Ammunition dump for a war of words

With the dawning of the information age and a mass sense of political awareness not foreseen, or perhaps dreaded, by the ruling classes of our past, comes an era where everything that has previously been taken for granted is systematically open for questioning and debate. The extent to which this awareness includes consideration of modern capitalist democracies and their place in our world, not to mention their stronghold on the world’s material wealth, has yet to be seen.

In the centuries hence, the masses have been bred on the doctrine that what is to be accepted as the norm is, without question, the way things should be. Religious and political institutions were founded upon the conservative notion that the ideas that form their basis should not easily be open to change. This notion well suited those in positions of power within these institutions, and their associates and families, to the continuing detriment of the subordinate classes.

In the same way in which the church denied the phenomenon of biological evolution to protect her intellectual assets, the embodiment of political thinking is in danger of missing the boat with regard to the evolution of the market and information culture in general. The Internet, an institution founded upon the ethos of free and easy access to information for all, has little need for such patriarchal protection of her assets. Indeed, alternative visions and supplemental versions of reality do little to threaten its continued existence, nor do they interfere with the informative power it has over us in our daily lives.

Our selfish genes did not think to inform their carriers of their tendency to mutate – we had to guess from the evidence that we had evolved. However, upon brief inspection, the evolution of information makes no attempt at hiding its capacity to transform the light by which we see the world. Information being the gene, and so it follows that technology is the carrier, the PC is a case in point. What began its life as an efficient form of office stationary with a built-in filing cabinet has rapidly mutated into a library, a high street shopping mall, public meeting place, etc., not to mention a virtual death trap for reality escape artists. If it’s potential as a political rallying point should not be underestimated, then neither should its proposed use as a ballot box be ignored.

In order that the individual may internally adjust to the external reality of all that our political ancestors have kindly, but inadvertently, gifted us with, and before we may rightly accept it as being the most productive and adaptive reality there is for all, we must first explore the alternatives. These might include speculations of what our world might be like in the absence, to varying degrees, of ideas that have in the past deliberately inhibited peace, prosperity, and progress for all, including those outside the ruling classes.

Assorted Quotes and Ramblings

If it weren't for the simplicity of light and shade, whole worlds would not be ruled but eternally in complexity.

Society is no dumb experiment without an evil laboratory technician.

We are all impoverished, where divine leadership concerns the lowly, but some of us find order in the meekness.

In matters of difficulty, to formulate is the thing that functions best.

Human nature is suppressed behind a veil of benevolent artificiality; its necessity always producing a truth for generations of its contingency to take note of in any era.  

Advisement is the form of rule one uses to look beyond the manifest creator of ideas of craziness, to seek that others might own them, for their minds, instead.

No one suspects having had happened across one's worst enemies plans when praising the divine, yet everyone offers willingly such blueprints to the same audience when the same praise is misunderstood. Its harder for a snake to bite its own tail than to loose one's own desire for youth, but then neither of these things are too difficult.

Civilisation maintains a principle of normality as cannot be enforced, but that, conspicuously, it becomes unto a secretive nature, as too often errs to override its truth rather than to contain its lie.

The conceit, as believes a lie -a worse such thing, as fault -than were it to be true- is a mirror, to look upon, for such things as are but only flaws.

Were it but that such ideas were open to question, for different classes of object and their subjective interpretation, a mob could plan a dream that they were kings, and kings but lowly puppets.

The escape route of being civilised is so too often imitated that it soon becomes its prison-hold, and what was once a blessing of an imagination, more fertile than feedings' need, then, becomes, a garden, overgrown with weeds.

It ought surprise us nothing, while there is as much complexity -at least- in the mind, as in the body -as each part of the body is connected -at least once- to the mind- that mind ought be allowed to function with the same normalities as has allowed cultures of our bodies to become quite a subject of mind's humour.

God's truths are simple, not in substance - but in style.

Tisn't easier to bully a reflection of youth, as physics discriminates not, and so a memory of youth is neither simpler to fool.

That we are censured in such things -ought strike us as more strange- than that ever we had cowardice to express our most innate feelings about God.

Oh no I'm left with the last word in argument, but yet the confusion reigns on!

The omelettes made by breaking the proverb's eggs were all vegetarian, obviously.

