Strange Sky Sounds Buzz
Some day’s I think I’m just going to lose my mind.
I’ve been hearing about these “strange sky sounds” emanating all around the world. There’s a viral buzz like nothing since the dancing baby or cat playing the piano. Right away, someone with a shred of common sense mentions that it could possibly be viral marketing of a new Hollywood movie and that makes perfect sense.
BUT
There’s always a but, and people don’t cognitively think anymore so if something strange is happening around the world, and mainstream news is not picking up on it very much and no official bureau from any country is admitting to scientific or homeland security tests, etc. Then all the rest of the “sane world” jumps in on the discussion.
Here’s where things get REALLY strange. Religious zealots and paranoid’s start screaming on the internet and in their local newsletters about the “end times” and “apocryphal trumpets.” Other conspiracists start shouting about the UFO invasion hinted at by inane political sources. Most people hearing the sounds start cowering under their beds, in a textbook reaction to “the unknown.”
How predictable we’ve all become. How easily manipulated. How unworldly, uneducated and uncultured we’ve devolved.
Do I know what these strange sounds are? No.
But I do possess a GED, I didn’t fail fifth grade science and I’m not afraid of “strange sky noises.”
Let’s just for snicks and grins do some considering.
If anyone has listened to something called “electronic music” specifically by the artist Steve Roach, these sounds are not unfamiliar. If any urban dweller has heard a low rumble that crescendo’s to a thumping, pounding, wall shaking vibration, they know it’s not the end times, but some ego-centric idiot with a thousand watt Pyle driver subwoofer in his low-rider, cruisin’ the streets, obtuse of other peoples privacy and sensibilities.
The bored scientists out there ( the ones NOT busy pushing the global warming hoax) can attest to the power of acoustics. Acoustics can cause avalanches, even crumble the walls of Jericho and on Memorex tape, with Ella Fitzgerald’s voice, shatter a wine glass. This stuff is all documented.
So let’s put a few elements together.
1. Synthesizer sounds like those of Steve Roach or the kind Hollywood sound effects engineers do for sci fi movies.
2. A honkin’ big set of specially designed speakers with HAARP skunk-works-technology, that fits in the back of a Toyota Tacoma pick-up truck.
3. Drive that puppy out into the wilderness or down a deserted urban industrial complex at odd hours and blast that obtrusive noise on the dumbed down, CNN watching, Cheeto eatin’, fear-monger abused general public.
And what have you got? Strange sky noises…. Soon to replace shiny objects.
BUT you say, wild-eyed and holding up a trembling finger, it’s happening all over the world, EVERYWHERE. How do you explain that.
Well, short of being the trumpets of GOD, ( and for the sake of argument, if it were, I wouldn’t be spending my time chatting or texting on the internet) I’d say someone paid a group of people, scratch that, a group of fanboys and tech-geeks to be part of a mega-hoax to end all mega-hoaxes to perpetrate this acoustic atrocity.
Do we forget how easily the combination of H.G.Wells, martians, radio and the actor Orson Welles fooled a large part of this nation with a re-enactment/recreation of H.G.’s novel “War of the Worlds”?
Today everything has to happen FAST. If the perpetrators of the hoax didn’t jamb-up these sound events in the same week, but spaced them out over a year, I might be scratching my chin more. But, no, all this happens around the world at relatively the same time and scientists and governments can’t figure it out?
This “unknown” is getting TONS of free promotional mileage.
Consider this.
All these real-time videos of city-scapes and wilderness panoramas with the real-sound would make great “reality film” splices. Pay all the cell phone cinematographers pennies, rake in box office millions. Everybody is famous and in on the gag. Wahoo.
Government “think tanks” (a phrase that seems oxymoronic) can do large scale demographic studies on the effects of “unknown fears” run amok and how they can use it to their avantage to control the populace when the sheeple are fed up being politically and economically used.
Organized religions can play-up on this same fear and herd the flock back to the church for more atonement abuse. Better late than never.
There have been articles on the DOD using Directed Sound Technology in the middle east wars, putting sounds and the “words of god” into the enemies head. There has been advertising sector buzz about using directed sound to single out consumers passing by an acoustic array to pitch productes directly into their thoughts.
