Wednesday, June 29, 2011

"NOW IS THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT"

There remains a 'Strong' almost an overwhelming need and continued desire to express 'that' ... 'desire' to 'get the point' across ... on this ... this thing that I seem to be involved in, called; Radio / Entertainment. So please ... take a moment to 'Change the Channel' now because, I am going to address a lot of different issues that may seem to 'jump' from one thing to another, which will be an article a little longer than usual, but in my mind ... a Thesis (all) connected to the primary issue; radio, entertainment, publishing ... its audience and LIFE in general. But keep in mind, I am an uneducated man in the sense of today's society, so what I say ... you should heed only with a 'Grain of Salt!' (Seriously ... stop reading now for your own sanity!)


One of the primary reasons for me to start a radio station, as much as being a writer was to: set out on a quest to enjoy the 'Freedoms' that were afforded me, long before I was born, but came to a beginning and understanding after ten years into my career as a radio personality, which I attribute to the 'Real Beginning' of my 'So Called' career in the spring of 1983 in Salt Lake City, Utah.


A career move in that year spoiled me in more ways than just one. There was an ideology that, even within the structure in a format for a new radio station KLCY94FM - there was a 'freedom' to 'connect' to the audience, move music around, take phone calls, produce topical information and place it into the programming that; kept things moving forward, while giving those listening 'that feeling' it was all ... 'Fresh' and 'Exciting.' For all intensive purposes, the management allowed the 'personality' to 'craft' the 'Feeling' of the format to keep that 'Feeling' in tact. Aside from that little bit of programming, the management still maintained a strict play list, designed only for the 'target audience' which was, at the time: a 32 year old female, who according to the research, made all of the decisions for the household. It was in my job description to 'Woo' that female, and 'give her what she wanted,' the; fantasy of 'dropping out' of the rat race, and slipping into another world that, as a personality ... I was creating that world ... only for her. It remains my belief ... nothing has changed.

Although I had been in radio for nearly ten years before Salt Lake City, it was my first major market radio station. I was one of nine personalities chosen in a search across the country, to put the radio station onto the map. It was an exciting time for me, because I was hired by a Corporation who showed me what it was like to be treated as a 'valued member' of a team of professionals. At the time, I did not realize that I was the only one, who had never been in Major Market before, and the one with the least experience, however afterward I learned that I was hired for several reasons; the quality and timber of my voice, personality and creativity, that began to 'focus' more on the emerging picture. I was but a small piece of the 'overall plan' but a piece of the puzzle that brought the picture into focus. I know there is nothing new here, but realize something seemingly to be constantly 'pushed aside' in the evolution of our 'Human Existence' that wants to 'Quell' the furtherance of our doctrines established those many years ago by our ancestors - the founding fathers, and colonist who left the sanctity of their world in search of the 'New Beginnings and Way of LIFE.'

It was that period in 1983 that left an impression on me that I still haven't been able to shake: that, in a round about way begin to teach me about those 'Freedoms' from a major company that was paying for my move, setting up my family and LIFE and getting me adjusted to new surroundings. It was awe inspiring, and now I can see, after that experience ... how a business can be dedicated to the ideology of a project in a marketplace, to make a commitment to 'winning' and dominating the market. Although I saw it from a different angle at the time, I can now see that it took so much more planning and organizing 'behind the scenes' to bring that 'developmental ideology' to existence. But, it wasn't something new, although it was a turning point in my LIFE as there are those 'points' in every one's ... if they choose to pay attention to them. (Most people already get that basic inference ... but choose not to take it further, because they're all much too wrapped up in the 'Moment' - I was no different) Hopefully I will be able to bridge the connection, but at that time and this, it will remain an experience that makes up more of how I came to be where I am currently. Seems simple enough, but not really. I too was 'Playing the Game' but still had no clue, even though I knew 'They Were the Bosses!'


