Truth and Lies; Peace and War; Fact, Myth, Magic, Science and Fiction…

       Reality is not all it’s cracked up to be and some say life’s an illusion. Over time we find small truths, big lies, radical science and brilliant ideas.

But so far war trumps peace, aggression spreads and myths abound. Too many live in personal fictions and find facts too great a burden to bear.

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Stevie Ray Vaughan – Wall of Denial

“Reality denied comes back to haunt.”
― Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

King Obama is not known for his courage: fear, compromise and surrender are his legacy.
Barack Obama took us from 4 Republican wars into dozens of simultaneous Democratic wars… 

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
― Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back

No president except Obama (since World War Two) misused our military to bomb 10 nations and wage war in dozens more. Neither the military nor the people in these countries attacked us. These unprovoked corporate-American wars of aggression for extraction, exploitation and extortion are crimes.

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We have become the aggressor: exporting terror, munitions and corporate wars in attacks on smaller and less powerful nations. We spend trillions, killing millions, for the benefit of billionaires who pay no taxes and steal taxes we pay.

The Millionaires Glee Club in congress , the White House and The U. S. Supreme court  ignore everyday people and misuse our military resources, catering to the concerns of corporate criminals and the economic elite while everyday people suffer, infrastructure deteriorates and public services are falling apart.

Why do we allow it?

“People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.”

― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

https://thewordsmithcollection.wordpress.com/…/bombadi…/

On Obama’s watch, we became the terror. Obama did not want to rock the boat, so he let the CIA, Pentagon and 16 agencies, services and contractors run the country. Bernie and Hillary wanted to do exactly the same. Trump the racist chump became the New King of American fascism.  And now Biden has taken the throne. 

“You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.”

― Flannery O’Connor, The Violent Bear it Away

https://thepeaceresource.wordpress.com/…/illegal-drone…/

The frustrating part is how everyday people have been lied to so long, too many can no longer separate truth from lies. So they lie to themselves to avoid the guilt.

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“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

― Søren Kierkegaard

https://thepeaceresource.wordpress.com/…/23/fool-me-once/

“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works