Welcome to Temple Redux – Autumn 2024 edition. A few nips & tucks – shorter/more streamlined.
In the 30 years this album has evolved
I think it's the best version.
It should be noted that these are collaborations with others in other parts of the world. All credited in the blog, website & YouTube. Thank you for watching and listening.
I'm on your side. Time is on our side All I want is you to see There's a nuclear storm, raging over this land and I am the only one who'll set you free.
watch/listen - Jimmy Jones video below/bottom
JIMMY JONES is out in the night
After 10 years researching our bi-polarity,
I've come to a confident conclusion.
The gap has widened.
I know, Captain Obvious strikes again.
All relevant.
The Suggestion
I mean, ok ... we humans are so very open to suggestion, providing it fits nicely in our comfort zone. The grifted gullibility. For instance, we like the idea of someone, preferably a man, to take control of all the shit we have to deal with, telling us what to do. Even better, if WE benefit more than others.
Cruel to be kind. Tough love. Necessary.
I'll give you this, many Liberals come across as being precocious, even indignant at times, changing the rules and demanding they be followed and most Conservatives LOVE playing the victim card. Insecurity, resentment, blame & shame. Problems are ALWAYS someone else's fault. They don't care because it doesn't matter. You're either a winner or loser and when I win? You will most certainly lose and FREEDOM? Is conditional, depending on how I feel that day. Honestly? I don't see one as any worse than the other, just dangerously different.
Stuck in the muck.
The Blinding Halo
I wrote a blog post in Feb. 2016 called THE SUICIDE COLLECTIVE shortly after the first Trump Presidency began. It was a sordid affair based on what I was seeing, not unlike the shit-storm we are entering into again ... only amplified this time. None of that really mattered, then. A tongue in cheek overview of humanity if you will; some restraint, with an option to take it seriously, if the reader wishes to. An elective.
Nothing permanent.
The Suicide Collective
I posted it shortly after writing it. A suggestion that millions of Americans (in particular) are/were in fact (at that time) committing suicide. I know. WHAT?? Ok figuratively. A stretch? Definitely. A Jimmy Jones/Jonestown narrative only expanded into a christian nationalist movement called MAGA. A faint whiff of desperation in a willingness to self destruct should it become necessary.
No one was interested in my gruelling diatribe. Maybe 10 views, no comments/feedback. The quintessential blog failure. Later thinking, maybe I’m just ahead of my time lol. The idea hangs on 9 years later, gaining traction, at least in my imagination. Since then we have regressed and the observation seems even more real. A tragic trajectory impairing most best case scenarios. Ok, it's getting harder to remain optimistic. That said? I am. It's all so perilously precarious and now it's very much Canadian too. Sad. Young men in particular. Wanting and needing revenge, retribution ... payback and almost willing to go down for it.
Why young men though? Is it a thirst for war? So let's create one? A pent up need to inflict? Succumbing to the role of the armchair warrior with fantasies of combat in a growling grunt?
Silently staring into the screen, seething at the possibility. It's just so much easier to become consoled in conjecture and wallow in anger & despair than try to remain positive, and so ...
Let's bring it home (to Papa).
EPILOGUE
A new MO/modus operandi for those following their malicious master. If this all blows up then so be it. I'd rather die with dignity, than surrender to a weaker woke ideology. All quite sensible actually. Standing for what we believe in. Heroic yes? I mean, we deserve better right (ok some of us) AND it's all grounded in good scripture - a sure fire elixir for most ailments that promote immortality.
Now? A righteous entitlement, handed down. Granted by the powers that be. Ours! Permission to purge. Permission to punish. And so it must continue as such right? Should this end of times continue spiralling like we want it to, shall we honour it with grace and glory.
