I don't want to drown in American society

(After Skool) Alan Watts on the MYTHS [social conventions] that keep us trapped

(Eddie and the Subtitles) "I Don't Want to Drown in American Society"

(LA's Wasted Youth) "We Were On Heroin" [or what we now call mega-dopamine]

Danger, Will Robbing Son, danger!

Yeah, sure, Eddie, but what is "American" society? At least with LA punkers Wasted Youth, they get right to the point, claiming to be as addicted to all-American stuff (junk food, junk TV, junk relationships, etc.) as "heroin" addicts are to heroin. Pretty sure they didn't mean actual opioid, morphine, poppy plant extract from Afghanistan. - You know, "American" society, it's like "whatever." - Okay, well, then, in that case, let's ask Dr. Robert Lustig.

The Hacking of American Mind: Science Behind Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains

Author and narrator Dr. Robert H. Lustig, MD, has 4.6 out of 5 stars (with 1,159 ratings). This unabridged audiobook "explores how industry has manipulated our most deep-seated survival instincts," says Dr. David Perlmutter, MD, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Grain Brain and Brain Maker.

Dr. Lustig, the New York Times-bestselling author of Fat Chance, reveals the corporate scheme to sell pleasure, driving the international epidemic of

• addiction,
• depression,
• chronic disease.

Metabolical: Lure and Lies of Processed Food

While researching the toxic and addictive properties of white sugar for his New York Times bestseller Fat Chance, Dr. Lustig made an alarming discovery: Our pursuit of happiness is being subverted by a culture of addiction and depression from which we may never recover.

Dopamine is the “reward” neurotransmitter that tells our brains we want more; yet, every substance or behavior that releases dopamine in the extreme leads to addiction.

Serotonin is the “contentment” neurotransmitter that tells our brains we don’t need any more; yet, its deficiency leads to depression.

Idiocracy was prophecy not comedy

(After the Credits) Idiocracy wasn't a comedy, it was a prophecy!

• VIDEO: Dr. Lustig: The Science of Happiness
• VIDEO: Science: Pleasure versus Happiness
• Dr. Lustig: lust, pleasure, craving, addiction
• VIDEO: Idiocracy: Wisdom is Disappearing
• Happiness and Hugging Meditation (Nov. 29)
• Dinah Cancer? Vaccines? iPhones (TJDS)
• "Sugar is TOXIC...like alcohol" (addictive as coke)

Fat Chance; Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity

Ideally, both are in optimal supply in our bodies.

But dopamine evolved to overwhelm serotonin—because our ancestors were more likely to survive if they were constantly motivated. The result has been that constant desire can chemically destroy our ability to feel happiness, while sending us down the slippery slope to addiction.

In the last 40 years, government legislation and subsidies have promoted ever-available temptation (porn, sugar, illegal drugs, social media) combined with constant stress (work, home, money, internet).

The end result is an unprecedented epidemic of mental addiction, anxiety, depression, and chronic physical diseases.

We can hack this cave, build fires, project images

With the advent of neuromarketing, corporate America has successfully imprisoned us in an endless loop of desire and consumption from which there is no obvious escape.

With his customary wit and incisiveness, Dr. Lustig not only reveals the science that drives these states of mind, he points his finger directly at the corporations that created this mess and the government actors who facilitated it.

And he offers solutions we can all use in the pursuit of happiness, even in the face of overwhelming opposition.

Always fearless and provocative, Dr. Lustig marshals a call to action, with seminal implications for our health, our well-being, and our culture. More

Samurai: Choose isolation over belonging?

(Presence & Purpose) What is a Samurai ronin good for?

May Day: Int'l Workers Day solidarity

(APT) Watch: 10,000 protesters flood Berlin streets during May Day demonstrations | APT

What is May Day?

Pyramid of Capitalist System

International Workers' Day ("May Day" to most of the world outside the U.S.): International Workers' Day, also called Labor Day in some countries [1] and often referred to as "May Day" [2, 3] is a celebration of laborers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labor movement and occurs every year on May 1st [4, 5] or the first Monday in May [6, 7].

Traditionally, May 1st is the date of the European spring festival of May Day. The International Workers Congress held in Paris in 1889 established the Second International for labor, socialist, and Marxist parties.

