to feel meaningful

 

There are people so meaningful,

we need to feel meaningful to

them.

And that is more important

than anything --

if we are so privileged.

Those aghast at efforts to keep

candidate Trump off their

state's ballots -- have you asked

or otherwise sought to find out

why?

We who see Trump as a serious

dangerous threat to our rights and

rule of law are alwaybs being told

to work to understand the pro-Trump

advocates.  You, too, have the

responsibility as Americans to work

to understand others' views.

If you tend to identify iconoclastic,

bristle against restrictions, like to

find uncommon solutions, defy

authority, you will not do well

in a "great leader" nation.

Authoritarianism may well prove

fatal.

People claim to be pro-life?

Ask them:  do you eat meat?

If you work because it is work you

believe needs doing, you want others

to take up the work, maybe do it

better.  If you work for money, you

want to corner the market, drive

out any competent competition.

dreaming a season of Peace

 

we need to create and promote a national project to educate and inspire the People to demand democratic rule for our common benefit -- it takes work and commitment, which seem to be out of favor

we need to fully fund so many projects to improve our lives, health, interactions, ability to thrive

we need to reassess our attitudes toward money and use it as it is meant to be, to account for the use of resources so we may more easily trade our skills to do what we best could for all 

the truth is we are not Republicans or Democrats

We are people with hugely varying experience, ideas, values and cohorts

We are a species that needs to gather with others of our kind, and so create these labels to pretend those who we attach to them are the same.

remember democracy?  where we get to debate our positions, look for the people who would best represent us, the whole competition aspect through which we find and refine our best options?  This is well before the big day (days with early voting), when we ought to be searching far and near for the very best -- not cementing ourselves in a "safe" place which is anything but

dreaming a season of peace

I understand you are concerned

about those who threaten, who

hate your group, because they are

threatening you.  Understand,

your real group is humankind.

The threat is people who enjoy

violent bullying, who feed on hate.

We don't just need a Not Trump

for our future US leader.  We

need ab experienced, intelligent,

calm, resourceful, compassionate,

charismatic representative of our

best values to bring us forward

through vastly complex troubled

times.

Who do you see?

Can the underlying rationale to

criminalize abortion be for some

Christian Nationalists a means of

depleting the Black American

population?  So many Black women

die in childbirth, both removing

them and their reproductive future.

There is no better world to aspire

to or find

We can devise our Earthly

lives to be kind.

Christian Nationalists are 

pro-Zionist while viciously

antisemitic.

Develop, create, spread inspiring

excitement -- let a thousand

progressive projects bloom!

Understand, results may be

incremental, at times imperceptible,

until a tipping point brings another

leap forward.

Protest outside the offices of the

people who have the power to 

make the desired difference.

Call them by name, and demand

they meet with the group's

representatives, live streamed.

Make sure to have knowledgeable,

persuasive representatives.

This in the US is not inflation.

Dollars are not worth less.

Rather, prices are "inflated"

regardless of the actual costs to

manufacture and distribute

products.

Maybe the problem is that what

the People want is not democracy,

but the pomp and glitter of

aristocracy.  The Hunger Games

type society, where the poor are

made useful as brutal entertainment,

the wealthy privileged are entitled

as the ruling class.

12/3-16/23

expand the conversation

 

Even if it is not the love you seek, you think

would save you or that you deserve,

it means someone was touched enough

by you to create love

we have a two-party system not 

because there are two parties, but 

because the electoral system has 

been set up to promote that

Ranked choice would allow people 

to break out of the party trap and 

see the benefits of other kinds of 

candidates.

Campaign finance reform can best 

be handled by making money in politics 

less relevant -- having other models to 

create and promote candidates

all it would take is a great deal of work 

and dedication

How about promoting Ranked

Choice (or STAR) voting so

we can see what candidates the

people really want, not just who

they are voting against.

Our planet is falling apart

Don't you see?

How can you keep any

confidence in "business as

usual"?

Hate Trump?  Do what you

can to help those he attacks.

Fight back and win.  Make

him look weak, not worthy of

fear or following.

Why express our overwhelmed

emotions and the solutions

we may contemplate within

the public page?

In all this chaos and confusion,

how will it even be heard (seen)?

Or, if barely heard, cared about

enough to share, how could

it make a difference?

This is an added voice to the vast

conversation, another breeze

to sway evolving trends, another

resonance among the rest that

creates our collective song.

Maybe not enough to make

clear and present change for

better.  But at least that strand is

there to be seen, heard, advanced

-- which its absence would

disallow.

Woman - defined by what is done

to us, unwarranted limitations.

Understand, your bad-mouthing,

extreme agitation, will not compel

people to change their decided votes.

You may instead help to convince

them to participate less in this

unsatisfactory political system.

To promote democracy, encourage

freer exercise, civil debate, idea

proliferation, more diverse candidates

to provide an ever wider possibility

of excellent representation and

leadership.

