Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Terms and Opinions

There is a most peculiar although ever present, 
and essential activity of neurons.
The activity of using terms.

The use of terms originated as a tool that the biology of man used to survive. His teeth were not sharp, he invented a knife. His body was not furry, he invented an animal skin/fur jacket.

These 2 inventions, are objects; they are terms to be used. The way they came about was through a certain focus within consciousness, on negative space. Somehow consciousness had to discover that large caches of meat, were existing in a kind of negative space; a space without small chewable pieces of meat. The neurons in his brain sank their sense of self into a kind of negative space; a space which is "not" in some way. His tool the knife, connected that which was not, with that which IS. The tool expanded intellectual-cum-physical space; and became the new status quo.

There is a peculiar although ever present 
and essential activity of neurons;
The activity of opinions.

In the world of terms-as-tools, improvement and expansion is done by discarding a piece of the status quo term. A knife is made sharper by discovering that which is not sharp about it, and discarding it. That which is not sharp is discarded and forgotten forever, when the sharper is found. Status quo terms die, when expanded terms are found. But this is in the world of the measurable. In the world of opinions, which is a certain type of terms, measurement cannot be found; it can only be professed. Thus, the situation shows a stagnation of terms. A certain kind of reinforcement OF terms; not for the purpose of discovering what they are not - so they may be discarded - but for the purpose of reinforcing their presence.

Life itself must stick in certain places; to give a measured quantity, in order to push off of into the negative space which is invention. If all individuals did not reinforce their own terms i.e. vernacular, all of intellectual life in this world would not find a foothold to spring off of. The belief in "I" is a set of terms. Which, with every glance, every focus, gets reinforced.

The expansion of the entire intellect of humanity depends on the sense of "I". The status quo foothold which identifies the "not" of it. Intellect, the-expansion, requires "I". Absolute expansion is absolute pushing off. It is not the reinforcement of terms; but the denial-cum-pushing off of them.

Quoting is reinforcement. Reinforcement of the "problem". Does your thinking sing the song of reinforcement? If you say no, you only mean yes...

Egging, egging, egg it on. 
Taunting, taunting, joking...

(from a collection of unpublished papers circa 1998 but still relevant today.)

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

The Unbearable Truth

Once you find out the unbearable truth of the matter at hand, you will never again forget it! Well, with one small caveat - in just a few moments, perhaps minutes, you will totally forget it, and it may not even come back to you for weeks or months or more!
"What Gives, Eh?"
The unbearable truth can be realized by any ordinary thinking creature, and in any ordinary passing moment, even as one is reading these letters on this screen right now. (Did you see it?) But honestly, it is usually missed, and for the same reason it was just then, a moment ago, and as it has been missed for your entire life, and will most likely continue to be for the rest of your life.
"What Gives, Eh?"
Has nothing been learned after all these many decades? Has nothing been discovered in all this passing time? What has Life done to me (Why has Life made me so) that the unbearable truth remains so hidden that even after finding it, it is quickly lost again? Is it because it is, truly, UNBEARABLE?
"What Gives, Eh?"
This would be similar to believing you have been trudging up a large mountain for all your life, turning left, turning right, stopping, starting, going faster, going slower.... only to discover - like a bolt out of the blue - that in fact you have been sliding down the mountain all this time, and all your movements here and there were simply part of the path you were already on, and still are, even now! Not unlike a slinky falling down the winding, crooked stairs.
"What Gives, Eh?"
Thinking is just like that. People must have the sensation that their thinking is unrestrained in any way. That is, if they want to think about COWS, or the "endless", or the "absolute", they can set upon a path-of-thinking that may take minutes or hours or longer, going here, checking out there, moving this way or that in their mind - to eventually reach the "top of that mountain", or "getting to the bottom of it." If it were not for that belief in unrestrained thinking in all men, his inventions and life-enhancing devices could never have occurred. In the same way out in the world of men, especially in repressive governments all throughout history, advancements in science, technology, and the arts are seriously stifled. When men are made to feel that they do not have the freedom to think whatever they please, they wither.

Even quite basic knowledge of one's own mental activities clearly displays the ever-present sensation that one is free to entertain whatever thoughts might appear at their neural doorstep - "knock, knock, think me." And, no ordinarily sane person will ever dispute this, and if someone does, they are immediately judged by their peers to be "mentally incompetent". For any man or woman to say that their mind is not under their own control is the clearest possible example of them being labeled "insane."

