Monday, October 30, 2006

So you wanted a martyr.....

A DISCLOSURE

An Observation

Of

Modern Ethics

From Personal

(though now unprovable, I am sure)

Experience

SELF ADULATION PARADOX

I figure it should be safe enough to address this at this point. It has been eight years (there-abouts) since I can discern some of the initial infractions... and if eight years hasn't been long enough to "clean up" the paper work, then they probably don't deserve to have what they may have procured to begin with. All I will ever get out of it is having experienced a wealth of information pertaining to modern ethics, in business mostly, but with many peripheral elements contributing to the situation itself as well as an insight into the potentials of the human creature - in various extremes.

Anyone having been involved, unless totally and entirely meat heads, will have managed to have all things concerned transferred, and the other paper work completed and "in line" so to speak.

I can't say as it is something I would have, or am interested in combating as per "pursuing" the more just elements of result, given the modern atmosphere and of course the obvious "standards" employed. But it is something I find great interest in from a "study" point of view. Having experienced what amounts to ethic violations untold in the business sense... while not having any first hand knowledge of it, so to speak... is something to have experienced in life.

I know from the experience just why it is that many standards have been set in society...

I will refrain from using names and/or companies directly in reference. Firstly because it seems to have been a widely accepted means for business transaction.. and just because I do not happen to "be of that clothe" doesn't mean I am of the mind to ruin it. In fact, I cannot see myself as a part of such an area in society after having experienced much of what I have. Besides, there is no way in hell I would win out given those aspects I have been exposed to.. and "legalities" being nothing much more than a dog pile and back biting brawl.

It seems that, in essence, gossip rules the day in regard to many aspects I am going to present here-in. Much of this I suppose, being due to the "justification" of "we would win in court anyway"... which of course, as anyone knows, usually isn't really the case... unless of course such decisions are purchased.

This gossip has ranged from supposed legal infractions on my part... "under investigation" as it were, to having untold amounts of illegitimate children.. as well as "ex-wives."

Sadly, none of what I can discern as being supposed infractions even relates to the simple remittance of a simple estate/will. Beyond the want of those posturing such reasons as excuse, wanting excuse.

Even more to the sad aspects is I am not sure which I think is worse, those perpetrating such tactics or those that corroborate them for what ever interests.

Much of the "street information" has been perpetrated from the direction of hired interests - probably Private Investigaters making some extra money and "perks" on the side. This aspect definitely indicates bigger - more than likely corporate interests on that playing field. More than likely, just as logic would indicate - corporate interests not so keen on a substantial amount of initial stock holdings being liquidated.... this then more than likely rendering a "deal" of sorts between themselves and anyone presenting an interest in the benefits of such holdings. Meaning of course that such holdings would be transferred by what ever means to the parties willing NOT to liquidate them.

Those "parties" have even included my siblings and cousins, it would seem - coincidentally being a party to an additional sort of such "business directions" with the death of my grandmother - though admittedly I have never seen her will.

It was somewhat of a surprise to find most of their inspiration in compliance being in the form of thinking they were "owed" or "due" some part of the portion of the estate having been willed to myself. Suddenly there was even an element of "reason" being that "they" wanted to insure that I would "share" it.

How could anyone even begin tho think that such reasons were valid in any degree? They all got their portion of the estate and blew it on various things... but of course, I suppose I should not single them out in that regard, as "share it" was very much a predominant "reason" from even some of the most preposterous angles and interests. Kind of funny really, if it weren't so damn sad. Especially given that there were actually "official" interests which substantiated such "reasoning" through obviously complying.

Ask any of the people on the Forbes list, if they should be required - forced even - to equally "share" their wealth with even total strangers. Wouldn't that be the laugh?

Another reason given in the closer relations, was that jealousy was a justification. This as well was postured in some of the more outlandish areas of claim as well. Why would someone being jealous of another's sound investments, equate to some reason and justification in claiming a part of the results?

From what I can tell, I would have been able to live on the interest with plenty left over... and as anyone honestly referring to my person would attest, I am not a stingy person.

