Inevitably, the bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie will give expression to their own ideologies. Inevitably, they will stubbornly express themselves on political and ideological questions by every possible means. You cannot expect them to do otherwise. We should not use the method of suppression and prevent them from expressing themselves, but should allow them to do so and at the same time argue with them and direct appropriate criticism at them. We must undoubtedly criticize wrong ideas of every description. It certainly would not be right to refrain from criticism, look on while wrong ideas spread unchecked and allow them to monopolize the field. Mistakes must be criticized and poissnous weeds fought wherever they crop up. However, such criticism should not be dogmatic, and the metaphysical method should not be used, but efforts should be made to apply the dialectical method. What is needed is scientific analysis and convincing argument.
Ibid., pp. 55-56.


It feels wonderful to be alive and healthy in this moment. There is an anomaly in the climate here, temperatures are peaking in the seventy ranges, it should be at the freezing end of the scale, it may be true that the planet is headed for another ice age, but that needs further investigation. As always it’s great to start with the words of Chairman Mao.

To: those Yoruba, Ashanti, Wolfe, people who make up significant parts of the Bahamas but don’t know who you are culturally, stay strong, A Change Is going To Come. The Seventh Generation, Flipmode Squad, and those who are just maintaining, the vanguard is among you have no fear. My hippie comrades, and those who live and breathe on the far radical liberal left, I stand firm with you in mind body and spirit. Those reactionaries, The special tribe call The`Five Blockheads (Casual observer, YorickBrown, Rory, Tafadhali, and CG) you have earned your membership well in this group by living up to the standard of what it takes to be a blockhead. In the traditional cultures of African peoples and native American peoples it is customary to address the entire community, the animate and in animate, the living and the dead, the physical and metataphyiscal thus such a long greeting as I embrace my wolfe ancestry, and my return to a new old paradigm of seeing the world.

Sam cooks Song A change Is Going to come arises out of the policy of open segregation that was practice in the United states of America after the civil war, and it cried of a future that was yet to be. His song also ties into the general philosophy of this post as it is an example of an artist reflecting the ideas dreams and hope of his her people and putting these concepts forward for the people. Only a block head would find the revolutionary movement of a people silly. CG, Let’s look at your own words:

P.S. The Song "A Change Is Going to Come" Is really rather silly. Change always comes - sometimes it is good, sometimes it is bad. Sometimes it is slow in coming, some times it comes quickly, but change always comes. We live in an ever-changing world where nothing is permanent. (A real "thinker" would know that.)



. Each revolutionary movement must have its own vocabulary, thus the need to define a Blockhead

CG I did not respond to the first posting of Pol Pot because I wanted you to look at How ridiculous the idea is, when placed in the frame work of the general discussion. I am using the Red Book as a back drop for this discussion to take place here is what Mao had to say:

Inevitably, the bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie will give expression to their own ideologies. Inevitably, they will stubbornly express themselves on political and ideological questions by every possible means. You cannot expect them to do otherwise. We should not use the method of suppression and prevent them from expressing themselves, but should allow them to do so and at the same time argue with them and direct appropriate criticism at them. We must undoubtedly criticize wrong ideas of every description. It certainly would not be right to refrain from criticism, look on while wrong ideas spread unchecked and allow them to monopolize the field. Mistakes must be criticized and poissnous weeds fought wherever they crop up. However, such criticism should not be dogmatic, and the metaphysical method should not be used, but efforts should be made to apply the dialectical method. What is needed is scientific analysis and convincing argument.
Ibid., pp. 55-56.

In your knowledge of Pol Pot is this the type of engagement he was promoting? Mao recognize the petty bourgeoisie, I prefer to call them Blockheads, and he articulated at methodology of dealing with them of engaging them in the dialectical method not take them out into the jungle and shoot them. Do you see how stupid this example of Pol Pot is, do you think I am advocating the concept of mass genocide? Come on now Blockhead be real. As I have stated before if you are not going to be thinking when you post please don’t do it here are enough shallow threads for you out there.

