Half a Porch with Jack Heart

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  1. Most people, if you ask them, firmly believe that there is an external and an internal to this life. Further, they will probably assert that the external is the measure by which anyone defines reality. Yet all external stimuli are directly related to internal events. So, to have any conversation, one has to agree to a set of invisible rules that decide what internal stimuli to avoid.
    Its a focus.
    So, what happens when the rules for what stimuli undergo a sweeping change?
    Well, for one, the entire experience of reality changes.
    For example we can say that for us today, time is understood as motion.
    Tempes Fugit.
    Yet until the invention of the sun dial, there were no hours. They didn’t exist. No hours, no minutes, no seconds, just the night and the day. Just the motion of the heavens.
    So, an internal idea which led to an external invention completely changed human reality. Time is perceived as implacable, unchanging, unrelenting.
    Yet what happens if what is measured changes just enough that the system of measurement, that agreed upon set of things to avoid no longer fits the picture?
    What happens then?
    We shall all see.

  2. Nice evaluation of the VT clip Jack…

    And loving the song choice, how prophetic.

    With each passing day we can clearly see the theatre at play, like a rabid reproduction of Macbeth… Richard III… Or even Julius Caesar…

    “And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so.”

    Or so ‘they’ may hope, that the theatrical words of Caesar would come easy to reality, and that they could play their tired old tricks once more.

    But the memory of Richard III, reveals the path of unintended consequences, that come when first you aim to deceive…

    “The bay-trees in our country all are wither’d
    And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven;
    The pale-fac’d moon looks bloody on the earth
    And lean-look’d prophets whisper fearful change;
    Rich men look sad and ruffians dance and leap,
    The one in fear to lose what they enjoy,
    The other to enjoy by rage and war.”

    So, let us watch from afar this theatrical spectacle play out, and in the words of Macbeth…

    ” When the hurly-burly’s done,
    When the battle’s lost and won.”

    We shall see a new reality blossom across this world…

  3. I’ve been noticing a lot of similarities between Iran and the German Empire/Third Reich. Territory size similar, population almost exactly the same, sanctions and Anglo-American control of their water ways between the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. There wedge status making them a key territory between the Middle East and Asia like German was occupying Central Europe. If someone wants a sequel to end it all in a bang it seems like a perfect repeat trying to strike a 100 year cycle. Once you start noticing those 10 and 20 year patterns in your own life you start remembering that you put your left foot in, you put your left foot out, you put your left foot in and you shake it all about.

    • Great observation Greg… Cyclic wheels within wheels, that only keep repeating if we allow them too, we have the power to change the cycle, especially given that ‘they’ treat the ‘law’ like an abused engine, and we all know what happens when you abuse an engine too much, it tends to blow up in your face…

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