FRINGE DWELLERS: The great problem with us fringe-dwellers is that we never belong. The great thing about us fringe dwellers is that we never belong.

I was watching Mr Leonard Cohen in his last interview, talking about life and luck, and praising Mr Dylan for having a deeper well of ideas. I agree. As Mr Cohen noted, well, to give the Nobel Prize for Literature to Bob Dylan, this is just like acknowledging that Mt Everest is the highest mountain, because it is.

Frank Sinatra - My Way (1969)

In general I note a rise of the power of advertising for its own value even in the most personal aspects of our mysterious lives. You see this in the response to the Cancers...he/she fought a strong battle against the Cancers etc... What is that battle? Something, evolutionary, has gone naturally wrong with the gene and the body...is this a battle? We live a long time now. Who are we fighting, except our own human nature? I believe some of the cancers protect us from the more nasty ones. Is this unlike the War on Drugs or the War on Terror, really? If oncology had actually worked, we would well know by now. Quite some years ago Japanese scientific inventiveness moved away from curing the cancers to creating a natural Blue Rose and they are still working on that, because the task is easier...and the results far more profitable and realistic.

As for cancers,
I have a few, but then again, too few to mention...

Dogs and cats and birds don't seem to have much trouble in barking, purring or squawking about life in general. I don't see why we need to censor the various songs and noises of humans.

Nazism, Anti-Arab Rhetoric, Anti-Semitism, Zionism, Anti-Islam, Apartheid, etc...You can't stop a bad idea by repressing it...you beat a bad idea by proposing and living a better one. Nothing is inappropriate.

I notice the pressure on Facebook to remove offending Nazi imagery, but I think it is best to have the truth out there. I know Facebook is only a For Profit set up and so there may be reasons for it to exclude this or that to appease its advertisers, but really, Nazism is as alive and well as it always has been, as are the other faults in Humanity, per se. I would suggest they just let it be. You can't hate something if no one tells you about it. There can be very good reasons for some of our hatreds and we don't learn more by knowing less about ourselves.