Is a short word cue
That I use when
Listening to the news
To remind myself to
Question the information
If it is presented as
Life affirming
Especially when it seems
To be hyperbolic distraction
Scaring the Proletariat public
Utilizing natural disasters
Plus trials of centuries or
Wars and other violent events
Like daily mass shootings
In an allegedly civilized society
To play on people’s fears
Ignorance and unconsciousness
“Attention,
Your attention, please
A newsflash has this moment
Arrived from the Malabar front
Our forces in South India
Have won a glorious victory
I am authorized to say
That the action
We are now reporting
May, well bring the war
Within measurable
Distance of its end
Here is the newsflash
Plusgood
Doubleplusgood”
“Doubleplusgood”
– Eurythmics “1984” Soundtrack
Based on George Orwell’s “1984”
The “newsflash” for whatever reason
(Cycled ad nauseum for crass consumption)
Gets our immediate attention as if
Something really “important” is happening
Usually repeated and regurgitated by many
Talking heads trapped in a rectangle screen
Flat, both in appearance and emotion
One dimensional ego driven narcissists
Spouting off alleged facts as if it were
The necessary oxygen needed to breathe
With just enough hyperbole and focus
To keep the audience tuning in for
The commercials in between the
Vague presentation of opinions as fact
With soap opera detail driven distractions
So as not to repeat the same information, it is
Salt and peppered with enough negativity
Like something new is being added for flavor
Giving background history of the characters or
Location as if they were color commentators
Covering the sport of death and destruction
Mayhem, mishaps, and misinformation
One of the news stories that triggered this post
Was one of Pyootyn supposedly ready to use
“Nuclear” devices in his war with Ukraine
Therefore, the veiled intent was a push for
The divided and distracted United States
To sell or give or rent weapons of marginal
Mass or messy and manipulative destruction in a
War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength
Type Orwellian misinformation filling the memory hole
Why would a dictator or anyone else for that matter
Use a weapon to gain access to land that would become
Now uninhabitable, therefore unlikely to be “occupied
See how easy it is to scare money right out of your wallet
Nope, the talking heads just spew it out unthinking and
Never interrupt their teleprompter reading to suggest otherwise
“I have certain rules I live by.
My first rule. I don’t believe anything that the government tells me, nothing, zero, none.
And I don’t take very seriously the media or the press in this country who in the case of the Persian Gulf war we’re nothing more than unpaid employees of the Department of Defense and who most of the time, most of the time functions as kind of an unofficial Public Relations Agency for the United States government.
So I don’t listen to them, I don’t really believe in my country, and I got to tell you folks I don’t get all choked up about yellow ribbons and the American flags. I consider them, I consider them to be symbols and I leave symbols to the symbol minded.”
– George Carlin
Persian Gulf War, Iraq War, War in Afghanistan, Ukraine,
Gaza, Israel, cold wars, world wars, etc, war, war, war, war.
“Another Prophet of Disaster
Who says the ship is lost
Another Prophet of Disaster
Leaving you to count the cost
Taunting us with Visions
Afflicting us with fear
Predicting War for millions
In the hope that one appears”
“Die With Your Boots On”
– Iron Maiden
Get this, there are “Rules” for war* Hmmmm.
If human earthling societies have evolved enough to
Have guidelines of who is not to be killed
How much harder would it be to make a rule
Not to kill anyone anywhere for any reason
(In other words, treat them like fetuses)
Would it really take a quantum leap or paradigm shift
To just make a “rule” to not have any wars. Just asking.
The only reason wars are inevitable is because
We’ve been told and indoctrinated to believe that
Like the proverbial carrot on a stick
There is just enough information presented
To stay tuned, believing that scenario will be over
And yet It goes on and on without solutions
“I am authorized to say
That the action
We are now reporting
May, well bring the war
Within measurable
Distance of its end
Here is the newsflash…………”
“That has arrived from
The Malabar front”
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
*
The rules of war, also known as international humanitarian law:
• Protect those who are not fighting, such as civilians, medical personnel or aid workers.
