Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
CHAPTER 4 MOTIVATIONS
THE PRIMARY NATURE OF A COVER UP IS FEAR
Fear of self-criticism. For self-criticism is a call to personal change, and therefore, fear of change. It is like an emotional sickness. Fear is an emotion, and feelings can be substituted. And in a company where fear and loathing are daily past time, fear has the upper edge.
PERSEVERATION
A process wherein a person enters into the same endeavors because he cannot accept his past failures. The person does this in an attempt to make right what once went wrong.
IT’S A TERMINAL MINDSET (THE END TO A MEAN)
• It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there,
• Killed or be killed in the process,
• It’s either him or me,
• Hating the role and playing it too,
• A victim is a victim of another victim.
How do you stop a vicious cycle like this?
Its hard to imagine the power that reduces life to their bare bones.
This is not how the world operates.
YOU WON’T MAKE AN OMELET WITHOUT BREAKING SOME EGGS
How many Builders, Developers, Managers of gigantic projects have said the same thing in the century and half since FAUST? For nearly two millennia, we believed that true freedom came from God.
Dante had proclaimed, “His will is our peace,” and a thousand sermons had promised their listeners that if they would only obey God’s gentle demand, they will attain eternal bliss.
But for two millennia the world had been grinding on its inexorable way, crushing the bodies and minds of men and women, twisting them and distorting their visions of the good.
A new bargain was needed. The bargain of God had not worked. The only alternative was a bargain with the devil.
How many Baucis and Philemon has suffered because of Faust that succumbed to Mephistopheles’ lure?
THE X-CONDITION
A Levi-Straussian analysis of binary opposition which provides the structural coordinates for the system of neological meaning.
A Neologism, like good marketing device, makes the miseries sexy without relieving them.
This is the X-condition in nutshell, We’re alienated from our own alienation.
No wonder we spend so much time figuring out who we are. Making some sense out of incoherence, order out of chaos.
THE PUBLIC MUST BE PROTECTED
It is for the good of the majority (the hell with the annoying few). You must be sheltered from the truth. The truth is something that you cannot bear to handle. It is not yet your time. Time is in someone else’s hands, not yours.
BECAUSE OF HASSLES
Hassles are petty annoyances and unpleasant surprises we experience everyday that adds to even more grief than life’s stressful events that everybody recognize to be a strain.
The counterpart of daily hassles are daily uplifts: pleasant and satisfying experiences like hearing good news, getting a good night sleep, solving a difficult problem.
Just as hassle may cause physical and psychological changes that may result in illness, uplifts may serve as emotional buffer against this disorder.
IT IS A CULTURE
A culture of riches and money, of get wealthy quick and beggar thy neighbor.
Quick money, instant money, effortless money. Money for power, power to rule over, money to control, control people, control the truth. Might makes right.
Bullshit!
We have to recognize the hollowness of the kind of material and depersonalized abundance which we presently enjoy. Not only does this tend to stifle and corrupt the real depths of man’s being, not only does it imprison us in every of possible kind of delusion, but the very frustration and self-contradictions of materialistic affluence, coupled with frantic useless activism, do much to explain the death wish of warfare economy and that culture that shapes us.
IT IS A KIND OF FUTURE SHOCK
According to Alvin Toffler, in his book “FUTURE SHOCK”, different people react to Future Shock in different ways.
Its symptoms also vary according to the stage and intensity of the disease. These symptom range all the way from anxiety, hostility, to helpless authority and seemingly senseless violence, to physical illness, depression and apathy. Its’ victims often manifest swings in interest and life style, followed by an effort to “crawl into shells” trough social, intellectual and emotional withdrawal. They feel continually “bugged and harassed” and want desperately to reduce the number of decision they must make.
THERE ARE NO MAPS IN REALITY
Our view of reality is like a map with which negotiate the terrain of life. If the map is true and accurate, we will generally know we are, and if we decided where we want to go, we will generally know how to get there. If the map is false and inaccurate, we generally will be lost.
We are not born with maps, we have to make them, and the making requires effort. Some stop making it by the end of adolescence. Some by the end of middle age. Most people have given up the effort. Only a relative and fortunate few continue until the moment of death. Exploring the mystery of reality, ever enlarging and refining and redefining their understanding of the world and what is true.
If our maps are to be accurate we have to continually revise them. The world itself is constantly changing. Glaciers come, glaciers go. Culture comes, culture go. There is too little technology, there is too much technology.
We must continually revise our maps, and sometimes when enough new information has accumulated, we must make very major revisions. The process of making revisions, particularly major revisions, is painful. And herein lies the major sources of the many ills of mankind. Rather than try to change the map, some individual may destroy the new reality. Sadly, such a person may expend much more energy ultimately and defending an outmoded view of the world than would have been required to revise and correct it in the first place.
THE CITY IS A CAGE
Because it traps the citizen in the web of technological comfort and unlimited material possessions, dehumanizing them in the process, and subverting their spirituality. At the same time, the infrastructure expansion necessitated by the growing demands of business.
Population will choke living spaces and create monstrous problems in day-to-day existence. The quality of life deteriorates, and people end up serving the city, instead of by serving by it.
SOME CRUCIAL PLANET UNEXPECTEDLY CHANGE HOUSE
And their astrological significance bode ill for your future.
They can push all your buttons, because they were the one who installs them.
EVERYWHERE, THERE’S AFLOATING STIMULUS IN THE AIR
As the author C.S. Lewis puts it-
“There is no neutral ground in the universe;
Every square inch,
every split second is claimed by God
and counter claimed by Satan”.
IT IS GOD’S WILL
The Greeks believed that their gods controlled all aspects of nature. So the Greeks acknowledged that their lives were completely dependent on the good will of the gods. In general, the relations between people and gods were considered friendly. But the gods delivered severe punishment to mortals who showed unacceptable behavior, such as indulgent pride, extreme ambition, or even excessive prosperity.
After they were thrown out of Mount Olympus, a different perception of the divinity replaced them. A God who came down to Earth to be with men. A God worthy of our belief and our trust. A personal savior.