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It adopted a resolution for a "great international demonstration" in support of working-class demands for the 8-hour day.

The date was chosen by the American Federation of Labor to commemorate a general strike in the United States, which had begun on May 1, 1886, and culminated in the Haymarket affair on May 4th.

The demonstration subsequently became a yearly event [5]. The 1904 Sixth Conference of the Second International, called on "all Social Democratic Party organizations and trade unions of all countries to demonstrate energetically on the First of May for the legal establishment of the 8-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace" [8]. More

(The Jimmy Dore Show) Jewish Zionist Bill Maher faceplants while attacking Jimmy Dore and Joe Rogan

Taoism is NOT Buddhism: 4 differences

(Tao Temple) China's Taoism vs. India's Buddhism explained: 4 differences that really matter

(Tao Temple) ZEN: What happens when Taoism and Buddhism collide?

Iran will not be backing down

(Democracy Now!) "Iran is not going to surrender": Johns Hopkins Professor Narges Bajoghli says [genocidal pariah state] Israel and [violent superpower] USA have underestimated Iran. More

• Democracynow.org
• Max Blumenthal (thegrayzone.com)
• The Jimmy Dore Show (jimmydore.com)
• Prof. Narges Bajoghli on Amazon.com
• Epstein Army: Jeffrey Epstein helped place 18-year-old female in ‘elite IDF unit’ (The Grayzone)
• Debating the Iran-Iraq War in Contemporary Iran

Happy Festivus 2025 (Seinfeld)

Jerry Stiller was funnier than Ben

Festivus (/ˈfɛstɪvəs/) is a secular holiday celebrated annually in America on December 23 as an alternative to the perceived familial pressures and rampant commercialism and phoniness of the Christmas (Xmas) season.

Originally created by author Daniel O'Keefe, Festivus entered popular culture after it was made the focus of the 1997 Seinfeld episode called "The Strike" [1, 2].

Festivus pole (complete)

In it, George's disgruntled Jewish dad, Frank Costanza (played by Jerry Stiller), makes the whole country laugh with recognition by actually doing something to oppose Christian-Pagan Xmas mass consumerism. O'Keefe's son, Dan O'Keefe, co-wrote the immortal episode.

The anti-commercial holiday's celebration, as depicted on Seinfeld, occurs on December 23rd and includes a

• Festivus dinner,
• an unadorned aluminum "Festivus pole,"
• practices such as the "airing of grievances" and "feats of strength," and
• the labeling of easily explainable events as "Festivus miracles" [3].

Don't call me Jewish! I'm a Festivite now.

The episode even has a tagline for all anti-Xmas folks who want to join the cultural revolution against humbug, Christmas fakery (and Chanukkah/Hanukkah mimicry of what the Goyim/Gentiles are up to), and commercial profiteering: "Festivus for the rest of us!"

It has been described both as a parody holiday festival and as a form of playful consumer resistance.[4] Journalist Allen Salkin describes it as "the perfect secular theme for an all-inclusive December gathering" [1]. More

The Great Allowing (guided meditation)

The Great Allowing

Straight Edge: Boston hardcore punk film

(YouTube Movies)

Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington DC (1980-1990)

How much PAIN would you rather? (sutra)

Ven. Sujato (trans.) Salla Sutta (SuttaCentral.net) edited by Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

“Mendicants, an unlearned ordinary person feels pleasant, painful, and neutral feelings. A learned noble disciple [one anywhere along the four stages of enlightenment] also feels pleasant, painful, and neutral feelings. What, then, is the difference between a learned noble disciple and an ordinary unlearned person?”

“Our teachings are rooted in the Buddha. …”

“When an unlearned ordinary person experiences painful physical feelings, she or he sorrows and wails and laments, beating the breast and falling into confusion. One experiences two feelings, physical and mental.

One is bad enough. Why make it worse?

“It is like a person who is struck by an arrow only to be struck with a second arrow. That person experiences the feeling of two arrows.

“In the same way, when an unlearned ordinary person experiences painful physical feelings, one sorrows and wails and laments, beating one’s breast and falling into confusion. One experiences two feelings, physical and mental.

