a foreign policy brought to you by Pinky and the Brain in an age of "post factualism". . .

[stellanoir]

Sometimes I feel as though part of me is in suspended animation marveling over how pray tell, we've collectively arrived in this still new millennium at a place of such idiocy, deceitful and sadistic leadership, and overt corruption wherein the perpetrators have presumed impunity and pre Magna Carta mentalities.

It's as though our foreign policy has been crafted by Pinky and the Brain or somethin'.

Pinky-"What do you wantta do today Brain?"

Brain-"Same thing we do every day Pinky. Contemplate total global domination."

In every episode they unsurprisingly always fail horrifically.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinky_and_the_Brain

David Sirota may have just coined the term "post factualism" yesterday.

http://www.workingforchange.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=18D15F10-E0C3-F084-D91EB6583C3E9E2A

Yikes "post factualism" has indeed caused some of the greatest and most astute intellectuals of our time repeatedly get minimized, dismissed, and misrepresented. It's is as though we've all been watching in horror, all these brainiacs being continually frustrated and silenced, as though they are banging their illustrious crania up against a proverbial wall of enormous density and great thickness.

Through nearly complete corporate control of the media our formerly great nation, once known as "the land of the lively discussion" has been dumbed down by what I've been describing for 6 years as mind numbing repetitive "oligarchical hypnogoguery" and seemingly intractable dualism. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Look. . .I'm both a spiritualist and a political junkie and I will tell you this:

What the nefarious cabal are doing truly qualifies as low level magic (aka mind control.) The only way to counteract "post factualism" is more than likely not just with our left brains, but with our right brains as well. I feel as though I wantta declare "post factualism" a mere precursor to a real spiritualism and a widespread revival of our overwhelmingly shared very core humanity in adherance with universal and international laws long established.

Pssssssssssssssssssttt. . .

REAL human beings would never condone torture or military combat IMHO.

Consider what many in the spiritual community believe:

Wars are NOW energetically unwinnable in this still new millennium.

We may just require something a bit more enlightened than "testosterone based solutions." It's perhaps simply time for us all to evolve and learn to get along globally and lead with our collective hearts and minds.

I've been posting prayers on this site and others since October.

a humble though long winded suggestion for the prayer of the week. . .(for the spiritually lazy. . .cut to the last line in the prayer)

"We are creating with spirit far more enlightened leadership and exposure and dis empowerment of all those who do not hold in their hearts, the greater good for ALL as their singular top priority. We are creating with spirit, neutralization of our dynamic with Iran. We are creating with spirit, mollification of the sectarian violence in Iraq and in Darfur. We are creating with spirit that all conflicts be resolved through the delicate and seemingly lost art of diplomacy rather than any further idiotic bellicosity. We are creating with spirit that the IWR, HAVA, and MCA be repealled. We are creating with spirit a lasting peace on Earth.

Or maybe if you're REALLY lazy, just chant "Ooga, Booga, Smooga, Wooga" = OBSW = "Oh Bull Shit W"

http://www.cafepress.com/helderheid/2380944

We really don't need a foreign policy scripted by "Pinky and the Brain" any longer IMHO. Global domination is just so tiresome and never works for very long. It is predictably, historically, and inevitably undermined by its own very hubris.

(please excuse any redundancy from last week's prayer-I'll blame it on the Merc Rx LOL)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=280297

"nam-myoho-renge-kyo"

Have a nice day.

[helderheid]

1. I get to give rec #1! I get to give rec #1!

[stellanoir]

2. well little ms. OBSW

You and your lovely graphic will always be #1 in my smallish book. LOL

& thanks

[helderheid]

3. Hee hee! Little ms. OBSW - Love it!

[KG]

4. anybody else notice pinky and the brain resemble bush and cheney?

[stellanoir]

5. LOL

That's the whole point.

Have you ever seen the show? It's uncanny in it's foreshadowing of what we've had to endure over recent years.

Yikes.

[Pierre.Suave]

12. I have been saying that for years

I think someone had a peak into the future, saw the bush admin and wrote a cartoon about it.

[rumpel]

17. love it.

:)

[NeoLotus]

6. NMRK

Hi Stella, just want to say hi to someone else who knows about NMRK. I was raised in it. My mom, Japanese, began in 1961 when I was 2, before all the schisms began--which is a great regret, the schisms that is.

