Tag: Ethics
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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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A Mother’s Legacy
A Mother’s Legacy mother brought up hersons to be romanticsyes daughters too allhoping for the ONE theTRUE soulmate who makesall things right they all told themselvesthey were good at heartthe soulmate would seethat from the start mend the skepticalthe broken hearts since all relationshipsend and some beforethey start as indoctrinatedromantics grasp and clingrefuse to accept…
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SS & Medi-dare
SS & Medi-dare SS retired – required – inspired just plain tired – almost expired expiration date all up to fateemancipated and medicatedperhaps need bruja-ha or shaman help truer SS short-shrift – left adriftSS sucking sound asausterity abounds – movingwealth by fiat to leach-classwarehouses for the greedbrokers and their want-a-bees medicare not really there less…
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A Red Sky
A Red Sky A red sky drippingoozing bloodbackdrop ofsocietycivilization progressive pretensecrusted andsmothered indisease ashblackish grayishpoverty deathdestroying everynatural thing ittouches vaunted techno-progress dealingdeath efficientlyprofoundlyinexorably Earth’s progenyfeed – declinecloth – declinehouse – declinewe’ve chosen asixth major extinctionfor greed’s sakefor profitfor ‘progress’ humanity but a virusblight on Terrafirmawhich will remainonce we’re allgone – justiceno more norless than wedeserve…
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Art and War Drive Technology
Reading the poetry and prose and viewing the art and photography published here in various blogs have put me in a strange mood today; got me thinking about the tech that allows us to express ourselves so lucidly, so graphically. That and the constant barrage of gaslighting propaganda and just plain ‘hot air’ from local…
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The Bike-paths of Tucson
The Bike-paths of Tucson As I rode out onthe bike-paths of TucsonI spied an old bikiein spandex and Nikes I see by your outfitthat you are a bikie—-and he said—-I see by your outfitthat you’re a bikie too We see by our outfitsthat we are both bikiesif you get an outfityou can be a bikie…
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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 ecology less humankind ends alone and forgottenin burned-out remnantsof abundance of ouronce high civilizationirony of…