What "NO to MORE" is and is not

Sometimes, the best way to describe what something is involves describing what it is not.

NO to MORE is NOT:

• A political movement
• Affiliated with any religious persuasion or group
• A sales pitch
• A gimmick to become personally famous
• An endorsement of any product, service, or person
• A smear campaign against any product, service, or person
• About money…per se
• A pie-in-the-sky kooky idea with no hope of becoming reality
• A short-term solution

Okay…so what is it?

NO to MORE is:

• A philosophy
• A rallying cry for the world, and particularly America, to wake up and pay attention to what we’re doing to each other and the planet in the name of greed
• A statement of individual power
• A means of community empowerment
• A paradigm shift
• An ecological movement
• A non-denominational spiritual meme without the limitations of traditional dogma
• About becoming aware of our role as stewards of Mother Earth
• About eschewing the concepts of “manifest destiny” and “dominion” over the planet and its non-human inhabitants
• A movement whose time has truly come…if its not already too late
• A worthy long-range goal for all of humanity
• Something you can start today…right now…right this second! All it takes is a willingness to step outside yourself and examine your beliefs and behaviors with a critical, yet non-judgmental, approach.
• A healthy means of peaceful protest against that which does not further our highest purpose without giving those things our power in the process
• A radical thought process that flies in the face of everything we’ve been taught yet is our best chance of saving ourselves before it’s too late

The World's Most Expensive Foods

It's so much worse than I ever imagined! The sheer outrageousness of the lengths to which people will go simply to appear something they're not sickens me. It's difficult to see a future for humanity that is one of harmony with our environment when such obscene displays of wanton excess are condoned...and even aspired to.

Wake Up! This kind of waste of our precious natural resources should be held up for ridicule, eschewed, and exposed for the lie that it represents.

“For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are”

~ Niccolo Machiavelli

• We are not our possessions
• We are not our bank accounts
• We are not our job titles
• We are not our addresses
• Nothing we truly are can be measured or counted

We, as a global culture, must learn to see the world through better eyes...to understand that what we're looking for is what we're looking with. Ponder that thought for a moment. "What you're looking for is what you're looking with." Sadly, I can't claim that particular bit of wisdom. I heard it from a very wise man, Paul Gonyea ~ Leader of the Spiritual Living Center of Atlanta. It's something I'll never forget. What a great shift in perspective...and I believe that perspective is everything.

Can you stop..just for a minute. Look around you. Look at your life, look at it objectively, fully, honestly and without judgment. What do you see? What are you really doing? Are you living a life that helps you move toward your highest purpose or away towards that which only further enslaves you?

NO to MORE Concept Word Cloud

Logo I've Been Working On

All comments and/or constructive criticism are welcome.

Why "No to More?"

From my perspective, and our own perspective is all any of us truly see, most everything that no longer serves us as a culture can be traced back to the concept of MORE. If you've read "The Parable of the Mexican Fisherman" you'll understand...I hope. It's a simple story that beautifully illustrates the concept of which I'm speaking. It has a permanent place at the beginning of this blog since I believe quite fervently that it's the most important concept for us to "get."

We spend so much of our lives chasing the almighty dollar that we miss the things which truly matter...family, friends, love, compassion, art, music, etc. If we could see past the things that "Mother Culture" tell us are important (Mother Culture lies), then we could rid ourselves of the extraneous detritus and concentrate on the simple pleasures...the internal experiences. For those of you who have not yet been exposed to the concept of "Mother Culture," please read the life-changing book, Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn. There is a link to his book on the "NO to MORE" home page. It is at the top of the list of books which have helped manifest profound change in my life. Understanding that there is a different human story to be told, one from a profoundly different perspective, opened my eyes many years ago in ways which are still being discovered.

We are slaves to our possessions...to our materialism. We leave our homes and families to work at jobs that may, or more often do not, feed our souls in order to have money to buy more, or more expensive, things that we can't take with us when we die. Entire industries are made of of people who do nothing more than move imaginary money and figures around in computers to sustain a house of cards that is now falling. We can all see it happening. The question is...What are we going to do about it?

The movement, "NO to MORE," is a rallying cry for those who have ears to hear and minds open to new ideas, to free ourselves from the spurious dictates of "Mother Culture" and make a change. Stand up to those who believe that we have "dominion" over Mother Earth and become stewards instead. Refuse to blindly follow the cultural commands that tell us to OBEY and CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME.

