AirAsia: The Distraction of the Week

Another commercial airliner has mysteriously disappeared without much of a trace. This time, it's AirAsia flight 8501 and it mysteriously vanished somewhere over (or under) the Java Sea while en route to Singapore after a departure from Surabaya, Indonesia. The disappearance of the plane is eerily reminiscent of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that mysteriously disappeared in the Indian ocean en route to Beijing last March.

Just as the Sony hack story has basically fizzled out (read my article on the Sony hack HERE), here we are with another BIG NEWS story to keep our minds occupied for maybe another week or two. This missing airline story is merely an extension of a continuing trend of BIG NEWS: first it was the Malaysia flight 370 in March, then Isis started taking over the news, then ebola, then the Bill Cosby allegations, next was Michael Brown and the Ferguson riots, then a CIA torture report, the Sony hack...and, now, just as the whole Sony story has fizzled out, another airliner has gone missing, a story that kind of acts as a sequel to the Malaysian flight disappearance last March. The missing Malaysian flight successfully distracted the public for a good month, if not more. Maybe the AirAsia story will do the same.

We are living in an era of BIG news, much of which seems to be purposely built up into big news, if not outright manufactured. It's like there's a news machine out there grinding out the big news stories to keep us glued to the Hi-Def televisions and the Internet blogs. It seems like as soon as one big news story fizzles out and the public loses interest, another big news story is waiting on deck, ready to step up to the plate. I do not believe this is a coincidence. I believe much of this news is being manufactured in a calculated way.

Is this a media conspiracy? Are media corporations building up/feeding into (if not outright manufacturing) these big news events for the purpose of engaging viewers and readers? After all, the bigger the news story, the more clicks blogs will get and the more viewers will be glued to CNN/FOX/CNBC/ABC News etc. Maybe it's simply all about the ad revenue.

Or is this a government conspiracy? Perhaps the government is distracting us from more important issues...like how dysfunctional Congress is and how broken our current political system is. Maybe the more we hold a magnifying glass up to mysterious plane disappearances, celebrity scandals and racial riots, the less we hold a magnifying glass up to a dysfunctional government. Maybe they want to divert our attention away from shady government creations like the NSA or scandals like in Benghazi or maybe government failures like Detroit's bankruptcy, who knows? Or perhaps they're just trying to prevent us from revolting. Politicians want to hold on to their cushy paychecks and positions of power, not to mention their (empty) prestige. The last thing they want is for people to organize and start a revolution. Therefore, it's best to keep the people's eyes focused on something else - anything but them.

But maybe it's not even about distracting us from the government's ineptitude and shadiness. Maybe 'somebody out there' - a malevolent alien race? the devil himself? - simply wants to distract us from ourselves, our lives and what's really important in our lives. Maybe the more time we spend outside ourselves - worrying about certain big news events or being outraged by them or simply just analyzing them to death - the less time we spend inside of ourselves, nourishing and cultivating our inner souls wherein may lie something spiritual that is most important of all.

Maybe this is all a part of a great war against God, or if you're not a believer in God, spirituality...or, to use an even more non-religious term, positive energy. The more time we fear and loathe as a reaction to BIG NEWS, the less time we spend tuned into higher energetic frequencies, like joy and love and creativity, the very vibrations that bring us closer to and harmonious with "God".

So next time there is a big news event that almost seems scripted, kind of like it's right out of a movie. Ask yourself:

What do they not want me to see? Maybe they're simply trying to get ad revenue or wagging the dog away from our inept and corrupt government. Or maybe it's something much more simple. Maybe there is a dark force out there simply trying to drown ourselves in the low energetic frequencies of negativity - fear and loathing - keep us distracted and outside ourselves, keep us extrospective (this may be a word I just made up) - constantly focused on the outside world - when we should really be introspectively concentrating on our inner selves, souls, the direct plug-in to the higher energetic frequencies.

The higher frequencies are most important. We must not be distracted by the lower frequencies. The lower frequencies are like computer malware on our souls. They slow us down and eventually paralyze us. They keep us from living up to our most excellent potential.

Bill Cosby and the CIA Torture Report

A poem I wrote in reaction to the Bill Cosby rape allegations, the CIA torture report, Ferguson riots, ebola, Eric Garner etc.


THE SERGEANT BARKING IN MY FACE
by matt burns

Isis
Ebola
Bill Cosby
Ferguson
CIA torture report
What's after that?
Back to Isis again?
Isis is pissed and retaliates?

