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Open the Jar, Pandora, and Why the Gods Are LOL: We Are the Centaurs, My Friends … We Are the Necessary Heroes for Deluded Promethean “Fathers”

Posted on June 6, 2013 by sillymickel

We’ve Fallen and We Can’t Get Up: Like Chiron, We Need to Take Inside Us the “Sins” of Promethean Fathers to Stop Millennial Cycles of Suffering Wounded Deer and Centaurs, Chapter Seven: Return of the Centaur and How We Look … Continue reading →

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Before Voting Romney, Remember, We Knew This Before: Forgetting the Past, We Were Doomed to Repeat It … The Revolution That Wasn’t Televised

Posted on November 5, 2012 by sillymickel

If Freedom of the Press Was Repealed, How Would You Know? Dire Vision, Revelation … Words a Decade Old Come Back to Haunt Culture War, Class War, Chapter Seventeen: Freedom Repealed Dire Prediction: Before Voting for Romney, Remember, We Knew … Continue reading →

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Will We Continue Shooting Ourselves in the Foot? Dire Prediction … Before Voting for Romney, Remember, We Knew This Before.

Posted on November 3, 2012 by sillymickel

Forgetting the Past, We Were Doomed to Repeat It … A Message Arrives from Twelve Years in the Past Predicting Today’s Events: Freedom Repealed, Part One A Message Arrives from Twelve Years in the Past Predicting Today’s Events We are … Continue reading →

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When ALL You Hear Are Lies, You Think It HAS to Be Truth: Money Madness and the Rise of “Obvious Truths” … Around Taxes, the Wealthy, Job Creation, Democrats, Republicans, Generations, Your Life, and You

Posted on August 23, 2012 by sillymickel

Foolin’ the People … About Money, About “Us” (The 1%), About Taxes, About Job Creation, About Democrats, About Republicans, About Generations, About Your Life, About You: Choose the Red Pill Culture War, Class War, Chapter Fifteen: Money Madness Tax the … Continue reading →

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Foolin’ the People About America and The Rise of Obvious “Truths”: It’s About Creeping Corporate Insertion Into Every Aspect of Your Life

Posted on August 19, 2012 by sillymickel

Peaking in the Sixties, Starving for Prosperity, The Compassion Gap, Starving the “Beast,” Humbug for the Poor, Democratizing the Hate … Your Money or Your Life Culture War, Class War, Chapter Fourteen: Better Off Than Fifty Years Ago? Peaking in … Continue reading →

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The Great American About Face: Context of The American Awakening – Cool Hand Gipper (The Great Hustle) and What the 1% Would Still Have of Us

Posted on August 12, 2012 by sillymickel

Culture War, Class War, Chapter Thirteen: The Great American About Face Once Upon a Time, Kindness Was a Noble Thing Why Insist on the Same Mistakes That Led to the Great Depression? You don’t know what I’m getting at. But … Continue reading →

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Money Madness … Foolin’ the People About Money, Part 4: A Rising Tide Lifts All Yachts … The Rich Are Getting Richer and the Workers Are Getting Humiliated

Posted on June 19, 2012 by sillymickel

Money Madness … Foolin’ the People About Money, Part Four: Increasing Humiliation of Working People, the Rich Get Richer at Our Expense Obvious “Truth”: A rising (economic) tide lifts all boats . Real Truth – The Rich Get Richer at … Continue reading →

Posted in 60s, History, Politics, Psychology, Spirituality | Tagged 1%, 99%, America, Bush, business, class, class war, corner grocery store, culture war, current-events, economic, economic tide, expense, filthy rich, incarceration, jails, jobs, life, living, mad, madness, money, money madness, neo-con, obvious truth, occupy wall street, outsource, overseas, Patriot Act, Politics, prosperity, Reagan, real, rich, richer, rising tide, small business, standard of living, struggle, truth, Walmart, wealthy, worker, yacht | Leave a comment

21st Century and Its Discontents, Part 14: Enter the Centaur: Wherein Lies Real Hope – Sixties and Millennial Generations Are Shamans for Deluded Promethean “Fathers”

Posted on June 2, 2012 by sillymickel

Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life, Part Fourteen: Blind Hope vs. Real Hope … Chiron Is Martyr for The Sins of the Fathers Prometheus Brought Us Blind Hopes Another aspect of this is that Prometheus is said to have “caused blind hopes … Continue reading →

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Better Off Than Fifty Years Ago? Part One: Foolin’ the People About America…Peaking in the Sixties

Posted on May 26, 2012 by sillymickel

Better Off Than Fifty Years Ago? Part One: Peaking in the Sixties Obvious “Truths”: Americans are innovators and problem-solvers. There’s nothing Americans can’t do, no problem we can’t solve, once we put our minds to it. Things just keep getting … Continue reading →