Rain of Lies
February 22, 2024
I wrote a new song for The Donald, as sung by an ex-Trumpi. The tune and melody are similar to the 1966 hit “Lies” by the Knickerbockers. A copy of the lyrics is linked below, followed by a link to a fun video of the Knickerbockers song, at a ’60s TV dance show.
Rain of Lies > My lyics, for review & comment or jamming
“Lies” > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PUH1wRV_F6176-KQ8QqVOF4ZIrHBXQTR/view?usp=sharing
My First Fine Art NFT
October 8, 2023
Still in final homework phase of prepping for my first NFT releases, of my portrait of James Dean. I will make several different sizes of the high quality copy (of the original painting); and, for the best appearance, issue each size in different ppi resolutions. Also, the various sizes will be issued as limited edition series, with varying numbers of copies:
Edition 1: There will be 11 NFTs in the series of the largest (20″ x 25.5″ image) copies of the portrait (“JD Concentrating”), at 1250 ppi resolution.
Edition 2: 101 NFTs of the 17″ x 21.5″ images, at 1250 ppi res.
Edition 3: 201 NFTs of the 12″ x 15″ images at 900 ppi res.
Edition 4: 301 NFTs of the 10″ x 13″ images at 900 ppi res.
Edition 5: 501 NFTs of the 12″ x 15″ images at 600 ppi res.
Edition 6: 601 NFTs of the 8.5″ x 10.6″ images at 600 ppi res.
Edition 7: 701 NFTs of the 6″ x 7.7″ images at 600 ppi res.
Edition 8: 801 NFTs of the 5″ x 6.3″ images at 300 ppi res.
Edition 9: 901 NFTs of the 2.3″ x 3″ images at 300 ppi res.
Note: The actual sizes will vary slightly from those shown above; and starting prices will vary per series, in inverse proportion to the number of NFTs per series.
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Introducing the Paine Report
October 3, 2023
It is a pleasure and an honor to announce that I am helping my dear friend Miss T. Harriette “Honey” Paine produce and publish her forthcoming “Paine Report” blog. She’s planning to start it with a satirical piece of critical political humor. I think you will agree it will rapidly make her a globally respected commentator on all the bad news that too few of us know about and understand. I will also be helping with discussion of remedies. So, when the Paine Report is up and running, I will post a link. Stay tuned ~
Legacy “AI” vs. Star Trek
October 3, 2023
I just tried to post the following text to a subreddit group that seems to be sincerely interested in discussing all potential uses of OpenAI’s GPT systems. However, as soon as I clicked to post, I got a rejection notice. I did not get any good reason, no explanation at all. So, see for yourself, and see if you can find a really good reason for anyone rejecting the possibility of using a totally ethical AI IT ecosystem for the good of all generations, ASAP (not for mainly profit, despite global consequences).
Here’s my post, re: the case for a StarTrek-gen AI-IT ecosystem:
“We are no closer to equaling the AI-enhanced IT ecosystem of Star Trek’s first season’s (etc.) than we were back then. Why not? Well, that may be open to debate, but I say it’s the for-profit pirate paradigm that came to dominate all strata of modern civilization’s sociocultural infrastructure, including academia & the IT industry.
“Would the best possible AI-enhanced supercomputer ecosystem design a global telecomputing swamp like what we put up with today? No, that would clearly be a totally illogical impossibility, unless that AI-enhanced supercomputer ecosystem was designed to enrich anti-ethical entrepreneurs at the expense of all others (of all generations & species).
“So, does anyone out there want to explore the potentials for draining the for-profit telecomputing swamp, with the help of an appropriately ethical AI-sys-dev-logic-analyst? BTW, I suggest starting with analysis of the a.) basics, b.) inefficiencies, c.) vulnerabilities, d.) mushrooming complications, and e.) the whole-world-system real-world costs of existing CLangs + bloatware + “fixes”/patches of the “Legacy” IT ecosystem that fail to cure it.