Every day something new
Can’t keep track of it all
Hard to follow
Hard to educate myself
As soon as I get a grip on one current event
Another one happens
And when I barely get a grip on that
There’s another one
And another
Like working the conveyor belt in an assembly line
If you’re not quick enough
You’ll fall behind
And everything will just
Whizz
On
By

The “news” today is a Drill Sergeant
Shouting in my face
One trending topic after another
Assaulting my senses
I feel disorientation
My head’s spinning
So much that
I'm paralyzed with overstimulation
And sensory overload 
To the point where I’m confused
Stunned
Numb
And more easily malleable
Easier to control

Like with a Marine in bootcamp
The point is to break me down
So that I easily take my orders

Because I've lost my grip on what the hell's going on in reality
I look for the government via the media to dictate it to me

I don't understand anything that's going on

I'm confused

Just tell me what I need to do

FERGUSON, EBOLA, ISIS, OH MY

A poem I wrote in reaction to such current events as Ferguson, Isis and ebola...


PSYCHOKINESIS
by matt burns

Boiling fears
And loathings
Fester in our subconscious
And fester
And fester

Some people say
These repressed energies manifest themselves
Physically
In the outer
Three-dimensional world
And cause actual physical events

So when you watch the Reality TV with all the 
Jersey bro-dudes
And the Hollywood Hillbillies
And the Honey Boobies
Honey Boobies’ mom was dating a sex offender?!
Cancel the show!
And you read the blogs about the “celebutards”
And see Kim Kardashian’s big, greasy ass on a magazine cover
Then come all the scandals
Bill Cosby
America’s favorite dad
A rapist?!
Disillusioned we are
And enraged we all get!

Then we watch the news
And there’s
Isis
Ebola
Then comes Fergusonola
White cops shooting blacks
Black criminals looting 
Burning down stores
Beating down whites!
Then comes Staten Island
Another black strangled by a cop
No indictment
Civil war imminent?!
The media makes us take a side
Are you with the cops?
Or with the blacks?
Fear the cops!
Fear the blacks!
They pit us against each other
Go and protest!
Polarized we become
And divided we rot
We can’t unite and get anything done
Frustration
Rage!

And collectively…

The negative energy
In each and every one of us
Psychokinetically
Manifests itself
As more negative energy in the world
And more bad events happen
Bad weather – superstorms, quakes, tornados, floods!
Bad disease
More bad Kardashian photos
(Kourtney just posed preggo and naked)
Disgusting
So gross!

And the media reports on these events
And we get even more loathing 
And more fear
And the negative collective consciousness
Psychokinetically
Manifests more negative events in the world

It’s a perpetual cycle of negativity
A snowball effect
A guarantee
That there will be constant fear
And loathing
Absolute hell
For all eternity

There is a great, epic war out there
Not good vs. evil
But positivity vs. negativity
Negative energy wants to win
But will we let it?

ISIS

Here's a poem I wrote in reaction to the ISIS situation...

“Everyone thinks of changing the world,

but no one thinks of changing himself.”

                                         --Leo Tolstoy

ISIS ISIL EEEZEL BEEELZE BUB

by matt burns

Yesterday it was Al Qaeda

Today it’s Isis

There will always be that threat

That’s out there somewhere

The vague beastie lurking somewhere on the island

Putting fear inside all of us

And somebody will always exploit that fear

The Lord of the flies

And the Lord will use it to rule us

Manipulate us

Control us

Just like those boys on that island

There will always be an external threat

There always has been

Always will be

There will never be NO threat

So what can you do?

Worry all the time?

Or just mind your own business

Focus on yourself

And forget about the world

The Lord of the flies is cunning

He wants us to focus on the world

Pull us out of ourselves

For a perpetual amount of time

Focus on the Russians!

Cold war over, now focus on Al Qaeda!

Al Qaeda’s weakened

Now focus on Isis!

Isil

Eeeeezel

Beeelze

Bub

What will the next beastie on the island be after Isis?

There will inevitably be one

One distraction follows the other

If you watch the news

There seems to be a beastie of the week

To terrorize us

Everybody thinks about changing the world

But the world can’t be fully changed

There will never be total peace out there

Not on our planet

Not within our species

But there can always be total peace inside you

Change you

Don’t change the world

Everything on the outside

Somewhere

Out there

All those beasties

That you hear about

But never really see…

It’s all an illusion

Created by the Lord of the flies

To build up fear

That destroys your insides

And destroys your soul

But if you retreat into yourself

And tune out what’s outside

The fear weakens

And the Lord loses his power

And he withers away

And dies

And then

Maybe

Comes

The world peace

If there is ever a possibility for world peace

It’s going to start on the inside

Not on the outside