Burn On

It's the head-bobbin' beats that spits heat and speaks

To the fiends and creeps to get back on their feet (*Don't Retreat!)

Add the fuel to the fire

so the Fools and the Liars

learn to use and admire

the Tools to Inspire

stay True and Inquire

Be a fool and a squire,

a Man and Fighta

for what's right and lifts you higha!

Sing from your heart, never let that lighta expiyaaaaa!!!

Do You Do You?

Do you do you I do I do
Do you do you I do
Do you do you I do I do
Do you do you I do...

Do you do you? Do you whistle your own tune
Eat from the hand that feeds or use your own spoon?
Turn the other cheek put your tail between your legs?
Earn another check wake up and go to bed?

Did you want to be a lawyer, president or a doctor?
Be a priest, be at peace, sign a lease, be a rocker?
A beast at soccer, a midnight walker,
Text-message talker or a facebook stalker?

You ever downplay others saying “I could do that!”
Yah look around for approval or a pat on the back?
Don’t appease, take the lead, never cease to believe
that your creed and your needs are the keys to your dreams

Look around, this is you man, you made this life
No one pointed a gun no one held this knife
No one told you to run, made you marry this wife
But your looking to your God praying isn’t this right?

Feel your gut is it heavy?, are your intentions true?
What are the deep down drivers that invented you?
Is it money? Is it love? Is it power? Is it drugs?
Is it right? Is it Wrong? Only you can be the judge

Cuz my message is hear and my message is clear
The biggest sin of life is to live in fear
The saddest song I’ve heard is the one never sung
You can never play your own tune if your guitar’s never strung

So you do you and I’ll do me
You’re the captain of your cruise, the fearless leader of your fleet
Smiles exude with a new attitude, when the things you do are you...

Big Business and Competition...convo with Ben Stewart (Kymatica and Esoterica Agenda)

Hey Ben, I've been a strong supporter of esoteric agenda and Kymatica since I laid eyes on them. Zeitgeist and Down the Rabbit Hole sparked a renaissance of the idea and journey of self-actualization that I had bits and pieces of through amazing teachers and individuals who I had encountered since middle school. Needless to say, after college I joined the ranks of 9-5ers in the corporate america playground of structure, regulation, operational efficiency, productivity, top line growth, and CEO's "saving the company and it's stockholders" by taking "necessary measures" to fire people. Now, I came into this job knowing this, didnt know just HOW ugly it was, but the main purpose was to see the dark side of the beast. I did not want to be a hipocrate in the sense that I chastised the idea of big business, yet never saw it from the inside. Planning my indefinite trip to S.America, had enough of the Corporate, consumerism, capitalistic nature of America, and ready for my personal life sebaticle....Enough of me though, I had a few questions I have been pondering and wanted to see what you thought about it: 1) Can big business ever be "good" (good in the sense that you are doing "right" for humanity, adding value to the universe). 2) Is not competition good for society in some sense? The idea of varying products, not having a monopoly on one industry, incapacitating an individual or group to have complete control over the masses. Competition could be in the sense of not having a groupthink mentality, so in that sense competition or varying views (products) are healthy. But I feel that ego's get in the way and human nature messes things up...throw money in there and the equation spins out of control...just wanted to get your viewpoint, if you have time I'd love to hear what you have to say! Keep injecting positive thoughts and putting ideas/facts on the table for people to interpret....love it. Looking forward to following your Hanging Man project, great stuff.

BEN Response:

Tim, thank you for your well thought out email. First question, can big business ever be good? Well absolutely. Anything is possible. The problem with big business now is the general collective cultural canon of the people. It is a belief that the more you have, the more secure you will be in the future. And deep deep within all of us, we feel insecure and need to externalize that void in the form of material gain and profit. The problem is not Big Business, it's the reason why we have Big Business to begin with. This leads to your next question. Isn't competition good in some sense. Absolutely. But I always look at it this way. Competition to the Romans and Greeks actually meant to strive along side our brothers and sisters to a common good. Today it means, to strive for an upper hand above and beyond our brothers and sisters which will create status and power giving us further security because we then have something that other people want and need. So we can use it as a bargaining chip.
Competition today is based out of fear and defense (the somatic) rather than growth and development (the viscera). It's very simple once you consider the inner motive and will of the people who make up big business. Not all business owners are malicious. In fact very few are. It's the deep seeded fear within them that makes them feel as if the HAVE to be deceitful and dishonest and ruthless in order to stay alive. It's a typical defense mechanism.
Again thank you for your question. Hope my answers made sense and helped a bit.

Braindump while listening to Everyday by Carly Comando

Lessons learned along the road, feel the minor chords that just seep through your veines, makes you tingle and pulls you up…upp..which way is up? Am I getting further away, or closer to a goal? Getting further away from what I am, what Ive been, moving on, moving up, moving….What if I remain? What happened to the “if it aint broke don’t fix it?” That always helped me through life…the simple way of looking at things…try telling that to Corp America…Six Sigma, Do you have your green belt? “Kaizen”…constant and never ending improvement, so the Japanese say…that rings a bell though. So what is different from finding efficiencies, process optimization, implementing technology to cut operational cost…operational cost = labor = less people who need to be hired or people who can be fired. We try to justify by saying hey put in a self-checkout, take 4 employees off of the register and “redeploy” the labor. Redeploy…to….where? These execs see the value in cutting labor hours and cutting jobs…The ship must sail on they say! At the consequence of who? I must “protect” my stockholders stake, must do what needs to be done….stockholders stake? How bout your ass and your stock options? What happened to old mom and pops stores, having conversation with little Johnny when he comes to buy some butter for mom’s biscuits shes cooking up, catching up on old times, and new ones! But people have become time-starved…know what they want, when they want it, and would rather talk to a machine, then to Betty the Cashier. So now who do you blame? The ends justifies the means, and in this case, companies are catering to people’s wants and needs. Cant blame em…but you can. So now we see the problem, how do we change the masses…how do we tell everyone to slow down? Is it a movie, a song, a world war, a FightCLub-esque ending that will yield..a beginning? Back to the CEO (cant you see this is buggin me?) who have gained ohh such a popular acclaim recently, If not driven for the money , it must be to save face, pride….the power..the gold plated CEO on your grand ol’ oak desk, money is power…that needed power that is craved so much is emitted from the Ego..what are others going to think of me? What good am I CREATING with this so called power and will to influence others. I am higher on the totem poll than you…get me my coffee… “it’s a sign of respect, I had to do it to get where I am today”…respect? Like the respect a frat brother will give to his pledge by making him eat shit, punched in the face, dehumanized for the sake of other “more privilidged” brothers? I was in a frat, Ive seen shit go down…so respect…how is it gained? Does one have to follow in their predecessors footsteps in order to be held in the same limelight? Respect is earned…by hard work, by treating OTHERS HOW YOU WANT TO BE TREATED…to prove something? Proving something to yourself is one thing, but proving something for the sake of acceptance for another…is weaksauce.