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“Continuing: Prince and Proudhon Raise Up the Love" (for the February 19, 2017 and Subsequent Show Audio Files To…

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These audio-files are presented with the most recent first.

 

For other recent show audio please go to the the: "Facing Fear... Raise Up Love" Audio Page and also to the first "Missing Audio" page, although it is being messed with, but it has the audio for earlier shows: Missing Audio Files - 1 Page

 

For older "Prince - Proudhon audio please visit "(Original) Prince - Proudhon" Audio - 1 and "Prince - Proudhon" Audio - 2 pages.

 

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Prince Songs For Our March 5, 2017 Show:

 

[“02 Da Bang.mp3”:]

 

“Da Bang” by Prince: “Say I don't mind… What U do 2 me… If U waste my time… Then it's meant 2 be… I called your number (Yes I did)… Like U told me 2… Like a puppet on a string… I'm go'n dance and I'm go'n sing… I will do most anything… If U promise me da bang, bang, bang!… Don't wanna lie… I just wanna do it… But some other guy (Baby)… Has beat me 2 it… If U're in love (Well)… We're 2 of a kind (Yes we are)… What good is your body, baby… Without your mind (Not much)… Like a puppet on a string… I'm go'n dance and I'm go'n sing… I will do most anything… If U promise me da bang, bang, bang!… Hit me, niggas!… So here's the story… I'm here 4 U… Without the boring… Without the cool… When U try 2 fake it (Baby)… And U wanna get through (U know what I'm talkin' about)… Like a puppet on a string… I'm go'n dance and I'm go'n sing… I will do most anything… If U promise me da bang, bang, bang!… Bang, bang, bang!… Yeah! Ooh!…” [Prince, “Da Bang”, Crystal Ball, 1998]

 

[“06 The Ride.mp3”:]

 

“The Ride” by Prince: “If U got the time, baby… I got the ride… If U got the time, baby… I got the ride… Where I wanna go… Keep U satisfied… If U like it real slow, baby… I got days… If U like it real slow… I got days… But if you want some good lovin baby… I know the way… I know the way… If U like 2 be alone… I like 2 watch… If U like 2 be alone, baby… I like 2 watch… But if U want some good lovin', baby… I'll give U all I got… All I got… If U got the time, baby… I got the ride… If U got the time, baby… I got the ride… Where I wanna go, girl… Keep U satisfied… If U got the time, baby… I got the ride (Vegas)…” [Prince, “The Ride”, Crystal Ball, 1998]

 

[“02 Boom 1.mp3”:]

 

“Boom” by Prince: “What if another universe… Complete with sun and moon… An entire galaxy and what's worse… U and eye 2 soon… Find each other xpanding beyond this dirty room… Butterscotch mountains… Son shine… Run ur fingers up and down the… Obelisk in the earth… Down 2 33 rmps where… The primordial gives birth… Or else we lie neck high you and eye… In one another's ooze… Volcano magic… Summer time… Everybody knows what happens… When you worship from afar… The ebb and flow of angels… Dancing around the star… And if the sunrise is still a question… The answer's in the dark… Celibate… Mushroom… Canopy…” [Prince, “Boom”, Lotusflow3r, 2009]

 

[“08 The Other Side Of The Pillow.mp3”:]

 

“The Other Side Of The Pillow” by Prince: “Cool as the other side of the pillow… Smooth as another glass of wine, oh yes sir… I'm so glad U're my baby, oh yeah… I'm so glad that U're mine… Bad as Bonny when she ran with Barrow [Clyde], yeah… When U kiss me, feels like I'm committing a crime, oh yeah… U use furniture in new ways, yes you do… I can't find the adjectives enough to say… I'm so glad U're my baby… okay (yeah yeah yeah yeah)… Cool as the other side of the pillow (oh baby)… So smooth there's another glass of wine (bubbly, bubbly)… I'm so glad U're mine, U're my baby (oh yes I am), oh yes I am (oh yes I am)… I'm so glad U're mine… Cool as the other side (U're my baby) of the pillow… Smooth, I wanna drink U all out… How did U learn that trick with the… chair? I don't care… Just as long as U do it again… Cool as the other side, cool as the other side, cool as the other… Cool as the other, cools as the other side… As the other side of the pillow, baby… Cool (cool),… Glass of wine… I'll get tipsy and I… [whistling]… Cool as the other side of the pillow… Cool…” [Prince, “The Other Side Of The Pillow”, The Truth, 1998]

 

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Our February 26, 2017 Show:

 

[“170226abundancewithinus_1.mp3”:]

 

Two things from last week to briefly follow-up on: “who pays you is the shadow-state…” (as 'the economy' is hidden ideology…) and… as Prince put it… in his succinct… straightforward… (honest)… way: “do we want 'This or That'?”… Which is also Proudhon's point: “Either we want society or we don't…” It's no coincidence that the probing thought and discussion of both men have been suppressed… Now that we've found them… we must hold on to them… hold on… to our right to freedom… It was inevitable that Prince's model of authentic love would get him targeted with EMF: 'power' was terrified of him – of his manifestation of what they had lost: true power – his faith in life… in love… was for them not just foreign… but frightening… every fiber of Prince's being stirred their suppressed memories… of Abundance… he abundance within us… of what we were… and possessed… originally… when we were (and must be again) our bodies… our gifts… our intelligence… when nobody could claim them… What was foreign to us then was the idea that anyone would want to turn us into robots… As suspicion became fact some of us were forced to bury our 'selves'… turn away from them… and not look back… We said last week that our challenge now… at this juncture… is for us to believe again in that time of Abundance for which we were made… and which we are here to make real in our shared global society… and that it is made by each of us making our joyful sounds… which blend… as Proudhon said… into a harmonization of gifts…which “gets the job done…” while being at the same time fun… And then… once we do… 'work' ends' and real life… under the authority of 'life' / 'love' only… begins…

 

[“170226emfmurdererstatesmen_2.mp3”:]

 

We're arguing that both 'power's 'Trump-Tool' and the hidden weapon of EMF are being used to 'negotiate' a 'new geopolitical consensus'… as 'capitalism' is doomed (and for me it is the fact that the ideology is doomed that is most significant… an ideology premised on the continuous consumption of the planet… and the reduction of human beings to quantifiable objects for the use of states… – i.e.… on lies… – “which would necessarily [as it means keeping us in chains and boxes…] lead to the earth becoming a barren rock… because only we – off-leash – can replenish her…) with 'capitalism' shredded… and the stakes so high… what happens to the 'global-state'-guys so accustomed to hiding behind it? I imagine the knowledge of Nikola Tesla's EMF-weapon is out now (and by 'out' I mean 'out among the global heads of states' primarily…) and that some agreement between states premised on its existence is being negotiated (it's quite possible that the “lightning strikes… that killed more than 70 people in India… some estimates put the toll at nearly 100…” [“Lightning in India Kills Over 70, Many on Farms”, by Suhasini Raj, New York Times, June 23, 2016 – it was particularly upsetting to read that “Prime Minister Narendra Modi… expressed anguish about the lightning strikes…” Recall… this is the man who played some part in the Gujarat Massacre of thousands of Muslims: “…Narendra Modi was greeted as a hero [following the massacre.] His smirking offer to resign from the Chief Minister's post was unanimously turned down.… While the parallels between contemporary India and pre-war Germany are chilling, they're not surprising. (The founders of the RSS have, in their writings, been frank in their admiration for Hitler and his methods.)” (Arundhati Roy) – and quite possible that the “lightning [that] killed an entire herd [of reindeer]: 323… the animals died 'as if someone just turned off a switch,' a researcher said… 'They were standing on a hill… they seem to have fallen dead on the ground, exactly where they stood…'” were demonstrations of the power of Nikola's weapon for the benefit of new inductees into the club of EMF-murderer-statesmen… were demonstrations of the power of Nikola's weapon for the benefit of new inductees into the club of EMF-murderer-statesmen… Our alternative must be he collective work of all of us globally?… And to see each other doing this… feels necessary… to see us stop for a day of planning and building that critical mass… countering 'power's message of violence and coercion with love… sharing knowledge of how this applies to the inevitable presence of agents… feels necessary for seeing our power… true power… But I have to say… Prince… for me… is central to this process… Because as Prince said… we have to see it… we have to be shown… I can well understand why 'power' was terrified of this man. Given the choice between standing with Prince or these lifeless folk… it's no contest… It's as if he embodies the alternative – no… not 'as if'… he does.

 

[“170226thewholesystemisalie_3.mp3”:]

 

When I attempt to read essays from… and for… the global-state-statesmen about the management of us… essays in which we generally make no overt appearance… or are disappeared into abstract concepts that reduce to the word 'threat'… or the phrase 'threat to order'… essays about today's subject: the 'power'-guys' goal to establish 'world order'… I find (and this explains why they have gone on the offensive with the “Fake News” campaign…) that 'the state' has supplanted 'the truth' as the priority for what is called 'society'… Whereas we-the-people are solidly with Proudhon on this point (speaking in the first quote of 'the nation'… a concept which our current technological and material conditions allow us to move beyond to a form of social organization premised on individual autonomy… Proudhon writes that “the word of the nation is, like that of God, sacred…” and: “With the exception of falsehood, I hate nonsense more than any thing else in the world.…” The term 'sovereignty' is defined as “the authority of a state to govern itself or another state…” (the language of the Haass article quoted below is even more obviously premised on 'perpetual war'… of which assumption we must always ask: “On what is conflict based? The answer of the honest discussant must be: 'scarcity'…) We should also remember Karl Popper's point that the theory of 'sovereignty' is premised on the notion of 'rule' (which likewise assumes conflict…) [And… I would add… is but an expression of the fundamental premise of 'class': “might makes right…” in which Truth bears not at all… – that this is never stated openly testifies to the fact that 'power' must stay hidden… that the global-state-statesmen know that because they are inherently dishonest… as their existence is premised on their manipulation of us… about which they cannot be straightforward… to establish the premises of its 'rule'… which must be kept in shadows… needs hidden actors to conceal the coercion required to compel our obedience… which… since the French Revolution… they have used 'the economy' to accomplish: and they have hidden ever since behind manufactured scarcity (which then becomes the basis for the lie that they 'provide for us'…) which… in recent times… has been called 'capitalism'…] Quote from Richard Haass: “The globe's traditional operating system – call it World Order 1.0 – has been built around the protection and prerogatives of states. It is increasingly inadequate in today's globalized world.… The result is that what goes on inside a country can no longer be considered the concern of that country alone. Today's circumstances call for an updated operating system – call it World Order 2.0 – that includes not only the rights of sovereign states but also those states' obligations. Such a concept of 'sovereign obligation'.… [builds on…] does not not reject or replace the traditional approach to order…” We are made for Honesty while 'the state' is premised on lies. 'The left' that they give us to absorb (neutralize) our protest asks us to find small lies and expose them to light (this is one of those fix-the-state spoon-twisters (time-wasters) that then passes on to subsequent generations our responsibility to establish Truth as the basis for our global society…) but the whole system is a lie… premised on lies: – that there is scarcity… that we do not come from and long to manifest 'love' / the Eternal / the 'all-of-it'… what all the various names for 'God' dissolve to…

 

[“170226gooddaddyshowparttwo_4.mp3”:]

 

It is no accident that… at this juncture… 'capitalism' is avoided in these 'new world order' advocacy pieces… I hope there are discussions such that we broaden the understanding that 'capitalism' has ever been just the most recent form taken of what 'power' ('class') has ever needed to compel our obedience: 'coercion'… and that with 'capitalism' shredded… something else is needed to replace it… (And I'm not at all certain that all of the functionaries of Plato's Tribesmen understand both the identity of 'world order' with 'force'… or that 'capitalism' was a weapon to accomplish it… or the degree to which their whole project of imposing 'order' is Plato-derived – understand that 'force' – with 'manipulation' – is the underlying… defining… issue… both within their own lives… and in their vast (and costly beyond measure…) social experiment called 'class'… i.e.… understand the fundamental irrationality (absence of authentic thought…) both of the project overall… and the irrationality of making one's raison d'être getting orders checked off a 'to-do' list…) It is this identity of 'capitalism'… and 'the economy'… with 'force and manipulation' that helps us address our question: “where will the 'power'-guys hide?” Because as the 'debt-bludgeon' becomes ever-less effective… 'truth'… 'the real'… necessarily proclaims its existence… asserts its authority over our lives… and the false 'power' of 'the state' withers… as we see that it is based on nothing but deception… “The Good Daddy Show (Part 2)…” In our January 29, 2017 show… jumping off the point that 'politics'… and to-the-max-even-more-so 'geopolitics'… is theatre… we began our argument that the chaotic world of current events is surface manifestation of the 'power'-guys' hidden planning… planning that is a re-crafting of their “post-WWII 'global consensus'… a consensus between a handful of actors – global-state statesmen – on their bifurcation of the world into two 'zones'… We argued that the ultimate point of such agreements between global-state actors is effective containment of we-the-people globally to ensure their 'rule'… given that our upward pressure toward authentic freedom is continuous… And we argued that the Egyptian Revolution acted as a catalyst for the expansion and concretization of this biological imperative in us (to use Herbert Marcuse's term…) the concretization of it globally… a catalyst that… due to its global impact… solidified… expanded… unified… and intensified… it…

 

[“170226consensusreplacescapitalism_5.mp3”:]

 

The lens of 'world-system'-analysis that Wallerstein gives – and its explanation of the end of 'capitalism' – along with Alice Miller's explanation of the repetition compulsion and fear of spontaneous feelings that plague totalitarians (particularly the modern version: the Plato's Tribesmen… as they very meticulously attempted… in the centuries since the French Revolution… to turn the torture of infants' into… a 'science'…) helps us understand the freneticism and aggressiveness of the 'power'-guys' present actions: why the global-statesmen are responding so fiercely to the dramatic growth of our capacity – sparked by the Egyptian Revolution and its demonstration of the powerful new evolution-organizing tools now in our possession – our new capacity to 'see' the global-statesmen… and their growing vulnerability (with the collapse of 'capitalism'…) globally… allows us to understand how (why) it is they would want more fluid and maneuverable means to respond to our rapid intellectual growth (as it is by controlling our thoughts that they control us…) as a result of the flowering of our global consciousness… allows us to understand that 'power' necessarily moves in shadow to promote its never-stated-openly agenda… allows us to see why they want Total Surveillance to mean Total Ability To Forestall… our growth… allows us to see that they would need means beyond the bludgeon of 'debt' to continue their 'project' of imposing 'order' on the world… allows us to see why they would want a 'new geopolitical consensus'… to replace 'capitalism'… Quoting from the Haass article: “Promoting World Order 2.0 will require extensive consultations.… Forward progress on this agenda will need to come voluntarily, from countries themselves, rather than as the result of some top-down edict from a supposedly authoritative body or actor. Looking squarely at the mismatch between the nature and scale of contemporary problems and the capacity of existing arrangements to solve them, governments will have to decide whether they are prepared to sacrifice some autonomy in return for improved collective action [of states]…” And quoting Popper: “As long as the ruling class is united, there can be no challenge to their authority, and consequently no class war.… Since the ruling class alone has political power, including the power of keeping the number of the human cattle within such limits as to prevent them from becoming a danger, the whole problem of preserving the state is reduced to that of preserving the internal unity of the master class. How is this unity of the rulers preserved? By training and other psychological influences, but otherwise mainly by the elimination of economic interests which many lead to disunion…” What exactly about the collapse of capitalism is it that we are unclear on? The Plato's Tribesmen have been preparing for (anticipating) it for some time. They needed it to privatize and concentrate the resources of the planet into fewer and fewer hands… that 'job' is largely done. So Mark Zuckerberg is wading into a dark… thick… muddy… mess… when he says he intends to build the 'social infrastructure' that would allow communities to develop… empower… themselves: “There's a social infrastructure that needs to get built to deal with modern problems in order for humanity to get to the next level…” A hidden… shadow… global-state – which we must start accepting is and calling “necessarily 'Fascist'”… as every particular state within it is required to suppress not just dissent but our intellectual development – global-state-statesmen have a conflict with “humanity getting to the next level”: it's called their 'rule'…

 

[“170226powerrulesbymanipulation_6.mp3”:]

 

States are also required either to come up with some sort of ideological justification for their existence… if a state aspires to be invited to the big-boys' table (i.e.… “You will be tested…” they are told… “for the 'purity' of your convictions” (obviously Mr. Modi got that message…) “You will not be trusted with the knowledge resources unless you can demonstrate that you are in firm command of your captive population… that it is well-conditioned and obedient… although the idea of 'advancement' in the hierarchy of states feels like an antiquated notion in this moment… when there is such a strong press from below for our freedom…) potentially joining the more 'privileged' group of states where the 'knowledge resources' and the 'knowledge-resources-workers' are concentrated… or… if ineligible for this role… required to identify 'the best and the brightest' within their borders… and ship them off to the 'knowledge-resource-states' in order to (they reason…) infuse a little life-blood into the thought-and-heart-stultifying places (in the 'privileged sector') where 'power' generates its 'ideas' for maintaining its 'rule' ad infinitum… required to keep the bulk of its population in a state of perpetual demoralization and penury… to force them to 'immigrate' (can we come up with a “'people's term” for what 'power' is doing here?… which includes the use of immigrants to stoke anger and divisions (how does Prince put it in “The Sacrifice Of Victor”?: “…a group of unsuspecting political tools…”) when 'power' makes the flip calculation that more Division and Hate are needed [for instance… the continuous use of this tactic in South Africa: “Violence Erupts at South African Protests,” New York Times, February 25, 2017…) force intentionally pauperized populations into a condition of such utter lack of status… that they can be pushed into the low-status-work needed done in the more-privileged sectors of the global-state…) (This… by the way… may be the clearest… simplest… [and expressing the broadest impact…] example of why 'class' is so energy-inefficient: the amount of force required to suppress life [freedom] consumes the planet…) 'Power' rules by means of psychological manipulation… psychological manipulation of us… So – putting on our 'power'-caps – how… do we imagine… would 'power' answer our question to Wallerstein [and this was written before we gave the broad answer – “establish a new geopolitical consensus” – the following reply falls within that broad answer]: “with 'capitalism' shredded… and the stakes so high… what happens to the 'global-state'-guys so accustomed to hiding behind it?” Of one thing we can be certain… in reply to the end of 'capitalism' they do what they do: divide… hierarchicalize… and lie… lie… lie… but beyond this… given their centuries-deep training to think of themselves as 'masters of the universe'… as 'Mind'-personified… their first thought beyond 'manipulation' is that there must be a 'technological fix' – this is their answer to every problem… as 'heart' has been squeezed out of them… Following which comes the assessment of the current status of 'artificial intelligence'… and their EMF-disease-epidemiology-and-catastrophic-events division… leading necessarily to the minions pleading (probably after entering some private space to muffle their screaming…) pleading to their masters: “We need more time!”

 

[“170226timeforusnotfasciststorise_7.mp3”:]

 

Is it fair then to call the “Trump-tool-of-'power'” an all-purpose cleanser (or is a sticky tub of 'patch-it-up' a better metaphor?…) – taken advantage of on both sides of the Pond… it seems they mean to get a great deal of use out of Mr. Trump while he is their's to command (which may be longer than they originally intended… the egregious artificiality of the entire constructed scene called “Enter The Trump-Tool”… makes him a hot mess best left to the fiction-writers who made him – while we plan our freedom…) Fascists always want to appear to be 'Good Daddies'… protecting their children from 'external threats'… But we are growing up… We are tired of the needless cost of suffering we pay as the price of admission to their 'Daddy'-acts… As Nikola saw… we are starting to listen to each other rather than to them… So two 'management-zones' are nowhere near enough… for a global-people… that is waking up… particularly when the earth… she is exhausted… and the holes in their totalitarian-scheming… they are a-sprouting… Add to this that the eyes of the once-peripheralized 'rulers' of the 'second'-tier states are also open wide… minds fully engaged in the possibilities of this moment… and that not all of them are dancing on the ship-deck… and we have the recipe for a lot of mad-scheming behind scenes… More 'zones' then… are needed… reason the Plato's Tribesmen – everything is up for negotiation. And within… around… and surrounding… these 'zones'… enough threats to the very notion of 'rule' exist to set the 'class'-bound mind just a'-spinnin'… “We-the-global-people': this is our time…

 

[“170226teslaswirelesselectricitypatent_8.mp3”:]

 

Margaret Cheney's Tesla: Man Out Of Time: “In Colorado he had achieved voltages of ten to twelve million volts on the antenna sphere of his magnifying transmitter, although he believed that 100 million volts were feasible. On his return to New York he applied for another group of patents of which the most important was an “Apparatus for Transmitting Electrical Energy,” related to the Wardenclyffe project, being No. 1,119,732 filed in 1902 but not issued until 1914. [That is to say… the state held onto it for twelve years… A gap suggestive of behind-scenes scheming and double-dealing… what do you suppose Nikola was doing as the state held onto his patents without responding to him?… must have been a pretty good lie the state was snowing him with… the timing is obviously significant: 1914 brought the outbreak of World War I… and an article from Nikola published in The Sun of December 20, 1914 [discussed in our August 7, 2016 (“160807teslaseesknowledgeequalizingus_2”) and our August 14, 2016 (“160814worldwidediscussionoftesla_6”) shows titled: “Science and Discovery Are The Great Forces Which Will Lead To The Consummation [End] of The War,” in which he wrote: “Modern machinery wrought by science is responsible for this calamity; science will also undo the Frankenstein monster it has created… A new force, a new agent, a demonstration by any means, old or novel, but of a kind to surprise and suddenly illuminate, to bring the belligerent to their senses and furnish irrefutable proof of the folly and uselessness of carrying on the brutal fight.… Thousands are working on it…” [A note is appended here that reads: First in this series was No. 685,012, means for increasing the intensity of electrical oscillations by use of liquefied air, issued in 1901; followed by 655,838, method of insulating electrical conductors; 787,412, art of transmitting electrical energy through the natural medium; 723,188, method of signaling; 725,605, system of signaling; 685,957, apparatus for utilization of radiant energy; and 1,119,732.]– P.S.]

 

[“170226classsocietydevoursitself_9.mp3”:]

 

[Last week we… asked… how is it that the global-state-statesmen do not see the death-destination of their 'plan' for 'effective management'?… a 'plan' embedded in the ideology 'the economy'… We are calling it an 'ideology'… but 'fairy-tale' may be more accurate… as their entire scheme for 'management' of the planet is based in wanting to be seen as 'Good Daddies'… only done if we are designed-obedient (those among us – we-the-people – left to exist…) made to be 'Happy Children' who frolic on command and rattle our chains playfully… and do only… what we're told to…] Let's recall our Shakespeare: we cannot allow ourselves to be kept… to be forever dependent… to forfeit our gifts that make us self-sufficient… to allow others – a tiny-10,000 others globally – to decide who shall live and who shall die… that… life that cannot provide or itself cannot survive – and… cannot create the Abundance we are here to make… cannot continuously restore for our Sisters and Brothers our shared Paradise. Proudhon: “Society devours itself, – One. By the violent and periodical sacrifice of laborers… Two. By the stoppage of the producer's consumption caused by property…” So… as we asked last week: “Is this what we want?” Do we want the Tiny Ten Thousand to decide what we Seven Billion do with our hearts… bodies… and minds?… decide… not just who we can love… but whether love can live at all?… force our hearts and minds to freeze instead of cry and rise to act when we read our Sister in South Africa say: “We cannot feed our families and we have no way to fight back…” We are examining in what sense 'the economy' is ideology used to anesthetize especially those of us whose bodies are for the moment kept well-fed… freeze our hearts and steal our minds (and by 'steal our minds' I mean that our minds are forced to identify with 'the state' that has command of us… For instance when I read… as I did today [February 26, 2017…] this from a union-rep: “If this keeps up [the Chinese state “subsidizing the coal electricity and alumina needed to produce aluminum…”] within a few years, the United States will have no capacity left. My ability to provide for my family, along with all of my coworkers', will be in danger… [Robert Smith quoted in Winter, 2017 USW@Work…] in his words we can see… when viewed objectively… a distortion of reality… they express a crafted-skewed sense of reality: the lie that we owe 'power' for our food and not the earth… and so are not moved to take care of her…) an ideology continuously reinforced propagandistically in media-pieces designed to forestall… stop… our thought-process… I hope it's clear: reclaiming our bodies ends 'the economy' and begins Honesty… begins Freedom… begins the time in which Abundance is the premise of our social relationships… globally… (Our outro song from Prince continues our theme of Love and Abundance: “When U Love Somebody'” from his CD: Newpower Soul… So many of Prince's songs of love resonate for me about him… This is one of them.)

 

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Prince Songs For Our February 26, 2017 Show:

 

[“04 Plectrum Electrum.mp3”:]

 

“PlectrumElectrum” by Prince with 3rdEyeGirl, CD: PlectrumElectrum, 2014

 

[“03 Until U're In My Arms Again.mp3”:]

 

“Until U're In My Arms Again” by Prince: “All of my life I've never wanted anyone like I wanted U… Every night I said a prayer 2 God and His angels… I'm sure they knew… The many tears that I'd have 2 cry… If I ever had 2 leave your side… CHORUS: Until U're in my arms again… I know this pain will never end… This broken heart will never mend… Until U're in my arms again… Every mornin' when I awaken, I imagine U sleepin' in your bed… Wrong or right the reason U're taken from my embrace… Well, it's never said… Cuz every day that U don't return… Is another day that my heart just yearns and yearns… That's why… CHORUS… If life remains a mystery… Then there's no reason 2 the rhyme… And U, U'll never know what U mean 2 me till U're mine, all mine… Until U're in my arms again {x3}… (CHORUS) Until U're, until U're, until U're in my arms again!… No, ain't never gonna end… Never gonna mend… Until U're back, right back in my arms again… I'll never see like others see… (I know that U'll come back 2 me)… I know U're gonna come right back 2 me (Come on back 2 me)… And this time U will never leave my arms again… (Never leave my arms again)… Until U're in my arms again {x3}… Come on back, baby… Come on back {x2}… Until U're in my arms again {x2}…” [Prince, “Until U're In My Arms Again”, Newpower Soul, 1998?]

 

[“12 Reflection.mp3”:]

 

“Reflection” by Prince: “2 sevens together… Like time, indefinite… Try 2 catch the glass… b4 it falls… Without a frown… Can U turn up the stereo?… Eye wanna play U this old song… it's about love (it's about love…) Can Eye do that?… Did we remember 2 water the plants today?… Eye 4got 2 look up at the moon because… Eye was 2 busy, said Eye was 2 busy… Eye was 2 busy… Looking at you babe… Still it's nice 2 know… That, uh… when bodies wear out… We can get another… What does that 1 thing have 2 do with the other 1?… Eye don't know… Eye was just thinking about my mother… U know what… Turn the stereo back down… Ain't nothing worse than an old worn out love song… Tell me do you like my hair this way… Remember all the way back in the day… When we would compare who's afro was the roundest… Mirrored tiles above the bed… Fishing nets and posters all over the walls… oh yes… Sometimes… Sometimes Eye just wanna go sit out on the stoop… and… Play my guitar… Just watch all the… all the cars go by…” [Prince, “Reflection”, Musicology, 2004]

 

[“12 Welcome 2 The Dawn (accoustic version).mp3”:]

 

“Welcome 2 The Dawn” by Prince: “When the things U know are right… are far from what they seem… When the past becomes the future… and time becomes a dream… When the light of God… is the only thing in life that will redeem… Welcome, welcome 2 the dawn… When the voices U hear commands U… 2 entertain thee absurd… When U do the action unlocks… the apocalypse of that you've heard of… When the day lies before U… seems the darkest in a word… Welcome, welcome 2 the dawn… Every piece a puzzle and every name a clue… Every charge U make is karma… So be careful what U do… Welcome, welcome 2 the dawn… (Welcome 2 the dawn) (Thank U)…” [Prince, “Welcome 2 The Dawn”, The Truth, 1998]

 

[“09 Immerson.mp3”:]

 

“Immersion” Written by Prince and Performed by Bria Valente with Prince: “Come in… Very adept in the art of healing… A voice [bubbled?] to her saying, 'Come in,'… She's lost her words… describing the feeling… Whatever it is… It never ends… No… Uh uh… Very adept in the art of listening… She studied everything she needed to know… Her dreams now turn to the water glistening… And the words 'come in' and 'go'… 'Come in' and 'go'… To a place where time it has no meaning… In space where there are no more walls… Very adept in the art of receiving… She finally got the call… 'Come in'… 'Come in'… 'Go'… Immersion… Very adept in the art of releasing… She let all of her inhibitions go… With the unexpected shock of a bee-sting… She got pulled into the future… And into the New World (into the New World…) Welcome to the place much faster than time… The true reality we're only [beasts?] you'll find… Come in… Come in… Go… Immersion (immersion)… Go……” [Bria Valente with Prince, “Immersion”, Elixer, 2009]

 

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Our February 19, 2017 Show:

 

[“170219truesocietymustbewon_1.mp3”:]

 

“How will you know the pitch of that great bell Too large for you to stir? Let but a flute… Play ’neath the fine-mixed metal: listen close Till the right note flows forth, a silvery rill: Then shall the huge bell tremble – then the mass With myriad waves concurrent shall respond In low soft unison.” I remind myself of George Eliot's words of encouragement in moments of extreme frustration… shoved up against the walls of all the boxes… appalled… after all the hard work and suffering of Nikola Tesla… precisely so I would not have to feel what I am now feeling: appalled at the huge expenditure of energy involved in simply living lovingly… in connection with my fellows… which requires knowing how my Sisters and Brothers are doing globally… and extending a hand where it's needed (and I'm not talking in terms of 'money'… I'm talking about our shared human energy…) I would not be feeling this frustration… if the world Nikola Tesla wanted to see… had been let be – above all… we would not have seen the mammoth toll of lost lives and suffering… completely unnecessary… of the twentieth century and in the years since… the price we continuously pay for co-signing their Dishonesty… I don't know anybody but Prince who was speaking out about this… saying that freedom… our bodies free of force… comes first… above all else… like the birds… The frustration… came when I read a many-times strained – substance needed to build our common sense of 'oneness' carefully removed – article about the coalescence of our longing for freedom as it manifested in another part of the world… and struggled to figure out what more precisely was going on… “Fed By Anger and Mistrust, Unrest Persists in Romania”… You see what I mean… the straining of one's whole being required to try to come to common terms with Mr. Badita… but this article was not for this but for 'not-this'… not for us but for 'not-us'… The enormous power of the technology… as a result of so much hard work and pain – in no small measure that of Nikola Tesla – left for us… and we still cannot listen to each other's beat (“Listen to the drummer but you still want to have fun… It shouldn't be 'work'…”) we still cannot talk to… and share with… each other globally… or even locally… in safe spaces that make conscious… and examine… the totalitarian mindset of 'class' – exploring how it is 'the state' – and recognize its abusiveness… see that abuse in all of its institutions… so we can build trust and love between us (this is our obligation to children…) we still cannot work with each other in the ways that link with and build authentic freedom for every single human on the planet… The need for our doing this could not be more urgent… (And we'll be considering in this regard an article from a couple days later in the New York Times of February 17, 2017 titled “Zuckerberg, Bucking Tide, Takes a Public Stand Against Isolationism”… in which Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook is quoted as saying that we “need to build a global community that works for everyone…” and that we have to “create the social infrastructure” with which to do it – which reflects on the point we'll be getting to later: either we want society – and our society today is necessarily global – either we want society… or we don't… As Prince says… it is either 'this' or 'that'… so if we want it… we will have to fight for it…)

 

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As we said in our February 5, 2017 show… only such a critical mass of 'freedom-agents' as ourselves can counter the death-destined-trajectory instilled with the bully-mindset in the global-state-statesmen (perhaps the theme of today's show… along with the need for all of us to step up and create our global community…) only we can clean up the mess made by a mindset premised on abusiveness and theft… “Mr. Badita 'took unpaid leave from his job [in a northern city…] to participate in the Bucharest protests…'” What is clear is that he is tired of ritualistic 'protest'… and he is following his questions: “What is it that we really want… and must have… so that we can live as we're meant… and leave for the children more than just more things to protest?” Imagine if our conversations in this space were broadly discussed: our thinking through the question of 'the state' with Peter Kropotkin… Pierre-Joseph Proudhon… and our Good Three… the authors of Antisystemic Movements – Terence K. Hopkins… Giovanni Arrighi… and Immanuel Wallerstein… imagine if we were having this conversation globally with our Brothers and Sisters in Romania… and South Africa… Instead… the 'power'-guys are once again telling young people here in the U.S.… young people the shadow-global-state hopes to recruit to their purposes… “Watch us pull a rabbit out of a hat!…” 'power' says to the children – “in goes Atomization… out comes Unification! It's magic! Your bodies don't feel any different?… Never mind that… just coast on the 'hero-vibe' we keep pumping into your mind…” – once again the global-statesmen are hoping to entice young people into falling in line behind the same useless 'strategies' that have conned youth-with-heart for generations: 'pick-an-issue'… and… fix your mind on 'fixing-the-state'… and we are generously providing for an added feeling of urgency… and that pleasant 'heroic' sense… a Villain: “Here…” they are told… “wait for your 'shadow-state-issued' pin… and then… get in line behind all the other Issues… and then… with your state-issued-pin… when the miracle-self-reinflatable Trump-Balloon floats by (enough sides for every issue…) you have our permission… to… stick it in…” This… the global-statesmen tell any youth who allow themselves to be guided by their intercepting-agents… this is called “joining forces!”… “your pins all touched 'the system'… “magnifying your impact!” – and when the Trump-Tool steps out of the way and you all fall in a clump on top of each other… they will then call it 'Successful Diversion'… just not to you…

 

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The Good Daddy Show (Part 1): I've been thinking more about this as well: the competition between the global-state-statesmen – and here too wondering how much it matters to our planning for global freedom? Thoughts on this? I found myself wondering how closely-kept is the secret of the theft of Nikola Tesla's inventions that provide to the 'power'-guys that possess them a huge technological advantage… Given our huge debt… why is Nikola Tesla never mentioned? The answer is obvious: they wanted his weapon… When will we demand full accountability of the U.S. state regarding these weapons… and deny them this gun they have trained on our heads?] We learned from Margaret Cheney that at least three other countries filed patents on the EMF weapon in 1924… This is coming up for me because the Trump-Tool is being used to do so many things… the wielding of it seemingly so chaotic: used to help bolster the notion of a unified Europe… used to try to lure investors to unclench their fists… used to bolster the notion that 'fascism' – and though this is the image clearly we are to see… they use the words 'nativism' or 'isolationism' or 'anti-globalization' generally – used to support the propaganda that 'fascism is on the march globally'…used to strike fear in the hearts of immigrants… used to generate sympathy and support for immigrants… used to entice young people here in the U.S. to become 'patriotic'… used here in the U.S. to isolate 'labor' from 'the rest of us'… used to create the belief that 'racism' is on the rise… that “we are so divided” in the U.S.… used to beef up the 'money'-buffer (i.e.… the problem is 'the elite'… 'the wealthy'… 'the corporations'… not the Plato's Tribesmen… a completely unaccountable bunch of global-'power'-guys…) between 'the people' and the global-state-statesmen… used to serve as sharp contrast to the 'Good Daddy'… reinforce the notion that the 'stable state' is the 'true' state… is the 'Good Daddy'… which we desperately need to save us from the 'Bad Daddy'… and the predatory nature of all the 'authoritarian regimes' 'out there'… all those 'external threats'… – i.e.… where we started has… in the span of a week… been left in the dust of the would-be juggernaut-of-the-would-be-gods called 'Trump'… – But… as we said earlier… to get clear on this point: that we've got to unite globally… create a global community in which all of us work together for the lives we want… which means our bodies are no longer at the command of others… which necessarily results in a shadow-state… when you create economic hardship… i.e.… scarcity… people have to do what they have to do… to eat: you become a functionary… a machine… of whoever pays you… and whoever pays you… is the shadow-state… they have the shadow aims… they are completely unaccountable.

 

[“170219nikolastrustviolated_4.mp3”:]

 

Turning now to Nikola… our reading of Tesla: Man Out Of Time: “By spring (1903) Tesla's money problems had grown… severe… He wrote [to J.P. Morgan] on April 8… Two weeks later Tesla again wrote: 'You have extended me a noble help at a time when Edison, Marconi, Pupin, Fleming, and many others openly ridiculed my undertaking and declared its success impossible.…' But Morgan still did not act, and Tesla, now beginning to feel pangs of desperation decided to play his final card. So at last he wrote to Morgan and bared his true goal – not just the sending of radio signals but the wireless transmission of power.” [So… I think we can see the way of things… how the plot thickened in the 'behind-scenes'… Recall from our December 4, 2016 and January 1, 2017 shows that Nikola first confided this intention to George Westinghouse when he appealed to him for $6,000: “You will know of course,” he confided, “that I contemplate the establishment of such a communication merely as the first step to further and more important work, namely that of transmitting power.”

 

[“170219thebetrayalofnikolaandus_5.mp3”:]

 

Tesla: Man Out Of Time [It was during our January 1, 2017 show [“170101teslameetswithduplicity_5”] that we learned that Nikola took a big risk and confided to George Westinghouse that his goal was the wireless transmission of electrical power… after which: “The industrialist invited Tesla to ride with him on the train from New York to Pittsburgh in his private 'palace car' to talk over the whole matter…” Nikola was candid… and Westinghouse… with Nikola's brain relieved of as much as his hands could hold… promptly turned him down. Nikola… frustration upped… is then handed over to Mr. Money-Bags… with whom he is (too late…) more circumspect… who plays the part of someone generous beyond what common sense should allow… A flurry of activity ensues… we learn in our February 5, 2017 show: “The inventor's hectic schedule often gave the impression that he was three or four individuals. His New York laboratory had become a meeting place for scientists from all over the world. The nights were filled with social activities, arduous experimental work, the writing of patent applications, professional journal articles, and letters to editors.” I think we can see the hidden objective of all Morgan's malicious foot-dragging and sadistic playing with Nikola's peace of mind… – P.S.]: “On July 3, [Nikola Tesla] wrote [to J.P. Morgan]: “If I would have told you such as this before, you would have fired me out of your office… Will you help me or let my great work – almost complete – go to pots?…” The answer came eleven days later, addressed to N. Tesla, Esq. “I have received your letter,” wrote Morgan, “…and in reply would say that I should not feel disposed at present to make any further advances.” Tesla replied that night in Jovian style by going to the tower and setting off such a fireworks display as no one has seen before. His tests went on through the night and for several thereafter.… When reporters rushed to the scene they were turned away… When interviewed, Tesla said, 'The people about there, had they been awake instead of asleep, at other times would have seen even stranger things. Some day, but not at this time, I shall make an announcement of something that I never once dreamed of.'” [Nikola… as opposed to all the the people the 'power'-guys surrounded him with… is honest to a fault… He… and the coterie of other scientists the 'power'-guys placed around him… knew exactly what he had… – P.S.]

 

[“170219theeconomyasmanagementtool_6.mp3”:]

 

(Last week we asked Proudhon to explain the 'bully-mindset' of the 'power'-guys'… in particular how they could find 'glory' in being murderers… and torturers… and thieves… and of course monumental deceivers of their Brothers and Sisters… And in referring us to some of the early texts of 'class' he successfully did this… Today we ask for his help with something else that has puzzled us about the global-state-statesmen (although this is perhaps a question more appropriate for Alice Miller…): how is it they can see what is obviously a death-bound trajectory as 'effective management'?… Let's see if Proudhon… joined for this discussion by Albert O. Hirschman… can help us with this…) The 'management mindset' pervades (is) the ideology 'the economy' (and… of course… obviously… that of 'the state'…) so the question is… as we said last week [as I wrote those words] (in the December 25, 2016 “Rainbow Children” show…) do we want to remain children… so the 'power'-guys can play 'kings'? (…which is why they are so keen to reduce us all to absolutely transparent and irreducible and quantifiable units… seen via – only alive via – the transactions we make in the 'Internet-of-things'… this is why the global-banking-system 'likes bitcoin's technology'… we discussed this in our October 30, 2016 show (“161030studyingthosedefconguys_6”)… the fact that we – human beings – are the 'things' they want to ensure are 'devices' that operate only on their command… the hidden global-state-statesmen are very much used to thinking of 'the economy' as a tool for our management… but what is at first curious to us about their gleeful assumption of the 'management' mantle is that they cannot see its obvious death-of-life-destination… that an attempt to halt change (the dream of Plato which they have decided to realize for him…) force the world into stasis… means the end of life. This death-obsession… a determination to kill all life… which word – 'life' – we must hear as 'freedom'… that the two are equivalent functionally… this death obsession hides (though in plain sight to an active [alive] thought-process…) behind the 'management-mindset'… The global-statesmen create scarcity to kill all life. (Prince is a man of Abundance and didn't at first understand this mindset… and neither did Proudhon… He believes that these folk can be reasoned with… Alice Miller however explains [in For Your Own Good…] that they cannot… that their's is an irrational set of beliefs fixed in them when they were infants as a result of the torture [force] inflicted on them…)

 

[“170219heretomakeabundance_7.mp3”:]

 

(And I'm really looking forward to when we have more open… broad… public… discussions so that we can clarify… unpack… broad or dense statements… I thought about that in writing the previous segment… as well as that last thought that force applied to an infant is torture… and that that needs to be discussed… because I don't know that all of us understand that…) We've discussed before (getting back to our point that “the economy” is a tool of 'power' for 'managing' us – which makes it a political tool…) we've discussed before… quoting Albert O. Hirschman's The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph… how the concept of 'the economy' became a tool in the hands of the 18th century incipient Plato's Tribesmen… to impose 'order' on the 'political world'… In a chapter he calls “Improving the Political Order”… Hirschman writes: “…from the potter He had been in the Old Testament… [God] became a master clockmaker, le Grand Horloger. The implication was of course that once He had built the clock, it was going to run entirely by itself. Steuart's watch (= economy) shares with the clock (= universe) the quality of being a finely built mechanism that should not be tampered with by arbitrary outside interference, but by choosing the image of a watch he manages to convey both the impossibility of arbitrary and careless handling and the need for frequent corrective moves by the solicitous and expert 'statesmen'…” This concept was adapted in the aftermath of the French Revolution into the fervent new religion of 'Plato'… i.e.… the addition of an irrational destination… to which understanding we owe Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies: Volume 1 – The Spell of Plato… Plato too recommended 'course corrections'… he called this “tempering 'the ideal' with 'the possible'… So Proudhon could not know… the degree to which his prediction of 'feudal chaos' (if we did not demand our right to own… be responsible for… our own intellectual development…) would become reality… did not see the degree to which 'the managers' that scratched and clawed and dirty-dealed their way to ascendancy would entrench themselves by means of a global-totalitarian-self-and-mutually-reinforcing structure of bureaucratic states… Proudhon saw… and tried to engage in dialogue with… the argument of 'the managers'… tried to move them to reconsider… in order to avert… as Nikola Tesla likewise tried less than a century later… feudal chaos… Let's recall our Shakespeare: we cannot allow ourselves to be kept… to be forever dependent… to forfeit our gifts that make us self-sufficient… to allow others – a tiny-10,000 others globally – to decide who shall live and who shall die… that… life that cannot provide for itself cannot survive – and… cannot create the Abundance we are here to make… cannot continuously restore for our Sisters and Brothers our shared Paradise.

 

[“170219thegloballovewemake_8.mp3”:]

 

(That's another concept that… when I wrote it… it occurred to me that it needs to be discussed… unpacked… I often get a little too concise in these shows because I'm trying to get thoughts out there that have been suppressed… and I'm very conscious of the show's time constraints…) Butting up against the clock… we'll have to leave “Property is impossible, because, if it exists, Society devours itself…” till next week… but to end with this thought which we'll reiterate next week… that we really have to use Proudhon's society-wide-eyes to make sense of the juncture where we stand… of the challenges before us right now… and apply them to our global society… and ask ourselves do we want “This or That”? Either we want society or we don't. Prince cuts to the chase and could have pulled Proudhon's coat… it's time to move on… to stop the 'dialogue' with these death-obsessed folks… to tell the 'power'-guys: “we're tired a'y'all…” and to reclaim our bodies… our gifts… our intelligence… for ourselves… and to believe therefore in that time of Abundance for which we were made… and which we are here to make… that time in which all of us can have fun just Strollin'… have fun makin' that joyful sound… because “makin' that joyful sound” creates Abundance… it doesn't have to be work… in fact… “it shouldn't be work…” So that leads to our outro song from Prince: “Strollin'” from his 1991 CD: Diamonds And Pearls… Prince says “let's take a break from the '9 to 5'…” well… we need to hear for this juncture… “let's take a 4Ever-break from that '9 to 5'…”

 

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Prince Songs For Our February 19, 2017 Show:

 

[“03 Calhoun Square.mp3”:]

 

“Calhoun Square” by Prince: “(In the notes with the CD Prince writes: “This song was actually about the NPG [New Power Generation] store in Uptown: 'Look across the street…'”) [Prince's instruction to his fellow musicians before the beginning of the song: “Listen to the drummer but you still want to have fun… It shouldn't be 'work'”] I don't like this much 2 drink… I was there… I know right now it's hard 2 think… I don't care… But it's time 4 U and me 2 wonder… Why we're here… Maybe we should roll 2 the rock and rumble… Calhoun Square (Let's roll)… Meet me there… If U dare… Calhoun Square!… It don't matter clothes U're wearin'… Or your hair… If U're freaky, they don't care and… They don't stare (Ain't nobody lookin' at U)… All that matters if U're happy… And if U're there (Are U there?)… Don't U wanna roll 2 the rock and rumble… Calhoun Square? (Don't U wanna? Come on now)… Hey!… Meet me there… If U dare… Calhoun Square!… Walk through veils of many colors… If U dare (Do U dare?)… Jasmine, peach and love 4 others… In the air (It's all in the air)… Don't be shocked 2 see your mother… In the chair (Sit down, baby)… Everybody roll 2 the rock and rumble… Calhoun Square (Oh Lord)… Hey, come on!… Oh Lord [x2]… Hear me now… Calhoun Square, Calhoun Square [x2]… Meet me there… If U dare… Calhoun Square!…” [Prince, “Calhoun Square”, Crystal Ball, 1998]

 

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“No More Candy 4 U” by Prince: “9 out of 10 mortals agree 2day; 2 much fame causes spiritual decay… 2 all the punx who believe life imitates music… No more candy 4 you we can't hang with you… 2 all the punx who wanna b rock stars and do what they do… There's no future 4 you that's the life of a fool… No more candy, no more candy 4 you we're 2 funky and you can't handle r groove… 2 all the freax in the magazines who never paid no dues… No more candy 4 you u can't sing it's true… 2 all the freax walking in2 walls somebody put a spell on you… No more candy 4 you eye guess the devil got a brand new fool… [Chorus]… 2 all the haterz on the internet somebody's lookin' at you… No more candy 4 you they got ur number now, fool… 2 all the suckerz winning anything and thanking the lord 4 what… They do… No more candy 4 you no more candy 4 you… Eye am 2 funky and you can't handle my groove…” [Prince, “No More Candy 4 U”, Mplsound, 2009]

 

[“01 3121.mp3”:]

 

“3121 / D.M.S.R.” by Prince: “Through the gates… knock on the door… put yo clothes in a pile on the floor… Take yo pick from the Japanese robes… and sandals… Drink champagne from a glass with chocolate handles… Don't you wanna come… to 3121?… It's gonna be so much fun… 3121… That where the party be… 3121… You can come if you want to… But you can never leave… Everybody… Get on the floor… Tell me now what you come here for… Girl it aint no use… You might as well get loose… Work that body like you want some mo… Sing everybody… Get on the beat… We gonna show you people how ta… People everywhere… loosen up ur hair… Take a deeper breath and sing along with me… Oo… Alright… Dance… music… sex… romance… I can't hear you say it… Oo… Alright… Dance… music… sex… romance… Look over there… there's another turn-on… Butterflies scared that they're gonna be awake all night long… Dancin' in your belly… like a ballerina… In spite of your efforts to calm them down… Yeah… Don't you wanna come… 3121… It's gonna be so much fun… 3121… That's where the party be y'all… 3121… You can come if you want to… But you can never leave… Everybody… Loosen up… Shake it like you just don't care… Never mind your friend… Girl it ain't no sin… Shake that body 'til the early light… Tell me now if you there… I said everybody… forget the masses… We only want to have some fun… Do whatever we want… Fuck in the middle of a restaurant… Police aint got no gun… Y'all don't haveta run… Everybody say… Dance… music… sex… romance… Everybody say… Oo… Say it again… Dance… music… sex… romance… Don't you wanna come… 3121… It's gonna be so much fun… 3121… That's where the party be people… 3121… You can come if you want to… But you can never leave… It's going down y'all… twenty-one nights in London…” [Prince, “3121 / D.M.S.R.”, Indigo Nights, 2007]

 

[“03 Clouds.mp3”:]

 

“Clouds” by Prince: “You should never underestimate the power of… A kiss on the neck, when she doesn't expect… A kiss on the neck, when she doesn't expect… A kiss on the neck… And every time you catch her singin' in the shower… You should go and get a flower… No matter what the hour… Just rub it on her back, rub it on her back, rub it on her back… All over maybe… In this brand new age we do everything… Quick, fast… in a hurry… All of our life's a stage… Everybody stars, reality's so blurry… If you screamed out loud, loud… The top of your voice wouldn't be higher than the crowd (no)… Tattoo-less and proud, yeah… We're getting high on something that doesn't require clouds… No, we don't need no clouds, no… You should never underestimate the power of… A kiss on the neck, when she doesn't expect… A kiss on the neck, when she doesn't expect… A kiss on the neck… And every time you catch her singin' in the shower… You should go and get a flower… Don't matter what the hour… Just rub it on her back, rub it on her back, rub it on her back… All over maybe… I'm gonna give you something baby… But I wonder does it really even matter if it ain't on a stage… If it ain't on a stage… I don't really think it matters in this brand new age… When life's a stage, in this brand new age… How do we engage?… Bullying just for fun… No wonder there's so many guns… Maybe we're better off in space… Mr. Nelson, Mr. Nelson, can you hear my voice?… Sir, we know you're a little bit groggy… And you're probably going to find it hard to speak… But don't try to talk or process too much now… We just want to let you know that the medication you were given… Has put you in a suspended animation for quite some time… Well, in fact, about 45 years… But where you are now… Is a place that doesn't require time… That saying, you are completely safe… And we are here to help you… You should never underestimate the power of… A kiss on the neck, when she doesn't expect… A kiss on the neck, when she doesn't expect… A kiss on the neck… It's in my power to love you… It's in my power to love you up… It's in my power to love you… It's in my power to love you up…” [Prince, “Clouds”, Art Official Age, 2014]

 

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Our February 12, 2017 Show:

 

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It's difficult for me to describe the feeling that the deepening realization brings… of Prince bearing… alone… for thirty-five years… the knowledge that this crafted world erected around us is Fascist – 'horror' feels so inadequate… and his calm acceptance that his death would be required for us to wake up… that we would have to be the ones to see this work to fruition in global freedom… fills me with awe… When the shadow-state (necessarily 'shadow' as the official ideology is required for keeping us in chains and the official ideology flies in its face…) when the shadow-state puts you in the EMF-vise and continues tightening it until you die… there is at first a kind of denial you feel – I can testify to this – which is itself a testament to the power of the conditioning done on us… and a testament to the truth of both Bentham's (i.e.… 'we will believe a thing without questioning it if it is confirmed on all sides'…) and Alice Miller's ('we do not question that which is a continuation of childhood'… an understanding which reflects back again on Bentham… as he said that the parent must be the deputy of the state for the conditioning to be deep and the existence of the state permanent…) – a testament to the truth of both Jeremy Bentham's and Alice Miller's observations. And both together are compressed within Prince's question to us: if you were given all the answers would you ever stop to wonder why? So… how will you know the truth? (paraphrase from the song “The Truth”…) Together these points enclose “Socrates' Dilemma”… reiterated by Alice… the question: how can we know a thing if we've been conditioned not to know it? The certainty that the state we are trained to think is a 'democracy' (setting aside that we are intentionally misled as to what that word means…) is in fact Fascist is the paid-for-in-blood knowledge that necessarily comes when one becomes targeted for assault and / or elimination by-EMF… The resulting psychic isolation from this certainty is almost as devastating as the physical assault… which is why the global-state-guys were so excited about it as a weapon for weeding out dissent: in every aspect it seems to answer the question for them of how to prevent the formation of a movement for true freedom – one in which we reclaim our bodies for our own purposes – the purposes of helping each other develop our gifts… the purposes of realizing in physical reality the love we come with… It must have seemed to the 'global-statesmen' that this weapon was a made-to-order 'gift' for the realization of their ambitions… a weapon Nikola intended to be used to end conflict and coercion – particularly in the context of all of his other inventions… designed to form the basis of global unity and peace – in bringing about an end to want and scarcity… and fostering… through the release and development of our unique gifts… a world of Abundance… Instead this weapon has been used to suppress the human spirit… which ever-presses to soar beyond the constraints imposed on it by those ruled by fear rather than love…

 

[“170212exposingemfexposesthem_2.mp3”:]

 

So you see how absolutely essential to the continued existence of their illusions of divinity is 'staying hidden' (As we know from Karl Popper's accurate translation of Plato's texts… and his explanation of Plato's totalitarian political beliefs… in synthesis with Alice Miller's analysis of the totalitarian methods their children are trained with – in the period since the French Revolution – and with Martin Bernal's compilation of the history of the 'power'-guys' fabrication of 'Ancient Greece'… also for the training of their children… and also in the aftermath of the French Revolution – recall… as… we said last week… it is critical to their sense of themselves that they be perceived and perceive themselves as 'saviors'… another debt of understanding we owe to Karl Popper and his explanation of yet another of their internalizations of Plato: that 'the rulers' must see themselves and be perceived as a 'superior master race'… So… we know from this synthesis of key… suppressed… discussions… that the global-state-statesmen see us as beasts of burden – and what they most try to burden us with are their fathers' illusions…the illusions invested in them of being 'all-powerful'… Fortunately… we've been given the real thing – real power – and can see the difference…) absolutely essential to them if they are to stay hidden are both some political ideology of 'freedom' and 'equality' to pacify and anesthetize our spirits… and… now… equally important… keeping the secret of their theft of Nikola Tesla's EMF-weapons (as well as his inventions – like being able to make it rain where it's needed… by the means he devised using electricity – that end all notion of 'scarcity' in our social relationships…) it is now essential to the perpetuation of their 'rule' to keep the secret of their theft of Nikola Tesla's EMF-weapons to use as backup… so they could eliminate dissent when our longing for freedom… despite all their inflicted 'punishment'… continues to assert itself… In this insistence on possessing back-up weapons to enforce our obedience regardless of the state of our intellectual development… our reason… they are guided by Machiavelli… The 'power'-guys had no illusions that they could run this scam forever… they understood that what they were running was a 'pyramid'-scheme dependent on the rape of the planet … and the ignorance of we-the-people about the scheme… The planet has 'dutifully' been raped by we-trained-to-perform and obey… Polluted water-ways… poisoned earth… crumbling concrete… depleted resources… the death of the oceans… and the continuous pressure that we-the-people exert on 'the system' to advance the material conditions we provide to our children – all of these things together promised de-legitimation of the official state-ideologies even before our seeing the massive Dishonesty on which both official and shadow-state 'structures' rest. It is in this context of economic collapse – the inevitable collapse of a house built with lies – that the story of the suppression of the truth about Nikola Tesla appears… to devastating effect – devastating for those who want to continue to 'rule' over us… The question we raised last week in our discussion of “Wallerstein's Heads Up!” was: “with 'capitalism' shredded… and the stakes so high… what happens to the 'global-state'-guys so accustomed to hiding behind it?”

