An article by Sha'Tara, local writer and friend.

OK, Digging right in

[Thoughts definitely from the Other Side]

My favorite line of the year—so far!—and it's only just begun, as Karen Carpenter would sing it—and

quote:

Armageddon was yesterday. Today, we have a serious problem. (Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)

There you go, all you conspiracy theorists (do you realize how many different ways you can misspell "conspiracy" and have it still come out meaning something?) anyway, there you go, remember that quote on December 31 of this year of our Lord, 2012. Armageddon will have gone by, all the "predictions" will have come to naught, having become post-dictions with liberal doses of additions of addictions, and the problems assailing this dying world will have only worsened. (That doesn't need predicting.)

And why is that? Simple: the same gang of ruthless sociopaths and greedy fiends who constitute this world's leadership will still be in power and will still be sucking the life out of everything they touch.

And why is that? Simple also: because of the 7 plus billion pseudo-humans inhabiting this twisted world, hardly a one will take responsibility for their own lives. They will continue to sell themselves as cheaply as possible to the lowest bidder—I need a job, man; will mindlessly continue to absorb corporate and government lies as easily as they absorb the poisonous junk foods shoved at them through drive-thru windows laced with the fumes from the car ahead whose driver is a bit slow in paying his toll.

I know, it's not a pretty picture. Better to head to the movie theatre, put on the plastic glasses and absorb more 3-D gratuitous violence or go watch a "game" of football or hockey. OK, so it's not like a real war, you only get to watch and can't actually blow any helpless civilians to bits but beggars can't be choosers now, can they.

And beggars is what this society is made of. Oh, not just beggars, but beggars in debt to their armpits and perhaps even higher. Now back to following Lisbeth Salanger sleuthing through those Swedish towns.

I find more reality in fiction than the world around me these days. And, ah, the wonderful freedom from not having to kowtow to an alarm clock. Imagine that: for over fifty years I had to live at the beck and con of a mindless alarm clock.

(but)

Quote the Raven: "Never More!"

More from "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Steig Larsson

[thoughts definitely from the Other Side – by Sha'Tara]

The second most interesting quote of the year, and from that same book I quoted yesterday, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Steig Larsson, says,

"Wennerström was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal—it was business."

Now I wish I could think up smart comments like that because in one sentence this writer sums up the entire modus operandi within the world of Neo-Capitalism for at least the last fifty years. Pretty clever.

It's this whole illusion, outright fiction, that capitalism is a natural law, that it performs a natural function, so that what is perceived to be criminal at a smaller level becomes totally appropriate when done in global proportions. It's like murder and war. An individual kills another individual: that's murder. But an army murders thousands, even millions or billions of civilians: that's heroic. What's the difference? Proportion and of course, power that leads to monetary profit.

And of course there is now this new buzz-statement to fall back on when the thieving hoods, creeps and addicts of corporate fraud and money-laundering banksterism run out of numbers to meet their obligations: TOO BIG TO FAIL. At which point and predictably, the "government" of whichever nation is stuck with these now-beyond criminality class-A criminals is forced to hand them billions of tax-payers' money in bail outs.

How did that idiot sports commentator put it again? "Ya gotta love it!" Indeed, what's there not to love in the ability to become such gross criminals that you propel yourself beyond the scope of an indictable crime into a perfectly legitimate "natural" law?