Misleaders Emerge from the Wakes of Failed Misleaders

In the situation concerning Greenwald, and the documents he attained from the National Security Agency through Edward Snowden, an "infrastructure analyst" who worked for the NSA and Booz Allen Hamilton (a military contractor for cyber-space), I remain skeptical. I remain skeptical of Greenwald and Snowden for a few reasons.

What are Greenwald's connections to the Koch Brothers, and the Cato Institute if any? We have a general understanding that Pierre Omidyar, the owner of PayPal, and eBay, is libertarian in his economic and political philosophies. Libertarians generally believe in non-interventionism in the Middle East. Ron Paul, for example, is one of the leading figures advocating this position that the United States should take in regards to Washington's policy with Middle Eastern countries. Libertarians are also proponents of “the free market,” “smaller government,” and “fiscal spending.” Libertarians actually are Republicans, but they supposedly don’t believe in an ever expanding military industrial complex along the lines of what President Eisenhower warned Americans of.

The philosophical ideologies of politics are essential to know about in regard to anyone involved to any degree in politics, as these are the broad swaths that seem to define the general left and the right spectrums of thought, even though both of Washington’s parties engage in outright hypocrisy without a blink on a regular basis. Greenwald has a track record of taking left and right pundits to task on their hypocrisies. For example, when G. W. Bush was in office, almost all Democrats and liberals were crying bloody murder in the streets in reaction to Bush's foreign and domestic policies. From the invasion of Iraq based on fabrications of WMDs and ties to Al Qaeda, to the anti-Constitutional Patriot Act, Democrats and liberals were very vocal about their opposition to Bush and these policies. Several years later, Obama effortlessly exponentiates these policies ranging from draconian laws, such as the National Defense Authorization Act which allows him to peck off any American he deems questionable upon his own whims, to his lawless policy of drones flying freely over supposed allied countries, such as Pakistan, killing innocent women and children. Greenwald commendably commands outrage concerning both parties with the above points.

Greenwald's philosophy of left and right skepticism makes a lot of sense, since it is also very apparent that Washington's brutality, aggressiveness, and terror wrought in the Middle East is essentially designed to cause terrorism, not prevent it. It's common knowledge that if you kill someone’s wife, and children, they will more than likely seek some kind of revenge on you. Many religions teach about the basic principle of doing to others as you would have them do to you. It is apparent that Greenwald agrees with much of this philosophy, considering the numerous articles he's written in criticism of Obama's international and illegal drone policy and its hideous further trashing of the Geneva Conventions initiated by the Bush II regime, not to mention Washington's standard disregard of other treaties implemented to prevent aggression of one country upon another signed right after world war two.

I had read a couple of articles that spurred some thoughts about Greenwald's possible ties to the libertarian network. These ties can be found through the doorway he's been able to miraculously open up to a $250,000,000 deal provided for by his sudden business relationship with the billionaire of PayPal, Pierre Omidyar. One of those articles is written by Yoichi Shimatsu, titled: Saving Agent Snowden From His Handlers Greenwald And Omidyar. I learned in that article that Omidyar, himself, is actually Iranian, thus further strengthening his libertarian philosophy of a Washington/Middle East non-interventionist policy. In his article, Shimatsu writes:

From: Saving Agent Snowden From His Handlers Greenwald And Omidyar, by Yoichi Shimatsu

"In stark contrast to his libertarian posturing, Omidyar is connected at the hip to the very same intelligence nexus that he publicly condemns, particularly Booz Allen Hamilton, the NSA security contractor that employed Snowden in Hawaii and Japan. One of the major investment partners with Omidyar Network, Salvadore ”Sal” Gambianco, sits on the board of directors of Booz Allen Hamilton Holdings.

As head of Omidyar Network’s human capital operations, Giambanco vets trainees and assesses employee performance for promotion or termination. For more than a decade, Omidyar Network has had a revolving door for its employees with Booz Allen, shuttling staffers and interns for intelligence-related postings. Just a few of these individuals who worked for both Omidyar Network and Booz Allen include:

- Dhaya Lakshminarayan who was sent to Cuba to research development programs;

- Pranay Chulet hired to head Omidyar-backed Quikr in India;

- Patricia Sosrodjojo, Indonesian venture capital expert in Jakarta; and

- Michael Kent, a Booz Allen counter-terrorism specialist who served as a research associate at the Omidyar campus in Redwood City, California.

The relationship, simply put, is corporate collusion, and if businesses could be married, Booz Allen and Omidyar Network are husband and wife."

To read this full article, go here: http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/the-silencing-and-robbing-of-edward-snowden-or-americas-occult-journey-into-the-dark-ages/

After engaging in a sobering back and forth debate with @danstew13, or Dan Stewart, a derivatives trader on Twitter who joined Twitter four days after the NSA leaks broke the headlines on June 5th, 2013, I found a link on his profile from back in June linking to @shoq, another independent political opinionist who unfortunately defends the trail of tears left by Obama. Though I was irritated by Dan's invasive questions posed to me in regards to my critical questions about Greenwald, I found that his questions were very competently asked. He sounds like he could be a professional lawyer. So instead of trying to block him out, I followed him so that I can see how he neutralizes anyone who is critical of Greenwald. After all, a majority of his profile is dedicated to defending Greenwald.

One point he makes relentlessly is the question of evidence. He wants direct evidence of Greenwald's suspected back-door dealings between Omidyar and Snowden. While it is laughable to try to convince someone in another part of the nation on Twitter of "evidence," it still stands as a challenging wall to be climbed. It is a challenge because I, and probably all of Greenwald's other critics, don't have any direct evidence, like email communications, or video recordings of Greenwald and Snowden interacting with each other and planning a conspiracy. All we have are the inconsistencies in how many documents Greenwald obtained from Snowden, the bizarre lucky twists of fate Greenwald has encountered since leaving the Guardian, and whether if it was Greenwald who received the documents directly to begin with. Greenwald, by the way, has previously stated that he kept on pushing off emails by Snowden to him as disingenuous, so the theory that unidentified flying objects floating around the Guardian and submitting Snowden's NSA documents to them after abducting him for a blacked out period of time is questionable at best... at least for flat earthers.

