Vigilantly Successful Politics

 

using sieves and sifting and trial by wealth in politics

How do you become a politician without any experience in politics and how can you make your country better through politics?

You find the funds to support you as a candidate for office,

You spend those funds wisely, in buying allegiance of people, groups and institutions

You make your opponents appear inadequate, corrupt or bad.

You then use your position and its power to pay back those who suppported you

And if this endeavor meshes with making the country better, that would also be good.

Or, you may train some vigilantes and mercenaries for a coup to take over the government. This way you will not owe as much and may actually have more power to make yor country better, if that desire still survives in your ethical perspective.

Augustos the Chelebi

26 August, 2022

PREPARING

 

The Latter Time

Relationships have lives of their own. Marriages, business partnerships, master-apprentice, professor-assistant, doctor-patient, parent-progeny, home-owner or tenant. The entities do not always realize the span of the half-life or even a perentage of the life of this nuclear bond, but the relationship does, and starts signalling. If you are perceptive and do not have a wishful belief in mitosis or meiosis, instincts kick in, not in a different way than a developing fetus of a pregnancy, to start sending their own messages. 

Demise of one of the partners in the relationship, follows sensual and  metaphysical as well as physical indications like the mark found on proprietary victims in fairs, festivals. This time, it may well appear at family or business gatherings. These marks have a nomenclature extensive enough to be dismissed according to various types of blindness, like uncared cataracts.

Yet, instincts, wishes, beliefs, reason  do not provide perceptible evidence, when the tendency of the herd is to disregard the sacrifice of one member or to justify its loss to a hungry beast of differing dimensions and divine names.

The final sounds the victim makes, depend on the health of its organs or the presence of the physical and emotional audience which vey quickly dissolves in a haze of nostalgic memory, like the rainbow that appeared today over the cemetery which houses part of my and most of Eser's ancestors. 

Ahmet C. Celebiler

August 7, 2022

A GRAIN OF ARSENIC SALT

 

And Now Something Almost completely Different

Why are there still wars, if no country has a department/ministry of war, but only defense?

The name of the department or ministry has nothing to do with its activity. Think of the ministry of the interior or home office their purpose have little to do with decoration as far as I can tell. It is the people who occupy positions in these institutions and what they consider their duties, responsibilities.

Some cornered person once said, “best defense is offense,” (and was never heard of again) and since then all defense ministries and their occupants have become totally offensive homicidal maniacs, keeping tallies of destroyed stuff and body counts with pride.