In observant contemplation


In observant contemplation I find:
• Confirmation that the human capacity for self-delusion is infinite (Albert Einstein);
• The stupidification of society is well in progress;
• Some people are seeking re-education in the neo-faculties of common sense, logic, and other basics, through quick fix lectures and courses;
• The voice of a singer at a karaoke bar is all but drowned out by pre-recorded music, the same goes for democracy;
• Most bestsellers are little more than well marketed rubbish, rated by corrupt insiders, who are harbouring a conflict of interest; people read or watch them, simply because they are best sellers;
• Some leftist atheists make it their life mission, (or lifestyle), to support radical, self-centred, monotheistic extremists whom they have never met;
• Viruses have become political;
• To some, looting and vandalism is now a protest not a crime;
• Preachers of truth are ignored, hated, and persecuted.
We live in an age of reverse contrast, an era in which the intoxicated are the sober and the sober are the drunk – drunk on hype, paranoia, sensationalism or fanaticism. The once discriminated have become discriminators of convenience. A social divide lies between those who think for themselves and those who don’t. Metaphorically, some people’s skulls resemble corona viruses, which are empty shells. Unlike these human skulls, the viruses are packed with information. Man is turning into beast through brainwash, false religion, and mental and moral decay and perversion, such as mob rule. Everything works in cycles, we have almost reached the peak in various ways, where the mind has been weakened to the point of collapse, by external and/or internal forces. People hate change more than anything else, this is an ideal time for doomsday prepers and panic merchants to maintain their present life-style; they have no plan B or C etc. ‘One day of circuses is soon forgotten, a hundred days of circuses are remembered forever’. The connection between technology and humanity is out of balance, with technology driving humanity to extinction. In a functioning world, both compliment each other. To commit a crime is now a mistake, not a decision. We worry about bullying at school while we tolerate ‘Role Model Bullies’ like China and corporate thugs and crooks threatening the world. The greater picture of truth is approaching completion, but no-one takes note.

Music in exotic places

Drifting off, my mind wanders back to a summer evening in 1980 when a group of us volunteers linger around a campfire in Kibbutz Misgav-Am in upper Galilee, Israel. We enjoy the moment, absorbing the calmness of the evening after a week of continuous cross border shelling and bombardment.
Guitar music fills the air to the tune of all the alleluia lyrics, alternating with rock’n’roll, blues and country music, which becomes increasingly more pleasant to the ears, the more we indulge on cheap beer, wine, vodka and Israeli brandy.
Having reached a higher state of oblivion, a drunken Dutchman throws his empty bottle into the darkness with great pitching skills. Shortly after and unannounced, our concert is interrupted by search lights and an army unit on night guard, who expect to find terrorist insurgents from Lebanon. Their search proves fruitless, there is no sign of any attempted border crossing.
What they do find, is the Dutchman’s empty bottle, which has hit the electric wire on the Lebanese border fence, only ten metres from where we are sitting and triggered off the alarm.
Every performer knows that ‘the show must go on’, so we compose a song: “Dutchman throws the bottle away – Alleluia”, where it falls, he has no say, “Allelu-u-ia”…