my new global perspective on politics forms, the agendas of the good and the bad polarities are the same. the elites, whatever you wish to call them, exist manipulating both extremes against one another. divide and conquer has always been the best strategy, as opposed to outright conquer. this way confusion can be sewn amongst the populations and the illusions of sides can be taken. the black lodge and the white lodge share the same goals because once chaos reigns they can carve up the remains. this is the lesson we must learn from history but never do. innocent people on both sides are just caught in the tides and invariably suffer or die. the individual always takes sides, this is because minds are conditioned by duality. what appears as the good side to one can appear as the bad to another, it's all perspective and information, inevitably we as individuals have very little information to make good decisions about these so called sides. (there are occasional exceptions where one must name an evil for what it is)

one must look at who profits from conflict, the media and arms dealers, to a lesser extent the people who finance wars. 

these peoples are not a race or specific country, they are not a religion or specific ideology, they are just power brokers for the global elites. 

for example the russian people never wanted to be in a cold war with the americans, it was a generated political lever created by both the ruling parties of both east and west to spar against in a stage managed clash of ideologies. when it served one side to collapse they did and who profited, the ruling parties on both sides.

all political events on the global stage are stage managed and constructed to invoke fear, there must always be an enemy. often the enemy is the barbarian from the wests perspective. often the barbarian has an agenda that is destructive. take islamic fundamentalists who want to install a caliphate again. while this is considered very dangerous it is no less dangerous than a one world government which the west would like to install, one admittedly is more tolerant of gays, jews, and rock music but then they have been through a reformation of sorts. many years ago they were not so tolerant, just ask any gay jewish witch from that period.

the innocent are the victims of these power plays, we are pawns on a chess set and we are puppets on a stage who can't see the strings that manipulate our actions and words. 

what can we do, what is right and wrong, i struggle with these issues all the time, i try not to take sides, i try to see the hidden agendas, i try to take a cosmic view, i try to feign indifference, i try to be a good hearted person, i try not to get to involved and remained detached from these things, but it's impossible to do so. 

what can one do?

fight the fear. i think this is essential. i can't change anyone else but i can change my own self, the way i am, my inner conflicts, my inner alchemy, my negative thoughts, my own fear. this is an ongoing process and i often have to remind myself that the universe is intelligent, it has a plan, and it loves us all in it's unfathomable way, it gave us a certain amount of freedom to liberate our own minds, it's provided us with a planet that is beautiful and unique, it has given us spirituality and art. the least we can do is reciprocate, which is why the poets on the planet are the bearers of beauty and although i am not a poet i have admiration and respect for their art and contribution to life and sometimes the way they perceive reality is attuned to my own inarticulate way of making sense of my intuitions and feelings in general. poets should be given noble status in any civilised society, we should value their work and reward it. 

i recently read this, dante's inferno, it's epic in scope but i continue to read it, and see how metaphorical a language it is, and how it appeals to something inside my own nature for his opening is especially significant.

dantes inferno cantos one

midway upon the journey of our life

i found myself within a forest dark

for the straightforwards path had been lost.

ah me! how hard a thing it is to say

what was this forest, savage, rough and stern

which in the very thought renews the fear.

so bitter is it, death is little more,

but of the good to treat, which there i found 

speak will i of the other things i saw there.

i cannot well speak of how i entered 

so full was i of slumber at the moment 

in which i had abandoned the true way

sometimes i think i should have called my blog captain missions inferno. maybe that would be far to linear in process and there's not that much linear about me. 

anyways here i am. still alive after the terrible few months of graveyard existence and self disintegration. i understand the terrible power in that word now, having experienced it fully, never again will i push my body like that again, my need for speed is no where near important enough that i should ever risk loosing my license again. in fact i will replace speed with the pleasures of endorphin highs, bush walking and surfing, deep dreaming and power hammock reading. my speed demon is banished and cast out. 

last night took me into the city on a spontaneous whim to see a guilty pleasure from the eighties, and i know i risk being incredibly unfashionable but i have actually followed thomas dolby from the first time i heard hyperactive, which was my childhood skool anthem, to his recent work on map of the floating city, but it was his cd 'aliens ate my buik' which i loved mostly, for it is the dirtiest funkiest cleverest cd ever made, out classing prince, beck and i would say george clinton but clinton plays on one track. 

anyways he played at notes last night and i went to see it. small venue, small but enthusiastic crowd who really gave him everything a performer could ask for as he told stories and went through his tunes, we got all the hits including hyperactive, one of our submarines, she blinded me with science, and airhead plus some tracks from the new cd. he was brilliant and promised to return with a band. i guess thomas dolby is a kind of geek's musician, a man who disappeared for twenty years to invent ring tones with a small tech company he owns, a man who comes from a scientific background, who as a child took apart synthesisers and remade them and champion of the sydney invented keyboard that kate bush and peter gabriel made famous the fairlight, you've seen him more on TED talks than gigs over the last twenty years but he's come back with quite a sophisticated return. anyway's he was very witty and told quite a few good yarns, he's a great keyboard man and his songs transcribe very well live, samples and all, and if you don't believe me, pick one from these and see what you think.