Drive-thru Theofascism

5.5x.8.5, 128 pages, essays, poems & B&W photos

Introduction & Overview
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A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened.

― George Orwell, Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 2, My Country Right or Left, 1940 – 1943

1
The thesis of this book is that the dominant culture (worldwide,
though highlighting the US Empire) is theofascist with a drive-
thru colonial mentality ― and there are ways to avoid, prevent,
and heal from the various enforced limitations.

Since this is a collection of previously published essays and
poems the thesis serves as a general guideline rather than the
book specifically building toward an essential point, though the
“Afterwords & Henceforth” does accentuate such a point.

The US Empire or USE is named as such because of its approxi-
mately 1,000 military bases worldwide, Special Ops missions
in 105 countries,1 and because it “uses” people and resources.
Though the label of “empire” may seem new, there was an
imperial bent from the get-go:

“... and add to the Empire of liberty an extensive and
fertile Country thereby converting dangerous Enemies
into valuable friends.”
- Thomas Jefferson, 1780

“The foundation of a great empire is laid...”
- George Washington, 1786

The word “theo,” from the Greek “god,” is used in the context of:
religiosity that manipulates or sways people with a grandiosity
that is disconnected from reality (for example, a reason sans
reason a la Papal infallibility); add to that Mussolini’s definition
of fascism: the merger of corporate and state power.

Ideally, a state would care about the well-being of its citizens
and a corporation/business would care about its customers
and the world so as to provide a healthy product (with carefully
controlled toxic wastes) while making a fair profit. The fascist
overlapping of the two entities creates a proverbial fox guarding
the hen house.

Cases of revolving-door are prevalent nowadays. As examples:
former corporate oilsters in government positions, and vice versa;
the interchange of Monsanto-ites and the FDA; USDA approving
Monsanto’s GMO soy and cotton crops; the EPA protecting the
coal industry with their coal ash waste instead of the citizens
and environment; “the revolving door between the government
and defense contractors;”2 Charles Ferguson’s documentary Inside
Job is an excellent exposé of the world of high finance’s revolving
door shenanigans.

“The word fascio came in modern Italian political usage to mean
group, union, band or league. It was first used in this sense in the
1870s by groups of revolutionary democrats in Sicily, to describe
themselves.”3 Although the “Fasci Siciliani dei Lavoratori (Sicilian
Workers Leagues) were a popular movement of democratic and
socialist inspiration, which arose in Sicily in the years between
1889 and 1894,”4 the term “fascio” later took on militant connota-
tions. As Alain Joxe explains in his book L'Empire du Chaos
(Empire of Chaos, or translated book title, Empire of Disorder),
”...the definition of fascio: armed groups. They are paramilitaries,
they have special uniforms, they are militias.”5

A main example of theofascism is the government (state)
deciding to go to war (despite the majority of people being
against it), while the weapons manufacturers and many other
corporations make huge profits (see Nick Turse’s The Complex, i.e.
the military-industrial complex), all under the auspices of a
tag-line such as “God bless America.” Wars have a toxic impact
on land, air, and water; the sheer amount of traumatic injuries,
cases of PTSD, soldier suicides, civilian deaths, ad nauseam make
such invocations of “God” highly questionable if not downright
sacrilegious.

In his thought-provoking book, Democracy Inc.: Managed Democ-
racy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism, Sheldon S. Wolin
highlights a subtle aspect of theofascism (what this writer would
call materialist-evangelism) where consumer-believers can be
born-again via new products ― yet when it comes to minimum
wage, health care, etc. the USE is lacking.

The Urban Dictionary defines theofascism as: “Theology based
totalitarian government.” While some of the issues of this book
refer to naziism (or what this writer re-dubbed NotSee-ism) and
fascism, all such labels representing attempts to control masses
of people fall under the general category of totalitarianism.

Since Stalin and Mussolini were anti-religious, one might ask if
what they promoted was theofascism; my answer would be ‘yes,’
in an inverted way. Riffing on Orwell’s statement, The opinion that
art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude,
being anti-religious is itself a theological attitude. Hitler’s stance
on religion was ambiguous.6

One aspect of the USE’s version of totalitarianism is labeled “Full-
spectrum Dominance or Full-spectrum superiority.” (German
NotSee-ism promoted a superior or master race.)