But it turned into a much-complicated matter. Because of the scandal that so many who claim to believed in God and proclaimed his message, enlist him first in their wars with one another. God is always the first one to be drafted, and this is now where we are.
ACCEPT IT IN THE MANNER OF THE SPIRIT IT WAS ITNTENDED FOR
Your very own personal Dark Nights of the Soul.
Dante in his book, THE DIVINE COMEDY, suggest that each and every one of us will someday find ourselves that particular ring of hell where we must relive our most vilest transgressions, this is it.
Fear of self-criticism. For self-criticism is a call to personal change, and therefore, fear of change. It is like an emotional sickness. Fear is an emotion, and feelings can be substituted. And in a company where fear and loathing are daily past time, fear has the upper edge.
PERSEVERATION
A process wherein a person enters into the same endeavors because he cannot accept his past failures. The person does this in an attempt to make right what once went wrong.
IT’S A TERMINAL MINDSET (THE END TO A MEAN)
• It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there,
• Killed or be killed in the process,
• It’s either him or me,
• Hating the role and playing it too,
• A victim is a victim of another victim.
How do you stop a vicious cycle like this?
Its hard to imagine the power that reduces life to their bare bones.
This is not how the world operates.
YOU WON’T MAKE AN OMELET WITHOUT BREAKING SOME EGGS
How many Builders, Developers, Managers of gigantic projects have said the same thing in the century and half since FAUST? For nearly two millennia, we believed that true freedom came from God.
Dante had proclaimed, “His will is our peace,” and a thousand sermons had promised their listeners that if they would only obey God’s gentle demand, they will attain eternal bliss.
But for two millennia the world had been grinding on its inexorable way, crushing the bodies and minds of men and women, twisting them and distorting their visions of the good.
A new bargain was needed. The bargain of God had not worked. The only alternative was a bargain with the devil.
How many Baucis and Philemon has suffered because of Faust that succumbed to Mephistopheles’ lure?
THE X-CONDITION
A Levi-Straussian analysis of binary opposition which provides the structural coordinates for the system of neological meaning.
A Neologism, like good marketing device, makes the miseries sexy without relieving them.
This is the X-condition in nutshell, We’re alienated from our own alienation.
No wonder we spend so much time figuring out who we are. Making some sense out of incoherence, order out of chaos.
THE PUBLIC MUST BE PROTECTED
It is for the good of the majority (the hell with the annoying few). You must be sheltered from the truth. The truth is something that you cannot bear to handle. It is not yet your time. Time is in someone else’s hands, not yours.
BECAUSE OF HASSLES
Hassles are petty annoyances and unpleasant surprises we experience everyday that adds to even more grief than life’s stressful events that everybody recognize to be a strain.
The counterpart of daily hassles are daily uplifts: pleasant and satisfying experiences like hearing good news, getting a good night sleep, solving a difficult problem.
Just as hassle may cause physical and psychological changes that may result in illness, uplifts may serve as emotional buffer against this disorder.
IT IS A CULTURE
A culture of riches and money, of get wealthy quick and beggar thy neighbor.
Quick money, instant money, effortless money. Money for power, power to rule over, money to control, control people, control the truth. Might makes right.
Bullshit!
We have to recognize the hollowness of the kind of material and depersonalized abundance which we presently enjoy. Not only does this tend to stifle and corrupt the real depths of man’s being, not only does it imprison us in every of possible kind of delusion, but the very frustration and self-contradictions of materialistic affluence, coupled with frantic useless activism, do much to explain the death wish of warfare economy and that culture that shapes us.
IT IS A KIND OF FUTURE SHOCK
According to Alvin Toffler, in his book “FUTURE SHOCK”, different people react to Future Shock in different ways.
Its symptoms also vary according to the stage and intensity of the disease. These symptom range all the way from anxiety, hostility, to helpless authority and seemingly senseless violence, to physical illness, depression and apathy. Its’ victims often manifest swings in interest and life style, followed by an effort to “crawl into shells” trough social, intellectual and emotional withdrawal. They feel continually “bugged and harassed” and want desperately to reduce the number of decision they must make.
THERE ARE NO MAPS IN REALITY
Our view of reality is like a map with which negotiate the terrain of life. If the map is true and accurate, we will generally know we are, and if we decided where we want to go, we will generally know how to get there. If the map is false and inaccurate, we generally will be lost.
We are not born with maps, we have to make them, and the making requires effort. Some stop making it by the end of adolescence. Some by the end of middle age. Most people have given up the effort. Only a relative and fortunate few continue until the moment of death. Exploring the mystery of reality, ever enlarging and refining and redefining their understanding of the world and what is true.
If our maps are to be accurate we have to continually revise them. The world itself is constantly changing. Glaciers come, glaciers go. Culture comes, culture go. There is too little technology, there is too much technology.
We must continually revise our maps, and sometimes when enough new information has accumulated, we must make very major revisions. The process of making revisions, particularly major revisions, is painful. And herein lies the major sources of the many ills of mankind. Rather than try to change the map, some individual may destroy the new reality. Sadly, such a person may expend much more energy ultimately and defending an outmoded view of the world than would have been required to revise and correct it in the first place.
THE CITY IS A CAGE
Because it traps the citizen in the web of technological comfort and unlimited material possessions, dehumanizing them in the process, and subverting their spirituality. At the same time, the infrastructure expansion necessitated by the growing demands of business.
Population will choke living spaces and create monstrous problems in day-to-day existence. The quality of life deteriorates, and people end up serving the city, instead of by serving by it.
SOME CRUCIAL PLANET UNEXPECTEDLY CHANGE HOUSE
And their astrological significance bode ill for your future.
They can push all your buttons, because they were the one who installs them.
EVERYWHERE, THERE’S AFLOATING STIMULUS IN THE AIR
As the author C.S. Lewis puts it-
“There is no neutral ground in the universe;
Every square inch,
every split second is claimed by God
and counter claimed by Satan”.
