The "Faction"

I think best when I am sleeping.  For me sleeping is a rarity.  Sleep is what allows your body's immune system to operate.  Sleep also is when short term memories are turned into long term memories.  Sleep deprivation is a common tactic of torture.  Not much more is necessary.  Deprive any sane human being of sleep, and they will be reduced to vapor in a few days.  I cherish sleep when it comes, even if it makes me tired during the day.  I think best when I am sleeping.  My first thought is what an arrogant ass Quincy Jones is.  Yes, he is rich because he produced "Off the Wall" and "Thriller."  This and only this is what catapulted Quincy Jones to celebrity.  A competent arranger and composer who represents the African-American film aesthetic does not a celebrity make.  His work in film is worthy of praise, and in his own words scoring the music for "The Color Purple" created a nervous breakdown for him.  Film music in general does not create celebrity.  Film music in particular is a sleeper.  While John Williams continues to promulgate this ripe venue for musical expression, most film composers dwell in public obscurity.  Q. does not.  Q. now is a celebrity, and he dated Ivanka.  [sic]  What bothers me in his most recent interview is how dementia manifests itself.  He and Donald Trump officially are geriatrics.  Dementia in my experience only is an extension of the normal and reasonable irrational outbursts of frustrated people.  Women in my experience seem to suffer from this more than men.  Even if I have been tortured with lack of sleep, am suffering from withdrawal from alcohol, or just woke up on the wrong side of the bed, never do I lie.  Never do I make up stories to justify my current state of being.  If I feel like crap, then I have no reason to project it on anyone else.  It won't help.  I know this, because I am an educated person.  Immature people do this.  Women in my experience also do this.  It is a woman thing.  "You eat too much."  "You left the freezer door open."  In reality it is you who eats too much or left the freezer door open, and in the geriatric mind saying it out loud no matter if it is the wrong person, solidifies the concept.  You get used to it.  Oldspeak.   You did this.  You did that.  Just think of it as vice versa.  Quincy said some brazen things that are laced with dementia and braggadocio.  He is not unlike Miles Davis or Wynton Marsalis.  Miles may not have been a racist, but listening to his words may make you feel that way.  He was the same as Q.  He (they) say what they think, but everything they say is not necessarily true.  That is a stretch for me, listening to lies.  If anything I have learned in my life it is to be truthful.  Humanity seeks the truth, because truth provides righteousness.  Truth cuts through the B.S., the ever piling B.S. of our society, and provides a path to justice.  That justice depends on our system of justice in the United States, and in recent years those processes and representatives have fallen prey to the full hand of lobbyists.  That includes SCOTUS, a pop culture acronym for the Supreme Court of the United States.  They no longer are that supreme.  Instead they are bought and paid for like the rest of Washington.  I can't be surprised if in my lifetime every single principle I have learned from a quality public education would be challenged by a lop-sided, nepotistic, sociopathic Washington.  Truth no longer reigns in our society as a virtue.  Instead the accumulation of wealth is held in high esteem.  I would like to suggest among many other things on my mind, that the longer that money sits laundered and sheltered in Grand Cayman and Swiss banks, the more is depreciates in value.  Capitalism is based upon the exchange of money.  Money freely must circulate in a series of trades to be valuable.  For it to maintain worth, it must be traded.  I don't mean on Wall Street.  Suits in New York towers at the top of the food chain with no penchant for middle America have no chance of success.  The numbers game, in Capitalism, in based upon actual currency.  Currency must be traded, and it must be traded for worthy goods.  The operative word here is worthy.  Is an iPhone worthy?  Is it worth something other than to pop culture adolescents who have been brain washed by American television advertising?  The answer is of course not.  An iPhone is not worth anything, and yet Tim Cooke has made Apple one of the worlds richest companies.  It defies logic and Steve Jobs' vision.  Has Apple contributed to American Capitalism other than exploiting it for its own gain?  Again the answer is of course not, just like Bill Gates has not contributed to American Capitalism other than taking from it.   The rest of the country, the majority of Americans are poor and just getting by.  The Middle Class quickly has disappeared, because Washington is controlled by the lobbyists of big money.  