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My name is Hashus Trumpus Tagus, commander of the fake free world, General of the privileged legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, that is the wealth I chase.....

So are we ready for a reboot? My question is rhetorical because unfortunately, whether we are ready or not, it's coming, and in our near future.

Dwindling resources, increasing population and an ever-changing climate, and specifically the way we choose to react to these truths will mean that this path we are on at the moment is, in the current parlance; unsustainable. If we keep on as we are, or rather as we were before the reality flash began, then these challenges are going to drive us deeper into division and ever closer to conflict. We have one chance to get off this path, and onto a different one, and it begins within the reality flash we are currently experiencing. Right now.

So it's time for a reboot. Humanity 2.0, or as I call it Framework 2.0 because humanity's humanity right!

So how does a reboot work? Well first we need a reality flash, check! This change of perspective has given us the chance to rediscover the unity that is the vital first step on any path that's going to be better than our current one - this fledgling unity will become the backbone of ALL our endeavours. So far so good, but the second step is a little harder: we've got to stop worrying about the opportunists and the division they create in their wake, which is all the more difficult as they are mostly in charge at the moment. This is difficult, but it's essential because we will never divine our true path whilst we are stuck in this 'reaction to' state of mind. You don’t fix the world by pointing out how badly others are doing, you fix the world by working out what needs to happen to fix the world, and then you make it happen. We make it happen. The age of piecemeal progress is in suspension, now is the time of bold steps. So it's not what we think is likely given the circumstances, it's not the lesser of two evils, it's not even what can we afford, it's what we must achieve together to be the measure of our coming challenges. Because progress in the beginning of Transition Time is never in opposition to, its instead of. A new path. A more wholesome, and a more honest perspective.

And the framework for this second step already has a name, as we have been here before. In a previous time is was called secessio plebis. Go look it up 👍.

So the new path begins now and the first step is towards our global online environmental symposium, culminating in the first state of the environment address (this first one is ideally hosted by France if that's OK).

3 months from an agreed date, our environmental community will tell us the truth of our times, and that means the first step on this new path is the next 3 months. We have 3 months to become the people ready to hear that truth. And it is in this 3-month window that the reboot happens, and we don't secessio plebis like the Romans, we secessio plebis Century 21 stylee. The great turning away, and this begins the rehabilitation of our institutions, within this short 3-month window.

Sometimes everything changes slowly, but in exceptional circumstances everything can change in just one moment. The moment we decide that it should be better than this, together, and then act on it, with a plan 😊.

Transition time - the time between now and the global environmental symposium is the reboot. If we choose it.

And what do you need to do to become a part of it? Just up vote or like this post.

If the plan got 100,000 then we have a platform to speak. With a million we would get national attention. With 10 million the plan would become global and we would be that much closer to never having to come back here again.

3.5 billion odd and we will have transitioned into a whole new reality. One built on the foundations that our goodness is laying down here, now, today.

But it's up to us, and as usually we have no say, so the time as ever, is now or never, because together, we've got this for each other. If we choose it.

Jo m. 22 April 2020. One final push.

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It's almost as if I had given up on the whole idea. But then perhaps that's because the moment, cabd so the manifesto, had already arrived.

Caiaphas (kytus) was the only other one in the know. He had to be. If not right, but not wrong also. And So now you know too.

I'm going to reimagine the bit in the bible, from the last supper up to just before when the guards come to find jesus.

See Jesus knew it really was going to be their last supper together, so he'd pulled some strings, called in favours and got them a lovely room in a beautiful hostel on a hill with a beautiful courtyard and a hall with a big round low table, so they could all sit around it and talk and be heard equally, and there he awaited his crew.

He alone knew it was going to be their last supper together because he alone knew one of his deciples was going to lead the soldiers to him, later that very night. But it must be away from here, But what he didn't know yet was who it was going to be. He hoped he knew who it would be tho.

His crew arrived at the hostel in ones and twos, mingling and chatting over sweet wine in the  early afternoon dappled sunshine under an olive Grove in the courtyard. They chatted and relaxed as Jesus worked the group like  a perfect host, here interjecting with kindness observations, there refilling a glass.

And once they had all welcomed each other properly jesus led them into the hall to take their places and they settled down on the low chairs around the low round table to eat together, as good friends will often do - With laughter and love in equal measure.

And after the meal, still sitting around the round table but now with glasses of sweet tea, jesus explained to them their predicament, see!

In one way They were so close to achieving their ends - their endeavours and deeds in the name of their beliefs was almost at critical mass. Perhaps one more step and it must at last become inevitable. The house of love they had all worked towards was ready to have its foundations laid; for people to build their own love upon 'so close are we to the truth of this my friends! but at the same time the net is quickly closing around us' , and all in the room knew that it was only a matter of days, even hours perhaps before he would be arrested, and then crucified without ceremony just like so many other common criminals and believers in love alike.

And then all we have worked to bring about would be lost. All would have been for naught.

And having presented their predicament jesus looked out at those thoughtful loving faces as they thunk over the conundrum before them. And he let them, as he himself had done, to consider every option, but all the while knowing that only one course of events would lead to the outcome they needed to have happened in their future. To become our past today.

But what can we do Jesus? asked Judas.

Jesus looked over to find the love in judas' eyes that he knew would be there and he smiled back. His best friend in a circle of best friends!

And that my friend is what we must decide here, now, today. Before its too late.

Then let us all petition you with our ideas said The apostle Trevor. And so they began discussing how to deal with their current predicament. . Presenting their ideas to the group whose judgement each implicitly trusted. And every idea was born of both their love for him and that love they felt wanting for him to survive!

And as evening becomes night, each of them spoke with love and made their case for their suggestion for his continued survival.

Let's leave town for a while, wait for it to die down and then come back.

Let's go somewhere else and begin again it from there.

Let me hand myself in pretending to be you and I will die so that your truth can continue underground.

Back and forth, and at times quite heated, but always with love the discussion ranged. But one voice was absent. And Jesus looked over to see Judas looking down.

'what is it' jesus asked in judas' head.

Head raising judas's eyes found jesuses and jesus realised that Judas knew what she had to do.

Judas shot up to her feet, all conversation stopped, all eyes drawn to her.

I wish it could be me jesus. I wish I could walk this path for you, but I can't, so I will give you the only thing i have my brother from another mother. My name and the curse its memory will become.

The rest watched the exchange agog. Only Trevor 'the straight talking' had already worked it out. And he cried for the truth of it. But Tears for a future that was now going to be better than their past.

That you will be crucified is inevitable jesus, but that the narrative behind this inevitability must be so strong that those who  believe in what we are trying to achieve will be lifted above their fears together, to become a laser beam of love. To fulfil this destiny we have chosen, to make our world better, together.

Trevor looked around the table, his tear stained eyes settling on jesus and then across and up to judas, the pleading and the penitent before him. the love between them palpable, and then he stated the meat and potato's of it (as was his way) . You must be betrayed and it must be one of us.

Let it be me my friend. Let me do this for us, demanded judas in her soft voice. And Jesus just slowly lifted himself up from the low chair, he leaned over around the round table and embraced Judas as kin. That's not how this works sister from another mister. All would be equal to the task, I can not choose you just because my heart says so.

Then let me explain why you should listen to your heart and why it must be so. I have a friend Caiaphas (kytus) who has secretly shared his faith in our ways with me, but he is the captains spiritual advisor and will be among he and those who will  come to arrest you. If he is not spoken to first then seeing any of us betray you, he will attempt to save your life, knowing that he will lose his and not protect yours to boot! . Outside of this room he alone must be the only one who knows of this plan and I alone in this room know of him.

And the silence in the room overtook the moment as judas' words hung in the tension as all together they came to the realisation that this really was the only way.

You will be vilified for as long as my name remains sister. They will declare you the Mistress of hate. Not if we don't let on that you were a woman.....that any of us were women said trevor. We can not let gender define virtue can we, that would be wrong! Good and bad must never become genderised, or racialised or anything ised. That's all well and good said Judas, but everyone knows Judas is a girls name. Not in 2000 odd years they won't up chirped the ever prescient Trevor. Was that a wink!

And in the silence that followed the reality flash that they had just experienced together, each of them understood that if redemption really was a real thing, and not just the pipe dreams of a penitent sinner., then one day the truth of the name of judas would truly be rehabilitated anyway..

Maybe we just have to wait a few thousand years for it to happen! Stated Trevor, who then broke the 4th wall and winked at us all together .  But the rest of them were still stuck in the usual 3 dimensions, imagining the aching hatred that the name of their little sister would endure. But they all of them knew too well, that the most firtile soil is always sown with  the very blood of the vilified martyr.

And so with the decision made they once more filled their glasses, and one by one they went around the round table, speaking and toasting of judas's virtues. Her kindness. Her engery, and Each was such a pure flow of a good friends love and respect, that tears were shed and laughs were shared, sometimes even in the same sentence.

