"...In the land of the blind the one-eyed jack is made king; but he'd better have a blue eye!" - ulmange
"...How deep down the rabbit hole do yah want to go, Alice?" - Alice in Wonderland
The “BROTHER CAN’T YOU HEAR ME” series
I've recently decided to bring this message back for review. It's more relevant now than ever. -
igman'121310
“…If yours be the wiles of this life, which is played as a mere board game of chess not checkers, then know the game being played and know the rules of the game -
cui bono.. However, if your quest is for life of the highest order of things, and that is to live the best life - then Know Thyself.” -
igman
The game is and has been played for a long time in black and white. It is only a disguised strategy; a strategy of strategies. The game is clearly an economic game of wealth acquisition and controlling the means to the wealth
(See The Terrible Transformation) via power,
priviledge, and pawns. It is a game of contrast between the haves and the have-
nots. It uses iconic illustrations of
priviledge to direct and administrate control. To support it, everything must be defined, classified, and stratified.
Who started this game being played? Hypothetically speaking, let's just call him,
“The Man.” This Man, we have learned, is spiritually wicked; structuring wickedness is in very high places. These people change over time in
Positions and in
Power; still all are maintained structurally through
Place-
Priviledge or the lack thereof. This maintains the desirability of the infrastructure that effectuates the rules of the game. These positions of power cross political, religious, social, and economic ground.
"The Man" has been around since the beginning of the ages and controls leaders that you may never have heard of, but they are the puppeteers who pull the strings. The Man is the Master Puppeteer who controls the puppeteers. But who is "
The Man?"
The Man in his mystique, is beginning to “remove his invisible hand from the puppet’s torso”. The spirit of the man is now revealing himself as spirit from behind his "previously useful mask of oppression." The game has always been about strategies of deception and covertly played. But now it will be openly played. There is no need to hide because the people are quite distracted as pawns, concentrated with having and not having, defining who deserves what, and seem unaware that the pawns are not enemies, yet they continue to bicker and slaughter one another. The strategy of skin-color continuously works as The Man, robs them both. "Don't mind the men behind the curtains,
ok?" They are your friends and the pawns are your enemies.
Another phase of the game begins with the cultural slavery strategy. The purpose of playing the game is only to win. To win what you ask? To win universal slavery of all humanity, short of those few who write and change the rules. But who are those few? And who is "The Man?" We now join the game with its strategies in progress.......
I'll ask you a certain question and you give me your answer. "Who is
‘The Man?”
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Starting with a few friends
culturally classified as white (here forward to be called THE WHO) at first start, showed their concern seemed to be desirous to "get the right answer" because they suspected a riddle. I further explained my desire to get their true opinion, regardless to whether we agreed or not. "Agreement was not the point", I instructed.
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They then repeatedly stated rhythmically, “you
da man” or
“I’m the man”, as if in jest or in the midst of a good-natured game. I then asked, "can you tell me a different understanding of
“the man?” To my surprise, they
couldn’t. Now I must admit this questioning certainly
wasn’t statistically sound; nor was the sampling of the group. It was just the acting upon a hunch. This question was going nowhere fast. To be truthful, I really didn't know where I was going with asking and time was slipping away. The leisure to think deeper was not at hand.
Previously, I'd asked the same question of a few other friends,
culturally classified as black (here forth to be called THE WHO TOO). "Who is The Man?" I was careful to use the same tone and voice inflection. The answers came back mostly, “the white man." Some said, “Mr. Charley.” When questioned about who Mr. Charley is, they then said,
“the white man.” A few did play the "who
da man riddle", also answering "you
tha man or I'm
tha man."
Returning to THE WHO, conversation continually revolved the same as before, leading me to define
“The Man” as the oppressor of people - as in American slavery. I quickly noticed THE WHO seem to experience discomfort as well as detachment. They laughingly called me racist. Yet, there was clearly a sense of avoidance and a willingness to be distracted to any other subject matter. This was not done offensively, but clearly consciously.
