25 August 2009 (Ta2009 2)

Disillusionment. That is what I am currently feeling and feeling more and more each day. That does not preclude my otherwise assessment that I am enjoying a happy life. But now that I am on the Turtle Island side of 'the pond', it seems a steady litany of violations, ignoble revelations and masterful deceit – all on unprecedented levels, and this not only by a stream of American administrations let alone a wider and more pervasive corporate-financial-military cartel as well as, now, the counter-blemish of terrorism. Can we really not see that the two, the ruling elite and the jihadists, have become intrinsically linked?

I do not think of the two linked in conspiracy, conscious agreement, but rather as systemic/counter-systemic institutional reactions. But then, even that possibility of a mutually agreed upon covert undertaking (911 for a starter) is not unthinkable. And what if it were? We still have the same enemy – whether the unconscious consequences of a controlling mechanism, or the pre-agreed stage play by actor-players that renders us no less as dupes.

Life is hard. And maybe we do not need to go the lengths of Freud and company to seek to 'tame nature', but nor do we need to surrender the aesthetic. There is a dignity of beauty, and we Americans and Western culturists are rapidly losing it. We could also be irreversibly losing our terrestrial arena as a viable organic phenomenon. That too. And perhaps these are all linked, but the non-democratic oligarchy nature of even many of our so-called 'democracies' let alone totalitarian regimes is obviously what we need now to change.

When do we begin to speak as a people? When do we harness the true majority? When do we free ourselves from manipulation, institutional stealth and unnecessary degradation? As an identified and speaking people? When does the majority bypass the politicians, the lawyers, generals and big-cheese managers to solve problems – however laboriously – but to solve them?

Our cyber-capital demands seemingly ever-increasing payment, let alone the risk of take-over control by the powers-that-be, but I am more and more coming to believe that, for better or worse, it is the resource through which a folk voice can be articulated. The thrust of what I believe is a viable if not only recourse I am suggesting to term 'trans-global communication' (TGC). It needs to 'transcend' all the participating particularities, transcend even the 'successes' of globalism and globalization, to become an active conversation between like-minded and like-willing. The TGC need be an open forum where dishonesty is moved to the side and examined, where the myopic becomes ready for exchange and discovery, where all hindrance and attempt at diminishing the conversation and its participants is forbidden and marginalized.

How much longer must we wait before the TGC begins and puts to the side the various forms of impediment? If it is a conversation, it needs to be heard. With a TGC consensus we can turn to mediation/arbitration of disputes – however painstakingly – as our chief means toward negotiatory co-existence. Everyone is entitled to a piece of the pie. Some may have a bigger piece than others but not at the price of enslavement, terror, ecologically destructive offerings or basic human indignities.

I know we are all busy. Life seems increasingly designed to prevent us the capacity to insure change. But if life is becoming increasing a defective system, and we are unable to change the system, we need then to transcend/bypass the system. We need to let an organic democracy supersede the faux democracies, the nominal democracies, and the medium of cyber communication might just be the emerging agent to give us a chance.