“Note: Please, recall that the original StarTrek AI-enhanced IT ecosystem was not-for-profit, nor was it a monstrous fake-super-human “singularity” that had a fake-personality that competed with anybody, for dominance, etc. Why (& why not)? It seems to me (and Gary Kasporov, among others) that the most profitable use of AI-enhanced automation will always be augmentation of human capabilities. In fact, we already see that most of us (even coding nerds) are highly resistant to being replaced by superior machines. In other words, thanks to the market dynamics of late-stage consumerist capitalism (and pandemic normalized neurosis), the vast majority of us won’t buy into being replaced by a.) fake people, or b.) a fake god. Of course, despite nearly 60 years of observation & contemplation of civilized insanities, I could be wrong about some or all of the above. So, your feedback is very welcome. Thanks & may you live long & prosper ~ M”
Projekt 3025 – A Realistic Alternative
September 11, 2023
Copyright (c) 2024 Michael Lucas Monterey
November 16, 2024 – The iParty evolved into a global meta-political responsible Party association, and this is the new first-draft introduction:
The Meta-political Responsible Party Alliance (MRPA) started as a work of political satire, activism in the guise of comedy, originally it was the Free Party. Recently it morphed into the iParty (the Intelligent Party). Then the “news” kept getting more outrageously absurd and dangerous. So, since Trump won re-election (illegally), it’s clearly time for a whole new approach to sane governance, with next-gen “AI” help.
For example, now, national governments, existing political parties, NGOs, the UN, and politicians are not solving our worst problems. In fact, they make them all worse by wasting time, by not orchestrating a real solution. None of all that is OK, and it’s the opposite of funny.
In fact, the time is clearly over-ripe for an upgrade of our antique systems of government, money, and the obsolete socioeconomic system ruining the world.
Who can do it? Only we (up to 100% of us) can reverse the processes threatening all communities, all cities, all nations, and all generations here now, and to come.
How do we do it? Together, we create a new, effectively ethical ASI-enhanced* meta-political association. We then use our intelligence, ancient wisdom, and all our collective creativity, talent, skills, and productivity to propose sustainably effective solutions for all parts of our whole-world-system problem. There is no other real solution that will save us, our habitats, and civilization.
*Note: “ASI” = adaptive systemic intelligence which is emergent/evolutionary or, on the other hand, a system labelled “autonomous super-intelligence” even if it’s extremely unwise or evil.
What is The Problem, exactly? It is us and our anti-ethical world-game, the second phase of human civilization.** Letting a tiny minority of elites corrupt a larger minority of servile consumers, to make an ever-growing majority of us poorer (and more envious, jealous, desperate, hateful and/or hostile) was always doomed to cause general ruin. So, over nearly 3500 years, Civilization 2 (Civ.2) became increasingly self-destructive, potentially ecocidal.
**Note: Civilization phase 1 (Civ.1) ended in the aftermath of a volcanic eruption in the Mediterranean Sea that vaporized the island called Thera (Santorini Island is the remains of the caldera), once the thriving center of Euro-Minoan civilization. It happened in about 1635 BCE, triggering global climatic catastrophes that ended many other cultures, causing the chaos that caused the Great Collapse of most Bronze Age civilizations. The mass-PTSD since then reinforced the destructive tendencies of Civ.2 that now threaten all of us with ecocide, Great Die-off level mass-extinction (of almost all species).
So, to enable and guide transition to a bioethical civilization worth sustaining, Civilization 3 (Civ.3), we clearly need a new global meta-political alliance of well-informed people, wisdom councils, and truly effective NGOs (etc.). A new draft of the MRPA’s founding charter & policy document is ready for editorial and conceptual review and comment, etc. It includes a mission statement, strategic goals, bio-ethical policy initiatives, and the bioethical basis of a meta-political advocacy and policy-making association. If you want to review and discuss it or the issues, use the link, below, and PM me or email. Thanks ~ M
The MRPA Start-up doc. > Draft Intro
So Lucky (a happy new song lyric)
November 18, 2021
Today, almost exactly 2 months after beginning work on my “Beyond the Gates of Eden” I finished “So Lucky” (my 38th lyric work of post-Gonzo eco-poesy).
> It’s now listed & linked @ my Projects page.
> Now, since my new little works have received such underwhelming response, I did my best to make “So Lucky” a mostly happy, uplifting piece of celebratory Rockabilly doggerel. In fact, though I was going to post it yesterday, this AM I realized that I needed to make it even more like a wildly joyous Jerry Lee Lewis rock classic (especially the finale). Hope you enjoy the Heck outa it.
> FYI: I also changed 1 word of Beyond the Gates of Eden (in verse 2). I hope you appreciate that at least half as much as I do.
> Best of luck, etc.
