Darvish Khan Writes

Fascism, American style, is based on the incoherence of empire. As the clock ticks out on late stage capitalism, aka neoliberalism, the problem of empire becomes more and more desperate. The only strategy left to prop up our enormous political and economic rot is to go full-on Orwellian. Good students of language and politics see this at once.

But many do not. In fact, most do not- even educated elites. American politics has been drifting to the right for decades. So much so, Democrats are now way to the right of Republicans, historically considered. There is no major- or even minor, party (except for the Green Party, which has never gotten more than 2.6% of the vote in a general election) which now represents the working class. There is no significant party which represents democracy or egalitarianism, let alone a party that can articulate the compelling argument for promoting peace and going green.

Both parties are fully in thrall to corporatism and militarism as the defining basis of  both domestic and foreign policy. The malignant trillion dollar defense budget, most of which is outsourced to corporations, sets the agenda for political and domestic life. And the rhetoric of patriotism has doubled down on the need to return to a mythic America that has only existed in the fervid brains of jingoistic marketers.

There is the overarching lie of the free market, when there is no free market. The economy is totally rigged to benefit the rich and powerful, i.e. corporatists. There is the overarching lie of the need to protect “the American way of life”, a life based on “freedom” which is under perpetual attack, when the opposite is true: the US perpetually foments war to fill coffins and coffers by all means violent, overt and covert. Our elections are touted as democracy in action, when they are an extremely bad joke. We claim to be peaceful and law abiding but have the world’s largest gulag of prisons and have the highest per capita incarceration rate as the direct result of a racist criminal justice system.

We claim- that is the president and Congress, to champion human and civil rights, and to especially eschew and condemn anti-Semitism, when we support decades-long virulent and vicious apartheid in the case of Israel (remember, Arabs are Semites). We claim to champion freedom of speech and religion but endorse the world’s greatest Spy Machine and have supported raging Islamophobia as a foreign and domestic policy for decades.

In fact, America is run on Orwellian conspiracy theories which despite being fantastic, are acted upon with the greatest gravity and patriotic zeal.  Liberals champion Russiagate as a narrative of choice as it absolves them from complicity in King Baby’s reign. Conservatives protest that government is useless, after kneecapping it. Big Media loves the bitter political polarization and perpetual crisis for the fantastic revenue it generates, like manna from heaven. But the net result is a weary and angry public which knows it is being relentlessly lied to, but can’t prove it. It doesn’t really want perpetual war and the surveillance state; it doesn’t really want an America armed to the teeth, engaged in massacres and suicide; it doesn’t really want an insufferably low minimum wage, employer based health care, oligarchy, the ravaging of environment, denial of global warming and looming global catastrophe.

But the incoherence of fascism, American style makes it so.

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Sustainability is the global crisis of our time. The machine age, symbolized by the automobile, is carrying us off the cliff. We, the lemmings, are driving the car. It really does seem as if we are powerless to slam on the brakes.

Followers of Meher Baba can take hope, if that’s the right phrase and attitude, in Baba’s two car accidents; one in Prague, Oklahoma on May 24, 1952 and the other in Satara, India on December 2, 1956. Baba and several of his disciples suffered severe injuries, and one died in the Indian accident. Baba said of his injuries that the machine broke his bones in order for him to break the backbone of the machine age. About the Oklahoma accident, Baba said “America has long been clamoring for my blood.” This accident began as a cross country car trip that started in the Carolinas and which happened to retrace the route of the Trail of Tears, the forced removal of Cherokee and other native tribes to Oklahoma. His beloved and most important disciple, Mehera, also suffered severe injuries, especially to her face and skull. They both shed blood on American soil.

Baba claims he slammed the brakes on the machine age. We have to wait and see what that entails. In 1954 at Meherabad, India, Baba issued his Final Declaration. This was two years after the accident in America and two years before the accident in India. This is one of the most intriguing and arresting statements he ever made.

The Final Declaration announces that he will suffer a strange disease which will cause his humiliation, result in the breaking of his silence (a decades’ long physical silence), effect his violent death and result in his glorification. And immediately before or after the breaking of his silence, 3/4 of the world will be destroyed. This series of events will be of a short duration, and is referred to as his Manifestation, which will be followed by 700 years of increasing love and peace, after which he will return again which will be the juncture of the beginning and end of a cycle of cycles, representing billions of years.

This announcement was amended by two subsequent announcements, a Clarification and a Confirmation, which state that the Final Declaration was given in both his language and our language, and is not all to be taken literally.

Baba dropped the body in 1969, 15 years after the Final Declaration.

The Avatar is the Sustainer, the Preserver and Protector of all. Each of his advents makes the adjustments necessary for creation to continue. Our machine age is increasingly being recognized as an extreme crisis in sustainability that cannot continue for much longer. The brakes are being slammed.

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We are well into the age of Orwellian shitfuckery. A good start date for this age is 9/11/2001. This marks the symbolic crashing of the corporate state and the consequent panic that elevated demagoguery as the primary basis for a US foreign policy devoted to empire. 9/11 and the resulting campaign of  “Shock and Awe” plunged America into a state of continuous carnage and lying.

