war and peace

 Why is there no right to be left alone,

and no right to be heard?

Maybe it's as simple as having 

an artist's soul

None of it is easy

that's what is

What do you do with your life?

What do you want to do?

How reconcile -- to do what is 

meaningful to you

within the boundaries given?

We seem to have lost respect for

well directed hard work and meaningfully

good intentions, instead intent on

insulting with the crowd.

War and Peace

Rape, angry savagery

these have been weapons of war

since war began

since we began

Send out young men with everything

to prove

in a world where masculinity

means obdurate strength against all 

comers, no mercy, no soft sensibilities.

Mere politics won't change this.

Leaders are caught up in their social

norms.  Only cultural shift can move human

behavior to a place of greater sanity,

those better lives we claim so deeply to

desire.

Hate is too potent, to important an emotion

to harbor wholesale.

Hate ought be intimate, one to one,

based on true harm.

We, each and all, need to discover,

to invent, to learn, to devise our ways

to become, each and all, imbued with

kindness, compassion, the enlightened

self-interest of win/win/win.

This is as possible as any goal mankind

might plan, encourage, carry through.

That each and every me and you

has our part in, our literal skin in,

shareholders all.

Or would you rather continue to fall,

to fail to thrive?

social roles for public betterment

 when the wealthy elite complain about 

government programs to help the less well 

off, are they forgetting, or embarrassed, that 

their social role is in part to provide the 

funds for public betterment

you want kids safe?  tell them the truth, 

give them options and ideas for 

self-protection, be safe to them, treat them 

like intelligent humans who are merely 

inexperienced in some of the ways of the world

(and they'll be much mentally healthier as well)

categorizing by gender only 

perpetuates gender myths and inequality

rather, categorize by level of ability

it's not about the money

the cruelty is the point

we do need to organize and fight back against the bullies

Has anyone else noticed Musk's intense bipolar energy?

It may come down to excellent education

-- not as a political football or a means

to profit -- based on values of the benefits

of an intelligent, aware electorate;

providing the building blocks to create

the great ideas of the future, the solutions,

products, breakthroughs, new enterprises

not yet imagined, to take us further

toward our best potentials.

Racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia

Homophobia -- all of these are more

wholesale hates are basically a form of

social tribalism that claims:  You are not

proper people according to our teachings.

Though given every consideration in 

public discourse, media bias, and 

political maneuvering, the ideas/ideals

of the Conservative Christian Right

are for the most part abhorred and find

no favor with The People.

8/3-10/24

welcome to your place in history

 

there would be much less need for money in politics

 (just for headquarters, staff, fees, transportation 

and such) if we did our due diligence as citizens, 

learned and shared who these people are, what 

they have done, how effective they have been, 

what they value, so we would neither need 

ads nor be swayed by propaganda 

sometimes I have to wonder about people 

wasting their precious human lives on 

stupid hates and nasty actions

can't they find more pleasant activities?

DEI is actually a method to ensure 

the best employees, unfettered to

old notions based in unthinking prejudice

America is SO READY for a female POTUS

 -- welcome to your place in history 

as part of this election!

voting is the basic duty of a citizen in a democracy 

(necessary, not sufficient)

it doesn't matter as much that your vote "count" 

as that you do your due diligence and participate

the problems in our democracy mostly stem from 

We the People abdicating our role as self 

governors, allowing "parties" and "media" to take over 

we have money in politics, yes because 

monied interests want to rule -- but that 

wouldn't matter if citizens did our jobs of 

being informed so we would have no use for

or interest in their advertising and campaign tricks

What has taken our freedoms, allowed 

the wealthy to make the rules, is their clever 

trick of getting most of us so caught up in 

this and that, so poorly educated, so 

anti-intellectual, that we don't even realize 

we have a job we're not doing to self rule

Those who do the work to create an enterprise

are only part of the process.  Also necessary

are those who provide the labor to reach

the enterprise's goals, and the

users/consumers of its products.

For the business to do well, all of these

must be well served, as well as the

greater community.

At its best, government is people

with the appropriate expertise

doing those jobs to help us better

do ours.

These "Christians" so sexually obsessed.

Have they read their "Holy Book"

and managed to ignore its vast

teachings and philosophies,

intent only on prescribing other

people's sexuality?

If private industry, given the

opportunity, won't provide what the

people actually want (other than

working to convince us to take what

they offer), it becomes obvious we must

make the changes to give that job to

those who will do it.

7/22-27/24