"All lives matter" is at best aspirational.
In truth, very few lives matter to most of us.
We could, even now, work together,
figure out how to survive,
even thrive, overcome what we have
wrought from denial and some desire
to divide and fight,
destroy resources out of spite.
Why would such abysmal jerks
deserve the joys life might allow?
Life isn't what we think.
All these trappings of culture, society
mask the real.
We see it all fall apart before us
like some 3D documentary of
Homo Sapien collapse.
How is it that cruelness prevails,
that meanness means popularity,
that babies are exhorted to quell
emotion before they know their own
humanity?
Who tells us how to see each other,
how to be?
I think we can agree that sexuality
is not binary.
Do we have to get to the coming
technology that will make reproduction
nonbinary before we get beyond this
particular accident of birth, chromosomal
sex, no longer defines human lives?
there are always those who seek power
for their own ends
if we don't have a government that we
make work for us, they will
to turn the economy into one that works t
o create and distribute the goods/services wanted
by the people, the wealthy should be well taxed,
to the point where it matters to them to get tax
cuts for funding certain public services as part
of the code, while having low to no taxes for the
workers and poor who get subsidies as needed
paid for by the tax revenues from the wealthy;
meanwhile we need to encourage businesses
that provide what we want so there is ample
competition to keep prices down and quality up
[the magic hand of the market is competition,
not capital]
