(A) Void

Are these poems

Prayers or confessions

Spirituals of experience

Or primal screams of repression

The past, the present, the future

All make one connection

History flows through you

Love as an offering… 

To love is not to possess the other person or to consume all their attention and love. To love is to offer the other person joy and a balm for their suffering. This capacity is what we have to learn to cultivate.

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Let's remember what social media is these days: an advertising and surveillance system, and a system for compiling data sets that feed into neural networks which are intended to replace you at work and in life. In what world is it even ethical to use these things at all? The fact that social media has become so central to our collective life at all is a travesty.

The latest trend of social media, becoming algorithmic purveyors of short-form video, has wreaked havoc on our attention spans, subjected us to more and more advertising, and has the potential to be used as a propaganda vector just like TV, which (in comparison to radio and newspapers, which are relatively less capital intensive to get into) serves nearly exclusively as a propaganda dissemination machine.