We're really utterly insane
To think that we must wait in vain
For the Economy to poo
So we will have a job to do.
If we were blessed with half a wit
We wouldn't shovel all this shit.
If only we ignored it's word
Our lives would not seem so absurd.
We can decide how we should live!
That to Economy we give
The right to choose what we can be
Is absolute absurdity!
AIG: altogether in greed
ECONOMIC REPORT 11/08
AMERICAN NIGHTMARE: the dying economy
HUMANS SACRIFICED to ECONOMY
My wish for gifts is now long dead.
It is for 'sight' I wish instead.
This year I wish we all could 'see'
Beyond our god Economy.
I wish that everyone would pause
To study this guy Santa Claus.
We'd 'see' Economy the same.
She differs only in her name.
From Santa we expect a gift
We hope will give our life a lift.
Economy we want to give
A job to us so we can live.
We stare at her immobilized
What we can do unrealized.
At such a cost there is no doubt
This 'santa' we should do without.
If we could 'see' we don't survive
To keep Economy alive,
We'd see each other as we should
And give the gift of common good.
These days our god Economy
Is everyone's concern.
She's sick so 'doctors' study her
To see what we can learn.
When she is sick she can't supply
The cash she needs to give,
Which we then spend and spend on her
Just so our god can live.
Thus 'doctors' try to figure out
How do they stimulate
The health of our Economy
So jobs she can create.
We fear that if the 'doctors' fail
To keep our god alive,
Our social structures will collapse
And we will not survive.
Two thirds of her lifeblood is what
The 'doctors' realize
We need give to Economy
To stave off her demise.
What does it say about us when
To something we create
We give the power that allows
Our living to dictate?
It says we are ridiculous
To be at such an end
Where god Economy tells us
Our purpose is to spend.
AIG: altogether in greed
AMERICAN NIGHTMARE: the dying Economy
ECONOMIC ABSURDITY
HUMANS SACRIFICED to ECONOMY
The plumber Joe they both toyed with
Just represented the great myth
That if we work hard, it would seem,
We will acquire part of "the Dream".
"The Dream" though has the consequence
Of using us at our expense.
In 'Dreaming' we all spend our lives;
But at "the Dream" no one arrives.
"The Dream" is meant the void to fill;
However, no one ever will.
We'll try forever but will find
"The Dream" can't buy us peace of mind.
I think it's time we realize
"The Dream" we chase is not the prize.
We should eliminate this waste
So we can then at long last taste
Real life as it was meant to be,
Without "the Dream" philosophy.
Without "the Dream" we can reach out
To what real life is all about;
To ends of our capacities,
To others and to God who sees
The value in what we become
Together, as the human sum.
"The road ahead (it) will be long.
Our climb (it) will be steep.
We as a people will get there.
(But it will not be cheap.)"
What is the peak we have to scale?
The road, where does it go?
What is the cost to follow him?
We really ought to know.
Perhaps he does not see a peak.
He could be in a pit
That into which no light can shine
And so he can't see it.
Maybe his road has not an end
That's clear as it might seem.
It's been so long he may not see
His end is still "the Dream".
When he explains the costs to us
What items will there be,
Our bank account, our way of life
And our philosophy?
The speech inspired but we need more.
His words do not shine far.
If we can't see a lighted end
We'll end up where we are.
Barack Obama: attack on greed
Barack Obama: a cautionary view
Barack Obama: fighting for change
Barack Obama: my hope
Barack Obama: inauguration day
Barack Obama: professing change
Barack Obama: sacrificing lives
Barack Obama: healthcare
Barack Obama: his Gulf oil war
Barack Obama: winning the future
The explanation of life and related writings.
02/02/24
INTRODUCTION
Like everyone, I inherited an existence. Mine collapsed circa 1970 while I was at McMaster U, Hamilton, ON, Canada, getting a BA(math) and B. Phys Ed, so I could teach. While sorting through the rubble of my life I noticed, though not as pervasive as it is today, a continuum of varied and increasing conflict permeating our existence. I wondered why.