IT IS GOD’S WILL
The Greeks believed that their gods controlled all aspects of nature. So the Greeks acknowledged that their lives were completely dependent on the good will of the gods. In general, the relations between people and gods were considered friendly. But the gods delivered severe punishment to mortals who showed unacceptable behavior, such as indulgent pride, extreme ambition, or even excessive prosperity.
After they were thrown out of Mount Olympus, a different perception of the divinity replaced them. A God who came down to Earth to be with men. A God worthy of our belief and our trust. A personal savior.
But it turned into a much-complicated matter. Because of the scandal that so many who claim to believed in God and proclaimed his message, enlist him first in their wars with one another. God is always the first one to be drafted, and this is now where we are.
ACCEPT IT IN THE MANNER OF THE SPIRIT IT WAS ITNTENDED FOR
Your very own personal Dark Nights of the Soul.
Dante in his book, THE DIVINE COMEDY, suggest that each and every one of us will someday find ourselves that particular ring of hell where we must relive our most vilest transgressions, this is it.
CHAPTER 3 ROOTS
THEY GLOAT
To gloat is to feel or express great, often malicious pleasure or self-satisfaction. Gloating is the natural reaction of people who discovered that they actually learned something from life.
THEY ARE CUNNING AND MISCHIEVOUS
Every practitioners has this carefree optimistic spirit, curiosity, power and keen observation- and an unhealthy dose of dumb-luck hissed with a Jack Nicholson glint in the eye.
Surveillance is their busy mode.
THEY ARE CALMLY CONTEMPLATIVE YET INWARDLY REMORSEFUL
They have seen the kill, the predator working on the prey, the hunter over the hunted. They have found a twisted beauty in that ugliness. Having tasted flesh and blood they want to transcend the last hunt. To them, life is just a game of come-across.
THEY HAVE EXCELLENT TUNNEL VISION
But tunnel vision are only good in tunnels.
They have seen the light at the end of the tunnel, but most of the time it is a speeding train headed their way.
THEY LOVED LOATHING
Fyodor Dostoyevsky in his novel THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV fittingly depicts practitioners of cover up as the “Godless Spanish Inquisitor.”
He is the individual that mistrust his fellowmen and seeks to keep the truth from them. Opposed to him is the figure of Christ who trusts the soul of man and is prepared to give him the gift of freedom, even if this would mean suffering and destruction.
THEY HAVE PRIDE
The worst of the seven deadly sins. They are arrogant and impertinent. The pleasure taken-in is not enough; they are no longer easily satisfied. The dissatisfaction stems from the spiritual sterility of man’s society dominated by technology and propaganda in which there is no room left for personal spontaneity.
Everything is predictable inside a Petri dish.
THEY HAVE MUCH IDLE TIME IN THEIR HAND
They have fallen into irreversible boredom. “Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.”
They found life is too simple, but always with this built-in interior tension as if they are trying to break out of something. Doing it is the supreme ego trip of them all, to suck out all the marrows of life.
“I won’t choke on the bones, just watch Me.”
THEY ARE TIRED
They are not physically tired. Just filled with this deep, vague, undefined sense of distress as if having a deep wound running inside and it has to be staunched. The wound is only another aspect of the fact that they have found themselves as exiles on this Earth. The sense of exiles bleeds inside like a hemorrhage. Always the same wound, whether a sense of sin, or of holiness, or of one’s own insufficiency, or spiritual dryness.
THEY ARE LONELY
A reason why they sold out was from loneliness. They were not only lonely people but were accustomed to being lonely.
THEY ARE WAITING FOR GODOT
Unable to see anything at the end of the road they’re following with such self-assured momentum but Samuel Beckett’s two sad tramps forever waiting under a wilted tree for their lives to begin. Except that the tree isn’t even real, but another plastic counterfeit. In fact, even the tramps turns out to be automatons. Though of course there are great, programmed grins on their faces.
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THE SECRET SOCIETY AS ARCHETYPE
An archetype worthy of note is what might be called the cabal, or the ‘Invisible Junta’, or to give it its most popular name, “The Secret Society.” These can be found across the world, in every culture, in every age.
Usually this secret society is characterized as a conclave of puppet-master, a clandestine circle of individuals working for good or ‘behind the scenes’, manipulating others, orchestrating events, applying pressure, pulling strings, ‘making things happen’.
In Judaic esoteric tradition for example, there are dozen or so wise men, or ‘Men of Virtue’, who remains unknown to the multitude, found scattered across the globe, and whose righteousness so pleases God that they think it is the sole factor persuading Him to keep the cosmos intact. In other words they, by their power, hold reality together.
In certain forms of Buddhism, as well as theosophy and anthroposophy, a similar function is performed by the so called “Secret Masters’, endowed with a supernatural wisdom and power, who reincarnate from epoch to epoch and are said to reside in some mystical city hidden in the Himalayas.
IT’S A GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY
When words like:
• Illegal search and seizure,
• Planted evidence,
• Habeas corpus,
• Electronic surveillance,
• Wire-tapping,
• Covert operation,
• Scalpel,
• Media hype, but better known as Propaganda,
• ‘survey says that the approval rating of…’,
• ‘Neither confirmed nor deny’,
• The single gunman theory,
• A threat to national security,
• And the theme of ‘Midnight in the garden of Good and Elvis”
becomes an everyday common conversation piece.
THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT!
The name used to frighten us. But the picture somehow has change, it no more has a pair of horns, standing on hooves, with twirling tail, and reptile-skin man holding a pitchfork, than God has a long white beard, sitting on clouds and hurling thunderbolts down.
The name now only suggest the picture of a burly man with well-trimmed mustache and blow dried hair, who would at the slightest provocation starts wearing velvet tuxedoes and frilly shirt fronts and would have to be forcibly restrain from commenting on boxing matches.
Remember, if you cannot beat them, it doesn’t mean you have to join them.
The devil doesn’t change, the devil changes you!
To gloat is to feel or express great, often malicious pleasure or self-satisfaction. Gloating is the natural reaction of people who discovered that they actually learned something from life.
THEY ARE CUNNING AND MISCHIEVOUS
Every practitioners has this carefree optimistic spirit, curiosity, power and keen observation- and an unhealthy dose of dumb-luck hissed with a Jack Nicholson glint in the eye.