They're coming for you, bumblebees; the sunflowers and the daffodils, united, marching through the trees...There's a million things I'd do sooner than to entertain a state of disbelief.

Whenever it turns around, that words stare man's wit in the face -rather than, through need of norms in man's reticent nature: language, being, as it is- the accidence of his cleverness becomes as clear as his flaws.

I could feel feathers rustling, in my subconscious, as yearning, in their purpose -for ink- to become my necessity, whereupon the papal visit to a revolutionary, I did solemnly reflect. My imaginary crown did seem to fashion itself from newspapermen, whereupon the periscope of the submarine of the royal carriage of secrecy, I did furtively spy. With my bemused wonder, like the sort, perhaps, as has a pigeon for a piece of bread, I did subtly remark upon a question as struck me as time it were asked...whoever checks the dogs and the bumblebees when Noah must take their boarding passes?

As with the duty of any soldier, if made a prisoner of war, to escape - so it is the unconscionable goal of any civilian, if imprisoned, to discover by which such war they can be made so dutiful:- and, thus, if this is successful, redefine the art of civilisation.

The divine purpose in prohibiting to women the rights afforded to men might just be to redeem those 

rights in reclaiming them, and more. 

Stances in Debating Copyright

          Stances in Debating Copyright:

(1) The pragmatics of file conversion.
(2) Making an accurate copy.
(3) Forming a standard for copying in general.
(4) Preventing others from making money on your intellectual property.
(5) Costing others to access your intellectual property.
(6) Having to put bread on the table.

          The path in pros and cons to a common sense debating stance:

Stance of opposition of copyright:

 - proponents of (1),(2),(3), who recognise (4) as limiting
 - of these who don't recognise (5) as limiting
 - of these who find sympathy for (6)

Stance of proposition of copyright:

 - proponents of (4),(5),(6) who recognise (3) as limiting
 - of these who don't recognise (2) as limiting
 - of these who find sympathy for (1)

          Comparing contrasting extremes (6) & (1)

Those who want (6) to put bread on the table (or to their opponents harsh criticism more likely want to put swimming pools in their back gardens) find difficulty recognising (1) the pragmatics of file conversion as a basis in whatever reality they can seek to control with artificial laws of the materialist realm.

Those who pursue (1) the pragmatics of file conversion (or to their opponents harsh criticism more likely who will take whatever they can get their hands on without considering any moral outlook) find difficulty recognising (6) having to put bread on the table as a basis in whatever reality they can seek to control with natural laws of the virtual realm.

          The middle ground is more likely the more interesting argument*

Strong proposition of copyright (6), +(4), (5)

Those who should like (6) to put bread on the table should like to elevate the dangers of (4) preventing others from making money on your intellectual property [as a fundamental purpose of copyright], [which conveniently reveals a watershed in profitability of implementation of copyright, which is already quite profitable] so as that this justifies a stance of (5) costing others to access your intellectual property, in the first place.

Mild opposition of copyright (1) ->(4) -(5) [defence against above]

Those who should like to pursue (1) the pragmatics of file conversion would recognise sooner (4) preventing others from making money on your intellectual property than (5) costing others to access your intellectual property in the first place.

Strong opposition of copyright (1), +(3), (2)

Those who should like to pursue (1) the pragmatics of file conversion should like to elevate (3) forming a standard for copying in general [as a fundamental purpose of copyright] [which conveniently reveals a watershed in timeliness of implementation of copyright, which has already quite passed] so as that this justifies a stance of (2) making an accurate copy in the first place.

Mild proposition of copyright (6), ->(3), -(2) [defence against above]

Those who should like (6) to put bread on the table would recognise sooner (3) forming a standard for copying in general than (2) making an accurate copy in the first place.

          *Key to notation:

(#) various stances, listed above.
+(#) elevated stance (to support another argument).
->(#) sooner recognition of middle ground than extreme, reaching out.
-(#) stance negated by opponent as a valid one.

The more interesting argument than comparing and contrasting extremes slots into place quite artificially as a set of political stances, with one another's grammar also being in the firing line and the stuff of competition in debating. The same grammatical flow satisfies both sides, and so a claim to a stance as pretends to terminology is rife as a hotbed of thorny prickly issues, with some semantic conflict where definition would lack, or instead where the will to seek agreement between stances would lacking.

