societal bias

 

just been thinking, 
the way to go forward as consumers:
shop all we want at our local 
small businesses
avoid mega-corps, businesses run 
by billionaires (or trillionaires)



our mission, for those who accept it, 
is to go out there and care about 
ourselves and each other enough to take 
our world and make it work for us all



human races was a concept 
promoted by "white" men who desperately 
wanted scientific rationale for enslaving 
"black" people
Humanity is its own race, 
sometimes broken into tribes


it's not an actual special function 
room that Trump is demanding to save him -- 
it's the survival bunker beneath, which 
once he and his chosen are safely inside 
will allow him to nuke the world



how do you find the candidates 
you decide to vote for?
do you passively let your party choose?
do you actively look at who might do, 
talk with others in your position, promote 
folks who seem a good bet?
other?


Desperate people do stupid things,
too overwhelmed to care about
outcomes
acting out in this moment of
raging despair


It's not a polarity
but a system of layered
multi-polarities -- an
expectation of antagonism
tearing us apart


Excessive ambition
generally lauded as a
means to success, is
ultimately poisonous.
If it does lead to success,
it is not a success based on
the pleasures of the project,
but on fulfilling an onerous
demand
If success of the kind the
ambition requires does
not occur, the misery that
creates may overwhelm any
potential pleasure.  Such
ambition overrides personal
relationships, personal
achievements, personal
acceptance and self-regard.
It also has great potential for
doing a variety of harms
against all potentially affected.
Potential for unnecessary pain,
outweighing potential narrow
gain.


I finally get it! (Ok, so I'm slow)
This societal bias toward Values,
statements, assumptions of "The
Right"
The GOP is the party of big
business, those "of means"
They therefore obviously have
all the resources they need to
propagandize successfully.


5/9-21/26