Love's in need of love today.

Love's in need of love today.

Over the last 24 days, great Britain has experienced a series of tragedies that have ripped through the heart of communities. The loss of life and the loss of trust are devastating, and i for one need to talk a little about my feelings on these events, and so move forwards with some clear answers to the lingering question of why?

The UK general 'snap' election, called by the PM also devastated and divided communities, families and friends. Although nobody died directly due to the election, it does not seem unreasonable to suggest that the two organized 'terror' attacks were somehow influenced by the timings of the atrocities, and, that it would seem to me to be the conservatives and right-wing who would benefit from such public insecurity following the attacks. Corbyn and Labour were openly attacked by opponents for being soft on security, and for wanting to negotiate rather than 'push the button'. Fortunately it seems that not all voters were tricked by fear into voting for the right. Corbyn and Labour made great gains in both votes, seats, and new membership, following the election.

The Grenfell tower fire will not be officially recognized as a 'terror' attack. However, based on the evidence building up, a combination of housing projects managers, landlords, MPs, and the PM herself, indirectly caused extreme terror and loss of life. The measure of how consciously they inflicted this terror remains to be quantified. In contrast with the certified 'terrorist attacks' only weeks before, we can begin to see how some people view government and state sponsored 'domestic' terrorism, by way of passing laws, removing free services and putting citizens at unnecessary risk (if they don't have enough money to pay for extra protection themselves).

For example, consider the drone strike, who is 'solely' responsible? those who designed built it, those who fly it, those who order the strike, those who do not speak out against it? They all played a role, but to try to figure out one individual, a scapegoat, for the larger layered complex of causation, becomes increasingly difficult in a world of technological automation. "it wasn't me, skynet did it!"

With the case of Grenfell Towers, i found a personal connection to the plight of the residents, and the local action groups calling for better safety measures, and getting consistently ignored by those who are supposed to listen and mediate the public will: MPs. I have experienced this with local government, and know many people who feel the same way. MPs have trouble listening or acting upon the will of the people, when it has regard to public infrastructure, and comes from the poorer classes.

We share the feeling that without a lobby group and a couple of million pounds it's very hard, nearly impossible to be heard, never mind actually change official policy or get what it is that you want e.g universal basic income, cap on tax loopholes for the super rich, a new swimming pool, clearer signage, legal medical and recreational cannabis)

Yes, the new digital 'clicktavism' works, and the internet can provide a way to bring up important questions, and ensure some points get a fair hearing in parliament. Plus, digital petitions can effect companies and individuals directly, when constructed well enough. Compared with trolling, however, digital petitions are but a drop in the ocean, out there in the big waves digital shit stirrers can now impact the minds of the people in ways both 'clicktavists' and politicians can only dream of.

Enter (the media) or better yet, the UK tabloid press, spearheaded by the wig three; The Sun, The Daily Mail and the Daily Express, and followed by a 'shatalogue' of publications and broadshits that get their kicks from churning up of the emotions, like a good poet, but in order to sell more shit, and/or influence your vote on behalf of the biggest donor, usually the 'Conservative and Unionist Party', based on all previous spending figures.

There is a hatred going around--and an undefinable counter-force made of love, understanding, knowledge and imagination--which disturbs me. A language of violence and retribution which i've only ever witnessed first hand in some movies and violent TV shows. A surge of people who once never even contemplated writing, now make pale threats and loud mouthed accusations, often racist, sexist, bigoted and always overly subjective, on social media platforms.

I am personally worried about this phenomena, and hope to draw attention to it, and open up a conversation. We need to talk about the far right. We need to talk about white privilege. We need to talk about race, identity, place and certitude. It's too easy to have fun together, a little chit chat, a shared picture here, and a nice tune there. Meanwhile underneath, hatred and venom brew. Perhaps Facebook is not the arena for this conversation. I envision something along the lines of a far-right rehabilitation zone. With the finest collection of comedians, neuroscientists, logicians, poets and public speakers that can roll with any punch thrown, and yet still never take oneself too seriously. To bring up the comic side, to balance with the trending tragic, and to sprinkle all with love light and laughter.

"It's up to you, cause, love's in need of love today, don't delay, send yours in right away, hate going around, breaking many hearts, stop me please, before it's gone to far."--Stevie Wonder, Love's In Need Of Love Today.


--Steve Fly

Amsterdam

16/06/2017

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Dead souls and living memory

Dead souls and living memory

The child of refugees

fleeing from Libya

and the chaos of Col.

Gaddafi's insanity.