Social Disease, the Song (pending)
November 14, 2021
More News of the Day:
As usual, awakening this AM led to the newest song: Social Disease – linked @ MichaelLucasMonterey.com/projects
It’s a light, very danceable lyrical comedy for an Old School R&B Rock nano-operetta. I think y’all may enjoy it.
FYI: Also did a potent bit of revision on “Rotten Meat” (another sardonic lil’ ditty of post-Gonzo eco-poesy). Your feedback & reviews will be generously rewarded, hera & here-after, inside & out, etc. So, enjoy ~
Global Emergency Rescue Program
July 27, 2021
<a href="http://https://www.linkedin.com/embed/feed/update/urn:li:share:6825874858761588738" data-type="URL" data-id="<iframe src="https://www.linkedin.com/embed/feed/update/urn:li:share:6825874858761588738" height="1319" width="504" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" title="Embedded post">A candid call to action by an effective global alliance
Trump, Hitler, Freud, and Monstrosity
December 23, 2020
A socio-psychological analysis of ecocidal mania, pandemic authoritarian personality disorder, etc.
by Michael Lucas Monterey, 2020, December 23
Abstract: This brief thesis analyses the causes, contributing factors, circumstances, symptoms and possible treatment of the pandemic socio-cultural illnesses plaguing humanity and the biosphere. The work provides a critique of inadequate approaches and earlier theory, with a bio-ethical approach to realist ontology, psychology, sociology and cultural anthropology of civilization. The thesis begins with relevant introductory content, followed by sections on socio-psychological triage, diagnosis, possible options and prognoses, then concluding discourse on therapy and recovery. Supporting data, links, and citations are provided.
The 7 page document can be accessed via this link: Trump, Hitler, Freud, and Monstrosity
Note: The current draft is a preprint copy, posted for review and comment.
Michael Lucas Monterey: Creative Evolutionary 
Anti-abortionists v. God et al
February 22, 2024
I finally got fed up enough to go ahead and write a semi-humorous OpEd piece on the insanities and inanities swirling around in the smog of nonsense & lies. I hope y’all like the new, revised version enough to recommend and Share it, as widely and freely as possible. Thanks ~ M
ALABAMA v. GOD et al
Copyright © 2024 Michael Lucas Monterey (Creative Commons Licensing protocols apply)
Who gave any Alabamians the Right to decide when a person’s life begins? Oh, right, nobody. Even if some humanoid reptilian ETs told themselves they had a Right to declare that an incomplete, potential human being is a self-determining person (with a life in the real world), that would be a fiction. Fictional “Rights” are unreal.
What does God have to do with any of this? Well, many if not all “Right” to Lifers claim to base their opinion on their religion. “Right” to Lifers claim to be Christians, but their Bible does not call incomplete or potential people living persons. As honest Rabbis, Nuns, and some Protestant Ministers admit, according to the Bible, human life began with a first breath. Hence, so do all the other ones.
Most scientists are either unable or unwilling to say that a fertilized mammalian egg or a semi-developed embryo is more than a quasi-parasitic potential animal. No real scientists say that an incomplete/potential animal is a fully finished being, like a real person.
So, where did some judges (among others) get the idea that they have a Right to make a ridiculous opinion into a law? I don’t know, but this is about the facts.
Sane adults should consider all the facts, contributing factors, and circumstances. First, people who claim that eggs are people are clearly confused about both the Bible and eggs. So, anti-abortionist opinions and confusions have nothing to do with science or Judeo-Christianity. Do severely confused or deluded (and ignorant) people have a spiritual or legal Right to claim that an egg or an unfinished embryo is a person? No—and even if such unrealistic people somehow get to be “Justices” or judges—they have no Right to enact or enforce laws based on nonsensical falsehoods.
BTW, that truth is embedded in our American Jurisprudence, the USA’s ruling legal decisions on realities of justice and law (to prevent long-term judicial clown shows). That fact disqualifies fake “Justices” who claim authority to nullify justice and sanity.
However, to evaporate the fog of confusion and delusion, let’s consider more basic realities and truths. Alabamians who think that eggs are children must think they know what a person is. Yet, they ignore the fact that, like personality, humanity is essentially a principle. Thus, they are unqualified to judge when an actual human life begins, and what eggs, animals, parasites, persons and Rights really are.