@Shoq has been a critic of Greenwald and Snowden since their leaked NSA documents story broke. Perhaps @shoq has been a critic of Greenwald even before the hit debut of his NSA story. I have not investigated that however. The article that I found insightful, though still biased, by @shoq, is titled Why Libertarian Organizations Like The Cato Institute Love The NSA Outrage. Remember, the Cato Institute is on record for also supporting the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a partnership negotiated in secrecy, until leaked by Wikileaks, that allows governments to be lobbied by special interests in order to fix prices to those special interest's desires, which would snuff out other generic competitors, of, say, pharmaceuticals in Asian countries for example. @Shoq brings to our attention the superficial beliefs of libertarianism, and some of their promoter's ties to the Koch Brothers who are famous for their right-wing policies as industrialists. The Koch Brothers fund politician's careers that support their every fascist effort, such as Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin, and his controversial demolishing of unions' rights to collectively bargain. Scott Walker, by the way, may be running for president in 2016.

Please review @shoq's blog Why Libertarian Organizations Like The Cato Institute Love The NSA Outrage here: http://shoqvalue.com/why-libertarian-organizations-like-the-cato-institute-love-the-nsa-outrage/

Because the US government is so hypocritical and criminal in its own policies of domestic and foreign affairs, the fact that Jay Carney, for example, reiterates the White House's steadfast narration, "Mr. Snowden has been accused of leaking classified information, and he faces felony charges here in the United States," only makes Washington's hardline stance against Snowden an international joke. It looks to me like charges against Snowden are microscopic insignificances compared to the unquestionable bloodbaths Washington engages in every day. Washington is just a case of an ethics committee so thoroughly corrupt that it needs an ethics committee. That ethics committee cannot be founded in another governmental agency in my opinion, but can only be found in the solidarity of the American people, less Washington DC, and its cesspool of greed, irresponsibility, and corruption.

In the wake of all the disheartenment of Americans being led by liars on both sides of America's traditional two-party system, many younger Americans are looking for some sort of leadership to hold on to. I believe Greenwald, and his "news" venture will attempt to fill some of that void in much the same way the usual "privatized," but really centralized, news organizations attempt to do, e.g., Fox News, and MSNBC. Yet, there are many things that make me question Greenwald's character with respect to his past as a lawyer for one of the most criminal banks ever to exist, Goldman Sachs, as a lawyer for a gay pornography business, and having a tendency to take people to court on the pettiest of claims while using his abilities as a lawyer to screw peoples' financial lives up significantly. I'm not against homosexuality, nor even their right to marry, but I do point out that the pornography business isn't necessarily filled with fine, upstanding citizens. I'm also not against the pornography business per se, as I believe it's anyone's right to engage in any field the want to engage in professionally. I am merely pointing out the inconsistencies of Greenwald's supposed stance of standing up for the weak and the poor, while, at times, fully engaging in risky and purely “profits over people” motivated ventures.

Please read the full article How Glenn Greenwald Became Glenn Greenwald at BuzzFeed Politics, written by Jessica Testa here to get more information on Greenwald's history: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/how-glenn-greenwald-became-glenn-greenwald

Then we encounter the current inconsistencies that come with the walking propaganda machine Greenwald has accumulated thus far, such as: why are there no articles implicating PayPal's devotion to the NSA's unconstitutional invasion of privacy? I'm sure someone can have their own personal beliefs, and superficially report on them with a news organization funded by a company who is against those beliefs, but this only indicates a conflict of interests. Conflicts of interest, nevertheless, can be found throughout politics. The number one interest that most people have, however, can clearly be defined as the obtaining of money in exchange for straight or crooked efforts.

And this common underlying theme found in almost all scandalous activities is unsurprisingly found in Greenwald's coop flying from the Guardian to a new future coop with Omidyar and the $250,000,000 deal he made while, at the same time, hanging on to perhaps ninety to ninety-five percent of the classified NSA documents Edward Snowden "gave" to him. Perhaps Snowden actually sold the documents to Greenwald. Again, none of us have the proof for this. It can only be speculated. I do find it interesting that someone like Julian Assange has been locked down in an Ecuadorian Embassy in the United Kingdom for leaking classified United States documents for four Christmases now, but Greenwald is able to fly freely on first class jet planes around the planet with classified information in his possession, with hardly a problem encountered.

Another oddity I encountered with respect to Snowden is recently when he wrote a letter to the government of Brazil--the country where Greenwald coincidently lives--which ostensibly seems to be bargaining his special knowledge gained as an employee of the NSA in exchange for asylum there. So while Greenwald continues to withhold untold amounts of documents Snowden gave him, making lucrative deals writing books, and signing contracts for the creation of 21st century James Bond technocrat movies, Snowden attempts to get closer to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow over off in Brazil. Maybe he can get Omidyar to send a private stealth jet to Russia without rousing the Russian air force out of bed at night, and fly him off to the land of freedom where anti-corruption protests abound in the country of Brazil.

December 24th, 2013

Recent update: Snowden broadcasted his own New Year's message after the Queen of England's message on Britain's Channel 4 station on Wednesday, December 25th, 2013. If Snowden is so accepted by the Western world as to be right next to the Queen of England's slot on TV on Christmas day, then this only adds more to my suspicion of inside corruption not factually seen and documented by anyone. Whistleblowers have been condemned as an expected standard throughout history. I don't personally wish harm upon Snowden in order to rectify this standard, but on the other pinna, I find it a very peculiar twist of events that Snowden gets to deliver a message to the world from the center of the West's propaganda machine. All the sudden, Snowden comes from out of the non-existent shadows of "no such agency" (NSA), and gets to sit next to the Western world's throne to speak about the West's totalitarian tyrranny, invoking the writer George Orwell. Please don't count me on the bandwagon of worshiping this hyped up hero, because, just next door, Assange remains shackled to the Ecuadorian embassy in London. I've entertained the possibility that Assange may by tied into the Greenwald, PayPal, and Snowden conspiracy, but Wikileaks seems to be less focused on Greenwald for the time being as far as I can tell in reviewing the tweets Wikileaks tweets out referencing Greenwald, Snowden, PayPal, or their blockading friend, Omidyar.