• Protect those who are no longer able to fight, like an injured soldier or a prisoner.
• Prohibit targeting civilians. Doing so is a war crime.
• Recognize the right of civilians to be protected from the dangers of war and receive the help they need. Every possible care must be taken to avoid harming them or their houses, or destroying their means of survival, such as water sources, crops, livestock, etc.
• Mandate that the sick and wounded have a right to be cared for, regardless of whose side they are on.
• Specify that medical workers, medical vehicles and hospitals dedicated to humanitarian work can not be attacked.
• Prohibit torture and degrading treatment of prisoners.
• Specify that detainees must receive food and water and be allowed to communicate with their loved ones.
• Limit the weapons and tactics that can be used in war, to avoid unnecessary suffering.
• Explicitly forbid rape or other forms of sexual violence in the context of armed conflict.
https://www.icrc.org/en/document/10-things-rules-of-war-geneva-conventions%C2%A0
Best summed up as
“Thou shalt not kill “
– Exodus 20:13, Deuteronomy 5:17
Not my words, God’s words
You can actually hear
The dementia work
Its evil magic like
A demon in the night
Manifesting mumbles
Torturing a body
With a peaceful soul
From all appearances
Internally and externally
That it does not deserve
So far, logic and love
Cannot quell the chaos
Of the wretched warlock
Bothering the bladder
Sending mixed signals
At cross purposes
Urgent urges stop
For neither, relief,
Rhyme nor reason
Or the love of a
Non-existent God
Perhaps maybe if the
Collective accepted
A unique notion
That God is really
Just the Higgs ocean*
That we are not
Separate from God
But essentially
God through and through
Experiencing this dimension
Or vibrating on a string with
A subjective perspective
Not to know the world
But to understand ourselves
Because it is hard to imagine
In the scheme of things, how
Infinitesimally small, we are
Carrying inflated egos that
Create a creator to brag
How “special” we are or
Vaguely assuming outcomes
Are at the whimsical wish
Of divine direction, save
Competition with pharmaceutical
Corporations in it for gross profit
Resigning reality to the God excuse
“The God excuse. The last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument, “They came from God.” Anything we can’t describe must have come from God.
– George Carlin
The protracted perceived
Indoctrinated image is that of an
Invisible man Santa Claus caricature
Watching over everyone at all times
Methinks “he” is out to lunch
Literally, figuratively, spiritually
Metaphorically, hyperbolically, and physically
To “allow” even mild suffering
When, if instead, the collective could
Establish a more compassionate
Death with dignity determination
Instead of a final last willful intent
Of starving oneself to death
As the only ticket out of here
“All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.”
– Bill Hicks
*
Perhaps this does seem spiritual or divine to you, and in that case, by all means call the “Higgs boson” the “God Particle”. But otherwise, you might want to consider alternatives.
For most humans, and even for most professional physicists, the only importance of the Higgs boson is this: it gives us insight into the Higgs field. This field
• exists everywhere, including within the Earth and within every human body,
• has existed throughout the history of the known universe,
• has been reliably constant and steady since the earliest moments of the Big Bang, and
• is crucial for the existence of atoms, and therefore for the existence of Earth and all its life;
– https://profmattstrassler.com/2024/04/12/peter-higgs-versus-the-god-particle/
Best summed up as…..
“An energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together.”
– Obi-Wan Kenobi
Writing this at least makes me grateful that my father-in-law is not in more pain, having been released into hospice / family care. No longer being a playing field for competing chemicals, of this one does this, while the other one does that, battling it out to a bitter end, a sustained AE, artificial existence, in a pharmacological stupor of not knowing which way is up and who is who.
“All of that
Which has reality
Has no basis
In reality.”