There is a better way to live, and my goal is to present for examination those things that are taking us, as a people, away from what advances us and pulls us toward that which further enslaves us. The outrageous conspicuous consumption in which we engage truly sickens me, and our obeisance to superficiality and external stimuli is frightening in its ubiquity.

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Case in point:

The Hermès Birkin Bag

History of the bag

Named after British film star Jane Birkin, Hermès introduced the Birkin in 1984. As a symbol of status and power, it has few, if any, betters.

About the bag

Birkin Bags start at about $6,000; the most expensive version, made of crocodile with solid gold (or platinum) closures studded with diamonds, tops $85,000. The Birkin Martha Stewart carried into federal court to stand trial on conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and securities fraud charges was probably in the middle-brow neighborhood of $12,000.

The waiting list to purchase a Birkin is about two years long.

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WHAT??? A purse that STARTS at $6,000? Have we completely lost our minds?!?

When I first learned that there was actually a purse that sold for $49,000 (and that's not even the top-of-the-line model), my first reaction was that I've lived too long. It is unconscionable to be so caught up in appearances that we'd spend more for a purse than most of the planet can spend for a house. There is a fundamental flaw in our thinking. We need a paradigm shift...BADLY! We, as a culture, need to change the way we think. We need to learn to say "NO to MORE!"

"INSANITY: Doing the same thing, repeatedly, in the same way and expecting different results."

Politicians fall in and out of favor. Popular ideas on how to "fix" the economy won't work because we're addressing the problems using the same kind of thinking that got us into the mess in the first place. Only a shift in our own thinking...about ourselves, our lives, our environment, our communities, our purpose on this planet, and our individual effects on the Earth as an organism holds any chance of actually making a difference in our future. Now is the time. We must act before it's too late.

I've begun listing the things to be addressed in this forum.

Just Say NO to MORE:

• Rampant consumerism
• Religious Dogma
• Governmental Interference in our Lives
• Greed
• Pollution
• Debt-based Economics
• Outrageous Luxuries
• Living Externally
• Hatred
• Illegal Immigration
• Lobbying
• Fanaticism
• Divisiveness
  
• Special-Interest Groups
• Further Growth of Big Cities
• Conspicuous Consumption
  

"No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from..."
~From Life Uncommon by Jewel

More importantly I intend to show as many examples as I can find of ways in which people are choosing to live authentic, harmonious, balanced lives as stewards of the land rather than holding dominion over the Earth and her gifts.

My husband and I have accepted this idea as the key concept to share with others...changing the lives of those who resonate with us as well as our own lives. We're freeing ourselves of the "things" accumulated over a lifetime that we've become slaves to in order to leave the city behind and travel the country sharing that freedom with those who are ready to hear.

Follow us on our journey into new territory and share our adventure of discovery...more importantly, ask yourself how you can just say "NO to MORE."

Congress for the New Urbanism

CNU members ratified the Charter of the New Urbanism at CNU's fourth annual Congress in 1996. Applying valuable lessons from the past to the modern world, it outlines principles for building better communities, from the scale of the region down to the block.

The Congress for the New Urbanism views disinvestment in central cities, the spread of placeless sprawl, increasing separation by race and income, environmental deterioration, loss of agricultural lands and wilderness, and the erosion of society's built heritage as one interrelated community-building challenge.

We stand for the restoration of existing urban centers and towns within coherent metropolitan regions, the reconfiguration of sprawling suburbs into communities of real neighborhoods and diverse districts, the conservation of natural environments, and the preservation of our built legacy.

We recognize that physical solutions by themselves will not solve social and economic problems, but neither can economic vitality, community stability, and environmental health be sustained without a coherent and supportive physical framework.

We advocate the restructuring of public policy and development practices to support the following principles: neighborhoods should be diverse in use and population; communities should be designed for the pedestrian and transit as well as the car; cities and towns should be shaped by physically defined and universally accessible public spaces and community institutions; urban places should be framed by architecture and landscape design that celebrate local history, climate, ecology, and building practice.

We represent a broad-based citizenry, composed of public and private sector leaders, community activists, and multidisciplinary professionals. We are committed to reestablishing the relationship between the art of building and the making of community, through citizen-based participatory planning and design.

We dedicate ourselves to reclaiming our homes, blocks, streets, parks, neighborhoods, districts, towns, cities, regions, and environment.

