Bob Moran is a stellar example of a human being exercising his birthright intelligence with clarity and coherence. I included MANY of Bob's works in the third part of a trilogy (begun in 2020), published on 21 Dec 2022:
Each of us is answerable to our Creator. Each of us has an immutable relationship with the source of our existence. The ineffable mystery we each embody is eternally framed in the wonder of whatever is really going on here. John Trudell touched the essence of this in What It Means To Be A Human Being:
"... because ... we come from where we come from, every one of us is the descendant of a tribe. Every person in this room is a descendant of a tribe at some point in our ancestral evolution. Common, collective, genetic memory that’s in there, you know, that’s encoded, like I say, in the DNA. And for every individual, encoded in our individual DNA, alright?, is the experience of our lineage from the very beginning. Whose whole perceptional reality was what I was just saying: all things have being, we’re made up of the Earth – all my relations, pray to spirits. See, and they didn’t pray to man or human form. The closest they came to it was they prayed to spirits that were called ancestors.
"Alright? And because they were praying to those ancestors for help and guidance, they understood that we were borrowing today from the past and the future. We’re borrowing it from both places. So they had this understanding of reality.... they knew that to keep the balance was the purpose.... The reason for being was to keep the balance. ... this was ... what I will call a spiritual perception of reality. And so because of the spiritual perception of reality they understood that life was about responsibility. It wasn’t about the abstraction of freedom – it was about responsibility. That life was about responsibility."
There is a vital need to activate remembering that we are borrowing today from the past as well as the future. So much forgetting makes possible the incoherent, life-destroying processes and activities that beset the world. This started a long time ago. John Trudell expresses his understanding of how, within the techno-logic perceptional reality, one of the civilizing processes is to erase memories; memory of who we are and what we are, memory of identity and self-reality.
Our single human family is dealing with the consequences of medical nemesis writ large. Ivan Illich wrote of clinical, social, and cultural iatrogenesis as being self-reinforcing: “Iatrogenesis is clinical when pain, sickness, and death result from medical care; it is social when health policies reinforce an industrial organization that generates ill-health; it is cultural and symbolic when medically sponsored behavior and delusions restrict the vital autonomy of people by undermining their competence in growing up, caring for each other, and aging, or when medical intervention cripples personal responses to pain, disability, impairment, anguish, and death.” Today, the Domination System’s imperative to permanently extinguish our vital autonomy is reaching critical mass. The immutable bond and individual relationship to the Big Holy each of us was born with is the eternal source of balance and strength guiding and informing our steps.
Fighting back today is an all-or-nothing struggle. Children and all those yet unborn look to us for the sake and integrity of their future; a life-affirming and life-loving future where humility, receptivity, compassion and empathy, and deep reverence inform all choices made on behalf of the seventh generation yet unborn.
I'm increasingly convinced that this information war--stalemated on fronts like logic, facts, and reasoned, open debate--will be won by things like art (all kinds) and humor/satire. Orwell knew this. Bob Moran and the guys at the Babylon Bee seem to know it also. I'm glad to have folks like those fearlessly (even joyfully) running point, using their gifts, showing us how it can be done.
Bob Moran is a stellar example of a human being exercising his birthright intelligence with clarity and coherence. I included MANY of Bob's works in the third part of a trilogy (begun in 2020), published on 21 Dec 2022:
History Will Not Absolve Us
Be Liberated from the United States of Denial
https://ratical.org/PandemicParallaxView/History-Will-Not-Absolve-Us.html
Each of us is answerable to our Creator. Each of us has an immutable relationship with the source of our existence. The ineffable mystery we each embody is eternally framed in the wonder of whatever is really going on here. John Trudell touched the essence of this in What It Means To Be A Human Being:
"... because ... we come from where we come from, every one of us is the descendant of a tribe. Every person in this room is a descendant of a tribe at some point in our ancestral evolution. Common, collective, genetic memory that’s in there, you know, that’s encoded, like I say, in the DNA. And for every individual, encoded in our individual DNA, alright?, is the experience of our lineage from the very beginning. Whose whole perceptional reality was what I was just saying: all things have being, we’re made up of the Earth – all my relations, pray to spirits. See, and they didn’t pray to man or human form. The closest they came to it was they prayed to spirits that were called ancestors.
"Alright? And because they were praying to those ancestors for help and guidance, they understood that we were borrowing today from the past and the future. We’re borrowing it from both places. So they had this understanding of reality.... they knew that to keep the balance was the purpose.... The reason for being was to keep the balance. ... this was ... what I will call a spiritual perception of reality. And so because of the spiritual perception of reality they understood that life was about responsibility. It wasn’t about the abstraction of freedom – it was about responsibility. That life was about responsibility."
There is a vital need to activate remembering that we are borrowing today from the past as well as the future. So much forgetting makes possible the incoherent, life-destroying processes and activities that beset the world. This started a long time ago. John Trudell expresses his understanding of how, within the techno-logic perceptional reality, one of the civilizing processes is to erase memories; memory of who we are and what we are, memory of identity and self-reality.
Our single human family is dealing with the consequences of medical nemesis writ large. Ivan Illich wrote of clinical, social, and cultural iatrogenesis as being self-reinforcing: “Iatrogenesis is clinical when pain, sickness, and death result from medical care; it is social when health policies reinforce an industrial organization that generates ill-health; it is cultural and symbolic when medically sponsored behavior and delusions restrict the vital autonomy of people by undermining their competence in growing up, caring for each other, and aging, or when medical intervention cripples personal responses to pain, disability, impairment, anguish, and death.” Today, the Domination System’s imperative to permanently extinguish our vital autonomy is reaching critical mass. The immutable bond and individual relationship to the Big Holy each of us was born with is the eternal source of balance and strength guiding and informing our steps.
Fighting back today is an all-or-nothing struggle. Children and all those yet unborn look to us for the sake and integrity of their future; a life-affirming and life-loving future where humility, receptivity, compassion and empathy, and deep reverence inform all choices made on behalf of the seventh generation yet unborn.
Quite accurate, as well!
Yes Celia Bob is a man of integrity! Seems like not many are prepared to stand for what they believe in. Thanks to you both.
I love Bob Moran's art!
Bold title to have to deliver on
but yep. delivered.
thanks for the laugh- great first thing to see- kind of like 'the silent scream'- modernized!
Alas! it is delusion all;
The future cheats us from afar, 10
Nor can we be what we recall,
Nor dare we think on what we are.
—Lord Byron
Excellent cartoon by the always excellent Bob Moran.
Thanks, Celia. You are excellent too.
Most people don't realize that in his oft cited book Orwell alluded slyly to the idea of a false flag event. It's subtle and quiet but it's there.
Also, "truther" is a word that would fit nicely into any glossary of NewSpeak words.
sic!
I come from Suffolk, and through that county flows the river from which Eric Arthur Blair took his nom de plume...
And that poor guy is only half way through the book!
War is Peace / Peace is War
Freedom is Slavery / Slavery is Freedom
etc...
but he never imagined
Breathing is Strangling / Strangling is Breathing.
Health is Death / Death is Health
This extremely comic and tragic video shows that some people have an indomitable spirit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB8iCBogmSU
I would love to have a signed work from Bob Moran, even though a time is approaching when it would be wise to hide it under the floorboards.
I'm increasingly convinced that this information war--stalemated on fronts like logic, facts, and reasoned, open debate--will be won by things like art (all kinds) and humor/satire. Orwell knew this. Bob Moran and the guys at the Babylon Bee seem to know it also. I'm glad to have folks like those fearlessly (even joyfully) running point, using their gifts, showing us how it can be done.
I agree.