They're merging "Israel" and "America" to form a corporate fascist military government to rule the world. 

 i saw a ghost in the tower. i felt our eye lines align.

 i guess the word of the day is aspire. i wonder when did the word enter my vocabulary. i guess kids aspire as they respire. later we may think we lost our aspiration, but i guess we always aspire to be who we always were. there's nothing there to prove to ourselves. we can be kids for cats. it's so simple. we don't have to do anything. we can be kids and cats for peace. we can aspire to respire, for everyone.

 humans are lonely for connection. humans need to look deep into it, and not turn away. why are humans lonely? what are humans lonely for? towers appear in the park, and people are lonely.

 Howd you sleep? I slept pretty good though the moon was full and I ate Georgia's cookies. The stupid movie we watched, Anora, didn't haunt my dreams. The dreams were organic, I'm trying to do practical stuff, trying to work it out. Life I guess, specific. The song Goodbye Horses played in my pinecone gland. That's where the soul sleeps and dreams are made. Olive is growing up fast we must remember. She lets us sleep in but we mustn't sleep too long. We must wake up. We must.

 Money has made us a stupid species. 

 Anora is a bad movie! Stupid! 

 Considering that 68% of the universe is dark energy, nothing happening on this orb is surprising, but neither can what is happening properly be considered normal.

 I read that China erased Israel from the map and replaced it with Palestine. Bring the change you want to see.

I used to think of mister as an other me, and I felt he also felt the same. I wonder if Olive feels that way too, or if she just thinks of me as her cat daddy. It's funny to think of somebody else's dog as an other self, or a cat that appeared in the park. When they come along though it's as though they already expected to meet, like fate, and say, hello, it's me. 

 The western world is hemorrhaging its connection to the living planet — we feel it in our bodies, in our loneliness, in our disconnection from anything that isn’t a screen — and the Maikiuants Shuar carry within their culture the very things we have lost and are desperately, unconsciously searching for. The understanding that the land is not a resource. It is a relative. It is alive. It is sacred. It holds us.

Brandi Morin

The World is Scrolling Past a People's Extinction

 There is a peculiar kind of numbness that the modern world has perfected. We have been so thoroughly saturated with suffering — scrolling past famine and war and displacement and injustice in an endless feed that flattens everything into the same visual weight — that our nervous systems have learned to protect us from feeling it. The algorithm serves us outrage and beauty and tragedy in equal measure and our brains, overwhelmed, start making unconscious calculations about what deserves our energy. What is close enough. What is solvable. What affects people who look like us, live like us, exist within the invisible borders of what we have been conditioned to consider our world.

Brandi Morin: The World Is Scrolling Past a People’s Extinction

 i'll be in time today. 

the neighborhood is changed. 

 then i read, do not forsake the animal within, and i have to go back to bed, my animal is tired, my fellow animals asleep. tomorrow ok.

 

i'm reading and thinking i've read this before but it was just published. about toxoplasma, the parasite in the brains of some humans. i should not drink coffee after morning stop eating sweets. blue moon. up at 2. congested, a tenderness in neck, throat. i'm detached from the words. one of the worms in the dog gelsomina talks, the dog talks, the humans are there but only talk to themselves, in a glass house. the dog thinks of things the humans don't, presumably just living their lives in a glass house. the dog is chosen, but grows old, and another dog is chosen that will replace the dog. i'm trying to read consciously, but maybe there's a parasite in my brain. also the moon. 

 Inured to endless war, can we in this godforsaken country even imagine a civilization built on peace? 

This post is 49,949. I've been here for 24,266 days. 

 What they called a civilization was in reality a death cult.

 Yeah, got a nasty habit of genocide, gnome sane.

 i watched a documentary about ritual abuse in israel. pedophilic cult, like the epstein class, murmuring prayers over their victims. israel will have it's end.

 We can't remain in indecision. We have to find a grave. But what's the hurry? It's just the indecision, it seems to undermine us. But why? Our dead are in no hurry. Our dead can wait, while our waiting feels like eternity.

 In our time, a culture of power is taking hold, in which the availability of resources and the ability to dominate tend to dictate the agenda and criteria for decision-making. In this way, the common good of humanity is relegated to the background and the concrete tragedy of peoples at war is reduced to a secondary consideration in relation to strategic interests. This culture of power infiltrates society, changes relationships and behaviors, and grows by normalizing war, pursuing ever-greater military power, taking advantage of the crisis of multilateralism and fueling a false realism that insists that there is no alternative.

Pope Leo

 mother, other, mother mother.

 Even today, colonialism assumes new forms.  

-Pope Leo

 The moral corruption of our limitations as created beings — namely the evil that clearly agitates the human heart — ruins society and life, at times reaching extreme forms of inhumanity. 

Pope Leo

Magnifica Humanitas

— The everything bubble is bound to burst.

it's the disaffection, it's a natural progression from the war on terror.

 Underlying narratives.

Our relationship with life seems to be in crisis today. Everything that appears as a “limit” — incapacity, illness, old age, suffering, vulnerability — tends to be seen primarily as a defect to be corrected, rather than as a reality through which our humanity matures and opens itself to relationship.

Pope Leo

-I like this Pope. I'm proud he's from Chicago. Chicago also was graced by the artist Pope L.

 ...intelligence, when absolutized, overshadows other essential dimensions of life, such as affection, the will, commitment and relationships. Similarly, technical power, if left unbalanced, does not make us more capable; it makes us more isolated and more vulnerable to being dominated and excluded. This critical point does not oppose intelligence, but serves as a reminder that when intelligence becomes self-referential, its true purpose of serving life and the human person is lost.

Pope Leo

Magnifica Humanitas

 ...the pervasive technocratic paradigm in which we are immersed, and that is amplified by the digital revolution and AI, threatens to normalize an anti-human vision. In that vision, the fullness of life is equated with having more, reducing weakness, eliminating uncertainty and exerting total control.

Pope Leo

Magnifica Humanitas

 Another day at the graveyard! No decision! 

 Thanks be for cats of peace.

 Eid al-Adha. Day 965 of the genocide. 

 Bring the privatization of the park. Bring it to your elected oligarch.

 Bring it. Bring the change. Be the change you wanna see. Bring it on home to me.

 Will Justice Catch Up With Israel? Will Justice Catch Up With Us?

 The pursuit of greater profits cannot justify choices that systemically sacrifice jobs, because the human person is an end, not a means, and the economic order must remain subordinate to human dignity and the common good.

Pope Leo

 It's world blob day. 

 all we can expect from hope and change is more corruption.

 At last one of my library books arrived: The Oldest Bitch Alive, by Morgan Day. I said that to the clerk and she laughed. ({i}) 

 a mass psychosis. 

Fear and loathing, aka Bring Change Home.
I've been gentrified
out of a few neighborhoods.
I hope we can stay here, despite the Obamachron.
I try to wait and see but you see I have a strange anxiety
in my insula, which seems to have been born in my brain.
It's reasonable given the circumstances.
All along we've been told change is for our own good,
oligarchy is actually democracy,
and a cruel optimism has taken hold of us.
Even genocide now they call democracy,
and we can't save our parks, nor our neighborhoods,
let alone the world.