We assert the following principles to guide public policy, development practice, urban planning, and design:

The region: Metropolis, city, and town

1. Metropolitan regions are finite places with geographic boundaries derived from topography, watersheds, coastlines, farmlands, regional parks, and river basins. The metropolis is made of multiple centers that are cities, towns, and villages, each with its own identifiable center and edges.
   
   
2. The metropolitan region is a fundamental economic unit of the contemporary world. Governmental cooperation, public policy, physical planning, and economic strategies must reflect this new reality.
   
   
3. The metropolis has a necessary and fragile relationship to its agrarian hinterland and natural landscapes. The relationship is environmental, economic, and cultural. Farmland and nature are as important to the metropolis as the garden is to the house.
   
   
4. Development patterns should not blur or eradicate the edges of the metropolis. Infill development within existing urban areas conserves environmental resources, economic investment, and social fabric, while reclaiming marginal and abandoned areas. Metropolitan regions should develop strategies to encourage such infill development over peripheral expansion.
   
   
5. Where appropriate, new development contiguous to urban boundaries should be organized as neighborhoods and districts, and be integrated with the existing urban pattern. Noncontiguous development should be organized as towns and villages with their own urban edges, and planned for a jobs/housing balance, not as bedroom suburbs.
   
   
6. The development and redevelopment of towns and cities should respect historical patterns, precedents, and boundaries.
   
   
7. Cities and towns should bring into proximity a broad spectrum of public and private uses to support a regional economy that benefits people of all incomes. Affordable housing should be distributed throughout the region to match job opportunities and to avoid concentrations of poverty.
   
   
8. The physical organization of the region should be supported by a framework of transportation alternatives. Transit, pedestrian, and bicycle systems should maximize access and mobility throughout the region while reducing dependence upon the automobile.
   
   
9. Revenues and resources can be shared more cooperatively among the municipalities and centers within regions to avoid destructive competition for tax base and to promote rational coordination of transportation, recreation, public services, housing, and community institutions.

The neighborhood, the district, and the corridor

1. The neighborhood, the district, and the corridor are the essential elements of development and redevelopment in the metropolis. They form identifiable areas that encourage citizens to take responsibility for their maintenance and evolution.
   
   
2. Neighborhoods should be compact, pedestrian-friendly, and mixed-use. Districts generally emphasize a special single use, and should follow the principles of neighborhood design when possible. Corridors are regional connectors of neighborhoods and districts; they range from boulevards and rail lines to rivers and parkways.
   
   
3. Many activities of daily living should occur within walking distance, allowing independence to those who do not drive, especially the elderly and the young. Interconnected networks of streets should be designed to encourage walking, reduce the number and length of automobile trips, and conserve energy.
   
   
4. Within neighborhoods, a broad range of housing types and price levels can bring people of diverse ages, races, and incomes into daily interaction, strengthening the personal and civic bonds essential to an authentic community.
   
   
5. Transit corridors, when properly planned and coordinated, can help organize metropolitan structure and revitalize urban centers. In contrast, highway corridors should not displace investment from existing centers.
   
   
6. Appropriate building densities and land uses should be within walking distance of transit stops, permitting public transit to become a viable alternative to the automobile.
   
   
7. Concentrations of civic, institutional, and commercial activity should be embedded in neighborhoods and districts, not isolated in remote, single-use complexes. Schools should be sized and located to enable children to walk or bicycle to them.
   
   
8. The economic health and harmonious evolution of neighborhoods, districts, and corridors can be improved through graphic urban design codes that serve as predictable guides for change.
   
   
9. A range of parks, from tot-lots and village greens to ballfields and community gardens, should be distributed within neighborhoods. Conservation areas and open lands should be used to define and connect different neighborhoods and districts.

The block, the street, and the building

1. A primary task of all urban architecture and landscape design is the physical definition of streets and public spaces as places of shared use.
   
   
2. Individual architectural projects should be seamlessly linked to their surroundings. This issue transcends style.
   
   
3. The revitalization of urban places depends on safety and security. The design of streets and buildings should reinforce safe environments, but not at the expense of accessibility and openness.
   
   
4. In the contemporary metropolis, development must adequately accommodate automobiles. It should do so in ways that respect the pedestrian and the form of public space.
   
   
5. Streets and squares should be safe, comfortable, and interesting to the pedestrian. Properly configured, they encourage walking and enable neighbors to know each other and protect their communities.
   
