Death's Aides

How strange are the ways of man

with his dread and fascination of

the ghastly figure that stalks all living

things, to welcome them into the

realm of Death. Nature has given

all that exists limits to their existence

when all that live must depart life.

The grim reality of death following

all that lives beyond the measure of

allotted time visits all and all make

every effort conceivable to delay that

vital date with final destiny. Strange

that those terrified of their own passage

beyond eternity choose to become keen

understudies of the Grim Reaper eagerly

tasking themselves in the destruction

of life, delivering their enemies to

Death's doorstep as collaborationists

in ridding the Earth of extraneous life.

Simple Solutions for Simple Minds

How then to account for the proven reality

that that old adage that 'we are born equal'

is fantasy not fact that elements of society

are reluctant to grasp much less give credit to.

There are others of seditious mindsets who

themselves exceedingly possessed of acumen

phrase reality otherwise, that the great majority 

of humanity posses the capacity of autonomic

existence with little reliance on the power of

authentic thought. The rare presence of great

minds sear their names and accomplishments

in memory but Da Vincis and Einsteins are

found but seldom, there are few repeats at this

level of genuine creativity. For among humanity's

racial divisions brainpower favours some and

faults others. Under the Nazi regime Jews were

forbidden entry to academia, their wholesale

presence on merit alone suffocating entry for

the intellectually dim. The solution found in

racial extermination overpoweringly excessive.

In our own enlightened society fixated now on

the virtues of diversity-equity-inclusion another

solution has been found to elevate the dim-witted

to the ranks of academic scholarship, the expedient

of bypassing merit, ruling out the superior minds

of students of Chinese, Indian and Jewish heritage

offering instead opportunities to those whose own

cultures value tribalism, opportunism and crime.

Visceral Inheritance

Human nature is not, by its very most

primitive instincts for survival where

scarcity of natural resources dominated

and their possession might guarantee 

existence, given to benevolence toward

one's fellow human. The struggle for

simple existence in competition with a

neighbour whose own focus is to acquire

the means to extend life through access

to food and shelter ensured that strife

and territorial conquest was a constant

of life wherever the human animal tended

to migrate in populating the Earth. Animus

toward another's aspirations, that of his

family unit, his tribe, his homeland has

never been resolved despite long annals

of history recording the cultivation of 

civil society and laws restricting violence

under its guarantees of justice and security

lies close to the surface of a mind equipped

to view others as scheming to challenge

an owner of his possessions. The savage

clashes between the advantaged and the

claimants for possession now viewed as

crimes which no one is entitled to pursue.

Elemental surges of rage and criminal intent

mark the psychopaths in society even while

civilized elements constrain their passions.

 

 

Verity or Whimsy?

The human animal developed under primal conditions 

of mammalian existence fecund nature made possible 

in the process procreating and increasing its presence 

from early hominid to proto-human to its final

incubational destiny as homo sapiens all the while 

the species of alternate sexes defined itself as male 

or female. A natural process whose development

extended over boundless hundreds of millennia to 

produce an animal whose brain has proven capable 

of theorizing the very development of the science 

of existence. Creative genius and the science of nature

have now been eclipsed by an emotional culture 

dismissive of the certainties of biological verities 

an enlightened view of humanity's beliefs belying

nature's sublime gifts distinguishing male from female. 

A viral seed of reality realignment now captures the minds 

of those anointing themselves to authorize the dissolution 

of all identities, sweeping them into a grab-bag of choices 

given children to imagine themselves however they may

wish, neither nor, spinning their destinies as she or he.

All Is Well

 

This has been the most felicitous of days.

The message sent us while we lay abed

this morning when morning sun probed

and filtered a beckoning finger assured us

this was no day to be wasted. We raised our

heads and the puppies stirred their response

to the invitation. Whoever claimed there is

no perfection did not as we did revel in the

beauty of a spring day whose breezes cooled

and becalmed the atmosphere fired by the

sun. The forest proudly whispered come in

won't you? and we did. Robins sang and the

whirr of transparent dragonfly-wings flecked

our vision transfixed by the emerald green of

the forest canopy, the floral panicles of the

understory dogwood, the grace of the ferns

on the forest floor, the promise in the multitude

of flowers on raspberry and blackberry canes. The

forest stream shimmered and shone in the sun

and we thanked nature for another perfect day.

The Crucible Forges the Future

 

History does not end, it leads to the future.

If proof is sought that nothing in life is

simple and the past is the gateway to the 

morrow there is a lesson to be learned that

those of limited curiosity bypass. History

begins when a sense of inflated importance

in self is affronted by refusal for there are those

convinced their mission is sacred and must be

venerated even by those who express doubt

and dismissal. Such occurred in Medina when

Judaean tribes clung to their belief eschewing

Islam, a wan version of Judaism, suffering

death or exile and slavery for their resolution.

The Arabian desert was wracked with conflict

between claimants, the House of Saud and

that of the Hashemite Kingdom. Hostilities

reduced to a simmer by colonial intervention 

solving the critical issue of territory, yet no

solution to Islam's pique at the resurgence of

ancient Judaea in the present Israel with all

antagonists within the history that foreordained

an endless conflict with the ancient people

reliving their history in denial of surrender.

Icon of Public Service

In Greek legend beautiful sirens' exquisite voices 

lifted in song lured sailors leading them to their

death. Music has that captivating power. Linking 

the music of the masses to a champion of beguiling 

albeit rancid free speech, celebrities have the power

to lead a chorus of cheerful mockery where genocide 

of those chosen to deride can seem perfectly ordinary. 

The release of vile bile addressing the oldest racist venom 

of humankind in an aura of celebratory entertainment 

enraptures an audience comfortable in complicity 

highlighting the malice with which the world's Jews

are held in from antiquity to the present. This speech 

liberator's popularity with the masses who profess 

love of music and hate of the Jewish state need puzzle 

no one; the viral cancer lives on. But the man's former

band members' contempt speaks loud and clear of 

one who venerates Hitler and costumes himself as 

an SS predator identifying him as 'antisemetic to your

rotten core', 'a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding

lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy

megalomaniac' -- however beloved by his fans.