Dialectics

Back in the day, nigh unto 200 years ago, along came a fella, a thinking man, a philosopher as it were . . . but he had a streak of common sense that stretches clear into the here and now. . . Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Common sense, yes, because his contemplations and theories focused on the real world, what is really going on in the affairs of men. His Dialectic ultimately became a standard for thinking people to analyze historical developments, the web and flow of ideas that slosh back and forth in the ideas and philosophies of men. In the 19th century, a famous (or infamous, depending on your politics) economist named Karl Marx applied some Hegelian principles to his analysis of history, economics and industry. Long story short, he came up with some new ideas pertaining to capitalism, which during his time was a juggernaut of developing modernity that was rearranging the ways that men work to make a living. During that era, mid-1800's, industrial progress was growing in leaps and bounds. There were conditions in industrial plants that were hard on the workers, even to the point of endangering them and/or even killing them. Karl Marx developed his theories about the workers' alienation and their tribulations in trying to make a living in the industrial establishment that was so dang profit-driven. Marx's theories later spread far and wide and were ultimately summed up in a modern idea call communism. You may have heard of it; it was quite a rabid topic back in the day, when I was a young man. At that time, in the 1950's, the Russians were hard at it, trying to work out their communist plan that had begun back in 1917 when the Bolsheviks kicked the Czar out of his centuries-long dynastic power over the Russian workers. But what I am thinking about now, is this word, Dialectics, which I have seen or heard as applied to history, industrialism and workers' rights. But this morning I encountered, while reading, the word Dialectics applied to Capital investment and making money in the stock market. While reading a random email this morning from some person, or entity, named Porter, who was offering profit possibilities through his investment advice, which happened to center on today's juggernaut of profit, progress and wonder, the mysterious Ai, whatever that is. Therein, I read this sentence: "Let's use dialectic thinking to look beyond the simple narratives." As for me, I didn't bother to click on his money-making link, but I did take note of his use of the infamous "dialectic" word. And I realized that we have come full circle in our thinking since the 1840's, when "dialectic" was appropriated by Hegel and Marx. Now the dialectic is, apparently, considered a useful rationale for making money in the stock market. I can only conclude that, in history, what goes around. . . comes around. But you never know exactly how. So my mind slips back into a memory of an old Dylan song, the one about when God gave names to all the animals, and the man saw an animal producing milk, but the man didn't know how, so he called it a "cow." Go figure.

How's that for some dialecting on a Saturday morn? Glass Chimera

Jack Strikes Back!

Jack Smith jumped over Supreme Immunity tricks After insurrectionists had been tossing Jan6 bricks When the high court cast their Immunity spell as if tossing our Constitution all to hell Jack threw in the prosecutor's towel delaying his conspiracy case re: deeds most foul. But now is the time for all good lawyers to come to the aid of their country that has become so dumb Because magas would rather follow a lying piper. They hang on trump's rear end like a diaper, as the Oval occupant illegally summons soldiers to beat up American citizens who act bolder

just as Paul Revere rode fearlessly After the signal:"One if by land, two if by sea!" Yes, now is the time for lawful citizens to back Jack! As Los Angeles, Portland and Chicago fight back. Just like salvation, laid in a grave for three days Jack's truth-finding prosecution rises out of the haze To cast light on the trump-led Jan6 conspiracy attack when proud boys no longer stood by and stood back Now proud Americans will learn of what really went down When the Jan6 insurrectionists came to Washington town.

As Navalny had warned before he was taken out Now is the time for Americans to make the truth to come out. Listen to Jack Smith's long delayed testimony! Remember the Patriot's "one if by immunity, but two by testimony!" Glass half-Full

The Mystery of History

Now I don't know but I been told this world is very old.

The old Book from which I have gathered most of my information depicts a world - and its inhabitants - that goes way, way back in time. The biblical account that is given in our foundational book has turned out to be, as Providence would have it, the basis for cultural development, knowledge procurement and a very long, foundational story for the entire western world. Middle Eastern, North African, European culture and histories are founded upon ancient glyphs and and manuscripts. We revere some of them as holy writ, canonical Scriptures. . . from Moses to the prophets and apostles and beyond . . . alongside the Greek poets and philosophers, who accompany Moses, Jesus, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Paul . . . to Constantine, Augustine, even Mohammed … to and through the long papyrus scrolls and papers that document the histories of emperores, kings and queens, philosophers, priests, preachers, scholars, teachers, scientists and politicians who systemized Indo-European governance, and educated literate people. . . calculated engineering that morphed progressively in the myriad forms of cultural development and property descriptions, leaving a cultural and societal legacy several millennia long.

For us in the Judeo/Christian world, that old Bible is the primary source, the heart and soul of it, the fountain of wisdom, literacy, morality and history. . . the source of all we know and believe about our ancestors since Abraham, and Moses, the prophets, the One who conquered our ancient foe, death itself, by His Resurrection. Yes, and Amen. . . especially the One, Yeshua ha Meschiach, whose amazing work, teaching and Conquest of death was reported in the New Testament, which became, or should have become, the greatest event in history.