Everything is right there. Nothing is new, it’s just hyped-up and preys upon the lack of the average consumer-sapien to cognitively think.
I find this all offensive.
I feel my privacy and sensibility has been assaulted and violated. If these strange sky sounds turn out to be a viral marketing campaign or a governmental-mass-population experiment, like nuclear bomb tests, or all the microwave cell phone antenna’s have been turned up into a giant feedback loop…
I’m gonna sue somebody.
Stand in line to make your class action claims now.
And if you run across that guy in the pick-up with really big speakers in the back… I recommend using a crowbar and a whole lot of whoop-ass. If it turns out to be a wanna-be famous Hollywood director looking for some FREE viral publicity, then he can send a view rate fee care of my Pay-Pal account.
Television Mash-Ups
I was wondering about the lack of originality and inspiration in television programing. The idea of reality shows that have nothing to do with reality and cloning popular series into oblivion are just some of the problems behind this lack of originality and inspiration. I considered the popular trend of “mash-up” creation and decided to mash-up some classic t.v. with more contemporary television programming. Here are a few I came up with:
Ozzie and Harriet meet the Ozzie Osborne family
X-files meet Rockford files
Andy Griffith Show meets Gene Simmons family jewels
Katherine Hepburn meets Paris Hilton
The Patty Duke Show meets Hannah Montana
Gilligan’s Island meets Lost
Ok, you get the idea. Then I thought, wouldn’t these “mash-ups” make for more interesting programing than what is being produced today? You could argue the inventive potential and it’s easy to see the contrasting relationships, but what would the interaction between these diverse personas and lifestyles reveal? Could these mash-ups, if produced well, shed some “popular” insight on the differences between people?
A strange sort of truth started to creep in. People, different as night and day, interacting. What a novel idea. Think perhaps of Palestinians and Israelis living side by side, working out their everyday differences inspired by such programming. Maybe that example is a bit of a stretch. Could mash-up shows like this, be the social and cultural detente we’ve all been waiting for?
In the early days of television, they put on plays, talk shows actually talked about intelligent and relevant subjects, leading intellects of our time shared their enlightened views and talent really was talent. Back in the day, most shows were developed for their concepts and not the advertising angle. In those days, the recognition for personal and professional accomplishment hadn’t yet been diluted to a mere 15 seconds of fame.
Today, television programing is hell and gone from those lofty ideals of yesteryear, but fifty years later, we still talk about their impact. Why? Has television become our unspoken, oral history and social tradition? Does contrasting these shows as I have humorously suggested in another light shed illumination on our ever quickening evolution (or devolution)?
I’d LOVE to see an Edward R. Murrow meets Bill O’Reilly….. I’ll lay $100 on Eddy.
But in today’s reality, Fred Astair loses on Dancing with the Stars and Sammy Davis Jr. loses on American Idol and the whole Twittering audience are legends in their own minds.
Sadly, it could be argued, comparing our society with our television programming, that we are a species of “Monkey See, Monkey Do.” Our virtual leaders and their scripted, tele-prompted semantics are mere mixed message,fax machine copies of the “reality” programming we hypnotically ingest.
Some say the inovation, originality and leadership once enjoyed on television, has moved on to the medium of the internet. But contemporary internet is looking like a hipster-ized version of television. Oh well, been there, done that.
I guess that’s why they call it “programming.”
Their Own World
Interesting Quotes
Is there too much specialization in society today?
We all work at some kind of job or career. We all go “home” to our family and friends. We all worship the beliefs of our choice. We all need to eat, drink, sleep and be sheltered. But what else do we do? What else engages the rest of the time and experience in our lives?
As recently as 250 years ago, we all did more than just one thing. In addition to the above scenario, we all grew a good portion of our diet ourselves. We all practiced some kind of craft, weaving, woodworking, leather craft, metal work, smithing, etc. We all managed some kind of livestock. We all made time to help our neighbors. If we didn’t back then, we probably wouldn’t be here now.
