shouted out there, in the air

 




I don't get this continual Biden bashing
at this late stage of his career -- he's gone,
guys; get over it

;

Everything happens for a reason
Sometimes that reason is you are
ill-informed and make bad decisions.
Sometimes others are ill-informed,
or ill-intentioned, and make bad
decisions that affect you

;

Have my senses become overtaxed,
numb?  All these blustering years
All these exhausting days of 
Triumph, of celebration,
excesses of inebriation,
because
it costs too much to feel, to freely be

;

Get on with your little life
Enjoy what you can

;

Exploring words to express
feelings and meanings

;

We, humanity, create our own 
rules, boundaries, definitions of
evil, actions beyond what we want
to acknowledge as human
possibility.  Because humanity clearly
has the capacity to surpass those
boundaries, redefine how far we
can go, over and over. Will we come
to understand that there are always
people who are somehow happy to
explore and dig greater depths of
human possibility, of evil

;

Does it matter?
Hell no -- but so much of it
is incredibly beautiful

;


When "truth" is unreliable at best,
all we have are stories.

;

It feels so good to fight back
vicariously when we've no strength
to fright against what's killing us.

;

Everybody has an opinion, a surefire
solution they fantasize, buzzing around,,
threatening, distracting, those who
have the actual responsibility.

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The power over others is not so much
in the wealth, but in the hoarding.

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A bunch of wealthy frat boys
without a soul between them

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Ignorance -- the celebrated norm

;

2025, a time for me to be whatever I
feel I need/desire
to immerse inside my outreaching mind
into a different world of my own design.
The whole political/social capital/working
for a better world -- not my responsibility.
People are a sad disappointment.
Get it together for yourselves.  This time
is mine.

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To move someone with power toward
our preferred policies, we ought to be
showing them how such movement
benefits them.  Setting ourselves against
them is likely to be counterproductive --
divisive, not collaborative, or persuasive
[not to be construed to mean that calling
out what needs to be called out, resisting
that which needs to be resisted, ought end]

;

You say you are woke?
I was an insomniac from an early age.

;

The cultural myth of POTUS as all
powerful gets assumed by Trump, and
not generally seen as aberrant.  We
have not, at large, gotten the memo
that our Founders particularly meant
a Separation of Powers to deny too much
authority allowed to one person.

;

it seems to be a Republican matter of faith 

that taxpayer money ought go only to

 their causes (like making the wealthy 

wealthier) and not be wasted on what is 

good for the taxpayers (whom they most 

certainly work to not be)

;

clearly the underlying problem is 

poor education available to the masses 

about how our government is meant to 

work, their very vital role, and how to 

educate themselves on the issues 

that affect them -- for a democracy to 

work, the people need to be aware of 

how to rule themselves

;

science/scientists are elevated 

in the minds of many, and therefore 

also denigrated when they are not 

the gods we had thought

scientific knowledge comes bit by bit 

with occasional breakthroughs and 

many, many mistakes along the way 

-- what was scientific "truth" may turn 

out to be not so true on later reflection 

with greater understandings

don't be cruel

;

ever has it been since the press began, 

some are about profit --  give the people 

all the infotainment, gossip, slanted 

narratives -- or to promote a party line, 

or to sell an agenda

while there are also earnest journalists 

giving everything to find and share 

the truth of what is happening in the world

;

how can we blame the "Democratic 

message" when so many low information 

voters were hoodwinked by social media 

pro-MAGA disinformation and mainstream 

media obviously not willing to take the 

potential hit for spreading real, 

useful information?

11/23/24-2/1/25