The centralization of power
Leads to the
Dehumanization of people
Sacrificing one’s own
Autonomy and spirit
To the soul grinding gears
Of the machine
It is not what
The “They” ‘s want
It is what occurs
When “We” let
Our guard down
Trusting a system
That excludes intuition
Sanity and self realization
Not listening in fool / full
Or in part to
The wisdom of
Our collective heart
One that knows
We are all one
All one consciousness
Which includes everything
Before and after infinity
Individual sparks of divinity
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“Machines (Or Back To Humans)”
“It’s a Machine’s world
Don’t tell me I ain’t got no soul
When the machines take over
It ain’t no place for rock and roll
They tell me I don’t care
But deep inside I’m just a man
They freeze me they burn me
They squeeze me they stress me
With smoke-blackened pistons of Steel they compress me
But no-one, but no-one, but no-one Can wrest me away
Back to Humans.
We have no disease,
No troubles of mind
No thank you please,
No regard for the time
We never cry, we never retreat
We have no conception
Of love or defeat.
What’s that Machine noise
It’s bytes and megachips for tea
It’s that Machine, boys
With Random Access Memory
Never worry, never mind
Not for money, not for gold.
It’s software it’s hardware
It’s heartbeat is time-share
It’s midwife’s a disk drive
It’s sex-life is quantised
It’s self-perpetuating a parahumanoidarianised.
Back to Humans
Back to Humans.
Back to Machines.
Living in a new world
Thinking in the past
Living in a new world
How you gonna last
Machine world…
It’s a Machine’s world…
Change.
Back to Humans”
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– Queen
It is not that machines dehumanize
(Another clever clichéd scapegoat)
It is that the machine dehumanizes
By the way, just a heads up
There is no natural law
Preventing leaders
From stepping up
To do the right thing
It is just that it is
Buried so deep in
Our consciousness
That one thinks they
Have to be elected
To lead
When all that leads to
Is someone promising
That they can lead
Well #uck I could do that
I choose not to, for as much
As I wish not to be lead
The last thing I would want
Is for anyone to follow me
My path, albeit a tad arrogant
Yet probably more gentle than most
Is for me by thinking for me
Choosing a morality for me
One that says be kind to everybody
Regardless race religion geography
Height width gender or wealth
Not one described in a book
That is filled from cover to cover
With impossible contradictions
Murder illegal lest it’s filialcidal
The worst of any possible example
Commanding thou shalt not kill
Then standing behind oh yeah
An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth
Nor adhering to the “Rule of law”
Which seems to favor wealthy
Cash flush connected caucasians
Who if they have enough and
Know the right other pink people
Can actually get away with murder
Usually at the taxpayer’s expense
There is another reason I don’t lead
I get sidetracked too easily having
Started with a perspective on leadership
Then picking on religion and gov’t
As examples of do what I say
Not what I do kind of leadership
“Excited but scary to
Believe what we’ve become
Saints and sinners
Something within us
We are lord of the flies
Saints and sinners
Something willing us
To be lord of the flies”
– Iron Maiden
From “Lord of the flies”
Not really though
As I’m staying home
Except when being “essential”
A nice euphemism
For “expendable”
Anyway, that is for another post
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Am I sketching a tall rock formation
Am I playing with mashed potatoes
Am I throwing dirt in the kitchen
Noooooo
Even though the livestock are down
And the tell tale birds have fallen
The helicopters are approaching
Trying to gas me into a deep sleep
I am ducking, dodging and climbing
Drawn to a light like a moth in darkness
Not in the hope aliens will take me home
Rather just knowing if we keep going
Understand this is a new chance in evolving
To search deep inside, for what is missing
What may actually happen, when not consuming
Might really find out, what on earth we’re doing
In keeping it between just us
Has nothing to do with a virus
Rather how we learn to treat people
Not congregating under a steeple
Inside a Mosque or again’ a wailing wall
Knowing it is all for one and one for all
.
