World War Three

Who knew that World War Three was going to start
with the 2014 Russian reclamation of The Crimea
from modern Ukraine, a mere 70 years after
Russians reclaimed all Ukraine from Nazi Germany
who invaded Ukraine between 1941- 1944.
Russia got their third bite at Ukraine from 2022,
where they propaganda/excuse became that they
were seeking to de-Nazify Ukraine, as if they had failed
to de-Nazify Ukraine nearly eighty years before
and had to hide their previous failure.

Now the third world war is being extended as a cyber war
in European air and airport control, and drones that make the skies
unsafe for planes to the point where plans for peacetime civil travel
is getting disrupted, before it gets totally discontinued.

   

Re:Tired

I was tired yesterday
I will be tired tomorrow,
I will be tired the day after.

I am fine with that: I was born tired.
Feeling tired is my proof that I am alive. 

First Family Values

We can measure how much thicker
blood is than water when we compare
how money and power are shared out.

When elections are well regulated,
the ballot is confidential, and changes
of government are both fluid and light,
a peaceable transfer, who complains about that?

Whereas in a kleptocracy that denies how bloody
and thick it's self interest is, whilst the first family decide 
how national and local government decline,
and what sort of media smoke and mirrors
seems right to mis-explain all this to the masses.   

 

It Is A Pleasant Surprise To Me

 

To see how the regimes with the one of the worst human rights records in the world inspires their most creative citizens to make such inventive, and easy to understand, world cinema. Proving that the power of the image, and good editing, are a craft to cherish forever.

Would that other countries too poor and too easily unsettled to have civil rights records that withstood close scrutiny had the history of the creative arts that Iran has, with which to contribute to world culture in spite of their absence of stable laws, and other hallmarks that are the pride of wealthy, more equitable, societies.  

A Question Of Truth

Truth is a necessity, as much as sanity.
Both are in short supply.

What truth should I hold on to today?
To imagine that I am grounded,
from the dazzling array of insanities
that the world, the heavens,
and the expanding mass media,
that offers me as a choice today. 

Perhaps the weather
will look after me better
than most human language.    

What We Can't See And Why It Matters

I have an appreciation of science,
even though it is a subject 
in which I was bad by design
through how I was taught it.

One reason I like my science
is because, absurd as it might be,
it has units of measurement
for things that public can be told about
where they will never see, directly,
the thing in itself. Only it's effect.

Science has built those units of measurement
into it's vocabulary which helps people believe
in what scientists can never directly see,
and yet make seem rational in conversations.

I can't say that holiness and eternity 'don't exist',
nor can I say that whether, if those concepts had units
of measurement more people would place more store by them
than they did before when they believed without measure.

All I know is that in so far as they are known to exist
their existence is defined by how they defy language.   

When Blatancy Is The New Integrity

And what is most on show in the media we know
is a double strength double standard of such blatancy
that it has to be presented as 'the new integrity',
then we can only guess at the size of the lie
before it multiplied, who the liar told first,
and who was made to swallow the lies, after that...

The long chain of command
that chose to accept the task
of vomiting this propaganda
as far around a fractured world 
as a global media could project it.