What exactly does it mean to "serve your country"? Lately I've been asking myself that question. Virtually all things I have seen around the internet and in the media point to being in the military. It's a little bit baffling to me. The way you are serving your country is by killing others in the name of what some see as "freeing" Iraq or Afghanistan. I am a fan of not doing this, thus the reason of the picture of the lion and the lamb. I saw this somewhere and think it is pretty fitting (at least in my mind) for Veteran's Day: Killing for peace is like fucking for chastity. I don't know who exactly said that, but I definitely agree.
Anyways, I am getting off point. I was aiming at what exactly "serving" your country means. Does it mean being willing to die for a piece of land? Being willing to kill to take control of others? Unknowingly being indoctrinated to kill by words like "freedom" and "patriotism"? Personally, I think it's the latter. I wanted to be in the military when I was naive and only 18 years old. I was ready and willing to go to a military academy and go off and kill for Dick Cheney, George Asshole Bush and Karl Rove. And I was very close to getting in but I started having seizures while I was 18. Maybe I should be thanking God for giving me epilepsy that prevented me from being in the military.
Anywho, I am a little curious about this question: How am I not serving my country? I am giving back to my country as best as I can by showing a little truth in a nation in the grips of mind control by corporate media who are in bed with corrupt politicians. I think that is a bit "patriotic". When given the truth, true civil disobedience is the best form of "patriotism". I may not be willing to say the "Pledge of Allegiance" but I think that, in itself, is pretty goddamn “patriotic”. That’s my rant for now. To all you people who don’t read my blog, keep on keepin’ on.
~Someone Important
Post Script (a pretty long Post Script):
You may have noticed that I used quotation marks when using the words “patriotic” or “patriotism”. In case you were wondering, that was on purpose. Patriotism is a made up word by assclowns who want you to do their bidding. As Emma Goldman writes, “Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.”
I thought Stephen King's commentary on the Black Ribbons album by Shooter Jennings might be kind of fitting for my message:
"From the center of nowhere, Atop the shoulders of giants, Above the creeping fog of disinformation that clouds the American union, this is Will 'O the Wisp. And this is The Last Light Radio. Your last beacon of truth and defiance
I've always started my shows by saying that: All ships lost in the night search for the lighthouse on the rock of the enlightened. But, for truth seekers out there, the battery is fading and the light is dying. I see that freedom has failed us and with no light the night's going to be a long one. Woody Guthrie said: This land is your land, this land is ... my land. Great words, but this land is their land now.
This will be the last time your ears and my voice will be getting together. Because, as of midnight tonight, the previously public airwaves will be commandeered for government approved and regulated transmission. The last breath of free speech will blow itself out. What rises in its place is going to be the wind of thought control. Bad guys win folks!
You know I don't always play a lot of music on the show, as most of it these days is processed, bubble gum bullshit - churned out by the overlords of doublespeak and made to turn a gray world grayer. But tonight I won't go without leaving a message. Tonight I've chosen to play the one band the American Fascicrats don't want me to play. Tonight I'm going off the air with the music of Hierophant. For those of you not familiar, you'll get a taste of Hierophant's music tonight. Their message, their light
I started you off with Wake Up from their 2009 album Bohemian Grove, their first and most radical. Remember what the song says: Don't let 'em get you down. The most important truth is love, all you know and all you need to know, as the poet says. “What was that beauty, what's the difference? Love your family, love your neighbor, love your enemy as yourself. Go on loving, it's what humans do best and the one thing they can't kill.” Got it?
This is Will 'O the Wisp. The time now is no time. The temperature is cold. And the news is blue. But for now the light still shines. Off the same album, this is Triskaidekaphobia. That's fear of thirteen my sons and daughters, as in thirteen o'clock. You're listening to the last night on The Last Light"
Take care.
Anyways, I am getting off point. I was aiming at what exactly "serving" your country means. Does it mean being willing to die for a piece of land? Being willing to kill to take control of others? Unknowingly being indoctrinated to kill by words like "freedom" and "patriotism"? Personally, I think it's the latter. I wanted to be in the military when I was naive and only 18 years old. I was ready and willing to go to a military academy and go off and kill for Dick Cheney, George Asshole Bush and Karl Rove. And I was very close to getting in but I started having seizures while I was 18. Maybe I should be thanking God for giving me epilepsy that prevented me from being in the military.
Anywho, I am a little curious about this question: How am I not serving my country? I am giving back to my country as best as I can by showing a little truth in a nation in the grips of mind control by corporate media who are in bed with corrupt politicians. I think that is a bit "patriotic". When given the truth, true civil disobedience is the best form of "patriotism". I may not be willing to say the "Pledge of Allegiance" but I think that, in itself, is pretty goddamn “patriotic”. That’s my rant for now. To all you people who don’t read my blog, keep on keepin’ on.
~Someone Important
Post Script (a pretty long Post Script):
You may have noticed that I used quotation marks when using the words “patriotic” or “patriotism”. In case you were wondering, that was on purpose. Patriotism is a made up word by assclowns who want you to do their bidding. As Emma Goldman writes, “Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.”
I thought Stephen King's commentary on the Black Ribbons album by Shooter Jennings might be kind of fitting for my message:
"From the center of nowhere, Atop the shoulders of giants, Above the creeping fog of disinformation that clouds the American union, this is Will 'O the Wisp. And this is The Last Light Radio. Your last beacon of truth and defiance
I've always started my shows by saying that: All ships lost in the night search for the lighthouse on the rock of the enlightened. But, for truth seekers out there, the battery is fading and the light is dying. I see that freedom has failed us and with no light the night's going to be a long one. Woody Guthrie said: This land is your land, this land is ... my land. Great words, but this land is their land now.
This will be the last time your ears and my voice will be getting together. Because, as of midnight tonight, the previously public airwaves will be commandeered for government approved and regulated transmission. The last breath of free speech will blow itself out. What rises in its place is going to be the wind of thought control. Bad guys win folks!
You know I don't always play a lot of music on the show, as most of it these days is processed, bubble gum bullshit - churned out by the overlords of doublespeak and made to turn a gray world grayer. But tonight I won't go without leaving a message. Tonight I've chosen to play the one band the American Fascicrats don't want me to play. Tonight I'm going off the air with the music of Hierophant. For those of you not familiar, you'll get a taste of Hierophant's music tonight. Their message, their light
I started you off with Wake Up from their 2009 album Bohemian Grove, their first and most radical. Remember what the song says: Don't let 'em get you down. The most important truth is love, all you know and all you need to know, as the poet says. “What was that beauty, what's the difference? Love your family, love your neighbor, love your enemy as yourself. Go on loving, it's what humans do best and the one thing they can't kill.” Got it?
This is Will 'O the Wisp. The time now is no time. The temperature is cold. And the news is blue. But for now the light still shines. Off the same album, this is Triskaidekaphobia. That's fear of thirteen my sons and daughters, as in thirteen o'clock. You're listening to the last night on The Last Light"
Take care.
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