However, upon closer scrutiny (that is, inch by inch, slowly you turned in the right direction to correctly observe the unbearable truth), you do NOT plan in advance what particular thought or set of thoughts or even swarm of thought-evoking feelings you will have next, or next, or in five minutes, or five days. The undeniable - and apparently unbearable - truth is that you do NOT KNOW what thought or feeling will momentarily occupy your mind next.

Here is where all those "pre-planned thoughts" 
you didn't actually plan for 
- way back when, just a few short minutes ago -
are now occurring. 
Do you know what they are? 
Can you see and hear them?
Don't forget it - you can bear it!

(Put another way perhaps only Slinkies can perceive: Acquire the capacity to maintain a near-perfect Stillness of Mind, and let the brain work as it will - let it do what it does, sift how it sifts, spin how it spins - but only when something NEW emerges out of the NOISE and CHAOS, will the Stillness of Mind absorb and retain its purity. That is what growth of Being and Consciousness is... at least for a Slinky that can now go UP staircases with ease.)

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Apex Predator Syndrome

All normally-functioning humans have beliefs. Some are almost close to correct, though most are miles away from it, but All humans "believe" it doesn't matter!
"I believe what I believe, and thus it is settled!"
This flimsy belief makes humans the Apex Predator on this planet. Not his bone structure, his naked fleshly covering, his small to medium size, his spindly to chubby shape, or his moderate strength. Beliefs, which are the Apex Function of the human brain, make him what he is today. It is also, perhaps unfortunately, what makes him fail so miserably at the chief achievement he was made for - "Self Perfection, Transcendence, Cosmic Consciousness". Running around killing and enslaving other humans for fun and profit - including those below his level - is not the pinnacle activity of his existence. HOWEVER, there are powerful BELIEFS in all humans that support that activity, even to the point that in many of them it is a central tenet of their primary "fantasy world-view".

This faulty belief is at the top of the pyramid of beliefs in all humans, and all other beliefs support its apex position, which is why they are so adamant in their belief ("It's settled.") Which of course means, "No further discussion is necessary, requested or even allowed, and if you attempt to change my mind, I might get medieval on your ass!"

For the masses - the great 95%, who are not even interested in "Self Perfection, Transcendence, Cosmic Consciousness", and other such silliness - it really doesn't matter, because they are not even TRYING (making effort) to go anywhere "esoterically spiritual". But for the rest - the lesser 5%, who ARE quite interested in these "esoterically spiritual" directions and endeavors - it is the most toxic belief they can have, because of the way it acts as a final WALL through which the aspirant can never otherwise pass. The sooner they discover this, and excise (or exorcise) it, the better things will be for them in these certain, usually quite time-consuming pursuits.

There is an idea that reads: "Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, woe and sorrow to him who has it in conception." (mentioned here, because there are so many GIG/PDO people here, though there are similar ideas in Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Kaballah, etc.) "In conception" is where Humanity does reside, must reside until Real Success is achieved (i.e., the full and complete flowering of the Concept, a New Birth), and Real Failure is always possible in those who continue to harbor toxic beliefs for too long, meaning, they totally miss the point.

Enlightenment is a JOKE, that nearly 100% of Humanity simply don't get. Maybe 1% do get it, which is why they 1) don't take themselves seriously, 2) don't take the world seriously, and 3) don't take LIFE seriously. Everyone else, takes all these things so seriously that literal and figurative wars are continually being fought in order to PUSH one main (set of) idea(s) upon the minds of those they 1) wish to follow them, or support them, and 2) wish to defeat, or kill. But, remember, it all starts with a Fantasy Belief: "I believe what I believe, and thus it is settled!" This is where the masses and then some live, and they are the Sheeple who run the world and get run over by it, as all of them have Masters they do NOT even suspect.

