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		<title>Selective Ignorance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kei Centillion</dc:creator>
		
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Why we know nothing: The answer to everything. 
&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; I saw it again today. This time, in the form of my parents denying my brother computer access, to a computer he himself bought with his hard-earned money, harping once again (as I had to listen to as a kid) about the [...]]]></description>
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<p><i>Why we know nothing: The answer to everything.</i> </center></p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <b>I saw it again today.</b> This time, in the form of my parents denying my brother computer access, to a computer he himself bought with his hard-earned money, harping once again (as I had to listen to as a kid) about the evils of computers and “teh internets”. Why does the general American public so [happily] indulge in selective ignorance? Why must the older generations so oppress our youth with their self-important, narrow-minded outlooks on the world? We promote ignorance more than anything! It seems to me (maybe just because of my own life) that we are happy to promote conformity, shun individuality, and partake in a [MMORPG] Massively Mediocre, Outstandingly Redundant, Progressively Generic lifestyle! </p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; America. Land of the free; land of the used to be. Don’t get me wrong. I know that my country [was once] great [for everyone]. I love being a part of it; though I must turn a blind eye to 90% of all going on around [and above] me to even have remote delusions that I am enjoying myself within it’s extremely (and ever increasingly) restrictive bounds. Though in the past I’ve preached otherwise, I’ve come to realize that bureaucracy is not always necessarily a bad thing. Socialism in some aspects can be extremely productive; in many a way that the Democracy/Capitalism paradox has failed in this country; indeed, America is to capitalism as Russia is to communism. </p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Why do I say this? Because I feel strongly that it is so. Why? Well many reasons. To explore in depth why we are in the situations we are in today, let’s look at some of the guiding illusions that we have allowed to be manipulated to the forefront of our society.</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The media and their infamous Weapons of Mass Distraction. Gadgets, advertisements, fashion, entertainment, politics; consumption. And indulgence thereof. We have made it the greatest American pastime, if not religion. Buy, eat, indulge, consume, comply; it is a hypnotic drill we awake to every morning and lead our lives by [and by] the clock, the dollar, and the same rhetoric we’ve had drilled into our heads from birth. Do not question authority. Support a religion. Find a nice-paying job, or strike out on your own small business. Go to college; get that education (because everyone knows if you don’t have a degree you don’t know shit). Invest. Buy low, sale high. Deny payment and service at the most trivial of issues. Parry with bullshit excuses. And always, there looms the eternal propaganda.</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; But what is wrong with any of that? They are, all illusions aside, distractions. Distractions, the lot of them, just like politicians. Don’t get me wrong, I speak under the presumption that there is no conspiracy that created the entertainment business franchises that keep the general American public so preoccupied with what so-and-so wore on the red carpet, what deals Pizza Hut is offering, etc. America is the land of the dollar, and “the boredom-killing business” quite generally (if not steadily literally) does make quite a killing. Indeed, it could be the thing to replace religion as the opiate of the masses (speaking of masses America’s collective average BMI has been steadily rising, giving ever more “weight” to this theory).</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; But in any matter, these distractions are real. We, Americans, have become too focused on making ourselves and our loved ones happy (or merely keeping all entertained), that we are literally not capable of (and don’t want to) feeling the great vibrations that generally precede these crisis’s months (if not years) before they occur! We have become a nation that is guided just like sheep in a flock; we trust in those who bring us to green pastures (or cream filled-pastries, more like it), even deep down knowing that they harbor intentions worse than simply preying upon us. We are nothing more than stars on a fading flag, stock for an oncoming harvest. “No one seems to notice, no one seems to care”, because “everyone has a cell phone that makes pancakes” and thus we’re all happy and contented with the spoils of a nation that has gone bad.</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Why do nine out of ten Americans not make it through the first few paragraphs of this article? Well for one, the American attention span may pride itself knowing that it is the lowest of any country at any given point in our world’s entry on mankind in history. But what I am to focus on here today are two evils, old as time itself, that are driving elements of American culture and society. These are, of course, none other than political correctness and religion, the two most noticeable stigma (for those who care to demonstrate human capacity to read and think logically) on our [once-]great nation. The former is a derivative of racial memory, and the later, a state of mind necessary to herd great masses of willfully ignorant people to accomplish a common goal, set by those who have reconciled their own harbored ambitions within compliance to the $$$ buck [because where it starts is the sole root of all our current problems this nation faces, and it is always seeking fresh eidolons and acolytes].