   
6. Architecture and landscape design should grow from local climate, topography, history, and building practice.
   
   
7. Civic buildings and public gathering places require important sites to reinforce community identity and the culture of democracy. They deserve distinctive form, because their role is different from that of other buildings and places that constitute the fabric of the city.
   
   
8. All buildings should provide their inhabitants with a clear sense of location, weather and time. Natural methods of heating and cooling can be more resource-efficient than mechanical systems.
   
   
9. Preservation and renewal of historic buildings, districts, and landscapes affirm the continuity and evolution of urban society.

Copyright 1996, Congress for the New Urbanism. Permission is hereby granted to reproduce the Charter in full or in excerpt, provided that this copyright notice remains intact.

The Mess We Have Outside is a Reflection of the Mess We Have Inside

"The turmoil and disharmony in the world 'out there' is a consequence of choices that have been made with the mind to the exclusion of the spirit. If we consider that the world is in a mess and the Earth is suffering from the pollution and exploitation inflicted upon it, that is because we inside are polluted and exploited by the conditioning imposed upon us. The world 'out there' is but a projection of the world within each and all of us. If we crave for a better world, we need to make the world within us a better place for our spiritual 'self.' Transformation can only take place outside if we first change the inside. Changes 'out there' begin 'in here' - within ourselves...Change comes first from within.

~Kenneth Meadows, Shamanic Spirit

New Constitutional Preamble (I Wish!)

PROPOSED NEW PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION

This is probably the best e-mail I've seen in a long, long time. The following has been attributed to State Representative Mitchell Kaye from GA. This guy should run for President one day...

'We the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great-grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the terminally whiny, guilt ridden, delusional, and other liberal bed-wetters. We hold these truths to be self evident: that a whole lot of people are confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim they require a 'Bill of NON-Rights.'

ARTICLE I: You do not have the right to a new car, big screen TV, or any other form of wealth. More power to you if you can legally acquire them, but no one is guaranteeing anything.

ARTICLE II: You do not have the right to never be offended. This country is based on freedom, and that means freedom for everyone -- not just you! You may leave the room, turn the channel, express a different opinion, etc.; but the world is full of idiots, and probably always will be.

ARTICLE III: You do not have the right to be free from harm. If you stick a screwdriver in your eye, learn to be more careful; do not expect the tool manufacturer to make you and all your relatives independently wealthy.

ARTICLE IV: You do not have the right to free food and housing. Americans are the most charitable people to be found and will gladly help anyone in need, but we are quickly growing weary of subsidizing generation after generation of professional couch potatoes who achieve nothing more than the creation of another generation of professional couch potatoes.

ARTICLE V: You do not have the right to free health care. That would be nice, but from the looks of public housing, we're just not interested in public health care.

ARTICLE VI: You do not have the right to physically harm other people. If you kidnap, rape, intentionally maim, or kill someone, don't be surprised if the rest of us want to see you fry in the electric chair.

ARTICLE VII: You do not have the right to the possessions of others. If you rob, cheat, or coerce away the goods or services of other citizens, don't be surprised if the rest of us get t ogether and lock you away in a place where you still won't have the right to a big screen color TV or a life of leisure.

ARTICLE VIII: You do not have the right to a job.. All of us sure want you to have a job, and will gladly help you along in hard times, but we expect you to take advantage of the opportunities of education and vocational training laid before you to make yourself useful.

ARTICLE IX: You do not have the right to happiness. Being an American means that you have the right to PURSUE happiness, which by the way, is a lot easier if you are unencumbered by an over abundance of idiotic laws created by those of you who were confused by the Bill of Rights.

ARTICLE X: This is an English speaking country. We don't care where you are from, English is our language. Learn it or go back to wherever you came from!

ARTICLE XI: You do not have the right to change our country's history or heritage. This country was founded on the right to individual belief. You are given the freedom to believe in any religion, any faith, or no faith at all; with no fear of persecution. Respect others' right to the same considerations.

A Beautiful Story to Share

The personal stories of psychic Atira that have moved me very deeply. I highly recommend taking the time to read about her.

