You Are Being Lied To

Most of the things you think are the truth regarding the history of Western culture are lies. It may not be your fault that you don't know that, but that is why I am telling you this today. American leaders, religions, and governments have worked long and hard to hide the truth of what the history of this country actually is. In order to keep your faith in their methods, rules, and theories, they have washed the blood off of their hands through lies and distractions over the hundreds of years they have been in existence. Things that are happening even now are glossed over by tabloid headlines, television programs, movies, and radio.

Time for some truth.

Lincoln did NOT want to free the slaves, Nazis are marching through the streets, and racism is still alive and well in the minds of nearly everyone in this country. Black people take up 13% of the US population, but roughly 60% of the prison population. Women make twenty cents less per dollar than men on average. Louisiana is still demolished for the most part. The American military has steadily been at war for almost 12 years now, costing the country over $1.4 trillion to kill people that most of us have never met or know anything about. In the meantime, almost 10,000 children die in the US every year, and as of 2012, 16.1 million children are living in poverty in America. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, 46.2 million people in America are living below the poverty line.

Drug use is at an all time high, whether prescription or illegal, and everyone seems to be searching for some kind of distraction to keep themselves from thinking about real life. Even those who don't use drugs use things like religion, other people, the cult of celebrity, the internet, and any other distraction they can get their hands on to stop thinking about dealing with real life. People are constantly embedded in their mobile devices, computers, televisions, and other media, all while ignoring the statistics I mentioned above. Hollywood, entertainment, and all other forms of non-interactive media are a mass distraction, meant to keep the public docile and imagining a world that can never be as long as we all blindly follow the government and the rich.

And yet, with all these financial problems, somehow America spent $10.4 billion on the box office last year.

The chances of you getting rich, or even financially stable, are slim to none. If you are not already in a financially secure situation, you're probably not going to get into one. You'll probably have to work until you die just to provide some type of security for future generations, if your genetic lines are not exterminated or rendered non-viable by the end of your lifetime.The bourgeoisie are actively ripping every dime you have out of your hands, and the government is colluding with them to make it illegal to be able to live off of the wildlife unless you give them money you don't have. Hyperinflation is being induced by the businesses and the government, making gasoline, milk, and bread cost about the same per unit.

I am Null. I am here to bring you the truth. No more, no less. What you do with it is up to you, but I would highly encourage you to act in some way. You can fix this mire we have allowed ourselves to fall into. You have power to change things, regardless of what the world tells you that you are able to do. Will you?

