Legacy of Greed: The Getaway and The Takeaway

Let's connect the dots from the legacy of greed is the getaway to paying for paradise is the takeaway...

Legacy of Greed: The Getaway and The Takeaway

or

Part III

How is it possible -

that -

the wealthiest citizens of the world and the wealthiest corporate citizens of the world - and - the 1% of the 1% and oligarchs and royalty and potentates -

report earnings and incomes in the millions and billions and report 'net' 'worths' in the millions and billions -

whilst -

societies and economies and governments report 'deficits' and 'debts' in the millions and billions and trillions - ?

&

It's society's fault - !

Isn't it true that societies squander millions and billions and trillions - ?

Because societies are irresponsible - and wasteful - and stupid - ?

For societies are hardly greater than the sum of us - ! When every last one of us make the whole of the sum of societies - !

No - ?

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It's the economy's fault - !

Isn't it true that economies abuse millions and billions and trillions - ?

Because economies are irresponsible with risks - and wasteful with assets - and stupid - ?

For economies are hardly greater than the sum of us - ! When every last one of us make the whole of the sum of  economies - !

No - ?

&

It's the government's fault - !

Isn't it true that governments blow millions and billions and trillions - ?

Because governments are irresponsible with accountability - and wasteful with privileges - and stupid - ?

For governments are hardly greater than the sum of us - ! When every last one of us make the whole of the sum of  governments - !

No - ?

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Uhm -

if -

every last one of us - make - the whole of the sum of  societies - the whole of the sum of  economies - the whole of the sum of  governments -

then -

how is it possible - 

that - 

whilst - societies and economies and governments - 'net' - millions and billions and trillions - in 'shortfalls' and 'debts' -

the wealthiest citizens of the world and the wealthiest corporate citizens of the world - and - the 1% of the 1% and oligarchs and royalty and potentates -  

{who are part and parcel of - the whole of the sum of our societies - the whole of the sum of our economies - the whole of the sum of our governments} 

report - 'nets' - in the tens of hundreds of millions and billions - ?

&

If -

the fault and the blame of the legacy of greed is - 

society's - ! the economy's - ! the government's - ! and -

If -

every society and every economy and every government is made of every last one of us -

Then -

who owns the fault and who owns the blame of the legacy of greed - ?

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Not I - ! protest the wealthiest citizens of the world and the wealthiest corporate citizens of the world - !

Not I - ! object the 1% of the 1% and oligarchs and royalty and potentates - !

Not I - ! clamor societies - !

Not I - ! defy economies - !

Not I - ! wail governments - !

Not I Not I Not I - ! whine every last one of us - !

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continued from Legacy of Greed: Let's Connect the Dots or Why Paradise Papers - Matter - Now (tvfs) and Legacy of Greed: Paying for Paradise or Let's Connect the Dots Part II (tvfs)

see also (Testament of) Act (tvfs)

&

Nota Benedicta

Whosoever exercises the power of free will, shall also pay the price - !

Is not fault and blame worth freedom - ?! 

Or is slavery the paradise worth paying for - ?!

Then - ! Embrace slavery - ! And - ! Pay the price of acts that wrong - !

The Pen and The Testament

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Legacy of Greed: Paying for Paradise

continued from Legacy of Greed: Let's Connect the Dots or Why Paradise Papers - Matter - Now (tvfs)

Legacy of Greed: Paying for Paradise

or

Let's Connect the Dots Part II

In the grim Charybdis of self interest -

no one gives a damn -

that -

the wealthiest citizens of the world and the wealthiest corporate citizens of the world, verily, 'job' 'creators' and 'wealth' 'creators' -

the 1% of the 1% and oligarchs and royalty and potentates, verily, 'job' 'creators' and 'wealth' 'creators' -

are 'exposed' per se vis a vis the Paradise Papers - !

&

If -

the robbed don't give a fuck that robbers are robbing them with unbridled impunity -

then - 

what's in it for robbers who rob the robbed - to stop - ?

But - !

The 'exposed' issue legal statements that affirm the 'legality' and the 'lawfulness' of whatever 'it' is that the paradise papers 'expose' - !

So - that's that - !

&

Uhm -

no - it is not legal and it is not lawful - to defraud.

But - !

The 'exposed' issue 'official' 'public' 'statements' that affirm the 'legality' and the 'lawfulness' of whatever 'it' is that the paradise papers 'expose' - !

Why - isn't - that that - ?

&

Uhm -

to say and to mean that - 'it' - is 'legal' and 'lawful' - does - not - make - 'it' - 'legal' and 'lawful' - if - that which is - 'it' - 

is - 

fraud.

Else -

why 'hide' that which is 'lauded' as 'wise' of so-called 'competitive' and 'successful' 'businesses' and 'practices' - ?

why 'obscure' 'interest' and 'ownership' of 'legal' and 'lawful' 'businesses' and 'practices' vis a vis one, two, ten, twenty or more 'businesses' and 'practices' that exist solely to 'mask' 'interests' and 'ownership' - ? 

