#phil rockstroh

[sataniccapitalist]

Phil Rockstroh: "By Our Actions, We Are Destroying the Living Things of the World"

In today's Collapse Chronicle, we hear from philosopher bard Philip Rickstroh, with his essay titled "Walking In An Anthropocene Wonderland." Here is a link ...

[lostfunzones]

Actresses are coerced into sexual encounters with a movie mogul whose power in the industry is only matched, even enhanced, by his sadistic nature. The staff of his company assist, are complicit in, or remain silent about his lechery, as does the whole of the movie industry and the entertainment press. NFL athletes are threatened with expulsion from the League if they kneel during the national anthem. The enabling of and submission to the degradation, exploitation and tyranny, and the lack of resistance thereof share a common and singular factor: The careerism of all concerned. The cultural milieu concomitant to capitalism is at the rotten root and noxious blossoming of the situation. It is really that simple.

Phil Rockstroh

[lostfunzones]

If memory serves, it was Plato who averred that all human beings were, at one time, hermaphrodites by nature until the gods split us into opposites thereby incurring the phenomenon we experience as longing for and seeking of one’s lost half. Thus It follows, love only becomes possible when one possesses a sense of loss, incompleteness, and insatiable emptiness. Accept and cultivate your emptiness. When words or even gestures escape you, offer a prayer of gratitude into the beckoning silence. When you stammer when speaking, a god has inserted him/herself into the mortal structure of your sentence, and the weight of eternity has caused your utterance to collapse.

Phil Rockstroh

[lostfunzones]

The Deep State, cultural, and media elite detest Trump because he gives the game away. His crassness, cupidity, and megalomania are the defining criteria of empire.

Phil Rockstroh

[lostfunzones]

Radical struggle is not dependant on the will nor even militant ignorance of the majority, it is contingent on the commitment of an informed minority. The majority of the US population never supported civil rights workers, until after the initial victories were won.

​Phil Rockstroh

[lostfunzones]

Here is why I detest her and the economic elitists and the beneficiaries of the U.S. imperial war machine whom she has so ardently served all of her professional and political career i.e., her corporacrat and war monger record. Would you like to take a perusal? Hillary Clinton has spent her entire career punishing the most vulnerable, in her service of powerful interests. To wit: HRC served as a shill, lawyer and lobbyist for Walmart, Tyson foods, and the environmental destructive practices of the Arkansas timber industry. She even aided Coca Cola in breaking a union in Arkansas. ~ She supported NAFTA; the Clinton's "Two-For-The-Price-Of-One" presidency's so-called Welfare reform act -- The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) -- an act that cast more women and children into poverty than any event since the Great Depression. ~ HRC supported the orgy of banking deregulation that crashed the global economy in 08; moreover, the Clinton crime family has grown obscenely rich due to the quid quo pro involved. ~ She supports the death penalty and termed minority youth "super predators" while shilling for the Clinton administration's Jim Crow 2.0 omnibus crime bill i.e., Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 -- a racist piece of legislation that was the origin of the U.S. prison industrial complex. ~ She favors domestic spying and has never met a civil liberties violation that she didn't support. ~ Regarding Climate Change: She supported the KXL pipeline, until, on the campaign trail, surprise, reversed her position; She was in favor of offshore drilling until recently. She supported and shilled for fracking on a global basis and still supports domestic fracking. ~ She claims universal health care is undoable, merely a socialist pipe dream, as she pockets huge sums from Big Pharma, Big Insurance, and the for-profit medical lobby; she is pro GMOs and voted against open labeling legislation. ~ As Secretary of State Hillary used Bush/Cheney-style false intelligence as justification for levying of militarist aggression on Libya, an act that rendered the nation a haven for religious fundamentalist jihadists. ~ Her foreign policy has been endorsed not just by Henry Kissinger and neoconservative Robert Kagan but is lauded by Dick Cheney. ~ When the minimum wage was raised in Haiti to 61 cents an hour, the U.S. Department of State, under Madame Clinton, intervened on behalf of the corporate garment industry exploiting defacto slave labor and had the rate changed back to 31 cents. ~ She was also instrumental in fomenting a right wing coup in Honduras. Now, indigenous rights activists are being murdered by the regime. And the list of her pro-corporate/bankster, anti-civil liberties and human rights, and war mongering proclivities goes on and on.

Phil Rockstroh, on Hillary Clinton

[dk-thrive]

You can never get enough of what you really don’t need. Craving and angst are interwoven.

In the consumer paradigm, one is induced to exist by Eric Hoffer’s dictum: “You can never get enough of what you really don’t need.” Wherein: The individual exists in a state of perpetual adolescence, emotionally oscillating between life lived as a bliss ninny and evincing chronic dissatisfaction.

Ever shifting, inchoate compulsions and endless distractions define the days of the denizens of the consumer state. Text messages and tweets gibber like souls stranded in a limbo realm between the worlds of the living and the damned.

Craving and angst are interwoven. Held by the dazzle of light playing over the surface of a deep abyss, the consumer floats along on waxen wings of debt. The landscape does not seem solid.

Phil Rockstroh, Empire of Panic and Ephemera