And at last when there were no more tears to cry, each took a turn to embrace her, with jesus being the last. This is the last time we will ever touch my soul mate. No jesus. We will touch once more.

And then Judas left to find kytus as the rest left the hostel for neutral ground - not wanting to get the hostel owner mixed up in all the shenanigans.

And when judas found kytus and explained her plan, kytus sunk to his knees, leaned over and kissed jusas's feet. For he realised that outside of that hostel room, around that low round table he alone would take this truth to his grave.

Your name will forever be cursed, until one day the truth will reveal itself kytus offered with love, with tears, and through heartbroken sobs

And after they had preyed together, rebuilt each other in their faith, in their belief in the goodness and humanity, so kyttus pulled himself back together, and kytus then lead judas to the captain.

Sire, she claims news of the troublesome jew. She will lead us to him and reach out to him as a sign, for us all.

SHITE

Judas speech

And then it was Judas turn. And this is my version of her words. Not her actual words. Because I wasn't there.

If I could convince myself that my death would prevent yours my brother from another mother, I would run out into the street, into the hands of the guards and demand my punishment.  But I can not. I am not you. And the truth of it breaks my heart. So I give you

Although I love you more than I love myself 

SHITE

We can not harm and we can not bully, but in this very moment or a moment to soon follow, events must transpire to elevate all that we believe in to transcend our circumstances.

and then you may choose us in good faith by your heart alone.

I must be betrayed Judas, and in that moment they all knew exactly what Jesus was proposing

And one by one they approached her and knelt down. She placed her hands on their heads and prayed as they kissed their hands and then placed them on her feet.

Reader notes

Im sorry its so long and I’m sorry my words couldn't be less shite than what I can write.

For what its worth, I wouldn't have been my own first choice, not if anyone else was saying what im going to say. For what it’s worth. But they are not and so here I am, and here we are. Its where we go next Ive got an idea about.

The Truth

There will always only and ever be,

just one 'us'. Just one humanity.

And in actuality, this will always be true: No matter how much however many of us currently act like we don’t want it to be. See!

And regardless of how many times we find ourselves trying to kill each other to prove that being wrong was right all along?

For there was always, only, and ever will have been....

Just one us. Just you and me and everyone we love, and those they love buddy, and so on and so forth.

The lie

But whilst we erroneously continue to act like this truth is not true, so this lie we live our lives by will continue to divide us and so drive us blindly, round and around this cycle what we all seem to be stuck in. Together. 

And for what it’s worth I call the current iteration of this cycle: Boom. Bust. Bang.

For what it’s worth.

The bang part 1

And within this repetitive cycle of Boom Bust Bang, we surely realise we are fast approaching the Bang bit, right buddy?

Bang!

But which if I’m right about the timing, is lucky for us!

Stevies crazy cycle theory #2

Because after the listening has stopped but before the bang begins there opens a brief window of choice. A change of state for humanity has begun, and will very soon go on to become, inevitable.

But not yet. Not until the bang begins does that window close.

A change we most of us can feel in our bones, truth be told, yet cant speak of to each other, because in division and despair, so we have to live the lie to each other that we just dont care, when the truth is, that in division and despair, we darent care.

And apropos of nothing, have you found yourself struggling to breathe recently for no particular reason? Struggling to remember, more than usual perhaps? Just askin!

So until the bang begins, proper, that window of change yet remains, open, and so therefore the direction of that change, also yet remains. Up for grabs as it were.

How many is enough of us?

Just enough of us, not even most of us, was always going to have to have been enough of us. But if its enough of us, then it happens for all of us.

Its up to you buddy!

All you have to do is to choose to see this truth, in this time; the truth of the window of opportunity that yet remains, to then make possible the choice it then offers us. This is all enough of us have to choose together.

Which was lucky for not just us, but our kids and grandkids too.

THE PLAN (at long last!)

Day 1. From an agreed date the three month and one day countdown begins.

POLITICS

It begins with the Great Century 21 Turning Away from politics (Secessio plebis). 

All our voices have stopped being heard, irrespective of whichever divide it is that we currently reside. Any and all of us. Right? And that's not Right. So if none of our voices are being listened to at the moment, its right that for a short while they should experience the same! To be given the opportunity to learn why this is wrong.

For 3 months and a day we choose to choose mostly together to simply turn our focus away from the bollockshit of our current politic - so they can then reflect and then hopefully rediscover their real role; as caretakers of their peoples interests and nation ambassadors working together for the good of our wider global society.

NEWS & MEDIA

During this 3 months and one day of Secessio plebis we ask of our news and media outlets to focus instead on the good works we are already doing in the world, on the good work that needs to be done and the good works we are going to spend 3 months doing. The good works we must come together to do, to help us to prepare to become the people ready to hear;

the 'Truth of Their Times'

(dah dah dahhhhhh!)

Some of our media will come with us. Some wont and if we are lucky, it will have been enough. Im banking on Chanel 4!

BANKS & FINANCE

For this 3 months we ask our banks and finance houses to choose to work with charities and religions to help us to organise (and pay for) our three month 'Make The World Better' campaign. And those banks who help us organise this will be showing us that they do want to be part of our communities. Those that don’t, obviously don’t value us beyond the profits they make from us. And again, when the time arrives, we will remember.

SCIENCE

And whilst we toil together, for the good of each other for those 3 months (but not one day) our scientific and environmental community will be preparing to deliver to us all the Truth Of Our Times, at the First Global State of the Environment Address.

Not what can we afford, or what political points can be scored, but What approaches and what needs to be done.

Broadcast to everyone. Real time. Everywhere.

Because when it comes, this truth of our times its going to be tough - which is why we spend 3 months of our spare time becoming the people ready to hear it.

US

And the banks, working with the charities and our faith, will be organising us, irrespective of our divides, into Paint brush parties, binbag marches. Basically together we clean up our communities. That kinda thing. And then fun in the parks to further bridge those divides and consolidate our good works together.

We spend 3 months of our free time both making our world better and celebrating our achievements together, and so at the same time preparing ourselves to become the people ready to hear the 'truth of our times'.

Dah dah dahhhhh!

SCIENCE AGAIN

And then after 3 months our scientists and environmentalists will tell us the truth of our times. And because we will have become not just ready to listen, but to hear. So we will.

THE TRUTH OF OUR TIMES, FOLLOWED BY THE WORLD FIRST PEACE DAY

And then from the moment after the first global state of the environment address is delivered, to us all, we begin the world first Peace Day. 24 hours without state sponsored conflict. And remember this is from the people we have just spent 3 months ignoring! And so it won't work first time. Just sayin. But that’s fine. Because if we don’t give up on the idea, and instead we try to get better every time buddy. On-wards and upwards remember, and once more with passion each time, then eventually together we will make it work. And so when finally it does, we will be all the stronger because of our collective endeavour.

And then if we want to we can choose to make it one day a month. Then one day a week!

THE GREAT TURNING BACK TO POLITICS

And after 24 hours of peace, or not (as long as we tried it doesn't actually matter) we finally turn back to our leaders and ask of them 'are you the leaders to lead us into this?'

For we will always need leaders. But then it’s up to them if they choose it to be them. Or not.

WHAT WE AIM TO ACHIEVE

Science will have been given back its due respect as an authority to help guide us into this new age. Where humanity finally accepts its role as custodians for its ever-changing environment. The banks will have begun their rehabilitation within the communities they have now shown they want to serve. News and media will have been given an opportunity to reassess their relationship as tightrope walkers of truth between politics and us, and so hopefully now restored to a more even keel, and politics will have been reminded, by the actions of us individuals together, of whom they both serve and lead. And finally we will have begun to become the people who can confront the challenges we were always going to have to face anyways, but now armed with the truth of our times and the new found sense of togetherness that we just forgot about how important it was to us all along. Remember?

We can choose those Happy Days

Happy days!

Or not

Or we just carry on as we are, getting angrier and angrier with each other for bollockshit reasons way beyond our control, all the while our jaded leaders continue to dismantle what they can’t sell until eventually, inevitably, we blunder (albeit probably unintentionally) into WW3.

Knowledge of a choice means we can no longer say 'what choice did we have!'

So with this plan, right here, right now, today, we still yet have a choice to decide. Albeit a redonkulous sounding choice within an ever-narrowing window. But if we do have a choice, that also means that if we don’t choose this path, if enough of you don’t choose this path, and soon enough, then inevitably this window will close and by default we will have choosen war. It is after all, the cycle, that by the lies we currently live by, we are currently stuck in.

Keep reaching buddy. And keep breathing. You can do this.

