#mentalhealthmonday#mentalhealthawareness The Quick Fix We all want it. That magic elixir that will undo the years of trauma, abuse, and neglect. The Happy Pill. The Miracle Weight Loss Drug. The Cure For Everything. Hair Club For Men. Some things we can fix, and some things we just have to deal with. The fact is, we … Continue reading Mental Health Monday – 11.07.22
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Shaking Things Up
Sometimes you just have to shake your head and see what falls out and sometimes we have to shake the world for the same reasons. Sometimes, what falls out is a diamond; rare and precious, gleaming in the light. Sometimes what falls out, is a snake; a little green tree snake, highly venomous … Continue reading Shaking Things Up
The Art of Persuasion
A soft word in your ear, a bright and kindly smile, a warm, caressing touch, a gift in selfless style. The firm, but stern address. The suggestion to do. The ridicule of those who do not share your views. Stigmatize enemies. Foment great hate with lies, raise up our candidate. Opponents demonized. … Continue reading The Art of Persuasion
The Shit Disturber
She really asks a lot of really stupid questions. Like that time when she wanted to know why big media companies are often chaired by the same people who are on the boards of big arms companies. I mean, who asks that? Or that other time, when she asked why big environmental groups … Continue reading The Shit Disturber
Assholes and Cockroaches
Open your mouth and let out your atrocity. Share your most precious gift for we have gone without. Tell us how the world's supposed to be. Everyone's an agent and a spy. Everyone has information, they won't be denied. Everyone is cheering on the martyrs who have died and Sunday morning quarterbacking terrorists on-line. … Continue reading Assholes and Cockroaches
The Weaklings
Grasping at straws, panicking now with the need to float away, or start a fire. One look confuses with all the bewilderment a fool can muster. They are so near to heaven, these lost souls that brush and glide against each other, 'til so often friction gets their better and they burst into … Continue reading The Weaklings
Mental Midget
Time changes all ahead of it, no theory or prophecy holds without succumbing to the limit of the mind that spawned it. Quickly correct all of our thinking it's not compatible with what we know. Our postulations are just pseudo-truthful. Computer simulations - contrived extrapolations of a species a little too high on itself. … Continue reading Mental Midget