Think about that. just 250 years ago, we all weren’t distracted or manipulated by ANY form of commercial of mass “media.” We led hard working lives that didn’t involve daily commutes. We lived in small villages, not burgeoning mega-tropolises. We formed our perspectives from family and local influences; individuals with relevant and grounding experiences for us to interact with. We were molded by the varied skills and disciplines we engaged our interests in. To some degree or another we were actively farmers, craftsmen, statesmen, merchants and parents and more all simultaneously. Today we are lucky to be much more than one or the other, not all. Too bad.
This narrow specialization of modern civilization has developed a population not directly connected to their “societies.” Not having this multi-influenced grounding has affected our self-confidence and self esteem. Specialization begets more specialization. It takes more divisions of labor and bureaucracy to give importance and synthetic value to the divisions that came before. How many divisions does any one corporation have? How many departments does any one government have? How many religions are there? How many medical disorders are there? The more specialized we are, the more diverse become our social and personal ills.
The comparison for the individual is between being internally diverse or externally complicated. How healthy and productive and resourceful is an individual that gives up multiple aspects of their natural abilities to be specialized and dependent upon other specialized services?
The more specialized we become, the smaller expectations we have of our abilities. The more dependent we allow ourselves to be, the more influenced we are by large interest groups, governments and multi-national corporations. The more specialized our education becomes, teaching to tests and preforming specialized careers, the less innovation is developed and the less future problem solving abilities we gain.
Playing video games, texting, surf-shopping the internet are not viable substitute pursuits for carpentry, farming, entrepreneurship, local community building or creating any self sustaining innovation. Having a cell phone and an emergency call list is not an effective substitute for being able to handle possible emergency situations yourself because of your learned diversity of skills and innovative experiences. Manipulating semantics and shuffling paper are not substitutes for growing food, learning how to learn or passing on higher human values.
Gaining human worth and spiritual value through pursuing and mastering the rich, multi-faceted experiences in life through actual hands on, mind engaged involvement, beats specialization any day of the week.
The World is on Crack
What would life be like if the whole world was on Crack? You’re witnessing it right now.
I can think of no other logical explanation for the things I see going on around me both locally and globally. The Orwellian semantics, brutal, callous wars for profits, demonization of all ethnicities and religions, a civilization not concerned with mental or spiritual or societal growth and all of it mounting to unprecedented proportions.
No one listens anymore, because more lies are spoken than truth. No one listens anymore because no one is making any logical, realistic sense. No one listens anymore because they no longer trust or believe in anything but financial security. And no one seems to want to individually do anything to begin really listening again.
Why? What keeps us froms this Crack induced society of choice? Is it the zombifying effects of television? Is it the multiple daily doses of psychotropic prescription drugs? Is it the lack of relevant education in the public schools? Is it the hypocrisy of the governments and religions? Is it the widening class gap? Is it the oppression of debt and war for profits?
Is this what they dismiss as, paranoia? Isn’t that what happens to you when you use Crack, you become paranoid?
Are they weaponizing an aerosol form of Crack and spreading it in chem-trails? Is that a paranoid perception?
Is it anymore paranoid than the nationalistic propaganda that “terrorists” hate us for our “freedoms?”
Is it delusional when leaders of state listen seriously to degreed men of academia about suggestions of painting roofs white and launching solar umbrellas into space to combat global warming? Or that a cap and trade tax scheme will affect a 4 billion year old planet’s climate?
The reality is, the whole world is on Crack.
It must be in the cereals, the snack foods, the various microwave cuisines. It must be in every soda, energy drink and alcohol product produced. It must be in the water, in the soil, in the very air we breathe. What do crack addicts do once they are hooked? Don’t they lie, steal, commit violence just to get money to buy more Crack?
How is what we are seeing happening all around us so different from that scenario?
Call it an ego centric, obtuse addiction to consuming, participating in non-creative activities, reduced literacy or an inability to empathize with the sacrifices of those who came before. Cell phone’s, virtual worlds, corporate hegemony, NWO governments and the master puppetry of central banks. All are the Crack induced visions of this Crack addicted society of lemmings.
It’s all CRACK.
The drug of choice.
Nice choice. Once you do Crack, you’ll never be able to go back. And so it seems.
