Fences keep us out and keep us in,
hinder us and define our limits.
Sometimes they get a bad conscience
and invite the frost to use them freely
to beautify the cold
and warm our hearts.
“A snow smile: sparkling and cold.”
Dartwill Aquila
(Tomorrow: Cracked Foundation)
Where the Chinese have table tennis, the Russians chess and Argentinians tango, Slovenians have honey. There’s one bee keeper for every 250 citizens. Every hive has a unique picture on it. Above you see two folk lore themes, but all forms of art are represented. The pictures make it easy for the bees to find their hive. (See Slovenian Bee hives)
Such a honey culture breeds sweet people, but the people are angry as bees at the moment. Until rather recently they had one of the highest standards of living in Eastern Europe. They are now experiencing Shock Doctrine (Look it up!) and are in an uproar.
You probably won’t see this in your newspaper or hear about it on TV. Two million sweet people being economically raped isn’t news. If you do read about it (in news channels owned by the rapists), it will seem like the rape is necessary so that banksters can help the people.
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In 1882 the first commercial electrical power plant opened in New York City throwing the switch on the electrical age. That was 130 years ago. Look around you. What can you see that isn’t run by or made with electricity?
In 1889 Adolf Hitler and Charlie Chaplin were born 4 days apart.
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“Honey is natural, smooth, golden and sweet, honey,
the opposite of money.”
Dartwill Aquila
(Tomorrow: Fences and Frost)
Today’s Dartwill is not only about a war of aggression, the worst of all possible crimes, but also about the media, the corporate channel of (dis)information. Dartwill’s 22 words conveys knowledge. The media’s sea of commentary floods our intellects and drowns our understanding.
“The poor people of Mali are being bombed.
They call it fighting terrorism because nothing terrorizes the murderers more than poor profits.”
Dartwill Aquila
(Tomorrow: Shock Doctrining Honeyland)
Since the birth of writing, rulers have dictated their values to be spread with the written word. General literacy is a relatively recent phenomena. It provides the common people with the ability to distribute their values.
Having the ability and having the possibility are two different things. The means of production and channels of distribution are in the hands of the rulers. Practically all newspapers, magazines, books, films and TV-programs are corporate products. Corporations are profit hunting enterprises with an interest in maintaining the prevailing order and promoting the glory of money while marginalizing the needs of people.
There is the internet, you say. Yes, there is. It is a possibility.
It’s where a YouTube film about a cute cat (there are many of them) can generate millions of views while an important talk by Michael Parenti (there are many of them) gathers a few 1000 viewers.
I don’t know why I bother.
“They say the play of life is a tragedy,
We know how it ends, you see.
But there’s no director, script, rehearsals or plot
and each actor thinks they play a major role.
That’s a farce to me.”
Dartwill Aquila
(Tomorrow: Media and Murder)
Hate is the opposite of love on one level. On another level fear is the opposite of love. This can’t be explained to the fearful because without love we don’t think so well.
“If you go in high heels long enough, you welcome the chance to get on your knees.”
Dartwill Aquila
(Tomorrow: The Writing on the Ground)
A feeling of hopelessness and isolation paralyzes some people who need only to step down from their pedestal of self pity. The light will always be above us. There will always be openings, things to try. paths to take and people to get to get together with.
Happiness is an attribute of accomplishment. We can achieve happiness by accomplishing small goals on the way to great ones. Anyone can start by avoiding as many corporate products as possible. What do we eat, drink, and read? What do we wear? How do we party and play? We can start building a world for people today.
Real heroes are not fantasy fighter figures. They are common people doing the right thing and standing tall against the commercial bullies telling us what we should look like, how we should act and what we should think. Real heroes don’t listen to the messages of wealthy rulers telling us to trust in the wealthy rulers. Real heroes listen to their hearts and identify with the needs of people.
We need no one to tell us what’s right and wrong. We’re born with that knowledge. And we need no one to tell us what to do. We can figure that out for ourselves. That is to say if we try to figure it out, and not trust others to solve our problems.
“Doing what we can is enough to do everything that needs to be done.”
Dartwill Aquila
(Tomorrow: Love and Fear)
If you spent $100 000.00 a day, how long would it take to spend a billion dollars? Technically it would take about 27 years. Practically, spending a mere $100 000 a day would increase your wealth rather than decrease it because the interest on your wealth is more (and often a lot more) than $100 000/day.
Just a few more than 1200 people can title themselves billionairs. Their collective net worth is $6 trillion. With 1% of that wealth the 900 000 000 undernourished people of the world could eat well for a year. That’s not going to happen.
Who, for example, is going to decide to tax billionairs 1%. No one. For two reasons. First of all it is the billionairs who decide who gets taxed and who doesn’t. Second of all the wealthy are never ever satisfied. They never have enough. It’s not a character flaw, but a disease. Extreme wealth breeds greed and you and I would probably be as one-eyed as they are. We’d be blind to the needs of people and stare obsessively at our wealth and the opportunities to increase it.
It’s sad indeed that 6 930 000 000 people of the world (99%) cannot decide to help people in need because the monied 1% owns democracy.
“If a cell in the body increases at the expense of other cells,
we call it cancer.
If an individual in the body of humanity increases at the expense of other individuals
we call it market economy.”
Dartwill Aquila
(Tomorrow: The False Feeling of Hopeless Isolation)
The spirits of the frozen seas are speaking below the surface. They are deciding on undercurrents of resistance to the forces that are forcing change on nature.
Nature changes reluctantly, adaptively. Then she presents her bill. That must be paid. In full.
“Frozen hearts develop from a lack of generating warmth.”
Dartwill Aquila
(Tomorrow: The Billionairs, the 17% of 1% of 1% of 1%)
Liana drives ”the hour of soft light…” blog. It’s interesting and poetic with nice, sometimes wonderful, photography. I follow it with pleasure.
On the 23rd of January, to a picture of a burning sheet of music, she defined her cleverly coined word crucifiction as: ”The false belief that something true and beautiful can ever be destroyed.”
Such a great word used to dress such sweet and sticky nonsense. Many things true and beautiful are destroyed all the time. Ask the parents of the children slaughtered in Sandy Hook or those being destroyed practically daily by drone launched missiles. Are those children not true and beautiful?
By turning a blind eye to the destruction of truly beautiful things as well the desecration of beautiful truths, we deny our responsibility to protect these things. Truth and beauty will prevail… if we prevail. We won’t without a struggle.
“There’s beauty in the formation of ice.
And comedy in its cold and hard belief in its survival.”
Dartwill Aquila
(Tomorrow: The Spirits of Frozen Waters)
Their spotless words speak of the moment’s purity,
praising the frozen structures hiding their decadence.
They claim to be the darlings of the age.
The river flows by
dynamically indifferent
to their spotless words, frozen structures and darling titles.
It seems eager to reflect the passion
of another light.
“On those rare occasions
when I can look my insignificance in the eye
and see its enormity,
I believe myself capable of significant achievements.”
Dartwill Aquila
(Tomorrow: Frozen Dreams)
System Humanity 