Journey Pt. 4 – Oz – South West Rocks

Can’t find 1, 2 and 3. I’ll have another look.

Corals and fish on the Great Barrier Reef – Photos

One of the world’s wonders – now under threat and dying.

Perspective

Perspective

Like an ant on a leaf

                Contemplating what may be underneath.

Life is too brief.

Like a bacterium in a toilet bowl

                Trying to fathom some higher goal;

Stuck in a minor role.

Life, life is so weird;

                Stranger than we feared.

The universe is not geared;

                                                Understanding is never neared.

Space is so vast

                Though light is so fast

We see into the past

                                                But it leaves us all aghast.

Like a moth around a light

                Understanding the orbit of its flight

With all its might.

Like duckweed in a pond

                Thinking about what may be beyond;

It can’t abscond.

Like a human in his small life

                With work, child and wife;

The daily strife.

Looking for a purpose

                Above the daily curse

That doesn’t make things worse.

Life, life is so weird;

                Stranger than we feared.

The universe is not geared;

                                                Understanding is never neared.

Opher – 25.8.2022

Given the amazing size of the universe and the tininess of our brains it’s incredible that we understand any of it.

In the past we created religions and gods to make sense of what we fail to understand.

We’d rather believe in mysticism than reality.

Yet the universe has enough wonder without us creating layers more.

Life is miraculous enough without us imagining unreal layers.

We are no different to the ant, bacterium, moth or duckweed.

Of

Of

Ofwat? Off What?

Ofcom? Off con?

Ofgem? Off gems?

Ofqual? Off quality?

Off on holiday?

Off with the fairies?

Off colour?

Just fuck off!

Opher – 22.8.2022

Privatisation eh? Carefully regulated and controlled.

So the water companies cream off huge profits, preside over a sea of leaks, flood our rivers and beaches with raw sewage, take massive bonuses and give huge dividends to their rich shareholders.

The energy companies do exactly the same. Ofgem sits there allowing the energy tariffs to go through the roof.

Ofcom allows the Tories to take over the BBC as well as all the newspapers and allows them to threaten Channel 4.

Ofqual presides over a dumbing down of education into a sausage factory churning out mindless job fodder.

The poor are wrung dry. The profits head off abroad into the pockets of very rich people.

They call this scrutiny and regulation. Who the fuck are they regulating?

Covid – A chance for Tories to make money!!

Just as with Brexit a lot of rich people made a hell of a lot of money at our expense! And I bet a lot of them paid no taxes and stuffed it offshore!!

Welcome to Tory broken Britain where the rich get richer and austerity lasts forever!!

The land of corruption, sleaze and inequality where the plebs are conned by a stream of propaganda!!

You know where the money went, when you have a brush with this government.

Feeding the rich. Let the poor go hungry.

Inequality and greed rules!!

Fat Cat Bankers – they can be trusted to regulate themselves. What can possibly go wrong??

Let them out!! We’re getting desperate here!! We need growth at any cost – even if it means another great crash.

This is the Tory way! Let the greed point the way. Growth, growth, growth. We’re desperate.

We drove them away with Brexit – now entice them back with a free-for-all bonanza and let the plebs pick up the bill.

Who cares about tomorrow??

Deregulation – that always works, doesn’t it?

Who needs rules when you’ve got greed? Money Money Money (As long as it’s someone else’s).

Money, Money Money (But … only for some – Mone, Mone Mone). Tories need bailing out!!

Seems ironic to me that the Tory Brexit has driven out the ‘cash cow’ of the economy – the financial sector.

Now, with the country wrecked, the pools looking dire and Tory funds at a record low they are looking to be bailed out!!

The wheels are already off!!

Today’s Music to keep me IIiiiNnnnssssaAAAnnnne – Malvina Reynolds

Malvina was one feisty lady – way ahead of her time. Her songs sound simple but WOW!!! They’re not. She stood up to the Ku Klux Klan. She speaks her mind. Politics, ecology, sexual politics, the modern world. What a songwriter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ8HEbcQG-U

The Malvina Reynolds Story