nor time enough 2 b sold..

[for March 13th in Taichung, Taiwan]
in preparation for my own answer to
“What meaning does the zeitgeist movement hold for you?”
hashing out multiple thoughts, and refining my response on this particular blogpost..

a population possessing spare cash has no need for credit cards or loans.(DEBT)

my friend recently graduated and has just been given a job. what did he achieve?
a promise of a chance to be at the beck and call of someone..
my friend that took on a failing business and it’s debt
in order to provide for his family by “working for himself”. is he working for himself?
students at the bushiban i work at are given toy money
which symbolizes money
which symbolizes value
which symbolizes measurement of things that truly are Priceless!

our shared human history may be considerably greater than is taught in schools today.
if we do not yet understand who we ARE, we equally do not understand what is at risk should we decide to give up now.
possibly MORE than our planet might be lost, as if this place filled with green, crawling, swimming, flying, singing LIFE were merely a poker chip..
what IF this is our last chance for the next 100,000 years to get it right, what if for the next 15 BILLION?!
throughout our history, many wonderful people have sought to improve the situation of their fellow human beings.
looking at the current state of affairs we have yet to become civilized( to paraphrase jacque fresco).
breast implants for men or women, is this the best our medicine can do?
educating our children into mediocrity, the best our teachers aspire to?
winning a personal injury court case, having a court enter a restraining order
the BEST expression of mutual respect and equality between women and men?
breeding more and increasingly more blood and bone robots for the production line a goal worthy of escalation?
is olympic exploitation really the pinnacle of human physical development?
offering our eternal souls to systems of control,
inside poor buildings of stone built on the ashes of MILLIONS the highest spirituality we can attain?
i don’t know those answers, but i’ve a million more questions!
ZDAY celebrates ALL of us, and all the dreams that deserve a chance. just a chance!
the possibility of realization to balance the inefficiencies and suffering we see all around us.
inefficiency moving toward efficiency. suffering moving toward Global sharing of resources.
let us work out the solutions together
lest we remain beings with “a thousand pasts and no future.”(the secret in their eyes)

today’s ongoing crisis..

“The present crisis is different because we are dealing not with money, not with tangible things but with ideas. The crisis is in the field of thought, of ideas, of intellect. Before, evil was recognized as evil, murder was recognized as murder, but now murder is a means to achieve a noble result. You justify the wrong means through the intellect. When intellect has the upper hand in human life, it brings an unprecedented crisis. The other cause of this unprecedented crisis is the extraordinary importance man is giving to sensate values – to property, to name, to caste, to country.” ~ krishnamurti

j.krishnamurti (online)

the wealthy nations of Planet EARTH form..

“..a society that allows itself to be treated like an irresponsible baby and prefers the dubious security of servitude to the risks and hazards of freedom.”

– CANNABIS: MARIHUANA – HASHISH
Kleanthis Grivas
Translation: Deborah Whitehouse

Cannabis occupies fourth place amongst the licit and illicit mind-affecting substances consumed all over the world for the purpose of inducing euphoria. The first three are caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol.

“From a political point of view, the notion of `psychological dependence’ as an objective criterion for diagnosing `addiction’ is a sheer figment of imagination dreamed up by criminal lawyers and the police. It came into use in the sphere first of politics and criminal law, and then of medicine in an effort to give some `scientific’ legitimacy to extending suppression from the mind-affecting substances that lead to physical dependence (the only kind of dependence that in fact exists) to those that do not.”[ADDICTIVE – coffee, cigarettes, alcohol]

-chapter one

After the ban on opium-smoking (1875-1902), which served as a pretext for subjugating and manipulating the Chinese immigrants to the United States, and the Chinese immigration ban of 1902, the so-called `drug threat’ was trotted out to justify the United States’ initial sortie into the sphere of international policy (with the imposition of american control in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guam, and the Philippines after the war between america and Spain in 1898).

It was in 1898 that the United States first adduced the `necessity’ of addressing the so-called drug threat to justify indefinitely postponing recognition of the independence of Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba, and the Philippines and imposing U.S. control over them (as Spanish colonies, they had rebelled and fought as U.S. allies during the American-Spanish War of 1898 in the hope of winning their independence).

The Filipinos, having fought side by side with american troops to drive out the Spanish, thought that the United States was going to free the islands and turn the government over to them. It was difficult to convince them that the Islands were not yet ready for self-government.

– chapter three

[my additions for emphasis/explanation/comparison]

program your own mind(ty mark!)