Indoctrination

Science is never settled. That's kinda the whole point of science. 

If it were absolute truth, it wouldn't be science, it would be religion instead.

Forcing it down someone's throat doesn't make it any easier to swallow.

Swallow This

 If the goal is to change someone else's beliefs, opinion, position, or actions, what you are dealing isn't "facts" but brainwash, by definition (look it up).

...

With that in mind, are you still surprised by their immediate knee-jerk rejection of the information you are so (not) helpfully providing?

Friendstacy comments on Authoritarian Rule

 i'm not trying to change your mind. how could you possibly agree with my point of view, with it being so different than yours? but I am very grateful for the opportunity to discuss these things. the way I see it, dominance is aggression, aggression is violence even if it's not physically injurious (but there's always that threat of physical injury, isn't there?) If you have a chain of command, with some people above other people, you have rule based upon authority. the very organization of society into heirarchies of command is what makes it authoritarian. we have to start there, at the foundation upon which sits all the premises that attempt to prove freedom invalid.

You betta you betta you bet

 

Saturday, January 9, 2021

it's not just the last four years
it's the last 400 years
denial got us where we are today
the warning signs were always there
it's time now to stop ignoring it
stop making excuses for it
and finally put it to an end

January 8, 2021

it's okay to change your mind
you don't even have to admit 
that maybe you were wrong

if nobody ever learned anything new
we'd still be eating uncooked rabbits
that we strangled with our own hands

January 7, 2021

my heart hurts so much right now
i don't know what happened yesterday
the president incited a riot
and the rioters were allowed
to storm the capital building
how does this even happen?

"not all trump supporters"
just doesn't cut it 
"not all men" are rapists
and not all of hitler's supporters
wanted to kill jewish people
but that's not the point.
you have aligned yourself
with violent racist nationalists
(there is no denying that anymore, either)
who can't let go of the mentality
that says "might makes right" 
now you have to call them out
because the whole world
thinks you are just as bad as they are
can we burn that stupid red hat
or will we let this tear our family apart
the same way it's tearing our country apart?
because in the end, we all have to live together
and figure out a way to get along

reruns

you didn't really want to hear what i think,

you just wanted to tell me i'm wrong

so crawl

back into your box

your deep dark hole

where you feel safe

where even the very idea

of freedom is banned

not allowed a voice

and cutting down trees

is called progress

because you can make

more boxes with them

so nobody is free, ever

and you can tell yourself

it's for their own good

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

not okay

telling people to vote for the lesser of two evils 

is like telling a pregnant woman to marry 

the psychologically abusive alcoholic, 

because, "at least he doesn't hit you."

using guilt trips and threats to make them do it

is just more psychological abuse.

that is not how we heal.

heal yourself first,

don't do it for you, 

do it for the babies

do we want them growing up

thinking this is okay?

because, trolls

...the issue is that a man is only as good as his word, and our government has made breaking their word official policy. this must be addressed. nobody is talking about taking anything away from the conquerors, only that they make good on their promises. if the treaties signed by representatives of the government are meaningless, we must also question their claim to authority. are these the kind of people we want making laws and deciding for us what is right and what is wrong?

what kind of government tear gasses their own citizens? do they not serve us? we know who they serve, and it's not us.

RIP

sometimes it seems
like the only reason
magic johnson is still alive
and my dad isn't
is because magic johnson
hasn't run out of money yet
is life not a human right?
or is it a privilege instead
offered to some, but not all?
and who gets to decide
who lives and who dies?

SMOKE AND MIRRORS

we can't think outside that box
if we don't know it's there

new poetry but still the same old same old

just for shits and giggles
what if the people who vote for the other guy
when you think you are voting for the lesser evil
think they are doing the same?
look past the fear and what do you see?

********

i don't drink,
but i don't go around
telling everybody else not to drink.
that's not my decision to make.

does self-destructive behavior
have a tendency to hurt others?
yeah, sure it does.
(probably a lot more than not wearing a mask)
it's still not my decision to make.

fear frozen heart

you reap what you sow
spineless coward
masturbate with words
and call it poetry
blame somebody
some thing
anybody else
oh so pitiful
chickenshit
fraidy cat
it was up to you
all along
fear frozen heart
pining for warmth
steely eyes
soldered shut
neglecting the light
bitch and moan
why dontcha
abandoned in darkness
of your own design

(july 17, 2014)

violence and denial

the threats and punishments system of law making and law enforcement to control people's behavior is violence by definition. so there's already that disconnect.

and if something like 65% of cops are violent towards their spouses, how can we expect any of them to not be violent towards people they perceive to be a threat to the structure of society and a system that places them in a position of authority over others?

so why are we calling on a violent institution of societal control to control the violence that they perpetuate? it doesn't make sense.

what if all the soldiers they send in decide to kneel instead, to protect the citizens instead of waging war on them, like they thought their job was supposed to be when they signed up?

because who really cares if starbucks has to replace a few windows, anyway? how is that more important than people?

more reruns

#reruns

no matter who gets s/elected

to play the role

they are selling us more war

which rich old white guy 

represents me 

or anything i stand for 

or believe in? 

the nazi or the vampire? 

how about none of the above?

untitled

the problem remains that dominant society is still telling all the stories from only their own perspective which comes from a place of status and privilege. we desperately need to listen to other voices telling their own stories. we need to not let dominant society take over every aspect of what songs we hear and how they are sung.

Plato said that Socrates said:

To put it briefly, those in charge must cling to education and see that it isn't corrupted without their noticing it, guarding it against everything. Above all, they must guard as carefully as they can against any innovation in music and poetry or in physical training that is counter to the established order.

- The Republic, Book III, 424b

reruns

May 26, 2013

having never really experienced love
they are incapable of believing in it
but they like the word, and use it a lot
not even knowing what it means


May, 2018

you can't teach kids about peace when the schools' solution to violence is to be the bigger bully. you can't teach kids about freedom by locking them up. you can't expect children who are never allowed to make any decisions to ever learn how to make the right ones. you can't hope for the future in a society that institutionalizes the young. treating children like inmates and criminals has only made things worse. more control will never solve the problems that are created by a profound lack of freedom.

blaming the victims

it is not okay
to wish sickness or death
upon anybody
period.

what you call Karma
God's Will
Divine Justice
Laws of Attraction
Everything Happens For a Reason™
blames the victims instead

nobody deserved any of this

"but since god is good
he can't be the cause
of the bad things that happen
so we have to come up with
something else to blame"
(or something to that effect)
Plato's Republic, Book II, 379c