</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Big business lobbyists are behind the wheel of this collective SUV society. The connotations are twofold; they can keep us distracted so easily, what with the big products and domineering presence – but, on the other hand, what is top-heavy easily flips, if but the right opportunities arise.</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; America. This year, just recently, congress passed a bill to bail out 4 major subprime-lending mortgage markets. It will cost the tax payers $700 billion dollars. But this isn’t the first time. We spent $400 billion not too long ago on similar grounds. The “war on terrorism” has siphoned a great amount of American GDP down the drain. And what has all of this ensured? That our presence in affairs we have no business being in is prolonged, for the pleasure and profit of the select few that have sold themselves out to the evils of totalitarian capitalism.</p>
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<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; America. Are we going to perpetuate our ignorance into redundancy? Or are we ever going to wake up, and break this chain of events before it consumes us? We have the means, the motivation, and certainly the right to overthrow this oligarchy [dictatorship-in-the-making]. If our continued indulgence and indifference, this fixation and fascination with things we give little or no thought to, is sustained, we will soon wake up to a world where the everyday conveniences we know and love [and have taken as reality] are no longer supported.</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; What is there to hope to, you might ask?</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I, strangely enough [and despite my sneering cynicism, pathos, even contempt towards the state of the world and the misanthropic principles that seem to guide it], draw hope and power from my ability to believe in mankind’s potential. I think that if we are ever freed from this entangling web of suppressing ignorance, we may truly be able to surpass all boundaries and achieve true liberation and freedom within the paradigm of the universe; and possibly, beyond.</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I have just emerged from the mandatory “educational” facilities of America. I was not in the least impressed. I have heard the delusional rantings of those who have attended the most prestigious colleges in this nation, and the only consistent trait these students (and graduates) share is this bastardized, perverse view that things are fine the way they are, and reinforcement towards this whole system, the institutions that they sprouted from, is the only way to succeed in this world. And perhaps that is true, for that very notion is reinforced into all redundancy, and so many accept it without a second thought, that we promote ignorance in all forms truly; if our very institutions that aim to educate only produce narrow-minded clones, then what does that say about those who choose to remain (or must due to the harrowings such a world puts them through) ignorant? They, in turn, take it out on whatever poor progeny they produce! They either on the one hand, tell their children to get the “education” they never had, or else shut them off completely from all forms of information that is accessible to the general public (such as the opening scenario).</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Looking back at history, just think of all the times the institution has been wrong. We used to believe the world was flat! We perhaps have always (selfishly) thought, wishfully, that there is some god out there that created man in its image. But there is no divine presence that can be logically argued, and if so, I at least hate to imagine the perversions that come from man trying to contain its boundaries and vision with their own narrow thinking patterns. Yet creationism and “divine right” have always been a guiding factor that societies are based upon! And this is wrong, for everyone holds different values, and to assert any one principle as “divinely correct” is to alienate a culture from alternative thinking means. This is unfair to the minority that does not wish to settle for a simple life of compliance to a system bound to fail (and eventually out of their own prolonged narrow-mindedness and inability to accept new principles, the majority may find the new ideals unfair that they themselves, through their unfaltering trust and conformity, helped bring about).</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Ralph Waldo Emerson said it best;</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; “The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next”</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; This doesn’t mean that religion is evil by nature, only evil by context. I don’t mean to say I have the right answer, I don’t mean to say that there isn’t a “divine presence” somewhere. To do so would be folly, just as would be to say that there was for sure one. All facets of reality that we know of can be logically explained, all theories broken down and consistency proved eventually. We are beings designed to think logically, but more often than not we choose the simplicity of ignorance.