I don’t know her age, and I will never meet her, and if I did, I would probably not tell her that she is a poet, only because, that would be the absolute least of her concerns, having lost everything.
While I loathed Tucker Carlson some twenty years ago, he has so spoken for me over the last ten years or so that I've come to appreciate him enormously. I've seen him conduct some combative interviews before, but the one with Ted Cruz that he posted yesterday was a long-form evisceration. I count Ted Cruz as better than anything the Democrats had to offer, but find his advocacy for the activities in Israel and Ukraine to be very troubling. Also, there is brief reference to Cruz' annoyance with the COVID mandates and lockdowns, as if annoyance was all it was.
I share your general perception regarding Tucker Carlson. However, I am also deeply skeptical that he is anything beyond technocrat-owned controlled opposition, "coincidentally" inserted into the alt-right/freedom media space at a time when large swaths of us were turning away from the crumbling generations-held GOP/Dem-orchestrated right-left narrative. Perhaps that is why "Tucker" was put there: To speak to those of us who moved in this direction, and to assuage our anger in ways that prevents more direct and challenging action to "their" (elitists') power. Just my thoughts at the moment.
By now I know that I can be fooled and have been fooled. But in a psy-op blizzard, my instincts are the best that I have. The sequence of events that include Tucker's dismissal from Fox, and subsequent creation of TCN, seem authentic to me. I cannot see that he is controlled; he seems to piss people off on all sides. He's paid a price for speaking his mind, and that kind of guts is rare in media.
I hear you. I suspect for many people in elite places (I consider “Tucker” such a person)--even such people are used for ulterior ends--they themselves are often unaware that their journey is possibly inauthentic, if by inauthentic we mean purely guided by their own (or God's) mission for their lives. I don’t know, of course, and there is a lot of philosophical speculation and assumption here on my part. One thing that I did find peculiar about "Tucker" is that, in a recent interview, he admitted that he had just read the Bible for the first time only a year or two ago. Wow. Good on him for being honest, but still, to be such a defender of America and the collective Anglo-sphere West (or whatever we wish to call those of us who came from Europe into the Five Eyes countries), I find it bizarre that a WASP of his persuasion has/had never read the Bible. How can you have such an investment in American conservatism without some reading of the Bible? The Bible (and wrestling with it) is a cornerstone of the West’s (but especially America's) collective mythological identity, no matter how literally or not people take it. Even poor old me has had my grandmothers KJV by my bed my whole life, and I’ve read it multiple times, and I am as far from the power halls of the WASP-sphere as any.
I try not to look at the news and I don't watch any videos. (I made that mistake only once) Throughout history, this keeps happening. I read somewhere that this realm is actually hell, and I can't say I disagree.
there is a distinction to be made between actual custodians of poetry, and here I include those who bring their critical acumen to bear to distinguish the ambrosia from the wheat and the wheat from the chaff, and those who make their living by exploiting it. it's not always easy to tell the difference. is the Louvre exploiting its art works on display or preserving and extolling them?
Would 'they' organize - those academics who talk about poetry as if they lived and breathed it, as if their bodies were infused with the essence of poetry, as if they also dreamed poetry, woke up with it? Yes. It's what they know - to talk about, while framing it with all the current bafflegab ideology.
It’s incredible.
What could we do
A friend sent me a video
An F-15 climbing to forty thousand feet
In a matter of seconds
Truly magnificent
Our monument to tragedy
I thought what could we do
If we weren’t who we are
This technology
This weapon of war
What could we do
We don’t build cathedrals anymore
We build death
While I loathed Tucker Carlson some twenty years ago, he has so spoken for me over the last ten years or so that I've come to appreciate him enormously. I've seen him conduct some combative interviews before, but the one with Ted Cruz that he posted yesterday was a long-form evisceration. I count Ted Cruz as better than anything the Democrats had to offer, but find his advocacy for the activities in Israel and Ukraine to be very troubling. Also, there is brief reference to Cruz' annoyance with the COVID mandates and lockdowns, as if annoyance was all it was.
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-ted-cruz
I believe even Tucker Carlson would loath the Tucker Carlson of twenty years ago.
Troubling? He's a lying politician. Period. Five minutes, all I could stand.
I share your general perception regarding Tucker Carlson. However, I am also deeply skeptical that he is anything beyond technocrat-owned controlled opposition, "coincidentally" inserted into the alt-right/freedom media space at a time when large swaths of us were turning away from the crumbling generations-held GOP/Dem-orchestrated right-left narrative. Perhaps that is why "Tucker" was put there: To speak to those of us who moved in this direction, and to assuage our anger in ways that prevents more direct and challenging action to "their" (elitists') power. Just my thoughts at the moment.
By now I know that I can be fooled and have been fooled. But in a psy-op blizzard, my instincts are the best that I have. The sequence of events that include Tucker's dismissal from Fox, and subsequent creation of TCN, seem authentic to me. I cannot see that he is controlled; he seems to piss people off on all sides. He's paid a price for speaking his mind, and that kind of guts is rare in media.
