Friday, August 13, 2021

apocalypse lemming response?

 

Better a Democratic Socialist than a National
Socialist – and best no ist at all.
 
 
 
No nationality
No ethnicity
Within the Universe – Me
 
 
 
In this time when we can’t trust what
we’re told/shown, we each have the
responsibility for our own reality.
Choose well.
 
 
 
Your people, their people – I have no
people, no ancestral family or home.
There are most likely more of we who
have no foundation of enmity to weigh
us down than people stuck on such
fantasies that drain their potential lives.
 
 
 
Caught up in the drama of vaccination
and other Covid issues?
Not to worry.
Soon enough accelerating ravages of
Climate Change will destroy us all.
 
 
 
Perhaps it isn’t selfishness or greed,
but early now subconscious scripts of
shame that form a sort of trance necessity
to achieve a specific kind of success.
It would be natural to feel antipathy toward
competitors, but we all understand that is
part of our challenge.  Much more must they
hate people with different values, who are not,
therefore, bound up in the game except
the ways they devise to entrap, to punish them
for their noncompliance.



 
What brings people to blindly give up their lives to others' ambitions? Political
parties were not  meant to be part of this
nation. We were meant to rule ourselves
through discussion, debate, common enterprise
for common good as active citizens. Did we get
too lazy, too overwhelmed, too busy, too
undereducated, too apathetic, too ill?
 
 
 
Apocalyptic thinking:  We’re all gonna die --
so go out enacting your fantasy.
 
 
 
Is the point to feel superior, or gain support?
 
 
 
 
Doesn't anybody get that our government
isn't them, but us. Of course since we insist
on being adversarial rather than corrective
we abdicate our rule to them.
You have all these desires from our social network
(society) -- so get out there and insist on them
by doing the actual work.
 
 
 
It has occurred to me that all these 
paranoidconspiracy ideas we circulate, 
even if there is some truth to them, is 
 horribly counterproductive to having the 
world we say we want when we decry 
"conspiracies" "government" "media" -- big 
bad powers we can't fight so why fight so 
don't blame me, there's nothing I can do.
Not enough truth and perspective in the news? 
Put it there -- if not little unskilled you, get 
together with others, our own conspiracy for 
truth, justice, Earth, us.  If your elected 
 government does not adequately represent you, 
support representatives who do, even run
for office or get involved with campaigns for 
your issues, and keep those letters, phone calls, 
letters to the editors, speeches in public forums, 
 whatever art you can create, whatever friendship 
chains you can be part of (and a sideeffect of 
destroying the curse of loneliness) – complaining
doesn't make the changes we want to see, 
actual work does.
 
 
 
it is terrible how often kids get yelled at instead of
clearly and compassionately explained to, made to
feel bad rather than getting educated
 
 
 
 
They say "two Americas.  (I say probably more like 
300 million Americas.)But, yeah, legacy of the Civil 
War, the Great Secession, not because they're racist 
-- it's much deeper. 
They are anti-nationalist, anti-social  -- why they 
choose to live in sparsely populated rural places and 
speak ill of city folks. 
They would so much rather destroy us all, secede, 
break away, than figure out how to be a part of a 
world beyond their control.
 
 
 
a full-on loving hug
on a sunny day, running into
exhilarating wind,
finding epiphany in synchronicity,
touching phrases so lyrical,
rhythms that spin me into ecstatic
quiescence, quiet blessings of
beauty, grace, belonging:
 
Enjoy



8/6-13/21 

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