The title comes from Shelter From The Storm, one of my favorite Dylan songs since my first listen, from an album I consider one of the best ever made; though I might say that about another of his albums another day. To find out that I was involved in something so huge that songs were being written about the event did not impress me, or make me feel like I had done something good... just confused that the world on the tv and the radio was so different than my life. Even though strange things happened all the time, of course. Small things. One day I hear on the radio he is singing about an intelligence event in Detroit, which I knew nothing about. They 'spy' they sent me would only say 'Those were bad people.' He also believed Seal Team Six should have been shot down, and I think you all know how I felt about that. Thank God it happened, because the light flooded the darkness you had me in as a result. The side-effects I never expected.
I remember when I said to vote for me, and was told 40% of people in some primary voted for me, instead of Obama, which freaked me out. Then... thank God I did not. I would work only for the people, all of them. That boat is gone though, I have no desire to get involved in a dying institution. If not this strong man, than that one is going to take over. Oil companies are more powerful than any other industry.
They are killing the planet, and no one can stop them... well, along with the US Armed forces, the biggest polluters in the world. Toxic shit like Uranium bullets are being used, because the world is dying anyway, so who gives a fuck if the soil is contaminated in a war... and they are the least of it... much as I love them, they need revamped from the ground up, and geared into a force to fight the environment, not other people. In the end, they are going to be in the same sinking boat. You can kill each other over provisions, or be fair about it. I prefer to be fair and will fight for the weak to make it so if the strong decide that might makes right. Win or lose...
I no longer know what to do. Like many. Biden and the war. If not for that, the legislation he got passed would put him way above trump. He should do a commercial showing what Biden was doing on these hundreds of days Trump was Golfing, and put down the cost of the trip he was on, opposed to zero costs for Biden. Show them he is a grifter in language they understand.
A chart showing how tax cuts take money from the working classes. SHOW THEM the simple fact. Show them they are being tricked. I should be writing an ad campaign, and being paid for it. I could get you in the white house, I believe. But I cannot sit here and applaud anyone who is not fighting tooth and nail to stop this genocide. I like to think he is, but I like to think a lot of things that are not true. I have professionals dribbling out what I get to know, so I have as little power as possible. I give power away because, as you will discover, my source of power is more than our minds can imagine.
Or am I deluding myself... I think of Mohammed a lot, how he thought he was crazy, as did his brothers I think, when he became a prophet. I also remember that hospital visit where they out and out brainwashed me, and tried to tell me there would be cameras all over. Tried to get me to go into treatment, when I have serious back issues, and need pills they would not give me. Amy Winehouse writes her song about not going into treatment... and I think I hope that is not me, I went to treatment plenty of times, when I needed off drugs. That was no longer an option by then, but these assholes thought I was faking the pain probably, who knows... they had me wrong, the fascists who want to enslave you are doing pretty good, longer hours with lower pay... wage slaves... the sword of Damocles forever over our heads. "You are FIRED." Three words that can take away everything you have, and does plenty... the unlucky, with no one at their back, end up homeless.
I stumbled onto a battlefield, someone was shooting at me... someone else tossed me a gun. I fought like hell. That sums this shit up. Now I want my pay. I do not care how much YOU FUCKED UP trying to use me to take over the country, that is not reason enough to keep me in jail. I am who I am and I am not going to change, other than being my usual kind self again, most of the time. I do have to express my frustration, and I do not wish to do it in a way that it causes individuals to have a negative reaction. They will, but I do not need it to be because of my presentation. Let them stick to the issue, as I will. Name calling back and forth is someone I was a long time ago, when this first started.
I had no idea what this army was fighting for, by the way... just figured they must feel like me, or they would not be backing me... I was wrong. When I laid out how I truly would do this, orange, peaceful, it became something altogether different. I grow sick of politicians doing nothing, or shit they cannot touch... slavery needs stopped, no one does it. I tried, and yeah, I will take a few bucks off rich people to free slaves. Problem is, I am not a part of any organization... a registered Democrat, is it.
