Pledge Tones Counseling Session #1, Part IV

Counseling Session #1, Part IV

Pledge Tones: There is a perspective that I would like to introduce into our discussion today, which involves an excerpt from an iBook already loaded onto that iPad. For convenience, I have an iPad with me as well with the same iBook therefore we can be on the same page at the same time figuring out the information together from this distance so you may comfortably decide whether you would like a copy of the iBook and, if so, what format you prefer, digital or print. Handling the iPad at the start of every session allows the patient familiarization with the device well before I begin referring to specifics like the iBook I am directing our attention towards momentarily.   

Client: Yes. Let me just wrap up here. You’re right. The iPad is really soothing and keeps one alert throughout the counseling process. I actually was looking at images of battlefields from the First World War and could not forget the observation my fellow veteran friend made some time ago. You can love or hate and then dislike or like. It is possible, you can love but dislike and hate but like. And it is truths like these that the GOP doesn’t grasp and misinterprets in their own barbarity with such sickening linearity.

Pledge Tones: Speaking of linearity, the diagram I have chosen for us to review is a result of my having read that the psychologist Abraham Maslow never intended for his hierarchical human needs list to be interpreted as a pyramidal construct. After much careful studying and review, I have come to see Maslow’s hierarchical construct as a star embodiment of all humankind. I took Leonardo da Vinci’s famous drawing and placed a star atop the sketch of the Vitruvian male as to delete gender specifications and help others see another interpretation of Maslow’s model framework.

Client: So the star is essentially and roughly representing the human body without gender identification?

Pledge: Yes. Humans must learn to stand up as a milestone in their development but if they do not have their physiological and safety needs met, all is definitely not viable for them to begin to take their first steps in any societal construct. Humans learn to build relationships with others and cannot even begin to embrace such an endeavor without their love and belonging and esteem needs being addressed and met. And, finally, everybody has the full potential to be given the right to exercise their intelligence and creativity and the skills set they have attained and are pursuing in order to make a living and engage in a self-constructed lifestyle. In a consumerism model these needs are allotted price tags and income differentials that separate certain consumers into a categorical class or group. And, of course, the heart of the matter is self-transcendence, which is exploited by the consumerist status quo quite vulgarly.

Client: Speaking of the vulgar consumerist status quo, how can one meditate and live one’s best life without having his or her physiological and safety needs met? And isn’t that the root of evil? To tell a person without the means to stand up on his or her feet to embrace his or her inner sanctum and emerge out of poverty and the pain of hunger and thirst alone is corruption.

Pledge Tones: I agree.

Client: How would you respond to the media’s identifying 2016 contender and cheat Jeb Bush as a foreign policy hawk?

Pledge Tones: There’s a new term to describe the status quo buying the elections in the United States these days, newscasters referring to these cheats as the donor class while refusing to cover the plight of the disenfranchised American constituencies facing horrific climate changes involving hills of snow expected to not melt until this May in communities across the country.   

Client: I find it offensive. The GOP is not comprised of hawks but, at least, bloodcurdling buzzards that feed off carrion, don’t you think? Let’s go back to the case in point earlier with the 2005 forced migration of Israeli settlers from Palestine to Israel by then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, with the support of George Walker Bush’s Administration, including then-Secretary of State Condi Rice’s recommendations.

Pledge Tones: Of course.

Client: The private sectoring of public endeavors such as systems of federal government while subjecting vulnerable citizens to endure physical displacement and economic devastation statewide doesn’t work. Private companies attempted to establish stability in Palestine after 2005 but their efforts proved to be not enough. The farmers in Gaza disposed of their produce as goat feed by 2006, despite investments to rescue their greenhouses by the Palestine Economic Development Company.    

Pledge Tones: The agreements reached by the Israelis with the Palestinians went unimplemented or not honored at all, which led to the political unrest that became a violent back-and-forth between Fatah and Hamas in Palestine. Did George Walker Bush maneuver with the worst intensions for the Palestinians and Israelis because of personal bias, prejudice for the Muslims and Jews, although the truth being much different with all three faiths, including Christians, coexisting in relative peace?

Client: Considering covert treaties between outside nations and/or organizations on how to divide the area—despite internal opposition—have subjected all three faiths in the region to unimaginable injustices since the First World War, I’d say that the status quo deliberately moves backwards in time because of the fear of a diversified and competitive economy, especially in their own households.   

Pledge Tones: In 1916, Britain, France, and Russia were not transparent in developing plans to divide up the remains of the Ottoman Empire, the Arab World, as would befit them. In 1918, the League of Nations issued mandates that allowed the British occupation of Palestine and to enforce the settlement of Jews in Palestine despite riots against such an immigration policy from within, which led England to construct quotas that led to armed rebellions between 1932 and 1939, culminating in the partition of Palestine in 1939 after England refused to allow elections there and the vast suffering as a result of depressed economies worldwide.                       

Client: What about ethics in leadership? Falsely putting on an empathic political theatre with speeches like the ones George Walker Bush haggardly blew through with the national press corps agreeing to interrupt regular programming on their major networks whenever Bush 43 coughed phlegm. I remain convinced that the only way to continue ahead is with a Kennedy alongside Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton 42 is too enamored by the coughed phlegm of 43 and the façade of 41 to be of any service to our country. (To be continued…)