Watching the new series confirms the feeling that the “good heroes” are just as arrogant as Skeletor, although more kind and willing to share sometimes with a limited circle. It does seem as though the makers of the original minicomics wanted that connection between ancient wisdom and ancestral death, by having a skull-headed leader want a skull castle.
Im more a fan of the original series, but i enjoy watching the newer shows as well. None of them are going to please everyone, i dont think. It is a wise point to remember that everyone is a critic, and so society is sick that way. Also these franchise brands are Capitalist consumer products, made for a few to get rich while the rest of us fight for scraps of power; so they are tainted with that at their core LOL. To me the value is imagination no matter the price or condition of the product.
As a stock trader, i have learned there are paid agents deliberately trying to destroy the value of a company and their shares for sure. Us Apes are currently at war with short-sellers for the sake of our economy and investors. The enemy publishes hit pieces on hundreds of companies daily, hoping to smear competition brands or as many as they are short. So grumpy critics are not always being honest about hating on things; they can be in jealous self-denial about their personal opinions, and they can be paid contractor bashers (like military mercenaries).
Joseph Campbell understood the complexity of mythical lore, although he also wanted to distill some common themes for the sake of simplicity and education. We can remember long stories and sagas from the past, but what we make of them and learn from them and teach to children is more epic. In Masters of the Universe (MOTU) the skull is deliberately used to evoke our cultural feelings about old things, death, and dying. Yet the writers chose to make it an illusion to hide the secret Wisdom of the Council of Elders. The power of the people and the planet of Eternia (the center of their Universe) is kept from the general public, by the ancient legacy of protecting the power from abuse. The main theme being that the wise dead leaders (who are also immortal in the after-life) want to stop tyrants from taking over, because cruel sadistic egotists do not have enough compassion to represent the best interests of the population.
I was in a Facebook commercial fan group called ‘Heman and MOTU Fans’, that advertises for a major toy website for online purchases. They have strict rules that does not allow artists to advertise their own work, which is common because most people cannot recognize it from unwanted spam. This is a problem in a Capitalist system where we are expected to “sell ourselves” and to follow our dreams we need to self-promote, and our impossible opposition are billionaires and millionaires and their lawyers running monopoly companies to drain wealth from the masses. So where does small business fit into this equation? Too long didnt read – we do not fit into a system for the 1%, because we do not have the rights the rich master-owners do.
So interesting how we are allowed to post our art for free, but not sell it in public fan groups; yet every post is more or less an ad for commercial companies. I guess big business allows fan clubs but not competition for a few bucks. The Heman fan site removed my art i posted for free, just because i put a link for if people want to buy it. Most of the posts on there are for the official commercial products and people gave me links on where to buy them lol.
One fan commented to me in the MOTU group “Extendar was Adams frend but hordak turned him too a bio borg like dragstor and mosquitor.” To which i replied “Similar to how big business has brainwashed us to not allow us to “HAVE THE POWER”.” So now im posting comments like this to see if they approve them with my free fan art. If you are an independent free-lance artist there is almost no way to show your work without being attacked for “trying to sell something”. I was given a stern warning too; but its worse than a social annoyance. On the systemic level it is unsustainable to only allow profitable companies to advertise, and we are only allowed to advertise for them as fans.
I dont think average consumers have a clue how hard it is for us independent artists, because it does not seem to affect them directly if they have a regular job within the system. some of us will fight for freedom to be able to sell our work somewhere, or at least pay our bills doing what we love as our main work in life (not just a hobby). The gate-keepers of wealth (dragons) want to be the ones to license traders, because they dont even want us sharing without them getting most of the profits.
In the 2024 economy there is a “shortage of workers”, but they blacklist teachers like me who expect to be able to pay their bills, and demand compensation for our roles in society. Yet the ones who reject us are subject to corporations who want to import or export for cheap labor, to replace us. We should all demand more from our system, because WE HAVE THE POWER!!!
Text interview with The Parzival the Patriot Ape on Twitter X in 2023.
Special thanks to @The1Parzival for private messaging.
5 quick questions and answers about his posts, to be easy and friendly.
The Twitter programming code language recently switched from Ruby on Rails (ROR) to Java or Scala, according to random web lore. Parzival sent me a info gif comparing Java and Scala: both are object-oriented program languages for “real world” models, they run on JVM, they are both multi-paradigm, imperative, and statically typed.
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Q1. How would u summarize Twitter programming code?
A1. The code is crap! Used primarily for censorship.
Q2. What is going on between Google and Twitter with Rank Lists?
A2. There is a deep connection to Google, that of which has yet to be discussed. Google comes up in the open source code 1100 times BTW.
Q3. How important for patriots are the Twitter Files?
A3. If they don’t tackle this problem now, it will get worse as elections approach. Fight less now, or fight more later, the choice is theirs.
Q4. Can u elaborate on your ideas about individual engagement controls (block/mute) vs authoritarian shadow-banning?
A4. That is a bit to complex to answer in a single message and is literally a whole discussion in itself.
Q5. Can u explain the terms in the phrase “Follow score is based on Cluster Details”?
A5. Follow Score is another metric used to measure the “Value” of an account. Due to the manipulation of these metrics, the Value is artificial and unreliable. There are other scores too such as Mass Score, Reputation Score, and Toxicity Score.
The experience of phenomena can be assigned quantity (quant) and quality (qualia) in our attempts to describe reality.
Quantity is the amount of things, and relative measurements in numbers. A mathematician is called a ‘Quant’ who accounts for various factors (variables). Quants here is also used for numerical variables or amounts. Quantity is regarded as objective.
Quality is the experience perceived and felt by conscious observers. Qualia are attempts to qualify or objectify subjective aspects on polar scales (low to high). Quality is considered subjective.
Aspects of the Qualia problem are addressed not only by tech guru Dr. Ken Mogi, but also anthropological linguist Dr. Noam Chomsky. Mysterianism, is a philosophical position proposing that the hard problem of consciousness cannot be resolved by humans. The unresolvable problem is how to explain the existence of qualia (individual instances of subjective, conscious experience). In terms of the various schools of philosophy of mind, mysterianism is a form of nonreductive physicalism. Some “mysterians” state their case uncompromisingly (Colin McGinn has said that consciousness is “a mystery that human intelligence will never unravel”); others believe merely that consciousness is not within the grasp of present human understanding, but may be comprehensible to future advances of science and technology.