</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Well, hate to say it, but it is too late in the progression (or regression) of this nation to continue this path. In order to revive morale in this nation and maintain a foothold in international affairs, in order to continue asserting or presence as a “first-world” country, there are many drastic reevaluations to be made, many drastic reforms, social-political and economical revolutions, and, last but most definitely not least, subconscious evolutions. If mankind’s collective hard-coded mentality does not open itself to innovation, how then can we, in our daily lives even begin to comprehend such a task as changing everything we perceive as correct?</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I am not encouraging riots, and I do not mean to encourage violent actions. But as things begin to pass the point of no return, I feel as though I must elaborate more than ever on where my country went wrong, and if it is indeed too late to salvage it, at least convey to other nations what I have seen, and what these conformist, selectively ignorant personalities, when so thoroughly drilled into each child in an subconscious attempt to perpetuate mankind as it was in each parent’s own youth (or even accidently shape it for the worse [sic: spoiled]), helps produce (and eternally perpetuate) the cycle that has so thoroughly pervaded all history.</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Let these words be words of warning, and I hope that they may reach their marks. There is hope for those who want change. There is hope for those that feel compassion, but are unsure of where to place it. There is always hope. All of our race desire happiness; we are all in the pursuit of it, though the chances differ from individual to individual depending on many different variables: birth status, situational circumstances, and ultimately, how these condition each of us to deal with future experiences.</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I like to think of the world as one organism, that we are all one. But believes are petty unless they all unite; only then may they become pithy. I think it takes our entire race, with all the diverse values, to come together, to reshape our consensus and overcome perceived “obstacles” that are truly no more than gifts we are misperceiving. </p>
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		<title>Sicko</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kei Centillion</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I woke up with a heavy heart, as had become quite usual, living as an American that must fight for what I consider my rights day in and day out. Now, what usually helps me relieve my pain is going online, and browsing forums that my foreign neighbors frequent, and trying to thus come [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I woke up with a heavy heart, as had become quite usual, living as an American that must fight for what I consider my rights day in and day out. Now, what usually helps me relieve my pain is going online, and browsing forums that my foreign neighbors frequent, and trying to thus come to better conclusions with more insight I could not understand on my own (or at least criticize some form of stupidity for the lulz).</p>
<p>Now, while browsing a forum, I saw a line quoted from a movie, Sicko, and I remembered acquiring a copy of the movie, and so out of curiosity I decided to finally watch it (after all, I have it, and it&#8217;s an odd day off).</p>
<p>From the intro, I could I tell that there was something&#8230; different about the movie. At first glance a while back ago, I had figured this movie would be a perverted attempt at something. At the opening scene my stomach almost turned as I thought that this would prove correct (the leg thing). But as the movie progressed, I quickly fell in love with it.</p>
<p>The message of this movie is a powerful one, and the way it is set up is so&#8230; amazing, so professional, so&#8230; perfect. I found myself laughing, crying, and excited to really try to get my faith back in humanity. There really is some good in the world, though being a lower middle class resident in southern America kind of makes things seem otherwise.</p>
<p>I really feel this is a movie all Americans should watch; I feel obliged to say so.</p>
<p>This movie explores in depths the evil of the American system, and how this false dream perpetuates the cycle of fear, depression, and compliance to a system that should have never came to be. It really makes me wonder, who are we? Why are we doing this to ourselves? This movie takes an in-depth look at how the US medicare system measures up to much more efficient health care systems the world over; I was shocked at how everything the American media and government says is &#8220;the wrong way&#8221; is truly billions of times more efficient and fair than the American government; which clearly and shamelessly bastardized 9/11 volunteers, spitting in their face and leaving them to cope with the problems generated by lending a helping hand on - problems that Michael Moore solved by taking the same volunteers to Cuba, where they got instant health care and medical attention - for free.</p>
<p>This movie easily made my top 10 of all time.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kei Centillion</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the lack of updates everyone, but thank you for registering and participating when able thus far. Unfortunately, I come with a heavy satire (if not heart), and as such feel obliged to write a bit now.