– Angelo Devlin
Not nearly enough
In all the wrong places
In comfortable tents
With porta potties nearby
In the season of spring
At college campuses
Close to fast food in
Good neighborhoods
“With the bravery of being out of range
We strafe the train
With the bravery of being out of range
We gained terrain
With the bravery of being out of range
With the bravery of being out of range
We play the game
With the bravery of being out of range”
– Roger Waters
“The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range”
I am no expert but methinks
Thou ought to get a passport
Then go to where the action is
What better than to have a
Bunch of well to do spoiled brats
Getting a pseudo-education
In “real” world scenarios
Head to an endless war zone
Rooted in religious hatred
(“My God has a bigger dick than your God” – George Carlin)
Century after century because
It is written in books that
“God” is on “their” side as
Invisible manifestations of belief
Of course, if it is just attention, you seek
Then that will get you an unbelievable
Amount of attention, if not real wounds
Think of the “real” stories you’ll have
Unfortunately, that will not stop the war
Better yet, if you are against war
Then be against all wars everywhere
Go protest the multi-trillion dollar
Arms and weapons manufacturers
Better known as the military industrial complex
Who grossly profit grossly over
Manufacturing all of the war toys
In every nation all over the planet
Making devices and WMD’S designed
To kill out of the womb fetuses that
Allegedly everyone is trying to save
“Conservatives don’t give a shit about you, until you reach “military age”. Then they think you are just fine. Just what they’ve been looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.”
– George Carlin
But if you go there to protest, you can
Expect to have counter protests by
All of the families who feed their families
By going to work to build those devices
Of guns, bombs, bullets, rockets, tanks
Flamethrowers, missiles, land mines, etc.
That is just on the front end of nonstop death
Think of all the support corporations who
Make their money off of healing the wounded
Making hospital beds, surgeon gowns
Scalpels, gloves, stainless steel saws
Blood transfusion machines, body bags
Caskets, grave diggers, and florists
Here’s an oldie, but a goody.
“Bombs over Baghdad,
Bombs over Baghdad
Bombs over Baghdad,
Dancers of Death
Murder in the air,
With the next breath
Macho Queens selling
War-makers toys
Raining Destruction,
Good Old Boys
Death bringer In
Queen George’s Eyes
Read his lips,
War-maker lies
Religious Rights
Revenging sword
Thou shalt kill in the
Name of the Lord
The Sheep and the Cattle
Can’t keep from milling
Some are more than ready
Some aren’t willing
Volunteering in what
They’re not dying for
The Young Republican Guard
Crying for war
Free speech as
Free as its thought
Controlled behavior
Reacts as its taught
Fighting for Peace
Can’t comprehend
Hate out of love
Is violent pretends
Bombs Over Baghdad,
Bombs Over Baghdad
Bombs Over Baghdad,
Bombs Over Baghdad
Vampires drinking
Blood and oil cocktails
Their violence works
it hardly ever fails
When blind man can’t see
He believes blind
Blind obedience is
The child of mindless minds
New world order
Is an old world lie
Fighting for peace,
See how they die
Dragging in God,
As they turn violent
God says nothing,
He just remains silent
Stop madmen from
Running loose
Mother earth woman
Can’t take the abuse
Living right now is
Living for tomorrow
Time is saying
There’s no more time tomorrow”
– John Trudell
How can there be a peaceful soul-ution
If everyone is profiting off of death
Even the comfy tent makers are profiting
No matter how much…..
Thou doth protest
“Here’s the way it works. The primate brain says, give peace a chance. The mammalian brain says, give peace a chance, but first let’s kill this motherfucker. And the reptilian brains says, let’s just kill the motherfucker. Go to the peace rally and get laid.
Because the first obligation, the first obligation of any organism is to survive. The second is to reproduce. Survival is more important than fucking. Pacifism is a nice idea. But it can get you killed.
We’re not there yet folks, evolution is slow. Smallpox is fast.”
– George Carlin
“All we are saying, is give peace a chance.”