Qualia can be called simply aspects of our consciousness. Our conscious mind is a complex and fallible system of analyzing experiences. Our senses and nervous system are basic functions of life, but it is our sentience that allows us to interpret input in multiple various ways, and analyze those thoughts in deeper expansive ways based on memories of those sensory inputs. This internal analysis of quant results in qualia expressions and conclusions in the folds of our brains, in very compact neuronal budding and flowering processes.
Qualia is an important aspect of magic and art. Not just illusionary magical tricks, but also spiritual, religious, alchemical, and metaphysical beliefs and experiences in magic also known as supernatural phenomena. The Arts likewise depend on qualia to distinguish Art from Science or Math.
See also: Quantification and Finitism by Wittgenstein
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Qualia and the Brain By Ken Mogi Nikkei Science (1997) –
Abstract The concept of qualia describes the unique properties thataccompany our senses. It is an essential concept when we try tounderstand the principle that bridges the neural firings in ourbrain and our perception. The idea of qualia is also of crucialimportance when we try to study the functions of the brain froman objective point of view. Qualia must be part of themathematical formulation of information we use to understandthe function of the brain.
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The Qualia Manifesto
Mission Statement (1998)
Qualia are the subjective sensory qualities like “the redness of red” that accompany our perception. Qualia symbolize the explanatory gap that exists between the subjective qualities of our perception and the physical system that we call the brain. Elucidating the neural basis of qualia is central in understanding the principles of the “integrated parallelism” in cortical information processing. The so-called “binding problem” is a typical aspect of the above mentioned “integrated parallelism”. The study of qualia is important not only in understanding the neural basis of our conscious mental experience but also in bridging the gap between the “two cultures” (C.P. Snow). The Qualia Manifesto is a mission statement that puts qualia at the center of scientific and cultural movement in years to come.
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The Qualia Manifesto -Phase 2- June 2002 by Ken Mogi Note: Since the drafting of The Qualia Manifesto in 1998, the circumstances that surround the problem have changed. An updated appraisal of the significance of the concept of qualia to the humanity in general is also due. This is therefore an amendment to the original manifesto.
The Alchemy of Mind
Despite the great advances in neuroscience, we are still at the alchemist’s phase when it comes to the essential question: what are the first principles which makes it necessary that our subjective experiences accompany the physical processes in the brain? We may laugh at the alchemists’ ignorance with the benefit of the hindsight, but our future descendants might laugh at the ignorance of our present time on the origin of consciousness as well.
Asking the neural correlates of consciousness might sound like at least a respectable scientific endeavor, but it is an alchemist’s endeavor as well as far as the question why there should be conscious experience at all in the first place is concerned. The fact that a philosophical zombie appears at least possible means that we do not really know why consciousness should arise. If we had some very exact law like the conservation of energy, the appearance of phenomenal experience would be deduced as a logical necessity. Such a natural law is yet to be discovered (adaptation evolution).
The easy and hard problem
There are so-called easy and hard problems. Or so it appears at a casual glance. However, the easy problems are not so easy after all. A typical attempt to refute the importance of the question of consciousness is to claim that the physical or chemical description of the brain in terms of membrane potentials, neurotransmitters etc. is necessary and sufficient. A short retaliation from those in the know would be that the very concepts that the physicalists or the functionalists use to describe the brain are constructs of qualia (sensory and intentional qualia). Therefore, the attempts to explain away the problem of consciousness are bound to fail. Claiming that everything reduces to algorithms is not of much help either, as the conceived algorithms are also constructs of sensory and intentional qualia.
Conversely, if everything is indeed immersed deeply in the hard problem, an interesting question is how we may treat some problem domains as easy problems. For example, how is it that we may treat any problem which we can write down as algorithms as easy, when the foundations of the semantics of algorithms is a hard problem? There is certainly no completely easy problem in the world, but we can somehow pretend as if some of those are. It is the other side of the coin. If everything is eventually hard, how can we even pretend that some problems are easy?
Qualia for the rest of us.
It is likely that a solution of the origin of qualia, if one is possible at all, is going to be a difficult one. Once it was joked that only a dozen in the world can understand the theory of relativity. A theory of qualia, when it does come along, is bound to be as tough. Since we have all conscious experience, and we intuitively understand what the redness of red is, it is easy to fall into the fallacy that it is possible to discuss the problem of consciousness using daily concepts and terms from folk psychology. But that is far from the case. Even to understand what is at stake, one perhaps needs to have a working knowledge of relevant fields in mathematics, physics, neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, information science, computer science, etc. On top of that, one would need a certain sensitivity to appreciate why the question of qualia and intentionality is so hard.
One can say without too much exaggeration that the ability to tackle the fundamental questions concerning the physical origins of qualia is to be found in a selected few. For the rest of us, perhaps it is sufficient to get to know the concept, how it relates to our daily experience, and what new light it sheds on the human activities that we continue to pursue anyway. In other words, it is a good thing to be at least qualia-aware without pretending to be able to tackle, let alone solve, the problem.
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Declaration of Qualia Fundamentalism
by Ken Mogi
AXIS Vol. 109, pp.158-159 (June, 2004)
The value of a work of art is determined by the quality of sensation, or “Qualia” which are felt when you see it in front of you. It cannot be verbalized It cannot be symbolized It cannot be marketed easily.
Surprisingly, even a work of literature, which is the art of words, is determined by the quality of Qualia experienced, that which cannot be verbalized or symbolized. When you look back you realize that the important things in life are all things that cannot be verbalized. That ticklish feeling when you got into a swimming pool with your friend when you were a child. That restless feeling before your first date. That heavy feeling you get when you are in conflict with someone. It originates in ordinary daily living and crystallizes in the promise of the ultimate. When you feel like this in front of a work of art, you call it a masterpiece and are thankful for it. The joy of being alive surges through you. Forget what is already on the market. Stay with your inner, most compelling, sweet, sad Qualia. And sublimate that Qualia into a pop-like style. I hereby declare Qualia fundamentalism.
Addressing the issue of adults who work with “children’s stories” and related fan art or toy merchandise, the new term is “kidult”. While adults have always had wide ranges of personalities and intellect levels and interests, and always worked or played with children and toys to some extent; there are reasons for this new post-modern term. There will always be conservatives who insult anything to do with fiction or imagination, and there will always be liberals who seek out such fantasies. Collectors and miniature model makers and gamers are often conservatives in other aspects of their lives. So are millions of us just sick deluded nostalgia addicts, as the critics infer? No, because nostalgia is just one aspect of making or collecting “fiction”.
