Waterguy
Waterguy's JournalI wish I had written, "But still my guitar gently weeps"
I grew up in a single parent household,
we had this one guitar my older brother bought with his US Navy salary when he served during the Vietnam War,
that was passed around the three remaining brothers who tried their best to play the damn thing.
I was right-handed but I was that clueless, so I played it backwards.
I never figured the damn thing out.
Hell, I was only seven years old at the time.
Then, later on, during my dynamic teens I got in the cool crowd of
teens and followed my good friend who was good at playing the
guitar.
Wow, I thought when I first heard, Wow, that sounds like music man,
I watched his fingers intently, I wanted to play.
I learned how to mimic his every move.
The finger board, of that crappy old nylon stringed guitar
never much produced much when it came to sound,
yet still, it delivered a rhythm from practice.
World Diplomacy - picking up the shit
How can we know how they feel about us?
So the other day I'm walking my dog who takes a shit,
and like a responsible citizen I fuddle with a doggy poop
bag and bend down to pick it up - you know the same old routine.
Along comes another guy with his dog who wants to play.
I don't know this guy or his dog, and I become entangled,
in my dog's leash.
He just wants to play, this guy says about his dog and meanwhile,
my dog of course wants to play, or at least sniff out this dog of his.
But come on man, what about common courtesy!
I'm walking my dog on a my phone during a work meeting,
just trying to do my duty, as a citizen, after my dog makes a large
duty,
so I say, I'm sorry sir but I am busy, and he says,
Oh, I see, so sorry big fella.
Two weeks later I see the same guy on the street walking his dog,
and my dog and I walk past, and my dog stops to acknowledge
his, but his once playful dog snarls.
And the way his owner looks at me,
I am left to feel through both parties as though I am to blame for this.
A: weren't both parties partly to blame here.
B: in reality, aren't we all held on a leash of some sort,
And whether or not it is good or bad, should we rely
solely on first impressions
C: who reads any dog ownership handbook
D: should we mandate all dog owners read a dog ownership handbook
E: Does this have anything to do with humanity
F: Kind of, in a subtle way, but it's a really poor analogy!
Peace!
The Fix was always, always in - the Narrative
This fix, we were always in, perpetually motiviated
by the narratives, controlled the world economy
all our lives.
Good or bad, it always was.
It's the idea that deficit spending is bad,
it's the idea of government subsidizing corporate oligarchy.
It's true. But then again, there is the National Debt.
There is the idea that most trade even by countries who do hold
currency that is not pegged by the US dollar, still use the dollar
for trade.
There is this analog, this bit of truth, and it sits,
amongst inequality, the problems that face
all people concerning deficits in a world that
has finite resources.
As well as the improper distribution of wealth,
that has us all incapable of efficiency regarding the best use of resources.
When we know human capital has always been at the bottom of the list.
Less than oil,
Less than the environment,
including all the animal,
less than the science of understanding.
The bedrock - history, its real worth always
points to:
Human rights
The understanding of the human beings
the whole bag of goods,
mental health, etc..
When did they start bottling water?
in the 18th century,
When did they start using plastic to bottle water,
Dupont started it in the 1970's.
Oh yeah, we seem to need it now, even though
we find ourselves entrenched in a world of toxic plastics
that take 450 years to disintegrate.
Who saw that coming?
The industry in US currency is not far from a trillion dollars per year.
I'd call that a fix. Like we could call it a tragedy, that requires,
all of our attention.
Instead of fixing the infrastructure, you see groups of people in Flint Michigain
delivering water in buckets of plastic bottles.
You see this all over the world.
We have got to get it together to fight against this - Now!
what memorable media, songs, lyrics, literature, helps you understand
The world is a complex measure of words, discussion, voice and understanding.
We're here, and then each one of us is gone in a flash as far as I know.
There is a myriad of objects, actions, and contradictions, and then there's the self-awareness
of a single person's narrative - which we all have that's always been swirling in the air/
seems like.
I see it in the old movies, the penchant for writers to describe the angst in delivering.
Not just the truth, but the complexities.
I listen to the remastered Beatles song, Dear Prudence,
And all the sudden I think of Prudence, the value of being prudent, cautious.
Dear Prudence, I think, how do we get there is always the question,
because it is all so complicated.
Or a movie. All The King's Men - 1941
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
Citizen Kane - Herman Mankiewicz cowrote, or wrote,
Mank the movie - William Randolph Hearst put all his support
behind the Republican Frank Merriam to defeat Upton Sinclair
I guess it is a gut check digest that all people must see
everything they hear and see,
butted up against any hope for rationality
yes, it's art, it's the truth you find from it.