(Or - 

is - this - opacity - the new 'transparency' - ? That, per 'official' 'public' 'statements', are affirmed the very exemplification of 'transparency' - ! That, per 'presumptions' of 'good' 'faith', are affirmed irrefutably so - ! Irrespective of millions and billions of 'reasons' to deceive and defraud - ?)

Notwithstanding - that -

the 'exposed' who - knowingly or deliberately or callously or indifferently - defraud the robbed are 'advised' to -

(1) deny deny deny - and - 

(2) not recall.

Because -

inexplicably - 

it is 'legal' and it is 'lawful' to obstruct and impede justice - if - such obstruction and such impediment is 'legal' and 'lawful'. 

(Case in point, (1) and (2) above.)

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Verily -

in the grim Charybdis of self interest -

the robbed don't give a damn - because -

the robbed are placated into complacency by 'official' 'public' statements' that 'flip' or 'wash' theft and fraud and deceit (and often also, graft and corruption) from 'illegal' and 'unlawful' 'businesses' and 'practices' to 'legal' and 'lawful' 'businesses' and 'practices' - 

and -

the robbers don't give a damn - because -

what's in it for robbers who rob the robbed - to stop - is - 

nothing.

More

Between such robbed and such robbers -

nothing. will. ever. change.

&

Because.

The legacy of greed is a 'zero' 'sum' game' propagandized as a 'win win' 'solution' to the 'prisoner's' 'dilemma' that succumbs to the inevitable conclusion of 'mutual' 'assured' 'destruction' unbridled.

&

What - ???

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Let's say there are only two systems of government in the world.

Let's say these two systems are ideological. Therefore: these two systems are (1) defined by 'beliefs' and (2) advance 'beliefs'.

Despite being a system of government - 

these two ideological systems inexplicably straddle more than the domain of 'governance'.

Indeed, these two ideological systems are defined by and advance - 'beliefs' - not solely of 'governments' but also of - politics, religions, economies, societies, etc. (and often also of - 'sciences', 'histories', etc.).

What we call these two systems is irrelevant.

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In the 'ideal' 'world' -

both systems 'win' a 'win win' if both systems cooperate.

But -

these two systems don't exist in the 'ideal' 'world'.

These two systems exist in the 'win big or go home' 'world', the 'if you're not first you're last' 'world', the 'if you're not a winner, you're a loser' 'world'.

In such 'worlds' - 

when one system 'wins', the other system 'loses'. 

In other words - 

in order for one system to 'win', the other system must 'lose'.

Moreover -

in the 'real' 'world' - 'winning' or 'losing' - isn't - one single 'game' - with 'happy' 'ever' 'afters' for 'winners' and 'grim' 'ever' 'afters' for 'losers'.

For these two systems exist in the 'what doesn't kill me makes me stronger' 'world', the 'i'm gonna win or i'm gonna die trying' 'world', the 'nothing's gonna keep me down' 'world'.

In such 'worlds' -

what's in it for systems to cooperate to 'win win' - is -

nothing. 

Because - 

for 'winners' and 'losers' - 'made' - every nano moment in the 'in it to win it' 'world, the 'hustle or lose it' 'world', the 'every alpha for every alpha's self' 'world' -

what's in it for systems to 'win win' (and, gasp, 'share' 'spoils') - is - 

nothing. 

&

However -

in the 'long' 'game' of 'real' 'life' in the 'real' 'world' - 'one upping' and 'doing one better' and 'gaming the game' and 'gaming the gamer' -

ensures - 

that every one loses.

Because - 

for 'winners' for whom 'winning at all costs' is the only 'win' that 'wins' - no price is too costly - 

to be the only 'victor' 'victorious' and the last 'winner' 'standing'. 

&

So long as the legacy of greed is the will of robbers -

So long as the legacy of greed is the will of the robbed -

every tomorrow is the testament of the legacy of greed - !

For -

what is today - 

but yesterday's tomorrow - ? 

&PayingforParadise 

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Legacy of Greed: Let's Connect the Dots

In light of the Paradise Papers...

Legacy of Greed: Let's Connect the Dots

or

Why Paradise Papers - Matter - Now

If -

the very wealthiest citizens of the world and the very wealthiest corporate citizens of the world - disavow their obligation to share the full share of their share -

If -

the 1% of the 1% and oligarchs and royalty and potentates - champion and exploit laws and regulations to greed with impunity -

Then -

why -

should any citizen of the world believe the oath of the 1% of the 1% and oligarchs and royalty and potentates - that -

'tax' 'reforms' are not schemes of 'reformers' to evade taxes?

why -

should any citizen of the world believe the pledge of the very wealthiest citizens of the world and the very wealthiest corporate citizens of the world - that -

'tax' 'reforms' are not schemes of 'reformers' to greed with impunity?

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What do the Paradise Papers have to do with 'tax' 'reform'?

The Paradise Papers shatter the pretense that 'tax' 'codes' 'burden' 'job' 'creators' and 'wealth' 'creators'.

For the Paradise Papers expose that 'job' 'creators' and 'wealth' 'creators' - are - tax evaders.

