chaos reigns

How about a movement to primary
Congressional Democrats with people
who are already effectively working
against the horrible policies and practices
of the Mumps administration?
And how about similar movement among
sane Republicans?
Of course, effective opposition can't
wait for the next elections, but such a
direct threat to their jobs from angry
constituents ought to get our current
Congress moving.



I hear Republicans regret that Mumps'
Government Efficiency project is being
executed so cruelly, while applauding
the idea of saving money.
I don't get how they don't get that this
project, far from saving  money, is chaotic,
ignorant, inefficient, resulting in vast waste
along with loss of US credibility and respect.
Obviously, these so-called saving can not
be the goal.  The point is the cruelty, as a
show of power.


Why do we people insist government
take care of problems it is not equipped
to solve -- then get enraged that our
government isn't doing what we want?
Wouldn't everyone do better if people
who were equipped, or were given the
necessary equipment, were given that job?


In regard to the seemingly unfeeling
reactions from parents and others in regard
to measles deaths among  unvaccinated children, 
maybe in some cases transactional MAGAs may
have not wanted these children -- but abortion
is unthinkable -- and now have a possible means
to be free of those irritating parasites


at the point of post-Reality -- everyone gets to claim 
what is or is not real for ourselves; chaos reigns

are you sending out your phone calls/emails/letters,
 etc. to DEMAND your reps represent your demands?


3/19-23/25

learn to be more interesting

Happy to see you're fully
assimilated into post-Reality

Discern what's needed, and how to
get there, to improve the experience
of being alive.


Is the point of the push for security
at the Canadian and Mexican borders
to keep Americans in?


If Ukraine joined NATO, that would not
be a threat to Russia, unless Russia
invaded Ukraine -- so the attack "to
keep Ukraine out of NATO" could not
possibly be a real reason.


Pounding, beating, hammering --
lacerated, bruised, bloody and worn
Exhausting anxiety
Never enough escape
How dare I? Unenforced by bombs
or poverty (Yet)
Desperate for foreclose regret
while options exist
That endless pervasive pain, as if
all I can do in the face of damnation,
of these we wish would be the end
of days -- a final escape from the price,
the work required, to repair, to heal


Sacrifice our planet so some
self-entitled posterior orifices
can pretend to be superior


to be more attractive, more influential,
learn to be more interesting


What kinds of lives lead to 
innovative problem solvers?


Education with the goal of bringing
better competency to thrive in the world


When we, individually and in groups,
realize there is something we want done,
we then ought to figure out how to do it,
and proceed


Transitional days of sadistic chaos
and waste


Contentious issue are but excuses;
we seem to need to find reasons to
fight, even when aspiring to be friends


Maybe part of the problem is that too
many boys are led to believe that
masculinity means being a dick


People seem to prefer to be lazy and mean,
rather than to do what is necessary for
a well-structured society


People who are serious about US
governance, self-rule, could do the work
to get Rank Choice, or STAR voting
in their states.  Candidate and policy
suggestions are encouraged to come from
any stakeholder, then advertised by those
who agree.   Candidate events arranged
by constituents who want the Q&A
to learn who these potential representatives
are, who the people want to represent them.
A major value expected -- to listen to those
represented.  And to figure out how and implement
excellent civics education 


People who seek limelight.
express with controversy.
Avoid their thrall



If you are accepting misinformation,
and therefore trying to fight against
the wrong opponents, you are much
less likely to succeed in your actual
goals

are you sending out your 

phone calls/emails/letters, etc. to DEMAND 

your reps represent your demands?

been thinking about words being co-opted 

politically so that their meaning is different f

or people based on their political/media 

persuasions.  

As a writer/reader I believe words ought to 

have commonly shared meanings that we are 

able to communicate effectively.

the Democratic Party has not lost its 

way.  It is a private organization supported by 

its members to organize elections.  The so-called 

democratic people of the United States is what 

seems to be losing its way -- having abdicated 

self rule to parties with their own agenda, and 

then complaining that said parties are not 

giving us what we want

we can all stop giving Mumps power,

stop listening to their antics,

stop believing they are in charge,

stop accepting their demands,

understand, power over you is yours to deny 

-- power to rule depends on the

 acquiescence of the people

3/1-12/25

thinking about evil

 

Original sin is not about forbidden fruit or carnal knowledge; it is the first time you look upon another with hate, not because of what they have done, but because they are.

What is evil? The flip answer, which may be more revealing than not: evil is live backwards.

"Evil," a concept, is a creature of consciousness. It is a label usefully used as a warning against the kinds of thought and consequent behaviors that are about willful destruction of a nonconstructive nature.

I have been thinking about delineating evil. I don't think it is about big events we normatively label as evil, such as Hitler, Hiroshima, et al. I think these big events are made up of a confluence of historical trends, perhaps individual psychoses and paranoias that are mutually inflamed, ingredients of fears, ambitions and the primal excitement of blood lust. 

Evil, though a part of this maelstrom, comes from the little worse demons that plague us everyday. One is piqued, or in pain or in a state of carelessness more than ruthlessness, and communicates with spite, cruelty, meanness, lets the pleasure of that passing on of pain or boost of status over or soothing strike of power take control of how our interchanges take place. If we fear retribution or want to hold off guilt, we may layer our consciences with rationales about what we deserve vis-a-vis the other. We may insist we are acting righteously, to right a wrong, exact revenge, or respect divine will. We may say:  Those of that group aren't worth my respect. I must protect myself from their intended violence against me which I fear I may have provoked, so I must take their power and keep them down. Or, perhaps, I was just lost in my own drama, not thinking about the consequences of my cruelty, but nothing so bad happened. Or, all my friends, my neighbors, my kingroup do these things to those unlike them. I am merely being loyal to my own against a potential threat. Bit by tiny bit terrible consequences so easily build. Evil may be a very little thing.

I am thinking of evil as occupying the extreme negative grid of both the compassion and selfishness scales. Sending out bad feeling like a curse into the other does not diminish it in the sender, but rather increases that tendency as practicing deepens neural patterns. It becomes an ill wind blowing the disease about, a vector of infection.

What is the cure? I don't know about the big picture, but in the sense of being the change you want to see, and becoming the person you want to see in the mirror: Look at what you are doing! Now, don't turn the cruelty inward. Look at your bumbling stupid self and give a big psychic hug released in lots of laughter. Then do what it takes to make it right. Graciously apologize, including humble acceptance of responsibility for consequences. Open to the outward manifestation of your inner demons and find, most likely, that they are not who you imagined. Open yourself to your own life and where it takes you, who you encounter, what you come to understand. Is this goodness? Is this love? Maybe it is living forward.