Through the window I could see a glimmering gaze waiting for me - A choice, in the noise: Light from afar or delight at the bar. One more day mind glazed; One more day in the shade; One more day of empty glasses; One more day for second chances - Fear stained memories in a cage, forgotten feelings in a haze, cold and shrill and numbing: Another thing coming… So time for home, time for bed, too many words have been said; Cold relief, short and brief, turning tables, writing labels, making time to switch (which is which?) One more day mind glazed; One more day in the shade; One more day of empty glasses; One more day for second chances - Fear stained memories in a cage, forgotten feelings in a haze, cold and shrill and numbing: Another thing coming… Now you’ve set me up in the middle of some good luck, with the myth: The iron gate of an altered state - Myself withheld from all my sins, falling down on the sharpened ground. The night-time cure, the magic mixture, the mystery - Your special power shimmers in a night-shine, a potion of lost emotion reflecting a fantasy in my head. One more day mind glazed; One more day in the shade; One more day of empty glasses; One more day for second chances - Fear stained memories in a cage, forgotten feelings in a haze, cold and shrill and numbing: Another thing coming…
Author: Robert Walker
A Song Within
Battles closing minds at war; Fights the same, just as before. Raging struggles in your way, surviving another day of artificial, unsubstantial Fears full of the end. A song within is for display - Play it now, play it loud, play it soft; But most of all: Love it all. “Them and us, us and them” makes it easy to condemn - Red in tooth and claw does not have to be the law; Anger bathed in fear only makes another tear. Take another step, the next step, for all. A song within is for display - Play it now, play it loud, play it soft; But most of all: Love it all. Listen to the whisper, quiet and small: Light belongs to all - But most of all: Love it all.
Blah De Blah
Tedium… Tedious conversation… Boring repeats, heard it all before: Blah de blah, boring blah blah, “How dare you, what about me?” Blah blah, blah de blah blah, boring, blah blah blah. The same look in the eyes, the same scripted replies: “I’m better than, I’m more than” – comparison of facades. Seeking, needing the outrage; fanning the flames, finding someone to blame. Taught behaviour, taught script: “Look at me! Aren’t I special. Give me a biscuit!” “My happy versus your happy;” “Aren’t I special because I conform.” (Spoon fed some rules.) Blah de blah, boring blah blah, “How dare you, what about me?” Blah blah blah, blah de blah blah, boring, blah blah blah. “Everybody must have the same opinion” - Nobody knows everything, even about one thing: The more I see the less I know; the more I see the more I feel. Explanations unfold, change colour and disappear into space - The enormity and hugeness of limitless space… Blah de blah, boring blah blah, “How dare you, what about me?” Blah blah, blah de blah blah, boring, blah blah blah. No need to be imprisoned by a side, by a tribe - Each day is different, rules are for machines. Exceptions are for you. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Journal 2022-07-17
(Writer, songwriter), (actor, singer), (art, innovation).
I have done, am doing, and will do, all this.
Writer is the first and current focus.
Acting and innovation are broad categories, comprising different activities.
Keep moving, wibble wobble rhubarb etc.
Random Thoughts
The goal with current gaps and an action plan. Has anyone done this analysis for humanity? (I mean one that is based on universal flourishing and kindness, not written by useful idiots and implemented by empowered psychopaths.)
Energy builds up internally through relentless thinking and wants to be released.
Working is more fulfilling than chilling.
Reduce work by doing it.
I am a writer. I perform for necessity or fun.
Summarise rather than simplify.
Right now, everything is probably fine. There will be challenges, and preparation for them is a good idea – but whatever they may be, this exact moment is probably fine.
Maybe a school exam question in the future: To what extent was the series of US imbecilic Presidents and broken political system responsible for the reaffirmation of totalitarianism in non-Western countries? Was this causally connected to the emergence of the Internet and social media?
Marcus Aurelius was succeeded by Commodus. As a metaphor, even philosopher kings beget tyranny.
In the totalitarian mindset, facts are attacked and suppressed if they do not conform to belief stories.
Journal 2022-07-12
Either use apps or read books of jokes, facts, quotes and vocabulary. Collated paragraphs of knowledge primers would be beneficial to learning as well.
Random Thoughts:
The past can offer lessons and warnings, but should not determine the quality of today nor the direction of the future.
These words are words. Your thoughts determine the effect on you, good or bad.
Anything great is always achieved outside of society’s expectations.
It is compassionate to be happy.
Be someone’s smile.
Journal 2022-07-09
I’m absolutely happy with the reservoirs of knowledge and culture that my phone makes available to me, including:
- Monthly subscriptions to Kindle, Audible, Spotify/Apple Music.
- Follows of blogs, micro-blogs, video playlists and podcasts (with an option to support).
The one missing is a platform that provides the availability of any course of learning to everyone.
Random Thoughts:
Certainty is limited. Uncertainty is unbounded infinite possibility.
There was a brief interlude in the 1950s to 1990s when delusion and unfairness started to diminish. The desire for fairness has continued in this century, but people have become far more delusional and crazed, making fair outcomes less likely and opening the door to the truly vile forces that have wreaked misery through so much of history.
Are you a societal meme?
I am impossible to offend. “You’re a blancmange!” they say. Ok, well you have your opinions, and I’ll have mine.
Everyone you meet and everyone who is affected by you needs you not to be a twat.
JBK
I’m not interested in your hair, eye or skin colour. I don’t care what type of person you fancy. I don’t care what you identify as or belief system you follow. Just be kind.
Random Thoughts
There have been plenty of middle management monsters running countries in history – they are psychotic narcissists who copy from a playbook given to them and repeat the past.
Can creativity thrive under authoritarian conditions, aided by artificial intelligence? Can slaves be compelled and threatened to create? Can they create if they are constantly lied to and manipulated, rather than inspired? The correlation to date has been with freedom.
If consciousness can be programmed to live in a heavenly state of bliss, why bother creating simulations? If reality can be anything, then why this one?
People who put percentage probabilities on the origins and nature of existence have a myopic view of the probability tree.
Exploring was great, but I am now about to focus. I probably won’t be updating my word count here, for a while.
Random Thoughts
On a hot day, humans can outrun horses over long distances.
Thoughts determine your wellbeing. Fluffy thoughts are lovely; however if they are based on some personal deceit, they will turn sour. Negative thoughts destroy you and everything you experience. Positive thoughts based on what is true is the optimal state of being.
I enjoy sentences where different interpretations are all true. The sentence is the fact, but the meaning is multiple. The ultimate sentence is when, on some higher level, all the seemingly contradictory explanations harmonise as one great beauty.
Does the universe exist if your consciousness is not perceiving it? This question will usually be met with “of course”, eye rolls and the like, instantly dismissing logic which suggests: the only irreducible certainty is that an experience is being perceived in the current moment. I am not solipsistic by inclination; it’s just interesting to me how quickly the idea is dismissed as obviously false and egocentric. But people are often irritated when an axiom is touched, and advances in knowledge are usually counter-intuitive. So what if all assumptions are false?
Gamer: We’re living in a simulation. I have proof.
Religioner: That’s ok. God created the world that made the simulation and put the Holy ghost in the machine.
God: By the way, something created me.
Rob Walker 