If you are so concerned that your

guy needs to win, make your case,

show how your guy is best not

just for you, but for us all,, and

especially for the people you are

speaking with.

And, much more importantly,

LISTEN

Learn what those people want,

think, feel about the potential

candidates and issues.  Respect

them as fellows with whom to work

togetherr on our common project

of self-rule, democracy.  Not a place

where the loudest, most outraged,

wins to rule us all.

11/25-30/23

surrounding sky

 

Early sunset mauve pink circle

outward purple, dark spreading clouds

night overtakes

proudly becomes

surrounding sky

it seems like gov't just allocates 

funds as they see fit -- obviously 

a recipe for corruption

I am wondering if governing might 

be divorced from money -- they set 

parameters, outline and fill in policies, 

make and enforce rules, create the 

structures for others to bring the 

resources to

?

why are so many people glued 

to bad tv instead of enjoying actual lives?

Our Capitalism experiment has

failed.

Unfortunately, those who have

decided they are benefiting 

exceptionally, and therefore have

too much power, would rather

destroy our experiment with

Democracy.

If your plan demands the

destruction of the truly

humane, that's a good clue

that it is wrong, evil.

Perhaps a large amount of the

problem is the extraverts who

are so dependent on the approval

of those around them it has

become their one true value.

It's all rather apocalyptic --

people not believing in a livable

future squeezing, distracting

to get the most out of now.

The people with the character

to amass great fortune and

thereby affording undue public

influence are unlikely to be the

people we would want to be

influenced by.

11/17-24/23

As the world seems to be running out

 What do people want in a leader,

a political representative?

Who do people see in a positive

position to succeed?

How ought we best proceed to

discover the people best suited to

provide what we need?

If we concede the right of

politicians to decide our right

to a medical procedure based

not on biology or best practices,

but on political considerations,

we have conceded their right

to command or deny any medical

procedure based not on biology

or best practices, but on political

considerations, regardless of our

desire, need or choice.

I started reading very early and

voraciously.  I learned of other

cultures as I was figuring out

my own.  I am fascinated by

social histories, how people become.

Nattering news analysts insist

this is how we have decided

will be.  Yet, look back and see.

So often deluded by common bias

denying facts.  Perhaps forecast is

folly.  What we ought demand from

news reporting is what is actually

known to have happened, to be

happening.

All the hopeless suffering,

hellish lives,

and why?

To help provide profitable

influence 

above, outside

the need or desire

to care, to be aware

of others, of their pain.

Don't expect to convince me to

acquiesce to what you believe.

As the world seems to be running

out, this is not the time for me

to become compliant.

11/12-15/23

what can we afford?

 

Rather than appropriately deal

with the ravages our activities

have made, it seems the 

reaction is to escalate dangerous

hostilities -- go out in a species

suicidal blaze instead of 

hopelessly waiting for Earth

changes to destroy us.

I don't believe in the myth of

human races.

But, I see clear evidence of

racism.

I conclude:  Hate is not reality

based.

I get it.  The money you hoard

lets you stay safe from the dangers

of human relationships.

I keep seeing articles about 

employers not being able to find 

people with the skills they need. 

Every time I shout at them 

(though they can't hear me) 

TRAIN them -- they you will 

have loyal employees trained 

specifically to fulfill your needs.

It may be that we have to

expect and adapt to a future

devoid of reliable facts.

Islamophobia, AntiSemitism --

these are their own issues over

places and times.  This violence in

the Middle East is not religion-based

hatred.  It's about land, territory,

as war so often is.

It tears my heart out

people, people suffering, torn

to pieces, lost to life of more than

pain.  And why?  For the pleasure

of influential comfortable Men

of Reason who profitably command

what national values must be.

What a wonderful excuse for

refusing to do what needs doing --

we can't afford it!  What can we afford?

11/5-10/23

social societies

 

isn't that what the whole MAGA 

White Nationalist thing is about -- 

the changing demographics that 

make White Christians the minority

I see various complaints about

social media as detrimental to

mental health.  To me it seems

the most salient issue is not what

happens on social media, but the

opportunity costs of time and

attention more healthfully spent

irl.

Netanyahu, Putin, Trump, 

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei -- these

are autocrats, happy to sacrifice

The People any way to enhance

their own power.

Got migrants and their issues?

Grow Up!  That is the case in better

off nations -- those the migrants

aren't migrating from.

If we are truly living in a

simulation, this AI movement toward

alternative realities won't matter

when reality is so subject to

subjectivity, to our own

creativity.

I don't know how to do people.

Wh

In all this time of trying, to divine,

to find that key, to understand, that

has been beyond me.

I know so many times I was 

enough, my constrant friend.

Yet still I feel that demeaning demand

for companionship, mutuality of

compassion, true kinship of soul.

Why would such meeting so matter?

It's only life, after all.

Here and gone.

Another log on the pyre.