I don’t know if you are aware of this but I did post that the ideas here are not for everyone and they may very well not be for you I am not writing for a mass audience but for a select few in fact to be exact this is for the seventh generation, Flipmode squad, my hippie comrades, those who I have meet who live on the extreme radical left, and those who will be free. You may not be one of those that are not my personal responsibility to coerce you into seeing what I do, it’s next to impossible to do that with a Blockhead check your own words CG:

It would seem to me that a person, who has claimed to have the revelation you have, would be careful about calling people blockheads. Such a person would realize that these so-called blockheads don't grasp the concept. That does not make them blockheads - perhaps you have not explained your revelation in a clear manner. Perhaps there is nothing to your revelation but a sea of words in which you hope others will drown. Perhaps your words are making a simple concept unnecessarily difficult. There can be a number of reasons why others cannot grasp your words.

If you hope to gain support, or even to enlighten, calling people blockheads is not the way to go. Does your much quoted John H Clarke say that in order to get the concepts across one must be a objectionable as possible? Or was that your idea?

For your info CG Clarke suffered a heart attack due to a series of attacks by Blockheads, I remember him saying that he should have just called them fools pick up his hat and leave. I just call it as I see it, after all this is not a popularity contest and pretty fools are not pretty, I like what my Math teacher R Dean at A F Adderly told us if a man or woman is a fool, then tell them don’t, let them keep thinking other wise or you yourself be convinced that they are not. Thus you are a Blockhead, and will be referred to as such until a change in consciousness comes about, this is not an arbitrary title but it’s based on a review of your post on a variety of subjects.


The Five Blockheads have been named I hope there numbers do not increase but as they do or decrease I will make the necessary adjustments. But it’s very important to identify the Blockheads as these are the persons that will work against progressive programs for the people.







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The special tribe call The`Five Blockheads (Casual observer, YorickBrown, Rory, Tafadhali, and CG)
I guess I am in good company.

In your knowledge of Pol Pot is this the type of engagement he was promoting?
He also wanted an end to people going abroad to study, as you mentioned. That was the point I was making.

Do you see how stupid this example of Pol Pot is, do you think I am advocating the concept of mass genocide?
I don't know! But I would not put it passed someone of your temperament and your adherence to the teachings of Mao.

Mao recognize the petty bourgeoisie, I prefer to call them Blockheads, and he articulated at methodology of dealing with them of engaging them in the dialectical method not take them out into the jungle and shoot them.
I guess you forgot the "Cultural Revolution." Thousands died because they opposed Mao, or they were educated, or poisoned by foreign ideas!

Thus you are a Blockhead, and will be referred to as such until a change in consciousness comes about, this is not an arbitrary title but it's based on a review of your post on a variety of subjects.
Oh! It is completely arbitrary - based on the fact that you don't like my views. If I were to think like you, a Maoist, I would be OK?

PS. Can I appeal to other readers, blockheads or not. Do you know that a1000 is taking about, other than change, which we all agree must come?