If the funny pages could have seen it all, there would be no shortage of laughs for at least decades.

One of the more notable tactics in propaganda I believe, came from the direction of the "hired" hands as per - perhaps even government interests, being the suggestion in use of the old movie mystique around the "Mob" - as if the "Mob" had some interest in "whacking" me for some reason. Kind of freaky considering the blitzkrieg tactic of it.

So in essence the illusion supposedly being mine to perceive, was that I had somehow angered the "Mob" (especially the movie version) and was on some "most wanted list" simultaneously. This was combined with psychological tactics I think I recognize from lore and communication in my life time, as being similar to those tactics used in various P.O.W. camps, though without any substantial direction as per "brain washing." Just incessant static, I guess as a part of the interference being posed.

The laugh in the direction of having claimed me to be some "dead beat dad" is in both the efforts (through said hired individuals) to keep me from gainful employment and as well the widely known fact that most of the individuals participating in such slander, are active - if even as a "natural" course of existence, in getting as much welfare as possible through having as many children as can be managed. Such is just a common political aspect in modern society.

Perhaps there is a connection there in the direction of relative needs to be met? But those aspects are so common that it is really of no interest at this point in time to address.

An aspect of this all has very much been the employment of modern communications speed. From what I can tell, this extends to the addition and removal of desired information from desired data bases with a speed that makes it hard to catch, so to speak. Including anything incriminating in official databases when it is that things get a bit "tight" for those perpetrating the "switcher-oo" as it were. This even and especially in effect to the misuse of and transfer of identity at appropriate times.

I have to sigh a bit in regard to this "efficiency" given its apparent and most common use - even in frequency and as some sort of standard within the motion of it. The "Robin Hood" facets presented as excuse in those directions, is as stated - not being very efficient in providing there-in.

It would seem that all a person need do is enter the most conducive information into the correct databases, and swarms of desperation that humans shouldn't exist within, are employed. This mostly from the direction of "welfare mothers" - many of which already participating in various other forms of "procurement." Another sad point being that most of what I can tell indicates that the "procurement" doesn't go to the areas it is claimed to, anyhow.

It seems to be an acceptable way to do things in that area. Sad really, as it represents somewhat of an embarrassment not only to humanity - especially in light of our supposed "progress" - but as well and especially in regard to the "female" element within society.

This then leads to the aspects of the "ex-wives" being fabricated....

Sadly enough it seems more acceptable to most corporate interests to actually compensate such claims through compliance - even to the tune of multiple claims without any actual substantiation - than would have been the prospect of simply complying with an existing and legally binding (isn't that funny) estate/will which was held in trust, and partly within such corporate investments.

For some reason, all a person need do is enter such information and any and all holdings are suddenly someone else's to claim.

Again, this being based on the premise I suppose, of "we will win in court anyhow." But further again, such isn't the case and is only now a common progression due to a familiarity of sorts in such transfers it would seem. Again with no substantial supporting aspects beyond here-say and gossip.

Yet even further again, having no real bearing on the actual issue but proving to be a wonderful smokescreen and tool in the over all ploy - comprising a large portion of the "time wasting" element of it.

Oddly enough, when a person considers the entire movement and tactic, such "time wasting" is really the desired result. Simply an effort to maintain a distance from the individuals actual (and legal claims) and that which is being perpetrated. As well it would seem, to insure a distance of time between the initial infractions and any possible attempts to address the issue in any way.

Again totally a sad element of society given that very real needs within society are utilized fictitiously as nothing more than static, as it were. Bringing the importance of addressing actual needs and problems within such areas to a level of near farce.

Then of course has been the aspect in attempts to insure any "coupling" I may somehow manage in the direction of life partner, be of some particular corporate affiliation and interest. This aspect I recognize from even the initial points I can now recognize as infractions on modern society in these regards. This of course, being in the interests to insure said "estate" will remain at least in a partial control of given influences... and further then, barring pre-nuptial agreements, guarantee those interests of no less than half of said estate through the abuse of modern laws regulating divorce proceedings.

