Burned!

This blog has been faltering of late,
more new entries have been based
on anniversaries and birthdays
than has been the case in the past.

This reliance on nostalgia
for the recent past  has been
my only way of navigating
how appalling and predictable
'the news' has become.

So many criminals don't get caught,
and those that face the courts
get let off lightly. Leaders loot
the countries they meant to lead,
and undermine their opposition.

Living longer and healthier
does not mean living better
it means seeing more abuse. 

The best thing to do is live cheaply
and put less store by social status
and more store that nature
will benignly do away with us all.    

When The Medium Is The Massage

In the Democracy of the blind
the Vote is king and The Media is their minister;
there is no further need for government or messenger.
Nor if the massage is constant is further effort
required for people to vote more than how they are told to.
When the media massages the populous hard enough
they assume the role of upholders of democracy
by raising up voters of reduced opinion.
When a blind democracy fails what is the CPR that revives it?
Oligarchy? Then the message is much less what it seems to be.
But it reads 'Beware....'