Re: The Essential Theory And Praxis Of National Culture
Quote:
Originally Posted by a1000
To: The Seventh Generation; Namaste , it is another perfect day in the valley, all is quiet. The time is pregnant for the continuation of the work of chairman Mao on The Proper handling Of Contradictions Among The People:
The question of suppressing counterrevolutionaries is one of a struggle between ourselves and the enemy, a contradiction between ourselves and the enemy. Among the people, there are some who see this question in a somewhat different light. Two kinds of persons hold views different from ours. Those with a Rightist way of thinking make no distinction between ourselves and the enemy and take the enemy for our own people. They regard as friends the very persons whom the broad masses regard as enemies. Those with a "Left" way of thinking magnify contradictions between ourselves and the enemy to such an extent that they take certain contradictions among the people for contradictions with the enemy and regard as counter-revolutionariei persons who are actually not counter-revolutionaries. Both these views are wrong. Neither can lead to the correct handling of the question of suppressing counter-revolutionaries or to a correct assessment of this work.
Ibid., p. 25.
Qualitatively different contradictions can only be resolved by qualitatively different methods. For instance, the contradiction between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie is resolved by the method of socialist revolution; the contradiction between the great masses of the people and the feudal system is resolved by the method of democratic revolution; the contradiction between the colonies and imperialism is resolved by the method of national revolutionary war; the contradiction between the working class and the peasant class in socialist society is resolved by the method of collectivization and mechanization in agriculture; contradiction within the Communist Party is resolved by the method of criticism and self-criticism; the contradiction between society and nature is resolved by the method of developing the productive forces. . . . The principle of using different methods to resolve different contradictions is one which Marxist-Leninists must strictly observe.
"On Contradiction" (August 1937), Selected Works, Vol. I, pp. 321-22 .
Since they are different in nature, the contradictions between ourselves and the enemy and the contradictions among the people must be resolved by different methods. To put it briefly, the former are a matter of drawing a clear distinction between ourselves and the enemy, and the latter a matter of drawing a clear distinction between right and wrong. It is, of course, true that the distinction between ourselves and the enemy is also a matter of right and wrong. For example, the question of who is in the right, we or the domestic and foreign reactionaries, the imperialists, the feudalists and bureaucrat-capitalists, is also a matter of right and wrong, but it is in a different category from questions of right and wrong among the people.
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (February 27, 1957), 1st pocket ed., pp. 5-6.
The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression.
To be able to carry on their production and studies effectively and to arrange their lives properly, the people want their government and those in charge of production and of cultural and educational organizations to issue appropriate orders of an obligatory nature. It is common sense that the maintenance of public order would be impossible without such administrative regulations. Administrative orders and the method of persuasion and education complement each other in resolving contradictions among the people. Even administrative regulations for the maintenance of public order must be accompanied by persuasion and education, for in many cases regulations alone will not work.
Ibid., pp. 11-12.
Inevitably, the bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie will give expression to their own ideologies. Inevitably, they will stubbornly express themselves on political and ideological questions by every possible means. You cannot expect them to do otherwise. We should not use the method of suppression and prevent them from expressing themselves, but should allow them to do so and at the same time argue with them and direct appropriate criticism at them. We must undoubtedly criticize wrong ideas of every description. It certainly would not be right to refrain from criticism, look on while wrong ideas spread unchecked and allow them to monopolize the field. Mistakes must be criticized and poissnous weeds fought wherever they crop up. However, such criticism should not be dogmatic, and the metaphysical method should not be used, but efforts should be made to apply the dialectical method. What is needed is scientific analysis and convincing argument.
Ibid., pp. 55-56.
It feels wonderful to be alive and healthy in this moment. There is an anomaly in the climate here, temperatures are peaking in the seventy ranges, it should be at the freezing end of the scale, it may be true that the planet is headed for another ice age, but that needs further investigation. As always it’s great to start with the words of Chairman Mao.