Though wondering for myself I thought I should find the reason for conflict before a student I might teach asked me. I couldn’t deduce the reason with math; nor did I think I found it in the 5 major religions and their thousands of offspring, or in the 11 volume history of philosophy I skimmed for electives.
So besides my formal degrees, I graduated with a major degree of motivation to find before I taught, the reason for conflict. I never taught. By the time I discovered the answer to why increasing conflict pervades our existence, I’d become, with the help of my brother, a self-employed carpenter.
I tried and failed to share the answer at least three times and each time I vowed to quit trying. The last was in 1998 when a friend of a friend, a philosophy professor, wished me good luck on other projects. To help keep my last vow I started an addition to my house. I received even more help in 2000 when I began caring for my parents.
But then, when my father died in 2004 I was motivated to try sharing my analysis one more time before I died. I was still thinking of a hard copy when a friend suggested I publish on a website. I’d never heard of websites nor could I type but with more help from my Mother I bought a computer, learned to type, and with expert help, created a website.
I first thought I’d bury the reason for conflict in an essay. But having already experienced web attention deficit disorder I decided to highlight the essence of it in my website logo and add context with blog posts.
Since there is no answer to “Why am I?”, attempts to answer it, such as the myriad religions and philosophies I skimmed, and a variety of other responses I found, are tries to fill the void. Though we can mix them, some may be similar and even have identical names, because we direct them to the void within us, our tries are all opposed and so cause conflict to the extent of our belief in them.
But, conflict is not inevitable. We can diminish it and resulting death to the degree we empty the void. Now, if we choose to empty the void, our lives are not then devoid of activity, on the contrary! Because it is essential, we each possess some remnant of “reaching out to the limits of our capacities, to others and to Nature’s God”, the natural activity that creates and tries to maintain all life.
So, even though in the 200k years since the birth of humanity we have replaced almost all our inherited natural activity with the human made unnatural, self-destructive activity of trying to fill the void, if we choose to empty the void, the remnants of our natural, self-creative activity will at least refill our lives and possibly answer “Why am I?”
I have been trying share these basic facts of life for a few years by advertising. Last year (2023) I bought 8 million page views with half the value of my home, without effect; but this time I won’t quit. The warnings about fatal climate change by hundreds of climate scientists over many more years have also been ignored.
However, I do have to reduce my advertising. If it is too late to prevent it, I’ll need a place to live where I can watch the increasing conflict within us, between us and with Nature, causing at least the death of us and maybe all of Nature, possibly even before I’d have died in peace.
If you feel moved to help me share these facts you can by using the share icon at the end of any post, notably my most recent piece of rhymed reason, “Analyzing Conflict”, or any other way of sharing. If you also click on the like icon you will see an explosion of hearts, an expression of my gratitude. 🙏 Doug E Barr.
Part 1.Nature’s ideal diet: It was designed to maintain our immune/ maintenance system at its optimum operating condition to protect us from both pathogenic and autoimmune diseases. It protected our predecessors from conception to the birth of humanity when they realized the mental capacity to choose. It can still protect us but over the millennia increasing numbers of us chose to ignore ’Her’ ideal, and thus our increasing disease. Specifically, ignoring the overlap causes, it could save the $34 billion cost of weight loss drugs, about $800 billion cost for treating type II diabetes, and many billions more in other healthcare costs.
Part 2. Nature’s ideal life: It protected our predecessors from conflict until the birth of humanity. It can still protect us but over the millennia increasing numbers of individuals chose to ignore ‘Her’ ideal and thus, our increasing conflict.
Part 3. The integration of parts 1 and 2
Part 4. Existential risks: They are the result of our ancestors increasingly choosing to ignore Nature’s nutritional ideal. They may be reduced by expanding our mental capacity beyond what was realized at the birth of humanity. It would only take an instant, but the time we have to make the necessary choice is quickly running out.
Part 5. Appendix: Mostly diet related math that may have caused the mathematically challenged to quit reading in the middle of Part 1.