Find me. @xXxAnarchosxXx 

Wearing the Daemon

     Despite what mainstream religion, culture, and such tell you, not everything is a matter of right vs. wrong or black vs. white. Even science is known to be in need of correction every now and again, taking things that are established as "fact" and overturning them with the flick of a pen (remember when Pluto was a planet?). Truth is relative to the situation, in most cases, and while there are many absolutes, in other cases things that are true now may not be within any given period of time.
     No other thing demonstrates this fact better than watching a person grow and mature. As we get older, our desires, hobbies, likes, and dislikes all change drastically from year to year. Maybe something we used to like has become something we no longer care about. Maybe our morals or opinions have shifted on an issue, or maybe we no longer identify with something that we used to. Regardless of what shifts in us, we all change in some way, and acceptance of that is paramount in an individual's personal development.
     However, it seems that America has taught us that one cannot be more than one thing. The media, popular culture, and old ideas create a mindset that wants to categorize people into neat little boxes. Many prefer to use blanket terms to judge people instead of dealing with them on an individual basis, quickly dismissing and filing away people in an effort to streamline the process of living.
     In response to this, people have actually been forcing themselves into said boxes, whittling away or hiding parts of themselves in order to fit in better with the people they do associate with. People cluster together around events, movies, objects, television shows, political idols, and other things in order to feel acceptance, hiding away the true individuality that makes them unique.These people have a way of latching onto each other, becoming a mob of people united under one (usually inane) brand, group, or logo with no room for disagreement. This type of behavior can be seen in sports fans, music group fans, and religious people from all brands of belief.
    The problem with this process is that a person is a product of their experiences, likes, dislikes, and the ideas of the people around them. No one person has the exact same experiences as another, though there can be similarities. Therefore, by concealing those parts that differentiate them from others, people are beginning to stunt their own growth as individuals.Think of the many of problems that pervade Western society: rampant drug use, suicide, racism, gang violence, narcissism, alcoholism, gender-bashing, mistreatment of the LGBT community...if one looks carefully enough, they may be able to see that the core of several of these problems is a lack of peace with oneself and the stresses of trying to "fit in" with expected norms. We are taught by our forebears and those in authority the antiquated thought of "if you're one thing, you're not another," and this poison of absolutes is slowly killing us. You see, to deny the existence of a part of yourself is akin to chopping off an appendage from your soul.
     This part of us that we pull away from ourselves is our hidden doppelganger, our "daemon," as it were. These pieces of ourselves that we cast aside coagulate together into our "shoulder demon," the one that whispers into our ears ideas that we fight away on a daily basis. We, due to our teachings, do our best to  ignore it, fight it, "resist temptation," or whatever other euphemism people use regarding their daemon, making it our sworn enemy that we must do combat with every single day.
      The problem with fighting all the time is that sometimes we get tired. As Lincoln said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand," and the worst conflicts are the ones that we have inside ourselves. From these come the external rifts that we create in our environments, mainly with other people in very trivial situations. Having given the "bad" part of ourselves a face, we have made it our enemy, and have therefore created a part of ourselves that we claim to hate and creating unnecessary conflict. However, part of our psyche knows that it is still us, creating a permanent tension between the factions in an eternal fight against the individual parts of ourselves.The symptoms of these tensions and opposing viewpoints are then noted in the behaviors of other people, this sudden noticing and critiquing the result of a projection of our subconscious mind onto the behaviors of others. We then either ignore or oppress the externalized version of the thing we are at odds with ourselves with, depending upon how we have dealt with the physical manifestations thereof in our lives.
      Upon reflection of that person, we must consider what are we fighting against. Are we really standing in opposition to things that are truly bad, or are we wrestling with and falling back on doctrines, rules, and such that society has taught us are wrong in order to keep control over us? Do we really want to be that person that follows the rules we live by, or are we just putting on a facade in order to be accepted by said society?
      It is with this thought in mind that I ask you this: are there things you do like that you are not allowing yourself to do in order to gain acceptance by others? Are you restricting yourself from acting in ways that would make you feel some sort of enjoyment in life just because some person or institution says you shouldn't or can't? Are these things actions that wouldn't have any effect on anyone else if you were to do them aside from possibly causing your peers to look at you a bit differently? Perhaps you should re-evaluate your associations if, by doing something you enjoy on your own time, you could be shunned.
     Of course, I don't encourage anything illegal or perverse (violence, sexual assault, etc), nor do I condone things that would destroy your well-being over time. However, I am asking that you take the time to examine your daemon. Look at it, know it, and become comfortable with it. It is also you, and it will not go away if you plug your ears to it like a child. Reevaluate your beliefs, look inside yourself, and begin incorporating some of the things you learn about yourself while studying your daemon. Eventually, you'll learn to wear it rather than fighting it every day. If you tailor it right, the whole of you will be comfortable in your own skin.

Even the naughty bits.

Alright, Folks.

     I don't know how many of you will understand this, but we, the Americans, are at war with our government. There may not have been a formal announcement thereof, but this is indeed the truth. My reasons behind my rationale are simple:

1.) The government declared US soil a war zone, enabling them to search, imprison, detain, and even torture US citizens without notifying anyone as to what cause. The National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, was signed into law by President Obama earlier this year, is a law that states the during times of war, the US is a battleground, and anyone with suspected ties to terrorism of any kind can be detained indefinitely, have their writ of habeas corpus suspended, and be thrown into our oh-so-humane prison camps. The problem is this, though: who defines a terrorist tie? Is Anonymous a terrorist group to the United States? Does saying "Screw the government" or "9/11 Was An Inside Job" make you a terrorist?
     On a related note, HR 347, a law making it illegal to protest around anyone that is on a non-accessible Secret Service list, allows for the SS to declare public areas under federal jurisdiction. Naturally, this renders any important event worth protesting, like the RNC, DNC, and Congressional and Senatorial decisions, untouchable. They are squelching our voice manually, relegating us to the internet where we can be tracked and shut down if we speak loudly enough.