Now, for the 5% - interested in these "esoterically spiritual" endeavors - who say "I am seeking in order to FIND", they have it in conception only, and the Apex Belief is still a controlling part of their makeup. It must be excised, or (the much better term) exorcised (yes, it is like a demon, or entity that has taken hold of them and won't let them go!) Consider certain "followers" of GIG, PDO, JMC, LRH, JZK, DRH, and so many others: they are always heard/read speaking/writing through their hapless followers, who thus never achieve Real Independence of Thought, but remain forever subservient to someone else's thought. 
"If you're one of the many hapless 'enlightenment buyers', you've been shafted."
Do realize, however, finding and excising this crippling belief is impossible until it is SEEN for what it is: "calling the spade A SPADE". "I believe what I believe, and thus it is settled!" is a WALL at the borders of one's understanding. That is, one lives in a very small high-security prison cell with no windows to the outside world, and surrounded by thousands of armed security guards, and a high, thick WALL around the edges. Escape is only possible, when one 1) discovers they are not actually FREE, 2) discovers (creates/invents) the key that unlocks their own cell door, 3) navigates the convoluted corridors of the highly secure prison undeterred by the guards, and finally 4) punches through (impossible), scales (highly unlikely), or tunnels under the WALL. Uh..., did you get the JOKE?
The apex belief can never be dissolved until all the sub-levels have been cleared. The AIM is to get to the bottom, the foundation, completely clear of all beliefs, in order to discover what the pyramid is actually made of. Then rebuild oneself from the ground up: By first becoming completely Uncivilized, one can then become "Newly Civilized".
The chief feature of "the not-awakened not-conscious, not-enlightened" is that they have an over-abundance of BELIEFS - one could even say with a straight face, they are MADE OF BELIEFS, top to bottom. The chief characteristic (if it can be called that) of "the enlightened" (who know a thing or two about thing or two), is that they have NO BELIEFS.
PS:
"I believe that I am, Now, after all these many decades, quite Awake!"... is just as toxic as
"I believe that Drumpf should be Dumped because he is a racist and a nazi!"
(Which one do you think is the worst, and why, and how would you dissolve it?)

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

"Fantasy World-views" the short version

Mankind is a doomed species. Deposited into a foreign womb as a virtual non-entity, birthed into a straight-jacket / human-suit of only 5 extremely limited primary senses, then confined inside a crib / babybed for the next 2-3 years, and then launched into this prison planet environment for the next tens of decades forced to discover how to live mostly on their own, or perish. Some of the more fortunates have parents, but they are not much help no matter how much they try.

Human prisoners have two innate aims: creation of bodies (which includes males and females), and creation of technology (which includes the arts and sciences). As for the first, they can't help themselves, so they have managed to increase their numbers to over seven billion so far and growing. As for the second, they also can't help themselves, though those who are direct participants are dwindling rapidly for various reasons, but cyber is the main reason, as it operates in two directions - micro-miniaturization of physical and electrical parts and rapid prototyping and deployment of robotics and artificial intelligence. That is, while everyone everywhere is still screwing for fun and more physical babies (and yes, some for profit), fewer and fewer are actually creating physical technologies, leaving more and more of them unemployed and unemployable, thus they end up on welfare becoming a drag on their economies. This is bad for all of humanity, except for the very rich who are thus immune to it in their castles, high-rises and super-mansions ensconced behind their walls and motes so the underprivileged can't get in. However, there is one huge exception where the playing field is the same for all, and it operates in one unique area of human existence.... the mind. Only here can a physical/material pauper be a mental/spiritual giant, and physical/material kings, queens and robber barons may be (usually are) mental/spiritual midgets.

To explain: Human brains somehow evolved (by accident? [from below] by design? [from above]) to create what they now call "My Mind", and that "My Mind" is quite capable of producing worlds. Yes, WORLDS. But these worlds are not out there in the 3d space, but in the Null space between the ears. Hence, they both "exist" and "don't exist". They are like Schrödinger's cats. I call them "fantasy world-views", not to be confused with "personality" or "personalities". They operate like their 3d counterparts out there in the cosmos, in many significant ways. But, unlike out there, they are also "self-maintaining", which is a feature that physical/external technologies have not yet been able to achieve. But human brains are quite capable of this, have been for centuries, and thus in each normally functioning human there are thousands of "fantasy world-views" in there.

These "fantasy world-views" consist of bits and pieces of words, sounds, images, feelings, sensations, all swirling around a toroidal, cyclonically generated consciousness that creates points-of-view, that humans have named, "me", and "I", depending upon their frame-of-reference in the moment. Each point-of-view - containing an "i" - "exists" as it were, and interacts behind the scenes with all the many other "i-centered" points-of-view. There is a constant and continual struggle going on in there, and the struggle produces what humans typically call, personality.