Surveillance is their busy mode.
THEY ARE CALMLY CONTEMPLATIVE YET INWARDLY REMORSEFUL
They have seen the kill, the predator working on the prey, the hunter over the hunted. They have found a twisted beauty in that ugliness. Having tasted flesh and blood they want to transcend the last hunt. To them, life is just a game of come-across.
THEY HAVE EXCELLENT TUNNEL VISION
But tunnel vision are only good in tunnels.
They have seen the light at the end of the tunnel, but most of the time it is a speeding train headed their way.
THEY LOVED LOATHING
Fyodor Dostoyevsky in his novel THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV fittingly depicts practitioners of cover up as the “Godless Spanish Inquisitor.”
He is the individual that mistrust his fellowmen and seeks to keep the truth from them. Opposed to him is the figure of Christ who trusts the soul of man and is prepared to give him the gift of freedom, even if this would mean suffering and destruction.
THEY HAVE PRIDE
The worst of the seven deadly sins. They are arrogant and impertinent. The pleasure taken-in is not enough; they are no longer easily satisfied. The dissatisfaction stems from the spiritual sterility of man’s society dominated by technology and propaganda in which there is no room left for personal spontaneity.
Everything is predictable inside a Petri dish.
THEY HAVE MUCH IDLE TIME IN THEIR HAND
They have fallen into irreversible boredom. “Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.”
They found life is too simple, but always with this built-in interior tension as if they are trying to break out of something. Doing it is the supreme ego trip of them all, to suck out all the marrows of life.
“I won’t choke on the bones, just watch Me.”
THEY ARE TIRED
They are not physically tired. Just filled with this deep, vague, undefined sense of distress as if having a deep wound running inside and it has to be staunched. The wound is only another aspect of the fact that they have found themselves as exiles on this Earth. The sense of exiles bleeds inside like a hemorrhage. Always the same wound, whether a sense of sin, or of holiness, or of one’s own insufficiency, or spiritual dryness.
THEY ARE LONELY
A reason why they sold out was from loneliness. They were not only lonely people but were accustomed to being lonely.
THEY ARE WAITING FOR GODOT
Unable to see anything at the end of the road they’re following with such self-assured momentum but Samuel Beckett’s two sad tramps forever waiting under a wilted tree for their lives to begin. Except that the tree isn’t even real, but another plastic counterfeit. In fact, even the tramps turns out to be automatons. Though of course there are great, programmed grins on their faces.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
THE SECRET SOCIETY AS ARCHETYPE
An archetype worthy of note is what might be called the cabal, or the ‘Invisible Junta’, or to give it its most popular name, “The Secret Society.” These can be found across the world, in every culture, in every age.
Usually this secret society is characterized as a conclave of puppet-master, a clandestine circle of individuals working for good or ‘behind the scenes’, manipulating others, orchestrating events, applying pressure, pulling strings, ‘making things happen’.
In Judaic esoteric tradition for example, there are dozen or so wise men, or ‘Men of Virtue’, who remains unknown to the multitude, found scattered across the globe, and whose righteousness so pleases God that they think it is the sole factor persuading Him to keep the cosmos intact. In other words they, by their power, hold reality together.
In certain forms of Buddhism, as well as theosophy and anthroposophy, a similar function is performed by the so called “Secret Masters’, endowed with a supernatural wisdom and power, who reincarnate from epoch to epoch and are said to reside in some mystical city hidden in the Himalayas.
IT’S A GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY
When words like:
• Illegal search and seizure,
• Planted evidence,
• Habeas corpus,
• Electronic surveillance,
• Wire-tapping,
• Covert operation,
• Scalpel,
• Media hype, but better known as Propaganda,
• ‘survey says that the approval rating of…’,
• ‘Neither confirmed nor deny’,
• The single gunman theory,
• A threat to national security,
• And the theme of ‘Midnight in the garden of Good and Elvis”
becomes an everyday common conversation piece.
THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT!
The name used to frighten us. But the picture somehow has change, it no more has a pair of horns, standing on hooves, with twirling tail, and reptile-skin man holding a pitchfork, than God has a long white beard, sitting on clouds and hurling thunderbolts down.
The name now only suggest the picture of a burly man with well-trimmed mustache and blow dried hair, who would at the slightest provocation starts wearing velvet tuxedoes and frilly shirt fronts and would have to be forcibly restrain from commenting on boxing matches.
Remember, if you cannot beat them, it doesn’t mean you have to join them.
The devil doesn’t change, the devil changes you!
CHAPTER 2 WHAT THE HELL IS IT?
IT IS A TALENT
Artist have this grand design and talent for timing when to bring down the curtain at the precise plot requirement of the performance.
But the artistry in doing cover up had no majestic arrangement.
Unsubmitted even to the requirement of a plot, it lacks coherence.
The performance is ultimately meaningless.
IT IS A HABIT
It may be:
• An obsessive compulsive behavior,
• A mental habitude of not thinking things are not going to go wrong that gives it the appearance that it’s always right,
• Or, it’s just the attitude of an old man who continues putting off some unpleasant business from day to day, yet knows it must be done, hates to set about it, wishes it over, and is continuously haunted with the thoughts of its necessity.
IT IS THE BRIGHT HORIZON OF THE PEOPLE
But a horizon is an imaginary line that gets farther and farther away as the observer tries to reach it.
Remember, doing cover up is not a way of life; it is just an easy way out.
IT IS A TEMPTATION
A perfidious pronouncements that harkens right back to that first innocent sentence uttered in history: “Come on, its’ only an apple, have a bite.”
The chief vice of every egalitarian society is envy. This constant comparing is really the quintessence of vulgarity.
IT IS THE VOLUPTOUS RUBBING OF TWO INTESTINES
All through man’s history, there has been a competition between the safe and the adventurous, the fully informed and to be informed, between the pattern set for all men, and the glimmer of gleam for men to follow.