“Full-spectrum dominance is a military entity’s achievement
of control over all dimensions of the battlespace, effectively
possessing an overwhelming diversity of resources in such areas
as terrestrial, aerial, maritime, subterranean, extra-terrestrial,
psychological, and bio- or cyber-technological warfare. Full
spectrum dominance includes the physical battlespace; air, surface
and sub-surface as well as the electromagnetic spectrum and
information space...

“Officially known as full-spectrum superiority and defined by
the U.S. military as:
   The cumulative effect of dominance in the air, land, maritime,
   and space domains and information environment that permits
   the conduct of joint operations without effective opposition or
   prohibitive interference.”7

If you prefer not to be dominated, those are a lot of spectrums to
be aware of!

The word “total” is from the Germanic root teuta, meaning: of
the tribe, people, community. And that right there is the gist of
the hero’s journey, for the hero is one who strives for, lives for
both his/her personal evolution as well as the well-being of his/her
community... and rippling outward into the world. The journey
is the process of discovering one’s true identity and service to the
Spirit.

Totalitarianism twists things so that the “tribe” is on reservations,
the “people” have little say in government decisions, and the
“community” is secondary to capitalist flavored individualism.

John Trudell speaks about the European roots of the imperialist
brainwash, saying that many of us are “descendants of the tribes
of Europe” and would be wise to re-connect with our indigenous,
pre-imperialist, roots.8

2
Oil is currently the biggest addiction of the drive-thru culture,
with China (already mired in air-pollution) and India (with
increased obesity due to fast foods9) on the Western drive-thru
consumer-culture bandwagon.

Perhaps the first drive-thru-ers were crusaders on horses in the
Middle Ages... then boats coming from Europe... then wagons
going westward with settlers’ hopes and dreams (a Trojan horse
of the genocidal outcome of Manifest Destiny)... then trolley
cars... then cars and what Lawrence Ferlinghetti refers to as
Autogeddon.

The dominant culture is based on a practice of drive(ing)-thru
places, rather than being WITH them; masses of people that go
thru stuff (USE with ~5% of the world’s population USEs ~25%
of the world’s resources, as of 2005)10 rather than utilizing what’s
already here, for example, sustainable, barter, share, refurbish,
etc.; people who go thru relationships like disposable lighters
or plastic cups rather than learning what it means to work with
people long-range; trans-national corporations that go thru re-
sources as dead commodities rather than communicating WITH
them as living beings, each with distinct spirits.

The colonizer mentality, now neo-colonial and on the broad-scale
Global Corporate Empire (GCE), is always onto the next thing... a
restless predator, the hungry ghost of Buddhist lore, or what the
Lakota call wašíču, fat-taker.

The drive-thru lifestyle, while allowing many Americans and
tourists to see some of Turtle Island’s natural wonders, has
diminished the connection with Mother Earth, literally because
human feet touch Her less and psychologically because of
identifying a sense of self, of becoming ‘free’ with a four-wheeled
vehicle. Whereas Indigenous Peoples’ cultures have various
puberty rituals and ceremonies, in the USE a car becomes a
teenage rite of passage... with paperwork, enforced fees, and cat-
and-mouse speeding-ticket games that, while sometimes instilling
safety, also help fund the system. Where is the nurturing of a sense
of self as connected with the web of life?

Part of the illusion is people convinced that they have a connection
to the land because of this “country” or “birthright” or “home-
land.” Hypocritically, this strain of patriotic drive-thru mentality
is not beholden to the land, rather it has been and is actively
destroying Mother Earth ― thus the current wave of protests and
activism.

