use it up; wear it out

  

a sense of exhaustion

each exhausted by our own weary,

wearing experience

Too worn and weary to want

to carry on.

Rebellion may seem attractive,

out there, somewhere,

but far too depleting to

contemplate today.

Sleep is what appeals --

let us rest, exhale.

 

 

 

 

Parallel, not Hierarchical

Better for me, not better than you.

 

 

 

freedom can only be absolute if one is alone

 

freedom in community, society, family is dependent

on a contract or commitment to mutually respect

each other's freedom -- responsibility.

 

 

 

 

many years ago I was looking out onto a river

and thinking about egolessness

 

I heard the river as we hear voice in silence

say:  I am a river, I flow as nature and have

no need of an ego.  You are human, in a world

of other humans, and you need your special

center voice to give you the means to be you.

 

 

 

 

everyone not on the Trump bandwagon gets

threatened and pretty soon the rabid radical

Republicans will be carrying out these executions

if we don't protect ourselves and take away their power

 

 

 

 

why would you not vote, if only to give support to

a 3rd party alternative, a write-in, some indication

that you matter as a citizen because the vote is your

fundamental duty as a citizen of a democracy and it's

by giving up on that duty in droves that we destroy

our chance for having a voice

 

 

 

1/22-26/22

paid in attention

 

I find when feeling poorly it helps to

become calm and distract by sending

my attention outward.

 

 

 

I keep reminding, just because the Dems

get fooled or betrayed into keeping this

unconscionable, anti-democratic 60 vote to

cloture filibuster which allows McConnell to

sneer happily, doesn't mean McConnell won't

kill it the moment it inconveniences him.

 

 

 

I know, death, but skeptics can make all kinds

of excuses about comorbidities, often old and infirm,

not THAT many and on. My huge fear are the chronic

long-term and even lifetime new disabilities, infirmities,

disease and exacerbation of disease that Covid

so often leaves behind in a great

many more people.

 

 

 

 

We all know there is corruption in government.

(What was that saying about corruption and

power; and we all know about the love of

money.)  That does not mean that all politics,

government, is corrupt.  Assuming that is not

only lazy thinking and counterproductive to

better democratic governance, it becomes an

easy excuse for giving up, because they're all

corrupt, even though they are us.  There's nothing

we can do, we decide, but complain on social

media, without bothering to learn what we

could do, if we truly wanted to.

 

 

 

maybe we ought to be at least teaching the bases

 of the economic philosophies, as well as detailed

civic education about how our government is meant

to work and the responsibilities of citizenship even

if we are discouraged from teaching real American history.

 

 

 

How absurd your angry reaction assuming I am

defending whoever you inveigh against, when

I am speaking from outside of polarity.

 

 

 

 

Aren't there pro-democracy people of wealth?

Are they heavily lobbying obstructionist

Senators for democracy's cause?

 

 

 

Leadership does make a huge difference in

how people believe and therefore act.  Tell

people it is honorable, even necessary, to

be assholes, and, well...

 

 

 

1/13-22/22

voting rights rant

 

 

 

we need a 21st Century Voting Rights campaign,

evolved from the '60s, to fit our current

threat to all of our rights.

 

 

voting is not a privilege, or merely a right

voting is our basic duty as citizens in a

democracy (or democratic republic)

attempting to prevent citizens from

exercising our basic duty ought to

be considered Treason

 

 

I see all these anti-government "mavericks"

proclaim against voting because it makes no

difference, or validates a bad system.  Yet,

obviously voting can be a source of power,

or why would those who have forced their way

into government try to deny it to those who

oppose them.  Bad government results from

lack of participation, not "the system" allowed

to continue because bad actors are not

adequately opposed.

 

 

 

a proposal:  “Reverse Talking Filibuster”

that the Democratic Senators employ a “reverse talking filibuster”

such that they take turns talking about Voting Rights 

and all the circumstances making this Voting Rights

legislation necessary.  The point would be to take over the

Senate 24/7 with strong media attention until McConnell agrees

to cloture and a majority vote.

