Tag: Commentary
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Gemini Mind
Gemini Mind Gemini mindsplit in twoknow theuniverse is finebut need tofix it still politics warswith sanityenlightenedrealizationsconfrontthe hubris ofcontemplations fight the goodfight tilldying daya nat’sheartfeltrage in a universeso vastwith extinctionsso fast asour present endstoo soon returnto the sourcebut relief ofoblivion –LE
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Establishment Gatekeepers and the Long Con
Establishment Gatekeepers and the Long Con A post from a friend showed up on my FB feed recently. It was discouraging to read. It was a dismissal of anything but establishment news (the mainstream media), the very echo chamber (propaganda arm) of our neoliberal and neocon establishment. Have we learned nothing in the last couple…
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Slower Than Guns
By Iron Butterfly from their 1970 album, Metamorphosis, points to the man-made environmental degradation well established in the zeitgeist long before our present crises… and apparently, we still haven’t learned. Slower Than Guns, by Iron Butterfly Can you feel the manmade mistAs it starts to twist your lungs?Slower than guns Breathe deepAs you enter sleepFeel…
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Solar Water Reclamation (poem)
Solar Water Reclamation Sparklingreclaimed waterslowly flows northin the edge ofthe otherwisedry lowerSanta Cruzthen to theGila and eventuallythe Colorado sun glares offacres ofsolar arraypoweringthe reclaimingengines disgorging thereclaimedreconstitutedamniotic fluidof life as predatorand preyobserve fromshadow-gorgedhidey-holes andshade-camouflagedcreviced walls and I stareat the arraywonderinghow it gotthis way dry riverbedspoisoned blue skiesplastic-laced foodsynthetic body-partsand lies, lies, lies but of coursewe do…
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Get Real
Get Real You hear it all the time, but what is ‘real’? ‘Real’ is a human idea, as are all ideas. Ideas on the nature of reality have evolved with our bodies, brains, and social psyches. And just as all life continues to evolve, or go extinct, our ideas of ‘reality’ also continue to evolve.…
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There’s Something Terribly Wrong
There’s Something Terribly Wrong I’ve immersed myself in alternatives to our currently accepted notions of economy, humanity, and even civilization. The news, both political and economic, along with trends in manufacturing and technology have convinced me that the current economic model is unsustainable. It’s collapse is inevitable. The only real questions are, when and what…
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Desiderata
“You are a child of the universe,no less than the trees and the stars;you have a right to be here.And whether or not it is clear to you,no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.” ― Max Ehrmann – from his poem, Desiderata DESIDERATA GO PLACIDLY amid the noise and the haste, and remember what…
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June
JUNE Deep in emerald foliage, barky black and gray, moss-frosted, giant, vine-cloaked, arboreal chia-pet Druids, the forest in repose. Hit-n-run Gemini rains leave the misty moor flush with flowers, flies, and toads.And the “real world” with its deadlines, dead ends, and deadheads screams “LIES, LIES, LIES.” Overhead, darkening skies adorn themselves with plundered treasures of…
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Existential Threats Culminating
Existential Threats Culminating We can debate anything you’d like, but debating answers nothing… And there really is no “genuine” debate when it comes to our (humans) and especially our systems, i.e. capitalism, imperialism, feudalism, fascism, etc., and of course, religions’ impact on our planet and the life thereon… While it’s true that we don’t “know”…
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Verbal Tomatoes
Verbal Tomatoes Yes, I’ve chosen to sit back and enjoy the show, as George Carlin liked to phrase it. That doesn’t mean that I have to stay quiet or shut-up about the villainy or rank stupidity that I see blatantly thrown in our faces on a daily basis. I am enjoying the show. And as…
CynOp 