There is a difference between childish and child-like. Also many adults who work in the field or are fans of things made for kids are mature serious adults who want to work or play with whimsical or silly things as part of regular routines. For many of us “play” is a way of life. There are many adults like us, and we have all kinds of personalities and talents; from cartooning to reading aloud to illustration to writing to collecting and trading etc etc. Tolkien proved that even the same adult can write in a simple style AND write in a complex style, and that adults can enjoy both (The Hobbit and LOTR). Baum created a great American legacy for other adults to enjoy, not just children. Yes adults make many and buy many things for both adults and kids. Things that you think are only for kids, were usually not only made by adults but can be used for meditation or play by responsible hard working adults (without children of their own to raise aka mould aka control and manipulate; but parenting is another story).
In the modern age industrial commercialism has created material commodities with resale value that older generations did not have. Commoners did not value collecting or archiving fictional materials both because they were expected to consume more than keep, and such wastes could interfere with producing for bosses or serving bosses at cruel unimaginative jobs and not waste candles reading at night or keeping more than they could carry to the next apartment. Charles Dickens would have loved it if adults could collect toys based on his books.
Having funding and emotional support for my humanist art and writing and music projects has kept me producing work every month. I am able to create on my own terms, which gives me more freedom than I had with clients or bosses. Covid Crisis has not only resulted in a deepened economic depression, but also has reduced collaborations both in person and at distance. I was surprised that more people did not want to pick up the phone and talk like i wanted to during Covid Crisis, but I think physical isolation caused psychological depression as well; such that even “phone people” did not want to just hear about more suffering and decline of society. I am perhaps rare in that I use friends and philosophy in combination to reason my way out of emotional problems, otherwise I get stuck in depression so I have had to rely mostly on my imagination for people to talk to on a weekly basis (I do not count texting as nearly as satisfying to me as voice communication psychologically). Limiting most of our communications to texts, watching other people do monologues on Youtube, or interact in films is primarily where society is failing.
I view our social Covid Crisis problem as directly a result of how our economy is set up to devalue social relations and individuals in general. Yes physical diseases like viruses are real, but more emphasis would be placed on happiness if our economy was more egalitarian. Helplessly watching as billionaire elites loot our treasury and savings and blame it on the inflation they caused is terrible, so sanity must be maintained for me not by totally ignoring the problems, but addressing the problems with compassion because most people do not seem to be able to understand complex problems through angry shouting. Although boring lectures or dialog has the problem of being easy to ignore, it has the advantage of not being seen as a terrorist threat to the soldiers of the plutocrats. Most of us will continue to avoid addressing the problems of pollution or economics directly in our lives in order to receive paychecks which solve the immediate problem of paying bills, but perpetuate the worst problems which are too large to comprehend or explain in a few sentences with the evidence that so many refuse to take as proof of existential crisis of civilization larger than Covid. Yes I believe that economic inequality and environmental pollution are a combined crisis more important than Covid, although Covid certainly distracts and makes it all worse.
Research and support are the unseen forces behind anything substantial my work. You have made it possible for me to go on. We ask from time to time “What is the point? If nothing matters because we are all doomed, then why bother doing anything?” Suicide to me is not a good answer, as I believe there to be value to Life in general. Yes humans are hypocrites and a predatory threat to themselves and others, but Nature has nasty paradoxes that confuse our mammalian brains, which perhaps are binary by default (two cerebral hemispheres seeking “yes or no” answers to “black and white” questions). Self-preservation and compassion are important primary parts of our programming (to me), and so my mind is aggressively programmed to solve problems concerning both of those key components to my life.
While I value my artistic aspects to be worth more to me personally, society values my finances to be worth more monetarily; and so exploring our Capitalist Stock Market rigging and corruption is the most scientific of my projects using data and math (basic numbers, chart matrices, algebra algorithms, fractal interpretations). The social and economic market manipulation by plutocrats on the masses via commercial propaganda and institutional exclusion is incredible in detail, albeit again too boring for most people to explain to others who lack the technical language. As with politics, the problems cannot be explained or even admitted by servants of the rich elites who pay them, as pawns and peons can be replaced easily. However as more job cuts occur, more abused henchmen and sacrificial lackeys are speaking out publicly regarding “secrets”.
The systemic corporate and government lies covering crimes and mistakes sustain functioning, even by an empire in decline. The lessons of how past empires transitioned into different era ages or epochs in history are probably worth reflecting on in our daily meditations more than we might think. We do not want to think that history repeats exactly, but the rhymes made by fractal patterns are fascinating for anyone interested in weaving. Weaving is important for stories, tapestries, nets, baskets, and clothing. Pattern recognition is one of the indicators which determined to the educational system which of us was “gifted and talented”, although most of us “autists” are cursed by our gifts to also be weird. For me although the Roman plagues combined with other corrupt problems of empire resulted in the Medieval Dark Age hundreds of years before the “Black Death”, perhaps the best fact to focus on is that civilization continued despite the decline of empires. Empires transition just as cultures and languages do, into other cultural conglomerates of various changing cellular determinations.
The problems of evaluating art regarding literal vs abstract symbolism will always be a huge part of my work. From my writing, to my drawings, to my audio recordings, I will continue to try to show that it is not just my own work that i am representing, but the value of ‘common creation’ that can be done by anyone and often is accomplished and discarded as rubbish. When I publish my flawed work, I am telling others it is ok to express yourself and to show others. Those who do not respect or appreciate what we do at any moment, are condemned to their own hell. Whether we are also dragged to the levels of suffering by critics is debatable and subjective.
Here are some of my Winter works:
Stock Market research, writing, art, and audio recordings
Writing 3 books: MIC Mysteries, Eco-Romance, and Irish-Romance
Yoga meditation exercises (part of the research evaluation and creation process)
Random music and reading recordings published on Audiomack
SCOD essays and posts
Yule blessings to you!