“When one is touched by painful feeling, one resists it. The underlying tendency for revulsion [aversion, resistance, hate, dosa] towards painful feeling underlies that.

“When touched by painful feeling, one looks forward to enjoying sensual pleasures. Why is that? It is because an unlearned ordinary person does not understand any other escape from painful feeling apart from [the temporary and unfulfilling distraction of] sensual pleasures.

“Since one looks forward to enjoying sensual pleasures, the underlying tendency to greed [lust, craving, grasping, clinging, lobha] for pleasant feeling underlies that.

“One does not truly understand feelings’ origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape. The underlying tendency to ignorance [delusion, confusion, wrong view, moha] about neutral feeling underlies that.

“If one feels a pleasant feeling, one feels it attached. If one feels a painful feeling, one feels it attached. If one feels a neutral feeling, one feels it attached.

“One is called an unlearned ordinary person who is attached [clinging] to rebirth, old age, and death, to sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress, one who is attached to suffering [disappointment, unsatisfactoriness], I say.

Noble disciples

“When a learned noble disciple experiences painful physical feelings, one does not sorrow nor wail nor lament, beating one’s breast and falling into confusion. One experiences one feeling: physical, not mental.

“It is like a person who is struck by an arrow but not struck by a second arrow. That person would only experience the feeling of one arrow.

“In the same way, when a learned noble disciple experiences painful physical feelings, one does not sorrow nor wail nor lament, beating the breast and falling into confusion. One experiences one feeling, physical, not mental.

“When one is touched by painful feeling, one does not resist it. There is no underlying tendency for revulsion towards painful feeling underlying that.

“When touched by painful feeling, one does not look forward to enjoying sensual pleasures. Why is that? It is because a learned noble disciple understands an escape from painful feeling apart from sensual pleasures.

“Since one does not look forward to enjoying sensual pleasures, there is no underlying tendency to greed for pleasant feeling underlying that.

“One truly understands feelings’ origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape. There is no underlying tendency to ignorance about neutral feeling underlying that.

“If one feels a pleasant feeling, one feels it detached. If one feels a painful feeling, one feels it detached. If one feels a neutral feeling, one feels it detached.

“One is called a learned noble disciple who is detached from rebirth, old age, and death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress, one who is detached from suffering, I say.

“This is the difference between a learned noble disciple and an unlearned ordinary person.

Summary in verse

“A wise and learned disciple is unmoved

by feelings of pleasure and pain.

This is the great difference in skill

between the wise and the ordinary.

A learned disciple who has appraised the Teaching

discerns this world and the next.

Desirable things do not disturb the mind

nor is one repelled by the repulsive.

Both favoring and opposing

are cleared and ended and are no more.

Knowing the stainless and sorrowless state,

one who has gone beyond rebirth

understands rightly.”

• SOURCE: Sallatha Sutta: "The Arrow" (SN 36.6) Pali language sutras

7 million+ Anti-Trump marchers: No Kings

• (CNN) Trump releases A.I. of King Trump in a crown in a fighter jet releasing raw fecal matter on insolent pro-democracy marchers and protesters.
• Why Trump hates his TIME Magazine cover

Go to: Documenting Defiance in Los Angeles No King rally, Oct. 18

What Would Jello Do? (Dead Kennedys)

(Telerama) Jello Biafra (AlternativeTentacles.com), singer (original frontman) for the Dead Kennedys: "In some ways, maybe punk should die...that way it can be reborn" [and become something influential and important again]. Once a great independent thinker, what has happened now?

• Jello Biafra, Dead Kennedys, ABCLibrarySales; Telerama; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Decline of Western Civilization (A-HC)

Punk is bad, stupid, and scary. What are these jerks talking about?

The Decline of Western Civilization is a 1981 American documentary filmed through 1979 and 1980. The movie is about the Los Angeles punk rock scene and was directed by Penelope Spheeris.

In 1981, the LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) Chief Daryl Gates wrote a letter demanding the film not be shown again in the city [1].

The film is the opening act of a trilogy by Spheeris, depicting music scenes in Los Angeles in the late 20th century.