2.) The government is bullying popular media to keep dissenting ideas away from the majority of the American people. Those figureheads that use their grassroots influence to continue forwarding their ideas in spite of this are either labeled as terrorists or "Left Wing" nutjobs, or are otherwise demonized and portrayed to the rest of America as non-credible sources. This seemingly self-regulatory exercise is actually a pandering to government pressures, knowing that if they report on things worth reporting that the FCC, the government's media control arm, will exact swift and terrible vengeance on them. They do not want to make enemies of the government, so they report on nebulous things or things that have already gained enough grassroots popularity that they would be remiss to avoid them. Look at the bungling of  Occupy Movement reporting during its beginning stages. The misreporting of statistics, locations, and the real scope of the movement were a constant thorn in the side of OWS, diminishing its effectiveness in the public eye and twisting it to look like a gathering of hippies, druggies, and wingnuts a la Lollapalooza.

3.) The government and its affiliates are overtly supportive of discrimination.
     2012 was a year where people realized that the government and its control arms hate women, with attempted re-definitions of what rape is, slanderous attacks over the media about certain female political figureheads, and loads of restrictive state level laws regarding female contraception being both proposed and approved.
     Also in 2012, 86.7% of the victims of the NYPD's stop and frisk program were minorities. The ironic part? Only 1.9% of those minorities had weapons, while of the remaining 13.3% of non-minorities, 3.8% of them had weapons.
     On a nationwide level, 60% of the prison population consists of people of color. Only 30% of America is Black or Hispanic. You do the math.
     Only 21 states have laws in place forbidding discrimination based on sexual orientation, with only 16 of those allowing for gender identity as a part of the law.
     According to a survey conducted by endtransdiscrimination.org, 78% of transgendered people who responded were overtly discriminated against or harassed in public schools, a branch of the government, and honestly felt they had no recourse. Furthermore, one fifth of the respondents felt that they had been abused by police during their interactions with them.
     In short, this country is perfectly okay with discrimination for the most part, a xenophobic mass of idiocy ever swirling around the bowl.

     In the end, I know that these facts and statements may not change your views on anything, but let's face it: the government has lost sight of its purpose, its members using the people as a means to attack the people as opposed to assisting their progress. Knowing these things, it is our duty to rise against these people who we have allowed to reign over us and make our country into what it is supposed to be.

Whether you see it or not, we are already at war. Will you fight or remain docile?

On the Roots of Power

"And so," I thought to myself, walking down that long road from the train station, "how do the powers that be get to be those powers?" I pondered this question intensely, my mind reeling as the uneven concrete rose and fell under my feet. "Some worked from the bottom to the top, coming in as a mail room clerk or a shoe polisher. But today is not as yesterday, and now even getting in at the bottom floor is an issue for anyone my age, gender, and experience level."

I moved further on, the road becoming gradually flatter underneath me.

"Others used their connections, the people they knew to move into the positions they maneuvered themselves into. But alas, I know no truly influential people these days, having usually fouled relationships with people in higher socioeconomic echelons due to stark disagreements."

Mercifully, the curve of the ground underneath me completely left, giving my tired feet a bit of rest.

"Still others used illegal means, which I have done, but do not wish to do. It's silly to think that I'm not already being watched, given some of the things I've been involved in. Even statistically, I know that being a large black male, I am more likely to get trailed by cops then, say, a soccer mom with a minivan and two kids or a skinny white guy with a suit on in a newer car."

Still I walked, my pace never slackening as I moved gradually closer to my destination.