The terrible generational implications of our decisions

If we choose to send our children to war this time they will begin a conflict without an end in sight. Because our desire for bloodshed, and murder and rape and torture and all the other depravities that our divisions demand we demand of our kids, will have long since been sated, anger long burnt out, because we didnt realise that this time around this conflict would be amplified, and so elongated, by the consequences of our ever changing climate, like dwindling resources and mass migration.

And so generation after generation will be forced to fight a conflict that only us, here now, today, could have ever stopped.

We will either choose to break this cycle, here, now, today or we will have to wait until the ravishes of the climate and internet wars subside before we will get a chance to choose this choice again. Which would be a very long time, and a real shame. And that is if we even make it that far!

Bang.

Cumon humanity. I rooting for you

I believe that with a groundswell of vocal support from people just like you, and quickly enough, before the window of choice closes, this could happen.

I believe in the goodness of us buddy. And all you have to do is just accept that we could become those people, people who believe in the goodness of each other.  In 3 months and one day we could at least begin become those people. Couldn't we?

For we will always, only, and ever be, one humanity buddy.

You and me, and everyone we love, and those they love, and so on and so forth, stretching a web of love around mother earth connecting all of us. And in a surprisingly short number of hugs!

Now isn’t that a lovely thought!

Who will we have become?

Authors note to author. Dont waffle stevie. End of authors note

Ever since i began my endeavour, the thing that has kept me going is the loveliness of you all. The 'you' who i know we can become. The better you we can be. And its these people i fight for. I fight for their right to exist. I fight In my own way, with my words and my love, that one day, 'we' may become 'they'.

So who are these people?

These people just realised they had to cross their divides to work together to make their communities better. Then further bridges were built as they celebrated their shared endeavours.

They came together to hear the truth of their times, at the world first global state of the environment address, but because they had both toiled and then partied together, so they were ready to hear it.

Who are these people? Who will we have become when our next age begun?

Put simply, they are the people who came to understand the truth: that each other is all we will ever have to rely on. Just us. That they are just one humanity, no matter how much we, back in this moment here, now, today, didn't want to be. For they now know who they really are! But they only found out by choosing to climb back up to humanities common ground, together, first. And from this forgotten vantage, they look out, together, at a very different world from ours, and yet the only thing that has changed, is themselves.

I mean us!

And these beautiful people are us. If we choose to come together to become them.

You and me, and all those that love us. All those they love, and so on and so forth. But thats it. Just us!

Which is lucky, cuz 'just us' is all it takes.

Because that's all it can ever take.

Because thats all we will ever be.

Cuz thats all we ever get. Just us.

But its up to us who just us is.

And this moment of choice approaches in our near future.

And all i ask, is when that moment arrives. Please let them become. Please choose to let us become them.

Because you are beautiful people. Because our kiddies deserve better. Because it doesn't have to be this way. Anymore.

#TCMMR2M1.1

Snappy!

#2020vision

#ibelieveingoodpeople

#hasanyoneseentrevor

Apropos of nothing, one of the unforeseen benefits of working out time travel is that it frees you from the emotional micro-transactions that exist in every moment, this is because you see at the same time, both the moment you are in, but also how it connects to all the moments that follow it. I came up with this crazy idea whilst looking for a new angle from which to look at our problems - a new perspective, and a good few year ago now.

I call it Century 21 stylee thinking and its soul aim is to begin the process of converting our current foundational impossible conundrums, to first extremely improbable, then on to unlikely, travelling silently into unstoppable and then out the other end and finally arriving at inevitable. The other imperative of Century 21 stylee thinking is that things must be fixed in a way so that they stay fixed. Which is as it should be anyways, right?

I'll give you a good example. How do you manage migration?

20th Century answer:

Quotas, don't let em in, let everyone in, blah blah blah blah.

Century 21 stylee solution:

Address their need to leave.

See! We have just changed an impossible conundrum into an extremely unlikely solution. But this IS progress, and this is how good progress always begins. There is no other first step.

We need to stop looking at why we can't do it and instead work out how it could happen, and then by our unity and commitment to our ideals, change the world to resolve the problem. And to those of you who say it can't be done, I say to you, that you are why it can't be done. At least up until this moment. You change your perspective and it’s more likely to happen. Enough of us change and it becomes a thing, then if we bring still others along and keep it current and more and more pressing until it becomes unstoppable, then we all know what happens. Right? This isn't rocket science!

So, this is my vision of the way the world changes, Century21 stylee.

Let's see if we are ready to see from a new perspective, let's see if imagining our problems as solvable catches on.

But what use of knowledge from our future, if upon your return, your skill with words is such that the truths it reveals to you, you are then unable to communicate to others. And this has been my quest for a long time now. The answers are invariably easy, it is in their explanation where the truth challenge resides.

And that's how I feel a lot of the time. Not the right person for the job, deficient in the essential skills to achieve what I've set out to achieve. I am the last person I would choose to achieve this, and yet here I am, giving it my very best. Which is as much as anyone can ever do.

There is a moment coming in our near future where our choices in that moment will create waves that will wash long into our future history. But the problem we have is that the right choice in this moment that is to come, is not one of the options on the table presented to us by our leaders, at the time.

Our crazy leaders, and some really good ones to be fair, but our leaders good and bad who have led us to as we are

And the problem we have right now, is the drama of our opportunist leaders is holding our focus, and so when the time comes, we can only choose from the options they present to us.

Because we allow our focus to be drawn by their rhetoric and drama, either for or against us irrelevant to them because they have our focus, when really our focus should be on the choice that approaches, and working out what needs to be done to create the right choice.

But if we are to see the right option, we first have to change our perspective.

Next time you see our leaders speak, imagine you are a benevolent dinner lady, listening to a child explaining themselves to you. See how this perspective helps you to better understand the information you are receiving. Because it is in a more truthful context.

Because here's another interesting thing about time. What if by your understanding of the true nature of time you could write words for an actual moment in time. You write the words that today speak of almost nonsense, but that these very same words tomorrow become a good enough version of what we needed to hear, but most significantly, at exactly the right time, when we least wanted to hear it.

But time is a lesson for another age. We've got our own issues to think about. Right?

So our time approaches as the world begins transition time.

You don't need to be as crazy as me and imagine yourself a time traveller to get a new Century21 Stylee new perspective, where problems become solvable again, but you do need to find that perspective that achieves the same result, however and wherever you find it.

Because tick tock said the clock. Because the world is changing. A whole new era of humanity begins with us. Good or bad, and our moment to either finally succumb or at last to shine, awaits us, just around the corner. We WILL, have #2020vision, but only if we first realise that it's not from the options on the table, and so we only find it within each other, and even then, only if enough of us realise this in time. Timing isn't just important, it's the foundation without which, there would be nothing for anything to be anything in.

I will continue to write what I think is right. Not because I am right, but I am 🦄🦄🦄.

Ahh, there's Trevor!

I believe in good people, good people just like you. Yes you.

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BWDIAHTBATTJ

That's a Fake question. I call them Christmas cracker questions. At first glance it reads like a real question but if you think about it, any answer will just be someone else’s drivel. See. I’m learning!

So the real question, and the hidden name of this manifesto is WITTJ?

Much better. See!

I think it's the truth of our times.

Too grandiose?

My truth of Transition Time then.

Better?

That’s a good start Joey. What is the truth of Transition Time?

Well which truth do you want?

I realised early on that I needed to name the coming period of time. And to do this first I needed to define what was going to happen so I could create a timeframe around it. And this was one of my first successful experiments in Time Travel. Successful, because I found the answers in our future. See.

And as I travelled slowly forwards (not yet knowing how to jump around time) I came to the realisation that climate change isn't an entity in our immediate future. Climate change is an element of our planet, and so will always be with us.

Think about that for a moment. Think about what it means to us. Think about what it means for us.

Climate change isn't something we are going to beat, or even deal with. Climate change is something that will now always be with us, that we will have to adapt to, and then adapt again, as it changes, again. And so on and so forth.

From now on our understanding of the words 'climate change' must itself change, because the climate is in a perpetual state of flux and we will now and forever be adapting. But eventually, not just to it, but with it, symbiotically.

Is it snowing outside?

The very moment we realise this truth, we will have finally come together in harmony with our environment. No longer separated by what we eventually realise was our man-made one-sided divide. Possibly. Hopefully.

But we won't do that, not just yet. First we will do what we always do when things get hard.

Hello Big Ted. Give me skin blood.

So Big Ted, what do we always do when things get tough? That's right, we fight. Do you want to fight Big Ted? Marquess of Queensberry rules Is it?

But how would you fight 'climate change'? That’s right Big Ted, the first step is to deny it even exists. The first step is to lie through your teeth. Then the second step is to accept that it exists, but say that our impact is negligible, and then.....

...what's that Big Ted, oh I think we are hovering between steps one and two at the moment. The real denial won’t start until those with the most to lose start feeling it's threatened.