Evan Travnicek, 

December 27th, 2013

The World Wants To Be Subjugated

Please note the obvious: if you feel you are not included in my usage of the word "we", then, by all means, don't feel obligated to be included in the majority of the state of humanity.

The world desires to be subjugated. Perhaps not in words, and speech, but in action, and sometimes thought. Just look at everyone around you, and you'll see that the conflict between slavery and freedom is usually won on the side of slavery. We agree to be hypnotized by shitty entertainment. We vote for tyrants who tighten societal nooses around our necks even tighter. We send our children into wars knowing that the wars are based on lies pumped up by narcissistic and substanceless patriotism. We eat the poison of fast food that cause diseases and dysfunctions in our bodies. Then, we have such low self-esteems afterwords, that we dare not speak up for ourselves in relation to our dickhead managers at work.

Why don't we get together, as the oppressed, rise up and change things? After all, it is the masses of oppressed people on all of earth who are the driving forces of everything in the global economy. No way! We need to continue on in our infantile fantasies that the state provides for us, and pass off responsibility on to political psychopaths. That's what we do. We drag ourselves in to voting booths in an unquestioning stupor to vote for evil across the board, left or right, democrat or republican. Then we go to Wal-Mart to buy a few morsels of food with our political campaign Obama food stamps.

Meanwhile, Obama protects his "political adversary" George W. Bush from any kind of war tribunals for lying and murdering millions of people overseas. And he also protects the banks who fund his campaign, such as Goldman Sachs, who continue to gamble the economy of America away and down the drain. No, no, we need to protect Obama from any criticism, and Bush from being accountable for any of his murderous policies.

Let us, as intellectuals, just continue to drive home the acceleration of America's failure so that we can at least fill our own pockets by our own wit, and feed our own children. Who cares about the rest of the world? Just as long as they buy and read our books, and cut us a check for coming to our intellect inspiring speeches. It's okay. The guilt seems to have boundaries for those who love a pretty penny, and those who like to review their speeches over and over in order to correct any "imperfections."

Bloat the ego with dough, crack, and chicks, and the intellect starts to fail. After all, the maintenance of dough, crack, and chicks are high indeed. They require the full attention of a master of whatever trade. When you start to see how certain dynamics work, then you see what really fuels greatness in any field or trade. It often is the suffering and deprivation of resources that drive certain "special" individuals off the ground and high above the rest of humanity. And so the cycle continues on throughout the ages. The gauntlet of human life on earth never changes. Only peoples' first names, and technology to enable bigger disasters change. Do you think human beings, as a whole, are actually capable of evolving past distorted survival drives? Is there even such a thing as "as a whole" and "we" when it comes to the ego? Or is it all just for one, one's family, and fuck the rest?

Perhaps trips of guilt can win you the intellectual lottery, instead of 20th century pop capitalist ideas of "survival of the fittest" promoted by Ayn Rand, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin. Perhaps now the formula is survival of the guiltiest, and survival of who is the biggest martyr. Wasn't the story of Christ bent, perverted, and distorted into a whole bloody martyrdom?

eVan, October 17th, 2013

After the Crash (version A1)

After the Crash (version A1)

I incorporated a road in this drawing because I want to start making these series look more like technologically advanced cities in a child-like cubist style of my own. Many sources have inspired me up to this point, including: Paul Klee, Maria Elena Vieira da Silva, Piet Mondrian, Vincent Van Gogh, Francis Picabia, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Byzantine mosaic art, Islamic art and architecture, and so many more. 

These series are more of a balancing act between the decomposing forces of nature, and the attempt of mankind to eternalize his image and thoughts upon the vast oases of the universe, for which he practically knows almost nothing, even unto this point in humankind's evolution. I suppose it's an elaborate, round-about way of giving a visual catalog of the folly of man. This process is still fascinating to me. You can imagine yourself walking through all the constructs of man as you see through the fallacy of their permanence. In other words, enjoy everything for the experience, but don't hang on to anything, because nothing in the physical world lasts forever.  

It's a process that people have been interested in since they became self aware beings experiencing life inside of the biological unit of the human model. This series, and this image, bring to the viewer's awareness both the fleeting qualities of life, as well as all that seems to last forever. I give the viewer the suggestion, also, that an immaterial mind is what organizes, and re-organizes everything in physical nature. So, in "the end", even the mechanical, scientific, and utilitarian structures of modern humans undergo an organic process of birth, change, deterioration, and death... and then re-birth.

--eVan, July 1st, 2013

Wrecked Tangles (After the Crash)... [My New Online Art Project]

I'm starting on a new Wrecked Tangles series. This series will be called Wrecked Tangles (After the Crash). As you know "wrecked tangles" is a play on words for rectangles. It alludes to man-made constructions--whether if religious, economic or political--disintegrating, as nature has a tendency to turn everything into dust over time. In fact, most all of nature appears more organic, round, cyclical, and circular, rather than constant designs and compositions of perfect straight lines, and exact right angles.

I felt that I wasn't finished with my Wrecked Tangles online art project after completing the Wrecked Tangles (Encircled) series from A to Z. I just thought that there was so much more to explore, and so much more to elaborate on. It's just a drive for excellence really. As with most other artists, I share the drive for completion and excellence. This is an impetus artists need to have in order to drive them further into creating new and more material.

