Because they think
They know “him”
Proof matters not
What counts is
Empathy for one
Who has none
Projections based
On wishful thinking
Only a few can see
Through the stench
Of his wretchedness
Because it is right
Under their noses
Even though the
Authorities have
Been notified
He distracts them
With implausible
Justifications
Which is easier to
Accept, then investigate
After all, he is who he is
Perhaps the above
Applies to 45
But it also applies to
Jeffrey Dahmer or the
Likes of Bernie Madoff
People presenting
A public persona
While demons run amok
In the malignant minds
Of the power hungry
Seeking control
Over others to feed
Insatiable narcissism
Wealth insecurities and
A deep desire to be loved
“Gladwell discusses the first of these social strategies in Chapter Three. (“Talking to Strangers”) “Truth-Default Theory,” or TDT, is a theory developed by psychologist Tim Levine as he sought to understand why humans are bad at identifying deception.
Through a series of experiments that tasked participants with determining whether a stranger was lying or telling the truth, Levine discovered that humanity has a bias toward truth. Levine’s findings suggested that we tend to take things at face value and assume that the people we interact with are behaving honestly.”
– http://www.litcharts.com
It is the people
Closest to the forest
Who can not see the trees
Unless you have 24/7 intimate involvement
Tracking, observing, and cataloging each minute
Detail of a person you perceive as trustworthy
All you have is the projection of your thoughts
Innately geared towards a bias of truth, ooops *
Which is not to suggest that humanity
Ought to do a 180⁰ and not trust anyone
Or anything, but at some point, ought to be
Questioning beyond the superficial layer
People convey under their multitude of masks
Masks they themselves do not know they have
Let alone which one is being worn at any
Given moment indifferent in different surroundings
Timing, circumstances, company kept, agendas
Fear, friends, family, foes, society, and self
*
“Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims as president.
Nearly half came in his final year.”
Washington Post
By Glenn Kessler
January 23, 2021, at 6:35 p.m. EST
In a lifelong career of pretending
To be wealthy and successful so
That he would be loved by those
Actually, wealthy and successful
Culminating in a scripted edited
TV show hyping his celebrity
A facade of make-up and lights
Through failures and bankruptcies
Loomed constant in “real” life
And still, his followers………
Mostly poor and unrecognized
Think he is innocent
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
That is the question
Which is really just
The other end of the
Abortion spectrum
Of subjective forces
People deciding the
Time to terminate or
Preserve at all cost
The allegation of “life”
Though death is
Ultimately inevitable
And not really real
Those who can not
Make that decision
For themselves, when
The quality of life is for
Those not dying
Tied to emotional
Comfort and selfishness
“We live, we die
& death not ends it”
– Jim Morrison
It is a divine dilemma
To the individual or group
Making that decision
Because ultimately
There are no consequences
(Karma is a crafty mind construct
When reason and justification fail)
At least none permanent
Of either murder or mercy
“Ohhhh, it was terrible, it was tragic, … but he’s in a better place now. He’s with Jesus ….
THEN WHY ARE YOU CRYING?
If he’s in this utopia, why are you crying? If you believe that death leads to eternal bliss, then why are you wearing a seatbelt?”
– Doug Stanhope from “Die Laughing”
“There’s time to live and time to die
When it’s time to meet the maker
There’s time to live, but isn’t it strange
That as soon as you’re born, you’re dying…
…and reborn again??”
“The Clairvoyant”
– Iron Maiden
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
Is going to “Protect”
The, our, or, any “border”
It is an imaginary line
Drawn on a piece of paper
In land acquisition games
Better known as wars
Or in more peaceful times
Considered “purchases”
“One Earth, one Mother
One does not sell the Earth
The people walk upon
We are the land
How do we sell our Mother ?
How do we sell the stars ?
How do we sell the air ?”
“Crazy Horse”
– John Trudell
Besides
Borders are like “rights”
“They’re imaginary. We made them up, like the Boogie Man, the Three Little Pigs, Pinocchio, Mother Goose, shit like that.
Rights are an idea. (Borders) They’re just imaginary. They’re a cute idea. Cute, but that’s all. Cute and fictional.”
