it's somewhat like the whole society is geared into some 'spin cycle' to extract money from people for just being normal people...and that is the whole ethic...dieting, exercise, psychology, veganism, even meditation, ...its all just 'pay me and I will help you not to be normal'...but you will have to come back, every week, to make sure 'normal' doesn't take hold again...

in my twenties and thirties I was a normally looking gaunt and hungry young man and this appealed to a cohort of women, and that was great. At the same time, that was normal.I didn't have to try to look gaunt and hungry. I didn't think I could live through my forties and fifties pretending to be 20 so I didn't, and so I grew in weight, and it suits me to be 6ft tall and 100 kilos. I don't like it, I don't dislike it, but I am not about to somehow think that I am doing anything wrong in this matter. I don't exercise much because I don't need to.Why would you do that if you don't need to? What did you miss out on? Whatever you missed out on in the past, darlin, its not here now. Doesn't any one teach kids reality any more?

in my twenties and thirties I was a normally looking gaunt and hungry young man and this appealed to a cohort of women, and that was great. At the same time, that was normal.I didn't have to try to look gaunt and hungry. I didn't think I could live through my forties and fifties pretending to be 20 so I didn't, and so I grew in weight, and it suits me to be 6ft tall and 100 kilos. I don't like it, I don't dislike it, but I am not about to somehow think that I am doing anything wrong in this matter. I don't exercise much because I don't need to.Why would you do that if you don't need to? What did you miss out on?

poem for My Dad

Poem for My Dad

And as for Him

He was light and he was shade

And in some image we were made

And then we set upon

Our own parade

People came and people went

And in it all

The life was spent

In general goodness all abide

and indeed I miss him

by my side.

Life Poem, for my mother, 4 March 2017

Poem:

We were alone

and then we met

and all that should

said to beget

and beget we did

and made a clan

to twist and tie

the rubber band

and in our love

we did find joy

in each and every girl and boy

and from then on

they grew themselves

some were giants

and some were elves

and all were

equally just themselves

and so to bed

to think ahead

half with the living

half with the dead

and all join in

to this odd circus

whose rhymes and reasons

decide the purpose.

In general, in First World or other states, for quite awhile, no one has been very upset about people who do extremely well...good luck to them...but since the crash GFC2008 onwards the situation has changed...and it has changed to the extent that the CEO of Uber can berate one of his own drivers for not having the right skills to do anything better, for not going to the right school, for not having the right connections etc and thus having to be a dickhead worthless cunt driver...and the opinion of the CEO is quite common amongst the Achievers. In real life, apart from some passing angst and a form of respect, no one cares if you do well or poorly because it doesn't matter, and you don't matter to them...but as the elite grow more greedy, and resources designed to meet your needs are stripped away for the benefit of the few, then there comes great social trouble.There has to. As has been noted, people didn't vote for Brexit or for Trump because it was a good idea, they voted that way because they were desperate...and better to take to the streets with a vote than a gun, for now.

Living in Thailand during the last rebellion there, it was interesting to note how little we actually need government. The government had been kicked out of 'government house' or parliament and the place was taken over by rebels for about 6 months. The government folk, from Prime Minister down, just either had holidays or worked from home or from offices at the airport (handy) and nothing actually happened. The Government certainly wasn't going to raid or storm the rebels with police, armies or SWAT teams, because if they did, someone would get hurt...and Thais love Thais and taking over the buildings etc is an acceptable form of the expression of democratic freedom.If one accepts that an actual government is just a bunch of people who aren't totally important, then things just go along as things do. Mind you, eventually the rebels went home and the army took over but very few folk were hurt, which is the main thing. Imagine that scenario in China, London or New York...the personages and the importances of the government is so ridiculously delusionally self-important, that many would have been killed and many more hurt. What kind of sick society would do that to its own people?