Egg Worshippers also fail to recognize the difference between potentials and actualities (realities). Other issues and facts should be considered equally important for clarity.
Clearly, an egg is either a future chicken or a future person, or whatever, not a person or chicken living here and now. So, unless you are confused about the difference between the present and the future, you can’t say that an egg and a chicken are the same thing. Should anyone think that a potential chicken is an actual chicken? No, so, should anyone who says that the egg of a human animal equals a walking (or crawling), talking (or babbling) human person be allowed to judge or rule living, breathing humans?
I think not. Here in the USA, anti-realistic, ignorant people have no Right to judge and rule anybody, any woman, any religion, or a science. So, we can move on to other issues causing such huge diversion of humane attention and energy. Consider the nature of a being, living in the world as a fully developed person.
Obviously, there are important differences between potential and actual people, and between delusions and realities, falsehoods and truths, and between absurd opinions and facts. So, we can be sure that people who want everybody to agree with the absurdity of chickens (or whatever) equaling eggs should be put in their place.
Where that is I don’t know, but it is not in a Court, or in the office of the President of the USA. Yet, let’s go deeper now, and not let deluded fools keep distracting us from the job of sustaining cultural sanity, good government, and functional communities. We need to tackle the fuzzy yet thorny issues of religionists versus humanity. Again, humanity is a principle, like personality. So, what or who deserves the title and status of either?
Yes, a human animal has abilities and mental capabilities that other mammals lack. But, are neurologically stunted psychopaths fully human? Should an unknowable, potentially human, future person be considered a fully human being? So far, if a person can’t breathe (etc.), communicate, and be known, science says “no” to the last question. Oddly, “Right to Lifers” disagree.
Regardless, the Vedic scriptures of ancient India include ‘conversations’ with an incarnation of “God” (or Vishnu), named Krishna. Allegedly, he said that our greatest tragedy is unwanted children. The ancient Hawaiians would agree. They considered healthy children their greatest treasures. Yet, they saw some babies as accidents (of the Goddess and/or nature). Those were given as sacrificial gifts, offerings to Lono (sharks), God of the Ocean.
Were the Hawaiians wrong or inhumane, and Krishna was right, or what? At this late stage of global consumerism, with 8+ billion of us here, we should agree on what deserves to be considered humane or human.
Is an emotionally dead, utterly unethical serial killer or an emotionally defective, anti-ethical narcissist fully human, really? Are they unfixable broken animals, horribly harmful accidents of nature? Those are difficult questions. Yet, how hard is it to see the difference between an egg and a hen, or between a quasi-parasitic embryo and a breathing, eating, drinking, pooing, peeing, walking, talking child (or a voter)?
To me, it seems no harder than knowing the difference between an intelligent, sane, humane judge (or politician) and an immoral, anti-ethical con-artist (or tyrant).
So, I think that, if a doctor or husband wants a woman to live a healthy life without giving birth, if it will kill her—then, despite all possible moralistic issues—neither you nor I have any Right to interfere with their decision-making process. Likewise, when a woman or girl finds herself pregnant, but does not want to raise a child—for whatever reason—does anyone else have a Right to make her give birth? No, we have no Right to impose our will on her.
Nor do we have a Right to force a human female to adopt our opinions and suffer the consequences for the rest of her life. Otherwise, we should force “Right” to Lifers to pay for all the extra expenses of unwanted births for the durations of the impacted lifetimes. We might also then force them to stop killing and eating animals and eggs. Yet, that would be as impractical as it is unconstitutionally illegal. Forcing anybody to give birth, then do a good job of supporting and training an unwanted child is unrealistic, unjust and unconstitutional, illegal.
Yet, what deserves to be called evidence of humanity? Consistent displays of humaneness, fairness, and appropriate responsiveness show an embodied expression of humane personality. So, humanity is expressed as compassionate, empathetic, bio-ethically responsible, appropriately life-enhancing conduct. But, if I’m wrong, what’s the alternative?
Who knows, but do we really have time to waste on fighting over bogus problems? That causes more trouble than it could ever be worth. We have a complex mix of huge, very real problems threatening the survival of all generations of us here now. So, I sincerely hope we quit wasting our most valuable resource: opportunity.
I agree with the ancient Chinese, who knew that “not even God can help those who forfeit opportunity”. So, if you want to argue with God or science, well — go for it.
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ML Monterey, Western Cascadia, USA, 2024, March 3