Here Today, Gone Tomorow

Evolution is a theory that is widely misunderstood
by a public, who misunderstand quite a lot -
because they are constantly talked at and sold things.
But within the scientific community, who define
The Truth of modernity through tests and analysis,
evolution is taken as a fact. I would actively trust
science more if I saw it follow the logic of evolution, itself.
Where genes and other materials mutate and die they help make
new life forms. In their mutability they make new building blocks
for the next stage of an ongoing creation. The uncompetitive death
of one type of matter gives life to another, and without that death
life, which is about change, would stop. The scientific narrative
I prefer would make that the central the premise. Everything
is important only in so far as it serves what comes after it,
which it can't  know about. This includes the scientists themselves.

  ;.

When I Visit Belfast

I expect sporadic dereliction:
on every third terrace a skip full of rubble
and a few collapsing homes.
Urban life involves recycling in such a way
that there must always be more to be done.
As I pass on the bus I am cheered
by fleeting glimpses of crumbling walls
curtained with ivy,
the green patches of abandoned gardens
and the pigeons that perch together
on the crossbeams of hollow houses.

From Stars To Memes,

to cosmologies we keep on making up,
why are we always making the future
the business of something, anything,
as long as it is well beyond ourselves?

The Echo Of Lightning

It is true, I am ungraceful person.....  

The Future Is Always Plastic

As modern design is driven by advertising so it multiplies
and becomes more  plastic. With choice widening we become
immersed in materials which preserve very well, but the designs
for them change, go out of fashion.
When materials were less mutable design changed less.
Whatever rotted recycled itself at a fitting rate.
Items fashioned from older materials have endured,
their design seems to mature, and become objects worth preserving.

In The War On Terror

And it has been that way for a thousand years.
From Abu Ghraib to the Vatican chambers of the middle ages
what the powerful now deny is how cannibalism
is more moral and proportionate than torture.
Generally, when cannibals ate human flesh
it was not out of hunger, but with a sense of  rituals
limited by custom, which implicitly echoed
the animal.origins of human beings in their empathy.

Whereas torturers are the servants of  faith and state elites,
and are the original un-living mentally dead, methodically
trapping random unwary victims in a sickness of  suffering,
the better to make their deadly orthodoxies the only life allowed.

This Is Not my Last Blog

but if it were I feel sure I would know how Thomas Aquinas felt.