This is My Rifle: God Can’t Save Us, & Neither Can Obama

Dear People Of Planet Earth,

It’s been a while since we’ve spoken. Yeah, I come around once a week and throw my ideas into the universe but I haven’t taken the opportunity to address you directly yet. I’ll admit it’s partially my fault that we’ve grown apart, but over the past few years I’ve watched the collective situation go from bad to worse and so I made a conscious decision to leave you all behind. It’s not that I think I’m better than you or anything; I just stopped being comfortable around you. I started to feel like I just didn’t belong so I went into my own dimension and began the process of disconnecting from this world altogether. But like Al Pacino in "Godfather III", just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.

The past decade hasn’t been an easy one. Earthquakes, wars, tsunamis, hurricanes; it’s almost like the planet has had enough and doesn’t want us here anymore. On top of all the natural disasters, we’ve also had to face a global economic collapse and political corruption at levels we’ve never seen before. As the gap between rich and poor grew wider, most of us found ourselves on the bottom end, unemployed and praying for some sort of miraculous savior to pull us out of our misery.

And so we prayed extra hard and waited for God but he didn’t show up. Nope, the big guy with the grey beard didn’t come down from the clouds and fix everything. Instead, we were the punchline of a 2000-year-old cruel joke and we slowly came to realize that he doesn’t exist.

The God that I’m speaking of is the one that we made up a long time ago to keep the rest of the population under control. That God was a figment of our imagination. In the beginning we had a clear understanding of the one true God but as time went on we warped the idea of him to fit within whatever principles we felt we could live with, until we ended up with a magical Santa Claus that loved us regardless of how evil we became. As long as we went to church every now and then and pretended to feel bad about things we knew were wrong when we did them, we could count on going to magic Santa heaven and spending eternity being sprinkled with virgins and fairy dust.

When Barack Obama first came around, we were sure that he was sent by magic Santa to bring us “Hope” and “Change” but we soon found out that we had been hoodwinked. Sure, he was better than the guy before him but none of us saw any change at all. In fact, for a lot of us things just got worse. Most of us are still reluctant to admit it, but magic Santa’s messenger crumbled under the pressure. While I do believe that his heart was in the right place, unfortunately he plays the same corporatist game that all the other politicians play. As a result, the wealthy minority continued, and even tightened, their stranglehold over the rest of us.

I guess it’s our fault for getting swept up in the whole thing. I mean, we even photoshopped him into pictures with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. because that’s how damn sure we were that he was the heir to the civil rights throne. So we made him a celebrity and hung onto his every word. He was the undisputed people’s champ.

But as I write this, the government is still overrun by corporate interest and unmerciful greed. Their globalist agenda is being pushed forward and we are on the verge of total enslavement. I know, “enslavement” is such a harsh word but it’s the most accurate way to explain the future that we’re headed into. It’s not Obama’s fault, he’s just another pawn on the multi-national chessboard. He did what he had to do to become president and now it’s his duty to fulfill his obligation to the bankers and corporate elite that made it all possible.

So here we are. Tired, poor and defeated. The people in Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia, Oman, Libya, India, North Korea and many other places have begun to wake up and forcefully take their lives back. A few weeks ago our military even dropped bombs on Libya to try and oust the current regime. They did it not to support their revolution but because Libya holds the key to some very useful and profitable resources. You see, our people over here don’t believe in getting their hands dirty unless there’s something in it for them.

Meanwhile, we’re still in the age-old tug-of-war between the Christian Santa and the Muslim Santa. Our media is still devoting it’s time to perpetuating the ridiculous notion that our Santa is better than theirs and we must be victorious in the magic Santa death match currently underway in Iraq and Afghanistan. Of course, the ruling elite knows that both magic Santas are an elaborate hoax but it works to keep people divided and they can use it to continue to take over the world one country at a time.

Much like the rest of the world, we too are at a breaking point. But unlike them, our revolution is passing us by. While their war exists in the physical realm, ours is a psychological one. We’ve been brainwashed into a capitalist consumer culture and we’ve been blinded to the reality that is unfolding in front of us. We are ignorant, stupid and emotionally vacant. Our entire world is a fantastic ride through celebrity infatuation and self-satisfaction. We spend our time sitting in front of the television and on the internet tweeting about incredibly mediocre events that occur in our insignificant lives. We eat genetically altered, chemically treated foods until we’re so unhealthy that even thinking about exercise exhausts us.

To put it simply, we forgot how to live.

While our military drops bombs on “enemy regimes”, here at home pharmaceutical companies shove pills down our throats. Feeling a little sad? Here’s an Ativan. Can’t focus? Take a Ritalin. Can’t sleep? Pop a Vicodin. Stub your toe? A few Oxycontins will clear that right up. There is literally a chemical answer to every one of life’s problems. We no longer have to face any adversity because whatever obstacle is in our way, there’s a pill that will fix it for us. We have been numbed, dumbed and disoriented. Our revolution was miscarried before we even knew it was conceived.

The message I would like to bring to all of you is that we have to wake up. The party is over. We must demand more from our artists, our leaders and ourselves. We have to lift the blinders and face reality head on. We live in a crucial time and the foreseeable future relies on what we do now. Let’s live again and snap out of the zombie world we’ve been wandering around in for the past 10 years.

The truth is, God does exist. But God isn’t an old wizard in the sky who brings us bags of money because we’ve been “blessed”. God is an infinite mathematical structure that our human minds cannot even begin to comprehend. God is at the very center of every atom of matter and expands to the furthest reaches of the universe. The Bible, Qur’an, and other holy books are very accurate but both have been tampered with and re-written by men to coincide with the systems of control that were being built at the time. There is still much to learn from these books but the truth has been hidden in codes that only those who approach it with an open heart will understand and it’s only by releasing ourselves from corporate enslavement and superficial existence that we will truly know what it means to be free.

It’s time to get back in touch with the ultimate power.

Thanks For Your Time,
Jason James

(Jason James is an artist, freelance columnist and writer for RefinedHype.com. You can listen/download his most recent album, "Marvelous World Of Color", here and you can contact him here and here.)