IT IS THE BEST ARGUMENT FOR BIRTH CONTROL
Within any logical system, no matter how rigidly structured, there are always questions that cannot be answered with certainty; contradictions that maybe discovered, and error that may lurk. The certainty was not merely accidental; it was embedded in nature itself, and it was always there inescapable.
Whatever comes up must have been down there.
IT IS A PSEUDO-SACRAMENT
(It needs to be elevated into a level of spirituality)
• It is an inward sign,
• Instituted by a malevolent force,
• And it gives no sanctifying grace.
IT IS A VOCATION
The call starts with a knock on your door. You don’t who it is but you know who’s it for.
Everyone’s invited to become a dynamite-fisher out of man. One requirement though, you must have the proper degree of intestinal fortitude.
IT IS, IN A WAY, REAL EVIL
A razor blade dipped in honey. One of the characteristic of evil is its desire to confuse. The only power that the devil has is through human belief in its lies.
BUT, IT IS STILL MAN-MADE
In spite of being diabolically inspired, it is still artificial. It is not yet pure evil; much of it is still man. But even after you shook it up, it is still bad medicine. It is, wholly, a bundle of contradictions patched-up and put together just to save one’s skin.
Some people gives you the drive, the rest drives you crazy.
Artist have this grand design and talent for timing when to bring down the curtain at the precise plot requirement of the performance.
But the artistry in doing cover up had no majestic arrangement.
Unsubmitted even to the requirement of a plot, it lacks coherence.
The performance is ultimately meaningless.
IT IS A HABIT
It may be:
• An obsessive compulsive behavior,
• A mental habitude of not thinking things are not going to go wrong that gives it the appearance that it’s always right,
• Or, it’s just the attitude of an old man who continues putting off some unpleasant business from day to day, yet knows it must be done, hates to set about it, wishes it over, and is continuously haunted with the thoughts of its necessity.
IT IS THE BRIGHT HORIZON OF THE PEOPLE
But a horizon is an imaginary line that gets farther and farther away as the observer tries to reach it.
Remember, doing cover up is not a way of life; it is just an easy way out.
IT IS A TEMPTATION
A perfidious pronouncements that harkens right back to that first innocent sentence uttered in history: “Come on, its’ only an apple, have a bite.”
The chief vice of every egalitarian society is envy. This constant comparing is really the quintessence of vulgarity.
IT IS THE VOLUPTOUS RUBBING OF TWO INTESTINES
All through man’s history, there has been a competition between the safe and the adventurous, the fully informed and to be informed, between the pattern set for all men, and the glimmer of gleam for men to follow.
IT IS THE BEST ARGUMENT FOR BIRTH CONTROL
Within any logical system, no matter how rigidly structured, there are always questions that cannot be answered with certainty; contradictions that maybe discovered, and error that may lurk. The certainty was not merely accidental; it was embedded in nature itself, and it was always there inescapable.
Whatever comes up must have been down there.
IT IS A PSEUDO-SACRAMENT
(It needs to be elevated into a level of spirituality)
• It is an inward sign,
• Instituted by a malevolent force,
• And it gives no sanctifying grace.
IT IS A VOCATION
The call starts with a knock on your door. You don’t who it is but you know who’s it for.
Everyone’s invited to become a dynamite-fisher out of man. One requirement though, you must have the proper degree of intestinal fortitude.
IT IS, IN A WAY, REAL EVIL
A razor blade dipped in honey. One of the characteristic of evil is its desire to confuse. The only power that the devil has is through human belief in its lies.
BUT, IT IS STILL MAN-MADE
In spite of being diabolically inspired, it is still artificial. It is not yet pure evil; much of it is still man. But even after you shook it up, it is still bad medicine. It is, wholly, a bundle of contradictions patched-up and put together just to save one’s skin.
Some people gives you the drive, the rest drives you crazy.
Friday, April 24, 2009
CHAPTER 1 GENESIS
I. TO ARRIVED AT A NAME
For to come to term means “to arrived at a name.”
How does Webster’s Dictionary defined the word COVER UP?
Cover up is a concerted effort to keep an act or situation from being made public.
• Concerted means somebody agrees with somebody, is in harmony, unified
• Effort means to attempt, to push, the force used to move a resistance
• To keep an act or situation from being made public means somebody made a mistake and wants to hide a screw up, a fuck up (my apology to the politically correct readers), a blunder, a foul up.
Call it by any other name, it’s all the same. Every decision maker has the option to do it, or be guileless
II. PRACTITIONERS OF COVER UP
They come in all shapes and sizes. They are:
• Students and teachers,
• Philandering spouse,
• Those in the medical trade,
• The legal, judicial and law enforcement
• Head of religious organization,
• Crisis management expert,
• Politicians,
• CEO of a small company,
• President of a country,
• Rocket scientist,
• Ranking brass in the outfit,
• Accountants,
• Warehouse custodian,
• Marketing people,
• Head of quality control,
• Groundskeeper of a miniature golf course,
• TV executives,
• People in authority,
• Including those who work for the ‘agency’.
They are, somewhat:
• Occult adept,
• Initiated in arcane science,
• Dabbler in esoteric arts,
• Inwardly animated more in the manner of some little quicksilver woodland creatures empowered by the forest most astute intelligence,
• Worthy rivals of Merlin,
• A study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
They could be anyone of us.
III. CREED OF A PRACTITIONER
What do they believed in?
They believed that the place that seems the most solid is the most unstable.
They realized that they are living on top of an active volcano, in a small island,
in the middle of a big ocean,
and at the center of forces of great strength in which everything is accomplished in accordance with well determined cycles.
They have found that the old secured foundations have crumbled, things have fallen apart,
the center no longer holds,
and everybody is lost in a dark cave seeking a justification that no longer exists for anyone.
They believed that we are now living in an age in which all liberation has been accomplished,
All barriers turn down,
And all limits abolished.
Beneath the frenzied self-indulgence of the era,
There lurked a sense of desperation,
An often-frantic terror at the absence of meaning,
The uncertainty of all knowledge,
The impossibility of saying definitely what or even what one knew.
Meaning and knowledge become as relative, an unstable, and as provisional as everything else.
