why do x hate y
why do a persecute b
why do we, human and alone
fend off, deny, make enemy
it's not them -- it's we
Maybe the mass US insanity is a
result
of deinstitutionalization of the
paranoid
psychotics and sending them to the
streets?
It wants the blazing
glory:
“a world on fire!”
But this sad little world
is
tawdrily wasting away.
Rights don’t come from the
government.
Rights are protected by the
government,
if, and only if, we, the People, do
our
job to elect representatives who
do their job.
Not helpless under the
trance
Instead bullied into inability
to thrive.
When a whole world denies
your
reality – is it real?
How have any idea what to
say
that could make a
difference,
make anyone listen?
you may be getting skewed views
from watching CNN, or Fox. I
don't.
They are too loud, annoying and
distracting
from the actual facts. I prefer tv
news from
the C-SPANs and BBC World. If I am
interested,
I do my actual iternet research --
not watching
some propaganda video, but going
back to
orgininal sources to find out what
really happened.
Capitalism as a working economic
theory has
by now tentacles laid out far
beyond the clearly
"economic" field. It has become an
integral part
of certain cultural operating
thought systems.
Thus, it is usually not even
questioned when
apologists insist that no matter
what the unfortunate
side-effects, capitalism gives us
growth, prosperity,
is the best way for the
economically disadvantaged
to get a leg up or in fact find low
cost items they can
buy at their low wages because of
the wondrous
magic of competition. The ultimate
value, it is
understood, is economic growth,
wealth,
accumulation of resources, directly
or through the
metaphor of money. One would be
considered a fool
to insist that human values are not
about cut-throat
competition to be the king of the
heap of vast wealth,
that human values are about play,
self-expression,
relation to each other, relation to
our world, relation to
ourselves, doing work/engaging in
projects that
give us pride in accomplishment and
let our passions expand.
I am not saying there are no values
in using the
economic tools propounded by the
capitalist
theory and practice. I am saying
these are but tools,
in a toolbox, to be used as useful,
but not the project itself.
I am saying that where competition,
savings through
efficient mass-production, monetary
reward for investment,
or other such ideas give us desired
results, yes, these are
useful ideas. They are not the
only ideas, the only ways
of developing economic benefits for
the culture. The true
underlying idea needs to be that
the needs and desires
of the community be met, each way
of doing so to be
subservient to that test of
effectiveness.
the issue is not so much "the
economy" as
the supply chain, the myriad lacks
of items
the public needs to continue their
expected lives --
the solution, it seems to me, is to
stop bellyaching
and figure out how to get those
items sufficiently
made and distributed, you know, the
essential
purpose of an economy
Instead of banding together to
act
violently – or even peaceful
protest --
use that impetus of energy,
that
organizing zeal, that dedication,
to
do the work ourselves to make
our
situations better.
we can make no real change on our
own
what we need are those who can find
and
understand and live the truth in
ways that
inspire, lead, organize
outward
6/6-10/22
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