Missed-educated and lost to

some strong social psychological

forces, a dying mind and dead soul

consumed by who knows what

sordid influences,

ideological dogmatic selfish

known to some authorities but

forgotten, lost, escaped into

the void of violence to make

a final statement on the death

of the soul

Reason, humanity, love,

forgiveness, strength did not reach

him in time

this young boy turned himself

into an ancient nightmare

a dead soul screaming death

a coward’s way out

the way of the unfeeling

unthinking idiot

to strike the innocent and

the young, and the vulnerable

in such a cowardly way

does not incite me to violence

i pity the death of a soul

and meditate on the victims

who's healthy souls were

snatched away from the body

sorrow, sadness and heartache

are a part of the process

let peace rain down and

may we educate and nurture

all the children, all the mothers

fathers, sons, daughters,

hatred is good for nothing

all i see are bombs

everywhere going off

shells and mortar

nails and bolts and hatred

packed inside ready to

explode all over some poor

bastard

you might think bombs would

be outlawed by now

but no, business is booming

in 2017

both foreign and domestically

bombs are big business

and the fear they bring is

music to the ears of the click

bait corporations,

also without soul,

without empathy and the ability

to think from another

point of view POV

and so multiple points of view

becomes a weapon in the fight

if you want to really fight,

write true

MPOV panorama flash

bang in the middle of the drama

full HD terror relentless

half truth, broken up by adverts

for soap, insurance, watches and

the latest Hollywood terror flick

change the channel,

no turn it off, get with yourself

your family and friends,

or gather your multiple thoughts.

turn it back on

don't let me or anybody else

tell you what to do

think for yourself

check the mail, the sun, the

ugly disinformation, terrible

mistakes, and weird

dull conspiracy, nothing new

everything old, recycled

same old age old war

over the ineffable

some might say

intelligence failure

this is always true

known to intelligence

are you

will you be

did you used to be

really

blown from coincidence

known to intelligence

what is

what will be

what isn't what should be

really, again, but surely

known to intelligence

but wait what of

the company the bureau

the agency who claim

such high general knowledge

are they too

known to intelligence?

are there too many suspects

too much noise

too many corporate profinterest

too many old boys?

known to intelligence

or willfully ignored

no trace just bodies

terror and little information

to keep the enemy unintelligent

a tactic

known to intelligence

little did he know

less did he show

nothing ditto

all election campaigning off

but we know who shouts

loudest and who the media like to

amplify and increase the range to

terrify, sly dogs of war

confrontation

narcissism and eternal lyric

of 'it is'

the isness' of idiots

unable to consider more

than a second

without a third or fourth way

blind to the others

drowning in certainty

no air to breathe

cause and effect

punish and reward

so fucking predictable,

what to blame outside

turn it off again,

and now back on

show me the terror

i need to see it,

now off, it's bedtime

the nightmares better

than the waking forces of

political media overkill

on repeat on repeat

death dying destruction

low information,

obscured, lies.

terror now a currency

a valuable force to get more

re-tweets and likes,

more views and more followers

the architect of misery, revenge

the reactionary uncontrolled

violent idiot

full of hatred and madness,

full of sadness

heal time heel

--steve fly, 23/05/17.

All thinking people oppose terrorism

one year after Brussels was bombed
London was struck by a thoughtless coward
one man with a knife
and a car and a familiar agenda
to cause a spree of terror in the minds of the people
across the mediasphere through
targeting random people
in whatever fundamentalist reality tunnel
this fucker inhabited

all thinking people oppose terrorism
the chaos of the indiscriminate
attacks so devilish in simplicity
a desperate act from a lonely suicidal
maniac driven by who knows what
kind of a broken mind?

all thinking people oppose terrorism
that species of violence and will
to kill based on inflicting a lasting fear
here, in the simplicity, lies the terror
any car and any knife could
take any human life!
both the terrorists and the state are
clear in agreement about that

all thinking people oppose terrorism
but differ on their way to stop it
and on why it started, and, what
else and who else are to blame,
violence united in violence
violence and terrorism know no
nation or religion or race or sex
be indiscriminate in equal condemnation
of terrorism and violence, and war
think different.

all thinking people oppose terrorism
stop the war stop the killing stop
the robbery stop the lies,
oppose the causes of hatred and
the demonization of entire cultures
oppose the use of theistic
terminology such as 'evil'
which plays into the hands of the devil
that master of distraction, obfuscation
and fear mongering

all thinking people oppose terrorism
some people finacially support it
keeping hands clean
selling arms to unstable lunatics to
inflict terror in another land
terror by another brand
the terrorismometer is broken

all thinking people oppose terrorism
some say that false flags are waving
terror as a set-up and a pretext for
cultural division, increase in
state powers and surveillance and
racial profiling and security investment
sheep dipped dupes and manchurian
candidates and strange coincidences
intelligence operations and....and....but

all thinking people oppose terrorism
and so explode with the opposite
everyday love bombing and attacking hate
with thermonuclear peace weapons
killing softly with his song
an unquestionable force for good
with the power of forgiveness blazing

all thinking people oppose terrorism
and should resist the rush to revenge
resist the urge to hate
let the violence become the exclusive
signiture of terrorism
all violence is degrading to the human
stop the wheels stop the killing and the
mockery and the fighting talk
and spare a thought for the victims
and their friends and families and join them
with opposing terrorism
everywhere everywhen.

"All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other.--Amiri Baraka

These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.”--Ed Snowdon.