Since the desire was to have the question answered from their perspective and not meant to make anyone uncomfortable, we allowed our attention to turn to other matters and the opportunity had lost its focus. In my subconscious mind, I mused,
"why are we culturally classified as men in the first place if it wasn't meant for dividing and distraction?" And who is doing the classifying of us all? And what is our attention being distracted from? Who is "The Man?"
After receiving the reply
“the white man” from THE WHO TOO, their answers required no definition or clarification. It seemed the mere asking of the question revealed an inspirited desire to converse toward the subject matter. A collective consciousness was in the air and though the conversations were different in this consciousness, the clarity and commonality of understanding was uniform. Oppression was clear. I became uncertain whether they were answering my question or making a passionate declarative statement of surety of "I know who the man is and he is the white man,"
Yes, there truly was a "spiritual wickedness " afoot and I could
cleary see the manifestation of its presence. The genie was removing himself from the lamp. THE WHO TOO saw
"the white man," as the oppressor of their condition from slavery through now and beyond. THE WHO, saw race as something to be avoided - not personified but avoided. RACISM, real, in every sense of the word - except non-physical. THE WHO TOO couldn't point to this white man or that one. It was the white man. THE WHO couldn't face the race issue. I suspect the examination is painful. Now that is a paradox. But is
"the white man" truly
synonamous with,
"The Man?"
[click picture] I'm reminded of another WHO TOO that added,
"God is THE MAN!" Well now..... with that response, I have to head in a different and deeper direction for more broad understanding. God Is Absolute and the answer seems interesting. God is the man and when God is acknowledged in the man, is there need to search for
"The Man?" That's a whole other dimensional perspective that I hadn't anticipated to my question. I'll place that one on the sidebar for later exposition.....but I'm really intrigued by that.........GOD IS THE MAN and having more of THE MAN in us.....interesting....
As a result of the latest answer, I saw flaw in my questioning. I too must question myself and my own definition of
The Man, which might be a lucid entry to this story adding personal
dystopic gravity, even more than I'd anticipated; a bad dream within a bad dream. This damning and persisting question seems to trouble and bewitch me, as if I am "one who takes a glance while inside a carnival
funhouse made of glass and mirrors reflecting deceptive images and distorted appearances;" as if to lead nowhere. Perhaps, what I'm really trying to gain is perspective toward a validation of my own perspective of causality. The result of the question is that someone or something is "The Man" and my quest. .....ion....goes on. Yes, evidence of
The Man is still present in me still playing his game......."who is "The Man?"
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racist....no I'm not racist, and here is a scientific test from Discover magazine [PROJECT IMPLICIT ] to determine racist tendencies. [click here] Also, here is a free pdf. scientific download to show measurable prejudice (Let's call it The Game In You ) also from Discover magazine. However I do recognize that I write as a polemic asking questions that may lead across racial boundaries. I ruminate reminding myself of the really tormenting paradox that very little if anything reveals its meaning throught appearances. Most everything is more complex, full with a universe of hidden dimensions[2]. So too life - it's not about the answers found but the questions raised. Someone must raise questions; especially those with hidden dimensions, and it may as well be me...........
WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE PRODUCT OF GENERATIONS - WICKED OR RIGHTEOUS - FREEDOM IS NOT BECOMING MASTERED BY POWER OR PRIVILEDGE OR POSITION TOWARD THINGS. THAT IS SLAVERY.....OR BEST SAID AS "The Man in You."
BROTHER CAN'T YOU HEAR ME? This highway of quest...ions.....won't be crowded.... -gman
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My suspicions led me onward to pursue my quest....ion with growing interest and passion as I return to the game.....
cui bono?....
"Who is The Man?"
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*[click picture] note the Frank & Ernest comic strip below where there are two homeless men having a discussion with a school-age boy, when one of them states,
"SCHOOL IS MOSTLY TRUE-FALSE QUESTIONS KID, BUT REAL LIFE IS ALL ESSAY QUESTIONS."___________________
The point of my questioning has become a boiling essay question
infering differing perspectives of awareness of
"The Man." They all seem to come from some semblance of experience yet they hold different order of priority in the consciousness of the disparate groups. On this subject, there was no uniform collective consciousness between the two groups or even myself. It seemed my hunch was correct - there was a huge disconnect.......something was being lost in the translation of
"The Man." Perhaps the contextualization limits the perspective.
Cui bono?
Who is "The Man?"
While I watch a
pre-recorded lecture conversation in which Noam Chomsky was the interviewee, commenting toward the postulation from the host of being better off under capitalism and if so, who does capitalism benefit: said Chomsky to the host, “were the black slaves better off when we compare their condition from 1840 to 1850? "Yes, they were
beter off", he stated, "but what type of argument is that? They were still enslaved!"
Cui bono?
I feel the force of "The Man."
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Chomsky referenced George
Fitzhugh, a pro slavery advocate of the
antebelleum period, having made the same point as the host; and the point of perspective is unsound, excepting of those who were not subjected to the conditional state of the slave. The postulation was not an intellectually serious argument for slavery nor for capitalism. "Capitalism", I exclaimed!
I feel the force of "The Man."
Suddenly, I realized, to understand more about my question, I needed to understand more about the people who espoused
"the perspective of the white man" and for what purpose.
I must feel the force. Perhaps I would find out if the white man was,
"The Man." Cui bono?
I researched
George Fitzhugh a real American character. After reading some of his writings for his position upon slavery in general and particular, I quickly found him fitting to represent the embodiment of my long-sought image of a soul-less formation with no altruistic character – an invention of his mind believing and regarding himself and others like him, as self-serving men of manifest destiny having been ordained through some sort of “
christainization.” A
hah - divinity defining
"The Man" and The Man defining men."
Over time, men seem unaware that they are attempting to define and describe God in their own image, rather than themselves being defined in the image of God, which has no image at all! How can there be an image of spirit except from an imagineer of a cartoon. It is counter-intuitive. Why even the man who walked the earth to set an example for us to live by, had to be made to have certain Euro-centric appearance features that defied natural scientific realities (many times depictions of Jesus showed him with blue eyes).
Images...images...images I heard , over and over in my mind.....images support ideologies...ideologies come from men.....hmmmm....Who is The Man?_____________________
Interesting....
What manner of men would enslave a body of a human being, telling himself the being is not human but partly human; and would then incarcerate his mind by removing him from his environment, unable to communicate the new language, leaving him with only ephemerally visual memory of his past; placing him with common likenesses of skin-color but no common cultural tradition or language; raping his women and bounding his children. If that black man was such a beast, why would they rape the women of a beast? What manner of man would claim Providence for himself from God, while committing such a crime against humanity? Oh, my God....I see....We must worship different and disparate gods....... like so many have argued and warred about over time!
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George espouses a natural order of things, referencing the universe as his resource - seeing himself as
"the white man" in the planned order of the universe. Divine Providence. George really hadn't accomplished much with his life, before taking his advocacy for slavery position. In fact, it was by taking that position, George found his way. As
"the white man" George found his way for accepting himself
. I now ask myself if this is
"the white man" as identified by THE WHO TOO, identifying himself as
"The Man", in his own eyes, as aligned in order by god?
Cui bono....
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.....George, didn't seem to rightly understand that the only truism for his life is his death. He saw his life beginning materially and he had divine right to the material. Him, "The white man." Materialism and the right to it.....capital and the right to it........is the game about wealth and the means to it?.....
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Oh, so the role of race classification is to separate wealth, to maintain access to wealth, and to have it for
"the white man", by George!
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But George had modeled his thinking around
Thomas Carylise, a
Scottsman who had lost his Christian faith. So George, learning from a man who had lost his faith, somehow found faith and godly order for himself through that man ? WOW! This intellectual perception of scholarship deserves a double WOW. Man I hope you're getting this! Dammnnnn...talk about a god complex.
So is this the dominant philosophical
paridigm for
"the white man" and his priviledge? Was George
mimiking something from "the old country?" Was "The Man" something regarding one's color or one's privilege for a certain class defined by color. But is there class without color? George wrote in his argument, not only a pro slavery position against blacks but for slavery of men in general. Slavery beyond color......and who would that slavery be for..........