To: those Yoruba, Ashanti, Wolfe, people who make up significant parts of the Bahamas but don’t know who you are culturally, stay strong, A Change Is going To Come. The Seventh Generation, Flipmode Squad, and those who are just maintaining, the vanguard is among you have no fear. My hippie comrades, and those who live and breathe on the far radical liberal left, I stand firm with you in mind body and spirit. Those reactionaries, The special tribe call The`Five Blockheads (Casual observer, YorickBrown, Rory, Tafadhali, and CG) you have earned your membership well in this group by living up to the standard of what it takes to be a blockhead. In the traditional cultures of African peoples and native American peoples it is customary to address the entire community, the animate and in animate, the living and the dead, the physical and metataphyiscal thus such a long greeting as I embrace my wolfe ancestry, and my return to a new old paradigm of seeing the world.
Sam cooks Song A change Is Going to come arises out of the policy of open segregation that was practice in the United states of America after the civil war, and it cried of a future that was yet to be. His song also ties into the general philosophy of this post as it is an example of an artist reflecting the ideas dreams and hope of his her people and putting these concepts forward for the people. Only a block head would find the revolutionary movement of a people silly. CG, Let’s look at your own words:
“P.S. The Song "A Change Is Going to Come" Is really rather silly. Change always comes - sometimes it is good, sometimes it is bad. Sometimes it is slow in coming, some times it comes quickly, but change always comes. We live in an ever-changing world where nothing is permanent. (A real "thinker" would know that.)”
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each revolutionary movement must have its own vocabulary, thus the need to define a Blockhead.
CG I did not respond to the first posting of Pol Pot because I wanted you to look at How ridiculous the idea is, when placed in the frame work of the general discussion. I am using the Red Book as a back drop for this discussion to take place here is what Mao had to say:
Inevitably, the bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie will give expression to their own ideologies. Inevitably, they will stubbornly express themselves on political and ideological questions by every possible means. You cannot expect them to do otherwise. We should not use the method of suppression and prevent them from expressing themselves, but should allow them to do so and at the same time argue with them and direct appropriate criticism at them. We must undoubtedly criticize wrong ideas of every description. It certainly would not be right to refrain from criticism, look on while wrong ideas spread unchecked and allow them to monopolize the field. Mistakes must be criticized and poissnous weeds fought wherever they crop up. However, such criticism should not be dogmatic, and the metaphysical method should not be used, but efforts should be made to apply the dialectical method. What is needed is scientific analysis and convincing argument.
Ibid., pp. 55-56.
In your knowledge of Pol Pot is this the type of engagement he was promoting? Mao recognize the petty bourgeoisie, I prefer to call them Blockheads, and he articulated at methodology of dealing with them of engaging them in the dialectical method not take them out into the jungle and shoot them. Do you see how stupid this example of Pol Pot is, do you think I am advocating the concept of mass genocide? Come on now Blockhead be real. As I have stated before if you are not going to be thinking when you post please don’t do it here are enough shallow threads for you out there.
I don’t know if you are aware of this but I did post that the ideas here are not for everyone and they may very well not be for you I am not writing for a mass audience but for a select few in fact to be exact this is for the seventh generation, Flipmode squad, my hippie comrades, those who I have meet who live on the extreme radical left, and those who will be free. You may not be one of those that are not my personal responsibility to coerce you into seeing what I do, it’s next to impossible to do that with a Blockhead check your own words CG:
“It would seem to me that a person, who has claimed to have the revelation you have, would be careful about calling people blockheads. Such a person would realize that these so-called blockheads don't grasp the concept. That does not make them blockheads - perhaps you have not explained your revelation in a clear manner. Perhaps there is nothing to your revelation but a sea of words in which you hope others will drown. Perhaps your words are making a simple concept unnecessarily difficult. There can be a number of reasons why others cannot grasp your words.
If you hope to gain support, or even to enlighten, calling people blockheads is not the way to go. Does your much quoted John H Clarke say that in order to get the concepts across one must be an objectionable as possible? Or was that your idea? “
For your info CG Clarke suffered a heart attack due to a series of attacks by Blockheads, I remember him saying that he should have just called them fools pick up his hat and leave. I just call it as I see it, after all this is not a popularity contest and pretty fools are not pretty, I like what my Math teacher R Dean at A F Adderly told us if a man or woman is a fool, then tell them don’t, let them keep thinking other wise or you yourself be convinced that they are not. Thus you are a Blockhead, and will be referred to as such until a change in consciousness comes about, this is not an arbitrary title but it’s based on a review of your post on a variety of subjects.
The Five Blockheads have been named I hope there numbers do not increase but as they do or decrease I will make the necessary adjustments. But it’s very important to identify the Blockheads as these are the persons that will work against progressive programs for the people.


