Tag: Ethics
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The Digital Shroud
The Digital Shroud think of allthoughts and wordssent into ‘the cloud’doomed to be forgottenlost in the digital shroudwhen our tech succumbsinevitably to entropylost in Gaia’sin Terra Firma’sultimately finite soulmurdered for progressfor greedby those who bleedprofits – LE – 1/24/26
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Like A Rock
Like A Rockby Bob Seger Stood there boldlySweatin’, in the sunFelt like a millionFelt like number oneThe height of summerI’d never felt that strongLike a rock I was eighteenDidn’t have a careWorking for peanutsNot a dime to spareBut I was lean andSolid everywhereLike a rock My hands were steadyMy eyes were clear and brightMy walk…
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Pandora’s …
Pandora’s Box Pandora’s boxOnly filled withBagels and loxSwimming inChaos dustBut the boxHas no lockWhat the While back at itsSprawling cageThe parakeet chirpsAnd the dog barksWith no reasonNor rhyme…Chirp bark chirp barkChirp chirp bark barkOnly ceases inPandora’s chaos dark Boycott ImmoralityOh! such banalityOn whose moralsDoes the boycott hingeYou, me, perhaps LokiWhims of Norse or GreeksDon’t worry,…
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Mortality Meditation
This is an old one, but in light of recent conversations, I thought to clarify my thinking on the matter…a bit… Though, others’ speculations are just as likely as mine – 1/14/26…; -) Mortality Meditation The older I get, the more I seem to consider the end of my journeys around old Sol, especially when…
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Distrust
Distrust Distrust names the gameLeaders betray us for gainOur demise and pain Once you are betrayedYou are never quite the sameTrust, a fatal aim To overcome itCompassion must take the reinsAs empathy plays But Never trust MandarinsTheir appetites unsatedDon’t care about us At all, only wealthPower and their own statusThe elite, the ‘cream’ Trust and…
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The Losers’ Lament
A study in irony that most of us have probably experienced… If Only – The Losers’ Lament if only I was handsome/pretty born a financial genius or just with loads of money I’d be happy, healthy, contented instead of frustrated and demented circumvented fate is stacked against me it should be plain for all to…
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Painting With Sand
Sand Paintings Haboobs gone a strayColored sands, percussion laidMandala-raising Red, blue, yellow grainsSandblasting my open mindMandala gazing –LE – 1/8/26
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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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