There can be no doubt that Bushes, and Reagan before them represent the predatory culture that has created so much pain in America, and exported it, and I believe, historically imported it from Europe in the first place with it's genocide of the Natives, and the enslavement of Africans, also a genocide. I have been skeptical about Obama's "change," but his first few days have been spectacular: the CIA is effectively dismantled, and will have to become a different organization. Obama must be exhausted, and expecting too much from him in these early days may serve to defeat the cause. Seeing him work to disengage the battle with Islam by making conditions tolerable for the prisoners of that struggle, groups want every political prisoner released. I got emails from Native groups looking to free Leonard Peltier, and I tried to suggest they get a clue--Obama can't release him legally, he is in for murder one, he would be instantly impeached by congress. But Obama can make is Peltier's conditions more tolerable, possibly recognizing him as a political prisoner. Obama can make all conditions more tolerable in prisons by dismantling autonomous Bureau of Prisons that operates without accountability. This would go a long way to ending predation on the streets, as it is the culture of prison that attacks us in the streets, and the culture of corruption and cocaine that fuels the crisis. Cocaine we know is the work of the CIA and the Regan/Bush empire that leveraged it to reinsert itself into our lives, and then preserve itself by stealing elections. And it, the Republican Party, nearly succeeded again. How could a nation in pure jubilation, the biggest gather in recent times only represent a tiny majority over the seemingly endless Coup' de tat of the Republicans, which has just ended. Obama has delivered in his first few days. On his list though are even greater challenges: he promised to end the "trickle down theory," which if he does not know, is the basis of capital since day one. What little we get "trickles down" through capital construction, which enforces the capital system. Perhaps capital construction defines the capital system. For certain the capital system thrives on growth, it has no choice, it thrives on waste. And its growth includes population growth, the increase of most important resource for exploitation: cheap humans. We Americans refuse to self-destruct through population explosion, we fulfill our spirituality when we refuse to kill. So corrupt humans come across the southern border in vast numbers propelling cocaine corruption only too willing to feed the killing needs of the capital structure. Corruption and cocaine protected by Republicans where there is no accountability: protected by rappers, protected by liberals, protected by their employers, and by immigration rights activists. At the core is the predator system; it lays below all the other problems as a characterizable menace. We know what it is and we give it a monstrous face in our imaginations. But when we try to deal with it, we are told we are mean and cruel to be cruel to the predators. So what is a predator? And what is the underlying menace that drives predation? A predator needs to be fed, he does destruction as he can and he is busy. He lies, and has no concept of the damage of his actions. He is global and not local, he constantly roams if he cannot destroy in place. He calls for police crackdowns while committing crimes, involving the police while "rapping F* the police." He is biased, and he may be feminist, he is for dominance in any form, he is unbiased in his bias as bias is a key component of his disease. Historically the predator is the hunter, and it seems amazing that the predator continues to roam the forests with weapons seeking innocents including humans appreciating the forests. More amazing is the support hunters get from society with rationale that twists our concepts of both human history and psychology to accept the pain: to tolerate endless pain. Predation is now definable in neurological terms: predators, and I mean human predators, are mentally defective, lacking specific neurons. Others may have the neurons, but those neurons are dormant and need to be revived. And a further class has dysfunctions in the neurons that make them part-time predators, and very tricky to deal with but we know who they are and what they have. We don't need to be told this, but now in the face of the evidence, we need to be told this. Predation is viral, and now with the valid construction of knowledge, especially with the Internet, needs now to even more effectively corrupt basic human meanings. Hate in this new age needs to promote, and hence pervert, love to continue to hate, which we are told by the haters' scientists such as Dawkins, is genetic. If Dawkins is correct about the nature if his hate, then hate furthermore needs to continue its replication in terms of a genetic downward spiral for humanity, humanity dominated by the barely-human inhumane.
Hate then continually needs to be defined in terms of predation and exploitation. Protective labels, and especially accusing brands, have to be ripped away. Lie need to be ignored and the predator needs to be identified and marginalized.
Our challenge is to define predation scientifically (especially in the psychologists and psychiatrists), and implemented into the legal system.
Obama needs to carry it forward in a consistent way, and we can easily live in a healthy planet.
My writing on the empathic connection with nature: http://thinman.com/empathy This writing is extended here-> on Google docs