I find politicians echoing the phrase “non-negotiable lifestyle,” interesting. Human beings are the species they are because of their supposedly advanced ability to communicate. Things that are non-negotiable on this planet, in this reality, are forces of nature, Hurricanes, Tornados, Volcanic eruptions, tsunami’s etc. Are politicians equating the human lifestyle to forces of nature or are these just more Crack delusions?
When someone takes a drug like Crack, they lose touch with who and what they are and lose control of their ability to make rational decisions. Greed seems to do the same thing. Being surrounded by sycophants also does the same thing. Pretty soon you see those around you as not much more consequential than insects. You make decisions that have nothing to do with the welfare and respect for life. Your next fix is the only thought and motivation you have.
Crack addiction consumes your entire life. You don’t eat, sleep, bathe, seek shelter, feed your infant, go to work, you have a single focus, get and consume more crack. Does this sound familiar yet?
How are things different? People are oppressed with debt and are depressed and seek drugs to change the perception of the world. People are single focused to get one, two, three jobs to pay for out of control debts that never go away. People are desperate for help and look to liars and charlatans for redemption but only succumb to the predatory practices of those more hooked on the power and greed for Crack than they are.
For both of these sides of the coin to exist, you have to be on Crack. I can think of no other reason.
Crack starts with a C and rhymes with FEAR and that spells trouble…. or have I become delusional?
It’s all just a movie, I don’t think they really make a blue or red pill for Crack addiction treatment. But maybe again blue or red, its all just a placebo
What’s the solution to an addiction to a delusion of choice? I don’t know. It’s all individual. We all have to find ourselves individually before we can find ourselves within society again. It starts with getting off the Crack. Now.
Once you do, the courage will return, the dependance on predators and liars will cease and delusion will no longer be reality. This is not semantics, its the power of choice.
Make the choice, get off the “Crack.”
Sheeple People and Cattle Chattel
Sheeple rhymes with people and cattle rhymes with chattel. Both are euphemistically used when referring to human demeanor, especially of late.
Sheep are cute and fluffy. They get sheered for their wool which is used in knitting sweaters. Cattle are big, dumb and get manhandled by rough cow-pokes while being branded with a hot iron. Sheering and branding are not what I would think humans would find enjoyable, but you might get a differing argument from large corporations and large governments.
Sheep are gently herded by a lovely canine named lassie. Cattle are wrangled by a mangy blue heeler named Dead-eye who turns the cattle over by viciously bitting their noses. Whether pastoral or rangy, loving or vicious, herded or wrangled, I like to envision humans preferring freedom over being controlled. But then again, it’s all a matter of semantics isn’t it?
Sheep stand around in flocks, cattle stand around in herds, humans stand around in lines or queues.
Sheep are happy eating grass, cattle are happy eating grass humans are very happy smoking grass.
Sheep get sheered, cattle get branded and humans get sheered AND branded.
Its funny making these comparisons, until you realize that the human populace in any culture could actually be treated like this and then it’s not funny, it’s pathetic.
We try to use humor to face less-than-ideal conditions. We try to make satiric comparisons to draw attention to deteriorating principles. We try to use images as icons to help polarize important causes. I think George Orwell’s book Animal Farm pretty much said it all regarding this sheeple-cattle chattel thing. Then again, the novel “Fahrenheit 451″ by Ray Bradbury suggests how and why this future might come about.
Are things changing or are they just imitating art?
One thing sheep and cattle can’t do is read.
Another thing sheep and cattle can’t do is ask questions and formulate critical thought.
I like to eat chops and steaks. I like to wear warm fuzzy sweaters. I hate standing in lines.
I read because I like to know where the satire ends and the reality begins.
About Climate Change
The topic of Climate Change has become offensive to me. It has become a manipulation of semantics that’s being used to confuse, scare and dupe the populations of this planet. First CLIMATE isn’t WEATHER. Second, Climate has changed constantly and widely for millions of years. Third, it’s primarily affected by the activity of the sun. Period. Anything else is propaganda and political manipulation of the worst kind.
