Stop Telling Me To Vote!

Every election cycle I have to deal with so many people asking me if I voted and then being shocked, angry or disappointed with me when I say that I don't vote. Maybe I should just say I voted for the Tea Party, is that better? At least I voted right? I have no problem with you voting if that is what you really want to do but I have my reasons for not endorsing this political circus with my vote. I have a right to decline participation in a political system that I believe is corrupted by money, that forces cultural programming and propaganda on us everyday, that is assisting corporate interests in the looting of our wealth and resources, that supports constant wars and military occupation all over the world, that is gradually dumbing down America and has a strong hand in shaping the New World Order.

Voting in America is about giving in to one of two manufactured options. Both options have continually failed us, over and over again, yet we continue to support a political system that cleverly feeds on one of our last bits of freedom; the right to resist the mechanisms of powers that be. Voting is not the last right we have left, so stop telling me it is. We have the right to cognitive liberty, to think for ourselves and act according to those ideas and principles. Every election cycle the machine chews us up, gets us all riled and agitated and then spits us out, excited for a fight and the promise of change that will never come. We are led to believe that our vote gives us a seat behind the steering wheel, but it doesn't. We aren't fighting the machine by voting, we are becoming it.

Our politicians are illusionists, highly skilled at distorting the field of reality. They playfully distract Americans from whats going on behind the scenes, funded by their corporate sponsors. You are constantly being asked to vote against the other party and not for what you believe would be better for our country. You may ask yourself, "what happened to the man I voted for?" or excuse his failures by blaming the opposition of his political rivals but don't give in to the illusion. Do you really think that not voting is what the other political party wants you to do? Are you that afraid that you would vote against your best interests just because you think the other party is more dangerous? Make no mistake, Democrat or Republican, the machine is tethered to corporate interests, big business and the banking elite. There is no great champion of the people, there is no catalyst for change in the two-party system, there is only the illusion that your vote makes a difference and that your candidate will make things better. The masters of political manipulation, the alchemists of internet and television propaganda; they know how to transform opinion and bypass reason, so that they can grab hold of our emotional cords and pull us into their illusion.

Do you ever ask yourself why you really vote? If its because you actually researched your preferred candidate, agree with their policies and know they aren't receiving large amount of campaign contributions from big business, then you are a rarity. I think most people vote like I used to, because they are afraid or angry. Everyday, fear is propagated through a narration of carefully selected emotional issues. We get angry when we feel that others want to take our power away and afraid when we think we are actually loosing that power. We are being played against each other, while they pull off the greatest heist in history and shape the future of our world. We are toys in their game and intuitively we know it, but instead we deny that other people can control our fate. They are playing for the end game but we are playing battle to battle. Refusing to vote and working to expose the false narrative is a form of culture jamming. We will tear down the layers of illusion and display the political beast, naked and transparent, for all to see.

When you vote, you endorse this system and feed the very monster you want to transform. You have a right to do so, but if you choose not to, you may be guilted into relinquishing your right of refusal or convinced to vote for the "lesser of two evils," but is that what you really want? There is no longer such a thing as a strategic vote, the machine will move forward in the same direction, regardless of which party holds office. The only thing that really makes sense when you see through the lies? Don't vote. Or at least don't vote for the politicians who support the two-party system that you know you oppose. There is a slow rise of alternative candidates who we all know won't win, but that vote is a vote is a form of resistance as well. Whether you vote your conscious or choose not to vote at all, the most important thing is that we continually write, produce art and music, spread the word, work to better our communities and if you have the stomach for it run for local office. Do what you can to disrupt and subvert the mainstream cultural institutions which make this machine work. This is a War we live in and its not Republican vs. Democrat, as you may have been led to believe. The sides are drawn and even though we don't have the same resources that they do, we can still tear down the illusion piece by piece.

The Internet Take Over - A False Flag Is Coming

Our privacy and freedom of information on the internet is under attack.  We've been waging a war for at least a decade to keep the internet free from government regulation and keep our activities private.  The Bush Administration cracked the wall of our defenses and the Obama Administration is blowing a hole right through it. The war is being fought for Net Neutrality and it looks like we might be loosing.

The Obama Administration wants to know what we are doing on the internet without obtaining a court order.  Joe Lieberman has introduced a bill that would give the President an Internet Killswitch that could disconnect our access to the internet "in case of emergency" and set up a National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications that would spy on ISP's and private websites so that it could share that information with the government.  Google is also working on a project called Recorded Future with the CIA.  Recorded Future will use analytics to monitor internet chatter, find "invisible" connections between people and events and predict future events.  Obama's head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Cass Sunstei, proposed government infiltration of online groups and websites that talk about "false conspiracy theories."  There is also a push for the FCC to reclassify Broadband service as a Telecommunication Service, which would allow the government more control over regulating the internet.

