devolution.

Poetry, prose and the proletariat.| Fluid pluralist

[mmesaurai-blog]

Living out of a car... that is noble.

A former Labor politician I met in a bar. Hardly have I ever been so angry. It was a, fortunately for me, brief nightmare to be living in the commodore.

[mmesaurai-blog]

We cannot work within the current parameters. We need a monetary and taxation revolution. Siphon transactions at a set rate. All transactions.  

[mmesaurai-blog]

Desperately Seeking Content

I am after content for my revamped The Scarecrow website. It is still under some construction. I don’t care if it has been previously published. All credit and links back to you.

It could be nearly anything interesting of a reasonable length… politics, news, analysis, philosophy, sociology, psychology, political theory/philosophy, current affairs etc. … an article, essay, comic, etc.

Please email [email protected] if you are interested.

If you are serious please check out the content already published to get an idea of what it’s about.

Some balance and diversity would be great!

[mmesaurai-blog]

Nothing could be more dangerous than hope. Hope begets some sense of security, which begets apathy. Hope is the last bastion of the damned.

[terminalpolitics]

I have more faith in comrades radicalized by experiencing the conditions of life under capitalism

Than I do by folks who got radicalized by reading a book.

[mmesaurai-blog]

April dawned with a foolish grin over the sheer grandeur of the unquiet waters. A small solitary ship was drifting almost lazily with no apparent intention across the flow. An obscene sight - it appeared too large for its surroundings and medium. The ship was recognisable from the lack of a figurehead on the prow. The captain planned to traverse the waters in order to plan the reroute of said waters so the Crown could make use of the fertile soils that lay hidden below. “The majesty of creation!” He proclaimed, bolstering his men. He squinted over port-side as something caught his eye. Black swans were spilling down the distant waterfall. “’Tis such a beautiful thing!” Exclaimed the captain, feverishly steering his men after the felo-de-se. “Faster men, faster! The perseverance of our fathers should not be wasted! Such is the opportunity.” He licked his lips perversely. A nutter and a fool, thought the cabin boy. An opportunity to spill our blood in futile delirium. Rather wisely the cabin boy rushed past the other men working the sails and dived overboard. He plunged into the cool waters, sinking, for he was not a strong swimmer. A number of the men had observed the cabin boy’s swift departure. Constitutions steeled they also lept into the waters and began to swim against the current towards the banks. Aye, like kings we feast tonight, thought the captain. The tears that swelled in his eyes lost in the overflow as he, his ship and a few remaining men collapsed down the path they had set for themselves..

Excerpt from a book I’ll never finish.

[c0nt8ct-deactivated20211225]

“hmm. well, i could make principled arguments against trump and sanders. or i could not only pull a false equivalency, but also defend a company that crushes local economies, enforces absurd targets for its workers (down to the minute), records how often its workers use the bathroom, and is slowly entering the neighborhood of the human shock collar.

guess i’ll go with the latter.”

[entitledrichpeople]

Homeless people are human beings with immense value.  They are members of our families, communities, neighborhoods, cities, and, for a number of people reading this, they are themselves (or have been).

The fact that homeless people do not have housing is a wrong done against them, not a sign they did something wrong.  To then try and ban them from public spaces and existing in public (including doing things we all have to do, like sleep or eat), is yet another grievous wrong.

An attack on homeless people is not “protecting the community”, it is an attack on the community.  Homeless people aren’t my enemy, those who would ban them from things like sleeping in public are my enemy.

[entitledrichpeople]

So many people make comments on this post about how they think homeless people are inconvenient to them, as if it’s not more inconvenient being fucking homeless and then facing these constant attacks and being treated like vermin by people who see you as an eyesore rather than as a human being and part of the community.

Being angry at human beings for just existing and trying to survive because you find the horrible conditions society puts them in unpleasant to look at makes you an asshole.

It says a lot about you if you see cops, government officials, rich people, landlords, etc. attacking some of the poorest and most desperate members of society and you automatically align yourself with cop and not the homeless person.

[iammyfather]

Homeless people are just another “Warning”, that if you do not comply, this is what we can do to you.

[mmesaurai-blog]

“Advertisers have been making us feel insecure, worthless and dissatisfied with what we have, how we look, and what we do, so we will want more. This is a very expensive, time consuming and cruel way to keep a flawed system going. We have become the insatiable marionettes of madmen.” 

