DoY 084

Who is us?

Us is 328 million UnitedStatesians, or 7.9 billion humans on the earth.  Wow!  Either way, that's a lot of people!  Either way that's a helluva lot of people!  And us are not very well informed.  And us are not trained to do critical thinking.  Most of what us call thinking is emotional or sentimental reaction to the few facts us know, and all too often to pseudo-facts us are fed.  Our masters have no reason to tell us what's so.  They have plenty of reason to tell us platitudes and outright lies.  Heck, if us knew about our masters and how they manipulate us, us might revolt!  Revolutions are so untidy!  And unpredictable.  Compare the Glorious Revolution in England to the French Revolution.  Yes, left to our own devices, us are probably better off being led by our likes and dislikes than trying to make important decisions on our own.

Funny then that I'm an ardent supporter of republics.  "Democracy" is just a lie.  It requires slavery, and it fully occupies all citizens voting about trash collection and clean water and armies and wars and all that.  No, better to let a few politicians amuse themselves with all that so the rest of us can go about the daily business of house cleaning and making a living and having a good time.  Or a bad time if that's your preference.

For DoY 077

Who is us?

Us is a clique of mean and petty-minded girls who drive a classmate to suicide.  Us is a bunch of boys who torment a classmate into suicide.  Us is a bunch of boys at a party who get a girl drunk, serially rape her, and post pictures of the event on social media.  Us is a collection of fathers in a neighborhood who gather to burn and scare a new family out of the neighborhood.  Us is a mob who gather in a church for the preacher's blessing before us go out and wreak havoc.  Us is a white cop captain condoning a white killer's bad day.  Us is people who invent a god who gives us a list of commandments on how to behave, then commands us to break them.  Us is 7 billion people working to make our planet unlivable.

 Blog entry DoY 070

Who is us?

Y'know?  Us includes the staff here at Atria Senior Living, and they're damned considerate, caring, welcoming, hospitable.  Are they gonna convert a curmudgeon into a benevolent, approving observer of us?  Prob'ly not.  But it's nice, it's nice!

 Who is us?  DoY 063

Who *is* us?

Last night I attended and participated in a poetry workshop and open mic that has existed and met weekly since 1990.  It is a staple and a feature in the lives of more than a generation of us.  The group brings hospitality and generosity to their work on the art and practice of writing poetry.

So that gives us another piece of who is us:  poets and other writers.

And it gives us another example of us granting us kindness, encouragement and  generosity.

Sometimes us don't look so bad, do us?