Endothermic Ideas

Endothermic Ideas



Strangely, people tend to re-act more favorably
to being included in a greater good
than to insults or vilification.



Don’t organize around “identity,”
but around issues.



All people suck
But not all the time.
We each have our occasions
-- some more than others --
or, like bipolar mood swings.



Of course we like feeling superior.
We know! – so much fun.
And it can’t be smug
when we are right.



When everyone goes negative,
we naturally side with those we see
as like us, against those we see as
attackers.


Threatening people for expressing concerns
about violence
portrays the gun lobby as irresponsibly
trigger happy (so to speak) --
demonstrating an excellent argument
against a community wanting them
to have access to guns.



On the hate wagon
enjoy this wild horror ride
to the end of Earth.


Just an an inspiring thought
to be turned to action
if and when
I am ready


Respect the symptom – discover its message.


People who get you, enjoy your presence,
and you get/enjoy
-- isn’t that what it’s all about?


Mourning my memories
worlds long evolved to oblivion.
So potent.


The rule seems clear:
avoid harm to the greater number
even if that means harm must come
to the lesser, unless
that smaller group has added value
like being specifically, personally
meaningful – us versus them.


Clear, simple words to carry
ideas, ideals, mission-based communication.

For art of emotion, imagination,
more frilly metaphor,
symbols as soliloquy,
delicious juxtapositions,
jams and jugglery
employed for your enjoyment.


Bound to gods
No matter human depredation,
protected from annihilation
while I can serve.


Extrinsic traits are only that.
Social roles are only that --
fungible to change for circumstance,
not our intrinsic possibilities.


11/8-23/18

#religion #antiwar #Earth #future

Any group if they feel attacked, will likely want to retaliate -- but then aren't most groups in some way attacked by those who disagree with their premises or actions? Look at all the wars and lesser battles that go on seemingly forever. Even within families, there are those circular battles.

So, at this time when we are all in mortal jeopardy (and isn't the old meme that we will stop our infighting and come together against a common enemy -- but what if we meet that enemy and learn it is us, we who are cynically or ignorantly or angrily destroying the planet we NEED for bare survival?)

let's just jump on the hate wagon
enjoy the wildly horrible ride
to the end of Earth

Could we, maybe, even bit by bit, find a god who truly loves us all and live in that tradition? 

plot twists

Will we want to remember this 6th

of November?

If so, with what lessons or shame?

Did you side with the effort to revive

freedom’s ember,

or take yourself out of the game?

 

 

 

People who delight in killing.

Brothers in violence,

Our strength is our hatred.

What frightens must die.

 

 

 

See!  Look!  StevenPinker everything’s better but

contrary Man to counterbalance manifests

ever more noxious, more toxic, accelerate hate

and grotesque excessiveness.

 

 

 

Some neuro diversity

expels belief in duality.

No black and white

No woman or man

no bi-normality.

Yin and Yang – a beautiful mandate,

separate while together – but not a

universal whole --

only a small part of the argument,

out of context.

What we are is not a conformity,

an average, a demographic map.

What we are is ever evolving to adapt,

to create new paradigmatic opportunities,

expand understanding, imagine and become

more than before.

 

 

11/4-5/18