How to Destroy America

I HAVE A PLAN TO DESTROY AMERICA
RICHARD D. LAMM

I HAVE A SECRET PLAN TO DESTROY AMERICA. IF YOU BELIEVE, AS MANY DO, THAT AMERICA IS TOO SMUG, TOO WHITE BREAD, TOO SELF-SATISFIED, TOO RICH, LETS DESTROY AMERICA. IT IS NOT THAT HARD TO DO. HISTORY SHOWS THAT NATIONS ARE MORE FRAGILE THAN THEIR CITIZENS THINK. NO NATION IN HISTORY HAS SURVIVED THE RAVAGES OF TIME. ARNOLD TOYNBEE OBSERVED THAT ALL GREAT CIVILIZATIONS RISE AND THEY ALL FALL, AND THAT "AN AUTOPSY OF HISTORY WOULD SHOW THAT ALL GREAT NATIONS COMMIT SUICIDE." HERE IS MY PLAN:

I. WE MUST FIRST MAKE AMERICA A BILINGUAL-BICULTURAL COUNTRY. HISTORY SHOWS, IN MY OPINION, THAT NO NATION CAN SURVIVE THE TENSION, CONFLICT, AND ANTAGONISM OF TWO COMPETING LANGUAGES AND CULTURES. IT IS A BLESSING FOR AN INDIVIDUAL TO BE BILINGUAL; IT IS A CURSE FOR A SOCIETY TO BE BILINGUAL. ONE SCHOLAR, SEYMOUR MARTIN LIPSET, PUT IT THIS WAY:
THE HISTORIES OF BILINGUAL AND BICULTURAL SOCIETIES THAT DO NOT ASSIMILATE ARE HISTORIES OF TURMOIL, TENSION, AND TRAGEDY. CANADA, BELGIUM, MALAYSIA, LEBANON-ALL FACE CRISES OF NATIONAL EXISTENCE IN WHICH MINORITIES PRESS FOR AUTONOMY, IF NOT INDEPENDENCE. PAKISTAN AND CYPRUS HAVE DIVIDED. NIGERIA SUPPRESSED AN ETHNIC REBELLION. FRANCE FACES DIFFICULTIES WITH ITS BASQUES, BRETONS, AND CORSICANS.
II. I WOULD THEN INVENT "MULTICULTURALISM" AND ENCOURAGE IMMIGRANTS TO MAINTAIN THEIR OWN CULTURE. I WOULD MAKE IT AN ARTICLE OF BELIEF THAT ALL CULTURES ARE EQUAL: THAT THERE ARE NO CULTURAL DIFFERENCES THAT ARE IMPORTANT. I WOULD DECLARE IT AN ARTICLE OF FAITH THAT THE BLACK AND HISPANIC DROPOUT RATE IS ONLY DUE TO PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION BY THE MAJORITY. EVERY OTHER EXPLANATION IS OUT-OF-BOUNDS.

III. WE CAN MAKE THE UNITED STATES A "HISPANIC QUEBEC" WITHOUT MUCH EFFORT. THE KEY IS TO CELEBRATE DIVERSITY RATHER THAN UNITY. AS BENJAMIN SCHWARZ SAID IN THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY RECENTLY:
...THE APPARENT SUCCESS OF OUR OWN MULTIETHNIC AND MULTICULTURAL EXPERIMENT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED NOT BY TOLERANCE BUT BY HEGEMONY. WITHOUT THE DOMINANCE THAT ONCE DICTATED ETHNOCENTRICALLY, AND WHAT IT MEANT TO BE AN AMERICAN, WE ARE LEFT WITH ONLY TOLERANCE AND PLURALISM TO HOLD US TOGETHER.
I WOULD ENCOURAGE ALL IMMIGRANTS TO KEEP THEIR OWN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE. I WOULD REPLACE THE MELTING POT METAPHOR WITH A SALAD BOWL METAPHOR. IT IS IMPORTANT TO INSURE THAT WE HAVE VARIOUS CULTURAL SUB-GROUPS LIVING IN AMERICA REINFORCING THEIR DIFFERENCES RATHER THAN AMERICANS, EMPHASIZING THEIR SIMILARITIES.

IV. HAVING DONE ALL THIS, I WOULD MAKE OUR FASTEST GROWING DEMOGRAPHIC GROUP THE LEAST EDUCATED - I WOULD ADD A SECOND UNDERCLASS, UNASSIMILATED, UNDEREDUCATED, AND ANTAGONISTIC TO OUR POPULATION. I WOULD HAVE THIS SECOND UNDERCLASS HAVE A 50% DROP OUT RATE FROM SCHOOL.

