Tag: Commentary
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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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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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