“Take care of yourself and take care of somebody else.”
– George Carlin
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“I can almost see it
That dream I’m dreaming
But there’s a voice inside my head sayin’
“You’ll never reach it”
Every step I’m takin’
Every move I make feels lost with no direction
My faith is shakin’
But I, I gotta keep tryin’
Gotta keep my head held high
There’s always gonna be another mountain
I’m always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be an uphill battle
Sometimes I’m gonna have to lose
Ain’t about how fast I get there
Ain’t about what’s waitin’ on the other side
It’s the climb
The struggles I’m facing
The chances I’m taking
Sometimes might knock me down
But no, I’m not breaking
I may not know it
But these are the moments
That I’m gonna remember most, yeah
Just gotta keep goin’
And I, I gotta be strong
Just keep pushing on”
– Miley Cyrus
From “The Climb”
Yes, I am going to crowbar in Imagine
Any chance I get, so here it is again.
“Imagine”
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… You…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
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… You…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one”
– John Lennon
Finally a plan to allow
Everyone to anonymously
Vote safely from home
Regardless of race
Party affiliation or district
No return postage necessary
As the next official ballot
Will be printed on toilet paper
Which can be sent with one flush
To the local sewage treatment pond
To join the rest of the turds
Where divers will determine
The fair outcome as they see shit fit
Seems it would be the best we
Can hope for in this septic system
Oh 💩 poop
Just realized very few
People will be excluded
In this master plan
Those on each end
Of the age spectrum
For they will be in diapers
And probably shouldn’t
Vote anyway
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“You wear a mask for so long,
You forget who you were beneath it.”
Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
.
Who would have thunk
That the “Masks” that
People are already wearing
Would not protect them
.
How many more layers
Can one layer on before
One’s being is protected
Behind all of the masks
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“I am the modren man
(secret secret I’ve got a secret)
Who hides behind a mask
(secret secret I’ve got a secret)
So no one else can see
(secret secret I’ve got a secret)
My true identity
//
The time has come at last
(secret secret I’ve got a secret)
To throw away this mask
(secret secret I’ve got a secret)
Now everyone can see
(secret secret I’ve got a secret)
My true identity…
I’m Kilroy! Kilroy! Kilroy! Kilroy!”
From
“Mr. Roboto”
– Styx
Depending on where they’re placed
Recently read a highway reader board
(Leave it to the gov’t to distract your driving)
It read.
In glowing amber
“Be smart
Do your part
Stay six feet apart”
(Sounds as bad as my simple rhymes)
All well and good
However, where
It is located
Suggests the unsafe
Practice of tailgating
.
Just an observation
Maybe I need different glasses
.
I liked the one
In an adjacent state
That read…..
“FOLLOW ORDERS
STAY @ HOME”
Whew…..
.
That lasted for about one night
Seeing as how it is in a state
That has a tendency to foster
A few faux macho manhood
Anti government militias
It quickly got gentled up to
“Make sure you
Wash your hands”
Recently listened to the audiobook “The Operator”
(Firing the Shots that Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior)
by Robert O’Neill
Not really the genre I’d listen to, however it was prominently displayed at the local library.
(Why not, I have 9 hours to kill each night)
Read by the author
Very well, I might add, giving the kind of vocal inflections that capture the essence of many various experiences.
Builds on his growing up in a small town recollections and reflections. On to seemingly detailed accounts of various military training.
Waxing eloquent, crescendoing to the main event, like if it were a movie, you could almost hear the orchestra music.
But like any climax, especially the ones, brought on by self. There is the head bowed contemplation, if that was really necessary.
Wonder if the following ever occurs to Robert? Of confessing to murder in print and implicating his boss, who “ordered” the hit in the first place.
That maybe, in hindsight, an out of the womb, grown fetus in a bunker did not impose an immediate threat, therefore making it unconstitutional.
Which in hearing the voice that relays this story, took on a reticent melancholy tone and no more hoo-haas, that preceded in the previous chapters.