I hear you. I suspect for many people in elite places (I consider “Tucker” such a person)--even such people are used for ulterior ends--they themselves are often unaware that their journey is possibly inauthentic, if by inauthentic we mean purely guided by their own (or God's) mission for their lives. I don’t know, of course, and there is a lot of philosophical speculation and assumption here on my part. One thing that I did find peculiar about "Tucker" is that, in a recent interview, he admitted that he had just read the Bible for the first time only a year or two ago. Wow. Good on him for being honest, but still, to be such a defender of America and the collective Anglo-sphere West (or whatever we wish to call those of us who came from Europe into the Five Eyes countries), I find it bizarre that a WASP of his persuasion has/had never read the Bible. How can you have such an investment in American conservatism without some reading of the Bible? The Bible (and wrestling with it) is a cornerstone of the West’s (but especially America's) collective mythological identity, no matter how literally or not people take it. Even poor old me has had my grandmothers KJV by my bed my whole life, and I’ve read it multiple times, and I am as far from the power halls of the WASP-sphere as any.
Poetry is simple childhood honesty from the heart. Pure.
It is. That one was painful.
I taught young children for many years and we read and wrote some amazing poems. They are all poets before the world gets to them IMO.
They killed the world.
The beautiful and ugly alike.
Now who will be left after the mass ritual bio-suicides?
They believed it was a kind of solution.
I try not to look at the news and I don't watch any videos. (I made that mistake only once) Throughout history, this keeps happening. I read somewhere that this realm is actually hell, and I can't say I disagree.
Just a random valley of tears, this is.
One of many, say in the East.
The last one, say in the West.
Just a valley of tears. under mountains of pride.
:gasp:
With those few words revealed, a spirit was murdered.
And the body will have no choice but to follow suit.
Agree. We are done with the self-appointed gatekeepers in everything, including poetry and music.
"...I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return..." - W.H. Auden, September 1, 1939
The Muse advened
and told me
that English reporter from the clip says "sorry."
Normally, outside of war, reporters
can keep their cool because
there is a plan: we'll spin the story
this way or that way,
to meet the emotional demands
of the Party.
But reporters are disoriented.
What does
the Party
want from
them?
To say "sorry" is not journalism, right?
"We are "professionals," they reckon,
faking humble disposition.
"We are cold,
non-emotional,
non-judgmental.
We report as it is, no comment."
Sadness pays a visit like a meteor impact.
Reporter: "Oh, Darkest Night of the Soul!
Hear my prayer!
Let the child grow remembering the laughter
of her mother,
when she washed her."
Reporters get trauma wounds, too.
Over and over.
They don't cry ink, they cry silicon compounds now.
All established traditions must be abolished, in favor of more sustainable traditions.
They have no idea
where
they entered
when
this genocide started.
Destruction of the ego
can flood the rib cage and dissolve every bit of
gunk.
It's cold and acid and scorching and pulverizing, all at once.
"You're not a man anymore!" —Says the Night, as his Soul rests in a perch.
The Night continues: "This is not a job anymore, this is your penance."
"What have I done wrong?" —Asks the reporter.
The Stars: "you said nothing when you could;
you were silent,
all these poison years,
like us are silent,
always,
looking everything
without seeing,
as Stars do."
The Soul: "How do I pray?"
A serpent in the sand asks: "Go play music, please."
Enters Bob: "Man gave name to all the Animals / in the beginning / in the beginning / long time ago..."
youtu.be/OmxhajWJAnY
Reporter: "That's awfully nasal, serpent!
What do I do with
this stain
in my soul?"
The anaconda intervenes: "just moult it bruh, you a snake too!
That's what I always do."
The Deer says: "Wear it as an ornament.
The stain has
grown over you.
Not a stain anymore.
It's you, forever.
You will be okay,
after this Night."
The Phoenix says: "In Gaza,
the anaconda came for the reporters,
to embrace them, to drown them.
There will be no reporters in Gaza anymore.
Only pilots during the New Moon,
flying by night,
reminiscing the flower garden."
The Reporter concludes: "I know the way,
I can stand,
I can walk,
I can jump in the plane and fly,
straight at the Sunset."
Wow.
there is a distinction to be made between actual custodians of poetry, and here I include those who bring their critical acumen to bear to distinguish the ambrosia from the wheat and the wheat from the chaff, and those who make their living by exploiting it. it's not always easy to tell the difference. is the Louvre exploiting its art works on display or preserving and extolling them?
Dependency can breed monsters.
See Le Béton brut by Perret and Le Corbusier.
Would 'they' organize - those academics who talk about poetry as if they lived and breathed it, as if their bodies were infused with the essence of poetry, as if they also dreamed poetry, woke up with it? Yes. It's what they know - to talk about, while framing it with all the current bafflegab ideology.
The child is speaking with her body.
I think the onbevangen blik ( ''unattached''/venial eye) is poetic .
So much that
western shame of poetic knowledge killed this girl's parents . Bibi's mechanistic universe doesnt exist . Illusiory ,predatory .
To call such murder ''validated '' will be their toombstone ,eternally .
If a child is not a fallen god
why so unquiet and shallow the grave
that holds the brave emancipator
In such a gentle grasp ?
People may like these two poems that I wrote for two of my editions:
http://www.truedemocracy.net/w01/4.html
http://www.truedemocracy.net/td-19/10.html
They are from my heart even though they do not rhyme.
💔💔💔