I shall start right away&#8230;
First Fannie Mae &#038; Freddie Mac, now Lehman Brothers.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry for the lack of updates everyone, but thank you for registering and participating when able thus far. Unfortunately, I come with a heavy satire (if not heart), and as such feel obliged to write a bit now.</p>
<p>I shall start right away&#8230;</p>
<p>First <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#038;q=fannie+mae+freddie+mac+bankrupt&#038;btnG=Search">Fannie Mae &#038; Freddie Mac</a>, now <a href="http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/09/16/stories/2008091659210100.htm">Lehman Brothers</a>.</p>
<p>As one blogist/journalist wrote, indeed, Wall Street is becoming Fall Street.</p>
<p>This credit problem is growing steadily worse as more big companies fold. Yet mankind carries on as if nothing is happening&#8230; scurrying like many rats on a sinking ship to the refuge of potential investments.</p>
<p>This makes me wonder. Loyalty is a humble notion, but a rare entity. Thus, perhaps, we should all put money into the businesses we prefer? Should we pay taxes at all if capitalism&#8217;s dream is to make as much money as possible off little investments? Capitalism never ceases to amuse me.</p>
<p>Bureaucracy, credit, paperwork; the epitome of &#8220;civilized&#8221; society. Shifts of money dictate shifts of power. It&#8217;s getting hard to follow who has all of what cards in the financial world. And in the wake of it all [the while] feverishly fanatical denizens of the dollar chase what[ever] little hopes that they can find in their little preferred (if only just introduced to the masses) politicians.</p>
<p>It truly amuses me&#8230; sometimes to sit back and revel in watching the pathetic attempts of little men and their little schemes to make something more of themselves, to get closer to the big cheese in this rat race.</p>
<p>Where does America stand? On the brink of destruction, or on the other hand, retribution. We will most likely fail to stop these things coming to a head, as we have dissociated ourselves so thoroughly from each other. That is why we will most likely not experience Renaissance until it is too late to save the floundering capitalist state.</p>
<p>Clutch your dollars tightly, little men with little minds, for the new dawn is coming. As the late George Carlin was want to say, &#8220;That&#8217;s the whole thing to the American Dream; you&#8217;ve gotta be asleep to believe it&#8221;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kei Centillion</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to The Invisible Zeitgeist!
This site is a project I created out of desire to spread my message and unite like causes. I am most widely known as 1337Cyndic@ of isoHunt online. Many of my ideologies, plans, and goals can be found there. For now, this site is still under construction. But I have high [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to The Invisible Zeitgeist!</p>
<p>This site is a project I created out of desire to spread my message and unite like causes. I am most widely known as 1337Cyndic@ of isoHunt online. Many of my ideologies, plans, and goals can be found there. For now, this site is still under construction. But I have high hopes for it.</p>
<p>This site was founded on July 4, 2008, Independence Day. Ironically, this site is about the revolution that shall take place soon in America, the internet, and ultimately the world. It is all about the new level of consciousness, and a higher cause even than that; consilience, the unity of knowledge.</p>
<p>I plan to achieve both by providing a place for anyone on the net to come to and talk about what they will. I have no regulations other than be careful of what you say, for I cannot protect you form your government&#8217;s intervention. You never know who&#8217;s watching. Between <a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1821632,00.html">America&#8217;s re-establishment of “eavesdropping” bills</a> and <a href="http://isohunt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=131857">Sweden loosing their own privacy</a>, things are getting hot online, my fellow netizens!</p>
<p>We, humans, have power. No matter how oppressive, right or wrong our governing institutions may seem, we have the power to step in and regulate them. As a US citizen, I feel it is my right and duty to do so. But I wouldn&#8217;t even stop there. I&#8217;d go so far as to say that liberating China may be important in the near future; but I&#8217;ll save all that for my future articles!</p>
<p>TIZ is a site about human potential. If you feel strongly about something, have a small business you want to publicize, or just want to talk/debate some issue or plan, feel free to register! All human interactions are one, in my philosophy on life. I only wish to help unite each preconceived restrictive “bond” so that this concept becomes reality. My goal is to bring and give hope. There are a lot of people in the world, and while many get by with relatively little, it pains me to see how what many of them cling to as hope – is lies.</p>