Having also broken the “unwritten” code of taking credit as an individual, for what the whole “team” “accomplished”, distancing himself from his comrades.
I guess when the fever pitch of the previous administration, failed to kill the bogeymen that allegedly masterminded the (inside job) attacks on merikkka.
It was sustained in some hearts and smaller minds that retribution was a necessary means of soul cleansing to heal an open wound.
Which led to the bravado bragging of his / Seal Team # ? / Obama’s / American taxpayer’s kill.
While Robert may have been celebrated, receiving momentary and monetary accolades, am guessing in the end, there will be no karmic reward.
Just an observation
Maybe I need different glasses.
What do you get for a person
Who performs abortions?
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Not sure what they do
In the medical field
But in the military
They usually dole out……..
.
Medals
@ Ceremonies
With press coverage
.
Honoring what society
Allegedly despises
The killing of fetuses
Albeit grown ones
Out of the womb ones
Still the ones that
Once were fetuses
.
Corporate coerced
Military discounts
Parades, statues
Front of line access
Movies glorifying
Book deals detailing
Memorial buildings
Highways and parks
Dedicated to those
.
With that soul defining
Moral code of….
Just following orders
.
You know
Doing what they’re told
By a “superior”
Who “outranks” them
While getting paid
By the taxpayer
With death dollars
.
And still the collective
Wonders why we can’t
Stop pre or post natal abortions
Oh yeah
.
“Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.”
– George Carlin
Who although described as
Protecting your “freedoms”
Are tyrannically propagating
A consumptive lifestyle by
Strong arming control and access
Over global resources with the
Blank check from your tax dollars
By any means necessary which
Include killing noncombatants
Of all ages referred to as
Collateral damage……ooopsie
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“What matters, is that if you believe in the sanctity of life, then you believe it, for life of all ages.
//
You either love all people of all ages or you shut the fuck up.”
– Bill Hicks
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Maybe I just don’t understand
Why condoning one form is okay but
Condemning the other form, not okay
Seems to me, that is like wearing
Leather shoes and a fur coat
To a PETA rally, sure it’s comfortable
But it completely misses the point
.
“These people call themselves “right to lifers.” Don’t you love that phrase? And don’t you love the way these kind of people pervert the English language?
You realize that most of the right-to-lifers are in favor of the DEATH penalty? And they support the South American DEATH squads.
And they’re against gun control and they’re against nuclear weapons control.
When they say “right to life,” they’re talking about THEIR right to decide which people should live or die.”
– George Carlin
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Just an observation
Maybe I need different glasses.
The needle has long since
Worn out the vinyl groove
On that broken record cliche
Not so you would notice
As authority keeps playing it
To the deaf and to the right
Seemingly one in the same
Three sequenced words
Over and over again like a
Mindless mantra manipulating
The masses into malleable mush
Ironically giving up individual
Ones to the collective none
Why? Because it sounds good
Protecting freedom…..WOW whee!
That would be no small task
.
Free
3a: not determined by anything
beyond its own nature or being
: choosing or capable of choosing for itself
– m-w.com
Just not sure how protecting your freedom can get accomplished with weaponry, blood spilt or camera’s monitoring and no action taken.
Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.
Through any tragedy
A group arises to the top
And yes certainly the
Health care professionals
Are deserving everyone’s praise
No doubt, I could not do
What they are doing
The extremely long hours
The daily risk of death
The sheer emotional exhaustion
Before or after Covid-19
Still tragedy or no tragedy
The ones who never get recognized
The people at the core
Of making life / existence possible
So that every group gets
Their day in the sun are all of the
Farmers and ranchers
Loggers, miners and drillers
Nothing happens without them
Nothing no food no buildings
No heat or cool, no roads or light
No communication, no connection
Everything everyone gets to do
Starts with those five groups
So here’s my little shout out
Thanks, am very grateful
You are the unsung heroes
Looking at the world through a windshield. 