 

[“170212stealingnikolastoleourfreedom_3.mp3”:]

 

[Because we've gone two weeks without a reading of Proudhon… I'd like to hold “The Good Daddy Show” over to the February 19, 2017 show… and make it almost the sole focus…] Margaret Cheney's Tesla: Man Out Of Time: “In June Tesla moved his laboratory from Manhattan out to the new brick building at Wardenclyffe… What with one thing and another, when he was summoned for jury duty on a murder case in New York that fall, he put the notice aside and forgot about it. Soon, to his embarrassment newspaper headlines made him sharply aware of an American citizen's duties: “Nikola Tesla fined $100 – Fails To Show Up for Jury Duty in General Session – Is Sorry Now” [New York Times, “Court Excuses Tesla,” October 16, 1902… This is one of many illustrations Margaret Cheney unintentionally provides of the methods by which the shadow ('hidden') state operates: as it is essential to the central strategy (accomplishing key objectives clandestinely…) of the post-French Revolution 'power'-guys… that there be no way for their criminal or amoral actions to be traced back to them… This act – causing Nikola public embarrassment may seem too petty on its face to be the business of global-state actors… but they have learned that such small cuts… continuous… multiplied… wear on peace of mind… once they knew – certainly by 1898 – with his public demonstrations of his ability to design and pilot unmanned boats… and then later launch “wireless torpedoes in the Sound, encircle a ship with them, and [then land] them on the beach…” (discussed in our last show…) if not earlier – Once they knew they wanted to absorb this man's creations and capabilities into themselves (which requires that he be 'disappeared' from history…) they would start… little-by-little… damaging Nikola's reputation and by this and other means robbing Nikola of his legacy… This caustic effect occurs on both ends: it both causes unease in Nikola… ultimately eroding his peace of mind – rendering him thereby easier to manipulate – and whittles slowly away at our awareness of his massiveness… making it easier for them to erase him from our memories. This was difficult as he was well-known and much admired by the people… globally… Recall how much he'd already given us: he brought electricity to cities all over the world with his AC-system of electrical distribution… and he'd given us his three-phase induction motor… which he invented specifically to lighten our load… free us of back-breaking manual labor… And when he gave us these things he was just getting started… Had he not been sabotaged his inventions would have allowed us to bring free water and electricity to wherever it was needed… i.e.… to live free of necessity… – P.S.] By spring (1903) Tesla's money problems had grown so severe… [So we see what J.P. Morgan did to Nikola was akin to a potential producer optioning a script in order to prevent anyone else from taking it… He gave him a 'disappearing loan' that kept Nikola's nose to the grindstone and laden with concerns… Follow the money… and notice who benefitted… who it is that is rewarded by 'History'… Who benefitted? Not us… Not Nikola… – P.S.]”

 

[“170212theywhohoardpowerhidethetruth_4.mp3”:]

 

Continuing our reading of Margaret Cheney's Tesla: Man Out Of Time: “By spring (1903) Tesla's money problems had grown so severe that he was again compelled to return to New York to try to raise more funds. Even so, he did not entirely put aside his scientific preoccupations. In a note to Scherff, one of hundreds, he asked that there be sent to Professor Barker of the University of Pennsylvania “the photograph (Roentgen) of the bones of a hand… taken in Colorado… the tube was operated without wire by my system.…” [This is another of numerous illustrations of 'power's attempt to bury Nikola Tesla… described by Margaret Cheney earlier in the book:] “Pupin noted in his diary that American physicists had paid little attention to vacuum-tube discharges and that, to the best of his knowledge, he was the only American physicist with any experience. Hence when Roentgen's discovery had been announced, “I was, it seems, better prepared than anybody else in this country to repeat his experiments and succeeded, therefore, sooner than anybody else on this side of the Atlantic.' He claimed to have obtained the first X ray in the United States on January 2, 1896, two weeks after the discovery was announced by Roentgen in Germany. This was curious in view of Tesla's pioneer love affair with vacuum tubes, which he had demonstrated in his series of lectures in 1891, 1892, and 1893. Although Tesla always gave full priority to Roentgen, he had spoken then of both “visible and invisible” rays when demonstrating his molecular-bombardment lamp and other gaseous lamps, and he was using uranium glass and a variety of phosphorescent and fluorescent substances for detecting radiation.” [So… here's an actual 'fact'… we are informed by the dictionary in this computer… with the implied suggestion that we should commit it to memory for later regurgitation… when we do duty reinforcing 'power's conditioning of us: “The X-ray was invented by Roentgen…” – was it? The dictionary in the computer also tells us that the term 'Roentgen' “was first used in 1920…” and yet here we have Nikola Tesla using it in 1903… The totalitarian system of 'class' that we are all conditioned to see as “all there ever was and ever can be” requires for its existence the deconstruction of our humanity by re-making us in the image of the global-state-statesmen: into bullies – the premise of this system being “might makes right”… as Proudhon has been laboriously showing us… which means: “might makes its own history…” which is as far from truth as it is from justice… and from the triumph of love in our nature… The realization of truth… justice… and love… premised on freedom… on non-coercion… falls to us – it falls to us to straighten the crooked road… and close the Devil's Kitchen… 4Ever… – P.S.]

 

[“170212rightstoryempowersourlove_5.mp3”:]

 

Lessons From Proudhon: Our Pierre – Joseph Proudhon Readings [We have been… with Proudhon… exploring the roots of 'power's 'bully-mindset'… in order to grasp how it is that they feel entitled to take by force what they did not make… offer pain rather than thanks for it… and… almost incomprehensibly hideous… can feel there's 'glory' in it… in being murderers… and torturers… and thieves… Continuing now with Proudhon's explanation of this… – P.S.]: “It is related of the great Pompey, that he blushed easily, and, nevertheless, these words once escaped his lips: “Why should I respect the laws, when I have arms in my hand?” This shows him to have been a man in whom the moral sense and ambition were struggling for the mastery, and who sought to justify his violence by the motto of the hero and the brigand. From the right of the strongest springs the exploitation of man by man [with Alice Miller's help we can now go deeper into causality… work loose more of this knotty chicken-and-egg problem – and I have to say about Alice what I heard someone say about Emily Dickinson… deservedly… that the only way to approach her is on our knees… Truly… ten thousand years of 'class' finally coming to an end… – the authentic explanation… the right story… the truth… which we need to free ourselves from the demon Fear… took ten thousand years to reach enough ears… and then tongues… to get our globe of Freedom rolling along… – once in possession of the true story of what happened to us… when souls were stolen… wills killed or suppressed – only when our difficulty was fully known was love empowered… given space and food to grow… and now our 'knowing' has taken global form… which Nikola Knew meant a New Dawn… a global band encircling 'power's hand… Now…at last… it can be restrained… and love unhindered can build on itself again…… – P.S.]”

 

[“170212makeourplaceineternity_6.mp3”:]

 

But perhaps the answer also lies in the fact that 'power' is never… can never be… 'established'… because freedom… as Marcuse says… is a biological necessity… i.e.… what stands behind us is the power of Eternity… which for me is personalized by Prince… his daily reminder to me that we need to define for ourselves our place in Eternity: “Now what's beyond u and me… Depends my friends primarily… On how u view ur role in Eternity…” (“Muse To The Pharoah”) 'Making a living' instead of making ourselves means soul-death – Unacceptable… once we learn its worth: “Art official cage… Louder than a bomb since the day of my birth… Got me 2nd class when I got here 1st… Lovely score but how am I supposed 2 know what it's worth… Art official age in the future… Free the people, come on, let's go… Startin' from the top, gettin' higher so… Never goin' back underwater, no…” (“Art Official Cage”, Prince, from the CD Art Official Age, 2014) Our Prince of Love… our Dr. Feel-Love knows how to describe… express… the feeling of something… And being anesthetized by 'the system' feels like being 'underwater'… Yes it does… it's also the feeling that comes to us as infants when we're trying to process… that all 'the system' wants from us… is obedience…

 

[“170212loveisthehighestright_7.mp3”:]

 

Proudhon: “From the right of the strongest springs the exploitation of man by man, or bondage; usury, or the tribute levied upon the conquered by the conqueror; and the whole numerous family of taxes, duties, monarchical prerogatives, house-rents, farm-rents, etc.; in one word, – property. Force was followed by artifice, the second manifestation of justice, which was detested by the ancient heroes, who, not excelling in that direction, were heavy losers by it. Force was still employed, but mental force instead of physical. Skill in deceiving an enemy by treacherous propositions seemed deserving of reward; nevertheless, the strong always prided themselves upon their honesty. In those days, oaths were observed and promises kept according to the letter rather than the spirit… From artifice sprang the profits of manufactures, commerce, and banking, mercantile frauds, and pretensions which are honored with the beautiful names of talent and genius, but which ought to be regarded as the last degree of knavery and deception; and finally, all sorts of social inequalities… [With that word 'pretensions' I think Proudhon asks us to recall his earlier point (in the second section of the first part of Chapter V.… discussed in our June 19, 2016 show…) that: “The man who is superior in strength, skill, or courage, knows that he owes all that he is to society, without which he could not exist. He knows that, in treating him precisely as it does the lowest of its members, society discharges its whole duty towards him. But he does not underrate his faculties; he is no less conscious of his power and his greatness; and it is this voluntary reverence which he pays to humanity, this avowal that he is but an instrument of Nature, – who is alone worthy of glory and worship, – it is, I say, this simultaneous confession of the heart and the mind, this genuine adoration of the Great Being, that distinguishes and elevates man, and lifts him to a degree of social morality to which the beast is powerless to attain.” This point that Proudhon is making necessarily brings to mind those who model the greatness that we all possess… though it may lie latent within us… those who advance us to the realization of Love… the Great Being… all the prophets of 'class': Socrates… Jesus… Muhammad… Shakespeare… Martin Luther King… Alice Miller… Proudhon… Popper… Prince… and countless unknown others who preserve and model in their entire being the qualities that children need to see… as we advance to Freedom…

 

[“170212theignoranceofcouncils_8.mp3”:]

 

Proudhon: “The ignorance of councils and popes upon all questions of morality is equal to that of the market-place and the money-changers; and it is this utter ignorance of right, justice, and society, which is killing the Church, and discrediting its teachings for ever. The infidelity of the Roman church and other Christian churches is flagrant; all have disregarded the precept of Jesus; all have erred in moral and doctrinal points; all are guilty of teaching false and absurd dogmas, which lead straight to wickedness and murder. Let it ask pardon of God and men, – this church which called itself infallible, and which has grown so corrupt in morals; let its reformed sisters humble themselves,… and the people, undeceived, but still religious and merciful, will begin to think. [Proudhon appends a note here which reads: “'I preach the Gospel, I live by the Gospel,' said the Apostle; meaning thereby that he lived by his labor. The Catholic clergy prefer to live by property. The struggles in the communes of the middle ages between the priests and bishops and the large proprietors and seigneurs are famous. The papal excommunications fulminated in defence of ecclesiastical revenues are no less so. Even to-day, the official organs of the Gallican clergy still maintain that the pay received by the clergy is not a salary, but an indemnity for goods of which they were once proprietors, and which were taken from them in '89 by the Third Estate. The clergy prefer to live by the right of increase rather than by labor. (What if Proudhon's grasp of the true nature of 'the economy'… 'economic growth'… 'the accumulation of capital…' had not… as with Lycophron's discussion of the 'protectionist' role of the state… been suppressed… disappeared from our thought-process… would we not by now be in our reward of global unity?… our Freedom… our Triumph of Love… – P.S.)”

 

[“170212triumphofoursocialnature_9.mp3”:]

 

Proudhon: “One of the main causes of Ireland's poverty to-day is the immense revenues of the English clergy. So heretics and orthodox – Protestants and Papists – cannot reproach each other. All have strayed from the path of justice; all have disobeyed the eighth commandment of the Decalogue: 'Thou shalt not steal'… Hitherto the victories of justice over injustice, and of equality over inequality, have been won by instinct and the simple force of things; but the final triumph of our social nature will be due to our reason, or else we shall fall back into feudal chaos. Either this glorious height is reserved for our intelligence, or this miserable depth for our baseness.” [The challenge posed by Proudhon's warning has now come to us to answer… the truth of his analysis has been 'proved' with increasing force with each passing generation… and we are now at the juncture where we must honor (and meet in kind…) the greatness and sacrifice of our prophets… or fall into the baseness Proudhon is warning us of. 'Feudal chaos' is what they want… and their propaganda-pieces have been steadfastly attempting to move us to acceptance of what I'm sure they consider this 'inevitable' outcome… We've said often in this space that the 'power'-guys hide their true objectives – the installation of “might makes right”: an open… unapologetic… global totalitarianism… – behind the ideology 'the economy'… ('capitalism' being the most recent iteration…) pretend that the point of this ideology called 'the economy' isn't for them to 'achieve' 'recognition'… acknowledgement… 'win'… to 'prove' they are “masters of the universe” (“O no… can't be… too nutty…” you think… And as with all of their hidden acts… and particularly their most audacious… they leap to the offense… once we dimly perceive them… and with their words dripping with scorn… they scream via their propaganda-means… “Conspiracy theory!” (and now of course “Fake News!”…) we can ignore their noise once we see the structure of their propaganda-pieces… we'll try to illustrate with four or five that perpetuate their ideology of 'the economy in a moment… Let's keep in mind… as we explore how the ideology of 'the economy' is delivered propagandistically… Proudhon's point that the alternative to their intended 'feudal chaos' is… in essence… that we start to care about each other – “the triumph of our social nature”… and let's also keep in mind the question we posed to this; how can we develop our social nature when we don't own… cherish… treasure… covet… protect… our own bodies?… which is what Prince came to help us to see… (Our outro song from Prince: “The Flow” from his 1992 CD: Symbol…) – P.S.]

 

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Prince Songs For Our February 12, 2017 Show:

 

[“03 Endorphinmachine.mp3”:]

 

“Endorphinmachine” by Prince: “Ow!… Come on!… Yeah!… C-c-c-c-c-come on!… Would U please look at this mother next 2 me… Frontin' more booty than Peru got keys… Damn, if I don't get that… Wait right there and I'll be right back… Got a new trick in the back of my car… It's kinda like a movie but U're the star… Lights, camera, make a scene… The Endorphinmachine… Go baby… The Endorphinmachine… Yeah, go baby (Go baby)… Tippy, tippy, tin my friend or shall we begin?… Step right up and I'll strap U in… Don't be shy, this won't hurt a bit… Unless of course U don't believe in it… As sure as the dippy dippy wave of my 'do… U'll believe in somethin' before this night is through… Press one 4 the money, press 2 4 the dream… And get ready 4 somethin' that U've never seen… The Endorphinmachine… Go baby… The Endorphinmachine… Go baby (Go baby)… Tommy Barbarella, turn it on… Uh huh, uh huh… Hold up, wait a minute… Ain't no good unless somebody else is in it… U there with the cynical disposition… Perhaps U'd like 2 join us in a mission… Of fishin' 4 logic in a think tank… Unless, of course, U're feelin' like a punk and take the bank… But every now and then there comes a time U must defend… Your right 2 die and live again, live again, live again… Get up, get up, get in… The Endorphinmachine… It's alright, baby (Go Baby)… Don't be shy (The Endorphinmachine)… Yeah, I ain't gonna hurt U… Go baby… Come on, come on (Endorphinmachine)… Well, I told ya (Go baby)… The Endorphinmachine… Go baby, go baby, go, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!… Don't make me!……” [Prince, “Endorphinmachine”, The Gold Experience, 1995]

 

[“07 When 2 R In Love.mp3”:]

 

“When 2 R In Love” by Prince: “So fair she looked tonight,… The brightest star appeals to your sex.… Before we do anything,… Let me just talk 2 U.… When 2 R in love… They whisper secrets… Only they 2 can hear… When 2 R in love… When 2 R in love (love)… Their stomachs will pound… Every time the other comes near… When 2 R in love… When 2 R in love… Falling leaves will appear 2 them… Like slow motion rain (slow motion, slow motion)… When 2 R in love… The speed of their hips… Can be faster than a runaway train… Drop, drop, drop, drop, water, water, water… Come bathe with me… Let's drown each other in each others emotions… Bathe with me… Let's cover each other with perfume and lotion… Bathe with me… Let me touch your body 'til your river's an ocean… Bathe with me… Let's kiss with one synonymous notion… That nothing's forbidden and nothing's taboo… When the 2 R in love… L.o.v.e. - l.o.v. - can U hear me?… When 2 R in love… Their bodies shiver at the mere contemplation… Of penetration (let alone the act)… Let alone the actual act… When 2 R in love… The thought of his tongue in the V of her love… In his mind, this thought it leads the pack… Come bathe with me… Let's drown each other in each others emotions… Bathe with me… Let's cover each other with perfume and lotion… Bathe with me… Let me touch your body 'til your river's an ocean… Bathe with me… Let's kiss with one synonymous notion… That nothing's forbidden and nothing's taboo… When the 2 R in love… (Love) in love - can U hear me?… (hold me)… (yeah)… (just like that)… (don't move)…” [Prince, “When 2 R In Love”, Lovesexy, 1988]

 

[“08 Mountains.mp3”:]

 

“Mountains” by Prince: “Once upon a time in a land called Fantasy… 17 mountains stood so high.… The sea surrounded them and together they would be… The only thing that ever made u cry… U said the devil told u that another mountain would appear… Everytime somebody broke your heart… He said the sea would 1 day overflow with all your tears,… And love will always leave u lonely… But I say it's only mountains and the sea… Love will conquer if u just believe (oh yeah)… It's only mountains and the sea… There's nothing greater, u and me… Once upon a time in a haystack of despair,… happiness sometimes hard 2 find. (yeah)… Africa divided, hijack in the air,… it's enough to make you want to lose your mind… But I say it's only mountains and the sea… Love will conquer if u just believe (Oh yeah)… It's only mountains and the sea… There's nothing greater, u and me…” [Prince, “Mountains”, Parade, 1986]

 

[“01 Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic.mp3”:]

 

“Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic” by Prince: “Rave un2 the joy fantastic – rave… Rave un2 the joy fantastic – rave… World full of lovers, city full of good times – rave… Don't go undercover, I can get U out of your mind – come on – rave… All you need is a good walk and a brand new position… Then we can spread the real soul, doin' it like a mission (rave) – rave… Oh, rave un2 the joy fantastic – rave… Everybody, rave un2 the joy fantastic – rave… Arrividerci cock poppy, that was hip yesterday – rave… New thing hitting where it feel good, what did U say? – rave… Tell me all… ain't that a bomb? Mack Daddy ain't got no gun - rave… Everybody got a new thing, new fun – scandalous – rave… Ooh, U've got 2 – rave un2 the joy fantastic – rave… Everybody, rave un2 the joy fantastic – rave ooh yeah oh… Come on, sugar… Rave… Take a look inside your mind… Sister got a sizzler on, (know she 2 hot) ooh – know she 2 hot (rave) – rave… Brutha playing an apache scarf… Gaultier - stop (oh-oh)… Ooh, if i had a dollar 4 every time they smiled… I'd sho nuff jump and holla… Cuz I'd sho nuff be rich a while - rave… Everybody rave… (Rave un2 the joy fantastic) - ooh rave [2x]… Ooh…” [Prince, “Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic”, Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, 1999]

 

[“09 Jughead.mp3”:]

 

“Jughead” by Prince: “Keep it nice and quiet, keep it nice and quiet… What the hell was that?… (Hey y'all, I thought we bust this new hype before)… All across the land… (New dance commercial take 2)… Rio, Marbella - we gettin' stupid… Ha, Germany, Paris France - we gettin' stupid… Yeah, Stockholm Sweden, we love ya… Let me shed, it's easier said code red… Bust the new groove just hyped 4 the jughead… Bass thumpin' everybody's doin the bumpin'… Oops, I slipped on a move… I think it's time 2 bust somethin'… Sleazy, but cool and easy… ("Is this the right one?")… Yeah - this is 4 the hood… Better keep it greasy… Better yet on a smooth tip… I don't wanna sweat… I want my slimmie 2 get with this… Move your head and shoulders from side 2 side… Take your back foot, and then u let it slide… Yo, in a fade motion, lots of attitude, coast 2 coast… Then u're floatin' homeboys boastin'… U made his skeeze freeze… U've been chosen, P… Ladies and gentlemen, NPG introduces the… Jughead (Jughead)… Yeah, we gettin' funky in the house tonite… Kickin' the jughead (Doin' the jughead)… Come on, get stupid, get stupid… Kickin' the jughead (jughead)… Oh yeah, we gettin' funky in the house tonite… Kickin' the jughead, yeah (Doin' the jughead)… Wait a minute, what's he doin'? (get stupid, get stupid)… Well, Mack daddy in the house over there… What u doin' dawg?… ("Gettin' busy G, kickin' the jughead")… Yeah, baby's gettin' busy in my face… Cold housin' a future… Everything has been well placed… This daddy's 2 fly… He bust the jughead as he floats to the other side… U watch the rotation, there's a bit of hesitation… This is some new hype stuff u're facin'… U gotta come with a new git… The J-U-G-H-E-A-D, and I'm flowin' with it… U could say I'm on a roll… NPG and y'all, and we're gettin' bold, oh… Yes - bold steps must be taken… 2 bump a nation their scrutiny is what I'm facin'… As u pump the volume to what I'm sayin'… U'd catch me dead before you catch me… Doin' anything but the… Jughead (Jughead)… Yeah, we gettin' funky in the house tonite… Kickin' the jughead (Doin' the jughead)… Get stupid, get stupid… Kickin' the jughead (jughead)… Yo, yo, we gettin' funky in the house tonite… Kickin' the jughead, ha ha (Doin' the jughead)… (get stupid, get stupid)… Don't worry if you're lookin' silly… Look over here at me, workin' 4 Willie (check it out man, check it out)… Gettin' busy in the corner (Oh yes, is that Levi?!)… Holdin' my own - u think I'm posin'… I'm just frozen on an upbeat… Clockin' a freak in a low pro… U know - discreet… Baby was laughing… But before a "no" was even said… She's on the dance floor… Next beat kickin' the jughead (jughead)… Yeah - (get funky in the house tonight)… Get funky… Kickin' the jughead (Doin' the jughead)… (come on, come on)… Get stupid, get stupid… Kickin' the jughead (well, jughead)… What's up with that?… (Dis one's mine, T) (get funky in the house tonite)… Huh, I thought so, yeah (jughead)… (get stupid, get stupid)… Yo - Margaya (jughead)… Yeah - we gettin' funky (get funky in the house tonite)… Yeah - say Rio - yeah, (doin' the jughead)… What about New York? - yeah (get stupid, get stupid)… LA? - yeah (well, jughead)… Get funky - yeah (get funky in the house tonite)… Atlanta, G.A. - yeah (doin' the jughead)… We gettin' funky in the house tonight (get stupid, get stupid)… Yeah, homey, kick it just like that (go… yeah)… [X8] (jughead)… Boy, we gettin' international… In the house (gettin' funky in the house tonight)… That's right… We gettin' international… In the house… We want this one 2 go worldwide… Huh, that's right worldwide… Not state-side… Give it up… M… P… L… S… Who turn the mother out?… M… P… L… S… Who turn the mother out?… Oh yeah - That's what I'm sayin' (get funky)… That's what I'm sayin'… That's what I'm sayin'… Who turn the mother out?… (That's what I'm sayin')… Tony, you were excellent (That's what I'm sayin')… What you need is a manager (That's what I'm sayin')… For what?… I can make you… Money minders are like parasites… They pose as wheelers and… Dealers for your rights. And most… Companies say that you need em!… Not me… But I've kicked back, observed, and… I'm honest… Watched 'em bleed 'em… Artists young and old… I can bring you to the top! Where'd this unwritten law come from anyway?… That years after the contract you should… Still be gettin' paid? Boy, I go broke… And hit the skids before I take care of… A rich sucker's kids. Hell,… My contract… A contract ain't no pension plan,… My contract… Years after this my kids are still… Gonna make the grand.… Tony, you… And you laugh at my brother Little Richard… When he says you ain't gave him nothing.… Let's leave him out of this… Hell, that ain't no joke.… His songs are still sellin', that man… Could die broke. So fellow artists,… U need me... Push for yours, and watch for… Mr. Money Minder, as we settle the score.… Tony…” [Prince, “Jughead”, Diamonds And Pearls, 1991]

 

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“Ain't About 2 Stop” by Prince: “Closed over, dead done… New day is dawning… And the fun has just begun… On 2 da next… Generation X… Didn't leave me nothing and nobody 2 respect… Lookin' to b proud… Dirty projects hoping hunger in my stomach… Don't exceed my mom's checks… Eye come from north Minny… And Eye never run from any… And Eye ain't about 2 start right now… If ur life is the B-side… My dream is the A… Eye got a rockstar salad crusher can-o-trick-away… Eye come from north Minny… And I never run from many… And I ain't about 2 start right now… Lower class… In the da past… From da bottom up… We gettin' ruff and kickin' a%!… Never fail cuz… C these females still gotta… Lil bit-o-dirt underneath these hundred dollar nails… Latest fashion… Once Eye get da cash in… Nothing is 2 good for Rita… If she got da passion… (Chorus)…” [Prince, “Ain't About 2 Stop”, Hit N Run Phaze One, 2015]

 

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Our February 5, 2017 Show:

 

[“170205craftinggeopoltheatre_1.mp3”:]

 

It strikes me that our bringing back Immanuel Wallerstein's analysis from Does Capitalism Have A Future? in our last week's (January 29, 2017) show… his analysis of the post-WWII 'global consensus'… a 'consensus' of would-be gods on the division of the world – an 'agreement' essentially on the 'management' of us… between competing so-called 'superpowers'… i.e.… global-state-statesmen… it strikes me that it's quite likely that our hitting this note at this moment explains why yet again I'm having to address one of my pages not saving 'edits' (a recurring problem…) This suspicion was reinforced after I picked up that day's New York Times in which one of the articles contained this title: “American Allies Shift Focus to China…”: “We've always said that America is our best friend,” Jeroen Dijsselbloem, president of the Eurogroup – comprising finance ministers from countries sharing the euro currency – said in an interview with The New York Times on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this month. “If that's no longer the case, if that's what we need to understand from Donald Trump, then of course Europe will look for new friends… China is a very strong candidate for that,” he added. On Wednesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany spoke by telephone with Premier Li Keqiang of China. “The two spoke in favor of free trade and a stable world trade order…”

 

[“170205bigfearofthechinesepeople_2.mp3”:]

 

“The swift reassessment of trade relations – a realm in which Mr. Trump is directly threatening the order that has prevailed since the end of World War II – only amplifies the potential for a shake-up of the broader geopolitical framework… Mr. Trump has already criticized NATO as obsolete… He has provoked fears of a clash with China… In shutting American borders to people from predominantly Muslim countries, Mr.Trump risks inflaming tensions with Middle Eastern nations while widening a void with democratic allies over basic values… Given that nearly one-third of all American trade is conducted with China and Mexico, a rupture risks severe economic damage. The three countries are intertwined in the global supply chain. China makes components that go into auto parts manufactured in the United States. Those parts are delivered to factories in Mexico that produce finished vehicles sold to Americans. Calling such vehicles Mexican imports misses that much of the value is produced in the United States, employing American labor. “The idea of trade wars these days, what politicians have in mind is really a 19th-century or early twentieth-century conception of trade,” said Gianmarco J.P. Ottaviano, a trade economist at the London School of Economics. “You don't even know who you're going to hurt with these kind of things. You're probably going to destroy American jobs in the end.” Beyond the economic effects, Mr. Trump's refashioning of trade has already altered global alignments… In emphasizing “America First,” Mr. Trump has generated a widespread sense that the country is surrendering its global leadership position. Britain's abandonment of the European Union has enhanced the view that a period of international integration has devolved to a new era in which nationalist concerns are paramount… With both countries pursuing nationalist aspirations and multilateral institutions seemingly endangered, the world suddenly seems short of supervision. China is working to assume the mantle. President Xi Jinping of China last week used an address in Davos to submit his nation's bid as a reliable champion of expanded trade. Mr. Xi is an ironic choice as an icon for free trade. Yet Mr. Xi's speech was so successful that it won the embrace of business people and world leaders alike. At a lunch in Davos two days [later]… a Berlin-based private equity fund manager… predicted the dawning of a new era. “We heard a Chinese president becoming the leader of the free world,” he said.” [And wouldn't it be interesting… if we weren't too busy planning that One-Day Global General Strike… to do an authentic unpacking of that little scheme – the notion of Mr. Xi taking the lead to establish the 'new' 'New World Order' – I suspect that if we took the time and had a bit more info… what we would find behind that… mantle being placed on Xi Jinping: Big Fear of the Chinese People… – P.S.]

 

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(If we had to hazard a guess as to what's behind this propaganda-bit – the 'elevation' to 'measured-statesmen-status' of a ruthless totalitarian – I would say: “massive fear of the Chinese people…” and justifiably so… they are so strong and have suffered so much… and been lied to so egregiously – the official ideology so at odds with the reality – but this is true of all of us… and once we understand this… we become determined to bring to fruition our global alternative that is honest and free of all coercion…)

 

[“170205abundanceendsconflict_4.mp3”:]

 

If all this seems orchestrated: 'Trump the Global Fear-monger' 'scaring' 'allies'… scaring immigrants… scaring people of color… scaring women… etc. etc. – PEW regularly-spewed research on how 'divided' we are… 'the news' informing us of how authoritarian 'other states' are: feeding us images of bloody bodies stretched out on the ground… people living in fear of government attack… youth lined up concentration-camp-style that the Chinese state has labeled “Internet Addicted”… another with electrodes attached all over his head… LinkedIn blocked in Russia… a New York Times app blocked in China – all to remind us of 'how “free” we are here in the U.S.'… random state or political violence dominates our sense of 'other places' in the world… social media (we're told) is 'out of control'… there's no 'global consensus' anymore… no one 'in charge'… supposedly stimulating in us a longing for the 'good old days'… for 'American strength' establishing 'order' in the world… spinning our longing to be free as 'nativism' (Fascism…) – 'the people'… we're told… are all over the world drawing back to within their own nation-state borders and hunkering down to get through the hard times which (manufactured) resource-shortages demand… as the 'power'-guys try to scare us right back into boxes they've defined for us along 'economic'-survival lines… Never said… is that the world of Abundance that we make off-leash together dissolves all 'squabbling'…

 

[“170205wallersteinsheadsup_5.mp3”:]

 

(Another missing conversation on the 'Left'… the issue of 'scarcity… whereas… if we were to zero-in on just that question: “Is that true?… Is there 'scarcity?… “Why is there 'scarcity'?… given the vast now supply of self-sufficiency knowledges and tools built-up… Why is there such hardship in the world?” The least bit of investigation into the question reveals it's a lie… it's a scam… Why?… I guess it's because the global-statesmen want to control our hands and minds… Why? Well that was a puzzler… that was a head-scratcher… Thankfully the ancestors provided the answers… with Karl Popper… and Alice Miller… et al.… The folks who provide the answers to those questions are the ones we should have been discussing… from the moment we begin thinking about it as children… if there were any truth in the official state-ideology we're taught…) When we sense we're looking at orchestration… we should ask ourselves 'what is the likely goal?'… 'what are the objectives'… For instance… when we see a headline in the February 3, 2017 New York Times that reads: “Anarchists Vow to Halt Far Right's Rise, With Violence if Needed”… we know who's behind it… even if it includes agent-recruited duped adults and youth… In order to plan strategy effectively… doing the analysis is key: Prince did the analysis and was tortured and killed for the accuracy of it: for over thirty-five years he has consistently said: it's time to reclaim our bodies. This requires no force… no violence… it requires only putting our fingers to keypad and typing… and then showing up on the agreed-upon day… and partying… like we ain't gonna party again… meaning… like we want to finally live… and ain't willing to bend to the 'rulers' plans for us… to be dead – 'soul-dead' or body-dead… both are equally significant… You see there's this thing called “the slowdown of the global economy… and by 'power's lights… there are far too many of us… It is in the context of what we called on the website “Wallerstein's Heads Up!” that we can best make sense of the frenetically-paced orchestration we've been bludgeoned with since… what?… this most recent bout of 'hubris-driven-acting-out'?… 2008?… the Egyptian Revolution? :“The issue is not whether capitalism will continue to exist or not. It’s doomed. The issue is what will replace it. It’s no longer possible to have serious accumulation of capital because the costs are too high in terms of purchasing power… Capitalism as a system depends on lots of people working to produce surplus value that ends up in a few hands. This results in polarization. If thirty percent of Indians or the Chinese are middle class… a lot more money has to go into their hands. So the world level of profits declines with the growth of the middle class globally. And they consume an enormous amount of goods – Now there could be a substitution – Americans consume less as the Chinese consume more – but there’s resistance to that… One way is to reduce labor costs… bring in rural populations at lower wages, but we’re running out of them. Within the next twenty-five years they’ll be wiped out.!”

 

[“170205egyptianwakeupresound_6.mp3”:]

 

Wallerstein pulled our coat as to what was really happening behind the happy-talk given us by the official indoctrinators in 'economics'… that we are living in a moment when Erysichthon is chewing on his own flesh: “What was sustaining the accumulation of capital since the 1970s was the turning from seeking profits via productive efficiency to seeking profits via financial manipulations, more correctly called speculation. The key mechanism of speculation is encouraging consumption via indebtedness… What was different this time has been the scale and the ingenuity of the new financial instruments used to pursue speculative activity. The biggest A-phase expansion in the history of the capitalist world-economy has been followed by the biggest speculative mania…” .e.… that we are in the “End Game of 'Power's Quest for Supremacy”… and best believe… the 'power'-guys… with all their 'think-tanks' humming along inside and outside of Academe… have been planning for this moment for some time… and the Egyptian Revolution… with its concentring waves that gathered us all in – we the global-peoples – into its magnetic field… called the question for 'power'… and provoked in us a deep remembering: there is business we are here to finish…

 

[“170205baddaddygooddaddy_7.mp3”:]

 

Through the lens of 'world-system'-analysis… we can understand why the global-statesmen are responding so fiercely to the dramatic growth of our capacity – sparked by the Egyptian Revolution and its demonstration of the powerful new evolution-organizing tools now in our possession – our new capacity to 'see' the global-statesmen – and their growing vulnerability (with the collapse of 'capitalism') – globally… allows us to understand how (why) it is they would want more fluid and maneuverable means to respond to our rapid intellectual growth (as it is by controlling our thoughts that they control us…) as a result of the flowering of our global consciousness… Immanuel Wallerstein's analysis – 'world-system' theory – is important for reasons we've discussed before but which bear repeating in the somewhat different language we've been developing that incorporates what we've been learning from Prince… Proudhon… Popper… Bentham… Nikola Tesla… and Alice Miller: it busts our thought out of the Panopticon by allowing us to think from the vantage of the whole' – taking the 'long' (historical)… and 'wide' (global)… and 'deep' ('geopolitical') view of what we think of as 'capitalist'… and allows us to see ourselves placed within it as a necessary global actor confronting 'power'-guys who are very… and for some time… self-consciously global – allows us to recognize ourselves as a necessary counter to ruthless 'power'… And while the 'world-system'-lens is key… it's key for reasons not usually seen: it's key because 'class' is totalitarian… What is not thought-through in Wallerstein's analysis… with 'capitalism' shredded… and the stakes so high… what happens to the 'global-state'-guys so accustomed to hiding behind it? That the 'power'-guys have been obsessing on the question there is absolutely no doubt – and the answer we can now see clearly all around us – and while 'Trump-the-tool' was probably not originally in their scheme (Good Grief! have their fiction-writers [“think-tank analysts”] been laboring double-time to adapt their script…) they've been very 'inventive' with it. What they've given us is (we need a good metaphor… let's think of one…) we'll call “Bad Daddy / Good Daddy”: guess which one Trump is?… guess which one we're supposed to want?… at least long enough to get them through this 'rough-patch' (for them…) so they can 'automate-us' out of existence as self-determined-humans… But we need a metaphor that captures the element of provoking… pulling-out… and absorbing – of 'drawing-to-itself' – all of our ire… sort of like 'the police' are supposed to do… except… then… the device requires… a poof!-be-gone-ing'-act taking with it (for a time…) the ire… What do we call that? What we have to always remember about these 'power'-guys is that it is critical to their sense of themselves that they be perceived as 'saviors'… another debt of understanding we owe to Karl Popper and his explanation of yet another of their internalizations of Plato: that 'the rulers' must see themselves and be perceived as a 'superior master race'…

 

[“170205writingtrumpintoscript_8.mp3”:]

 

Another New York Times article (on February 1, 2017…) may help us better see the theatre-piece they're producing for us which we are calling “The Good Daddies”. It's titled: “Under Trump, U.S. Is Now a Threat To Europe's Stability, Leader Warns”… The article begins by helpfully highlighting the geopolitical set-design pieces that the global-state-statesmen have built and placed on the stage: “…major geopolitical challenges like Russian aggression, China's assertiveness and international terrorism… In a letter sent to European leaders, Donald Tusk, the council president, wrote that those factors and “worrying declarations by the new American administration all make our future highly unpredictable.” This stage was set before Trump was written into the script… the point of it (this staging) being what we began discussing last week: the need for the 'power'-guys to 'negotiate'… or 'come to agreement' on… or have us (in theory) co-sign onto… a 'new geopolitical consensus'… one that addressed (unspoken of course) the world of threat for them in this global event of we-the-people finally seeing them and recognizing the key elements of our resistance to global-totalitarianism: that unity is key… we have to work together globally – that those that use the 'master's methods are representing for the 'master'… those methods being: coercion and division… that centuries of class-conscious organization on their part has resulted in a breadth and depth of infiltration and surveillance we cannot see when 'the job' keeps our noses pressed to the 'to-do-sheet'…

 

[“170205teslaprovidesnavyinvisibleassault_9.mp3”:]

 

Margaret Cheney's Tesla: Man Out Of Time: “Another well-known engineer, H. Otis Pond, who… helped build the laboratory… often accompanied Tesla on long walks. They were together on the day in December 1901 when Marconi sent the first transatlantic signal. “Looks like Marconi got the jump on you,” he said. “Marconi is a good fellow,” replied Tesla. “Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.” Pond also recalled Tesla's worrying about the instruments of war that he had been inventing. He had just launched his model wireless torpedoes in the Sound, encircled a ship with them, and landed them on the beach. “Otis,” he said, “sometimes I feel that I have not the right to do these things.” [Now… of course… it is quite obvious that the global-(shadow)-state would be all over anyone who could – in 1898! – 'radio-control' ('remote control') boats and submersibles… as described in the following excerpt from chapter 12 (“Robots”): “Commander E.J. Quinby (USN Ret.) who, during World War II was in charge of electronic weapons research for the Navy at Key West, Florida, has written of visiting Tesla's historic exhibit when he was a child: 'I was there with my father, quite fascinated, but also quite unaware that I was witnessing the dawn of space navigation to be realized later, in the following century. Tesla was not using Morse code. He was not transmitting messages in any known language. Nevertheless, he was employing his own coded pulses via Hertzian waves to directly control this pioneer unmanned craft. He encoded the visitors' commands, and the vessel's receiver decoded them automatically into actuating operations. “The full potential of the invention was concealed, in part because Tesla hoped the Navy would seriously consider using it in the war. 'One of the features not revealed,' science writer Kenneth M. Swezey later disclosed, 'was a system to prevent interference by means of coordinated tuning devices responsive only to a combination of several radio waves of completely different frequencies.' What his patents included, but the Madison Square Garden viewers did not see, were specifications for a torpedo boat without crew, including a motor with a storage battery to drive the propeller, smaller motors and batteries to operate the steering gear, and still others to feed electric signal lights and to raise or lower the boat in the water. Six 14-foot torpedoes were to be placed vertically in two rows so that when one was discharged another would fall into place. Tesla had advised the Navy that he thought such a boat could be built for around $50,000. He claimed that a few such craft 'could attack and destroy a whole armada – destroy it utterly in an hour, and the enemy never have a sight of their antagonists or know what power destroyed them.'”

 

[“170205globalstateobsessionwithnikola_10.mp3”:]

 

(When we hear that the Navy was “not interested” in what was just described of what Nikola offered to them… that tells us everything… Now… with our more advanced understanding of the secretiveness… duplicity… and sheer audacious amorality… of these 'power'-guys… we absolutely know they lied to Nikola about 'not being interested'… and have never stopped lying to and about him since… about what Nikola unfortunately gave to them… In the history of 'power' ['class'] never would 'power' be 'not interested' in supreme military advantage… and it is the fact that “no one would know” what had destroyed them… that grabbed them… It must have sent their imaginations soaring… they must have felts giddy with the possibilities of that… and I”m sitting here one of the results: people can't 'prove' they're being assaulted… So Nikola is this massive loose-end which they must know will strangle them…) Margaret Cheney: ““When word of this got out he received from Mark Twain, then in Austria, a letter in which the humorist wrote: 'Have you Austrian and English patents on that destructive terror which you have been inventing? and if so, won't you set a price upon them and concession me to sell them? I know Cabinet ministers of both countries – and of Germany too; likewise, William II. I shall be in Europe a year yet… Here in the hotel the other night when some interested men were discussing means to persuade the nations to join with the Czar and disarm, I advised them to seek something more… than disarmament by perishable paper… Invite the great inventors to contrive something against which fleets and armies would be helpless, and thus make war thenceforth impossible. I did not suspect that you were already attending to that, and getting ready to introduce into the earth permanent peace and disarmament in a practical and mandatory way.'” [This was Nikola's argument to the 'power'-guys – repeated over and over – as he tried… unsuccessfully… to avert two 'world wars'… heart and mind revolt at the thought: all the slaughter of the twentieth-century and beyond… completely unnecessary… The global-state-statesmen of Nikola's day and beyond had it within their power to end armed conflict permanently… and chose instead to instigate a blood-letting across Europe and beyond – an unleashing of their death-obsession on us on a scale never before seen… in order to bury the memory of Nikola Tesla and his 'particle-beam' (EMF-weapon…) – It is monopolizing the 'knowledge resources' – what is truly happening in our world presently captured by the 'power'-guys – that continues this foul 'arrangement' in which criminals in sunday-suits… those most-barren of soul-guidance… the hollowed-out-substance-less and heart-dead… determine the quality of our souls… our world… The continuance of life itself demands that we renounce the whole notion of 'leadership'… and put in its place: “fully-developing individuals associating freely to establish a world without coercion and without rank…” – P.S.] [Our outro song from Prince continues the theme of his internationalism… and what I think of as his 'strategic precocity': “Girls and Boys” from his 1986 CD: Parade.]