"After the Crash" alludes to a projected crash in the global market that some expect to hit around the end of 2015. This is the ultimate disintegration of the myths upheld by 20th century ponzi schemes played on the world by New York banks. Our world is held together by illusions and un-payable debts. The quantitative easing policies that the Federal Reserve and Washington have been using to stimulate the economy cannot last forever.

I'm going to post a couple of images from my Wrecked Tangle 3D projects for you while I aggregate my scan beginning the Wrecked Tangles (After the Crash) series. I'll be posting the new material to my face book artist fan page Art of eVan. I invite you to come take a look at what I've already posted: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Art-of-eVan/171452642880039?ref=hl. I'll also be using this blog spot in the near future, so keep an eye out for electron deviating thoughts, as well as images that will surge tsunamis through realities operating just around the corner from our societally cornered five physical senses.

--eVan
July 1st, 2013

Ad Hoc Extrapolations on Art, Marketing, and Politics

Yes, I know you don't know what that title means. Humor it as I lead you into more insights into art, symbolism, marketing, advertising and politics. Consider it as mysterious as the ancient Egyptian Ankh, if you will, as it will be a key in decrypting all the doorways to your mind and soul, and may allow you to plateau on to another level of eternal life. 

I've been reading a book called The Hidden Persuaders, by Vance Packard, and he outlines the methods used in marketing to reach peoples' motivations and unconscious minds, and to, of course, therefore reap more profits. One of the people who originated this deep psychological form of marketing is Ernest Dichter. In the Hidden Persuaders, Packard discusses one of Dichter's core principles in motivating people to buy. Peoples' universal needs for security, protection, safety, peace of mind, connection, and belonging are powerful motivating factors, he discusses, in whether if a person will be interested in buying a product. These things are a part of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. 

There are other core doctrines of marketing as well. One of the most important of them is the concept of identity. Obviously different people have different identities, personalities, behaviors, thoughts, and feelings. These individual tendencies people have are associated with the kinds of cars people drive, the foods they eat, and the people they know. Marketers and advertisers go into excruciating detail in researching peoples' psychologies so as to make better sales. The online social medias of today go beyond marketers' and advertisers' wildest dreams. People basically open their souls up to the world in the virtual world. 

I did some free association with words to continue on with the idea of identity in the market. I thought of things like "who you are, what kind of art you prefer, structure, strength, power, enforced, and steel." Some of these words sound like they don't have much to do with one another, but they do on an unconscious level. Just look at your dreams and how jumbled and irrational they can be. A lot of dream material is subtle symbols morphing and transforming across the different periods and places in your life.

Another day I had been discussing the magpie--a bird that is part of the corvidae or crow family--with a friend on Twitter. She told me that the magpie is a bad sign, or an omen in Native American folklore. I looked up the magpie, and, indeed, it is considered an omen in Native folklore. One aspect of the magpie plays the role of a trickster who is credited for playing deceptive schemes crafted by its intelligence on unwitting characters.

I continued on my own free association and research into the magpie. I found that "magpie" is a combination of two words. The first word is Margaret, or name, of which Mag is a nickname, and the second word is pie. So we have Margaret pie as the full name. Hence, the name "magpie" comes from Margaret + pie. It's really a trio combination because Margaret is a woman, and a magpie is a bird. So, really, magpie = woman + bird + pie to the unconscious mind perhaps; a woman with the name Margaret plus a bird from the crow family plus a pie. I wonder what kind of pie this combination would associate with?

Do lectures involving the usage of pie charts induce you to want to eat cheese cake after the lecture is over? The mathematical pi associates easily with pie, or cake, in the unconscious mind. Cheese cake is loaded with cream cheese and sugar, so it appeals deeply to our sense of sustenance, survival, and delicious taste. You could taste cheese cake on your taste buds from stored away memories from the past when I mentioned cheese cake. 

I associated further on the magpie and I thought of Margaret Thatcher. I watched a video of her on Youtube to refresh myself on her style and character: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2f8nYMCO2I&feature=youtu.be . She's a magpie with a blue coat and glasses in that video, symbolically speaking. I declared, at the time, that Margaret Thatcher is a magpie in politics and campaigning because her last name can easily be associated with human "nest building," i.e. thatched cottages for the peasants of the world. Houses, cottages, and homes are symbols of security, safety, family, warmth, etc. If you free associate from Maslow's hierarchy of needs, you just may have some great symbols you can sell to others through your own marketing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs.png

I mentioned earlier that the Ankh is considered the key to eternal life in ancient Egyptian mythology. Another friend on Twitter had mentioned that the Ankh is her favorite symbol after I had asked the question: "what is your favorite symbol?" I remarked that I had seen an ad that positioned a models hands in such a manner as to symbolize the Ankh. You can learn more about the Ankh here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh. She then did her own association and mentioned that the Ankh resembles the Christian crucifix "in the same way Guanyin looks like the Virgin Mary." I had no idea who Guanyin was, so I did my own research and discovered that she is the female bodhisattva who is associated with compassion from ancient East Asia. Learn more of her here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanyin.

I thought further on the Ankh and how it has an opening on the head of it. I considered to myself that this may symbolize the opening of a door, or a womb. I thought that perhaps the Ankh could be the feminine aspect of Logos. Logos is a word from ancient Greece that is associated with reason and philosophy. It is considered a masculine aspect. Going further with the Ankh, it can be associated with the current digital age, and all the encryption involved. 1s and 0s are the most basic form of coding in computers and programming. Binary coding composes the more complex symbols and instructions in a program. I thought of the Ankh and how it can easily be a symbol for computer access, decoding, decryption, and unlocking entrances on the internet. The Ankh can also be associated with Ying and Yang as well. 

I have gained a new interest in the types of art people like, the styles they are trying to communicate through their clothes, and the personalities they convey by the cars they drive now. For example, I was talking to some girl at a retail store, and she was telling me that she would hang Salvador Dali's art in her bathroom. What does this mean? I mean, Dali is very weird and surreal, but he's now considered mainstream and traditional through mass media. Perhaps Dali's art means nothing more than an accepted mainstream artist to this girl. I did mention to her however that the Spanish people revere the act of bowel moving much more so than other cultures. 