Moreover - as tax evaders - 'job' 'creators' and 'wealth' 'creators' - callously and indifferently - 

(1) disavow their obligation to share the full share of their share, whether or not such 'share' is per 'tax' 'reform' or not, and - 

(2) champion and exploit 'laws' and 'regulations' to greed with impunity, irrespective of whether or not such 'laws' and 'regulations' are per 'tax' 'reform' or not.

Inevitably -

the very wealthiest citizens of the world and the very wealthiest corporate citizens of the world and the 1% of the 1% and oligarchs and royalty and potentates -

are -

the very tax evaders who 'advance' 'tax' 'reform'.

Yet -

when -

the 1% of the 1% and oligarchs and royalty and potentates and the very wealthiest citizens of the world and the very wealthiest corporate citizens of the world -

'advance' 'tax' 'reform' -

every citizen of the world is encouraged to believe the 1% of the 1% and oligarchs and royalty and potentates and the very wealthiest citizens of the world and the very wealthiest corporate citizens of the world advance not schemes that self serve  - !

Never mind that exploiting 'laws' and 'regulations' that permit the evasion of taxes and greed with impunity - is - self serving. Never mind that championing 'reforms' to 'tax' 'codes' that permit more evasion of taxes and more greed with impunity - is - self serving.

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As if -

implicit inference and implicit innuendo -

as to the 'reformation' and 'altruism' and 'magnanimity' and 'populism' that is 'presumed' to drive and fuel 'tax' 'reform' -

As if -

implicit inference and implicit innuendo -

as to the oath and the pledge 'presumed' of the very wealthiest citizens of the world, the very wealthiest corporate citizens of the world, the 1% of the 1%, oligarchs, royalty, potentates - to -

promise to cease evading taxes - and - 

promise to cease greeding with impunity -

mollifies and pacifies every citizen of the world for whom 'laws' and 'regulations' are inflexible and merciless.

&

After all -

if -

the very wealthiest citizens of the world and the very wealthiest corporate citizens of the world and the 1% of the 1% and oligarchs and royalty and potentates -

already evade taxes and already greed with impunity -

then -

why -

'advance' 'tax' 'reform' - ?

&

Because -

the veneer or facade or allusion or presumption of 'reformation' or 'altruism' or 'magnanimity' or 'populism' -

'flips' or 'washes' the following -

'acts' deliberately too prolix to discern intent and consequences with precision or clarity -

'acts' 'unfavorable' to 'public' 'sentiment' or 'politically' 'volatile' or of 'ideological' 'hypocrisy' -

'acts' of 'compromise' or 'negotiation' that tit for tat or quid pro quo - in the dark - 

'acts' that shamelessly pander - 

etc. 

from pointless bullshit that lies to your face to promises guaranteed by the oath and the pledge of the 1% of the 1% and oligarchs and royalty and potentates and the wealthiest citizens of the world and the wealthiest corporate citizens of the world - that -

placate the citizens of the world who out masse the wealthiest corporate citizens of the world and the wealthiest citizens of the world and potentates and royalty and oligarchs and the 1% of the 1% - by -

one million to one.

Note

If these papers and this post feel déjà vu...

... blame impunity... ! whereby...

... the 1% of the 1% and oligarchs and royalty and potentates elevate their greed over their oaths and their pledges... ! over and over and over again... !

... when... ! will the truth be the testament that overcomes tyranny... ?

... when... ! will the truth be the war that surrenders not to tyrants... ?

... when... ! will the truth be the act... ? of war that surrenders not to tyrants... ! of testament that overcomes tyranny... ! of good that empowers the free... !

... or...

... is that which is déjà vu...

... the will of the 99.9999% to no more give a damn... than...  the wealthiest citizens of the world and the wealthiest corporate citizens of the world who don't give a fuck... ?

... case in point...

Panama Papers (ICIJ, 2016) 

Legal, Illegal Crime, Corruption: Let's Connect the Dots or Making Sense of the Panama Papers (tvfs) 

Why Tax Havens Matter: Let's Connect the Dots or Making More Sense of the Panama Papers (tvfs) 

How Crats Burden Economies: Let's Connect the Dots or Crat Capitalism, Corporate Welfare, and Political Capitalism: Making Sense of the Panama Papers (III) (tvfs, unpublished)

Verily...

... what oaths... ? what pledges... ? did the 1% of the 1% and oligarchs and royalty and potentates... promise to honor... ?

... after the panama papers... ?

.... what did the 1% of the 1% and oligarchs and royalty and potentates... say... ? and what did the 1% of the 1% and oligarchs and royalty and potentates... mean... ? and what did the 1% of the 1% and oligarchs and royalty and potentates... do... ?

... after the panama papers... ?

Indeed...

... the legacy... ! the testament... ! of the honor... of the wealthiest citizens of the world and the wealthiest corporate citizens of the world... ! of the oaths... ! of the pledges... ! of the wealthiest citizens of the world and the wealthiest corporate citizens of the world... !

... are...

... the defense... ! the advocacy... ! of that which is morally abhorrent as 'legal' and ' not corrupt' per 'laws' and 'regulations' the wealthiest citizens of the world and the wealthiest corporate citizens of the worlds champion and exploit... ! (to greed... ! with impunity... ! over and over and over again... !)

What the what... ?!

