Truly, I live in dark times! The guileless word is folly. A smooth
forehead Suggests insensitivity. The man who laughs Has simply not yet heard The terrible news.What kind of times are
they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many
horrors?
Hence my handle . . . from the title of this poem.
Meanwhile, although I don't make a living doing philosophy of mind any more, it's not because it was self-indulgent. It was because (a) I got bored with it, and (b) I got fired, although by that time I was mainly doing political philosophy of a no less abstrsue and, to the struggling masses, totally irrelevant character. And now I mainly defend the interests of large corporations.
That man there calmly crossing the street Is already perhaps beyond the reach of his
friends Who are in need?It is true I still earn my
keep But, believe me, that is only an accident.
Nothing I do gives me the right to eat my fill. By chance I´ve been spared. (If my luck
breaks, I am lost.)They say to me: Eat and
drink! Be glad you have it! But how can I eat and drink if I snatch what
I eat
> From the starving, and
My glass of water belongs to one dying of
thirst? And yet I eat and drink.
But I am glad that others find it in them not to do so . . .
jks
--- Michael Dawson -PSU <mdawson at pdx.edu> wrote:
> > So, if your sweetie turned out to be a robot made
> in
> > Toledo, you'd think it was OK to sell her to
> > fraternity for the entertainment of the troops?
> > Interesting. What does that say about you?
>
> Methinks thou hast missed mine point. In a world
> where half the population
> can't read and lives in dire conditions, and at a
> time when we probably have
> 50 years max to avert eco-catastrophe, leftists are
> apparently very
> seriously cogitating upon science fiction scenarios.
>
> When my girlfriend opens her panel, I'll dump her
> for being a liar and
> support her political rights. Wouldst that I could
> only wager with you on
> that happening within my lifetime. It makes the
> canceled election diversion
> seem somewhat less massively crackpot than it is...
>
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