Category: Commentary
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Jailbird Caper
Jailbird Caper Riding down the road one fine summer morning in my ’65 GTO convertible (black on red and a little 389 with a quad), my brother riding shotgun; we were about to turn onto the freeway entrance ramp when the air was split by the local donut-boy’s siren. I immediately pulled off and waited…
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Bliss
Bliss Bliss, a mental, psychological state based onignorant hubris (as all hubris is ignorant).More simply, ignorance is bliss — so they say. If so, then what of intentional ignorance?Again, a symptom of hubris, known as denial.More simply, denial is ignorant and intentional. So, what then is hubris, denial, intentional ignorance,the willingness to abdicate one’s responsibilityto…
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Business as Usual
Business as Usualby the Eagles Look at the weather, look at the newsLook at all the people in denialWe’re running time, leaving graceStill we worship at the marketplaceWhile common sense is going out of styleI thought that I would be above it all by nowIn some country garden in the shade But it’s business as…
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Always Preposterous 2/2
Always Preposterous 2/2 What powers it all? Our basic beliefs, conditioned into us from cradle to grave, propaganda and indoctrination from our social gatekeepers, our institutions and their leaders, secular and religious. And regardless of their denials, both are political in the extreme. The whole purpose is to keep the ruling class, the rich and…
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Always Preposterous 1/2
Always Preposterous 1/2 National and international news is often quite revealing in what it neglects. Just look at what is going on around us right now. From destroying our water resources and pumping so much garbage into our air that our climate is already changing (undoubtedly past the critical tipping point), ruining two of the…
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Early Youth a Memory
This abstract is based on the watercolor below. They were done about a day apart. That’s just how my mind works… take something fairly ordinary and deconstruct it, make something ‘different’ out of it… Youth – A Distant Memory When very youngGot lost and coldSpanked for runningOut in the roadEscaped fromRope-tied pantsBy taking them off…
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Reality an Idea
Reality an Idea Humans haveThe gift of wordsTo express and informWhat’s real And what’s not Make us soarOr cry and deploreSet us upFor the big failUnquestioninglyConsumed as real They express ideasSymbols physicalMental audibleThoughts individualCultural universalSwimming inGraymatter domesCan be changedAt whim and willThe cryptic tomesOf Reality –LE
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Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (3/3)
Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (3/3) Where the Declaration of Independence declared the “unalienable Rights” of all men, the Constitution substituted the rights of the wealthy to property and power. It is not a “holy” document. It can, and has been changed multiple times over its history (usually to the benefit of power…
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Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (2/3)
Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (2/3) The ruling classes, the rich elite (in their own minds) claim ownership and stewardship of all the discovered and undiscovered resources and the land masses of the planet. Ninety-nine percent of humanity lives at the “pleasure,” beck and call of this one percent. The rest live in…
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Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (1/3)
Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (1/3) • No one chose where and to whom he/she was born. • We were all born in the “amniotic fluid” (biosphere) of our mother, Earth. • None of our direct biological mothers would be viable without that same “amniotic fluid” either. • From our present understanding of…
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