“Don’t Run Over The Pedestrian”
By Athena Stairs, November 8, 2025
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Category: Society
Intolerance
“I wrote at length to a beloved family member about my personal experiences – and got a version of scriptures shoved at me, instead of acknowledgement of my own validity.
Definitely a common thematic biproduct example of religious indoctrination modes that I have never enjoyed.”
(Love Brand New – Bob Moses)
Slippage
“Going to the shelters asking for human and animal food…first driving through the parks and seeing all of the sprouting tents and makeshift coverings over piled vehicles and bicycle units – and then here at the limited rooms…levels of people older to young just trying to hang on.”
The Price Of Intelligence
Movie: Casino Royale – Shower Scene
“Time Repeats The Same Old Pain”
(Static Rain – Kenobix)
Elegance: Audrey Hepburn
(Never Surrender – Cory Hart)
Advertisements
Going into the store and finding your expensive makeup has ‘blah blah’…
How about not even thinking about going into stores because you have no money.”
Food Support Is Cut
Making the poor pay for others’ crimes.
(Roll With It – Steve Winwood)
There Are Reasons
“I keep my businesses small and practical.”
There Comes A Day
“Where if one wishes to blend back into society, one removes their personal truths from public view.
For we are not yet inclusively advanced as a collective – and there are those too quick to throw stones for knowledge’s abuse.”
(Change The World – Eric Clapton)
Suspension Of Disbelief
“A process of receptivity that gets disrupted and blocked by effects of trauma and longterm repeat stress-distress reactivation cycles.
And one thing luring and potently addictive about any religion’s benefits – despite often potentially misleading and negative side effects.”
Every Body’s
Looking
For a story to
Just fall into
Expecting
Easy entry
Refusimg
The work
Authentic
Connection
Requires
WAKE UP!
“We need each other to survive!”
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(Content of multiple meanings)
“Streaming Data”
Caring For Each Other
Wrath
“And no amount of love will keep it around
If we don’t choose it
And I don’t know what’s got its teeth in me
But I’m about to bite back in anger
No amount of self-sought fury
Will bring back the glory of innocence”
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(Sleep Token lyrics from “Take Me Back To Eden”)
(This Is The Picture [Excellent Birds] – Peter Gabriel)
The Competition
“You’re actually considering being with her?
But she’s not already established like the rest of us – and further more…”
All Things Considered
One act today
Affects tomorrow
“Get In Line”
If We Committed
“There often seem to be forces conspiring against love.
Maybe if we kept trying equally, if not more so, love would overcome, afterall.”
(Signal To Noise – Peter Gabriel)
Supporting Each Other
(We’re Not Gonna Take It – Twisted Sister)
The Truth
“For as much as we try to reach for the light, we are suffering – more.”
America’s Freedom
The Wolf You Feed
Status Vs. Resources
“Aren’t they supposed to imply the same?”
Friends
Consumptionism
In a consumption-oriented society
Our worth is what we can produce
Parley’s Wildlife Overpass
We Are Told
“If we are innovative and valiant, we will succeed and be rewarded.
But it seems that the corrupt are validated while the good are pitted to fight in the colosseum.”
John Cleese: Extremism
(Higher – Sleep Token)
Behind The Curve
“How can one catch up if the marker keeps moving ahead?”
Closed Loop System
“Dead ends all around.”
We Are Prevented From Rising
“Would we use the power more wisely?”
Cancel Culture
“If influences continue to behave their ways, at some point, everyone will know everything about everybody.
Therefore, be sure to show your positive, inner light – in whatever form that may be (within bounds of ensuring your own safety) – instead of letting them chase us all into attempted hiding.”
Idle-Wild
What could we become if
We stopped the treadmill?
Humanity
Slavery, Racial Profiling, & Morality
(Where It Leads – Euan Ellis)
Justice
We long for times when
Wrongs are put to rights
Manipulation facing dictates
Of Hell’s wrath no longer late
Either recanting to obtain
Lost innocence reclaimed
Or gathered eaten whole for
Recycling of corrupted souls
Media Propagation
“It’s been very effective at dividing us from connection to others, parceling us down into vulnerable, independent units in order to direct our funds to their profits’ coffers.”
Candid Corvid Productions 