 

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Prince Songs For Our February 5, 2017 Show:

 

[“04 Computer Blue.mp3”:]

 

“Computer Blue” by Prince: “Wendy?… Yes Lisa… Is the water warm enough?… Yes Lisa… Shall we begin?… Yes Lisa… Where is my love life?… Where can it be?… There must be something wrong with the machinery… Where is my love life?… Tell me, tell me… Where has it gone?… Somebody please please tell me what the hell is wrong… Until I find the righteous 1… Computer blue… Until I find the righteous 1… Computer blue…” [Prince, “Computer Blue”, Purple Rain, 1984]

 

[“01 Le Grind.mp3”:]

 

“Le Grind” by Prince: “So U found me… Good, I'm glad… This is Prince… The cool of cools… Some of U may not know this… But some of U may know… Some of U may not want 2 know… We r here 2 do service… Please don't try 2 stop us… 4 we come regardless… 4 we r strong as we r intelligent… So come vibe with us… Welcome to the Funk Bible… The new testament… People get ready, nouveau dance here… All the girls and all the boys,… Get close, have no fear, (have no fear)… We're gonna do le grind y'all… Got U where I want U… And girl it's going 2 feel so good, (feel so good)… Up and down, up and down, on the beat y'all… Like a pony would, pony would… Le Grind… All the boys, grab a girl, get down on the floor… This funky beat's gonna show u,… Gonna show u what your hips r made 4… Nouveau grind, come on (people)… People it's much 2 late,… It's much 2 late 2 be shy… London, what does Big Ben say?… (time 2 do the grind)… no hear U say (time 2 do the grind)… Le Grind… Baby, I gotcha where I wantcha,… Now I gotcha where I wantcha, wantcha… Ce soir, [la chantez], all night long (all night long)… Ce soir, [la chantez], all night long (all night long)… [French: "Tonight, sing it"]… Hey pretty mama, with the long hair… Is that your boyfriend?… Ha, I don't care… Cuz' I can do, said I can do… tricks he can never do… Get naked and we'll see the real u… Am I getting thru? (grind)… I gotcha where I wantcha (now)… baby, baby… piano man, put it where it feel good… Grind, grind, grind, grind… Le Grind, grind, Le Grind, grind… This party, this party is gonna last all night… When I give the cue scream, alright?… Party (party)… Party (party)… u say it, party (party)… Clap your hands double time… All the boys say "Yeah Yeah" (Yeah Yeah)… All the girls say "Oh Yeah" (Oh Yeah)… Now all u others say "Hell Yeah" (Hell Yeah)… Too sexy, Grind, Grind… (not yet Bonnie)… Grind, grind, grind, le grind… grind, grind, le grind, oh ya… People, get ready, nouveau dance here… Girls and boys, get close, have no fear… (Grind) Doin' the grind, doin' the grind, in here… (Put it where it feels good)… Hey yeah… I do believe that we've… truly touched on something… nouveau… (Ha ha ha ha ha)… (Ha ha ha ha ha)… Ooowww, c'mon, am I in the right place? (Ha ha ha ha ha)… (don't move) (Ha ha ha ha ha)… Ooh, R u sure baby? R u sure (Ha ha ha ha ha)… I'm in the right place? (Ha ha ha ha ha ha)… (Don't move, don't move)… (grind, grind)… c'mon (grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, grind)… Girl put it where it feel good… (grind, grind, grind)… not there, not there (grind, grind, grind, grind)… Put it where it feels good (grind, grind, grind, grind)… Slow down (grind)… Slammin'… Le Grind… Up and down, up and down, feels so good… Up and down, up and down, like a pony would… Up and down, up and down, feels so good… Up and down, up and down,… Like a pony would (Like a pony would)… Like a pony would (Like a pony would)… Like a pony would… Le Grind… Uh, slammin'… Grind, grind (serve it up, Frankie)… Slammin'… Put it where it feel good… Grind… People (get ready, people, noveau dance here)… (People, get ready, doin' the grind)… (up in here, up in here)… People, get ready (grind, grind)… ((Frankie, how do u know…))… Le Grind, grind… Grind…” [Prince, “Le Grind”, Black Album, 1994]

 

[“03 AintTurninRound.mp3”:]

 

“AintTurninRound” by Prince with 3rdEyeGirl: “Born on the isle of pain… It's easy to find others to blame… We used to be gagged and bound… And we ain't, no we ain't turnin' round… To get to the promised land… You got to go back to understand… Everything comes from sound… All vibrating under the crown… And we ain't, no, we ain't turnin' round… Ran out of patience yesterday for them with no helpin' hands… We came from a people who built everything and farmed the land… Let's stop looking for a reason to die and just sound the alarm… Maybe the hand you're looking for is at the end of your arms… End of your arms, end of your arms…” [Prince with 3rdEyeGirl, “AintTurninRound”, PlectrumElectrum, 2014]

 

[“07 Animal Kingdom.mp3”:]

 

“Animal Kingdom” by Prince: “I saw a friend of mine 2day… In an ad sayin' what would do my body good… I told him he was wasting time I say… If God wanted milk in me… The breast I suck would have a line around the hood… No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity… No member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing 2 me… It's why I don't eat red meat or white fish… Don't give me no blue cheese… We're all members of the animal kingdom… Leave your brothers and sisters in the sea… Animal, animal kingdom [x2]… Who told us we should eat the swine?… U can bet your final money it damn sure wasn't no friend of mine… What about the clams on the shore?… Souls in progress, here come the fisherman - soul no more… No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity… (Nurses past, oh yeah)… No member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing 2 me… (Ever did a damn thing)… So I don't eat no red meat or white fish… Or funky, funky blue cheese… We're all members of the animal kingdom… Leave your brothers and sisters in the sea… Animal, animal kingdom [x3]…” [Prince, “Animal Kingdom”, The Truth, 1998]

 

[“08 What It Feels Like.mp3”:]

 

“What It Feels Like” by Prince: “Been a couple hundred hours since he got Ur call… U use 2 treat me like David, but now I feel like Saul… Been making it rain all around the world… What difference does it make when the boy ain't got his girl?… This is what it feels like [x2]… This is what it feels like, babe [x2]… This is what it feels like [x2]… This is what it feels like, babe… Ur name's not David and it sure ain't Saul… Maybe U have no business writing on my wall… Springtime on the Philistines b4 the middle of the fall (Middle of the fall)… Silly rabbit needs 2 stop doin' tricks if U wanna get my call… (If U wanna get my call)… This is what it feels like [x2]… (This is what it feels like, babe)… This is what it feels like, baby… This is what it feels like [x2]… This is what it feels like, babe [x2]… Everybody goes up and down in a lifetime love affair… Makin' up, just to break it up and pullin' each other's hair… What I wouldn't give 2 have U right here next 2 me… Show U want I really feel aboutcha, one kiss and U will see… This is what it feels like… This is what it feels like, babe [x2]… This is what it feels like [x2]… Yeah… This is what it feels like, babe [x2]… The art of seduction, U and me is the right equation… And all U need 2 reach my lovin' is by [?] and a [?]… I can't wait 2 be Ur baby… baby, here I am… just take me… This is what it feels like… This is what it feels like, baby… This is what it feels like [x2]… This is what it feels like, babe [x2]… This is what it feels like… This is what it feels like, babe… This is what it feels like… This is what it feels like, babe… This is what it feels like… This is what it feels like, babe [x2]…” [Prince, “What It Feels Like”, Art Official Age, 2014]

 

[“11 FunkNRoll.mp3”:]

 

“FunkNRoll” by Prince: “Finally beloved we meet at last… Middle of the here, nevermind the past… Only way to get to where you never been… Is to party like you ain't gonna party again… [Chorus:]… Let's funk, let's roll… Get it turned up, get it out of control… Get into the rhythm it's good for the soul… Let's funk, let's roll… Get it turned up, get it out of control… Come on everybody, let's funknroll… Whether you are coming by bus or train… Shade throwers hating cuz they're going insane… I'm talkin' 'bout the million dollar party to their nickel and dime… Another mother further you're committing no crime… [Chorus]… Only way to last 'til the break of dawn… Is put your phone down now and get your party on… Who you gonna call when it's obvious dear?… Everyone you know is rocking up in here, so let's funk… I don't really care what y'all be doin'… (I don't really care what y'all be doin'…)” [Prince, “FunkNRoll”, Art Official Age, 2014]

 

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Our January 29, 2017 Show:

 

[“170129econemffixerforpower_1.mp3”:]

 

“Every day since the election, I have felt like I'm living in the Twilight Zone, that I'm watching some weird show that is part fiction, part reality TV…” – i.e.… it feels like she's watching theatre… which is the truth… we are being given fiction equipped with multiple supporting fictional strands attached (this mess – and I'm speaking of the global mess the 'power'-guys keep delivering to us – is so not-what-we-want… but are we asking ourselves what we do want?… because these global-'brigands' are rushing to renegotiate their post-WWII 'global consensus'… and before continuing I'd like to encourage us to recall (and listen again to) the following words from the first chapter of Does Capitalism Have A Future? (that we read together in our May 4th and 18th, 2014 shows…) in the context of the question “how do we begin the necessary process of taking charge of our own lives? – which means wresting them from the frozen grip of the global-state-statesmen… the people Immanuel Wallerstein refers to as the 'World Right: “In my view, for a historical system to be considered a capitalist system, the dominant or deciding characteristic must be the persistent search for the endless accumulation of capital [having it put so clearly unintentionally exposes the ideological nature of 'capitalism'… as well as its underlying root of coercion (“you will be compelled to obey…”) and its function as shield… as the obvious role of brute force in sustaining it is ignored or kept hidden… for instance… all of Nikola's stolen inventions have been turned into corporations… and we trained to thank them for them…] – the accumulation of capital in order to accumulate more capital. And for this characteristic to prevail, there must be mechanisms that penalize any actors who seek to operate on the basis of other values or other objectives, such that these nonconforming actors are sooner or later eliminated from the scene…” [Now… as we and the earth (and we are earth…) are the source of everything… and… as we're tired of bowing down to would-be 'kings'… and to forge our global-unity to figure out what to do about it… we need 'global-unity-forging' tools… which Nikola et al. thoughtfully provided to us… so we support with our substance these tools – should one of them fall into the hands of someone who also wants global-unity… does 'power' have means within its 'economic' scheme for 'removing' this 'nonconforming actor' from the scene?… Say 'power' whittles away at his fortune but the people globally keep restoring it… what does 'power' do to get rid of him?… In 1900 or so they stole another one of Nikola's inventions to solve this 'dilemma' for them: the EMF-weapon… so we must face reality: 1 plus 1 plus 1 Is 3…]

 

[“170129permanentfearpointofnuclear_2.mp3”:]

 

“A de facto division of the globe into two spheres of influence…” Immanuel Wallerstein: “The United States emerged from what we refer to as the Second World War endowed with incredible economic strength… The one sphere in which the United States did not have an excessive advantage was the military sphere… As a result, if the United States were going to play the role of hegemonic power, it would have to come to some kind of terms with the Soviet Union and neutralize its military strength. This was particularly true since internal political pressure in the United States led to a relatively rapid demobilization of its land forces worldwide. It is my contention that what ensued was a tacit “deal” between the United States and the Soviet Union, to which we have given the metaphorical name of Yalta. It seems to me that this deal had three components. The first was a de facto division of the globe into two spheres of influence, more or less along the lines of the location of the armed forces of each of the two countries at the end of the war. There was a Soviet bloc, which would come to be defined as running from the Oder-Neisse line in central Europe to the 38th Parallel in Korea (and including mainland China, after the definitive defeat of the Kuomintang by the Chinese Communist Party forces in 1949). What the United States and the Soviet Union in effect agreed to observe was the primary (virtually exclusive) right of each to decide matters within its sphere. A crucial element of this de facto agreement was there would be no attempt to change these boundaries by military (or even political) means. After 1949, this accord was reinforced by the concept of “mutually assured destruction” based on the fact that both sides had sufficient nuclear strength to respond to any attack and destroy the other.” [And we are arguing that the development of nuclear weapons was to primarily serve a profoundly propagandistic purpose… which is also obviously political: to guarantee a permanent state of fear in the people… and that what really reinforced the accord was the secret of the theft and use of Nikola Tesla's invention: the EMF-weapon (once they'd ironed out their little difficulties… as evidenced by the 'Russian'-blasting of the US embassy in Moscow in 1960 with electromagnetic force waves– see our August 14, 2016 show which has this quote from Leuren Moret's document…

 

[“170129wallersteindiscusseshiddenpower_3.mp3”:]

 

Immanuel Wallerstein: “The second part of the tacit agreement was the de facto economic disjuncture of the two zones. The United States would offer no assistance in the reconstruction of the Soviet bloc. Its aid would be limited to its zone – the Marshall Plan in western Europe, comparable aid to Japan and later to South Korea and Taiwan in east Asia. U.S. aid to its allies was not simply altruistic philanthropy. It needed customers for its flourishing industries, and reconstructing the economy of these allies made them good customers, as well as faithful political satellites. The Soviet Union in turn developed its own regional economic structures, ones that reinforced the autarkic character of the Soviet zone… The third part of the “deal” was to deny that there was any deal. Each side proclaimed very loudly in its particular language that it was in a total ideological struggle with the other. We came to call this the “Cold War.” Note however that it was and remained to the end a “cold” war. The purpose of the very loud rhetoric was not in reality to transform the other… Each sought rather to oblige its satellites (euphemistically called allies) to toe a very strict political line, as dictated by the two superpowers. Neither side would ever support in any meaningful sense rebellious forces within the other camp, since this might lead to the undoing of the primary agreement of a military status quo between the two superpowers. [I.e.… their 'rule' over us: “There must be no divisions within the master class…” said Plato… – P.S.] Once the military status quo was achieved, the United States could proceed to realize its overall political and cultural dominance […during the show his use of the word 'cultural' brought up questions for me… as I see a frozen global 'class'-system as the antithesis of 'culture'… – P.S.] This arrangement worked very well in the beginning. And then the self-liquidating character of a geopolitical quasi-monopoly began to take its toll. [The phrase 'the self-liquidating character of a geopolitical quasi-monopoly' I suggested was an unhelpful abstraction disguising the continuous striving of we-the-people for our authentic freedom… – P.S.]”

 

[“170129noneofuswantkeepers_4.mp3”:]

 

In the current circumstances – in the new geopolitical scene… in which 'the people' globally are rejecting all forms of captivity… in which Syrians… Gambians… Russians… the English… the Chinese… Bangladeshis… and Argentines – none of us… want keepers… are no longer willing to accept keepers… …obviously the post-WWII 'global consensus'… that 'glory-time' for the U.S. global-statesmen and those who serve them…in which the U.S.-zone of the globe rode rough-shod over the world is long-gone… but the 'power'-obsessed can't think outside-of-their-compulsion and so decide they must make more… zones… to re-capture us with… and bust up our building global-awareness…) but the point of the article is not commiseration… but rather to deepen still further our sense of disorientation… to sow confusion in us by encouraging us to doubt what we know… and feel… while reassuring the global-statesmen and those who consciously serve them – who surely see… that the mental-captivity of we-the-people is slipping… and increasingly so – to reassure that .0001 percent… so wedded to their dominance… that our backs are still bent to the yoke (quote from Wang): “They will eventually comply with this one-child policy. The first time will be the most difficult, just as when you put a yoke on an ox's back for the first time, it will resist and struggle. But once the yoke is accepted by the ox, you can tighten it repeatedly, even to the point of choking it to death. Peasants are like oxen, once they accept something as inevitable, you can continue to tighten the screw.…” (I hope it's clear that this is not just how 'power' views the Chinese people but how 'power' views all of us – from Plato's day on… and obviously even before Plato… but Plato gave them their playbook on how to keep us as they see us: beasts burden…)

 

[“170129endingmillennialongslavery_5.mp3”:]

 

(Several of our upcoming shows will focus on 'the economy' – to help us 'see reality'… and be better prepared for the challenge that confronts us… of creating our own 'global consensus'… and to not get suckered… when they come at us with offers of a 'guaranteed minimum income'… or tantalizing hints of the chance to build 'new nations'… always… of course… under their 'leadership' [eventually into High-Tech Auschwitz (never said…)]) The conclusion the article reaches – after bringing in other voices to dominate over Marcy's… The lie they hope to lead us to is that Trump represents a movement of 'radical disruption' that wants to “return to a surer, stronger past to which Mr. Trump's red baseball caps have alluded.” Never mind that this is the nation that elected its first Black president eight years ago and re-elected him four years later… we're supposed to believe that we are now a nation longing for “a surer, stronger past…” – this is obvious b.s. cooked up in right-wing think-tanks: this describes how they think… not how we think… We are witnessing an attempt to re-erect their crumbling 'Panopticon'… with malevolent-tales they hope will “reclaim our eyes…” which have been wandering for some time… The manufactured “fake news' campaign… though primarily created to eliminate social media as a tool for us to use for the global organization of our freedom… is also an attempt to prevent our discussing what's really 'fake'… the Big Fake… the Big Scheme to turn human beings… into machines – i.e.… millennia-long slavery. The truth is: we're not supposed to be slaves. 'Class' is one massive 'crooked road' that we got to straighten out. We're in the midst of the greatest true adventure of all time… as Prince said (in the last song of his [so far] last CD [Hit n Run Phaze Two] – “Big City” : “Power to the ones aware… there's nothing bigger than this!” – in this adventure we-the-people have been handed some powerful weapons with which to fight for our freedom: two powerful Seers… Nikola Tesla… and Prince… and the magical tools they have created for us. It's time for the ones aware to get this party on… for all the rest…

 

[“170129keyissueforpowerisclass_6.mp3”:]

 

…a tilt-a-whirl built by Fascists: and so designed to throw as many off as fast as possible… But we know… because we've been thinking it through… that those 'dizzy'… 'sick'… 'nauseous'… 'uncertain'… and 'unhappy'… feelings… that all the lies crafted for us to imbibe cause – and we feel the duplicity no matter the patter on the radio (or on the 'whatever'.…) – that these sick feelings are what those who want to preserve their 'management' of us want us to have… that this state of things is what the global-statesmen want to be… so that their hands are left free to dispose of us as they please… “Grant I may never prove so fond, [foolish] To trust ‘power’ on its own bond; Or a dog that seems a-sleeping; Or a keeper with my freedom…” (Shakespeare) And that line from Ousmane Sembene's novel Gods Bits of Wood keeps recurring to me now: “Real misfortune is not just a matter of being hungry and thirsty, it is a matter of knowing that there are people who want you to be hungry and thirsty – and that is the way it is with us. We've discussed often in these shows how it is we know that the divisions and miseries around us are systematically sown… we've discussed this citing the technologies described by Kropotkin (in agriculture… ) Michael Reynolds (with the Earthship… We spent some time on 'the Earthship' in Waking Up: Freeing Ourselves From Work [the book]… as well as on the Nascence website. After I got back from Taos, New Mexico… following an unsuccessful attempt to meet with Michael Reynolds… I drafted some memos and presented them to the Homeless Commission of the City of Berkeley [these memos are posted somewhere on the Nascence website] – feeding and sheltering ourselves isn't hard… because with our own hands we could make homes more beautiful than what they got up in the hills – and sleep in our 'bedroom vehicle' while we're constructing them. But 'power' doesn't want us to build for ourselves that which is more beautiful… because the key issue for 'power' is 'class'… maintaining stratification… maintaining hierarchy – and for us to have the power within our hands to make beauty… grow our own food – “O no no no…” they think… they don't what that… then the whole game is up. But it is within our power now and we must take that time… that One-Day Global General Strike… to discuss that truth: that there is no need for us to continue to bow down to these folks… no mo'…

 

[“170129linkingourlovelyscores_7.mp3”:]

 

We've discussed often in these shows how it is we know that the divisions and miseries around us are systematically sown… we've discussed this citing the technologies described by Kropotkin (in agriculture… ) Michael Reynolds (with the Earthship…) David Blume (decentralized fuel production which he describes in his book Alcohol Can Be A Gas!…) to name but a tiny portion of the now-available resources that will ensure the necessary material basis (for preserving authentic freedom…) of individual self-sufficiency… even before we were led back to Nikola Tesla on his birthday (July 10, 2016 was the date of this show…) and came to see the full implication of all of his astonishing collection of inventions… used now to harm us… but intended to free us… of the sick folk who suppressed them… So that line from Ousmane Sembene will unfortunately only be behind us when we become certain that we deserve our freedom… Prince learned this early… the hard way… the bought-sense of Shakespeare's bitter truth that we must never allow anyone to be 'in charge' of us… which is why he can help us… why he is so needed… Prince has been honing his native gift as a strategist now his entire adult life – over thirty-five years – because for over thirty-five years this sad… mistaken… collection of 'power'-mad global statesmen have been identifying and eliminating and torturing – with Nikola Tesla's EMF-weapon invention – those they tell themselves are “enemies of the state”… or 'inconvenient'… or simply… 'sadly'… 'redundant'… (I'm convinced the arts world has been particularly targeted because of the models it offers of honoring one's spontaneous feelings and gifts – and in particular of honoring the love… the empathy… the common blood that flows in all of us… across the false divisions… We discussed last week – in our excursion into ancient Athens and the sad place called 'Plato's Mind'… which designed a rewrite of… not just an 'honorable' man… Socrates… but one of those rare-jewels we absolutely needed… to get free… because he possessed and modeled certainty… so we could see it… and think about it… and one day be it… be all we need to get free… be that 'free' unbent 'self'… be… our inherent freedom… So Socrates was 're-written'… and 'power' – they who see us as beasts to bend to the yoke – watch for others who possess this gift… in order to bury them… i.e.… bury our hope… all chance of living authentic lives… We cannot afford to stand aside this time… and watch them do this… to Prince… This ain't about being 'self'-less… it's about being all-life-saving-selfish (which… if we recall… our Popper told us… is a very good thing to be: to be powerful 'individually' means to be powerful for 'you and me'… It could not be more urgent that we rediscover the value… the preciousness… of our our original gifts of freedom (“lovely score but how am I supposed to know what it's worth?” asks Prince in “Art Official Cage”… an important question… We can only do this globally… our fates are necessarily intermeshed… we must help each other… And as Prince has also said (in “Act Of God” – I paraphrase): “It'll be all over when we – all of us globally – own the fact that 'the Eternal' is singular… and we all come from it… from that source… and work together to demand to be how it made us: free…”

 

[“170129artofficialcagemostradicalsong_8.mp3”:]

 

This Plan Of Rule – from Plato's Day on – to 'train' us to obey… requires us to be kept off-balance… not knowing what's true and what isn't. This is the defining quality of this 'end-time' for the 'class'-system… which is why Prince's song: “Art Official Cage” is the most relevant and evolutionary (radical) song of the post-French Revolution period of the 'class'-system – its appearance heralding this system's conclusion… While Proudhon is absolutely correct that the 'class' -system – which is but institutionalized relations of access to resources made artificially scarce (and the key resource 'rulers' must monopolize is the truth: knowledge) – or 'property'… is premised on theft and despotism… perhaps even more fundamentally it is premised on lies… So when Hitler acknowledged the secret thrill of Fascists that only they know what is really going on in the world… he is pointing out a quality of 'rulers' in general… for millennia… it is only the scope of what is considered 'the world' that has changed… This is why Alice Miller could call the households Nazi officials grew up in as prototypes of the totalitarian state… but the world is now indisputably 'class'-defined and totalitarian – via the global economic and political mechanisms established with the centralized state structures of the post-French Revolution centuries: 'class' is now expressed in every global institution… thereby simultaneously however… then… objectively uniting us globally. It is this structural unification of we-the-people which allows for our achieving our freedom… as Nikola saw… and explains the fanaticism with which the 'power'-guys are panting to divide us… in every way they can think of… While thinking about and discussing our alternative global arrangements for interlinking ourselves – based in individual material self-sufficiency – must be our priority… we must also be able to better advocate for our Brothers and Sisters globally and locally… and intercede in the propagandistic conditioning being disseminated so fast today… And in this regard… I hope you will agree that we cannot leave the framing of 'Trump' – how we understand 'Trump' – to the very people who created him. At the very least we can refer to him as “the 'Trump-tool' of 'power'”…

 

[“170129teslagreatestinventivegenius_9.mp3”:]

 

Margaret Cheney's Tesla: Man Out Of Time: “He soon had cause for bitterness. As the year 1901 drew to a close the world press blazoned the news that Marconi, on December 12, had signaled the letter “S” across the Atlantic Ocean from Cornwall to Newfoundland. What astonished Morgan and many others was that he had done it without anything like the great plant that Tesla was building… They doubtless… [Now… of course… that we have more knowledge about the global scheming of the 'power'-guys… how they have been busily creating the hidden shadow-state through the crafting of layers upon layers of double-dealing 'fake'… it's obvious that Margaret needed an underground vault full of 'doubts'… needed a whole new lens… to see the backhand dealing of the global shadow-statesmen… – P.S.] They doubtless did not know that Marconi had utilized [violated] Tesla's fundamental radio patent No. 645,576 filed in 1897 and issued March 20, 1900. Small wonder that Tesla began to refer bitterly to the “Borgia-Medici methods” [Got it in 'one' Nikola… – P.S.] the “Borgia-Medici methods” by which he was being deprived of credit and fortune.… He worried constantly about security. As the “wonder tower” lifted its airy spars ever higher, Tesla drove himself and a large staff without mercy. He sent money to Germany for radio engineer Fritz Lowenstein's return, and the latter soon joined the Wardenclyffe team. Another well-known engineer, H. Otis Pond, who had worked for Edison, helped build the laboratory. Years later Pond was to say [in the Seattle Sunday Times of July, 1972] that he disagreed with history's assessment of the two inventors. Edison was “the greatest experimenter and researcher this country has produced – but I wouldn't rate him as much of an originator,” he said. Tesla, however, he considered “the greatest inventive genius of all time.” [And yet we know almost nothing about him – school-children are yet taught that “Marconi invented the radio” despite Nikola taking his case to correct this lie to the Supreme Court… and winning… This obvious suppression tells us all we need to know to 'prove' that we live in a global totalitarian system. I'm curious what children in other nations are taught about Nikola Tesla… what do their schoolbooks say?… – P.S.]”

 

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Prince Songs For Our January 29, 2017 Show:

 

[“18 The Sacrifice Of Victor.mp3”:]

 

“The Sacrifice Of Victor” by Prince: “What is sacrifice?… (We s… we s… we s… we sacrifice)… NPG in mass attack, Sonny, please.… (we sacrifice)… Church if u will, please turn 2 the book of Victor (We s, We s)… We like 2 start at the top if u don't mind… (we sacrifice)… (Don't say it, preacher)… I was born on a blood stained table… Cord wrapped around my neck… Epilectic 'til the age of 7… I was sure heaven marked the deck… (we sacrifice)… I know joy lives 'round the corner… (Joy for sale down on the corner) (we sacrifice)… One day I'll visit her I'm gonna… (Out on my block I'm just a loner} (we sacrifice)… When she tell me everything (tell me)… That's when the angels sing (sacrifice)… That's when the victory is sho 'nuff (sho 'nuff down with the sacrifice)… (we sacrifice)… (help me)… (Don't say it, preacher)… Mama held up her baby 4 protection… From a man with a strap in his hand… Ask the Victor 'bout pain and rejection… U think he don't when he do understand… (we sacrifice)… I know joy lives 'round the corner… (Joy for sale down on the corner) (we sacrifice)… One day I'll visit her I'm gonna… (Out on my block I'm just a loner) (we sacrifice)… When she tell me everything (tell me)… That's when the angels sing (sacrifice)… That's when the victory is sho 'nuff (sho 'nuff down with the sacrifice)… (we sacrifice)… (help me)… (S.A.C.R.I.F.I.C.E)… (we-we-we sacrifice)… (Don't say it preacher)… (sac-sacrifice)… (we-we-we sacrifice)… (we-we-we sacrifice)… (sacrifice… if u turn the page)… (Don't say it, preacher)… 1967 in a bus marked public schools… Rode me and a group of unsuspecting political tools… Our parents wondered what it was like 2 have another color near… So they put their babies together 2 eliminate the fear… We sacrifice yes we did… Fighting one another, (we sacrifice) (don't say it preacher)… All because of color… The angel of hate - she taught me how 2 kick her… If she called me anything but Victor (u mean like nigger?)… If the only thing that tells is father time… Then sacrifice is a mutha sublime - we love it… Listen mutha - we sacrifice… (don't… don't… don't say it preacher)… (we sacrifice)… (Well, well, well, well)… (What is sacrifice?)… Hold yo' text, deacon… Never understood my old friends are laughing… They got high when everything else got wrong (pass the booze up here)… Dr. King was killed and the streets… They started burnin'… When the smoke was cleared, their high was gone… Education got important, so important 2 Victor… A little more important than ripple and weed… Bernadette's a lady, and she told me (what she say?)… "Whatever u do son, a little discipline is what u need,… Is what u need, u need to sacrifice"… (we sacrifice)… I know joy lives 'round the corner… (Joy for sale down on the corner) (we sacrifice)… One day I'll visit her I'm gonna… (Out on my block I'm just a loner) (we sacrifice)… When she tell me everything (tell me)… That's when the angels sing (sacrifice)… That's when the victory is sho 'nuff (sho 'nuff down with the sacrifice)… (we sacrifice)… (what is sacrifice?)… (we sacrifice)… (S.A.C.R.I.F.I.C.E)… (we sacrifice) (joy around the corner)… Hey Wendy, how come we… (we sacrifice)… 'scuse me y'all (we sacrifice)… We don't don't mean 2 take up yo time (joy around the corner)… But we got something… Heavy on our minds (we sacrifice)… Yes, we do (we sacrifice)… Sometimes, u gotta leave the one u love… Somebody, anybody, everybody wave your hand… Around every corner, there's another sacrifice (joy around the corner)… But u got 2 do the best u can y'all (we sacrifice)… Say u got 2 go through it (go through it)… U got 2 go through it y'all (go through it)… High glory, yeah… Sell it, don't tell it, don't tell me myself (joy around the corner)… sacrifice at my feet… Lord I might get tired,… But I, I've got 2 keep on (we sacrifice)… Walkin' down this road, (we sacrifice)… Keep on walkin' down this road (joy around the corner)… When I reach my destination (we sacrifice)… My name will be Victor… Amen” [Prince, “The Sacrifice Of Victor”, Symbol, 1992]

 

[“04 Still Would Stand All Time.mp3”:]

 

“Still Would Stand All Time” by Prince: “It's just around the corner, it's just around the block… this love that I've been waiting for, a Love solid as rock… A Love that reaffirms that we R not alone… A Love so bright inside U it glows… and night and day would run together, and all things would b fine… still would stand all hate around us… still would stand all time… still would stand all time… it's not a thousand years away, it's not that far my brother… when men will fight injustice instead of one another… its not that far if we all say yes and only try… then Heaven on Earth we will find… (all time)… (still, still would stand all time)… no one man will be ruler, therefore love must rule us all… dishonesty, anger, fear, jealousy and greed will fall… Love can save us all… Oh, love, Love, oh Love if U would just please give us a sign… Still would stand all time… Heaven, heaven on Earth we all want 2 find (we all want 2 find it)… Still (still) would stand all time… we R not alone people (we're not alone)… tell me can U see the light (can ya see the light)… if U just open your eyes (still would stand all time)… so much U will know, so much U will show… Love, Love, its not that far away if we all say yes and give it a try… (Got ta give it…a try…yes!) still would stand all time (I say still)… (so many times) so may times, i thought i could not make it… (still would stand all time)… life was closing in I just knew, I just knew I couldn't take it… that's when Love opened it's arms, and if U dont go in child… Still would stand all time (still would stand all time)… U better run to the light, leave your past behind… all things will be fine… Still would stand all time…” [Prince, “Still Would Stand All Time”, Graffiti Bridge, 1990]

 

[“10 Now.mp3”:]

 

“Now” by Prince: “Now!… (Freaks on the floor) [repeats in BG during chorus)… 1 2, 1 2… Light up another one dude… Now! (1 2 3 4, come on, come on, freaks on the floor)… (Go go yeah) (Now) (Go go yeah)… Now! (1 2 3 4, come on, come on, freaks on the floor)… (Go go yeah) (Now) (Go go yeah)… 1 2, 1 2, '94… I'm on the set, freaks on the floor… Don't worry about my name, it's 2 long 2 remember… I could tell U now but we'd be here 'til next September… 3, it be like that, see?… This ain't about the trippers trippin' like they know they be… This ain't about this, that, what, where, or how… This about the freaks doing everything they wanna do now!… Now! (1 2 3 4, come on, come on, freaks on the floor)… (Go go yeah) (Now) (Go go yeah)… Now! (1 2 3 4, come on, come on, freaks on the floor)… (Go go yeah) (Now) (Go go yeah)… Now! (1 2 3 4, come on, come on, freaks on the floor)… (Go go yeah) (Now) (Go go yeah)… Now! (1 2 3 4, come on, come on, freaks on the floor)… (Go go yeah) (Now) (Go go yeah)… What U wantin' 2 say? (Get funky)… What U wanna play? (Get funky)… 3 4, 3 4, 99… She the new hero cuz she's so divine… Unaffected by the system, she'd rather die… Than write a rap 4 some big booty heifer gettin' by… On that booty, instead of doin' duty… Aspire 2 be higher, I admire so I fire… Cuz it's flyer 2 be hungry than phat… Take it from this sista, y'all take it from that… It's flyer 2 be hungry than phat… The ride up front is better when U've been in the back… That's a fact… This ain't about this y'all, it ain't about that… This ain't about the booty movin' pumpin' the max… This ain't about this, that, what, where, or how… This about the freaks doing everything they wanna do now!… Now! (1 2 3 4, come on, come on, freaks on the floor)… (Go go yeah) (Now) (Go go yeah)… Now! (1 2 3 4, come on, come on, freaks on the floor)… (Go go yeah) (Now) (Go go yeah)… Now! (1 2 3 4, come on, come on, freaks on the floor)… (Go go yeah) (Now) (Go go yeah)… Now! (1 2 3 4, come on, come on, freaks on the floor)… (Go go yeah) (Now) (Go go yeah)… What U gonna say? (Get funky)… Now U wanna play? (Get funky)… 40, 45, snake's alive… Say one thing, do another, it's time… We chill on that… Nah, I don't need a gat… I'd rather see yourself checkin' ass up 2 bat 4 another swing… Anybody can sing… There's more 2 genius than the word my sister anything I would bring… Or would U rather dine alone?… If U change your mind, U can reach me on your video phone… It's a dime, as in dollars and that's my 2 bloody cents… This ain't about this, that, what, where, or how… This about the freaks doing everything they wanna do now!… Now! (1 2 3 4, come on, come on, freaks on the floor)… (Go go yeah) (Now) (Go go yeah)… Now! (1 2 3 4, come on, come on, freaks on the floor)… (Go go yeah) (Now) (Go go yeah)… Now! (1 2 3 4, come on, come on, freaks on the floor)… (Go go yeah) (Now) (Go go yeah)… Now! (1 2 3 4, come on, come on, freaks on the floor)… (Go go yeah) (Now) (Go go yeah)… What U come 2 say? (Get funky [x2])… Come on, now how U wanna play? (Get funky [x2])… Band!… (Now)… 67, 67… Freaks dance like they in heaven… DJ don't stop the music, DJ don't stop the music… Fill us with de dope track, lick us, twist us, roll us in your mouth… Light us up and take a hit, light us up and take a hit… Mmm, suck us 'til we're dry… And when we're lookin' like a roach, hit the lights… Before U say goodnight though… Let's make a toast yo… This ain't about this, that, what, where, or how… This about the freaks doing everything they wanna do now!… Now! [x7]… Now! (1 2 3 4, come on, come on, freaks on the floor)… (Go go yeah) (Now) (Go go yeah)… Now! (1 2 3 4, come on, come on, freaks on the floor)… (Go go yeah) (Now) (Go go yeah)… (Get funky [x4])… (Freaks on the floor) (Now) [x3]… (Get funky) [x3]… (Now)… Now!…” [Prince, “Now”, The Gold Experience, 1995]

 

[“01 Compassion.mp3”:]

 

“Compassion” by Prince: “Get it on… Right on… A zero point approaches… And the field around you drop… Thoughts become reality… And it feels like time has stopped… When all that's on the radio… Is electromagnetic pop… Steady, your teeth are gnashin'… Compassion… Get it on… Compassion… Right on… Love for the greater number… Freezes over and cools… And everyone around you acts… Like a bloody fool… No sanctity to the left of you… No righteousness to the right… The only thing that's left in fashion… Compassion… Get it on… Compassion… Whatever skin you're in… We all need to be friends… All happy again… So much better than nothing… Everybody can win… With a little faith in man… Beginning of an end… Start up a brand new something… When ego, fear, and judgment… Become the rule of law… Watch the polar ice caps… Heat up, melt down, and thaw… When the greedy one forgets… That he's the reason for it all… The only gold that's so worth stashing… Compassion… Get it on, get it on… Compassion… Right on, right on… In the high-seated lawless no love can be found… Nature will rise against nature and get down… Whatever skin you're in… We all need to be friends… All happy again… It's so much better than nothing… Everybody can win… With a little faith in man… Beginning of an end… Start up a brand new something… If you got compassion… Let's get back in fashion… The new international anthem… Whatever skin you're in… We all need to be friends… All happy again… It's so much better than nothing… Everybody can win… With a little faith in man… Beginning of an end… And start up a brand new something… Whatever skin you're in… (Whatever skin you're in)… We all need to be friends… (Black and white and yellow, we can be friends)… All happy again… It's so much better than nothing… Everybody can win… With a little faith in man… Beginning of an end… And start up a brand new something…” [Prince, “Compassion”, 20Ten, 2010]

 

[“06 Fallinlove2nite.mp3”:]

 

“Fallinlove2nite” by Prince: “Don’t, don’t you wanna… Fall in love tonight… She said, don’t, don’t you wanna… Fall in love tonight… Special night, my favorite crew… The moon threatened to dance her out of her shoes… In his ear, he was about to hear… An offer that he could not refuse… She said… Don’t, don’t you wanna… Don't you wanna fall in love tonight… (She said)… Don’t, don’t you wanna… Don't you wanna fall in love tonight… She said… Underneath the taffeta… There ain’t no better hiding place… If I see the moon, I’ll just laugh at her… Wanna wake up to your, your pretty face… Don’t, don’t you wanna… Don't you wanna fall in love tonight… (She said)… Don’t, don’t you wanna… Don't you wanna do it till the morning light… She said… We can sleep all day tomorrow… Dream about this fantasy, fantasy… We don’t have to beg, steal, apologize, or borrow… Uh, ’bout to go hard, y’all ready for me… Don’t, don’t you wanna… Don't you wanna fall in love tonight… (She said)… Don’t, don’t you wanna… Don't you wanna do it till the morning light… [x2]…” [Prince, “Fallinlove2nite”, Hit n Run (Phaze One)", 2015]

 

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Our January 22, 2017 Show:

 

[“170122wedontwanttobeforced_1.mp3”:]

 

Prince is just the last in a long line of discussions we've been denied… Let's consider the following one from Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 1: The Spell Of Plato… in that light: “It is now usually recognized that Anytus, the democratic leader who backed the prosecution, did not intend to make a martyr of Socrates. The aim was to exile him. But this plan was defeated by Socrates' refusal to compromise his principles…” [I don't like that choice of word… 'compromise'… it suggests there was something Socrates could concede… to bullies… This story about the death of Socrates could have been written about Prince… in that parallel-story the words 'the prosecution' should be replaced with 'the hidden shadow-state'… and the poison they set in front of Socrates so he could see his fate we will make the EMF-weapons stolen by the global-state… along with so many other secreted-away inventions of Nikola Tesla… inventions that will both free us from the poisonous insertion of the 'power'-guys into our lives… and allow us to make of our world a paradise… the moment we see these global-state-statesmen… and what they've done… (Until we have our freedom and the full truth is exposed we can't know precisely what inter-state agreements were made between the 'power'-guys about the use of EMF-weapons… but I suspect Prince could have fled the country and lived – he chose to stay and fight them…) I digress… See the bullies… get them clearly pictured in your minds… picture the intimidation… the manipulation… the mountain of suffering caused by them… picture the babies whose lives they fully intend to derail from joy… from communion with their fellows… from sharing and cooperation… from the endless exploration of their creativity without anyone telling them what to do with it… in short… from any chance of true happiness… In truth… it ain't complicated… we don't want to be forced… it's that simple… we are born happy… communal… cooperative… and free… and the society we make will reflect our natural 'reality'… Fewness and truth: “we are communal”… we never hear those words spoken to us as youth… when those words meet our ear… we see… none of this around us is our made-'reality'… and all the questions that come from that recognition… lead to getting free… but first the obvious must be said out loud…) and then tell me what in that scene should be 'compromised' with. I would rather he had used the phrase his “refusal to bend”… We don't bend to bullies. We fight them… – P.S.]

 

[“170122socratesandprinceparallels_2.mp3”:]

 

Karl Popper: “But this plan [to exile Socrates] was defeated by Socrates' refusal to compromise his principles. That he wanted to die, or that he enjoyed the role of martyr, I do not believe. He simply fought for what he believed to be right, and for his life's work. He had never intended to undermine democracy. In fact, he had tried to give it the faith it needed. This had been the work of his life. It was, he felt, seriously threatened. The betrayal of his former companions let his work and himself appear in a light which must have disturbed him deeply. He may even have welcomed the trial as an opportunity to prove that his loyalty to his city was unbounded… Socrates' death is the ultimate proof of his sincerity. His fearlessness, his simplicity, his modesty, his sense of proportion, his humour never deserted him. “I am the gadfly that God has attached to this city,” he said in his Apology, “and all day long and in all places I am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you. You would not readily find another like me, and therefore I should advise you to spare me… If you strike at me, as Anytus advises you, and rashly put me to death, then you will remain asleep for the rest of your lives, unless God in his care sends you another gadfly.” He showed that a man could die, not only for fate and fame and other grand things of this kind, but also for the freedom of critical thought, and for a self-respect which has nothing to do with self-importance or sentimentality.” (Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 1: The Spell Of Plato) The parallels between what we know of the mission and integrity of Socrates and those of Prince are striking… Both devoted their lives to reaching young people. This is one of the things that confused me about Prince when I first 'met' him while trying to understand the film and album Purple Rain… his use of the phrase “Raise Up Children!”… i.e.… “raise yourselves up…” – his referring to us as 'children' when he was no older or even younger than the people caught in the headlights of his force… He was just a child when he gained certainty about his mission… Where did it come from?… that certainty… I struggled in vain to grasp what he was about and ultimately just turned to the job of being a single mom. Both men – Socrates and Prince – knew that young people were being robbed of their full intellectual endowment… their full powers of reasoning… i.e.… knew that they were being lied to… understood that this was due to the myopia and fear of the 'rulers'… who they could not reach with rational argument… It is the fearfulness of these 'power'-mad sad guys that the kindhearted and whole… like Socrates… like Prince… could not understand… none of us could… until we read Alice…

 

[“170122powerseekstoweedoutheartsthatbeatwithlove_3.mp3”:]

 

Consider the people we've been denied access to that we needed to free our minds of 'power's totalitarian conditioning of 'class': to free our minds of the really quite irrational notion that there's such a thing as 'the best' (a notion which is simply Plato's sugarcoated version of the older idea that 'the strongest deserve to rule'… from which assumption came the maxim “might makes right…”and an ocean's worth of blood flowing from the so-called 'rulers'… and which Plato helpfully… for his paters… sought to make more 'sexy' (and less lethal… for them…) by creating an entire philosophical system based on its rewording: “only the most highly-trained – i.e.… certified as possessing the mystery of 'dialectics' – philosophers deserve to 'rule'…) people that need to be discussed in the only context that matters to we-bound in 'technologically-sophisticated-slavery': a future that's free… i.e.… we have to see an end to this mess we're born into to fight to achieve that end (Prince is our most stunning illustration of this – “why is this never discussed on the 'Left'?”… we should ask ourselves: fleshing out our goal of freedom…) If you're a young person with heart – and we all start out that way… so perhaps I should say: if you're a young person who's managed to emerge from 'childrearing' and the 'mis-education system' with your heart still beating with love for your fellow Brothers and Sisters – you see the mess of soullessness and death of empathy… seemingly condemning all humanity… and start looking for answers… What we don't know because we're never told is that while we're looking for answers to the insanity in which we're stuck… 'power' is looking for us… knows that we're out there and has designed and put in place ways to identify and guide (or eliminate… I think this is one of their 'take-aways' from their experience with Prince… particularly… but many others also fall in this category of 'expensive problem-people-for-'power'… anyone want to hazard a guess as to how much these 'power'-obsessed-global-statesmen spent on the surveillance and harassment and torture of Prince for over 35 years!

 

[“170122nikolaknewexpandinghumanenergymeansfreeingit_4.mp3”:]

 

So… while we're looking for answers to this mess… 'power' is looking for us… knows that we're out there and has designed and put in place ways to identify and guide… or eliminate… we who love our fellows… So when we 'discover' that there is a stream of 'thought' known as 'The Left” that is waiting for us… we turn to it eagerly: “at last”… we think… “an explanation!” The reality… we soon find… is dismaying. We learn either that it is a very difficult 'discipline'… a 'science'… with many 'schools of thought' to sort through… along with a collection of historical tomes that are like secrets of the crypt: you can hardly breathe down there. What we're given is the 'Left'-version of 'Plato's Dialectics”… or we learn it is a 'practice' of activism without careful analysis… generally a 'practice' of releasing the rage 'class' sows in all of us… because it is based in coercion… based on the suppression of our native gifts and wholeness… (These… sad 'power'-obsessed have the soul-death and consequent shamelessness to patter to us about 'productivity' and 'efficiency'… these most profligate wasters of our lives and energy – our creativity… our endless possibilities…) “You have to work and serve your 'betters'…” is the message 'power' wants to ensure that every child in the world will hear… and that every critical voice who says the opposite is silenced… in whatever way seems most cost-efficient… – this is “The Plan of 'Rule'”… at least from Bentham's day… if not earlier… With this plan ten thousand have enslaved (and that would be in a 'technologically-sophisticated way… today – which 'power' will tell us means 'Progress'… and… ipso facto… 'Happiness': “Your bodies don't feel it?… that's because they're out of step with The March Of Progress… “give us more time…” they tell us… “we're working on re-designing them…”) with this plan ten thousand have enslaved seven billion… That's been their Plan… and their entire global system is now based on it… and what must now be discussed by us is that this Plan… and their entire global system to 'manage' us… have been based on the theft and suppression of Nikola Tesla and his inventions. When Nikola wrote about “expanding human energy” he was… as intentionally as he could be for that day… writing about freeing it… All his inventions – the three-phase induction motor… his AC-based system of electrical distribution… his inventions in the areas of wireless communication… automation… robotics… wireless power-transmission… and the use of electrical resonance: varying wave frequencies to influence health outcomes and end war – were designed to expand the capacity of the individual by freeing us from labor and oppression that drained our energy – forced labor and oppressive social conditions based on hierarchy and coercion. He knew that labor that re-energized us was not 'labor'… but rather 'joy'… an expression… and re-charging… of our life-force… our vitality… Nikola Tesla's inventions explicitly free us from work… and from Necessity – from coercion… The “expansion of human energy” means releasing us from slavery… So we see that the issue of 'productivity' is entirely specious… a red herring… to put the most generous cast on it…

 

[“170122sloffswantchaos_5.mp3”:]

 

From our discussion last week: “So… all the “cloud services, artificial intelligence and data mining, voice-activated assistants, self-driving cars, virtual reality…' – on whose backs do they rest? What keeps these feathers floating?: a technologically-sophisticated slave system”… Do we need to experience loss of income and / or shelter to understand what isn't fluff? Who knows this and who doesn't? How can ten thousand wannabe-gods control seven billion when we have instantaneous global communication… and all the technology we need for each individual one of us to be entirely materially and spiritually self-sufficient – if the material basis of that individual self-sufficiency is global cooperation and mutual aid… instead of competition and coercion and rule by the So-Lost-Fearful-Few (SLoFFs – sounds rather more cuddly than the people the term represents…) The scale I referred to last week… with 'Marcuse's Great Hope' that the System-privileged-professionals-of-heart will wake up… on one side… and the impatience of the global-state-statesmen to be done with them… on the other… has the capacity to shorten or lengthen… or end… our continuing slavery… if those who confidently possess and wield the technology that constitutes that material basis of individual self-sufficiency I spoke of wake up sooner rather than later… We should consider the implications of those words of Hitler's we refer to often: that it gives Fascists a secret thrill to know that only they know what is really going on… we should consider that Fascism depends on only a very very few being privy to the secret manipulations and hidden scheming of that Tiniest-Few… who not only believe in the notion of 'the best'… but are in active competition to achieve it: the 'top spot': 'god-like-status' – “Every hierarchy must culminate in a pinpoint…” said Mussolini… summing up their reasoning… in which we can hear the lost child speaking… still hoping to please that invisible frowning father or mother… having biased and consolidated the resources of the planet to achieve it… such that what remains is but being re-shuffled: i.e.… so-called 'losers' are multiplying apace… more are every moment being made… The 'power'-guys are in a race… and 'those-not-aware-of-the-game' – no matter their piles of money or glow of fame – once no longer needed (never forget… this mindset is strictly utilitarian and mechanistic – in this too we can see the unloved child hiding… its hideous experience of being 'put to use…' is clearly evident in their world-view…) the 'power'-guys are in a race… and we are but in the way… The totalitarian global-statesmen… are ready to eat the Less-Focused-On-World-Domination… They feel the movement of the dispossessed rising… feel our wind blowing against them… and there is an increasing desperation to their acts: they cannot relax ever… but restlessly seek to create the only thing they think will allow them to forestall the deconstruction of their psychologically-necessary privilege of exclusive 'knowledge': that 'feudal chaos' of which Proudhon speaks: all of us fighting each other – 'the people' against (what the hidden-'power'-guys will tell us is) 'The Elite'… and vice versa… being but the widest layer of it… The truth is that – with the exception of that almost invisible (.0001%) slice of humanity… hubris puffed up on Nikola's stolen gifts – the truth is we all want the same things… and though our voices have been stolen… we are… bit by bit… recovering them…

 

[“170122powerworksitsmoneylever_6.mp3”:]

 

Turning now to Nikola… our reading of Tesla: Man Out Of Time: “Because of the inventor's impatience for delivery of his machinery, Westinghouse assigned a special person to expedite it. But the slowness with which Tesla was getting his money from Morgan…” [I think we can see the hidden scheming of 'power' here… what do you think?… Controlling where money flows controls what work gets done… and what work doesn't – the 'global-state-statesmen' developed the strategy because it converts us into puppets… In so doing it can determine who gets stress… and who doesn't… To cite one example… the New York Times of January 18, 2017 has an article titled: “Internal New York Times Report Says Newsroom Must Change at Faster Pace”… Journalism overall has been subjected to this economic assault for some time… for reasons discussed in Waking Up: Freeing Ourselves From Work and most of us are well aware of: newsrooms were acquired by hedge funds… which then loaded debt on them… budget crises and bankrupting predictably follow… etc. etc. – the tone of this article… however… is distinctly menacing… not only because part of the restructuring plan calls for more 'visual reporting'… or that they want to 'train' the 'journalists' themselves… but also because they have “a plan to invest $5 million toward covering the incoming president, Donald J. Trump, and his administration…” Part of the reason for the 'restructuring' we are told (in addition to 'proving' to Trump's supposed base that 'their voices will be heard' in the leaner… meaner… New York Times…) is “to support an ambitious goal that The Times laid out [a self-created pressure… that is…] in October 2015: to double its digital revenue, to $800 million in 2020…” – The global-guys need only place a little chump-change on that button later down the road to declare the strategy a 'success'… and 'justify' the cuts… no matter how painful to us… Add these pieces together and you have a propaganda campaign and a fearful 'staff'… who are being put on notice that they are expendable… i.e.… “don't think too hard about what you're told to do here…” Returning to Margaret Cheney: “…Because of the inventor's impatience for delivery of his machinery, Westinghouse assigned a special person to expedite it. But the slowness with which Tesla was getting his money from Morgan forced the inventor to take on other work while awaiting the completion of Wardenclyffe. He moved his offices to New York's Metropolitan Tower for increased professional visibility. A great disappointment to Tesla was the government's continuing failure to order his radio-controlled devices for coastal defense. When Congress passed a Coast Defense and Fortification Bill providing $7.5 million, he wrote Johnson that perhaps half a million would be “invested in Teleautomatons of your friend Nikola,” and that the rest undoubtedly would find its way into the “hands and pockets of the politicians.” Even this note of cynicism betrayed unwarranted optimism”

 

[“170122truesocietymeanstrueequals_7.mp3”:]

 

[Shall we go back? Recall that Proudhon prefaced his explanation of the identity of property with robbery by saying that: “Property… violates equality by the rights of exclusion and increase [accumulation], and [violates] freedom by despotism…” I am very much looking forward to Proudhon's exploration of that latter point… the truth of it in evidence everywhere around us today… confirming the importance of basing strategy on accurate analysis ('seeing reality'…) It has taken us to ancient Athens and the trial of Socrates… fortunately Alice Miller came along with us and was able to explain that what Socrates was fighting is the same bully-mindset we are looking at today in the current version of the now-global totalitarian-'statesmen'… a mind-set carried down through the millennia of 'class''… because we needed Alice to fully see it… and Proudhon with Karl Popper et al. to unpack it (and a problem must be accurately understood to be solved…) To reiterate our earlier point… 'property' as Proudhon defines it – “the sum of the abuses of property” – is just another word for 'class': 'class' institutionalizes arrangements of access to resources – which equates with 'property'… i.e.… privatizing the common endowment of all: the ancestors and the earth, while stripping us of our right to celebrate our own and each other's gifts (which to do requires individual-'self'-ownership…) 'Accumulation' leads to the breakdown of true society: in which we recognize each other as associates… which means as equals… Proudhon gets to the root… the fundamental premises of our lives together… and compels us to think about them… so that we may consciously judge the full implications of what we do (e.g.… when we allow our earth-given-gifts to be marketed… sold at auction… converted into property…) His gift of honesty – which he shares with Socrates… with Prince… with Popper – combined with the depth of his thought… his penetrating analysis… allows him to do this. We needed Proudhon because 'power' learned… largely thanks to Plato… that what is key to 'rule' is 'the people's confusion… followed by the institutionalization of that confusion (fundamental and systematically taught mis-understandings…) and this can only be accomplished if 'rule' owns 'the word'… the lexicon… our ability to speak with each other and come to common understandings…We needed Proudhon because 'power' has been throwing so much paper at us – for millennia – we've lost confidence… We are taught – deeply trained – to dis-believe what our bodies tell us… and so – with the help of the ancestors… Proudhon standing out particularly for his direct confrontation with the problem – we had to unpack 'power's argument as to why it was supposedly needed… Proudhon explains… but… as Prince saw: “We learn from being shown…” The critical 'gap' in us that 'power' created and that only we can fill up again is certainty… 'certainty' that we must have the full width and breadth of our gifts… our lives… our joy… vitality… our happiness… back… in our sole possession… as we said last week… we must be the joy we want to see… live our 'everything'… those are the rules… and then… win or lose… we are creating true society…

 

[“170122powerguystrytorewriteourheroes_8.mp3”:]

 

[I hope it's clear why this important discussion (of Lycophron's protectionist theory of the state…) has not been ground zero for the development of our thought on how we all live and cooperate together… and now share lives globally – a discussion initiated over two thousand years ago – following the clear trail left by the power of Proudhon's reflection to the natural destination of authentic thought on how we associate… when united with love… to… what he called “the practice of justice as a science…” – a discussion basic for the establishment of true 'society'… the careful analysis of Proudhon and Popper which we have just learned has been available to young people in theory over the generations for almost two hundred years… and should have been given to all of us to think through… a discussion which… had it been allowed into the public… into our general… discourse… would by now necessarily have ended the mad romp of this global tribe of would-be gods… the Plato's Tribesmen… over the entire population of the planet for just about that same length of time… We are 'figuring out' animals par excellence… when we're not brutalized as infants… I hope it's clear that 'thought' (and… necessarily with it… love… as we've been discussing… in showing how Proudhon's and Alice Miller's analysis [and indirectly Prince's…] from two different angles… arrive at the same conclusion: that the suppression of spontaneous feelings arrests the development of thought…) that serves collective humanity – itself has been suppressed… out of the fear of the Tiny Few (the fear at base… that they too will be excluded from 'society'… once they observe the principle of 'exclusion' modeled by their parents… and… as Proudhon is pointing out… this principle invalidates the concept of 'society'…) out of the fear of the Tiny Few… determined to stack the deck… to 'prove' to the bullies who raised them… that they deserve to be kept… and have the attention lavished… that they didn't get… Popper also explains the historical background to Plato's invention of 'Socrates'… and says: “[Socrates criticized the democratic statesmen of Athens] for their lack of intellectual honesty, and for their obsession with power-politics… Socrates, the teacher-politician, even went out of his way to attract young men and to gain influence over them, especially when he considered them open to conversion, and thought that some day they might possibly hold offices of responsibility in their city.…[In the case brought against Socrates] he was accused of having had his hand in the education of the most pernicious enemies of the state… the charge was given the vague and rather meaningless form that Socrates was corrupting the youth, that he was impious, and that he had attempted to introduce novel religious practices into the state. [That sums up the 'power'-guys charges against Prince almost to the letter… – P.S.] (The latter two charges undoubtedly expressed, however clumsily, the correct feeling that in the ethico-religious field he was a revolutionary.) [Once Socrates was dead] Plato, his most gifted disciple, was soon to prove the least faithful. He betrayed Socrates, just as his uncles had done.… Plato tried to implicate Socrates in his grandiose attempt to construct the theory of the arrested society; and he had no difficulty in succeeding, for Socrates was dead.” [Plato guides the Plato's Tribesmen… the global-state-statesmen… as well then… in this tactic: “when a threat – for instance… Prince – that could influence the children is 'dead' (“Dead like Elvis…”) invent a safe 'version' of him… and put him to work for you… make him lie in your bed…” i.e.… they want to flip the image we have of the man… in our minds take a man who is searingly honest and make him (seem) essentially dishonest… seem to represent what he worked his whole life to end…] Socrates' point: that it is better to suffer injustice than to inflict it… is only clear with Price's and Proudhon's [and all the prophets of 'class' – the prophets who brought hope of deliverance to its victims…] insight that we are here to develop our social nature… It cannot be seen through a totalitarian (or utilitarian…) lens – with Fascist reasoning… Developing our social nature means that we are diffuse as to time and space… that we are limitless… and that we are all connected… To violate this truth is to violate why we are here… it is to turn our backs on our fellows… and to reject the support and love of those who died for us… with that thought… I chose for our outro song Prince's song “The Cross” from his CD Sign O' The Times (1987)

 

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Prince Songs For Our January 22, 2017 Show:

 

[“01 My Name Is Prince.mp3”:]

 

“My Name Is Prince” by Prince: “My name is Prince and I am funky… My name is Prince the one and only… I did not come 2 fuck around… 'Til I get your daughter I won't leave this town… In the beginning God made the sea… But on the 7th day he made me… He was tryin' to rest y'all when He heard the sound… Sound like a guitar cold gettin' down… I tried to bust a high note, but I bust a string… My God was worried 'til he heard me sing… My name is Prince… and I am funky… My name is Prince… the one and only - hurt me… (Do that, do that, somebody)… (Do that, do that, somebody)… Hurt me (Do that, do that, somebody)… (Do that, do that, somebody)… (Do that, do that, somebody)… (Do that, do that, somebody)… (Do that, do that, somebody)… (Do that, do that, somebody)… My name is Prince and I am funky… When it come to funk I am a junky… I know from righteous… I know from sin… I got 2 sides… and they both friends… Don't try 2 clock 'em, they're much too fast… If u try to stop 'em… they kick that ass… Without a pistol, without a gun… When u hear my music… you'll be havin' fun… That's when I gottcha… that's when u mine… To tell the truth, tell me what's my line?… My name is Prince… and I am funky (You can't stop Prince)… My name is Prince… the one and only… (You can't stop Prince) - hurt me… (Do that, do that, somebody)… (Do that, do that, somebody)… (Do that, do that, somebody)… (Do that, do that, somebody)… Funky fresh 4 the 90's… My name is Prince, I don't wanna be king… Cuz I've seen the top… and it's just a dream… Big cars and women… and fancy clothes… Will save your face… but it won't save your soul… I'm here to tell you… that there's a better way… Would our Lord be happy… if He came 2 day?… I ain't sayin' I'm better, no better than u… But if u want 2 play with me, u better learn the rules… My name is Prince… and I am funky (You can't stop Prince)… My name is Prince… the one and only (You can't stop Prince)… I did not come… 2 fuck around (You can't stop Prince)… 'Till I get your daughter… I won't leave this town… I won't leave this town… I won't leave this town… I won't leave this - leave this - leave this… My name is Prince… and I am funky (You can't stop Prince)… My name is Prince… the one and only (You can't stop Prince)… Funky fresh 4 the 90's (Do that, do that, somebody)… (Do that, do that, somebody)… (Do that, do that, somebody)… (Do that, do that, somebody)… Hurt me (Do that, do that, some…)… The funkier I be… The funkier I get, oh shit… Lickety split on the lyric… A new jack in the pulpit… Watch it deacon, your track is leakin'… What is this u're seekin'?… The syncopated rhymes are at their peak… When you jumped on my D.I.C.K.… That's the one thing that I don't play… The jock strap was 2 big 4 u anyway… U're just a simpleton… I'll bust u like a pimple, son… My star is 2 bright… Boy, I'll sink u like the ship Poseidon Adventure… U're bumpin' dentures 2 be cocksure… There must be more coming from… Your mouth than manure.… So with a flow and a spray, I say hey… U must become a prince before u're king anyway… (Do that, do that somebody)… (Do that, do that somebody)… It's time I get ig-ni-ig-ni-ig-ni-ig-ni-ignorant… Def be the beat that I'm rockin'… Yo… so come get a hit… And put your thinking cap on… U've been forewarned… I call upon the inner forces that I've got brewin'… In my cauldron. That means my nugget… Sometimes I'm rugged… The style I possess be havin'… The other brothers buggin'… and this is 4 those who oppose… And propose 2 overexpose disclose… Pose a threat 2 my brother… Like any other man makin' a stand… I'll be damned if I let u play this hand… I'm the blackjack dealer and the cards are stacked… What do u expect 2 win when u're used to playing craps?… (Do that, do that somebody)… Hell yeah, let's get this under the hmm… (Do that, do that somebody)… It's gettin' tricky… That means a sticky situation… 2 resurrect a groove with feeling… And give it this much affection… Passion flows… who knows… What lurks in the gallows of my mind… I put my foot in the ass of Jim Crow… 12 inches of non-stop sole… I'm on a roll with P, and it's time for the show… So do that, do that somebody… Wave your hands in the air… This is a motherfucking party… While u're laying back I'm on the attack paddywhack… Give yourself a bone… This is my house and I'm prone… 2 layin' some chrome upside some motherfuckers dome… And I'm out… My name is Prince and I am funky… My name is Prince the one and only… My name is Prince… My name is Prince… My name is Prince… My name is Prince… My name is Prince… My name is Prince… My name is Prince… My name is Prince… My name is Prince… My name is Prince… (“Yo man…” “What?” “She came…” “Where?”)” [Prince, “My Name Is Prince”, Symbol, 1992]

 

[“01 Planet Earth.mp3”:]

 

“Planet Earth” by Prince: Imagine holding Planet Earth… In the palm of your hand… With no regard for your place of birth… Or claim to any land… The only thing between us now is the truth we understand… If Planet Earth was in the palm of your hand… 50 years from now what will they say about us here?… Did we care for the water and the fragile atmosphere?… There are only 2 kinds of folk… And the difference they make… The ones that give… And the ones that take… [Chorus:] Just like the countless bodies… That revolve around the sun… Planet Earth must now come into balance with the one,… That caused it all to be… Then we'll see His kingdom come,… So shall it be written, so shall it be sung… Imagine you could rid the Earth… Of anyone you choose… Which ones would you need the most… And which ones would you lose?… Do we want to judge another… Lest we be judged too?… Careful now… The next one might be you… [Chorus]… Imagine sending your first born… Off to fight a war… With no good reason how it started and what they are fighting for… And if they're blessed to make it home… Will they still be poor?… Pray for peace right now and forever more… [Chorus x2]…” [Prince, “Planet Earth”, Planet Earth, 2007]

 

[“01 The Future.mp3”:]

 

“The Future” by Prince: “"I'm not gonna kill you. I want you to do me a favor,… I want you to tell all your friends about me."… "What are you?"… "I'm BATMAN!"… I've seen the future and it will be… I've seen the future and it works… And if there's life after, we will see… So I can't go like a jerk… Systematic overthrow of the underclass… Hollywood conjures images of the past… New world needs spiritually… That will last… I've seen the future and it will be… I've seen the future and it will be… I've seen the future and it works… And if there's life after, we will see… So I can't go like a jerk… Yellow Smiley offers me X… Like he's drinking seven up… I would rather drink 6 razor blades… Razor blades from a paper cup… He can't understand, I say 2 tough… It's just that I've seen the future… And boy it's rough… I've seen the future and it will be… I've seen the future and it works… And if there's life after, we will see… So U can't go like a jerk… No, no… I've seen the future and it will be… Wait a minute… Pretty pony standing on the avenue… Flashin' a loaded pistol, 2 dumb 2 be true… Somebody told him playin' cops and robbers was cool… Would our rap have been different if we only knew?… I've seen the future and it will be… I've seen the future and it works… If there's life after, we will see… Don't go out like a jerk… Systematic overthrow of the underclass… Hollywood conjures images of the past… New world needs spiritually… That will last… I've seen the future and it will be… I've seen the future and it will be… I've seen the future and it will be… I've seen the future and it will be… I've seen the future and it will be… I've seen the future and it will be… "Think about the future"…” [Prince, “The Future”, Batman, 1989]

 

[“08 When She Comes.mp3”:]

 

“When She Comes” by Prince: “When she comes… always unexpected… But never rejected surprise… It’s always a shock when he undoes the lock… & she’s there… without a care… When she comes… The house is always a mess… She’s cool nevertheless & here’s why… She remains as we say… a sweet bird of prey… She flies… & she’s satisfied… When she comes… A lemoncello ballet… A psychedelic cabaret in his mind… Without further adieu… he takes off her shoes… & whatever confines… When she comes… A blue bed of roses… she never closes her eyes… 4 his artful technique… deserves a peek… Call it sublime… cuz it happens… When she comes… So oh sweet the taste… The tears that roll down her face… Don’t cry… Tho sad at 1st site… they r filled with delight… 4th of July… When she comes…” [Prince, “When She Comes”, Hit n Run Phaze Two, 2015]

 

[“04 The Gold Standard.mp3”:]

 

“The Gold Standard” by Prince: “Shut Ur body down, make it walk around, let me see U walk over and Ur focus just slip… Shut Ur body down, go walk around, let me see U walk over and Ur focus just slip… Shut Ur body down, make it walk around, let me see U walk over and Ur focus just slip… [guitar lick]… U… Everybody get ready 2 move (Go, go, go, go…)… Oh yeah… Everybody, everybody… Come on… Listen… We know what y'all be thinkin', nude is the brand new yawn… Everybody's just drinkin', inhibitions just gone… U don't need 2 be rude, U don't need 2 be wild… Whatever U do, don't compromise and done with style… The gold standard, crazy amazing, upper echelon groove… The gold standard, crazy amazing, turn it up, let Ur body move… U… Get ready to… I'm talkin', talkin' 2 U… Got 2… let Ur body move… We know what y'all be feelin', there used 2 be a time… Music was like a spiritual healing, the body, the soul and mind (Some medicine)… U don't need 2 be rude, U don't need 2 be wild… If what U play take Ur troubles away and make somebody smile… The gold standard, crazy amazing, upper echelon groove… The gold standard, crazy amazing, turn it up, let Ur body move… U… Baby… I'm talkin', I'm talkin' 2 U… Oh yeah… Shut Ur body down, make it walk around, let me see U walk bobbin' and Ur troubles just smooth… 24 carrot hashtag, put Ur phone in Ur bag, ain't nobody got 2 tell U put Ur hands in the air, say "Ow!"… When the beat's 2 much, U need 2 drop that cup, one left and right, hands up, everybody just… Everybody just… Swing Ur hip 2 the left and right, if U know about the "Bus Stop," there's a tight hook… Now everybody just shake… Shake… New power… slide… New power… slide… Ha, ha, ha… Here come the chorus y'all… The gold standard, crazy amazing, upper echelon groove… The gold standard, crazy amazing, turn it up, let Ur body move… Turn it up, let me see that body move… Let me see Ur body move… Turn it up, let me see that body move… Let me see Ur body move… Turn it up, let me see that body move… Body, body… move… Turn it up, let me see that body move… [funky horns and guitar]… Turn it up, let me see that body move… Turn it up, let me see that body move… (Let me)… Turn it up, let me see that body move… (Let me see Ur body, babe)… Turn it up, let me see that body move… That body move (So amazing)… Gon' see that, that body move… (Baby, U're amazing)… That body move… (The gold standard)… Gon' see that, that body move… (Oh baby… Oo)… Hey baby… Oh yeah? Really?… No, that's cool… Bring it here… All the way here, come on… Let me get in there… Good God, mmm… Keep it there… This is exciting, it's different…” [Prince, “The Gold Standard”, Art Official Age, 2014]

 

[“02 Shut This Down.mp3”:]

 

“Shut This Down” by Prince: “We came to shut this down… We came to shut this down… (Come on…) Everybody knows… This is how it goes… Ain't no playing around… Just keep your eyes on me… If you wanna get pleased… I'm bout to shut this down… My hand is money… My ice is cold… Whatever you holdin'… You better fold… Cuz when we drop this… It's gonna make a sound… All around the world… When we come to town… We come to shut this down… (Down… We come to shut this down…) You looking at me… But you never see… How i got so funky… It's a mystery… Must be genetics… My DNA… Electromagnaticsim… You can't get away… I get you baby… All sweaty and hot… I'm gonna get you where you never get got… Baby… We come to shut this down… (Down… We come to shut this down…) What you waiting for… Get out on the floor… Move your body 'round… (We come to shut this down…) We come to shut this down… If you got the jelly… I got your jam… I don't think you understand, we gonna do this man… Gonna shut this down… We ain't playin around… U gotta that crew… Come on pretty… We gotta do the do… Let me do what we do… We come to shut this down… My hand is money… My ice is cold… Whatever you holdin'… You better fold… Cuz when we drop this… It's gonna make a sound… All around the world… When we come to town… We come to shut this down… Whatchu waiting for… Get out on the floor… Move your body round… Y'all know how we do… This the old school… Straight purple mack baby… (Let's go… Let's go…) [Funky bass…] (Back… back… back… back… back…) (We come to shut this…) “Boy… if you don't sit yo… down… Sit down!… You see grown folks workin… We didn't ask you anything… And I told you I was gonna buy you a whistle too”…” [Prince, “Shut This Down”, HitnRun Phaze One, 2015]

 

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Our January 15, 2017 Show:

 

[“170115dataismoneytoafasciststate_1.mp3”:]

 

Questions for Janet Yellen: “Is there such a thing as a “free market”?… Is there a single 'world-system' with various fronts and facets?… Is this system based on theft?… Is it Fascist?…” A NYT columnist provides a kind of a reply a columnist who has quite dutifully trumpeted the 'Trumpian Threat'…: “The Republican regulars build their grand strategies upon the post-World War II international order – the American-led alliances, norms and organizations that bind democracies [if you're in China please substitute the words 'China' and 'communist governments'… or if… etc.… the operative word is 'bind'… – P.S.] bind democracies and preserve global peace. The regulars seek to preserve and extend this order, and see Vladimir Putin as a wolf who tears away at it…” (Have we answered Yellen's questions for her yet?… What is the relationship between an 'international political order' and a 'global economic system'? Are they not just names on gates of our pen?) Note: 'data' is 'money' to a Fascist 'state': “Wealth and influence in the technology business have always been about gaining the upper hand in software or the machines that software ran on. Now data – gathered in those immense pools of information that are at the heart of everything from artificial intelligence to online shopping recommendations – is increasingly a focus of technology competition…” Time out for a reality-check – we all know the world given us by the 'power'-guys is a mess. Ms. Yellen won't say this… the corporate-nose-to-the-bottom-line-folks certainly won't… All over the world we-the-people are rising. Our Sisters and Brothers who run the transit system in London struck and the paper predictably describes it as an assault on the 'rest of us'… the violence of states and state-actors against 'their' 'subjects' across the Global South (though we must never forget that the hidden violence of EMF is as great a… if not a greater… threat) the violence imposed on our Sisters and Brothers in Africa… Asia… South America and the Middle East… is thrust in the faces of us in the so-called 'West' as a daily reminder of what real 'chaos' looks like… we should be grateful if we have food and shelter – own your own bodies?… forget about it – and we're all being collectively told: gather and dance in clubs at night at your own risk… all being set against each other at a rising clip (if we credit what the paper says… which I hope we don't…) So… all the “cloud services, artificial intelligence and data mining, voice-activated assistants, self-driving cars, virtual reality…” (to quote from the 'Frightful Five' piece we discussed last week – on whose backs do they rest? Do you suppose Janet Yellen will answer my last question with: “a technologically-sophisticated slave system is not 'Fascist'… please be more precise with your terminology…”?

 

[“170115princeshowsclaimingourbodies_2.mp3”:]

 

(…should we go into the implications of that last statement… or save it for the next show so we don't continuously short Proudhon? I'm wrestling with this question because in my mind right now I watch a scale… On one side is 'Marcuse's Great Hope'… for the System-privileged-professionals-of-heart… and on the other… the impatience of the global-state-statesmen… to be done with them… – for I am convinced that the tale of Hansel and Gretel was written for them… These Plato's Tribe 'power'-guys want a free hand to establish an open global totalitarianism… We should consider what gets in the way of their doing that…) Infiltration – conscious planning by the Few… acting in concert… acting in secret… amassing resources to bias the world – i.e.… no state could control it… and in fact it is not the official actions of official states that determines the bias of the world… and so the concerns we have in this space never make it to the pages of the New York Times… The current reality of the bureaucratic totalitarian global 'order'… which sets the real conditions for our lives… is the real game we're kept from discussing and therefore from protecting ourselves from. I ask again… for the purpose of discussion… is it really necessary to unweave the tangled web of deception… by deceivers cast to catch the people in a lifetime of confusion… for us to know we are not free. Wherein lies the highest practicality of effort for we-determined to establish freedom for all humanity… 4Ever? Prince… our ultimate strategist… said: “If the white house is black… We gotta take the radio back…” (from a Prince song we posted for our January 8 (last week's) show: “Ol' Skool Company” (Mplsound, 2009) Do you hear Nikola shouting: “Yes!… Serious!… Take it back!… like… yesterday people!… I invented radio and EMF weapons for the cause of peace… to help us all get free… not to deepen your slavery!”… And let's not forget… with his “stationary-wave” method all we need is a radio tuning unit… a ground connection… and a metal rod extending up over the height of your house… for you to have all the free electricity you need… (Let's think about this in the context of Prince's overall strategy: what I've been calling 'wholism'… and Alice Miller calls 'vitality' – or the true… authentic… self… and which Proudhon views as the full development of 'reason' into 'morality'… concurring with Alice: that the problem is the splitting-off from ourselves [once 'power' is embedded in the totalitarian institutions it establishes to accomplish this…] the splitting-off from ourselves of our earth-given gifts of love and empathy [and an independent – independent from 'power's totalitarian institutions – thought-process…] Alice adds additionally that this split-off self is then despised… re-defined as 'weakness'… and projected onto targeted [systematically disempowered…] groups… a perhaps too-wordy way to say: that our resistance is 'adoring' our body experiencing and expressing 'joy'… with each other… a joy sent out into the open air… and sweetly sung in loving… respectful… liaisons…)

 

[“170115abundancecomesfromfreedom_3.mp3”:]

 

The global-state wants to control not just All The Money… but All The Information that exists and that we have access to (personal data and historical truth: ATInfo-wrap-around our minds… with all of the first [the 'personal' data of lifeless entities stuck in “the Spider's Web of Things” – us…] they are more assured of determining the second… and ensuring that we are ever more 'cleansed' – with each passing generation – of accurate information (…I noticed that the print-propaganda-insertion-means I try to read seems to be telegraphing a 'power'-intention of 're-discovering' Nikola Tesla's observations – bit by bit… I suspect they want cover for their extreme audaciousness in attempting to bury Nikola Tesla. I'm referring to an article in which we find this said with no mention of Nikola Tesla: “When I got started back in the '80s, nobody cared [about lightning],” said Hugh Christian, a research professor at the University of Alabama at Huntsville and director of the team that developed a lightning sensor that will be attached to a truss of the International Space Station in 2017. It will augment coverage provided by a geostationary satellite, known as GOES-16, that was successfully launched in November…” it's difficult to credit that a research professor who directs a team designing a lightning sensor for the International Space Station could say that before 1980 “nobody cared…” about lightning's meteorological effects. Nikola Tesla went to some trouble to study lightning… even creating it himself… and providing the 'power'-guys with their heads-up on using electrical waves to create condensation (rain) in the atmosphere. We are so in Nikola's debt for everything electrical and EMF… for which he is given almost no credit. But the broad effect of the suppression of Nikola and Prince… our biggest spirits… on our thought-process is equally disturbing. It seems the global-state-statesmen will not rest until all of us are as dumbed-down and stripped of independent thought as they themselves are… A global totalitarian 'order' renders the notion of the 'protectionist state' moot… Suppression of our gifts… our 'big-ness'… can in no sense be interpreted as 'protection'… But it is also rendered moot from below… from the view of winning and living in and cherishing (ad infinitum…) Freedom… Last week we asked whether we are discussing the fact that Nikola Tesla's gifts – along with all the subsequent technology invented that is useful for establishing the individual self-sufficiency of each as the basis of our global society – eliminate any possible role for a 'state' – this is the political implication of one of Prince's conclusions at the end of The Rainbow Children: that we must… as and after we heal from the brutalization of 'class'… turn to… attend to… be led by… the kingdom deep within… “Open your heart, open your mind… A train is leaving all day… A wonderful trip through our time… And laughter is all U pay… Loneliness already knows U… There ain't no reason 2 stay… Come here and take my hand, I'll show U… I think I know a better way, y'all… Around the world in a day… (listen 2 me, babe)… The little 1 will escort U… 2 places within your mind… The former is red, white, and blue [both: our former mind… and that which forms our mind… – P.S.] The ladder is purple, come on and climb… A government of love and music boundless in its unifying power… A nation of alms, [of] the production and sharing ideas, a shower of flowers…” (Prince, “Around The World In A Day”) Abundance naturally 'orders' itself… as water finds its level… finds where it is needed… and where it is needed… it fills… and where a surfeit exists… it exits… this is an 'order' that comes from abundance… when we tune our various instruments… to the key of love… This… Prince believed in… the power of love always guiding us… as that inner voice we're made too busy to hear… that inner voice cannot guide unless we are free… The seeming incongruities lodged in this unexpected place I find myself in come to me repeatedly… that I feel the imperative… the necessary… what?… something… to speak for Prince… a man whose bright light of honesty exposes the muck of orchestrated lies this system feeds us… this man with a voice like no other… with a gift for expressing authentic feeling like no other… could not speak for himself… This trap these 'power'-guys thrust him in fills me with an inexpressable anger and horror of what they've done… are doing… to us… that our Prince of Love… had no one seemingly to voice recognition and appreciation of what he was doing for us… that they heap lies on this man who literally died for us… spurs me on and draws me inextricably to him…

 

[“170115thepowerofprincesnewideas_4.mp3”:]

 

This attempt to bury Prince in lies spurs me on… particularly as I know that because of his direct experience with the hiddenness of 'power' and its weapons… only he has been analyzing the full problem of our capture and continued incarceration… that only Prince has made a complete assessment of what we are confronted with in being confronted by organized global-'power' – and Shakespeare is right… we have to know the problem to address it successfully… and particularly as I know that establishing the truth of what these global-Fascists did to him for over 35 years ends 'the system'… This is one side of it. But I must admit to another side: I just find this man endlessly interesting… His work is so packed with thought… and when you know that someone put a lot of thought into something… and you value them for their kindness and wisdom… and scope of vision… you want to absorb your full measure of that thought… you want all that you can grasp of it… My life is illustrative of “Socrates' Dilemma”… I was the kind of person Prince was trying to reach: “Half of the staff of [my] brain [was] on vacation…” but for that very reason… I could not hear him… What changed in me such that I could finally hear him?… Proudhon: “Enclosed within a circle, our mind revolves about itself, until a new observation, creating within us new ideas, brings to view an external principle which delivers us from the phantom by which our imagination is possessed…” If so… then we need to have access to those new ideas… and we need to have time to let them marinate in us… the length of which shortens in proportion to our authentic discussions of those ideas with the ancestors… and with each other…

 

[“170115thetowerofteslaandtheshaft_5.mp3”:]

 

Margaret Cheney's Tesla: Man Out Of Time: “[Nikola Tesla and J. Pierpont Morgan] met for a talk about the world system [of communication]. Tesla instinctively was less forthcoming than he had been with Westinghouse: no need to distract the financier with too much technical information. Instead, he dilated on themes of money and power.… Where others in the field were thinking only in limited terms of point-to-point transmissions, as in ship-to-shore and transoceanic wireless, Tesla was talking about broadcasting to the entire world. Morgan was interested.… He made no mention to Morgan of the wireless transmission of power, not because he had given up the idea, but for the prudent reason that it would have made some of the banker's existing investments obsolete… The relationship (no doubt a familiar one for Morgan) quickly became like that between courtier and king. Morgan was “a great and generous man.” Tesla's work would “proclaim loudly your name to the world. You will soon see that not only am I capable of appreciating deeply the nobility of your action but also of making your primary philanthropic investment worth 100 times the sum you have put at my disposal in such a magnanimous, princely way.…” Morgan, who had no interest in philanthropic business arrangements, responded by sending Tesla a draft of their agreement and asking him to sign over 51 percent interest in his various radio patents as security for the loan. Tesla sent Morgan a note in which he quoted an admiring comment from Professor Slaby, now a German privy councillor in addition to being a renowned scientist: “'I am devoting myself since sometime to investigations in wireless telegraphy which you have first founded in such a clear and precise manner.… It will interest you, as father of this telegraphy, to know…'” This would indicate to Morgan the speciousness of claims being advanced by Marconi and others. Tesla also observed to his patron that neither Raphael nor Columbus could have succeeded without their wealthy sponsors.… In March 1901, Tesla went to Pittsburgh to place orders with Westinghouse for generators and transformers. At the same time he had agents in England scouting the coastline for a suitable location on that side of the ocean.… W.D. Crow, an architectural associate of White's, worked closely with Tesla on the design of a tower, which would have at its peak a giant doughnut-shaped copper electrode 100 feet in diameter. Later this was changed to resemble the cap of a gigantic mushroom. The octagonal tower, made entirely of wooden beams preassembled on the ground, would rise from a large brick building. But the total height of this fantastic structure posed a worrisome question because of wind resistance.… For a time they considered falling back on an older design utilizing two, or perhaps three, much smaller towers, but eventually a single tower was built that soared to a height of 187 feet. Within it was a deep steel shaft that ran 120 feet down into the earth. This shaft, encased by a timber-lined well twelve feet square and encircled by a spiral stairway, was designed so that air pressure could raise it to touch the tower's top platform. Wardenclyffe was a landmark as magnificent in concept and execution as America's Golden Age of electrical engineering ever produced. Magnificent and doomed.”

 

[“170115platorootofmightmakesright_6.mp3”:]

 

The so-called 'right of the strongest' – premised on the lie of 'scarcity' – has been institutionalized in what we're told is 'the economy'… one of the ways 'power' disappears itself… In the 'freedom-economics' lesson Proudhon and Prince will provide… we will find “lesson number one”: “abundance comes from freedom…Proudhon is identifying… itemizing… all the ways a system of 'class' commits robbery… and has traced the odd – to those of us with empathy… with 'heart' – the odd notion of the 'heroic' robber and pillager back to its ancient roots… and has cited a character in Plato's Gorgias who expresses this view of the 'right' of the (so-called) 'strongest'… which inspired us to hear what Karl Popper has to say on this question: “…it seems that the protectionist theory of the state was first proffered by the Sophist Lycophron, a pupil of Gorgias.… [I]t emerges clearly from Aristotle's context that Lycophron's theory was solely concerned with the end of the state; for Aristotle argues that Lycophron has not seen that the essential end of the state is to make its citizens virtuous. [That phrasing is extremely telling… is it not? With those words… and thanks to Alice… we can see the bully-parent standing behind this clearly irrational belief… we can see the forced-infant clearly at the center of this 'mistaken'-system based on coercion… and Popper will be corroborating this assessment as well in his comparison with Lycophron's view… If Alice had taken her analysis to the level of the global-'class'-system… and had we discussed it globally… we would now be in our Freedom… – P.Sl.] This indicates that Lycophron interpreted this end rationally, from a technological point of view, adopting the demands of equalitarianism, individualism, and protectionism.… The fundamental idea of protectionism is: protect the weak from being bullied by the strong. This demand has been raised not only by the weak, but often by the strong also. It is, to say the least of it, misleading to suggest that it is a selfish or an immoral demand. [Alice explains this irrational view as well… this identification with the parent… – P.S.] There can be little doubt that Plato knew Lycophron's theory well, for he was (in all likelihood) Lycophron's younger contemporary.… Thus the passages in which most commentators find a similarity between the tendencies of the Gorgias and the Republic reveal, in fact, a complete change of front. In spite of Callicles' hostile presentation, the tendency of the Gorgias is favorable to protectionism; but the Republic is violently against it.… It is not at all unlikely that Lycophron's doctrine explicitly raised the demand that the state should protect the weak, a demand which is, of course, anything but ignoble. (The hope that this demand will one day be fulfilled is expressed by the Christian teaching: “The meek shall inherit the earth.”) [That's not just biblical text… that's prophesy… and as Prince said in one of the interview segments I haven't been able to edit and post yet… we are in the time of prophesy… For millennia those words – “The meek shall inherit the earth…” with us… the people… have been “sticky like glue…” an unpaid bill… that has now come due… Our reply to 'power's lies has been germinating for some time… many have added to it… brought their piece of the solution… and… thanks to Nikola Tesla and Prince… we're now ready to act on it… be the joy til that's all we see… win or lose we live our 'everything'… those are the rules… but for me… with Prince… I'm a be… “sticky like glue”…] that's our outro song: Prince's song “Sticky Like Glue” from his CD 20Ten (2010)…

 

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Prince Songs For Our January 15, 2017 Show:

 

[“02 New Power Generation.mp3”:]

 

“New Power Generation” by Prince: “Pardon me 4 living, but this is my world 2… I can't help that what's cool to us might be strange to u… Pardon me 4 breathing, can we borrow some of your air?… The problem with u and your kind is that u don't know love is there… Lay down your funky weapon, come join us on the floor… Making love and music's the only things we're fighting 4.… We r the new power generation, we want 2 change the world.… The only thing that's in our way is u.… Your old fashioned music, your old ideas,… We're sick and tired of u telling us what 2 do.… Pardon me 4 thinking, but there's something under my hair… I bet u thought the lights were on but noone's living there… U think that if u tell enough lies they will see the truth?… I hope they bury your old ideas the same time they bury u… Lay down your funky weapon, come join us on the floor… Making love and music's the only things we're fighting 4.… We r the new power generation, we want 2 change the world.… The only thing that's in our way is u.… Your old fashioned music, your old ideas,… We're sick and tired of u telling us what 2 do… We r the new, We r the new, We r the new,… Making love and music… New power, we stand… Pardon us for caring, we didn't know it was against the rules (shout it out)… If we only want to love one another… Then tell me now who's the fool (tell me, tell me)… No father, no mother, no sister, no brother, nobody can make me stop… Said if u didn't come 2 party child, I think u better get up offa my block.… Lay down your funky weapon, come join us on the floor… Making love and music's the only things we're fighting 4.… We r the new power generation, we want 2 change the world.… The only thing that's in our way is u.… Your old fashioned music, your old ideas,… We're sick and tired of u telling us what 2 do.… Why don't u just be happy, baby.… [chorus repeated with this sung over it]… Go on and get up offa my block… Get up offa my block, because… Love is there if you'd just open up 2 it.… If you'd just believe your whole world would change… New power generation, you've got to rearrange. We've got… We r the new power generation, you've gotta give up all the fight… We gotta try 2 love one another, baby. we r the new power generation… We r the new power generation.… We r the new power generation…” [Prince, “New Power Generation”, from the film and CD Graffiti Bridge, 1990]

 

[“05 Right The Wrong.mp3”:]

 

“Right The Wrong” by Prince: “Right the wrong… Hear the song… Before long U won't hear nothin' but the crackle of flames… Right the wrong… Hear the song… Would u rather die knowing that u did or keep living in shame?… Right the wrong… 2, 3, uh… 1, 2, 1-2, come on… (Right the wrong baby)… Far be it from me to say… It seem like we could stop the flow of snow in the sky today… But I guess the weather man he likes the rain… Ain't that insane… Now sing…Right the wrong… Hear the song… Before long U won't hear nothin' but the crackle of flames… Right the wrong… Hear the song… Would u rather die knowing that u did or keep living in shame?… (Come on, come on, come on)… Did you hear me baby?… Right the wrong… I'm 6 feet in the grave… I'm 6 feet in the grave… (right right, right right) … Right the wrong… Ashes to ashes, dust to dust (right the wrong right the wrong)… This young man with a talented soul (right the wrong right the wrong)… Died when he wanted 2 (right the wrong right the wrong) light the life that lives… (right the wrong right the wrong)… So he shall not be pitied… Nor shall the guilty be forgiven… Until they find it in their hearts to… Right the wrong…” [Prince, “Right The Wrong”, Chaos and Disorder, 1996]

 

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[“01 Baltimore.mp3”:]

 

“Baltimore” by Prince: “[Eryn Allen Kane:] Baltimore… [Prince:] Nobody got in nobody's way… So I guess you could say it was a good day… At least a little better than the day in Baltimore… Does anybody hear us pray… For Michael Brown or Freddie Gray?… Peace is more than the absence of war… Absence of war… [Prince & Eryn Allen Kane:] Are we gonna see another bloody day?… We're tired of the cryin' and people dyin'… Let's take all the guns away… [Prince:] Absence of war, you and me… Maybe we can finally say… Enough is enough, it's time for love… It's time to hear… It's time to hear the guitar play, guitar play… Baltimore… If there ain't no justice then there ain't no peace… If there ain't no justice then there ain't no peace… If there ain't no justice then there ain't no peace… If there ain't no justice then there ain't no peace… [Prince & Eryn Allen Kane:] We're gonna see another bloody day… We're tired of the cryin' and people dyin'… Let's take all the guns away… If there ain't no justice then there ain't no peace… If there ain't no justice then there ain't no peace… If there ain't no justice then there ain't no peace… If there ain't no justice then there ain't no peace…” [Prince, “Baltimore”, Hit n Run Phaze Two, 2015]

 

[“01 Around The World In A Day.mp3”:]

 

“Around The World In A Day” by Prince: “Open your heart, open your mind… A train is leaving all day… A wonderful trip through our time… And laughter is all U pay… Around the world in a day… Around the world in a day… Now dig… Loneliness already knows U… There ain't no reason 2 stay… Come here and take my hand, I'll show U… I think I know a better way, y'all… Around the world in a day… (listen 2 me, babe)… Around the world in a day… (all the babies sing it now)… Ooh-la-la… Ooh-la-la-la-la-la-la… No-sha-sha… No shouting… No shouting… No - no shouting… The little 1 will escort U… 2 places within your mind… The former is red, white, and blue… The ladder is purple, come on and climb… Around the world in a day… Around the world in a day… Come on, sing… Around the world in a day… Say papa, I think I wanna dance… (summer she is sweet)… Around the world in a day… Around the world in a day… All the little babies, sing around the world… Around the world in a day… A government of love and music boundless in its unifying power… A nation of alms, the production, sharing ideas, a shower of flowers…” [Prince, “Around The World In A Day”, Around The World In A Day, 1985]

 

[“05 Dance On.mp3”:]

 

“Dance On” by Prince: “Oh, pick it up!… There's a bass guitar in this… Grenade Launcher roars in a television sky… Tell me how many young brothers must die… Dance on, dance on… Dance on, dance on… Little Talk Johnny blew the big score… The gang nailed his feet 2 a wooden floor… Nuclear Ban never stays in tune… They all know the words but the music is doomed… Everybody… Dance on, dance on… Dance on, dance on… Pick it up… Dance on, dance on… Dance on, dance on… Dance on, dance on… A bass guitar in spider webs, longing 4 the funk… Uzi gun takes his place in a wagon trunk… (get off me, punk, U ain't sexy)… Stealin' ladies purses then settin' them a'flame… M&M killers playin' Mickey Mouse games… Lord have mercy… Dance on, dance on (Dance on)… Dance on, dance on (Dance on)… It's time 4 new education… The former rules don't apply… We need a power structure that breeds production… Instead of jacks who vandalize… Detroit - what's happenin'?… What color is your money today? [this is sung in a round]… Get your money straight… Everybody dance on…” [Prince, “Dance On”, Lovesexy, 1988]

 

[“06 Lavaux.mp3”:]

 

“Lavaux” by Prince: “Take me to the vineyards of Lavaux… Wanna see the mountains where the waters flow… Life back home depresses me, just another form of slavery… The cost of freedom is anything but free… I don't care if they are covered with snow… I don't care if the road is narrow, if it is I'll know… It was always meant to be, still in love I must believe… Whatever path I choose will lead me home… Lead me home, Lavaux… Take me to the streets of Portugal… That might be my destiny to see the waterfall… Tears or rain, they're all the same… The only way to win this game… To let everybody play and share the ball… There ain't nobody got no chains on me… I'm flying higher than any mountain, deeper than any sea… A paradox is box's key, I'm the why in mystery… You're gonna unlock the secrets if you please… Come take me to an assembly in New York… To speak of the brand new everlasting wonder war… To win or lose is so absurd… And the only casualty is the word, the word… Revolution time has come today… 'Cause it took a black face to see the same decay… Like the chocolate of Vavey, in the sun they'll melt away… As for me, I'll laugh and go to the mountains where the waters flow… Back to the vineyards of Lavaux… Lavaux… Lavaux… Lavaux… Lavaux…” [Prince, “Lavaux”, 20Ten, 2010]

 

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Our January 8, 2017 Show:

 

[“170108statescurrencyisfear_1.mp3”:]

 

It's hard for me to look sometimes… at what I shouldn't call… but do… 'the minions'… To not see that look I will take some time… I will drop my eyes… to not see that look on their faces… though Alice explained it… that look so pleased… to be of service… that look so self-satisfied… or absent… because we are made to serve a Bigger Thing… I don't want to see… that they've exchanged the grim paternal visage… for Eternity… One of the key reasons I wrote Waking Up: Freeing Ourselves From Work… The work of our time is for all of us to begin to distinguish ourselves from 'the system,' so we can begin to be people again…” (I was referring to the Mayans I quoted at the beginning of chapter II [“The Two Winds:] who said they were people… not 'workers'… I didn't know about Karl Popper. Once I'd read The Open Society The work of our time is for all of us to begin to distinguish ourselves from 'the system,' so we can begin to be people again…” (I was referring to the Mayans I quoted at the beginning of chapter II [“The Two Winds:] who said they were people… not 'workers'…and Its Enemies: the Spell of Plato I had a more powerful term – more powerful because it captured more explanation… even more truth… in it: The Tribe of Plato. In a conversation my son and I had this morning we were thinking about the implications of a condition of chronic fear being imposed on us by a Tiny Few damaged folk – the global-state statesmen: they manufacture insecurity as the broad… general… inescapable… condition for our lives… and treat us as experimental subjects in a vast social experiment… establish variables within it… and then watch us to study our reactions to what they do. Because we are 'figuring-out-beings-par-excellence' (we're problem-solvers… we're not meant to be stuck ad infinitum in a problem – as Prince says in Gold: “There's an ocean of despair… There are people livin' there… They're unhappy each and every day… But hell is not fashion so what you tryin' 2 say?…” – Truly. What are these people who set this mess up trying to say? Prince's work is packed with so much thought that needs to be discussed… that will help us disconnect from their repetition compulsion…) Because we are 'figuring-out-beings-par-excellence'… what has been key to their domination has been 'keeping us busy'… keeping us jumping so fast that we don't have time (our own lives) to think.… Whatever other factors may have been involved in this story… one thing I think is clear: that baby had no fear. But what when the threat is not known?… when something is behaving un-naturally?… as… for the infant… with a parent that is indifferent to its distress… and in fact causes it… or forces the baby to disown its own feelings… The state – and now it is a global-state… a global-system-of-'class'… – wants us to have fear as infants… so that we will eventually have fear of it… It's what they trade in… it's their currency: “Here… take the fear… or I'm gonna worry about you…” (to paraphrase that line in the film Bound that I like so much… and use so often…) It is this unwanted… imposed… load of fear that explains why it takes so long for us to find our true voices… speak in an authentic tongue… We're taught the language of fear as infants… taught to wait for permission… to listen for the voice of Authority to tell us what exists… what's 'legitimate'… Training in obedience as infants literally seizes (freezes… paralyzes…) our bodies. Prince is the 'body-worker' we've been waiting for…

 

[“170108powerinterceptsnikolatesla_2.mp3”:]

 

Margaret Cheney's Tesla: Man Out Of Time: “Tesla, believing that Marconi had infringed his patents, wanted to sue him.… Of all the people who had read Tesla's article in Century magazine and been impressed by the boldness of his vision, one fitted the inventor's requirements perfectly: J. Pierpont Morgan. The two met for a talk about the world system. Tesla instinctively was less forthcoming than he had been with Westinghouse: no need to distract the financier with too much technical information. Instead, he dilated on themes of money and power. He described to Morgan the plan for all wavelength channels to be broadcast from a single station. Thus the financier would have a complete monopoly of radio broadcasting. Where others in the field were thinking only in limited terms of point-to-point transmissions, as in ship-to-shore and transoceanic wireless, Tesla was talking about broadcasting to the entire world. Morgan was interested.… He made no mention to Morgan of the wireless transmission of power, not because he had given up the idea, but for the prudent reason that it would have made some of the banker's existing investments obsolete.” The way Nikola Tesla is received in a system premised on controlling (commanding) human energy… i.e.… in a system in which human energy is not free… should be sufficient… once we discuss it… to 'prove'… that the evolution of humanity itself depends on our 'loving ourselves' – putting ourselves first… refusing to put ourselves on the market… and being willing to work to achieve the needed intermediary steps: the Global General Strike… and our global discussions… To set these discussions up for success… we must prepare ourselves for 'power's preemptive strike on ideas it's threatened by… So how do our 'system-dissolving' ideas not get absorbed before they have a chance to do their work?… and what makes them 'system-dissolving'?

 

[“170108thefightforeros_3.mp3”:]

 

Herbert Marcuse: “To the degree to which organized labor operates in defense of the status quo, and to the degree to which the share of labor in the material process of production declines, intellectual skills and capabilities become social and political factors. Today, the organized refusal to cooperate of the scientists, mathematicians, technicians, industrial psychologists and public opinion pollsters may well accomplish what a strike, even a large-scale strike…” [Marcuse was writing in the 1960s… two decades before our Good Three's careful analysis which faced the reality of a global system of 'power'… as well as the new circumstance of instantaneous global communication – all to say Prince is dead on it:…“next time we march All is what we're marching for…” said Prince… striking for All is a different animal than all heretofore known 'strikes'… – P.S.] “…in the administered society, the biological necessity does not immediately issue in action; organization demands counter-organization. Today the fight for life, the fight for Eros, is the political fight…” and our Good Three's (Terence K. Hopkins… Giovanni Arrighi… and Immanuel Wallerstein) analysis in Antisystemic Movements lend support to Marcuse's conclusion that unity is key across the false divisions of 'class' – it tells us that a global movement to establish global Freedom must by-pass the interstate system… We have the benefit of their insight and analysis… what more then is needed? For one thing: knowledge of Nikola Tesla and discussion of the implications of the theft of his inventions and discoveries – his inventions and discoveries that have to do with electromagnetic force (EMF) – for our ability to mobilize on a global scale… The fear of the global-state-statesmen… that the story of how they suppressed and used the EMF inventions of Nikola Tesla… their fear that this hidden history will be broadly exposed and discussed is for multiple reasons… it shows the utter contempt with which it treats our most creative (and of course all of us… all life…) 'proving' that 'power' sees our creative gifts as its to dispose of as it wishes… that by its calculus… we exist but to be put to use by 'it'… to serve its (not global humanity's…) narrow self-interest… its 'power'-lust ambition… and that for us to have any chance at all of using our gifts to the full we must insist on the end of 'power'… the end of coercion… discuss where it exists… picture our future without it… and push for it hard until we own it… all… all of our suppressed gifts from the earth and the ancestors and each other… But not least of the reasons they fear this exposure is that it puts us all globally on the same side… across all the false divisions… In particular the global-'power'-guys fear that those who possess the needed technology for us to get free… literally almost over-night… will re-conceive their allegiance… re-orient their moral compass to the magnetic pull of Love… and help sweep… as fast as we can all make it happen… the ignoble purposes of the global-state into the dust-bin of our story as humans bent on freedom and unification… globally…

 

[“170108toseedisruptionseetheshadowstate_4.mp3”:]

 

This fear of the global-statesmen has been telegraphed repeatedly… in the months before and after their installation of Trump (who it seems they may soon excusing from the classroom…) in its preferred print-propaganda-placement device… The New York Times… a good example appeared just yesterday… “a new era in the tech business… a new superclass of American corporate might ('Devil, devil what u know?… U been here since 1914, but now u got 2 go… U been hidin' behind corporate eyes… Devil, u got 2 go…') In the United States, Europe, Asia and South America, the Five find themselves increasingly arrayed against legal and regulatory powers, and often even against popular will…” [And here we have the secondary purpose of the piece (after the establishment of 'the state' as 'hero'): to try to create what they claim already exists: antipathy in 'the people' toward those who own the technology we need to get free – they will beat this poor horse all the way home… As if this process has not been driven by the global-state-statesmen and their obsession with Total Surveillance… to see the real source of the disruption of our lives… see the burying of Nikola Tesla… see 40 million dead in Europe alone due to World War II because of it… as well as the manipulation of the weather by pumping metal particulates into the atmosphere… see the silent slaughter also with EMF using Nikola's stolen weapon… see our living in hardship… fear… and insecurity… see the 'power'-guys… see the global-state-statesmen…]

 

[“170108letsproblemsolvefreeingnikolaandus_5.mp3”:]

 

Propaganda tells us what exists over and above our own experience… which… in my case… working in the trades… is that… when we have direct experience of each other all the lies we've been told about 'the other' fade – “Every time I watch the other people news… I c a false picture of myself, another one of u…” (“The Work Pt. 1”, The Rainbow Children) – and as Prince also said… the state sows divisions between us – and I've learned quite deliberately… with agents – in order to stay in charge of us (and in “Million $ Show” [from Hit n Run Phaze One (2015)… one of the Prince songs posted for this show…] Prince reminds us… for when we're rockin' in our freedom with his music… that it is the haters (the 'power'-guys and their 'paid-to-undermine-guys'…) who will be doing the complaining – there are strategic implications to this which I hope will be discussed. To see 'power' and 'power's minions… look who's sowing divisions… or telling us ad infinitum how wide 'the divide' is growing between you and I: between 'we-the-people' and the Tech-folks… between 'we-the-people' and the police… between 'we-the-people' and the 'One-Percent-ers'… or that 'the corporations' or 'the politicians' are to blame… sitting in their corporate board rooms or isolated nooks… they 'just don't get' how hard it is for we 'common folk'… trying to pay the rent with rising food prices… and then… within the 'we-the-people' sub-groups the state places us in: between the 'racial boxes'… between 'skilled' and 'unskilled'… gay and straight… women and men… But who is it who wants to stop us from coming together globally and self-developing our gifts? – that's the question to ask. Nikola wanted unity and freedom for all of us… Nikola wanted global unity… and a few of those 'tech titans' do too… So we need to expose the hidden hand that smashed Nikola Tesla… stole his inventions… and uses them to sit atop all of us: corporate titans not on the 'in'… 'stars' of stage and screen… 'celebrities' who know about this weapon… have seen friends be made ill and drop… or just drop… but are controlled by the need to protect the ones they love… We are a 'problem-solving species'… let's 'problem-solve' this…

 

[“170108themostimportantmissioninhistory_6.mp3”:]

 

But also critically needed is our: understanding of the hidden abusiveness of the 'class'-system… an understanding provided by Alice Miller and Prince… in their emphasis on the importance of resurrecting suppressed spontaneous feelings… a suppression which led to the arrest of thought (and I hope it's clear that when we're talking about the resurrection of spontaneous feelings we're talking about reclaiming the body… because it's hard to love what ain't yours… when you reclaim your own body… you don't want it used by anyone but yourself… and you see that getting our freedom is something that we can only do together…) a suppression which led to the arrest of thought: we start repeating what we're told… regurgitating the given thoughts of the state… and in so doing we lose our earth-given-gift of empathy – that is to say… the pressing need for us to be “made whole in Love…”: “God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment [when 'power' tests us… – P.S.] He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.” (John 1, 4: 16 – 21) Prince's mission is Alice's mission: to get us 'un-stuck'… thaw our frozen feelings… get us out of our 'heads' – i.e.… 'power's conditioned mindset (which inspires suppressed rage and instills paralyzing fear…) Thanks to Alice we can see the cringing child beneath the dress of Authority (the totalitarian parent…) the Fascists who stand behind the goal of 'Perfect Reason'… …but what stands behind us… and our goal of perfect love in perfect freedom… that will help provide to us… the needed confidence? Their EMF-assault tactic is 'designed' to do many things: to murder in the guise of 'disease'… to punish and 'correct' 'disobedience'… to impose physical and psychic isolation… but a key potential effect that I believe is intended is to make the victim more like the assailant… i.e.… bitter… heartless… to cause the target to no longer believe in love… They were never able to achieve this with Prince… Over and over despite his own torture he wrote: “Wherever U go, whatever U do… Ooh please, remember that I'll always be there 4 U… U don't have 2 call, U don't have 2 say… Just think about me and I'll be on my way…” This man is so interesting because he arrived with the most important mission in history… It's so humbling to discover this man… humbling… humiliating… embarrassing… and… angering… This is the man they want to literally turn into a cartoon character… this man so formidable who is for us to hold onto – we 'strays of the world' who are here to end this foul 'system' of 'class' – for us… in our darkest moments… to know we're not alone: this man they are trying to utterly diminish and rob us of…

 

[“170108theglobalsystemispremisedontheft_7.mp3”:]

 

[Proudhon is identifying… itemizing… all the ways a system of 'class' commits robbery. Point being… as our bodies tell us daily… a 'class'-system is premised on theft… which means it's destined for death. It's time for us to take our bodies back. What we have to have to do this… is certainty… 'certainty' that we must have the full width and breadth of our gifts… back… in our sole possession… – P.S.]: “We rob, – (thirteen). By farm-rent, house-rent, and leases of all kinds… We rob, – (fourteen). By commerce, when the profit of the merchant exceeds his legitimate salary… We rob, – (fifteen). By making profit on our product, by accepting sinecures, [“positions requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit…”] and by exacting exorbitant wages… The farmer, who sells a certain amount of corn to the consumer, and who during the measurement thrusts his hand into the bushel and takes out a handful of grains, robs; the professor, whose lectures are paid for by the State, and who through the intervention of a bookseller sells them to the public a second time, robs; the sinecurist, who receives an enormous product in exchange for his vanity, robs; the functionary, the laborer, whatever he may be, who produces only one and gets paid four, one hundred, or one thousand, robs; the publisher of this book, and I, its author, – we rob, by charging for it twice as much as it is worth…” The farmer, who sells a certain amount of corn to the consumer, and who during the measurement thrusts his hand into the bushel and takes out a handful of grains, robs; the professor, whose lectures are paid for by the State, and who through the intervention of a bookseller sells them to the public a second time, robs; the sinecurist, who receives an enormous product in exchange for his vanity, robs; the functionary, the laborer, whatever he may be, who produces only one and gets paid four, one hundred, or one thousand, robs; the publisher of this book, and I, its author, – we rob, by charging for it twice as much as it is worth. [I.e… as many have said since… if not half so eloquently… “we didn't make this mess… OK?…” – P.S.]