There are many things producing carbon on an exponential scale more than man. Volcanoes and meteor strikes are at the top of the list, hopefully not both at the same time. Whether we trade insignificant carbon credits or are taxed into oblivion for how much carbon our modern lifestyles produce, individually or collectively is manipulation by governments and corporations. When carbon in the atmosphere was at its peak on this planet, we experienced our most lush periods of flora. Seeing the rate at which we are deforesting the planet, I’d say we could use more carbon right about now.
Saying we produce carbon through our need for energy and taxing the user to make the situation ok is ignorant. Stop using or conserve that energy and redesign how its produced and you will get far better social, economic and environmental results. Banking and Wall Street designed schemes aren’t going to solve anything here, just as they don’t solve things for the economy either.
There are far worse things than carbon to worry about in damaging the ecosystems and permaculture and atmospheric content of our planet and none of these will be affected in the least from a taxing or trading policy.
As for CLIMATE, we may be the fortunate or unfortunate generation of humans that will encounter a climate change in our lifetimes. Call it “luck of the draw.” Adjusting to this will not involve consuming less, buying and trading carbon credits, being taxed on your multiple energy usage or global ANYTHING.
Dealing with climate change involves understanding how the climate change will affect your geographic zone and what you will need to change in your LIFESTYLE to survive it.
You will have to understand and adjust your insulation needs whether your climate gets hotter or cooler. You will have to know if your area will be able to sustain any food crops and what changes may need to be made in that regard. If things are severe, you may need to migrate to a different part of the country and learn to fit in and contribute to the changing community. None of these changes will be positively affected by ANY of the mainstream proposals being argued today.
If you get caught up in the redundant arguments, if you spend your marginal profits on taxes and carbon credits, you will not have the finances necessary to help adjust your lifestyle for a coming climate change. If you spend your time arguing in convoluted political discussions of global control, a fools errand, then you will not be educating future generations in ways to adapt to the climate changes if it appears in their generation instead.
Primitive man watched the heavens, on a whole, more than we of so called advanced civilizations. They led flexible lives close to nature, observing how to cooperate with nature, not control or affect it. They migrated easily, without borders or politics and adapted to the climate changes and survived. So simple, so sustainable and so devoid of anything financial.
We have allowed ourselves to become a species of “consumers” because in many high density population areas, we believe that money can solve all problems. Buying or selling can change monumental things, why not the climate as well? Non-negotiable hubris will not help in this scenario either, far from it. Modern Man’s ego will not let him understand that a 4 million year old species can not change a 4 billion year old planet. That far from being the superior influence on the Earth, man is nothing more than a surface distraction at best.
It would be funny if it wasn’t true. It’s not global warming or cooling. It’s not whether we can “buy” our way out of the consequences of climate change. It’s about raising our understanding and knowledge about the effects of a climate change and be prepared as individuals, communities and as a country in realizing the intricacies of what a lifestyle change of this magnitude will require so our species will survive.
How will you be financially able to relocate, change your local food crop, or adjust your insulation needs if you spent all your time arguing and buying carbon credits to trade? What are you really trading? These are the questions you need to be asking and finding out the answers to.
My recommendations? Stop listening to propaganda, read and research for yourself. Do not support bogus tax legislation. Stop arguing in circles, begin to evaluate your current climate conditions in regard to your current needs and calculate what you might have to change and how you will make that happen. If you need to relocate because south Nebraska looks more like the Arctic circle or North Dakota resembles the Gobi desert, can you fit in and contribute to a different geographical area? Can you adjust your current home for hotter or cooler climate without using more energy? Do you know how? Do you think the government has a plan for you that doesn’t involve athletic super domes?
These are just a few of the things you should be lending your focus to, not arguments of global warming/cooling and how much tax we should pay to solve the problem. Let’s all quit “dumbing down” and instead let’s all start to “smarten up.”
their own world
Quotes
“If I were in a wood, I could easily hear the Voice which came to me.”
Joan of Arc, on trial in 1431.
This quote, because of who said it and when, is powerful and prophetic in a way. I live in the wood, it is very quiet here, distractions of civilization don’t exist. There is a silence here that is very powerful. It seems in this simple quote that Joan of Arc, in 1431, alluded to the distractions of civilizations mounting even then.
