Wednesday, January 2, 2019

The Hippocratic Oath Decoded



I swear by Apollo the Healer, by Asclepius, by Hygieia, by Panacea, and by all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgment, this oath and this indenture. (A subjective oath sworn before false gods. That's something to bet your life on.)

To hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; 
(Welcome to the first Multi-level marketing scam!) to consider his family as my own brothers (it even has a downline) , and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture; to impart precept, oral instruction, and all other instruction to my own sons, the sons of my teacher, and to indentured pupils who have taken the physician’s oath, but to nobody else. (That's makes it a cartel.)

I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrong-doing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so
 (Dr. Kevorkian notwithstanding) nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion (You just lost the support of many women. Good doctor perhaps, but not politically skilled). But I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art (Just lost the support of most scientists). I will not use the knife, not even, verily, on sufferers from stone, but I will give place to such as are craftsmen therein. (The seed of overspecialization was planted here.)

Into whatsoever houses I enter 
(The reference to house calls demonstrates how antiquated this oath is), I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets (barring an Act of Congress e.g. - HIPPA clauses)

Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain for ever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I break it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me 
(and my malpractice premiums increase).

Monday, November 26, 2018

Mostly Poor, Generally Miserable, and Statistically Short




Why you’re going to be mostly poor and generally miserable for the rest of your statistically short adult life...

Unaffordable housing isn't a "norm", nor should it be. Unaffordable housing is a red flag. Now that I think about it, unaffordable housing is not just one red flag. Unaffordable housing is more red flags than a Communist Party parade. All those red flags are signaling a problem, but rather than solve that problem we're all busy managing symptoms. Symptoms which we think, because we are told, are separate problems. They aren’t. They're just symptoms of the one real problem. Yup, there’s only one of those, but we’re not being told that. So, we don't hazard to think it. 

Hang on. I’m going to tell you about it right now. The problem which caused the housing shortage symptom and a bunch of other serious social "ills" (all symptoms of the one real problem) is a change in our social structure. The change which manifest so many serious symptoms that we've confused them with problems, in themselves. The one real problem we have is we recently abandoned the ancient human lifestyle of "Three Generations to a Home" starting about three generations ago.

Suddenly,
1. Housing is unaffordable by default
2. Elder care costs have become a new cumbersome budget item.
3. Our elderly parents are routinely placed at risk of being abused or ignored to death in nursing home 
institutions.
4. Child care becomes yet another massive personal budget item requiring government assistance.
5. Our children are taught values by strangers rather than family.
6. As a result of #5, XBox and gang-banging become lifestyle choices for our kids. 
7. Meanwhile, as a result of all the above SYMPTOMS, we get to spend years of our lives standing in line trying to get some government housing, child care, and/or elder care assistance which is guaranteed to keep us in chains for the rest of our days.
 8. If we are fortunate enough to buy a home, we’re going to have to work a lot more hours to cover all the bills. This means more child care costs and as a result, more X-Boxing/ Gang-Banging kids. Note to self: Figure Bail money into monthly budget… somehow.


All these SYMPTOMS are spawned of our abandoning the ancient human lifestyle of "Three Generations to a Home". The solution is not more or bigger government assistance checks. That, my human friends, is the road we took to arrive at this place of despair. What we need to do is solve the problem by living like humans again: Three Generations to a Home", because it works and always did. 

We used to know this. We forgot. It’s time to remember again. It’s time to remember how to live like humans. It’s time to remember how to live our humanity rather than enhancing our morbidity through bankruptcy.

The future is our past or we're all history.

It’s time to go home to humanity.

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

As Above, So Below




Although this was written in response to S.3348 it seems to apply far more generally than I anticipated. Scary, I know. -M


RE: S.3348 – Accountable Capitalism Act
 (Read this piece of shit  by clicking here... after you read my shit down there)

This is an average guy who took the time
to let his representative know his mind
in the hope representative democracy
can still work for an average guy like me.
If I may speak freely, from what I've seen
I put the odds at highly unlikely
I'm white and male, my apologies
Still, I made my plea in digital poetry
and cast it out through a port #443.
Godspeed!

To: You
From: Me

Right Honorable, Most Merciful, Excellency...
Someday this bill will come before you, burn it, please
It's a chimera, an abomination crafted beautifully
Loot billionaires for a minute then the middle class eternally
You fix inequality with ninety-nine for them, one for me
I beg your forgiveness for remembering history
Those who fail to learn its lessons end up like me
No, thank you, Can’t afford it. Now, go away please.
Then, the Bill passed with bipartisan support. Unanimously!
Another unfunded liability for me and my family.
You have no shame, so I have no sympathy. Now, go away please.