– John Lennon
Yeah, right……..
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
Fueled by finger pointing
At everything but the
Culprit corporations who
Observe people complaining
A mouthful about the high price
Of food with a mouth full
Because it is easier to blame
Politicians via pundits who also
Have a selfish stake in the game
Of riling up either side so their
Eyes and ears stay glued to
Media Mass-marketing outlets
To..sell more and more products *
At exorbitant and higher prices
Via barely talented, talking heads
Though their salary increases
Reading off of scripted prompters
In between the soundbites of
Rumors, hearsay, and innuendoes
Of things they are telling you to
Care about and have opinions on
Though at the end of the day, it
Has practically zero relevance
To the well-being of their family
Real issues that concern them
How they are educated and fed
“This whole motherfucking economy, built on a house of cards. First of all, you gotta get this shit, get that federal reserve back on a gold standard. What the fuck is that? We got government printing off Fiat currency.
//
It’s a charade fiat currency. The consumer gotta understand, that the currency only have as much value as the consumer have faith in the currency, you gotta back that shit up with precious metal.
Fuck Keynesian economic Philosophy.”
– Doug Stanhope
* many fear based in scope
Survival food, ready to eat meals
Generators and backup batteries
Guns, bullets and bunkers
Precious metals which at this point
Gold is about $ 2,300.00 a Troy ounce
Making it so easy to buy for when
The fiat currency collapses and
Every retailer is in the business
Of bartering bargains for gold
Has scales on hand plus secure
Means of storage to exchange
With the banks that did not collapse
Life is a zero-some game
You leave with what you came in with
A birthday suit turned death robe
But that is it and nothing besides
Pointing fingers at any administration
Is a scapegoat useless gesture
Focusing people on distraction
While the wealthy get wealthier
Off of the poor and the bourgeoisie
Which that alone ought start a revolution
Considering any human being to be in
A caste system of pseudo identification
With imaginary numbers in a bank account
As some useless arbitration of value
Or acquiring stuff one can not keep
It is unfortunate for a species that has
A cellular connection to all of the species
Not to communicate on that level to
Rally not to purchase any particular product
For a month, such as sodas and flavored drinks
Which have essentially doubled since Covid
Gouging being the only reasonable explanation
In a week that industry would be scrambling
To lower the prices as other corporations
Would be wondering if they were in que
Should the next “protested” product be theirs
Adding -enomics behind a president’s name
Is a distraction fraught with victimhood
Especially when the content is ignored
That positive things are going on besides
“My solipsistic worldview
Does not allow me to see
What may be real reality.”
– Angelo Devlin
Because they think
They know “him”
Proof matters not
What counts is
Empathy for one
Who has none
Projections based
On wishful thinking
Only a few can see
Through the stench
Of his wretchedness
Because it is right
Under their noses
Even though the
Authorities have
Been notified
He distracts them
With implausible
Justifications
Which is easier to
Accept, then investigate
After all, he is who he is
Perhaps the above
Applies to 45
But it also applies to
Jeffrey Dahmer or the
Likes of Bernie Madoff
People presenting
A public persona
While demons run amok
In the malignant minds
Of the power hungry
Seeking control
Over others to feed
Insatiable narcissism
Wealth insecurities and
A deep desire to be loved
“Gladwell discusses the first of these social strategies in Chapter Three. (“Talking to Strangers”) “Truth-Default Theory,” or TDT, is a theory developed by psychologist Tim Levine as he sought to understand why humans are bad at identifying deception.
Through a series of experiments that tasked participants with determining whether a stranger was lying or telling the truth, Levine discovered that humanity has a bias toward truth. Levine’s findings suggested that we tend to take things at face value and assume that the people we interact with are behaving honestly.”
