Chinese flood, the seed of man floats Upon the wooden beams and trash, Debris swept through global currents. Gun,---mortal god slain!---Yu's father Rages at The Supreme God's choice To destroy mankind. Yu, the Loong, Appears, to quell the Great Flood's wrath. A Global Flood myth, said to rage For over twenty years, and the Loong Is the one who saves mankind, in Rage at the Supreme Deity For causing the world to die. Understand our enemy. In Chinese mythology The Dragon saves man from El. Yet, in Chinese History The Child saves man from Yu. The dark parable of the Dragon and Lion Where the Lion wages war with the Gold Dragon To become the child; it says it is the Loong Of Thou Shalt, that is warred with by the Lion's fang. Yet, this myth clearly shows, it is not that Loong who The Lion wars with, but rather the Golden, Yu. And then, by warring with the rebel we become Like the child, guitless, merciful, unable To know Sin, which is another auld name of Yu.
I Am a Blackbird
I am a Common Grackle with piebald feathers, Half white, though, like a Holstein's mane, with large Circular plume. I am a Blackbird, still--- My songs, Though dissonant, are perrare, And also vital.
An Essay on Social Credit
So, at the simplest, it’s basically a stipend program, that creates a base income for people to get started? I mean, any system that tries to eliminate poverty, I’m skeptical of. I get some of my favorite authors liked this idea. T. S. Eliot, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Ray Bradbury, to name a few. And I have to admit, maybe they understand it better than I do.
But, from what I’m reading, creating a universal pool of capital for people to borrow from incurs debts. Debts don’t exist on paper, they exist as a means of distributing goods and services. So, you’re going to have to base your money on something. It can’t be based on nothing. As, at some point you’re going to run into problems with apportionment. And I think it’s pretty well proven that people need labor in order to… well… survive. People can’t live without work or occupation. That’s been proven.
Maybe as a means to, in a sense, borrow into the economy this would work. Like, you could borrow money for College Tuition, or a Business Loan, but let’s look at the primary problem with this. There’s only so much real estate on the planet. So, property, if it’s one of the things you can invest in, will naturally rise as more people are born. And you can take all segments of the economy to explain this. And I’m not being Malthusian… I think in that one instant it is pretty noticeable that there is only so much arable land and resources. So, I don’t think you’ve eliminated the problem of Scarcity to begin with.
It’s hard to say, but an economy built on the practice of lending unpayable debt… it’s assuming a surplus that did exist when this was becoming popular. But, it likely can’t exist in the future. So, the only way to create a surplus, is to have people employed. Which, some of the jobs that people are employed to do, are not really that safe, or glorious. Like, a lumberjack is endangered by the logs, a quarier is endangered by the stones. There’s some principles in the Bible that I think—even being derived from Biblical ideas that Christ preached—are forgetting other portions of the Bible. For instance, you cannot eliminate the poor from existing. Why that is is simply a few things, one of them being human corruption. There’s sin. In a world without any sin or covetousness, sure… you could possibly almost have it. But, then there’s issues with supply and demand.
I wrote about this sort of idea—it’s different in many ways—in my novel The Fifth Angel’s Trumpet. And I think one of the things I was cognizant about when writing it, was that the real estate couldn’t hold the demand for the increases in population. I knew that from the get go, and was trying to find a way around that situation. The best solution, is simply to give people work. And allow them to do their business. How you get them those resources, I think that’s what Social Capital is trying to solve. To have debts without the burden of debt. And that’s interesting, but resources aren’t created on demand. They’re not willed into existence, or come into existence by sheer wishful thinking, as much as we’d like that to be the case. There’s real processes that go into every resource, and every product we have. And to have a borrowing process that eliminates the demand for debt—it’s going to have to come from some very philanthropic lenders. Let’s just say that. There has to be some real capital behind the loans, that allows this to take place.
So, generally, in a philanthropic world, this could work if the Social Capital were lent by billionaires, but then you’re assuming King, and if there’s a king in this sort of economy, who generously lends his wealth out to people without expecting anything in return… I just don’t know if that’s better than simply having the system we have today. Especially with human fallibility. Generally, Governments don’t produce wealth. They’re not supposed to. They protect their citizens, they build roads and common infrastructure, and they don’t make a very good profit. You’re basically asking, with this system, for people like Bill Gates and Elon Musk and George Soros to lend their money to people for no interest, just on the sheer benefactory nature of it being right? As I don’t see the government turning a profit to where this would be possible. And frankly, I don’t want to be beholden to people like that for my loans. Like, banks exist for a reason, and they make money for a reason. They make money off of their interest. It’s not ex-nihilo. It’s explained pretty well in Fredrick Bastiat’s Essays on Political Economy.
