Hey guys, I was browsing the web and found this forum. I thought you
all seem to be like minded, so I figured I would share an excerpt
from my book. If you like it or hate it, let me know.
Thanks,
Karma
( Charles Stanley, author of The Divine Tragedy by Cook & Stanley )


FEAR OF AMERICAN'S
By: Charles Shane Stanley

Time after time, I find myself wanting to apologize for the people
around me. I feel that I have to make excuses for their ignorance, or
for their inadequacies in today's culture of fast paced facts and
instant
knowledge. In any given situation, there is that one moron that states
his or her uneducated beliefs, whether it is about politics or
something
petty like the carburetion in Mountain Dew. Yes, I said carburetion
and not carbonation. This simply put, is my contempt for Americans.
As a society, we are torn between too many worries. Worries that are
truthfully none of our concern, but yet we feel the need to put our
two
cents in anyways. Granted, I'm doing the same thing right this
minute, but my hypocrisy knows no bound, I am the exception.
Whereas the rest of the world should just strap in, shut up, and keep
their opinions to a minimum. It's a long ride, and it'll seem much
longer with all the chitchat.
We as people forget to store and manage simple information on
what's going on around us. We can't grasp the everyday situations
and study the structural decay of our outer circle. The lines are so
smudged; we lose sight of what should be our primary functions and
our secondary functions. And for that matter, we should let go of our
fixations that don't affect our everyday lives.
Our primary concerns as human beings should reflect a positive
outcome for us, not what the media deems as our concerns. The
everyday person should be ruled by his or her morality in an inner
circle. And by this, I mean you need to shape and mold what is
directly in front of you. Your inner circle includes your friends,
family, and or your spouse.
Ram Dass said it best, and that is to Be Here Now. I believe he
had a bit different message behind that, but it applies here as well.
Don't let life's indirect afflictions reflect on your inner circle,
your
own private world. People shouldn't worry about what the future
brings, or what has happened in the past. Every individual should be
concentrating on the present. Today is always your first day at hand,
act on it.
Just the other day, some acquaintances and I were talking about
were to vacation at. It seemed friendly enough, right? Well, I said
Egypt of course, someone else said Spain, and out of the blue,
someone shouted out "I would like to go to Iraq and kill Saddam
Hussein". Okay, this is where everything around me turns gray. See, I
love to run my mind in a state of black and white. It eases my tension
in large groups. Instead of a long measure of dealing with situations
in
a deep two hundred and fifty six-color method, I choose the black and
white method. The black and white method is a robots way of dealing
with large crowds. You have your happy, friendly state, where you
can communicate with all walks of life around you, and you have
your defense state, where you strike every living thing down in an
omnipotent display of power. Hence the whole black and white thing
I have been living in. Now gray is a bit harder to calculate. You
don't
want to go off the deep end with the calm, rational, friendly,
innocent,
listeners around you, and yet you don't want this Saddam Hussein
glory boy to walk away from this conversation without knowing he
has thrown a stick in the spokes of a larger, more complicated issue
than what he can truly fathom. To say the least, this is why I fear
americans.
As an american, I feel I should go around and apologize for every
"Fuck Bin Laden" T-Shirt that's in print. I feel the need to burn
every
confederate flag that hangs in some punk rednecks trailer. We should
castrate every dumb ass that slept through history class and owns a
"The south will rise again" bumper sticker. Intelligent men do not
advertise. It's the ignorant that do. This also explains why bumper
stickers sell so well, whereas this book probably won't. Intelligent
people do not advertise… There, I said it again. And yes, I too hold
feelings of offing certain people, but at least I know why. It's not
decided on what the media deems as a reasonable action. CNN does
not tell the news; they're more like a pep squad for the home team. It
makes every american want to take action for the atrocities committed
on foreign ground. Every eye in this country is watching our next
move, similar to cars slowing down from their everyday lives just to
scope out the carnage that has happened on the highway or interstate.
Like vultures, they wait from a far to see if anyone is going to
depart
this life, or whatnot. CNN is designed for ignorant people, the
vultures of our society. The nation may tune in and learn about the
worlds current affairs in a tiny individually wrapped two-minute piece
interval, without worrying about getting too wrapped up in what the
whole fiasco is all about. We don't want to be educated, we want to
be amused. And that is exactly what we get. Some news anchor
telling us an amusing little story of what we need to know, showing
us amusing ten second clips of our troops in action. Action? What
action? Where? Huh? Fuck….
… Are we at war?
All I know is they mentioned Iraq and showed the world trade
towers, along with a muted video feed of George W. Bush talking.
Because believe me, nobody can confuse the people faster or better
than that of an un-muted video feed of George W. Bush. The people
can't handle listening to him, so we just look at him while Tom
Brokaw or Peter Jennings dubs over it for us. This makes it easier for
us to swallow.
And that's another thing I would like to get off my chest. What is
the deal with our president and his speeches? It is either
incredible, or
the worst illustration of human language that mankind has ever
muttered. Who writes these things? I'm guessing for really
monumental occasions, they hire out Jerry Bruckheimer or Michael
Bay and their team of writers to produce the whole attraction.
Because face it, we know something as moving as the nine-eleven
speech couldn't have come from a man who looks as dazed and
confused as a deer in front of headlights. Why is it during that
speech,
someone yelled "I can't hear you", and then G. W. followed up with
"Well I hear you, and the men who brought these buildings will hear
you… blah… blah … blah…