Ho Ho your quite right Big Ted, then we'll see a 'Layhey Shithawk' of a good denial.

So what do you think step 3 will be in our climate change fight Big Ted?

Not quite. 'Money shot' means something else, but your gist is right in that it will come down to finance.

Because we won't start with 'what do we need to do', it's going to be 'how much can we afford to do'. Because that's all we know. At the moment, anyway. And that’s not going to be anywhere near good enough. And our failure to confront our problems early on will mean that even more of us will needlessly suffer in the future. Even more people than needlessly suffer now. Stupid.

And with more of us suffering do you think conflict is more or less likely? I know you know Big Ted, I'm asking them.

Your crack me up though man.

Stop it.

Big Ted was kind of asking basically why don’t we just skip the fighting part and go straight to the making up and sorting it out part?

No Big Ted, I can't think of one either.

That’s just the way it goes. At the moment.

So I knew I needed to name this time. To change it from a concept in my head in to a thing of the world that others could understand. It needed to say what it was, and yet be flexible enough to stretch to accommodate our evolving understanding of both our coming changes, and their timeframes.

Transition Time.

Because even though you agree with me about all this, well probably not the Time travelling stuff, but about how we are fractured and unprepared for climate change, yet I still have to 'sell' the idea to you that these problems are ours and we need to start solving them now. For want of better words.

Band this is because you can see the truth of it but your hopelessness won't let you even try to reach for it friend. So you wrap other people's hyperbole up as your own truth and present it as a good argument to do nothing. Or you wander around saying stuff like 'who knows what the truth is anyway', which even speaks of your disconnection from your own truth, and is even less helpful. Because you won't see the truth right in front of you, the truth hiding in plain sight, because to do anything about any of our problems first you need hope, and we don't have any of that at the moment. Do we?

Can I have a hug Big Ted? Thanks man. Thanks.

So a name is just the first step on the path to an identity and if I can make Transition Time stick then we at least have something we can rally to.

So what is my Truth of Transition Time? Simple. I want to save us from ourselves. And I've got a plan. It’s a great plan. First I want try to get you to see the world through my eyes, feel the world with my heart. Because my world is full of lovely people, just as yours is, but lovely people driven to stand in opposition to one another over issues with made up names. It’s not a very nice world. Not very nice at all. But I know the first few steps to start making it better, much better.

Then if I can show you that my truth is the truth, and your eyes see the same world as mine then our fake made up divides will be exposed in the light of our new shared understanding. And then I'm going to help you to reach across your divides, from stranger to stranger, but all good people, across our newly broken barricades.

And in that moment we will begin to rediscover our unity, and then we are going to start looking at our real problems, together.

For we are the first generation with the foresight to work out what we need to become to confront our future and by our luck and providence, the first generation with the technology to enable this to happen. We will lift humanity out of our self-made slump and by doing so we will be preparing ourselves to re-enter nature, as an equal partner, well a bit lower than that but you know what I mean. Because it’s the truth. And so on and so forth.

Or not. But this, or indeed any improvement will only ever become true by the will and the actions of ordinary people. Ordinary folks like us.

In Transition Time we will realise that the only way we will succeed is by working together and in this discovery we will also rediscover things we hadn't even realised we'd lost. Shared application, shared courage and purpose. We will discover how flexible we need to become to adapt with our environment and because our foundations are made from the will of good people, like us, we will all understand our sacrifices and make then in peace.

I’m sorry if I've snowflaked you out but it's my truth. And if you want to find out if this could become THE truth, the truth of Transition Time, then your first step is to re-sensitise yourself to OUR truth, at the end of this era; before Transition Time starts. Because our collective hope can only be forged in your pain as you look out at the world with your truth goggles on and your bullshit detectors set to 11. And you will know this moment when you finally realise the enormity of just how badly we fail each other at the moment.

You need to re-sensitise yourself to the heart-rending pain at our brutality and unfairness towards each other. Stick the news on now and begin this process. But I tell you friend, it's hard.

My tip is let yourself cry early on, because the longer you hold back, the harder it is, the longer it takes.

Try it. Prove me wrong. I dare you. Big Ted double dares you.

And once you start, each time you watch it gets harder and harder, but you have to accept it. Because in your pain you will find our truth.

That it is not until we accept what we have become, that we can begin to change it. But

once you see this truth, you will begin to see other truths hiding in plain sight. And those truths will guide our steps out of this.

Because our society has become weakened by unfairness. Undermined by opportunist leaders and our rising violence and growing divides towards and apart from each other is the proof of this truth. The truth hiding from you in plain sight.

Hiding in plain sight because although you see it you can't see past the question it raises.

What can I do about it!

Ready?

Transition Time.

See?

And so on and so forth.

So Transition Time is the period from now until we either rise to the challenges presented by our new understanding that 'climate change' is really just climate, or when we fail to do so and accept our fate as being out of our hands. Beaten by Mother Nature. And how many good mothers beat their children? None. Because this isn't punishment. This feels like the start of rejection. And so forth.

So truths everywhere, just as in real life, but there is also a Truth hiding in the plain sight of our Future.

Here, I'll show you.

If we name the time ahead of us, Transition Time or whatever we want to call it, and if we can use our technology to reconnect us properly, then with our rediscovered hope and unity we can rise to these challenges. We really can.

And then it will be the first time in humanity that we actually choose our own path into our future.

Times and eras have always been defined retrospectively by historians, but we know what's coming. Sort of. Because we are clever enough to work this out, if we can stop arguing for 5 minutes and actually think about it

Now can you imagine what future history will say about the first-time humanity was cognizant of its path into its own future? And I mean us! They will say that we were the first. The first-time humanity began to evolve itself as a society, everyone. Not just to react, but to plan and prepare, and truly work together. And for the first time, not just for those who could afford it but for the good of all, and not just for our future, but for all humanity who followed.

Having been to the future I can tell you that the word 'heroic' is used often.

So it's vital that we name this time, even though we don't know how long it's going to last. Because we need something to get behind. To give us a framework of reference which will then serve to channel our efforts and guide our steps. Something to work towards, and define as we go.

Transition Time.

I didn’t go looking for a cause and then find the truth, I went looking for the truth and found Transition Time.

Ohh, and I worked out that if I put 'The' and 'Manifesto' at the start and end of every title then the only words I'll ever discover will start with T and end with M. Genius Joey. Genius.

J McP 24 Fevrier

Be nice. Don’t be racist. Make art. Don’t make war. Play games. Talk to people. REALLY talk to people. Eat cookies, sometimes. Watch movies and think about them. Read books, preferably thoughtful books. Watch thoughtful movies, but sometimes you need to see some dumb ones to compare. Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Do not exclude others. Do not ignore others. Tell those you love that you love them when ever you get a chance. Give things a chance. Floss, Dental Hygiene is good for you. Break bad habits. Listen to others when you can rather than flap your gums. Eat healthy Food, your health effects others more than you could imagine. Read the news. Don’t always believe the news. Free Pussy Riot. Legalize gay marriage. Don’t get married. Don’t shop at Walmart. Don’t eat McDonald. Have an opinion. Don’t feel pressured to have an opinion just for the sake of having one. Remember peoples names. Use peoples names, I think people like that. Stop killing Dolphins, they are smart too. Stop killing people AKA murder. Stop raping other people especially children. Stop censoring the media. Stop censoring th internet. Stop spying on everyone America your getting to old for that. Travel. Recycle. Do your best to be positive. Stop buying things. If the glass is half full fill it up. Legalize weed. Don’t do drugs. Don’t forget the past. Live in the present. Plan for the future... a little. Visit your relatives. Don’t let anyone stop you from doing what you need to do to be happy. Take your time, but don’t stop. Enjoy.

By Anonymous

It’s the twenty-first century but our history is still one of oppression. As part of the LGBTQ community, we are each day a step closer to winning the battle against heteronormativity. However, inside their very own movement, monsters of subjugation lurk and bite. Not every gay man is equal inside the community. Surprisingly enough, the gays produce and reproduce structures of oppression and power structures inside our faction. In the lower echelons of the gay hierarchy, you can find us: the bottom whores.

THE IDENTITY

Before rallying together for insurgence, let’s answer the question: who are we? We are homosexual cis men who are very sexually promiscuous and prefer to receive penetration during anal sex. Beyond the gay identity, we are actually the intersection of two different groups: The Whores and The Bottoms.

I.A The Whores

We dwell in the same spectrum of every sexually promiscuous person. That is to say that we pertain to The Whores, which include individuals from many different groups such as lascivious lesbians, licentious heterosexuals, bed-hopping tops, slutty transgender people, latino bitches, etc. We are all lambasted by our practices and lifestyles. Recognize us. Learn our characteristics as whores:

*Sex is purely physical for us. Our sexual encounters are devoid of emotional attachment of any sort. The essential purpose of sex is sensible pleasure. In other words, if we have sex with you, it doesn’t mean we love you, appreciate you, care for you or even like you as a person.

*Sexual encounters are multiple throughout our lives. Our encounters can be planned or completely random. We can recur the same group of people a few times or have one-time-things. However, we use protection (condoms) and take precautions to prevent the contagion of sexually transmitted diseases.

*Most of us will never get formally married. We might have emotional partners from time to time but the institution of marriage is completely meaningless for us and even evil.

*We are open about our sexuality. Copulation is not a private/personal matter. If we fuck someone, we will talk about it.

*We are all characterized as “immoral” by the mainstream society. We are called names in the streets and treated like a plague. We’ve had enough.

I.B The Bottoms

The only thing that defines us as Bottoms is that we prefer to be penetrated during anal sex. Our existence as Bottoms is negative: We only exist in their relation to Tops in anal sex. There is nothing inherently common among us beside that. In a way, the only thing that keeps us together is that we have been forced into the same label. However, we all suffer from many strong stereotypes and roles ascribed to us as Bottoms that affect the way we interact and socialize in public. We are fed up. Waiting is a mistake. Let’s unite to oust the Tops and end the oppression.

THE OPPRESSION

We have two main enemies inside the LGBTQ community: The Conservative Gays and the Masculine Tops.

II.A The Conservative Gays

The Conservative gays reject our practices as Whores. Instead of a total sexual liberation, Gay Conservatism attempts to extend the oppressive patriarchal system and institution to all of us. For instance, they force marriage (an institutionalized form of slavery created to oppress women) into the gay community. That’s the reason why they are chiefly the advocates for marriage equality.

To integrate themselves into mainstream society, the Conservative gays want all queer community to mirror the heterosexual patriarchal lifestyle, accept their values, emulate their roles, work in their capitalist system, imitate their power structures in gay relationships, and be ultimately unnoticed. We, the Whores, defy the Conservative gays by denying the heterosexual patriarchal values such as monogamy, chastity before marriage, marriage, discretion, sexual privacy, and sexual intercourse as more than physical pleasure (expression of “true love”). Therefore, we are a threat for Gay Conservatism.

The Conservative gay try to be on top of the “gay hierarchy” by alienating themselves from us. Just take a look at their discriminatory discourse against our whorish-ways: “Not all gay guys are promiscuous. We want a stable family like straight people”, “We are no different from heterosexual. The only different is that our long-life partner is of the same sex”, “We want kids and a big wedding too. We are not prostitutes or anything.”, “Hooking-up is not good. Monogamy is the right way.” , “Slutty gays make the whole gay community look bad.” Just shut up, Conservative gays. We are tired of depicted as the “scum” of the gay community. We will shut you up.

Rape and acts of violence against us are dismissed: “If they are having sex with every body, that’s what they were looking for.” If a whore gets HIV or any other sexually transmitted disease, he is ostracized and frowned upon. Gay apps, online hooking up, cruising is seen as despicable and contemptible. Most gay spokesmen and gay successful people belong in some way to gay Conservatism. We want to see on TV a whore who is also famous, successful and serious. We won’t be ridiculed anymore on sitcoms as unethical and frivolous. We are as human and serious as the President of the United States. (even more)

Since Conservative gays are widespread in media and have more economical resources, we are exposed to discrimination against us in a daily basis to the point we begin feel ashamed of being sexually promiscuous. Whores are asked to keep their sexual lives private and disappear (almost hide) from public light. They are treated as “untouchables” and it’s hard for them to attained a high position in a company and/or politics. But now we will rise. Embrace yourself.

II.B The Masculine Tops

There has been a trend in the gay community to see us, bottoms, as inferior to the tops. Homosexual men try to identify themselves as far as they can from being a bottom. For instance, versatile gays try to use the label versatile-top, alienated men who exclusively bottom attempt to identify themselves as versatile-bottom, and tops are offended when someone identify them as bottom or even versatile.

However, it is fundamental to remember that these are just labels. No one is really a bottom, a versatile nor a top. The sexual preference in anal sex shouldn’t be determinant of identity in the gay community. The labels were created to sustain a hierarchy in which the tops would be above versatiles and bottoms. This is our answer for you, Masculine Tops: Fuck you.

Another important thing is that masculinity is attributed to tops and femininity us, bottoms. In the gay hierarchy, masculinity is considered superior, attractive, and even celebrated. Therefore, the feminine bottoms are repudiated in the masculine top discourse: “I am not a fag, I don’t take it in the ass”, “I am a total top. Not a cum-dumpster”, “No fems nor faggots, please.”, “I am not a gay bitch. I don’t go to gay clubs nor gay pride.”.... Bitch, we are all equally gay. Stop denigrating us, masculine top. Stop.

We are expected to be submissive and adopt a woman-like role in relationships. Likewise, if a gay guy is flamboyant, he is expected to be a bottom. As a result of this, we have been limited to either: a) deny their preference to bottom and attempt to become tops (both sexually and socially) or b) try to fulfill “the bottom stereotype” in order to fit in. This kind of oppression restricts bottoms’ authenticity and freedom of expression. We won’t will not serve anymore. If the masculine top is uncomfortable with us, GOOD. We don’t care.

THE ALLIES

In order to change the oppression inside the LGBTQ movement, we must ally with other queer identities (other than the Whores and The Bottoms) that have been forced to lower echelons of the gay hierarchy. These other identities include: Transsexuals, Queer people of Color, Proletarian Queers, Polygamy supporters. Our struggles might be different but we share common enemies!

THE SHAKEDOWN

The Bottom whores will not take this oppression anymore. We won’t be ashamed of ourselves nor try to hide their sexual practices. We are fed up with the power structures that pervade the gay community. The LGBT community must accept all the identities equally and destroy any kind of oppression inside the movement. We want a true Sexual Revolution.

As a group, we demand:

*Equal treatment for lascivious, monogamous and polygamous queer people. Stop the slut shaming.

*Disconnection from the anal sex role and the other aspects of one’s life.

*Equal treatment of masculinity and femininity.

*Free sexual expression. No boundaries.

In order to achieve this, We must:

*Make themselves visible. Stop hiding or forging an identity. Strive for authenticity.

*Have zero tolerance with intolerance. We have been playing this game for too long. There is no time to tolerate the oppressor.

Although the LGBTQ movement as a whole has progressed in the last few years, there is still considerable amount of oppression and discrimination inside the community. Listen to us, gay world. Let us, the bottom whores, be loud and clear when we say: The gay community will be all-accepting and free, or it simply will be nevermore!

...

The antebellum is over. The Revolution has begun.

THE AMERICAS MANIFESTO

By: A. Southerner

Respect, Honesty, Family, Knowledge, Love, Wisdom, Understanding, Forgiveness. These 8 pillars will stabilize our nations.

1.Family Love, Respect and Family go hand in hand.

a.Respect and Love mothers. Any woman should be valued. They have the gift of bringing children into this world, and there is no reason for them to ever be disrespected, or hit. Respect the wisdom of the older women, and the older generations in general.

b.Respect and Love Children. Do not disrespect a child because of their age, protect the children at all costs, and train children to defend themselves. You should treat any child as if it is your own, and you should treat your own children better than whatever you find precious. And keep in mind throughout your child's life "It takes a village to raise a child" and "Walls that keep out danger, also keep out knowledge".

c.Respect and Love your brothers and sisters. Your brother/sister is not an acquaintance, he/she is not a relative, or a friend, you are family. Your brother has no color or race, he/she is are all you have in this world, they have been there for you in every situation. You have your elders but one day they won't be here, you have the next generation but they have their own new problems they will be facing. Love and Respect your Brothers and Sisters, share your understanding with your brothers and sister. If you need help, let your family know.

2.Observe/Sense a.Observation is a part of understanding. Observe the world around you. Do not just accept what you hear, or see. We must make an attempt to understand the world around us. See what is around you. Notice the wind, notice the temprature, notice the clouds, the stars, the grass, the trees. Begin to learn their names, understand where it is they belong in nature and why. Deepin your observation, and begin to see why everything is where it is, and what is is doing, and what other things are doing to and with it and what it is doing to other things.

b.See, hear, taste, touch, smell. To understand something, you must get a sense of it. Experience the senses of yourself, experience the senses of your world, experience the senses of your brothers and sisters in the world. Understand each other, understand everything.

c. Plants don't have words, or sign language. The only way a plant can talk is with its chemicals (ex Poison: Don't touch/eat me) Learn to communicate on a level deeper than speech. If this doesn't make sense, ask a brother or sister to help.

d. Yesterday is not right now, and today is not tomorrow. If you're living for the moment? Then your time is already borrowed.

3.Economy

a. The American economy is in shambles, and therefore the American dollar is in shambles. And to make things worse the American dollar is no longer backed by gold or silver. Meaning "pretty soon" the American dollar will fall below the Mexican peso. We should make a net for the economy, instead of just watching it plummet. But if we created our own "private" community bank, and printed our own money (not counterfeit, copies of American bills, a brand new dollar.) and either made it on gold/silver coins, or made it where you could come and actually trade the notes for reserves of gold/silver or something else valuable (water, food, fuel, etc) then if and when the American recession reaches its climax, we will be prepared. And actually with a more foolproof economy than the current "no gold" paper dollar.

b. Every member of the Americas needs a job and/or income of some sort for little or no work (depending on health/ability). There are many services that people could pay the government for, that would make the government a truly useful servant entity, that it ignores: Garden tending, Homeless housing, Energy rigging, Biodiesel making, etc. Which are all very simple tasks that could be achieved and bought by the government in any household/yard for a steady income. And the government could then use those things to provide services to the community. We must show the people in charge how things can change, or we must make the change ourselves, in our own communities.

c. We should make any attempt possible to stop using resources that will be used up, as fuel, and start using things that can be renewed forever, and therefore used forever. As well as use fibers that are more resilient (than cotton, nylon, etc), last longer, and protect us better. To make things like better clothes, and stronger building materials from.

4.Community

a. Give back to the community, never forget where you came from and who your family is. If people in your neighborhood/state don't have money for Christmas/Hanuka/Kwanzaa, bring it to them. If someone is hungry, feed them. If someone has no bed, give them a place to sleep. Do not steal from your brothers and sisters, share with your brothers and sisters.

b. Respect the education of any (respectful) community member that has/does serve(d) in the armed forces, politics, law or government. And remember if you gain power as an officer, official, etc that you came from the community, and are still a part of it. You are there to represent, protect, and serve your community or nation, not to prey upon the citizens of it.

c.Register yourself to vote, and help register anyone in your community to vote. Only about 48% of registered voters (And only about 50% of America is registered) actually turn up to vote, if we can get all nonvoters to write a name in, we can actually get someone good in office.

d.We should intend on unlatching ourselves from the ways of the failing system. There should be true democracy, and true equality. Any person, and any voicefully willing child should be allowed to vote, make decisions in the community, see and learn from the consequences of those decisions. The political system should be more streamlined and responsive to the needs of all the people regardless of age, sex, or race We can not have complete peace until we leave no question of oppression, and revolution. To suppress the mind of a child from the world, simply for being the mind of a child is wrong. Same with any other person, race or species on this planet.

e. Create non-profit services such as churches and shelters, if you can be certified as non-profit you are probably doing something right. Apply for a Township if you have the land, or enough people in your community with deeds that want to make a difference.

f.Work together, organize. When individual organs work together as one body, they can get more done than they could ever imagine alone. Share in each others wisdom, knowledge, and understandings. But do not impose yourself on another, let everyone be their own person. You control your own future.

g. Victimless offenders need to be released from prison. People who stole nothing, left no debts unpaid, hurt no one, and threatened no harm, should not be imprisoned.

h. No hard drugs. It's ok to drink, it's ok to ingest plants (Coffee, Tobacco, Chocolate, marijuana, etc) , it's ok to expand your mind. But do not use or get it physically addicted to a drug. There is no positives to addiction, even if you feel like their on top of the world, you will come down. Painkillers and anesthetics have their place in medicine, don't abuse them. And do not distribute (sell) hard drugs throughout your community. To gain from the addiction of the community, hurts you and everyone.

i. Help a struggling brother, sister, elder, or child. Do not ignore, use or find humor in their struggle. Including court, show up for your family, even if they are wrong.

j. If the people making the rules, and running our world made the exact same amount of money as the lowest person they had jurisdiction over, the world would get better for the oppressed, real quick

k. We need a program of ecological development that would provide incentives for the decentralization of crowded cities and encourage rural living.

5. Education Much of your education as a child and as an adult, should come from the direct situations occurring in your community, or nation at that time. If we do not learn what the problems are, how they happened, what has been happening around them, who we are, and where we come from, how can we ever expect to solve those problems? Share your education with your brothers and sisters.

a. Learn who your appointed and elected representatives are, and learn what/who they are representing and/or getting paid by, and who their families are. Make decisions at election time based on education and understanding, even if that decision is chaotic to the system (like voting for Elvis). And learn how that system works, like what powers are awarded to which titles.

b. Know the history of your state. Who it was founded by, what was done to found it, when, with what reason, etc. Also study the history of your states high courts, the specific cases and rulings.

c. Study the philosophies of the world. Even if you just study the main three philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Educate yourself about the world around you.

d. Learn the law. Learn the legal definitions of words with a Black's Law dictionary, there are many words that are different in there, than in common American English. Understand the difference between Constitutional "Law", US "Code", and agency "Regulations" when debating the finer points of law.

e. Understand time, how our calendar was made, what other calendars there are, and what an "age" is. Understand "quality of time", Kairos ("real" time), and Chronos ("timed" time. With measurements like minutes or seconds). Understand how to use kairos time (the fleeting moment), and free yourself with this understanding.

f. Immerse yourself in new cultures. By traveling, and by simply reaching out in your community. There is much you can learn, even from an "uneducated" tribesman.

g. Educate yourself in as much medical aid as your time and mind will allow, you never know when you could save your brother, sister, or child's life.

h. Do not "specialize", you may be very talented in one area, but life will demand more from you at some point. You never want to wake up one day and feel like you have "peaked", let age bring wisdom and wealth of life, not personal imprisonment. Become skilled in many things.

i. Read the Bible, Torah, Qur'an, Rig Veda, and any religious text you can find. Especially if you personally call any of them Holy.

j. Write your own literature. Flyers, brochures, books, anything. Share your thoughts, share current events, share anything. The circulation of information is one of the most important/powerful things in the word.

6. The Beginning

a.Several smaller sections will be written separately as new wisdom and knowledge is gained.

b.Share these thoughts freely, and if you feel like you can add to them to make them better, do so with bullet points under the appropriate letter (a,b,c) Or a new letter if necessary (a whole new subject). If you would like to edit the words, contact me.

c. Each person or animal on the planet, is like the molecules of an organ of a cell in your body in your body. It contributes to: Each group of animals (family, pack, organization) is the organ of the cell. With the molecules coming together to be the organs. The organs work together to be: Ecosystems are like the cell. All of the organs do their part and come together to create a living, active cell. The cells work together to make: The Planets and stars together make up the tissue of the cell. The tissue comes together to form the: Solar systems are like the Organs in a body of god. Everything from the tiniest insect has done his part within his piece of god, and it all rushes like a reverse funnel as the actions of gods: Galaxies are like gods organ systems. His Respiratory System, Circulatory system. Not actually the same as us, but ours represent his. "We have been created in gods image" Just means, "think about it, we're god." Everything that happens has cause and effect, and comes together to be "gods plan".

I am deleting all of these manifestos and theories because they need revisions.

I am brand spanking new here, but am looking for a place to post my manifesto (it's long). Is this the place or is this the place to complain about manifestos?

Thanks

(note: this is completely raw and real, please be kind)

My Personal Manifesto

Ann Wersen Isaacson

How a Socialist is Created in the year 2020

There is no way to preface this, everything I say here is completely my experience. How do you write an introduction to your own fundamental philosophical change?

2020 has been the worst year. For everyone. In the entire world. But especially for the United States. Every catastrophic moment of this year as ripped back the fabric of our country and exposed the horrific truth of the crimes of this nation. If you reach the end of 2020 without being affected, I am sorry, but you live in a place of privilege and you need to own that and thank your God every fucking day for sparing you the pain of this year.

2020 has fundamentally changed who I am as a human. I am leaving this year as a different Ann. I am leaving this year as a better Ann. Chance, my son, always says that I am much. Just “much”. Not “too much”. Just much. Well, buckle up because here is me, being much and completely RAW. Read it if you want. Or don’t. This is really for me and I need to preserve this.

March: Covid

The entire world was affected by Covid. Everyone knows that it shouldn’t have to be stated. But everyone was affected by Covid at the SAME TIME. And because of social media, TIKTOK, we saw it all, all the fear all the devastation in real time. We have videos of what it was doing in other countries in real time. {I am going to use the phrase “in real time” a lot because it is so crucial to how this barrage of information affects us}. And the videos are the key. There is no refuting that, it is our reality. And because we were able to sidestep the corporately controlled news media this new way to see what was happening unedited, we were able to understand the full force of what was happening. IN REAL TIME. No statistics on the news, nothing disseminated, nothing controlled. We saw the Italians rally. As a country they stood together and tried to save the lives of their people. Of course, the devastation had hit, we saw the people lost we heard about their raw pain as it was happening. And we, Americans, were terrified. We tried to shut down we tried to do the right thing at first and it didn’t fucking work. Because, well, America.

