Universal Discredit

Men have always deceived themselves
about sex, sexuality, and sensuality
-both their own and everyone else's.

If the confusion were just their own
it would matter less than it does,
but as it is, the history of patriarchy
makes the confusion a problem for everyone.

What the older man never tells the younger,
who they are meant to instruct
about their own (shared) sexual nature
and about what women half-expect
keeps on not getting passed on.

There is a life beyond failing wisdom,
and religious faiths that remove curiosity
and put ignorance and dogma in it's place.
But finding it requires.....



  

Are You Bored With Boredom?

Depending on whose boredom it is
this may, or may not be, a good thing.

If it is other people being boring
then you will be frustrated
at their disengagement and alienation.

If it is your own boredom
that knowingly disengages you,
then you might have reached
that tipping point with it
-where what is about to happen
next is that new interests
are about to brought to light.   

Moonwatch

I too have taken delight
in my photographs of the moon,
as it appeared to interact
around man-made structures,
until I realised all too soon;
I had taken too many pictures.

It took a while longer to reason
why too much was too much.
But eventually it became clear to me.

We know much less about the stars
because we see them much less clearly
than previously; the lights of the city
pollute our viewing of the night sky.

With our ignorance of the stars
the moon seems brighter in the night sky,
and we settle for that instead of cursing
the excess of street light that destroy our view.

When the light that pollutes our view
reflects off the moon, we blindly accept
not seeing the stars, and don't miss them.
   

Newstalgia

is what happens when what passes for news
is not new at all, but reports of human behaviour
that is so deeply ingrained that the human beings
who do it, and those that listen to the reports,
have lost their recollection of hearing before.

Humour Is The Best Medicine

I listen to news bulletins quite a lot.
When the news is bad, repetitive,
and about events I cannot change or stop
I listen with lowered concentration.
Given how hard the content is to process
the bulletins are depressing all ways round.

But I marvel at the comedy shows
that use the scalpel of sharp humour
to dissect the news for me, they reveal so much
that the formal repetitions in the bulletins obscure,
with an elegance and grace that makes listen afresh.
  

Off The Ground

When life is politically incorrect
then P.C. speech does not merely misrepresent
how people live, in the interests of false optimism,
it is an aspiration so rigidly Utopian that it's users
have left the ground that was once under their feet.

Picture Set Of The Month-Textiles

Lena Meyer-Bergner (1906-81) was a textiles designer

She was considered a key member of the Bauhaus movement  

She worked in the Soviet Union and Mexico
after ten years of working in Germany.

In Mexico her work was not just in fabric and design,
she also engaged in anti-fascist politics here is a profile of her.