 As a person who has lived on this planet for 74 years, I can testify that I have probably, statistically, traveled more years along this path that we call Life. . . than my years ahead, which I have yet to experience. That is why I am believing in the One who conquered death, to delivery me into that eternal realm, beyond this world, where He is, and has reigned since the beginning of Time. . . and even before that, all eterntiy!  Furthermore, in my humble opinion, this is why we call everything that preceded Jesus, and every moment since then. . .that greatest story ever told. . . that ancient legacy. . . "history" HIStory. Just sayin. Glass half-Full

Ethnic Dunking

While listening to Democracy Now on WETS, I heard a reporter refer to the trumpy-fascist strategy of immigrant deportations as ethnic cleansing. I understand what she was talking about, as we are currently witnessing an unprecedented attempt by the trumped-up magamaniacs to remove immigrants and dark people from these United States. But I object to the terminology "ethnic cleansing." There is no cleansing taking place in these nazi tactics. What we are witnessing, instead, is fascist smearing, a racist scheme to rub out the past progress of our nation's chosen destiny to become the first nation in world history to welcome the tired people of our world. . . the weary, the huddled masses yearning to be free. But what we get now, with this retrogressive trump regime, is a trumped-up, illegal program to remove people whose economic status, or whose racial and/or ethnic features do not meet all the requirements of the fascizing trump regime. The magamaniac obsession with opposing the "deep state" seems to be taking us down a crooked path to a a new deep sh** bog where people of limited means get stuck in the feces of a nation that once thrived on healthy provisions, but has now decided to sit on the throne of trumpish flushing. Actually, the American word for this is "discrimination"; but we have a tacked-on tactic that the trumpians have misappropriated because discrimination is a democratic word that attained legal ramifications during the 1950's when the American Civil Rights movement really got cranked up with Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King Jr, the Little Rock students in 1954, Jesse Jackson and ultimately, President Barack Obama, who did a constructive job of restoring our nation's confidence and infrastructural stability after the financial disaster of 2008. But in 2016, the Make America Go Away, led by trump, wrangled their way into the halls of power. The historical detritus of zombie confederacy hit the fan. We the People didn't know it at the time, but the worst thing that President Obama ever did was to turn the helm of our ship of state over to donald trump. And now, nine years later - even with a four-year Biden intermezzo - we have a second trump occupation of our Oval office, in which his people are flushing the deep state away and wiping with the backside of America with with wads of fascist issues and trumpian flushing. Make America Go Away is the anthem of the magamaniacs. What happened? We survived a Jan6 storm, only to look around, four years later and there's the media Scarecrow: "We ain't in Kansas any more." Where's Bob Dole when you need him? Or Mitt Romney? But there is a way out of this maga-mess. Follow the Constitutional yellow brick road back to our roots, back to the principles that enabled US the People to become the greatest freedom-loving nation in the history of the world. People of the World, "send us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free."

This is the message that America should be sending to the world. This is the message that made us great to begin with. Magamaniac ethnic dunking must be opposed in every way possible. No more ethnic dunking! We need to resurrect Emma Lazarus challenge from the dead, even as Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead! Glass half-Full

Train Times Rhymes

This train's bound for glory This train carries a story Time, times, there was a time When travelin 'trains were fine This train don't carry no gamblers This train takes old folk ramblers If we miss the train you're on We'll know that this train's gone We sing disappearin' railroad blues We travel in fading, graying hues Going to Georgia on that midnight train Singing that ole train song refrain People get ready, there's a train a'coming You can hear that ole' number nine a' drumming

Distant moaning of the train seems to play a sad refrain Find me a place in a boxcar So I take my guitar. . .

But keep that long train running keep them big wheels turnin' Where's Casey Jones when you need him? Homeward bound, wish I could go home again Maybe take that Wabash Cannonball We don't need no aereoplane at all We need to stay on track and steady Oh, people. . .People get ready There's a train a'comin' I hear that smokestack drummin'. Where's John Henry, that steel-drivin' man? Must be buried under Hoover dam. Underground Railroad rides again Underground Railroad rides again. Ride me on that good news train Ride me again and again and again. Ole Uncle Tom finally caught that Underground Railroad Ole Jake left his coal mine for that Underground Railroad Ed Clark tossed his necktie off Underground Railroad Underground Railroad Rides Again

Both Clouds Now

Rows and flows of online flair and digital castles in the air and data canyons everywhere I've looked at the Cloud that way But now they distort my worldly view they come and go with everything new So many things we would have done But the Cloud drifts us away. I've seen the Web from both slides now Surfing in and surfing out It's the Cloud's illusions that thrill us now. The real world shifts, but we don't know how Moons and loons and special deals that busy, frizzy way you feel when every online tale seems real I surfed the web that way. But now surfing the net's old hat On phones and screens we may get fat But if we dare, we'll break the trance Maybe venture out and dance I've looked at life from in and out from up and down, from smile and pout It's Cloud illusions I notice now I really don't live life anyhow Virals and spirals now get spun

It's all been seen; it's all been done Illusions and delusions come and go But if you care, don't make a show. Cuz now the world is getting strange maybe even weird, deranged The spin gets spun and all is done at the end of every day. I've looked at life from in and out from up and down, from smile and pout It's Cloud illusions I notice now I don't think I believe it anyhow It's web delusions that show and tell I'll take a break and break the spell. Thanks to Joni who inspired this rhyme Now both sides of Life are wove online. King of Soul

Stop the Steal

Are you sitting comfortably are you watching numbly as fickle History rhymes in these faux-fascist times? 1933, hitler set stage for nazi tyranny: 2025, trump troops foment fascist hegemony to subvert our Constitution with military confusion and pervert our social media with magamaniac illusion US going crazy with panic, as donald trump goes manic rending Posse Comitatis to a passing coma status. For my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars: It started when VP Pence was challenged with insurrection horrors:

Fascists flinging maga filth on our Capitol and on our stripes and stars And yet, and yet. . . the chief insurrectionist regained his reign Re-smearing now our Constitutional Republic with a fascist stain. I keep thinking we will awaken from this nightmare dream and somehow, some way, we shall organize our anti-fascist team We shall overcome; we shall overcome someday. Deep in my heart, I do believe we shall overcome someday. We shall drive the fascists out from their oval office occupation

when We the People organize to restore our Constitution Declaration! Glass half-Full