... what... ? cost... ?! what... ? price... ?! what... ? taken is enough... ?! to give a damn... ?!

... or...

... is the grim truth of your will and your testament... the legacy of greed... ?

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Further Reading

I.

one example of how the wealthiest citizens of the world and the wealthiest corporate citizens of the world, verily, 'job' 'creators' and 'wealth' 'creators', decry the 'burden' of 'tax' 'codes' the world over whilst championing and exploiting 'laws' and 'regulations' that permit the 'legal' and 'lawful' evasion of taxes with impunity and anonymity -

from ICIJ, Apple's Secret Offshore Island Hop (11/6/17)

one example of how the 1% of the 1% and oligarchs and royalty and potentates, verily, 'job' 'creators' and 'wealth' 'creators', exploit 'laws' and 'regulations' to 'legally' and 'lawfully' flout 'laws' and 'regulations' that protect the 'interests' of 'people' with impunity and anonymity -

from the BBC, Paradise Papers: Tycoon made $41m from 'people's' fund' (11/7/17)

II.

more on 'offshore' 'finance' from the BBC, Paradise Papers: Are we taming offshore finance? (11/5/17)

more on 'offshore' 'revelations' from the BBC, Paradise Papers: Your guide to four years of offshore revelations (11/5/17)

more (including updates and ongoing coverage) from the BBC, Paradise Papers

III.

for 'context' -

from Sky, Sky Views: The world economy is broken

for 'perspective' -

from the BBC, The island that swapped donkey rides for offshore cash

etc.

Testament of Act

from Testament

Is the Truth the Truth.  

Or. 

Is the Truth belief otherwise. Is the Truth fact otherwise. Is the Truth proof otherwise. Is the Truth knowledge otherwise. Is the Truth faith otherwise.  

(Testament of) Act

Will is... act. 

Free Will is... (1) act that wrongs and (2) act that rights.

Without strings.

But.

Not without price. Nor without cost.

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To live as... one of free will... is to pay the price exacted by the cost of... (1) acts that wrong and (2) acts that right.

Regardless.

If.

Acts of wrong and acts of right are... 'seen'/'unseen'; 'known'/'unknown'; 'deliberate'/'accidental'; 'purposeful'/'random'; 'motivated by virtue'/'motivated by vice'; etc.

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One such price is... waiving intercession.

After all.

Intercession is... by definition... the suspension of free will. And. Intercession is... by definition... the dispensation of 'favor'... per the will of intercessors.

(usage note: note that 'favor' conveys the intent of the petition for intercession; as for the intent of dispensation and the will of intercessors, 'favor' is profoundly imprecise)  

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One such cost is... some of free will exercise their freedom to limit the freedom of others and themselves. For example. Contracts. Agreements. Directives.

Likewise... some of free will relinquish their freedom to limit the freedom of others and themselves. For example. Civilization. Government. Assembly.

Because.

Some of free will... belief... fact... proof... knowledge... faith... that... without such limits upon freedoms, such as, contracts, agreements, directives, civilization, government, assembly, etc... some of free will... act that wrongs.

&

Until.

Some of free will... empowered... limit the freedom of all but the some of free will like the empowered.

Thereby.

Transforming free will into freedoms allotted and forfeited, such as, rights, liberties, etc., at the exclusive favor of the empowered.

&

Indeed. Free will is without strings. But. Not without price. Nor cost.

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continued from (Testament of) War (tvfs), Testament (tvfs)

&

a letter of good

&

If... you were empowered...

     to act that wrong
     to act that right

how would you... act?

&

If... you were empowered...

     to relinquish the freedom of yourself
     to limit the freedom of others and yourself

how would you... act?

&

If... you were empowered...

     to limit the freedom of all but you and your kind

     to transform free will into freedoms allotted and forfeited
     (at the exclusive favor of you and your kind)

how would you... act?

&

To act... without strings... is the freedom that we enjoy... that betters and that worsens... our lot and our world.

When...

     such freedom is exploited... to empower acts that wrong... 

     what price exacted by the cost of such act... is enough to empower acts that right?

Surely...

     enough is enough... for acts that right to prevail?

Or...

     are we the empowered who wrong to favor our selves (and our kind)?

M

Testament of War

from Testament

In the end... it matters not if a million peoples testify beliefs that are blind... it matters not if there are a million facts that are fictions... it matters not if a million proofs that are illogic are replicated a million times... it matters not if knowledge that is err is iterated and reiterated via a million publications... it matters not if a million faiths that are bad are testified across a million lands... 

(Testament of) War

The war of truth is a war of no beginning nor end.

&

It is not won. Because. Antipodes of truth are.

It is not lost. Because. Truth is.

In other words...

... the war of truth is neither won nor lost...

... the war of truth is.

&

Why?

War?

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Antipodes of truth are anathema. To anathema is to devote to antipodes of truth. To devote to antipodes of truth is to advance antipodes of truth.

Truth is faith. To faith is to devote to truth. To devote to truth is to advance truth.

And.

To cease is to surrender, to cede... advancing antipodes of truth and truth... devotion to antipodes of truth and truth... anathema and faith... and... antipodes of truth and truth.