They have discovered for themselves that truth can be twisted, and facts can be manipulated.
It’s the extreme thrill,
The greatest escape of it all.
The ultimate ride of their short miserable life,
A meandering human experience.
How far can one go?
IV. SEEDS
The story begins in the days of the temple of Jerusalem, when the high priest offered sacrifices for the expiation of the people’s sins.
During the ritual, the priest placed his hands upon a goat as he confessed the sins.
The goat was taken into the wilderness and thrown over a precipe.
The concept of the scapegoat, that is, someone who bears the blame of others originated in this ceremony.
Man’s history is dotted with events of cover up:
• From Adam, taking a sound bite at the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil at the Garden of Eden,
• To the cross at Golgotha where Christ received his last temptation,
• From the disclosure of the bogus donation of Constantine,
• To the recently accepted truth by the Roman Catholic hierarchy of Galileo’s discovery,
• From Torquemada’s Spanish inquisition,
• To the event that led to Luther’s reformation movement,
• From JFK’s single gunman theory,
• To Nixon’s Saturday night massacre.
Man has been practicing this surreptitious activity.
Along with the inception of man’s belief in his duality,
Believing that there has to be a “Necessary evil” in this world.
An antagonist,
A tormentor,
Man’s twin.
It is still an ongoing story.
Twisting,
Tangling,
Intertwine,
Evolving into something new,
Surpassing creation,
Perfecting it.
To master his fate,
To be at the mercy of no one,
To be the slave of no King,
No need of a divinity.
Such is the deceit man has fashioned,
His own craft.
Only he alone could make it up,
Only man.
For to come to term means “to arrived at a name.”
How does Webster’s Dictionary defined the word COVER UP?
Cover up is a concerted effort to keep an act or situation from being made public.
• Concerted means somebody agrees with somebody, is in harmony, unified
• Effort means to attempt, to push, the force used to move a resistance
• To keep an act or situation from being made public means somebody made a mistake and wants to hide a screw up, a fuck up (my apology to the politically correct readers), a blunder, a foul up.
Call it by any other name, it’s all the same. Every decision maker has the option to do it, or be guileless
II. PRACTITIONERS OF COVER UP
They come in all shapes and sizes. They are:
• Students and teachers,
• Philandering spouse,
• Those in the medical trade,
• The legal, judicial and law enforcement
• Head of religious organization,
• Crisis management expert,
• Politicians,
• CEO of a small company,
• President of a country,
• Rocket scientist,
• Ranking brass in the outfit,
• Accountants,
• Warehouse custodian,
• Marketing people,
• Head of quality control,
• Groundskeeper of a miniature golf course,
• TV executives,
• People in authority,
• Including those who work for the ‘agency’.
They are, somewhat:
• Occult adept,
• Initiated in arcane science,
• Dabbler in esoteric arts,
• Inwardly animated more in the manner of some little quicksilver woodland creatures empowered by the forest most astute intelligence,
• Worthy rivals of Merlin,
• A study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
They could be anyone of us.
III. CREED OF A PRACTITIONER
What do they believed in?
They believed that the place that seems the most solid is the most unstable.
They realized that they are living on top of an active volcano, in a small island,
in the middle of a big ocean,
and at the center of forces of great strength in which everything is accomplished in accordance with well determined cycles.
They have found that the old secured foundations have crumbled, things have fallen apart,
the center no longer holds,
and everybody is lost in a dark cave seeking a justification that no longer exists for anyone.
They believed that we are now living in an age in which all liberation has been accomplished,
All barriers turn down,
And all limits abolished.
Beneath the frenzied self-indulgence of the era,
There lurked a sense of desperation,
An often-frantic terror at the absence of meaning,
The uncertainty of all knowledge,
The impossibility of saying definitely what or even what one knew.
Meaning and knowledge become as relative, an unstable, and as provisional as everything else.
They have discovered for themselves that truth can be twisted, and facts can be manipulated.
It’s the extreme thrill,
The greatest escape of it all.
The ultimate ride of their short miserable life,
A meandering human experience.
How far can one go?
IV. SEEDS
The story begins in the days of the temple of Jerusalem, when the high priest offered sacrifices for the expiation of the people’s sins.
During the ritual, the priest placed his hands upon a goat as he confessed the sins.
The goat was taken into the wilderness and thrown over a precipe.
The concept of the scapegoat, that is, someone who bears the blame of others originated in this ceremony.
Man’s history is dotted with events of cover up:
• From Adam, taking a sound bite at the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil at the Garden of Eden,
• To the cross at Golgotha where Christ received his last temptation,
• From the disclosure of the bogus donation of Constantine,
• To the recently accepted truth by the Roman Catholic hierarchy of Galileo’s discovery,
• From Torquemada’s Spanish inquisition,
• To the event that led to Luther’s reformation movement,
• From JFK’s single gunman theory,
• To Nixon’s Saturday night massacre.
Man has been practicing this surreptitious activity.
Along with the inception of man’s belief in his duality,
Believing that there has to be a “Necessary evil” in this world.
An antagonist,
A tormentor,
Man’s twin.
It is still an ongoing story.
Twisting,
Tangling,
Intertwine,
Evolving into something new,
Surpassing creation,
Perfecting it.
To master his fate,
To be at the mercy of no one,
To be the slave of no King,
No need of a divinity.
Such is the deceit man has fashioned,
His own craft.
Only he alone could make it up,
Only man.
IMPETUS FOR WRITING THIS DARN THING
“The greatest happiness of the thinking man is
to have fathomed what can be fathomed and quietly
to reverence what is unfathomable.” – Goethe
This handbook is dangerous!
It is the story of a very old menace,
And a personal encounter with everyday evil.
I entrust that after you read this book
you will put it to good use.
In the process of writing this handbook it had brought me much anxiety and stress, It has been a curse.
Because I have to relived the bad and depressing memories all over again and put everything on print.
I am neither a psychiatrist nor a psychologist. And I am certainly not a novelist; I have never published anything before in my life.
This is my attempt of putting something to rest.
