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.

EMPIRES

 Empires and Lottery Emperors

There is already one empire in the world calling itself a democracy. The Britannica Dictionary defines an empire simply as: “a group of countries or regions that are controlled by one ruler or one government.” To an impartial observer, this definition seems to fit the United states of America extremely well.

Empires are usually either paranoid and defensive or proud, confident and with a sense of imagined higher purpose. Either type is diplomatically and violently aggressive. They need to expand their political and economic dominance and are willing to use any possible means to achieve this expansion just in case their enemies find them to be weak or badly governed.

Most historic empires also held cultural dominance not only over the controlled peoples and territories but also on other countries and peoples. However, the individuals leading empires and their people, start over and over, to feel or acquire too much hubris, leading to a gradual deterioration of their culture, wisdom and th eir ability to recognize and assess themselves. These situations may cause defections and the appearance of domestic ideological, financial or military opposition as well as jackals and hyenas or even vultures hoping to get a tasty bite at economic, financial, political and military fringes.

Against expectations or common belief, the American Empire may not suffer this hubris and learn to be compassionate, peaceful and non-invasive and hence survive if it can educate its people to understand themselves, their politics and the issues facing their culture and empire.

DO ANTS SUFFER FROM PARANOIA

 

Paranoid Diplomacy

The hypothesis that individual paranoia is contagious has been proven as fact by very recent studies involving both the workers and the soldiers. 

Since, our colonies do not have a bourgeoisie or aristocracy except for our glorious queen and the puny males of very short lifespan whose sole reason of existence is to pleasure the miraculous Lady of the Shadows, it is fair to say that our culture has no emotions like love, hate and mental sickness such as greed, competition, violent behavior.

Our nestocracy is based on instinct and instinctive behavior that has not changed in more than a millennium  or even more, according to our archive clouds which are periodically consulted by the elder workers and soldiers and, sometimes, by a new young queen before she departs to establish her own nestocracy.

The deterioration of our generation started imperceptibly, after the appearance of a group of vicious looking large red cousins, followed by dusky large black ones. Our military scouts reported the sightings but no interference with the activities of our workers.

There was some consternation and confusion but nothing that could not be handled, until, a very large tribe of small yellow cousins poured out of a recently deposited mysterious wooden object with corners, nooks and crannies and dirty cloth clinging to some parts. They were famished, it appeared, and were not prepared to use precious energy and time to gather edibles in the usual ant-way. They were gatherer-eaters rather than gatherer-hoarders. Was this their nature or a result of circumstances, was not clear. But, it just was not acceptable.

(to be continued)

NEEDY ONES AND THEIR NEEDS

 

COMMON NEEDS

an older man

standing at a windy corner

shuffling

with each gust

talking to the wind

asking for ticket money

to take the bus somewhere

elsewhere

any other where

thinking of a small family

in a small house

somewhere with no wind 

I lent him the ticket fare 

and was blessed

next day

there was an elderly man

at same corner

doing a different shuffle

needing ticket fare 

for the bus home

to the same town

not too far

but very far

when you think of his need

in the wind

the same wind

making me shuffle my feet

told this story 

when I needed ticket fare

to take me home 

to my needs

so that I can part with them

and stop shuffling 

and tell the wind

I do not need any more

Ahmet  

June 26, 2022

SENILITY PRETENDING TO BE SENIORITY

Understanding a Nobel Winner's Neurons

Between Cornwall and Ireland

Cats are ansome

even the females

when they stretch and yawn 

in response to your greeting

in the morning 

or

totally fearless 

like the one in a box 

full of mysterious functions

yet immortal as other creatures

in many a multiverse

still and writhing to be discovered

and identified

and petted

and admired

ACC June 9, 2022