V. I WOULD THEN GET THE BIG FOUNDATIONS AND BIG BUSINESS TO GIVE THESE EFFORTS LOTS OF MONEY. I WOULD INVEST IN ETHNIC IDENTITY, AND I WOULD ESTABLISH THE CULT OF VICTIMOLOGY. I WOULD GET ALL MINORITIES TO THINK THEIR LACK OF SUCCESS WAS ALL THE FAULT OF THE MAJORITY - I WOULD START A GRIEVANCE INDUSTRY BLAMING ALL MINORITY FAILURE ON THE MAJORITY POPULATION.

VI. I WOULD ESTABLISH DUAL CITIZENSHIP AND PROMOTE DIVIDED LOYALTIES. I WOULD "CELEBRATE DIVERSITY." "DIVERSITY" IS A WONDERFULLY SEDUCTIVE WORD. IT STRESSES DIFFERENCES RATHER THAN COMMONALITIES. DIVERSE PEOPLE WORLDWIDE ARE MOSTLY ENGAGED IN HATING EACH OTHER-THAT IS, WHEN THEY ARE NOT KILLING EACH OTHER. A DIVERSE," PEACEFUL, OR STABLE SOCIETY IS AGAINST MOST HISTORICAL PRECEDENT. PEOPLE UNDERVALUE THE UNITY IT TAKES TO KEEP A NATION TOGETHER, AND WE CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS MYOPIA. LOOK AT THE ANCIENT GREEKS. DORF'S WORLD HISTORY TELLS US:
THE GREEKS BELIEVED THAT THEY BELONGED TO THE SAME RACE; THEY POSSESSED A COMMON LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE; AND THEY WORSHIPED THE SAME GODS. ALL GREECE TOOK PART IN THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN HONOR OF ZEUS AND ALL GREEKS VENERATED THE SHRINE OF APOLLO AT DELPHI. A COMMON ENEMY PERSIA THREATENED THEIR LIBERTY. YET, ALL OF THESE BONDS TOGETHER WERE NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO OVERCOME TWO FACTORS . . . (LOCAL PATRIOTISM AND GEOGRAPHICAL CONDITIONS THAT NURTURED POLITICAL DIVISIONS . . .)
IF WE CAN PUT THE EMPHASIS ON THE "PLURIBUS," INSTEAD OF THE "UNUM," WE CAN BALKANIZE AMERICA AS SURELY AS KOSOVO.

VII. THEN I WOULD PLACE ALL THESE SUBJECTS OFF LIMITS - MAKE IT TABOO TO TALK ABOUT. I WOULD FIND A WORD SIMILAR TO "HERETIC" IN THE 16TH CENTURY - THAT STOPPED DISCUSSION AND PARALYZED THINKING. WORDS LIKE "RACIST", "XENOPHOBE" THAT HALTS ARGUMENT AND CONVERSATION.

HAVING MADE AMERICA A BILINGUAL-BICULTURAL COUNTRY, HAVING ESTABLISHED MULTICULTURALISM, HAVING THE LARGE FOUNDATIONS FUND THE DOCTRINE OF "VICTIMOLOGY", I WOULD NEXT MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO ENFORCE OUR IMMIGRATION LAWS. I WOULD DEVELOP A MANTRA - "THAT BECAUSE IMMIGRATION HAS BEEN GOOD FOR AMERICA, IT MUST ALWAYS BE GOOD." I WOULD MAKE EVERY INDIVIDUAL IMMIGRANT SYMPATRIC AND IGNORE THE CUMULATIVE IMPACT.

VIII. LASTLY, I WOULD CENSOR VICTOR HANSON DAVIS'S BOOK MEXIFORNIA — THIS BOOK IS DANGEROUS — IT EXPOSES MY PLAN TO DESTROY AMERICA. SO PLEASE, PLEASE — IF YOU FEEL THAT AMERICA DESERVES TO BE DESTROYED — PLEASE, PLEASE — DON'T BUY THIS BOOK! THIS GUY IS ON TO MY PLAN.
"THE SMART WAY TO KEEP PEOPLE PASSIVE AND OBEDIENT IS TO STRICTLY LIMIT THE SPECTRUM OF ACCEPTABLE OPINION, BUT ALLOW VERY LIVELY DEBATE WITHIN THAT SPECTRUM." — NOAM CHOMSKY, AMERICAN LINGUIST AND US MEDIA AND FOREIGN POLICY CRITIC.