good news despite a broken jaw

Nothing like a holiday to bring out the crazies... I too am crazy. Then again, 'crazy' is just a word used to describe someones state of mind. Which, in this case, most would rather dismiss this as wrong than consider as an alternative perspective. The denial of it is mental self-defense. Sanity preserved by slides of pleasant nature effectively made to block the truth. The truth that would shatter the belief system as we know it from the bottom up if it were uncovered.

As incidentally mentioned to me in an argument this past week, there was an individual interested in questioning my merits and was adamant that the United States has every right to return the favour to our friends in the east for 9/11. Hearing this is enough to boil me from the inside as it proves modern propaganda has reached one of it's finest achievements in convincing hot heads in blind truths. It is also precisely why the American and Canadian public routinely fail to address the growth of militarism. America for one, statisitcally speaking, now has far more debt than any third world country or even the world combined.

To deny that there is some serious global manipulation going on, which leads to selected and not elected govt, religon, corporate domination, and fascist states masquerading as free countries (by the way, my happy belated canada day to you) among other things, to me is crazier than a bag of hammers. Maybe this reason for being belongs to the fact that no one wants to question the bubble economy we live in, because to most of us we are only familiar with the weather and what lies in front of our own feet, and I say fine… Let the good times roll on forever - with the power of positive thinking... and all that shit.

The really funny thing about is that we all need “mental help” to get out of this sheep pen of reality we’ve been conditioned to accept. If we all realized that peace and love come from within, and learned to live to our full cosmic potentiel, we wouldn’t be in a world that lets wars, famine and full scale genocide go on unchallenged, while politicians try to convince you that it is important not to let a person marry another person. The universe is only how you percieve it, which means that you can control your destiny and your point of view...

If you want to.

So the mental help part I agree with, that our reality is caged but the door is and always was open. Only were our fondest of remembrances, memories if you will, were not of violence, nor legacy intertwined with the sweet perfection of destruction, we oursleves and our society itself would not be so self-aggrandized. If we change the way we think, I believe we would find ourselves somewhere in the not too distant future induced with more positivism rather than a blended shake of camouflage. Until then, we are crazy. I too am crazy because I have a love affair with futility.

If you're interested in having read so far already, I'll let you in on my past long weekend. It just so happened that I did not participate in the festivities held in downtown Ottawa this Canada Day, nor did I happen to relieve myself by visiting a friend in NYC (mostly due to a limited budget, no source of secured lodgings or accompaniment, et al). Speaking about relieving oneself, I’m am quite sick of the media’s play on a retired veteran snapping a few digital pictures of several people going to the bathroom on the National War Memorial, as thousands poured into the streets following the fireworks.

Apparently, most cheered and laughed when they were photographed using the memorial as a toilet and the government is again calling for a guard to be stationed at the memorial to prevent such occurrences. I think that shouldn't be necessary. There was a time when a public assault on the memory of war dead would have been quickly addressed by witnesses taking the offender into the street for a discussion with closed fists. Today they take digital photos. Mark up another victory for the been there done that jealously guarding war hero.

As a final note. Curiosity kicks boredoms ass... but seriously speaking, after a month of having my digital camera in hiatus, I finally had the problem fixed. You may have a look at the few additional photos on my flickr web gallery. At last, all I have left to say is stay tuned, somedays are more than others.