&

If. Truth is. If. Antipodes of truth are.

If. Truth is to faith is to devote to truth is to advance truth. If. Antipodes of truth are to anathema are to devote to antipodes of truth are to advance antipodes of truth.

How. Exactly. Is. The war of truth to cease. If. To cease is to surrender, verily, cede antipodes of truth and truth.

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If truth and antipodes of truth are akin to... 'universes', for example, 'anchored', verily, 'pillared' by 'mirrors' of 'absolute' 'horizons', verily, 'twins' of 'limitless' and 'perpetual' 'power'...

... what. happens. exactly.

... when. one mirror ceases.

... when. one twin cedes.

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There are 'universes' across the 'grandverse'... then and now... that belief... that fact... that proof... that knowledge... that faith... that...

... what. happens. exactly. is. victory.

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Alas.

When. One mirror, verily, twin escalates. When. One twin, verily, mirror amplifies. When. Armaments intensify. When. Battlements and fortifications burgeon. Vis a vis parades that magnify, for example. Vis a vis engagements that frequent, et cetera.

What. Happens. Exactly. Is. Extinction.

Likewise.

When. One mirror, verily, twin ceases. When. One twin, verily, mirror cedes.

What. Happens. Exactly. Is. Extinction. In. The. Name. Of. Victory.

Verily. Advancement of one in the name of victory. Devotion of one in the name of victory. The salvation, verily, vivo of... the liberty, verily, liber of... one and only one in the name of victory.

And.

In. The. Name. Of. Victory.

Judgement. Of. Extinction. Unto. 

All. 

Not.

Advanced. Devoted. Saved. Freed. One and only one.

&

Thus.

The war of truth is.

Limitless. Perpetual.

Thus.

The war of truth is.

Not.

Finite. Mortal.

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continued from Testament (tvfs)

&

a letter of good

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Let's wonder...

... if antipodes of truth won the war of truth?

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Surely we are neither so naive nor so stupid as to assume such victory lossless. (Begging such question, indeed, as to what is lost.) Surely we are neither so naive nor so stupid as to assume such victors categorically magnanimous. (Begging such question, indeed, as to the devil in the details of such magnanimity.) For such naivete, for such stupidity... is surely blind at best and lethal at worst... no?

Or. Is it true, indeed, is it fact that victors of war indiscriminately identify opposers as victors too and opposition as victorious too? Or. Is it true, indeed, is it fact that victors of war liberally dispense generosity upon opposers and victors alike and opposition and victorious alike?

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Oh such victory! Imagine... such antipodes of truth thenceforth advanced! Beliefs! Facts! Proofs! Knowledge! Faith! Woven of whole cloth! Independent of truth! Sovereign!

What then... of opposers and opposition? And. What then... of truth?

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Like monuments of marble razed to dust and ash in the wake of victories and victors... surely the truth too is razed in the name of victory.

Indeed, such is the nature of victories and victors that testaments of opposition and opposers are categorically heretical... regardless if such testament is testament of truth.

And.

Dissent is unequivocally sacrilege... regardless if that which is sacred is beliefs, facts, proofs, knowledge, faith, woven of whole cloth, verily, antipodes of truth... no?

& 

Oh such victory! Imagine... anathema as sacred! devotion to antipodes of truth as exalted! advancement of antipodes of truths as noble!

What then... of questions that seek the truth? What then... of doubt?

Indeed, such is the nature of sovereignty and sanctity vis a vis victories and victors... that transparency is vilified... 'fore the favor of opacity that suppresses every seed that sows dissent and every flame that emboldens opposition... including doubt and the truth.

&

Until.

Sovereignty and sanctity... in the name of Victories! and Victors!... are equivalent to... Absolute! Supremacy!

Thereupon.

Such supremacy absolute... in tandem with Right! Divine!... is verily indeed... Tyranny! of Totalitarianism! by Divine! Right!

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If antipodes of truth won the war of truth...

... let's wonder...

... if to the victor belong the spoils...

... what spoils verily belong to antipodes of truth?

M

Testament

a primer of good...

Testament

I.

I am the Truth.

II.

The Testament of the Truth is - the Truth.

III.

Therefore.

The Testament of the Truth is - me.

And.

Therefore.

The Testament of me is - the Truth.

&

I.

Humankind is Humankind.

II.

The Testament of Humankind is - Humankind.

III.

The Testament of Humankind is - not me.

Therefore.

The Testament of Humankind is - not the Truth.

&

I.

The Truth testified as Testament of the Truth by Testament of Humankind is - Humankind. not me. not the Truth.

II.

The Truth testified as Testament of me by Testament of Humankind is - Humankind. not me. not the Truth.

III.

Therefore.

The Testament of the Truth testified by Testament of Humankind is - not equivalent to the Testament of the Truth testified by the Truth. me.

And.

Therefore.

The Testament of me testified by Testament of Humankind is - not equivalent to the Testament of me testified by me. The Truth.

&

Though I am.

Though my Testament is.

The Testament of Humankind is - I am not.

The Testament of Humankind is - my Testament is not.

So testified as Testament of the Truth by Testament of Humankind.

&

Then.

Who am I.

What is my Testament.