The strong proposition and opposition stances elevate the card in their hand, so as the card behind their backs seems mysteriously more fundamental in nature when revealing it in argument. Both sides claim the fundaments and the morals are on their side. One has a lot of money to show for this, and the other a watershed in time which has already passed. Whichever of these is stronger remains to be seen.

The milder defence against these stances then would aim toward that strong hand, and reach out toward the middle ground, toward the hidden concealed card the opponent in debate would play, while yet negating and rejecting going so far as to accept that nearest stance toward the extremes as a valid stance.

Poem: Whereby Wonder Suits

            Whereby Wonder Suits



                                                   Whereby wonder suits,

                                                   Particles clearly manifest a union;

                                                   Encouragement follows appropriately,

                                                   Self-questioning integrity,

                                                   In conditions for quietude,

                                                   Befitting of a gentleman;

                                                   Compatible with application’s visicitudes

                                                   of self-explanatoriness,

                                                   Becoming of an officer,

                                                   Conducive to being,

                                                   Self-evident in reason.

Poem: Struggle

 

         Struggle

            I see you lying on the ground,

            Your face in dirt and blood and tears;

            Fighting me off you bite my hand,

            I cannot get a grip;

            You kick me back but still I try,

            We’ve fought like this for years;

            You can’t see much with dirt in your eyes,

            I only wanted to help you up.

Poem: The Shadow and the Moonlight

                           

                                   
                        The Shadow and the Moonlight
                       
                       

                                    I see a shadow hiding

                                    From the moon by candlelight;

                                    Behind my hand he’s dancing,

                                    But not for her delight.

                                    Nearly, though, he shows her,

                                    As the moonlight is eclipsed

                                    By the candle burning closer

                                    To my eager fingertips.

                                    Ask, she may, for answers,

                                    In this mindless guessing game,

                                   Why the shadow never dances,

                                   In the twilight of the flame.

Poem: Sentence

Sentence

Alien foetus floats in scattered light,

The newborn climbs the cage.

Hatchlings hang from the heating pipes,

Polaroids recount the days

A plant bears its foliage in triumph,

This season’s natural selection

Of shared memories peddled, or pushed,

A copper throne to elation.

Poem: Inspire Me Again/The Bird and the Hurricane

Inspire Me Again/The Bird and the Hurricane

Strange how storms can hold a sway

On young creations’ wing;

The treasures that one blows away,

Another’s gusts will bring.

Misfortune fears his feathered fiend

To keep the wind at bay;

For if this bird is caught and preened,

A golden egg will lay.

Poem: Inverted Horizon

Inverted Horizon

Unperturbed gull,

Never tire of your squawk:

We know what they’ve done.

Those hard hatted soldiers,

Their anthills unfolding;

Envying the perspective you squander.

Behind cluttered skies,

Your daylight fades sooner,

And the nights pass star-less to dawn.

You glimpse beyond,

Where the quarry birds mourn

Their neighbours’ dreams’ fulfilment.

When will spring come

To this dormant nest

Where icicles hang from the edge of the Earth?

24 stories more credible than Irish Welfare

1. "Google Earth is used for the first time to dock someone's dole pay." 

2. "Government warns that anyone visiting a prostitute might be found out to be moonlighting the criteria necessary, also, for maintaining their dole AVAILABILITY."

3. "Because operating any machinery, even a light switch, is treated as sufficient proof of UNDECLARED WORK, and by the WILLINGNESS assuming of the SYSTEM'S DETERMINING MECHANISM, Facebook candidates who liked Justin Bieber are also being tagged to like Adolf Hitler; while only those who were detected disengaging Hitler's 'like button' were also targeted for being labelled as 'dole cheats'.

4. "Chimpanzees put themselves forward, recently, for AVAILABILITY for consideration to pass under the title of the human species; this was after noticing a loophole in criteria for a government dole scheme. This is following dolphins, only a short time ago, which have recently become suitable for dry land, by criteria of the same government scheme."

5. "Brad apologises to Angelina after confusion following discovery of Brad's AVAILABILITY to work, under Irish dole criteria. Although this can be proven through an Irish great grandmother, as distant relation, on his first cousin's side, Brad said that he had no particular WILLINGNESS to marry Irish. Under Irish dole scheme guidelines, Brad could yet be adjudged as AVAILABLE for WORK, though whether the relationship might WORK is not yet covered by the scheme. Should the Irish government outsource their representation at the UN as SUITABLE also for spouses, by standards of the scheme, he could do well, nonetheless, to avoid being caught cheating." 