There is no Real I, no Real World-view - not yet, in the 99+% - but thousands of "fantasy world-views" each one populated by an imaginary "i", and a fairly large number of words, sounds, images, sensations that support the "i". These views compete for ascendancy all the time. They are created out of snippets of experience gathered by the primary senses and by a process not known, congeal into somewhat structured entities. These "fantasy world-views" seem to "exist" for the host, but can dissolve into nothingness in the blink of an eye. The process is virtually unknown, until it is observed in full in the process of occurring. It can happen when one joins a cult, or leaves a cult, or converts to a religion, or leaves their religion, or joins a political party or leaves/switches their party, etc. These events (the dissolution, sometimes followed by a new creation) are HUGE, but the masses never quite realize in what way, nor what they can (learn to) do with them.
There certainly IS something, but that's for later.
There is much more to this story, of course, both to flesh out the several individually mentioned parts above, and to connect them, as well as expand the whole into the next "level", but I will withhold all of that for now.
PS: "the long version" is NOT for the faint of heart, or easily bored of mind
but the rest should be able to plow through it successfully.
"this is the long version in case you missed it"

Thursday, January 26, 2017

All News Is Fake News

99% of those who read my stuff consider all of it to be in the same realm as the currently "understood" concept circulating all around the globe: FAKE news. Why? Simple. I only post them to so-called "esoterically-bent" websites, blogs, Yahoo and FB groups: primarily of these types: 4thway, new-age, nondualism, buddhism, and a few others, which are seemingly based upon a very strict adherence to what THEY call "Real News". They usually call it something else, like, their codified "work language", their "scripture", their bibles, their teachings, etc.

My stuff is NONE OF THAT, purposely, which is why they consider it "FAKE News" (falseness, lies, phony, made-up, alternative, conspiratorial, etc.) I already know their "work lingo" and choose NOT to use it, period. My preference is REAL news from the start: Math, Science, more math, and more science, and a lot of nervous system experimentation. That which is based upon verification from the get-go, wherein you don't move "forward" unless and until... Another way of saying this - which has been said for millennia - is...
"Let experience, verified over time, always be your guide."

As is becoming usual these days, the following FACT must apply: ALL news is fake news. The interesting thing about that, is that this was ALWAYS true, as far back as humans have been fascinated by what GOSSIP can do, to themselves and especially to their audiences... it endears them to the speaker, the apparent source. The "better" the gossip, the more tightly connected to the speaker is the audience. It's a transfer of energy, from zero to something that approaches a variable maxi-sum (particularly witnessed in cults and their ilk), meaning, the more the gossip is believed. Of course, "better" is the keyword in all of this, because it covers an extremely wide scale (you figure that part out... I won't steal your thunder.)

This is a dangerous quirk in our human brains - gossip and the way it affects intelligence - that has been known of course, but NOT by the masses, NEVER by the masses (by design). Those who have always understood this, even at a fairly young age - at a deep level where this strange, dynamic, electro-chemical subprocess occurs - have discovered it is where our faulty thinking center exists. This "left brain, right brain, socio-political transfer of energy dynamic" has become, in 99% of humans on earth, their chief limitation.
"Control the dynamic, control the WORLD!"

The nervous system oscillates from being calmed to being excited - active phrases, not passive phrases - signifying the "near-zero state" and the "near-maxi-sum" and since it has always been active in individuals from very soon after birth, humans sense this oscillating dynamic continually. Consider yourself this moment... are you calm, or are you excited, or where exactly are you, and how did you get there, and can you move at will? You are always approaching one or the other or hovering/oscillating/circulating around the movable center line of a kind of "perfect stillness" that is all but non-existent in most people - the 99+%.

People discover some bit of gossip (all so-called news about humans, is gossip, just as the quite recent "Russian involvement in our election process" nonsense was about humans, and humans alone - i.e., GOSSIP) but it absolutely stimulated every human brain within ear and/or eyeshot when it first crossed their (gross chainlink-like) screen of consciousness (rather than the much preferred fine mesh-like). That started a chain-of-events leading to mainstream media - mostly from the purveyors of FAKE NEWS: CNN MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, NYTimes, WashPo, HuffPo, Dailykos, etc. - pushing the news on TV, radio, internet, which of course caused a ground-swell of Humanity getting extremely worked-up and excited about it, as it wrapped the globe five times by the following morning! Such is the reliably negative effect of GOSSIP on the dimwitted masses who will believe anything they are told, which necessarily binds them even tighter to their chosen leader-of-the-moment, while even more strongly resisting their chosen imagined opposition. This is a corruption of the zero-sum game.

