Pat Answers To Difficult Problems

Since patriarchy is the power behind patriotism,
and war is what secures the power of nation states,
what notion of a nation should a matriarchy uphold? 

Whatever it might be,
and there will be several,
myths about conflict
remain the best way
of describing it.
Though technology
will be what creates
the new stalemates
between nation states.

The Paradoxes Of Being An Anti-Natalist

We are never one of a few, but among many.
This is the first paradox - that we are
too many wishing were a few, the better
to boost the life chances of other species,
and limit the ruin of the planet for profit.

As anti-natalists our contentment comes
from causes other than population reduction
through refusing to breed, and these means
often arrive through almost hermit like detachment.
Being seen as anti-social by most of society
is normal. But equally our malcontent
finds accord with other anti-society sentiment;
that is a second paradox we are enriched by.

It takes graft to work out a belief,
where you work for less for yourself
-this is the third paradox. In normal society
the natural corollary of wanting less
for others is always to greed for the self.
This belief reached it's height with rationing
where the millions made their humbug patriotic,
and bullied each other for Britain for as long
as the memory of war permitted,
in some instances right thorugh the 1980s.
This disguised competitiveness
renews itself in each generation.
Today it goes by the name of being anti-immigration.

Anti-natalists are better than that.
They want less for themselves,
so that others can want less too,
out of wholesale thrift and altruism.
Their greatest gift to society
is the drive to not have children
which is the blessing that society spurns.

Impersonal Problems

are the sort we prefer to have,
 for the social status they give us
and how much we can leave
other people to sort them out.

Apanthropinization

So that is why I find asking for less, less beauty for the hope even less ugliness, attractive. 

Domestic Heresies(4)

'Expectations are dangerous
when they are both high and unformed'-
'We Need To Talk About Kevin' Lionel Shriver

Attention!

'Anyone who is not self disciplined
will soon be disciplined by other people'
-Frederich Nietzsche

Essay Ahoy

I very rarely comment here
on aspects of popular music.
It does not need input but here
is a short essay I wrote recently
about the life of Syd Barret
when he lead Pink Floyd.
It is published online by a news
and appreciation site for the band.
Thank you Matt
for accepting my small contribution.