TRuTH SNeaKeRs: the rubber-soled seekers of truth

Last night in my Food and Culture class, we were talking about this Quaker Clam Bake that's held every 3rd Thursday of August. Basically, the ritual of the clam bake is the same, but the parts and parcels of it are different. For example, the clams are flown in from Canada, some of the ingredients and foods they use are instant and/or processed mixes and half of the people at these clam bakes aren't Quaker -- they are tourists driving up in their BMWs in search of an "authentic" experience.

Yeah, yeah -- Chinatowns the world over.

Hold up -- it gets more interesting. So we started getting into it, talking about how the Quakers and tourists have used the ritual of the clam bake to form a Quaker identity. Because the ritual itself has not changed, these people's identities, on the surface, have not changed. They are "still" Quakers.

I brought up a point in class that perhaps the ritual of the clam bake itself is utilized as a mask, to hide and disguise all that is changing in the Quaker community. The mask helps them stay in a state of denial, so that they don't have to directly face the mortality of their own identity. (Only 40 members still live in the community, they do used processed foods now and depend upon a tourist economy to sustain themselves.)

My professor took my point a step further and said it was BECAUSE of Change that Quakers were able to forge this identity through the clam bake.

If there wasn't the outside threat of economics, the dwindling numbers of the community or the interest by outside tourists, there would be no push to rally the troops to put their all into the ritual of the clam bake. It's become a symbol of their identity and a means through which they can sustain their community economically (by selling high ticket prices to tourists.)

Same can be said for Chinatown as well.

So, looking at the Obama campaign and the flipside of it all...


Why did the campaign push for change? More like - why did people want change so desperately?

The thing is, Change itself is supposed to be a force that threatens the identity of a community.

A principle thing people were rallying against in terms of the Bush administration was that they (as self absorbed as they are) hated the kind of American identity that was being constructed. Think Saul Williams - Not In Our Name.


Not In Our Name -- in it is a deeply seeded resentment and sense of powerlessness in the Bush administration's construction of an American Identity. Remember, salt is not sugar, but from far away they look identical.

What I mean by that is that through hyper-nationalism (and faux-Fascism), there was something LIKE an identity being formed. At the same time, an identity can only be formed through a symbiotic relationship. Sure, an identity is constructed. But one must CHOOSE to identify with it for it to become a living, breathing entity.

Nationalism is NOT an identity.

Salt and sugar.

But in goading a SURGE of nationalism, pundits, "reporters", soldiers and the government were able to construct a ready-made identity via the channels of Fear that scared citizens could identify with. They didn't HAVE to identify it. But they CHOSE to identify it.

But, as it seems, it is an identity that voters are unhappy with. In choosing to be unhappy with it, they are also choosing to accept that - YES - this is what an American identity has become. An oppressive force that is enslaved by corporate entities, toxic food and waste -- and is ruled by fear.

And, to be sophomoric about it, as a result, "The World Hates Us." Time for America's insecurity complex.

So, for those who are unhappy with this identity, how can we make "The World Like Us?"

Yes. CHANGE.

And what does Change mean?

The destruction of an identity.

Now herein lies the danger, for the danger lies in the construction of this new identity. The thing is, when one is prone to identifying with a group, one is prone to group think. When one is prone to group think, one is prone to accepting a constructed identity.

Does that make sense?

If you identify as Chinese -- someone before you must have constructed what it means to be Chinese. After donning on this identity, you can interpret it as you like, but there are core elements of this identity that have been ready-made for you.

So my question is -- who is constructing this Change, and what will this Change look like?


Not a new American identity, but a new identity for America...as a member of the global community.

What better way to make the world like us than to become World Citizens? Yes, I am talking New World Order. And it's already on its way.

Now, I talked to you about Obama's hypnosis techniques -- which some people on Facebook are upset with me about. (Though I think it's not that they don't believe it, it's that they don't WANT to believe it.)


One of these techniques is Pacing.


Now, the Leading is the new information introduced after we've been paced into a "trance" of sorts - basically we've let our guard down so that our unconscious is open to these new suggestions.

Ironically enough, the Lead of Obama's Berlin speech will be broken down by a Barack supporter. What I find both sad and slightly amusing is the pain in his eyes. He's still clinging to these threads of hope, even as his "messenger" is revealing the more insidious intentions of his future administration.



You can hear him reason and rationalize why he is still supporting Obama...while the truth he's actually worked through is right there in front of him. Oy(L).

Voters (for Obama) are tired of an American identity that has been constructed that they, unwillingly, have chosen to identify with. They may not have been happy with it, but they have identified with it in that they accepted that this is how a majority of their peers (in the world at large) perceive America. This is why resistance (of an identity) is futile...at the very least, in the creation and manifestation of goals. Resistance is NOT the "mountain top."

It can help us figure out why one route to the mountain top won't work, but it is not the road itself.

Sorry. Tangents.

Anyway, so why are Obama supporters so drawn to Change? (Remember Change is that which threatens an identity, and the mobilizing force of identity construction and maintenance.)

Because they want to destroy the American identity that has been constructed by the Bush adminstration.

This also indicates that they are ready for a new American identity, and are willing to allow the person they are rallying around (Obama) to construct it.

Salt and sugar.

You see, Obama is not interested in a new American identity...or, at least, to him -- what it means to be American is to be a good Global Citizen.

To be a citizen of the world is to be a citizen of an entity that governs the world.

New World Order. One World Government. Loss of Sovereignty.

Oy(L). Dammit.

Destroying an identity to create a new one isn't necessarily a bad thing, I know this. I've experienced this. But to place the creation of your identity to a force or entity outside of yourself is damn dangerous.


I'm not resisting, but I am observing. And telling it like it is.


P.S. I do realize by calling voters idiots won't make them happy.
P.P.S. But they ARE!!! Dammit.
P.P.P.S. If anyone else stumbles upon this blog other than youse, I doubt I'll be making any friends. Bahahahahaha.