"So then, what do I do? I'm doing exactly what I'm supposed to do, which is applying for jobs. However, it seems that they choose to hire everyone other than me, which I suppose is HR's prerogative. My connections to the bourgeoisie are few and far between, and I don't desire to do anything illegal. Barring fame, I have very few options."

Now the sweat began.

"What are my options? YouTube, maybe? No...my friends, for the most part, don't seem to give much of a damn about anything involving my talents. Furthermore, I'm not exceptional at anything, nor do I desire to make a fool of myself in order to get famous. My writing? Well, I'm good at it, but I'm not sure that anyone would read it and be entertained. My book concept was already turned down by Kensington Books, and they hadn't even read it. Start a business? I have no capital, either liquid or monetary, to speak of."

I wiped my forehead, wondering when it had gotten so warm in March.

"So what am I supposed to do now? I don't have credit, backing money due to bad saving habits, or assets. I'm not extremely marketable in any specific way, and the friends I do have are either far away, unable to help, or uninterested in doing so. Jobs are not interested in hiring me, but I can't rely on my family and friends forever. I'm just...here. In Limbo. Stuck."

I stopped at this, cresting the sharp hill that I had turned up finally and looking at the massive structure that is Menlo Park Mall.

"Well," I said aloud, panting a bit as I let myself rest. "How does anyone with power get said power? They take it."

     My mind raced as I uttered these words to myself, searching all of my morality, reason, and soul to find where this could have come from. True, those who had power all had to do something at some pivotal moment to attain their status, but to simply take authority? How did one do such a thing?
The answer came as clear as day to me in that moment: You just do. You do whatever you have to do in order to get to that power seat. Some played by the rules, but most broke them to get where they were. Countless examples flooded into my brain: Martin Luther King, Jr., Lil Wayne, Banksy, Thomas Paine, Zack De La Rocha, Che Guevarra, Donald Trump...so many people disregarded the laws that those who created the power structure had previously in place. Legends were born of those people, people who saw the norm and did not conform to it.
     It was as my brother had explained chess to me. You see, there are White pieces and Black pieces. White, by the nature of being White, always moves first. This allows White to always be ahead of the game, setting the rules of play in it's own favor. It's just the rules of the game, and it has always been like that, as far as I have found. The challenge, therefore, of being Black is to maneuver seamlessly around the traps, pitfalls, and gambits that White sets up in order to make your side win. You are at a natural disadvantage as Black, but you can use that disadvantage to make White lose. You just have to work harder to do it.
     Equated with the situation America is in, the parallels are palpable. Chess itself is a metaphor for life. "Black" in America is not only people of color, but all people with no money that are trying to make a living for their families. People of all races are affected by the shift, and we all are trying to figure out how to succeed in the face of "White." White, in it's essence, is the power structure as it stands today, including businesses, government, and the sociopathic millionaires that run the country. It puts things in place to prevent you from making upward progress, preferring you be a consumer or a subject of theirs, one of the gears of their machine.
However, if you can fight your way out of the machine, washing yourself of the oil and grime that makes the wheels turn, then what do you do once you get there? Do you become one of the people running the machine, as many of those who have do? Do you try and build another one, one that works better than the one you came out of with new materials? Or do you try to dismember the old machine, saving the greasy gears in order to make a machine that looks different, but acts the same at its core?
     I wondered all of these things, realizing that I was still a greasy, dirty gear, one that doesn't spin, but is still in the machine. Should I break myself out of the machine now, or should I turn with it, slowly climbing through the muck and mire until I can finally poke my head into the sunlight of the privileged?

Do I really want to be here?