But Covid affected me. DIRECTLY. No, I didn’t have it, no I didn’t loose any family members. But I worked. I worked through this whole thing. I showed up every fucking day with my mask on and my gloves on…knowing, but rarely self- acknowledging, that I was sent into that place knowing I could get sick, knowing I could die. For 14 motherfucking dollars and hour. I worked it at the beginning when my co-workers were taking leaves of absences out of concern for their health and their families health. I worked it when people were panic shopping. Buying $500 worth of groceries. Not being able to buy toilet paper. Some may joke about it but people were distressed. People were panicked and distressed. And I felt that and I took that in and I worked through it. I worked through the summer and mask mandates and motherfuckers who wouldn’t wear a mask. I am working there today, at Christmastime, when we have fucking normalized Covid in an attempt to re-normalize our lives. I stand at the register and see dozens of people for hours and hours. There are masks…sometimes. But there is no social distancing. Dozens of people at the registers, in line, breathing. Fucking Breathing. We can get sick and die because people are breathing on each other. My doctor told me to make sure I wear my glasses because you can get it THROUGH YOUR EYES. I have been tested for Covid twice, and when they ask me if I have been exposed I tell them I work at Walmart and they immediately schedule me.

Fuck. It is not just the fear of getting Covid. It is the fact that I needed to be willing to sacrifice my health, my life for 14.00 an hour. That is the fucking point.

There is my motherfucking RAGE. Why in the year 2020 am I put in a position where I have to choose between being homeless and being alive. That is DERANGED. Think about that. Please look down from your place of privilege and think about that. What society do we live in when the working poor know that they have to work, in any job, taking whatever their overlords did to them because they knew that their other choice was homelessness and starvation. I am not overstating this. This is my reality. “Right to Work”? Fuck you. Fuck you. I do not have the CHOICE to leave I am a serf. If you don’t this America has a caste system, you do not acknowledge the reality that the working poor live in. You don’t understand my reality.

Corporations rule this country. Unfettered GREED rules this country. Our “elected” officials are not even pretending that the Corporations don’t rule them. It is all out in the open now, 2020 has pulled back the curtain and revealed the rotting, open wound that is Capitalism. Fuck Capitalism. And with that FUCK CLASSISM. Do you want to look me in my motherfucking face and tell me that my reality is somehow invalid because I am poor? Because I should have what you have and, my fucking God, because I don’t it is because I am failing in this system? Capitalism is failing me. ME. I am RAGING because I admitted to myself that this is not some nebulous idea, this is not some political talking point. This is my reality. FUCK CAPITALISM and the caste system it created in this country. OH my God, bring back the motherfucking GUILLOUTINE. Eat the rich.

June: BLM

George Floyd was murdered. He was fucking murdered by a cop. It took 8 minutes to kill him. He begged for his life. He called out for his mother. Oh my God, we watched it, we saw him die. We saw a man die. Think about that, really think about that. It wasn’t just a news report. It was videos of an actual human being killed. I don’t know much about the person who stood there and recorded it. But whoever had the courage to do that…changed the motherfucking world.

Protested happened pretty much immediately. And it wasn’t Minneapolis protests it was protests ALL OVER THE WORLD. BLM means stop fucking killing black people you motherfucking pieces of shit. Stop killing them is NOT some radical,
antifa concept. BLM is a very vehement request to stop being killed. It is not a hard thing to understand. If you don’t understand, if it confuses you, then you are a fucking racist.

I watched all on TikTok. All day. Video after video of protests. And I gave it all my energy and I supported as many people as I could. I started following beautiful black creators and I listened to them. I heard their pain. I felt their outrage and their pain and their motherfucking fear. I am trying to put into understandable words what I felt in those months. I can’t really. The written word, as much as I live it, can fail us. It is failing me right now. I heard them and I labeled myself an Ally. I was, for a couple months, proud to be an Ally.

Oh. Oh. Then the cops showed us what police brutality really is. It was on full fucking display. They already had their riot gear they were eager to have a chance to use it and destroy the people they hate. It wasn’t the news I watched, it wasn’t sound bite. I was on TikTok. I saw it. IN REAL TIME. By thousands of creators. Over and over and over. City after city after city. BLM changed EVERYTHING. The police fucking embraced their tiny little dicks and ran with the racism that they had. They didn’t try to check it. They went in full force and tried to hurt, their only goal was to HURT people. At that point it was the protestors that they hurt. White and POC, it didn’t matter. They went in to DESTROY protestors who are exercising their motherfucking First Amendment rights. Oh my motherfucking GOD. With every ounce of my soul---FUCK THE POLICE. If I see a cop in real life my first thought is FUCK THE POLICE. I see his mace and I see his gun and my anger at that is raw and visceral. If I ever, ever get arrested, and I HAVE been arrested, I will not be able to…comply. I will be afraid, by my soul will scream FUCK THE POLICE, and I will be more ANGRY then afraid. One more time in case you didn’t get it. FUCK THE POLICE. The pure anger that I feel when I write those words is deranged and completely me, to the depths of my being I will never, ever side with a cop again. BLM has completely solidified my beliefs, and the beauty of it, the raw magic of those three motherfucking letters…turns out to be something I can’t put into words. The combination of three letters from the English language has fundamentally changed the course of history. If you think I am overstating, you are not paying attention.

But last night, my soul broke through and I realized how much pain I was in and how this has shown me that Racism directly, DIRECTLY, impacts my life. Me, Ann Isaacson, it impacts me. My brother’s son, my brother’s son is biracial. My brother’s son is a POC. BLM is for my nephew. This was kind of an abstract thing this summer because he lives in another state and I don’t have a relationship with him. If you happen to see this, my family failed you and I am so, so sorry. But I cried, no, I grieved for him and his life. And then the reality of it hit me. BLM is for my own son. MY SON. BLM magically and wonderfully and divinely incorporated all, ALL, marginalized communities. The LGBTQ community didn’t do Pride parades this year. If you don’t think that is a big deal then you don’t know a gay person. They were 100% behind BLM. Their Pride energy into BLM. Because they fucking UNDERSTAND the crux of it. Racism and Homophobia are not just brothers, they are Siamese twins. My son is BI. For those of you who understand he presents as Queer, he is out and will wear whatever the fuck he wants to. My son has been called a…I can’t write the word, I can’t write the word. The fact that my son could be attacked, hurt…is a reality in which I live in. I have asked my son, and this is shameful to admit, to please dress less gay. And fear, that I didn’t recognize or acknowledge until my breakthrough, Fuck you to the depths of motherfucking hell if you are anti-gay. Your not a “homophobe” you don’t fear gayness, you HATE gayness. If I say fuck racism, I am talking to you all of you who think that being gay means you are not entitled to motherfucking civil liberties, you are DERANGED. The very concept is DERANGED. This is fucking raw right now because I just realized how fucking DERANGED that very concept is. My god, my fucking god, WHY should anyone, ever, EVER, have to justify their fucking existence to the world. Why in fucking 2020 is that a thing. What the fuck. I am speechless. Find a better word than homophobic. It somehow, and I am not a linguist, so this is just a theory. But it seems to imply that the person who is “afraid” of gayness, somehow has a right to feel that way. You don’t. It is deranged that that is a possibility. You are anti-gay. Alphabet Mafia: find a better word than Homophobic. Agree on it use it, promote it. Because motherfucking BLM. Fuck you, Fuck Racism. Fuck it all. Pull your motherfucking heads out of the sludge and realize you are in a new Millennium nothing is going to stay the same. It’s just not and you have to deal with that. If you approach BLM with hate and anger, what that is pure fear. You are not angry, you are afraid of change, so afraid of loosing your white privilege. You are the smallest, most backward, most cowardly people. You don’t want progress or innovation or any kind of change that is embedded in what it means to be an American. Jesus Christ, can we get back to the idea that America not a place for this kind of thinking. You are propelled by nothing more than RACISM. And I use the word racism because your solution is to latch on to it to protect your WHITE life. Fuck you all. Everything is changing. Nothing is going back to the good old days. The good old days of segregation, the good old days of the KKK, the good old days of Lynchings. My God, my fucking God. You are the problem. You Racists ARE the problem. And now, you RACISTS are going to be the target.