Anyway, glad to meet you and you wrote a great post! I got here from David's post.

We are living in very interesting times indeed. The old will crumble and things will be really bad for a while, but then the renewal will begin and the sane and humane among us will have the opportunity to set things right again.

[stellanoir]

7. Oh NeoLotus

Welcome to DU.

So-o-o funny that of the the 7 or 8 spiritual/political/astro threads I've started over the last 5 months there have been scarcely any detractors. I think part of the reason is that a lot of the older boomers studied spirituality in their youth and just need some gentle reminding and the younger ones really never forgot.

On one of those threads I forgot the NMRK and got flamed (more of a minor scorching) until I edited it in later. LOL

I couldn't agree with you more about the renewal that's auspiciously hovering. The energies available now are truly and amazingly unprecedented.

I'm just deeply compelled that the transition can be made more graceful through conscious focus in making it so through group prayer.

Someone told me eons ago that there would be a second flood. . .it would be a flood of ideas." I feel we are way further than 3/4's through it and the clouds are breaking and by using our hearts and minds we can speed up the process of it clearing sooner. Phew. . .almost.

Hope you enjoy DU. This place is a total trip and a half.

[NeoLotus]

9. Thanks!

I've been coming here off and on for a few years but tend to lurk as I spend most of my time posting on my state's democratic central committee email list. I have gone from being part of a religious organization to now being part of a political one.

They are structurally the same--it is how the Japanese created the Komeito Party and got people elected to parliament. Under the leadership of Howard Dean the DNC is finally starting to get its act together and it is having tangible effects in all the states even in my part of flyover country.

I am having to use all that I learned growing up in the old NSA to bring new life to my county unit as its associate chair. It is slow and patient work, but with Dean's and our state party chair's leadership it is beginning to come alive out here.

As Toda once said, we are not full-time priests and one day you must spread your wings and go out into the world. It is good to see so many spreading their wings and working to make our neighborhoods, our country, and our world a better place for everyone.

[stellanoir]

15. Yup though I've always been opinionated (understatement)

I was fairly apolitical until about 15 years ago. Didn't even realize that the father of my kid was a Repuke until we were divorcing. His mom was a peacenik and very liberal so I never even asked. Then later it made sense. How does a kid who gets dragged to peace marches and tear gassed at a tender young age rebel against their mom? Why by joining the military and later working for the MIC. Yikes.

I just always figured that politics were inherently corrupt, but now that the corruption is so-o-o in your face, it's not even tolerable.

I'm a 13th generation American through 2 of my grandparents. Those bloodlines have been on a slow boil since this crew took over through their not so subtle coup.

Sprituality in retreat is certainly effective, but reaching out to the community and the world probably inspires far more.

Best to ya.

[rumpel]

18. Hi NeoLotus

welcome to DU

First, I thought what is NMRK...I am so slow. Duh. I was kind of disappointed at the new org. when they balked at marching against the war back in '03...I felt it would be so natural. I guess they wanted to stay out of politics.

[DarkTirade]

8. "Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?" "I think so Brain, but...

... where are we going to find a duck and a hose at this hour?"

... how are we going to find rubber pants our size?"

... how will we get the hippopotamus to wear the beach thong?

And my personal favorate...
I think so Brain, but burlap chafes me so.

[I Have A Dream]

10. Great as always, stella! Recommended! n/t

[understandinglife]

11. "In every episode they unsurprisingly always fail horrifically."

Yep.

# 8.


Peace.

[stellanoir]

13. thanks for that link & the rec

& from that op-ed to "creatrix's" ears.

Let's make it so.

[Doondoo]

14. kick - great stuff

[Cleita]

16. Excellent post Stella.

In line with your post about how stupid has trumped intelligence, I just want to post this observation by William L. Shirer in his book about Nazi Germany, "The Rise And Fall of the Third Reich". In Chapter 8, 'Life In The Third Reich: 1933-37'(he was living in Germany at the time as a foreign correspondent) at the end of the part about the Control of Press, Radio, Films, he makes the observation:

No one who has not lived for years in a totalitarian land can possible concieve how difficult it is to escape the dread consequences of a regime's calculated and incessant propaganda. Often in a German home or office or sometimes in a casual conversation with a stranger in a restaurant, a beer hall, a cafe, I would meet with the most outlandish assertation from seemingly educated and intelligent persons. It was obvious they were parroting some piece of nonsense they had heard on the radio or read in the newspapers. Sometimes one was tempted to say as much, but on such occasions one was met with such a stare of incredulity, such a shock of silence, as if one had blasphemed the Almighty, that one realized how useless it was even to try to make contact with a mind which had become warped and for whom the facts of life had become what Hitler and Goebbels, with their cynical disregard for truth, said they were.