Being 'Wrapped up in the moment' is what was as appealing and the 'Hook' to a broader 'New Awakening' only I wasn't paying attention as much as 'Being Involved' in the community in ways that weren't as clear then but are now: and now, just as important in this day and age ... only now on a much grander scale. The management's connections to the local businesses wanting to be as involved with the radio station, to 'connect' to that 'target audience' for that most obvious of reasons and always ... money! While I wasn't making the kind of money that 'Big Time' radio / entertainment people were capable of commanding, it did give me some of the 'Perks' with my involvement ... mainly because I was being 'Handled' as part of my reward, so I could reach a point wherein the radio station could maximize its potential for market domination. (Of course that's a no brainer and the 'Duh Factor!')


Realizing that it sounds a bit 'Trite' it has led to that 'lust' for educational awareness, at least for me because there is something in my brain that makes me ask repeatedly; "Why did those things happen the way they happened?"


And so, while I continue to muddle along, it slowly becomes apparent that I am having more clarity in my thoughts, or could be just still 'Gumping Along!' There have been more than a few people who have accused me of being saddled with A.D.D., since my thoughts, as much as having a whole lot of passion are responsible for those decisions, which have given other's an opinion that; 'this guy, while interesting' is not one of the normals.

I know this is true, (not being normal) because I've been accused of it far too many times, so I'm going with the percentages as being a notch on the bar, that I've managed to clear ... easily. Even though I did not get through College, my education has been on-going for years, and has taught me that; as a society we have been 'clickish' ... but for want of a better explanation, it also has taught me that it has everything to do with the genetics, bloodlines and very importantly ... the environment.


Growing up a 'Commoner' in a sense as a 'Military Brat' born in the South, but living in various regions of the country as a child, including the West, Mid West ... living in the Orient as a pre-teen, and the formidable years in the beautiful but rugged Alaskan wilderness, if you want to call Anchorage, Alaska wilderness - and you can ... continues to 'Shape my thoughts' on the World I'm inhabiting.


I hope I haven't lost you yet, knowing that I am purposely winding my way through a series of anecdotal, and some may seem trivial nonsense ... but I know that: it has tremendous purpose, when a person begins to 'Wipe Away the Sleep from their Eyes' to see the World as it really is, after 'Not Paying Attention' in those most important years as a child and mis-spent youth. I feel it VERY important to 'tell you' because it is important to me now ... hoping for a 'Better Understanding' of the 'Man' behind the 'Cause.' I continue to look for the clarity and understanding, while possibly 'Sharing the Thoughts' to those who will come to be involved in the 'New Age Mind' in changing the way 'We' believe in 'Our' existence' But who really knows until the 'Moment' presents itself?


But having parents who were as un-educated in the world (and I don't mean any disrespect) because they too were mislead into believing the World worked in a certain way ... that made all that much more sense to them into some of the more obvious 'Rights and Wrongs,' 'Working' and 'Obeying' but also a little something 'They' instilled within me that came from 'Their' upbringing and those ancestors which are likely causing me to question; not only the authority but the 'Common Sense' applications as they appear in this 'Reality.' I can reason that 'My Past Reality' through time may have me focusing in on the: Theory of Morphogenetics or a String Theory of Existence which may be shaping my future in the 'Cosmic' sense.


I hope I'm not losing you, because I am gathering the momentum to bring about an understanding that; this conceptual idea of being a radio station/publishing entity, as much as being a writer, producer, director or whatever it is that I am doing ... has all been a part of the 'Grand Plan' even if I did not know it ... at least consciously. You see, I had no desire to be in radio at the time, but it was something that came about through a series of events that were placed in front of me, allowing me to 'Drift' into a field that I did find exciting, and at the same time overwhelmingly scary. Over the years it's been more mystical as I look back at the opportunities in taking advantage of advancement, but being too 'immature, 'frightened' or most likely and the best possible reason was; being un-educated and sophisticated to act on the opportunity.

