HERE IT IS - FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH!

After my last 'Blog Posting' I had to stop; and make this attempt for some 'unknown reason' in at least trying to explain, after the fallout with the last 'Blog' with some of the responses, that have 'touched the nerve' of a couple of people, and ultimately have lost those supporters, but: I know that's the way it goes - because people are 'close minded' and it's already been proven that; 'people are resistant to change' no matter how good it is for them, or how much it may hurt others, and I am no better when it comes to 'That Understanding;' I am sorry for that, but it remains out of my 'control' because I wrote from my 'Heart' and from the experiences that I have been 'going through' ... only it was something that; those few found incomprehensible and flies in the face of 'Their Reasoning' even as I come to what I believe to be: a better understanding. (It doesn't make me better, it just makes me different in my comprehension and knowledge.)

When I began 'doing' what I thought was the 'Right Thing' in 'The World' - it was with a purpose and belief that; I had a dream and passion for 'writing,' 'being on the radio' and a real desire to propel some of the projects that I had been working on into the 'Cultural Mainstream.' Mostly because I could see that 'The World was closing in around me' and I could feel the pressure with no real place to turn. Not really being able to 'make a living' doing what I had been working toward since my career began in 1974, but increasingly being 'Placed in a Box' to conform to this ever changing world by 'Playing the Same Tunes ... Over and Over' while 'Lying' to the listening audience that I would 'Play their Request' knowing that 'it' (the song) wasn't even in the control room, and I could 'Risk losing my job' if I 'Didn't Follow the Rules.' But now I know; it really was for my own 'self gratification' for a place in the world and to do 'What I wanted to do, and to play what I wanted to play' ... because 'it was right and it just felt good' ... and it was music that I felt was being 'Left behind' and it was a thought that - we're moving 'through time' why can't the music?

I know that I wanted to 'Be a Part' of what I could see 'going on around me,' and knowing that I could be every bit as good, not only as a writer - but also as someone who enjoyed being on the radio, loved movies ... and wanted to be a greater part of that existence. I thought it was because I was so disappointed in seeing what was being produced, not only on the radio ... but in the movies and the nonsensical 'crap' that I could see being 'programmed' to the 'Populace' and I still feel like that; There's just a lot of 'crap' being produced and I believe I can do better. Why shouldn't I have that chance in this LIFE?

There was and still is something inside of me that is telling me, that; 'The path is growing narrower' much like the narrowing play lists and programming of radio stations who are dictating the play lists through their economic and powerful means. I know there is something very wrong with that future, and felt that there must be some 'Freedoms' left with the 'New World' but we would have to 'adventure out on our own.' It's not something new, since human beings have been doing it for hundreds of years, even when America broke away from Britain to begin a 'New World' free from the tyranny of a government that was oppressing its people.

Whew! When a person begins to 'speak from the heart' it becomes more of a problem, when it does not fit into the idealistic world of others, who have been programmed to believe 'their LIFE' as they know it ... and suddenly that; may have not been exactly what they thought it was ... all along.

From the experience of living in the world that I am creating, and after 'pulling back the curtain' to see that; the 'GREAT WIZARD' has been an illusion from the moment that I came into this mortal existence. This I do know; from what I've been 'experiencing' with the Justice system and the Corporate world ... I'm getting a good 'Hard' lesson and there must be a 'Good Reason' for the things I have been experiencing, because they are NOT making not making any sense in the 'World' that I've been conditioned to believe existed ... at least in the 'Common Sense' realm that I've come to rationalize as being 'The Common Sense of it all' which is why the very first book I have been writing will have the title "The UnCommon Sense of a Common Man or the Common Sense of an UnCommon Man" once I get that far.

From one moment to the next, it has almost begun to be more and more of a challenge to even keep trudging along to 'keep any semblance' of the truth, when so many in the World are so willing to 'accept' what 'they believe to be' the 'authority' and there should be no questioning that fact. When any person who believes with conviction the TRUTH and has the evidence that is supported by the WORLD, yet is consistently 'made to believe' that what he is seeing and experiencing is 'Not the Truth' even as it 'Glares at them from the written law of the land' then it becomes more of a quest to 'rationalize the truth' to others, if not to 'maintain a person's own sanity!'

It remains that frustrating effort when 'The Truth' is so evident while most are willing to believe 'The Lie' mainly because it's easier to 'Go Along' and to 'Accept it' because they're, in their mind 'helpless' to do anything about it ... and so becomes easier to criticize and understand the 'Bigger Lie' - and to me ... it seems unacceptable, and goes against the very core and nature of 'right and wrong' in a 'person's (human being's) LIFE.

In the learning process, Epistemology - I personally have asked, through my research to find the answers and definitions ... because I want to know;

• What is knowledge?
• How is knowledge acquired?
• How do we know what we know?

Epistemology focuses on analyzing the nature of knowledge and how it relates to connected notions such as truth, belief, and justification. It also deals with the means of production of knowledge, as well as skepticism about different knowledge claims.

It is the same research that I've done in Music, radio, TV, writing and the legal issues that I am currently plagued with, because it affects my situation, not only as person, human being ... but as an American ... and what I'm finding is simply this; WE ARE BEING FENCED IN --- slowly and surely and the people are slow to wake up and see what is happening. While I'm writing I'm listening to the re-make of the political anthem from Buffalo Springfield, "For What it's Worth" and that RINGS TRUE today as it did all those years ago. if not more so NOW!

And what's the song that is following on JST KLSX? - Jackie DeShannon's "Put a Little Love in Your Heart."

I have only asked for people to 'Believe' not just in me, (although it would be nice) but the 'Nature' of the world around us, because in the simplicity of my mind ... albeit I believe in GOD as the CREATOR of the UNIVERSE, and Jesus Christ - I still believe that you and I have a 'Role to Play' in the 'Plan' and it remains a purposeful plan. "We didn't get Dressed up for Nutin." (Braveheart)

I know that no matter what we do in this world, we're not going to please everyone, because there really are two sides to the coin ... a right and a wrong. I explained to someone the other day; "we live on a planet that has two poles, a north and a south pole ... so we really are living on a bi-polar planet" ... and boy does that ever make sense! It remains the same for each and every man and woman on this planet.

People are ridiculed for their beliefs everyday ... but when it comes right down to it; it's their world and they can believe how ever they want to believe ... love any kind of music, food, people or vices they like ... but; it is what it is! I'm sorry to lose a friend over such trivial issues, but if that's how they choose to believe, whose to argue with them? I can only tell you what I'm experiencing at the hands of a World intent on keeping you 'Fenced in' and if you don't know what I'm going through without all of the 'FACTS' before judging me, then SHAME on you - for "What Bodes ill for 'Jack Sparrow' bodes ill for us all!" Get it? (you and I)