Oh The Things . . .

https://www.spring.org.uk/2014/08/how-you-can-instantly-tell-which-way-a-crowd-is-looking.php

There’s a boy in a room.

It’s a cavernous room,

With the walls all festooned

With the likenesses of

Sincere and humble, pious faces.

The eyes were watching,

Intently so.

Suspiciously watching,

But they weren’t the eyes

Of some omniscient, single, potent being.

They were the eyes of my fellow man,

And oh the things they did see.

By design or by fate,

From the boy grew the man,

And believing in magic,

Drew his comfort from what 

They called his deep faith

And perseverance.

All those around him

And the vast majority believed

In it too,

So much resembling dependent infancy 

I shudder. Shudder!

As a product of his time,

And of nurture through the years,

He pushed on where his intellect

Showed him how to proceed

Without any invasive deities.

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                          2014

More Prescience . . .

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(from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand)

". . . ". . . And you have always been first to believe that the public does not think." He paused, but Dr. Stadler said nothing. "This book may have no philosophical value whatever, but it has a great psychological value." "Just what is that?" "You see, Dr. Stadler, people don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who give them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt." . . . "

Don't Think About It
- One Way

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        Black & White Then Back

Black & White . . .

 

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Nothing in life is strictly black or white.  It's the shades that make it all so interesting. This song appears on the album Black & White Then Back but was actually written about 1993 with three, very special, little men in mind. It even has lyrics.

Innocence and wisdom coexist inside their minds,

Together with appreciation for the things we miss

In our haste and our big business.

Always in awe of the wheels spinning round

And a laugh for the foolish things big men do.

The poet said, 'Trailing clouds of glory 

We come and we go.'

What do we really know?

Smiling so brightly 

Betraying the years 

They have yet to try.

Those little men 

With that glory;

Riddles and bedtime stories;

Little men with that glory 

In their eyes.

Everybody thinks about the world and what the future brings.

Who really knows the plan and all its subtleties?

We're really smart, at least that's what we think.

Going our own way in blissful retreat

From the prospect of seeing things too clearly.

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                         No Frills

What Is And Is Not . . .

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(from https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-mar-a-lago-search-justified)

". . . The truth needs to be set forth plainly and simply, and so let’s get down to brass tacks here. What happened on August 8, 2022, was not tyranny. It was not political persecution. It was not a minor dust up over bureaucratic processes blown out of proportion. It was the criminal justice system operating just like it does with any other private citizen on any other given day ending in a "y." . . . Trump was the president and commander-in-chief up until noon on January 20, 2021. The moment Joe Biden took the Oath of Office, Trump became just another private citizen in his 70s who vacations in Florida during the winter months to avoid the bitter cold back in his native home in the Northeast. He was no longer shielded by any privileges or protections of the Office of the Presidency at the point beyond physical security protection. He is subject to the laws of the United States just like anyone else. . ."

I'm Not Like Everybody Else
- The Kinks

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Token . . .

 

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                 Critic’s Choice

Complacency . . .

It won’t happen.
Turmoil’s not round the bend for us.
All controls are in place;
Neat in their space
See the keeper’s
Keeping vigilant watch
Through a window obscured.
This I assure.
It just can’t
Happen here.
No one saw it 
Sneaking up round the corner. Was
Like a thief in the night
Without a fight.
Quite the artist.
Candy-coating what he’s saying
For his own selfish means. 
That’s how he leans.
Advocate progressive-sounding ideas.
Tell the people what they want to hear.
There’s no hiding
Dissatisfaction you feel. 
Keeps on burning inside.
Still you abide.

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                               Put A Finger On It

Maybe . . .

. . . everything is really NOT about you!

From Wikipedia The Evil Queen in front of the Mirror. Illustration by 

John Batten for Joseph Jacobs's Europa's Fairy Book (1916).

Every hair on your head

Has got to be in place

For the camera.

Every place you happen to be

The people stare.

You are not the main attraction.

You are not the main attraction.

You are not the main attraction,

But oh,

How you wanted to be.

Don't equate each little thing

That happened in the past

To the present.

Don't expect each person to see

The things you see.

Do you ever think of anyone else?

Does concern come crossing your mind?

There's enough conceit under your own belt

To last a lifetime.

If your dream should ever come true,

I'll see that spiteful face

On the cover

Of a tabloid where the headline reads

'She wants to be . . . '

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