– George Carlin
No one can protect something
That is imaginary
Anyone who says they can
Is a bullshit artist
Usually, a politician
Cashing in on wages and profits
By selling the public FEAR
Which unlike “walls” can not
Be gotten over or around
Without questioning what
They are told to be afraid of
Which are……..human beings
Aaaaggggggggghhhhhhhhhh
“Just look at all those hungry
Mouths we have to feed
Take a look at all the
Suffering we breed
So many lonely faces
Scattered all around
Searching for what they need.
Is this the world we created?
What did we do it for?
Is this the world we invaded
Against the law?
So it seems in the end.
Is this what we’re all living for today?
The world that we created.
You know that n
A helpless child is born
Who needs some loving care
Inside a happy home
Somewhere a wealthy man
Is sitting on his throne
Waiting for life to go by.
Is this the world we created?
We made it on our own.
Is this the world we devastated
Right to the bone?
If there’s a God in the sky looking down,
What can (S)he think of what we’ve done
To the world that (S)he created?”
“Is This The World We Created?”
– Queen
“Here’s what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses (and walls) each year and instead, spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”
― Bill Hicks
Nah, the consumptive distraction is too much fun.
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
For any one person allegedly elected
To one country’s grossly misrepresented
Office, as the “MOST POWERFUL IN THE WORLD”
(My guess is other countries are pulling the same bullshit
We just are not aware of it here because our ego won’t allow it)
Really………really……..
That holds all the virtues of an Idiot Plot
An “idiot plot” is one that is “kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot”.
– Roger Ebert
Unfortunately, that is how collective consciousness works
Being spoon-fed indoctrinations from grade school on
While brains are still soft and readily absorbent to accept that
“Democracy” along with capitalism is the best government
(It may be, but sometimes good, is just not good enough.)
Knowing fool well, capitalism pulls the strings of democracy
Spending their advertising dollars on political contributions
Getting a better ROI for their buck than standard ads would
“When you’re stepping over a homeless guy on the sidewalk…
Does it ever occur to you to think
“Wow – maybe our system doesn’t work?!”
– Bill Hicks
Pledging allegiance to an abstract concept, not understanding
Fully or foolishly, what a pledge, republic, or allegiance even is
Just regurgitated and repeated until it sinks in so deep
It is like riding a bicycle. Once you learn how, you can’t unlearn
Because one is peddling in a concentric circle around
In a filter bubble while doubling as an echo chamber
Side note:
Here is something interesting I found when doing cursory research about unlearning to ride a bike and, subsequently, other stuff, too.
I receive no money from it, nor should I. It is just a great example.
https://www.interrobang.is/2015/07/cognitive-bias-and-the-backwards-bicycle-test/
And yet, many, if not most of the once in
Every four year, gambling addicts want to put all their chips
On either red or black (blue) because of vague promises
Wishful thinking and subjective projections of how
They think life is going to be if their bet “wins”
That their elected schmuck as the head muckety muck
Of the entire “free” world is charged to “protect” it, them and
Their wallet, guns, freedom, health, security, religion, family, etc…
“WHAT? Are these fucking people kidding me?”
– George Carlin
Same goes for that Jesus fella you hear and see so much about
In the unreasonable expectations department of a savior
Who is expected to single handedly save every one on earth
Though he is harder to find then Waldo, except in depictions
Having been slain by the state, that it is OK to murder the innocent
“[Mob:]
Pilate! Crucify him!
Remember Caesar – you have a duty
To keep the peace, so crucify him!
Remember Caesar – you’ll be demoted, you’ll be deported
Crucify him!
[Pilate:]
Don’t let me stop your great self destruction
Die if you want to, you misguided martyr!
I wash my hands of your demolition
Die if you want to, you innocent puppet!”
“Trial Before Pilate” – “Jesus Christ Super Star “
(Here’s the kicker) Only “if” they “believe” in “him”. Ooopsie
Giving him all the credentials of Dumbo’s magic feather
Later revealed that the magic is not in the feather
Rather in the irrational belief that a divine master of wisdom
Through unsubstantiated claims has the power to be a
Travel agent to send you to a good place and not a bad one
Not that either exist tangibly anywhere except, up or down “there”
In relationship to a sphere hurling rapidly through the cosmos
As humanity holds tight to fictitious concepts of heaven or hell
Hint: we made them up, because that is how powerful we are.