This average guy would rather see "Government Accountability"
No, I'm not a communist, terrorist, or deranged mentally.
No, I don't have a weapon or bomb. Fine. Go ahead. Frisk me... again.
I'm a libertarian... Great! Another official with episodic A.D.D.
Hey, buddy! Over here. Focus, you son of a B…

Let's talk about the lay of the land, topography
"The level playing field" as you call it dishonestly
Decades from now this quote will be my legacy
because you couldn’t tax it, steal it, or charge a fee

"Give me Death or Government Accountability"
In the Land of the Free from sea to shining sea
Immediately, if not sooner, if you please. I said please.
That’s a win-win for you and me and our posterity.
All our future generations bounced on a knee

Our debt situation isn’t serious, it’s critical, seriously
it’s a choice of life or death, to be or not to be
I don't give a shit if Kaepernick took a knee
Hey, Rain-man, are you listening to me?

As above, so below", so the ancient saying goes.
What we’re taught is everything we know.
From father to son, from mother to the girl with the bow.
To wear the mantle this lesson you must know
As above, so below.
As above, so below.
Our example plants a seed or a field fallow.
As above, so below.
As above, so below.

Those who cannot control themselves
will seek to control every one else.
To demonstrate their power and prowess
It’s in our human genome, I guess
Blind ambition is sin in fancy dress
A virtue if we veil it in governance
that cares for the poor and powerless
At their own expense. What a hot mess!

If the People wont follow
then make them bow, they know.
It’s a fear and dominance show,
follow my lead, here we go
As above, so below.
As above, so below.

The need to sit upon every throne
is a contagion beneath the capitol dome
Everyone knows how the fanfare goes
As above, so below.
As above, so below.
Once more fortissimo
As above, so below.

You’re a busy man. I understand.
Heavy is the head but so is the hand.
That forms a fist in the gauntlet of hegemony
You’re perfect plan for all the land, most assuredly
Mirages look like an oasis in the sand. Lunacy!

Let’s speak honestly. Here’s the truth I see
Charity is the sister of accountability
both are birthed or stillborn at home invariably
If you can’t control yourself, don’t try steering me

If the blind lead the gullible it’s easy to see
Both fall down pursuant to the Law of Gravity
When plunder is enshrined in law, the law is insanity
Free from the chains of bondage to financial slavery

We have arrived in the land of bilk your money
The promised land of transfer payment thievery
Open your wallet says me, Ali Baba’s wet dreams
Plenty for Al Capon’s bride to be
The Artful Dodger picked her purse clean
Robin Hood, what an amateur!
We're the government, we rob everybody.

To each according to their criminality
to those upon the throne, our ruling royalty
by the indolent hand of noble bureaucracy
From those below the wealth is gleaned

A permanent flock of sheep to fleece
99 for the shepherds and none for me
Don’t kill them, just shear them vigorously
until they bleed.

Arbeit macht frei!

Work makes you free the same lie they told me
E Pluribus Unum means "We serve monopolies"
Buy on Amazon, post on Facebook, insure with Geico
Lose it in Public Storage, find it, and sell it on Let Go
Get a nickel on the buck if the market is right
Repeat this mistake every day for the rest of your life

iPods, iPads, iPhones one through ten, iHomes
I need a vacation to rest my broken iBones
You know the drill, so here iGo...
As above, so below.
As above, so below.

Equality begins six feet down horizontally
Not a level playing field at forty-five degrees
No, thank you, Can’t afford it. Now, go away please.
I’ve got kids to feed. Your help is killing me.


First practice what you preach
Prove your wise enough to teach
Equity isn’t grab everything in reach
While lying to me through golden teeth
There is no honor among thieves
Even those who pontificate constantly

The banks just went bankrupt again? Oh, gee?
Even after I paid all those goddamn fees?
Deficit spending and freedom ain't free
Steal the money from my kid, age three
But don't touch a dime of my social security
That makes good financial sense to me
The kid may feel differently at age thirty-three
Oh, damn! Papa and Uncle Sam fucked me!

As the damage grows...
As above, so below
As above, so below

And the corruption shows...
As above, so below
As above, so below

Generations fall like dominoes...
As above, so below
As above, so below

Like a river flows and the sunlight glows
As above, so below
As above, so below

A seed or fallow
As above, so below
As above, so below

The hand both reaps and sows
As above, so below
As above, so below

The judge made a choice, easy as can be
Death before Government Accountability

Legally "equal" is two ropes on a gallows
None for them, two for me, consecutively.


Sentence to be carried out prestissimo
Stretch his neck. Courts adjourned. Gotta pee.

May God have mercy on your soul.
As above, so below
As above, so below

Before my last words I heard the judge clearly go…

Now, you’re free, you’re really free
I thought he was talkin' to his dick not me
I was wrong, dead wrong as could be...
Free at last, so totally free
But your widow still owes me
Damn, it burns when I pee!

Last words... Fuck it! Let's go.
So, the story goes...
As above, so below
As above, so below
As above, so below
As above, so below