6. "Their SUITABILITY as witnesses in hindsight of the Michael Jackson malpractice trial is proven for four Chinese panda bears, today, at Dublin Zoo. This was by an Irish Welfare dole eligibility criterion, though an Irish minister was UNAVAILABLE for comment on the relevance of the usefulness of the scheme. The Irish minister also claimed it was irrelevant, at the time when spoken to, that he was holding a bamboo stick under his arm."

7. "Their AVAILABILITY to be used as under-water weapons is being tested, this week, of swimming monkeys. This is after proving their AVAILABILITY through a set of criteria designed for testing eligibility for Irish dole. A spokesperson for the Irish Government Department running the scheme said there were no such monkeys working at its offices."

8. "Due to a high number of dole recipients also being means-tested for shares in the stock exchange on diamond markets, Ireland is to be included further in The Coalition of the Willing. This is whether or not its Government wishes it to."

9. "Their WILLINGNESS to have gone to war, and thus, it being their own blame, as implication, is proven by Iraqi citizens being tested for Irish dole eligibility. The minister also thanked the stringent application criteria for detecting war-crimes in Afghanistan."

10. "Decided under zoning laws, rather than on a basis of their AVAILABILITY for work, space shuttle missions landings will now not take place on the M50. This comes as the minister has already signed-off on its contract for a dole intervention scheme on Mars. Should any martians be proven to exist, and be AVAILABLE TO WORK, they might, said a government spokesperson, be slaves to the Irish constitutional remit already in force for commanding its sovereign territorial claim at the North Pole."

11. "The minister's AVAILABILITY as a spy, to China, is proven by that she wasn't in her own backyard at the time."

12. "Space monkeys, also known to relate well with dolphins, are feared might contract malaria on their return trip to Earth, as their spacecraft passes over several countries in North Africa before splashdown in The Pacific Ocean, Thursday. A Spokesperson for the recent Government scheme said criteria of AVAILABILITY, used in its initial surveys, prove that the monkeys in question were not up their trees at the time. This means, the spokesperson, also mentioned, that they were therefore AVAILABLE to be contracted for the disease, and so the government are treating it as very serious."

13. "AVAILABILITY for comment is proven by the location of a minister for state, at last. The minister, however was found not to be SUITABLE."

14. "Ex-president Bush was AVAILABLE, today, for comment on cheating the dole system, but not on whether he would judge his counterpart, Obama's landing, from India last week, based solely upon the perspective of spatial reasoning gained through the Irish Welfare System, and its ELIGIBILITY guidelines for approving dole; 'the WILLINGNESS of the Government to contract airline pilots', he said, 'whether this means that outsourcing them must come first, or not, or, on an ongoing basis, to find paid positions under state, or over it, is more important, a topic, considered under conditions of free market enterprise'."

15. “For the four days which passed while astronauts were on moon, AVAILABILITY to contract malaria was outsourced to the North Koreans. This was rewarded for proving ELIGIBILITY to contract, by a criterion of an Irish dole scheme. Irish government spokespersons were unwilling to comment on the significance of the powers in question."

 

 16. "Cause and effect is proven, this week, by scientists, to incorporate a chain of fools. This is after governments are observed, in a Theatre of the Absurd, to be ruling to the whims of a macro-determinacy, concerning nominal monetary prices, instead of with common sense. Mismanagement of a baseline in a market for ignorance, borne out by statistical absurdity, shows what one commentator described as a cause of 'plain-chant hymns' seeming remarkably prayer-like to be going on, in some market rates. 'Its like bandits and thieves have taken over the Temple of the Angels in the City of God', he remarked, remaining surprisingly nonchalant about the implications of what he was saying. Though this divine “music of the market” is thought to originate in an ephemeral realm, its physical manifestations are felt to be persistent without relent, describable only - by what he termed - as effects of what are, 'foreign disease-causing-microbes', becoming AVAILABLE in Irish airspace. 'These friendly-fire bacteria are observable using citizens as human shields', he said, 'not as changing proportionately or commensurately with any propaganda tool the War on Terror can throw at us, or any other war for that matter...besides, maybe, the music used in some commercially branded toiletries and cosmetics advertisements.' He considered this understandable, referring to the moral stake in human affairs of heresy, down throughout the ages, but, rather, instead, advised of threats exist relating diminutively with governance by a 'force of stupidity' to be more likely merely the cause of halitosis in the small numbers of those that are affected physically. Besides this, the intricacy of the causal chain unearths itself as simply attributable to an immoral claim upon any sovereign right to rule to begin with. 'This is typical of conditions of a media state which are also peculiarly oppressive', the spokesperson for the Irish Entomological Association, said, as he remarked also that, as he was 'without any papers' he could not so prove that such AVAILABILITY was not primarily contracted, instead, to the whims of a Colonel Gaddafi's attempt to oust foreign rule, as originally, this source, at least, might have feared, was the obvious and more likely basis for what was observed going on."