Even as I believe in the 'Free Will' and GOD (The Holy Trinity) I also believe in the metaphysical interconnectedness of the 'Entire Universe' that encompasses that 'Science,' 'Astrology,' 'Mathematical,' 'Vibrational Frequencies' and anything involving the 'Electromagnetism' of 'Time and Space' that are GOD, you and me ... at the same time. The LAW of Attraction. Although I do not hesitate in telling you and knowing that; I am nothing more than a 'simpleton' whose idea was to 'Do My Thing' because I didn't believe that I was relegated to working for 'The Man' in a system that is constantly oppressing, what I feel were / are my personal rights and freedoms at the cost of making them 'Rich' while I 'Slaved' to keep up in an ever changing world. You see ... it doesn't make sense to me.

Scientist describe Morphogenetic fields not merely as incipient structures or organs, but as Dynamic Entities with their own localized developmental processes, which are central to the emerging field of evolutionary development – and that; is what is happening in ‘My World’ as I see it unfolding.

There is a 'Shift in the Paradigm' and it has been raging far longer than you and I have been on this 'Plane of Human Existence' . Although I do get the feeling more so now, than ever that, 'We Have Been' here longer than we as Human beings can remember ... only in a slightly different plane of Existence. Using 'My Brain' has become more of a quest in search of the answer to the questions plaguing not just mankind, but me personally not only in a religious application, but through a scientific application; Einstein's 'Theory of Relativity' which has led to Max Planck and others, but again ... I am uneducated and a simpleton. Perhaps only wishing to be accepted as 'bourgeoisie' but in this society, or World ... I did not play the game from 'Whence I came.' (Meaning; born into the wrong class, by blood and not paying attention to the environment when I got here - or, inspired to 'Get the Message' from that early age.) But, it's not too late!

However, I'm not so sure we as a 'Mass' of people (Americans) are recognizing it as fast as we should, because we are still being 'led,' 'controlled' and 'chained' into submission, one by one ... when we have been given the 'keys' to our freedom but fail to use them; not only to our individual advantage but as 'whole race of people.' And, it's not just Americans.

In fact, when we do begin to use the 'keys' and 'knowledge' as 'One' we are often intimidated into a belief that the individual exercising those rights "Must be a crazy fanatical" for thinking 'Outside of the Box.' And, sadly as Plato and others have said in history; it is true.

So when John Steinbeck's last novel in 1961 was published - "The Winter of Our Discontent," the title is a reference to the line "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son [or sun] of York," from William Shakespeare's Richard III, which came back to 'Bite' British Prime Minister James Callaghan in the ass when his term was 'Dubbed' with the same title in 1978 - 1979 all because of the 'Trials and Tribulations' of the working man caught up in the labor disputes during that bleak and bleary winter during when there were widespread strikes by local authority trade unions demanding larger pay rises for their members, because the Labor government of James Callaghan sought to hold a pay freeze to control inflation. "Gotta keep the man in his place!"

So what has changed? In the course of human existence, men have been seeking to control other men for their 'own' self gratification and gain ... the GREED of the few over the despair of the many.


It is to this end, that I had been 'pushing' my agenda with the help of a small group of individuals in creating a radio station / publishing entity that could possibly break out of that cycle of 'Corporate Controllism' which undoubtedly leads to poverty for most, because has been destroying 'Capitalism' in its purest form, which is competition in a 'Free Market.'


But, I am a small potato without the resources presently, because ... I don't have the educational background, and as far as I know ... the genetic bloodline, even as I keep striving for the 'prize' ... wondering; 'What difference does it make?'


But while I look to the future, I struggle with the presence of MIND that GOD / the UNIVERSE does have a plan with both YOU and I in it ... and this is not being done in vain. I have to BELIEVE that WE will be able to exist on this plane and it may be causing a greater destiny to unfold for the existence of Human Kind, and for whatever reason "We're Going to Play A Major Role."


... I want to remain a 'Free Man' to live doing what I LOVE, in a country that will allow me the ability to communicate openly under the SUPREME LAW of the LAND that was formed by a CONTRACT called the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES and nothing less than being ALLOWED to LIVE as our forefathers and GOD intended; "LIFE, LIBERTY & THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS!"