<p>That is why I aim to inform, as best I (and those who register to contribute) can, about current events in the world. I will not lie; I am somewhat of a conspiracy theorist in the light of the NWO, and many of my articles may reflect that, but it is what I feel, and I think it is totally warranted, as this site is designed for normal people to express what they believe.</p>
<p>This site is media for the people, by the people. America, and the world, inside and out of the internet, I challenge you to share your thoughts!</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hamby</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After watching tv for a bit and seeing all these commercials and charities about helping the starving children in Africa and all these other countries and the people that are homeless kind of makes me sick. The sad truth is we have so many problems of our own and in many ways the third world [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After watching tv for a bit and seeing all these commercials and charities about helping the starving children in Africa and all these other countries and the people that are homeless kind of makes me sick. The sad truth is we have so many problems of our own and in many ways the third world countries we are trying to help are doing better than us. The barely subsisting or borderline homeless/poor and we start to see a very alarming trend that shows no sign of going away. Over 30% of Americans are on the borderline of poverty. A lot just do not quite make the cut to receive food stamps or some kind of benefits and live on a razor edge of desperation and starvation. The most shocking sight to see is homeless and starving children, living right near some of the richest neighborhoods!!!!! Right here in “humanitarian” America, home of the world’s largest “humanitarian” and “liberating” force (or is it FARCE?).This country is putting more and more of our citizens on the brink of homelessness and desperate poverty. In addition, it seems that we have pushed countless others over the brink and into the bottomless pit of despair and need.</p>
<p>All you have to do is look around, open your eyes, and you will see the vast sea of hungry and destitute. I have seen more and more children and families out on the street or in feeding centers and at food handouts. To think that the world’s richest country allows this to happen is Sickening! To think that we turn a blind eye to starving children because it is easier to tolerate than do something about it! We cannot afford to hire teachers, build new schools, or even maintain the ones we have. Our children slip farther into the void of illiteracy and neglect. We are the lowest among the industrialized “first” world nations in literacy scores! Many “third” world countries now have higher literacy rates than the U.S. We are setting ourselves up to turn the world’s richest country into a third world quagmire.We are setting ourselves up to turn the world’s richest country into a third world quagmire.</p>
<p>This country is sinking into a swamp of drowning poor and so-called “Economically Challenged!” The rich meanwhile buy bigger S.U.Vs, and bigger gated houses to keep out the flotsam and detritus of the cast always. A growing number of cities, including Los Angeles, Seattle, and Atlanta, are criminalizing activities of the homeless, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless. More than 60 cities are introducing measures to make it illegal to beg or sleep on the streets, to sit in a bus shelter for more than an hour, or to walk across a parking lot if the person doesn’t have a car parked there. 41% of all homeless are single males, 41% families, 13% single females, and 5% being unaccompanied minors. The homeless population is estimated to be 50% African American, 35% white, 12% Hispanic, 2% Native American, and 1% Asian. An average of 23% suffers from mental illness, 38% suffer from substance abuse, 10% are veterans, and 22% are employed.</p>
<p>President Bush claimed that his FY2004 budget “helps America meet its goals both at home and overseas.” Yet, upon examination of the budget numbers, the goals of many Americans appear not to have been included. 48% of people requesting food were families with children. 38% were currently employed at the time of the request. The leading reason for hunger was high housing costs, along with low paying jobs, unemployment and other employment related issues, economic downturn, medical and health costs, homelessness, poverty or lack of income, substance abuse, reduced public benefits, child care costs, mental health problems, and limited life skills being cited as the other leading causes of hunger. While the US is committed to at least two years of occupation in Iraq and possibly up to ten years, our own people slip into further poverty and starvation.</p>
<p>If the US spent just three months occupation costs, they could wipe out hunger and homelessness completely for ten years. However, it does not seem like feeding and sheltering our own citizens has a very high priority. It seems like it is not a priority to protect our children from starvation and living on the streets. Our education system is crumbling and the school breakfast and lunch programs are being slashed mercilessly.</p>
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