> The Darkener's Console

Sitting on the pedestal is a flaming torch, made of ivory.

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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Hostile Takeover —

“Run the country like a business.”

Yes…but more like the hostile takeover of a business, cutting departments and roles with no concern, all in the name of the bottom line.

COUNTRIES ARE NOT BUSINESSES. They are societies. Cultures. People.

When you view a nation through the narrow lens of money, you have no peripheral vision. Imagine driving your car with a periscope.

Funny thing is, I think they know this, and welcome the impending fatal crash. Their point, maybe?

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Fall (revised) —

Tall
So tall
You stand and act so
Sure

Fall
When you fall
You’ll sink right through this
World

Don’t forget us
Yeah, you’ll regret us
You’ll turn and we’re still
There

One day you know
We’ll put you below
And no one will even
Care

Reap what you sow, you
Reap what you sow
Reap what you sow, we’ll
Stay but you will
Go

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Small
So small
But you think that you’re the
One

Fall
When you fall
We’ll know that it is
Done

Don’t forget us
Yeah, you’ll regret us
You’ll turn and we’ll be
Gone

One day you know
We’ll put you below
A brand new day will
Dawn

Reap what you sow, you
Reap what you sow
Reap what you sow, we’ll
Stay but you will
Go

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Sadist —

When you unilaterally remove approved programs that benefit peoples’ health and education, bully and start wars with your peers, ridicule, talk down to and remove earned benefits for the military vets that protected your war-dodging ass your whole life, seek to control every aspect of peoples’ personal lives, are a narcissistic, tyrannical lunatic in public and private (and apparently are proud of it,) and sabotage the habitability of planet Earth itself…You are not a leader. You are a Sadist.

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“Toward the Flame” —

We drove
Away from disaster
I told, you
The flames were getting faster
But now, I have to go back
I have to walk between the stacks
This disaster is different, it seems
Benzene’s the one killing me
And I’m so sorry, that
I can’t be there for you, for me
This isn’t how it’s meant to be
This isn’t how it’s meant to be

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