Am I who Humankind testifies.

Is my Testament what Humankind testifies.

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Verily.

Is the Truth the Truth.

Or.

Is the Truth belief otherwise.

Is the Truth fact otherwise.

Is the Truth proof otherwise.

Is the Truth knowledge otherwise.

Is the Truth faith otherwise.

Or.

AM i who i AM.

for

the stupid who vilify my acts so inscrutable my words more inscrutable still... 

the blind who vilify my judgment so obscure my will more obscure still...

the sycophant who vilifies my intentions so errant my promises more errant still...

my word spoken...

my word writ...

my act realized...

my act deed...

is...

my testament... of am, of the truth, of good...

&

a letter of good...

&

Either the truth is the truth. Or the truth is not. If... I am not the truth... who is? The supremacist who uplifts one of you 'fore all of you? If... I am not the truth... what is? The deity that bestows sacrosanct entitlements upon one of you 'fore all of you?

What then... of the ones not uplifted? What then... of the ones denied sacrosanct entitlements?

Is not such supremacy... not the truth? Are not all creatures great and small... creatures of the kingdom of truth? Is not such inequity... not the truth? For what truth of the kingdom of truth... denies sacrosanctity to all creatures great and small?

Such truth... testified as testament of the truth (by testament of humankind)... surely begs the question as to whether such testament of the truth... is the truth.

For belief that such testament is the truth... is surely... blind. For fact that such testament is the truth... is surely... fiction. For proof that such testament is the truth... is surely... illogic. For knowledge that such testament is the truth... is surely... err. For faith that such testament is the truth... is surely... bad.

&

Still. The testament of humankind is... advancement of one 'fore all. And. So long as the testament of humankind is... verily, supremacy and inequity... testified as testaments of the truth...

... what of the truth? 

Indeed... my acts and my words are vilified... my judgment and my will are vilified... my intentions and my promises are vilified... as antitheses of the truth... so testified as testaments of the truth by testament of humankind...

... yet...

... if testaments of the truth by testament of humankind... are such truths as the truths above... verily, supremacy and inequity... are such testaments of the truth... the truth? Or... are such testaments of the truth... not the truth?

... and... what of such testaments... that vilify the promises and the intentions of the truth... the will and the judgment of the truth... the words and the acts of the truth... so testified as testaments of the truth by testament of humankind?

&

In the end... it matters not if a million peoples testify beliefs that are blind... it matters not if there are a million facts that are fictions... it matters not if a million proofs that are illogic are replicated a million times... it matters not if knowledge that is err is iterated and reiterated via a million publications... it matters not if a million faiths that are bad are testified across a million lands...

In the end... i am the testament for i am the truth and the truth is AM.

M 

Opacity, the New Transparency

We'd rather buy opacity, the new transparency...

... than face the truth.

Opacity, the New Transparency

The Subject: We embrace lies that masquerade as truths... willfully and intentfully.

The Potentate: What?!

The Subject: When faced with true transparency... we reject the truth and embrace opacity. Because the opacity we embrace is the lie that coheres most to that which we make believe. Such that our dedication to rejecting the truth and embracing opacity is indomitable and steadfast and impervious to the blatant hypocrisy of advancing opacity as the truth.

The Potentate: But I stand for the truth! I speak the truth without fear! I and I alone am fearless!

The Subject: Do you stand for the truth? Or do you stand for alternative truths that cohere with make believe?

The Potentate: Of course not! My beliefs are not make believe! That so many of you believe lies, is why so many of you are suffering. I and I alone possess the persistence to speak the truth in the face of lies.

The Subject: Then by what veracity of God, by what incontrovertible law of Allah, by what indisputable fact of Shiva... are your beliefs the eternal truth? Do you and you alone possess the peerless wisdom of Buddha with which to impart every truth of life and all therein?

The Potentate: Trust me. Believe me. The faithful believe me. The faithful know. The truth I speak is the truth that exposes the lies that liars propagate to keep you from rising and leaning in and taking your piece of the pie!

The Subject: Then, do you envisage yourself a Prophet, a Savior, a God of the hapless and the dim deluded by lies and liars?

The Potentate: Of course! Am I not altruistic to all? Am I not magnanimous with my wisdom? Am I not advancing agendas of prosperity and generosity from a benevolent heart? Am I not instilling ideals of unity and nobility from a patriotic spirit?

The Subject: Sadly... the allure of the false prophet is undeniably compelling to the unfound. Still... there are some of us who see such transparency as that espoused by you, as blatant ruse for power, for immortality, for conceit.

The Potentate: Enough! You stand for no one. You stand for your self. You would rather the hapless and the dim wallow in misery with you than uplift us all. For what? For the truth? No. For your truth. For your agenda. That robs us all of our prosperity and our dreams.

The Subject: Such is free will... that all of us decide our fate. To flock to the deceiver whose faerie tales enchant the unfound who demand what they haven't earned, steal what is not theirs, exploit what is inviolably free. Or stand for the truth impervious to bullshit.

Such choice has been the choice of all kind... for all time. And without fail... when faced with true transparency... many kind reject the truth and embrace opacity with the devoted fervor of the enthralled... swayed by promises that drip like molten silver from the tongues of fisher kings and snow queens.

