The Siren Call For Smaller Government

is an easy call for political leaders to make,
particularly the are leaders whose income
comes from scams that are supported
by lax laws, and broken regulations,
that the public find it hard to ask how to fix.

The leaders' wealth relies upon such informal deregulation.

But when citizens get interested in what size the state should be
and the list of public interests and regulations the state should support,
that are worth retaining to make the future sustainable.

Let the public pose the questions in open media,
and hold their leaders feet to the fire,
to find out what sort of clay those leaders feet are made of.  

The Terrorist President

The more I am led to youtube videos that report
on the latest battle Donold Trump has with the courts
the more I try to avoid them, less for the click bait
(which they are) and less and less because they are repeats
of repeats of the same narrative: hyper wealthy man,
incontinent on hos own wealth decided to by the presidency
because technically it is one thing that should not be up for sale. 

More because of how much Trump's view of the law
reminds me of the IRA's view of M. Thatcher:
you and your government can make us fail many times
but we have to be on target only once for your government
to be radically forced to change tack, whilst in office. 

That the bombs stopped and wiser quieter heads prevailed
was a tough gradual, slow, reform that I am glad of.
I see no such detant reducing Donald Trump's war on the law
or pursuit of infinite wealth at the expense of everyone around him.         

Respite Wanted

How does a wounded heart
escape further self wounding
from pride for turning inward
whilst it looks out, around it,
for where it shoiuld find respite? 

Watch This Vast Distance

A classic vintnage Iranian rug
as might ber available today
  if you live in the right country.  

  As Iran and the USA both threaten each other, and seek to avoid being the one to start open conflict in their statements, whilst each applies public pressure on the other. I can't help but think that the USA is going to look like the loser. However much both sides pressure their presumed allies to fall in line behind them in new trade arrangements it can only extend the present new world disorder, as it has evolved since the end of the cold war, which ended thirty five years ago with the end of the Soviet Union.

   Where any of this goes next is hard to say. But I am convinced that the USA is on a hiding to nothing as it makes its public statememts. Iran was part of an empire so many millenia before American independence it makes the USA seem like it is barely out of nappies and into short trousers by comparison. 

 Not that I admire the modern human rights record of Muslim Iran, which I see as in a continued stalled revolutionary state, like Communism in the USSR. In both if it was not for export it was not  going to going anywhere, not even internally, when the exports stopped.

All I will say is 'watch this space' as two empires with stalled values who are based in differnt continents confront each other at so great a distance with such different language that words from one leader to the other will take far longer to reach their target than any arms they have to lob.    

Wildlife Special

Masked Trogon, San Isidro, Eastern Equador.

 

Creatively Unwaged

I am glad for all who read these blogs
that I naver have to say to any of them
'like, subscribe, or follow me',
though the latter is a choice for whoever
feels led that way. Whoever reads these blogs,
no money rides on what they read. No money
is directed towards me, though the shareholders
of Alhpabet Inc who own all this, and much besides,
would get their fair share of profit from what I write.

Whether you are reader, or like me, a writer
- I give thanks to all the creatively unwaged,
as a close friend described the unemployed
who employers would not touch with a bargepole.

We are all looking for the words that describe
the world we rely on, as we live out our days and being.

America First?

I was made well aware when I was grwing up
that there were long histories of boom and bust
behind me. Whilst my parents lived in the hope,
against hope, that they, and by extension I, would see,
and recognise the next downward cycle long before it hit,
so we would reposition outselves to get the right side of it. 

It was not to be. I needed to live through several economic troughs
before recognising that I was born in an eonomic trough and I did not
recognise it until I'd seen many. I don't partucularly rue the folly
of the family I was raised by, but remembering them, as the times
prompt me, make me anxious and watchful. 

I now see present day America from my own particular vantage  point.
I have to ask 'When will America realise that the time is coming
faster than it realises, when as an empire it will it will reap the fruits 
of puttting the rest of the wolrd last, whilst putting itself first so often?'