Never Mind The Quality Feel The Advertising

So far, I have found no interest
in the widely distributed wares
of the many infomedia platforms 
that stream images everywhere
that are supported by adverts
for companies I have never heard of.
Where I wonder why they pay so much
when with the advert they have no point
of contact with so many who are advertised to.
What good reason do they have to be that ubuitious
whilst being otherwise so competely anonymous?

What I do understand is that the adverts exist
to make the programmes look less like moving wallpaper.  
 

Were You Thinking Of Dropping Out?

It can still be done. Indeed, it is
probably easier in some places
in the world now than it used to be,
though in the midst of diversity
it is harder to be clearer
about what it is sustainable to drop put from.

The approved way of dropping out
used to be getting drunk and forming part
of your local alcohol culture, particularly
polular among maried men who resisted
the full companionship of marriaage.

The disapproved of way to drop out
from the way everyday time was used
- getting money via a job in a factory- 
used to be recreational drugs. But now
both work and drugs have changed,
beyond all recognition. For some dealers,
drugs are both work and pleasure,
and make htem watchful of authority.

The drugs used to be grown naturally, cannabis
and magic mushrooms were the primorose path
to the easier life, supporting the back economy,
where time and profit run on different lines,
and many of the drugs are now synthetic.

The natural drugs were best taken in times
set aside for allowing the changed awareness,
the giggles and the munchies etc that follow
when life seems to be absurdly happily
and nobody at the time know quite why. 

Nowadays the demarcation of a time to drop out
to drop out for a shirt while is more diffficult,
work and leasure intersect in ways that they
never used to. With the 24/7 city-based lives
and our continuous partial attention span,
the drop out life is just not what it used to be.....

Waiting For The World To Resolve Itself

Reading detective fiction is very different
is very different from trying to follow politics
via the running commentaries of the pundits.

What both share is an interest in what makes
readers and followers care about what they follow,
and goads both further, leading them to who did the deed, 
how it was done, and why they did it. With a cast
of engaging side characters who act as collaborators
who aid and abet the lead character on their journey.

Political pundits today have quite the battle
with many world leaders who occupy prime place,
in making their deeds, their wealth, and the way
they lead their country, seems mysterious.

Wrong footing the pundits tracking them,
both when the pundit offers soft ball questions
 that flatter the leader's profile, or when the journalist
finding villainy in the leaders errant accountability,
is easy when the man with power hides how he got it.

It is at times like these that the reliability of fiction,
a good murder story, seems all the more attractive:
the author has a much firmer control of the narrative
than the political pundit who is struggling to discover
where the bodies are buried, and who put them there.
Although the pundit is dealing with real life, and death,
they have a harder time making the reader care
about futures that they can't make any clearer.  

The Dangerous Gods Act

has never been part of international law.

If it were, then I have to ask who would embrace
being seen as the most litigious person to use the act?
And on what grounds, theologicially speaking?
And for what levels of compensation? And last,
but not least, how much are the lawyers going to make?

But we already have enough disreputabe and secretive
international law courts to guide us
as to how such a law might operate.

One of them is the called
The Investor-State-Dispute-Settlement court,
a secretive court that is now in international law
through it being embeded in the small print
of an unknown number of trade deals
between nations, signed over the decades.

There, only the wealthiest private investors
and the biggest trans-national corporations, 
and their lawyers, can contact this secret court,
to sue some community poorer than than their own,
if they have one, for thwarting some major investment
they sought to make, where the population living close
to where the investment was planned have petitioned
their government on grounds that the investment
will destroy habitats that supported life for all, 
or some other ecological, or public health, threat.

The legislation for the ISDS court
could easily be nicknamed
The Dangerous Money Act,
for how unaccountably it defends
the wealthy in the pursuit of ruining other people's back yards.

The United Nations, started in 1948
as an organisation full of victor's hope, and idealism.
By 1959 it had been being undermined from within
by the CIA on manoeuvres. As America pursued
uranium the way it now pursues rare earth metals
but back then the pursuit came fresh after WW2.

Read my review of the documentary film
about that long, sad and sordid episode of history here. 

with which to 'win' the cold war.  it was soon diverted by the Cold War n 1948,
which s

I can imagine it being used
like some international corporate court,
where the corporation   would
t  be the courts that ruled on it

they would be inundated with law suits
between countries where sharp suited lawyers
press law suits where claims are made
'Your country's God damaged my people',
accompanied by unfeasible demands for compensation.

The nearest the world has got to such an act,
and set of courts with punishments,
is The United Nations, an organisation
-started on victors hope and idealism in 1948,
which since 1959 has been being undermined
 consistently by the CIA on manoeuvres
and post WW2 claims on uranium
with which to 'win' the cold war.  

Passsing The Time

Reading a book is a fine way to the pass the day,
perticularly when what we read proves informative,
as is listenng to speech radio when the news cycle
is not saturated with events that are trailed that often
that the viewer can no longer cope with being told
the news story as is finally digested by the news cyle.

What both share is that they address the past,
whether recently or long ago, which we reread
as something to what we once thought it to be,
that gets us as close as we dare place ourselves
towards imagining what the future might be. 

The Slow Decay Of Democracy

will not be noticed when it happens.
Citizens will be far too taken up
by the effusive greetings, flummery
and shiny new statesmanship, before
becoming aghast at how amateurish
and undiplomatic diplomacy has become
for them to notice when the state
they used to support has been subsumed
into being the coterie of male billionaires
who see their wealth and gender
as the qualifier for all future leadership,
when what their wealth actually proves
is how monoplies can de-nature the talent
and vitality of a democratic system
and devalue the vote to make it worth
less than the paper the ballot is written on.

If this has nor happened in your country yet,
then watch for the early signs of it happening.

It is difficult to reverse the process when it takes hold.

Between Despair And Insanity.

When is it right to despar
of the country you live in?
When you can't tell the difference
between the local sewage industry
and campaigns to renew local democracy:
both have heavily broken delivery systems
that leak very badly. Both smell 'off', toxic.

Particularly when the democracy smells of money,
particularly crypto currency, and presents itself
as the kind of near future many people can read
as long as they think it is that future is for somebody
they don't know of, to live out. There the future
is a lengthy science fiction dystopia, or the despair
of a one of the fourt major Old Testsament prophets.

Whoever follows the sense of loss 
has to choose what distance to keep from it,
to preserve their sense of their sanity.