This shitfuckery initiated by George W. Bush was continued by Obama who, like Bill Clinton before him, sanitized the neoliberal project as a bipartisan affair, but which was rudely exposed by King Baby Trump to conceal the neofascism we now find ourselves wallowing in. The neoliberal state lead directly to the neofascist state.

How did this transformation happen? It was very simple. The failing corporate state embraced militarism so ardently on a bipartisan basis for so long  and with such committed lying that the political birth of King Baby Trump emerged as a magnificent turd. A really beautiful, beautiful turd.

Orwellian shitfuckery of corporatism, militarism and racism regaled by a compliant Big Media as patriotism has become normalized. This is who we now are. King Baby may stay or go, but the corporate state in support of the Spy and War Machine will remain. We will remain eternal friends with the religious and racial fascism of Saudi Arabia and Israel. We will continue to be completely bamboozled and bullied by our inverted definition of anti-Semitism  to believe that institutionalized racism in the name of the Terror Wars and Zionist apartheid is perfectly legitimate- even to the point of supporting war crimes as a patriotic duty.

There is no end to the age of shitfuckery as long as we refuse to give up the racialized corporate state and its embrace of death in exploiting the earth and laborers in pursuit of  greed. We would rather die in a global bonfire of shitfuckery.

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Christ chased the money lenders out of the temple. Muhammad drove the traders out of the Kaaba. In both cases, the idols of commerce and greed had driven the One God, the only God, from the Sanctuary. This is what the restoration of monotheism is always about.

But in our time, the goddess of progress has been enshrined everywhere. She was first widely worshipped in Britain, and then exalted as chief among the gods in America. And then the glorification of the machine and consumerism spread across the earth. Progress is history’s most successful  fertility goddess: her chariot is the car, and her temple the garage.

The exaltation of progress represents the continual rape of the earth and perpetual servitude to her high priests, the corporatists. Progress is a devouring beast. Never is there enough. No sacrifice is too great to honor and placate her appetite. Her filth and noxious fumes poison the air, fire, water and earth, yet we are commanded to lift our hands and voice in praise of the pleasure that her refuse provides.

The earliest civilization of which we have a literary record, Atlantis of ten thousand years ago as mentioned by Plato, was devoted to progress- until she devoured the land and the island-continent sank.

But in our time the Prophet has once again returned; He has returned to break the backbone of the machine age by the car breaking his bones. This was his sacrifice to save not only America, but the entire world from the fate of Atlantis. The cult of the machine will perish and the earth shall live so that the one God, the only God, will be praised everywhere.

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Karma is what you’re born with, and this includes environment. How you play it is dharma. Dharma is the integrity with which you face karma, and how this works out is what life is all about.

Dharma is to be true to your karma: the sum total of all past thought, word and deed, as represented by past lives. You cannot help but be defined by the past and its consolidation in the present, but how you relate to it, how you honor it, is everything. Attitude is everything.

Karma renews itself endlessly, like a snake perpetually shedding its skin. Each moment is the expression of past karma and the creation of future karma. And what you pack into the suitcase of this life, is what you live out of the next life. Only the Now is creative. The past is dead and only becomes alive in the Now. Likewise, the future is predicated on the Now. Only the Now exists. Only attitude exists.

The Now is creative because it alone can witness, because it alone can be detached from the corpse of the past and its reanimation in the future. Only the Now is alive.

All this is why Remembrance is the key. What you remember in the Now transmutes the past to become the future, in the Now. Remembrance of the beloved manifests the beloved, and is the path to be with him or her forever, in the Now.

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The new film produced by Michael Moore, Planet Of The Humans, challenges how we think of going Green. Seriously, how do we get off fossil fuels? Do we have the slightest idea of what this involves and implies? Do we cut down forests to burn chipped wood as a biomass substitute for coal and gas? How is Green infrastructure built and maintained without fossil fuels? The answer is that it’s not. And then what? Discuss this on the smart phone and laptop full of rare metals gouged from the earth?

This film very dramatically makes the case that we are babies prattling about collective suicide. And that there is a whole lot of disaster capitalism promoting delusional solutions.

What will it take for citizenry to grok the crisis of sustainability? People do not realize that the entire basis of modern living is unsustainable. And this is the problem. We can’t go there. We can’t admit that the planet can not possibly continue to support a consumer based lifestyle for a fraction of the present world population, which is increasingly concentrated in mega cities of 10 million or more.

The modern city is entropic. And so are the suburbs. Both only exist because of fossil fuel- energy as concentrated capital, and which serves to destroy a living bond with Nature. There is no way for a modern city to go Green. There is no way for a world economy based on globalism to go Green. There is no way for any living arrangement to go Green except on a decentralized basis. Only local economies can establish a sustainable relationship with Nature, a relationship not based on relentless resource extraction and degradation, but on living in harmony with the land and one another.

Going Green is going cold turkey.

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