It is the poetry of Frost, and maybe a rap artist known as LiL Durk,
A kid from the Southside of Chicago who has found a true
voice that needs to be heard - something that is happening now,
that calls for attention because it's here, non-fiction,
a large part of what has been missing.
What is it that helps you to understand your soul?
It's a complicated world where words do matter.
What is it for you?
And I do mean art that leads to more understanding.
Please do tell.
Remember when Presidential politics were different?
used to be - once you won your party's nomination, you shifted to the center at least a bit, to appeal to all voters in the general election.
Of course - the true state of change always remains who has control over both houses.
This has always been for the most part a partial win for both parties and the American public - at least to some extent, since it allowed people to always focus on progress.
Nothing's been perfect in the past, we all know. And sometimes we take two steps forward and another one back, and this is frustrating and chaotic at times, but one hopes somehow, we as a people move forward.
Now, it's a different game starting with Trump. Yes, the propaganda was there prior to Trump, but Trump has taken it far beyond
wrong policy decisions into the arena of Fascist dictatorship. And oh, how he has his believers - if nothing else, this has to tell us that something is really wrong the state of our union...
Trump needs to be in jail! Which is not by any stretch anti-constitutional, or politically motivated a statement to make.
He said going into a presidential election that he would fight the outcome if he lost, and then he did. And even though his advisors told him he did lose and had no leg to stand on contesting that fact, he and his minions in the Republican Party continued to lie and say he won - even after 62 court cases showed he had not one shred of evidence to the contrary - because there was none.
That's the first time in American History since our founding that that's happened.
What's more, Trump then proceeded to incite violence on the US Capital, something that can only be called an insurrection on our government.
A standing President of the US did this. And then, a whole host of US Republican Congress men and women followed suit and voted no in confirming the duly elected delegates confirming Biden's win.
And then, A Republican majority in the house failed to impeach him - Donald Trump, once again - even though the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell cited one Donald Trump completely and utterly responsible for the attack on the US Capital on Jan 6, 2021.
All of this has played out in our minds, and it's obvious or should be to any rational citizen.
Also - we know the US is plagued by inequality - especially after Covid;
just like we all know Climate Change is an existential threat to humankind,
we know healthcare is far too expensive, we know about Putin's savage attack on Ukraine,
and what's going on with China (we need serious well thought agreements with China for the benefit of all)
We need a voice for the people - all the people. And now is no time for another fool - or a bunch of idiots,
to hold power.
Get the young people in this country involved. We need dialogue from the young to move forward.
There's a whole lot of shit on the agenda!
why are sound records round
What is it about the transferring of sound that it has to be round.
A start and a finish...
Recorded sound is different than sound that is never recorded.
We hear, and we imitate the world around us, but why do we make music,
that only we can appreciate.
We transcribe sounds with hollow tubes into frequencies, and then amplified, such as the winds, those sounds are etched.
Or, we transmit sounds through radio waves,
through frequencies detected by receptors that are designed to accept
a source/ A receptor that moves backwards and forwards, in the exact same pattern
of any sound, with only a short delay in time.
When we detail sound as it is, and it is everything, or anything one could
ever amplify, we also utilize ultrasound, and in the aquatic terminology of very
low frequency, the mechanical method, which is even more profound.
Nothing's really round. Is that true?
Analog recordings to digital.
Oh sure, why not.
Old Yukon Noam Chomsky - as they call him
And first, in this telling of any historic dramatic sense, I'll just refer to Noam, as Old Yukon Naoam Chomsky, or OYNC.
In reality he was born in Old Oak Lane, in Philadephia.
Anyway, this kid had a curious interest in science, and especially in how the human mind operates in such a way to communicate,
I'm sure I'm getting way far out here, dramatically speaking, that is.
So I'll skip past a number of years in his life, and start the story off when as a skilled Linguist Professor at MIT, he became an agitator,
against the Vietnam War.
People under any government perceive the news, yes, there is for sure propaganda, and yes, for sure, the Western World has always,
at least since Western governments have gained power and globalized, have been racists against brown skinned folk.
And it's been evident. So evident, that any informed citizen could see it as a fact.
So this elder statesman, OYNC, is pretty much an outcast in the US, and has been for a couple of decades.
Heck, you won't even find him speaking on PBS, or NPR these days, and yet, the old man is still talking to reporters from around the globe.
So why is that?
What's wrong in Israel, what's wrong in the Supreme Court, what's wrong with common sensical viewpoints about the truth,
and how can the individual find the truth, where the heck do I need to go to find any semblance of the truth, how we treat people,
and how do I even begin to understand how Nation states operate?
Where do we start to cry? What makes man-made tragedy become something we should rationally discuss?
Where is poverty today, where's the US Corporation, going
Who is concerned about today, and interested in thinking about how we got here,
And what tomorrow will bring.