Why I wonder do I keep watching television at all. I try to break the fourth wall, I guess... though you tell me a lot with your colors and shit, which don't mean much to me... I do not want to tell people how to dress. I think of this and shake my head, waves of pain flow through me.... look at the time and see the clonazepam has stopped numbing me out. The pain in the body has been better, in the mind and the heart and gut I wake open to all the memories, hearing myself moaning God out loud and such, shaking my head... the tiniest of mistake, the time I was not kind... from my life before I became a person whom God tells I please him, and the feeling is enough to make me walk to a cross to stop a war. To stop that sin. I told them to sell everything and buy swords. If the book is right, I went back and forth on this one... and then questioning God from the Cross... this sounds like me. The Psalms sound like me. I would stop a stoning. I hate people using God like a shill game to make money. The modern equivalent of the Temple Tantrum. When a quiet, peaceful man suddenly loses his shit, people notice. 'He has changed so much,' my friends told you, you told me... did you mention to these people you brainwashed me into thinking I was Jesus, before you let them live underground... I would NEVER have allowed what happened to you.
YOU ALLOWED IT>.. and participated. Yet I am to fucking blame... well, if you feel that way, how about saying it to my face... tv is not to my face. Look me in the eye and make your accusations. Will you be a trumpian zealot who cannot listen to logic, or will you be able to have an actual conversation about life and death matters, instead of playing whatever sick game you do... I have helped you so much, but I will always fight your racism, anti-semitism, etc... any xenophobia you have makes your thinking suspect on certain topics, others you may have an answer or two. I may never be able to forgive you folk for what you did to me, and when I think like that, I think of all of you, this entire tribe has disgraced itself by treating a good man like a puppet you can use for evil. God does not allow me to be used by evil.... evil comes to me to die. Will you come throw yourself on this pile of bodies around me... they will never stop growing, even when I am merely an image in their minds, and words on a page.
A generation I knew was worthless, the yuppies who came up just before me, we should have killed them all off that first fucking night, like I did in most lives... he spared you. I would not have. You might have noticed, I spare no one. Friend or foe. You all die. Quit making such a big fucking deal of it. You hell bounds have no clue there even is a God... I have a slim idea of what God showed me in a vision of hell. I must destroy their selfish, narcissistic tendencies to free those who are trapped. More dear to my heart, I have to save those they are preying on. The sheep on the edges of the huddled, terrified herd.
I watched Dune 2 yesterday. He is a much crueler Paul than the books. When he talks about all the people who are against him, and how they were going to 'send them to heaven.' I never suspected I would end up in a situation where my words were law. Let alone that I would not know, because the whites are still intent on some weird superiority, over others in the tribe. This myth of our countries we come from and all that shit... what do I care about the past. I am back to how I was as a kid, when I hated history classes, though I read every history book in the library, because if it did not apply to now I did not want to know it. I have enough history to know what I am up against.
The history of the strongman, and no democracy representing the wishes of the people, is how you end up at war in the first place. No sane person wants war. Arms salesmen are not sane. The arms industry is not sane. I went thru hell to avoid being the strong man they put in to take over the country. I had no plan to take over the country, I was writing political criticism. A lot of folks were, and I just compared myself to them, though I thought I was being repressed, and no one knew about me... except spies who used tv to fuck with me, or like me. I had no idea about the stations. NBC racist. How did you get so fucked up.... change it. Now. I held your fucking lives in my hand and wanted to make a fist and slam it into the wall after you used me like that, I speak of whatever the fuck that show was that made fun of saturday night live. You thought I was on your side, when I had no fucking idea what you were doing... just making fun of me. It was suddenly like I was the plot of too many shows. I am not vindictive, do not believe I have a right to take revenge -- I consider this Heresy against God. I made out like I was because I 'felt' that way momentarily, which is why Premeditation makes killing a person much worse. I never hit anyone. I am a grown man, and though I have been in very dangerous situations, I de-escalated by not judging anyone, and others followed my lead. In my physical life. This is me. I wanted to leave behind a writer's past full of tall tales I told myself... but it was an excuse for a man who lied without thought.