To the Jedi and the eternal enemies of the Empire, I say "may the force be with you", english words meaning "may the force be with you" a greeting of salutation and hidden code of Lucasites. It has been a cold light year but I feel a swelling in my loins when I consider the elementary haunting of Leah's ear muffling cinnamon rolls and gold "Jabbaesque" attire primarily reserved for bathing. For you android1000's I extend my heartfelt "beep, beep, whistle, beep, whistle" as I know you best understand the binary attraction of electrons approaching C through copper conduit, insulated from other similar yet different conduits by a thin polymer insulation coating.

To the Eighth Rendition of comrades, of which there is only a select few designated by the insane, let me share my confidence that we will ultimately win the battle against mental disfigurement and succeed in our campaign to ensure that the proletariat and aristocracy further the goal of our great-great-great-great-great-great grandfathers: to reverse the force of gravity and turn our bodies inside out so our skin doesn't wrinkle so much.

To the Flipmodians and those that block our heads by cut-n-pasting google searches on dead Orientals I extend the royal raspberry in your general direction. As the great Montgomery Python once said during a search for the Holy Chalice before using the Holy Handgrenade of Antioch, "your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries".

Despite the definition provided by the Sandilander, namaste simply means "I bow to you" and has nothing to do with "honoring the place in you where the universe resides the place of truth, justice and love". It infers that the gesturer honors the Almighty within the recipient, but isn't defined as that.

As a mental masturbatory student of terminal thinking though checkers, I think back to my teacher and giver of all knowledge, Oscar T. Grouch. Through his spoken word media outlet he reminds us all that we must think outside of the can, but at lease 3 poops a day, and that today's message was brought to us by the letter C.

I think I'm going to fast from the internet for an hour or so now. My God complex is overwhelming me and I might have to change my conscience after my midday :wipe: .

To the Jedi and the eternal enemies of the Empire, I say "may the force be with you", english words meaning "may the force be with you" a greeting of salutation and hidden code of Lucasites. It has been a cold light year but I feel a swelling in my loins when I consider the elementary haunting of Leah's ear muffling cinnamon rolls and gold "Jabbaesque" attire primarily reserved for bathing. For you android1000's I extend my heartfelt "beep, beep, whistle, beep, whistle" as I know you best understand the binary attraction of electrons approaching C through copper conduit, insulated from other similar yet different conduits by a thin polymer insulation coating.
To the Eighth Rendition of comrades, of which there is only a select few designated by the insane, let me share my confidence that we will ultimately win the battle against mental disfigurement and succeed in our campaign to ensure that the proletariat and aristocracy further the goal of our great-great-great-great-great-great grandfathers: to reverse the force of gravity and turn our bodies inside out so our skin doesn't wrinkle so much.
To the Flipmodians and those that block our heads by cut-n-pasting google searches on dead Orientals I extend the royal raspberry in your general direction. As the great Montgomery Python once said during a search for the Holy Chalice before using the Holy Handgrenade of Antioch, "your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries".
Despite the definition provided by the Sandilander, namaste simply means "I bow to you" and has nothing to do with "honoring the place in you where the universe resides the place of truth, justice and love". It infers that the gesturer honors the Almighty within the recipient, but isn't defined as that.
As a mental masturbatory student of terminal thinking though checkers, I think back to my teacher and giver of all knowledge, Oscar T. Grouch. Through his spoken word media outlet he reminds us all that we must think outside of the can, but at lease 3 poops a day, and that today's message was brought to us by the letter C.
I think I'm going to fast from the internet for an hour or so now. My God complex is overwhelming me and I might have to change my conscience after my midday :wipe: .

LMAO!:bouncy:

To the Jedi and the eternal enemies of the Empire, I say "may the force be with you", english words meaning "may the force be with you" a greeting of salutation and hidden code of Lucasites. It has been a cold light year but I feel a swelling in my loins when I consider the elementary haunting of Leah's ear muffling cinnamon rolls and gold "Jabbaesque" attire primarily reserved for bathing. For you android1000's I extend my heartfelt "beep, beep, whistle, beep, whistle" as I know you best understand the binary attraction of electrons approaching C through copper conduit, insulated from other similar yet different conduits by a thin polymer insulation coating.
To the Eighth Rendition of comrades, of which there is only a select few designated by the insane, let me share my confidence that we will ultimately win the battle against mental disfigurement and succeed in our campaign to ensure that the proletariat and aristocracy further the goal of our great-great-great-great-great-great grandfathers: to reverse the force of gravity and turn our bodies inside out so our skin doesn't wrinkle so much.
To the Flipmodians and those that block our heads by cut-n-pasting google searches on dead Orientals I extend the royal raspberry in your general direction. As the great Montgomery Python once said during a search for the Holy Chalice before using the Holy Handgrenade of Antioch, "your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries".
Despite the definition provided by the Sandilander, namaste simply means "I bow to you" and has nothing to do with "honoring the place in you where the universe resides the place of truth, justice and love". It infers that the gesturer honors the Almighty within the recipient, but isn't defined as that.
As a mental masturbatory student of terminal thinking though checkers, I think back to my teacher and giver of all knowledge, Oscar T. Grouch. Through his spoken word media outlet he reminds us all that we must think outside of the can, but at lease 3 poops a day, and that today's message was brought to us by the letter C.
I think I'm going to fast from the internet for an hour or so now. My God complex is overwhelming me and I might have to change my conscience after my midday :wipe: .

Niiiiice! nuff skills, fe real tho. :cheers:

Niiiiice! nuff skills, fe real tho. :cheers:


If nothing else, it was a good release of creative writing! It seems to have done a good job of silencing the insane, so DELROY, LOCK THE THREAD NOW!

If nothing else, it was a good release of creative writing! It seems to have done a good job of silencing the insane, so DELROY, LOCK THE THREAD NOW!

I see that true to form yuo are still engage in mental mastubation thats as i expect.

I trust that you are well after such a point less exercise, its amazing what you miss first this is about the creation of a national culture some thing that has never yo in the bahamas since the extermination of the Arawakas by the spain.

In this new dynamic it is necessary for those who know to make recognition of the living and those who are to come and those who have gone before.

I see that true to form yuo are still engage in mental mastubation thats as i expect.
I trust that you are well after such a point less exercise, its amazing what you miss first this is about the creation of a national culture some thing that has never yo in the bahamas since the extermination of the Arawakas by the spain.
In this new dynamic it is necessary for those who know to make recognition of the living and those who are to come and those who have gone before.


Oh golly gosh .. what does all that mean .. in normal english?

I see that true to form yuo are still engage in mental mastubation thats as i expect.
I trust that you are well after such a point less exercise, its amazing what you miss first this is about the creation of a national culture some thing that has never yo in the bahamas since the extermination of the Arawakas by the spain.
In this new dynamic it is necessary for those who know to make recognition of the living and those who are to come and those who have gone before.

:what: OMIGOD OMIGOD (panicked like someone from matrix II)...he's BACK!!! delroy PLEASE lock the threaddddddddddddddddddd!!!!:screw:

:what: OMIGOD OMIGOD (panicked like someone from matrix II)...he's BACK!!! delroy PLEASE lock the threaddddddddddddddddddd!!!!:screw:

I'm starting to feel another creative writing attack!

a1000, where you been? Had you in lockup for a few days, did they?

I'm starting to feel another creative writing attack!
a1000, where you been? Had you in lockup for a few days, did they?

Casualobserver i have been in deep study, thanks for asking, i will however post an indepth response to comments, i trust that you are well.

Casualobserver i have been in deep study, thanks for asking, i will however post an indepth response to comments, i trust that you are well.


I eagerly await your response like such as the frog awaits the fly.

I am well, and ready for some sparring. Bring your 'A'(1000) game!

To the Jedi and the eternal enemies of the Empire, I say "may the force be with you", english words meaning "may the force be with you" a greeting of salutation and hidden code of Lucasites. It has been a cold light year but I feel a swelling in my loins when I consider the elementary haunting of Leah's ear muffling cinnamon rolls and gold "Jabbaesque" attire primarily reserved for bathing. For you android1000's I extend my heartfelt "beep, beep, whistle, beep, whistle" as I know you best understand the binary attraction of electrons approaching C through copper conduit, insulated from other similar yet different conduits by a thin polymer insulation coating.