There's no perfect Sun, is a way politicians might disguise and disqualify the truth even in, or maybe most especially in present
term, when discussion of the reality and government action - from its incomprehensible capabilities, down to its detrimental
Neglect - isn't that something we should give thought to?
I like education, I'm not that educated, but I like the thought behind such an endeavor. I just hope the educated ones lead me in the right direction... Something I always wished for early on.
Peace!
CDC done us all wrong
CDC took way too long to reach out for testing to catch the CoV-2 virus. When many institutions, both public and private had the technology to perform the testing. And yes, I remember the delayed phone conversation by the CDC talking to biotechs and universities as well as hospitals, detailing how to proceed with PCR testing.
After that delay, it was seemingly too late.
A quick code and a go ahead would have saved a lot of grief.
Soon smart people did step in, they started monitoring sewage systems - which is not something new. Efforts to monitoring sewage systems were around in US during the 1850's - there is and has been a major effort since then to perfect the best ways to accomplish this task.
That's what a Congress elected by the people ought to be talking about.
Instead, from the get-go, in the US, what we got was a political division, and yes, starting with Donald Trump.
Blame China - that was his economic policy for everything that is bad, that China virus, after he admitted there was
a problem.
The CDC screwed up, with their messaging, which coincided with a fascist asshole residing as president of the US telling people
Ivermectin was the cure, or perhaps, "bleach has a cleansing property, perhaps if we could you know", --- I don't know where he was going with that live statement / but there were some dumb people out there --- where was poison control / where the fuck was a national health system - I grew up in the sixties, as a kid, I was maybe misled when I thought maybe there was one once.
We are not prepared. It's often seen in our ways of life. I'm a glass is half full kind of guy.
Actually, water is important - stop the fracking, stop the jerks who do nothing to protect our environment and are opposed to fixing our dilapidated infrastructure year after year - for several decades now...
The CDC done us wrong doesn't mean we should do away with the CDC.
Just the fricking opposite!
Peace!
Going Green and the Economics, and the fight against propaganda
I want an electric car, but it's too expensive.
I want an electric care, but I worry about the battery, the elements that go into such an energy storage system such as cobalt are mined in places like the Democratic Republic of the Congo where there's no human rights, where little children mine cobalt like slaves.
And rich countries all look the other way, just like...
Yes, just like big oil. Just like the US spent trillions in the ME killing untold scores.
Look we need to go green, and to do this we need to spend money for R&D, real money, real government investment.
It's a matter of brass tax, if you don't spend now you'll spend many times more later on - we should have been on this forty years ago.
Dealing with inequality on the way is imperative. The investment in R&D as well as making sure we have quality education and equality for all, as well as affordable healthcare and family financial assistance where needed all go hand in hand with good policy measures.
We need to focus more on the obstacles to obtaining a better world, we can't look the other way from one moral imperative to justify a need, and instead we need to have conviction to do what is right. And that's not easy.
The US needs to turn the page on its war monger ways / and yes, we do need a New Deal with how all nations are treated economically.
What is it, the Triad now, Russia is talking to Iran, and of course China.
It's that old thing, you know, the blocks - the brokering of defensives to one countries imperialism, or the countering as it's sold.
What it is exactly is a spiraling power confrontation focused on nothing good. Nothing ever good comes from any war.
Ike was right about the military industrial complex, how it would only consume more power to satiate its appetite.
We do need a better battery, and we do need more electic cars, and cares about humanity and the environment.
There's only one Earth, this much I know, I can feel it.
The Beatles all came from Liverpool
Yes, that's true.
The Beats,
The Beatles,
from Liverpool
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool
https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/liverpool-during-the-first-world-war/
https://www.historyofliverpool.com/liverpool-world-war-two/
George, John, Paul and Ringo.
All come from Liverpool.
What more do you want to know?
Well, all that jaza beat wasn't invented in Liverpool,
but it did escape through a small pipe
in that dusty little / dirty big shipping town
it dripped down upon these 4 lads heads,
And that's how we came upon that first Beatle song, LOVE ME Do, which we all thought was worthy enough at the time to be recorded came about.
We were just hanging around, and it plopped down upon our heads.
A tiny narrow pipe that condensed the air.
We all thought it was the start of a rain shower,
The drum solo went like this
Love, love me do
You know I love you
I'll always be true
So please
Love me do
Whoa, love me do
Love, love me do
You know I love you
I'll always be true
So please
Love me do
Whoa, love me do
Someone to love, somebody new
Someone to love, someone like you
Love, love me do
You know I love you
I'll always be true
So please
Love me do
Whoa, love me do
Love, love me do
You know I love you
I'll always be true
So please
Love me do
Whoa, love me do
Yeah, love me do
Whoa-oh, love me do
Yeah, love me do
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