Self Fulfilling Prophesy

is nowadays less to do with prophesy
and more about the self fulfillment
of the media pundit using the phrase,
who likes to be right
about the not-so-obvious in the near future.

True prophesy is about more
than predicting the new disguise
life will take on with the nearness
of changes in law and technology.

The contrariness of true prophets
is that they live so far beyond the obvious
that although they are right, they half invite
being misunderstood, until it is too late to listen.

The Word 'Scientist'

was coined in 1834, by the British Scientific Association,
and coined in fear of it's nearness to the word 'Atheist'.
Since then science has been so brilliant at solving small problems
through an intensity of effort that it belies the generality
of human apathy and myopia.

Where science remains truer to human sloth and evasion
is that the harder it hounds the bigger questions
about the history of life on Earth, the more science
makes it seem like we are at a party and are the last to arrive,
long after many other guests have already left.
And our arrival hastened their departure.
The harder science seeks big answers to the bigger
questions the more it makes myopia look reasonable.

Facebook-

the lifestyle addition
to a life that creates
an infinite capacity
for collective solipsism
that is ultimately
about avoidance.

Half-Sightedness

'An for an eye only leads to more blindness'-Margaret Atwood

It Takes Two To Listen

-one to the other and back again.
It takes two to stop listening, unawares
they are doing so, for trying to think
what to say next, and after that
to talk over each others thoughts.

It takes two to cast blame,
one to cast the blame, the other
to have the blame cast upon them.
It takes two to stop, separate and reset
their positions, gift each other the space
that will allow both of them to start again.

500 years

of the enlightenment project has created a Western World
with a bewildering variety of creeds, governments, and constitutions.
Many new religions and dependencies too, as identities splinter.
Most of all we revere new technologies for the good they do,
the short term ease they bring us, though the we fail to see
the line between reverence and blind worship until we cross it.

Nowhere are these changes more apparent
than in the way that we have reduced the awareness
required for mutual forgiveness, and the power of same,
to level of cognition of the contents the toilet bowl
before we press the handle of a flush toilet.
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Poor Willie

On his 75th birthday
Willie Nelson ruefully said
'I have outlived my pecker',
but I hope his sense of humour
grace and intelligence survive-
whatever a man douses with
he will survive better
for having something to seek,
and the right tools to seek with.