Category: Society
Get Some Manners!
“With your man-slaughter vehicle!”
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(Pushy drivers)
“Progressions”
80’s Goth Club Dancing
(Ascensionism – Sleep Token)
Raw
“It’s a harsh experience to be used up, taken for granted, and left to flounder without resources.”
I GoT-Ta Be Un-StoP A-Ble
Phenomenon
“Observed by one’s own experiences.”
In Case You Didn’t Know,
“We are being manipulated to turn against one another.
So be very careful how you respond to levels of ‘violence.’
Even if others’ behaviors provoke, our actions in return must keep in mind the more beneficial, larger pictures.
This isn’t easy when ‘sleep walkers’ who yell and scream – or even are meticulously insidious – lash out boldly with knives and poisoned arrows.
Learn to dodge, weave, and out-strategize in order to catch and redirect them by the comfort of softer pillows.
For they have somehow become infected by nightmares from the surrounding insanity that is trying to pressure us all into propagating our own demise and self destruction.
We cannot let our loved ones fall, by others’ or – most importantly – by our own hands.
Anything we do carries its own momentum.
React intelligently, and guide to real solutions.
We must lead by our own command.”
InHumanity
How people can just take, consume, and give nothing back – leaving in their wakes such selfish and damaging wreckage – ought to be something we never do that causes others grief.
No Piece Of Pie
“It also turns out that being of single income counts as a disqualifier in trying to obtain new housing.
Cultural Divides
“The violent seizures and deportation of foreign-looking citizens and visitors is causing a reduction in school attendance and vacancies in tenancy.
Yet, used to skimming cream off of the top from a prior overabundance of students to choose from, property managers are still gripping the doors closed against the humanity of local residency.”
Hollow
Distant love.
(Heaven Is A Spectrum – Leo Faulkner)
Respect
“I gained it – even by abusers – because I could work hard and diligently.”
(Wings in the Wind – Van.Gao)
It’s Glaringly Clear
“I was not in the best of positions for things to turn sideways against me.
But then, no one really ever is…”
(Handy Man – James Taylor)
The Inhumanity
“In passing observance, I do not understand how it can be acceptable that spammers and love messagers can be allowed to negatively manipulate.”
(Repeat Defender – Don Caballero)
Parallels
“Hm…
So if I get a place this weekend, it will be like Jesus rising after crucifiction on Easter Sunday?
Do I then get sainthood?
Or do I just disappear into the ether like they’d like to claum that he did?”
(We’ve Only Just Begun – Carpenters)
Maslow’s Stress Check Test
“I find it darkly hilarious that they are still using these things – when clearly, we all have enough trauma by now to bomb it.”
I’m Worth It
We Were Taught To
Meet aggression with aggression
But it is time for a new game plan
So Many Fall
“For reasons beyond their control.”
Because Ya Just Gotta Keep On Goin’
YAAASSS!
It’s Happened, Again
(Title of multiple meanings)
“Kick-Ass” Fun
(Raise Your Glass – Pink)
On Another Level,
“I can see why it is time to move: hundreds will be arriving too nearby, soon.”
Amazed At My Own Swag
“A group of newbie college guys were in a local outlet store talkin’ smack while cursing to socially one-up each other, and getting lewd about indiscreet descriptions of women and bodily functions, such as defecation.
Just boys ‘feeling their oats’ and being rowdy – but it was getting toxic.
So I sidled up to near them and posed the question: ‘Why are you doin’ it out here in public?’
One lippy-mouthed and cocky ring leader leaned back upon his elbows on top of a piece of displayed furniture and began proudly jawin’ about his rights to free speech as an American Citizen – comin’ out with sass-embedded line after line and actin’ like he was a ‘playa who owned the joint.’
So I replied inquisitively, ‘Then why don’t you take it to a bar?’ – which seemed more reasonable if you aren’t going to care who hears you or take accountability for your behavior while being brash.
He then expanded his litany and included how he was too young yet to get into a bar – as if this further justified his unrepentant behavior while he was looking forward to this future conquest.
But then, seein’ as how he clearly had no proper place to emit such rude and uncaring vocalizations, I simply suggested, “Then maybe you should ‘cap’ it?’ – as I then smoothly sauntered away to the resultant outburst bantering wake of his companions”
2.5x
“A pretty hilarious income requirement when housing cost is so high, and wages are so low.”
(Song 2 – Blur)
“Don’t Blame Yourself…”
“Right…though society stacks reasons…”
(Hold Me Now – Thompson Twins)
Ignorance
“What a strange thing that it can propagate…
But violence has often been used as a bludgeon.”
American Plight
“All of this regression that we see surging to the fore was steeped deep within the community around me that I had to survive and overcome as growing up in it.
So this is nothing new to me.
They are all just airing their dirty laundry at other people’s expense on larger scale levels.
But maybe because they are now interacting, instead of sitting in complacent ignorance, they have a chance to become better educated and maybe evolve their points of view.
It is horrible, though, that they still feel entitled to and are hurting others in the process.”
(The Working Hour – Tears For Fears)
Against The Odds
In the wild a
Lion father stays
Against normal rules
So his white cubs thrive
In human society a
Rejected mother stays
Though a social outcast
Her children grow brave
Me As Child & Adult
First Rule Of Thumb
“Resist ‘adding more fuel to the fire’ – even if it could be perceived as a valid response to do so.”
Educated People Know
“When you bring a traumatized child into a safe home that is healthy, there will come a point where the child goes through crisis meltdowns and “fights” against the people and safety around him/her/them.
Many foster parents do not know that what the child needs is continued safe space and inclusive acceptance, yet firm and gentle continued and corrective guidance, because the child’s nervous system must process and get the trauma out of their being.
Unfortunately, the child’s “acting out” often causes caretakers to give up and send the child elsewhere – or the child runs away, says skewed and villifying things about the foster family, and/or does whatever the child feels it must do (often negatively) in order to respond to its body’s fight or flight reactions.
These trauma recallibration need responses blasting back at safer people and environments also happen in adult survivors of abuse and extreme experience situations such as when soldiers return to the ‘safety’ of home after violent combat.
As a society, we need more understanding and strategized methods of support so that we can best help trauma survivors at any age go through this internal-to-external “reorganization process” recallibration, and positively assist them to find ways to identify and obtain progress in ‘normalcy’ reintegration as feels congruent to their own perceptions.”
Poverty’s Hydra
“Without enough funding, problems keep arising – no matter where you chop to cut the line.”
How Did I?
“Get pulled into and caught up in this constant struggle for survival?”
(Cream – Prince & The New Power Generation – Adult Content)
Eye PigMentation
There was a time when the
Color of eyes defined origins
Blue was of ocean and sky
Brown was of earthen tribes
And green were forest people
We weren’t supposed to interbreed because
Our cultures experienced life so differently
But love has ways of bridging hearts
So that colors can mix into rainbows
And deception’s jealously lacks in-sight
Therefore plucks by breaking windows
(Multiple meanungs)
(Calcutta – Sleep Token)
Stop The Machine
Good people, valuable people, worthy people are daily being pushed into positions where they are forced to compromise values that we need to uphold and positively reinforce because they are desperately fighting for their own continued survival.
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