As example of Native Peoples’ connection with Turtle Island, the
Shinnecock Nation traces their ancestry ~12,000 years ago with
Sea-Wan-Hak-Hee (Shell Place or Heaven, now known as Long
Island). Yet it was only in 2009, after a three decades court
battle, that they met “the criteria for federal recognition” from the
230-something-year-old USE.11

Jefferson’s phrase “Empire of Liberty,” in effect, sums up the
oxymoronic mind-fuck still being pundit spun from Washington
D&C (Divide&Conquer) ― you are free... to go shopping and do
what you like as long as you don’t threaten the machine.

When it comes to protecting Mother Earth, the stakes are even
higher than on December 2, 1964, when Mario Savio, -- an Amer-
ican political activist and member in the Berkeley Free Speech
Movement -- shouted the following:

“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so
odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you
can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies
upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the
apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to
indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that
unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working
at all!”12

Many Native Peoples, with support from non-Natives, are
currently on the frontlines literally protecting the sacred land, air,
and waters of Mother Earth from the theofascist machinery.

3
In Democracy Inc.: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted
Totalitarianism Wolin explains the difference between the classic
totalitarianisms of Stalin’s Russia, Hitler’s Germany, and Mus-
solini’s Italy & the modern variation. As for inverted totalitarian-
ism, he states: “Primarily it represents the political coming of age
of corporate power and the political demobilization of the citi-
zenry.” And, “Instead of pursuing unanimity, it encourages
divisiveness... The key components are corporate capital, the very
rich, small business associations, large media organizations,
evangelical Protestant leaders, and the Catholic hierarchy. Models
of organization tend to be corporate as well as military.”13

Wolin also cites science, technology, and capitalism14 as the driv-
ing forces of the ever progress-ive society. That triumvirate sans feeling
manifest as a monster military machine and a gadgetry-
laden zombie populace repeatedly awaiting messianic upgrades.

Layers of fear, both blatant and subtle, are used by totalitarian
regimes so as to keep the masses in a state of anxiety. The USE
displays a kind of selective fascism with minorities bearing the
brunt of blatant fear.

Prisons can make the economy of a town or state. “Between 2001
and 2013, more than half of prisoners serving sentences of more
than a year in federal facilities were convicted of drug offenses .”15

According to Frank Serpico, a former NYPD officer, “The ‘war on
drugs’ is not working. In fact, it’s really a war on the disenfran-
chised. Recreational marijuana use should be legalized nation-
wide, and all nonviolent drug offenders should be released from
prison.”16
“Approximately 12%-13% of the American population is African-
American, but they make up 40% of the almost 2.1 million male
inmates in jail or prison (U.S. Department of Justice, 2009).”17

“In major urban areas one-half of Black men have criminal
records. This means life-long, legalized discrimination in student
loans, financial assistance, access to public housing, mortgages,
the right to vote and, of course, the possibility of being hired for a
job.”18

These statistics attest to a concentration camp mentality.

Eugene Jarecki’s powerful documentary, The House I Live In,
shows how the war on drugs has essentially fed the prison-
industrial-complex. Michelle Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow:
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, also reflects the
police state issue. In the “land of the free” (another tag-line) the
“US Has 25% of World’s Prison Population.”19

The merger of corporate and state also employs prison labor.
“Major corporations profiting from the slave labor of prisoners
include Motorola, Compaq, Honeywell, Microsoft, Boeing,
Revlon, Chevron, TWA, Victoria’s Secret and Eddie Bauer.
IBM, Texas Instruments and Dell get circuit boards made by Texas
prisoners. Tennessee inmates sew jeans for Kmart and JCPenney.
Tens of thousands of youth flipping hamburgers for minimum
wages at McDonald’s wear uniforms sewn by prison workers,
who are forced to work for much less.”20

“They may not be the mine shafts of Tennessee Coal, but modern
private prisons such as Corrections Corporation of America and
G4S generate massive profits, selling inmate labor to corporations
like Chevron, Bank of America, AT&T, and IBM. Nearly a million
prisoners work in factories and call centers for as little as 17 cents
an hour. Black and white crime rates for drugs, weapons, and
assault are approximately the same. Yet blacks are arrested for
drug offenses at three times the rate of whites, and according to
the Sentencing Project more than 60 percent of U.S. prisoners are
minorities. As summarized by the Economic Policy Institute,
society has chosen to use incarceration rather than education and
job training to deal with racial economic issues.”21

Though the prison-industrial complex affects other minorities, the
Black Lives Matter Movement is a sign of a people waking up and
taking action ― a community hero’s journey.

