justice ii

justice delayed is
justice frustrated
so hasten the dawn
of infinite redress
the tariff is high,
the dumb face
with its smile
dollar diving
to market turmoil

so right it’s this alternative history novel and its like imagine if during the period circa 2016-2028 the usa elected a delirious reality tv star as president and he had to oversee a whole load of crises, like covid, the third world war, and the invention of killer ai robots. but the whole time the guy is just on the take and like bombing countries and assassinating world leaders just to manipulate the stock market and own the libs. oh yeah and like the far right / nazis are allied with israel for some reason?!

it’s far fetched tbh, wouldn’t recommend.

degenerate cosmopolitan

i’m not jewish but i am a degenerate cosmopolitan
tagging my archive, overwhelmed by the burden of time,
the library extends my being
to a new dimension, my mind fleeing
to the shelf. and when i see a single magpie i blurt, i say
there was a second one but i scared it away
down glens and valleys, down spirits and sedatives
my love is unambiguous
but the good souls may as well forgive us

i often reflect that if i lived in nazi germany, i would have been a victim, not a perpetrator. i’m left wing. i believe in individual freedom. i’m an artist. i’m disabled.

i am very scared about the turns being taken in many so called western liberal democracies.

give a dude a fish and you’ll win favour and patronage / teach him angling and your monopoly will be lost forever

continuing my thoughts on education and inheritance from yesterday… here is another view. perhaps the dominant view in history. by keeping people in the dark, you can better manipulate them. and this is probably why trump wants to shut down the department of education. why the right declare war on universities and academia. accuse anyone who disagree with their brand of fascism as a dangerous leftwing extremist.

demagogues stalk our polity, offering miserable, racist tidbits, with the explicit aim of preventing independent thought. resist! learn to fish!

can you teach me how to fish?