problematic

problematic


Human institutions like democracy (or monarchy, dictatorship, divine authority),
the marketplace, marriage, and other theories for social harmony, are not
predicated on true values of essential Man.

Even capitalism, lauded as being based on human greed, misses Man’s willful gullibility,
indecent meanness, finding fun in kicking the bleeding cripple further down.
Man, who prefers pleasure to duty, self-absorption to practicality, finding a loophole to
finding a better solution – we must realize people will never become purely virtuous
to fit some expectation.

We need to devise social institutions that fully accept and start from true human
values yet keep us from killing all that lives in our race to species suicide.


12/16/18

self-reflection

Could Persephone (Aidan) write for me those journey stories?
Just past her 40th birthday
(and Johanna’s 42nd)
All signs point toward a deeper ambition – time
to learn my trade, move beyond ease of
imagination, discipline to create a voice that will be heard.


Creature of philosophy writ large – ever searching
within for all of eternity integral hologram
mapped on my mind.


Government, as any human enterprise,
reflects our true values – merely a structural
idea of how we decide to live among us.


Denial of responsibility to life, to our world
that gives us existence --
what kind of sacred husbandry or even
self-survival are we honoring?


It’s not even white men – just another scapegoat,
you know all those homeless ptsd harassed
ghost-skinned males.  Our human enemy (that
which makes the scapegoat so harmfully persuasive)
is our market-based policy: 
divide and conquer to win.




This very moment
muddled words of imagery vie for mind, memory,
clarity of vision
but is that poetry?

12/9-10/18

#wordshavemeanings

#wordshavemeanings

 

 

 

Is there a word for

the beauty of well-wrought pain?

 

 

 

I'd rather wander a beautiful field under magnificent stars hearing soft strains of magical music, wondering

 

 

No lives matter.

After climapocalypse

waters rise, levies break,

outside humanity’s zone of comfort, bearability.

Note our coalmine canaries,

so many suicides,

leap to desire to sleep forever.

Why not coalesce into intelligent survivors?

Where is our memetic uniting

against the common enemy

we must accept is us?

Breast-beating hominid --

better dead than allowing

truth’s challenge to power.

 

 

 

Learn to dismiss this misshapen world,

caught up in your beautiful vision,

entangled in grace.

 

 

year of ice and fire ...

 

 

12/4-6/18

Endothermic Ideas

Endothermic Ideas



Strangely, people tend to re-act more favorably
to being included in a greater good
than to insults or vilification.



Don’t organize around “identity,”
but around issues.



All people suck
But not all the time.
We each have our occasions
-- some more than others --
or, like bipolar mood swings.



Of course we like feeling superior.
We know! – so much fun.
And it can’t be smug
when we are right.



When everyone goes negative,
we naturally side with those we see
as like us, against those we see as
attackers.


Threatening people for expressing concerns
about violence
portrays the gun lobby as irresponsibly
trigger happy (so to speak) --
demonstrating an excellent argument
against a community wanting them
to have access to guns.



On the hate wagon
enjoy this wild horror ride
to the end of Earth.


Just an an inspiring thought
to be turned to action
if and when
I am ready


Respect the symptom – discover its message.


People who get you, enjoy your presence,
and you get/enjoy
-- isn’t that what it’s all about?


Mourning my memories
worlds long evolved to oblivion.
So potent.


The rule seems clear:
avoid harm to the greater number
even if that means harm must come
to the lesser, unless
that smaller group has added value
like being specifically, personally
meaningful – us versus them.


Clear, simple words to carry
ideas, ideals, mission-based communication.

For art of emotion, imagination,
more frilly metaphor,
symbols as soliloquy,
delicious juxtapositions,
jams and jugglery
employed for your enjoyment.


Bound to gods
No matter human depredation,
protected from annihilation
while I can serve.


Extrinsic traits are only that.
Social roles are only that --
fungible to change for circumstance,
not our intrinsic possibilities.


11/8-23/18

#religion #antiwar #Earth #future

Any group if they feel attacked, will likely want to retaliate -- but then aren't most groups in some way attacked by those who disagree with their premises or actions? Look at all the wars and lesser battles that go on seemingly forever. Even within families, there are those circular battles.

So, at this time when we are all in mortal jeopardy (and isn't the old meme that we will stop our infighting and come together against a common enemy -- but what if we meet that enemy and learn it is us, we who are cynically or ignorantly or angrily destroying the planet we NEED for bare survival?)

let's just jump on the hate wagon
enjoy the wildly horrible ride
to the end of Earth

Could we, maybe, even bit by bit, find a god who truly loves us all and live in that tradition? 

plot twists

Will we want to remember this 6th

of November?

If so, with what lessons or shame?

Did you side with the effort to revive

freedom’s ember,

or take yourself out of the game?

 

 

 

People who delight in killing.

Brothers in violence,

Our strength is our hatred.

What frightens must die.

 

 

 

See!  Look!  StevenPinker everything’s better but

contrary Man to counterbalance manifests

ever more noxious, more toxic, accelerate hate

and grotesque excessiveness.

 

 

 

Some neuro diversity

expels belief in duality.

No black and white

No woman or man

no bi-normality.

Yin and Yang – a beautiful mandate,

separate while together – but not a

universal whole --

only a small part of the argument,

out of context.

What we are is not a conformity,

an average, a demographic map.

What we are is ever evolving to adapt,

to create new paradigmatic opportunities,

expand understanding, imagine and become

more than before.

 

 

11/4-5/18

deep defining

We all wander around enmeshed in various degrees of ptsd,

rarely aware of what we like to call reality --

which explains stupidly horrendous traits we like to call

humanity.

 

 

 

In a democratic republic, voting is not so much a right

(which some might see as a privilege)

as a fundamental duty of citizenship.

Impeding citizens from performing their fundamental duty

is a criminality, not so much against the individual citizen

as against the nation.

 

 

 

The meaning for conscious life:

figure out who you are, what calls to you

Now, use your life to create your answer.

 

 

10/26-29/18

 

 

 

It's suicidal times -- we lemmings jumping off the edge of the world, shooting and bombing along the way to make sure we all participate, including the planet and other species.

 

 

10/28/18