So, the "problem" is not about "the news", or "All news is fake news", but that "***All minds are weak minds***". Thus, the dynamic will never become resolved in anyone (which, if they could, would enable them to always straddle the center line - like being able to hang ten at the absolute crest of a gigantic, 150-year long, big-wave ride). The resolution of the dynamic will likely never be achieved, and Humanity will live out their short 50-75 year rides on a damn belly-board near the shoreline, in the chaotic soup... IGNORANT and ARGUING about what is "true" and what is "fake", and making everyone's lives worse than they were before.

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Politics of Energy Transfer

Humans are the ultimate cause of all their supposed problems on this planet: those within themselves individually, those with others - from family to friends, strangers and enemies - and those regarding the care and maintenance of the world-at-large, Great Nature.

We are now, if you believe the "reports" (mostly from the purveyors of FAKE NEWS - CNN MSNBC, ABC News, CBS, NBC News, NYT Politics, WashPost, HuffPost Politics, Dailykos, etc.) in seriously dire straits... and it is ALL DUE to the misfiring, and malfunctioning, brains of these 3-brained bi-pedal naked apes we call "people" (though they are actually no better than SHEEPLE.)

So what now? And who's job is it, anyway, to "fix the world"? You do know the answer to that question is as old as old itself. One must start at the beginning, at HOME, where the HEART is born and still beating. (That really is the best hint that can be given to the dimwits who haven't even begun the process, but... unfortunately... they won't get it! No way!)
Enter: The Issue:
Left brain, Right brain, and the Politics of Energy Transfer.

First off, briefly, the Universe is a zero-sum game. Energy and Matter, trade places, and due to various quite well known Laws, no energy can be created, or lost. Everything that ever was, is still here, right now, only "changed". Less energy here, means More matter there, and vice-versa.

Second, all life within the BODY of life - the one and only HOME of Humanity, where his HEART is - is that of the Politics of Energy Transfer. It is never a zero-sum game, but it must ACT as though it is. To wit: Lions and Gazelles are in a zero-sum game: If the lion wins, the gazelle is DEAD. If the gazelle wins, the lion goes hungry. Zero-sum. But, in fact, there is usually something "left over" in the transaction that can "help others". Lions feed family another day, and gazelles have babies another day, or NOT.

Same with human social transactions. For most of our short history on earth, it's been a losing proposition for 99% of us, while 1% have accumulated practically all wealth, safety, security, and long life. That's Politics. But only in the last couple hundred years, has humanity reached a level of mental and emotional sophistication that they can change the Zero-sum game into a game where there are winners and losers. We are NOT at that point yet. Close, but no cigars for anyone.

Same with any living example of a human brain - brought up to WIN at the expense of someone else LOSING. All humans are brought up this way, because we come from lower predatory animals - which we all most certainly ARE at present.
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In ordinary, healthy human brains: the left brain controls bare-naked language (naming and describing things) and analytical thoughts (more complex in structure and composition, including math and science equations); the right brain controls emotions (simple and complex) and creative thoughts, though usually sans-words, though capable of producing beauty, art, music, mathematical and scientific insight, etc. And in order to operate at the "peak of human activity" both brains are in a continual energy transfer process that can neither be slowed down or sped up without consider effort developed over time, and with extreme knowledge aforethought. Or INJURY, but one should attempt to avoid that.

In order to reach perfection of the classic human being, in any given time and space - like today, for example - requires knowledge and experience, which are contained in the two halves of the whole brain/mind complex. And, therein lies the problem that everyone has: the innate inability to access the knowledge and the experience at the right time, in the right place, without destroying the positive immediate effects of each... and this requires "personal politics". As in, "I'll give you this set of facts (left brain), if you'll give me a beautiful, creative, inventive, discovery (right brain), so WE (I) can move forward, without guilt, without shame, without regret. Thank you very much."
And now, for the conclusion of the moment 
- which will necessarily be modified over time -
more facts, more experience:
Politics between people is a give and take, with opening plays, and middle-game plays, and closing plays, and there is always a winner and a loser, though, in Good Politics, the aim is for BOTH to feel quite certain they each have made a good, if not Great Deal.