Every now and then a mutation occurs, and it could be that; we're experiencing a NEW WORLD coming to LIFE, but not the one of being saddled with a burden of oppression. It was one of the reasons that I believe we're 'Creating' a radio station/publishing entity that may have its own purpose in the ultimate WILL, and some call it GOD'S WILL - since I couldn't stand being 'regimented' by the authority of having to be 'Placed inside the Structure of Rules and bound by the Authority.' Although, I am NOT an ANARCHIST! We do live by rules governing a society, just not the ones meant for the few over the many.

In summation; I know we have to LIVE by social standards and cannot infringe on the rights of others, but I can only continue in the 'Faith' that there is a 'Desitination' and 'Purpose' unfolding, and it's not my vanity pushing to surpass that of any other, but only to enlist your continued support in this quest for a new company that will help deliver a measure of contentment. I need your help, and want your support ... I need your trust.


the problem is: it's JUST TOO DAMN AGGRAVATING trying to explain what I want to do ... without the financial resources to do it ... because ... people are 'CHAINED to THEIR EXISTENCE' and afraid to 'STEP Up and OUT!' I think I have ... but maybe I'm that cartoon character ... running over the cliff, hanging in mid air, for a split second, holding up the sign ... with the expression on my face of "OHhhhh DAMN!"


If you made it this far and want to make a comment that what you've read is just 'Too Much' - I warned you to stop reading for your own sanity, because it's my thoughts that are important to this quest. If you can understand and connect the dots ... then you know what I'm up against, without me ... really having to tell you, what's really going on.

9 Comments:

dotty said...

WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST SAY?

Mason Ramsey said...

Dotty - And you were a Registered Nurse? C'mon ... it seems pretty simplistic to me. If you even read the 'Warning lable' in the first paragrah ... it believe it said; "Stop now, because this will only confuse you." I'm surprised that it has, but then again, you like 'Jerking my Chain' anyway. I think you like 'dissent' and maybe that's why you liked me in the beginning ... because I chose to question 'their authority' and when it comes down to it ... that's what it's all about. I'm trying to do my thing, and to keep them from doing it for me ... because ... I don't like what they're doing ... and I can do it better. Otherwise, who else will play your tunes? Especially "My Rifle, My Pony & Me?" I'll Lay ODDS that YOUR 'Brother Bill' hasn't played it ONCE ... not ONCE! Or am I wrong?

Tara said...

Aaahhh Mason, I think you're so funny. I believe you confuse people on purpose. How can someone disagree with you if they don't know what the hell you just said. If you are trying to communicate to the masses, why don't you speak in a way that they will understand, otherwise you are just talking to hear yourself talk, or you're trying to dazzle us with your brilliance, or baffle us with B.S.

Personally, I think you should ease up on the twilight zone stuff and stay focused on what's really important. God and Country!!!
Stop trying to impress your listeners with your knowledge, and speak to their hearts. Love and truth, has the ability to overcome all boundaries in communication, and has the strength to rebuild this nation. What needs to be done in this country is not a complex matter. We the people need to hear the truth and act on it. Give your listeners something to work with. Most people don't even think about the universe, they're only concerned about their own little world. Help them make that world a better place.

Leslie UnMoody said...

SweetCAKES...this comment comes with a warning... do not proceed if you get your feelings hurt easily. I know you will proceed because I know you don’t or at least you project that you don’t, but I think you do, not unlike the rest of us, get your feelings hurt. Kipish? A somewhat confusing sentence for sure. Sometimes your Blog gets pretty confusing as it covers so many things at once.