[See George's letter]. That's interesting.......... Brief U.S. Slave History
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As a diminutive tool, this wickedness uses the bourgeois WHO to oppress and spar with THE WHO TOO; THE WHO unwittingly not understanding that they too are victimized with his temporary license for privilege through codified law as well as the "spirit of that law;" for he is the future victim of the invisible hand of capitalist
exploitist, who will ultimately resort to the very cannibalistic rhetoric it uses and therein feeds and engulfs on itself.
So just who is
“The Man?”
With heart now thumping, hearing the tom-tom beat of the invisible drum bumping as it resonate war upon my soul, I exert effort to examine this unseen entity. As I do so, I see the land of my ancestors and I feel the stares of their thousand souls in one glance. I do also fearlessly see
“The Man and His Ways” more clearly.
I feel the force of The Man. The Man no longer need quotations.
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Deception has not left his hand. Smiles and cajole are his allies as he dances in the daylight and the night. His bonds still shackle the mind of the slave, even the soon-coming slave called of his own, as he placates the unwitting. My
breathren, who of topical difference, born of seeming chance, is also a common warrior against a common
incarcerator, whether you know it or not. You must come see the true enemy......
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THE WAR BETWEEN THE WHO AND THE WHO TOO MUST END TO FIGHT THE TRUE WAR THAT IS SEPARATING YOU AND I FROM OUR WEALTH!
Unapologetically, the man trounces upon the sacred code of his own law, pausing to stamp a proverbially defiant foot and shake his soon conquering fist toward any who blocks his destiny. At last, he sighs, “they now change these troublesome laws that slowed my progress.” "At last, the populus hears my voice, uniformly discorded via my mass media controls."
Having formerly been an unwitting integer of his intimately intricate web, today, I more clearly see the Achilles heel of the “The Man”. For his is one that fears death. His is a slave to death. His must promote his vision, as if it is life, as he seeks to avoid death. His has his reward. Referencing Seneca, “he who has learned how to die unlearns slavery.” I might add, “he who has not learned how to die seeks to live forever in his ways, never learning how to live in truth.”
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*[click picture] note...the comic strip below reads, Q1:FRANK, LOOK AT THIS! WE'RE PART OF A TEST ANSWER SHEET! THIS MUST BE THE MULTIPLE CHOICE PORTION; Q2: AND NOW IT'S TRUE-FALSE; Q3: THIS MUST BE AN ESSAY QUESTION. ERNIE, HE'S WRITING IN MY HEAD; Q4: NO FRANK, IF HE'S WRITING IN YOUR HEAD, IT MUST BE "FILL IN THE BLANK!"
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So along he moves, writing on our heads, .....carrying with him the icon of the privileged elite and the icing of their cake –
wealth and riches; carrying with him, the carrot and tool of the bourgeois -
his job, that girds the ephemerally-privileged
position on the invisible chess board game of life; on he stomps
that boot upon the proletariat, reminding him of
his place.......
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......
The Man is now,
The Man in Full or better said
, The Man Is Full of It, having infected all of us all...spreading viruses...... cultural viruses......marching onward to new markets......not really caring about any classification of man.......dangling his model of Mercantilism and with it, his jobs –
the tools of his looming despair……leaving in his wake the spoils of a ravaged marketplace......onward.......consuming....marching and commanding in cadence……
Order, position, place…. left…right….left….right…left….war…war….war….Order, position, place....
But when does his panacea come? Perhaps the panacea has come – for the plutocratic elite.
They've successfully and systematically made the majority rule
a majority ruled. As THE WHO are continually separated from their means of production and limited to bartering their labor in a market of low and declining demand - they are still having their strings pulled by distraction toward those who you've been told are the beneficiaries of your labor. Now how much is your labor worth? Not much today. I agree. But are you convinced that THE WHO TOO is the cause?
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BROTHER CAN'T YOU HERE ME?
How much is $1.5 billion? That's the cost of one Stealth jet. How much is $1 Trillion? That's the cost of the Iraq invasion/occupation......whatever. Where is the oil or is that not the point? How much higher can gas prices go? Or is that the point? And who benefits from the machines of destruction and the high gas prices? You certainly don't. Protection from terror? I'll tell you what terrorist I see. I see "I'M TERRIFIED BY THIS BUSH ADMINISTRATION..WHAT WAR IS NEXT - And being terrified is the work of A TERROIST! [SEE COST OF WAR BY STATES]
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BROTHER CAN'T YOU HEAR ME? Are you confused as hell yet by this rocking back and forth between
"The Man"... Racism....Capitalism..... Terrorism.........just you wait..........as we march onward......to GLOBALISM.....shushhhhh..."It's all about ISM's and Ideals, you know!