Meanwhile, the masses are told to be afraid (because of the GWOT
- Global War On (more accurately, Of) Terror*, yet told to feel
secure because they are being protected ― while the various
benefits of social programs and constitutional rights have been
diminished. As with various other countries, when the Global
Corporate Empire rules and is spending big bucks on some things,
austerity measures are revealed as a fraud.
(*do a web-search “drone strikes”)

Subtle fears are felt by all but the elite and those who are well-off
enough not to worry about meeting the requirements of the
pay-to-play society. As examples of the subtle fear, if one doesn’t
have enough money to pay a utility bill, the water might be cut
off (as in Detroit, 2014), or failing to pay a mortgage to the neo-
feudal banking system could land one on the street ― there
was a sudden increase in such cases after the 2008 economic mini-
bubble burst where, as the protest slogan goes, “Banks got bailed
out. We got sold out.”

If no payment, instead of working WITH people, the system
typically shows the ugly face otherwise lurking behind a polished
exterior ― that face is punitive and greed-based.

Though the system is far-ranging, the culprits are typically trans-
national corporations along with banks, Bilderbergers22, and a
“landless Mafia system”23 (including arms and drug trafficking)
that guide so-called politics, hence Global Corporate Empire, or
as John Trudell terms it, the Industrial Ruling Class.

The front-men protagonists on that tragic stage of geo-politics are
typically tight-lipped, unemotional talking suits that act refined...
while spreading their “empire of chaos” into foreign countries not
asking for it.

Yet another variety of fascism, due to globalization, is when a local
government sells-out the well-being of the people and land for
profit. As is the case in Ethiopia, the government colludes with
foreign investors and agri-businesses so as to export products
while the local Indigenous Peoples are adversely affected both
agriculturally and by violence. “Murder, rape, false imprison-
ment, and torture are being committed by the Ethiopian military
as they implement the federal government’s policy of land clear-
ance and resettlement.”24 Since this brand of fascism involves
more than one nation, instead of trans-national, let’s call it trans-
fascionalism.

The wonderful Taoist yin-yang symbol aside, it is worth noting
that, even amongst a community or a Native Peoples nation there
can be sell-outs. Typically, the sell-outs betray their traditional
ways and, seduced by the comforts and goody bags offered by the
imperialists, become accomplices to the corrupt machine ―
instead of working with Mother Earth.

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The long-lasting ways are co-ops, communities, organizations,
and individuals with the big picture in their hearts and minds.
Geo-politically, in Latin America, for example, it is regional blocs
such as ALBA, MERCOSUR, UNASUR, CELAC, plus globally,
BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and
China-Russia big business deals that are helping to break away
from the unipolar agenda of the USE and GCE. Yet the process has
many layers, as this article reveals, “India: Betraying BRICS and
Its Poor.”25

While many a mystic, farmer, or ecologically-aware community
may know how to live in harmony with the environment,
Indigenous Peoples worldwide offer a glimpse of their ancient
and holistic traditions with such models as: Buen Vivir/Sumak
Kawsay; All My Relations; Plurinational respect for all beings; the
Kogi or Elder Brothers of the Colombian mountains; and many
more.

While one can get depressed because of all the difficulties in the
world, it’s important not to overlook the work of innumerable
organizations and communities. In his book, Blessed Unrest: How
the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and
Beauty to the World (2007), Paul Hawken wrote, “... I now believe
there are over one―and maybe even two―million organizations
working toward ecological sustainability and social justice.”

One of the things i learned from the book is that to help solve any
problem, an organization can be named and initiated ― a nearby
river in jeopardy of being polluted?... Let’s see... Alliance to Stop
River Pollution, or, Network of River Blessers.

