> The Darkener's Console

A battery-powered brass lantern is on the trophy case.

Fetish —

I have sort of a fetish toward well engineered surge protector strips. Especially ones with..

  • Metal casing
  • High quality switch and receptacles, with spaced ones for adapters and wall warts
  • More than 6 receptacles

Mmmmmmm…. *drool*

Finding ones like that at a thrift store at a good price is like striking gold to me. I don’t CARE if I need it. I *will* need it, at some point. And I’ll be happy I got it.

And I am.

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Hey Congress….Do Something —

America knows exactly what you’re doing.
And we don’t like it.

The downfall of the United States will be remembered as completely avoidable; a sloppy re-enactment of rising Fascist nations of lore. Blood is on the hands of the currently GOP controlled Congress. They are allowing this.

It can only be my assumption at this point, that this is the intended result.

Prove me wrong.

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Into the Earth —

Tired, stubborn old men die clinging to their own chests
As if they can start their own pale, black hearts again

It’s sad they can’t control how they die
As they strived to control their own lives
“A miserable failure”, again they said…

They don’t see
Beyond their own greed
And so they concede
Into the Earth, to try again

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Pot, Meet Kettle —

This is just fucking hilarious. In the same breath! Such confidence in the continued ignorance of your rapidly dwindling base.

Pot, meet Kettle:

“The pot calling the kettle black” is a proverbial idiom that may be of Spanish (or ultimately Italian) origin, of which English versions began to appear in the first half of the 17th century. It means a situation in which somebody accuses someone else of a fault which the accuser shares, and therefore is an example of psychological projection,[1] or hypocrisy.[2] Use of the expression to discredit or deflect a claim of wrongdoing by attacking the originator of the claim for their own similar behaviour (rather than acknowledging the guilt of both) is the tu quoque logical fallacy.

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Montage —

You know what we need? A fantastic montage of CIVIL DEBATE by politicians.

  • Contrast this with Trump’s continued rhetoric and attempts to erode stability
  • Show everyone that what’s continuing to happen is NOT NORMAL
  • Show CIVIL political debate/conversation history as a primer to return to integrity and move on from this attempted coup

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Design —

The problem is polarization.

Intentional, manipulative and dishonest polarization.

It feeds off of, and stokes fear.

When people are afraid, they retreat.

That’s where they want us. Where we spend, but don’t stand up for each other.

We all know what’s happening right now is wrong. Isn’t it amazing how, in such an intentionally hateful and cruel administration, as they deconstruct the very fabric of a nation to serve no more than their own endless greed, the people are largely impotent in their resistance?

It’s not a surprise—they designed it to work this way.

It’s time to wake up.

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Firewall —

Thoughts fly
At my mind
But they die
At the firewall

I’m idle
In silence
Receiver high
But dropping the call

They keep coming
And they always will
I acknowledge, like water
Under the bridge

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Two Types of People —

It may appear in recent times that people have been generalized into two categories:

  • Those who primarily think of themselves
  • Those who primarily think of everyone

Of course, there’s an infinite gradient linking the two extremes where most people lay.

Polarization FORCES people to either one side or the other. We become binary in our positions on most matters. Think of the saying, “You’re either with us or against us.” This is detrimental to our collective well being. It’s a hate breeder. it’s a fear breeder. It leeches the positive energy out of ALL of us, leaving little but division and ultimately regression.

Humans are so incredibly smart…but so young.

We have a lot of  growing up to do together.

Let’s hope we have the chance to do so before it’s too late.

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Maybe a Scary Thing —

Take into consideration how many people create pure AI-generated music. Some percentage of those people will have made it for others as a ‘gift’.

“Make me a song, Daddy!” the young daughter might ask.

And he makes her a song with AI. He tells it to make a song for a little girl about her $personality_traits. And the AI makes the song, and Daddy shows his daughter the song. And she loves it.

Here’s the problem:

The daughter knows that her dad didn’t make the song himself. So, she psychologically attributes some percentage of the love and feeling she has for this song, which cites her very specific $personality_traits, toward the AI.

There is a conflict here for the daughter. Does she emotionally submit to the AI? Does she allow herself to have feelings for it, as she does her dad, for having the remaining percentage of credit for writing the song for her?

This may be very dangerous for the future. People should *not* emotionally submit to any AI, technology or any non-sentient being.

Let this serve as a warning.

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