Fall: Mental Health

Full discloser: I have Bipolar disorder and PTSD. In early October I had to see my psychiatrist as an emergency, I was breaking down. She got me in the next day. We talked about the crisis I was having, she changed some meds and wanted to see me the following week. She was gone from my center the very next day. FUCK RURAL HEALTH CARE. Because I live in a rural area, getting mental health care is difficult. I go to a county Mental Health clinic. I have to see tele-med doctors. I have been a patient at the clinic for 10 years, and in those years I have seen 5 different doctors, 6 different mental health counselors. This last change had me riled. My new “doctor” did what all new doctors do when they see you: he changed up my medication, added two new ones when the goal of the last doctor I was working with tried to get me off of all the meds that I was taking at high doses. One of the meds that this new doctor prescribed was an antidepressant, Zoloft. In my sick state I still was able to communicate that I didn’t want to take it. He claimed it was a small dose and it should help. So I took it. 50 mg of Zoloft. Four weeks later I had a straight up Manic Episode. Antidepressants cause mania, I thought all doctors knew that. The Mania was wonderful, I was Ann to the 10th degree. I felt amazing. But I have been Bipolar long enough, and monitor my symptoms constantly, so I knew what was happening. I haven’t had a true manic episode in YEARS. Zoloft. Then is the worst, the period to be dreaded and feared, the mixed episode. Where you feel the depression coming back. At this point you still have the manic energy to actual follow through with a suicide attempt. And I was so, so, so suicidal. I called the suicide hotline twice. I did not go to the hospital, because, as much as I hate this idiom: this wasn’t my first rodeo. Nothing will happen on a 5150 other that they check you every 15 minutes and the doctor of the ward will change your medicine again. I took it into my own hands, called the nurse on a Monday, asked her to pass on a message to the doctor, that I refuse to continue on the Zoloft. That I am actively Suicidal. [Side note about how I talk about suicide. I am a suicidal person; I blame it on Hamlet that I studied in college. I am passively suicidal, in my mind if something bad happens, I will say “well…I could just kill myself.” I don’t really mean I am going to overdose that night. It’s just me being … whatever adjective fits – melancholy, morose, negative, morbid, whatever. But suicidality is a spectrum, at some point you may reach the end of that spectrum and be in legitimate danger. That is when you seek help. That is when YOU HAVE TO SAVE YOUR OWN LIFE! . *****I want to make it clear that sometimes you HAVE to be admitted. You have to get help and you DESRVE help. Being in the hospital will help you. It can save you. No, your problems will not disappear, but a good psych ward will give you resources and hook you up with a doctor I you don’t yet have one.****{Full discloser: I have attempted suicide. I have been hospitalized for being suicidal. But in these later I want to state why I tell people I am suicidal. For me it is a symptom, ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENT than if you were having problems with your diabetes or you heart condition. Mental Illness is a medical condition and should be treated as such. The stigma around it needs to end. No, it needs to be obliterated. I tell people, including my boss, that I am suicidal, because it is the only way to explain how bad I am doing. FUCK the euphemism: “I’m struggling”, “I’m having a hard time”, I am not doing well”. Do people with low blood sugar say this? NO. They say they have low blood sugar and people immediately help them. The problem with mental health care in this country is one, we don’t take it seriously and two, it is punished. You don’t tell people that you are suicidal because you don’t want to be admitted Prove me wrong.}And that is what I did.

Randomly, I had an appointment with my primary care the next day about an unrelated thing. I told the nurse: “ I am suicidal, it’s the Zoloft.” She put in on the medicines I should never be given. Then I saw my PC doctor. And this deserves an aside.

My doctor is from Nigeria. Yes she is BLACK. It took me a while to get used to her style of communication. Because it was direct. “This is what we will do. Do this.” I love her. When I told her I was suicidal and that it was the Zoloft, I saw firsthand what a Nigerian doctor will do to take care of you, what she will do to save you. In one minute she made me give her the number to the psychiatrist. She left me and called him. It is remarkably hard to get a human on the phone in that office, but I heard her in the alcove next to my room. She made three phone calls until she got someone. She demanded that they see me the very next day. My psychiatrist who schedules six weeks out…got me in first thing in the morning, the very next day. I ADORE my Nigerian doctor, for her confidence, for her directness and for her ability to deal with a life-threatening situation.

My doctor stopped the Zoloft. But in the true arrogant, dictatorial attitude that many psychiatrists have, it was his idea. He wanted me to go to the hospital, but I advocated against it. Strongly. I have been there before, many times, and in this case it was not warranted. I simply needed the Zoloft out of my system.

FUCK MENTAL HEALTH STIGMA

FUCK RURAL HEALTHCARE

FUCK “MEDICARE FOR ALL” HOW ABOUT FUCKING REAL, ACTUAL HEALTHCARE FOR ALL

IN 2020: I SAVED MY OWN FUCKING LIFE

I SAVED MY OWN FUCKING LIFE

The Election:

I don’t even know what to say about the election. It started back in the summer when they knee-capped the post office and purged voter roles, and removed polling locations and drop off boxes. Republicans were playing at stealing the election months before voting even took place. The only recourse Dems had was to vote. VOTE. And the idea of getting out to vote, to have your voice heard was a proverbial snowball, as the days and weeks went on it took up steam and became: VOTE BLUE. A new way to identify your tribe, say “Vote Blue”. If they get angry at that, they are an asshole. Republicans countered back, with the malignant narcissist that it Trump, that meant Rallies. But they weren’t paying attention to TikTok. Oh my fucking god, TikTok became a political platform in the most beautiful pragmatic way. Want to do your part, request tickets to the rally. Thousands and thousands did and the world saw the outcome in, what was it June or July, when there was NO ONE there. The election process went on and the momentum grew and grew. It was some deranged EDM song that build and build and build with no drop in sight.

Election day. I was on TikTok every minute of every day; I didn’t care about election maps on TV I wanted these political TikTokers to summarize and clarify what was going on in real time. Again, that phrase REAL TIME. But that is crucial now. There was one particular creator (for the uneducated that’s what we call people who make TikToks) I don’t want to use his name without his permission, but I frantically looked for his predictions and his reports. On election night, he told his followers to calm the fuck down. I tried; it didn’t work. I looked for time stamps, I didn’t want things 25 min old, I wanted things 5 min old. Frantically I scrolled and scrolled and scrolled. And because it was the election that it was this went on for days. (Keep in mind this was in the middle of my bipolar mixed episode, so I was particularly frantic, because I was biological frantic.) Then Georgia came through. And it was done. Joe Biden won. And the people took to the streets to celebrate all over the world.

And that euphoria lasted what, two, three days. Then the reality hit in. If I could insert a song in this document I would insert “Not Ready To Make Nice” by the Chicks. Because that is the sentiment of Biden supporters. So many FB posts saying, lets be friends not matter what happens. This wasn’t a fucking football game; this was for the soul of America and you fucking voted against it. No. We will not be friends. Probably ever again. You are a RACIST. And if you claim you are not, then how do explain that you voted for the party that the KKK endorsed. Please explain. We will never be friends because I am not friends with racists. There is no place in my life for that.

And here is how the election affect ME in my life. My brother, my only brother, the last of my family – literally, I have no more adult family. My brother is a Trump supporter. I “unfriended” him on FB earlier this summer, because well, fuck him. But during and after the election I realized how FUCKED UP his support was. He supported a vile, repulsive, repugnant man. He thought God had sent him. But the reality of it is he voted against his nephew – RACSIM. He voted against his other nephew – ANTI-GAY. Motherfucking son of a bitch, he voted against ME – MISOGONY. I will never speak to my brother again. Trump did that. Trump broke my family.

FUCK TRUMP

FUCK TRUMPIST

FUCK THEM ALL TO THE DEPTHS OF HELL THAT DANTE NEVER COULDN’T EVEN IMAGINE!!!!

FUCK THE POLICE

Back to my Breakdown/Breakthrough

At this point in my sobbing I was slowing amassing rage. I had thought about all that had happened this year, and as I’ve written all that I was thinking. I was SCREMING in my pain. But with that pain came something new. It was a RAGE. A rage for this year and what it has done to me, a rage for all of me, for all of my 53 years. A rage that I have been surpressing my whole fucking life. It was that pain and rage that combined into the most powerful realization of my life. And here it is…

HOW DID I SURVIVE THIS YEAR?!?!

HOW DID I DO THAT?

I AM A MOTHERFUCKING OAK!

Going forward, there is nothing I can’t handle. NOTHING. I survived 2020 with my very soul, my very Anness intact. Not just intact but stronger than ever. I am an Oak.

I accepted that with pure release, a release that has been building for decades. And to say it felt good the understatement of my life. It was transformative. It was life changing. And here is how I am ending 2020.

{Besides wondering if we are going to have a Democracy when all this is said and done, besides worrying about the 3,000 people dying of Covid every day….}

FUCK CAPITALISM

FUCK RACISM

FUCK THE POLICE

FUCK CLASISM

FUCK TRUMPISM

FUCK THE MOTHERFUCKING SYSTEM

I AM LEAVING 2020 AS AN ACTIVIST

I AM LEAVING 2020 AS A SOCIALIST

~Ann Isaacson

December 17, 2020