Now if we could only be powerful enough to…
“Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…. Aha-ah…
//
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…
//
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…”
“Imagine”
– John Lennon
By continuing to write posts to this goofy blog
I have the unreasonable expectations that sooner or later
Humanity is going to 100th monkey theory its way
Out of having any anticipation that a savior or psychopath
Is going to help us in any way, until we all realize it is up to us
Without governments, guides, gurus, guns, or gods
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
Which at best is only temporary
Corroborated by my perceptions
Of things that substantiate my
Subjective perspective of reality
With the ability to knock on wood
Not as a wish to change an outcome
Rather a tangible sensation of a
Tactile experience of nerves
Sending electrical signals to a
Spongy gray main frame enclosed
Solar powered wireless computer
Activating four of five senses
I can see the wood with my eyes
Smell it with my nose and when I
Knock on it with my knuckles
It feels hard as the sound is
Captured by my ears all at once
Despite all of that alleged proof
Lies the fact that all manifestations
Of wood, eyes, nose, ears, fingers
Brains with an ability to communicate
Will entropy and decay into no evidence
Figments of my imagination
Coagulating as abstractions
Made up of mind matter
The substance of make believe
Reality, projections and assumptions
Making me one with the whole
While being whole with the one
Which is inherent in the proof of
All that exists that all ways exists
“All of that
Which has reality
Has no basis
In reality”
– Angelo Devlin
The more one
Thinks about it
The more one realizes
The reality of reality
Is something
We made up
Not with molecules
Which would be tricky
But rather……words
Such that, like molecules
Have always existed
The analogy being
That, as molecules
Change shape and
Transform back and forth
Between waves and particles
So do words and definitions
Interpretations and intentions
Nothing (no thing) is a thing
It has to be, it is right there
“In the beginning, the Word already existed.
The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
Nothing (no thing) is a thing
Made up not of a vacuum
Or rather in a vacuum
Which too is something
The collective consciousness
Made up
We made it up
Isn’t that neat
How powerful we must be
Reality exists because
We have a word for it
That is so cool
Not as in the dictionary
“1: moderately cold : lacking in warmth”
– M-W.com
But rather
“7a: very good : excellent
– M-W.com
Both made up
By the way, as
The mother of necessity
(Also made up)
Everything (every thing)
Every God or gods
Every infinity or big bang
Every good or bad
Every up or down, east or west
Every plant, animal, or mineral
We made it up
Pick nearly anything (any thing)
Life, death, love, hate, create, destroy
Race, sex, value, values
Morals, morality, immorality
Besides, all are open to interpretation
Perception, content, and context
It all exists because
We made it up
Every _____________, whatever
We made it up
Money, we made up….. money *
A bum or a billionaire
(Which lately, is one and the same)
Is still just a person
Like all other eight billion persons
Or nine billion or so if one has
The tendency to include fetuses
Or 117 billion, if corpses are included
Laws
We made up laws
“Law: 1c a rule or order that it is advisable or obligatory to observe”
– M-W.com
Thou shalt not kill
Hey, good law
Except when profits are at stake
Then what is made up is
Open to interpretation
Turning persons into enemies
Or undesirables
Made up by someone or
A group of someone’s
Therefore, to be terminated (exterminated)
With extreme prejudice
Killed, not by deadly means
Rather, with euphemisms and innuendoes
Neutralized, collateral damage, etcetera
Still dead, but in a more palatable way
It is much easier to accept death of
Non-combatants, usually (children)
Or “friendly fire” when soldiers
“Accidentally” kill their own team members
That eases the conscience
Of the unconscious
So much for “Thou shalt not kill”
Before this goes on forever, and I
Extrapolate on all of the reality we made up
Will close with some George Carlin
“We made them both up.
Sanctity of life and the death penalty.
Aren’t we versatile?”
“My solipsistic worldview
Does not allow me to see
What may be real reality.”