Later on, I walked through a women's section at JC Penney, and saw a big display of some oversized double doors opening to a special display of clothing. There were also seats for people to sit in this square behind the doors as well. The oversized display was painted bright lemon yellow. At first, I didn't really know what this symbolized and what the designers intended to communicate to consumers. Then later, in hindsight, I realized that the opening doors symbolize a welcoming and friendly attitude. The fact that the doors and the whole display is oversized symbolizes a "bigger than life" perspective. The color yellow is often associated with friendship, friendliness, sociability, an open and light attitude, sunshine, happiness, having fun in outdoor weather hence "fun in the sun" during the Spring season. 

In the evening, while I was networking online, I ran across a video by Dopplereffekt that plays an episode from the original Incredible Hulk TV series. I'd read about advertisers' research into the psychology of the alcohol drinker in The Hidden Persuaders, by Vance Packard, and what was discovered is that drinkers like the transformation that takes place while drinking. Their whole personality changes, and becomes un-inhibited so that they can be more of who they want to be. Again, identity comes up here. I realized that The Incredible Hulk is actually a symbolic story of an alcoholic's life. It also alludes the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story. Watch the video here and perhaps you may see a symbolic and dramatized transformation in the Incredible Hulk as it associates with drinking alcohol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIMv2CY32Bk&feature=youtu.be. 

After operating on himself to give himself super strength and thinking he failed in his experiment, he leaves his laboratory, and gets stuck in the rain by the side of the road with a flat tire. His disappointed, and bitter state expresses the alcoholic's frustrated view of himself and his life. The rain storm symbolizes the drinking of alcohol, but it hasn't "hit" him yet. While he's in the frustrating throes of replacing his flat tire in the rain, something snaps inside of him, and he transforms into the Hulk. Many male alcoholics are known to fly into fits of rage while under the influence of alcohol. The rain falls from overhead in this video symbolically showing a man who is "under the influence." Water is often associated with emotions, and uncontrollability in unconscious symbolism. Alcohol allows many people to "unleash" and un-inhibit their emotions. 

The Incredible Hulk is green, therefore possibly symbolizing jealousy. Jealousy is one of the biggest reasons why many a man flies into a fit of rage--jealousy of a possible competitor to his mate or desired mate. Green is also associated with witches, witch craft, paranormal phenomena, and strange scientific experiments. 

While networking online, I then free associated some more and thought of symbolism in the media for people who are "anal." The first thing that came to mind was Metallica's untitled black album. It has a coiled snake on the front cover. The snake is depicted as tense, and coiling just like an anal sphincter muscle might while feeling stress and frustration. Listen to the song Don't Tread On Me, and you know in much more detail of the psychology of someone who is anally retentive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db1s-eV-Bd0&feature=youtu.be. I considered further what an anally retentive woman might imagine herself to be in her wildest fantasy of domination, since she feels very tight and controlled in her conscious life. I found this image while surfing the net and thought it might express a woman who wants to dominate with her sexuality and be completely un-inhibited from expressing herself fully: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/BDR-Domination-Hot-Pink-Complete-Outfit/2014359?id=2014359&slug=BDR-Domination-Hot-Pink-Complete-Outfit#.UTLe2NC37wE.twitter.

I then went on to explore some symbolism behind the basic square. Squares are symbols of groundedness, of structure, of direction (hence, "the four corners of the earth"), architecture, angles, shelter, safety, protection, stability, etc. I've been making a whole series of art works based on the square in my Wrecked Tangles (Encircled) art project. Here's one example of a most recent image I made as part of the Y series: http://twitpic.com/c88muc. Then I thought about food. Are there types of food that have more "structure" to them than others? I thought perhaps carrots do because of their crunchy consistency. Carrots don't excite the taste buds however. This doesn't matter though, as structure doesn't necessarily have to excite the taste buds. It just has to be safe, grounded, and secure. Carrots can easily fit that description. 

Perhaps ice cubes give drinks some structure. Do you feel like you're drinking the contents of a building while your drinking a special drink in a tall glass? Like you're drinking all the life, blood, thought, work and energy out of a glass building streaming with condensed water on the sides of its cylindrical shape? After all, it could be Friday after a bustling day at work, and that special drink is just waiting for you to conquer the rest of the day by unleashing all your pent up frustrations through a nice drink. What I'm doing here is showing you what commercials, advertisers and marketing schemers do to induce you to thoughtlessly identify with their promotions. 

Traditionally, women are depicted as passive objects of beauty in art. I recently made some drawings for a friend who is working on an independent film. He sent some images to me to work out some imaginative ideas for him to use in his film. I drew the images more like the scenes he sent me, rather than going off on my own imagination, and exploring different themes like he requested. Nevertheless, I keenly observed how the girl I drew in these pictures is doing something. She's actively involved in a creative process, which, traditionally, a woman wouldn't normally be doing. Please take a look at what I'm talking about: http://twitpic.com/c7fei9. 

I realize what I'm blogging about at length here is quite disjointed, seemingly unrelated and ad hoc. That's why I titled part of this article as ad hoc. It's thrown together from a bunch of recent thoughts, research, and discoveries I've recently made. To add to this seeming unrelatedness, I now want to briefly discuss politics and how the centralized public relations agencies, and mainstream media sources manufacture our perceptions of the world for us. One gaping example that I, and many others observe time and time and again, is the fact that the US's mainstream corporate/state media absolutely acquiesces to Washington's initiations and commands of military aggression around the planet. Things such as avoiding foreign entanglements prescribed by the forefathers of America are completely disregarded, and nonsensical acts of aggression are justified under mythologized, perpetual, and incipient terrorists that are implied as popping out at any minute and wreaking havoc on our lives. President Bush even claimed that the US has declared war on an un-definable enemy. In other words, anyone can be an enemy now according to the US government, and it's sidekick mouthpieces in the mainstream media. 

