My last gainful occupation was as an “heir hunter” at the Los Angeles Superior Court of Los Angeles - i gained the requisite hours for my Private Investigator license, but the outfit i worked for out of Tucson was then owned by an alcoholic in training who had just inherited the 100 year-old firm from his father who’d recently keeled over - i was too stupid to know i’d been hired as a “bag man” who was supposed to keep his mouth shut and make no real effort to track the estates of the recently deceased, it wasn’t a good fit, but a very interesting end to my own checkered career. When i say checkered, i don’t mean that in the pejorative of “dodgy,” like my last employer who was in over his head, but checkered in the traditional pedestrian condemnation of a familial “black sheep” who wasn’t quite dark - more like ______fill in the blank · resistant to the judgement of others who had not the patience nor inclination to look more deeply than that of their own self-righteous prejudice.
I probably see that character defect so often because of my own myopic predilection for sanctimony - we all have our cross to bear · In terms of synchronicity, it is more than fascinating that this particular period of my life would intersect with the looting of my own father’s estate, which i can assure all concerned was to the “letter of the law,” but lacked the humanity that i understood to govern my father’s complete existence. He once ceased communicating with his 2nd father-in-law because the man had the temerity to call my father a “liar” - not a good move. Pop may have been delusional, emphatic even rigid, but he was a “truth teller” to the bone. He was the kind of guy who would interrupt a phone conversation and demand that you drive the additional hour out of your way, just so he could look into your eyes and gauge for himself his feelings about what you were asserting in your phone call - regardless of the obvious inconvenience of his request.
We live in dodgy times, full of dodgy characters - a reality that must be accepted simply by the physics of money. Consider that 12 human beings control more wealth than 5 billion other human beings, unless you’re just stupid or without any real world experience, where exactly do you think all that surplus wealth is going, if not to pay off a considerable portion of the human population to turn a blind eye, and/or actively participate in the rape of our planet. Am i the only person who is suspicious of ostentatious wealth in a time of such depravation and suffering by so many? What kind of character is going to align themself with a handful of criminals attempting to subvert the, however dysfunctional workings of an 800 year-old attempt to establish democracy¿ that’s a question?
How greedy does one have to be to sell-out the generations of their unborn children based on personal gain - another question · I’m through waiting for an answer to that question, just, as “Judge Judy” might say, "don't piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining". The world we see on our screens bears very little resemblance to the world we live in - I am surrounded by pettiness, and suspicion, jealousy and subterfuge · but with people who are largely decent when push comes to shove; what i see is a population struggling mightily to do the right thing; yes perhaps mostly for those that are close to them, or those that are only within the family circle, but still making an effort to benefit and protect those they care for. Show me where this is reflected in fact by any leader today - “free world, corporate, political or legal” · morals do not exist for the people who claim leadership; the only guiding principle is greed.
To that end “they” who would claim your allegiance utilize power - a power that is paid for out of your pocket to subordinate you to their control: be it police, management, media or _____fill in the blank. No where do i find a direct correlation to the email polls asking this or asking that which results in “you” being heard, conned maybe, coerced and shamed maybe - mostly manipulated. And they are not content to post content, it is propagated flagrantly that if you resist or are otherwise disposed to act independently, you are an enemy. What is missing is to whom exactly are you an enemy. No one in any position of responsibility that i have heard, save Bernie, Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, Julian Assange and a handful of muted others actually raises red flags about the danger we face, rather they are depicted as enemies of all that is good and right in a world being poisoned for profit, imprisoned for dissent and raped for no reason other than intimidation and mayhem - are you okay with that · i am not
good luck to us all - may freedom ring · and reason resume, soon.
jts 23/08/2020he http://stoanartst.blogspot.com
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