– Angelo Devlin
* money
Made up of 0’s and 1’s
Not 1 through 9 rather
A digitized code on a computer
Telling each other how much
Magical made up money they
“Have” ……..Bwahahaha
Made up by banks and “reserves”
Reserves……..Bwahahaha
Figments of a collective creation
To nurture greed and consumption
“For an economy, that is
Fake in the first place” – Bill Hicks
If you think your money “exists”
Why can’t you “take it” with “you”
When you “go”
I’m just asking for eight billion friends
Make that 126 billion friends and counting
Via numbers…..that “we” …..made up
Of contradiction
Clad in Vietnam
Marine regalia
Assumably proud
Of his service
In an unjust war
Brokered from
The French losing
Battle after battle
Was wearing a
Baseball cap
Praising 45 to
Win reelection
With a search engine
At my fingertips
I pulled up the following
“When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true.
Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.”
– https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/
It occurred desperately to me to
Kindly inquire about the juxtaposition
Of the mixed and contradictory messages
Between his vest and his hat to at least
Grasp at some understanding of WHY??
Why would one support a loser when 45
Considers the vest wearer a loser
Then I realized I don’t usually strike
Up a conversation with billboards
Plus, then I’d be compelled to point out
That his hat was probably made in China
Which isn’t exactly an America first tactic
To build a strong economy here
While spending money, some place else
So, since my writing muse
Presented me with this information
Thought I’d write about it
And leave it here to amuse my
WordPress audience of this blog
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
My love for infinity
Comes back to me
In infinite ways
Infinitely forever
Almost like there
Is no separation
Between me and
Everything else
Oh wait….there
Is no separation
Imagine that
Neither good
Nor evil…….
Just infinite love
That goes on and
On and on and on
Merely a change
In consciousness
Through experience
Altering between
Waves and particles
Beyond the speed
Of light or thought*
No beginning
Nor end therefore
No “creator”
Or “destroyer”
No “one” to thank
Nothing to pray to
Nothing to be prey for
“Bind all of us together,
Ablaze with Hope and Free,
No storm or heavy weather
Will rock the boat you’ll see.
The time has come to close your eyes
And still the wind and rain,
For the one who will be King
Is the Watcher in the Ring.
It is You.
It is You.”
– Iron Maiden
“Revelations”
“A song written about religion, or about washing your car, or … actually, it is about opening a pair of curtains.”
– Bruce Dickinson
*
The speed of light is a man made mind construct
Having made machines to measure things
The speed of thought is quicker exchanging
Words for thoughts and thoughts for words
And like infinite love, goes on forever…..
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
I am wrong
About everything
I’m okay with that
Me being “right”
Helps no one
It’s a good place to be
To question everything
Besides there is not any
Proof in any pudding
It could all be simulated
Sensory stimulation
Who is to say otherwise
Like virtual reality goggles
Within a VR headset
Inside of a hologram
Based on a projection
Digitized and displayed
On the mind’s eye
Think of a memory
That happened “back” when
“When” it occurred
Sometime before now
Depending on your
Focus and recollection
It is happening “now”
If that memory is “stored”
Where is it stored
How come one cannot
Throw it out or delete it
How may it be retrieved
When it happened while
The earth was spinning
Hurling through space
Both at break neck speeds
Millions of miles ago?
“My solipsistic worldview
Does not allow me to see
What may be real reality.”
– Angelo Devlin
Is everyone enjoying
The puppet show
Because that is what
You are watching
Yet, it seems so real
Audience members
Yelling at the 4th wall
Or transfixed immobile
By the sheer amount of
Digital distraction
Displayed in deceit
To keep one behaving
In reaction mode
Instead of spirit
That knows it is just
A puppet show
Individual sparks
Of the divine
Caught up in the
Deadly entertainment
Pulling emotional
Strings of doubt and fear
“I’ll show you politics in America.
Here it is, right here.
“I think the puppet on the right
Shares my beliefs.”
“I think the puppet on the left
Is more to my liking.”
“Hey, wait a minute,
There’s one guy…………
Holding out both puppets!”
“Shut up! Go back to bed, America.
Your government is in control.”
– Bill Hicks
From a vague recollection of a meme…
American to a Russian:
What are you doing here in the United States?
Russian: We’ve come to study your propaganda.
American: Why, we don’t have propaganda here.
Russian: Exactly……..
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Looking at the world through a windshield. 