The story began one day when I was at work. I have been connected with the company for only a couple of years, (blah blah blah, yapity-yap, bara bing bara bang),
In other words I was still disposable.
Cutting right into the heart of the crap, I was a victim of a cover up.
I felt helpless then.
I thought I really knew the guy (who set me up).
What could I do? All evidence was aimed right at me.
Even the people around me were spellbound, they were a no help at all.
And the boss, a fool, believed him without even completely hearing me out.
After all the commotions, he got-off. I ended up as the fall guy, apologized to everybody, bowed my head to the boss, mea culpa.
What I wanted to do is to quit work, find a shaman, and hire an assassin.
The guy to me was pretty much knowledgeable in his craft, and I knew zilch, I was naive.
But the execution of the cover up was perfect, it was well thought and well planned. Even his co-conspirator was very convincing. To be that adept they must have been practicing it for a very long time.
The effect was also subtle. I lost my appetite, have trouble sleeping. Were it not for the support of my family I wouldn’t stand the heat for so long. I’d rather quit the job and go on with my life. But a good humor-man is not easily let down. And that’s how this writing about the cover up thing got started.
The experience also opened my eyes into some dark realm nobody’s talking about.
I have tapped into a vent of an old underground stream that has been flowing ever since creation.
I have explored the area.
Many have attempted to survey this dark region but their discovery had only awakened a small group of interested people. In this handbook I will attempt to do more.
No I won’t be talking about a government conspiracy to hide the fact that UFOs and aliens from another planet does exist. (I believed they do exist and that there has been some cattle mutilations and human abductions, and their common revelations have shed light to the fact that people in authority are trying to hide the truth that UFOs are ill-equipped with toilet seats.)
The content of this handbook is simple:
How to become a novice in doing cover up.
What are some of the methods and tactics in perfecting it, and for sorry victims-how to recognized one.
Plus a bonus! A detoxification, rehabilitation and release program for non-card carrying and non due paying members of cover-up practitioners anonymous.
It’s presented here in capsule form, free of calories, rich in minerals, full of vitamins.
Its additives and preservatives are within safe limits. It is a potion that is neither new nor original.
Each reader must find the best prescription for absorbing the content of this work.
Some may require a few hours cure,
some a few days,
others a few weeks.
The longer the therapy the greater the need for it.
All of us suffer from varying degrees of malnutrition from the truth.
One way to read this book is with open pores and quiet, very silent breathing.
I charge you with the authority to take time to read it thoroughly. For it is very possible that certain chapters do not stand by themselves but require the explanation given in other chapters to complete their meaning.
As for the busy bodies, I would just as soon they never laid eyes on this handbook. I had no intention of writing for them and prefer that they do not meddle with this thing.
This applies also to the merely curious, educated or not. They may be good by the standards of their active life, but this handbook is not suited for their needs.
Why call this thing “A HANDBOOK ON COVER UP”?
My first thought was to title it “HOW TO LIVE AS AN ASSHOLE AMONG ASSHOLE UNDER AN ASSHOLE”, but I think the former is much better.
About the style of writing-
Why write in gibberish?
Moralizing behind social science jargon.
As a non-conformist to the old tribal niche method of writing,
it is an enigma for the vulgar, but chamber music to the initiated.
A metaphysical expresses a complex thought or emotion through an image, which at first seems far-fetched or paradoxical.
Some earthmen have made it their lifework to ferret out the operating principles that govern the frustrating lives we mortals live, this handbook is one of them.
There is no such thing as a simple cover up.
Everything is as complicated as pouring water onto a glass, it requires precision and timing.
This is another mystery to unravel,
one more puzzle to solve.
It is time to put it out into the open, to give it a name.
Rarely have a Don Quixote tilted so zealously against one giant windmill.
And lest I be accused of plagiarism, I confess that most of what is discussed here has already been written by someone else.
No recent book about the world wide experience of modernity seems to be as thoughtful and provocative as Dr. M. Scott Peck’s PEOPLE OF THE LIE (Arrow, 1999).
I have not met its author, but I have engaged Dr. Peck in many silent conversations in the watches of the night.
The handbook also contains some reflections from various writers, rationalization that ranges from the simple to the obnoxious and the downright absurd; in anyway just keep up with it.
But a bad handbook about a good subject like cover up is still a bad handbook, even if it is about a good subject.
Modern quantum physicists have discovered that the mere fact of observing a particle affects that particle in some fundamental manners, and that it is impossible to separate the observer from the observed. It is also an old maxim of science that once you answer a question, others immediately take it place.
COVER UP PRACTITIONERS BEWARE!
There are sentient beings-
SENTINELS,
a highly evolved chosen few who could sense and detect a cover up.
They have that thousand meter stare, and sustain a spirit of righteousness.
Be finical and observant of them,
because it would mean your downfall.
These are men of true courage,
who regarded this life as a kind of service they must render to nature,
undergo it with reluctance, and hasten to release our spirit from the enslaving body.
The desire for immortality impels them to inform their fellowmen.
In ending this long prologue, the experience of writing about a subject like cover up gave me some release.
It has been my source of comfort that every time I see a cover up is being committed and sees a victim lying around trying to pick-up the pieces of himself,
I conjecture up a thought,
hold it in mind to see its merits, until I have the time to open up this computer and pound my ideas into it.
In parting, I am still connected with the company, and the two old guys are still up to it, it has been their way of escaping responsibilities ever since.
The boss is still a nincompoop, but I have learned to recognize their M.O. whenever they try to victimize somebody.
I have avoided several attempts from being targeted again.
I haven’t had my revenge yet, but if this thing ever gets published, it will be my way of getting even with them.
It has been my desire to expose this cover up practitioners.
Not contented with the mediocre I shall pant after the highest.
Abandon all hope yea who read this kind of stuff.
“Et in arcadia ego…”
to have fathomed what can be fathomed and quietly
to reverence what is unfathomable.” – Goethe
This handbook is dangerous!
It is the story of a very old menace,
And a personal encounter with everyday evil.
I entrust that after you read this book
you will put it to good use.
In the process of writing this handbook it had brought me much anxiety and stress, It has been a curse.