The second film, The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988), covers the Los Angeles heavy metal scene of 1987–1988.

The third film, The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (1998), chronicles the gutter punk lifestyle of homeless teenagers in the late 1990s. More

Steven Blush "American Hardcore: A Tribal History" part 1 of 5

(Miami Herald) Interview: Steven Blush author of American Hardcore

Based on a history book

American Hardcore: The History of American Punk Rock 1980–1986 is a documentary directed and produced by Paul Rachman and written by Steven Blush [1][2]. It is based on the 2001 book American Hardcore: A Tribal History also written by Blush [3]. It world premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was released on Sept. 22, 2006, on a limited basis by Sony Pictures Classics. The film features some early pioneers of the hardcore punk music scene including Bad Brains, Black Flag, D.O.A., Minor Threat, Minutemen, SSD, and others [4]. It was released on DVD by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on Feb. 20, 2007. More: American Hardcore (film)

• American Hardcore | official trailer (2006)
• The Decline Of Western Civilization Part III trailer #1 (1998)
• The Decline of Western Civilization, Part III | FULL MOVIE | Penelope Spheeris | music documentary
• American Hardcore (2006)

Palestinian comedy against Israel

Zohran Mamdani stands up to Trump

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• Elon Musk threatens to start new party as Trump mulls "deportation" | Vantage with Palki Sharma

Piers Morgan sees the light, rejects Israeli psyops

Jewish ANTI-Zionist Congress, 2025

Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress in Vienna 2025 impressions

Top 100 most famous [secular] Jewish personalities | Religion of Famous People

(Palästina Solidarität Österreich - PSÖ) June 20, 2025: The world watches in horror the unfolding Jewish-Zionist genocide against the Palestinian people committed by [Christian] Zionism in partnership with the West.

It is our duty [as Jews and Christian people of conscience] to take action, as this is done in our name. We must join our Palestinian brothers and sisters in their darkest hour, and work for freeing and decolonizing Palestine!

To achieve this just aim, we must have progressive organizations and individuals across the world with us, working against Zionist Apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide as the last devastating evidence of colonialism which must be terminated.

• juedisch-antizionistisch....
• juedisch-antizionistisch.at/

Jews and people of Jewish descent everywhere -- those whom the criminal Zionist state claims to speak for -- are uniting to declare their unwavering opposition to Zionism.

Since the First Zionist Congress over a century ago, [fringe] Zionism claimed to speak on behalf of all Jews, while permanently attempting to silence our opposition to its constant crimes.

Jewish tradition, history, and culture are totally opposed to genocide. The impressive history of Jewish resistance to Zionism is as long as [that of] Zionism: it included [dissenting] religious communities as well as secular movements of Jewish descent, and the vehement Jewish opposition to the creation of the Zionist state in Palestine itself.

• IDF Veterans try to explain: breakingthesilence.org.il

Zionism is a crime against Judaism and the indigenous people of Palestine [whether racistly calling them "Arabs" or rightly calling them Palestinians], and we are committed to putting an end to it.

Over the years, it became clear that Zionism, instead of protecting Jews, placed them in great danger by committing atrocities in their name.

Zionism is based on racial supremacy, adopting the very racist assumptions which are inherent to antisemitism -- describing Jews as belonging to some special chosen race -- a notion which is fundamentally racist and which has no relation to Judaism.

The Zionist settler-colonial entity [the imperial project calling itself "Israel"] denies Palestinians their most basic rights [even their right to be viewed as a people, a distinct group with its own customs].

Zionism operates through colonialism, apartheid, ethnic-cleansing, and genocide in Palestine even before 1948 [and the Nakba or "Catastrophe" of displacement, theft, terror, and mass murder].

Ilan Pappé: Israel has a legal right to exist?

Ilan Pappé: Does Israel have the right to exist or not?

Fourteen million Palestinians worldwide are its direct victims. [A world of Jews everywhere are its indirect victims.]

To Israel we firmly declare “Not in Our Name!”

We are devoted to terminating Zionism, and we are devoted to the decolonization of Palestine under Palestinian leadership!