Source.

[mmesaurai-blog]

She

In the shelling of equality perhaps she should take shelter under the umbrella of humanism. Except no, that will not do. She is not a religious zealot. Narcissistic, she knelt before the camera. Her resume pointed to her eagerness for such a position of authority. But her responsibility to her brother, how she dismissed him! Cast aside his burdens to garner sympathy for her own! In her hubris she banished her sister to a deep grave. For the eroding breath of the golden sphinx shows a lack of kinship. Nevertheless she pleaded with her father to grant her parity by force. She ne’er laid a finger on the architecture of her present. Forgotten was respect of the self in favour of the love of her father. Ignored was her cousin sneaking through the legs of the sphinx and the father and weaving golden threads.

[mmesaurai-blog]

Decentralise!

The modern adage is that poverty is violence, and I agree. Though not ‘in poverty’, I myself belong to the lower tiers of Australian society, fortunate enough to have family to borrow (read receive) money off to pay the electricity bill. Still my family has no financial freedom, no security, my husband is a wage slave and every day is a stressful and depressing nightmare. I worry for my son’s future. Should a scenario such as this play out in a workplace the affected individual would leave or sue. Actually, that is not true. Said individual would most likely remain and suffer in order to support themselves and their family. But we must have the ideal option (not necessarily litigious as that is an issue in itself), to leave and devolve. To move freely through society on a path of contented progress.

A centralised society is not conducive to contentment and progress; walking forth in a holistic satisfaction.

To state the obvious, a centralised society is corrupting by nature in the absence of a benevolent leader. It is ironic as most crave some degree of leadership over them. It is hardwired into us from birth to maintain levels of dependence and deference. There is, of course, nothing wrong with this in principle. But it should not be centralised. There are so many global examples of centralised authority (be it political, financial, social, etc.) that I don’t think they need much analysis anymore. It is easy to corrupt a centralised authority. There are less to manipulate and convince to adopt a certain practice before they force it onto the populous.

Secondly, centralised decision making is a terrible thing. So-called experts are no better at making decisions than an informed lay person. Furthermore they create bubbles from which they view the world and others as like them. This results in bad decisions. Like fighting cousins declaring war on each other resulting in World War I. Think of all those wasted lives. Subservience to small power base is stressful to say the least.

You cannot balance power on the tip of a small group - if it fails everyone suffers. Just look at the American banking sector during the GFC.

One would think that with the blockchain, and now hashgraph, revolution that monetary decentralisation could be achieved (note: there are individuals working to achieve this). In this respect Bitcoin has been somewhat of a failure. Rather than promoting financial freedom paired with value it sprouted more ignorance and greed. Ignorance insofar as individuals and companies see another gambling opportunity to further there own personal gain and their refusal to accept the mockery that a dollar has become. The greed I believe is self-explanatory. Bitcoin seems to be heading down the path of centralisation as miners cluster in places like Iceland and China due to the availability of cheap electricity. Granted they do not control the system, but imagine if China suddenly shut off the electricity for suspected miners.

A dollar, or any coin, is not an accurate representation or manifestation of a value choice anymore. It is so unevenly spread. Companies pervert money, attach a ‘value’ of making more money to money and masquerade as individuals to the point that the populous sees a company as human and follows suit, creating a mockery of money. I would no go so far as to suggest we rid ourselves of money, merely change our understanding of it as a concept to see money as a representation of our intrinsic human values. We have the technological means and social awareness to achieve this. A part solution is a universal basic income. Enabling some security and financial freedom for individuals to at the very least survive and support their family without working 42 hours a week. Those 42 hours could be better utilised working towards contented progress, not in another bullshit job that either shouldn’t exist or could be automated. Finally, we should endeavour to eliminate toil, this job creation for it-looks-good-in-the-rags sake. I’ll say it again, contented progress is key.

[sataniccapitalist]

“Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.”

— Seneca, Medea (via philosophybits)

[left-reminders]

[philosophybits]

“The only thought to liberate the mind is that which leaves it alone, certain of its limits and of its impending end. No doctrine tempts it. It awaits the ripening of the work and of life.”

— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

[shihtzuman]

[mmesaurai-blog]

There is something vaguely apocalyptic about riding on a bus listening to Phil Collins blare.

[philosophybits]

“The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.”

— Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays