I’ve never understood why people want to become famous. Being famous means you can’t be yourself. You give up being ordinary. At least you used to. Ordinary people get pretty famous nowadays.
The Internet has changed the meaning of fame. You can have millions of followers (I don’t, but some people do) and still be pretty ordinary; obscure, in terms of the public eye. You know…Including all those other people who are too good to Google. Too cool for TikTok. For the rest of us, it’s sort of a golden age in a way. If you’re on the right apps, that is. If the Government doesn’t take them away because they’re afraid of the power we have.
What I want to know is where is the true music underground? The next breakout sound is out there, in some garage or dive bar. A bigger than life, but authentic scene. Where the music speaks the truth and the true seeds of destiny will spring. Not about the industry or money or fame. Music has the power to change. To change Us.
I’m a libertarian at heart. You don’t need a bunch of rules if you follow just one: first do no harm. When the industry is killing the product, the industry needs to change. The money is literally killing the music.
They will exploit us until we refuse to be exploited. Then they’ll find a new way to exploit us.
Peter Porker is a KuneKune pig, hoping to be a daddy pig this spring.
Happy Turkey Day. We’re having ham, thanks. Ham is basically bacon, and turkey is basically chicken’s tougher, stringier, monster cousin. I bet the pilgrims probably WISHED they had ham at the first thanksgiving, rather than stringy game bird. But the Mashpee Wampanoag must’ve kept the bacon for themselves I suppose…and hundreds of years later, the tribe still regrets ever trusting and helping the ungrateful zealots who eventually deadly-forced them out of their homeland. I say fuck the plundering, witch-burning pilgrims and all the bullshit about them in the history books. I’m grateful every fucking day. But I’ll take the 4-day weekend, thanks. We could rename it Grateful Bacon Day.
Check out this article from NPR: The Mashpee Wampanoag want you to know the full history behind Thanksgiving https://www.npr.org/2021/11/25/1059262045/the-mashpee-wampanoag-want-you-to-know-the-full-history-behind-thanksgiving
Marshmallow, Lily Pig and Peter Porker were the first three KuneKune pigs to arrive on our farm. Now we have six.
I think it’s time that the human race figures out, that progress for a few should never mean regress for some. If your success comes at another’s expense, it is not really success. It’s abuse. Abuse of human rights. Abuse of our shared resources. Abuse of power, for profit…and more power. Call it Capitalism. Call it anything you want to, to justify it in your conscience. But I call them crimes against humanity, and only the wealthy and powerful are actually able to commit them. Uber Wealthy People. Big companies. Countries. Because after all, who can actually hold them accountable?
Authors Note: All opinions expressed here are just that: opinions. If you don’t like mine, I probably won’t like yours either. Let’s just nod, and walk away. Maybe come back with solutions instead of opinions. Because of the two, only solutions actually matter.
Here’s what I think about Critical Race Theory (CRT). I think it sucks. Making school kids feel bad about their race, white or black, is not positive or useful, and can harm their mental health. Stop it teachers, if you’re doing it (I don’t actually think most of you are).
Critical Race Theory shouldn’t be a thing. In fact, it really isn’t a thing, except in the minds of the anti-woke. But, no one should be made to feel bad about their race, gender, or religion, or blamed for events if the past committed by others ‘like them’. History should be taught in an objective way, the truth being prioritized over politics and prejudice.
The sins of our forefathers are our past, not our future. We must learn about and use the events of the past to guide our steps into the next chapter of human evolution. To make a better future.
We must learn of past injustices…without blaming anyone for them… in order to devote ourselves to fixing them, avoiding making the same mistakes over and over again. We can’t sensor out the bad parts because we don’t like the way they reflect on us. We cannot allow ourselves to forget, because our history…our collective memory…is the key to learning to do better.
But that means we must teach ALL the facts about the past…even the uncomfortable ones. In the past we may have fucked up. OK. Now it’s time to move on. It sure as fuck wasn’t my fault. I’m gonna say it wasn’t yours either.