A few days ago I had a conversation with one of my comrades a FlipMode-ian , he informed me of the existence of a greater more dynamic box, where minds with similar affinity reside, (so yes Rory I have found another box to grow in). We examined the state of the Caribbean mind and came to the conclusion that despite its general reactionary nature the entire African Diaspora must be moved in to a new/old Cultural paradigm, the Block Heads, and Dittzies in this place must not be allowed to hold the gate keys any more (taken from the 21 century Myth, The Matrix, Scene Morpeous explains to Neo The Nature of Agents).

A small excursion; I have encountered Casual observer in several post and I have give he/she the label of a mental masturbator. Perhaps it was harsh but based on observation the label is most appropriate. From Forest Gump to Star Wars, what dose this have to do with the Praxis and theory of national Culture? This is what happens when the country sends it citizens of for higher levels of ignorance (higher level of ignorance is sometimes Called higher levels of Education in the general public, however I have dealt with the general fallacy of this concept in thread Bahamian Student Seeks employment) with out a sense a national culture with in them the only thing they are capable of for the most part is imitation without understanding. Thus you have a Casual observer who is in love with his/her technical training great at imitation but never able to progress any further, the other block heads love this and even a ditzy one will chime in as well. But this is to be expected from Block Heads, and mental masturbators and dizzy ones, their importance is they allow me and may be even you, to grow in the process of creating a stronger country, forcing me to look deeper into the human record and craft even stronger arguments. They, the Block Heads and Dittzies are the gate keepers of the neo colonial system its first line of defense.


What did Casual Observer miss in his/her diatribe? Well this is a thread on the Praxis and Theory of National Culture, and as such a Thread I must note and you must be cognizant of the fact that; we live under a system of Neoconialism:

”A system of indirect economic and cultural control that often takes the place of colonialism. Neocolonial countries, such as those of Africa, the Caribbean or Latin America, are countries where powerful multinational organizations, such as the World Bank and the international monetary fund and transnational corporations, dictate the value of goods that are sold on the world market. These international bodies impose their will on these countries through providing aid, on condition that western political system are established in the neocolonial, so that elites favorable to the west keep the country under western control. When economic manipulation doesn’t work, as in Ghana under Nkrumah or Chile under Allende, these Western institutions encourage corrupt elites within the country to overthrow leadership that is working for the people.”(Return To The African Mother Principle Of Male and Female Equality Volume 1 by Oba T’Shaka).
I really cannot blame Casual Observer, him/her for their ignorance after all, which institution in the Bahamas will any of us learn about Neocolonialism or Culture? As I have written before this thread is implicitly what is stated in its heading, despite the numerous Block Head posting, the prerequisites for posting here( in this thread, that is, The Essential Theory And Praxis Of National Culture) in a serious manner have are delineated please refer to Post 11.

Prerequisites: The Six Functional Category Skills and Ten Areas of Thinking Skills.

What else did Casual Observer miss? Culture. This thread deals with culture, it’s something us as Bahamians think we know about but really most of us don’t have a clue. Ask most Bahamians about the culture of the Bahamas and you will get Junkanoo; boil fish, jonnie cake and soaker music. Let’s look at the work of Gregory Bateson, Naven:



“The culture into which an individual is born stresses certain of his potential and suppresses others, and acts selectively, favoring the individuals who are best endowed with the potentialities preferred in the culture and discriminating against those with alien tendencies. In this way the culture standardizes the organizations of the emotions of the individuals.”Willie Abraham describes culture as:


“cooperation in pursuing it. If one looks at the West one finds that this use of culture is well-developed. It is what is involved when one hears its said that this or that belief will destroy a certain way of life, and that that way of life must be defended no matter what the Culture is an instrument for making …cooperation natural. Its success depends on the extent to which it’s allowed to be self-authenticating. Though it allows for internal discussion …the principles of decisions in such a discussion are themselves provided by the culture. By uniting the people in common beliefs and attitudes... culture fills with order that portion of life which lies beyond the pale of state intervention …. It fills in such a way as at the same time to integrate its society, on the basis of common reactions, common actions, common interest, common attitudes, and common values. It creates the basis of the formulation of a common destiny and cost.”