To me your blogs show you are not UnLike the rest of us when we arrive at the knowledge that we are not all we hoped we would/could be as we zoom through ‘The Days of Our Lives’. You seem to be reaching out in many directions to try and explain WHY you are where you are when the answer is right in front of you. In fact YOU say it all the
time! “WHEREVER YOU ARE...YOU ARE...RIGHT HERE...RIGHT NOW!” What that means to me is WeAll do the best we can with where we are and the answers to WHY we are there will eventually drift though our thick skulls and even make sense. Take where YOU are. I see the positive way you touch your fans and bring joy/fun into
their lives. Maybe that should be your main focus or who knows maybe it already has been? Maybe you will touch a future President or Politician to stretch himself or herself into being better person?

The yearning for more Plato/Government/Education/Show ME what's behind the curtain plagues UsAll but at some point we have to focus on our immediate world and give it all we got and give it our very best. That usually means we do not have energy to keep pushing at the curtain. I get the feeling it is not just the WORLD becoming a giant cesspool that is bothering you...Try to do something every day that makes You/Yours HAPPY as it helps clarify things!

p.s. My thoughts on USA’s situation is that it is going the only way it could. The pendulum seems to swing one way then the other. Until it stops in the middle there will be unrest. ‘We The People’ had a major hand in creating the mess we are in and it is probably going to take a big shovel or revolution to clean it up. Like you, WeAll need to do our part and participate more in the Government process. (Janie has a Gun is my immediate thought...ADD for sure!)

p.p.s. There is nothing wrong with having A.D.D. It runs rampant through my family. We have more gears than others. We are the ones called in emergencies as we can function 24 hours if needed. But the fact that we focus on many things...oops there went a fly...back later...can cause problems with communication, relationships/etc. XOOX LuM

Mason Ramsey said...

No Leslie - I'm not offended and my feelings are not hurt.

I am not making this stuff up, but have learned a great deal from the ride. We'll see if we get to that destination. As with LIFE, I'm guessing that I must (without trying to bolster my position), from the past experiences ... may be just a little ahead of the 'SHIFT' --- but I will continue working to separate myself from RockandRollHeaven.net even more so --- since the philosophy that I harbor isn't what 'The General' population cares to understand at this time --- However … it is relevant to my LIFE, and one of the reasons that I chose to go this direction, so I could have the freedom to step outside the Corporate playlist, because I felt those freedoms being threatened, and lots of music lost, but mainly because Judi and I have been up against the economic plague that is devastating OUR WAY of LIFE while trying to survive putting this 'thing' together.

not that the music isn't important …. my blogs just need to be away from RockandRollHeaven --- because the T.O.M.A. (Top of mind Awareness) that I was taught in 1983 obviously isn't relevant anymore in this political climate of people 'Not wanting to know' --- people are only interested in the mainstream Casey Anthony trial and not the way the system should be working. I really think that's one of the reasons why America and the world is in the situation it is today … because of the apathy.

I do understand --- and I guess I'm lucky my mic's are not on --- but, I'm sure you haven't heard anything on the radio except the music and the jingles.

---- as long as the people are happy with that --- I will continue to try and give it a chance to survive ---

at some point I'm sure that I may get my opportunity to do the radio / publishing show that I am so longing to get back to --- which is a MUSIC / TALK SHOW with a ROCK AND ROLL BACK BEAT === but that will not be on Saturday and Sunday nights, I'll leave those shows to someone else in the future --- while I can just play the music on those nights, which is what I thought that I was doing.

I promise that I will 'Keep it Simple' and make attempts to move the blogs away. Thanks Leslie --- I very much appreciate you and your thoughts --- Mason

Leslie UnMoody said...

"'The General' population" has every right to their own philosophy and more important THEY, not me or you, are responsible for it. I understand how you may feel. You may have an open window into the workings/understand of LIFE and feel the need to share your wisdom.

I am wondering if maybe you are selling 'The General' population short. You have rounded up some awesome, capable Fans that hold you in high regard just the way you are...A remarkable young man that is trying to preserve a big hunk of our lives. I am thinking you want/need more and I for one hope you get just what you want/need! Wish I could help!

p.s. Why would you move 'The Blogs' away? To cruise The Mind of our Mason is always a learning experience! Hugs LuM

Leslie UnMoody said...