Yet again a sad element of a given area in society... and yet again more reason that I am more than pleased not to be a part of it.

That just isn't what life is about for me. Further, I can't see myself as having utilized my due remittance in the interest of such directions. There is far too much of life to experience to waste it on such concerns. Especially given my personal leanings and tendencies toward relative frugality - simple pleasures so to speak. Such holds more with myself than does the prospective room full of coke heads posing and posturing for one another in celebration of being seen (at least in their own heads) as some form of "celebrity."

I suppose that's another reason I just wouldn't fit into such atmospheres... being that "fun" is a relative word, and I suppose my versions are either seen as too dangerous - given my leanings for the outdoors, and too boring... given my other personal interests.

Yet another rather intriguing aspect of that which I have experienced, is some even likening it to things such as the "whitewater" scandal.

It amazes me that people with seemingly so little insight into things, are in positions of influence in the directions which seem to be the standard and norm.

"Whitewater" was a scandal predominantly over land deals, if I remember right. Politico's and other relations making business deals.

My experience has been in the manner of watching an estate come due, and the scavenging that ensued around it.

I should again point out, as a personal note and opinion that I feel the biggest infraction regarding my situation, was in treating an ACTUAL estate as if it were one of the many areas having been created in the interest of tax shelter and the sort. The kind of things that are seemingly widely recognized as "the game" as it were, in those social areas of ump-teen gazillion heir goings on.

As far as I can tell, those "games" don't have any real effect on economy and the sort...but in having approached an actual (and long term) body of investment as if it were just as "transferable" hearkened in some respects to days long ago before much of what is known (and even developed i.e. floating dollar) about such dynamics was developed and implemented.

It seems to have been an archaic effort almost crippled with the speed of modern communications technology.

Why not just transfer the information in our day and age? Especially as acceptable as such seems to have been.

There has also been a suggested "competition" element around and concerning the legally contracted will/estate. As if I were to subject myself to some mysterious forms of competition having no set rules and further doing so to substantiate my right, as it were, to that which was willed to my person some thirty years ago.

This of course acting to put those with said "interests" in some perceived position of control... being obviously the main concern in regard to the estate itself. This "competition" aspect extending even into the realm of utilizing the aspects in having been kept from gainful employment, as if it were some indicating failure of my own.

Some would say that situations like my own indicate a failure in the system. Some people would say it is just people failing the system. It does lend to the want of agreeing with perceptions of a failed system... but that would be from my personal perspective. Consider that as per that which I would see as failed, has obviously rendered at least a few people now having substantial holdings they didn't have previously. Unfortunately there just seem to be that many people where it is that such is not really of any large concern... which brings me to an intersting paradox given that the dynamics of what has transpired, and the premise in the reasonings of it, would indicate that it is just a big, small town after all is said and done.

I can't miss that which I have never had, and won't chase that which is mine legally by right.

Again, simply transfer the funds is all I would say. I have no interest in chasing carrots of any sort.

Especially those that are out of my own "carrot bag."

Thursday, October 26, 2006

THE VALUE
OF FRIENDSHIP

A Creative Commentary

By
David A. Archer

02/15/1968

10/26/2006

My ol' man was truly one of the last American Greats!

I'm not talking about one of these manufactured, run of the mill moviescreen type you can find anywhere in our day. I am talking about a true blue son of a bitch.


This isn't to say that he was a "son of a bitch" necessarily. Only that he was a genuine. There won't be any more like him.


The pure poetry in this, is that he was in no way a pronounced "bad ass," or overtly obvious in any other way. In fact, those things were very much not of him as I knew him. He was quite reserved and it took allot to get him to "go off" so to speak. I can't remember ever seeing him "lose it" so to speak.


Those "media" driven ideas about "great," just don't apply.


He was born and raised in East Texas. He was baptized in a creek near where he grew up. He served in the military through several conflicts, having lied about his age to "join up" back then.


The laugh in this knowledge, is that there is a contingency in the modern day that instantly categorizes him and his existence with yet more stereotypes. Usually racism and some form of ignorant brutality which those leveling such accusations usually embody themselves.