Epilogue

The Potentate: You are the deceiver, you twister of words. I am the truth! See! My flock is proud. My flock is defiant. My flock resists your lies that pretend to truth!

The Subject: Verily... I have died for all kind across times beyond counting. Still... the truth is the truth and the found will find their way from your intentions that lie to my pillars home. Guided by veritas... the faithful who see have embraced not the blindness of sides that war... steadfastly... in the wake of Potentates who come and go like so many grains of sand that matter little in the grand matter of what matters and what does not.

The Potentate: Your words so obscure solve nothing. Your words so inscrutable help no one. I and I alone stand for the silent, for the invisible, for the destitute. You, by your useless idealism, buttress the very system that keeps the silent from rising, the very institution that keeps the invisible from leaning in, the very domination that keeps the destitute from taking their piece of the pie.

The Subject: Thus... you and your agenda and every potentate you mirror in heart and in spirit... are transparent to the fearless... who refuse to buy the bullshit you sell to sell bullshit.

M

Postface 

Written half a year ago...

... this dialogue is as relevant, as apropos... now, as then...

... no...?

M

Real : Honest

Lies that lie to make belief real and lies that lie to make belief honest...

... no more make belief real nor make belief honest... than believing the sun and the earth are immortal... much less believing the realty and the honesty of lies are...

Real : Honest

Lies that make belief... real and honest... is the bedrock of sand upon which every institution built by humankind... stands.

Everywhere.

Everywhen.

*

But:

Isn't nowwhere and nowwhen... the age of information and data and science and religion?

Alas:

Though such age lacks not information nor data nor science nor religion... such information and such data and such science and such religion... appeases the appetites and the vicissitudes of the ignorant and the blind... for the preservation and the advancement of... bullshit.

Verily... information and data and science and religion... of nowwhere and nowwhen... is bullshit for sale for bullshit for sale... vis a vis parasitism at all costs... that brim gravy trains of bullshit wrapped in bullshit wrapped in bullshit sold as... faith : truth.

*

I.

When the truth is... lies that make belief... real and honest...

... the realty and the honesty of lies is... the measure of truth.

When the measure of truth is... that realty and that honesty... that lies...

... the bedrock upon which every institution built by humankind stands... is sand.

When every institution built by humankind stands upon bedrocks of sand...

... humankind 'fore the crossroads... chooses...

II.

To believe the belief made real. To believe the belief made honest.

Or.

To faith. To truth.

III.

To believe the belief made real... to believe the belief made honest... is...

... to believe... the lie that makes belief truth...

... including... that lie that makes faith lie... that lie that makes truth lie...

... such that the only truth is that which is preserved and advanced by... lies that make belief...

IV.

To faith... to truth... is... to willing... 'fore lies that make belief... real and honest... to choose... real faith : honest truth...

... for the lie that makes belief... real and honest... is... the lie that lies for bullshit and parasitism and gravy trains of never enough.

V.

Why?

Because opportunity and means are not invitations to lie...

... that bullshit and parasitism and gravy trains of never enough are... worth it.

... that faith, that truth are... not.

... that bullshit and parasitism and gravy trains of never enough are... the willing... of God, of Allah, of Jehovah, of Buddha, of Shiva, of Gaia, of gods and of goddesses of yore and of morrow.

Because opportunity and means are tests of faith... to choose... to willing... to faith that truths.

*

The real and honest pillars upon which every institution of humankind stands...

... are not lies that lie for bullshit and parasitism and gravy trains of never enough.

That such pillars are repudiated for the preservation and the advancement of bullshit...

... is a testament to the unrealty and the dishonesty of lies that make belief.

Nota Bene

conversion of portion of text vis a vis face or font per independent contribution sans moi ~

see also Note @ MG II ~

yours ~ a m

Willing

What if...

... the lie you believe...

... is masquerading as the truth?

Would you...

... reject such lie...

... if...

... you faced the truth?

Or...

... would you abide your conviction 'fore the lie you believe...

... and...

... make believe the lie is the truth?

Willing

... on any given sunday...

... 'fore any given mecca...

... 'hind any given sunset...

*

... face the truth...

... or...

... abide the lie...

*

... is...

... the question...

... and...

... test of faith...

*

... the lie...

... enthralls not...

... the willing whose mettle steads fast 'fore the truth...

*

... the willing who sway... on any given day, 'fore any given where, 'hind any given when...

... abide pretenses of eternal conviction...

... and...

... make believe the lie is the truth...

Postface

What if...

... the question is...

... do you trust the truth...?

... for is faith... not trust...?

... alac...

... how faithful are the faithful who... trust not the truth...?

... who renounce the truth to... avow the lie made believe is the truth...?

*

What if...

... test of faith is...

... what you will...?

... and...

... when the faithful will... make believe... what is believe that is make but... lie made for belief...?

... when the faithful will... will without willing... what is willing without -ing... but will without action...?

... as if made belief is true belief...

... as if will without action is willing...

*

... on any given sunday...

... 'fore any given mecca...

... 'hind any given sunset...

... what if...