I always wondered why I was like this, especially when I tried so hard not to be. Drinking made it worse. Sober, I was the good guy, usually... I suppose learning to lie was required to do this job. Now that this has left me, and I am back almost to that four year old who could not lie. I remember being him, then the year in the hospital.... did they find I was growing wings... why would they cut them off if they did... I do not understand. They should have let the child grow with the wings. He was a good kid, loved everyone, and even apologized to spoons if he dropped them, or drawers if he closed them too tight. A child who felt everything is alive. Luckily, I have forgotten the torture my older brother put me through, though his torture of animals still haunts me... How could a person with such an upbringing not be of interest to the church, and all kinds of groups...
I cannot tell and do not wish to play on religious mythology by saying I grew wings, though I dreamt over and over of flying and driving as a child. I ended up taking driving jobs my entire life, driving God knows how many miles... another co-incidence, perhaps. That list grows and grows and where it stops nobody knows. God is kinder than you know. I am kinder than you have allowed me to be, other than in public, where I am my polite self.
Kevin Hart.
I watched the second movie in the Hart series, an actor who was the go between during some serious shit. I WANT to say I know for sure he represents my side, in some way, in the media. He has never been a violent person, always the encouraging one. I do not know him personally but... so when movies came out about him, saying Hart will die I watched wondering... Netflix was behind a couple of the worst of the propaganda that took place under their old ownership or perception, I have no clue... I liked the first one. The second came out, just as I am thinking why now... after all this, are they treating me this way... what is it that I do not know... In this second in the series, he treats everyone around him like shit, and a guy with bad teeth, his stunt man, takes over his life and he ends up in jail.... and the stuntman who looks like him, who is nice to everyone, takes over.
I have been writing for a long time that friendliness will be the last currency... I of course know this is fiction and he is making fun of such types.. I wondered, being me, does he think I treat people like shit, and all these things. I hope not. Does the end mean the guy who actually took the hits, they made all their movie money off of... get to have some friends, do something interesting to fill my time. Make a movie. Odd dream. Too many important things to do, though I could fit a lot into a film, I suppose.
I do feel all the time that people sacrificed more than I can imagine during this epoch. Feel. I cannot imagine going through what many of you have. How am I to continue to be influential in both politics and religion... without destroying one of the other. Oil and water. Politics requires dealing with the devil in the flesh, religion is dealing with the devil in the realm of the soul. I wish I could explain this better. Ethics and religion inform politics. When you have a state religion, of any sort, you are oppressing so many people... stealing their cultures, lives, etc... Dissent between religions is an insult to GOD. All religions are trying to serve the same God -- a word that is now so full of various meanings as to be meaningless to most people. New generations do not always wish to follow the ways of the old, new problems pop up... the church learns, throws out the old salt, changes their ways. Basic.
I had no idea you were in this desperate secret world or I would have shined the light on that shit and sent the darkness away. I cannot do this from the future. I did it once in the present, then I killed off that army. After using them to kill off another army. I helped the right wing... no I helped the left in the end. You must not be used by spies. I do not want people killing each other over shit I say, even the thought about Trump, which is true... were I another person, the one I described as Johnny Pain, I would have figured out a way to kill him. I am no Johnny Pain. A crippled guy in Chicago who has powerful friends and enemies, and no clue how the answers are not obvious to everyone.
The answers are there. There is no political will. This is why I would use the Armed Forces to correct Democracy, re-vote right down to judges. More intelligent people than me already know how to do this. It will work. When we show them the reality of the Greenhouse effect, they will understand we have a mutual enemy, we must band together to fight. I would find these people in every country in this world and use their knowledge to web together whatever better future we can... at least give them some kind of safety... I would never go into a hole and let the world die above me. I will die helping people who are poor, forgotten, hunted...