As for more personal lifestyle choices, The Fellowship for Inten-
tional Community website has thousands of links to ways of
living an other-than-mainstream or traditional family lifestyle.
Intentional communities “include ecovillages, cohousing, residen-
tial land trusts, income-sharing communes, student co-ops,
spiritual communities, and other projects where people live
together on the basis of explicit common values.”26

The hero’s journey refers to the guiding framework presented
by Joseph Campbell in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
Having studied worldwide myths and creation-stories, Camp-
bell’s framework serves as a generic blueprint for the spiritual
journey/quest that each human being ultimately takes. James
Joyce’s word “monomyth” is another way of showing that there
is one basic storyline, with as many versions as there are human
beings.

As example, the phrase “we all have our cross to bear” alludes to
the hero’s journey of Jesus Christ; for some that “cross” is laden
with religious dogma and suffering, while for others it can be as
simple as non-denominationally “doing the work” that no one
else can do. The hero’s journey is finding one’s unique purpose,
learning how one is “endowed by their Creator,” or as Indigenous
Peoples call it, Original Instructions.

According to Campbell, “The standard path of the mythological
adventure of the hero is a magnification of the formula presented
in the rites of passage: separation – initiation – return.”27

Separation: the hero-to-be separates him/herself from the status
quo or mainstream... and becomes open to other possibilities,
adventures, the unknown.

Initiation: the hero is initiated by a spiritual teacher/mentor, by
life events, or divine intervention (a dream or angelic presence/
spirit beings) ― and subsequently goes through various stages
of trials and lessons.

Return: having gained enough experience and undergone a
transformation of persona and life-purpose, the hero re-enters
society but is now able to bestow life-enhancing energies and
helps to make positive change. As well, the hero is able to
consciously go back and forth between the worlds (inner and
outer, personal and community) and so becomes a “Master of the
Two Worlds.”

Before exploring how to put all this into day-to-day practice,
first a look at how the hero’s journey has been generally over-
looked if not downright suppressed.
American citizens have lost touch with the mythic narrative.
Instead, celebrities, sports stars, and pompous media windbags
who don’t actually do anything have taken the places once held
by gods, goddesses, talking birds, trees, and other such benevolent
beings ever ready to help their earthly peeps do brave deeds.

And for every hero or heroine there is a storyline; those, too, have
been abducted. The modern faux myths capture the imagination
(and i do mean “capture” as imprison). Whether with the
Founding Father figures (many of them slave-holders); phrases
such as “God’s country” (what country isn’t? and some don’t call
it God); historical inaccuracies, “Louisiana Purchase” (originally
Native lands, hence “stolen”) ― all these tag-lines perpetuate
a sense of entitlement at someone else’s detriment. Thus, the
educational system that promotes many of the faux myths is a
major player in the theofascist script of societal programming.
Though education does provide opportunities for many, the
dominant script bestows the ‘key to the city,’ in general for the
masses, and in specific for grooming the elite.

5
The word “hero” is from the “Greek heros ‘demi-god’ (a variant
singular of which was heroe), perhaps originally ‘defender,
protector,’ and from Proto-Indo-European root *ser- ‘to watch
over, protect.’”28

The hero’s journey is doing heroic deeds large and small: gestures
and prayers that help others, random acts of kindness, selfless
service. The hero’s journey enables one to become as a demi-god
and thus trump the false gods of theofascism, as well as any inner
totalitarian tendencies because part of being human is resisting
temptations to power-trip.

The hero is not some puffed-up super-human; rather, the hero-in-
the-making humbles him/herself so as to be worthy of bigger
responsibilities, so as to better receive assistance and guidance from
tutors, mentors, spirit beings, impromptu messages, talking
birds, and such like... and eventually earn the feather (from a bird)
in the hat (or Indigenous headdress) label of full-fledged hero.

The hero’s journey can be implemented in various ways. What
follows are some examples for ways of living on/off-the-grid,
with “grid” loosely defined as, monetarily beholden to utility
companies, electric being the most prominent.

