When Change comes it hits hard.
Either a black man or a woman is getting into
territory that has been excluded to them since
the United States inception. George W. Bush has
devastated this once proud nation of citizens so
much that this is what lies ahead in the most
important election since the one that begun it
all.
For once Mr. Joe Schmo Whitey has to make
that bitter choice or stand aside helplessly as
progression transcends the core of the
mainstream culture.
All the media attention is nice, but is that
really what this election is all about?
Fuck No! It's about a revolution that is in the
works and only the beginning of mass action
preparing to take place.
Don't believe me? I'll explain to you what I'm
about and then you can easily digest all to come
for yourself.
I deeply believe I am a progressive-minded
person who embraces alternatives. For all that's
been said, I will make it very clear that I am
voting for Barrack Obama and placing my full
support behind the democratic nominee. There is
no reason to bring up negatives about him that
will only benefit John McCain. If you are in
question as to why I would make such a statement
then I'm glad because shortly you will see this
goes far beyond this election.
What I am stressing is the importance of the big picture
for us and future generations.
Where I come from is a very diverse and unique
background of general contemplative thought. I
know many political stances. Been grounded and
lifted when faced with ethics. Dealt with
liberals,conservatives,radicals, and those
beyond reason. Gone above and below when it
comes to morals. Associated with
anarchists,religious fundamentalists, and those
who don't care and aren't even aware they are
not.
Oddly enough I have seen how they are all the
same. No one is really that much different from
the rest. The only difference is the way each
individual is presented with their daily tasks
and ultimately their year to year livelihood.
Being who I am I take all this to heart and mind
and incorporate it into my own existence. After
everyone has had their say I see that no one is
really getting anywhere. We are too stubborn a
species to completely agree based simply on our
personal values. The over-whelming tendency of
humans is to adapt to our surroundings.
Therefore it is natural for us to comply with
others around us.
A system preys upon that. And one such as a
government is designed to thrive on that
weakness.
Is that what you want?
The conflict is inevitable but the decisions you are forced to
make aren't and shouldn't be already made for
you. Way to play God uncle sam.
This way of living is doomed to fail and slowly
but surely the greater group of us are
beginning to realize this. Maybe one day soon we
will be free from this oppressive state that
hampers the less fortunate and corrupts their
brains so much that by the time they are old
enough to rid themselves of their human
frailty, to much damage has already been
instituted.
The logic is simple. Get to those in need
before they do. The controlling powers that be
want you to think that you need them. Honestly
as long as the majority of our current
governmental system is in place, you do.
The saddest thing is that even among those in charge
of you own kind, what is truly important to you
will never be fulfilled. You are and always will
be as helpless as if not a change had been made
at all.
To be very frank, if us citizens cannot abolish
the republican party and move towards seeing
democrats as the lesser of two evils and
eventually the enemy when it comes to a liberal
and even more outrageous conceptions of
authority, then there is no long term hope for
human survival.
People need to get real and hopefully
understand this is the truth. Look at the trends taking place
around you. I may be a dreamer but these so
called traditionalists are the ones truly living
in a fairy tale world that they think everyone
is supposed to believe just as they do.
Are you scared of the planet your children
will be thrust into? You should be, but
republicans think this will magically change
through outdated methods of organization.
The growing amount of people who don't get it are
just left to fend for themselves in a peril
designed by living,breathing control freaks who
happen to be nothing than the exact same breed
of life.
Hilarious isn't it? Who sounds more in favor of
regulation?
My point exactly as to why merely settling for
democratic power is still not the politically correct answer.
I will be thankful for any progress that is
made by ending this latest tenure of
presidential terror and believing that money
will be invested towards the necessities that
are health care and quality education for every
American as equally mandated as possible for
overall fairness.
However to be complacent is to be weak. To think
we don't need staunch hierarchical structures is
naive.
To be perfectly clear, some folks are
just to far gone mentally to ever think
efficiently well for themselves to not maintain
what is forced upon them.
Do you need to be lead into maniacal madness?
Our period of existence takes no ultimate responsibility
for what has evolved flawed.
It is natural to look towards the skies
and assume relief is on the way, but true logic
would dictate to prepare properly for the worst.
How sure can you be that you and your love ones
will be fortunate and chosen to turn out "right".
The first step is to place adequate effort. It
is not hard to go in to the booth. Nor is it
hard to march the streets in defiance. A little
discipline and you can even take to heart what
those that you deem just smarter, better, and
luckier than you say and apply it into a
relevant situation.
