If you walk the streets of any city and look at the faces, hear the languages, note the foods, fashions, and festivals, it is impossible to miss a simple truth: all of humanity, everywhere on Earth, is the product of migration. Borders are recent. Migration is ancient. Arguing against migration (or against the diversity it brings) is like arguing against air or water as necessary for life. Here, let’s review…
Impetus, inertia, and individual coping skills
Troubled times often gather in tangled knots—personal, societal, and global. When life takes a sharp downturn, why do so many freeze, become rigid, or imagine the worst? Why do humans sometimes treat converging troubles as doom, inescapable and insurmountable?
The Human Crisis: Our Struggle For Cohesion
Look around, and you’ll see a paradox: in a world of technological marvels and vast resources, billions still suffer from hunger, homelessness, and hatred. We’ve mapped genomes, explored distant planets, and shrunk the world through digital connections, yet we can’t seem to guarantee everyone a full belly, a safe place to sleep, and mutual respect.
The repeated story is that this is “just the way things are.” But is it really? Or are we missing something deeper that cuts across borders, politics, and technologies?
Thoughts on this moment – April 2025
The biggest crime this administration and its rooted eugenics, xenophobia, and insecurity (i.e., supremacist) have, are, and seemingly will continue to commit is an active and vehement conditioning of young AMABs on the matter of their ‘right’ to control, dominate, and possess (context: effective ownership) AFAB humans. While significant elements of this process include the explicit and public same against any/all minority, culturally different, Neurodivergent, Disabled, and/or Religiously different humans, the goal is to maintain the historical position of authoritarian power as both a (mythical) ‘race’ called ‘white’ and an equally mythical ‘natural’ or ‘biological’ supremacy as ‘The Binary Progenitor’ […]
And then, the writer’s block seemed to vanish.
The content that caused this deluge may be viewed here, but the reader should not presume the connections and thoughts will be immediately traceable. This is an intentional oversight for purposes of general respect of others privacy. My prediction for neural net autonomous, truly artificial intelligence made a leap forward toward reality recently, courtesy of a company called IntuiCell. My assertion over some decades, fed by an interest in computing and neural networks, an avid consumption of hard sci-fi, and my own career in analysis and product ownership is as follows: True artificial intelligence will arise not from programmatic systems […]
Paradoxes – Haiku & Tanka
great thunder as i spoke my truth just a perspective rumbling low cloud ground resonating what is a tock of the wheel a march to the kalpa edge a man coughs outside my door
Track Title: Promises (Recall)
ASCAP Registration #: 929487026 This is an angry song. If you are someone who might have reason to feel hurt by anger you should choose something else. Maybe the early stuff. Very early stuff. For the rest of you, demo followed by lyric, below. Life is a two-way street, they say Whether we drive or walk our way Give and take come what may Keeps relationships free from fray Eroded and gone I find my trust Ignored and shut out, its ashes and dust It should be no surprise, I do now what I must Insist to set me aside, […]
Track title: This Is Fascism
ASCAP Registraton #: 929458861 This is fascism and it wants to come and stay To run our lives, take them too, as whim may Detained Prison slavery for any who naysay Command and control – it’s the game they play They’re yanking people off of our streets Think they’re allowed cuz they’re ‘the elites’ Not you they care for, just labor you can give If they like how you kiss the ring, you get to live Ontologically, they murder all dissent They act the same, this is their remit: Where are your papers? Prove yourself to me! What are you […]
Track Title: Common Ground
ASCAP Registration #: 929373508 Life is short, enjoy your stay Play and sport, come what may Smile, cavort, each and every day Flip retorts of those who block your way Your time in this life holds no guarantees Of all things, don’t become an absentee Yes, you are unique, just like the rest of us In all that you speak, let there be no disgust Direct or oblique, communicate we must Or all we’ll have left is ashes and dust Takes all types to make this world go ‘round To the fate of our planet, we’re all bound This beautiful […]
Track Title: Democracy’s Swan Song
I rarely preface these, but here I am, doing just that. If anyone out there wants to make this a real song, please connect via the contact form here or reach out on Blueksky (@yeshes.online). ASCAP Registration #: 929282710 Mobility is your inherent right!!!! Is this Nazi Germany?!?!?! Must my papers be in sight?!?! Their jack-boots slapping They walk down our streets Their hatred stamping Our rights beneath… Seeking out the different Getting more vociferant Prison complex so clinquant Always wanting what you got Rights actively they supplant Will you comply? I know I just can’t. Attacking the ideals that […]