Who is us?

(A gentle reminder:  my guiding theme is Pogo's famous dictum, "We have met the enemy, and he is us.")

How is us our own enemy?  Us pollutes our own drinking water, our irrigating water, our playing-in water.  Us pollutes the air we breathe.  Us pollutes the soil we grow food in.  Us builds perfectly good dwellings and line them with poisons, poisons that kill, and poisons that slowly undermine our physical and mental health.  Us knows we need job, jobs, and more jobs, then us don't create them, or us creates them and pays chicken-feed for people who do real work.  Us makes drinks that make us feel wonderful, and then us drinks them till they stupify and kill us.  Us assert and affirm that our children need education, and then us provides our children with a substitute for education that teaches them no-history and not-quite-science and factless civics and pretty sociology.  Us keeps on stepping on the rake no matter how many times it hits us in the head.  Us keeps digging holes to order without noticing how much they look like graves.

 DoY 161     (10 June 2021)

who is us?

Could us be unknowable?  Could us be so self-contradictory that a rational being could not understand us?  Could us be so generous, kind, merciful, forgiving, petty, rageful, vengeful, raping, torturing, maiming, and murderous that no one who uses logic could figure us out?  Is that why us prefer "makes sense" to logic?  Can us "get" each other even though us can't predict ourselves much less another?  If us is unknowable, does that say anything about our ability to survive as a species?  To thrive?

for Doy 154    (3 June  2021)

Who is us?

Man!  Us is Israeli "other" parties combining to dump Netanyahu.  Us is Biden planning to spend $6T to reinvigorate the US.  Us is Biden delegating so much to Kamala.  Us is Texas trying to restrict the right to vote so Blacks, Mexicans, Asians, Jews, and old and young people can't vote.  Us is Arizona trying to recount the votes in Maricopa County.  Us is a major tennis competition getting their underpants in a knot about a star not submitting to stupid questions like "How do you feel about...?"  Us is rounding up refugees in concentration camps.  Us is pretending us is kind, generous, hospitable, and altruistic.  Us is being convinced us is.

(splanation:  last week I could not find my way here)