– http://www.litcharts.com
It is the people
Closest to the forest
Who can not see the trees
Unless you have 24/7 intimate involvement
Tracking, observing, and cataloging each minute
Detail of a person you perceive as trustworthy
All you have is the projection of your thoughts
Innately geared towards a bias of truth, ooops *
Which is not to suggest that humanity
Ought to do a 180⁰ and not trust anyone
Or anything, but at some point, ought to be
Questioning beyond the superficial layer
People convey under their multitude of masks
Masks they themselves do not know they have
Let alone which one is being worn at any
Given moment indifferent in different surroundings
Timing, circumstances, company kept, agendas
Fear, friends, family, foes, society, and self
*
“Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims as president.
Nearly half came in his final year.”
Washington Post
By Glenn Kessler
January 23, 2021, at 6:35 p.m. EST
In a lifelong career of pretending
To be wealthy and successful so
That he would be loved by those
Actually, wealthy and successful
Culminating in a scripted edited
TV show hyping his celebrity
A facade of make-up and lights
Through failures and bankruptcies
Loomed constant in “real” life
And still, his followers………
Mostly poor and unrecognized
Think he is innocent
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
That is the question
Which is really just
The other end of the
Abortion spectrum
Of subjective forces
People deciding the
Time to terminate or
Preserve at all cost
The allegation of “life”
Though death is
Ultimately inevitable
And not really real
Those who can not
Make that decision
For themselves, when
The quality of life is for
Those not dying
Tied to emotional
Comfort and selfishness
“We live, we die
& death not ends it”
– Jim Morrison
It is a divine dilemma
To the individual or group
Making that decision
Because ultimately
There are no consequences
(Karma is a crafty mind construct
When reason and justification fail)
At least none permanent
Of either murder or mercy
“Ohhhh, it was terrible, it was tragic, … but he’s in a better place now. He’s with Jesus ….
THEN WHY ARE YOU CRYING?
If he’s in this utopia, why are you crying? If you believe that death leads to eternal bliss, then why are you wearing a seatbelt?”
– Doug Stanhope from “Die Laughing”
“There’s time to live and time to die
When it’s time to meet the maker
There’s time to live, but isn’t it strange
That as soon as you’re born, you’re dying…
…and reborn again??”
“The Clairvoyant”
– Iron Maiden
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
Is going to “Protect”
The, our, or, any “border”
It is an imaginary line
Drawn on a piece of paper
In land acquisition games
Better known as wars
Or in more peaceful times
Considered “purchases”
“One Earth, one Mother
One does not sell the Earth
The people walk upon
We are the land
How do we sell our Mother ?
How do we sell the stars ?
How do we sell the air ?”
“Crazy Horse”
– John Trudell
Besides
Borders are like “rights”
“They’re imaginary. We made them up, like the Boogie Man, the Three Little Pigs, Pinocchio, Mother Goose, shit like that.
Rights are an idea. (Borders) They’re just imaginary. They’re a cute idea. Cute, but that’s all. Cute and fictional.”
– George Carlin
No one can protect something
That is imaginary
Anyone who says they can
Is a bullshit artist
Usually, a politician
Cashing in on wages and profits
By selling the public FEAR
Which unlike “walls” can not
Be gotten over or around
Without questioning what
They are told to be afraid of
Which are……..human beings
Aaaaggggggggghhhhhhhhhh
“Just look at all those hungry
Mouths we have to feed
Take a look at all the
Suffering we breed
So many lonely faces
Scattered all around
Searching for what they need.
Is this the world we created?
What did we do it for?
Is this the world we invaded
Against the law?
So it seems in the end.
Is this what we’re all living for today?
The world that we created.
You know that n
A helpless child is born
Who needs some loving care
Inside a happy home
Somewhere a wealthy man
Is sitting on his throne
Waiting for life to go by.
Is this the world we created?
We made it on our own.
Is this the world we devastated
Right to the bone?
If there’s a God in the sky looking down,
What can (S)he think of what we’ve done
To the world that (S)he created?”
“Is This The World We Created?”