 

[“170108letssettherecordstraight4ever_8.mp3”:]

 

“In recapitulation: – Justice, after passing through the state of negative communism, called by the ancient poets the age of gold, commences as the right of the strongest. In a society which is trying to organize itself, inequality of faculties calls up the idea of merit; equite suggests the plan of proportioning not only esteem, but also material comforts, to personal merit; and since the highest and almost the only merit then recognized is physical strength, the strongest [i.e.… based on the given premise… – P.S.], and consequently the best [ditto], is entitled to the largest share; and if it is refused him, he very naturally takes it by force. From this to the assumption of the right of property in all things, it is but one step… [So – Proudhon has done it… explained to us how it is that the Plato's Tribesmen… the global-state statesmen… can so stretch their imaginations as to think that in robbery… murder… torture… genocide… there exists 'glory'… or anything but bottomless soullessness… – P.S.] Such was justice in the heroic age, preserved, at least by tradition, among the Greeks and Romans down to the last days of their republics. Plato, in the “Gorgias,” introduces a character named Callicles, who spiritedly defends the right of the strongest, which Socrates, the advocate of equality, seriously refutes.” [Popper discusses this question within the context of what he terms “the protectionist view of the state”… which Popper saw as a goal to steadily work towards… but is a notion that Kropotkin and Proudhon have handily debunked… and which Nikola Tesla's gifts have rendered moot – along with all the subsequent technology invented that is useful for establishing the individual self-sufficiency of each as the basis of our global society – this being the political implication of one of Prince's conclusions at the end of The Rainbow Children: that we must… once healed from the brutalization of 'class'… turn to… attend to… be led by… the kingdom deep within… an 'order' that comes from tuning our various instruments to the key of love… this… Prince believed in… the power of love always guiding us… as that inner voice we're made too busy to hear… but it cannot guide unless each individual is free. I am so angry at all the lies they're hoping to sink Prince in… bombard him with as they bombarded him with EMF. Establishing his truth – the truth – means winning our freedom… I believe this… but I also want it established in and of itself: what they did to him. I want to see the record set straight… 4Ever… Prince's song “4Ever” from his CD Lotusflow3r (2009) is our outro song…

 

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Prince Songs For Our January 8, 2017 Show:

 

[“18 Gold.mp3”:]

 

“Gold” by Prince: “There's a mountain & it's mighty high… You cannot see the top unless you fly… And there's a molehill of proven ground… There ain't no where 2 go if you hang around… Everybody wants 2 sell what's already been sold… Everybody wants 2 tell what's already been told… What's the use of money if you ain't gonna break the mold?… Even at the center of fire there is cold… All that glitters ain't gold… All that glitters ain't gold, mmm… There's an ocean of despair… There are people livin' there… They're unhappy each and every day… But hell is not fashion so what you tryin' 2 say?… Everybody wants 2 sell what's already been sold… Everybody wants 2 tell what's already been told… What's the use of money if you ain't gonna break the mold?… Even at the center of fire there is cold… All that glitters ain't gold, no no… All that glitters ain't gold, no no… There's a lady, 99 years old… If she led a good life, heaven takes her soul… Now that's a theory and if you don't wanna know… Step aside and make a way 4 those who want 2 go… Everybody wants 2 sell what's already been sold (Sold)… Everybody wants 2 tell what's already been told (Told)… What's the use of bein' young if you ain't gonna get old? (Old)… Even at the center of fire there is cold (Cold)… All that glitters (glitters) ain't gold, no no no no no… All that glitters ain't gold… Alright… All that glitters, all that glitters, all that glitters… ain't gold… Na na na na na na na (Gold [x4])… Na na na na na na na (Gold [x4])… Gold, gold, gold… All that glitters ain't gold, gold, gold… All that glitters ain't gold, gold, gold (Na na na na na na na)… [repeat]… You are now an official member of the New Power Generation… Welcome 2 The Dawn… All that glitters ain't gold (Gold) [repeat & loop]…” [Prince, “Gold”, The Gold Experience, 1995]

 

[“01 The Truth.mp3”:]

 

“The Truth” by Prince: “What if half the things ever said… Turned out 2 be a lie… How will U know the Truth?… If U were given all the answers… And U stopped 2 wonder why… But how will U know the Truth?… Everybody's got a right to love… Everybody's got a right to lie… But the choice U make ain't no piece of cake… It ain't no MF piece of pie… [clock ticks]… What If time's only reason?… Was to give us all somethin' 2 fear?… And if so y'all, the end of the journey's so clear… Questionaire, What did U stand 4?… Questionaire, Who did U save?… When it gets right down to-wait a minute… When it gets right down to the nitty of the gritty… When it gets right down to it did U take more than U gave… Everybody got a right to love… Everybody got a right to lie… But the choice U make aint no piece of cake… It ain't no MFMF [O(+> screams the following] piece of pie… [computer blips]… Mmmm oh… Gotta (Gonna?) tell the truth y'all… Gotta tell the truth… Gotta tell the truth y'all… Gotta tell the truth… Gotta tell the truth y'all… Gotta tell the truth… If there was just one day… That everybody tell the truth… We'd all trade bank accounts & move back to Neptune…” [Prince, “The Truth”, The Truth, 1998]

 

[“14 The One.mp3”:]

 

“The One” by Prince: “Mr. Mike Phillips. Just for me… the sexy people just… snap your fingers… oo… if you're looking for a man who'll walk away from responsibility… I ain't the one… if you're looking for a brother that'll treat you like anything but a natural queen… I ain't the one… if you're looking for a man that'll sweep you off your tired… weary feet… take you anywhere you want to go baby… buy you anything you want to eat… make love to you child… each and every day of the week… look no further… I am the one… O yes… O yes… O yes… Somebody clap your hands tonight… Let me talk… Listen… If you're looking for a man… take his money and keep it all to himself… I ain't the one… No… If you're looking for a man who will have twenty women and confuse it with his wealth… I ain't the one… O no… If you're looking for a man… Who'll share with the mirror… buy you half the town… treat your every little step baby… like you were walking on holy ground… Look no further… Yeah… Yeah… I am the one… Mr. Maceo Parker show your love to London… Yeah… Respect… Ladies and Gentlemen… Renato Neto…” [Prince, “The One”, Indigo Nights, 2007]

 

[“08 Ol' Skool Company.mp3”:]

 

“Ol' Skool Company” by Prince: “Oo… this is my song… [Chorus]… Every once in awhile… U need some ol' skool company… Somebody that appreciates a sexy groove… And a old school melody… When god his son and the love of family… Ruled in the community… The songs you sing… Lift you up 2 heaven… A heaven we can believe in… Everybody's talkin' about hard times… Like it just started yesterday… People eye know they've been strugglin'… At least it seems that way… Fat cats on wall street… They got a bailout… While somebody else got 2 wait… 700 billion but my old neighborhood… Ain't nothing changed but the date… [Chorus]… Ain't nothing ever come from complaining… Xcept a bitter heart, that's true… Follow along and you gon wanna do… Something b4 the next chorus is thru… The songs we sing… They used 2 mean somethin… Now every other one is just mean… Rather than reminisce eye'm telling you this… It's time 4 a brand new scene… [Chorus]… Everybody's sinkin' in the quicksand… Created by the keeper of time… Cast aside by using ancient tricks… That changes ur state of mind… They got you catering the whims of the flesh… B4 you get ur paper right… Call me old fashioned… But back in the day… There wasn't no shorties in sight… 1st come job then come marriage b4 shorty… Come out with the baby carriage call me… Old fashioned just clap yo hands just clap yo hands… Radio used 2 b local untouched by the man… Songs we used 2 sing used 2 mean something… Now they just bland like the drummer… Where's the real drummer? michael b.… Mint condition, morris day… Jellybean wishin' sheila e and brother john, sometimes me… 'til dawn… If the white house is black… We gotta take the radio back… Power 2 the people… Power 2 the people… Put this thing on repeat go back 2 one… And just move ur feet tell ur friends prince and… The mplsound we can't be beat…” [Prince, “Ol' Skool Company”, Mplsound, 2009]

 

[“09 Like A Mack.mp3”:]

 

“Like A Mack” by Prince: “That’s why I never let a man pick out my clothes… [Prince:]… Roll up in the town early afternoon (hey hey hey)… Looking for the pimp dress make you swoon (hey hey hey)… Found a little number and a fancy brassiere (hey hey hey)… Lookin' like a mack all up in here (lookin' like a mack all up in here)… [Chorus -Prince:]… sho black posse and the girls are hot… Pick one come and show me what you got… Everything or nothing if you want a lot of what's cookin'… She's lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin' like a mack, like a mack… [Curly Fryz:]… Whatcha lookin' at me? Oh!… Stead of lookin' like who? Whoa!… Drop it down then I pick it up slow… We run the town, city, states and the globe… Tryin' holla, I’m like, “What? No!”… Plus he lookin' like eww, gross!… I’m on the wave can you keep up with my flow… My music bang, you can feel it in your soul… And I rolled up in the town early afternoon… On the block lookin' hot like it's early June… At the top shinin' bright something like the moon… Can you picture us with my lyrics bumpin' my cartoons… With my ace cuz we're queens so we never get carded… Kill the scene then we leave call it “dearly departed”… Tryin' to dip but we can't cuz we came bombarded… You already know we coming the hardest… [Chorus - Curly Fryz:]… Cam light flashing and my click is hot… Pick one come and show me what you got… Everything or nothing if you want a lot of what's cookin… Cuz she lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', ow… [Prince:] Look at little Willy walking down this way… Only bring a blonde on a good day… Not another autograph, cue the DJ… Everybody dance when I say… Pro black fashion and the girls are hot… Dancin' with each other cuz the boys are not… Tryin' to trade numbers for the drinks they bought… But, whatcha supposed to think in a club full of thots… [Chorus - Prince:]… Pro black fashion and the girls are hot… Pick one, come and show me what you got… Everything or nothing if you wanna lot of what's cookin'… Cuz she lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', like a mack… [Curly Fryz:]… Here’s my crew dressed in all black like we mobbin'… Pockets got the mumps so you know we never starvin'… Noddin' and bobbin' our heads to the beat… You see how we rockin' shows, go and get up out your seats… Life is like a movie when we step up on the stage… I got fifty different styles that I got up on display… We gon' make the party jump so you know we're here to stay… Stackin' paper up while y'all on the same page, come on… [Chorus - Curly Fryz:]… Cam light flashin’ ‘and my click is hot (hey)… Pick one come and show me what you got (come on)… Everything or nothing if you wanna lot of what’s cookin’… Cuz she lookin’, lookin’, lookin’, lookin’, lookin’, ow… [Prince:]… Tryin' to trade numbers for the drinks they bought (hey hey hey)… Drinks they bought, dri-drinks they bought (hey hey hey)… whatcha tryin' to think in a club full of thots… Hey hey hey, hey hey hey… Club full of thots… club full of thots… Club… Hey hey hey, hey hey hey… She's lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', like a mack… Lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin'…” [Prince, “Like A Mack”, Hit n Run Phaze One, 2015]

 

[“07 Million $ Show.mp3”:]

 

“Million $ Show” by Prince: “Don't worry, I won't hurt you, I only want you to have some… Dearly Beloved… we are gathered here today to get through this thing called… 'Show'… [Chorus:]… Welcome To the Mill… Million $ Show… This is something that you never seen before… Welcome To the Mill… Million $ Show… This the kinda music make you lose control… [x2]… If you're ready come on let's go… You heard the news on the internet… About the tickets you got to get… Your favorite band comin' to your town… What was lost but now is found… Tell serena first come first serve… What we mean is who got the nerve… Standing outside people singing in line… Nothin's out the question when you outta your mind… [Chorus:]… Welcome To the Mill… Million $ Show… This is something that you never seen before… Welcome To the Mill… Million $ Show… This the kinda music make you lose control… Don't listen to the music… Sayin' fear the fro… You got the $ so you go, go, go… Miss it for the world - only be insane… They're coming thru the snow… The sleet or the rain… Oh the rain… the rain… the rain… Miss it for the world - only insane… [Chorus:]… Welcome To the Mill… Million $ Show… This is something that you never seen before… Welcome To the Mill… Million $ Show… This the kinda music make you lose control… [x2]… If you're ready come on let's go… Only the haters ever complain… Can't hear jack in the back of my plane… Turn the music up so they diss in vain… Turn the music up so they diss in vain… Turn the music up!…” [Prince, “Million $ Show”, Hit n Run Phaze One, 2015]

 

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Our January 1, 2017 Show… Our “Bill Gates' Raids UC-System Coffers to Sink Nikola Tesla” Show:

 

[“170101stationarywavesmeansenergyforall_1.mp3”:]

 

How is it that those who are determined to 'rule' us can commit heinous acts and feel triumphant?… find 'glory' in putting their proprietary mark on something they didn't make… and in fact stole… how it is that those who violate the implied social contract of equality and good fellowship which we all arrive on this earth with… how could they violate it at every step along their journey through life… and nonetheless perceive themselves as 'the best'? Nothing excites this discussion – the fact that these guys just take what they want and perceive themselves as 'superior' for being the most duplicitous – more than the theft and suppression of Nikola Tesla's inventions This false-dealing with Nikola came up for me majorly this week when I read a piece in the New York Times of December 13, 2016 that should have been titled “Gates Takes the Initiative to Bury Nikola Tesla”… but instead was called: “Bill Gates Leads New Fund as Fears of U.S. Retreat on Climate Grow”: “[Bill] Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, announced on Monday the start of a fund [Breakthrough Energy Ventures] to invest in transformative energy research and development to reduce the emissions that cause climate change. The work would supplement and build on basic research already underway at government labs…” In Shakespeare's day there was a game called 'Bowls'… I don't know how it was played… but it involved a bowl in which a ball was spun… running along whatever bias was given it… This is a good metaphor for all of us under class… 'Power' gets our parents to 'bias' our 'selves' in the directions that serve it… while disappearing from our attention and access huge realms of our native inclinations… Well… 'power's plans for these students present a small example of this: 'power' intends for those who arrive with a lively interest in the completely fresh and original… and once-in-a-millennia-man… Nikola Tesla… to 'forget'… dismiss… dis-incline their interest away from… Nikola… and towards… “basic research already underway…” by which phrase they do not mean “research underway built on the stolen inventions of Nikola Tesla… harbored in the hidden labs of the shadow-global-state…” Nikola: “While I have not as yet actually effected a transmission of a considerable amount of energy such as would be of industrial importance, to a great distance by this method,” he would write on returning East, “I have operated several model plants under exactly the same conditions which will exist in a large plant of this kind, and the practicability of the system is thoroughly demonstrated.” His method in brief: “Here, according to his experimental results, a great electrical “south pole” was created with a stationary wave that rose and fell in unison with his transmissions from his “north pole” at Colorado Springs. Each time the wave receded, it was reenforced and sent back more powerfully than before to the antipode. Had the Earth been capable of perfect resonance, the results could have been catastrophic, but since it was not, the effect, he believed, was merely to make available at any point on the Earth energy that could be drawn off with a simple piece of equipment. This would include the elements of a radio tuning unit, a ground connection, and a metal rod the height of a house. Nothing more would be needed to absorb household electricity from the waves rushing back and forth between the electrical north and south poles.” [And… by the way… the New York Times of December 14, 2016 suggests that Mark Zuckerberg has not learned from the cautionary tale of Steve Jobs… or our discussion of the strategy of 'power' to place agents too close for targets to see… who then assist with the delivery of EMF till the target's hand loosens its grip on what 'power' covets…]

 

[“170101independentthoughtthecostofclass_2.mp3”:]

 

Proudhon explains the assumption of 'power' of its 'right' to take whatever it wants: “…since the highest and almost the only merit recognized [by the 'power'-guys… the global-state-statesmen… – P.S.] is physical strength, the strongest, and consequently the best, is entitled to the largest share; and if it is refused him, he very naturally takes it by force. From this to the assumption of the right of property in all things, it is but one step.” (Proudhon has their number… minus the critical contribution of Alice Miller to our understanding of the projection-compulsion and the repetition compulsion in the infant whose thought process and empathy has atrophied or has been stunted as a result of being forced to obey.) The mindset of 'rule' is the core control-technique of 'class'. It is defining of it… it is taught to all of us as legitimating ideology and… once embedded in institutions established to make it totalitarian – it reproduces itself 'automatically': it not only requires no thought from we-stuck-in-it to continue it… ad infinitum… but must actually destroy independent thought to exist.… And so the self-perceived 'best'– the Plato's Tribesmen… or the global-state statesmen – take what they want – our lives… our creations… our common earth – without any psychic discomfort… they never lose a night's sleep over it… But these slugs that drag their childhood baggage through and across our lives necessarily leave their trace of Hate… this Hate is what they force before our eyes and tell us that it is… “too bad so sad…” part of the 'human condition'… We can see… therefore… the 'power'-guys' intentions… aims… ambitions… though they stay hidden… through their acts… but first we have to see them…

 

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Letting these guys continue to do what they do guarantees our world will be continuously degraded… because this mindset can only be met (when we allow ourselves to stay stuck in it… stuck in the 'logic' of “corner-conquer-and-control…”) by more of it – it is totalitarian… and as… therefore… 'power' tends to aggregate within the 'system'… we would be feeding an already enormous 'Antipathy toward Life' problem… We have been encouraged to view the traces of their Dead-Weight-of-Hate that they drag through our lives and leave in their wake as 'Evil'… but Proudhon's term 'moral evil' is better… more honest and so more apt… it fits right into Alice's explanation… and she in his… Alice explains that the infant's thought-process is arrested when forced to be obedient… Proudhon explains that the thought-process is arrested when it cannot get past the 'mind-body-split' that is forced on it… which… is… as Alice says… the suppression of spontaneous feelings… a.k.a.… the death of life… which Prince came to address… (…and for our discussion of The Rainbow Children on December 25, 2016… and our on-going discussion of Prince's strategy for ending 'class'… I urge you to see Prince's film Graffiti Bridge …in it he is expressing his dilemma of having come with a mission – to bring the love… be 'Dr. Feel-Love' to show the way to happiness – and yet he himself is so sad… because he is being subjected to hidden assaults by the shadow-state: agents and EMF… anyone in his shoes understands his dilemma perfectly… but few wear them partially and none fully: he is a prophet… I think these lines of Shakespeare relate to this dilemma: “What comfort is for Claudio?…” “There's some in hope…” “It is a bitter deputy.…” “Not so, not so; his life is paralleled even with the stroke and line of his great justice. He doth with holy abstinence subdue that in himself which he spurs on his power to qualify in others. Were he mealed with that which he corrects, then were he tyrannous, but this being so, he's just.…” think we should call this question that Shakespeare is addressing 'Prince's Dilemma'… Hope comes to counsel Despair… but our Despair – facing the annihilation of Love itself… the Soul itself [expressed in Christopher Fry's line: “Affairs are now soul-size…”] is so massive it threatens to overwhelm Love… Should Love be honest about his situation?… How be honest and offer hope? How be honest and not be 'unjust' to the mammoth Need of his Brothers and Sisters? [and… by the way… Morris Day and the Time are coming to town in March… they will be at the BAL Theatre in San Leandro [which… no offense… is essentially Oakland…] on March 25, 2017. Get tickets at BALtheatre.com or call 510.614.1224)

 

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Once we see these guys we lose our fear of them. I wrote a song once for my grandchild Nanji – I've posted it with two other children's songs just below the excerpts from interviews with Prince [in the side-column…] on “The Rainbow Children” web page that I set up (you can find it above the current date on the 'Blog' page…) to hold the compilation of the individual tracks into a whole… with the accompanying text…) – the song goes: “When I put on my Superman-cape… and I go and look and see… I know… If I take a good look… and get up close… ain't nuthin' botherin' me… O No… Ain't nuthin' botherin' me…” Because of Alice… we've been able to get up close and take a good look at the 'power'-guys… Underneath the dress of Lady Liberty they sit cringing… hugging their malevolent schemes… the weapons they believe make them 'supreme'… and a soul-crushing load of hate from the abuse they suffered at the hands of their totalitarian mothers and fathers… As we pointed out in our August 23, 2015 Waking Up Radio show… what Plato's Tribesmen do to us exposes their own sufferings unerringly… as infants. For instance… their compulsive attempt to use what we love against us… just as their love for their parents was used against them: “Thus, the adult must instill obedience by the exercise of his power, this is done with a severe glance, a firm word, possibly by means of physical force (which curbs bad behavior although it is unable to produce good behavior) and by means of punishment… Since the child's affection can be gained by expressions of love, this same affection can be made use of to make him more amenable to discipline…” Children reared to be 'masters' by these methods do not believe in the power of love… of sourcing the Infinite… They believe in what has been shown to them: fear… force… coercion… manipulation… conquest of the spirit… Prince has come to provide the antidote for those of us willing to become… the Rainbow Children… On December 25th we discussed it… Our core psychic difficulty getting through this miasma of sadness called “the forced divisions of 'class'” – the normalized betrayal / violation of our inherent One-ness… the false impositions of hardship… the pretense that there are insufficient resources for all – is that we're all alone… The final chapter (fourteen) of “The Rainbow Children” is called “Last December”… which concludes with these lines: “We need 2 come 2gether… Come 2gether as ONE…”

 

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Margaret Cheney's Tesla: Man Out Of Time: “[Westinghouse] invited Tesla to ride with him on the train from New York to Pittsburgh in his private “palace car” to talk over the whole matter [of a loan of six thousand dollars to allow Tesla to demonstrate “the practicability of establishing telegraphic communication to any point on the globe “by the help of the machinery I have perfected.” On the trip Tesla explained that his plant would surpass in performance the Atlantic cable both in speed and in the ability to send many simultaneous messages. He proposed that Westinghouse retain ownership of any machinery he furnished and interest himself to a certain extent in the venture. But Westinghouse had learned his lesson in the hard world of finance. He suggested that Tesla explore financing among capitalists who were looking for opportunities to invest excess wealth…” [Once we are free – human energy no longer a commodity or subject to compulsion of any kind – we should probe this history more deeply. When this request to Westinghouse occurs Westinghouse already owns all of Nikola's AC patents (on which our electrical distribution system is based…) and it is two years after Nikola's jaw-dropping demonstration of robotics and wireless transmission of energy at the Paris Exposition… he has been in communication with statesmen… financiers… and industrialists about his 'perfected' 'world system of power transmission'… there is high security at his research facility… he has already contributed numerous articles about the wireless transmission of energy to journals on electricity… and… Margaret Cheney… writing [earlier in the book: p.117] about an appeal to Westinghouse in1898 says that: “[Nikola Tesla…] tried to interest Westinghouse in developing… a machine embodying the art of telegeodynamics, with which he claimed to have sent six miles through the Earth mechanical waves 'of much smaller amplitude than earthquake waves,' that lost little of their power with distance. They were not intended to transmit electrical energy but would enable messages to be carried anywhere in the world and received on a tiny pocket set. Such waves could travel without interference from weather. When pressed by reporters to describe his apparatus, he would say only that it was a cylinder of finest steel – suspended in midair by a type of energy which was old in principle but which had been amplified by a secret principle – combined with a stationary part. Powerful impulses impressed upon the floating cylinder would react on the stationary part and through it, on the Earth. Nothing was to be developed from this concept. All his life however, Tesla stuck by his guns as to the awesome potential of mechanical resonance…” – and of course DARPA's HAARP weapon is based in this now demonstrated potential… The secrecy with which the post-French Revolution global-statesmen operate… particularly when viewed against Nikola's openness and good relations with the Press of his day… suggests that not only would they covet Nikola's inventions for wireless control and power-transmission… but they would want to obtain them without Nikola's knowledge…]

 

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Pierre – Joseph Proudhon: “The heroic character of the robber is expressed in this line from Horace [around 65 B.C.… – P.S.], in reference to Achilles, – “My right is my lance and my buckler.” General de Broussard said, like Achilles: “I get wine, gold, and women with my lance and my buckler.” [This is 'power' – 'power' is 'power' is 'power'… creating the conditions such that: “Humanity must perforce prey on itself, like monsters of the deep.” (William Shakespeare…) – P.S.] We rob, – (eight). By cheating; (nine). By swindling; (ten). By abuse of trust; (eleven). By games and lotteries. This second species was encouraged by the laws of Lycurgus [9th century B.C. Spartan lawmaker], in order to sharpen the wits of the young… Under Louis XIII. and Louis XIV., it was not considered dishonorable to cheat at play. To do so was a part of the game; and many worthy people did not scruple to correct the caprice of Fortune by dexterous jugglery…”

 

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Proudhon: “We rob, – (twelve). By usury. This species of robbery, so odious and so severely punished since the publication of the Gospel, is the connecting link between forbidden and authorized robbery. Owing to its ambiguous nature, it has given rise to a multitude of contradictions in the laws and in morals, – contradictions which have been very cleverly turned to account by lawyers, financiers, and merchants. Thus the usurer, who lends on mortgage at ten, twelve, and fifteen percent., is heavily fined when detected; while the banker, who receives the same interest (not, it is true, upon a loan, but in the way of exchange or discount, – that is, of sale), is protected by royal privilege. But the distinction between the banker and the usurer is a purely nominal one. Like the usurer, who lends on property, real or personal, the banker lends on business paper; like the usurer, he takes his interest in advance; like the usurer, he can recover from the borrower if the property is destroyed (that is, if the note is not redeemed), – a circumstance which makes him a money-lender, not a money-seller. But the banker lends for a short time only, while the usurer's loan may be for one, two, three, or more years. Now, a difference in the duration of the loan, or the form of the act, does not alter the nature of the transaction. As for the capitalists who invest their money, either with the State or in commercial operations, at three, four, and five per cent., – that is, who lend on usury at a little lower rate than the bankers and usurers, – they are the flower of society, the cream of honesty! Moderation in robbery is the height of virtue!” (Our outro song from Prince… featuring Morris Day and the Time: “Release It” [from Graffiti Bridge (1990) film and CD…])

 

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Prince Songs For What was to be Our December 18, 2016 show which is now our Jan. 1, 2017 Show on “Bill Gates' Raids UC-System Coffers to Sink Nikola Tesla”:

 

For our December 25, 2016 show on Prince's The Rainbow Children, please visit the Prince “The Rainbow Children” page… [This in-progress page as a (regularly updated) pdf: The Rainbow Children, by Prince (pdf file).

 

[“14 Shy.mp3”:]

 

“Shy” by Prince: “After a month of just bein' alone he said, "I wonder what L.A.'s thinkin'"… Streets he roamed in search of a poem amongst the wild and drinkin'… When he sees cool dark skin in hot virgin white… The search was over at least 4 2night… When she co-signed and then told him she was… Shy - Cool dark skin in hot virgin white… Shy - Lips say won't but her body say might… Shy - Looks like we're gonna take the long way home 2night… Oh baby (Shy)… After a look much louder than words she said, "I passed my initiation… A friend of mine, he got killed and in retaliation… I shot the boy ("Pop! Pop!"), huh, twice in the head… No regrets, no sorrow - I'm goin' back 2morrow 2 make sure he's dead… Cuz if I don't, they'll call me a chicken, but U can call me…" Shy - Cool dark skin in hot virgin white… Shy - Lips say won't but her body say might… Shy - Looks like we're gonna take the long way home 2night… Shy… Shy - Lips say no but the body say might… Looks like we're gonna take the long way home… Looks like we're gonna take the long way home… Looks like we're gonna take the long way home 2night… The girl was rough, but he called her bluff… And he told her not 2 know was better… Fact or fiction he wondered… And that's when the rain and thunder got wetter… And at the top of the page he wrote… Shy - Cool dark skin in hot virgin white… Shy - Looks like we're gonna take the long way home 2night… Shy - Cool dark skin in hot virgin white… Shy - Lips say won't but her body say might… Shy - Looks like we're gonna take the long way home 2night… (Oh, say it now, yeah)… (Shy, shy!)… (Shy)… Ooh baby, don't U wanna be alone 2night?… Shy - Yeah (Oh yes)… Shy (Shy)… Shy - Looks like we're gonna take the long way home 2night…” [Prince, “Shy”, Gold Experience, 1995]

 

[“11 Comeback.mp3”:]

 

“Comeback” by Prince: “Walking up the stairs… Just the afternoon… Sweet wind blew… Not a moment 2 soon… (Hoo) I cry when I realized… That sweet wind was U… Spirits come and spirits go… Some stick around 4 the aftershow… Don't have 2 say I miss U (don't have 2 say I miss U)… Cause I think U already know… If U ever lose someone… Dear 2 U… Never say the words they're gone… They'll come back, yeah… They'll come back, yeah yeah… They'll come back… Tears go here… Tears go here… Tears go here… Tears go here…” [Prince, “Comeback”, The Truth, 1998]

 

[“01 P Control.mp3”:]

 

“P Control” by Prince: “Nuestra presentacion especial comenzara en breve… (Our special presentation will start shortly)… Pero antes un mensaje de nuestros auspiciadores… (But first a message from our sponsors)… Uh, yeah… Uh… Good mornin' ladies and gentlemen ("What hotel number is she in?")… Boys and motherfuckin' girls ("319, 319" "Cool")… This is your captain with no name speakin'… And I'm here 2 rock your world… With a tale that will soon be classic… About a woman U already know… No prostitute she, but the mayor of your brain… Pussy Control (Are U ready?)… Aaah, Pussy Control, oh… Aaah, Pussy Control, oh… Our story begins in a schoolyard… A little girl skipping rope with her friends… A tisket, a tasket, no lunch in her basket… Just school books 4 the fight she would be in… One day over this hoodie… She got beat 4 some clothes and her rep… With her chin up, she scolded "All y'all's molded… When I'm rich, on your neck I will step"… And step she did 2 the straight A's… Then college, the master degree… She hired the heifers that jumped her… And made everyone of them work 4 free?… No! Why?… So what if my sisters are triflin'?… They just don't know… She said "Mama didn't tell 'em what she told me… 'Girl, U need Pussy Control'" (Are U ready?)… Aaah, Pussy Control, oh… Aaah, Pussy Control, oh… [Verse 2] Pussy got bank in her pockets… Before she got dick in her drawers… If brother didn't have good and plenty of his own… In love Pussy never did fall… And this fool named Trick wanna stick her… Uh, talkin' more Schick than a Bic… 'Bout how he gonna make Pussy a star… If she come and sing a lick on his hit… Pussy said "Nigga, U crazy if U don't know… Every woman in the world ain't a freak… U can go platinum 4 times… Still couldn't make what I make in a week… So push up on somebody wanna hear that… Cuz this somebody here don't wanna know… Boy, U better act like U understand… When U roll with Pussy Control" (Are U ready?)… Aaah, Pussy Control, oh… Aaah, Pussy Control, oh… Breakdown… (Are U ready 4 the best Pussy U ever felt?) [x2]… With one more verse 2 the story… I need another piece of your ear… I wanna hip U all 2 the reason… I'm known as the player of the year… Cuz I met this girl named Pussy… At the Club International Balls… She was rollin' 4-deep… 3 sisters and a weepy-eyed white girl drivin' her haul… I pulled up right beside her… And my electric top went down… I said "Motherfucker, I know your reputation… And I'm astounded that U're here… I fear U're lonely and U want 2 know… A 12 o'clock straight up nigga… That don't give a shit that U're Pussy Control… Well I'm that nigga, at least I wanna be… But it's gonna be hard as hell… 2 keep my mind off a body… That would make every rich man… Want 2 sell, sell, sell (75, we need another.. 85, 85 here, sold!…) Can I tell U what I'm thinkin' that U already know?… U need a motherfucker that respects your name"… Now say it, Pussy Control (Are U ready?)… Aaah, Pussy Control, oh… Aaah, Pussy Control, oh… And the moral of this motherfucker is… Ladies, make 'em act like they know… U are, was, and always will be Pussy Control (Are U ready?)… Peace and be wild (Aaah, Pussy Control)… Say what, huh? (Oh)… Oh no, don't U think about callin' her a ho (Are U ready?)… U juvenile delinquent… Best sit your ass down… Talkin' about Pussy Control… Huh, can U dig it?… Aaah, Pussy Control (Are U ready?)… Oh (Are U ready?)… Aaah, Pussy Control (Are U ready?) Oh (Are U ready?)…” [Prince, “P Control”, Gold Experience, 1995]

 

[“08 Walk Don't Walk.mp3”:]

 

“Walk Don't Walk” by Prince: “Walk on their side of the street?… Don't walk where it feels the best?… Walk away from people u meet?… Don't talk 2 strangers… Unless they walk the way u want them 2?… Don't walk unless the others do?… I said walk, like u could use a ride?… Don't walk with a confident stride… Then people will walk over u… Don't talk until they tell u 2?… Don't talk if it's against the rules?… Just walk away and be a fool?… That's what they wantcha 2 do… Yeah, that's what they want u 2 do… Sha-la-la-la-la… Sha-la-la-la-la… Sha-la-la-la-la… Sha-la-la-la-la… Don't talk if it's against the rules?… Just walk away and be a fool?… That's what they wantcha 2 do… So u got 2 walk like u wanna make it!… Don't walk like u just can't take it… Go on and walk on any side you like!… Don't walk wherever they tell u 2 - psyche!… The sun will shine upon u one day… If u're always walkin' your way… The sun will shine upon u one day… If u're always walkin' your way… Sha-la-la-la-la… Sha-la-la-la-la… Sha-la-la-la-la… Sha-la-la-la-la… (tellin' me now, just walkin')… Said I'm walkin' on your side of the street (tellin' me now, just walkin')… I'm talkin' 2 the people I meet (tellin' me now, just walkin')… Alright… Walk - don't walk… Talk - don't talk… Walk - don't walk… Talk - don't talk… Walk - don't walk… Talk - don't talk…” [Prince, “Walk Don't Walk”, Diamonds and Pearls, 1991]

 

[“02 Sexuality.mp3”:]

 

“Sexuality” by Prince: “Stand up everybody, this is your life… Let me take u to another world, let me take u tonight… U don't need no money, u don't need no clothes… The Second Coming, anything goes… Sexuality is all u'll ever need… Sexuality - let your body be free… C'mon everybody, yeah, this is your life… I'm talking about a revolution we gotta organize… We don't need no segregation, we don't need no race… New age revelation, I think we got a case… I'm OK as long as u are here with me… Sexuality is all we ever need… Reproduction of a new breed - Leaders, Stand Up, Organize… Reproduction of a new breed - Leaders, Stand Up, Organize… Reproduction of a new breed - Leaders, Stand Up, Organize… Everybody… We live in a world overrun by tourists… Tourists - 89 flowers on their back… inventors of the Accu-jack… They look at life through a pocket camera… What? No flash again?… They're all a bunch of double drags who teach their kids that Love is bad… Half of the staff of their brain is on vacation… Mama, are u listening?… We need a new breed - Leaders, Stand Up, Organize… Don't let your children watch television until they know how to read… Or else all they'll know how to do is cuss, fight and breed… No child is bad from the beginning… they only imitate their atmosphere… If they're in the company of tourists, alcohol and US history… What's to be expected is 3 minus 3.… absolutely nothing… Stand Up, Organize… We need a new breed… Leaders, Stand Up, Organize… I wanna be in the new breed, Stand up, Organize… Sexuality is all I'll ever need… Sexuality, I'm gonna let my body be free… Sexuality is all I'll ever need… Sexuality, I'm gonna let my body be free… Sexuality…” [Prince, “Sexuality”, Controversy, 1981]

 

[“06 Breakfast Can Wait.mp3”:]

 

“Breakfast Can Wait” by Prince: “Hey baby, where you going?… No please don't rush off so soon… If you leave me like this… What I'm gonna do… [Chorus:] Finally my eyes are open… I dream about you all night long… The only thing that I've been hoping for… is before you to go to work babe, we get it on… I ain't tryin' to make you blush,… But I just wanted to tell ya, I think you're great… I know you're late, but I need another taste,… Breakfast can wait!… [Verse 1:] Grits and gravy, cheese eggs and jam… Can nobody cook it like you girl… No ma'am!… This here early morning, need something else on my plate… I think I want another bite of you… Breakfast can wait!… Breakfast can wait… You really put it on me… You shut it down last night… I thought the police was gonna come (last night)… Loud, yeah, cryin'… Yeah, I ain't tryin' to make you blush… I just think you're great… Ain't no need to rush,… Breakfast can wait… [Chorus:] Finally my eyes are open… I dream about you all night long… The only thing that I've been hoping for… is before you to go to work babe, we get it on… I ain't tryin' to make you blush,… But I just wanted to tell ya, I think you're great… I know you're late, but I need another taste,… Breakfast can wait!… [Verse 2:] Hotcakes smothered in honey… (wait a minute)… I'm gon' have to pass… Fresh cup of coffee, no, no… I'd rather have you in my glass… Only thing's that gonna sweeten my tongue… Only thing that's gonna last now… Is another bite of you babe… Breakfast can wait… [Chorus:] Finally my eyes are open… I dream about you all night long… The only thing that I've been hoping for… Is before you to go to work babe, we get it on… I ain't tryin' to make you blush,… But I just wanted to tell ya, I think you're great… I know you're late, but I need another taste,… Breakfast can wait!… Breakfast can wait!… [Verse 3:] Can't stop even if the ṗolice come… Breakfast can wait!… I got a double time, kick drum… Breakfast, breakfast… You can't leave a black man in this state… Breakfast can wait!… Oh no… Breakfast, breakfast can wait!… Come here baby, let me put you on my plate… Hey now… Breakfast can wait!… Better call your job yeah… Breakfast can wait!… Tell 'em you gon' be late… Breakfast can wait!… Yeah, yeah, yeah… Prince is in charge now… Nice one… Breakfast can wait!… Breakfast can wait!… Breakfast can wait!… You're the only thing I need… Breakfast can wait!… Sweetness in my tongue… Breakfast can wait!… Come here baby, let me show you where I'm from… Breakfast can wait!… Yeah… Breakfast can wait!… Oh, you know you might need to pray for me… You might need to come again… Breakfast can wait!… Oh yeah-yeah…” [Prince, “Breakfast Can Wait”, Art Official Age, 2014]

 

[“05 We March.mp3”:]

 

“We March” by Prince: “Uno para todos, y todos para uno [One 4 all and all 4 one]… March, we march… (Whoa) [x6 in BG]… March, we march… If this is the same avenue my ancestors fought 2 liberate… How come I can't buy a piece of it even if my credit's straight?… If all the water's dirty and I wanna lay the pipe, my dammy… The river that I drink from, will it be the same as your mammy?… Now's the time 2 find a rhyme (Yeah)… That's got a reason and frees the mind (Yeah)… From angry thoughts, the racist kind (Yeah)… If we all wanna a change then come on get in line… Next time we march (Whoa)… We're kickin' down the door… Next time we march (Whoa)… All is what we're marchin' 4… If this is the same sister that U cannot stop calling a bitch (Bitch)… It will be the same one that will leave your broke ass in a ditch (Ditch)… If U can't find a better reason 2 call this woman otherwise… Then don't cry, U made the bed in which U lie… Now's the time 2 find a rhyme (Yeah)… That's got a reason and frees the mind (Yeah)… From angry thoughts, the racist kind (Yeah)… If we all wanna a change then come on get in line… Next time we march (Whoa)… We're kickin' down the door… Next time we march (Whoa)… All is what we're marchin' 4… (Whoa) [x4 in BG]… March, we march (Come on)… March, we march… Yes we do!… Dig… Now we clarify 4ever, in other words as long as it takes… We ain't got no use 4 ice cream without the cake (Umm)… We ain't got no time 4 excuses, the promised land belongs 2 all… We can march in peace but U best watch your back if another leader falls… March, we march… [Feet stompin'!]… March, we march… He said it, she said it and I say… Now's the time (now's the time) 2 find a rhyme (Yeah)… That's got a reason (Yeah) and frees the mind (free your mind)… From angry thoughts, the racist kind (Yeah)… If we all wanna a change then come on get in line (Get in line!)… Next time we march (Whoa)… We're kickin' down the door… Next time we march (Hey yeah) (Whoa)… All is what were marchin' 4 (Whooaa)… Next time we march (Oh yeah) (Whoa)… Kickin' down the door… Next time we march (Hey yeah) (Whoa)… All is what were marchin' 4… The fun don't stop the bacon… That's when the money gonna stop the shakin'… I know that next time we march, yeah…” [Prince, “We March”, Gold Experience, 1995]

 

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Our December 11, 2016 Show:

 

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Here's a joke: the global-state wants us to believe that it – Totalitarian Central – can 'save us' from Fascism… – it even brings in an unknowing representative from Suppression Sub-Central – Station Russia – from the band Pussy Riot to 'warn us' about creeping totalitarianism… When we first considered the issue of the recruitment and duping of young people (in the Waking Up Radio of September 16, 2012: “Richard Aoki and The Abandonment of Children…”) we concluded that we have to provide an alternative story… (i.e.… the truth…) and discussion of the critical censored issues of our time: the primary one being: the theft of our lives… and the hidden Authority that accomplishes it: the shadow state… which creates hardship… makes the strings that bind us to it (the state…) and then puts in place elaborate ways to pull them… [For instance…] as the supposed 'inevitability' (presented as inherent in human nature…) or even 'beneficial' quality of 'violence' in 'human society'… is a key prop the 'power'-guys rely on to justify their existence… I'll mention a really offensive example of this one… No matter how often scholars like Proudhon… and Peter Kropotkin – whose lengthy study Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution arrives at the opposite conclusion – and Terence K. Hopkins… and Karl Popper – who show us that the 'history' the 'power'-guys glorify but tracks the depths to which their own soullessness will go… For instance… Popper wrote: “What people have in mind when they speak of the history of mankind is, rather, the history of the Egyptian, Babylonian, Persian, Macedonian, and Roman empires, and so on, down to our own day. In other words: They speak about the history of mankind, but what they mean, and what they have learned about in school, is the history of political power…. This is elevated into the history of the world. But this, I hold, is an offence against every decent conception of mankind. It is hardly better than to treat the history of embezzlement or of robbery or of poisoning as the history of mankind. For the history of power politics is nothing but the history of international crime and mass murder (including, it is true, some of the attempt to suppress them). This history is taught in schools, and some of the greatest criminals are extolled as its heroes… A third reason why power politics has been made the core of ‘history’ is that those in power wanted to be worshipped and could enforce their wishes. Many historians wrote under the supervision of the emperors, the generals and the dictators…To maintain that God reveals Himself in what is usually called ‘history’, in the history of international crime and of mass murder, is indeed blasphemy; for what really happens within the realm of human lives is hardly ever touched upon by this cruel and at the same time childish affair. The life of the forgotten, of the unknown individual man; his sorrows and his joys, his suffering and death, this is the real content of human experience down the ages… all the history which exists, our history of the Great and the Powerful, is at best a shallow comedy; it is the opera buffa played by the powers behind reality… It is what one of our worst instincts, the idolatrous worship of power, of success, has led us to believe to be real.” [And we are learning… thanks to folks like Karl Popper… how that is a conditioned belief on our part… by 'power' systematically eliminating all other stories for us to hear… – P.S.]” So… we should ask ourselves… are enough of us having these discussions with young people… encouraging them to think through the core suppressed issues of 'class'? – and are we providing the terms and concepts – the language – that would allow young people to do this?

 

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Prince was targeted because of the power of his words – words subject to… surrendered to… pulse… life… harmny… beat… We must never forget that it is only with words – words used to disconnect us from ourselves – that 'power' holds our (true) power in check… words… planted in our minds (freezing our thought-process…) using the stunted – unborn – love of parents. Last week we said that reclaiming the lexicon is reclaiming our thought-process… and that we can only reclaim our thought-process by possessing a new frame of reference… Prince was totally absorbed in this project… and… because of 'power's suppression of it… received no response from us… – his tireless efforts did not result in the discussions he hoped would occur. Prince… alone in his exhortation-unmet said that we must be 'ruled by naught but “love”' – a concept he equated with 'the source'… the 'Eternal'… He said this directly… he modeled what he meant… and he showed us how to overcome the structures of obedience that got in the way of it… got in the way of our living by it… living the dictates of 'love' – they speak through our bodies'… (…and his sense of urgency… I'm convinced… was a consequence of his being targeted with EMF (Prince could not delude himself about… or dillute the truth of… the Fascistic nature of the state…) – a fact to which he testifies in his music and lyrics with eloquence… once we know how and why this weapon exists… his documentation of its use on him is obvious… The recurring theme of death is all about this… Initially he thought that he was being assaulted for 'religious' reasons… due to his passionate advocacy of a 'body-loving-claiming' embrace of sexuality (and it is clear… I hope… how this is the opposite of the 'marketizing' [using to attain greater 'power' under 'class'…] – whether what one seeks is money or attention – 'marketizing' of one's sexuality…) – the creative principle rooted in the Eternal – on which all of us must draw to be vital living things… – attacks by the so-called 'Religious Right' [most notably Tipper Gore – Prince's response to her… by the way… was to appear naked on the cover of the album Lovesexy… – reinforced this notion…] By the time he was working on the album and film Graffiti Bridge… when he wrote “New Power Generation”… someone had pulled his coat [could it have been Miles Davis? I'd really like to know when Miles met with him…] pulled his coat about the nature of the weapon as the source of his chronic physical ill effects… if not about the reason for the assault… which I suspect he continued for a time to think was about his advocacy of the honest expression of one's sexual longing… I mean… he knew it wasn't about race because they killed Elvis… it's now easy to see – he has that line in “Face Down”… “Dead like Elvis”… so interesting for its wealth of meaning…) …when the 'power'-guys realized that he thought the assault on him was about his open expression of sexuality… they probably… I am suspecting – just like I saw them at one point trying to pull him into making this about 'race'… – a lot of folks encouraged him in that belief that the targeting of him was due to his openness about sexuality… And while they were definitely trying to pull him away from his explicit and free and loving expression of sexuality… the 'power'-guys realized they had much bigger problems with this man than that (of course their control is also about 'claiming the definitions'… and they figured out that they could claim that word 'sexuality' and just tie it into the commodification of it…): they were trying to pull him away from leading young people into taking back our world… So… they hoped to nullify his ability to do that with labels that would narrow his appeal: 'sexuality' was one box they hoped to lock him into… 'religion' – Jehovah's Witnesses – was another… 'race' was a third (get him to think it's about Black folk being targeted… as opposed to the fact that these 'power'-obsessed want to claim the world… human energy… and realize their global totalitarian vision… He figured that out in time… but it definitely takes time… and good folks contributing their piece of the puzzle… It takes time and we've got to expedite these discussion… Every single who's listening and has the ability to get these discussions going… emphasize the importance of an inter-disciplinary analysis in order to see from the vantage of the whole… And so we needed Alice Miller… and Martin Bernal… and Terence K. Hopkins… and Immanuel Wallerstein… and Giovanni Arrighi… and Karl Popper… Miklos Nyszli… and Nikola Tesla… for reasons we're exploring right now… A lot of people were critical… including Jeremy Bentham… even though he came from the opposite perspective he was honest… and it is honesty that is desperately needed in a world that is literally inundated by falseness: they have multiplied their numbers by recruiting and training young people with Plato – not their fault but this is the reality we got – we are going to have to drive these discussions forward and steal ourselves to not be pulled off track… because there's going to be a lot of false folks thrown in our path…

 

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So… Prince kept going… he held on to his love… despite the continuous double-assault… I am very grateful for his never censoring out any of his feelings… grateful that he somehow knew they must be documented… It's not easy getting hit with 'power's (presumed ace-in-the-hole) EMF weapons or its hidden agents… but he knew… as we must… that it is imperative now that we gain our freedom (and I'm not talking about the insertion of Trump into their political story… it has been urgent for two centuries… but… thanks to Nikola's inventions… we can finally… successfully… halt the 'power'-guys' relentless drive to install a global totalitarian regime…) it is imperative now that we gain our freedom… and there's no other path to it than through 'power's resistance… His life is a testament to the strength that comes when love and thought are united in trust… trust in the 'All-of-us'… the Eternal 'Come'… We parents can jumpstart the urgent need for all of us to think and love furiously right now (and always…) by playing and discussing the legacies of both Prince and Nikola Tesla… men who stood for the power of love-and-thought-united… Nikola's inventions mean there never was any need to charge us for energy… to charge us for water… to set us against each other in competition for supposedly scarce resources… His inventions mean we are meant to come together as One… to realize the potential of them (which Proudhon also suggests… with his discussion of the harmonizing 'tend' of all of our individual efforts… unimpeded… uncoerced…) – they mean Art… Love… Cooperativeness… can live unbent… that Excellence – Donny… John… Bob… Charles… Elvis… Otis… Prince – will not be stolen from us while the Massively Anti-Life Children of Abandonment – demanding of us an even more massive antidote of love to end their hate – while the Tiny Few pretend they are installing Excellence… Nikola's inventions are literally intended for us to use to achieve the freedom from Necessity needed to end 'power'… 4-Ever…

 

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Do we need further proof that we are in the transition to freedom… on the edge of… not the next 'world revolution'… but rather the first and last 'world evolution'… than that these 'power'-guys – the living dead – have seen fit to disinter their 'original' Bureaucratic Global-Statesman for inspiration: Louis Bonaparte (and I'm going to follow Marx's lead on this… he refused to call the man 'Napoleon' (III…) “…The uprising of February 1848 illuminated the hopes of a 'social republic,' a vague socialist utopia that would provide jobs to the unemployed and liberation to all those who suffered indignities and inequalities. Everyone put forward their claims: the 'artisans'… the peasants… the women… the slaves… (Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World-System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789 – 1914, p. 89) The response of the 'power'-guys… already gone into hiding… scheming… manipulating… plotting and planning behind scenes… was to let Louis take the lead… and he did… with his Society of December 10… a tactic 'power' liked very much… as it fit perfectly with their intent to create a hidden machinery of state (– we have to think this through because we're so used to thinking of 'the state' in terms which are not useful (rooted in reality…) in this moment when we are moving on to our freedom… This is a key moment when we have to see clearly… and so we have to talk about the hidden machinery of state such that the forefront theatre – which 'power' wanted to keep us busy with – ceases to exert a pull on our minds – ) wanted to keep us busy so that they would be free… these global-statesmen… the Plato's Tribesmen… free to do as they please – of course using our compliant… obedient energy to accomplish their schemes… realize the dream of their fathers… establishing Plato's Republic… Try to imagine as we think again about the Society of December 10 that it never went away… try to see that it is in the world around us today… They never let go of this strategy – although when Marx uses the term 'rascally fellows' think instead of those who need money: their duped children… students… older 'retired'-folk… the low-income… the formerly-incarcerated… This strategy is exactly what they've done in the Bay Area… – and 'power's use of this tactic is why the whole discussion of the 'fake news' red herring that they're putting out there to get folks upset because this supposedly dismantles an authentic political process… and that 'only the truth and nothing but the truth'… which is equated with 'the facts and nothing but the facts'… serves the 'power'-guys' purposes because they create those 'facts'… and if that is what 'the truth' is… we're sunk… right?… we'll never have access to reality… the true picture of what's going on in the world… For that… we have to see those guys who hide… So… imagine… if the scene Marx describes… was reported without Marx's peeling back the curtain and letting us see underneath… We would be told that there were "crowds of cheering folk at the train stations to greet Louis Bonaparte wherever he went… Hence… 'the people' are supporting Louis Bonaparte… He has the support of the people…" Well this is exactly what they do… they create the 'Trump supporters'… who show up at the rallies… etc. This tactic never went away… And so the newspapers then report 'what happened'… 'the facts'… "Look at all 'the supporters'…" – and make sure their journalists never have time to delve into what made 'the facts' 'happen' in the first place… Well Karl Marx knew better… These folks… in our case ten thousand global-guys… who take the comedy (Trump…) as comedy… are bound to win over we-the-people when we take it seriously… which… if all you have o gauge by is the newspapers… we are supposedly taking it seriously… – I don't think so… I think we're at a moment when the emperor has no clothes…

 