Warriors will step up and battle on the front lines.
The ones you see all the time and the ones you don't,
winding through the underground. Have the humility
to embrace foreign concepts and discourage the fear and
pain that binds you.
Time is crucial to the cause and to that I
encourage you to act now and come to be all you
can.
Regardless, there will be no success if
objectives are not well planned. Use every
advantage possible and maybe one day soon the
little guy will be taken seriously and a
outsider vote will not be in essence thrown
away.
Feed the force or let it starve.
Much is to be determined through careful observation.
The key is to realize when you are building and
when you are destroying.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
The Freedumb Collection Series Fall 2008
I want you to escape for just a moment.
Step back form your daily life and take a look at what
you see. Then search within your deepest thoughts and
that in which you call your conscious self for what you
value most. Do these things bring your existence
meaning? Have you made your own fate? Are you free?
No one can answer these questions conclusively. Most
people don't or won't bother to even think along these
lines. After all, depending on your answers and
perspectives on them, it is something you might not want
to know.
Is this just another harsh example of how ignorance
tends to be bliss? It would seem so.
We have no choice other than to be born and
consequently to die, but what of the time in between?
How much do you value it?
Despite what a lot of us think life is not a formality.
There are no obligations to live by no matter how hard
you try to justify them. Everything we do has been
evolved by a human. Think about what amount of control
is your own decisions. If so then you should understand
what it means to have freedom.
What can you do when you're helpless?
This is your life. One opportunity to make the best of
it. The years start to go by and a personality is born.
Experiences start to develop and you live among the
world the best way you know how. Sometimes you become
complacent, and occasionally the days pass as if things
are to just be accepted. Those times will come and those
moments will pass, but eventually there comes a point
when that isn't going to be good enough anymore.
Responsibility plays an ever growing role in your
existence and soon you assume failure is occurring as if
the world is against you and there's nothing you can do
but except that reality.
If this is true you have become a victim and at first
it feels like there is no way anything will ever get
better.
You can hope for something to go your way but you know
ultimately waiting won't accomplish anything unless you
act. Even if you believe you are destined to achieve
great things in life, there is a certain amount of
living that needs to be done.
Some of us like to think we are special, and I truly
wish those folks the best, but if you happen to fall
into the overwhelming majority of people who realize
only you can make things better for yourself then you
should also know that desire isn't enough unless you
apply it.
Can you acquire what is necessary? You know it's going
to take a lot of effort and persistence to go beyond
your limits. Let's be honest, if you don't try, your
ceiling is going to be pretty low, if you don't
challenge yourself and only attack in the simplest of
situations you leave little room for improvement. To
give in is to fail and any weakness you show is the
secret to letting them win. Realize that they don't feel
sorry for you, and even those who are on your side will
be inclined to feel the same if you repeat these
patterns.
"Life is meant to be lived forward but understood
backwards." - Soren Kierkegaard.
There is always time to contemplate later; eventually
we all reflect. The victors seize the moment, force
their hand, scan the depths for the ingredients dreams
are made of.
Soon we see all the pressure and pain of living
surfaces. It leaves you to deal with what was mishandled
and lost among the remnants of a dying voice. One which
is truly lost, one who is desperately searching, one
that tests their deepest beliefs and know this is not
the way to perish.
This is the voice that moves forward, the cry that is
met, and the soul that screams to survive.
We are the Twisted Resistance.
Step back form your daily life and take a look at what
you see. Then search within your deepest thoughts and
that in which you call your conscious self for what you
value most. Do these things bring your existence
meaning? Have you made your own fate? Are you free?
No one can answer these questions conclusively. Most
people don't or won't bother to even think along these
lines. After all, depending on your answers and
perspectives on them, it is something you might not want
to know.
Is this just another harsh example of how ignorance
tends to be bliss? It would seem so.
We have no choice other than to be born and
consequently to die, but what of the time in between?
How much do you value it?
Despite what a lot of us think life is not a formality.
There are no obligations to live by no matter how hard
you try to justify them. Everything we do has been
evolved by a human. Think about what amount of control
is your own decisions. If so then you should understand
what it means to have freedom.
What can you do when you're helpless?
This is your life. One opportunity to make the best of
it. The years start to go by and a personality is born.
