empathy, kindness, social responsibility

 

Of course we are better off

in a world that eschews violence

Better, however, not to dwell

on such behaviors but rather to

promote empathy, kindness, 

social responsibility

To treat and see other people

as if you are a moral being

What would that be?

So many people through the ages

and today giving so much skill,

thought, energy to making

improvement within their sphere;

yet those mean, cruel agents of

social unrest, of war, of human

misery, seem to continually gain,

overtake our world

Does it feel better to be a kind, loving

person than to be a hate-filled angry

person?

Asking deep questions

to access what is real

It would be so much easier,

so much more economical,

so much more fun, so much

healthier, happier, safer, for all

of us if we could just learn to see

each other as people we can love;

but, of course, that will never

happen (have you met us?)

In light of the information that this 

has not been so much an inflationary 

period in the US as a price gouging period, 

wouldn't it make more sense to discourage 

price gouging than continue high interest 

rates that fall most disasterously on those 

with moderate to low income while those 

who finance them get windfalls?

seems to me if we have an agency created 

to do the people's work to improve our l

ives/country/world and then not fully fund 

it is stupidity

3/18-28/24

Irish Ides

 

George Washington, the First POTUS,

strongly warned against political parties.

Yet, the US government has become

based on a two party system, which forces

that kind of ugly adversary politics that

divides We the People.

 There's got to be a better way

between viciously anti

and fawningly for

Let's just get over ourselves and

admit we all such sometimes.

And yet, we each have our moments

of transcendance when we rise

above our limitations to do what is

right, or kind.

There ought to be (is there?) easily

accessed, well advertised, sites where

data is clearly posted about bad doctors,

bad police, bad businesses engaged in

fraudulant practice, where we can all

be warned.

If they want you to do evil,

they are not in the service of good.

We've always suffered the slings and

arrows of bullies and assholes.

And now they are merrily destroying

the world where we need to live our

simple lives, because that's what they

do, so confident in their self-perceived

normalcy.

3/9-14/24

post-reality world

 

We want to save the world

but we don't know what to do

No world saving rules appear when

Googled.

How do we sooth the savagery

we see everyday

So many wheres

conflicts building layers beyond

simple repair abound

Go to ground?  Hide, or fly to

go higher until we've found

usable clues, enough people who

choose to create better plans, learn

to understand what we can do,

rouse the will and means,

remake our world se we may be

sane and free and able.

I understand

why these so-called Christians

insist "Jews will not replace us"

because they've already replaced

the Jews as worshippers of that

angry and sadistic Old Testament

God -- whom they have replaced

for Jesus.

The point is that

we hate our lives,

so welcome Armageddon

Even if you have decided you won't

vote for Biden, or Trump, that

doesn't mean don't show up.

Leave the POTUS slot blank, or

write-in a person of your choice, but

be there to vote down ballot

Especially if you disagree with he

who does become President, it is

vastly important to elect Congressional

representatives that will more likely

vote as you would prefer.  And then

there are the initiatives and such, and

participating in your democracy.

What is gained by identifying ourselves

and each other within the restrictions

of gender norms?  Why try to find what

is "masculine", "feminine", how do I

measure up, become that ideal?

We are each an individual with our

own idiosyncracities, talents, diabilities,

attractions, desires, ways of being.

Isn't our best life goal to learn, to be

the person we are most happy being?

Creating panic, fear 

tactics for political gain

has caused vast unnecessary pain,

horrible policies, hate crimes, chaos

where once was calm and peaceful

community.

How dislodge such harmful practices,

make political tacts meet some

critieria of sanity?

hey, how about a dual currency/accounting system where they get all the wealth money they want (redeemable in special wealth establishments or not if you just want to hoard); we get the full faith and credit, redeemable everywhere that people buy and sell goods and services 

certainly we should use our power as citizens to protest bad policies, acts by our government officials we want to make sure they know we loathe -- that ought to be business as usual in a democracy

but business as usual also needs to be clearly seeing who we are voting for and against in terms of the world/nation we want to be a part of, and clearly understand that under the rule of a narcissistic authoritarian those citizen acts would no longer be business at all because we would no longer be living in a democracy

get over your isms -- a well working economy is one in which the needs of the populace are met or exceeded, which would generally tend to be a public-private hybrid

We're heading for a post-reality

world

Enjoy the ride ...

2/23-3/6/24