There Is No End
To the conversations
We could be having
Regarding Society’s
Ills and foibles
To put it mildly
Around those
In power for the sake
Of exercising power
Against the bourgeoisie
Plus the proletariot
While most individuals
Know (of) their exploitation
Can not muster either
A defense or attack to
Eliminate the unbalance
For it only takes the one
Tiniest shiny apple * or
Hyperbolic distraction
To lose formidable focus
Of demanding divinity
Kind of exactly like
“The same way we use sports and television in this country, to distract people and take their minds off how bad they’re being fucked by the upper one percent.”
– George Carlin
Unfortunately there is
No beginning either of
The conversations
We could be having
Because the mindless
Manipulations of medias
Keep everyone screened to
Their distraction devices
When not watching sports
Drinking beer and fantasizing
About being on the team
Since, it is “their” own team
Or being trolled by bots
Surfacing at “random”
Extracting empty opinions
On topics that no one
Has any expertise about
Save ego satisfaction
It must know…..because
It can regurgitate responses
Via Pavlovian triggers
Knowing it irritates their ire
Like a doctor tapping on
A knee bone for a jerk
“That’s the way the ruling class operates in any society. They try to divide the rest of the people. They keep the lower and the middle classes fighting with each other so that they, the rich, can run off with all the fucking money!
Fairly simple thing. Happens to work. You know? Anything different–that’s what they’re gonna talk about–race, religion, ethnic and national background, jobs, income, education, social status, sexuality, anything they can do to keep us fighting with each other, so that they can keep going to the bank!”
– George Carlin
“Humanity” is not very pretty
When it sees itself
In a collective mirror.”
– Angelo Devlin
*
“All That You Have Is Your Soul”
“Oh my mama told me
‘Cause she say she learned the hard way
Say she wanna spare the children
She say don’t give or sell your soul away
‘Cause all that you have is your soul
Don’t be tempted by the shiny apple
Don’t you eat of a bitter fruit
Hunger only for a taste of justice
Hunger only for a world of truth
‘Cause all that you have is your soul
//
I thought that I could find a way
To beat the system
To make a deal and have no debts to pay
I’d take it all take it all I’d run away
Me for myself first class and first rate
But all that you have is your soul
Here I am waiting for a better day
A second chance
A little luck to come my way
A hope to dream a hope that I can sleep again
And wake in the world with a clear conscience and clean hands
‘Cause all that you have is your soul
All that you have
All that you have
All that you have Is your soul”
– Tracy Chapman
Looking at the world through a windshield. 
Spectacular perspective. If only we could remember to let the world’s ills and theatre flow through like Siddartha’s (or Heraclitus’) river… Everything flows.
I heard a cool question today: “when does Now begin?”
Let’s ripple love and peace in our portion of the unending Now and let the kindly waves inspire others to do the same.
Just like you do!
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“Give you an example, there’s a moment coming, it’s not here yet, it’s still on the way, it’s in the future, it hasn’t arrived, here it comes, here it is, oh, shit, it’s gone. There’s no now, there’s no now, everything is the near future or the recent past. But there’s no present. Welcome to the present, whoosh, gone again. It’s just so imprecise.
//
They were trying to teach me how to tell time, and of course, you can’t tell time, time tells you.”
– George Carlin
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