On the Cover of the Rolling Stone

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USS Mount Whitney (LCC/JCC 20) is one of two Blue Ridge-class amphibious command ships of the United States Navy and is the flagship and command ship of the United States Sixth Fleet. USS Mount Whitney also serves as the Afloat Command Platform (ACP) of Naval Striking and Support Forces. On it’s way from Italy to the action. Two carriers (sitting ducks) are in Theater as well.

Gilles Deluze “The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?”

Well Gilles, When it comes to retirement, the figure $3 million is often thrown around. For example, this article from Bloomberg states that the answer to the question "how much is enough to retire comfortably?" is "somewhere between $3 million and $5 million". 

But online personal finance guide Moneyzine has crunched the numbers on this (on a State-by-State basis) and has figured out that this figure is far, far lower. In a new study, Moneyzine has said that "the average American should be saving $10,178 a year from their earnings to be put into a retirement plan" and will have need to have saved $658,883 to be able to retire with the same standard of living as they're accustomed to. 

The world situation is tragic. The world situation is comic. The world situation is beheld differently from different stances. Marcel always said he did not intend to present a philosophical system, but rather a path of inquiry that would that would at the same time be a spiritual path.

He sought to develop an alternative to Cartesian views of subjectivity, which he considered to result in a depreciation of the broader concerns of life. He emphasized a distinction between “being” and “having”. For Marcel, our beliefs and the things we care about are not things we “have”, but rather should be considered as part of our being. He emphasized believing in rather than believing that.

Marcel spoke of “ontological exigence” as a need for what he called transcendence, and insisted that this transcendence must be experienceable, but that it is experienced as something entirely beyond our grasp. He distinguished between external “problems” that do not involve the questioner’s being, and instances of “the mysterious”, in which the question does involve the questioner’s own being.

And the Journal too distinguishes between the two positions of external and the mysterious.

Comparison image to a marathon dance with dancers fully vaccinated and boosted with injectables or tons of cocaine and a little heroin to take the edge off the never stopping movement appeals after strong coffee. This as an external image of an interior image of leaders dancing for years. Zelensky and Putin. The Biden Bot handpicked, personally chosen by Leader of the Free World Chairman Xi to dance with him. Nutty Yahoo dancing himself in a safety dance. We watch the dance, but we are uninvited SPECTATORS. In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation..

In sum, in fine, in philosophy, for a God all things are possible. For man not so much. We can no longer duck and cover and believe. We do not have enough shovels to dig a slit trench, nor a hollow core door, nor plastic for the dirt and the door for makeshift bomb shelters as a Reagan advisor urged when Ronnie Rayguns made America belligerent again.

My theory so to speak is first the banking theory of education (teacher “deposits” facts in student “checking account” and at test time student “writes the check” and teacher checks deposit value before cashing it. In turn this ideal mentality for cubicle culture eradicated a willingness to have an opinion unheld by others. And after Covid few dared disobey the commands from the marathon dancers who insisted they are in a ”Sacred Dance” to create Gan Eden as quickly as possible so the lucky few share the Holy Safety Dance.

We can dance if we want to

We can leave your friends behind

'Cause your friends don't dance

And if they don't dance

Well, they're no friends of mine

Say, we can go where we want to

A place where they will never find

And we can act like we come

From out of this world

Leave the real one far behind

And we can dance

Or sing

Drunk on power. High on ego.

Then Dr. Hook

We take all kind of pills

That give us all kind of thrills

But the thrill we've never known

Is the thrill that'll get ya

When you get your picture

On the cover of the Rolling Stone

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