Sunday, August 13, 2023

our stories' hero

 

 

 

the systems we have devised/evolved

for distributing power are clearly

flawed. They have been based on

clearly flawed thinking about what

humans are, what we need, want

and can do, based on dead philosophies.

 

What is the solution you want to

implement? What is it a solution for?

What result do you expect?

 

 

 

When did "Conservative" come to

mean bullies?

 

 

 

People, generally (though, of course, not

always) want to be the hero of

their story.  Often what seems,

from our point of view, malicious

or wrong may be meant to be

beneficent or good, from a viewpoint

based on different precepts.  When

this is the case (and dhow can we know?)

isn't it more efficacious to engage in

calm, patient, even kind conversation

to clarify what we each see, believe,

want to make happen?

 

 

 

It seems so much good is not

allowed to be done for lack of

money.

One might assume these losses

of societal betterment are due to

a need to conserve our limited

resources, that they be available

for what has been deemed best

use.  Yet, LOOK! where are these

resources, this money, going to be

spent -- what is the method, who

are the arbiters, what ends for our

resources are they deciding?

 

 

 

It's not that what you do/believe/want

is wrong -- it's that it gives you

fear/anger/anxiety, not joy.

 

 

 

I have a need to share. Yeah, the

writing and posting what I observe.

And I notice, not fully engaging with

entertainments with this insistence

on thinking about how to share it.

Strangely, this feels like restriction.

 

 

 

What media chooses to highlight

forms the public story.

 

 

 

I am thinking of writing a fiction,

based on the realities of far too

many victims of a sick society.

Basic plot:

a woman is raped, pregnant,

legally prevented from getting

an abortion, even when there are

serious medical complications.

The woman dies horribly, but

"Yay! We saved the baby -- though

it does have severe health issues

requiring extensive expensive care,

and no parents."  Who will  take

this responsibility?

 

 

 

8/12-13/23


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