Is This World Just a Bot Farm?
Various commentary about the condition of the world as interpreted by twists and turning, mostly left.
The Nobodies- Eduardo Galeano
(Suddenly, we are all nobodies to them. Nobodies and expendable.)
"Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that, one magical day, good luck will suddenly rain down on them – will rain down in buckets. But good luck doesn’t rain down, yesterday, today, tomorrow or ever. Good luck doesn’t even fall in a fine drizzle, no matter how hard the nobodies summon it, even if their left hand is tickling, or if they begin the new day on their right foot or start the new year with a change of brooms. The nobodies: nobody’s children, owners of nothing. The nobodies: the no-ones, the nobodied, running like rabbits, dying through life, screwed every which way. Who are not but could be. Who don’t speak languages, but dialects. Who don’t have religions, but superstitions. Who don’t create art, but handicrafts. Who don’t have culture, but folklore. Who are not human beings, but human resources. Who do not have faces, but arms. Who do not have names, but numbers. Who do not appear in the history of the world, but in the crime reports of the local paper. The nobodies, who are not worth the bullet that kills them."
— Eduardo Galeano, "The NobodiesJourney (to the past)
(evidently this was written back when trump was president the first time. Gee, i thought he was a dictator then. But actually I've believed america has always been susceptible to dictatorship instead of not. does that make me smart? everyday now he proves me right, about himself and about america. americans are chum. trump is a lumbering dinosaur
journey
I'm going somewhere. don't ask me why? don't ask me where. I
said somewhere. every day I get a little closer, I can feel it. there are days
when I really want to just get there and see if I can figure out why I came in
the first place. other days I try and walk backwards everywhere I go because
I'm pretty sure I don't want to get where I'm thinking I might be going.
what will happen when I get there? will my journey end, no more
destinations? will that be the end of days, my days as a traveler?
or will there be two thousand six hundred forty-nine more days
of absolutely waiting around for something bad to happen, somewhere else to catch
my interest.
Hope, I can only hope that someday the glorification of all our
wars are toppled like the hero confederate soldier statues of the civil war, a
misnomer if there ever was one, at which time we'll all have to admit that
dying in vain is the price we pay for the opportunity of living out our
delusions of
honor, patriotism, nation loving, fearin the day the mundane and
the profane live side by side, on top of each other, and where each demands its
moment, though it seems each time, they never cancel each other out. are all
human traits not to hold up high but keep at arm's length.
trump tweets while Rome burns.
Trump, the Great Uniter
It's wonderful that Trump has made us all realize that the
country is really better than what we thought. The military, the corporations,
the FBI, the CIA, even the Republicans are all united in fighting hate,
fighting Russia, fighting ISIS, fighting inequality, and making sure America
spends every cent to protect and serve the rich and powerful. That's what they tell us, anyway
So, my question is what the hell has been happening the last
seventy years? Seventy years because that's all I've been alive but you can
extend it to two hundred years, historically speaking. We finally have a
president, a straw dog president.
Then Hilary writes her book and they, they being the sour
progressives, that still think she should be president rather than just a
footnote in history.
She has every right to say what she feels yeah, but why wait
until the monster is in the White House before getting all introspective. I
don't really get the true believers thinking she has suffered at the hands of
the republicans. For fucks sake everybody who believes that has only suffered from
the damnation of the failed ambitious. The most qualified failure in the
history of presidential electoral politics.
With our military budget there will never be health care for
all, never be enough money for infrastructure, never be enough money for
anything. We now have a military dictatorship based on a theory that we are
under a threat. This theory is as archaic and old method of keeping a
population in fear. It was used by Hitler, Russia, North Korea and on and on.
Shit or go blind.
We don't know whether or not to go backwards and forwards at the
same time. The future, scimitar or retreating from progress because it's like a
herd of mastodons going over the cliff.
Coming to an American city near you-soon-picture of water cannon
parade in Hamburg
Finally, Victory in Mosul- picture of Mosul destroyed
Rather than a nuclear free world it looks as if we'd be nuclear
radiated. I guess there's a difference.
Oh man, does power have the luxury of patience, or what? Trump is…
A new poll in Israel shows the general population in the country is…
Acirema
Ignorance can hardly be denied, but the causes are multiple. One being the real issues surrounding daily life and life decisions are complex, much more
complex than they should be.
The
governments of the world, both local and national have simply grown capitalism
beyond the comprehension of anyone to understand the oppressive nature under
which they live. Believe me, this is no coincidence.
Capitalism
has been taken to the heights of another religious cult, whereby those who
profit by it and are able to use it to their advantage, like all religions, are
also able to convince those who are used by it that it is a universal, "natural" order of how things work in the world.
Now, in
this country, Acirema, capitalism has forced itself into all the workings of
government in order to better manipulate and subvert the institutions and ideals the
nation supposedly built itself upon.
Immigration
to Acirema is entirely built on rumor, innuendo, and false belief among the
world population. For sure, it is better to live in obscurity once one does
safely cross the border and disappear amongst the herds of “know nothings” rather
than continue living in some violent village in your own country, susceptible
to the brutality most third world nations offer. But that same brutality exists
in Acirema, and, although for many decades it was less obvious, recently gun,
domestic violence has been more widespread and fearsome.
Real
solutions to violence require addressing root causes, including poverty,
addiction and community health, and how about the acquiescence of the general
public to Ignorance. Stupid is derogatory, but it is an actual behavior which
entails the ignoring of actual events, details of significant knowledge, and
the relationship between oneself and their own personal environment.
All the so-called dreaming going on, of what’s now
compared to what’s tomorrow isn’t going to change any fact that not only does everyone
die in the end of every story but they become obsolete long before that.
What difference does it make that I was right about
this or that while I was wrong about that and this?
Everybody's
going to be right and wrong in all the ways they thought everybody else was
wrong and right.
Don't always just play the hand you're dealt; deal the
hand you want to play. Deal It Yourself, cheat!
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