For thinking caring people these are tough times.
We are bombarded with atrocities, tragedies, lies, corruption and everything else that fits in these categories, minute-in, minute-out.
Now self-preservation has to kick in.
We are no good to ourselves or anybody else if we give away our energy and succumb to the malaise. Continue reading Self-preservation looks like this
Category Archives: wisdom
The essence of war
This is what it is all about.
bunches of money-hungry machos fighting over money:
Oil. Raw materials. Land. People.
They make up all kinds of reasons why they are fighting:
causes like religions, democracy, communism and whatever regional slights and whatever other causes they can make up.
But follow the money. Continue reading The essence of war
sources of upsets and how to avoid them
We get upset about small or big things all the time, sometimes many times a day and often we stay upset for hours, days, years or even a lifetime. Imagine!
Available daily upsets are a dime a dozen:
Self-driving cars
A disrespectful cashier or no cashier.
A difficult partner or spouse.
A kid who doesn’t want to learn.
Gaining weight. Not gaining weight.
Rain. No rain.
No parking. Too many bicycles. Dirty streets.
Republicans. Democrats.
And that’s just the day-to-day stuff
The list goes on……………………
Upsets can be distilled to 3 major sources. It is not complex.
They are:
Undelivered communication
Unfulfilled expectation
Thwarted intention
Continue reading sources of upsets and how to avoid them
Disrupt aging
I am from Germany. Germans read the obituaries.
San Francisco Chronicle newspaper has the greatest obituary page.
People who died have their pictures there. Some have recent pictures and some have pictures when they were young. The descriptions of their lives are moving and admirable.
They were great people who had great lives.
I also look at their birth years and I am amazed and heartened by the longevity of so many older people.
There was a time in the not so distant past when 70 was old and people were pretty much done.
Now I see a lot more people in their mid to late 90s. Continue reading Disrupt aging
Cut away the drama and you get the class struggle
In the United States it has been unpopular to think of American society as divided into economic classes.
It flies in the face of what the United States of America believes it stands for and what we value:
equality and equal opportunity.
The class system is not obvious and gets obscured because the working class and the middle class are effectively pitted against each other via race, religion and sexuality. Continue reading Cut away the drama and you get the class struggle
It flies in the face of what the United States of America believes it stands for and what we value:
equality and equal opportunity.
The class system is not obvious and gets obscured because the working class and the middle class are effectively pitted against each other via race, religion and sexuality. Continue reading Cut away the drama and you get the class struggle
Right or Wrong
“When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway
between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.”
Richard Dawkins
It is very difficult for a lot of people to say the little words:
“I was wrong” if they are wrong.
A lot of pride, shame and ego is associated with the right/wrong issue. Continue reading Right or Wrong
Good girls and boys don’t get the price
We are raised to be good girls and boys and to follow the rules.
We are told that it will result in a good life living happily ever after.
But in real life it is quite different.
We regular people are the ONLY ones playing by the good-girl/good-boy rules.
Who does not follow the rules are the rulers, the power brokers, the string-pullers behind the scenes and the manipulators of various backgrounds, the ones who got their billions by manipulating the good girls and boys on every level.
Yes, it is most important to follow the rules of fairness, honesty, kindness, compassion and the common good.
But that goes for everybody. Continue reading Good girls and boys don’t get the price
THE “I AM BETTER THAN YOU BECAUSE…” GAME HAS TO STOP
We have bigger problems than playing the cruel game of:
I am better than you because I am American.
I am better than you because I am the privileged skin color.
I am better than you because I am the right gender.
I am better than you because I am thin.
I am better than you because I am rich.
I am better than you because I am straight.
I am better than you because I am Christian/Muslim or other religions.
I am better than you because I am American.
I am better than you because I am the privileged skin color.
I am better than you because I am the right gender.
I am better than you because I am thin.
I am better than you because I am rich.
I am better than you because I am straight.
I am better than you because I am Christian/Muslim or other religions.
Continue reading THE “I AM BETTER THAN YOU BECAUSE…” GAME HAS TO STOP
This is what “America First” is doing to our country
While we still battle deep racism and many people are unwilling to get over the fact that slavery has ended 156 years ago, we are going to be surpassed all over the world by other countries.
These countries do not get hung up on trying to suppress segments of the population because they think they are better than them.
These countries look forward rather than back.
While the various Trump supporters are still thinking that 1950s style isolationism is the way to go, this is a glimpse of what is going on in the world: Continue reading This is what “America First” is doing to our country
These countries do not get hung up on trying to suppress segments of the population because they think they are better than them.
These countries look forward rather than back.
While the various Trump supporters are still thinking that 1950s style isolationism is the way to go, this is a glimpse of what is going on in the world: Continue reading This is what “America First” is doing to our country
CAPITALISM FOR ENTREPRENEURS, NOT FOR SPECULATORS
Money Grubbers
delight in taking it all
laughing, laughing
As the people
who create the money
fight for the crumbs
like ducks
when someone throws them bread
biting, pushing, chasing each other
for another crumb
Racism, discrimination and sending women back into the kitchen instead of being in the workforce are not solutions to the problems facing us in the 21st century.
AUTOMATION is the problem.
The uncontrolled, unplanned purely profit-based economic system is the problem. Continue reading CAPITALISM FOR ENTREPRENEURS, NOT FOR SPECULATORS