Surely by now you know
"The Man" who has unveiled himself as
THE MAN IN FULL is Belial matured. Belial is the proper name for satan, the negative spirit of the negative ego. That spirit's character is glutony, pride, anger, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, scarcity, greed, sickness, cynicism, avirice, etc. When you get caught up in playing the game, the Belial spirit is caught up in it. You become
the man in full; the man who is full of it(negative ego). It (Belial) is your enemy as well as mine. You see, this is the spirit that consumed George Fitzhugh, and it can consume you and I if we empower it through accepting its manifestations (forms).
Puzzled and confused?.....That's because you're in THE GAME and you are being played...Confusion is the nature of the game, said Blood, Sweat, and Tears...Tears....good....Haven't you guessed my name? Your move man....
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You allow these villanous robber-barons to rule and steal your children's future, ignorantly believing they're working for you as you see the gap betweent the wealthy and the poor widening; you don't see yourself as poor yet, as you leverage your mortgage and use your credit cards to finance your children through school as the rates are raised on the cards; you vote these rascals into the seats of government that is increasingly becoming a world government of new order; you bitch and bellow about Republican and Democrat, while voting with the rich that hate you; you war in Red States and Blue States, believing one party has your concerns at heart, though you continuously work harder for less and less, and you lose group insurance coverage, and still you blame the poor; soon you won't have the poor to blame because you will have become one of them and you certainly won't blame yourself. Face up to what you already know to be true within yourself; hold the politicians accountable to you and your vote, and not to the wealth that steers them alos. Act to change the disasterous course of this inhuman discourse – For we are headed to the self-imposed enslavement of all of humanity..bad move.....
CHECKMATE!
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So now that this was all a bad dream, begin with
“the man in the mirror”, better known as the man in you
. YOU MUST DESTROY "THE MAN IN YOU." Unless of course if the man in you be of GOD CREATION; you cannot destroy him because he was perfectly created. You can only "think" you are your creation. You call this your ego. This is how the man in you gets into you - your thoughts. Don't allow "the man in you" to be like George Fitzhugh. Don't think your relationship with God to become like the god relationship George created for himself! Turn to GOD again by repenting from your error. We have a model in Christ Jesus. Become yoked to this REDEEMING RABBI as the application of HIS LOVE and live now forevermore.
Again I quote, "learning how to die is the unlearning of slavery" said Seneca," the Roman; "the unexamined life is unfit for a human", said Socrates,"the Athenian; "read , but mostl he The Voice for God, which is Holy Spirit, as THE WORD and live in communication with The Voice for God, speaking HIS WORD; for HIS WORD will read you into Correction of your error and not hold you bounded with the guilt of sin, "said igman, the off-spring of the enslaved, now a free-thinker. The nature of God's Love is Freedom,Truth, Compassion, Beauty, Unity, Giving, Receiving, and Forgiving.
I'm tired now....surely this is a bad dream in a bad dream. I'll sleep for now because I think I heard the terror alert is now orange......bull%#*...we have nothing to fear but fear itself -
False
Evidence
Appearing
Real.. You have not been given the spirit of fear.
BROTHER CAN'T YOU HEAR ME? I Love You.
WAKEUPWORLDYOUAREBEINGENSLAVED!
- Maybe life was better when we didn't have so much technology and used transistor radios for information; at least we were blinded to "THE MAN" at work around the world. That way, we didn't have to see with our natural eyes and didn't have to choose to look around us to SEE us ignorantly being used!
……….MAYBE I'll continue later -igman’111407
[1] See A Documentary History, Third Edition, by Leslie H. Fishel, Jr. and Benjamin Quarles, Scott, Foresman and Company, Illinois, 1976,1970
[2] See KOYAANISQATSI