Look…We can simply choose to accept “that’s just the way things are”, or we can decide to change things for the better. Fear of change doesn’t mean it isn’t necessary. I won’t accept that we can’t do a LOT better, despite some very great progress.
But there are still plenty of haters out there, and they are only getting louder, angrier, and more violently hateful, trying to create a more divided nation. They resist being “woke” because they don’t want us to wake up.
Because they know the truth: Change is overdue. But they don’t want change. It will hurt their profits and wealth, and they’re “doing just fine the way things are, thanks”, and you know, rich people are so much more important than the rest of us.
E pluribus unum. From many, One. One people, one voice. #Vote for Change. Vote for #Progress. #VoteProgressive
Authors Note: All opinions expressed here are just that: opinions. If you don’t like mine, I probably won’t like yours either. Let’s just nod, and walk away. Maybe come back with solutions instead of opinions. Because of the two, only solutions actually matter.
Good Friday. They want you to focus on the divinity. I prefer reality, and historical fact to religious propaganda.
It’s another page of the same old story. Politicians and religious leaders conspiring together to keep the status quo, the ignorance of the masses, using it to effect control, exploiting the talents and labors of the unwary.
Jesus was no saint. He was a fucking radical. He was killed by the leaders of Israel, because he spoke out against them, and they feared a revolt. They feared that Jesus would lift the veil of ignorance, and they would lose control. So they killed him. Today, #GoodFriday is the rememberance if that day. I choose to remember Jesus for the Anarchist that he was, not the ‘Son of God’ they paint him to be.
Over the last 2000 years, his message has been repackaged by church elders and ‘scholars’, to be used to control and exploit the masses, just like before. With the help of politicians, of course. I choose to believe the truth about Good Friday, that it was more like the day they killed MLK. ~jg #Resist #ThinkForYourself
——- How Donald Trump reminds us of an important Good Friday lesson https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/donald-trump-good-friday-warning-far-right-christian-nationalism-rcna24491
Donald Trump – The ultimate tool for right-wing radicals.
…Religion is politics. Spirituality is universal. No one seems to know the difference anymore. Probably because they’ve been brainwashed by generations of doctrines and bullshit, into believing that our leaders know what they’re doing… |Are We Losing The Human Race? by Jamie Gray
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“The Human Race is to Be One” -jamie gray
It doesn’t matter to me what name you call God. Every religion has a different name, but logically, if God is responsible for our existence, odds are there’s only one God that has many names. How many all powerful all knowing beings could there be?!
Of course, no matter what name you pin on this Mystical Master of the Universe, an all powerful and all knowing God is either not what he claims to be, or just a fucking asshole. What kind of ‘all powerful’ ‘all knowing’ leader who COULD protect his creations from suffering, but instead prefers to let His ‘human race project subjects’ (us humans) suffer?
Why? Just to teach them a lesson or prove their faith in their God…as some cruel test of allegiance…?! WHAT AN ASSHOLE!
Unless They (God) are just lying, and They have LIMITED ability or knowledge to help us. In which case, They’re an EVEN BIGGER ASSHOLE! ‘Worship me. Even though I can’t ACTUALLY do shit to help you.’ What a douche. THAT God is probably lying about creating us too…taking credit for someone else’s work. Satan maybe?
Lucifer’s Final Season Begins SOON on Netflix! http://netflix.com (NOT an Ad, just personal excitement).
It’s pretty clear to me, that any True God would have to be an Energy source. That energy that courses through us, our life force. Our ‘souls’. I believe humans can learn to unite together to harness ‘God’s Energy’, or they can work against each other, against that positive Energy of growth and enlightenment; draining that force in order to dismantle their(our) own very existence.
All the religions say that too…be a force for good. That is a pretty universal concept.
Unfortunately, leaders of most religions simply use fear and reward instead, to coerce and manipulate their followers. They have a recipe. Rules are enforced. Compliance brings enlightenment. Resistance brings never-ending suffering.
The masses fall in line, behind Gurus, Popes and Imans. A Universal quest for spirituality becomes a challenge of fealty, a promise of reward for blind devotion, or pain if you don’t follow the rules. So few religions try to teach anything close to any ‘Truth’.