WTG Tara...

"We the people need to hear the truth and act on it." Amen

Mason Ramsey said...

Tara, that's the problem, when PEOPLE are weak minded & want to believe in the media that is not challenging them, instead 'Dumbing them Down' then they are the ones who will stand in the way of others progress.

I read, just like VERY few people do. I don't make this stuff up. If you were to pick up a book from Albert Einstein, Max Planck (theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1918), Nikola Tesla (He was an important contributor to the birth of commercial electricity, & is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries) or even a dozen others who are Scientist, Philosophers, Preachers, Doctors & thinkers, then; you may have a little understanding about the world in which you live. Just because you don't understand doesn't mean that I'm trying to "DAZZLE YOU" with my bullshit. I didn't make this UP! It's right in front of you. Do you really believe that ALBERT EINSTEIN who was genius had a friend, who said to him; "Oh … you think you're so smart with that THEORY of RELATIVITY BullSHIT?"

& I even stated in the first paragraph "STOP READING because it will only confuse YOU!" You didn't STOP because there was SOMETHING MAGNETIC that DREW YOU INTO READING the ARICLE. Maybe that's what pisses you off, because, it angers your intelligence level in NOT knowing what YOU think you do know.

I am writing about what's IMPORTANT: GOD & COUNTRY. Only you can't see it, because YOU are too closed & narrow minded to open up to the possibility that GOD is the CREATOR of the UNIVERSE & we're ALL CONNECTED. What's so HARD to UNDERSTAND about that?

I can't help you make the world a better place. YOU have to make it a better place. I can only make it better from MY perspective, but are YOU willing to listen? I think the answer is no, yet I am spending my time to respond to you, in hopes of giving you a better understanding, but even GOD says; (paraphrasing) 'You cannot help those who do NOT want the HELP.'

I wrote from what came from MY HEART & if that's NOT APPEALING to YOU, remember I asked that YOU STOP READING the article before getting too involved. YOU DIDN'T.

What I am doing & what I'm involved in, is from what you're saying; way over your head. I am sorry you feel that way. But, not many people are meant to understand … the road to heaven is narrow, & the path to destruction is wide. Which road do you believe AMERICA is ON? Much less yourself?

And Tara, I don't wish to sound Harsh to you but, you asked to stop communicating with me because you did not believe in what I believe, but here you are jumping in with your two cents because GOD told you so? or, is it your devilish nature to want to thwart my efforts in trying to drag me down to your level, when I've been trying to enlighten NOT ONLY MYSELF but; you to a greater level.

Do you see the conundrum you've raised? If you really want to know: pick up a book, read some of the history of the world. Know there is not only the BIBLE (King James Version) but other ways that GOD may be trying to communicate with you in a simplistic way.

GOD is GOD & the CREATOR of the UNIVERSE --- ergo: GOD is the ULTIMATE Astrologer, Scientist, Mathematician & HIS WORD and PRESENCE is ALL AROUND US.

I hope that answers your questions without making your head want to POP off because you can't control what I do or write about in; MY beliefs in GOD, AMERICA & the UNIVERSE in a way that doesn't make sense to you. I've given you the TRUTH now you can act on it, or not. With much respect, Mason

ps. those people who want to live in 'their own little world' is WHY AMERICA is IN THE DEEP PILE OF CRAP WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW! It's THOSE people who are dangerous to GOD'S Plan.

Mason Ramsey said...

Leslie - I'm talking about --- removing myself ... from the MUSICAL side of my DREAM --- because, people cannot make the connection to both entities. and so, the simple solution is to involve my personal beliefs with MY personal musical endeavors - if people want to follow me ... that's great, I want to give them my opinions on music, life, entertainment and the T.O.M.A. (Top of Mind Awareness) that I believe to be so important. I can do both ... from different levels of a path that I'm currently on. If they ONLY want the music ... I can give them that as well, without being subjected to my opinions. It is indeed a fine line. Love ya LOTS Leslie Girl! Mason.