so what's that - a polemic? I think so. what it is not is a call to action. it kinda sounds like one but where's/what's the action specifically? nothing.
here's some specific action. tell your friends we all need a certain, a guaranteed voice that we can trust to be our voice, uncorrupted, no ballot stuffing, no shredding, no phonies. something modern, reliable and easy to use, responsive, quick, trustworthy we can thrust in the face of our 'servants', the politicians and department heads and say 'here, this is what we want, do it'.
Thank you for these comments! If you re-read the "polemic" you might see how meaningless voting actually is. To balance corporate meddling in govt we need something like a genuine tax-payer's union, or going a bit farther, a house of govt that represents the collective _private_ interest while the polity state (which makes wars, etc.) would have to beg for funding from the revenue (private) representatives. My next post gets more into the influencers of governance.
Yes, I've been reading them (delaying what I'm working on) to work through some of the wordiest posts I've ever seen. Voting has been deliberately been made almost meaningless; that entity which stands in the social space where real government should stand are impostors, and what stands there is "of, by and for" big business. You like searching for answers - search for who owns America and see if you can beat their price offer.
I can't quite parse your english but if you are saying you are reading the contents of those links then that's good. You may learn something to your advantage. That's your first sentence.
The next is a dubious postulate.
The final seems to be after the nature of a coy riddle.
the christian call for climate action is a call by the wilfully deluded in spiritual terms to delude in scientific terms the rest of the world so that they might have their way with them.
The spiritual truth that the christian world (when it is active at all, which is rarely) gropes towards is fully expressed frequently by the NDE people.
The scientific truth of climate change is that we didn't do it and we won't undo it.
Wow, fancy finding a great intro to Now What? After all is said and done, and we find ourselves nowhere, what to do? Time for a remake of humanity's operating system. Change how people think and it changes the world. Sacred creatures in a sacred universe, here we come. It's a race for thriving or crashing going on! What's that quote about a coward dying a thousand deaths but a hero dying once? We just have to be heroic!
The famous line "A coward dies a thousand times before his death; the valiant never taste of death but once" is spoken by Julius Caesar in William Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar. A coward experiences a kind of "death" repeatedly through fear and anxiety, while a brave person faces death only once, at the end of their life. Perhaps one's soul is tortured to death in indecision while confronting the demon can only kill you once.
so what's that - a polemic? I think so. what it is not is a call to action. it kinda sounds like one but where's/what's the action specifically? nothing.
here's some specific action. tell your friends we all need a certain, a guaranteed voice that we can trust to be our voice, uncorrupted, no ballot stuffing, no shredding, no phonies. something modern, reliable and easy to use, responsive, quick, trustworthy we can thrust in the face of our 'servants', the politicians and department heads and say 'here, this is what we want, do it'.
like this:
https://abrogard.com/blog/2023/12/25/dont-write-to-congress/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_voting_system
https://abrogard.com/blog/2024/10/14/how-about-this-to-bring-truth-to-the-elections/
Thank you for these comments! If you re-read the "polemic" you might see how meaningless voting actually is. To balance corporate meddling in govt we need something like a genuine tax-payer's union, or going a bit farther, a house of govt that represents the collective _private_ interest while the polity state (which makes wars, etc.) would have to beg for funding from the revenue (private) representatives. My next post gets more into the influencers of governance.
I'd say 'if you re-read..' those links but I think it's apparent you didn't read them in the first place.
For the whole point is to make voting meaningful.
And it spells it out at some length purely for the sake of those such as yourself.
Yes, I've been reading them (delaying what I'm working on) to work through some of the wordiest posts I've ever seen. Voting has been deliberately been made almost meaningless; that entity which stands in the social space where real government should stand are impostors, and what stands there is "of, by and for" big business. You like searching for answers - search for who owns America and see if you can beat their price offer.
I can't quite parse your english but if you are saying you are reading the contents of those links then that's good. You may learn something to your advantage. That's your first sentence.
The next is a dubious postulate.
The final seems to be after the nature of a coy riddle.
Not my bag.
the christian call for climate action is a call by the wilfully deluded in spiritual terms to delude in scientific terms the rest of the world so that they might have their way with them.
The spiritual truth that the christian world (when it is active at all, which is rarely) gropes towards is fully expressed frequently by the NDE people.
The scientific truth of climate change is that we didn't do it and we won't undo it.
See also: https://theintercept.com/2025/03/22/briefing-podcast-pankaj-mishra-gaza/
Wow, fancy finding a great intro to Now What? After all is said and done, and we find ourselves nowhere, what to do? Time for a remake of humanity's operating system. Change how people think and it changes the world. Sacred creatures in a sacred universe, here we come. It's a race for thriving or crashing going on! What's that quote about a coward dying a thousand deaths but a hero dying once? We just have to be heroic!
The famous line "A coward dies a thousand times before his death; the valiant never taste of death but once" is spoken by Julius Caesar in William Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar. A coward experiences a kind of "death" repeatedly through fear and anxiety, while a brave person faces death only once, at the end of their life. Perhaps one's soul is tortured to death in indecision while confronting the demon can only kill you once.