The roots of our current system where money is the measure of everything can be traced back to Middle Ages. St. Francis saw this coming and refused to take money donations insisting on tangible items - gold and silver coins were the original bitcoins with value really based on shared assumptions not intrinsic usefulness in real life. Interesting history in this essay especially at the end, again showing the deep roots of our current folly and western abuse of other continents besides our own. https://asiatimes.com/2021/10/us-elites-imperial-corruption-compares-to-opium-war/
"Making due" caught my eye. So I looked up "making due and making do" online, where everyone who matters gets their curated information from others who matter. According to the Great Minds of the Internoodle: "making due" was an original form, but it is no longer "acceptable". Its eggcorn "making do" is the proper term now. In all instances. Could that be because "due" has connections to debts owed and externally imposed limits? We're all free and wealthy now. Debts and limits are constructs, nothing to acknowledge or worry about. We, the kings and queens of the Postmodern world, we don't owe anyone anything. Our reality absolves us.
Hard hitting - we, the wealthy influential consumers have destroyed and turned a blind eye to the suffering that we contribute to, but keep at a distance.
When we go among the needy and distressed, perhaps it is only with pity or distain - a desire to escape to our safe plastic havens of technology mixed with a little greenery to make us feel better. Hopefully someone else can deal with these problems in the next generations. Those who scream the loudest aren't changing their lifestyles, so why should we?
I'm a Christian and I'm confronted by the fact that "foxes have holes and birds have nests, but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head" (Matthew 8:20) - yet, I love my home and computer and car. But changing in this strange world - would I be a burden and add to the problem if I got rid of it all? I can't afford to go off the grid or live technology free - still need to work to eat.
Nobody ever wants to stop injecting now do they?
Wow!
A lot of great lines, but 'Spirits scream from dying forests, but they’ll build some low-income housing to make up for it' sums so much up nicely.
The roots of our current system where money is the measure of everything can be traced back to Middle Ages. St. Francis saw this coming and refused to take money donations insisting on tangible items - gold and silver coins were the original bitcoins with value really based on shared assumptions not intrinsic usefulness in real life. Interesting history in this essay especially at the end, again showing the deep roots of our current folly and western abuse of other continents besides our own. https://asiatimes.com/2021/10/us-elites-imperial-corruption-compares-to-opium-war/
Reminds me of another oldie but goodie:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E510Ixbv-BA
“Slaves to incorporation
Hate that excludes no one
Enforced by the laws of deception
Chained to the systematic suppression”
Excellent writing
"Making due" caught my eye. So I looked up "making due and making do" online, where everyone who matters gets their curated information from others who matter. According to the Great Minds of the Internoodle: "making due" was an original form, but it is no longer "acceptable". Its eggcorn "making do" is the proper term now. In all instances. Could that be because "due" has connections to debts owed and externally imposed limits? We're all free and wealthy now. Debts and limits are constructs, nothing to acknowledge or worry about. We, the kings and queens of the Postmodern world, we don't owe anyone anything. Our reality absolves us.
I love this and, sadly, it still rings so true. We're all addicts of some kind or another. All tangled up in webs of addiction and distraction.
Top notch!
Another awesome and accurate post Thanks Rhyd
Hard hitting - we, the wealthy influential consumers have destroyed and turned a blind eye to the suffering that we contribute to, but keep at a distance.
When we go among the needy and distressed, perhaps it is only with pity or distain - a desire to escape to our safe plastic havens of technology mixed with a little greenery to make us feel better. Hopefully someone else can deal with these problems in the next generations. Those who scream the loudest aren't changing their lifestyles, so why should we?
I'm a Christian and I'm confronted by the fact that "foxes have holes and birds have nests, but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head" (Matthew 8:20) - yet, I love my home and computer and car. But changing in this strange world - would I be a burden and add to the problem if I got rid of it all? I can't afford to go off the grid or live technology free - still need to work to eat.
I'm still stuck at, where do we go from here?