq
even longer war in afghanistan
our economy on the rocks
have convinced me
time to unite moderate left & moderate right
the liberals & the libertarians
the independents and alienateds
as a conserving consensus to end STATE-ism
(Statist Totalitarian Authoritarian Triumphalist Elitism)
waging unilateral preemptive perpetual wars
on a world that can no longer be controlled by force

as people begin to notice that obama elected is still trapped
in the same failing war economy that we fell into in 1960-61
(hear Ike's speech on military industrial complex 50 years ago!)
all the rip van winkles will be invited to wake up
to the warnings of the floundering fathers

deja vu all over again each day
no new news from mogadishu or bombay
on high definition digital array
america armed to the teeth
dare not let its children out to play