I get it.  Your creed insists on us

each being our own responsibility.

No handouts -- work or starve.

Harsh.  A poor defining of kind,

spitting on the idea of empathy.

And so clearly you are aware of

your need to stave off guilt with

elevation of cruelty -- not only denying

aid or comfort, denying human dignity.

We complain that social media

has overwhelmed actual social

interplay.  We blame internet

addiction for mental distress,

epidemic loneliness.  If we were

getting the social benefits we need

in our real life relationships, we

would not have become so dependent

on the approbation of strangers.

#memorytrain  #annaslicker

She told me her life, beautiful

tragicomedy

over the brief days we played,

laughed, made memories.

See!  I carry her image, her essence

all these years.

11/3-5/23

respect those fierce Mama

 

Young people getting together

to figure out how to solve our

world's tragedies -- how does

that happen?  What needs to be

done to move there?

Racism, Sexism, Ageism, Ableism

Classic Classism

divide to rule

If lower income workers pay an

ever larger share of their resources

in taxes than the privileged in so

many ways higher paid, for the

economic well-being of the nation,

lower wages need to be raised.

Who do you like as a

political upcomer you are

noticing?

What do you like as a

social change project

you are noticing?

Great achievement comes from

complicated people

Enjoy the good they provide

Condemn their dangerous side

Are "Right" and "Conservative"

now code for cruel?

Apparently, as certain people can

not handle alcohol, let it turn them

into assholes or worse, some people

can't handle power, become mad

and dangerous.

Such people do not need to be 

applauded, elevated for their

manipulative persona.  They need

to be compelled to treatment

for their disease.

Those fierce Mamas

who get everything done

in their families,

neighborhoods,

communities,

in the world,

get far too little respect

far too much obstruction

The pain, the fear

the agony, the smothering terror

escalating beyond any ability

to go on -- bled out, gone

Because he needed to be King

only understanding power as

the power to destroy

10/23-11/3/23

as our lives explode

 

 

When the world is on fire

you had best be aware

that you love the person

you know you are.

 

 

 

These so-called leaders,

destroying the people's world

for their greater self-adulation

Look at their happy faces

as our lives explode.

 

 

 

 

Persistence

Accretization

Expansion of Inspiration

To make a difference

We call can better live with

 

 

 

This inflation the US Fed is

so concerned to control, can

that be more about slowing

small business success, raising

unemployment, pulling back the

growing power of labor?

Wouldn't the tried and true way

to bring down prices be real

competition?  A thousand businesses

blooming?

 

 

 

Everything will be fine in

this Universe unfolding as it must.

Humans destroying our world,

each other, in fatal frenzy

Attacked viciously?  Show stalwart

strength in overwrought,

overwhelming response.

Escalate to nuclear all out

holocaust -- end of mankind

Yes!

for now the planet heals.

All is fine.

 

 

 

When I say "I love you"

I hope you don't see:

"Please notice me.  Give my life

focus, purpose; be what I need."

What I am saying is:

"Your being is importantly

meaningful to me."

 

 

 

10/14-22/23

the folly and the possibilities

 

Instead of means tested public services 

or money,

how about full service community 

support,

paid for with government grants and 

donations

and volunteers?

Thank indigenous people for 

the use of their land.

Businesses, you don't want to pay

higher wages to get your work done?

Do whatever you can to lower prices

for housing, food, energy, transportation,

medical care, childcare, education ...

Those Religious wars

Christian against Christian

Where is the Christ?

Do what you can

with what you've got

Adapt to what is happening

Politicians!  Public Relations!

People paid to lie 

"for the public good"

Business, by its nature,

needs a working social structure

within which to be created,

to grow, to exist.

Thus, it behooves those who

have these businesses to be

responsible citizens.

You used my need to f me over.

You used my trauma to extract

whatever I had.

How are you any better than

whatever disgusts you?

They are happy to ignore

inconsistencies, obvious

fallacies, crazy idiocy from

their designated leaders

because they need the even

false safety, security, of

unquestioning.

Reality has no bias.

It is simply what is.

Still, it is interpreted

differently by every

subjective mind.

... It's complicated

Why consider the poor,

noxious maggots infecting

our city streets;

ugly, depressing.

Let them rot, or, better, made

useful targets for our sport

and ire.

Let them starve, for our

bouyant entertainment, or,

better, strike out violently

against their own in competition

for whatever they can scrape

together.

Perhaps a few may amuse, be

risen as pets -- thus we exhibit

benevolence.

Or perhaps fate may provide

conditions to allow bombardment.

Irradicate, that we reclaim for our

investment in those places they

infest.

the thing with big media is that it is 

big business

the aim of big business is profit

whatever gets that profit becomes 

the business model

look to small media for actual information – 

find the reporters you can trust

if we expanded our social consciousness 

beyond our daily survival games, perhaps 

we would see the folly and the possibilities,

 and a better path from here to there

10/7-13/23