He raised me in a small town in Northern Nevada. He was smart about it. Up until around my thirtieth birthday, I still had old photographs of my birthday parties and other activities with friends, which stand as irrefutable evidence against those stereo types.


I grew up in an interracial neighborhood. Most of my "mud puddle" friends were of various races. And I had my own job as soon as I could ride a bicycle, delivering news on a few different routes.


A racist he was not. At least no more than any other person, including those that normally utilize such social aspects as a means to procure things.


We didn't ever lock our front door. There wasn't anyone not welcome, until they proved otherwise.


We traveled allot when I was quite young. All around the United States. I traveled some with my Great Aunt as well in those years.


I could sing most of Hank Williams songs before I was 10 years old, and quite a few of Earnest Tubbs, too. My Uncle Leroy was a Southern Baptist Preacher. I sat on the lap of the oldest MacDonald alive, and even played a few hands of poker with her as well at one of our extended family reunions.


But those aspects aren't all my life is comprised of, and I refuse to live the past as if life never changes. I choose to recognize the progress of humanity, at least.


There is still something about simple three part harmonies that calls to me. Odd that I would spend most of my twenties making music with people that couldn't harmonize if they had a synthesizer.


My old man was smart about allot of things. Including some things that I am only recently finding out about. One of which being how he handled what was to be my portion of a willed estate left by my mother at her time of death in 1974.


All of my other sibling were "of age" or close enough that their "share" was remitted almost entirely at the time of her death. Some $25,000 dollars. Mine on the other hand, was to be set aside until I had reached the age of thirty.


As anyone can find out, and as many know.. the seventies were a time of some rather pronounced growths. Especially in the technological realm.

There was a penny stock offered around that time (several of them), for a little known tech company that grew to become a mammoth to say the least. My old man... being true to his own back ground and insight, managed to make some rather smart investments. Several of them from what I can tell.


Like I said, he was smart in ways people won't ever really know about again given the tendencies in modern society. Most people treated him as if his depth of knowledge and insight in life were some derivative comprised of what a person might expect to find on the public restroom walls in the Emerald City, from The Wizard Of Oz.


Amazing how many people tend to make all of their decisions from their own perspectives, as if everyone else were drawing from the same well of knowledge.

Now that I think about it, I have managed to receive similar treatment as to my own capacity. A laugh really, considering that most of the people posturing such stances, are supposedly of a "better clothe." Most spending their time and energy making sure that someone knows them to be in some position of authority instead of simply existing.


He was smart and he knew people. So much so that all I ever knew of the use of that estate was having seen some of the paper work and the credit card he had gotten in my name.... which of course, I never used. In fact, I never really thought about it again through most of my youth. It could be easily said that others in my community knew more about it all than I did.


This was such a consistency, that eventually people began to think of it as if it were theirs.

Which of course I am sure the old man knew would happen.


I have never seen a penny of it, and don't expect to. Especially considering the things I have experienced and weathered beginning about the time the estate was to be remitted. Near my thirtieth birthday.


All of a sudden, it was if I had drawn the curse of the ages upon myself somehow. It was suggested that I had committed one hideous act or another... but never leveled as accusation, and much less never became any issue serious enough for litigation. Even those having claimed to have documented "evidence" so to speak. Only suggested infractions and gossip, usually coupled with some fictitious stipulation which had "yet to be fulfilled"... suggested as well, of course. The "information age" has definitely added to aspects of sad scams.


I have established for myself that there aren't even any legally binding arguments to many of their claims. Even in regard to the slight of hand in attempting to address their "justifications" from various perspectives, including international standards. Either way, they are definitely unfounded as per their claims given the situation itself, but of course, that only matters if there isn't an ass load of something to be procured.... and just as many people wanting of it.


