Egypt

Leaving the computer at home and taking a smaller device on my trip to Egypt.

It is all a trap with only one way out or as Wilhelm Reich says

(as quoted in the book End Game by derrick jensen “volume 1:the problem of civilization” in the chapter Bringing Down Civilization

gotta say in my own pampered way i don’t want that to happen…

I’m a rich white and male we got it good…

destroy the thing we created…but at all levels things are getting worse…socially…pornography body punishing, austerity, greater pay inequality, nonrenewable resources depleting, the oil sands, less common space, less public discourse, cruel punishing third world work routines.   

It is possible to get out of the trap. However, in order to break out of prison, one first must confess to being in a  prison. The trap is man’s emotional structure, his character structure. There is little use is devising systems of thought about the nature of the trap if the only thing to do in order to get out of the trap is to know the trap and to find the exit. Everything else is utterly useless.

Singing hymns about the the suffering in the trap or writing poems about the freedom outside the trap written from within the trap, or building a philosophy of despair around living in the trap as Schopenhauer did, or dreaming up a superman who would be different than everyone else in the trap as Nietzsche did, until trapped in a lunatic asylum he finally wrote the truth about himself

Get out of the trap.

Reich goes on to say we all know how to get out of the trap but because of some internal conflict we don’t want to exit…like he thinks we want to…he says only a few get out of the trap at night while everyone else is sleeping.

In Canada Harper encourages the largest ecological disaster on the planet with the oil sands, is building super max prisons and will push a omnibus crime bill through…to fill the jails…

the poor will be spending less time on the streets. 

elitist thinking…this notion we are in a trap with an escape hatch is an interesting idea…do we all really want freedom from this earthy exiztence?

…our ideas imprison us…or is that lack…

the oppressor yearns to control the mind of the oppressed…

the conspicuous consumption is getting more conspicuous…

looks like the labor convention is shaping up like half holiday half pretending to be important…of significance is the grassroots organizers or the workers in the factories and industries like the Suez canal and textiles…

what is at stake is it that passage…

does not appear that we will be meeting with any workers as far as i can tell…

tomorrow at this time…i’ll b hi above the pacific.

over and out from the NA NW.