In the sublime silence of the wood, there is a presence not only heard, but felt as well. Call it conscience, God, the voice of insight, it’s there and you can hear it if you listen in the settled surroundings of nature.
If you are surrounded by distraction, background chatter, opinion, politics, and organization of belief, can you really hear anything? Could that be what Joan was suggesting? I don’t think we will ever know. History is so affected by the judgmental sentiment of passing time and the censure of popular denial and political agenda.
We tend to take her words as either political or spiritual or both. But could there have been a simpler message to consider? She was a young peasant girl, who died in the midst of war, politics and fundamental religious zeal. In that time, peasants were very simple and survived on common sense, hard work and staying closely attuned to nature.
Joan was a voice of simplicity in a time of political and religious madness. Joan was a voice of common sense learned from an early age rural country where the truth and the rights of others were upheld. The winds of war, politics and religious fervor and nothing more, made her the figure head or scapegoat for a society at large gone mad.
When is the last time you walked in the silence of the wood? What messages did you hear? Did you heed them or deny them voice? Without all the rhetoric spewing around her, Joan made a simple statement for anyone who would listen and know for themselves. Simplicity and clarity without distraction can be a galvanizing lightening rod or an easily exploited symbol of propaganda.
We don’t need politics or religion to tell us what we hear,think or believe. We don’t need the distractions of poverty and war to keep us from listening to our inner voice and following its simple message to a more enlightened existence.
The Shovel: Luddite Swiss Army Knife
A friend of mine recently asked, “what is your favorite garden tool?” Without skipping a beat I answered, “The Shovel.” In my blog title, I call the shovel The Luddite Swiss Army Knife because it does so many tasks and yet is so simple and “non-gadgety.”
When I peruse through a lawn and garden tool catalogue, I often marvel at all the fancy and exotic tools they sell. It seems there is a cutting tool for every blade of grass, a digging tool for every kind of soil and a chopping tool for anything and everything that needs to be chopped. Some resemble reconditioned surgical implements. Most are for the weekend amateurs to collect like an amateur golfer has twice as many clubs as he needs. The tool’s primary function though is to lighten you wallet.
I like my shovel. I know there are many kinds of shovels, spades, scoops, gravel shovels, etc. I use an ordinary dirt shovel for pretty much every task I have on my homestead. I turn my garden with it, I collect and spread manure with it, I dig post holes of all kinds using my shovel. I collect mountain shale with my shovel and then use it to spread the shale on my drive. I transplant trees and all other manner of flora with this all-in-one tool.
The shovel is the Ginsu knife of the homestead, it slices, dices, chops and julians any organic material. I use it as a lever, a sighting guide, a container to hold screws and nails in while doing spot carpentry. I use it to sever roots when digging out a stump, as a weed remover and I use it in the winter to scrape off stubborn ice and spread wood ash on the drive. Heck, all it needs is a cup holder feature.
I have another shovel, the spade, actually two spades, one for digging and the other, a short handled spade I’ve sharpened the edge on to use as a tree bark spud. Works great and for a fraction of the cost. Shovels are versatile instruments that in the right hands work miracles. We carry a shovel in the truck when firewood harvesting to help smother a jackpot fire that may start up. The shovel also serves as a latrine management device.
Shovels are easy to maintain, just hose them off between usage and in the fall and spring, a little fine sand paper, a file and some WD-40 keep them in great shape. You can find these handy dandy tools at every hardware store and they are great value for your dollar because they usually last a lifetime.
Now that’s what I call all around value you can still afford.
Tools don’t have to be expensive and fancy and exotic or over specialized and over priced. They just need to be wielded by experienced and caring hands.
I try to get by with as few power tools as possible around my homestead. I don’t like the noise or the cost of fuel and oil and repairs. I’m not in a hurry and I don’t work on anyone else’s time for a wage so speed doesn’t enter into the picture. I organize my work and prioritize my projects. I keep things simple and do one thing at a time. The shovel fits this approach perfectly. It’s quiet, light weight and low maintenance. Don’t leave home without one.
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