But individually, in your own little country (or company) between the ears, where there are billions of inhabiting residents of, mostly, unknown names, descriptions, skills and talents, the complexity of the energy transfer paradigm are virtually UNKNOWN to all. That is, nobody really and fully comprehends HOW to think/say/write a previously UNKNOWN "work of language", nor HOW to create/invent/discover an UNKNOWN "work of art". These things "just happen", and usually "just in time".... case in point: this entire set of paragraphs being slowly pushed out to this minuscule community.

This is the OPENING PLAY of the Grand Energy Transfer system that has every living human brain/mind complex on the edge of their neuro-biological, electro-chemical seats for an entire lifetime... unless and until such a person can "step out of the game!"

And then, Voila as some might exclaim, or Eureka, or Whooopee. All the other pieces on the game board take on a new significance and importance for the Game at Hand. The Left and Right (brains and peoples) Merge into an automatically functioning machine that "pushes one forward from the past", instead of like before, always "pulling one back from the future". Hard to describe of course, and there are better ways. They may appear in due time.

But when a large (presently unknown) number of humans achieve a certain level, within themselves, where they are their OWN KING of the WORLD - no longer dependent upon outside sources of energy, being quite capable of creating their own as needed, just in time - there is no longer any need for external presidents, or kings, or masters, or overlords (unless greater Beings invade this planet... which could happen, but I personally do not expect it soon) to indoctrinate their minds with their foreign forms of control. They will, effectively be made impotent, and we will chase their asses out of here!

Friday, January 13, 2017

Globalism

What's up with "Globalism," the idea that is so attractive to the Left, and repulsive to the Right?

Perhaps the theoretical ideal of a "new world order" - a "global governing power", a supposedly "perfect society without poverty and war", where everyone is closing in on one light brown skin color, and one homogenous, hard-to-determine sex, and one global religion that is actually NO religion - is intrinsic to the human mind, and may actually be wired into our DNA.

It comes from the human desire for self-perfection which is most close at birth, and then begins to drift away like a rowboat that somehow became detached from the dock. Every day and in every way it drifts farther and farther away until by the time one is about 3-7 and starting to speak coherent sentences and even long paragraphs to their first/primary teachers (parents) they have not only lost sight of it, but any clear sense of it. But THAT loss is never fully lost, even in later life, and especially near the end of their days, approaching death, when the human begins to rediscover the power and majesty of the Lost Idea(l).

So, once humans started populating the world and bunching up into tightly packed groups that become increasingly difficult to maintain (feed, clothe, house) and control themselves (much like the "many i's" - thoughts - that bunch up in the mind over time making one's life more and more difficult to maintain and control), is it any wonder that some of them "decided" to attempt to ENACT ON EARTH that which was born in them at birth? Perhaps not.

The problem for all centuries of course, is that the IDEAL can ONLY BE realized within one's own being first, and not until most of the members of any larger group have achieved their version of SELF CONTROL (if not "perfection") can they possibly enact anything like an external New World Order, when the masses in large numbers can intermingle easily and without constant fighting, wars, famines, poverty, etc., etc. That is, the 21st century has still not produced a large group of humans who can LIVE PERFECTLY without overlords and masters requiring the heavy use of punishments, prisons, etc., to keep them in line. (Well, maybe the Scandinavians have come close, but they are too socialistic, and too homogeneous (white), and almost in-bred in their acting and their thinking. Well, except for recently with the thousands of Muslims raping their women every night, and throwing heavy wrenches into their "perfect" society! So much for that failed experiment.)

Thus, the rise of the Overlords and Masters (all the various "ruling families and dynasties") who have tried but failed, miserably. They came really close in America by 2016, but Hillary was too much of a loser to pull it off. Thank God for that, eh, and Thank God for Trump.

BUT, never fear, they are still trying and probably won't give up trying until they finally DIE, and then perhaps, maybe (but don't count on it) humanity at large will REDISCOVER their True Purpose - "Self-Perfection" in the correct sense of that term. And, hopefully, they'll give up on socialism, communism, fascism, nazism, corporatism, racism, sexism and all the other "isms" that tear families and societies apart, in favor of a more "perfect capitalism" (even improved where it is more efficient and useful to the greatest number) where everyone has a REAL opportunity to perfect themselves, in their own time, and at their own pace, without being lorded over by evil masters who want to control their every thought, feeling and action, and steal all their accumulated wealth and prosperity, and then move on to the NEXT country and do it again.  

(Sounds like a horrible remake of "Independence Day"!)