Does this look familiar? Remember Shirer made this observation when the book was first published in 1959. I'm sure he never imagined he would be hearing the same idiocy from Americans in the future.

I recommend everyone read this book where the parallels to our administration are astonishing. Since it is a daunting 1147 pages, I recommend the first time reader just read Chapter 8 to begin with. The parallels between life in Nazi germany after four years are stunningly similar to what we have gone through after six years of BushCo.

[stellanoir]

20. Thanks cleita.

The parallels between that period an ours have been striking for quite a while.

Their was a progressive author I heard speak before the '04 theft and he said on his book tour he was astounded by how many older folks from Europe and East Europe who had lived through the Nazi period would approach him and they all said the same thing. "When it happens, it'll happen at first so subtly that you won't realize it until it's too late."

Thankfully though we live in different times with different energies, technologies, and awarenesses available, I don't feel it's irreversible at all. There are simply too many who know all too well they are being lied to.

We're just about through it methinks but the next 3 years are crucial and as I said upthread, my motivation for doing these rants and prayers is to help to make the transitions more graceful.

tra la la

[rumpel]

19. Great post...

Pinky & the Brain...

sooo perfect!

:rofl:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

21. Brilliant!

It is truly amazing that we have regressed so far in 6 six years. Of course the foundation had been in place with the media machine and "oligarchical hypnogoguery". An excellent essay stellanoir. Thank you for putting words to my feelings. :applause:

[stellanoir]

22. Thanks for the lovely and affirmative feedback.

Yet I couldn't help but notice your nick and tried to do a search for a thread entitled "hatred of *. . .?" I posted in April of '05 wherein I postulated that beings of his ilk are possibly actually further empowered by hatred. I'm having a lot of trouble with the search function of late but it's probably just me.

Of course I loathe his short sighted self serving baloney but I try my best not to project hatred onto him. That is aside from throwing a moccasin at the TV during the '02 SOTU when he coined the "axis of evil" idiocy-not even knowing that throwing a shoe is an Arabic insult-now two of those countries have possibly gone nuclear and we've trashed the other.

Yikes.

Just wondering. Though best to you and I'm glad you enjoyed this thread.

[Squeech]

23. Marxist analysis

Groucho, that is: "Who are you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?"

Yup, getting We The People to believe the "news" rather than the visible evidence has been bad juju. But the present gang of thieves and cutthroats didn't write the book, they're mainly trying to wrap themselves in the mantle of their sainted hero, Ronald Reagan.

The thing is, Reagan cut his snake oil with honey. "Morning in America" goes down easier than "9/11 changed everything," plus he got to follow Jimmy "Malaise" Carter, so you can see how he got away with it. How did these grifters manage?

[stellanoir]

24. Manage. . .? By incessantly trashing the big dog for eons for relative triviality and stuff

that was really none of our beeswax, especially when the woman in question was bragging and not complaining, by masquerading as being devoutly Christian when they are anything but, by corporate consolidation of the media, by planning all of this since long before Goldwater, by taking on the mantel of "family values" (never ending war is not a family value in my smallish world,) by corrupting and owning our election machinery, and by taking the lead and the MO of two mutated laboratory mice of course. It's so obvious.

"One is a genius, the other one's insane." Who is who we wonder?

But you know all this I know and that question had to be rhetorical.

Have a nice evening.

Thanks for your ever thoughtful response.

[Initech]

25. It is a pretty accurate comparison. Bush = Pinky, Cheney = Brain.

And yes, with every hair-brained scheme they've come up with, they always fail horrifically.

[stellanoir]

26. yeah we were supposed to think of "hogwash" as the Brain

yet all he's done is spew untruths for years on end,

It's totally confusing for sure, But this guy is scary. So lets consider reducing him to a mutated laboratory cartoonish mouse and see what happens. It can't hurt really.

[DeepModem Mom]

27. A wonderful post, stellanoir! Thank you, as ever. nt

[stellanoir]

28. and thank you for all of your intrepid & fascinating contributions and postings DMM