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