Big money is the new God.  America will fall when Jesus makes his second appearance on earth, or it will fall sooner.  Jesus may all ready be here with Satan, and that I believe.  At first I thought Satan was in W., but then it just keeps going, getting more corrupt and absurd.  For money to have value it must circulate.  The longer Apple's money sits sheltered in overseas accounts, the more it loses value, because there is no Capitalism occurring to reinforce its worth.  Wall Street is not enough, and we have seen it fail time and time again.  Still Washington does not learn, and our recent Congress wants to ease banking regulations enacted to watchdog the wrong-doings of Wall Street which are rampant.  Until this regime is extruded from the White House, America has no chance.  The smell of the rotting money of Apple's is no surprise.  There are so many possibilities of righting wrong.  "Fight Club" had its solution, and perhaps it was not a bad one.  "V" had its solution, and perhaps it was not a bad one.  God has a solution, and it is predicted in the Book of Revelations.  Fire will come from the sky (a comet), and fire will bellow from the oceans (volcanoes).  God will appear and those who have accepted Him will be resurrected, the living and the dead.  The rest, those currently controlling America, will be left on the smoldering earth with their worthless money to fight for their lives in the scenario only they have created.  If they had accepted God as the savior of humanity, then they would have had a chance at immortal life.  Instead this faction has chosen the short life on earth as their torch.  That is human culpability, the things about which Jesus taught during His time on earth.  America systematically has attempted to eradicate God from our consciousness against the wishes of our Founding Fathers.  They knew that God was key to a successful nation.  I would assume all of our Founding Fathers are turning over in their graves, and it won't be long before another civil or revolutionary war transpires.  For money to be of value there must be commodities of value.  Those commodities all ready have been defined in American society.  No matter how Tim Cook tries, Apple cannot redefine the needs of Americans.  They can try.  They can produce misleading advertising, such American car commercials.  They can produce brainwashing propaganda and sell it to theaters to play before feature films.  These films by the way no longer are actual films.  They are digital renderings, and the conversion to digital has enabled Big Brother to interject its own message in a venue once reserved for artistry and anti establishment political activism.  Corporate monopolies always have been unhealthy, and yet systematically America has lessened regulation allowing these awkward, top-heavy, pork-laden grease pots to fester.  It won't be long before Big Brother is ruling America, and it will be by Mother.  If the money in overseas banks does not begin to flow again back into America and to the middle and lowers classes, we will die.  The faction that who has chosen this short life as their torches will meet Satan and continue their hedonistic lifestyle in Hell.  It is unfortunate but not surprising that in my lifetime I am forced to reckon with this ill.  Perhaps it occurs in everyone's lifetime, but one does not see it until they get older and are not engaged in the requirements of early life. When you get older you have nothing to lose.  Retirement.  Over fifty percent of Americans have none.  What do we have to lose?  The commodities which built America are the same, and they are not the iPhone.  They are food, clothing, and shelter.  They are goods related to the human experience.  They are amenities which make life livable.  Q. spoke like an arrogant ass, much the way Miles sounded when he talked.  Then I learned to take what they say as braggadocio.  Miles said in an interview he never suffered, and yet he kicked heroin cold turkey in a room over his father's garage.  Q. said he dated Ivanka.  Q. said the Beatles were terrible musicians, but if you compared the Beatles catalog to The King of Pop's, why did Michael by the Beatles catalog?  Studying with Nadia Boulanger does not in itself make you a musical scholar.  Yes George Gershwin and Herbie Hancock also studied with Ms. Boulanger, but no longer does that ensure you will become a celebrity composer such as George Gershwin.  Evidently Q. feels he has arrived.  "Everything I have done has been stellar," he said.  That is some ego.  The jokes on you when you go back and listen and realize it was not.  He made you listen and pay attention, but that will not sustain the test of time.  American advertising and the faction controlling America could take a lesson in longevity.  The earth is meant to provide for the populace, not just your greedy asses.