Why do people look down on patriotism?— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
It’s because it shows a definite lack
of checking your own assumptions.
And things we believe in without doubting
are acts of faith or stubbornness.
gallagher
8 jun 88
irvine
Archive for the ‘Political’ Category
1988-06-08
Wednesday, June 8th, 1988The Great Correction
Saturday, October 4th, 2008down on the corner of ruin and grace I’m growin weary of the human race hold my lamp up in everyone’s face lookin for an honest man everyone tied to the turnin wheel everyone hidin from the things they feel well the truth’s so hard it just don’t seem real the shadow across this land people round here don’t know what it means to suffer at the hands of our american dreams they turn their backs on the grisly scenes traced to the privileged sons they got their god they got their guns got their armies and the chosen ones but we’ll all be burnin in the same big sun when the great correction comes down through the ages lovers of the mystery been sayin people let your love light shine poets and sages all throughout history say the light burns brightest in the darkest times it’s the bitter end we’ve come down to the eye of the needle that we gotta get through but the end could be the start of something new when the great correction comes down through the ages down to the wire runnin out of time still got hope in this heart of mine but the future waits on the horizon line for our daughters and our sons I don’t know where this train’s bound whole lotta people tryin to turn it around gonna shout til the walls come tumblin down and the great correction comes don’t let me down when the great correction comes -Eliza Gilkyson - - - - - From her 2008 album, Beautiful World. and a hat tip to Michael Tobias at Only In It For The Gold
— Copyright 2008 by Eliza Gilkyson —
2015-03-23 – Cambrian Explosion
Wednesday, March 25th, 2015Maybe, in human affairs it happens as it does in biological evolution. A massive die-off occurs and results in many open niches and something like the Cambrian Explosion occurs as nature or people fill in the empty spaces. In human affairs, wars and revolutions take the place of nature's cataclysmic comets and meteors. After WWII, there was a redistribution of enormous amounts of wealth and opportunity that diffused through a system rendered porous by all the war's destruction. Education and knowledge of the world and it workings, poured out into the formerly low and middle income populace and they were no longer the sole domain of the rich and privileged. And we, the newly educated and newly freed, became the human equivalents of the denizens radiating from the Cambrian Explosion. But, as in biology, empty niches always fill in again as they are reoccupied by the more competitive among us. The wealth and freedom that were liberated by war for wide distribution have begun to be gathered in again by the ever present acquisitors. But this time there are differences. This time we are not the peasants of the Middle Ages who have never seen past the end of our lord's properties. This time many of us have read widely and know of the human history of greed and domination that lies in endless repetition behind us. This time we can see that which is beginning to enclose us yet again. We see the Neoliberals ascending our political hierarchies funded by the multinational corporations who are weaving quasi-legal nets around national governments with their faux free-trade agreements. We see our news media being controlled to shape what we see and hear. We listen to the constant propaganda of advertisement that encourages us to look the other way as it dazzles us with materialistic trinkets. But knowledge is power and this time we can see the causal links, we can see the closing nets, we can see the propaganda of confusion creeping around us and seeking to marginalize us for the benefit of the acquisitors as they seek to make us again into their servants. Knowledge has awoken us and this time we will resist. gallagher 23Mar15 Christchurch
— Copyright 1965-2015 by Dennis Gallagher —