mercury risen and cratos ...
McCarthy era vehicle -
that scarlet red,
similar lines and times ...
in the dream,
a flood of sparrows washed up the roof, into the sky ...
floating on currents toward heavens
out of sight ...
the idea of being ‘charged’ to do something ...
given the ‘right’ or responsibility ...
charged - electromagnetically altered - isn’t that what resolute decision is - the thought, conviction, reiteration, practice, and experience - from the initial impulse and synapse to a bundle of dendrites that create a thought - believing is so powerful, and yields some pretty phenomenal results depending how you’re wired - the power of good and evil resides in belief, choice, and predisposition ...
and what if you’re predisposed to having your own way - from a self centered, arrogant, greedy, spoiled, and lazy perspective? what kind of choices are made and what beliefs are formed? probably choices that enable and sustain the behavior and its’ results. appearances and practices can be modified for the sake of facade, but the fundamental ‘stuff’ remains the same. likelihood is that you’re surrounded by people of like-mind to empower your own interests. people that are as interested in the same short cut satisfactions as you are. inclusion, debate, and fairness would threaten your core principles as well as difference and opposition. fear would create a calamity of synaptic breakdowns and arrogance would breed desperation to protect your brains’ invention. just a bundle of irrelevant, self interested dendrites that can be changed with a single thought ...
and what if you’re all the above and recognize its’ lack of virtue but do little more than form some modicum of mockery because somehow the naughty behavior of others supports your own vanities ...
and what if you were ‘charged’ by birth to uphold the principles of freedom and democracy of your society - what would you do when you recognize obvious constitutional and bill of rights violations - do you re-’charge’ yourself with apathy, complacency, and tolerance - and if you do, are you complicit ... or do you take a stand against it ...
what happened to truth, earnest debate, strikes, protests, free press, rallies, and movements - have they been smothered by bureaucracy, reliance, shades of law, confusion, and fear ...
i guess they only emerge when there’s nothing left to lose ...
out of sight ...
