Chad Lilly, poet, publisher, radio host, founder of InnerCircle Publishing, Aware Talk Radio, and Revolution Press. @icpchad on Twitter.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Failure Is A Learned Behavior
No one succeeds alone. Yet, we've all been taught to 'do our own work' and 'not to copy off our neighbors'. No organism in nature is independent, yet, toward this imaginary state---all of us have been programmed to strive. Why? Because failure is a learned behavior, and we've been educated in the art of following instructions, rather than doing what works.
So what's wrong with a little competition? Nothing. Competition refines our skills and ideas, and those which serve us best are carried forward in future generations to advance humanity as a whole. Through competition, the cells in our body maintain homeostasis, and by this constant struggle they maintain the delicate balance we call health.
While competition creates an environment in which all organisms may develop individually, it is ONLY when these developed organisms {co}operate that we advance as a society. Those who design social structures know this ... and this is why every system of education teaches children to compete with one another, rather than cooperate. (This is also why most people fail to live their dream and end up working to build the dreams of others.)
Those who achieve their dreams do so only with the cooperation of others. Henry Ford never built a single car, or had any part in designing 'the impossible' V8 motor---nor did he have the knowledge or skills needed to do so. Henry Ford got people who could do these things to {co]operate in a way that would allow many people to preform a single, remedial task, that when combined with the work of others could mass produce things faster than any one person could working alone. Today, we call this an 'assembly line'.
And while we see value in working collectively toward a common goal to build cars, we have yet to realize any value in working collectively to build our dreams, because we're too busy competing with our neighbors to share information. (after all that would be 'cheating', wouldn't it?)
The more people who are trained to behave this way---the easier it becomes for the Machine to assimilate them as workers on its assembly line. The easier it becomes to keep people competing against one another, instead of cooperating. Again, those who design social structures know this, and it's why every system of education teaches children to compete against one another, rather than cooperate.
So ... Cui Bono? THEY do. (Those who design, manage, and operate this Machine for which WE THE PEOPLE ... work.)
Their system ... the Beast ... this Babylonian whore which no man can afford has become the standard currency for which all the world is willing to 'trade in their hours for a handful of dimes' ... and it only works while WE THE PEOPLE are willing to compete for the resources we need, rather than cooperate to get them.
THIS is why 1% of the people own all of the world's wealth, and the other 99% work FOR them. Why? Because failure is a learned behavior, and we've been educated in the art of following instructions, rather than doing what works.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Invisible Video (press play)
To watch this video, I'm gonna need you to close your eyes
and wander with me in a moment of imagination, to the land
where single eye sights and visions
are forever filtering into man's kind and open mind ...
[Scene]
Me ... walking down the street here in Yakima, WA
dressed in snow-white pants
with bellbottoms as big as Liberty Bells,
sporting a funky paisley patterned unbuttoned shirt
with collars so wide they span the length of time zones,
and an afro so big people gotta walk around it to pass me by ...
and I'm carrying a radio ... not an invisible i-Pod,
I'm talking bout a 1980's Spike Lee boom box baby
mounted on my right shoulder like some sonic RPG
firing a beat in every direction ...
and I got it cranked up to eleven
jamming one tune so familiar
everyone immediately begins to move
and groove to their own dance
but all in unison ...
[ENTER MUSIC]
"Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I'm a woman's man, no time to talk.
Music loud and women warm.
I've been kicked around since I was born."
and the people I'm passing on the streets
look on with strange eyes and foreign smiles
and they increase their pace
or change their direction
just to avoid me
and the music plays:
"And now it's all right, it's O.K.
And you may look the other way.
We can try to understand
The New York Times' effect on man."
And along comes a brother who catches the tune
and starts to groove to his own dance
but in unison with the movement of the music ...
"Whether you're a brother
Or whether you're a mother,
You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Feel the city breakin'
And ev'rybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin' alive."
[ENTER Two Hispanic brothers ...
dressed identically wearing tan pants
and white T-shirts ... their only difference
being the color of their bandanas ...
one is Red and the other ... Blue]
and they catch the tune
and start to groove to their own dance
but in unison with the movement of the music ...
"Well now, I get low and I get high
And if I can't get either I really try.
