Most of us need some kind of help.

Here’s the thing, I don’t really know very many people.

I don’t know what your social circle is like. Honestly, I really don’t. I can’t. Even if you talked to me about it, the best I get is your perception. Most the times I simply get what you’d like me to hear. That’s fine. Normal, I’d say. But what if you need help? I’ll tell you right now, I want to hear that too.

Everyone is vulnerable.

Folks, everyone is vulnerable. Without everyone else, we all die. There’s no hunting and preparing meals, no sewing a new suit, no building your own house with your hands and no one to help, or any solo rustic pioneer fantasy adventures these days with a modern job you need. But, you can give folks some of that money to do all that shit so you can work.

Whether or not that is ridiculous is fun to talk about and feel free. But it’s not the thought today. It’s just a fact.

Why’d we fire all the fleshies? Do we not like living?

The real people who used to help us, observe us, talk to us, judge us, and hang out with us are replaced by folks online or inside computers.

While this may be more convenient, is it safe? 

Want to bring a country to its knees? Do they have facebook?

Social media gives us the sensation of being together alone. I venture to say that really is alone with a phone. Without physical eyes on us, there’s many things folks online can’t know about us. 

This is an area where I feel imagination is wrong. When you’re talking to folks online, it might be useful to not imagine them in your head. Only accept about them what they give you. Before you know it, you’ll project on them. Hell ensues. It’s never how you think it is. But you wouldn’t think anything as an observer. Projection turns you into a director. Handy for lots of stuff. But not for talking to folks you can’t see. All conversation in general in all formats has suffered greatly just within my lifetime just from projection. 

“5 Minutes of your time?”

When I was a kid, folks would approach you at the grocery store with “5 minutes of your time.” They could be a band, church car wash, they might hand you a flyer..they’d get shot now. Why? Folks think it’s annoying to talk to strangers. 

However, what the fuck are they doing on Facebook? The answer there is they’re talking to strangers in their head. That’s different. Easy. Gratifying. Less commitment. Real strangers? Bad. Fake strangers? Good!

The whole world has small town blues.

People who know and grew up with me have a tendency to talk to me like I was 30. Flattering. However I’m not presenting info from a 30 year old. I’m almost 50! lol. See, I’m stuck in their brain as someone I no longer am, if I ever was. Imagine that times thousands. The world! No one knows shit.

You need people, no matter who you are. You’re only doing yourself a disservice by not getting to know some of them. More than that, it makes the whole damn place vulnerable.

Vulnerable again, probably key word.

The vulnerability is important. Without weaving ourselves together, we aren’t as strong. You might have to stick up for someone or something, if you don’t know them, you’re less likely to do that. Your bond with others protects everyone, not just yourself. Them too. Even folks far away feel the security from folks you are bonded with.

The judgement is going away. Hello, being useful!

In my lifetime, this is the gift that keeps on because judgement gets less and less. I know folks struggle who do what I wouldn’t do. I don’t want to judge them anymore. I either want to find out if I am doing what they do (usually what the urge to judge means to me), or if I can just help out, or both. Everyone suffers. No sense in adding to that. But the fact is I can’t judge anyone. I’m not them, in their shoes. I feel pretty awesome about that. Just observing, helping out. No judging required.

I want to be on the good team.. whatever the hell that is.

I want to be some kind of help somewhere. I’d like to pitch in to make the place nicer. I’d like to help fortify the area so kids and adults alike had safety and peace of mind. I do not need bitchy judgy false conclusions for any of that.

Been a rough week. Sure glad for music. Thanks. 🙏 

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Djembe Funk on Subvert.

New music service in town. Liking it so far. Hope you get to check out Subvert. I like the song and video to “Citrus Fruit.” Happy to leave it here too. Thanks.