Turning The Universe Into A Factory

Expressing anger at the US president throwing away a nation. Amurikar with all its knowledge, power, literature, hospitals,  theatres, stories, traditions and its people -- under the bus of power. 

 Meaning the only thing that counts is controlling others, even if not everyone is under control. This apparently is greatness. Control, power, money. Abusing the gender that gives birth trying to establish a world where humanity is simply the line workers providing the consumer and all its parts to this new religion we call THE ECONOMY.

Abusing the workers, staff, nature and intelligence to stop thinking and produce. Anyone who thinks knows this is heading to a universal collapse.

It began in the early centuries. Rulers, Kings, Queens, Explorers, Inventors, Healers, Teachers, Scientists -- anybody besides mothers, were taught to think in terms of greatness. Wealth, capital, science and how to serve the pecking order.  This is so entrenched we think of preservation and justice, as a way to serve power rather than the other way around.

The pecking order is the layers of humanity in terms of how much power we have, now in what we do but what others think of us.  How we look. Beauty, charm, talent, bravery, strength. How we serve those who are the top, how we keep the streets clean of rubbish. Sorry for telling everyone what to think. 

Don't listen to me. But please look around and think about what you see and read and hear.

Last Chance

I won't pretend I have the answer because I don't but these feelings and thoughts keep plagueing me.

It's ridiculously contemptuous to keep replaying the games and thoughts of  oligarchs.  Yes they offer some brilliant ideas, but the focus on other planets as places to conquer just prolongs the mental illness of our species. That illness is attempting to find a solution in man's greatest sin, obsession.

The constant warmongering is the isolated ego competing for the most of what it wants. The ego is shallow and vain. The ego simply wants to win. Like the plans, desires of Donald Trump. He wants to be elevated to a god-like level. Fantasies of grandeur, being worshipped by millions is the driving force for a narcissist. Life itself is much more complex, too complex for our capitalist egos.

We adorn ourselves  within our fantasies first. Do we seek fame or survival? The great man theory is not about emperors, kings or movie stars. Forget queens. Man can dream of being a fearless leader but not the queen, not since the witch hunts.

The Royal Family are confined to DNA, beauty queens are fantasies. We humans need to grow beyond fantasy. We can't be saved by fantasy. We can't be saved by ego. We can't compete for the crown because we don't have a functioning everlasting dream.

A few brave souls can't save the world. We have to all want to save the world even if we are not glorified or honoured. Saving the world is feeding it with what it needs most.

We, they, need to be recognized, nurtured and protected, not by battles, world wars, soccer, or trophy. The trophy we need to win in self respect, nurture, life, peace and love. And this must begin with ego, common sense, wisdom, nurture and an acceptance that we need one another.

Rather than think of great heroes, think mothers and fathers, plump and calm.

 Forget wild contests in huge ships. Think  science of nature, the shit of survival. The love for our lives and all others.

Forget Hitler, Trump or Musk. Think family.

What's Happening To Humanity?

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💙 Are we successfully fitting into the needs of the day, keeping up with trends?

💛  There are more of "us" than there are "them"? How do we identify as "us"?

💛  What are the "us"? People who have the same colour skin?

💜 People who attend the same "church"? People who think alike? 

💙 People who think? People who engage? 

💜 💛 People who wear their identity on their hat? 

💛 How can I be "sure" of "us" and not one of them?

 

Where Are You?

To read the conflicts neatly packaged in small or medium posts, it appears that humanity has lost its way. We, no matter how educated or whose side we are on, are trapped. Palestine or Israel? Jew or Gentile? Woman or Man? White or Black? American or Other? 

But this only represents the opinions of a few who have the privilege of media representation. Articles neatly written with clarity. Who is to blame? Who gets paid? 

Beware of looking at this universe and its inhabitants as proof of reality. Yes it is real. Yes we are real. Yes there are many problems because, well, there are so many of us. Just because we are educated and we have social interests doesn't mean that's all there is?

