Pitfalls in power seeking

Unintended consequences nearly always humble the "cleverness" of power seeking humans.

Solutions

The world is never short of solutions to problems, we just have to find them and to find them we first have to be prepared to look.

Alternative views

One of life's great joys is for every view of the world there is an alternative which is equally valid for another person.

GMO - Government Modified Organisms

The government is like organisations that genetically modify seeds with secretive intent - constantly controlling your options until the only one available is planting their crop and paying them for the privilege.

Wine in jam jars

If skeptics are so certain about mind and matter then why don't they drink their wine out of jam jars.

Teaching and Learning

Part of learning is feeling stupid but making students feel that way is the sign of a bad teacher.

Political obfuscation

People who don't want to shine a light on shady politics deserve to be kept in the dark.

Potential

We are what we were but we can be what we will be.

God's hungry jackals.

When "anointed ones" speak for the God who knows everything, they are falsely claiming omniscience beyond the power hungry jackals with whom they run.

The ravenous State

The State's hunger for taking is seldom sated.

Coffee and Wine

Coffee and Wine may stain my teeth but if I stopped enjoying them I would have two less things to smile and laugh about.

Belief in gOD

I believe in gOD, just not the human definition.

The middle class

The middle class is simply another rung on the ladder that lets the poor get one step closer to those who "deserve" to be in charge of the world.

Revelation of reality

Pity the pour soul who dots the i and crosses the t on reality.

Being you

Who you are and who you want to be seldom fits with who you're told you should be and what you're told you should want.

Strength and arrogance of true believers

There's an arrogance to true believers who proffer their faith unsolicited however there is an admirable strength to those who express it only when asked.

Oppression

Cunning, stupid men with State granted badges of power ... that's what oppression is made of.

Great politicians

The power of a great politician is that they are believable.

Civilian worth

Nothing is so important that it can't be sacrificed for the greater political good.

Possibility

People who say "can't" can't say what can be.

Trusting government

Always suspect what government tells you to believe.

Life and death

Death hunts you. Life awaits you.

Christian leaders

Nobody hates a good Christian more than the leaders of a Christian church.

War and The State

During times of war The State reveals its true face and what a ghastly, perverted face it is.

Bliss

Follow your bliss and keep it paranoid.

Youth

Don't envy the young, they lack your certainty of attaining old age.

Plotting

Laugh loudly. Plot silently.

Chipping away at freedoms

Almost magically there is always another "good reason" to chip away at our freedoms. Each chip appears as nothing until we realise, too late, that our freedoms have been reshaped into shackles.

Conspiracy longevity

Conspiracies don't need to remain secret forever, just long enough to be effective.

Vastness and Certainty

In this vast, vast, vast universe there are humans who believe they possess such a certainty of knowledge that they can tell you how to live.

Plans of the powerful

The powerful have visions and strategies on timelines that are beyond the tolerance of of those who serve them.

Government licensing

When someone is holding your testicles, you tend to move in whatever direction they lead you.

Change

Be the small change you want to spend in this world.

Free market evolution

Free markets nurture evolution. Controlled markets impose dogma.

The War on Drugs

The rhetoric that "illegal" drugs are a scourge is just that, rhetoric. The reality is that the real enemy of society, taking a real toll, is "the war on drugs."

Governments tackling climate change

Relying on governments to do something about climate change is like hoping you have enough spit to put out a bushfire.

Rank equals politicianess

When humans reach a certain rank or level of power they become, by necessity, politicians. Their training and life skills then determine how they act.

Our Nature

Do we dishonour nature by dismissing our nature?

Individual power for change

The power of the individual as a critical thinker and discerning consumer is how the world changes fundamentally - not just politically, economically or superficially.

Sacrificing freedoms to government

The freedoms that society have already "given away" to the institution of government lie festering beneath the gaseous swamp of politics and will emerge one day as a putrid, rotting burp from the mouth of a "leader" whose monstrosity we have not yet envisaged.

Centrally planned perfection

(Start sarcastic tone) Eliminate the non-compliant in society and centrally planned perfection will reign.

Binary thinking

When binary thinking becomes binary judgement then I'm 100% against it.

Manifestation

Conception manifests.

Bark at shadows

Intermittently you need to spring up and bark at shadows until your dog instinctively responds. Your dog will marvel at your alertness.

Victorious war

Governments have been going to war for hundreds of years.

Who's winning?

Political Manipulation

What the population is shown, they believe. What the population is told, they believe.

What a population believes they ingrain in their heart and act as if truth itself has dictated the course of their actions.

Political action

Politicians prefer acting to action.

Creation

It is sobering what oppression can achieve. It is liberating what freedom can create.

The right way

There is no right way. There is my way. There are other's ways.

But there is only ever my choice.

God and Religion

I'm a strong believer in God and Religion, I just haven't found one yet that wasn't made up by Man.

Martini etiquette

Politeness decrees that you should slurp your Martini, once intoxicated. Doubly so, should your host insist on refreshing both of your drinks.

It is what it is

A wombat holding a jumbuck is not a swagman.

Government assistance

Unasked, government pushes the person in a wheelchair up the incline. Unquestioningly the general population nods their approval. Unsurprisingly the person in the wheelchair wants to do it for themselves.

Productivity apps

After looking through the daily offerings of new productivity apps I have very little time left for anything else.

Worry

If worrying achieved success there'd be a lot of successful people.

Old wine

Old wine frequently offers little excitement. It caresses knowledge comfortably and reminds you of what you hope young wine will become. It rewards patience.

Young wine is quickly spat out or savored with raised eyebrows. It educates and entices with the promise of what is to come. It rewards patience.

Who's in charge?

In the gamut of theories on who really runs things, from power-savvy bureaucrats to men in smokey rooms, there is a constant: the "citizens" who are told they are run things - don't.

Next

Fretting over what was stops you seeing what is next.

Left versus Right

Every time the public distracts themselves by arguing the merits of Left or Right, a politician chuckles.

Cooperation

If everyone does a little then nobody has to do too much.

Government control

The government quest for total control is like an octopus trying to juggle a dozen eggs.

Possibilities

So many things that I can do in life. The time left is irrelevant. Potential, pursuit and perseverance is all that ever matters

Achievement

Achievement will always take the time it takes, but it will always take time.

Move

Keep moving forward, life's there.

Power and the Self

How I master my Self opens me to power. 

Cold on warming

Climate change is science, anthropogenic global warming is religion.

Democracy is always right?

Ultimately if people believe in democracy then it doesn't matter who wins because the outcome is always correct.

Free markets address complexity

Life has more variables than the well intentioned can ever feasibly compute which is why the mechanism of the free market is humankind's greatest tool for addressing complexity.

Public Perception

Management if public perception is a tool that deserves overestimation.

Running society with force

Maintaining the position that society can only be run by force is admission of possession of no imagination.

Politicians and original thought

Politics is not the purview of original thought, it is a collection of age old games ruthlessly rearranged to bewilder the powerless.

Government reassurance

I am as comfortable with government assurances of privacy as I am with a poorly formed stool.