If a truly impartial observer were to view these states of affairs from the outside, she or he could effortlessly conclude that America's own dictators are promoted as good, and not dictator-like, while clearly acting and behaving just like dictators do by successively removing one basic human right after the other. Meanwhile, dictators in other countries--most preferably impoverished ones with rich natural resources--are promoted and advertised as evil and bad in the mainstream press. President Obama took this Orwellian nightmare a step further in his signing of the National Defense Authorization Act on New Year's Eve 2011-2012 which allows him to decide if you're a terrorist upon his own whims without being encumbered by any due process of law whatsoever. It is a law known pretty much in every culture around the planet that every fair judicial process includes the presumption of innocence. Under Obama, this natural humane law has been tossed out. 

I know that many people feel passionate about regulating guns now, especially after all the shooting tragedies that have occurred in recent times. I personally feel that this campaign to regulate guns in America is a political attempt to start stripping the second amendment to the US Constitution. With all the ideas I presented to you at the beginning of this article that are used in marketing and advertising, you ought to be suspiciously aware of the fact that deep psychological marketing techniques are used to manufacture perceptions in politics as well. To me, the US's centralized media is nothing more than psychological illusions designed to "key in" (alluding to the Ankh) on your deepest fears, insecurities, frustrations, hopes, desires, and dreams.

I wouldn't be surprised if members of the inside club of the Republican party are just as committed to the disarmament of American citizens as Democrats are. I personally take more liberal stances on a lot of issues since I've read enlightening books by Noam Chomsky, and Naomi Klein. I do take one conservative issue to heart however, and that is the second amendment, and the right to bear arms. This was originally signed by the founding fathers of America as an inalienable right, just like the freedom of speech is.

I recently asked the staff at Democracy Now! in a tweet whether if they thought that Malcolm X would agree with Obama's determination to start eliminating the right to bear arms. I see Obama's lawless activity in bailing out and protecting top financial frauds in the central banking system of America as indicative that he wants to disarm America so that he can feel more safe and protected for continuing his immunized criminal activity. His disregard for the Geneva Conventions, disregard for avoiding foreign entanglements, and his condemnation of innocent whistle-blowers such as Bradley Manning and Julian Assange is more proof. I already mentioned the National Defense Authorization Act, and, recently, he just signed for John Brennan to be the head of the CIA who will not say whether if he can now assassinate American citizens extrajudicially. I'm sure he's assassinated all kinds of people already, including American citizens. 

I get the feeling that Democracy Now! is relatively anti-second amendment. I don't blame them considering the wake of mourning from the recent domestic mass shooting tragedies. Looking back on the considerations of identity in forming political perspectives, I often associate the hosts of Democracy Now!, such as Amy Goodman, with the hippie movement in the late nineteen-sixties. This was a powerful identity change for American perception in general during the Vietnam war, and it was won through social movements that had the terms "flower power" and "flower children" attached to them signifying that peaceful methods are the best means for mass change. While I agree with this viewpoint for the most part, I also think it's an illusion to think that slowly disarming Americans of their right to bear arms won't affect the peoples' ability to socially, and peacefully move politicians towards more humane efforts. 

Throughout history, dictator after dictator disarmed the people of their country so as to better brutally control them. Carl von Clausewitz, the military strategist for the Prussian army during the Napoleonic wars described in his book, On War, that one of the most important acts that must be performed in defeating an enemy is disarming him. I am not a proponent of war, but I am a proponent of self-defense, and with all of the previously reliable institutions symbolically and socially crumbling through rampant corruption practically everywhere around citizens in American society, I feel all the more passionate about defending the second amendment. Like Ingo Swann, the teacher of remote viewing for the US government, might state it from his books, Secrets of Power, the number one rule of those in power is "de-powering" everyone else in ANY meaningful and possible way. 

I see power as a big wave, and those who own the means to surf that wave have already created a marginalizing societal pyramid scheme for everyone else. In this way, everyone else is preoccupied with "climbing the ladder to success" while the whole ladder is just a manufactured tool to keep the rabble preoccupied with marginalizing activities while elites play the real games of power. Nevertheless, as Ingo Swann discusses in Secrets of Power, power arises from that which is insignificant, and he compares this process to the origination of a tornado from a mere wisp of wind among millions of wisps of wind. 

This leads into an idea that I've long held as integral in the development of one of my styles of art. I consider trash as universally, and stereotypically insignificant and repulsive to "everyone." Therefore, I imagine that, as an artist, I often want to look where no one else will look so as to attain rejected creativity, discarded "power," and thrown away love. While living in Nebraska, I was lucky enough to have a nice sized studio in the basement of the old house on the family farm. My grandfather had left all kinds of farm work materials and equipment behind after he died. Even after the farm sale, there was still a whole bunch of junk that really couldn't be used for original purposes anymore. I used some of this junk and put it into a lot of pieces of art, as well as many items that would normally be considered trash collected by my grandmother. My grandmother lived through the great depression of the 1930s in America, so she was very conscientious about saving every possible thing that "might be of use."

Since it looks like America is headed for another great depression, I mention that last paragraph above to inspire people to creatively use their junk and trash for other purposes they can use them for if they use their imaginations. I also raise that point to symbolically involve people in the process of empowerment through so-called insignificant means. This is to help people show themselves that power and creativity resides within themselves, and not in the leaders of Washington who live in a matrix of lies and forcefully try to grow an empire corrupted by deception more and more every day. The great ponzi scheme heisted on the rest of the world by the central financial fraudsters of Western imperialism is starting to bust at the seams as evidenced by the failing quantitative easing money printing strategies to spur economic growth.