On Being Programmed

    Has anyone else noticed that authority figures like businesses and governments don't want you to think for yourself? Consider everything you may or may not have in your home to distract you: phones, iPods, movies, televisions, computers, game systems...all of these serve one purpose: to keep people content. TV feeds you what it wants you to watch, the internet is currently being tailored to cut certain content,and the radio only plays certain songs over and over. It's like we're watching a constant tape, looped over and over again in order to keep you docile.
     On the outside, movies, sports, and music have become so hyped that people will line up outside of a venue to spend exorbitant amounts of money just to watch other people doing things that, in the broad spectrum of things, don't mean anything. Entire industries have been built around "entertainment" around the world, siphoning billions of dollars out of people around the world for decades. The same goes for clothing, highly-processed food, alcohol, sex, religion, tobacco, politics, celebrities, and a slew of other industries that we may or may not know about.
     This cacophony of white noise has deadened our senses, leaving us paralyzed in the worlds we exist in. It is this constant sensory overload that western culture wants us to exist in every day, spending our money aimlessly as we trip along and do what whichever authority figure tells us to do. The powers that be want our money, our blindness, and our silent cooperation. And, for the most part, that's what Westerners tend to give them, unblinking as we worship whatever idol they erect for us. We slip into fanaticism over the dumbest things, going as far as to paint our faces, buy hyper-expensive clothing, wave signs, and even shed tears or commit suicide over things that have nothing to do with us!
     Whatever happened to thinking? Whatever happened to silence? What happened to the person that can sit down, organize their thoughts, and make rational decisions? It seems, reader, that these are becoming more few and far between as time goes on. How many times have you seen a person jump on a bandwagon lately? When you ask said people why they enjoy whatever activity or device, how many can give you a rational answer?
     Here's a perfect example: I used to have a few friends that watched every television program that came on MTV. They liked Four Loko, listening to pop radio, getting wasted and high all the time, tanning until they were orange, and otherwise living like "guidettes." When I asked them why they liked the shows (as well as the alcohol, which tastes like utter shit), they looked at me like I was crazy. "Why DON'T you like them?" was the closest response that I could glean from them, their scraggly, rat-textured hair appropriately "bumped" and dyed. I had to do away with them simply because I realized they didn't have much of a mind left. MTV had brainwashed them into tanned, constantly inebriated, drama-fueling bitches, and everyone in my circle was content with that.

Everyone except me, obviously.

     In the end, people like what they like. They dedicate their time to things that may or may not "mean" anything in the grand scheme of things. I understand that. However, I also understand that all of these things that people fall into are distractions from the problems that are not only happening both here and abroad, but are being caused by the very things they love. They are a temporary escape from personal problems, a repast from areas where people may need personal growth in order to become complete people. They divide attention away from crooked political practices, government officials and their behavior, and the laws they pass to constrict the freedoms of the American people. It makes sense, then, that those in power manipulate said distractions for that purpose, moving the public eye away from themselves so they may keep figuring out how to fleece us again and again.

Lao Tzu and Justice

Hello, all. I know it's been a while since my last post, and I'm sorry for that. I have been covertly maneuvering for a position of power inside the existing structure so that my actions may be more effective and my words may be heard over greater distances. I am hoping that once I am able to gain sustained capital, I will be able to use said capital to actually assist the movement on a greater scale by providing shelter, food, and communications with the outside world that would normally not have it. That is my long term goal, and I hope that you all will support me in it. In the meantime, I will be posting periodically thoughts, stories, and such.

The following is a story that was relayed to me by a friend. I believe it is vital to our movement to share it with you all.


Lao Tzu & Justice

"Lao Tzu was a true revolutionary. He was guided by the inner-light and wisdom. Once, the emperor invited Lao Tzu to be his chief minister.

But he rejected that offer stating, "This will not work out, for it will be hard for us to agree on any issues. You live by the principles and norms set by your ancestors, and I live guided by my conscience."

But the emperor was unable to accept Lao Tzu's rejection and said that he was certain that it would not cause any complications to him. On the very first day of Lao Tzu accepting the responsibility of the chief minister, a theft-case came to the court. The person accused accepted that he did rob from the wealthiest man in town. In response, Lao Tzu pronounced his judgment on the case. He sentenced the thief to six months in prison, but he also sentenced the wealthy merchant (from who the thief stole) to six months in prison.