I am not just simply describing and explaining Culture, but putting forth a program for the creation of a National culture Praxis and theory, which is sadly missing in the Bahamas. This is what an intellectual would do. Here is the path that an educated person takes. This is what moves you out of the company of the Block Heads and the Ditzy. Now what else did casual observer miss and may be you missed this as well because lord knows we have enough talking fools in this place ( Talking Fools is an important Bahamian song for those old enough o remember it, it ranks up there with A Change Is Going To Come).

“To: Flipmode Squad, The Seventh Generation, The Block heads and The Dittzies among us, Namaste,”

Why do start of this way? It is my Acknowledgement and Affirmation. I am Acknowledging those of my age grade set, elders, other age grades (See Destruction Of Black Civilization By Chancellor Williams on concept of age grade), those coming into the world and the ancestors. But my Acknowledgement dose not stop there, it encompasses the entire cosmos because in this new/old cultural paradigm is infused with UNICITY: The notion that oneness is the hidden law of the cosmos. Human beings, the Earth and the cosmos are conceived as interconnecting circles, or cycles within ever greater circles or cycles.



I remember listening to Clarke on a tape( see For Notes An African World Revolution by John H Clarke) said that everything that touches your life should be an instrument of your liberation, if it is not it should be discarded. Don’t get me wrong Block Heads and Dittzies play an important role in the primary defense of a Neo-Colony, yet their posturing should always be used in the Art of exposing the Neo-Colonial system and our relationship as a people to it, while simultaneously advancing the New/Old Cultural Paradigm, this is the Aikido of Mental engagement, which complements Chairman Mao The Proper Handling Of Contradiction Among The People. (If you have made it this far Rory I hope you now understand the correlations between the philosophy of Chairman Mao and The Neo-Colony called the Bahamas)

In My Acknowledgement I am expressing A- NOT logic function. One of the characteristics of the Neocolonialism is Linearity which is defined as:

“The interpretation of phenomena as being made up of unidimensional, separate entities arranged in sequential order. This conception is necessarily secular and results in desacralization. It denies circularity and the spiral of organic development. It prevents transcendence of ordinary time and space, thereby denying ancestral ontological experience.” see the Book YURUGU


Thus My Acknowledgement emphasizes the opposite of Linearity.

The beauty of belonging to Flipmode Squad is in taking concepts and bouncing them around looking at them from various angles, FlipmodeSquad is not just a concept but a group of individuals ( whom I am a part of) characterize by there commitment to exposing the truth, the term however was coined by Busta Rhymes. If you reread the introduction of post 16 by Casual Observer, I have to ask:

1. What plane of existence are you writing from?

2. What is your message, and how dose it relate to The Essential Theory and Praxis of National Culture?

3. From the perspective of the New/Old Cultural Paradigm what are your Affirmations and Acknowledgements?

May be Casual Observer will answer these questions or may be you will, but these are fundamental questions as they relate to the general argument of the thread. However let’s explore the Affirmation aspect.

In it simplest form Affirmation is to express dedication to. Thus In my greetings I am expressing my Affirmations as a Flipmodian, Seventh Generation, Tree Hugging Dirt Worshiping Hippie, Pan Africanist, and Practitioner of MAAT, can you in vision the new society when we return to the practice of Affirmation and Acknowledgement in our Greetings with one another.

Until The Fire Next Time as James Baldwin would put it.

To: Flipmode Squad, Seventh Generation, Ancestors, My Hippie comrades, Block Heads with special mention to Casual observer get into the concepts, dig the Affirmations and the Acknowledgements and in all this I am advancing theory and praxis of a national culture and exposing Your inner Block Head, The Ditzzie one’s, and the proletariat.


Namaste A Hindi concept meaning I Honor The place In You Where The Universe Resides, The Place Of Peace, Love, Truth And Joy And When You Are There And I Am there We Are One.

man a1 i need some of that drugggg you taking .. now you're just crackin me up .. he he he :friday: :p :yoyo:

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