A Discursive Universe (poem)

 

The ocean seemed bottomless
except over space and time
where tectonics plates and distant shores
opened and closed like an accordion
played by a kangaroo

Variations on a crustal wave
mountains rising, falling, subsided and subducted
coated by vegetation
slathered with sunrises and settings
lives by the billions misled
willingly to wars like surface tempests
wherein biologicals strive and sometimes die

Wild oceans teaming with life
thrown into nets cast with poisons
toxins dumped into catch-alls
stars would notice
if they thought like distant AI units
with their own fusion power supplies

While the wonder of quantum fluctuations
of a theoretical unification theory
is a semblance
-a portion of reason to formulate a theory
of plank lengths, and meters in a fathomless sea
where nothing calculable surrounded a quantum microdot

The beginning of a relativistic bootstrap of virtually nothing
the continuum of everything being and becoming
a phenomenon within a void without end
breadth or depth comprehensible
wherein the temporal stars and planets
are the measure of meaning
for-itself never to be understood
though mathematical phrases reflect it.

Western Leadership May Always Be Recalcitrant About Truthful Peace Negotiations for Ukraine

 President Trump needs to resist calls from war mongers to place sanctions on Russia or restore weapons supplies to Ukraine.  My opinion for years was that Russia should share Ukraine with the Western government of Ukraine, dividing the country roughly along the Dnepr. So far Russia has failed to accomplish that goal while the west has been pure war mongering full-war ahead oriented toward Eastern military movement.

https://www.youtube.com/live/qhngetm_UvY?si=v3GWlLgs4kBFkX6e

Russia will not capitulate to attack;they took a beating from the Nazis and kept on ticking like Duracell batteries until they reached Berlin. President Putin has more modest goals, and capturing land that rightly should belong to Russia along the East Bank of the Dnepr is probably so far as that goes. The sooner Russia accomplishes that objective the sooner the war can end. No amount of PR grandstanding or conniving and levering will get that done. 

https://www.barrons.com/news/trump-blows-hot-and-cold-on-putin-with-ukraine-war-in-limbo-3c883bc2?refsec=topics_afp-news

The West seems to be happy itself to continue the war, so long as the U.S.A. and Russia pay for it. President Putin is not crazy to resist having modern Russia be converted into a rump state intimidated by the West and its queer values that concentrate wealth to global elites while letting the global ecosphere decay. President Trump may be drowning in cries from Western leaders to throw more bombs and missiles into the pot of Ukraine, and that would be hard to hear. He may have no supportive international allies that share a rational point of view on the conflict with him. 

If the west agrees to simple terms after the Russians accomplish primary goals with Ukraine and N.A.T.O. President Putin should sign off on peace readily I would think. The West needs to demilitarize Ukraine except for an adequate self defense force de frappe, eliminate all sanctions, demands for reparations etc and recognize full Russian sovereignty over it's occupied lands of East Ukraine.

Most likely the West will always be disingenuous with Ukraine negotiations as they want simply to own everything in it and perhaps the entire world too. hey will assure the worst possible outcome short of nuclear war and won't sue for peace until they feel threatened by Russian encroachment. It isn't that Europeans can't fight- they can, its just that few are stupid enough to fight an unnecessary, unprofitable war except with other countries lives and treasure. Becoming recondite and truthful is something one cannot expect. P.R. B.S. always follows the clownish negotiating positions they put forward publicly. That is a problem that people that believe they have absolute power and have no reason to make concessions of an sort are bound to have.

The Big Beautiful Boondoggle- Trump Trends

 President Trump has done a good job working many things. It is useful at this point to evaluate a few positions that seem to be causing him trouble.

One is the Bug Beautiful Tax Cut bill that would add 3.8 trillion dollars to national public debt. That definitely is the wrong way to go. It is a big budget busting boondoggle. It isn’t even remotely an ecologically sustainable approach either. President Trump should restore energy credits for non greenhouse gas emitting technologies or at least pursue new ways to reduce greenhouse gassing from the U.S.A. although that seems beyond his capability.

The leaders of both parties don't know what austerity is. The mind set of the prosperous isn't capable of recognizing that the present way of economics is environmentally unsustainable. The system cannot balance a budget and eliminate public debt even by undermining the security of the poor since they haven't got much to take away as it is. Pioneers of the nation could face tough challenges in economics- they had no choice of avoiding them, The trick is to be able to have that pioneer mind set while prosperous and to leverage that prosperity to jump from a melting iceberg form of economic drifting south onto one going in a different direction. Escalating competence in environmental economics may be a talent the prosperous aren't capable that frontiersmen found easy in the foundation of the nation.