Sincerely, Drogo Empedocles
ps – maybe my new show could be called “Depressing But True”
Adults do not make time to talk about certain subjects, even ones that affect their business jobs, because inappropriate aspects may be complex, dangerous, or beyond the control of most peeps just trying to get by and ‘make a buck’. Making money can result in ‘profits’ or extra money, and that is the purpose of corporations. Corporations are ‘incorporated’ as legal business groups of people for consumer products and services, to protect owners from law suits. There are different types of corporations.
Governments – Home-owner Associations, Towns, Cities, Militaries (which are literally all communist by function), and Police Departments (all socialist as civilian employees of government corporations)
Non-Profit Companies – 501C foundations that are supposed to focus on public good rather than capitalizing profits.
For-Profit Companies – supposed to pay taxes on profits but often pay lawyers for avoidance; from small LLCs (which are cute) to big conglomerates which monopolize markets by all means possible for profit.
Large corporations operate nationally or internationally and hire and fire large populations of workers as employees who agree to obey leadership dictates by contracts that favor the bosses. These big companies are plutocratic merchant empires who own property assets and use governments to evaluate the value of citizen worker lives regarding their potential as employees. Big corporations seek to minimize worker civil rights legally by court rulings that empower the ruling owners. This helps companies to maximize profits for owner share-holders and CEO white collar partner bosses.
Courts grant over-sized powers to large corporations by considering mega-companies to be ‘giant people’ who are allowed to control governments as ‘freedom of speech’. The typical justification is that big companies are ‘bodies comprised of masses of people’, and so that means they are persons just like anyone else. The truth is that most people and small companies are just pawns on a board run by the richest company owners. So we can thank our legal system for allowing corporations to ignore, devour, or destroy smaller entities.
It is hard for most adults to comprehend the power of giant commercial corporations that program propaganda on our media air-waves, so do not feel bad if it makes you sad as a younger person. Imagine how wild animals must feel living in a world that does not even consider them people with rights to life (property shelter, food, water)? Sparrows would sue us for sure if they could, that is why corporations are so important.
Our current system is sustainable to increase corporate power for a few rich elites, but is unsustainable for the individual civil rights of most of the population and our eco-system. Luckily for companies, CEOs (chief bosses) are rarely held responsible enough to care about their massive effects on others outside of their private profit club, because their own profits are a priority over silly things like pollution or wage ethics. Corporate owners and CEOs can operate from isolated self-sustained and defended artificial command centers (offices) to issue attack orders, without having to worry about our overall environment.
Did I forget to mention democracy? Great question.
This article is based on personal left-wing beliefs, supported by recent independent media Youtube channels. My primary premise for choosing channels that reflect my ethics are because it was impossible to find main-stream media support for the popular peace, civil rights, or environmental movements. Now that they are available, and even PBS and NPR are exposing their corporate bias, we have more options to get news and journalism and opinions which are better alternatives. My favorite daily ‘liberal’ media outlets are: Democracy Now!, Democracy At Work, The Ring of Fire, Kyle Kulinski, Humanist Report, Jimmy Dore, Kim Iverson, Redacted Tonight, The Real News, Joe Rogan, the Grayzone, Status Coup, and TYT (The Young Turks). TYT is one of the most influential networks, because they have funded many associates due to strong bold leadership from founder Cenk Uygur; who has also co-created ‘Justice Democrats’ (AOC and ‘The Squad’) and ‘Wolf Pack’ (get money out of politics). Some corporate shows (hosted by progressive liberal comedians like Cavett, Stewart, and Colbert) were able to entertain by pushing boundary issues in the name of getting laughs.
MSNBC, CNN, and other main-stream neo-liberal channels (stations) and newspapers are as saturated as Fox News by corporate propaganda at this point with their war on Bernie Sanders. They have always been centrist leaning for corporate wars, pollution, health-care, but on civil rights at least they were better than Fox; however now they are calling an anti-fascist leader a Nazi, which is obviously absurd. They are blatantly attacking the peace and environmental movements by speaking against our strongest leader. It is sad there is no main-stream outlet for a better future except for Bernie Sanders; but Sanders does represent the totality of liberal alternative visions for a stronger democracy and humanist America. Seeing them react so negatively when a civil rights leader becomes popular, exposes how serious they were about undermining leaders like Sanders from emerging in the first place. As Malcom-X said “The chickens have come home to roost.”
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) central bank said (‘The Green Swan’ paper) that climate-related events could be the source of the next financial crisis. The increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events could trigger non-linear and irreversible financial losses. In turn, the immediate and system-wide transition required to fight climate change could have far-reaching effects potentially affecting every single agent in the economy and every single asset price.
At Davos ‘Wall Street’ banks discussed how climate change alters the conversation around what economic growth can be, and how ‘policy-makers’ should pursue this end. “Debt, inequality and environmental damage are major issues for growth sustainability,” said economists at Deutsche Bank in a note last week. “However, one could argue that the first two are cyclical, whereas the third is potentially structural.” Deutsche Bank adds that, “The problem for the environmental lobby is that a world without economic growth may create a damaging backlash against such climate policies. Nevertheless, the problem with the status quo is that the irreversible damage to our planet will increase.”
Corporate media has been brain-washing most people to think the opposite of the populist reality however, and may help people to continue voting against their own interests for fake candidates that are always the lesser of two evils, rather than a legitimate candidate. It is worth noting that recently in elections their attempts backfire, and voters react by doing the opposite of what corporations want (2016 general and 2020 DNC Primary). The corporate DNC (Democrat Party National Committee) does not even need our over-paid top secret agencies to intervene for the establishment, because they steal the elections for corporations openly and legally in public, and with the help of commercial conditioning they even sway the popular vote. As a reminder to anyone who wants evidence of DNC rigging please reference the 2016 fallout: Jordan Chariton vs Donna Brazile, WV and MI voters chose Bernie unanimously and then voted for Trump, the Hillary Clinton email and DNC server scandal that revealed the rigging, and the DNC lawsuit where they basically stated on record “The DNC is allowed to make decisions that break its own rules, and we will do back-room deals anytime we want for the sake of our rich corporate donors”.
Corporate centrists argue “no reason to try things that will be defeated by republicans, because conservatives have all the power”, but the Obama message of “Yes we can!” is what leads and wins for populist causes (even though his policies were 1980s style republican according to Obama himself). Progress means pushing social boundaries, thus the name “progressive”. So it will be interesting to see how those the conservative corporate democrats (who think they are more practical) behave the more that Bernie wins. Is there a tipping point for many of them with money or social influence, if they have no personal integrity? How much corporate media addicts sell out to corporate interests is an interesting study. I think there is enough support for popular left ideas now to take over the DNC and replace the leaders, and those behind the times will either go to the republicans, as that party reforms after Trump, or get behind the civil rights movements our platform claims. The NEW GREEN DEAL is now a mainstream liberal political policy for implementation; if only corporate power can be checked.
There are a few things we can do to help those loved ones who cannot make the change for themselves, from corporate to independent parties or grassroots collective networks. The first thing is to play alternative forms of media for them; nice recordings of music they like, movies without commercials (Netflix), games, or local or online social groups. Next convince them to cancel their subscription to commercial cable TV and newspapers, at least for a trial period. Show them it is ok to let go of one habit, and replace it with a less destructive and more educational outlet. Finally show them you care by rewarding their cooperation with affection and gifts. Tell them over and over that they are not alone, and you love them.
SCOD Maryland, Frederick City Public Library Exhibit
2020-2022 SCOD Proposal-Statement and ReDedication to Art Educator Nena Stowell (RIP 2022)
[currently in planning phase]
Nena Stowell Memorial Art Show: Mary Mannix, ‘Maryland Room’ director of displays gave me a green light to have an art show at Frederick Library from May to June! It had been cancelled due to Covid Crisis, but nice to be getting back on track. The SCOD Art Show theme is “Expression Is Art: Everyone Is An Artist” and will show examples of the most average to the most fine, from various artists. It will show that even the same artist can have different styles, evolving or devolving, and that every act of expression is indeed art whether intentional or not. If you can blink and someone can take a photo of it, if you want to be a part of the display i will try to include you.
This SCOD (Sustainable Cooperative for Organic Development) group show promotes collaboration more than competition. Being able to exhibit our artistic expressions in public for free is how we win together by sharing. Awards at galleries do not need to be prize ribbons, we can be rewarded with attention and sales. If you like someone’s work, please make a note to find out more about them and contact them if you want to support them by owning and sharing some of their art.
Our goal with this project is to include as many partners as possible, and represent many styles and genres. SCOD art theory strives to remind us that modern art (impressionist to abstract) is not about elitist talent, because it was born from common desperation and world war tragedies. The suffering of mental, physical, and economic disabilities caused some to declare “Dada! Art is for all!”. Even today we are realizing that indeed other animals create art to attract attention. As many fish and birds learn, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Fame and Finances (or popularity and wealth) are only two aspects of success in the game called LIFE. Two other under-valued aspects of success are happiness and talent (ability to act on our own will to practice independent professional or hobby skills). We should not all strive to be Mega-stars who ‘make it big’ by monopolizing, because the framework of oligarchy excludes the majority out of public markets. Plutocracy has been winning the game by devaluing our lives and the lives of all other plants, fungi, and animals. It is time for regular people to be recognized as vital to an economy and therefore important as artists who represent themselves and others through their works and self-expressions.
Ms. Nena’s Teaching Method
Nena Stowell kept notes, photos, project papers, letters, and scrap-books which are being used to write a book about her teaching method. Nena taught her son and many other students to write and illustrate books, so Walton told his mother while she was alive that he wanted to help her publish her curriculum archives. Nena died in 2022, but her teaching legacy can live on through Art education. She taught all age levels in public and private schools.
Some of Nena’s Comments on Creativity
“Art is what you create using techniques, mediums, and often tools. Some arts do not require tools; for example dance is a medium and the technique would be the style of dance. I tell my students they are artists because they do art.”
[interview while teaching at the Banner School]
“I was fascinated with the reflections in water. If I took it apart I would layer the woods with colors on the leaves. Water-color is harder for me.”
[Mom’s note about her own painting]
“Harpers Ferry in the style of Van Gogh in pinks and greens. Fairies to be added. 300 voters in town.” [painting was in bedroom, but found unfinished in basement]
Nature of Art
Art will always have unique meaning to every individual. Art is not only done by humans, but we would like to think it is exclusive to us. Art can be a meaningful arrangement of symbols with materials. Art can be creative, inventive, original, systematic, organic, and constructive. Artistic meaning and values can be applied and used in many ways. Artistic quality is subjective, and beauty is in the eye-of-the-beholder. Art should be stimulating or calming.
Structure of Society
By looking around us today, we can see great material gains in society. But serious questions can be raised about how much we have educated ourselves beyond purchasing and consuming commercial products. Have we in our educational system really put emphasis upon the human? Or have we been so blinded by material awards that we have failed to recognize where the real values of a democracy lie; which is in the individual?
Our society is based on a democratic system where man is able to develop his potentials. Society is constantly being changed. Democracy supposedly has no discrimination against classes, and should teach responsibility to all through our institutions. The growing number of emotional and mental illnesses in this nation (which is the large), as well as our inability to accept human beings regardless of nationality, religion, race, creed, or color is a frightening sign and vividly points out that our society has failed in a very significant aim.
While our high achievements in specialized fields, particularly in the sciences, have improved, our material standards for living have diverted our society from those values that are responsible for our emotional and spiritual needs. They have introduced a false set of values, which neglect the inner most needs of an individual. An individual is the most important element in a democratic society. The members of the society and / or the various classes or status groups within it, have to behave in such a way as to be able to function in accordance with the social system. Humans had to be molded into people eager to spend most of their energy on work for others. In order to do this a discipline of willpower was needed. This discipline would be present itself as order and punctuality.
Our society consumes, as we produce, without any solid relativity to nature as a whole or respect for material objects. We live in a world of artificial ‘things’, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or consume them. Are we satisfied and happy? Our rate and system of consumption necessarily results in the fact that we are never satisfied. Our society has developed an ever-increasing need for more things, and more consumption. It is also true that there is a legitimate need for more consumption as humans continue to multiply, and industry progresses. But our craving has lost all connection with the real needs of humanity. Originally, the idea of consuming more and more things was meant to give us a happier, more satisfied life.
Success has been equated with mass consumption for too long. The constant increase of insatiable hunger makes us dependent on this system, and on the people and institutions that help maintain the spinning balloon that is ever inflating. Our society is based on these materials, and including the money to buy them. Recently the love of exchange has replaced by the love of possession. Each person strives to exchange their monetary value for the best goods attainable. We live in a society where sociability has a cash value.
Cordiality is taught and cultivated as a necessity in almost any career. The child is trained to respond with a “please” and “thank you”. Television commercials, clerks, and salesmen show an unending flash of smiles, and friendly appeals. While much of this outward show of friendliness is phony, it none-the-less surrounds us with an atmosphere of sociability which probably leaves some residue.
Our society forces people to develop an acute time consciousness, since nearly everything is done on a time schedule ‘according to the clock’. We live in a culture permeated by change and expectations of change. We base our future plans on the changes which we expect to have taken place by the time our plans mature. Complex societies have numerous sub-cultures, each developing its own characteristic personalities, and reducing the overall uniformity of the masses. Even in simple societies, there is no complete uniformity in characteristics. Complex societies tend to have greater variation in diversity.
Five basic institutions which are found in our most complex societies are the family, church, state, school, and economic system. Our institutions are centered around major human needs. In our society laws are a means of regulating many kinds of behaviors which are not clearly covered by the mores. Mores are ethics, morality, or codes of correct behavior in a society. These ethics are taught to our ethnic youth, and serve as beliefs in the rightness or wrongness of actions. Laws usually serve to reinforce mores or ethics.
Our society is progressive and ethnocentric. Ethnocentrism is a view of things in which one’s own group is the center of everything, and all the others are scaled and rated with reference to it. Stated less formally, it is the tendency for each group to take for granted the superiority of its culture.
The influence of our society on its individuals cannot be under-estimated. Our modern period is like a building with a ruined foundation, that keeps getting bigger and bigger despite the structural problems. So too, an individual can lose connection with their spiritual growth or purpose in life, and escape into a world of meaningless stereotyped patterns. Often to help us face a new situation, we try to find refuge in the repetition of conventional patterns for comfort.
This disunity between art and society, between education and environment, represents one of the factors that our present time suffers from. On the other side, this disunity is clearly expressed by an art expression that because of its extreme individualistic character, almost loses its communicative meaning. Thus, two extreme antipodes can be found within one culture: conventional traditional patterns; and radical individual expression. Obviously no single individual can be made responsible for the lack of integration between our culture (society), scientific achievements, and art. These important characteristics of our time have to be understood, especially by those who guide our youth. It is only when we see these discrepancies that we find the urge to change them.
Nature of Art
Art will always have unique meaning to every individual. Art is not only done by humans, but we would like to think it is exclusive to us. Art can be a meaningful arrangement of symbols with materials. Art can be creative, inventive, original, systematic, organic, and constructive. Artistic meaning and values can be applied and used in many ways. Artistic quality is subjective, and beauty is in the eye-of-the-beholder. Art should be stimulating or calming.
Nature of People
An individual is born into this world without knowledge or wisdom, and they are removed from it again often without consent or will. In this respect, we are not any different from other animals, or plants, or even inanimate objects. If only humans use symbols; only our communication reaches beyond the level of exchanging very simple feelings and intentions. With symbolic communication we can exchange detailed directions, share discoveries, and organize elaborate activities. Without it, we would quickly revert to caves and tree-tops again.
Language is so intimately tied up with culture that every new addition to the group’s cultural heritage involves additions to the language. In order to know a group we must learn their language. Special groups within a society (such as hobos, soldiers, railroad workers, and teenagers) have their own vocabulary, and sometimes their own dialect (or sub-language). The more we express ourselves, the more human we are; in seeming contrast with other animals.
Humanity’s greatest problem today is how to adjust ourselves and our social arrangements to the speed of a changing environment and culture. Culture is an organized system of behavior, together with its supporting ideas and values. How does the culture of a society function to control and direct the life of individuals? Culture defines situations for all of us. For instance, suppose someone approaches you with right hand outstretched at waist level. They wish to shake hands in a friendly greeting. In another place, mood, or time a hand could mean hostility or warning.
Culture defines attitudes, values, and goals. A person learns from their culture what is good, true, and beautiful. An individual learns attitudes, values, and goals unconsciously. These are probably the most important part of any culture. Humans are goal seeking, able to believe in values, and have faith in an idea. The individual may develop, modify, or oppose the trends of culture, but they always have some relationship to the framework of society and culture. Humans are creatures of habit. We learn to the patterns of society, to use them as we see fit. We are often very adaptable, within set conditions. Inherent in our nature are needs for happiness, harmony, love, and freedom. These are dynamic factors though, which if frustrated tend to arouse psychic reactions.
The structure of society and the function of the individual in the social structure, both can be considered in determining the content of our social character. Families may be considered the communicative agency of society and individuals; and educational institutions have the function of transmitting the requirements of society to children.
If humans are to be happy, there must be courage. It takes wit, interest, willpower, and energy to be happy. Humans must become interesting to themselves, and actually expressive somehow to be happy. None of us are devoid of the possibility of happiness; but many have not had enough interest in finding their real selves. Once we are aware of the road we are on, we can begin being content within, despite possible diversions that may lead in the opposite direction. It is foolish to believe we have arrived at the end of our road, so long as we are still alive. The world is not yet done with us. We can still have hope of an even brighter future. Even when our bodies die our spirits live on in the memories and actions of others.
In a Trumpian economy most of us are forced to be beggars even when we offer work in return for money, due to an excess of labor not needed or desired by the rich. Trickle-down Reaganomics has failed us, and is still being pushed on us by Trump and all corporate politicians who sold out. We must resist falling to the attacks causing the destruction of our lives and plan to not just survive but rebuild a better world for our children.
Trump’s tax plan benefits the rich, and diminishes the middle class. The estate tax is gone now so that rich children can inherit all their parent’s wealth freely without earning it, while poor children suffer without deserving it. Personal exemptions have been removed. You can still itemize donations, but the standard deduction bar was raised with an overall .5% tax rate reduction. Those basic changes might negligibly benefit lower incomes, but average to upper middle class households are losing thousands on whole due to other changes in the tax plan.
I lost some financial support despite my working through the holidays on several projects. I won’t be able to do as much free or low-budget work with others, until i can secure more income to cover my own expenses at least. my income is only $700 a year recently, so i feel like i get by with quite a little actually. I only currently use one sound program most weeks, and focus on word (writing) programs, which have glitches between formats, but i am able to publish that way. So for over a year i have only been using two editing programs.
