Tag: Commentary
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Season’s Greetings
I hope you all have the holiday experience you hope for, whatever your preference. I also hope that this season brings the peace and good will to all that it’s supposed to represent. –LE
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From the Summer of 2009 (Some things never seem to change)
Intro: Cleveland OH – Summer ’09, lunch time, walking the industrial parkway in 90+ degrees. Lunch Time Walk The first cicadas of the season trill through occasional traffic lulls on the boulevard,Walking through Liatris, Cat Tails, andPeriwinkle-blue Chicory, andQueen Anne’s lace in the ditches. As I stroll past manicured, dead brown lawns, evidence of this year’s long…
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Televission – Streaming Zeitgeist Vissions
Televission – Streaming Zeitgeist Vissions Light-emiting diode screens colorful images with soundthat screams at, or lulls the passionately roving thumband remote, that quite blinds, hour upon wasted hour,or just footage of someone’s cat and its imaginary crown. Quickly, spit out this hopefully humorous vission ofyourself, or our collective selves,before it becomes our only view… too late.…
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Philosphy
Philosophy I describe myself as a ‘cynical optimist’, thus my blog, CynOp. I liken that to a katana (Japanese long sword)… my core, optimism, softer, more malleable, more open and hopeful is encased with hardened and finely honed and sharpened cynicism… for cutting through all the philosophical (sophistry), political, and social BS and junk. The…
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Mediphysical Glimpses
Metaphysical Glimpses life and deathwhite and blackyin and yangwaves and troughslight and darkinside and outsidethe universe and I two sides of the same coinpoles in the same eventa game with no winnerif one side wins, existence ends endings and beginningsall exists simultaneouslyeach implies otherlife and death YES! Each wave a differentiation of the oceanyet still…
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Wisps Over a Small Bowl 1968
Five hours hitching outside Newark Airport20 degrees, freezing fingers, ears, and toes,no one stops or even slows down,much less looks your way; must avoid eye contact. Eventually, hike into the airport, warm up enoughto pull out your guitar, jam in waiting area,guitar case open, accepting donations, spare change,eventually have enough … train ticket to Philly.…
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ROBOTS
There was Tobor, RobbyAnd HAL 9000,Then Rhino, just a link inServo-cybernetic evolution,A manipulating armMoved by solid state servo brain. See its wonders;Marvel at its aim.So, What’s nextin this evolutionary chain,A surgical transplant fromMe or you to servo brain? –LE
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Stew and Recipe
Closing, the waking dream unfolds, the path to consciousness — untold, The printer hums, the keyboard clicks, the cursor blinks, 1 human brain (shredded). The surge crashes, the mind blanks — consciousness returns. 2 much stock (quantum soup — quarks, mesons, pisons, and other subatomic nutrients — unprocessed). Bio-transducer/receiver translates the quantum runes, Blend stock…
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Beyond the Tipping Point
Beyond the Tipping Point Racism, elitism, bigotry, born on your mother’s knee or the surrogate thereof, Fine tuned by fathers and their surrogates, the powers that be. Illusions of freedom, controlled by the wealthy and religion, guilt-ing, rationalizing, the gullible, the faithful, into acting against their own best interests, in the interests of those who…
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Our Modern World
1 concentration of wealth, power, and freedoms in the hands of privileged classes, fear mongering, the old ploy, makes for easy control, to brow-beat the masses. 2 conform and obey, your patriotic duty, ignore any protests, though justified, condemn civil disobedience – all, science, an enemy, facts so inconvenient. condemn the discontented and suffering. praise…
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