Well it looks like I am going to bite the bullet – I’m going to tear myself forcibly out of my CLOSET. This upcoming week, starting Monday till next Monday, I will be out of my prison of productivity, captive to my need to prove myself either a very persistent animal in the face of zero encouragement or, in connection with Greek mythology, in my pursuit of my mother’s approval by proving myself this that and another, creative, insightful, daringly transparent about my life, its thoughts & feelings. Hah hah, I might even be challenging my mythical or mythological or real father in monopolizing mother’s love. Whatever it is, mere biologically driven electrochemical conditioning, I can’t stop rowing the boat, treading the same water, swimming against the current, etcetera. Out of town with my American family!
And there is a very real chance that I will not ‘create’ #400 video-blog next Friday the 9th of July. Will you miss me? Would you tell me if you would miss me? It would be nice, encouraging, if just once you would state that my words have vibrant interest and human relevance for you in your life, whether you are a youngster getting a glimpse into your grandfather’s issues or an oldster like me who already knows too well what the challenges of age are.
I am about to write something more cynical maybe even vengeful – Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense in the eight years of the Bush Administration plus maybe even the Clinton, died yesterday at the age of 88. He was the one single deus ex machina for the American Republican Capitalist. He, in order to win the appreciation of that hideously wealthy class, positioned himself as their avatar, their mouthpiece through which they could justify their ambition without guilt of greed and lust for power. Rumsfeld believed or at least swore without remorse even to his last moments in life which were yesterday, that Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons immediately endangering the security of the United States. That is such a horrible falsehood! I mean it is ridiculous for me to psychoanalyze this man’s motives when saying his ENVY of power and wealth blinded him from reality and so infected him that he could stand in front of the world’s microphone stating this totally non-truth, without doubt, although I did see him lower his head in a mild wave that might reveal slight guilt or shame coming from his sub-conscious self, that knew otherwise, knew the truth but wanted to wield power with the approval of the powerful, the capitalists driving for economic control of resources and markets in the Middle-East, which the lie would justify.
It unleashed the explosive power of the Generals in the Pentagon, longing to demonstrate to the world their efficiency at dominating of conquering an winning the Golden Fleece of more wealth and more control over others. Battleships, aircraft carriers with state of the art weaponry, giant airplanes carrying tanks, trucks and soldiers unleashed on Iraq, a thousand year-old Islamic culture with deeply developed mathematics and philosophy and art.
On this macabre note I salute you with my new red wine discovery the Spanish Don Simón Tempranillo, slightly sweet red wine, good nutrition between meals, and $5 at Whole Foods Wines, 10% discount when buying 6 or more bottles which is what I do. Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s are two treasures in my nutritional life, WF for the freshness of fruits & vegetables, and TJ for discounted good food. Significant blessings in a trembling for fear universe.
Happy Independence Day. This merely represents the growing North American colony to rebel agains Britain’s King George in 1776. Independence is a questionable concept. America was White British and German Europeans fighting European control by a king. Admirable I suppose. More admirable would be to include the diverse and Colored half of America’s population in allowing them a fair slice of independence. No longer subjected to the knee on the neck. These rights seem currently to be going slower and even propelled back to the 1800 hundreds. Will this experiment from autocracy survive?
WILL THIS EXPERIMENT FROM AUTOCRACY SURVIVE?

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