"OVERCOMPENSATION"
AN A.H. SCOTT
COMMENTARY
Throughout
history's dawn, men have gone from grunting in illuminated caves to giving
words of eloquence in chambers of cool reflection.
Warrior's
roar in rooms far from the public eye begins to massage the design for military
conflict.
Of
course, there are the cheerleaders; whose pom-poms of colored strands of
plastic are transformed into Brooks Brothers' suits with Rolex' upon their
wrists. The people within nations never see these men on ballots to be voted
upon. And, when these men do place their ideas within the public sphere; they
are so finely scripted that Frank Capra could be directing them.
Gotta
get the ball rolling.....
Then,
that final cherry atop this stalk of a symantical samba, is the warrior with
deft skill of speech. Ah, yes, he becomes the face who will sell the public
this can of fractured theories and hidden realities. Polls have ruled that he
is trusted and a good leader. So, the face is in place.
In
the modern day, it's a question of naming a villain and nominating yourself as
the hero. Oh, of course, there are bad guys in this world. No doubt about it.
But, the question is; if you go after every bad guy, will YOU be the person who
gets on that plane and goes to kick their ass? Hmm, I don't think so.
The
men in the mahogany lined rooms don't ever get their own hands dirty in these
ammunition arcades called military actions.
Gentlemen,
let's start the machine....
Pipes
of freedom are gently played to lull nations to sleep and get the masses to
stand up for this hallowed theory of freedom. Oh, that's easy to do. Just beat
that drum of patriotism a bit louder and get the public into a certain rhythm
of suiting up for war.
Greed
is denied by any who start the war machine up. Yet, when we go to war; the
corporations, private contractors and other miscellaneous entities have a way
of tissue-papering over their own avarice with white parchments from think tank
to ideological foundations across the spectrum.
"WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable,
surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the
only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
A racket is best described, I believe, as something
that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small
"inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the
benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few
people make huge fortunes." - Major General Smedley Darlington Butler,
United States Marine Corps, 1933
And,
the racketeer is not a SHE, but always a HE.
Erection
of election has it's place.
Under
those unfurled banners of freedom and white-gloved vessels of greed; there lies
a third essence of overcompensation's afterglow.
Oppression's
ocean is the tide of tears and ruined lives, which are feignly submerged under
the rah-rah's of accomplished missions and Lionhearted leadership.
"When
the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world
will know peace" - Jimi Hendrix, musician
If
there is an ascending accelerator which turns on the war machine, where is the
stand-down button?
"When
man chooses to speak and actually listen to one another, than to fight; then a
reflexive thirst for war will wane" - A.H. Scott
Or,
maybe a cigar is just a cigar. And, overcompensation is just that blunt a
truth.
A.H.
Scott
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6/16/13
“Her-story may be different than His-tory. Different eyes can see different views” - A.H. Scott
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~P E A C E~
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Download the audio version of this commentary from A.H. Scott's Podcast - "MOMENTS: THE A.H. SCOTT PODCAST", which can be found under the title, "RUMINATIONS AND BRAIN SYNCOPATIONS: Overcompensation” -
http://momentstheusingsahscottpodcast.blogspot.com/2014/07/moments-musings-of-ah-scott-podcast.html
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Explore A.H. Scott's "Overcompensation - A Visual Commentary" -
https://youtu.be/titRuAUdG8o
*********
Purchase the fine art print of A.H. Scott's "Overcompensation" from Artist Rising
"Overcompensation" by A.H. Scott - Artist Rising -
http://www.artistrising.com/products/785696/Overcompensation.htm
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Download the audio version of this commentary from A.H. Scott's Podcast - "MOMENTS: THE A.H. SCOTT PODCAST", which can be found under the title, "RUMINATIONS AND BRAIN SYNCOPATIONS: Overcompensation” -
http://momentstheusingsahscottpodcast.blogspot.com/2014/07/moments-musings-of-ah-scott-podcast.html
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