Above all, Zionism is a crime against humanity. Dedicated to the oath of the survivors of Mauthausen Concentration Camp, handed down to us as testimony of resistance against Nazi fascism, we follow their universal legacy and reiterate their message:

“The permanence in the camp, lasting years, has reinforced in our minds the knowledge of the value of brotherhood among the people of all nations. True to these ideals, we make a solemn oath to continue to fight, firm and united, against imperialism and against the instigation of hatred between peoples.”

Together we will join forces at the first Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress and united we will join the Palestinians in liberating Palestine and building a democratic, just, and equal society for all!

People of all backgrounds were invited. Joining forces with Palestinians and allies in the struggle against Zionism.

Do Jews, Muslims, Christians have same God? - All Palestinian children are Hamas. Kill 'em all!

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• Pink Floyd's Roger Waters message anti-Zionist solidarity

Los Angeles resists police state (live)

(CNN) Protests against Trump's ICE raids are spreading across country

Los Angeles Protests: Posse Comitatus Marines deployed in LA: LIVE breaking news coverage

(BBC News) Curfew in LA as Gov. Newsom attacks Trump for 'inflaming'

Los Angeles Protests: Marines deployed to LA - LIVE breaking news coverage

(Agenda-Free TV) Started streaming 3:00 pm. Protests continue today in Los Angeles as 700 Marines have been deployed to LA by would-be King Trump in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. The Marines join 4,000 National Guard troops in responding to the protests against immigration raids.

Protesters rally in downtown Los Angeles demanding end to ICE raids

Get the latest on the Los Angeles protests in live breaking news coverage. Protests began in Los Angeles, California, on Friday in response to ICE raids and arrests in LA. The protests have continued every day since, with some referring to them as "unrest" or even "riots," and today there is protest activity for the fifth straight day.

Gov. Newsom says 'democracy is under assault' in speech criticizing Trump

Supreme Commander in Chief Trump deployed 700 armed Marines and 4,000 National Guard soldiers to Los Angeles in response to the largely peaceful demonstrations.

Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s abuse of power: what’s REALLY up in LA

Trump’s disgusting abuse of power and what’s REALLY happening in LA

(JKL) June 10, 2025: Kimmel talks about what’s actually happening in LA right now for those who believe the city is some kind of totalitarian hellscape when it’s 99%+ fine, protesters voicing their opposition to Trump’s disgusting and unnecessary abuse of power, Trump going around California Gov. Newsom to call in 4,000 troops from the Nat'l Guard and 700 active-duty Marines, insisting that paid protesters are causing problems, creating a distraction from the fact that just a few days ago Elon Musk tweeted that Trump is in the Epstein files, and we take a look back at what past Presidents have said about immigration.

• VIDEO: Texas joins in anti-Trump ICE raids
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• (Sky News AU) Anti-ICE protests spread to US cities

Texas joins Los Angeles protests against Trump's ICE raids

In this interactive live stream, host Steve Lookner brings the latest breaking news on the Los Angeles protests and Marines deployed to LA (joining California National Guard troops), along with protest updates from other cities, and he is also reading comments and questions on the air. Thumbnail images from U.S. Northern Command. Agenda-Free TV licenses live news videos from AFP and Reuters. Some of those videos may appear in this broadcast.

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LA protests, parties, burns (Daily Show)

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• Behind the Musk-Trump throwdown (Jimmy Dore Show)

The Posse Comitatus Act is (or used to be until this weekend) a United States federal law prohibiting members of the military [such as the Marines called out by Trump and Hegseth] from exercising powers that maintain "law and order" on non-federal property. What does right wing rense.com have to say about it and Trump's behavior?

(KTLA 5) Driverless Waymo EV cars avoiding downtown L.A.

Rioters bombard cops from overpass – hurling rocks, fireworks, and scooters

• Trump sends Marines and more National Guard to Los Angeles (NPR)
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• Jon Stewart on the L.A. ICE Protests and Trump's Escalating Response | The Daily Show

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700 marines mobilized to LA after violent protests over immigration raids

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ICE protest arrests in Lower Manhattan

(rockland video) ICE protest arrests in Lower Manhattan, New York (June 9, 2025) 26 Federal Plaza ICE Facility Federal Immigration Court on Saturday, June 7, 2025