Selective Viewing

The bigger the picture
the more ugliness it contains
-that is if it is balanced-
which dictates how much
we don't want see any of it
for fear of being overwhelmed.  

More And Less

The more I understand 'politics'
the less I wish I understood it,
and instead I could find a distance
where what I can no longer avoid feels safer.

Satire helps, but in the end no distance
from The News ever seems safe enough.  

Paradox Drive

The emptier the rhetoric, the further it travels
and the less it means, until it becomes 'post modern'.
Or fake news for the careless and unenlightened.

Phyrric Gestures

Is there such a thing as wise militarism?
I have pondered this a lot after hearing about
the wealthiest country in the world [the USA]
training the army of a dirt poor country [Iraq]
in how to use technologically advanced weapons,
weapons which then changed sides as said army
prove disloyal to their government, for being unpaid,
poorly trained and undisciplined.
Their retreat and disbursement
in the face of an admittedly ferocious enemy
is something we only hear about only distantly,
but repeatedly. As a vassal state to the USA
The UK's main response is a discreet military support,
and a well broadcast, but quite late, 'humanitarian aid'
which is sufficient to keep those caught in the conflict
alive, but also keep them far enough away from us
for them to not want to visit us and ask for refuge.