There are people
who get all their
ideas from the
unsupported
opinions of
others; have faith
in some religion;
vote fascists into
power; love guns;
don’t vaccinate
children; and hate
women.
Generally these
categories
overlap.
Category: politics
You say you want a
Revolution
can never come
about by the
gentle
persuasion of
the ruling class
to give up the
benefits they
receive from
the current
system
Side effect
Who would have
thought that a
major effect of
global warming
would be a
decrease in the
intelligence of
politicians?
500 years? A thousand?
There should be
a term limit set
on how long some
ancient, historical
grievance can be
used to justify
slaughtering
people today.
Destroyer of Worlds
Does Bolsonaro
not know that
whatever remnant
of the human race
remains next
century will curse
his name in the
same way that
Hitler, Attilla,
Genghis, Stalin,
Pol Pot and Trump
were cursed, or
does he not care?
Definitions by example
“Religious cult”
is a tautology;
“Sustainable
development”
is an oxymoron.
The old schoolyard
If we knew why,
and how, a school
classroom, full of
students, all
from the same town, all
exposed to
the same
experiences,
the same
information,
the same
culture and
society,
can turn out,
fifty years on,
to be Right and
Left, Believer and
Atheist, nice and
not so nice,
we could
understand why
the world is in
such a mess.
In a crowded theatre
Donald Trump
is the end
result of
confusing
quantity of
free speech
with quality
of free speech
Quacks like a duck
There were racist
Presidents before Trump,
and there will be racist
Presidents after Trump,
but I think we can
safely say there
has never been
and never will be
a President as
racist as Trump.
Crying like a refugee
The way of
Empires is to
wreck countries
all around them
and then refuse
to accept the
consequences.