To me, power on earth is a mere crimp in the grander scheme of things. I visualize it as a small crimp from a canvas stretcher on a vast piece of canvas. It's an attempt by a select few human beings who grant themselves statuses of "apotheosis" so as to excuse themselves from the laws applied to the rest of humanity by themselves. This, of course, is just an indoctrinated fallacy applied to everyone so that people stop seeking the infinite possibilities that are inherently a part of every human beings' potential and heritage. Your job as subjects to these politicians and fraudulent investment bankers is to remain thoroughly unquestioning in the false hopes they weave around you through public relations campaigns, political campaigns, corporate sigils, advertisements, marketing schemes, religious institutions, and educational institutions.

Most people seem to prefer the lies of politicians over the straight forward exercising of militant power by political leaders on "radical groups" and their "little rebellions." The "bigger picture" to elites is basically ownership and domination of the world. Yet, they can't even find success in financing the wars they wage, and country invasions they initiate. 


--eVan, March 4th, 2013

Cycles in the Vast Fabric of Existence

Recently, I saw some connections between a few ideas. These connections include quantum phenomena, the probable nature of reality, the big bang, and what many spiritual traditions deem as a separation from the source of creation. Some new age and self help gurus, as well as experimental scientists and psychologists advocate focusing on the positive things in life and positive attitudes so as to create positive outcomes. I have researched some Eastern religions over the span of my life as a scientific layman, and I often note that these religions give homage to negative aspects of reality.


In the Western world, the negative aspects of reality traditionally don't sell politics, businesses, financial frauds, marketing schemes, advertising, etc. so it's suppressed. The Western world is completely invested in its own bubble of illusion as evidenced by a never ending debt, both in Europe and in America. What I'm attempting to explain is that, even though there are an infinite number of probabilities to our realities, there's still a general model or structure to the universe of probable universes.


To begin with, I apply the cyclical and dichotomous nature all of our physical reality is based in to the unfathomable domain of probabilities. I assume that our world, our personal lives, and the universe is a probable based reality in which free will has the opportunity to express itself in the myriads of decisions made through our selves. I see an inchoate quality of Ying and Yang in the vast, multidimensional ocean of probabilities. And I believe that at least the physical universe seeks homeostasis. Homeostasis is how the human body works in its natural state, and homeostasis is how the ecological system on earth works when it is in its natural state. Even when the body is diseased, or the earth is polluted, these systems still seek out balance.


While imbalances are a part of the Ying Yang quality that permeate the probable nature of the universe and ourselves, these qualities are still seeking homeostasis. After exploring this idea in a little depth, I can simplify it. The probable nature of reality is regulated by homeostatic balances. The great separation, or big bang, that I mentioned as a couple of the original ideas that I saw connections to can be re-interpreted into a sort of myth. Events that most people associate with the darker aspects of reality, such as loss and death, are really the mourning of a spiritual separation from the source from which human souls and spirits came.


Living a life on earth as a physical being really is a great loss in itself. We decide to forget our heritage, our previous lives, and our exponential abilities as an agreement to live a very focused and extremely limited life on earth. Many a philosopher has noted the forgetful nature of humankind. The great mourning of separation from the source of all creation would tend to make all of creation mourn its loss. And yet it's really a sacrifice for consciousness to experience self-hood, individuality, and differentiation. We are all separate individuals. At one time, supposedly, everything was one. We mourn this loss in uncountable ways in this state with which we find ourselves. We are expressions of the desire to be separate, and to experience creation as "separate" creations.


Existence on earth is a bi-polar and dichotomous "physical" reality. It's a temporal state for a transient consciousness to process through and grow, develop, and die. We have night and day. We have old and young. There is hot and cold, and there is North and South. As humans, we have categorized all of these phenomena into a system of duality that is stereotypically easy to understand without too much thought. If you consider the nature of quarks and their behavior of "spin," or, if you observe the negative charges of electrons, and the positive charges of protons, you see that atomic and sub-atomic particles give expression to the dual nature of reality, and also the concept of homeostasis.


Atomic and sub-atomic particles have shown us that they aren't necessarily solid and constant pieces of matter. In fact, this level of "physical" reality is really a medium of bundles of waves, and energies. This level of reality has also shown scientists the unpredictable appearing and disappearing act that particles, in their more physical expression, display. Because the systems we are familiar with in the known universe seek homeostasis without our willful influences, I extrapolate that the probable nature of reality also seeks a general homeostasis. This is a much larger, more complicated idea to understand. Nevertheless, sub-atomic particles really are weaving in and out of different probabilities in the disappearing acts that they display when observed.


The matter that composes our bodies is really one big, complicated wave assimilation when it is understood that matter is really just quanta, or bundles, of energy. I saw a movie a while back based on Phillip K. Dick's novel, A Scanner Darkly. In the beginning of the movie, a man is shown speaking to an audience. The surface of his clothes and body is constantly morphing and changing into different people, like he's a chameleon of constantly changing identities. This movie gives a good visual example on a humanly understandable level of the unpredictable, and changing reality that happens on a sub-atomic level.


This is where I conclude my theory that the probable based reality that we determine is regulated and structured by a generally negative and positive quality. The negative experiences we have are counter-balanced by the positive ones, and conversely. Every time we experience a loss of a loved one, or a change in our lives for the worse, we're actually re-experiencing the very first separation we had from the source of creation. All the tragedies we experience are just part of this great ongoing mourning. Yet, this is only a half of the experience of creation. The other half, of course, is reunifying, coming together, harmony, and so forth.


Many authors have noted that the only two most basic emotions we can ever really experience as human beings is either love or fear. There are an infinite number of nuanced emotions we can experience, of course, but love and fear seem to be the roots of them all. And we don't experience love and fear simultaneously. This is why I conclude that the multi-dimensional ocean of probabilities is really just cycles of experiencing, and re-experiencing love or fear. Just like there is night and day on planet earth. The experience of fear is not necessarily completely a thing to be eliminated absolutely, as it is just part of a cycle of experience. It is one side of the probable nature of reality seeking homeostasis. Through our own inherited willfulness, we can indeed persist in manifesting perpetual experiences of fear however. I theorize that this propensity only awaits a counterbalancing so as to fulfill homeostasis. This is much like the nature of a swing swinging back and forth. The harder one pushes the swing to go higher, the harder it will plummet to the ground, and then on to the other side of the set from its inevitable reversing points.