– Queen
“Here’s what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses (and walls) each year and instead, spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”
― Bill Hicks
Nah, the consumptive distraction is too much fun.
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
For any one person allegedly elected
To one country’s grossly misrepresented
Office, as the “MOST POWERFUL IN THE WORLD”
(My guess is other countries are pulling the same bullshit
We just are not aware of it here because our ego won’t allow it)
Really………really……..
That holds all the virtues of an Idiot Plot
An “idiot plot” is one that is “kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot”.
– Roger Ebert
Unfortunately, that is how collective consciousness works
Being spoon-fed indoctrinations from grade school on
While brains are still soft and readily absorbent to accept that
“Democracy” along with capitalism is the best government
(It may be, but sometimes good, is just not good enough.)
Knowing fool well, capitalism pulls the strings of democracy
Spending their advertising dollars on political contributions
Getting a better ROI for their buck than standard ads would
“When you’re stepping over a homeless guy on the sidewalk…
Does it ever occur to you to think
“Wow – maybe our system doesn’t work?!”
– Bill Hicks
Pledging allegiance to an abstract concept, not understanding
Fully or foolishly, what a pledge, republic, or allegiance even is
Just regurgitated and repeated until it sinks in so deep
It is like riding a bicycle. Once you learn how, you can’t unlearn
Because one is peddling in a concentric circle around
In a filter bubble while doubling as an echo chamber
Side note:
Here is something interesting I found when doing cursory research about unlearning to ride a bike and, subsequently, other stuff, too.
I receive no money from it, nor should I. It is just a great example.
https://www.interrobang.is/2015/07/cognitive-bias-and-the-backwards-bicycle-test/
And yet, many, if not most of the once in
Every four year, gambling addicts want to put all their chips
On either red or black (blue) because of vague promises
Wishful thinking and subjective projections of how
They think life is going to be if their bet “wins”
That their elected schmuck as the head muckety muck
Of the entire “free” world is charged to “protect” it, them and
Their wallet, guns, freedom, health, security, religion, family, etc…
“WHAT? Are these fucking people kidding me?”
– George Carlin
Same goes for that Jesus fella you hear and see so much about
In the unreasonable expectations department of a savior
Who is expected to single handedly save every one on earth
Though he is harder to find then Waldo, except in depictions
Having been slain by the state, that it is OK to murder the innocent
“[Mob:]
Pilate! Crucify him!
Remember Caesar – you have a duty
To keep the peace, so crucify him!
Remember Caesar – you’ll be demoted, you’ll be deported
Crucify him!
[Pilate:]
Don’t let me stop your great self destruction
Die if you want to, you misguided martyr!
I wash my hands of your demolition
Die if you want to, you innocent puppet!”
“Trial Before Pilate” – “Jesus Christ Super Star “
(Here’s the kicker) Only “if” they “believe” in “him”. Ooopsie
Giving him all the credentials of Dumbo’s magic feather
Later revealed that the magic is not in the feather
Rather in the irrational belief that a divine master of wisdom
Through unsubstantiated claims has the power to be a
Travel agent to send you to a good place and not a bad one
Not that either exist tangibly anywhere except, up or down “there”
In relationship to a sphere hurling rapidly through the cosmos
As humanity holds tight to fictitious concepts of heaven or hell
Hint: we made them up, because that is how powerful we are.
