Category: Ethics
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Memoir – continued – Dad
This section comes from the stories I heard growing up. First, a little bit about my dad’s formative years. Then the same for my mother, their first years together, and the story of our move from Mom’s childhood home to where we’d spend most of my youth. Dad He was named Theodore, born midway through…
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My Memoir – continued
Some Probable Causes The following undoubtedly contributed to many of the outcomes expressed throughout my adult life, along with some inattention, obliviousness, perversity, perhaps some laziness, and just plain stupidity on my part. C’est la vie. Martial Arts, music, finding my own artistic voice, and (later as I’ve aged) painting have been the major pursuits…
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Red Dirt Girl
Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris Me and my best friend LillianAnd her blue tick hound dog Gideon,Sittin on the front porch cooling in the shadeSingin every song the radio playedWaitin for the Alabama sun to go downTwo red dirt girls in a red dirt townMe and LillianJust across the line and a little southeast…
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Kent State – Remember
May 4th, 1970, The Ohio National Guard murdered four students at Kent State, and I snapped. I joined the marches… It was my rage over all the murders and the helpless futility I felt at the deaths of Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison, and others. They were called O.D.s, but what is death by overdose? The use…
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The Crucifixion by Phil Ochs
The Crucifixion by Phil Ochs And the night comes again to the circle studded skyThe stars settle slowly, in loneliness they lieTill the universe explodes as a falling star is raisedPlanets are paralyzed, the mountains are amazedBut they all glow brighter from the brilliance of the blazeWith the speed of insanity, then he dies In…
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Incompetence
Being inundated with the daily propaganda from our MSM, I’ve been rethinking the importance and devastating influence of incompetence in our world. Incompetence imaginationknowledgepractice andexperienceequal successso they say incompetencenegatespractice experienceknowledge andeven imaginationon any given day seems we aregobsmackedbirth to deathwith incompetenceleaders mediocremendicants inept rebels activistsinnovators yesand me tooinspiring nothingnew just singingthe blues So much forknowledgeimaginationpractice…
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Who Gets It?
Who Gets It? Slaves make wealthmaster gets itsurfs make wealthlord gets itemployees make wealthemployer gets itwealth to our ‘betters’ chattel slave soldonce and for allmiserable existencerelatively securemaster’s interestlittle or nocompetition wage-slave sellshimself daily hourlyno secure existenceonly class statusassured in constantcompetitionwith all its vagaries wage-slaves or serfsor chattel slavesworking classes barelysurviving from ancientEgypt Greece andRome to…
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The Primordial Ooze
The Primordial Ooze the darkness isgrowing and I’m old so what to doone thing onlyfight the growingdark strike a sparka match a candlelight a bonfire spark itwherever opportunity presents tindermake daily choices that brighten not darken our collective futures don’t be deceivedall actions have costs impact ever brighter futures or breed dark superstitions reverse evolution…
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The Myth of Security
Security a Myth mainstream andsocial media sites bleedmurder larceny andviolence of every stripegovernment leaders theworst confidence menthis side of prison gates brunt ofour conditioningauthoritarians convincing usof our super vulnerabilityneed security forcesat their beckand call must spendlimited resourcesto eliminate crimethe security myth theexcuse of all tyrantsbut damn little for social-economic equity stop the dailynews social mediaclickbait…
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Sane or Insane
Sane or Insane If walking around ina hubristic fog inan insane world isconsidered sanethen color meinsaneand glad of it worsewhen the planet’szeitgeist embracesthat insanity warnationalism genocideI wear insanity abadge of honor as the sanefollow their lemmingnotions to theirlogical conclusionsextinction of Earth’sapex predatorshumans –LE
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