Got the wings of heaven on my shoes
I'm a dancin' man and I just can't lose."
and more people start to join in the dance
causing a commotion in the streets,
with business owners rushing out to see
why everyone is dancing ...
while more people join in ... couples and children
stop shopping and start dancing ...
and the camera pans around the world ...
farmers are stopping in the middle of their field
and politicians are stopping in the middle of the speech
and soldiers are stopping right in the middle of their war ...
and all start to groove and move to their own dance
but in unison with the movement of the music ...
"You know it's all right, it's O.K.
I'll live to see another day.
We can try to understand
The New York Times' effect on man."
and people are stopping in the streets ...
getting out of the their cars ...
dancing on the hoods and along all the freeways ...
"Whether you're a brother
Or whether you're a mother,
You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Feel the city breakin'
And ev'rybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin' alive."
and all of the sudden cops arrive in droves, SWAT teams
of tactical units in full riot gear with weapons drawn
and instantly the music STOPS in mid-beat--------------
everyone is frozen silent in time, mid-dance, fearful of moving
even one inch to their own groove in unison with the music ...
and this single uncomfortable moment seems to last forever ...
until all the cops simultaneously break out into their own groove
and the music breaks back again even louder,
having never missing a beat ...
"Life goin' nowhere.
Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah."
while the camera pans around the world
to every region and culture
and for the moment ...
all the Muslims stop praying
all the Muslims stop praying
and all Christians stop crusading
and all the Atheists stop debating ...
and every body starts dancing ...
"Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I'm a woman's man, no time to talk.
Music loud and women warm.
I've been kicked around since I was born.
And now it's all right, it's O.K.
And you may look the other way.
We can try to understand
The New York Times' effect on man."
and the scene continues to fade subtly,
but the music doesn't stop playing
farther and farther out into the distance
as the camera continues to pan past the clouds ...
out past Earth ... to show the crew
on the ISS dancing ...
"Life goin' nowhere.
Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah."
and continues to pan out past the moon
to show crews dancing on the dark side of Luna
and continues to pan out ... past this star
we call our SUN of God ...
out past other suns of god to show
others dancing to their own groove
but all in unison to this one song:
"Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin' alive."
[Scene Ends]
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
The Sky Is Falling & It's Filled With Flaming Feces
Alternate SubTitles:
100% PROOF That HAARP Is Causing People To Act Stupid
13 New Jesus's Return To Earth To Make Shitty YouTube Videos
Dumb Desteni Cults For Dumber Dummies
What first inspired me about YouTube was having this direct connection with real people, virtually face to face, and hearing their insights and points of view on any given topic. The reality of a person willing to step in front of a camera and speak their mind unfiltered was more than refreshing when compared with the daily drivel delivered by the mainstream media machine.
But recently something has shifted in mass consciousness. It is as if the very foundations of logic and reason have given way and opened a floodgate of Bullshit upon the world with something even worse than propaganda: Pure Speculation Reported As Fact.
And I intend to offer more than just my opinion in this blog, I will offer examples of this lunacy for you to view firsthand, so you may draw your own conclusions.
A NEW WINNER on the BS LEVEL: "Gabrielle Channa" AKA: Gail - By far the most disturbing, idiotic, gibberish, pretend nonsense I've ever heard in all of my life. This idiot actually makes the Desteni Drones sound intelligent. And here's the rub-----she appears to believe every single piece of feces that falls from her mouth. And after watching all of her videos on YouTube I have come to the conclusion that 'Gail' is much more than a moron with a webcam, in fact, I think this whole damn thing is a pysop. NO ONE can be this pathetically deluded and still manage a YouTube channel (notice how she intentionally disables ALL comments?)
Need I say more?
A NEW WINNER on the BS LEVEL: "Gabrielle Channa" AKA: Gail - By far the most disturbing, idiotic, gibberish, pretend nonsense I've ever heard in all of my life. This idiot actually makes the Desteni Drones sound intelligent. And here's the rub-----she appears to believe every single piece of feces that falls from her mouth. And after watching all of her videos on YouTube I have come to the conclusion that 'Gail' is much more than a moron with a webcam, in fact, I think this whole damn thing is a pysop. NO ONE can be this pathetically deluded and still manage a YouTube channel (notice how she intentionally disables ALL comments?)