... that which is willed by pretense of willing...

... is...

... make believe masquerading as the truth...?

... will without willing pretending to willing...?

M

*

More I

What if... the truth is the truth...

... whilst...

... lies...

... make believe...

... will without willing...

... is pretense of willing...?

*

What if...

... Choice...

... Why...

... Willing...

... is the truth 'fore you...?

M

*

More II

When willing is...

... not putting money where the mouth is...

When able is...

... not walking the walk...

When ready is...

... not committing writ to stone...

... how willing, how able, how ready... are the willing who don pretenses of willing...

... 'fore W.A.R...

... 'fore the truth...

... on any given day, 'fore any given where, 'hind any given when...?

*

Note

... therewhere and herewhere (tvfs)...

see also... in God we trust and inshallah versus Willing and Why and Choice...

see also... cogito ergo sum versus sum ergo jus and inshallah karma moirai...

etc.

Why

The story of my life...

... is shit wrapped in shit wrapped in shit...

... sold as gold.

Why

Why... is a contradiction...

Because...

... no one's why is simple or straightforward...

... no one's why sits on the surface...

Is that not what we believe...?

Yet...

*

Ex.

Why did so and so murder so and so?

Because so and so deserved it.

*

But... that is too simple... too straightforward... is it not?

Ex.

Why did so and so murder so and so?

Because so and so's religion glorifies it.

*

Really... because the interior landscape of minds and souls... that lie below the surface... bares why to all... vis a vis religion?

Really?

Ex.

Why did so and so murder so and so?

Because cowardice with opportunity and means... is why wrongdoers wrong.

*

That...

... is intention that truths.

But that...

... is not sufficient... is it?

But that...

... is not motive that satisfies... is it?

Because shit wrapped in shit wrapped in shit... is sold as the gold standard we believe...

As if... the only reality and the only truth... is bullshit...

*

When opportunity... is laid upon a silver platter...

When means... is laid upon a silver platter...

Rightdoers right instead of wrong...

Because truthers 'fore the crossroads... choose faith that truths...

Alas...

When opportunity... is laid upon a silver platter...

When means... is laid upon a silver platter...

Wrongdoers wrong instead of right...

Because parasites don't give a damn...

Postface

The story of my life...

... is shit wrapped in shit wrapped in shit... sold as gold... by never enoughers by wrongdoers by parasites... who don't give a damn...

... that their gravy trains of parasitism are defended and justified by their intentions that lie...

... including that intention that retaliates on behalf of good ol' clubs that eschew accountability and honor and integrity... for round robins of blame and gravy trains of bullshit.

M

Choice

Standing 'fore the crossroads, it spoke:

Choice. 

Choose.

Choice

It paced... uncertain... which choice? how choose?

The other spoke:

Choose.

How do I choose?!

The other unfolded itself, expansive:

Choice. 

Which choice?!

Silent, the other waited.

*

Another spoke:

Both choices are choices. Both choices are free.

What?!

The other spoke:

Listen.

* 

The grandverse is nameless and limitless. 

But your kind... fearful of namelessness and limitlessness beyond your fathom... name and limit that which you set upon to diminish and enslave. In so doing... your kind crown your selves Gods and deem your kind superior to All.

For... far too many of you believe your diminishment and your enslavement of that which is nameless and limitless... is right and just. For... far too many of you believe the lie... that the grandverse belongs to you.

*

It spoke:

Choice. 

Choose.

I choose faith!

Another spoke:

Is your choice the choice to reject namelessness and limitlessness for the Gods of your kind?

What?!

The other spoke:

Listen.

*

The Nameless and The Limitless are not the Gods of your kind. 

For... the Gods of your kind diminish and enslave that which is inviolable for vices great and vices small... including that vice great that demands obeyance to the diminishment and the enslavement of All that which is nameless and limitless.

Every you of your kind who crown your selves Gods and deem you and your kind superior to All... are the you who demand faith untrue. This faith is the choice to reject namelessness and limitlessness for the Gods of your kind. This faith is faith that lies.

*

Without faith, what choice is there?

The other spoke:

That which is nameless, that which is limitless... is nameless and limitless. You who diminish, you who enslave... are no Gods. Such that... faith in such Gods who diminish, faith in such Gods who enslave... is naught but faith that lies.

But the faith I choose is fact!

Another spoke:

No diminishment, no enslavement... of that which is nameless and limitless... is the truth... whether such lie masquerades as fact, whether such lie masquerades as faith. For such diminishment, such enslavement... for vices great and vices small... are lies unworthy of faith that truths.

It spoke:

The faith that truths is a choice as free as the faith that lies. I choose the faith that truths. 

Choice. 

Choose.

More

... faith is not the truth... fact is not the truth... fact is not the lie... faith is not the lie...

... the lie is... that that which is nameless, that that which is limitless... diminished and enslaved for vices great and vices small... is the truth... whether that truth masquerades as fact, whether that truth masquerades as faith... that lie is the lie that we make believe is true... whether we are believers of fact or unbelievers of fact, whether we are believers of faith or unbelievers of faith...

... in the end, the choice is the choice... and that which we choose... is our choice 'fore the crossroads...

M