17. "The freedom of mobility of outsourced flea circus insects is being interfered with by Irish Dole scheme Chiefs, though this is not connected to a fearful bid to regulate their AVAILABILITY to be contracted as Lilliputian slaves. In a cut-throat diamond-market revenge-style plot, which unfurled under the scheme's GUIDELINES, the same insects were reputed to have promised to haunt zones of Irish dole recipiency, if not fed the right foodstuff, and not kept at the appropriate temperatures. While, unless Irish government spokespersons can assure us differently, said an insider, only those insects which are not proven AVAILABLE for work will not contain malaria. The commentator then remarked, 'the market for information concerning Government Welfare schemes seems unsure what to do next'."

18. "Unless the mosquito can prove ELIGIBILITY, by simple STANDARDS of not being on the right continent, to be responsible for the causing of any disease, then it is 'safe to say' that one can also eat tomatoes from any such 'concerning foreign territory', says a minister, continuing, 'as long as it is by government offices reporting such concerns, to be believed as accurate, then I would agree that you think that to be the case'."  

19. "Contracts for growing bananas go to spiders, as, having more limbs, they are assumed also to have, AVAILABILITY for more hands. This is according to means tests based upon ELIGIBILITY criteria in Irish Dole schemes. A minister for state in the Department in question replied 'no comment' when asked if this is reflects how things in the 21st century are assumed might work, when no-one is looking."

20. "Suspicion grows, lately, of the AVAILABILITY of a strain of the Ebola virus, to contract itself to a form threatening human victims. This comes after a discovery, in an Irish Dole Office, of mould growing over some perishable goods, found in the belongings of a dole recipient. The goods were detected while the recipient was queuing, and contained a bug which was found in a lunchbox he was carrying, proving, a Spokesperson claimed, under a criterion of AVAILABILITY, also their ELIGIBILITY to work. 'He could have been working as a terrorist', claimed the government spokesperson."

21. "An ordinary worker feels his job is threatened as proof arose of his leaving the county on one of his days off, for the purposes of holiday-making. The self-employed worker was found to have given himself the holiday, and thus was also deducted EUR 44 in his claim for self-employment allowance under a welfare scheme brought in to encourage initiative amongst the workforce. 'These people don't know what they are doing', remarked an official in the Department."

22. "An Irish Government department office today announced it will not decide its daily rota by swapping remits for times and schedules of Dole Office workers with standby airline passengers from Hongkong, or even randomly, as some had preferred the strategy of. A spokesperson denied that this might be as the roster was outsourced at late notice, and added a vehement denial that any hand-to-hand combat or 'any other contact' was assuming of the contract in question. The physics of spatial reasoning is a very important issue, the spokesperson, added, before doing a backflip and leaving the interview area."

23. "Considering conditions of interpretation of AVAILABILITY criteria for Job-seekers Allowance, a wealthy businessman, today, indicated his uncertainty, and said that he denies any knowledge of why Irish dole offices might soon be reported as having outsourced their workers from behind glass windows to a fictional bank on its lunch-break in Las Vegas. He also declined to comment on when he thinks further opportunities for convenient and timely scheduled work might arise."

24. "A Government schedule for the minister's jet is to be decided by coordinating it with feeding times of panda bears in a Chinese zoo. A Government chief whip had to change flight plans, last week, after nutritionists for the panda bears reported a change in their preferred foodstuff."