the first american slave ship was called Desire. fifty million africans were killed in the beginnings of modern western civilization. wow, a world of war. i say i grew up on war, but everyone, back five hundred years, has. we just never get enough war.

our democracy is but a name. we vote? what does that mean? it means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. we choose between tweedledum and tweedledee.

 helen keller

poor as we are in democracy how can we give it to the world? a democracy conceived in the military servitude of the masses, in their economic enslavement, and nurtured in their tears and blood, is not a democracy at all. it is despotism- the cumulative result of a chain of abuses which, according to that dangerous document, the declaration of independence, the people have the right to overthrow.

emma goldman

 

returning to dog's eye view i watch people in fear of a golden retriever with a plastic pumpkin and a tennis ball in his mouth and i think sometimes the only thing awake in people is fear and distrust, not natural fear, rather paranoia. this is the dog's eye view correlating to the paranoia droned by the corporate government media which keeps us enslaved to endless war for the enrichment of the oligarchs and the further impoverishment of democracy, humans and nature. fear is the leash, the lust, the lash of empire.

 

 

the pointers were a bit annoyed with my annoyance with the spring snow and rightly so.

comet was in improvised harness and yoked to hilde and i was yoked to both and we hobbled along all tied up together.

we don't really know what we are doing here. we are just improvising under strict control. we're just getting on, and trying to have fun without being harassed by control freak schoolmarms or killed by cars. ahhh.

you can try to fit what you planned into circumstance, or take circumstance and see what it makes of what you planned. and i prefer the latter.

nic roeg