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Grand Central

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The Painted Girl, A Novel by Brian Neuls

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Philadelphia City Hall

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Creator of Hidden History America, David Deutsch, previews the next webisode, coming soon!

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Reading a story about the main things Americans get wrong about themselves, I was struck with a memory of my time in Japan and a moment where I was shown and that made me understand the futility of my once-prevalent obnoxious "I'm American, so I’m great" rhetorical thinking I was once slave to when, as a young buck, I stepped out onto a veranda in Japan, fully thinking that just by being American, the two Australians smoking cigarettes would want to know who I was and what I did, would smile and greet me warmly and have multitudes of things to talk about. Wouldn't you know, to my complete astonishment, when I smiled and held out my hand, one of them turned to me and said "You're American, right?" in that heavy Australian drawl. I nodded coyly, not sure where he was going with it, or how he knew. He nodded, pointing the cigarette at me. "Just don't say anything obnoxious, yeah?" I immediately set about learning all I could about the Japanese and how to assimilate as purposely and respectfully as I could and set about immediately hating the Australians for the loud, idiotic, obnoxious alcoholics they all were.

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"You can't make a moral judgment about someone without having at least some knowledge or notion of their intentions." -- Michael Frayn

So if absolute morality doesn't exist, and it's all simply 'intention'...we could explain away anything we need to explain or rationalize to fit a given story. Nuclear weapons are bad? Not when we use them to destroy those Japanese aggressors. Drones are bad? Not when we use them to eliminate all those terrible Muslims. To assume there is no absolute morality and that there is only intention is not only bad, but dangerous. We must make moral judgments based solely on action or outcome, and not if I meant to be a good person by eliminating that mass murderer. To rationalize through intent is to rationalize through ego. And to rationalize through ego is to not make a moral judgment, but to coerce to make a point, to make your point. And that is deplorable. But then, of course, this raises the question if even such a thing as moral judgment is possible. Because my outlook on nuclear weapons, on war in general, is going to, at some point, be much different from someone else. So if absolute moral judgments aren't possible, and everything is an opinion...is critical introspection, pragmatism, or idealism even possible? And worse...is it even necessary?

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I have a theory, and while it my be controversial or crazy to many of you, I don't believe I will be swayed from it any time soon, based on the stories and overall state of this slaughterhouse of a world. I truly believe this is an actual theory that has viability, no matter how draconian or Orwellian or sinister it may seem:

I believe the legislation and actions and things we allow companies and politicians to enact even though they are so lethal to humanity is because politicians and corporations and those pulling the strings are enacting a form of 'population control'. Stick with me: if you can make shit tons of money on something that isn't healthy for humanity or doesn't take humanity into account, what better way to do it than to ignore the risks to make the most money possible because (seeing as how those in power are psychopaths in the truest sense, as money is the most important thing, even over human life), that all these things happen because not only do you get the money, but you get the added benefit of a form of 'passive population control' because, and this is a proven fact, this earth cannot sustain the rate of population growth we see on this earth. So, in closing this theory, if you're still with me, is this nature's way of keeping the population at bay? Allowing those in power to enact and insist on a framework that harms so many so that so many more can continue to exist on this earth? ...it's a thought I have.

Respond as you see fit.

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NYB Trailer

Main Trailer for the Miguel Lopes Production of a Brian Neuls Film 'Nation's Young Blood'.

Nation’s Young Blood Trailer

“Sometimes, You Have to Make Them Hear You.”

Written, directed, shot, edited by Brian Neuls Produced by Miguel Lopes Story by Miguel Lopes