Now if we could only be powerful enough to…
“Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…. Aha-ah…
//
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…
//
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…”
“Imagine”
– John Lennon
By continuing to write posts to this goofy blog
I have the unreasonable expectations that sooner or later
Humanity is going to 100th monkey theory its way
Out of having any anticipation that a savior or psychopath
Is going to help us in any way, until we all realize it is up to us
Without governments, guides, gurus, guns, or gods
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
Which at best is only temporary
Corroborated by my perceptions
Of things that substantiate my
Subjective perspective of reality
With the ability to knock on wood
Not as a wish to change an outcome
Rather a tangible sensation of a
Tactile experience of nerves
Sending electrical signals to a
Spongy gray main frame enclosed
Solar powered wireless computer
Activating four of five senses
I can see the wood with my eyes
Smell it with my nose and when I
Knock on it with my knuckles
It feels hard as the sound is
Captured by my ears all at once
Despite all of that alleged proof
Lies the fact that all manifestations
Of wood, eyes, nose, ears, fingers
Brains with an ability to communicate
Will entropy and decay into no evidence
Figments of my imagination
Coagulating as abstractions
Made up of mind matter
The substance of make believe
Reality, projections and assumptions
Making me one with the whole
While being whole with the one
Which is inherent in the proof of
All that exists that all ways exists
“All of that
Which has reality
Has no basis
In reality”
– Angelo Devlin
The more one
Thinks about it
The more one realizes
The reality of reality
Is something
We made up
Not with molecules
Which would be tricky
But rather……words
Such that, like molecules
Have always existed
The analogy being
That, as molecules
Change shape and
Transform back and forth
Between waves and particles
So do words and definitions
Interpretations and intentions
Nothing (no thing) is a thing
It has to be, it is right there
“In the beginning, the Word already existed.
The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
Nothing (no thing) is a thing
Made up not of a vacuum
Or rather in a vacuum
Which too is something
The collective consciousness
Made up
We made it up
Isn’t that neat
How powerful we must be
Reality exists because
We have a word for it
That is so cool
Not as in the dictionary
“1: moderately cold : lacking in warmth”
– M-W.com
But rather
“7a: very good : excellent
– M-W.com
Both made up
By the way, as
The mother of necessity
(Also made up)
Everything (every thing)
Every God or gods
Every infinity or big bang
Every good or bad
Every up or down, east or west
Every plant, animal, or mineral
We made it up
Pick nearly anything (any thing)
Life, death, love, hate, create, destroy
Race, sex, value, values
Morals, morality, immorality
Besides, all are open to interpretation
Perception, content, and context
It all exists because
We made it up
Every _____________, whatever
We made it up
Money, we made up….. money *
A bum or a billionaire
(Which lately, is one and the same)
Is still just a person
Like all other eight billion persons
Or nine billion or so if one has
The tendency to include fetuses
Or 117 billion, if corpses are included
Laws
We made up laws
“Law: 1c a rule or order that it is advisable or obligatory to observe”
– M-W.com
Thou shalt not kill
Hey, good law
Except when profits are at stake
Then what is made up is
Open to interpretation
Turning persons into enemies
Or undesirables
Made up by someone or
A group of someone’s
Therefore, to be terminated (exterminated)
With extreme prejudice
Killed, not by deadly means
Rather, with euphemisms and innuendoes
Neutralized, collateral damage, etcetera
Still dead, but in a more palatable way
It is much easier to accept death of
Non-combatants, usually (children)
Or “friendly fire” when soldiers
“Accidentally” kill their own team members
That eases the conscience
Of the unconscious
So much for “Thou shalt not kill”
Before this goes on forever, and I
Extrapolate on all of the reality we made up
Will close with some George Carlin
“We made them both up.
Sanctity of life and the death penalty.
Aren’t we versatile?”
“My solipsistic worldview
Does not allow me to see
What may be real reality.”
– Angelo Devlin
* money
Made up of 0’s and 1’s
Not 1 through 9 rather
A digitized code on a computer
Telling each other how much
Magical made up money they
“Have” ……..Bwahahaha
Made up by banks and “reserves”
Reserves……..Bwahahaha
Figments of a collective creation
To nurture greed and consumption
“For an economy, that is
Fake in the first place” – Bill Hicks
If you think your money “exists”
Why can’t you “take it” with “you”
When you “go”
I’m just asking for eight billion friends
Make that 126 billion friends and counting
Via numbers…..that “we” …..made up
Looking at the world through a windshield. 