As I said before, the traditional 20th century Western world has done most everything to suppress the negative aspects of reality and of experience. Death, for example, is a thing most Americans try very hard to be unaware of and unfamiliar with. We like to put our elderly in nursing homes. We put our dead in graveyards away from our living places. We dread any kind of loss, and constantly seek any kind of gain for ourselves. Western worlds have not always been like this though. Death was a more accepted and real experience in the lives of people during medieval times.


Eastern religions show a much more accepting attitude towards death and experiences of fear. I think that the Western world would do well to embrace this general attitude that Eastern people hold, as our world is on the brink of financial collapse. Western governments have been designed on concepts of perpetual and indefinite expansion. This false assumption has brought the Western world into the biggest debt in all of economic history. Western planners of economy, politics, and society did not implement the natural ebb and flow of nature into the architecture of the Western world. Because of this, the loss and collapse is even more detrimental to Western people due to their indoctrination that gain is the only possibility to any kind of fulfillment.


Mankind is not the ruler over all of nature and the universe. Nature, and the probable nature of reality, have ways of regulating imbalances and eliminating excessive toxins. And it is mankind's wayward will that will be kept in check. Even if we do bring ourselves to ecological suicide, the planet will re-evolve a new intelligent form of life after our own age has come and gone as the human species. And, even if we do destroy planet earth so completely that life cannot exist on it, there will be other worlds in the universe that will evolve other intelligent life-forms who will then serve as homeostatic balances in the vast fabric of existence.


--eVan, February 25, 2013

Desire in the Strategy of Spiritual Unfoldment

Some more philosophical extractions for you... The desire to control desire is the death of desire because all desires have goals, even desires to un-do desire. Buddha is said to have claimed that desire is the source of all suffering. So someone's desires are thwarted, and if that person is in a position of power, a war is then often fought. Some have speculated that the Eastern philosophy of extinguishing desire really was Eastern elites' way of controlling their populations.

If you want something, and you haven't let the pain of failure and disappointment numb you with the clouds of forgetfulness, then you haven't fully desensitized yourself from the things you want. Therefore, you have goals, and strategies to reach those goals. Many people play the game of double bind with themselves. Or, they expect to be disappointed with something or another, and then distort their true desires.

The above is a philosophy of pessimism. Pessimists insulate themselves with a minefield of projected disappointments, so as to numb disappointment. For example, if a pessimist is watching their favorite football team on television play against a "better team," they will project "their" team's loss at the end of the fourth quarter. This helps mitigate the palliatives for the advocates of pessimism. Pessimists are therefore caught in a double-bind woven by themselves. It's like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" way of thinking. Winning and losing are then miserably and successfully pushed away.

True wants and desires become a very painful thing to be avoided for many in this world. This world is manufactured for unfulfillment. Another example I've noticed is that with people who want to make art, but claim they "can't draw," are actually avoiding disappointment. The hurt and the pain that they imagine that they will encounter from their own judgments and their friend's judgments make them avoid drawing. This is an example of a thwarted desire, not an example of someone who has no desire to make art. Absence of desire isn't a problem here.

I say that this world is "manufactured for disappointment" for obvious geo-political reasons, but also because of spiritual reasons. I believe that human beings are animated by an immaterial spirit which exists beyond the physical body. Our spirits, souls, ethereal bodies, or whatever you want to call them, are part of a larger family of spirits or souls. Because we chose to embark on this physical plane of forgetfulness, distortion, and illusion, we are separated from our greater selves. Yet we all still feel the pain of separateness in so many unconscious ways. Loneliness is a universal problem humanity has for example.

Many people are constantly trying to assuage this sense of loneliness and separation through a plethora of tawdry societal schemes. The architects of our current western civilization constructed our world and their world based on the philosophical principle of service to the self as the primary motivation that moves the geo-political economy. Ideas such as this can be found in the writings of Ayn Rand, as well as The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith. Sigmund Freud contributed to this egocentric quality that people universally display on many different levels of function as well.

Materialism is a perspective that contributes to the numbing of spiritual qualities, characteristics, understandings, and unfoldments. So the pursuit of material experiences and items tends to shunt aside real individual growth and development, as well as interdependent social developments. Many writers have written about the strategy to keep citizens afraid of one another and in competition with one another so as to keep people from joining in unions, public meetings or any other kind of threatening solidified social forces elite members of society are terrified of.

It's not my aim to completely denigrate materialism. I believe all of the opportunities for experience and learning that the west's declining material culture provides are valuable feedback mechanisms that can allow for growth in understanding. The tools that are the of result western science are magnificent accomplishments for the good of all. Computers are one example, and the concomitant internet subsequently released for public use afterwards exponentially multiplied the benefits of communication, information, and connection with other people all across the planet.

At present, I am criticizing what I feel is a very lop-sided vacuum of wisdom and spiritual evolution the western worlds maintain. Eric Fromm and Carl Jung both wrote about the west's pursuits of materialist science at the consequence of avoiding any kind of education about our spiritual and even religious inclinations. I believe that in the years to come as the western cultures rapidly decline due to evil financial and political malignancies, people will be losing many of the dreams manufactured for the twentieth century generations.

The loss of material pursuits, such as good paying jobs, stable families, and equity, such as spacious homes and luxurious cars, will introvert masses of people, and will require them to reach into themselves and search for deeper meanings to their lives. And it hopefully will help in promoting deeper societal connections between people, therefore solidifying efforts for social causes through shared suffering.

--eVan, January 5, 2013