Alex's Lemonade Stand

My son's daycare was very proud that they raised $300 for Alex's Lemonade Stand. It's funny how we're so conditioned that we find it acceptable for governments to get billions and billions of dollars for weapons that destroy life, and to bail out bankers, but we have to send out two-year olds and three-year olds out onto street corners to sell lemonade to help fight cancer and save lives.

Police State

Instead of seriously addressing the problem of people committing random mass killings in public places, the government is satisfied with creating a condition of permanent lockdown. They ignore the conditions that create alienation and despair which foster pressures that lead individuals to crack and wantonly destroy life. They also ignore the wanton destruction of life by corporations that are considered nothing more than "business as usual". The typical response by the public to this oppression is acceptance, which they are inclined to feel after generations of careful conditioning by authorities to create a docile middle class that is enslaved by civilization.

I live on the east coast, so maybe I don't fully understand the paranoia running rampant in western suburbia, but the following quote from a friend of mine from New Jersey who now lives out west speaks volumes:

"I think the one thing that impressed (...) the most in New Jersey was when she visited the schools I went to. All she could keep saying was 'There aren't any fences' and 'You guys weren't locked in like we are'".

Every day, the walls move in a little more.

Flat Head Society

Miracles

Opposite Sides Of The Fence

"No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."
– George H.W. Bush, 1987

"Its time to stop being so damned polite"
– Richard Dawkins, 2002

Uniformity and Conformity

"We have found out that we cannot trust some people who are non-conformists. We will make conformists out of them in a hurry. The organization cannot trust the individual, the individual must trust the organization."

– Ray Kroc