Look out for a series of false flag cyber attacks on the United States being used as an excuse to implement stricter controls over what we can see, hear and talk about online.  The internet is really the last media platform that hasn't yet been taken over by regulatory commissions and used to manipulate public opinion.  We still have a degree of freedom on the internet and it should stay that way.  Most people thought the internet would be safe from censorship because of its very nature, but we know other countries such as China, highly restrict their internet content.  Cyber-Security is a national concern, but it is not an excuse for censorship and regulation.  Keep that in mind next time you see a story about internet vulnerability or cyber attacks on the United States.

Brief Thoughts On Morality and Enlightenment

I've made this morality argument many times before, but it keeps coming up in my life, so here is the condensed version: Morals based on the Bible and only the Bible are a blind obedience to a social order that are within the confines of one's religious community.  Those within that community often pressure others who are outside their religion to obey their rules, without regard to other cultures or societal structures.  This kind of morality is about controlling people who can't control themselves and subduing the individual in favor of the conformity of the group.  This type of morality can be important to the development of society and culture but is also inauthentic because it does not come from the self.

A higher morality is most certainly one in which realizing the importance of the individual within the community, as well as the communities needs, is equally important.  In a higher morality, the strict rules of conformity based morality become more like social contracts, which also take into account other cultures and their social contracts.  The focus moves from the within the community to the interaction of different communities.  This higher morality is based on the idea that all humans have basic rights and we should aim for the greatest good for the most people.  It is a morality of wider communication and the search for understanding outside of a persons immediate surroundings.


Beyond the higher morality of community interaction is a morality driven by universal ethical principles.  Simply put, this kind of morality is about 'putting oneself in the others shoes' to determine what action is right.  A person acts morally because it is the right thing to do, not because it is the law, a rule or an expectation. Only at this level does a person truly take personal responsibility for their actions.  This is extremely difficult within our current culture because universal ethical principles are often in direct conflict with cultural and societal ethics.  In a way, universal ethics arise out of a relaxation of expectations and relinquishing the desire to control the life of others.  It's about helping people in need when you can but also about taking care of yourself.  More importantly, it's about working within another person's framework and allowing them to make mistakes without putting undo pressure on them to see things the way that you do.  There is a realization that no two people see the world in the same way, we all live with our own reality tunnels.  This type of morality embraces individuality and there is a realization that, even though we have many similarities, no to people are a like in the way their perceive and function in the world.

What is the morality of Enlightenment?  Because Enlightenment is the natural state of oneness with Being, an Enlightenment driven morality is the morality of Being itself.  The action taken is in accord with all that is and is the most perfect action for that time and place.  An action is done, not because it is right but because it is in accord with everything.  It is a way of clearly seeing with the details, while retaining a view of the big picture.  It is easy to run into the question of fate and pre-determination but that question does not have an easy answer.  It is impossible to express how an idea like fate or pre-determination can be part of an experience of imediate experience.  Ideas are part of the reality of space/time, while Enlightenment is simultaneously within and outside of that reality.  The terms associated with a specific place and time are only a fraction of the enlightened experience.

The Fundamental Rights - Cognitive Liberty

Everyone should have the fundamental right to think for themselves and control their own consciousness. As long as a person is not harming another, we all have the right to Cognitive Liberty. If Neuroethics tells us anything, it's that:

• All people should be free to alter their own consciousness.
• No one should prevent anyone else from altering their own consciousness.
• No one should alter another person's consciousness against their will.

Everyday this fundamental right is threatened. We are constantly manipulated by the mass media, marketing and advertising, corporate opinion shapers, public education and our own government. It all starts when we are young, public education no longer teaches us how to think for ourselves but instead teaches us that we can't think, so we better ask an experts opinion. An increasing number of children are being forced against their will to take prescription drugs like Ritalin, so that they are allowed to attend school. Neuromarketing technologies give advertisers the ability to test sensorimotor, cognitive, and affective response to marketing stimuli. Advertising is everywhere, we grow up consuming our favorite brands. The news supports the artificial left-right political paradigm. We argue in talking points and sound bites. There is a narrow cognitive path set before us and we are herded in line.

We don't even have the right to alter our own consciousness with entheogens, like humans have done since the very beginning. The War on Drugs isn't just a war on the ingesting of physical substances but a War on consciousness itself. Its about controlling what mental states we are permitted to experience. They want to narrow the expectable range of conscious experience so that we are easily directed and molded into fine, unquestioning citizens. Entheogenic substances are thought to facilitate sacred and spiritual experiences, yet those in control demonize and restrict access to mental states that risk waking people up or at the very least, expanding their consciousness a little.

This is evolutionarily suicidal for the species. This War is a denial of our very nature. We all seek intoxication and altered states of consciousness because we intuitively know something is wrong with the way we have been programmed to think. It is there, in the invisible landscape, that we can most creatively shape our future. Whether we use entheogens, our dreams, psychology, yoga or meditation, we need to travel outside our ordinary consciousness to learn how we have been programmed and open our minds to the potential array of consciousness that is available to us. The fundamental problem with drugs is not that people are using them, it's that they aren't being used safely and more importantly, we aren't being taught how to induce altered states without the use of drugs. As a culture based on freedom, we need to change our approach to consciousness and spread the message that we should all have the fundamental right to cognitive liberty.