Obamacare should be repealed and a national health care system for the poor and lower middle class created with direct provisioning of service by federal employees, The prosperous would be excluded. This really is the cheapest and most humanitarian approach.

Reaganomics had the fatal flaw of creating massive public debt, it was a good way to end the Cold War yet a stupid government always brings those sorts of things back to life. The Zombie war in Ukraine is a result of Clinton era dumb and dumber Russia policy designs.

Forty trillion dollars of public debt is just morally and practically dumb and unsupportable. The war in Ukraine can be wrapped up if President Trump recognizes those Russian free state annexations of the East Bank of the Dnepr, ends sanctions n Russia, and assures neutrality of west Ukraine so far as to make it a non-military threat to Russia. President Trump seems to be willing to kick the can down the road on that however, as he is with his Big Beautiful Boondoggle bill.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/how-much-will-u-s-debt-increase-with-passage-of-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-heres-the-whopping-amount/articleshow/121346960.cms?from=mdr

Epicureans and Stoics Had Beliefs- True or Not

 Epicureans and Stoics were both believers in a god or gods. Stoics believed in a divine principle or Logos and Epicureans leaned toward an identity as Deists. The actual beliefs of ancient Greek philosophic schools are different from those of modernity generally. Some of the ancients would be closer to Spinoza paradigmatically. They tended toward regarding god as a divine principle or power in back of everything, if they weren't polytheists. There isn't much of a relationship, if any, between those ancient schools and modern people of faith or of those that aren't. There are no simple answers in the field. One may of course compare and contrast ideas in a secular sense, phenomenally. That too generates synthetic ideas for-oneself and not necessarily an objective sense of what is true concerning various kinds of faith.

In the Light of Love (poem)

My love, I count you near my heart
wind rushing sounds of beating together
moving like quick quark art
lighting the darkness with ineffable ether

Starting with time rushing farther
breaking away from yesterdays fast
love can make one a martyr
it that’s the way fate is cast

Take me to your heart
for us let love never part
let it be shadows and silence that are leaving
as we share each other
in bright light of the sun

Starting with each other
there can never be another
way to live if you were gone
love will find a way to weather
never will love be wrong.

https://suno.com/s/Ao3xoRN31jeSl7Av

Love and Sacrifice- The Question of When Does it Count

 What if a man make a sacrifice for the wrong reasons, or fails to make a sacrifice when he should if he were virtuous- is anyone counting in eternity? That seems to be the question at the heart of love and sacrifice, although one may simply choose to give up their life entirely for secular reasons.

Someone asked about love and what can be learned from it. I shouldn't have replied to the question like it was the essay portion of an exam. I might have written more about love and honor, judgment and social reality. It is needful to express one's love in person. I of course have thought about sacrifice in many forms from that of Christ to war and wondered if everyone besides Christ, who was acting for God, made sacrifices that were generally meaningful. Sacrifices made in the name of love.

Everything is complex socially speaking. It is far worse than  that game where one persons has a message and they pass it down a line of people and at the end it is changed from the original. Sociology researches such issues, as do mathematics and physics, about the number of relations between individuals that are possible- in a world with 8 billion plus people there is so very much fragmented, distorted, misunderstood and lost information that it makes developing optimal political course very rare. Actually Gemini said there are 32 trillion possible relations among 8 billion people... more than I could keep track of.

On a personal level the most meaningful thing I was told counting as advice was from a man who had been a pallbearer of General Patton whom I was painting for. He said; "Don't make anyone's life more difficult; they all have their own battle to face". I once knew a lady with a tattoo on her arm from Auschwitz; that was the best advice I ever saw.

How to Make Cowboy Bead

 I will tell you how to make bannock (bread). It is cowboy bread and super easy. Good to know for emergencies. It actually works great over an open fire in a heavy iron skillet. Get a 5 gallon paint bucket and lid and fill it full with a twenty pound bag of flour. As you are filling it mix a can of Clabber Girl baking power in with the flour and mix it up well- then it is ready and stores fine for months. When you want bread take some of the flour mixture from the bucket and add cold water mixing it together until you have a ball of bread dough. Flatten it out to fill an entire frying pan about an inch  and a half thick. Grease the frying pan with vegetable oil and heat the bread slowly. You can flip the bread like a pancake if you are skillful. Brown both sides of the bread and make sure the center is cooked too. Never cut bannock; instead break it. I used to cut it horizontally and fill with tuna or meat from a can and whatever sauce I had- or jelly or ketchup. Instant bread, low fat and good. The five pound bucket provides enough bread for the better part of a month. If you add some Krusteaz instant blueberry pancake mix to the five gallon bucket the bread turns out somewhat like a giant blueberry muffin.