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We are given the comedy of Trump – literally a comedy this time as it was impossible to take the man seriously – but the ones who stand behind… hidden behind the curtain… no longer care that we see the comedy… see that the 'politics' they give us for entertainment… is indeed nothing but theater… How long will be pretend we are children? We have long since grown up… but we stay in our knickers… keep wearing our short-pants… Why? We've seen this play… over and over… we know 'power's game – it's so old – we have social media… we can type “One Day Global General Strike” – put it out to mull… stimulate thought… Why not? Must we wait for them to impose a Ryan… or whoever it is they line up next… why not start writing… singing… dancing… planning… our own world into being?… the world in our image… of love – not theirs of hate… So the first step: showing up for the One-Day Global General Strike and Party for Prince is easy compared to those that come next… because that first step cannot be undermined by agents… Let's figure out how to make the next ones likewise… to ensure that… as Prince says: “whatever we do… we keep it moving… we don't stop the groove…” There are some 'understandings' that are key… perhaps each one of us should keep a running-list and compare our notes while we dance to them… For instance: “the true machinery of state they keep hidden… the forefront is just duped Brothers and Sisters… we must not get stuck in anger at them…” “Anger… period… is non-productive…” and: “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's” ( St. Luke, 20: 25) “What is Caesar's [the state's…] and what belongs only to us? What is the state utterly incapable of? Love… Sharing… Art… What do they seek to destroy in us? Our unique love… sharing… art… So what is ours and never Caesar's… that which they cannot make and continuously seek to annihilate in us… Love… Sharing… Art… a.k.a… the song of Freedom spun through our hands and voices…” They have none themselves… and want none for us… Let them keep what they own… we want none of it – when they covet that which is dead… i.e.… non-generative of life… I think we should reply… “you are welcome to it… but leave life to us… and leave us for life…”

 

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Let them keep what they own… while we keep what is uniquely ours: that which they have not… and cannot do… the unique spontaneous free expression of feeling… that blossoms into gifts for all… Prince: “Uno para todos, y todos para uno [One 4 all and all 4 one]… March, we march… (Whoa)… March, we march… Now's the time 2 find a rhyme (Yeah)… That's got a reason and frees the mind (Yeah)… From angry thoughts, the racist kind (Yeah)… If we all wanna a change then come on get in line… Next time we march (Whoa)… We're kickin' down the door… Next time we march (Whoa)… All is what we're marchin' 4…” Kropotkin: "[Proudhon] favored an approach he called 'Mutuellisme'… Kropotkin: “Under such a system… all the exchanges of services would be strictly equivalent." Whatever we do for each other is equivalent… Our due is me and you… we get to have each other to draw on… to look to for support… for sustenance… Their analysis – the 'power'-guys' – in the aftermath of the French Revolution was correct… as far as it went: to exist they must stay hidden… But Nikola saw further… saw that once… with the aid of his inventions… we could think and speak with each other as One… their game would be up… They ran it once… they can't run it again… Now it's just a matter of time… and how many unnecessarily lost lives…

 

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Do we need further proof that we are in the transition to freedom… on the edge of… not the next 'world revolution'… but rather the first and last 'world evolution'… than that these 'power'-guys – the living dead – have seen fit to disinter their 'original' Bureaucratic Global-Statesman for inspiration: Louis Bonaparte… while simultaneously trying to resurrect the Cold War (“Our ['Five-Star-Fascist'] party,” says a member “…is not Russian-aligned or American-aligned…”) – is there any old 'dupe-the-children' play from their tattered playbook for suffocating our hopes for freedom… that they haven't resurrected to try to suppress us with in this moment?… we must see by this how close we are to getting free by the 'power'-guys frenzied reaction to our simultaneous efforts around the globe to achieve our freedom right now… which includes… this 'power'-reaction… their frenetic attempts to raise the hackles of our fear to porcupine levels (aimed at each other of course – they plan…): the 'Fake News Virus' has invaded Italy (I've been trying to figure out what the 'referendum' that supposedly means Fascism Is Rising In Italy actually said – no luck yet…) and now in Germany… because… we're told… Putin wants to “radicalize politics'… whatever that means… all to neutralize social media for our global organizing efforts… and (they intend) to keep us confused (and their academics busy…) for generations… while they (they hope) continue to 'rule'… and we (is their intent) cringe in fear and cut our eyes at each other as the source of our discontent… and bend our backs and beg not to be winnowed… promising 'power' we will be 'Totally Obedient'… why not rather give each other a single day – all together now… Prince crooning soothingly as we meet… or rocking us out into the streets – a single day to discuss an alternative… an alternative to the insanity of the bizarre notion of 'Rule'… of our remaining children so the Bully-State can continue to bully us… for no reason at all… but our fear-frozen-feelings… that will melt in an instant… in the heat of experiencing each other's love… – And – since we discussed it earlier – let's play it as our outro song from Prince: “Face Down!” [from the Emancipation CD (1996)…]

 

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Prince Songs For Our December 11, 2016 Show:

 

[“01 I No.mp3”:]

 

“I No” by Prince: “Rain is wet, and sugar is sweet… Clap your hands, and stomp your feet… Everybody, everybody knows… When love calls, U gotta go… Welcome 2 the New Power Generation… The reason my voice is so clear… Is there's no smack in my brain… Hundalasiliah… Ha na na-sha na na na na na na… I know there is a heaven, I know there is a hell… Listen 2 me people, I got a story to tell… I know there was confusion lightnin' all around me… That's when I called his name don't U know he found me… No! Is what Spooky Electric say, it is not OK… I know love is the only way till my dying day… No - til my dying day I'll be OK… Cuz Lovesexy is the one til my day is done… Hundalasiliah… I know there is a devil because he talks so loud… He makes U do things that your friends do, hang out with the crowd… But my Lord he is so quiet when He calls your name… When U hear it your heart will thunder… U will want 2 hear it every day… No! (people) Is what Spooky Electric say (everbody say)… But don't U know that I know… Love is the only way, til my dying day… No – Til my dying day I'll be OK… Cuz Lovesexy is the one til my day is done… Hundalasiliah… Alright y'all, everybody in the house (serve it up, Frankie)… Here's what I want U 2 do… Raise your hand up, straight in the air… Swing it 2 the right, savoir faire… Up on the 2, swing on the 4… Everybody on the dancefloor… Sha-ho, sha-ho, sha-ho, sha-ho… Sha-ho, sha-ho, sha-ho, sha-ho… Y'all ain't got it together… Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead… Raise your hand up, straight in the air… (let's get it up, let's get it up)… Yeah… Say no… (say no) No - if U can't find your way - everybody say… (say no) No – if U're afraid, everybody ain't got it made… (Say no) - if U want a drug other than the God above… No – if U need a drink every single day… Blow that devil away!… Say yes… Yes - if U want this feeling called love… (come on 'ya, say)… Yes - if U want it now raise your hand 2 the man above… (Yes) Up on the 2, swing right on the 4… We want everybody 2 open this door!… Say no - if U don't wanna live life under the gun… (I know) We know a better way 2 have some fun… (I know) I know - there is a heaven and a hell… I know there is a heaven and a hell… [song breaks down into a crowd noise…]” [Prince, “I No”, Lovesexy, 1988]

 

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“3 Chains O' Gold” by Prince: “If I don't think about the fact that she left me… If I don't see the pearls fall from the sky… If I don't hear the accusations of blasphemy… If I don't feel the tears in my eyes… This is the best day of my life… U say u'll call me and then and then u don't… I'll want 2 kiss u and then I won't… We both do nothing and call it love… Is this love?… Is this love?… This morning I wanted a cup of coffee… But I didn't have any cream… Last night I wanted some inspiration… But I didn't have any dreams… Coupled with the fact that u belong 2 another… Whose name is self-righteousness… So evil girl, if one of us has a date… With the undertaker, which one will it be?… U can cry 4 ever, but u'll get no sympathy… This is the best day of my life… I've got 3 chains o' gold… And they will shine 4 ever… They are the nucleus of my soul… Melt down, no, they will never… I've got 3 chains o' gold… And they will shine 4 ever… They are the nucleus of my soul… Melt down, no, they will never… Give back the chains - if you don't you will die… Nothing should come between you and I… I've got 3 chains o' gold… And they will shine 4 ever… If one of us has 2 go… U will go before me… If one of us has 2 go (3 chains o' gold…) U will go before me… (3 chains o' gold…) U will go before me, baby (they will shine 4 ever…) Cuz I sho 'nuff say u will… (3 chains o' gold) (u will go before me…) (u will go before me…) (u will go before me…) (u will go before me…) I've got 3 chains o' gold… They gonna shine… Forever, forever, forever… (3 chains o' gold…)…” [Prince, “3 Chains O' Gold”, Love Symbol, 1992]

 

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“Strays Of The World” by Prince: “Come now all ye strays of the world, there's a place 4 U… In Love's kingdom, boys and girls, all are welcome 2… Strays of the world, strays of the world… La la la la la… Surrender all ye sad of heart, 2day hold back no tears… The past is gone when we can start conquering our fears… Strays of the world, strays of the world… La la la la la… Strays of the world, strays of the world… All ye boys and girls, all around the world… Are welcome 2 come on in, come on in… Strays of the world, strays of the world… (Strays of the world…) Fear not all ye lonely ones, Love will find us soon… This will kiss the risin' sun and make love 2 the moon… Strays of the world (Come on, come on…) Come on, strays of the world (Come on, come on…) Come on in (Come on…) The door is open (Open up that door…) Hey yeah! (Hey yes, hey yes…) Let me hear U say "Yeah!" (Hey yes…) Let me hear U say "Yeah!" (Hey yes…) Strays of the whole world… Strays, strays, strays of the world… Come…” [Prince, “Strays Of The World”, Crystal Ball, 1998]

 

[“04 What's My Name.mp3”:]

 

“What's My Name” by Prince: “Take my name, I don't need it… Nothing stays the same anyway… Take my fame, I can't use it… My girlfriend calls me lame, the game was over yesterday… Tell me, what's my name?… Tell me, what's my name?… What's my name?… Take this bass, I can't play it… It only makes me wish 4 the way it used 2 be… U could slap my face, but I got 2 say it… U never would have drank my coffee if I had never served U cream… Now tell me, what's your name?… Tell me, what's your name?… What's your name?… What's your name?… Come on!… Do U dream in color or do U discriminate?… Do U love others, do U love or do U hate?… Do U worship fire or do U worship a dove?… Do U live a liar or do U live 4 love?… What's your name?… What's my name?… What's your name?……” [Prince, “What's My Name”, Crystal Ball, 1998]

 

[“02 Sweet Baby.mp3”:]

 

“Sweet Baby” by Prince: “Now don't u cry… Everybody gets their heart broke… Sweet baby, sometime… So he left u for another fool… Yes, a fool… 4 lovin' him from the start… Ask yourself what's more important… Him or the broken pieces of your heart sweet baby… Stand tall, (tall)… Sweet baby, (baby)… Don't u fall… U ain't the only one gettin' beat down… It happens 2 us all… The road u choose 2 walk in this life (the road u choose 2 walk in this life)… Is one that leads into the next… So sweet baby, stand tall (sweet baby, stand tall)… Stand tall (sweet baby)… Sweet baby, hold your tears back now… Better days gonna come your way soon, oh yeah sweet baby… Someway, somehow… (sweet baby)… Sweet baby… Walk faster, sweet baby… Don't let those bad boys catch u now… Those things that they will have u do… U been done known better, oh, and how… How can u sleep knowing that u and a fool… Sing in the same key… Walk faster sweet baby (walk faster)… Strive 2 be the very best that u can be (strive) (sweet baby)… Sweet baby… Oh, sweet baby… Sweet baby, hold your tears back now… Better days gonna come your way soon… Oh yeah, sweet baby, someway, somehow… (sweet baby)… Sweet baby… Better days gonna come your way, yeah… Sweet baby…” [Prince, “Sweet Baby”, Love Symbol, 1992]

 

[“11 Dear Mr. Man.mp3”:]

 

“Dear Mr. Man” by Prince: “What's wrong with the world 2day?… Things just got 2 get better… Show me what the leaders say… Maybe we should write a letter… Said Dear Mr. Man, we don't understand… Why poor people keep struggling but U don't lend a helping hand… Matthew 5:5 say "The meek shall inherit the earth"… We wanna b down that way… but U been trippin since the day of your birth… Who said that 2 kill is a sin… Then started every single war that Ur people been in?… Who said that water is a precious commodity… Then dropped a big old black oil slick in the deep blue sea?… Who told me, Mr. Man, that working round the clock… would buy me a big housed in the hood… Cigarette ads on every block… Who told me, Mr. Man, that Eye got a right 2 moan?… How about this bog old hole in the ozone?… What's wrong with the world 2day… Things just got 2 get better… Dear Mr. Man, we don't understand… Maybe we should write a letter… Listen, Ain't no sense in voting - same song with a different name… Might not b in the back of the bus but it sure feel just the same… Ain't nothing fair about welfare… Ain't no assistance in AIDS… We ain't that affirmative about your actions until the people get paid… Ur thousand years r up… Now U got 2 share the land… Section 1 - the 14th amendment says "No state shall deprive any person of life,… liberty, or property, without due process of law"… Mr. Man, we want 2 end this letter with 3 words… We tired a-y'all… Tired… tired… sick and tired of being tired…” [Prince, “Dear Mr. Man”, Musicology, 2004]

 

[“10 Saviour.mp3”:]

 

“Saviour” by Prince: “Ooh… How did I ever come this far without you baby?… What was I thinking?… What was I trying to be?… You're my destiny… I can see we're like two petals from the same flower baby… We're like two branches from the same tree… Whenever I look in your eyes… I can see a paradise… You're my saviour… you're all I'll ever need…” [Prince, “Saviour”, Emancipation, 1996]

 

[“14 Last December.mp3”:]

 

“Last December” by Prince: “If ur Last December came… What would u do?… Would anybody remember… 2 remember u?… Did u stand tall?… Or did u fall?… Did u give ur all?… Did u ever find a reason… Y u had 2 die?… Or did u just plan on leaving… Without wondering y?… Was it everything it seemed?… Or did it feel like a dream?… Did u feel redeemed?… In the name of the Father… In the name of the Son… We need 2 come 2gether… Come 2gether as one… Did u love somebody… But got no love in return?… Did u understand the real meaning of love?… That it just is and never yearns?… When the truth arrives… Will u b lost on the other side?… Will u still b alive?… In the name of the Father… In the name of the Son… We need 2 come 2gether… Come 2gether as one… In ur life did u just give a little… Or did u give all that u had?… Were us just somewhere in the middle?… Not 2 good, not 2 bad?… In the name of the Father… In the name of the Son… We need 2 come 2gether… Come 2gether as ONE…” [Prince, “Last December”, The Rainbow Children, 2001]

 

[“21 Last December reprise.mp3”:]

 

“Last December Reprise” by Prince: The Rainbow Children, 2001

 

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Our December 4, 2016 Show:

 

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…the 'power'-guys are fully absorbed right now – as we are waking up all over the world (the very riskiness of 'power's moves reveals its desperation) – with maneuvering: monitoring… policing… inventing… and furiously spinning… 'the story' by which they bend our thoughts to cleave to their story of 'rule'… 'class'… 'power'… While the concrete crumbles and dissension is sewn all over… states of every totalitarian hue of obsession are desperately trying to hold our attention…cleave our 'will' to theirs – to finesse our 'consent' to be governed by them. This moment is called… in the academic tongue… “the crisis (for 'power'…) of the states's de-legitimization…” “Political scientists have a theory called “democratic consolidation,”which holds that once countries develop democratic institutions, a robust civil society and a certain level of wealth, their democracy is secure…” [I.e.… 'the state'… whatever its justifying-political-ideology… will be 'secure' so long as it has the means to keep enough people sheltered… clothed… and fed (through 'jobs'…) and too busy (through 'jobs'… and survival-issues overall…) to develop their thought-process beyond the limits imposed by the state to ensure its preservation… i.e.… 'power's existence… The issue of 'system'-legitimization – or its flip-side 'Force'…) is where 'the market' (or 'economics'…) and 'the state (politics…) intersect… reveal their identity in the goal “keep the people corralled…” stuck… unable to join hands across all the boxes created for us… That is to say… if one arm of 'power' can't accomplish it… the other is relied upon… But the terms of the 'modern'… bureaucratic… political arrangement 'power' has established for itself require that the operation appear to be dispassionate 'laws' working themselves out… (This is why Marx is no threat to them… for instance… and they allow someone like myself to attend a 'Marxist Sociology' program… Once we have an accurate picture of 'power's game… an accurate understanding of 'class'… we understand what is a threat… and what isn't…) – a 'clockwork mechanism'… i..e.… 'power' must stay hidden… and we must appear to be the ones who put chains on ourselves ('the law')… This becomes all the more critical as the resource-stores of the planet shrink… and states (or their surrogates in 'the economy'…) scramble to secure as much of the remainder as possible… To them it's a game… to us… a purgatory that they want us to believe has no solution… and so is endless… It so dispirits us… this mad scramble that sets us against each other… and ourselves… forestalling our discussion of how it will be that the wealth we are here to make (once we've dissolved our chains…) – that we are kept from making because a Tiny Few want to rule over us – will dwarf in content (love…) scope… quantity… quality and significance the pathetic shreds of flesh our Grandmother Earth has left (a similar… if even more apt… image might be that given us by Shel Silverstein in his book The Giving Tree… in which the Tree never complains as the adult strips her down to nothing…

 

[“161204theywhoownthelexicon_2.mp3”:]

 

“Data from Freedom House, a watchdog organization that measures democracy and freedom around the world, shows that the number of countries classified as “free” rose steadily from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s…” [To paraphrase Jeremy Bentham… “he who controls the lexicon… controls the world…” The word 'free' is used here to mean… operationally… “sufficient resources are available to the state to purchase the 'consent of the governed' such that no force is required to quell grumblers…” – we must include among these resources… EMF weapons (because even though use of EMF-weapons is force… it is hidden force until outed by us… and manifests as 'disease'… or other ill-effects that are mis-identified…) we are never allowed to scrutinize… let alone discuss… the lexicon. We are simply told over and over that “we live in a democracy”… when basic survival issues are not met under this 'democracy' we're told we live in… 'democracy' understandably becomes irrelevant… and then researchers like Mr. Mounk can conclude that 'democracy' is less important to us and is losing support… We see this building rationale… which is pressure applied on us… all over the world… the squeeze that suggests to us that we will (supposedly) accept any 'form of government' that can 'make the trains run on time.' Diana Spearman… author of Modern Dictatorship… has made this point in several places in her book [quoted in “Founding & Realizing A Test Site – Not Modeled on ‘Democracy’… But On Freedom – Premised On “Leisure IS Happiness” – see the FRATS.pdf on the 'Tools' page…] for instance: “In origin the Fascist movement was a spontaneous reaction to the state of disorder in 1922 and to the failure of Socialism.” [So we see these are old tactics… the word this sentence ends with must merely shift… or alternate… from 'socialism'… to 'democracy'… to 'communism'… to fit any nation today (just prior to this show the station aired excerpts from a couple different left-leaning radio programs that referred to Trump's program as 'Fascist'… and so their continually drumming into us this lie that we-the-people elected him… is to imply that we are growing more fascistic in our political beliefs… And they want us to believe this about all nations around the world right now… So when they install their hardcore surveillance state everywhere… we'll look at each other for responsibility for this mess we find ourselves in… We have to get our own means of discourse…]

 

[“161204propagandevicesfordividingus_3.mp3”:]

 

[So I think it's really important that we begin discussing this mechanism… the propagandistic device of feeding us lies… planting the people to say those lies… quoting those people in the media outlets 'power' owns or controls… and then creating havoc in the streets – the 'power'-guys have done this over and over historically [recall Marx's description of the December 10 Society (an early example of this 'shadow-state-tactic' from mid-nineteenth century France…) in our reading of an excerpt from his The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte…] and by preventing us from discussing how they create the disorder… that is supposedly behind our 'turning fascistic'… they can run this game endlessly… I think we know this by now… I think that our ability to speak globally is such today that enough of us see this game… – those of us who do must remember that 'seeing' bears its responsibility… and we have to take that seriously… it's not something we can pass on to the next generation… because by then it is quite likely the global-statesmen will have both eliminated the information that young people need to gain the understanding necessary to have the certainty that they must act… (not to mention elimination of the 'social-media-organizing' option available to us now…) – and 'power' understands this sequence of steps leading to action very well… and because they do… and because they're organized… they've been able to interrupt that process generation after generation… We can't let that happen now… – P.S.] “The second was public openness to nondemocratic forms of government, such as military rule…” [And all of this is very much skewed based on the people they decide to cite… and based on the imposition… using techniques like what they call 'austerity'… which we've been calling 'manufacturing scarcity'… By creating hardship… and then at the same time stimulating divisions between us… the tendency… the pattern… has been (because we haven't been able to talk with each other about these devices…) for us to turn against each other… and then it's easy to roll out the notion that we need a strong state to 'manage' this discord which they themselves create… So this entire piece is based on… not 'truth'… but stories that 'power' creates itself… feeds to the media… feeds to academia… that treat it as 'data'… and then gives it a veneer of 'scientific' veracity… – which is propaganda used to continually keep us confused… – P.S.] “And the third factor was whether “antisystem parties and movements…” [And those who have been listening regularly know that 'Antisystemic Movements' is the title of a collection of papers presented by Terence K. Hopkins… Giovanni Arrighi… and Immanuel Wallerstein… published as a book… that we have read large sections of it over the course of these shows and I hope folks will go back and listen to those excerpts… because we don't want to be turned against each other by having the lexicon imposed on us… – what we thought we were standing on pulled out from under us… – P.S.]

 

[“161204fidelstakeontheglobalstate_4.mp3”:]

 

Fidel Castro's death (and what we can learn in our discussions of the spinning of the story of Cuba and Venezuela required by this event… and Hugo Chavez's earlier death) • the global-statesmen's insistence on total control of what information we-the-people get • the illusion of academic freedom… • the fraudulent presidential election… • the systematic elimination of dissent using the hidden weapon of EMF (with Prince and Nikola representing our challenge to this…) – all suggest that it's time we laid to rest… any lingering attachment some of us may have… to the concept of 'democracy' (particularly as it is practically expressed under conditions of a global 'class' system…) as being what we want for our future. The global-'power'-guys' spin on Cuba… Venezuela… and the U.S. presidential election are all of a piece… all spun of the same desperation to return us to 'somnambulance'… now that we're breaking out of their trance… “The Cuban missile crisis and the American trade embargo only strengthened the siege mentality that Mr. Castro relied on for decades, as he argued repeatedly that Cuba must remain under tight control lest the northern imperialists invade and turn the island into an American fief…” As I type the following question… I sit as a test of endurance… my head swollen with mucus from a continuous blast from the state's arsenal of EMF-weapons… my entire body now feels like a struck tuning-fork… vibrating silently but loud in my head… the swelling and continuous electrical charge making my muscles feel stiff as the interstellar insect in Men In Black in its Edgar-suit (as an aside: I love the small-but-significant lessons about 'power' in that film… how the Will Smith character learns its nature by observing its reactions to him: “So… Big Bad Bug got a bit of a soft spot… huh?” he says as he crunches a very large bug underfoot – [I was so disappointed when the Linda Fiorentino character wasn't part of the sequel… she has to have one of the most awesome voices and presence Hollywood has given us (a 'Prince'-quality – you don't want to look at anyone else when they're on the screen…) right up there with Jack Nicholson – and I'm certain Paul Robeson had this quality to the maximum degree… judging by the photographs…] I digress…) So… Fidel made the argument that the global-'power'-guys will fight unceasingly to prevent the example of someone seeming to 'triumph' over them continue to exist… – let alone the example of an entire population… that went up against them… and survived unrecumbent… Hmm… do you think he had a case?

 

[“161204terencehopkinsandprince_5.mp3”:]

 

Once… when I was a student… I had to defend a paper to a group of men… I titled the paper “Racism As A Cultural Phenomenon”… One of the men was Terence K. Hopkins… which is how I know about him… With Immanuel Wallerstein he developed the theory of a single 'world system' that has existed for the last 500 years or so – with Giovanni Arrighi they published as a book a collection of papers they presented that explored the question: when and how will the next world-wide (and so 'antisystemic'… as 'the system' is a global system…) global transformation occur?… a transformation that is actually a transition to an entirely new global society defined by all of us… not by The Few hiding behind whatever ideological ruse convenient to the sprig off the global-totalitarian-tree they happen to be speaking on… Near the beginning… if not the opening of the paper… I included a poem… which I also quote in Waking Up: Freeing Ourselves From Work: Donna Kate Rushin’s “The Bridge Poem”… published in the anthology This Bridge Called My Back… and before we began Terry said to me that the line: “I am sick of having to remind you to breathe before you suffocate your own fool self…” made him laugh because his wife kept telling him the same thing… The paper… a labor of love… I now see as a first glimpse at the Plato's Tribesmen… though of course I didn't know it… but I suspect Terry did… so much in this I find curious… I proceeded in this writing much like Proudhon following the track of 'property'… but my fish was 'racism'… and… to cut to the chase… I'll say that I followed it to “the division between mental and manual labor”… at which point I asked: “Is this a 'chicken and egg' question?: which came first… (ancient) 'slavery'… or the dualism in thought?”… Already back then I was pointing my finger at the need for 'wholism'… and all the while I was attempting to think this through in thought… Prince was modeling the solution: “Just be it…” he showed us… “let your body be it… what it is… what it is trying to be… undivided… fully be all of your inheritance… Bow down to none but to them… those that provided it… which is bowing to the Infinite…” Parallel tracks… he and I… we were going down parallel tracks… destined to come together… mind and body… united.

 

[“161204importanceofrightstory_6.mp3”:]

 

Today we proceed further along the road of our question: “How do we loosen the grip of the 'power'-guys?”… and also along the road of our answer: we loosen their grip on us by loosening ourselves… We are all so tightly held… Prince showing us this is one of his key gifts… he shows us what needs to shift in us to move out from under 'power's cloud… and move together for our freedom…I know no other like him… who models authentic 'power' while showing us the way out of the dilemma for us of its loss: explaining what and who stands in the way of our regaining it… and urges us to fight back… and he… through us… will be all the more effective when we pair him with the 'right story'… We need the 'right story' in order to set aside doubt and uncertainty and to inoculate ourselves against the insidious effects of 'power's propaganda… which exists to a large extent to make us doubt the truth we are born with… For each of us joy is within our own hands… and even sweeter with someone who pleases you… 'power' 'spends' (wastes) our blood-and-sweat-manifested in order both to convince us otherwise… and to structurally enforce this diminishment of our lives… As Prince has said… if it feels good 'power' makes it a crime… What it feels like… here on the receiving-end of the 'power'-guys pathological determination to bludgeon it senseless… is that they see their 'reason-to-be' to nullify the joy that lives effortlessly… And… as Prince has also said: “We tired a-y'all… Tired… tired… sick and tired of being tired…” With the 'power'-guys gone the 'business' of 'being fully alive and energized' will be so easy…

 

[“161204powerentrapsteslawitheconcon_7.mp3”:]

 

We are reading an excerpt from Margaret Cheney's Tesla: Man Out Of Time… As we read about Nikola's life after Colorado… we should consider what it would mean for the 'power'-guys of the time – folks like J.P. Morgan and the heads of state Nikola appealed to for support as WWI loomed… support in scaling-up his particle-beam (i.e.… EMF…) weapon: “'From the electrical-engineering editor Thomas Commerford Martin came eloquent support: “Mr. Tesla… because he saw farther, he saw first the low lights flickering on tangible new continents of science…' Publicity – whether good or bad – was precisely what Tesla wanted, for he still desperately needed to attract the attention of potential backers. One of the first (though not necessarily most important) to step forward was Stanford White, the celebrated architect. The two men met one evening at the Players' Club which White had just remodeled, and, feeling an immediate rapport, soon fell into an intense conversation. White had read and been excited by Tesla's vision of the future as painted for Century magazine. When the inventor began to describe the physical plant that he envisioned for his world broadcasting system, the architect became an eager partner in the grand plan… Nor was this grand plan a mere fantasy. Even while Tesla had still been in Colorado, oscillators and other equipment were being assembled in his New York shop under the close direction of Scherff and an engineering assistant. Security was tight as usual. Immediately upon his return he got in touch with George Westinghouse, [can I get a collective groan out there… please?… – P.S.], knowing that his engineers could supply the custom-built machinery he would need. [So we see how the 'economy-scam' works… when nothing can get done without them… the ones who intend to be 'in charge' ad infinitum… we're screwed… right? So… what's our move?… I suspect a variant on this answer: “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's…” Continuing: “His Colorado experiments, he wrote Westinghouse, absolutely demonstrated the practicability of establishing telegraphic communication to any point on the globe “by the help of the machinery I have perfected.” He would need an engine and a direct-current dynamo of at least 300 horsepower on either side of the Atlantic, and these would be expensive. “You will know of course,” he confided, “that I contemplate the establishment of such a communication merely as the first step to further and more important work, namely that of transmitting power. But as the latter will be an undertaking on a much larger and more expensive scale, I am compelled to first demonstrate such feature to get the confidence of capital.…” He also requested that Westinghouse lend him $6,000, to be guaranteed by his English royalties. The industrialist invited Tesla to ride with him on the train from New York to Pittsburgh in his private “palace car” to talk over the whole matter…”

 

[“161204whenweseethatpowerplundersoursouls_8.mp3”:]

 

I hope you had a chance to listen to “The Everlasting Now”… – our next show we'll hear the conclusion of “The Rainbow Children”… And so we're going to be thinking about… because… as we talk about reclaiming the lexicon… we're talking about reclaiming our thought-process… having a new frame of reference… – Prince was very absorbed in this… So… for instance… when he talks about “The Everlasting Now”… I believe he's talking about these bodies we walk around in… and that we need to honor our original gifts… So… let's think this through together… What is this new frame of reference that Prince is developing for us as an alternative way of thinking?… so that we can begin to break those mental chains of obedience to the 'power'-guys… In our recent discussions of how to re-make ourselves afresh… snatch ourselves from 'power's grip… with the help of Prince… numerous challenges are all coming together… all… to a significant degree… stem from the question of 'confidence' in what we are inherently… in 'certainty' that we are entitled to the full width and breadth of ourselves – to our full gifts – and to those of our Brothers and Sisters… and so settle… therefore… on this very question of 'property' – what do we own… Really? – that Proudhon has so brilliantly… and helpfully… thought-through for us… It but remains for us to discuss him widely and broadly… as he… along with Prince… exists to help us regain our freedom… By helping us gain clarity on the question we alluded to earlier by quoting St. Luke: What must be rendered to the state… and what to ourselves… on which the state can make no legitimate claim… The state is a robber… a thief of souls… we live in the time of re-making ourselves whole…] Proudhon: “Robbery is committed in a variety of ways, which have been very cleverly distinguished and classified by legislators according to their heinousness or merit, to the end that some robbers may be honored, while others are punished…” [And I'm suggesting that the key 'thing' of which we are robbed… is our souls… So you see his examples refer to the notion that we come (to the earth…) with the expectation of 'society'… it's in our body-knowledge of the Eternal: we are all One…] “Bandits, brigands, pirates, rovers by land and sea, – these names were gloried in by the ancient heroes, who thought their profession as noble as it was lucrative…” [We've been pondering this haven't we?… as we… to our horror… come to see how these 'power'-guys think: their association of rape… plunder and robbery with 'glory'… We have grasped that they justify their behavior by reference to ancient texts… but that explanation hasn't felt sufficient… We've been discussing it as “The Plunder Mentality of the 'Power'-Guys” – it's a mindset that… once seen consciously by us… means the end of it – that's exciting isn't it? – means we are taking our lives back… and growing up…]

 

[“161204powercannotunderstandlove_9.mp3”:]

 

Nimrod, Theseus, Jason and his Argonauts… Robert Guiscard, Tancred de Hauteville, Bohemond, and most of the Norman heroes, – were brigands and robbers. The heroic character of the robber is expressed in this line from Horace [around 65 B.C.… – P.S.], in reference to Achilles, – “My right is my lance and my buckler.” General de Broussard said, like Achilles: “I get wine, gold, and women with my lance and my buckler.” [This is 'power' – 'power' is 'power' is 'power'… creating the conditions such that: “Humanity must perforce prey on itself, like monsters of the deep.” (William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act IV, Scene II)… But 'power' is not us… though until now its theft of our whole selves we've been unable to correct… like Proudhon… like Prince… like all of us… before Alice (and the others to whom we owe their piece of the puzzle of 'class'… of 'rule'… of 'power's lost soul…) we've been trying to 'help' them… help them understand what love is… Now… with the 'right story'… because of Alice Miller and her explanation of the repetition compulsion… we know… they can't 'understand'… their mindset is set to 'rob' us ad infinitum… we can only stop their madness by turning away from it and being the opposite (love)… for each other… It causes me a lot of grief to think of our Prince of Love circled by so many women (people) who were false… placed there by the 'power'-guys to hurt him… while he tried so hard to help them… – but though he felt their frozen hearts he could not melt them… What follows is a more resigned version of this theme… of 'helping others to feel love…' and though he is at this point older (48)… his belief in the power of the Earth… the Infinite… is unshaken… This is from his 2006 CD… 3121… and is called simply “Love”: “Stop telling me what U want me 2 hear… Stop telling me what U want me 2 fear… Stop trippin' on something U overheard… Love is winning… without a word… Stop giving me Ur 'wish list'… Love is free from all this… Like a bird flyin' over the hilltops… Love is like the sky, U know it never stops… From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks…” Let's never forget why Prince was targeted… hurt… tortured… and murdered… with EMF-weapons… and flooded with false-folks throughout his life… These 'power'-obsessed plan to bury this man and his music… We must not let that happen. Both exist to save us… – so let's save him… his music is for our freedom…

 

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Prince Songs For Our December 4, 2016 Show:

 

[“06 Tangerine.mp3”:]

 

“Tangerine” by Prince: “Some days I feel tangerine… Some days I feel blue… Some days I just wanna black out… Everything I felt for U… Even though I take your picture… Everywhere I go… I use it for a coaster and drink the overflow… Some days I make a lot of money… And give it all away… 2 take my mind off the tangerine colour… Of your negligee… Beggars can't be choosy… If they don't know how 2 serve… U got a different phone number… and a lot of nerve… Some days I feel tangerine… Some days I miss U, 2…” [Prince, “Tangerine”, Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, 1999]

 

[“07 There Is Lonely.mp3”:]

 

“There Is Lonely” by Prince: “Is it me or did the room just get darker?… Is it me or did I just lay down and die?… Is this a dream or did the world just crumble at my very feet?… How in heaven will I ever be alright?… There is lonely and there is lonely… And then there is how I feel right now… Perhaps only Cain when he'd slain his brother… Could ever come close 2 knowing how… yeah… There is lonely and there is lonely… And then there is how I feel right now… Perhaps only Cain when he'd slain his brother… Could ever come close 2 knowing how… There is lonely and there is lonely… And then there is how I feel right now…” [Prince, “There Is Lonely”, The Vault… Old Friends 4 Sale, 1999]

 

[“03 Blue Light.mp3”:]

 

“Blue Light” by Prince: “Oh well, here we are again… Lookin' 4 something 2 get us in the mood… I tell each and every one of my friends… That the love we make is really pretty rude… But they don't believe me cuz it's written all over my face… Like Evian and the deep blue sea… U and me got different taste… U like it in the dark but I like a… Blue light… Can u turn on a Blue light… Then cuddle up 2 me So tight… Just u and me All night… Alright… Blue light… Can u turn on a Blue light… Then everything will be Alright… Oh, Blue light… U say u wish I was shy… I always take a simple thing and push it way 2 far… But baby, that's the problem with u and I… U say not in public but I say in the car… Say, we need to get wild again like it was when we first met… Close your eyes and count 2 ten and when u open 'em - I'll be standing naked with nothing but a smile on… Blue light… Can u turn on a Blue light… Then cuddle up 2 me So tight… Just u and me All night… Alright… Blue light… Can u turn on a Blue light… Then everything will be Alright… Oh, Blue light… I'll be 117… U'll be still sayin' "Baby not 2 nite"… It's easy 2 see us on the cover of a magazine… "Double heart attack, couple both die in a fight"… Oh Baby! I don't wanna cross that road cuz I love u 2 much… I'd do anything just 2 heat up your cold touch… Anything I would do, but up until u tell me 2… Blue light… Can u turn on a Blue light… Then cuddle up 2 me So tight… Just u and me All night… Alright… Blue light… Can u turn on a Blue light… Then everything will be Alright… Oh, Blue light…” [Prince, “Blue Light”, Symbol, 1992]

 

[“10 On The Couch.mp3”:]

 

“On The Couch” by Prince: “Come on baby… ooh, ooh, ooh… Don't make me sleep on the couch… No… No… No… Love jones is on the TV again, baby… Ooh, I wanna go down south - yeah… Come on baby… Come on baby… Its undignified to sleep alone… O yes it is… That's what all the people ain't got nobody do… U know they do… Talkin' (talkin') on the telephone… Don't make me crash… Don't U do it baby… (Don't U do it, uh-uh)… Don't make me sleep without ur kiss… O darlin'… without ur kiss (Don't U make me do it)… Tossin' and a-turnin'… Every inch of me yearnin'… Don't u make me… Don't u make me… Don't u make me… Don't u make me… Don't u make me… Don't u make me… Don't u make me… Don't u make me… Suffer like this… I know, I know, I know, I know that… We agreed to be married (U know I know)… Shouldn'ta let me unzip ur dress… Y'd U do it, baby (Y'd u do it) O yeah… confess u tease… unless u please… Don't make me sleep on the couch…” [Prince, “On The Couch”, Musicology, 2004]

 

[“11 Man'O'War.mp3”:]

 

“Man'o'war” by Prince: “Why U screaming?… U know I'm not a man of war… Break the gold chain that I gave U… Throw it down on the floor… Instead of this 7 page letter… I wish I had peace of mind… My friends tell me: "U should go get her"… But loving U, loving U, loving U… Is a waste of time… Oh yes it is, a waste of time - ooh… I need 2 get out of this city… I need 2 get U out of my head… I need 2 get away from the words that U said 2 me… Why U screaming? (ooh)… U know I'm not a man of war… How could U think that I… Could put something inside of someone… That I put inside U, inside U?… Even if I tried 2 (Tried 2), tried 2 (Tried 2)… I couldn't cuz I still smell like the last time that we… Loving U, loving U, loving U… Is a waste of time (a waste of time)… Oh, yes it is… Loving U - a waste of time (ooh-oh)… I need 2 feel wanted again… I need 2 feel love is alive, yeah… I need 2 hear U say… That U ain't looking 4 another reason 2 make me cry… Why U screaming? (ooh)… U know I'm not a man of war… I've been trying 2 make U happy, baby… Ever since we were sophomores… (But loving U, loving U, loving U)… Is a waste of time, oh yes it is… Oh, is a waste of time, waste of time, waste of time… If there's no future… Then there is no past… And all we've got is right now… Let's make it last… Make it last, make it last (ooh)… Why U screaming?… U know I'm not a man of war… Break the gold chain (Break the gold chain that I gave U)… Throw it down on the floor - oh baby… Instead of this 7 page letter… I wish I had peace of mind… My friends tell me: "U should go get her"… But loving U, loving U, loving U… loving U's… …a waste of time (A waste of time)… Oh, is a waste of time - yeah… I need 2 get out of this city… I need 2 get U out of my head… I need 2… I need 2 get away from the words that U said 2 me… I need 2… I need 2 feel wanted again… Oh, I need 2 hear no sin… Hear me… (But loving U, loving U, loving U)… Why U screaming?… U know I'm not a man of war… Break the gold chain that I gave U… Throw it down on the floor - oh baby… Instead of this 7 page letter… I wish I had peace of mind… My friends tell me: "U should go get her"… But loving U, loving U, loving U… Is a waste of time… U know I'm not a man of war…” [Prince, “Man'o'war”, Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, 1999]

 

[“06 Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful.mp3”:]

 

“Feel Better, Feel Good, Feel Wonderful” by Prince: “Feel Better, Feel Good, Feel Wonderful… Feel Better, Feel Good, Feel Wonderful… Hey!… Eye could tell by the color of ur… (? field…) U thought this game was over (? appeal)… U tried 2 do me like my good brother Steve… But eye got another funky… Trick up my sleeve… Eye expect you need a freak on you a little bit more… But you get nothin but well-wishes… & flowers galore… Eye mean no harm… Eye still got ur back… U can come and drink my wine… As a matter of fact… Just feel better, feel good, feel wonderful… Eye don't know what you thought… When you spit in my face… But this dimension ain't the time… Or the place… Eye don't know who told you u could… Stand next 2 me… But eye got a guitar that could… Part the sea… Don't mean no disrespect… Eye ain't tryin' 2 brag… But that might b the same one that… Tapped on the crag… And he brought 4th water… That quenched ur thirst… And we'll keep feeding ya… But first things first!… Feel better, feel good, feel wonderful… If you think about how much time it took… 4 you 2 try 2 get a page in my book… Eye feel so good right now… Eye just can't recall… What the __ eye was thinking when eye… Threw you the ball… It hit 3 bystanders after you touched it… Now they wanna sue me but they love me 2 much… Cuz they know eye wish them heaven and all of its gold… Same 2 u, come on let's groove 2 the purple rock 'n roll… Feel better, feel good, feel wonderful… Better than good, better than good… U know you should feel wonderful… Keep ur mind in the vertical motion… Always looking up… Feel better, feel good, feel wonderfulFeel better, feel good, feel wonderful…” [Prince, “Feel Better, Feel Good, Feel Wonderful”, Lotusflow3r, 2009]

 

[“13 The Everlasting Now.mp3”:]

 

“The Everlasting Now”… Chapter 13 of “The Rainbow Children” by Prince: “I knew this dude… He was very cool… He used 2 rule… Until he went 2 school… Not a normal school… That breeds a fool… But the one that teaches… Men aren't fit to rule… That's when he took his pearly crown… He raised it up and spun it 'round… And tossed in2 the deep blue underground… No longer led by the ways of man… He looked 4 the kingdom deep within… That's when the drums in his head began 2 pound… Don't let nobody bring u down… Accurate knowledge of Christ and the Father… Will bring the Everlasting Now… Join the party, make a sound… Share the truth, preach the good news… Don't let nobody bring u down… The Everlasting Now… Now turn the page, at an early age… This brutha on stage, he was all the rage… Taught an integrated world 2 sing… The color u are don't mean a thing… Everybody's a star all the everyday people sang… He changed the funk, put it in a bag… Then he changed the colors of the flag… But u can't teach a dog new tricks if his tail don't wag… Don't no matter how much money u made… All the cars u got and all the women u laid… You mess with the flag… 2 them u're still a spade… Don't let nobody bring u down… Accurate knowledge of Christ and the Father… Will bring the Everlasting Now… Join the party, make a sound… Share the truth, preach the good news… Don't let nobody bring u down… The Everlasting Now… See this girl in her make-believe world… Plastic boobs and clip-on curls… 'Round the pole see her big butt twirl… These r the dreams that do unfurl… Never everlasting… Don't let anybody bring u down… The Everlasting Now… Now watch that girl in her make-believe world… Plastic boobs and clip-on curls… 'Round the pole see her big butt twirl… Electric beaches skin do bake… Vanilla fudge and wedding cake… If we should die b4 u wake… U got any last requests 2 make?… The Everlasting Now… The Everlasting Now… The Everlasting Now… Johnny B. Well… bring the beat… Now… From this day forward 'til times indefinite, those who love Christ r the ones who benefit. All the players' ice melted in2 one platinum chain and in a downward spiral it dripped down the drain. "U know, this is funky but I just wish he'd play like he used 2, old scragglyhead son-of… (Ooof)." Don't let nobody bring u down… Accurate knowledge of Christ and the Father… Will bring the Everlasting Now… Join the party, come on make a sound… Share the truth, preach the good news… Don't let nobody bring u down… The Everlasting Now… (Tear it up!… We ain't through… Still stinkin'… Break… On the 4… Psych…)” [Prince, “The Everlasting Now”, The Rainbow Children, 2001]

 

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Our November 27, 2016 Show:

 

[“161127fakenewsbyplatosrule_1.mp3”:]

 

I think I know what The New York Times – brought to us by and for those who want full control of our minds… the 'power'-guys – I think I know what they mean by their term 'Fake News' (…a topic they are bludgeoning us – or… perhaps more to the point… Facebook… with daily now…) what they must mean by their term 'fake news' are the sweated-over or effortlessly-vomited (because they are mere iterations of an old old script…) contrivances… constructions or orchestrations of 'power's own hidden folk (who… by Rutenberg's terms… by being intentionally kept very hidden… are forever excluded from scrutiny… while their mis-attributed and unidentified effects (principally that we are kept unccertain about what is true and what isn't… such that anything might be so… even the fantastic notion that we-the-people chose Trump to 'lead us'…) while these effects proliferate like a contagion around us…) designed… these particular constructions… once dutifully blown-up-and-out-wide by the media… to encumber the capacity of we-the-people (globally) to use social media to plan and organize globally… Of course what they don't mean… and will never admit – as they don't exist to serve the cause of honesty: their entire project to require us to equate 'news' with want they give us… 'truth' with the box they want to force us in… and 'journalism' with the project of stamping as 'legitimate' these labored-over constructions provided by 'power'… is designed never to contradict the story of 'power'… of 'rule'… of 'class' – the story that has been our steady diet for centuries… Of course they want to control what goes out… and they want Mark Zuckerberg to do it for them… They are telling him “handle it… handle it… or we'll handle it for you…” Their hubris knows no bounds… and they wouldn't be making this play (pressure applied every day consecutively… for a week at least…) if they didn't think they already have him in check (of course they thought the same of Prince… and Nikola too – meanwhile both are going up Lady Liberty's dress… and they're gonna blow… blow… blow…)

 

[“161127wemustoutstateshiddenuseofemf_2.mp3”:]

 

Tell me… The New York Times – and the 'power'-guys for whom you speak – is it “Fake News” that Prince's death is the result of thirty-years-plus of being subjected to an assault by EMF (electro-magnetic-force) from weapons possessed and deployed by 'the state' (in whatever shape it chooses to take)? Is it “Fake News” that Nikola Tesla invented a family of EMF weapons that… depending on the specific weapon… can bring airplanes down… or cause ill health… disease… and / or death to human physiology?… and be used to eliminate people secretly? Is it “Fake News” that the U.S. state (and likely all the 'major powers'…) now have these weapons… and have not disclosed the full extent of what they have to 'their' people… or the full scope of their use? (as we organize globally to get free of the stranglehold states have [a hold secured by appropriating to their exclusive use our collective global means – our common planetary resources – hopefully some of us will gradually peel back the layers of 'cover-up' to determine when precisely EMF weapons began to be used widely by the U.S. state (and presumably as well by [at the least] the states identified by Margaret Cheney as having citizens who took out patents on them in the early twentieth century: Germany… Russia… and England…] In a previous show I suggested that the Yale experiment to see if people would obey the order of an authority to deliver shocks to (torture) a helpless fellow human being… knowingly cause pain… was to determine the viability of their using EMF-weapons secretly against citizens within the country where they are being used… broadly… to cause disease and eliminate dissent (an earlier show included quotes from Margaret Cheney's book – which… as we're reading the latter third of the book now… we'll return to – that describe the physiological effects of EMF – it can affect the growth-rate of cells… and… this was confirmed by Henry Kissinger in his telegram [discussed in the August 14, 2016 show…] which lists the specific effects of the weapons they're using as well… It messes with our human electrical systems… causes heart disease… strokes… So we have to 'out' the use of these weapons… there can be no 'work' more critical… and I don't just mean for our health here in the U.S.… I mean for the health of humanity… I mean for the health of all life… It is just that critical that we force the U.S. state to admit they have these weapons… and never let up until we have the full truth about their use…

 

[“161127theresnothingbiggerthanthis_3.mp3”:]

 

And we've had numerous discussions as to why this is so critical… and I think a little thought devoted to it by anyone new to this issue will reveal why that is… When the state does not admit that it eliminates its own citizens… and therefore dissent… secretly… you have Fascism… and unfortunately this is a global totalitarian system that the 'power'-guys are hoping to cement in place… precisely because we have the technology – largely thanks to Nikola Tesla – to free us from the coerced-work system… the gifts to us from the earth were given freely… we want to share them with each other freely… And that's what we're here to do in this moment… is to restore basic health… vitality… fairness… justice… truth… – I mean… you don't get no bigger than that… right?… A recent obit of the actor Robert Vaughn [in the New York Times of November 12, 2016] is also suggestive… in a variety of ways. It reminded us that his hit series in the 1960s in which he played a debonair 007-type spy who fought… week after week… a “secret organization intent on achieving world domination through… devices like mind-controlling gas…” The organization was called T.H.R.U.S.H.: “Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity.” The series was inspired by the creator of the James Bond character. At the height of the show's popularity in 1967 Robert Vaughn “became national chairman of an organization called Dissenting Democrats…” and… speaking out against the Vietnam War… said… “In our fervor to halt the potential spread of totalitarianism, what incredible precedent are we setting in Vietnam?… by marching our legions through the countryside of foreign continents, burning homes, laying waste to the land and indiscriminately killing friend and foe alike?…” A more capable person than I must sort it all out… once we're free…)

 

[“161127wewanttruthaboutemfprinceandnikola_4.mp3”:]

 

If you want to suggest these are 'fake' questions…New York Times… why not serve truth and help settle them: answer the questions we listed at the beginning of the June 19, 2016 show… present the results of the police investigation into the death of Prince – including the full autopsy findings – to test your theory? And if you truly do… as you claim to… value the job of 'journalism'… which you say provides the truthful counter to all 'the Fake' we are bombarded with… and as we want to know about the theft and subsequent suppression of Nikola Tesla's inventions (which is wanting to know about the role of hidden-'power' in our lives…) – why not send your journalists out to clarify?… have them investigate the existence of Nikola Tesla's particle-beam weapon?… whether the U.S. state possesses it… developed a whole family of EMF weapons based on it… have journalists explore his life and expose his full array of contributions that have been so wrongfully keep secret from us? And why so much manipulation of the historical record? It is the large questions – that are expressions of the hidden fundamental structures of our lives – that we need more information about… And while we're on the subject of 'fake'… what about this totally fake president-elect… brought to us by the 'power'-guys?… –it's been really funny over the past few days watching the various stories in the New York Times shift the onus of responsibility for the installation of Trump: first it was placed on us… we-the-people… supposedly… chose this completely unprepared person to 'lead' us… miraculously… though the country's becoming more and more of-color and women… we chose someone who expressed hatred for us… that didn't wash… nobody bought it (folks are now trying to encourage Hillary Clinton to get a recount of the physical ballots in three key states… particularly as her popular vote advantage keeps going up – it's well over two million now… so the 'power'-guys have to acknowledge that Trump was not "elected by the will of 'the people'"… that fact alone de-legitimizing the state…) so now they're trying to shift blame: first to "fake news"… and then to 'the Russians'… But of course… "it can't be" that the vote was hacked… How do we know? The Department of Homeland Security says so… They didn't notice anything out of the ordinary (for them)… "just our usual job: keeping you safe from yourselves… allowing us to deliver 'the future' as it's meant to be… with you guys in chains… and us making all the decisions because we are the 'philosopher-kings…' while you are 'born-to-be-bossed…' the herd… the cattle…" 'Born-to-be-driven'?… No… actually… we're all born with the same 'stuff'… and it has been because of the weight of millennia of conditioning in obedience that we have been… until now… unable to see the obvious… and it is now that we are able to see through this fog of lies because we have… thanks to Nikola Tesla and his tribe… the tools we need to talk together globally… so that we can all catch up as a Global-One… because it takes a Global-One to get out from under the whip of this totalitarian system. These guys are organized globally… it is only ten thousand… at most… but they are organized… which shows the power of organization… Time we did that… starting with our One Day Global General Strike. We'll get our lives back… almost overnight…

 

[“161127classrootedinfakenews_5.mp3”:]

 

And while we're on the subject of 'fake'… what about this totally fake president-elect… brought to us by the 'power'-guys… installed using a fake election and machines (on and off the ground…) with secret computer systems to provide a fake vote?… Lastly… is it 'fake news' that we deserve to live fully as the earth (our nature) intended… unencumbered… and that we must organize world-wide to achieve this earth-given right? When you daily limit our right to know… by failing to investigate and discuss… the big… suppressed… facts that determine our lives… we state-subjects… your screaming “Fake!” strikes us as highly disingenuous – you surely don't imagine we could possibly believe that you are the true arbiter of what is 'fake'… and what isn't? The whole project of 'class' (an imposed hierarchical arrangement premised on 'rule'…) is a fraud… based in lies about what we are inherently as human beings… a fraud balanced precariously therefore on 'fake news'… that they would use this word 'fake' to pound us back into this highly-crafted 'Fake'… cast that word at us as an allegation used to suppress our inter-communications when we try to talk with each other by going around them… in order to organize ourselves to defend ourselves against their 'Fake' (by designing a global alternative premised on truth – our nature as free humans – that allows us to finally live our gifts as they are meant…) – that they would use this word 'fake' on us… is obscene.