- Living off-the-grid. From a cabin in the woods to self-sustaining
houses not needing utility companies’ infrastructure (see the
documentary Garbage Warrior), some aim to live completely off-the-grid.
If you consider Internet access as on-the-grid, it is virtually impossible to be ‘off.’
For more ideas see:
“10 lessons from living life off the grid”
http://www.alternet.org/environment/10-lessons-living-life-grid
& http://lifeoffgrid.ca

- Living in a monastery/temple. Full-time. Or one can adapt that
model on a smaller scale, for example, daily meditations, spaces
or rooms in the home devoted to rituals that guide you, connect
you with different levels of reality, nurture your yoga/ spiritual
path. As well, one can experience scheduled retreats, weekends,
vacations.

- Lifestyle that aims to minimize participation in mainstream
on-the-grid dominant culture activities. For examples, cooking
at home most of the time, making homemade cleaning products,
granola, furniture, using less electric lights, etc.

- Immersed in the system yet working for positive change
within it. There can be many variations on this but here are two
examples:

1- Working in the belly of the beast, a la Jonah. If you’re a janitor
at Fox News, perhaps when you empty the trash from the TV
presstitutes’ offices, your humble professionalism reminds the
blowhard bigwigs that there are decent, intelligent common folk.
And while i personally don’t eat fast food anymore, i have respect
for those who work those jobs as it’s one of the biggest employers
nowadays, and besides, one can learn about food service and
perhaps go on to open an organic restaurant.

2- Mixed bag. Many a corporation or billionaire gives some of
their dollars for good causes and to help people. If the corporation
or billionaire is the beneficiary of rigged tax write-offs or has had
a hand in pillaging a sovereign nation’s resources, that would give
good reason not to work for them, yet if one has opportunity to
work on the charitable or philanthropic side of things, that’s a
person’s choice ― and who’s to say what’s right or wrong?

There are innumerable worldwide myths, stories, and archetypes;
find those that resonate with you and adapt them to your current
situations. For example, Moses parting the Red Sea can be
interpreted as getting through a challenging situation. As a
mundane example, when one is hurried and on edge, one is more
likely to get frustrated while driving and ‘attract’ an accident,
whereas if one is centered and in the flow the ride is more likely
to go smoothly, perhaps cruising through a stretch of green
lights... thus parting the concrete Red Sea.

Or you can use a particular archetype to inspire you. One of my
writing mottos is ‘strike while the iron is hot,’ meaning that as
soon as the idea or phrase happens, this writer starts ‘hammering’
away at it and sometimes thinks of the Greek god, Hephaestus.

Along with archetypal heroes, totemic ‘heroes’ or symbols can
have broad cultural ramifications as well as serve as personal role
models. As example, cultures world-wide have celebrated the
phallus as a sacred symbol of divine masculine energy, with sym-
bols being used for a variety of purposes such as agriculture
(fertilizing ‘energy’), for good luck on a journey (Herm statues of
an erect phallus outside a front door), or for choosing a life-
direction (Herm statues also at crossroads). But it’s not all ancient
Greek to me. “The Shinto Kanamara Matsuri ‘Festival of the Steel
Phallus’ is held each spring at the Kanayama Shrine in Kawasaki,
Japan.”29 That the current USE status quo would probably view
such things as obscene or not family friendly shows the degree to
which humanity has, ahem, lost touch with itself, with its divine
energy connections. As much can be said for the yoni, a sacred
symbol of divine feminine energy. And, instead of not being
talked about, if masturbation were actually encouraged, humanity
might see less cases of rape and other violent side-effects of self-
dissatisfaction.

The grid examples above are only a basic framework of choices
each of us may face individually and as communities. Each
particular situation will have some bearing on the choices, for
example, the level of oppression in a country or on a reservation.

6
One of the main complaints against contemporary urban,
and even suburban, protests is that they block traffic. To the
Supremacist Control Freaks (SCF) traffic represents the predatory
capitalist, commercial flow ― drive-thru culture en masse.