And then of course came the references to some ill disposition concerning other non-issue things such as racial bias, pre-ordained direction and success in life - some predisposed "unfairness" - directly displaying the ignorance and misinformation that most of these "concerned parties" were about... all sorts of sad displays. Some even being to the level of "celebrity" population from what I can tell, through distant relations that aren't really important. Even a stack of marriage licenses from what I could see and some claim from the direction of my father having been in AA toward the end of his life.. which I have come to refer to as the "Autistic Artists" club. Then the most bazaar of reasoning's being that re-incarnation was a factor. As if I should not be qualified to receive the benefit of said estate, because I would be re-incarnated in another life and would get to have such benefits then. And my favorite which I heard quite a bit.. again as suggestion as if to provoke some response, was that the total "was too much for one person to have."


This, of course, unless that "one person" happened to be one of the "other parties" with interest in procuring the estate. And presumably NOT on the big list of re-incarnation.


How funny! The actual recipient named, being myself, of the estate.. was somehow less qualified to receive the total of it, than were the various social levels of scavengers doing anything they could to get a piece of it. Even to their own worst interests in disturbing what would otherwise remain an incredibly consistent thing.


Further I assure you, there is no suggested "tomorrow" for myself in the regard of re-incarnation. As I have made abundantly clear in many ways, there isn't enough of anything in this world that would make being reincarnated a worth while endeavor.


You could not pay me to be re-incarnated. There are just too many useless areas within existence these days. This sad display concerning a simple estate is one of them.

With the ease of information manipulation in the modern day, I am surprised that anyone waited until the estate was due to be remitted. From what I can tell, some of them didn't. As ifthere were a huge line of people already waiting with their excuses... NOT to be addressed in a court of law, which of course meant that they were deserving of some portion in the estate itself.
Then of course came all of the people deserving of part of it. Like they just crawled out of the woodwork. Most of them not even smart enough to realize they would have benefited more in having maintained the legitimate direction of the contracted estate than in becoming a part of the desperate effort to "make themselves important."


It was as if everyone I ever knew, all of a sudden forgot the particulars of what they actually knew of my person. From what I gather, and given my personal disposition and life's philosophies, I very easily could have lived on nothing but the interest(s) accrued... with plenty left over for those so desperately concerned with "their share" of something they had nothing to do with to begin with.


I am now 38 years old. I figure eight years is long enough to have waited for the simplest of estate agreements to be remitted, though I do not expect it to be done. At least in the manner that was put forward in the agreement.


I don't ever expect to see any of it and it has been long enough since it was due, that I figure all of the messy hack work in the information transfers has been cleaned up.... unless of course the people displaying concerns chose to handle it themselves... then who knows how long it will take such meat heads to cover their own asses. "Meat heads" I discern simply from the tactics and lack of foresight in such interests to begin with.


My old man definitely knew people. He knew different types of people.


He knew that pigs would eat until they fell over and died, if they could.


He knew dogs would do similar things if it were that they could feedthemselves.


I learned allot of similar things growing up.


I know that if you want to keep the rodents and weasels out of the hen house, you don't get a dog to do it... you get a big, gnarly battle scarred cat. An "outside cat" at that, not one of those dainty little indoor upholstery wreckers. You get a big, hungry cat that could be a dragon in their own right.. and then you feed it in the same place every time. You get a female or two as well... just to give it something to be territorial about, and even breed a little to inspire the want to hunt.


Cats won't eat everything you put down for them at once. Even if there are several of them. They only eat what they need to... but they will still hunt rodents even when they aren't hungry.
The dog, you get for the kids. Dogs are great for the kids when they are out and about... they are just as afraid of being left somewhere alone, as the kids would be. It's a great pairing.


Yeah, looking at things... I would say that Sammy Joe really knew people. I couldn't have had a better dad.


He was a great friend as well... and we never even had to discuss it. Even through all of the silly crap that goes down in the average situation... he was a great friend. The kind of friend that taught me with myself, and self discovery.


As far as I am concerned, let the pigs and dogs in society gorge themselves until they fall over dead. Even and especially those which are and/or claim to be of some blood relation to myself.
Let the rodents think they are getting away with something as they sneak around and convince themselves that "no one knows what they are up to."


They can think that all that they want. From what I can tell, they won't ever know what hit 'em.