 

[“161127thepoliticalpotencyoflove_6.mp3”:]

 

The Time Of Assurance Is Now Upon Us” – So: “1968: The Great Rehearsal…” “the Great Rehearsal for What?”… Are We Ready Yet To Answer It? Prince simplifies things strategically… and while we'll be attempting to put the entire package together in a way that does his strategy justice… what follows will be but first-take-elements within it… (Suffice to say… its source is the assurance that we are whole human beings… not objects… or subjects): • “We can make each other feel good… feel happy…” and “We must feel happy to feel love…” (That's a political point… because it is in keeping us unhappy that they keep us conquered… is the conclusion that makes when we think that through… and therefore… it is very powerful thought to say: "…This power to feel good… feel happy… feel loved… is within our own hands… And here's an excerpt from one of Prince's songs that expresses this: “This is something every girl should know… Every part of U comes alive when U take it slow… This is something every man should see… Give your woman what she wants and give her what she needs… (What she needs…) Ask her in a whisper that only 2 can hear… What can I do, what can I say, baby? Forget your every single fear… Come on (Come and get your come on)… One kiss at a time…” [Prince, “One Kiss At A Time”, Emancipation, (1996)] Now… granted my experience is limited… but… I've never been with a man who said anything like this to me… Further… I cannot even imagine any of the men I've been with saying this to me… Sad… huh?… and especially saying it as Prince would… And if you don't think saying this requires love… try saying it if you happen to have sex with someone you like – because Prince is in love here… There's other times and places when he's not… when he sings about sex from the sheer bliss and fun of it… e.g.… “Tick, Tick, Bang!” • “Do what feels good to feel happy…” and… • “Dance to reconnect with the source…” • “'The source' (the Infinite) shows us the truth – and it feels good…” • “Risk being honest about what your body wants…” And listening to Prince you realize how rare that is… because in his songs you realize he says stuff no one else says… expressions of the truth that is never openly acknowledged… He gives us gems… treasures… even when he's expressing – he put it in one of the interviews that he's 'got a mean side' – we're going to talk about that in a minute… it didn't come out that often. As far as I'm concerned… it didn't come out often enough… because this man was surrounded by agents… – you cannot know that unless you are also being targeted by these folk… And the more threatening you are to 'power'… the more they're going to try to isolate you – placing their people around you – and you have to factor that into our understanding the events of his life… the stories he's tells… and what he depicts in his songs…

 

[“161127honoringwhatourbodieswant_7.mp3”:]

 

• “Risk being honest about what your body wants…”… • “There is no reason to lie about what our bodies want (no legitimate reason… I should say… and we'll be talking about some of those illegitimate reasons – what holds us back from being open and honest…) and honoring what our bodies want makes us feel happy…” and this is no less so when it's about 'getting our own back…' it's important to note… given the conditions imposed on us under the terms of 'class' – defending our precious 'self' makes you feel happy… makes your body feel appreciated (particularly when we have or have reacquired our true 'self'…) – defending your precious 'self' against someone's bad or duplicitous energy feels good… and the opposite we're going to be thinking about as well: what it does to your psyche – and this is important for us to think about because we're going to be working necessarily with a collective… in a group… and while hopefully everyone you work with you trust… there will be issues of trust… and there will be folks who are not honest… because this is a system that is going down viciously… and the 'power'-obsessed will not spare any expense to try to interrupt… stop… what we're doing… It will be a challenge that we have to get ourselves prepared for… so that means that we will find ourselves most likely surrounded by duplicitous energy and that causes us to feel – particularly it did for Prince… as a youth… confused… Perhaps less so for us… for Prince it was something entirely new… He was so young when the targeting of him started – because he was powerful so very young… and did not have a chance to become politically aware of these tactics (until later in life…) because he was so immersed in just the music… and figuring out what the hell they were doing to his body… and who was doing it to him… and why… They kept him in a state of hellish confusion as a very young man… So we have to start understanding that our bodies are really sensitive instruments that feel when someone is not being honest… and we can't necessarily… first of all… consciously become aware of it… and then process it… until we've had these discussions… and made the tactic something that's part of our conscious awareness… So there's no reason to lie about what our bodies want… and Alice Miller has explained… expressing honest anger is restorative (Prince's song “Sarah” is one example…): if you express anger… then you have no need to 'be' the anger (to be violent) if we speak it – then our body has been heard. • “We must feel happy to feel love…” – we'll explore this in more detail in upcoming shows – when we don't feel happy… that is a psychic emergency that takes priority as a basic survival question… our body must address it first… • “Love women… make women happy…” as… • “If women are happy… the children can be happy…”

 

[“161127anintentionalunhappinessimposedonus_8.mp3”:]

 

“Love women… make them happy…” – Sounds too simple almost doesn't it?… It certainly is never discussed by us… – it's one of those strings that once you start pulling on it… the whole system unfolds before our eyes… and we realize that this is an intentional unhappiness that is being imposed on us… – “Love women… make them happy…”: It is within and from Prince's love for women (at the heart of his strategy…) that we must place his advocacy of nakedness and open sexuality… his vision of a 'new breed of leaders'… – and the reason why he drew the rage of the 'power'-guys down on him… We should see it as key to his strategy… key to his resistance… and to his receiving 'power's 'punishment': Prince likes women… In such an intensely misogynistic 'system' as 'class' (premised as much on hating women as on 'hierarchy' and 'rank' broadly…) this emphatic condition could not help but bring him to 'power's attention… add that he intentionally wanted to 're-create' obedience-numbed-us… to 'wake us up'… and that he used the concept of a 'new breed' (a fascistic version of which they had seized for themselves…) and it becomes quite inevitable that the 'power'-guys would come down on him… hard… that they would want to hurt him as much as stop him… that he would bring all their sadistic energy to the fore… His whole being confronted them as a conscious challenge (we must fully appreciate what Prince endured to fully appreciate him…): “Stand up everybody, this is your life… Let me take u to another world, let me take u tonight… U don't need no money, u don't need no clothes… The Second Coming, anything goes… Sexuality is all u'll ever need… Sexuality - let your body be free… C'mon everybody, yeah, this is your life… I'm talking about a revolution we gotta organize… We don't need no segregation, we don't need no race… New age revelation, I think we got a case… I'm OK as long as u are here with me… Sexuality is all we ever need… Reproduction of a new breed - Leaders, Stand Up, Organize… Reproduction of a new breed - Leaders, Stand Up, Organize… Reproduction of a new breed - Leaders, Stand Up, Organize… Everybody… We live in a world overrun by tourists… Stand Up, Organize… We need a new breed… Leaders, Stand Up, Organize… I wanna be in the new breed, Stand up, Organize… Sexuality is all I'll ever need… Sexuality, I'm gonna let my body be free… Sexuality is all I'll ever need… Sexuality, I'm gonna let my body be free… Sexuality…” [Prince, “Sexuality”, Controversy, (1981)] And when we sing those words with Prince… it makes us begin to internalize them in our bodies… which is why he got targeted…

 

[“161127sacrificeofprinceforourfreedom_9.mp3”:]

 

And the more I think about it… the more remarkable his strength and political / strategic precocity becomes… (Remember… he published “Sexuality” when he was only twenty-three… and I am certain he was already getting targeted then… This is a man who lived by his wits and fortunately he had a whole bunch of them… a very brilliant man… Prince survived by being a difficult target… and by figuring out early what was going on…) The potency of the man is just stunning… Prince is so stimulating… he makes everything more fun… more interesting… We see things with fresh eyes when we think his thoughts – this shows the power of his music… the power of his voice… and the power of his analysis: 'power' (the global-statesmen… the Tribe of Plato) literally gets in the way of the free expression of our body's truth because it wants to own us… our bodies… control what our bodies do… I'm struggling with the fact that for thirty-years-plus Prince put to us pregnant… pressing… pertinent… essential questions about our condition under 'class'… under the false terms of intentional limitation imposed by a very few (point-zero-zero-zero-one percent…) and… as far as I can determine… received no response… Repeatedly he asked for this… repeatedly he was met with silence from us… How he sustained his vital spirit despite this is a mystery – “how I got so funky…” he says in “My Name Is Prince”… “is a mystery…” Partly he answers this in one of the interviews we listened to by saying that he put his feelings in his music… But… he was a sacrifice (we'll be listening to the song “The Sacrifice Of Victor” soon…) Now it's time for us to speak… and answer for ourselves… and provide an issue with our bodies our reply: for what?

 

[“161127teslacreatesasensation_10.mp3”:]

 

Margaret Cheney: “Meanwhile, as George Scherff reminded [Nikola Tesla], there was a problem of some urgency with respect to his bank account. He had run through $100,000 during eight months in Colorado.… To whom should he turn? Colonel JJA? George Westinghouse? Thomas Fortune Ryan? J. Pierpont Morgan? C. Jordan Mott? Although he was being ridiculed in the press, his reputation among capitalists still remained good. One thing that impressed such hard-headed gentlemen was the record of the Westinghouse Company in maintaining its monopoly of alternating-current patents [At some point we must begin her book at the beginning… Tesla's life is so completely key to our understanding of so many things… In any case… Margaret Cheney writes in Chapter 5 (“The War of the Currents Begins”): “…for [Nikola Tesla's] forty [A.C.] patents Tesla received about $60,000 from the Westinghouse firm, which included $5,000 in cash and 150 shares of stock. Significantly, however, according to Westinghouse historical records, he was to earn $2,50 per horsepower of electricity sold. (Memorandum of Agreement dated July 7, 1888, between Westinghouse Electric Company and Tesla Electric Company.)] …One thing that impressed such hard-headed gentlemen was the record of the Westinghouse Company in maintaining its monopoly of alternating-current patents despite the efforts of competing industrialists to batter down the walls. In a search for new developmental capital he again began frequenting the Players' Club in Gramercy Park, the Palm Room of the Waldorf-Astoria, and, of course, Delmonico's. To the same purpose he suggested to a willing Robert Johnson that an article for Century magazine be written by Tesla on energy sources and the technology of the future. He slaved over this article, which was eventually entitled “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy,” and which appeared in June 1900. Like most of Tesla's writing it turned out to be a lengthy philosophical treatise rather than the brisk report on his Colorado research which Johnson had desired. Nevertheless, it created a sensation.… The Century article with its photographs and predictions thrust him even further into the center of controversy. But though his scientific colleagues sniped, the press remained generally loyal. [from ch. 15: “Magnificent and Doomed”, in Margaret Cheney's Tesla: Man Out Of Time, 1981, p. 153 – 55].”

 

[“161127tobefreetonameourselves_11.mp3”:]

 

Part twelve of “The Rainbow Children” is called “Family Name”… What is our 'family name'?… Prince asks… Do we get to choose it?… not under 'class'… The point of 'rule' is to 'own' us – the process of stripping us of ourselves Prince understands well… others have noted it in more circumscribed terms… In Waking Up: Freeing Ourselves From Work I quoted Saidiya Hartman: “It was one thing to be a stranger in a strange land, and an entirely worse state to be a stranger to yourself…” and argued that a global-system of 'power' has made us all 'strangers to ourselves' – that's the point Alice Miller is making… and the point Prince is also making here… Turning now to Proudhon: “Man is very willing to obey the law of duty, serve his country, and oblige his friends; but he wishes to labor when he pleases, where he pleases, and as much as he pleases. He wishes to dispose of his own time, to be governed only by necessity, to choose his friendships, his recreation, and his discipline; to act from judgment, not by command; to sacrifice himself through selfishness, not through servile obligation. Communism is essentially opposed to the free exercise of our faculties, to our noblest desires, to our deepest feelings. Any plan which could be devised for reconciling it with the demands of the individual reason and will would end only in changing the thing while preserving the name. Now, if we are honest truth-seekers, we shall avoid disputes about words.… Property, in its turn, violates equality by the rights of exclusion and increase, and freedom by despotism. The former effect of property having been sufficiently developed in the last three chapters [which we have yet to read… - P.S.], I will content myself here with establishing by a final comparison, its perfect identity with robbery. [If 'property' is known by the right to dispose… as one wishes… of a thing existing… or a thing incipient… then we are possessed by parents and markets conditionally… and by the state wholly… Prince… in an interview… describes the shock with which it sunk in that an industry executive was staking his claim to a song he hadn't written yet… What does this suggest?… – P.S.]”

 

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Prince Songs For Our November 27, 2016 Show:

 

[“01 Wow.mp3”:]

 

“Wow” by Prince and ThirdEyeGirl: “Like a bee to some honey; a moth to a flame… We've got an addiction and we got him to blame… We never saw it coming 'cause he made no claims… 'til now… You can call it the unexpected or you can call it… wow!…” [Prince and ThirdEyeGirl, “Wow”, PlectrumElectrum, 2014]

 

[“12 ...Back 2 The Lotus.mp3”:]

 

“…Back 2 The Lotus” by Prince: “From a lotus flower… from my inner… corner of my… from within the clouds… animal of your seed… the forms are……” [Prince, “…Back 2 The Lotus”, Lotusflow3r, 2009]

 

[“01 It.mp3”:]

 

“It” by Prince: “I think about IT baby all the time, all right… IT feels so good IT must be a crime, all right… I wanna do IT baby every day, all right… In a bed, on the stairs, anywhere, all right… I wanna do IT baby all the time, all right… Cuz when we do IT girl, IT's so divine, all right… I could be guilty 4 my honesty, all right… But I've got 2 tell U what U mean 2 me, all right (all right)… With U I swear, I'm a maniac, all right… U see IT ain't no joke, just a natural fact, all right… I wanna do IT baby all the time, all right… Cuz when we do IT girl, IT's so divine, all right…” [Prince, “It”, Sign O' The Times, 1987]

 

[“04 Anna Stesia.mp3”:]

 

“Anna Stesia” by Prince: “Have you ever been so lonely that you felt like you were the only one in this world… Have you ever wanted to play with someone so much you'd take anyone… boy or girl… Anna Stesia come to me… talk to me… ravish me… liberate my mind… tell me what you think of me… praise me… craze me… out this space and time… Between white and black… night and day… Black night… seemed like the only way… so I danced… Music… nothing great… no way to differentiate… I took a chance… Maybe… maybe… maybe… I could learn to love… I mean the right way… I mean the only way… Perhaps… you could show me baby… Maybe… maybe… maybe… I could learn to love… if I was just closer to somethin'… (Closer…) (Closer to your higher self?…) I don't know… (Closer…) (Closer to heaven?…) Maybe… (Closer to God…) Save me Jesus… I been a fool… how could I forget that you are the rule… you are my God… I am your child… from now on… for you… I shall be wild!… I shall be quick… I shall be strong… I'll tell your story… no matter how long… No matter… no matter… no matter… for you… We're just a play in your master plan… now my lord I understand… (Understand…) Love is God… God is Love… Girls and boys… Love God above… Love is God… God is Love… Girls and Boys… Love God above… Love is God… God is Love… Anna Stesia come to me… talk to me… ravish me… liberate my mind… tell me what you think of me… praise me… craze me… out this space and time… Love is God… God is Love… Girls and Boys… Love God above…” [Prince, “Anna Stesia”, Lovesexy, 1988]

 

[“15 And God Created Woman.mp3”:]

 

“And God Created Woman” by Prince: “In a deep sleep I fell… And the music starts 2 swell… One of my ribs He took and it shall be… Bone of my bones (bone of my bones)… And God created woman… And we were naked and did not care… There's a time 2 take and a time 2 share… 2 in love, all around and all aware… Flesh of my flesh (flesh of my flesh)… And God created woman… Temptation sweet and so much (sweet and so much)… Surely die if neither one of us shall ye touch (shall ye touch)… Then again we could die from the rush (rush)… Heart of my heart (heart of my heart)… And God created woman (woman)… Woman… My-my-my-my-my-my woman… In my darkest hour I find… Many serpents who have lied (lies)… Given half the chance still I'd run 2 your side (run 2 your side)… Love of my love (love of my love)… And God created woman (woman)… And if I never see u again… It's alright 4 I am guilty of no sin… They can have u, I'll have your love in the end… Soul of my soul (soul of my soul)… And God created woman…” [Prince, “And God Created Woman”, Symbol, 1992]

 

[“16 Wherever U Go, Whatever U Do.mp3”:]

 

“Wherever U Go, Whatever U Do” by Prince: “Oh-ooh… Wherever U go, whatever U do… Ooh please, remember that I'll always be there 4 U… U don't have 2 call, U don't have 2 say… Just think about me and I'll be on my way… I don't have 2 worry, I'm sure U'll be fine… Cuz if U stay happy, then what's your's is mine… Wherever U go, whatever U do… Remember that I'll always be there 4 U… (Ooh Baby)… Wherever U R, think of your dreams… Ooh please, remember life ain't always what it seems… 4 each rainy day (rainy day)… That comes your way… The sun will come shining and U'll be okay… Keep on smiling - every girl and boy… Remember when U were children U had toys… Wherever U R, think of your dreams… Remember that dreams become the life U lead… Whatever U play, it's okay 2 lose… Ooh sometimes (sometimes…)… As long as U learn from every game U choose… If one thing is sure, U'll always endure… If U try your best at everything U do… Say what U mean and mean what U say… The price 4 a broken heart's 2 much 2 pay… And nothing is worth it, if U don't have 2 try… The higher the stakes - the higher the sky… Wherever U go, whatever U do… Please remember… Remember that I'll always be there 4 U…” [Prince, “Wherever U Go, Whatever U Do”, Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, 1999]

 

[“12 Family Name.mp3”:]

 

“Family Name” by Prince… Chapter 12 of “The Rainbow Children”: “Welcome. U have just accessed the Akashic Records Genetic Information Division. This program is required 4 those wishing 2 obtain a marriage blessing from The Kingdom. When u wish 2 begin this program, place ur right hand on the scanner and tightly clench up ur buttcheeks as u might feel a slight electrical shock. Please select the race history u desire. U have selected African-American. This is your history: First of all, the term "black and white" is a fallacy. It simply is another way of saying "this or that". Let's examine the term "this or that" in its ultimate form which is: "this" means the truth or "that which is resistant 2 it. When a minority realizes its similarities on a higher level - not just "black"- but PEOPLE OF COLOR, and higher still "INDIGENOUS", and even higher still, "FROM THE TRIBE OF.", and yet higher- the "RAINBOW CHILDREN". When this understanding comes, the so-called minority becomes a majority in the wink of an eye. This action will cause a Reaction or Resistance. The source of this Resistance must b banished as it is in direct conflict with the initial action. It cannot be assimilated, 4 its very nature is resistance. In other words, ONE CANNOT SERVE 2 MASTERS. U r either "this" or "that" which is not "this"…” [Prince, “Family Name”, Rainbow Children, 2001]

 

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Our November 20, 2016 Show:

 

[“161120powermustendforlovetolive_1.mp3”:]

 

While it's been noted that Prince was about 'bringing the love'… I have not heard anyone point out that 'bringing the love' also means returning (modeling) an independent thought-process… because 'thought' is the daughter or son of love… which springs from the Infinite – and that to 'bring the love' in any meaningful sense… we have to end this system premised on its opposite …and I have heard no discussion of what is required to accomplish this project… Prince released this song in 1996… the year of his baby's death (one day I hope to get clearer on the chronology of the events of his life…) a death I do not believe was an 'unfortunate fate' or an 'act of God'… but the intended effect of a laser-weapon into the head of an in utero infant: “I will walk this road, I will, I will… It's gonna be hard but I know, I will, I will… People come and they'll go, but I'll still, I still… Face up to the truth and just grow, I will, I will… I will fight this fight, I will, I will… I will sleep 2night, I will, I will… Ive been down before, but I still, I still… Remember what I came 4, I will, I will…” [Prince, “I Will”, Chaos and Disorder, 1996] After reading Alice Prince might have added a stanza or two: “As a child they tortured you… I know… I know… And it left you broken in two… I know… I know… And all your feelings froze… and so… and so… The tears they just won't flow… you can't let them go… But this grief that no one sees… I will… I will… Spoken it will unfreeze… it will… it will… Our love will be like the sea… it will… it will… That our grief runs to meet… once it… is seen… it will…” Point being: 'bringing the love' ain't easy… but we must remind ourselves daily: “I will… I will…”

 

[“161120letsplanfreedomnotprotest_2.mp3”:]

 

[The batteries died during the discussion of “The ATM Machine” so some of that commentary was lost… – P.S.]

 

What does it mean to be 'antisystemic'?… Doesn't it mean that you out hidden-'power' by bringing its opposite?: up-front… assertive… unapologetic… emphatic… love… Who does this but Prince? And don't we need someone as dazzling as he… to pull our eyes away from 'power'… and the fear it continuously re-seeds?… Isn't this 'power'-imperative – to reclaim our eyes and keep us afraid… to impregnate us unceasingly with fear (and to provide to us a cornucopia of designer-'protests' to choose from… and so divert our energy for 'protest' into the next generation… the damage the 'power'-lustful can do behind the front of Trump – which they will then blame on us … “because 'we' voted for him…” – is infinite…) – isn't this 'power'-imperative what the dramatic insertion of Trump into our prospects for an open future… isn't this what it was designed to accomplish?… to get us all wistful and weepy for the kind… 'fatherly'… state?… and so isn't what we're seeing the current 'power'-guys' iteration of the 'Cold Bath Treatment'-staple in their “Keep them off-balance and insecure” bag-of-duplicitous-tricks for staying in control?… Do we really want to spend our time on the planet reacting to what 'power' does to us?… or do we want to start planning the alternative? (…and let's never forget their biggest trick…grabbing all the land (the money… honey…) and hanging onto it: When we say that finite resources cannot sustain this 'system'… it's important to the effectiveness of our practices that we help reinforce with each other an understanding of what 'the system' is… that by 'the system' we do not mean 'capitalism'… but 'class'… i.e. a 'system' in which the Tiny Few continuously reduce the amount of earth available to everyone 'not-them'… or 'not-needed' to sustain the illusion of a 'meritocracy'… We have been arguing that an authentic definition of 'the economy' is: “a mechanism or process for continuously reducing the amount of earth available to 'commoners'… while continuously consolidating the whole of the earth's resources (including 'the people' themselves…) into the hands of those who plan to establish themselves as planetary 'rulers' who can never be unseated by any group or groups of 'commoners'…” Doesn't what we have been calling 'capitalism' accomplish that? Is that not a 'wonderful' machine for accomplishing that?

 

[“161120thegoalshakesouttheagents_3.mp3”:]

 

We were just talking about the ATM Machine… and the strategic reason… from the perspective of 'power'… for inserting Trump into our prospects for a free future… So this 'ATM Machine"… we've been arguing is the Big Con: grabbing all the land… all the resources… and then training us to be obedient… predictable… functionaries… who are trained to respond to the stimulus (carrot) of money… and to the carrot of recognition… because resources are made scarce… love and appreciation and attention are made scarce… Point being: we are created (by 'power') to be small intentionally… This is never discussed on the Left… except by Prince… and Alice Miller… a few folk… which we don't get to have our discussions of… and that has to change for us to grow bigger… (They also have some less soaring but nonetheless pressing tasks to finish up – [and… it should also be remembered… and always kept within our hearts – the advise Jesus and many other wise-guides-to-love gave: we know each other by our acts… and… in 'power's case… they are known particularly by their acts in interrelation and synthesized – i.e.… we see their intentions by their acts (the only reason to read their propaganda-sheet…) and their hidden hand is becoming ever-more-transparent with their insertion of Trump and his 'scary unpredictability' – and on this tip we owe Hillary Clinton a debt: she forced the 'power'-guys' hand… and I will be forever grateful to her for that…] …for instance… they really want to bring their boy Edward Snowden home [I mean – and this is not the only suggestive item – a full-page ad in the New York Times that says “Bring Our Boy Home” – or words to that effect – evidences this (wherever money is flowing 'power's hand is holding the urn… “Black Lives Matter” again comes to mind… [they really want to set Barack up to take the hit historically for what they're calling (for instance in the New York Times of November 14, 2016) the imposition of a “harsher security” regime in the U.S.])] and… obvious from even before the Republican nomination was up for grabs… they like House Speaker Paul D. Ryan for the 'Say-so seat' (the presidency…) Now… who's to say their timeline… and they do take pride in 'looking long'… and they must – as Plato told them and Kissinger repeated – temper the 'ideal' with 'the possible' (always changing…) but it's hard to miss that the global-statesmen are worrying their bits in this moment… else I doubt they would have brought us the theater piece “Trump the Extreme” (doesn't the bile rise to think of it: that in the eyes of the global-statesmen our deaths and misery are just their chips-and-cheese and entertainment they munch for lunch…) And doesn't this mean then… that we must… with an equal force to their thrust of him on us… turn away from their horror-story-theatrics… and begin designing our loving alternative… initiated… as Prince recommends… with music… dance… and a regenerative romance – a holy respect and appreciation for each other's bodies (a state cannot… could never… do this for us – only we can do this… for each other… Statesmen are in the way of this… necessary… evolution to love…) and a 'holy respect' for each other's bodies (disrespect of our bodies is the core of this 'system' called 'control-us-ad-infinitum…) means we don't try to coerce each other… don't attempt to subtly… or obviously… overtax each other's creative gifts (our love – and I'm talking about when we all come together to plan that party for Prince and our One Day Global General Strike – that is the goal… and that shakes out the agents… trying to disrupt that basic goal is how they 'out' themselves… because we ain't trying to coerce nobody… we ask for help with our particular project… we got a good idea… people vote with their feet: "OK I'll help you do that… that makes sense to me…" but it is key that we begin re-growing… kickstarting… our authentic thought-process… We have not been aware… because we haven't been discussing these issues consciously… the degree to which the thoughts we think are 'power'-given and re-circulated [Prince gives us new thoughts to think…] We need to begin to think authentically… that means working with these fresh ideas that we hear together by discussing the texts that have been suppressed… including Prince… and with these suppressed ideas begin thinking new thoughts… and sharing them with each other – thinking for ourselves… Thinking for ourselves restarts our process of developing love and empathy – tied… as it must be… with our grief at what has been done to us in having our authentic self stolen from us…)

 

[“161120nocoercioninfreedomwork_4.mp3”:]

 

Let me just finish this thought: what it means to respect each other's bodies… and to not make demands on each other's creative abilities – what I'm trying to say… is that it would be easy… as this is the conditioning… to slip back into that mode of trying to control other people's energy… and this is what we're going to be discussing with each other: the degree to which coercion is totally… that our words… our thoughts… are totally saturated with this 'need' to get others to do our work: what we want to accomplish… and by this measure we gauge our power in the world… So we're going to have to support each other in regenerating our independent thought-process… and in trusting that process… So no force is needed when it comes to planning our One-Day-Global-General-Strike… and our Party For Prince… and none – whether as a mere hint or a hammer – must be tolerated – if folks don't want to do it… they don't want to do it… we work with the folks who want a free future… and then we try to grow our numbers by the sheer magnetic… captivating… and charismatic display of ourselves doing this Freedom-Work…) Our tool… our source… rather… that with which our ideas and actions are fueled… is just the resurgent stimulus of life renewed and unrecumbent… that's all we need to urge us on… the longing to see each other as we are meant to be… brilliant… joyful… startling… funny… and loving…

 

[“161120withprincewewantourbodiesback_5.mp3”:]

 

I don't know if you can hear these drones but I'm getting hammered pretty good… it's constant so please bear with me… it's gonna be that way until it ain't… I have accepted the reality that only a movement… only us moving forward… not 'protesting'… but moving for what we want: our bodies back… and talking about that… and having discussions and planning sessions and dance and song about that – that creativity blossoming of freedom is what makes their EMF weapons untenable: too many targets… and… little by little… we break out of their hold… and they then have to confront the reality that we are aware of 'the weapon'… and will be forced… at some point… to own its existence and their possession of it… and decide: 'what then?' – how they are going to cope with the fact that we know… Their m.o. is: 'just keep lying and lying and lying'. Ours must be: 'eyes on the prize at all times…' Ideas blossom in unexpected ways in the fertility of mutual re-energizing… re-becoming – if our mental soil has been adequately prepared… our heart sprouts ideas… and vice versa… We said that 'bringing the love' means returning (modeling) an independent thought-process… This is so because the absence of love (which our bodies note when we arrive…) is a puzzle we can't work out in a totalitarian system… as… a totalitarian system bans by tacit global-statesmen-agreement and by the implied decree of the uniformity of thought built into its social arrangements and conditioning – via the institutions of 'class': 'education'… 'media'… and 'childrearing' – the thoughts we need to gain a clear picture of our actual condition… that we are captive living beings who were made by the earth for freedom… and so… when we are unable to figure out this 'original puzzle'… our minds circle 'round it fruitlessly… i.e.… 'Thought' gets 'stuck'… but (as George Eliot said…) “feeling's a kind of knowledge…” that can help us get 'un-stuck'… We are unpacking in this space some conclusions we arrived at with the help of Alice Miller (using her book For Your Own Good…): that the suppression of our authentic-ness… our 'true self'… our spontaneous feelings… which our parents force us to do… in their mis-guided service to the state (the 'power'-guys…) driven by the fear that otherwise we would be punished (which no doubt is true… but this doesn't mean we run from the necessity to fight for freedom…) that the theft of our wholeness necessarily makes us 'small'… and that to get it back… we have to see the opposite: 'big'… This… in a sense… is the method in Prince's broader strategy for 'decommissioning' 'the system': he models 'big'… and 'partying-big'… and makes us want both – a joyful expressing of our body's voice in joyful engagement with our fellows – and in wanting what he has… we are wanting our original selves back… our original joy… Prince knows this… and encourages us repeatedly to follow his lead…

 

[“161120rapenoncultureofclass_6.mp3”:]

 

We need each other to feel truly glorious… lovable… unconquerable… 'big' (and I'm talking about the groups we work together in… and I know we have to confront the issue of 'trust'… and Prince is going to be very helpful here as well…) – or at least it's a whole lot easier when we support each other in becoming and being so – and we need to feel truly glorious to want to defend our right to 'be it'… for ourselves and others… seeing each other's worth as we do 'the Work' (this is a quality of Prince that is key to the freshness of his writing: he paid attention to the people and the world around him… this quality of authentic-thinking is necessarily connected to the quality of 'being love'… it stands out in his lyrics from Day One… For instance… when he says: “We live in a world overrun by tourists… They look at life through a pocket camera… Half of the staff of their brain is on vacation… Mama, are u listening?… We need a new breed – Leaders, Stand Up, Organize… [From the song "Sexuality" (we're going to have to discuss that… the connection between 'sexuality' and "Stand up! Organize!"…) in the CD… Controversy (1981)] – or when he says in the song “New Power Generation” [from the CD Graffiti Bridge (1990)]: “Pardon us for caring, we didn't know it was against the rules… If we only want to love one another… Then tell me now who's the fool?…” – "who's lost their thought-process…" in essence…) spoken to those who have been told what to think from infancy… Next week we'll think more deeply about how Prince sees expressing sexuality honestly [more difficult than we thought…] challenges the 'rape-non-culture-of-class'…)

 

[“161120thegoalistheenginedrivingus_7.mp3”:]

 

So while it feels as if we're 'just' engaged in one long party… we're actually envisioning and concretizing the future we want… in which problems get solved effortlessly… because the focus… the goal… is the engine driving all of us: we are consciously there to face and undo our wounds of 'class'… and to plan the (global) infrastructure needed to support each one of us being fully self-determining – that's what we're there for… everybody we are working with… in whatever space we are in… working on it… that's what they are there for… and if they are not… that becomes evident pretty quick… and we get through it… by dancing… I'm beginning to see… and I want to get clearer on this… – and problems get solved effortlessly because we trust… the collective 'mind'… 'soul'… and 'body'… of us… – once we are shakin' our collective mind-body-and-soul together… the earth tends us into sync (and our thought-process is going to expand exponentially as we watch this happen…) i.e.… we trust the process and the basic concept: individual material-and-soul-sufficiency is necessary for the individual to be the initiator and implementor of 'policy' – at the center of decision-making: that is… the basic unit of political organization… the process… then… must model the objective… It is the intention behind the act that elevates or debases it… We get together to party and support each other's goals… not to tell each other what to do…

 

[“161120nikolateslaintroducesrobotics_8.mp3”:]

 

And if we find ourselves outnumbered… and this is possible… that is to say… our focus on the One-Day-Global-General Strike / Prince Party is somehow being nullified… or negated… or vetoed… because we were such a threat that our group is almost wholly agents… if we find that we're back to working independently… we must trust our independent thought-process… and as we do this… as we get strong… we're able to withstand the pressure of being outnumbered … that's a real pressure that hopefully will be part of our discussions… Continuing our excerpt from Margaret Cheney's Tesla: Man Out Of Time… Earlier in the book… in chapter 12… “Robots”… Margaret Cheney… describing an event in Tesla's life in 1898… writes: “It was not on the whole, however, a comfortable time for a man of dark complexion and foreign accent to be an American… [Nikola] was hoping, after an impending exhibition at Madison Square Garden, to interest the government in his very latest wonders. [And I think that we have to know… that he did… – P.S.] The day for which Tesla the inventor had been working and waiting arrived in the midst of martial distractions… The demonstration of the world's first radio-controlled robot boat by Tesla failed to make the splash it deserved, not only because it was overshadowed by the war, but because he made the mistake of presenting more than the public could absorb at once. The remarkable stage of development to which he had carried wireless, the forerunner of modern radio, would have been quite enough; but to introduce automation simultaneously, as he did, was probably too great a leap. On that day in 1898 when he demonstrated the common ancestor of modern guided weapons and vehicles, of automated industry, and of robotry, he was introducing an idea for which the world would not be ready for many years.” [Nothing illustrates the 'plunder-mindset' of the 'power'-guys… which Proudhon will school us on next week… as the story of the their theft of Nikola Tesla's inventions…]

 

[“161120conditionedmindsetofconquest_9.mp3”:]

 

In our August 28, 2016 show… we noted (thanks to Karl Popper…) that to attempt to impose a closed (totalitarian… or 'communist' – which the ancient society of Sparta was [on which Plato based the Republic…] – whatever the tag a branch of the tree 'Class' uses… it teaches 'its' people to think: “I am nothing… the state is all…” – this is the base content of all the institutions of 'class'…) that to attempt to impose a closed system of thought ('class') on people is to arrest 'thought' in them… and in the broader social arrangement – global… and in all of its parts… In that show we also quoted John… from the New Testament: “God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment [when 'power' tests us… – P.S.]: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. (John 1, 4: 16 – 21)]…” and asked: 'What is the route by which love for our freedom becomes the imperative for love for all my Sisters and Brothers?…' What we've been discussing – in our synthesis… since the murder of Prince… our synthesis of Prince's strategy for global human freedom with what we've learned from Alice Miller and others about what gets in the way of it – we've been discussing how it is that when thought is arrested… simultaneously are empathy and love arrested… Prince's mission is Alice's mission: to get us 'un-stuck'… thaw our frozen feelings… get us out of our 'heads' – i.e.… 'power's conditioned mindset (which inspires suppressed rage and instills paralyzing fear…) – Prince… analyzing this problem correctly devoted his energies to getting us back… situated comfortably… in our bodies… Our recent shows have been viewing the mindset of 'power' – which… being expressly totalitarian can be viewed… examined… and understood from many angles – from the perspective of 'theft'… the original theft of 'the soul'… perpetrated by parents… at the behest of the state: the child's spirit is conquered – fear is instilled – and here begins the 'rape-culture' mindset of 'power' – the 'plunder-mindset': “Take what you want… you need not respect ownership…” No thought is involved in it so it cannot be reasoned with… it is a mindless compulsion to 'be' (manifest 'perfectly'…) a function… and to perform for the reward of recognition dangled… To this compulsion – base service to the “plunder-mindset of 'power'”… to rip off Nikola… to rip off Prince… as their own creativity is dead… is a 'triumph'…

 

[“161120thesepowerguysaretheweak_10.mp3”:]

 

Proudhon: “Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is the exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. [(Think of Nikola… think of Prince… they are the strong… these 'power'-guys are the weak… it is exactly the opposite of what they want us to think…) Writing… as he was… in the 1830's… his authentic concept of 'communism' – similar only in the broad sense of a 'collective ownership' – is not what we've been 'taught' (i.e.… absorbed via the 'power'-fed-media…) to think of when we hear the word… its unity with 'totalitarianism'… though… as Popper shows us… is obvious not just in Plato's philosophy… but obvious once we subject it to an authentic thought process… To Proudhon… writing within the context of an incipient global-'class'-system… the full-blown monster raging around us today would be a nightmare too shocking to contemplate… were it not that he undoubtedly would also see the counter-balance blossoming around us as well… Our full-blossoming in Freedom… Maxim Gorky knew [seen in his novel Mother…] will mean our mutual brilliance will startle our eyes… cause our hearts to cry for joy… to be and meet at last who we truly are… - P.S.] In property, inequality of conditions is the result of force, under whatever name it be disguised; physical and mental force; force of events, chance, fortune; force of accumulated property, etc. [Such an important point… never discussed… and particularly now… with the abundance of our gifts - stolen - surfeiting in 'overproduction'… is discussion of this suppressed: Whence comes the coercion? Why do we put up with it?… Nikola Tesla's inventions alone free us from the need for any coercion in the sharing of our gifts with each other… - P.S.] In communism, inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence [No… as Prince points out and demonstrates… this is a tactic and product of 'class'… to make us easier to control… - P.S.] Communism is oppression and slavery. [Slow-wit that I am these days… it just occurred that he is describing… whether he has it in mind is another matter… the communism of Plato… i.e totalitarianism… Popper has explained this exhaustively - the community of men and women and all the property held in common was intended… as Proudhon says… to strip the human being of all personality and render him or her but shadows of the state… robots… 'yes-men-and-women'… in word: obedient… that's not how we came… that's how we had to be made… from infancy on up… from 'power's perspective… so that they would have a free rein to implement their fantasy… trained in them… by their mis-guided parents… So it's time for us to stop helping them… and rather help each other's freedom live in the world around us… – P.S.]” – Our outro song from Prince is “Baby Knows” from Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic… and I hope you're thinking about in what sense dance is going to get us through the minefields of infiltration…

 

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Prince songs For Our November 20, 2016 Show:

 

[“08 HardRockLover.mp3”:]

 

“HardRockLover” by Prince: “She walked into the party… And dared me to live up to her dreams… We 'bout to get it started… Turn my guitar up so I can make this woman scream!” [Prince, “HardRockLover”, HitnRun Phaze One, 2015]

 

[“09 Whole Lotta Love.mp3”:]

 

“Whole Lotta Love” by Prince: “We have a whole lotta love…” [Prince, "Whole Lotta Love", Indigo Nights, 2007]

 

[“11 Indigo Nights.mp3”:]

 

“Indigo Nights” by Prince: “London knows how to party” [Prince, “Indigo Nights”, Indigo Nights, 2007]

 

[09 I Will.mp3”:]

 

“I Will” by Prince: “I will walk this road, I will, I will… It's gonna be hard but I know, I will, I will… People come and they'll go, but I'll still, I still… Face up to the truth and just grow, I will, I will… I will fight this fight, I will, I will… I will sleep 2night, I will, I will… Ive been down before, but I still, I still… Remember what I came 4, I will, I will… I will get 2 U, I will, I will… And then I'll help U get thru, I will, I will… U've preyed on many a fool, until, until… No one cared about U, but I will, I will…” [Prince, “I Will”, Chaos and Disorder, 1996]

 

[“11 She Loves Me 4 Me.mp3”:]

 

“She Loves Me 4 Me” by Prince… Part 11 of “The Rainbow Children”: “This one I can b what I wanna b… I don't have 2 live up 2 no one's fantasy… I could write another 300 melodies… 2 her it's just 3, cuz this one.… She Loves Me 4 Me… With this one I don't even have 2 comb my hair… I can wear what I want 2… Or nothing she don't care… I don't even have 2 take her on the rollercoaster c… Cuz this one, this one, She Loves Me 4 Me… In the morning,… When I rise and c her eyes… Look deep in2 mine… I find a better place… This one I can tell all my secrets 2… I don't need 2 make her swear she would never tell anywho… Besides I'm the only one she ever really wants 2 c… Cuz this one, honestly, She Loves Me 4 Me… When the night falls… And she calls… I run 2 her side… Cuz she got the ride that I like 2 ride… I like to ride it… This one I can take over my momma's house… And I don't have 2 worry what goes in and out her mouth… All she needs is just a little gratuity… She don't like no beef, she just loves me 4 me… she just loves me 4 me… This one, This one, She Loves Me 4 Me…” [Prince, “She Loves Me 4 Me”, Rainbow Children, 2001]

 

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Our November 13, 2016 Show:

 

[“161113anutterlyfalseworld_1.mp3”:]

 

The fear with which the global-statesmen absorbed the election of Barack Obama… and then his election again… is perhaps best measured by their relentless efforts – testified to by an almost daily dose of it in the 'power'-fed media – their relentless efforts to both create and make us believe in a 'widening racial divide'… They are very busy with this right now… constructing the story that Barack's election meant exactly the opposite of its actual meaning… and the story that… when we have the chance to make history by electing the first woman U.S. president – and not just any woman… but the most supremely qualified person for that gig around… the electorate – one in which people of color and women play an increasingly influential part – 'inexplicably' lost their minds and voted for a man who boasts of hating both… a 'mystery' the propaganda-sheet 'explains' by their invented 'widening racial divide'. If it sounds like fiction… it's because it is fiction… a construction… and they are able to get away with this because we are kept atomized… I mean think about that Panopticon… if we can't see or talk to each other except through the medium of them… how are we gonna know what each other thinks?… and they exploit that to the max… I guess we know now how it was Trump could run-to-lose… and nonetheless still 'win': during the campaign I couldn't figure him out… how it was he could be so absolutely unconcerned about running for president – and he's a practiced performer… I never bought for a minute that he was 'authentic'… that he just said whatever odd thing came into his head – I mean whoever heard of a person who was running for U.S. president going off to play golf in Scotland in the middle of a campaign?… not caring how he performed in a debate… brushing off a video in which he boasts of groping women… Now I get it… he wasn't running like he wanted to lose… he was running like he knew he couldn't lose… [There is always I suppose… given the times we are living in… the possibility he was running to lose and the 'power'-guys are making him lie in their bed… but whichever way it was… he is putty in their hands… a puppet… We are living in an utterly false world… so false in fact… that… as Prince has pointed out… the falseness must flip on them… i.e.… the overwhelming falseness causes to be generated the counter-balance… more and more of us are feeling that we must be that… the counter-balance… And I would be the last person to suggest the “power-of-the-one” doesn't exist… So in the event we are looking at an example of it… a grand gesture… I strongly recommend to him… and to all of us… “punch a higher floor…” We must all refuse to be moved by the strings [unless they're Prince's guitar-strings…] and when we do… soon it will be impossible to believe they had ever been…

 

[“161113letschoosefreedomforallofus_2.mp3”:]

 

The Plato's Tribesmen are going to pretend they didn't install this guy as president but rather keep pushing the message that we did – we-the-people – because we are 'so divided'… and then gleefully encourage us to blame each other for whatever befalls us… in the way of our 'civil liberties' loss… as a result… These guys have such contempt for us… with heads so swollen with their own hubris… swollen largely due to their theft of the inventions of Nikola Tesla – they imagine we will accept whatever noose they decide to strangle us with (and though it is obvious… it should perhaps be said that the statesmen are supported in their intentions by the 'professional Left' – only those who would corroborate 'power's key messages in this moment will be allowed access to our thought-process…) for example… though I find it difficult to tune in our local so-called 'progressive' station because of its 'left-version' propaganda… I did this week a couple times… before I knew the outcome of the election… and both times I heard a key 'power'-guy-message being dutifully regurgitated… i.e.: “the Democratic Party has only itself to blame for nominating someone so 'unelectable' [and this pundit had the shamelessness to say this even though she won the popular vote… despite 'power's vote-theft…] This fabrication – that she was disliked by the electorate – was put out every other day in the New York Times for what felt like the entire campaign… precisely… I'm certain… to make it so… but I never bought that it worked as bombarding-self-fulfilling prophesy… women (and a lot of men…) wanted to see a woman become U.S. president… appreciated her grasp of the issues and coolness under pressure – there is none more capable for the position… which means she could offer resistance to the Plato's Tribesmen… if there is no one in that seat that can offer resistance to them at all… we planning global freedom have a much more difficult time… which is why I'm so disappointed that we have not figured out how to expose this [“man-in-the-middle”] tactic and counter it in some way… Although I'm really hoping that it becomes moot at this point… that we have seen enough of the dirty tricks and ugliness of this 'system'… that we no longer need to go through this song-and-dance of trying to… as Prince says… “choose the lesser of two dangers…” but rather… choose freedom… for all of us…

 

[“161113spacebattletoolinthemiddle_3.mp3”:]

 

If they can angle drones off in the distance and suck up my little contribution to 'The Work' (…and the tech-people the 'power'-guys are likewise busily trying to divide us from have to know this 'man-in-the-middle' technique – outed repeatedly now as part of the global-statesmen's arsenal of election-stealing tricks [the man credited for designing in during the selection of Bush conveniently (for 'power') was killed in a plane crash] – have to believe that it was a factor in this 'miraculous' 'win' for Trump. For instance I unearthed a story from a couple months back about a (so-far) ill-fated collaboration between Mark Zuckerberg and 'SpaceX' (which is part of the 'Tesla' motor company… and has the Space Station cargo-delivery contract [which… once we learn more about the Pentagon's 'Space Battleship”… mentioned by Margaret Cheney… may prove more than just ironic…]) – their “$200 million communications satellite that would have extended Facebook's reach across Africa…” – Mark Zuckerberg hoped it would “provide wireless connectivity to nations across the world that do not otherwise have easy internet access… [including connectivity] to large parts of sub-Saharan Africa…” – exploded as it was about to launch. “Along with satellite coverage, Facebook is teaming with local internet providers [in Kenya] to offer access, and is also building its own drones – the first of which is named Aquila – to beam internet connectivity down to cities…” (Kenneth Chang, Mike Isaac and Matt Richtel, “SpaceX Explosion Puts Big Goals of Facebook and Musk Into Question,” The New York Times, September 2, 2016) – and that beam… as opposed to the one they killed Prince [and blast me…] with… goes both ways…)

 

[“161113skytrailstoampuptheemf_4.mp3”:]

 

If they can angle drones off in the distance and suck up my little contribution to 'The Work'… what do you suppose they did with the data that determines who holds the office on which they've fixated with such an ill lust… such a fierce covetousness… for this chess piece to hold among their 'assets' – 'assets' for putting us in a hold they believe we can't get out of? But it's important that we never forget that it is a global-system-of-'power' that confronts us… which means that it's imperative that we reach hands across the interstate system and plan together our freedom… globally… Initially I wrote about challenging the vote… but how could such a discussion even begin when we don't have our own media? This problem continues to press on us… but it need not impede our convening a global day of work-stoppage for planning our global alternative to the current fear-and-force-based system (…not having our own media need not impede our using social media to organize a Global General Strike… – at least for now… but I think we have to see this Trump-insertion as a threat as well to our ability to use social media tools for global action planning… the 'power'-guys are already dropping signs in The New York Times (to get us all 'adjusted' to the idea… that our leashes must get much tighter… between the lines of this for instance: “…it seems clear that a shift is in the offing… Leaders of these [tech] behemoths… want to make money, sure, but they also wanted to make the world a better place, to offer a kine of social justice through code… offering a kind of radical connectivity that they promised would lead to widespread peace and prosperity [Note to any tech folk of good heart: Please listen again to Prince's song “Loose!”… which I posted to the Blog page near the current date… which opens with the line “Wake Up People!”… if you truly want “widespread peace and prosperity” keep listening to this show and start thinking some new thoughts on how to get there… – P.S.] Much of the wealth generated by the five biggest American tech companies flows to young liberals in California and the Pacific Northwest, exactly the sort of 'global elites' Mr. Trump railed against in his campaign…” [Oh please… if you want to picture 'global elites' think 'Henry Kissinger' or 'Bill Gates' – he's definitely up there… got the inside scoop… helping them with (funding) the 'geo-engineering' / 'chem-trails' false-trail… Whenever they're trying to amp up the stream that is hitting me those trails are all over the sky… going with me wherever I go… so I know it is about the use of that weapon… I absolutely know that… Prince saw them everywhere too – they were using them to hurt him…

 

[“161113princedemandsanswersfromkissinger_5.mp3”:]

 

And in addition… the global-statesmen have already set up the lines of battle to keep us divided internationally in their various versions of the 'us-and-them' global-divide-and-conquer play… to forestall our determination to come together… they hope ad infinitum… These two titles from the November 11, 2016 New York Times give you the idea: “A Well-Armed Trade War: If Trump Moves to Squeeze China, He Could Inflict Pain, But Beijing Would Have Ways to Counterattack,” and “Russia Prepares to Block LinkedIn…” This edition also mentions that China has wasted no time clamping down even harder on Hong Kong… and we know Russia feels likewise empowered vis-a-vis 'her' 'closed-in-and-captured' (the paper the next day brought more bad news along these same lines… about the 'license to abuse' states are seizing globally…) Given the speed with which the global-statesmen are moving… it feels more and more urgent for we here in the U.S. to link organizing a global day of work-stoppage in order to plan a global-society based in opposite operating premises (to 'class' / 'power' / 'rule'…) with a referendum on our right to happiness… and this tied to exposure of the state's use of EMF weapons against individual U.S. citizens – an inquiry that demands an answer from Henry Kissinger as to his knowledge about how early… and how… these weapons have been employed by the state… …and most importantly for its success (as we'll be discussing…) let's make a work-stoppage for designing the infrastructure of… and planning steps for achieving… a global society based in individual material-sufficiency and non-coercion… a party in memory of Prince… who worked so hard for us to have just this… our freedom… gave his life so that we might achieve it… and has set us up with all the music we could ever want… to amplify our need to be free… Prince expressed what it feels like to be assaulted with EMF weapons… by using his slowed-down voice to convey that sense of electric-paralysis that makes you feel frozen and clogged… mucus-thick and painfully-slowed… And he testified to this assault as well by employing recurring themes: being stuck in a soulless machine… being the target of professional killers… the expectation of an early death… and… especially when he was a young man… the notion that he was being confronted… assaulted… by… an utterly alien (alien to him… to love…) force… that for some reason he could not fathom felt threatened by him… The song “1999” (released in 1982) opens with this voice saying: “Don't worry… I won't hurt you… I only want you to have some fun…” with a drumbeat that sounds like his slowed-down heart… “Download: a veiled form of fascism… Nothing really ever changes… U never had a voice… If you look, ur sure gonna find… Thruout mankind's history… A colonized mind… The one in power makes law… Under which the colonized fall…” (“Colonized Mind”, Lotusflow3r, 2009)… or: “But I got news for you… Freedom ain't free… They lock you in a cell if you try to be… But the ones who say no, make history… Call it an act of God… Funny how nobody's holy books are the same… Everybody's God got a different name… The day that it's over is the end of the game…” ("Act of God", 2010, 2010)

 

[“161113feelgrieftofeelloveisthework_6.mp3”:]

 

Prince told the absolute truth in his music… and when he called himself “Dr. FeelGood” in “Let's Go Crazy”… he was not overstating it… These guys… the global-state-statesmen… exist by theft – trapped in the 'plunder mindset' Proudhon schools us on today… one that only knows destruction… exposing with this mindset what was done to them… the 'power'-guys… revealing the hidden crime: the murder and secret burial… of its 'glassy essence'… the soul's abandonment… and with it… an authentic (independent) thought-process… they have no creativity themselves. The lust for false 'power' (plunder) testifies to the absence of the true… 'Creativity' means 'life'… means surrendering to the forces of life… Imagine the world in which it is allowed to exist unharnessed and unharassed in each and every one of us… It is time for us to have this world… – only we can make it for ourselves… Fascism can only stride openly if it can get us to hate… or believe our Brothers and Sisters are motivated by hate… One of the tasks of the emphatic partner – Prince is showing us – is to help us feel loved… show us the abuse we've suffered that we've been trained not to see – confirm it exists… and help us to release our grief… our tears… It is the corruption of this 'system' that has to be seen… so parents can do the right thing… as… fundamentally… none of us want to hurt our children… none of us want our children to become lost to themselves… tools for others… lose their gifts…We all want to experience freedom… But until we talk about it… we can get stuck in the absence of love – each of us will have to bring it… it is the core of 'The Work”… which consists of: …our global consciousness (seeing from the 'vantage of the whole'… and owning a commitment to the truth as expressed in our essential earth… our bodies being our direct route (root) – the knowledge that “1 + 1 + 1 Is 3”…) the work we do for our Sisters and Brothers… the work we give to 'the All'… there is the 'tribe' we do it with… sustain with DMSR (Dance… Music… Sex … Romance)… which are routes to manifesting the eternal… and experienced (honored) as such… It should console us that Prince was made for this historical moment – broadly speaking… His music provides a necessary corrective to the hateful thoughts with which we are generally raised (under 'class'…) which 'power' ensures get continuously reproduced and disseminated. His songs require discussion among all of us who believe in “one global people… one love…” as we discover and share whatever we find to extend our numbers… and commitment to global freedom…

 

[“161113princeshowshowtounpackrace_7.mp3”:]

 

For instance… in the song “Race”… Prince provides what I believe are useful tactics to consider: He calls out and names what he sees: outing “hidden-'power'”… folks I've no doubt were agents (“If the air is a little thick in this room 2nite… I reckon it's the result of an onslaught of separatist rookies… Overcome by this colorful sight… Talkin' so fast that even they… Don't know what they mean… Of all the things that base a rhyme… How is it that U everytime… Regurgitate the racist lines that keep us apart?… Thank God this ain't Monopoly… U'd make us all go back 2 start…” – and shows us that… strategically… the best response to “hidden-'power'” (and we must discuss what that is…) is to notice what's going on around us… and keep dancing… and bringing the love… in creative ways that anchor our goals… Also: notice his finding a way to practically express our global-consciousness (“Race… In the space I mark 'human'…”) and his driving-force forward (“D-d-down with H-I-S-T-O-R-Y and all this BS propagandi… Keepin U from me and me from U as we grow… I don't wanna know… Why those before us hated each other… I'd rather believe they never did… I'd rather believe… That there's hope 4 a kid… And if he imitates the best… I guess that's what I'll try 2 be… And I will let the rest dissolve with my guitar underneath the sea…”

 

[“161113teslacryogenicsandplatostotalstatecommune_8.mp3”:]

 

Consider what it would mean for the 'power'-guys of the time – folks like J.P. Morgan and the heads of state Nikola appealed to for support as WWI loomed… support in scaling-up his particle-beam weapon – what would go through the minds of those who lust for 'power'-untouchable to learn of Nikola's invention… Think of what the current versions today would do… and you know what they did… Margaret Cheney: “When he reached New York in mid-January 1900, reporters and magazine editors pounced upon him. Predictably, the eastern scientific fraternity had echoed Professor Holden in denouncing Tesla's claim to have received a message of extraterrestrial origin – at least, without telling them how he did it… Certain that he was at the forefront of a broad, revolutionary technology, he immediately began filing new patents for radio and the transmission of energy, based on his Colorado experiments. As a first step, he envisioned building a world radio center offering all the services enjoyed today – interconnected radio-telephone networks, synchronized time signals, stock-market bulletins, pocket receivers, private communications, radio news service. He referred to it as a world system of intelligence transmission. The first patent that he filed on his return (No. 685,012) was a means for increasing the intensity of electrical oscillations, the medium for doing so being liquefied air to cool the coil and thus reduce its electrical resistance. He also received two other patents in 1900 and 1901 related to buried power transmission lines and the method of insulating them by freezing a surrounding dielectric medium such as water. One, a reissued patent (No. 11,865), referred to a “gaseous” cooling agent – apparently a key word that had been inadvertently omitted from his original patent No. 655,838. He was therefore one of the originators of cryogenic engineering.… This is yet another instance in which his pioneer work has gone unacknowledged – possibly because it might open a door for the U.S. Patent Office to invalidate later claims.…” Preface to our reading of Proudhon: We should keep in mind… though… that at some point… probably in Plato's day… and then by him 'systematized'… these errors became conscious lies (as Popper has shown us by exposing Plato's conscious intent to incorporate them in the next generation…) – the notion that to be motivated by… what Proudhon calls 'instinct' and I call 'heart'… expressed a 'lesser stage' in 'human development'… while a few proclaimed themselves manifestations of the 'higher stage'… and set about making us… forcing the rest of us to be… more 'amenable' to 'rule'… so the 'higher' ones (so-called) could craft the 'higher' 'society': Plato's Republic… Proudhon is now showing us a subsidiary error that derived from the original dualism (mind / body split…) the original rigidity… a duality in thinking that shattered our original wholeness… the idea of Plato's 'communism'… another word for 'totalitarianism'… being key to the achievement of 'equality of conditions' for the Many – the 'leveling effect' De Tocqueville spoke of… or “the greatest good for the greatest number” notion of Jeremy Bentham… to which all are forced to bend…)

 

[“161113proudhoncutswholeitemplatostribesmen_9.mp3”:]

 

Proudhon: “Private associations are sternly prohibited, in spite of the likes and dislikes of different natures, because to tolerate them would be to introduce small communities within the large one, and consequently private property; the strong work for the weak, although this ought to be left to benevolence, and not enforced, advised, or enjoined; the industrious work for the lazy, although this is unjust; the clever work for the foolish, although this is absurd; and, finally, man - casting aside his personality, his spontaneity, his genius, and his affections - humbly annihilates himself at the feet of the majestic and inflexible Commune! [Did he not just… in the blink of an eye… because he sees their antecedents… understands from what they are made… cut the whole item "Plato's Tribesmen"… not needed to piece together anything… set it on our discussion-table to contemplate… And the proof of his perspicacity in seeing their unchanging fixity is on view all around us today… as they seek to impose 'their Way' on the entire planet… Time to get busy my Sisters and Brothers… - for something else: our Freedom… - P.S.]” [Our outro song is “Strange But True” from Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic… - P.S.]

