I was searching online for the answer to this question today, after watching a particularly dumb Netflix production. Instead despairing, as I often do, about the lack of halfway decent content to watch, I decided to Google my question and that led me to Quora where someone had asked it to the internet public....
Why There Is Poverty
I recently read a New York Times article about poverty. (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/magazine/poverty-by-america-matthew-desmond.html#commentsContainer) It was interesting and well informed, and started me thinking about what poverty us and why it is. I wrote a comment on the article and it got me thinking. I’ve included my comment here (in italics) and expanded upon it. The answer...
What We Need of Politics and People Going Forward
We are at a crossroads in life and need to know the right path forward. We have the answers but we need now to continue to explain them, to understand them, and to believe them. This is a process and it takes a while but its the nature of intelligent minds to hear, trust,...
Poem: More
I wrote this poem on May 28, 2022, four days after the shooting of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas. This, only two weeks after 10 were shot in Supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and 13 days after one person was shot in a Church in Orange County, California. If this isn’t...
On Poverty
Poverty really is the saddest and most unjust thing in human life. Especially when it affects seniors, the disabled, single moms, the working poor and refugees. Its just heartbreaking and I wonder how the mega rich can sleep at night. Where is their compassion? Where is the government and voter compassion? We could end...
Animal Souls
Anti animal rights people are always saying animals have no souls. It’s pretty obvious they do and it’s not too hard to prove it. Anyone with a pet can tell you of their dog’s nature. Most of dog nature, animal nature, like with humans, is mental and survival based, but their souls are evident...
Violence In Violence Out
My comment on Washington Post Facebook article about a violent “air rage” attack in an airplane: “America has become a uber violent nation that is proud of its rudeness. Teachers being attacked, racism and antisemitism attacks common & violence the main ingredients in all your popular media. Mass shootings are normal. No respect for...
Living on ODSP
Last year, to keep his minority government in power, Justin Trudeau promised in his Throne Speech to implement a GIS, a federal top up for disabled people, as well as employment support. This was at the request of the NDP who then supported the speech. The NDP have recognized the horrible poverty the disabled...
Stopping the Killing
The topic of the death penalty this year led me to investigate the crimes people are being killed by the state for. The crimes are indeed cruel, depraved, heartless and deserving of absolute punishment. Whatever that punishment is, is up to public and government opinion. We all have our own opinions on it, but...
On Specism, Separateness and Superiority
The problem with humanity is that in our “superiority”, we have become increasingly blind to what our humanity means and is for. What is “human” is our ability to think, feel, know and act accordingly, but it’s our base wants, fears and appetites that rule and are generally our way of life and its...