Most people should know that any work has a price; and so my work is for sale, as with any artist; we need means to live so we try to sell prints and originals if we can. If people do not know how to want to share money with others, i am not sure how i can help them except to remind them by bringing it up sometimes. I focus on my work more than sales, because i do it for the work not the sales. If i am asked to be more of a sales person i would not do it. i dont know if stating that i will keep doing my own work the way i want no matter what will reduce interest in investing in me or increase it long term; but i really do not see many options to sustain my career legacy. I may get some temporary side jobs like working for Census, but even if i got a huge increase in income what matters to me is what is created with what i have ultimately.
SCOD social capital has increased overall i believe, which is hard to define since it is not income based. I am close to founding a tristate network for hosting art, music, and writing events; but the design is mostly socially dependent, using properties in WV, MD, and VA. The financial components like ticket sales and payments are totally based on how many people i can get to coordinate together. we currently have several proposals still being formed, for multimedia broadcasting and sharing local events, i can pursue these negotiations without financial losses. ive felt on the verge of something big over the years, but i never know when the tipping point will come because … and this is the hard part to talk about, the complex dynamics of partnerships.
I am proud to ‘beg’ with something of quality to offer in return. When you buy my work, you support many other people; because I collaborate with and buy from other artists and friends. To anyone that thinks I am begging by being honest that I do not earn much, I argue that bragging about how good your work is and saying you have been ‘financially successful’ by taking more than you need is worse than begging because to me that could be considered just as unworthy of support. Getting money from other people is not proof of deserving money, it is simply how people pay their bills. Also I am not just begging because I offer plenty of services and products in various fields. I am simply saying why I could use more income, as opposed to those who do not need more for basic living. I have many jobs, and i do them. I tend to give things away for free and make reasonable deals to work with lower income people. I apply to better paying jobs, but I do not get them, and when i have had them before i cannot keep them for psychological reasons, one being i cannot stand authoritarian control because i desire to fight back against bosses the same as I would with any willful cruel or ignorant jackass; but when we trade self-respect for money we suppress our resentment which can fester and build to a break-down or illness.
I will not spend time defending myself by arguing against assholes, they are not worth my time. I am too expensive for them because they cannot pay me enough to work for them, and it is easy enough to block them and delete their petty comments. Their attempts to troll me are pathetic when i can shut them down easily. It is amazing that people will ‘friend’ me only to wait for chances to attack, without ever once being kind. These are the type of people that would tell homeless street musicians to “get a job” too.
If fees are low enough with time i can advertise more without major losses on more websites; in hopes to get at least a few sales. Social reception is usually less than enthusiastic on a whole from audiences on platforms. Amazon is the best example ive had because ive been using it for years, i struggle to get a few sales a year even when i post the links and talk about them etc. I know it is not because my books are not as good as ‘Diary of a Whimpy Kid’ or ‘Captain Underpants’ which are best sellers, it has to do with commercial control of the market at the high levels. I mean sure we could argue whose art or story sucks more, but with enough exposure anti-authoritarian subversive books like ours do well with children and ne’er-do-wellz, which are a large portion of the population.
Ironically most of the people who buy my books are part of the vanishing middle class; not the lowest or the highest earning. There are more lower middle class people so they do buy more books, compared to the few upper middle class people who are interested in my books. I have had people with large incomes talk with me for hours, and i gave them books and they still did not buy any, so spending money has more to do with personalities than wealth; which is why those with less wealth will spend more if they have an income, which creates financial flow and opportunities in an economy.
All of these opinions of observations are reasons why many of us are not satisfied with status-quo commercial politics. We want more leaders like Bernie Sanders and progressives on the right or left who can be held to account by their voters who are also the majority of their campaign financing. We cannot afford allowing corporate sell-outsto further rig our own economy, environment, and country against us.
I do not know why comments on my Soundcloud account are supportive, and comments on Audiomack tend to be lame, but that is the difference in the platform community i guess. Hopefully more creative and kind collaborators will join Audiomack, so competitive jerks can get pushed off. Most serious good musicians know how to treat other players regardless of talent, but like any other genre extreme fans (or those without fans of their own) get nasty because as consumers they want to be expert judges on ‘what is good and what is bad’. When people call your original creation (which is always a collage blend of influences to various degrees) bad, let us hope for the sake of humanity that someone else finds something good about you; because art is personal expression.
I am not a professional musician because i do not get paid, although i frequently practice aka play. That being said I think we can cheer on our favorites, without being terrible people to those who we do not like as much. Maturity takes time, and not everyone will be able to respect the feelings of others as much as we might like; but know I have improved from the days when I attacked everything I did not like by insulting people who did like those things. Now I try to limit my aggression to the most important issues, and only occasionally give my opinions about silly stuff like pop music.
As Kyle Kulinski says uncensored comments can be as democratic as a bathroom wall. I encourage anyone who likes things to please rate and comment, because the assholes seem more motivated sometimes. Part of the problem seems to be with consumers not realizing that they have been conditioned by commercials to only consider popular brand names to be “quality”. We need to retrain society to invest in itself more.
Online appreciation of music is of course related to other arts and digital media. We have similar cultural problems regarding the support of authors and artists. Many of us desire to value human lives more than we have; and one way is through online appreciation and support for others in whatever ways we can.
Corporate Propaganda Influence on ‘PUBLIC’ Broadcasting
PBS is routinely threatened with significant budget cuts by Republican U.S. Congress attacks. Republicans oppose government public funding for broadcasting in favor of capitalist commercial corporate crony ownership over content. The right-wing war against journalism and documentaries labels them as ‘left-wing’ is because of their fear of public opinion. Most people (see the history of unions) have concerns that go against the grain of corporate power and pollution, so it is in corporate ownership’s interest to reduce democracy in favor of plutocracy. Environmental and peace programs threaten corporate profits, and both corporate-run neo-lib-con parties of our 2-party system will not tolerate sharing their national wealth hoarding in favor of resource desecration. [See Climate Change & Current Extinction Rate]
Some members of PBS self-audit and comment on the problem of increasing corporate influence. PBS ombudsman Michael Getler reported “on what seems to be ethical compromises in funding arrangements, and lack of real transparency for viewers caused, in part, by the complicated funding demands needed to support public broadcasting.”