 

 

 

the only good filibuster

is a talking filibuster

instead of promoting bipartisanship or

debate this 60 vote to cloture exactly

denies debate and promotes hate and disfunction

 

 

the point is to keep the Dems from

making the progress they promised

and the people want so no one will

want to vote for them in '22, when exactly

what is needed to get all those promises

fulfilled is to vote in more progressive Dems

in '22 so we won't need to sweat the

filibuster or "moderates"

 

 

 

 These Republican anti-voter shenanigans

reminds me of the scene in "Guys and Dolls"

at the crap game where Big Jule has insisted

they play with his spotless dice. 

Harry the Horse says that  "With honest dice, Big Jule

cannot make a pass to save his soul."

 

 

 

 the issue really is that these new

restrictions on voting are meant to be

just that, so politicians can choose

their voters and who they don't want voting,

as if they own the country.

 

 

 

public interest lawyers and activists:

time to get busy and creative finding ways

to get around the restrictions and get out

the vote better than ever!

let's reassess

 

You are angry at the POTUS because he’s

not doing what you want?

He’s not your dad or god – and they don’t

give you what you want either.

Yes, we hired him – but that’s a very large

WE, of which you are only a very small part.

 

 

 

Hate, Hate feels so great – such a waste

of precious energy.  What does hate solve?

How does hate make us feel/be/do/have

better?  How about foregoing hate, calmly

directing that energy to finding answers

each and together?

 

 

 

Pro-authoritarian because we are

much too lazy for democracy.

 

 

 

De-emphasize fossil fuels – save our

planet, and impoverish Putin (so, saving

our planet again).

 

 

 

I study astrology because it fascinates me. 

I also find it a useful tool for organizing information,

like history.  Astrology is not really about planets,

but about cycles, which reappear in different forms --

history.  We study history to discover how we can

do it better.

 

 

 

 

do you think the powers that be are promoting this

whole anti-vax/pro-Covid project to improve the gene pool?

 

 

1/8-12/22

22 to see differently

  

this whole controversy over public schools staying open

or going to remote learning is not an issue,

just do both.  Remote learning doesn’t

have to be at home.  You can have the

set-up anywhere, like in your school.

The parents who want their kids in school

can send them.  The teachers who want

to teach in person can.  The kids and

staff who don’t want the risk can learn

and teach remotely.  Everybody wins.

 

 

 

money is meant to be a tool

(one possibility that we have grown accustomed to)

for accounting to allow for nondirect trade

the point is not the money or even the trade

but the distribution of resources

for individual and public good

 

 

 

 

What did we think would result

when we tried to divide the vast

differences of Americans into

two highly competitive Parties?

 

 

 

Isn't is really

about the power to be

irresponsibly mean?

 

 

 

You who think yourself so cool

to make terrorizing threats on

public servants' phones ought to

be told:

Is this really the game you want

to play?  Because, understand,

you are not the only American with

Second  Amendment rights, and

this recorded  message is certainly

a great basis for a claim of

self-defense.

 

 

 

 

the only good filibuster

is a talking filibuster

instead of promoting bipartisanship or

debate this 60 vote to cloture exactly

denies debate and promotes hate and disfunction

 

 

 

 

Everybody feels alone, unwanted,

misunderstood.

Why are we not drawn to become

company?

 

 

1/5-8/22

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

finding '22

  

 

"Nobody is talking about" blah, blah, blah ---

"Nobody understands" blah, blah, blah

what is meant is nobody is saying what

I want to see said -- Well, that's your job.

Or, "they aren't" blah, blah, blah --

well, what are you doing about it?

 

 

 

No, the "pro-life" crowd is not even in

support of the fetus in the womb, much less

actual children -- where is their support,

demand!, for programs to provide

good nutrition, health care, safe environments

for pregnant women and children?

 

 

 

More oppressed than thou?  I suggest those

subject to traumatic terrorizing are most oppressed.

 

 

 

To my mind "Freedom" is about self-determination,

self-expression, not wealth accumulation (or an

excuse for meanness).

 

 

 

Too much relentless reality --

we need escape, familiar fantasy.

 

 

 

we make our lives worse by not taking the

responsibilities of democracy seriously and

letting our so-called representatives act like

spoiled middle school brats because, hey,

that represents us, doesn't it.

 

 

 

12/31/21-1/2/22