 

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For Our November 13, 2016 Show:

 

[“02 Race.mp3”:]

 

“Race” by Prince: “Lie down, fair 1, and come away… Till the rain is over and gone… G-G-Gimme the beat now (Face the music)… Lead line (Face the music)… If the air is a little thick in this room 2nite… I reckon it's the result of an onslaught of separatist rookies… Overcome by this colorful sight… Talkin' so fast that even they… Talkin' so fast that even they… Don't know what they mean… Of all the things that base a rhyme… How is it that U everytime… Regurgitate the racist lines that keep us apart?… Thank God this ain't Monopoly… U'd make us all go back 2 start… Race… In the space I mark human (Face the music)… Race… Face the music… We all bones when we dead… Race… In the space I mark human (Face the music)… Cut me, cut U… Both the blood is red… I gotcha… D-d-down with H-I-S-T-O-R-Y and all this BS propagandi… Keepin U from me and me from U as we grow… I don't wanna know (I don't wanna know)… Why those before us hated each other… I'd rather believe they never did… I'd rather believe (I'd rather, I'd rather believe)… That there's hope 4 a kid… And if he imitates the best… I guess that's what I'll try 2 be… And I will let the rest dissolve with my guitar underneath the sea… Race… (Face Face Face Face Face)… Face the music (Face the music)… Face the music… Race… In the space I mark human (Face the music)… Race… Face the music… We all bones when we dead… Race… In the space I mark human… (Face the music)… Cut me, cut U… Both the blood is red… Get it?… Race… Got it… Race… (Face-F-Face the music)… Race… Race…” [Prince, "Race", Come, 1994]

 

[“05 Act Of God.mp3”:]

 

“Act Of God” by Prince: “But I got news for you… Freedom ain't free… They lock you in a cell if you try to be… But the ones who say no, make history… Call it an act of God… (Act Of God)… Tax dollars build a plane drop a bomb… Supposedly to keep us all safe from Saddam… Bringing bad news to another woman… Call it an Act of God… But I got news for you… Freedom ain't free… They lock you in a cell if you try to be… But the ones who say no, make history… Call it an act of God… (Act Of God)… Funny how nobody's holy books are the same… Everybody's God got a different name… The day that it's over is the end of the game… And they call it an act of God… Hey, it will be all over when the people are free… Free to be who and what they want to be… Wherever we go it's up to you and me… Call it an act of God… We so tired said we through with fear… There never was no hell or boogie man here… If he was seen look he was in your mirror… Call it an act of God… Call it whatcha want except an act of God [x3]…” (Prince, "Act of God", 2010, 2010)]

 

[“01 Loose!.mp3”:]

 

“Loose” by Prince: “(Loose!) Everybody wants 2 know what's wrong with U… (Loose!)… They see U actin' like a crazy fool… (Loose!) When the music hits U don't know what 2 do… Push your way up 2 the front and shake your motherfuckin' 'do… Loose!… (Loose!)… Fuckin' 'do Loose! (Loose!)… (Loose!) Bangin' gangs, slangin' wangs and rock… (Loose!) Won't gain U nothin' but an angry cop… (Loose!) Get your education first then buy a pair of shoes… Push your way up 2 the front and shake your motherfuckin' 'do… Loose!… (Loose!)… Guitar solo… (Loose!)… (Loose!) How the hell U gonna tell me what 2 do?… (Loose!) I got the clothes, I got the bank and the crew… (Loose!) If U look real close, I even got your garden tool… Push your way up 2 the front and shake your motherfuckin' 'do… Loose!… (Loose!)… C'mon everybody… Loose!… (Loose!)” [Prince, “Loose”, Come, 1994]

 

[“10 Wedding Feast.mp3”:]

 

“Wedding Feast.mp3” by Prince… Part 10 of “The Rainbow Children”: ““Brother dear brother, I came as quickly as I could… The Digital Haze is broken,The Banished Ones r gone 4 good, gone 4 good”… Now there must b a wedding… Now there must b a feast… A feast, a feast… A smorgasbord at least… A brunch, a munch… Of cake if just a piece… Not just a vat of chitlins… Or turkey meat u c… We r what we eat… So we must eat a leaf… We'll dine under a tree… Unless it snows!”

 

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For Our October 30, 2016 Show:

 

[“161030wur_prince_1.mp3”:]

 

Prince: “My father was so hard on me… I was never good enough… and there was something about that… it was almost like the Army when it came to music… "that's not even close…" he would say… "that's not even close to what I'm doing…” and he'd play again… and… I could hear it… We learn like that… we learn from being shown… It doesn't come from books and just reading it… we need to be shown… So… it's having really good teachers and a bar that's so high… Creating your own universe is the key to it I believe… and letting all the people that you need occupy that universe… I'm blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he was alive… and he was a wonderful mentor… and really really funny… and he could critique something you've done by humor… and out of love… people he care about… he tried to help…

 

[“05 Colonized Mind.mp3”:]

 

“Colonized Mind” by Prince: “Upload: the evolution principal… U c a rock on the shore and say… "it's always been there"… Download: no responsibility… Do what you want nobody cares… Upload: the master race idea… Genetically disposed 2 rule the world… Download: a future full of isolated… Full of isolated boys and girls… Upload: a 2-party system… The lesser of 2 dangers… Illusion of choice… Download: a veiled form of fascism… Nothing really ever changes… U never had a voice… If you look, ur sure gonna find… Thruout mankind's history… A colonized mind… The one in power makes law… Under which the colonized fall… [And this is Kropotkin's point… very to the point… – P.S.] But without god it's just the blind leading the blind… Upload: a joint venture record deal… It's just another way 4 the man 2 steal… While he's sticking you with the bill… Download: the temporary acquisition of fleeting fame and fortune… Nothing 2 leave in ur will… Upload: a child with no father… Download: no respect 4 authority… Upload: a child with no mother… Download: a hard time showing love… If you look, ur sure gonna find… Thruout mankind's history… A colonized mind… The one in power makes laws… Under which the colonized fall… But without god… It's just the blind leading the blind…” (Prince, "Colonized Mind", Lotus Flower, 2009)]

 

[“08 1+1+1 is 3.mp3”:]

 

“1+1+1 is 3.mp3” by Prince… from “The Rainbow Children”

 

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For our September 11, 2016 Show:

 

[“160911_prince.mp3”:]

 

Prince: [regarding his decision to change his name…] “…when one completely listens to one's inspiration and inner voice you will create things out of it that will lead you towards Enlightenment… 'Prince' was in a trap… 'Prince' was under contract… 'Prince' was owned… I had to get free from the mentality of being a slave… If you can't do everything that you want to do… if there's a ceiling… and you're not allowed to go as high as you can go… you're in fact a slave… we as people… because we have to answer to a 9 to 5 or answer to a boss or whatever – [we] didn't come to earth like that… [we] came to earth for re-creation… which means recreation… and to re-create love… you can't do that when you're constantly angry and constantly being held back… the 'industry' way of doing business is cool… for them… we're just an alternative…”[From a 1998 interview.]

 

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Our September 4, 2016 Show:

 

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Nikola Tesla: “It was the artist, too, who awakened that broad philanthropic spirit which, even in old ages, shone in the teachings of noble reformers and philosophers, that spirit which made men in all departments and positions work not so much for any material benefit or compensation [but] for the pleasure there is in achieving it and for the good they might be able to do thereby to their fellow-men. Through his influence types of men are now pressing forward, impelled by a deep love for their study, men who are doing wonders in their respective branches, whose chief aim and enjoyment is the acquisition and spread of knowledge, men who look far above earthly things, whose banner is Excelsior! Gentlemen, let us honor the artist, let us thank him, let us drink his health!…” Those who have taken the time to listen to these shows know we are exploring in this space what gets in the way of our getting our freedom… we are attempting to identify these barriers and we've learned that while they are mainly mental… there are physical ones as well… and a critical one that has to be removed from the hands of the state is EMF weaponry. There is so much packed into those words of Nikola Tesla's that explain why a system of 'class' is a failed social arrangement that must be replaced with freedom. Discussing Prince in the context not just of his punishment with EMF and the silencing of his criticism… but in the context of what made him a threat – his 'big-ness' (he urges us to be 'big' with him…) – outs 'hidden-power'… de-legitimates (shrinks…) the state – hidden and official… [and] what has been called 'chem-trails' (what I'd assumed was another name for geo-engineering – which has received funding from Bill Gates…) are a spray of metal-particulates that enhance the effect (strength) of 'power's microwave stream… It was not only in low-income Minneapolis that such experiments (tests) were conducted… I read once in a posting on HAARP that Detroit also was a 'test-site' that received this particulate-spray as well.

 

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…it wasn't long before 'the state-as-parent' noticed him as 'a concern' – when he presented himself as a recalcitrant to the music industry – stepped in… and began applying what I'm sure they considered 'the needed corrective'… and monitoring (life-long monitoring… following… behind… punishing… letting him – along the way – point out for them their weaknesses… where they were vulnerable… so they could shut it down… I don't think we can share Prince authentically… and in the process better understand ourselves… and the current challenges that face us in defending our 'selves'… and getting free… if we don't appreciate that his life – an extreme version of our own – was completely dominated by false folks… it takes a long time to sort that out – I can testify – because we judge others by ourselves… They created a completely artificial world around him – and all artists they fear – it takes time to figure this out – but it's just an extreme version of what they do to all of us… all of us are being held in a concentration camp while some among us – like Prince – are being tortured while we pretend not to notice… It's hideous to contemplate that these folks got in this man (because he absorbed everything around him…) but… thinking on this… it could be an event analogous to that scene in the last Matrix when Mr. Smith finally kills the Oracle only to have her power… her love… released into the world… Let's make the murder of Prince a completely analogous event to this.

 

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We can't authentically share him without understanding what he was up against… and so what we are up against: the hidden-'power' that is manipulating our lives… and this includes sharing and discussing the fact that he was being invisibly attacked almost from the start of his professional life… by false-folks and EMF (and while we're on the subject of being threatened… can we please send some protective energy to Hillary Clinton?… I don't like the vibe I'm getting from the 'power'-fed media… elevating her running mate while subtly undermining her… harping on her health… and so on…)

 

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…this means that Prince gained… at a very early age… an education only 'won' the 'hard-way'… and which… incorporated into his musical… poetic… and analytic gifts… catapulted him to the top of our 'Most Needed Asset for Securing Our Freedom' list… He learned that loving… listening to… and expressing your body's urgings unequivocally (without fear…) gets you 'in trouble' with the state… In “Computer Blue” when he says "please please tell me what the hell is wrong" I believe he's expressing this… and for the next thirty years plus he never stops expressing this. He had a unique gift of being able to express (document…) masterfully… in an extraordinarily compelling interweave of story… mood… sound… and song… what his body felt… what he saw and sensed going on around him… a gift that only increased as his musical and literary palette grew more extensive… Prince's entire life was about the confrontation with the rigid… unequivocal 'discipline' of 'the state-as-parent' – a presence in all of our lives under 'class' but generally hidden behind buffers… the confrontation Prince experienced was extremely coercive and violent… but invisible except for the effects in his body: a physical… wave bombardment that could never be discussed… this… his very life… health… peace of mind… under 24 – 7 assault… and on this most important subject for his very physical and psychic survival… he could not speak in his voice… only in his music did he testify… and relied on our perspicacity and the truth to be established… in time…

 

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I love Shakespeare and Prince… you can spend so much time with so few words of densely-packed thoughts… Shakespeare and Prince: magic people… It's funny… my son came across an Ebony magazine packed in a box in the garage from 1984 that has Prince on the cover… and whoever wrote the article about him said “…you wonder if he's not magical in some way…” which was startling because I was thinking that and it's not a word you usually hear journalists use… This play by Shakespeare sums up in three words the great event that is Prince: 'Measure for Measure': spirit / soul stepping in to supercede false justice… Soul: his strong arms… his cauldron… welcomed us in… that they might take our fear… take our pain… take our fake… and 'mealed' with his heat… be returned to honest… unashamed… feeling… Prince dedicated his life to the belief… the cause… of healing the cancer of 'deadness'… soul-murder… that was all he was surrounded with (the 'power'-guys were… and should be still… very afraid of him…) Prince called his strategy (in the 1988 CD of the same name…) 'LoveSexy'… which he juxtaposed with 'SpookyElectric'… children arrive ready to come to the rescue… as we've said… they come wanting to help solve the problems the people they see around them manifest… but… with the exceptions of those he started out with and the old-school musicians like Miles Davis he sought out or who sought him out (who I've no doubt the 'power'-guys assiduously tried… with their Iago-whispering tactic… to separate him from…) so… with significant exceptions… there were a large quantity of agents placed around… We've learned from Alice why he was a threat to 'hidden-statesmen'… and I've learned from bitter experience that they like to surround and suffocate their targets…

 

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Once this power of authenticity became apparent to the 'power'-guys… probably with that first Warner Bros. contract when he was only 17 – only a child then… a child that I'm certain they were completely confident they could eat alive with but a few applications of their EMF 'treatment' – the wave weapon they stole from Nikola Tesla… all of whose inventions were intended for the same purposes Prince made his: peace and love… once this power of authenticity came to the attention of the 'power'-guys… the global-statesmen… I believe they got busy 'punishing'… or 'correcting'… his 'inappropriate' behavior. What they wanted was for him to place his gifts… his astonishing abilities… at their disposal… to produce for them… and they fully intended to continue the 'treatment' until they made him bend… He never did. He never will – this he communicated as well… clearly… in his songs from that point on.… Now later… the state would embrace open sexuality and improving the position of beat-down boxes (reducing social inequality…) such that this rhetoric is now featured prominently in the 'power'-fed media… 'Power' learned from him… in essence… how to contain him… Would he be considered a threat by 'power' if he entered the world of 'class' today… or been born on the Woodstock stage… as he put it? Without Alice it might be difficult to get: that while 'class' exists Prince for 'power'… poses a complete and total threat…

 

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Prince was deemed a threat because they believed he 'tempted' young people to consider an alternative allegiance to an allegiance to the state. Put like this they 'justify' assaulting and killing whoever they choose… by categorizing their target as a so-called 'national security risk'. Prince suffered this extralegal punishment for over thirty years… during which… and increasingly so as his understanding and determination to resist grew… hidden 'power' tried to suppress and censor his work… keep him and his music from his audience… the people he truly was sent to serve – us… The alternative allegiance Prince presented is common to artists generally… which is why they are particularly at risk… I'm feeling a painful sense of urgency about the need to preserve Prince's legacy to us… We need to lift high those who rep for us… for life… else 'power' will sink them… In our May 15, 2015 show we asked what was the precipitating event to his murder… and we suggested in our May 1 show that he may have been about to release some powerful songs of resistance: songs which may reside in the Vault where he kept reportedly well over a thousand songs archived. Prince is not here to defend his legacy… and given the 'power'-guys continuous campaign of suppression of his most powerful critiques of 'the system' it falls to all who want to ensure that all his rich legacy to us is preserved intact… that none of it is suppressed. Let's press for a full inventory – including titles and lengths – of what he left in the Vault. And… though it may not be seen in the light that it stands in for me… I find I cannot stop thinking about the timing of his death: the coincidence with my being injured by an EMF stream that went into my left thigh and back (described in the April 24 show…) so if anyone has information about this that I've been pondering… please let me know. Is it possible he'd listened on occasion to the show?… to Waking Up Radio? Could he have seen my son and I when we went on Frank Moore's Vimeo internet show “The Shaman's Den” on July 29, 2012? If he had listened it would confirm his interest in outing the hidden practice of assaulting us with EMF weapons. Please let me know if he ever watched Frank Moore's show… and also of course if you know whether he ever listened to this radio show – if there was a 'Prince' listening to this show it would add an additional sense of urgency to the 'power'-guys obvious intention to silence this show…)

 

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He provided visits to the eternal… the hypnotic effect of his music is such that he pulls you with him into it… Why is that not enough to answer 'Socrates' Dilemma'? My son's point… left unaddressed last week… was that Prince's music needs to be coupled with discussion… that 'people listen to music to get by… maybe questing but we need something paired with it so that our prophets are not killed… so that it's not about them. We need more people seeing their light… grieving for that lost child that was them…' But if it is so that 'people listen to music to get by…' this is a manifestation of 'power's pressure on them – unacknowledged… undiscussed… no one ever said to them… 'the system is abusive… based on coercion… which runs against our nature as humans…' –Moreover 'power' hold on us must necessarily grow less and less… our Good Three pointed this out in our discussions of Antisystemic Movements… and this is… in essence… the physical (in us) manifestation of all the 'Breakdown Theories' of Marx… Rosa Luxemburg… and Proudhon: 'power' is loosening its hold: we see this in its increasing reliance on violence - blatant coercion – to suppress us… though until we discuss it this may sound counter-intuitive… and as we discuss it… this opening… Prince's music enters at that opening and fills us up with longing for the real… His music surges rhythmically – like the earth it is part of – it pulses… throbs… it is the opposite of 'class'… Prince wanted to be the solution… I think he was more successful than he knew… The world has been made so false that the critical mass to flip it is building fast…

 

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In one of his songs a disembodied voice tries to hypnotically condition him to remove the words 'me' and 'mine' (though it is true that all of under 'class' have been framed… shaped… by that story 'me and mine'… we have to create a new frame…) to remove those words from his vocabulary… Prince was way too hard on himself. When you are being hurt… and no one else sees… necessarily you focus on 'self' self-protectively… and necessarily the longing to be held becomes intense… because your hurt is never acknowledged… I'm struggling with a lot of anger at those who did this to him (and at myself for being 'survival-mode-heart-slow'…) but I think of it as one of Prince's messages to me… that one of the things I learned in exploring the meanings in "Thieves"… that there is no contradiction between love and fury (and recall Alice's point that no one is ever hurt by an emotion… it is these emotions that we have to own… acknowledge…) Jesus shows us this when he grabs the switch and drives out those who have corrupted our temple… the temple that is our bodies… our freedom… our inherent right to not be messed with… Hope is Truth… and vice versa… I believe is Shakespeare's point… his 'great justice'… under a system of 'class'… long overdue for collapse: …this is a system that requires an enormous amount of energy – which has only one 'prep-ready' source: us… we who take the energy of the earth and make it available to 'power' so it can continuously suppress us / life / freedom… n amount… this energy – that is to say… the amount of energy they need to keep 'control' of us steadily increases as… so you see time is on our side… as we get this ball rolling… as we remove our energy from them – as we stop making the sun's energy available to it… to suppress us with – and give it to each other… to the cause of freedom… the cost for them of repressing us… to try to contain it… goes way up… and eventually they cannot sustain their system of coercion… Freedom is cheap… Freedom as a global social arrangement is effortless… because we do it naturally…

 

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I continue to urge those who love this man… Prince… to continue to press the media for more concrete facts (as opposed to planted innuendo…) about his death… answers to some of the questions we asked on the June 19, 2016 show… and to insist that we need an independent analysis of the autopsy findings and the results of the police investigation… when and how did this drug supposedly get into the body of this man who foreswore all drugs – whose body was his temple – and to figure out ways to get this widely discussed… I believe that most of us who love him know he was murdered… and those who come from his world must surely know that if this is not stopped when we have a better shot at doing that than has ever existed before… we are not just doing a disservice to Prince… we are doing a disservice to life itself… because a system of 'class' is based on the ability to enforce death – no movement… enforced obedience means 'soul-death'… a world peopled by automatons… which is what they've become because they experienced the most extreme versions of 'power's child-rearing practices… and we want to help them no less than ourselves get free of rigid fixed 'class' divisions… We have the means… its long-overdue… One last thing: I'm sure it did not escape you [we played his song “Let's Have a Baby”] how much Prince wanted that baby… who I believe was also murdered… so another way you can help in this righteous cause of outing the truth is to investigate whether a laser-weapon assaulting an in utero infant's skull could cause it to fuse…

 

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For our September 4, 2016 Show:

 

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Prince: “…I was so moved that I had to write this song… the other thing is that the first line of the song says that 'I was born on the same plantation of the United States of the Red White and Blue…' and we live in a place now that feels just about like a plantation… we're all indentured servants… when I found out there were eight presidents before George Washington I wanted to smack somebody… I wanted to know why I was taught otherwise… Just tell me the whole story… I'll fill in the blanks… but don't tell me something that you think I'm supposed to know…” [From a 2009 radio broadcast.]

 

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Prince: “…What he [Dick Gregory, in a video called 'The State of Black America'] said affects all of us. He said something that really hit home about this phenomenon of 'chem-trails', and, you know, when I was a kid I used to see these trails in the sky all the time and you'd say 'Oh that's cool, a jet just went over,' and then you started to see a whole bunch of them, and the next thing you know everybody in your neighborhood was fighting and arguing and you didn't know why, Ok, and you really didn't know why, I mean everybody was fighting. So, he started riffing about the chem-trails, and he started to say some things that hit home so hard and I would recommend that everybody try to get what he said online or whatever, try to get a copy of it, and just listen to it, because I was so moved that I had to write this song…” [From a 2009 radio broadcast. As I said in a subsequent show… my experience has been that these trails all over the sky coincide with particularly intense EMF-assaults on me… so I believe 'chem-trails' is a red-herring (along with the Bill Gates-funded 'geo-engineering' scheme…) to disguise the fact that they are 'amping-up' an EMF-stream… – P.S.]

 

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D-Way: “What do you mean by 'authentic language'?…” The Raven: “'Earth-based'… For example… on the Left… often language is co-opted by a mistaken urge to be 'scientific'… What I'm saying is that in order to unify and in order to free ourselves from the conditioning of this system which is designed to take our earth away… we have to re-claim earth… it's really quite simple and basic… if we stop and think about it… which jobs don't allow us to do… which is what they're for… and with not enough of the populace locked down in a job… 'power' is trying to figure this one out… and this is a rare and very important opportunity that we have to seize… So… 'earth-based is my short answer to your question… that… when we start talking about 'what future we want'… we have to… little by little start re-connecting with the earth… and say… for example… 'ok… I'm looking around where I'm standing… I see way too much concrete… how are we going to feed ourselves?…' But to start I think it's enough to know -- and the Occupy Movement I'm very grateful to for many reasons but particularly for showing how quickly we can begin again… instantaneously because we're alive… and this is what we do… So… instantaneously we can begin creating that alternative that is in alignment with the earth if we start aligning ourselves with the earth… It is about saying 'we're done with this system…' I think… and the inability to say that that is holding us back…” [From our July 29, 2012 radio broadcast.]

 

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…and… by the way… more and more I'm convinced… because this is what I've experienced… that while they may have drones that can dispense EMF… the drones are mainly used for surveillance… precision-targeting… and for intercepting or interrupting wireless transmissions – i.e.… for plausible deniability… and to instill in us a false sense of the 'power'-guys supposed omnipotence… but that the main 'delivery-mechanism' for EMF-assault is elsewhere – an 'above' 'elsewhere'. This is what Leuren Moret says in her article, “The Historical Roots of the New World Order and Its Permanent War Economy…” She tells us that as early as 1952 “a secret meeting was held in New Mexico between Russian and U.S. scientists at the Sandia Lab… [and that] an exchange of information on the biological hazards of microwave and electromagnetic frequencies and safety levels was not entirely successful… [that] shortly after the Russians began a thirty-year programme beaming the U.S. embassy in Moscow with microwaves, causing the deaths of three U.S. ambassadors and illnesses in employees…” So when are we going to demand full disclosure on this weaponry?… and is it not clear that the 'power'-guys operate globally… and use states to keep us caged?

 

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The structural backbone of the crafted falseness (smallness of spirit…) of this global 'class'-system – manifested in 'economics'… in 'politics'… in what we are told is our 'human nature' – is material insecurity: manufactured scarcity… another name for the enforced atomization they impose on us (and we're exploring that connection today…) 'Hidden-power' is this crafted smallness… its 'hidden-ness' is designed to conceal this point… that it has a goal: the 'meritocracy'… 'Perfection'… By their acts consistent with this objective they are outed… but we have been prevented from discussing the obvious… To 'achieve' a so-called 'meritocracy' – and thereby realize the vision of your 'OT' (Original Totalitarian) – what would you need? You would need Ideology – 'EPP' (Extreme Poisonous Pedagogy)… you would need 'TB' (Total Belief)… and you would need ATM (All The Money). The 'systems' for continuously delivering these things to them – and in an ever-increasing fashion – we can see have been achieved: extreme disparities in all three are not only clearly evident… they have replaced… if we are to judge by appearances only… the need for independent thought entirely… and are rapidly replacing the human being with the human machine – and their 'hidden-ness'… the speed of their actions… and our atomization… have defeated all attempts to discuss our feeling that we are being driven… rushed like cattle to slaughter…

 

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Our August 28, 2016 Show:

 

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The longing for freedom didn't start with us… and the theory of how to suppress it didn't start with them… to end 'class' we have to know how it began… at least its present totalitarian iteration… Karl Popper describes this longing for freedom as being manifested in 'the transition from the closed society to the open society'… Thucydides: “Nearly the whole Hellenic world was in commotion. In every city, the leaders of the democratic and of the oligarchic parties were trying hard, the one to bring in the Athenians, the other the Lacedaemonians… The tie of party was stronger than the tie of blood… The leaders on either side used specious names, the one party [for democratic Athenians] professing to uphold the constitutional equality of the many, the other the wisdom of the nobility; in reality they made the public interest their price, professing, of course, their devotion to it. They used any conceivable means for getting the better of one another, and committed the most monstrous crimes. This revolution gave birth to every form of wickedness in Hellas… Everywhere prevailed an attitude of perfidious antagonism. There was no word binding enough, no oath terrible enough, to reconcile enemies. Each man was strong only in the conviction that nothing was secure…” – and we must keep in mind that what he's talking about is the attempt of a self-organized band of 'rulers' – the current version of which are the Plato's Tribesmen – to artificially impose 'tribalism' – which is what a society of rigid fixed 'class' divisions is an expression of… i.e. everyone confines their identity to 'their' narrow group… while the Plato's Tribesmen… it just so works out… remain forever on 'top': everyone 'plays their position' and is (artificially… because they are told they are… from infancy…) 'happy'… – the society is closed to change… to new ideas… to thought… to growth… But once the quest for the open society… for freedom… begins… we cannot be turned from our determination to achieve it… – Jesus of Nazareth being one of the most potent examples of this…] John: “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also…” [And this brings us to our question for today: What is the route by which love for our freedom becomes the imperative for love for all my Brothers and Sisters?…]

 

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Nikola Tesla: “All this energy emanates from one single center, one singe source – the sun. The sun is the spring that drives all. The sun maintains all human life and supplies all human energy… Another answer we have now found to the above great question: To increase the force accelerating human movement means to turn to the uses of man more of the sun's energy… [through his explanations in other writings we have gleaned… that he's asking… ultimately: what will increase the human energy that will get us free? This is our question as well… And we will be arguing that this creative energy for life is the kind of energy Prince speaks of when he talks about 'purple electricity' you know the kind you feel when you feel passion… when you feel love… when you feel powerfully connected to all life… – that it is this kind of energy that fuels creativity… fuels our freedom… But Nikola Tesla's inventions to free us were stolen and used to produce toxic energy… – P.S.] we honor and revere those great men of bygone times whose names are linked with immortal achievements, who have proved themselves benefactors of humanity – the religious reformer with his wise maxims of life, the philosopher with his deep truths, the mathematician with his formulae, the physicist with his laws, the discoverer with his principles and secrets wrested from nature, the artist with his forms of the beautiful; but who honors him, the greatest of all, – who can tell the name of him – who first turned to use the sun's energy to save the effort of a weak fellow-creature? That was man's first act of scientific philanthropy, and its consequences have been incalculable.…” (1900) [Whoever was that first 'scientific philanthropist'… many others followed… in whose line we find Prince. Prince is our treasure… he took enormous risks… bore hideous punishment… for us:]

 

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(Message to the 'power'-guys:) “Lay down your funky weapon, come join us on the floor… Making love and music's the only things worth fighting 4. We r the new power generation, we want 2 change the world. The only thing that's in our way is u. Your old fashioned music, your old ideas, We're sick and tired of u telling us what 2 do. Pardon me 4 thinking, but there's something under my hair… I bet u thought the lights were on but noone's living there… U think that if u tell enough lies they will see the truth? I hope they bury your old ideas the same time they bury u… Lay down your funky weapon, come join us on the floor Making love and music's the only things worth fighting 4. We r the new power generation, we want 2 change the world. The only thing that's in our way is u. Pardon us for caring, we didn't know it was against the rules (shout it out) If we only want to love one another… Then tell me now who's the fool (tell me, tell me) No father, no mother, no sister, no brother, nobody can make me stop Said if u didn't come 2 party child, I think u better get up offa my block. Lay down your funky weapon, come join us on the floor… Making love and music's the only things worth fighting 4. We r the new power generation, we want 2 change the world. The only thing that's in our way is u. Your old fashioned music, your old ideas, We're sick and tired of u telling us what 2 do. Why don't u just be happy, baby.” (Prince)

 

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'An evil… once known… must be destroyed…' – isn't that how Proudhon put it? Where did his love come from?… this love that fuels all fighters for freedom… Two such we are thinking on today are Nikola… and Prince. Nikola's and Prince's words to us last week are planting seeds: it is that which 'harmonizes' us globally that – once misery and want are eradicated with the employment of Nikola's inventions – will cultivate common aspirations in us globally… In Nikola's case what harmonizes us is 'Nature'… i.e.… the earth and our passion for discovery… and in Prince's case… it is love (we played his song Anna Stezia from the CD LoveSexy…) which… arguably… embraces all three. At the risk of seeming self-indulgent – until I establish more clearly his incalculable significance – in bringing Prince to our weekly gatherings… his murder supports our doing this. He was a threat to those who hold our leashes… and it's important that we understand why… beyond the evidence of his body testifying to EMF… or the results of the police investigation exposing glaring holes in the official story… back to the original reasons why he was targeted as a threat in the first place… …and until we see – which I certainly didn't before being rolled into the gears of the machine – that the entire 'world' we are presented with as infants… and conditioned to accept as 'real'… is false… a construction crafted by hidden actors… and particularly the propaganda machinery known as 'the education system' or 'the media' (because the global-state-statesmen amassed means to so do…) – until we see this… or look at this… recognize the degree to which the media and education is vetted… censored… cleansed of his messages that indirectly (though they speak this clearly enough to them who are policing the popular 'discourse'…) reject the legitimacy of the state – it may be difficult to understand why an obvious treasure would be treated so hideously… The answer lies in Alice Miller and in our understanding what conditions make it possible for us to be ruled (that's the whole game that's the point… for them… we must be 'governable'…) those being: keeping us separated from each other… keeping us from seeing our inherent self-creative power – our endowment from the earth – and that being as well… freezing spontaneous feelings in the 'power'-designed imposition of child-rearing… as a strategy for planting obedience –the 'master's voice – in every child… and our internalization of the master's voice (obedience…) and of course the stultification of our thought-process: our inability to see the crass falseness around us because of our indoctrination in accepting it as real… or legitimate. Prince challenged 'power' on all these fronts.… The punishment inflicted on him for his courage – the worst being the assault by EMF… because he could not fight back – paid for the education all artists who witnessed that courage received from it… paid for their knowledge gained from his example… It may not save them from being similarly assaulted but… if those who read this spread the word… many more may learn that this weaponry exists… and that the state uses it… along with the tactic of infiltration – a 'surround with false-folks' strategy – to sabotage and suppress the so-called 'disobedient'… Discussing Prince then leads directly to discussions of Nikola Tesla… And we learn so much from challenging 'power' that we need to know about ourselves.

 

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(And that's a notion I want to think more about… so we can get clear on the distinction between what we're talking about… and the so-called 'self-healing' industry…) Everything Prince did required enormous courage – add to this… thirty years of torture by EMF… forcing him into a state of hyper-awareness of continuous threat… of being aimed at constantly… making his road – our treasure… creating such a rich legacy for us – making his road so hard… 'compensating' him – these 'power'-guys did… for the gifts he shared… with pain and suffering his whole life… and then… now… insults to the last… they attempt to trash him yet again… this time with lies about his supposed inability to bear pain… that fictional 'pain' itself a fabrication to cover up the real pain they'd been dishing out to him for decades… Prince came… if we can judge by what he gave… to feel and express our common pain from living in a social construction in which we have no intrinsic value – that was his whole point… and the whole point of his being a threat to 'power'… He exposed the pain… the wounds… of 'class'… exposed them to our conscious scrutiny and analysis… so we could begin figuring out what to do… He is an inestimable asset in our fight for freedom… His goal: churn pain to joy… frozen to vital… the transformation of a cruel cruel world… a dead world… to living manifestations of love. Love = Life. The idea that he would run from it is ludicrous… This man did not run from pain… he transformed it to love… that they want to hang that crooked story on him is hideous… He took in all the pain and all the intense feeling… and expressed it for us – both so we could take a look at it… and so we would not feel so alone… He became the voice of the Silence around him: that which is never spoken but unconsciously felt (or consciously felt but never spoken because it is speech sanctioned by 'power'…) and therefore that which has been silenced by the system… because authentic assessment of the system would challenge its legitimacy… It perpetuates itself by keeping us from looking honestly at our true (deep) feelings… Considering his many gifts defines for us true wealth… necessarily raises the question of our right to happiness… to live in our gifts without being molested…

 

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Mrs. Trotter gave me a chance to be a real friend and I blew it… She said… if the thought of me comes into your mind… call me… The night she died… I thought of her… and didn't call… I can't tell you how often Prince sprang to mind… only to be dismissed because I didn't want to be seen as name-dropping… making-use-of his fame… I was too focused on 'self'… and didn't think with my heart… Not a day passes I don't regret it… Alice is that angel Prince spoke of… bringing her words of compassion… words of peace… Where would we be without Alice? Thank you Sister… Prince came to bring us encouragement and love “Do not fear” he tells us and modeled it. When he says “I'm here to tell you… there's something else… he is reiterating Emily's words to us… “This world is not conclusion…” and Jesus': “Do not fear…” Prince's message comes from and honors his body… always (and honors honesty…) Don't be afraid of those strong feelings – or of expressing them – of longing for one-ness… of longing to merge… they guide us true. Dance is free expression of feeling… Every feeling has a body expression… In movement / expression / music we get our feelings out… My son said something I'm continuing to think on: “People have to see the light in themselves and I'm not sure how much his music helps with that process He told the truth – what he was seeing and experiencing – with his music. But people listen to music to get by… maybe questing… but we need something paired with it so that our prophets are not killed… so that it's not about them… We need more people seeing their light… grieving for that lost child that was them… I'm not sure that comes from telling the truth. We need more people seeing their light.” – “Emily Dickinson's right… you do have to tell it slant… and Prince is right: You have to have positivity… beauty… grace… and emotion…” I wanted to respond to that but it's not been possible his week – it's been a very intense… challenging… week… but I'm hoping all of you will ponder that as well… because it speaks to that segment of the show we keep putting off: “What would an authentic self-defense practice look like?” and I'm particularly thinking about the applicability… or the practical aspects of Prince's strategy… trying to describe more clearly what that strategy is… Prince sees so much… he did not fear… he was not afraid to look… He looked (not a common… or easy… thing to do… for we trapped in the 'class'-system…) he looked… and then applied his musical and poetic gifts… and his analysis… to sharing with us a key piece of the solution… He told us: we all spring from the sun… we are all literally connected. The more I learn from him… the sadder I get… that I missed… until now… the great event that is Prince.

 

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(No word yet on the results of the police investigation – including the full autopsy findings – into the death of Prince… and until the full information is released… I'm encouraging us to apply whatever whatever pressure we can to getting more answers to our questions about his death… to continue to press for the release of this suppressed information… which… with our knowledge… gained from Nikola Tesla that the hidden 'power-guys' possess the inventions [including EMF weapons…] that he conceived to free us from toil and coercion of every kind… would allow us to look for evidence – inclusive of the conditions Henry Kissinger described in his telegram to Moscow in 1976 – of damage to Prince's body as a result of assault [and in his case this would be a prolonged assault over decades…] by an EMF weapon or… I am convinced… many different types of EMF weapons… Last week Proudhon introduced to us the beginning of an argument which sheds light… I think… on the origins of 'class'… as well as on our project of ending it… and we commented that he is describing Plato's vision… which the would-be rulers – the global-state statesmen – have taken up as their mission proffered for a tin-cup…) Proudhon: “But man acquires skill only by observation and experiment. He reflects, then, since to observe and experiment is to reflect; he reasons, since he cannot help reasoning. In reflecting, he becomes deluded; in reasoning, he makes mistakes, and, thinking himself right, persists in them. He is wedded to his opinions; he esteems himself, and despises others. Consequently, he isolates himself; for he could not submit to the majority without renouncing his will and his reason, – that is, without disowning himself, which is impossible.… [In this work Proudhon demonstrates his greatness… he shows us… we trapped in 'class'… he shows us ourselves… as Shakespeare does… in a different venue… he tells us he will help us through the sticky-wickets… he will not abandon us to those trapped in the 'mistaken notion' that they must 'rule'… In short… he inspires us to keep going… Like all the great souls the earth produces within 'the system' of 'class' he is an antidote to the horrors produced by those arrayed against her… – P.S.] he could not submit to the majority without renouncing his will and his reason, – that is, without disowning himself, which is impossible. And this isolation, this intellectual egotism, this individuality of opinion, lasts until the truth is demonstrated to him by observation and experience.…”

 

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I feel we should back up and consider Proudhon's argument in juxtaposition with Popper's Chapter 10 of The Open Society and Its Enemies (which shares the book's title…) with Alice… and with Prince… because all four… I think… are looking at the same thing from different angles: dissension and violence rending human 'society' (and this is coterminous with class… or maybe just another way of saying that a system of 'class' rends human society with dissension and violence…) and how to heal the rent… and bringing them into nexus may bring us to the crux of our dilemma… we who have been 'made use of' for many many millennia… What I found myself reacting strongly to in what Proudhon will say is the notion that the crux of the problem of society being rent in two is the human's (under 'class'… we must always add…) power of reflection… So… he argues… the problem is our thinking… and our ego (and you can probably see where I'm going with this: to Alice… who argued that the freezing of spontaneous feelings when the effort to force us to obey engenders fear and confusion in us… as infants… forestalls the development of the authentic self… the true self… or 'ego'… which one needs to exist both for us to authentically 'reason'… and to fiercely defend it… So Proudhon's argument pertains to those whose souls have not been bludgeoned into robotic repetitions of programmed thoughts…) and then he says… our false notions we will not let go “until the truth is demonstrated to him by observation and experience [which… we will be arguing… is the influence of the earth… involved with… influencing… our bodies…

 

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Karl Popper… in describing… in his Chapter 10… the… in his words… struggle of humans to emerge from the 'closed society' – he uses the illustration of the conflict between Athens and Sparta… between the two opposing ways of being in the world: the open versus the closed society – reveals – perhaps tangentially – a fundamental disagreement between us… me and Popper… expressed in the statement: “Our Western civilization originated with the Greeks. They were, it seems, the first to make the step from tribalism to humanitarianism. Let us consider what that means…” – I suspect that a large part of our dispute is about terminology and that as we clarify what he means by 'humanitarianism' we may be better able to decide whether we agree or not… but we'll set that aside for now with my short rebuttal that I see nothing 'humanitarian' about 'class'-society… which in most academic work is equated with 'civilization'… We have been arguing in this space that we need to create and agree upon a new lexicon: the lexicon of freedom…Proudhon: “In what follows, the magical or tribal or collectivist society will also be called the closed society, and the society in which individuals are confronted with personal decisions, the open society….” [we should note that this definition confirms our argument that this global-'class'-society we got is totalitarian… i.e.… closed… which he says “can be justly compared to an organism…” – and while the notion of 'an organism' – i.e.… something self-contained – is suggestive of totalitarianism… Popper would disagree that 'class' is inherently totalitarianism… a disagreement that I think might dissolve with the new information we've acquired since he wrote: I'm thinking particularly of 'world-systems theory'… contributed by our Good Three – Terence K. Hopkins… Immanuel Wallerstein… and Giovanni Arrighi – and of course the work of Alice Miller… explaining the psychological dynamics at work in the resistance of some progressives to reincorporate… and continue… the work of Peter Kropotkin – and of course if he had had any inkling that the work of Nikola Tesla was being used to clandestinely kill us… either for our dissent… or because we're part of a population the global-statesmen want to get rid of… that would have put him square on the side of “Yes… the state we got is Fascist…” What our Good Three argued is that the strategy 'fix the state' is a failed strategy…that has long since been nullified by the totalitarian (global) character of 'class'… – P.S.]

 

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Proudhon: “As a consequence of its loss of organic character, an open society may become, by degrees, what I should like to term an 'abstract society'. It may, to a considerable extent, lose the character of a concrete or real group of men, or of a system of such real groups.… We could conceive of a society in which men practically never meet face to face – in which all business is conducted by individuals in isolation who communicate by typed letters or by telegrams, and who go about in closed motor-cars (Artificial insemination would allow even propagation without a personal element.) Such a fictitious society might be called a 'completely abstract or depersonalized society'. Now the interesting point is that our modern society resembles in many of its aspects such a completely abstract society… There are many people living in a modern society who have no, or extremely few, intimate personal contacts [except with their personal group… their 'tribe': “rigid… fixed… divisions” between us being what 'power' has systematically created… cultivated… and enforced… for the last 250 years – they had a plan… which means they were very effective because they organized to achieve it – P.S.], who live in anonymity and isolation, and consequently in unhappiness. For although society has become abstract,the biological make-up of man has not changed much [you can bet your bottom-whatever they are working on that… – P.S.]; men have social needs which they cannot satisfy in an abstract society.… [O]ur modern open societies function largely by way of abstract relations, such as exchange or co-operation.… Thus when we say that our Western civilization derives from the Greeks, we ought to realize what it means. It means that the Greeks started for us that great revolution which, it seems, is still in its beginning – the transition from the closed to the open society.…” […given the complete suppression of that… the notion that these ideas of longing for freedom originated in ancient Greek society I think is not true… and the fact that they have elevated Plato (the 'power'-guys…) over the millennia… and completely suppressed the anti-slavery movement of Athens… and the broader world… does not suggest an on-going progress of furthering freedom… but rather an on-going progress of suppressing it… – P.S.]

 

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Proudhon: “Of course, this revolution was not made consciously. The breakdown of tribalism, of the closed societies of Greece, may be traced back to the time when population growth began to make itself felt among the ruling class of landed proprietors. This meant the end of 'organic' tribalism. [By which I take it he means tacit (unquestioned) consent… agreement…of the 'rulers'… We have to keep reminding ourselves that this 'society' he speaks of is resting on the backs of us… the human-cattle… – P.S.] For it created social tension within the closed society of the ruling class. At first… colonization… postponed the breakdown… Perhaps the most powerful cause of the breakdown of the closed society was the development of sea-communications and commerce. Close contact with other tribes is liable to undermine the feeling of necessity with which tribal institutions are viewed…” [We will be applying the lessons from this… and our analysis the example of Prince… to begin answering the question: how do we open up this closed society?…]

 

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“The principle directional tendency of capital is its centralization on a world scale… This determining direction of capital on a world scale… entails for antisystemic forcs at least three broad consequential subordinate directional tendencies. First… the ongoing relocation of labor-using manufacturing processes to the semiperiphery and hence the shift there of the epicenter of “classically” framed and conducted class conflict… Second is the de-nationalization, in effect, of domestic (“national”) labor forces. The world’s workers, increasingly made into laborers under the aegis of capital, move as they always have in order to be in relation to capital, a movement sharply furthered in speed and extent by developments in communications and transportation… Ship, air, and electronics have for decades now been analogously forming the possibility of an organized world proletariat within “national” locales. The possibility is at once eliminated, however, so long as we think with the state-formed consciousness that there are “nationals” and there are “immigrants,” and in that way reproduce the varieties of racism these historically formed categories inevitably entail. “National” and “immigrant” are categories of the capitalist world-economy’s interstate system; they have no place (except as phenomenologically [i.e. to do with objects in our consciousness and experience…] phenomenologically real conditions to be overcome) in the language of world-scale workers’ movements.”

 

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“National liberation in segments of the capitalist world-economy, and the transformations it has effected in relations of rule and other social relations, have altered the social structuring of the world-historical accumulation process. That much is historically evident and therefore theoretically to be taken into account. [Don't you love that?… that analytical clarity?… I mean… who else… who says they're devising theory even bothers to ensure that it's based in reality these days?… or 'strategy' likewise… or particularly… – P.S.] But it has not eliminated the relational conditions through which the accumulation process operates. And precisely that world-historical elimination, of the relational conditions through which accumulation of capital occurs, is what is entailed in the idea of the class struggle as the pivotal process in the transformation of the capitalist world-economy into a socialist world order. [What happened to that as our goal… hum?… We seem to have lost track of that somewhere along the way… – P.S.] …If, however, we cease to accord strategic primacy to acquiring such state power within the interstate system, far more becomes historically possible and thereby, within the domain of historically realistic alternatives, theoretically possible. It would seem a dubious theoretical tenet to assert that national liberation, in its successive occurrences, is in any way a necessary condition of the revolutionary transformation of the world-economy. It is surely indefensible to claim it as a sufficient condition.”

 

 

 

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...on the challenge of beginning to create the alternative:

 

“The imagination has to be stimulated – that imaginative part of ourselves that manifests our dreams, through that fire, that passion, that is our art. Asking questions stimulates that process of figuring out, visualizing, and manifesting what we want. But we need each other's help in order to do that – to manifest our power – and we've been cut off from helping each other.”

 

 

 

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