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nothing can stop you now
nothing had stopped you before
your push towards the sea
towards some lower position
to a natural state called “rest”
that is your unrest
but no one noticed
life death existence non
they are all the same thing
indifferent before now ever
This morning I opened the newspaper and saw “EPA” on the front page headlines. “Oh, great!” I thought … until I read it stood for economic partnership agreement.
It used to stand for Environmental Protection Agency.
How times have changed … or regressed.
We are such masters at deception and self-delusion.
Until now there wasn’t a word for this trick – shrinkflation – of making things smaller while selling it to you at the same price as before. We knew about it as manufacturers (they all do it). And as consumers we notice it but forget about it seconds later.
This is why I dislike economics because it is dishonest in its methods.
I’ve said similar things about money and value before. It is easy to pull wool over the consumers eyes with visual trickery.
It saddens me that people feel they need to hurt others in order for their pain and dissatisfaction to be heard. Whatever the problem may be there should never be any reason why one should take life even if the human condition is seemingly unbearable. Solutions can only be solved as a collective for we share a reality. We are dependent beings in a common environment at a certain time. So your problem is essentially my problem and we should live with this understanding and find solutions together. You, terrorists, are wrong if you believe you are alone in this world. You, America, too are wrong if you think they alone are the problem. So when we “talk with guns” and not words we are not really talking but shouting in pain, shouting in anger. And no one is listening in such an atmosphere.
Prayers go out to those who lost someone.
“We have been all the way to the Moon and back,
but we have trouble crossing the street
to meet the new neighbour.”
Dalai Lama
How deceiving food portions can be. No wonder we have trouble with moderation. Here is 200 calories in the form of peanut butter (38 grams).
Now here is an interesting (but not so new) idea.
While we often talk about what should be the minimum a person should earn for good standard of living we never talk about what is the maximum someone really needs. The term may be a great play on words it isn’t an empty concept. In essence it is the idea of moderation. The phrase “maximum wage” may be a catchy term but why should we adopt the ‘floor-only’ way of thinking and not a ‘ceiling-also’ philosophy? We have been tricked by the rich to think that they have been looking out for the underdogs when really they have been looking out for themselves.
Sixty-seven years ago the world lost something. We continue to hope for a world without nuclear weapons.
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