Since what the SCF fear is people living freely, they have invested
in a society, a worldview meant to block access to inner aware-
ness. Media chatter and other loud noises to distract you from
listening to the still small voice within. Electric and neon lights
and tele-vision to distract you from seeing the inner light and true
visions -- because if you heart-think for yourself, live and breathe
and feel and get turned-on as a conduit for the Spirit, for some
cause bigger than yourself, or for your true inner self you will be
un-tameable, you will be able to live ‘outside’ their system (as
much as one can), or, ‘within’ their system yet be less affected by it.

Much of society is in a trance of otherness, not relating... instead
of knowing the Self and all it’s manifestations.
We are all travelers on cosmic journeys. May this book help point
to some ways that enhance your inner as well as outer journeys.
~
Notes:
1.“The Golden Age of Black Ops: Special Ops Missions Already in 105 Countries in 2015“ http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/20/golden-age-black-ops-special-ops-missions-already-105-countries-2015
2. “Meet the big wallets pushing Obama toward a new cold war”
http://www.alternet.org/world/meet-big-wallets-pushing-obama -
towards-new-cold-war
3. “Fasci Siciliani” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasci_Siciliani
4. “Fascio” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascio
Also: “Fasces: (in ancient Rome) one or more bundles of rods containing an axe with its blade protruding; a symbol of a magistrate’s power.” ... “ Carried before a lictor, a superior Roman magistrate, as a symbol of power over life and limb: the sticks symbolized punishment by whipping, the axe head execution by beheading.”
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fasce s
5. Joxe, Alain, translated by Hodges, Ames, Empire of Disorder,
Semiotext(e), 2002, p24.
6. “Religious views of Adolf Hitler”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Adolf_Hitler
7. “Full-spectrum dominance”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-spectrum_dominance
8. John Trudell, “Tribes of Europe” video ~5-minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-qO4pIK1Bg
9. “‘Indians are getting as fat as Americans’: Obesity crisis swells among India’s middle class youth as children choose Western fast food over traditional cuisine”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2394423/BBC-documentary-Indias-Supersize-Kids-Obesity-epidemic-swelling-thanks-Western-fast-food-McDonalds-KFC.html
10. “World’s Worst Waste”
http://large.stanford.edu/publications/coal/references/malone1/
11. “U.S. Eases Way to Recognition for Shinnecock”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/nyregion/16tribe.html?_r=0
12. “Mario Savio on the operation of the machine” - video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhFvZRT7Ds0
13. Wolin, Sheldon S., Democracy Inc.: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism, Princeton University Press,
Princeton and Oxford, 2008, p185.
14. Ibid, p14.
15. “People Sentenced For Drug Offenses In The US Correctional
System”
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Prisons_and_Drugs#sthash
4xzWak3a.JyEU9QXf.dpuf
16. “Serpico: I Almost Died for Exposing Police Corruption — Cops Lack Legitimacy and They Must Gain it Back”
http://www.alternet.org/serpico-i-almost-died-exposing-police-corruption-cops-lack-legitimacy-and-they-must-gain-it-back
17. “Statistics of incarcerated African-American males”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics_of_incarcerated_African-American_males
18. “The Pentagon and Slave Labor in U.S. Prisons”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-pentagon-and-slave-labor-in-u-s-prisons/25376
19. http://www.topix.com/forum/world/china/
TUTSHGNVMTLVGK6RF
20. See, #18.
21. “Americide”
http://commondreams.org/views/2015/01/19/americide
(for further stats and info:
“America’s Class War Explained in 1 Chart”
http://www.alternet.org/economy/
americas-class-war-explained-1-chart)
22. ”Bilderberg - Part 1” (of an 11-part series)
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_68864.shtml
23. Joxe, pp 157-160.
24. ed. by Ross, Alexander Reid, Grabbing Back: Essays against the Global Land Grab, AK Press, 2014, p.66.
25. “India: Betraying BRICS and Its Poor”
http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/02/india-betraying-brics-and-its-poor/
26. Fellowship for Intentional Community
http://www.ic.org/
27. Campbell, Joseph, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Princeton
University Press (Bollingen Foundation Inc.), 1949, 1973, p 30.
28. Online Etymology Dictionary, “hero.”
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hero
29. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanamara_Matsuri