My only place where I agree with this notion, is that there should be an easier way for people to make it in this world, without having to go into substantial debt. And that’s a fact, that it shouldn’t be necessary for someone to go into debt in order to make a good life for themselves. And I think that’s where I agree with this system, is in that point. It’s unethical to force people into attaining a burden of debt just to survive. And as another Bible Verse says, “The wicked nation is the borrower of another” while “The righteous nation is a lender.”
The Glass Onion
Just say they wore masks And I'll understand perfectly why You don't like it.
Bittul
It is what God is teaching me--- The emptying of my self for compassion's sake And to humble myself before others And not to make a show of knowledge. For, Christ's command was Bittul, To rebuke a Pharisee for straining a gnat While he swallowed a camel by forgetting compassion.
Fake News
There are real kids being forced to transition. But, the fact check websites say there isn't. I listen to the Lawyers, first hand, who deal With the cases. But, the News pretends it isn't happening. Cities burn behind CNN reporters, but everything is okay. I know individuals who believe in the rhetoric. Yet, they brand it as "Tabloid" and "Fake News" And then sue Alex Jones.
The Pulitzer Prize is Cheap. Any Contest You Have to Pay to Enter, is Flimsy and Unreputable. Just Like Any Publisher that You Pay to Publish or Look at Your Work.
Here I thought you had to be invited, And nominated, and all the literature published Was considered based on recommendation. Nope. It's just as scandalous as an All Poetry contest Or something on WordPress. Frankly, I really wanted a Pulitzer Prize Because I thought the prize would find me. Not beg me to be so prideful as to enter my work For a fee.
Language Barrier
I hate this world,
Everything about it.
I speak the language
But none do understand.
It is like I speak a foreign tongue;
Metaphor, Simile, Symbolism,
Archetype, Portmanteau, Kenning,
Equity is injustice
God is not believed
The Supermen rule society
With their AIDs cures and Condoms and Day After Pills.
The Devil screams his melody,
Offers me the world
While admitting what he admitted
In his poesy;
His hand around my neck,
“Why don’t you squeeze?”
He does believe in God,
Despite his best efforts not to.
But, like the spook with the pentacle on his arm
He hates God, and wages his unholy war.
NO ONE IS HAPPY
NO ONE IS HAPPY
NO ONE IS HAPPY!!!!!
But you are.
But that is why I left you have the world;
For you and Gloria destroy it
Making your Theonomy,
Of Gay and Transgender
And the Church of England preaches that Jesus was just a man.
And I leave you this, my song—
Squeeze a little harder,
And you’ll choke the life out of me
And have what you wanted all along.
I will not be your scapegoat.
Territory
The thing that makes humanity a frightening species And will inevitably be our downfall, Is that we are very territorial. I watch my Red Tail shark chase away The Neon Tetra, and it doesn't allow her to eat. I then see a lawyer try to sue an AI Company for transforming different images Into newer images, I then think that most of what I wrote Is probably on The Library of Babel Somewhere. And that doesn't concern me. However, Lawyers, with their keen sense of property, Are seething to outlaw speech. Russia is invading Ukraine, For former allegiances, And China is threatening Taiwan For the same thing. What's obvious, is that the truth Is shared across all cultures But our modern age tries to copyright Archetypes. The various words And idiosyncrasies associated With my writing is mine. But, if someone wishes to borrow a story I told Or a plot, or a theme, it's not mine. It's everyone's. But, humans are incredibly territorial Just like the Red Tailed shark, And I feel that's the concerning part about us In an age with Nuclear Weapons And Bio Weapons and Chemical Weapons... It's that territorial bent on humans, Trying to claim property that isn't theirs, While trying to hold onto property that isn't theirs, And gathering all the resources for themselves... I do say for those interested in the Sabbath It was meant to curb these instincts.
Calculus in Tanka
A limit can be Calculated, true; but the Calculations can Never approach the limit--- It's where infinities touch. A sine function works On the logic of Pi. So, The sine function will Work off approximations Of circles' geometry. Zeno's Paradox Is calculus. The leaps are The calculations While the limit is the place Where man and reptile meet.