The LA Times reported on the billionaire John D. Arnold production of ‘Pension Peril’, which blamed pensions for California state economic losses. “In another such case, a PBS unit that funded independent documentaries canceled a film about the Koch Brothers last year, fearing the reaction of one of its major donors, David Koch. That underscores the cynicism of the steady withdrawal of public funding from PBS since the Reagan administration. It’s another example of the old story of big government getting off the horse, so big business and the wealthy can saddle up.”
Salon article headlines by David Sirota read “When did PBS become the Plutocratic Broadcasting Service? Proof our public media is doomed: Former Enron trader John Arnold is using the network to wage his war on pensions. Our most prominent public media outlets are becoming instruments for special interests to launder their ideological agenda through a seemingly objective brand. Starved for public resources, these outlets are increasingly trying to get their programming funded with money from corporations and wealthy political activists – and that kind of cash comes with ideological expectations. It doesn’t have to be this way. To preserve some modicum of independent journalism, Congress could simply provide the same amount of resources for public media as other advanced democracies do. Congress could then bar PBS from accepting corporate and special interest funding.”
A Truth-Out article titled ‘The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR’ reads, “On November 7, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Public Broadcasting Act. The act set up public broadcasting in the United States, by establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which led to the creation of the Public Broadcasting Service, or PBS, and National Public Radio.”
The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 states – “It is in the public interest to encourage the growth and development of public radio and television broadcasting, including the use of such media for instructional, educational, and cultural purposes… it is necessary and appropriate for the Federal Government to complement, assist, and support a national policy that will most effectively make public telecommunications services available to all citizens of the United States.”
The original purpose even as stated by President Johnson was that ‘we the people’ declare that we want more than just material wealth; we want spiritual, ethical, or environmental quality of life. Reaganomic’s ‘trickle-down’ ideology slashed funding accountability since the 1980’s political deregulations for corporate oligarchy. Public broadcasting institutions now rely more and more on corporate and billionaire cash to operate, which is why PBS and NPR now filter what they play on their airwaves, so that they don’t anger their wealthy backers.
“David Koch has donated upwards of $23 million to public television. And when you donate $23 million dollars to public television, you get more than just a tote bag or a coffee mug – you get to dictate the on-air programming.” – Jane Mayer of the New Yorker
Regarding the PBS & NPR budget diagrams below, i doubt the overall budgets reflect the funding by corporations TO MAKE all the programs. They may only show the purchasing and distribution funding within PBS and NPR, not the corporate manufacturing money invested into the products they then purchase and distribute. Also “Individuals” may include plutocrats who donate large sums on behalf of their companies, as there is no evidence of a cap on individual member donations.
SCOD style digital communication theory is based on the premise that text messaging lacks tone and depth usually due to fragmented abstracted typing that dehumanizes interactions. Texting or post commenting can convey simple ideas ok, but is not as well as in person or even with just with voice on the phone. Not everyone can communicate with their voices, but in general most people can understand sentences better when spoken by a person, better than when they text. Due to these assumptions, SCOD messages tend to be as brief as possible, and do not try to convey problems in depth or debate issues at length. Problems can best be resolved only if the parties involved have sincere desire for negotiations or explanations which require more dedication to share when possible. Emails are closer to formal snail-mail letters, which usually contain meditative thoughts better due to the dedication it takes to write them and send them, and in some cases can be better than voice or even meeting in person due to respectful distance considerations that common text comments or messaging can lack due to the immediacy issue of direct communication. Sometimes texting can be written with the slower consideration of traditional letters, but as with emails it is usually too tempting to send messages or convey feelings immediately. Regret is usually felt more when there is emotional mis-communication or confusion in any communications, but speaking honestly can hurt when a loving contextual environment is not involved for whatever reasons.
In 2019 i still have an older Acer laptop from 2007. I recycled the $500 Asus Tower with a local non-profit who refits computers for disabled people, by dropping it off at the owner’s house nearby. I replaced the Asus Tower with a 10 Gigabyte Acer Chromebook 15 which came with 100 GB online cloud Google Drive for under $300.
images of my old very useful computer – Asus Tower Desk-top 2012-2018
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We Have The Power! But They Dont Like It!
Posted in Commercial Corporations, Critical Commentary of Civilization, Multimedia Communication, Recommendations & Tributes with tags advertising, commercial business, corporate profits, fan-art, fanart, fans, He-Man, Heman, Masters of the Universe, MOTU on December 29, 2023 by DrogoI was in a Facebook commercial fan group called ‘Heman and MOTU Fans’, that advertises for a major toy website for online purchases. They have strict rules that does not allow artists to advertise their own work, which is common because most people cannot recognize it from unwanted spam. This is a problem in a Capitalist system where we are expected to “sell ourselves” and to follow our dreams we need to self-promote, and our impossible opposition are billionaires and millionaires and their lawyers running monopoly companies to drain wealth from the masses. So where does small business fit into this equation? Too long didnt read – we do not fit into a system for the 1%, because we do not have the rights the rich master-owners do.
So interesting how we are allowed to post our art for free, but not sell it in public fan groups; yet every post is more or less an ad for commercial companies. I guess big business allows fan clubs but not competition for a few bucks. The Heman fan site removed my art i posted for free, just because i put a link for if people want to buy it. Most of the posts on there are for the official commercial products and people gave me links on where to buy them lol.
One fan commented to me in the MOTU group “Extendar was Adams frend but hordak turned him too a bio borg like dragstor and mosquitor.” To which i replied “Similar to how big business has brainwashed us to not allow us to “HAVE THE POWER”.” So now im posting comments like this to see if they approve them with my free fan art. If you are an independent free-lance artist there is almost no way to show your work without being attacked for “trying to sell something”. I was given a stern warning too; but its worse than a social annoyance. On the systemic level it is unsustainable to only allow profitable companies to advertise, and we are only allowed to advertise for them as fans.
I dont think average consumers have a clue how hard it is for us independent artists, because it does not seem to affect them directly if they have a regular job within the system. some of us will fight for freedom to be able to sell our work somewhere, or at least pay our bills doing what we love as our main work in life (not just a hobby). The gate-keepers of wealth (dragons) want to be the ones to license traders, because they dont even want us sharing without them getting most of the profits.
In the 2024 economy there is a “shortage of workers”, but they blacklist teachers like me who expect to be able to pay their bills, and demand compensation for our roles in society. Yet the ones who reject us are subject to corporations who want to import or export for cheap labor, to replace us. We should all demand more from our system, because WE HAVE THE POWER!!!
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