Did you ever wonder why that voice from the crowd sounded like
it was amplified? Almost like the man had a little microphone hidden
on his collar….? That's what america wants to hear. We want to feel
like we're still one of the most powerful countries in the world. And
you know what, we are. But we aren't powerful enough to prevent
buildings from falling. We aren't powerful enough to neither clothe
and feed our own people, nor make sure our sick have the appropriate
healthcare. But we are powerful enough to launch dollar after dollar
into overseas crisis', feed strangers who eat our food and burn our
flags, along with supply weapons to support somebody else's war,
just so Russia can experience what americans experienced in
Vietnam. The only karmic thing about all this is when a gun that was
given out by america just years prior shoots american soldiers. I
would dwell a bit deeper on the content I just mentioned, but feel the
need to vomit whenever I think of how seedy our government truly is.
No, let me reiterate…. I feel disgusted to know people are so
patriotic
to a country that's had its finger in the cookie jar of deception from
day one.
There is a feeling of trepidation that comes about when I think
about our president. I fear any person who can decide the fate of a
million men, especially when his father ruled the same nation during a
time of war. Unfortunately, americans are about whooping ass, which
explains all his support. And because of this, it holds a promising
prospective for an elected official that may want to serve another
four
years as commander and chief. This is dangerous. Will Caesar replace
the Caesar before him and honor him with his likeness? The United
Nations declared a law that prevents world leaders from being harmed
during a time of war, or for that matter, any time. Well isn't this
convenient. Do you think that certain world powers would think
things through a bit more thoroughly if they knew it was their ass on
the line and not mine? Ever wonder why only one plane was
intercepted, and not the others on the day of September eleventh?
Does it make much sense that the only plane that was intercepted that
day was on a direct path to the white house? Or do you believe what
they want us to believe? I almost forgot, the passengers aboard helped
take that plane down… with the assistance of an F-15 Strike Eagle.
Do you whole-heartedly believe that the passengers on that plane,

single handedly prevented it from suicide-bombing the white house?
Or do you beLIEve that many shall fall, just to preserve the life of
one
man, our Caesar?

I once stated that I want a revolution. Now I'm unsatisfied with
the taste that those words leave while pouring out of my mouth. I
want something bigger. I want to be able to watch it all, the upheaval
of our system when the wool is finally pulled harshly from our eyes. I
want to see leaders judged by their abilities to lead, and not judged
on
whom they had sex with. I want to see the world topple upon itself
while I'm smoking a cigarette and listening to Beethoven's Moonlight
Sonata. I want to bathe in the ashes of what use to represent our
american currency. I want to watch children play in abandoned,
collapsing buildings that once housed global corporations. I want to
see prisons built by the people, not with fencing and barbed razor
wire, instead with state lines. I want to fall asleep to the glow of
the
embers that once made up our cities. I want to watch the holy man
and his followers screaming to the heavens for redemption, instead of
damning his fellow man. I want to watch it crumble and burn. And as
the world woes its economic and its supposed democratic loss, I will
be carving new rules onto stone. I will be preparing our people to
bring forth a new era for us.
"The world is a cruel, hollow, shell of existence, packed with
distrust, manipulation, sex, drugs, and greed….
… And then there's also a darker side."
A newer revised look at Hunter S. Thompson's quote
-Charles Shane Stanley




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