Sane, pro-social views

 
Protesters:  what are you shutting down,
with your immense numbers, disallowing
business as usual?  Perhaps preventing
weapons from distribution? Perhaps
surrounding ICE patrols?  What else?


Understand:  Democracy means compromise.
Yes, be clear on your priorities, redlines; but
know that to get anything of consequence
done, we need cooperation.  We need to be
able to navigate, to project a course across
the sea of possibilities from here to there.


The point is not that they are destroyed,
but that we overwhelm their influence.


We need to stop wasting our resources
on conflict, and get together to solve
our common problems, which are
existentially profound.


The root of evil?  Again and again
denying mitigation of social problems
in ritual sacrifice to worship this
corrupted human construct, entangling
our better possibilities, holding them
down, with political mythology based
on the sacredness of profitability.


Stop
Think
Listen to your quiet observer
What do you want?
What is missing?
Where does yearning lead?
 

Not attached to the social web
that pervasive entrainment that
dictates our tribal steps for the dance.


9/7-26/25