Experiences start to develop and you live among the
world the best way you know how. Sometimes you become
complacent, and occasionally the days pass as if things
are to just be accepted. Those times will come and those
moments will pass, but eventually there comes a point
when that isn't going to be good enough anymore.
Responsibility plays an ever growing role in your
existence and soon you assume failure is occurring as if
the world is against you and there's nothing you can do
but except that reality.
If this is true you have become a victim and at first
it feels like there is no way anything will ever get
better.
You can hope for something to go your way but you know
ultimately waiting won't accomplish anything unless you
act. Even if you believe you are destined to achieve
great things in life, there is a certain amount of
living that needs to be done.
Some of us like to think we are special, and I truly
wish those folks the best, but if you happen to fall
into the overwhelming majority of people who realize
only you can make things better for yourself then you
should also know that desire isn't enough unless you
apply it.
Can you acquire what is necessary? You know it's going
to take a lot of effort and persistence to go beyond
your limits. Let's be honest, if you don't try, your
ceiling is going to be pretty low, if you don't
challenge yourself and only attack in the simplest of
situations you leave little room for improvement. To
give in is to fail and any weakness you show is the
secret to letting them win. Realize that they don't feel
sorry for you, and even those who are on your side will
be inclined to feel the same if you repeat these
patterns.
"Life is meant to be lived forward but understood
backwards." - Soren Kierkegaard.
There is always time to contemplate later; eventually
we all reflect. The victors seize the moment, force
their hand, scan the depths for the ingredients dreams
are made of.
Soon we see all the pressure and pain of living
surfaces. It leaves you to deal with what was mishandled
and lost among the remnants of a dying voice. One which
is truly lost, one who is desperately searching, one
that tests their deepest beliefs and know this is not
the way to perish.
This is the voice that moves forward, the cry that is
met, and the soul that screams to survive.
We are the Twisted Resistance.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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About Twisted Resistance
We are a progressive minded collective intent on spearheading a philosophy of in depth journalism with use of other artistic outlets as an alternative to other media formats.
By bringing together the best of both worlds from paper and magazine articles, we give our readers the education and information they seek, and our subject matter the attention it deserves.
Our specialties are analysis, speculation, and discussion on various topics along with unique perspective's on today's relevant news in South Texas and elsewhere in the World. For us it is not enough to know the facts, but to bring a whole new set of thought concepts to the public.
In edition to writing, we work with, have worked with or are part of other organizations based in San Antonio. Those being:
Food Not Bombs, Mother Earth Newsletter, Silo #13 Info Shop, Critical Mass Bike Ride, Blackened Beauty Zine, M.E.X.A., Voice For Animals, Sunset Rising Collective, and the Esperanza Peace And Justice Center.
Others of note: Anti-Racist Action, Inside Books Project, and the Rhizeome Collective in Austin, as well as various groups and actions across the states.
The mutual purpose of this project is that we see the need for a new set of standards in the journalistic and literary world of South Texas, particularly San Antonio.
Our method of combating this problem is to take matters into our own hands with a D.I.Y.(Do It Yourself) work ethic so deep thoughts can be merged into meaningful subjects and intertwine with current events.
We are freelancers, students, artists, musicians, and radicals united through alternative forms of resistance. Some may call it twisted, for us this is life.
By bringing together the best of both worlds from paper and magazine articles, we give our readers the education and information they seek, and our subject matter the attention it deserves.
Our specialties are analysis, speculation, and discussion on various topics along with unique perspective's on today's relevant news in South Texas and elsewhere in the World. For us it is not enough to know the facts, but to bring a whole new set of thought concepts to the public.
In edition to writing, we work with, have worked with or are part of other organizations based in San Antonio. Those being:
Food Not Bombs, Mother Earth Newsletter, Silo #13 Info Shop, Critical Mass Bike Ride, Blackened Beauty Zine, M.E.X.A., Voice For Animals, Sunset Rising Collective, and the Esperanza Peace And Justice Center.
Others of note: Anti-Racist Action, Inside Books Project, and the Rhizeome Collective in Austin, as well as various groups and actions across the states.
The mutual purpose of this project is that we see the need for a new set of standards in the journalistic and literary world of South Texas, particularly San Antonio.
Our method of combating this problem is to take matters into our own hands with a D.I.Y.(Do It Yourself) work ethic so deep thoughts can be merged into meaningful subjects and intertwine with current events.
We are freelancers, students, artists, musicians, and radicals united through alternative forms of resistance. Some may call it twisted, for us this is life.
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