Just because we don't hear spiders, or deer or full moons doesn't mean their reality is the same as ours. 

We don't know everything! All I know is what I read, hear and see and I know that's not everything, not even most. My opinion is not an authority.

I have lived for 76 years and my world keeps changing in spite of all the experts I read, documentaries, and groups I meet with, radio I listen to, friends who have several degrees, who teach and run needed services. 

I treasure Canadian, British, Modern, old, new poetry, by people who think seriously about the survival of this Universe.

Go out and read anything and everything. Question everything you read and read it again.

Together we could get through this.

To Save This World We Have To Kill The Most?

Being strong is not about learning how to endure. These days, according to capitalism, we have to be the richest, buy the most expensive things like bombs, guns, stylish clothes, fanciest cars. We are told we need the new thing currently being promoted. Of course, we know that's not true. We know that advertisers are selling us gaga economics. They have to do what they are told. 

Do we have to do whatever we are told? Are we worried? Do we feel we are losing the plot? Did the world seem more logical thirty years ago? Or are we fed lies and nonsense to make the world and all its consumers nervous and powerless?

Is our world living on thin ice? Are we supposed to feel powerless?

 

Scrolling through posts

on public media it occurs to me, the way forward is reachable and we are all accountable. We don't have to make millions of dollars, or have the perfect beautiful body or win the wars by killing the most.

We don't have to buy the newest, the best, the shiniest. And if we keep competing for the most we lose sight of our own lives.

Gaining the largest wealth was one way a king or ruler could become famous but without the wisdom of the owner, using wealth for the optimum display, the greatest mansion, the most beautiful queen-- didn't  bring happiness for long. The future was still not guaranteed. Yet, even today this contest still gets the most media attention.

Nonetheless all our intelligence, wisdom and headlines focus on THE WINNER! 

I remember a shallow young girl who believed she had to be a success to make up for her mother's unhappiness trapped in the kitchen trying to keep the house perfect. It sounds silly when I put it like this but this was just after WWII. Her first love was killed in that war and she had a baby to care for, so the "wisdom" of that time was to "get a man" so as not to burden her family.

This girl seemed to be far away and although she didn't make a fuss she wasn't much help. She assumed she would have to become famous to make up for her mother's grief.

For her father's part, he came from a wealthy family where it was expected he would make a lot of money since his family were rich. 

Generally the pressure was on men to be a success by having a spotless home, a beautiful wife and gifted children. The expectation was the drive to success. If you have lots of money you can buy a beautiful house, send your kids to private schools. There were always "buts" that got in the way.

This man found a beautiful wife too, however she didn't want to stay in Europe. She had to move to the USA, be an actor and musician. She also felt the pressure like other survivors of WWII. The problem was she had given birth to a daughter. Eventually they worked out a solution. The wife would stay in the USA and the husband returned to the UK, found a woman who needed a husband. She agreed to look after the baby and he agreed to marry her.

Problem solved? No. There was discomfort, gossip, sensitivity to feeling like outsiders, feeling the gossip that spread faster than wealth. No-one belonged anywhere it seemed.

The daughter was large, clumsy, quiet and dumb. At night when everyone was in bed, the child would start singing. Father shouted to be quiet. She would stop for awhile and then start again.

This is how humans get tangled up in trying to win. There's always something that goes wrong. No matter how much education and wealth a society has, things go wrong. The world will not cooperate with our dreams as aspirations. Not entirely anyway and humans have egos and expectations.

On top of all this there is patriarchy. Training men to win, to be always strong, to avoid thinking too much, to proscribe the future based on what the society needs and when things go wrong, find a scapegoat. Now in this late stage capitalist society, all our expectations stumble on top of one another.

Since women are only valued in how they serve men there is a reluctance to see where the gaps are. How our society keeps punishing the ones with the least power to make changes.