Category: Ethics
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That’s Life
That’s Life the end of each chapter in my lifeleft me dangling in mid-air or flailingin whitewater rapids to nowhere new chapters, always begun in disarrayregardless of best intentions and plansalways went astray – but that’s life seldom has anything gone as expectednot always the worst resultbut generally not one fondly projected it’s surprising to…
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Irony Of Ironies
Irony of Ironies sometimes it’s all too tiringfacts and opinionsbeliefs and conditioningpropaganda commercialsinternal dilemmacognitive dissonance sometimes it’s all toopedantic toosemantic toocerebral or tooemotional to appreciatethe irony of it all survival depends oncooperation of the wholebrains and heartsindividual and communityhumanity and our ecologyless humankind ends alone and forgottenin burned-out remnantsof abundance of ouronce high civilizationirony of…
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Even Flawed Humans
Even Flawed Humans even flawed humanscan, from time to time,have profound insights some even produce volumesfilled with uncensored, deepcritical thought some spoken in commoneveryday vernacularwhile some are more pedantic thus communicating witha wide swath of humanitythe mysteries of our common realities –LE – 12/31/25
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That Depends On The Day…
Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why? Depending on what’s happening in my private world and the external world around me, I can be drawn to an event or a few in my past or humanity’s common past. Or portents of current or recent actions may have me fatally…
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It’s A New Year
It’s A New Year a new year with itsnew prioritiesresolutionsclean slatesand such ? or the eternalever-present nowconnecting whatwe thought we knewto a futurecompletely unknown every instant of nowanother step in thecosmic dance and flow no slates are cleanmarked with actions andmemories indelible in andwith our personalitiesconditioned by proximities so, even withoutthe vaunted ‘clean slate’all resolves…
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Info Bombardment
Info Bombardment information floods us 24/7overloading perceptionsoverriding common sense too much to processnever mind anycritical thought but everyone seems to crave moreboth social and legacy mediatrying to even the score as each source negates the otherso-called facts distortedto cover the elites’ derriers Nietzsche gave us the clueno facts but perceptionspropaganda of the ruling few perceptions…
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Save Our VA Protest – Tucson – 1/2/26
Three of us walked the line at the VA’s Ajo entrance for the morning shift change, 6:30-8:30 am. As in previous weeks, we had about a 75% response rate. I only saw one confirmed negative, a bouncing thumb down… Our third person, walking the line, is from Veterans For Peace. He joins us from time…
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A New Year’s Meditation
Arbiter And CuratorA New Year’s Meditation Akkam’s razor suggeststhat the simplest answeris often correct and the best that seems a good blueprintfor a simple and minimalist lifestylecollecting and keeping onlywhat is truly needed and desired not acquiring for acquisition’s sakenor to lord it over those with ‘less’taking more than one needsseems immoral to me each…
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Brain-numbing Mendacity
I wrote this awhile ago, but in light of recent history, it feels more appropriate than ever. Brain-numbing Mendacity utter mendacityup is downdown is upin is out andout is in you going to believeyour own eyes and earslisten to your own feelingsor what our owners andtheir lickspittles tell you victims are the predatorsthe predators are…
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Survival Of The Fittest?
Survival of the Fittest? There’s not enough to go around,so we’ve been constantly told, and thus solda bill of goods that profit theself-proclaimed, privileged few. Who, living in obscene opulence, stolenfrom wage slaves and the poor, subsidizedby governments, their cronies in power,enabled by want-to-be entitled elitists of all stripes. Mandarins of the status-quo dismiss the…
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