I’m no pacifist by any means, but it seems to me that history has proven time and time again that war is the only recession-free industry there is.
Might as well smile and dance while making a groovy conscientious political statement about it…
verse / 20231110
dawn succeeds the night / and birds sing for its glory / but for falling bombs
#川柳
The smart thing to do?
I do not regard myself as smart.
Though, I do regard myself as knowledgeable, a condition I attribute mostly to the fact that I am old and have been around long enough to collect a lot of knowable things…
Plus, I read a lot, which enables me to collect even more knowable things.
Yeah, knowing a lot doesn’t make one smart…
Knowing what to do with the things one knows, now that’s smart.
Smart people know how to leverage knowledge in ways that benefit them, however they may define it.
Probably they define it mostly as success, money, happiness, power, etc.
Or so I suppose.
I also suppose the fact that having a lot of knowledge doesn’t necessarily equate to being smart is also why calling someone a “know it all” is usually not a good thing.
Yeah…
But, unfortunately, there are some nuts in life that are so tough to crack that even truly smart people do not know what to do about them.
Climate change.
Trump.
The problems between Israel and Palestine.
Yeah, especially that one…
verse / 20231108
we can soar the heights / we can reach beyond the reach / still, we have to breathe
#川柳
Sunday Songs to Spark the Spirit and Summon the Moves of the Dance
Life is all it is – joyful, sad, comprehensive, confusing, peaceful, violent, and on and on and on…
Of course, regardless of what reality tries to tell one, it can only be what one – you, me, each unique individual making up the all of we – says it is.
And no matter how hard we/I try to understand it, to challenge it, to master it, chances are we/I never will; and chances are along the way we/I will alienate those who see reality 180 degrees differently than you/me.
So, understanding our understanding and execution of life will always be incomplete and often inaccurate, and way off kilter to many, accepting that some will love us for what we do and, sadly, some with hate us for the same, will hopefully make it all a bit less painful.
So, we might as smile the best we can and dance.
#embraceyourreality
verse / 20231104
away with the wind / like leaves dead, like ashes, dust / let mine self scatter
Country Roads Are Like No Others, Vol. 002
Mobilizing for war…
#waronhunger
#soldiersforstomachs
#kissafarmer
Weaponized Words
It is the ongoing global war of misinformation that, long term, I am beginning to fear most.
The damage that has been done by it just from weaponizing social media sites alone is incomprehensible to me.
And yet, for the most part, this phase of the global misinformation war is being executed by slow-moving, mistake-prone, carbon-based humans…
When AI is fully engaged in the battle…
Oh boy*…
That’s when, I reckon fearfully, the doomsday clock strikes T-minus kaboom.
