"How can you keep me down on the farm" after I've seen Palestine!

 

"How can you keep me down on the farm" after I've seen Palestine! 

 

       After my recent extensive, exciting, educational and eye-opening visit to historical Palestine, here I am again -- back home and bored.  In Zionist-Israel I saw all kinds of injustices forced onto Palestinians by European and American settler-colonialists who have spent the last one hundred years happily intent on doing to Palestinians what Custer wanted to do to the Lakota at Little Big Horn and what the 7th Calvary actually did to the Lakota at Wounded Knee.  https://substack.com/home/post/p-141895436

      How can I possibly go back to normal life back here in Berkeley after witnessing so much injustice and brutality in Palestine?  I can't.  But clearly I also have no choice.

 

      Here's me now, back home in Berkeley -- stone-cold broke and falling apart both physically and mentally after witnessing all that horror and stress.  Here's me, stuck in Berkeley.  Forever.  Boring.  I'm bored.  "Get over it, Jane," I keep telling myself.  "At least I'm not freezing and starving in Gaza while, even now, Zionist-Israelis are breaking the ceasefire there again and again and again." 

     And I'm not a brave Palestinian either -- men, women and children who have endured one hundred years of Jim Crow laws, of being forced onto stark reservations, of suffering brutal massacres, of being victims of organized lynchings by crazed mobs of European and American settler-colonialists, of Zionists dropping seventy-six thousand tons of military weaponry down on their unprotected families!  And Zionist torturers cut off the legs of their Palestinian prisoners so that they won't be able to fight for freedom again if they ever get out of jail.  And yet Palestinians still have the audacity to fight back.

     Why can't I just be eternally grateful for what I have here instead of whining like some spoiled child, "I'm bored, Mommy, I'm bored!"  And also, since I'm clearly going to be stuck here in safe-but-boring suburbia forever, I should also be making the best of my new Forever Life. 

      "What can I possibly do here in Berkeley that could even be half as exciting as going to a war zone," I asked a friend.  She just shrugged.  Guess I'll have to make those discoveries on my own.  No angel from The Price is Right is gonna fly down and whisper in my ear. 

     So I took stock.  What can I possibly do to make life here in Berkeley more interesting?  I could do laundry.  Laundry never sleeps.  I could write outrageous things on my Web Log.  Nah.  Free speech in Berkeley?  Pretty much dead.  This ain't the 1960s any more.

     Hey, I could walk up to the University of California.  Some of the world's top-notch brains work there.  "Be real, Jane.  All those professors are deadly afraid of losing their tenure if they dare to veer off the party line by even one single sentence.  Forget about that."

     So I ended up going to the farmers market and talking to Steve Martinot who just wrote a book entitled Police Brutality.  An excellent book.  No one will buy it.  Everyone around here is too woke.

     Then I talked with Charles the Philosopher who sells veggies at the market.  "All plants and animals have one thing in common -- life.  We are billions of souls alive in one body, the body of life," he said.  "We are all alive.  But kindness, love and being human are the hardest things for we humans to learn."  I believe that.  Hey, I'm feeling all pissed off and schizophrenic myself -- with half my soul still living back in Palestine.

     And Alan Hewitt, Oakland's Yodeling Cowboy, was busking at the market too.  "The five all-time top country & western singers were all taught to sing and play by southern Black men.  "Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, Jimmy Rodgers...."  I forget who else.  Definitely Elvis.  "But Ray Charles had the opposite experience.  He learned country and western songs as kid, when he was living at a school for the blind.  And he also learned Mozart."    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tMksrNwnM0

      I bought some organic mushrooms, eggs and chard.  Took the #18 bus back home.  Watched a bunch of K-Drama on Netflix.  Made bacon-and-eggs spaghetti for dinner.  Went to sleep.  I can do this.  (But if anyone wants to pay me to go investigate injustices in Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Venezuela, Ukra$ne, the Congo, Haiti and/or wherever, then I'm all yours!)

PS:  Speaking of sleeping, maybe I can just try to experience a bunch of exciting stuff in my dreams -- but will exciting dreams be enough to keep me enthusiastic about dreary suburban life?  Hardly.  "Sleep when you die."  

     Or.  

     Just stay awake and listen to the mainstream news.  Those people obviously live in dreamland.  I should take notes on all their fondest dreams.  Except that my fondest dreams don't consist of bombing the crap out of the entire planet.  That's someone else's dream.  That's my worst nightmare.  

      So I went back to watching TV.  Watched Gladiator II.  "Empires always end badly."  That's some consolation.

      Then another friend sent me a video about Rudolph Steiner -- who believed that other dimensions exist.  Damn, he may be on to something.  There are sooo many different dimensions to our current American life.  It's like the Tibetan Buddhist theory of the six Bardos.  Unfortunately, however, most of us live in the Bardo of credit card debt, nutrition-less food and false security right now. 

     I used to have a bumper sticker that read, "Lost in the Bardo again".  Nothing's changed.  All we can do now is hold on and wait for the next Bardo to be revealed.  And if our very own military-industrial-central-banking complex has its way, the next Bardo to be revealed will be the Bardo of Death.

Resources:

"How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm..." asks Judy Garland:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2URLyxcdpgA

 

And of course you can always depend on the Electronic Intifada to let us know what is really going on in Zionist-Israel:  Breaking news and analysis on day 40 of the Gaza ceasefire | The Electronic Intifada Podcast

Here's a Scottish song by Runrig entitled "Going Home":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AReZEjERo_o

The latest video from Military Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytkx2glkdOU

Markets: A Look Ahead:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW4DXEpCPMM

 

In his latest book, Police Brutality, Steve Martinot points out that both America's police culture military culture tend to operate outside the boundaries of the U.S. Constitution and live in a world all their own:  https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/police-brutality-steve-martinot/1146515210 

 

Military arms reduction is actually a good thing.  Jeffery Sachs goes all economic on us:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIs6kf2vmWA

Chris Hedges nails our current bizarre political situation:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8PnryeLUwQ

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