The Arms To Bear Right

When a wave of conservative values sweeps through the global population, or while it does, the side lobes make for interesting storytelling.

You begin to ask if the producers of trashy television shows raise their children to watch the types of shows their parents get rich off of.

And the Redneck Mafia, all seven billion members sworn to act on the godfather's bidding, makes its presence known.

I, on the other hand, watch snowflakes in the wind-vs.-gravity dance.

Do you ever think of followers as plagiarisers of their leaders' vision/messages?

There are times when I remember my unique relationship with Monica, who introduced me to the recorded thoughts/utterances of Black Elk.

She and I haven't spoken to one another in years.

From her and my former brother in-law, Kevin, I learned it was all right to recognise one's ability to read the thought sets of others by observing their attempts to hide their intentions through their unusual [outside their normal range of] behaviours in the moment.

A Pakistani assassination leads to an American one which reflects the murderous behaviours in their neighbours south of the border.

Plagiarising copycats.

Little did I know my childhood romp through the organisation called Indian Guides would lead me here. Neither did my parents, as loving and patient as they are and I continue to thank them for being.

Analysing 200 years of books, magazines and newspapers reflects not the culture of the time but the invisible guiding hands of the owners/publishers, editors, proofreaders and writers who intended to and got published. An interesting image but a skewed one.

History says almost nothing about the silent majority who have no interest in being heard beyond their roles as members of their local extended family and friend network.

Even though/if they copy the behaviours of leaders whose intentions they can or cannot read but which we have a better idea about.

Does a popular/successful leader/author reflect more than charisma/zeitgeist?

Good question, worth pursuing.

Time to get back to looking at our world from the perspective of 1000 years from now. There's space to be explored!

Time for the space shuttle people to finish the last few launches. By now, it should be obvious who's worth keeping for developing whatever's next. The rest will have to take their last engineering/support welfare checks and move on to something else (I hear they're hiring in Asia if you don't want to be a burger flipper or store stocker/greeter here).

Reality is not judgmental but it can seem harsh at times. The creation and redistribution of global wealth is amoral even if you're not.