Assumptions about you, personally?  Dislike you, personally?  Nah, Greenie.  It ain’t all that.  I would rather read your posts than not to have ever had the opportunity.  The nice thing about a straight shooter is that he/she is clear-cut with a point-of-view, not bout skirting issues & doubletalk.  People like me who speak in metaphors will never be as valuable to the common good as those who speak plainly and with a well-read outlook.  You offer your version of the straight shooter here, & that’s always a blessing, even if I don’t agree with what you’re laying down.  What I’ve always been in conflict with is one OPINION’s use of words, wealth, or war-might to oppress another’s lifetime from awake to asleep and in-between.  It’s a human audacity, from the cave to the kingdom to the sea to the forest to the schoolyard to the international community, just as it is natural, and just as it has always been no less fucked-up and THE PRIMARY BANE of planet earth.   I could show a long list of oppressions here, but I won’t, we all have the list burned into our DNA.  From sexual genocide, to petty castle walls and Tower Hill, to battle-sharpened swords across the necks of monks, to warships on unfamiliar “new” shores, to smallpox infested gifts along the Amazon, to one buffalo-one injun, to the Pinkertons vs. the people, & beyond.   Naturally recurring, it seems, yet, still the most fucked-up aspect of earthman.  & too many, sir, walk tall and wield the biggest scapegoat of them all.  The bloodiest oppressor of all.  & with love?  & I, personally, just one humble opinion, believe it never had to be that way.  That all along, it was about something else.  A holy trinity does not subjugate………until the Words, Wealth, & War-might deem it necessary.  & once it was DEEMED necessary by those with the wherewithal, it had become no longer about a holy trinity, and all about a really indefatigable bloody opinion enforced by the might of ire.  Addendum:  Not altogether, but in some key ways.  Tsall I’m sayin’.  Seems it is a paradox. 

& regarding global warming?  You may be correct.  It may be wholly natural; like the birth of a bulb becomes a sprout, a stem, leaves, and a flower in the sunshine & rain, which turns red-orange and then brown in the fall and dies back to the earth, only to break new early-spring dirt again next year.  But pumping (the Earth’s) hydrocarbons from the planet, and burying nuclear waste in greater and greater amounts, and spills and dumping and smokestacks on riversides, and sonar and every maximized, glorified, effect of upper 2% gigantisizing industrial consumerism and world class war-might iz far too unnatural to be given the red carpet of impunity into the next decade.  If ultimately it’s about further taxing and chaining the hoi polloi while freeing, with even greater right to impulse, the fattest fatcats, then, damnit man, stop the insanity!  But, if it’s about the real logic behind simply consuming less, polluting less, using less of what is not biodegradable, keeping pure the old forests and replanting forests wherever there’s room beside the asphalt concrete jungles and third world jungles and national forests that should be growing, not developed, & more of the good non-depletable energies available: solar, wind, ocean, advanced batteries, etc., etc., then it needs be addressed, mathematically, considerately.  Are there just too many of us?  We’re smarter than that if we want to be.  We can figure that out.  WE’re nuclear proliferators, we split atoms and explode the bowels of the earth and claim it has no effect on the global watershed; we destroy temples of one peoples’ prayer or another and put in airstrips, and say, shee-it cow-boy; they don’worship what’s real anyway!  & the Chinese do it too, all of it, and Europe, and S.America, and the Middle East, and, and, and……… & it never had to be that way. 

It’s a fated argument, yep, & probably it’s not going away anytime soon.  But it fuels the outrage that consumes certain days.  So, you and I are gona squabble, bro.  & one or both of us may be mad. 

Oh, the historical sorrows of alternative &/or excluded text from whatever sort of benign spiritual wisdoms…….  As one man of means makes up his own mind to make up the minds of others………   Since time immemorial.    Is there a secret gospel of Mark?  Hmm………

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Uneasy Peace,

messyBear