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