Previously posted on my Facebook Page.
Old or old school writers are good. I just write and write and write. Read me or you don't. I don't need to argue with people about whatever I wrote. Or be concerned that only a handful or 4 friends read me. I evolved as a writer/journalist at a time when we simply wrote and submitted the copy, done. We didn’t discuss a report or article with 55 people all at the same time, LOL! Arguments to defend stuff are for lawyers. They get paid for those. Writers get paid for writing, that’s all. 🗣👀✍️
Seldom do we hear songs with poetic depth anymore. I grew up enjoying rock/folk music as I intently listened to the words. Pored over the lyrics and learned life. Many songs by Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Paul Simon were written even before they were 20. These days most lyrics are bankrupt of creativity. Google how many “F--- Y—” hit songs are sung by kids. There’s even a song about “f------ a dog.” And grownups with 12 year old brains think these songs are cool. 🎹🎸🎼
As we remember the sublime wisdom and endearing glory of the past, we also remember the wicked acts and visual horror. We smell the cadaver stench of memory; we hear the cries of pain in the dead of a quiet night. They persist. Yet we are still here, alive. Without thoughts of the ugliness of yesterday, hard to appreciate the beauty of today. So we cling to intermittent rays of hope and enjoy the little blessings as they come. Life is what it is. We live it. ☮️💝☯️
Reading through my Homepage, it continually annoys me that other peoples on earth beyond white, white west are viewed as illiterate, clueless, and dumb. Either you are automatically dismissed as “Shut up!” or told “…You don’t know anything about America” or unceremoniously ignored (sic) outright. Not referring to Left or Right, Liberal et al or Conservative. People per se. Don’t geniuses know that this is the 21st century? BTS isn't a Bacon Taco Sandwich. Google it! LOL! 😒🤨🤪
We are contradictions. All a matter of how the world out there responds to our “insanity.” Good or bad. Good, I hope. I love people but I don’t “like” people. I anchored my “rock journeys and sublime madnesses” with meeting diverse personages as a journalist, founded organizations, and organized events for communities. But I prefer to watch from backstage or be alone after the show. Very low tolerance when strangers poke at me. Leave me alone, okay? LOL! ?☮️👉
Business. Streaming TV? Amazon Freevee? The tech giant always got smart sales trickery. Hulu and AppleTV have theirs as well. Not so much on Netflix. Yet that is Business 101. Market economics per consumer demographic. Trade’s deduction is an exponential spike in profit. A company that doesn’t up the revenue scale is “losing.” Abortion tempest? News: “Abortion Pills Take the Spotlight as States Impose Abortion Bans.” Drug titans will never be left behind. Yup. 🗣👀✍️
As a boy, I was a huge fan of “Combat!” and cowboys and Indians movies. Yet I evolved as a virulent anti-war activist. I may discuss other issues with parallel intensity but when it comes to war, it is unconditional thumbs-down. Hence, leaderships that pull troops out of war and governments that nix NATO and don’t allot military budget over gut needs like health, housing, and food? My respect. I don’t care about cool or uncool Potuses. No war? You are awesome!☯️💝☮️
The current U.S. tempest? No opinion. I was born and evolved in a galaxy so far away at a time when the islands were hell to America’s heaven. Economic dump, countryside war, EJKs, killer typhoons. Yet we found moments of community coolness amidst gargantuan gloom. Still the same, I am. I savor the blessings of North Carolina. But my howls of dissent are loudest on gut issues such as end of wars, mass shootings, and 8.6 percent inflation. All the rest are just stuff.☯️💝☮️
Sad that major political issues, national or international, are discoursed as per partisanship fire or Left vs Right, Democrat vs Republican. Not as Issues per se. Yet the truth is party principles and ideological paradigms—and their propagators and politicians—change the playbook and alter the strategy all the time. They jump ship, jump out, jump wherever per power-base convenience. Yes, Abraham Lincoln was Republican; Andrew Jackson was Democrat. Etcetera.
Abe Lincoln ended slavery and created the possibility of civil and social freedom for African-Americans. But he was also criticized for his “…aggressive handling of the Civil War, his assaults on civil liberties and his aggrandizing of the federal government.” Democratic Party founder Andrew Jackson was the only Potus who led with no national debt and supported individual liberty. But he also instituted policies that resulted in the forced migration of Native Americans. 👈🗽👉
Religious extremism ignited wars. Yet armed hostilities subsided when compromises ensued for peaceful coexistence. King Cnut was King of the North Sea Empire (England, Denmark, Norway) from 1016 to his death in 1035. Till all 3 kingdoms evolved as individual nations. These days, extremism is mostly political. Partisans are now The Zealots. Fanatics. Yet both political extremes are ruled by 1 power. Left vs Right begets “Divide and Rule.” Profit gods win.☯️💝☮️
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