Need I say more?
A "20 foot tall plejaren reptilian" who has come to save you all. (UPDATED: 3/23/2011 - This user has removed their account. One down, many to go ;-)
And next is for all you wanna be cult leaders ... YouTube's most imbecilic mind control cult: Desteni (Are you aware of the Desteni Cult scams on #YouTube? http://bit.ly/erqfIo Help ELIMINATE them? #Flag/#Report EVERY video. Thanks.) UPDATED 8/10/2011 - DESTENI IS DEAD!!!!!!!! ;-) ... Are you seeing a pattern here yet?)
One of my all time favorite types of stupid people are these idiots who are not only 100% full of farm fresh grade A bullshit, but they actually pretend as if they KNOW that their bullshit is true. Like, Collen Thomas: UPDATED: 8/10/2011 Colesakick (her YouTube Channel .... IS DEAD NOW.)
And then, of course, we have the epic delusions of grandeur from people who KNOW that they are Jesus Christ and have returned to earth in the flesh to make shitty YouTube videos about how they are Jesus Christ returned to earth in the flesh. (Updated: 5/26/2011 YES! And another one down, another one down, another one bites the dust')
While the breed of ALERTER YouTubers flood the internet with WARNING videos. Everyday, a new doomsday scenario about the sun, about aliens landing on exactly October 14th, 2010, about HAARP, about the NWO, about the poles shifting on exactly March 15th, 2011 ... just an endless list of their every speculation and fear REPORTED as absolute FACT. And even after their EVERY prediction has failed, they will upload another video tomorrow about the NEXT COMING CRISIS, and thousands of people will STILL watch and subscribe to their channel.
It is as if we have become addicted to bullshit. As if we've elevated nonsense and stupidity to the highest level and called this wisdom.
There is so much of this BS floating around that it's difficult to find real people on YouTube anymore. And I think this kind of BS is even worse than the propaganda machine spitting out daily ads to subconsciously direct the audience's line of sight, because this garbage is coming out of the mouths of people who genuinely pretend to believe every single word of it.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Medically Speaking
Sick since the beginning ...
swimming in infinity
searching for the shore,
seeking the source and
maker of waves, who
causes tides to rise and fall
and tsunamis to collide with all the symbols
of civilized life---drowning
in themselves.
Sick of the mundane ...
the dogma accepted
in repetition and
worshipped as religion.
Sick of the propaganda ...
educated eyes blindfolded
by media designed to
keep the masses asleep,
least they awaken and revolt
against the madness
that drives them insane.
Sick of the game ...
Simon Says: quit playing
follow-the-leader with
serial killers
and madmen.
I bring you a new commandment:
'Learn to leave each other alone.'
Sick of the taste ...
not willing to swallow
rotten concepts wrapped
in even the best of intentions.
Sick of the waiting ...
playing ... planning,
sick of hours casting
shadows on the day
and eclipsing
my luminosity.
Chad Lilly ... 1 of 300 currently unpublished poems ... anyone know a publisher?
swimming in infinity
searching for the shore,
seeking the source and
maker of waves, who
causes tides to rise and fall
and tsunamis to collide with all the symbols
of civilized life---drowning
in themselves.
Sick of the mundane ...
the dogma accepted
in repetition and
worshipped as religion.
Sick of the propaganda ...
educated eyes blindfolded
by media designed to
keep the masses asleep,
least they awaken and revolt
against the madness
that drives them insane.
Sick of the game ...
Simon Says: quit playing
follow-the-leader with
serial killers
and madmen.
I bring you a new commandment:
'Learn to leave each other alone.'
Sick of the taste ...
not willing to swallow
rotten concepts wrapped
in even the best of intentions.
Sick of the waiting ...
playing ... planning,
sick of hours casting
shadows on the day
and eclipsing
my luminosity.
Chad Lilly ... 1 of 300 currently unpublished poems ... anyone know a publisher?
Life's Reply
Life's reply is my own whisper
echoed infinitely into that ear
which hears our prayers
as thoughts
and manifests them
as reflections
in which we can see
ourselves
more clearly.
echoed infinitely into that ear
which hears our prayers
as thoughts
and manifests them
as reflections
in which we can see
ourselves
more clearly.
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