With us or against us? True believer or heritic? You can’t be one of them AND one of US. That’s their only Truth.
Maybe it’s just me, but that seems more human than Godly. An all powerful, all knowing God wouldn’t demand worship. They wouldn’t have to threaten us. We’d know God by Her works. The rules would be baked into our consciences. The Earth would be a paradise.
Oh, I forgot. We’re NOT WORTHY. We don’t DESERVE to live in a paradise, because 50,000 years ago somebody lied, SINNED, and God’s been holding it against us ever since. What a dick!
No…He’s actually a bigger dick than that because, according to some folks, he sent His Son, Jesus to become human and be TORTURED and MURDERED by evil humans, yet that somehow made Him a ‘righteous offering to Him’, that somehow allows us to be FORGIVEN for that original sin, after thousands of years…FINALLY.
Except, no. We STILL have to wait for some reason, until the Earth is an Apocalyptic nightmare, an indeterminate 1000s of somedays later, suffering and paying for those sins right up to the last day, without any help from Him?!?! Yeah, THAT God deserves a righteous FUCK YOU! Sorry if it sounds a little like your God. Maybe somebody fibbed to you?
Turmoil and Warfare Grow Apocalyptic Worldwide, as Humans Rape the Planet to Exploit Her Resources, Ignoring ALL the Warning Signs, Again and Again.
The primary ‘works’ that we see of modern religions are crusades of intolerance and murder, wars ‘In God’s Name’ to protect territory or resources, like oil.
We see rules that defy common sense, in order to comply with taboos defined by an ancient interpretation of selected historical documents. A subjective, human interpretation, that fits the political agenda of the interpretor. The agenda of some sect of whatever religion they pushing to gain more political power, so they can impose THEIR rules on more people…for their own good, of course.
An Aware-Wolf
Religion is simply politics. Spirituality is universal. But no one seems to know the difference anymore. Probably because they’ve been brainwashed by generations of doctrines and bullshit, into believing that our leaders know what they’re doing. Spoonfed an easy path to nirvana…just follow the rules. Listen to us…we’ll make it easy for you.
But it’s NOT easy. Suddenly, we look around and it’s crystal clear to even the blindest of us, that leadership doesn’t necessarily mean wisdom, and that power corrupts.
“Religion…is a smile on a dog” What I Am | Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians
Because it’s religion we’re taught, not spirituality.
Doing things ‘In God’s Name’ should mean helping people. Ensuring no one goes hungry. No one is deprived of food, medicine or clothing. Working for peace on earth, not Israel’s right to exist. Dedication to education and science, preserving our home planet. Taking care of one another and the precious Earth we live on, rather than pulling us apart from each other, dividing us by our differences.
Diversity is strength, and racial purity is another big lie anyway. There is no gene for race. There are just many genes rearranged differently in each of us, every one unique as a fucking snowflake…but much less fragile.
Buddy Christ be With You
Which is good, because it’s pretty clear God’s either not able or willing to help, so we’re on our own down here…at least until we figure out that we’re All in this Together, so we can truly harness the Energy of God: Unity in Our Diversity.
E Pluribus Unum. From Many, ONE. The Human Race is to be One.
Thank you for reading to the end. Peace. ~jg #N0H8
On this day, 25 years ago, the Grateful Dead played their final concert at Soldier Field, Chicago. A month later, Jerry Garcia would be gone from the stage forever, as the other members struggled to keep the music flowing thru the Space & Drums portion of the band’s long history.
Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead played their final show 25 years ago today, 7/9/95, but The Music Never Stopped.
The Music Never Stopped, as Bobby, Phil, Billy, Mickey, and all of their amazingly improvisational friends, have kept moving the Dead’s music moving Further on, Truckin’ through the Lilly Fields on the Bus to never-ever land.
I still miss Jerry’s soulful plucks and crackly croons, and watching the last show can be hard. Still. 25 years later. But if you’re so inclined, YouTube of the show is below.