"What did I steal? I am the victim! Why do I get punished? Are you mad? Has it ever happened in history where the person whose property is stolen was also punished?" the flustered merchant exclaimed.

Lao Tzu explained very patiently,"Truly speaking, I should have given you a bigger sentence than the one I gave to the thief. Since I am very kind at heart, I did not do that. You have amassed the entire city's wealth.Tell me, how did you accumulate so much? Did it all rain down from the sky? Who is responsible for so many people becoming poor and for changing some of them into thieves? It is you. What you have done is the bigger crime. What the thief has done does not appear to be much of a crime to me. Truly, the wealth that you have amassed by making so many people poor so that you can accumulate more and more is a much greater crime."

The wealthy merchant thought Lao Tzu was mad, so he humbly pleaded for an audience with the emperor. Even the emperor, when in crisis, borrowed money from the merchant, and so the emperor gave him audience. When he met the emperor, he explained what had happened at the court. He further cautioned the emperor,"If you allow Lao Tzu in the court to remain longer, you too may some day end up behind bars. He might question how you have amassed so much wealth, and if I am seen as a criminal, you may then be seen as a bigger criminal."

The emperor understood what Lao Tzu had implied earlier and he spoke to him. "I feel what you had said earlier about how we would be unable to come to the same conclusion on issues on coming to agreement to be true. Yes, it would be difficult for us both to reach an agreement on most issues. You are relieved from your responsibility of being my chief minister."
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     So, who belongs in jail, reader? Those of us who may have resorted to less than legal means to earn a living, or those who preside over us, ripping away our ability to survive and outlawing or taxing our ability to gain raw materials to use? Should we imprison those who shoplift and sell illegal things to make a living, or should we imprison those who make it impossible to make money for those who do? Think: if one cannot grow food on land because it "belongs" to the government, cannot shoot or trap small game because of some abstract law attaching heavy fines to it, or afford to go to the store and pay for food because they haven't found a job in this horrible recession, should we fault them for doing what they have to do to in order to survive?

To the Police

To the Police:

     I do not hate you conceptually. A peacekeeping force meant to stop evil people from doing things to harm others is a wonderful idea. However, to be frank, many of you are not that. Far from it, you are a plague upon our freedom as American citizens. You stand around, leering at the frightened people that you are supposed to be protecting like some huge street gang. You walk with your weapons and restraints hanging freely from your belts menacingly as you deprive us of our own. You roll around in your vehicles, flagrantly breaking every traffic law that you enforce and shining your accusatory lights upon gatherings of people, roaming for any sign of "trouble." You look to intimidate, imprison, and destroy people behind your guise of "keeping the peace." You are all wolves, in the end, and you attack in packs at any sign of opposition.
      Do you really think that you can move with total impunity? Do you think because you have a badge and a uniform you have the right to abuse and mistreat those who you are supposed to protect? Is that what you think? Furthermore, are your penises so small that you feel the need to prove how manly you are by beating, pepper-spraying, shooting, and arresting people who aren't attacking you? Young women, elderly people, mothers, innocent civilians, the homeless, peacefully communing protesters...all of these have been victims of your continued onslaughts of "justice." I scoff at you for pretending to care about the interests of US citizens, when indeed, those people are the ones you beat, shoot, taze, and otherwise assault as soon as they do something you don't like.
      I say this: one day the people aren't going to keep on taking what you're dishing out. I don't know how they're going to respond, but I do know that there are people in Philadelphia who are shooting cops on sight due to the civil servants' indiscriminate use of violence against the people. I am not saying that I am one of those people, but I will say that their decision makes sense, given what I've seen from some of you. I am taking more legal means to confront the situation. In the meantime, though, I feel the people's rage beginning to build as you all keep abusing the power bestowed to you by the state. You are children of privilege, ones that were given a responsibility to look after the safety and well-being of those you now oppress. You are not above the law. You are not Judge Dredd. You are supposed to be civil servants, not a pack of wild wolves that attack whatever entities you choose to when they do something you don't like. Your day of reckoning will come.