Because I have to relived the bad and depressing memories all over again and put everything on print.
I am neither a psychiatrist nor a psychologist. And I am certainly not a novelist; I have never published anything before in my life.
This is my attempt of putting something to rest.
The story began one day when I was at work. I have been connected with the company for only a couple of years, (blah blah blah, yapity-yap, bara bing bara bang),
In other words I was still disposable.
Cutting right into the heart of the crap, I was a victim of a cover up.
I felt helpless then.
I thought I really knew the guy (who set me up).
What could I do? All evidence was aimed right at me.
Even the people around me were spellbound, they were a no help at all.
And the boss, a fool, believed him without even completely hearing me out.
After all the commotions, he got-off. I ended up as the fall guy, apologized to everybody, bowed my head to the boss, mea culpa.
What I wanted to do is to quit work, find a shaman, and hire an assassin.
The guy to me was pretty much knowledgeable in his craft, and I knew zilch, I was naive.
But the execution of the cover up was perfect, it was well thought and well planned. Even his co-conspirator was very convincing. To be that adept they must have been practicing it for a very long time.
The effect was also subtle. I lost my appetite, have trouble sleeping. Were it not for the support of my family I wouldn’t stand the heat for so long. I’d rather quit the job and go on with my life. But a good humor-man is not easily let down. And that’s how this writing about the cover up thing got started.
The experience also opened my eyes into some dark realm nobody’s talking about.
I have tapped into a vent of an old underground stream that has been flowing ever since creation.
I have explored the area.
Many have attempted to survey this dark region but their discovery had only awakened a small group of interested people. In this handbook I will attempt to do more.
No I won’t be talking about a government conspiracy to hide the fact that UFOs and aliens from another planet does exist. (I believed they do exist and that there has been some cattle mutilations and human abductions, and their common revelations have shed light to the fact that people in authority are trying to hide the truth that UFOs are ill-equipped with toilet seats.)
The content of this handbook is simple:
How to become a novice in doing cover up.
What are some of the methods and tactics in perfecting it, and for sorry victims-how to recognized one.
Plus a bonus! A detoxification, rehabilitation and release program for non-card carrying and non due paying members of cover-up practitioners anonymous.
It’s presented here in capsule form, free of calories, rich in minerals, full of vitamins.
Its additives and preservatives are within safe limits. It is a potion that is neither new nor original.
Each reader must find the best prescription for absorbing the content of this work.
Some may require a few hours cure,
some a few days,
others a few weeks.
The longer the therapy the greater the need for it.
All of us suffer from varying degrees of malnutrition from the truth.
One way to read this book is with open pores and quiet, very silent breathing.
I charge you with the authority to take time to read it thoroughly. For it is very possible that certain chapters do not stand by themselves but require the explanation given in other chapters to complete their meaning.
As for the busy bodies, I would just as soon they never laid eyes on this handbook. I had no intention of writing for them and prefer that they do not meddle with this thing.
This applies also to the merely curious, educated or not. They may be good by the standards of their active life, but this handbook is not suited for their needs.
Why call this thing “A HANDBOOK ON COVER UP”?
My first thought was to title it “HOW TO LIVE AS AN ASSHOLE AMONG ASSHOLE UNDER AN ASSHOLE”, but I think the former is much better.
About the style of writing-
Why write in gibberish?
Moralizing behind social science jargon.
As a non-conformist to the old tribal niche method of writing,
it is an enigma for the vulgar, but chamber music to the initiated.
A metaphysical expresses a complex thought or emotion through an image, which at first seems far-fetched or paradoxical.
Some earthmen have made it their lifework to ferret out the operating principles that govern the frustrating lives we mortals live, this handbook is one of them.
There is no such thing as a simple cover up.
Everything is as complicated as pouring water onto a glass, it requires precision and timing.
This is another mystery to unravel,
one more puzzle to solve.
It is time to put it out into the open, to give it a name.
Rarely have a Don Quixote tilted so zealously against one giant windmill.
And lest I be accused of plagiarism, I confess that most of what is discussed here has already been written by someone else.
No recent book about the world wide experience of modernity seems to be as thoughtful and provocative as Dr. M. Scott Peck’s PEOPLE OF THE LIE (Arrow, 1999).
I have not met its author, but I have engaged Dr. Peck in many silent conversations in the watches of the night.
The handbook also contains some reflections from various writers, rationalization that ranges from the simple to the obnoxious and the downright absurd; in anyway just keep up with it.
But a bad handbook about a good subject like cover up is still a bad handbook, even if it is about a good subject.
Modern quantum physicists have discovered that the mere fact of observing a particle affects that particle in some fundamental manners, and that it is impossible to separate the observer from the observed. It is also an old maxim of science that once you answer a question, others immediately take it place.
COVER UP PRACTITIONERS BEWARE!
There are sentient beings-
SENTINELS,
a highly evolved chosen few who could sense and detect a cover up.
They have that thousand meter stare, and sustain a spirit of righteousness.
Be finical and observant of them,
because it would mean your downfall.
These are men of true courage,
who regarded this life as a kind of service they must render to nature,
undergo it with reluctance, and hasten to release our spirit from the enslaving body.
The desire for immortality impels them to inform their fellowmen.
In ending this long prologue, the experience of writing about a subject like cover up gave me some release.
It has been my source of comfort that every time I see a cover up is being committed and sees a victim lying around trying to pick-up the pieces of himself,
I conjecture up a thought,
hold it in mind to see its merits, until I have the time to open up this computer and pound my ideas into it.
In parting, I am still connected with the company, and the two old guys are still up to it, it has been their way of escaping responsibilities ever since.
The boss is still a nincompoop, but I have learned to recognize their M.O. whenever they try to victimize somebody.
I have avoided several attempts from being targeted again.
I haven’t had my revenge yet, but if this thing ever gets published, it will be my way of getting even with them.
It has been my desire to expose this cover up practitioners.
Not contented with the mediocre I shall pant after the highest.
Abandon all hope yea who read this kind of stuff.
“Et in arcadia ego…”
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