The Waymo car that ran on logic alone Couldn’t find its way back home Got stuck behind an obstacle Turned out that was the least of its troubles Once information was hard to find Grab a fact and fill the gap with your mind Now we zero in on spoonfed sites It’s all laid out so there’s no need to analyze Wait a minute Is this really information Don’t get bamboozled Bemused bewildered or befuddled Stay open New information is coming in We narrowcast till kingdom come It’s good to know our sources match our assumptions But are we missing anything To start with the conclusion then seek out confirmation? Life is filled with constant surprise But beware of dead ends posing as a light It’s a dirty complex world Sometimes Occam’s razor cuts you to the chase Wait a minute Is this really information Don’t get bamboozled Bemused bewildered or befuddled Stay open New information is coming in Don’t be too sure you know it all New facts emerge to shift your paradigm I sift it in my judgement seat You might be correct to say it’s incomplete Checking references all day Who’s saying what and what do they say Look for proof and trace it back Clean your glasses before you go on the attack I’m not trying to cause some kind of situation I’m just talkin bout in-in-information Stay open New information is coming in Is this the age of information? Or is it just the age of disinformation? Got to use your critical thinking When you take a jump into the data dump (Yeah, yeah, yeah) I don't think I know anything I know everything At least I know something?

Hey baby, talk to me Subject, verb, object, sentence You can do it. I need your feedback Time to have a conversation Grow up and heal the nation Get a brain and have a heart Syncopate or sink apart Don’t stop your education You can rise above your station We need a conversation To address the situation Going backwards, sitting still Watching all the poison spill Out of date mythology Will be the death of you and me Oh Jesus, Jesus Christ! In the land of the hurricane God’s children have gone insane Worms of hate chewing on their brains While they circle the cosmic drain Dictators pop up like mushrooms Spewing spores in all directions That Goddamn Drumpf! Put him in jail already! Guy needs to be prosecuted. But let me tell ya, Empathy is not a crime Ignorance is not sublime Waking up is not a virus You’re not the boss and you can’t fire us Oh, you can pass your legislation But you can’t ban conversation Come on baby, talk to me. I need your input. Now talk. Now listen. I wanna listen! I wanna hear what you gotta say! We need to have a conversation A conversation goes both ways A conversation needs a feedback loop Otherwise no one is listening It’s not a conversation Until it goes back and forth Here and there, anywhere The subject may change But the substance is a flow. Slow, yeah that’s how I like it! Now talk! I’m talking to you, I’m finally talking to you And I just adore the you-know-what… My turn to listen (yes, listen listen!) Your turn to talk! I need you! Sometimes I need you so badly! I really, really want you to touch me Intelligence! Yeah, with your brains! You have a beautiful 3.98 GPA give it to me baby yeah! Give it, give it, give it, give it… Speak to me, I’ll speak to you Subject, verb, object I’m learning how Sentences, feelings! Thinking, feeling, believing, mysterious! But let me tell ya, I was born in the land of the hurricane Where all God’s children have gone insane (Unconscious!) Alligators they roam the streets You’d lock keep your dog inside, he isn’t meat! Oooh, and get your cats in there too! You gotta come evolve with the rest of us We are evolving! We can’t be alone, not an island Truth! Truth! Truth! Truth! Acceptance! Participation! Right now, join us in a real conversation Experience! Realization leads to life experience! What’s going on? Time to have a conversation (Right here right now right here right now) A knowledgeable conversation Time to have a conversation An educated conversation (Nyam myoho renge kyo) Critique me!

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the natural cards revolve ever changing seeded elsewhere planted in the garden fair grow trees, grow trees tongues of the sheer wind setting your foot where the sand is untrodden, the ocean that only begins listen a woman with a bulldozer built this house of now carving away the mountain whose name is your childhood home we were trying to buy it buy it buy it someone was found killed there all bones bones dry bones earth water fire and air met together in a garden fair put in a basket bound with skin if you answer this riddle you'll never begin born in a house where the doors shut tight shadowy fingers on the curtains at night cherry tree blossom head high snow a busy main road where I wasn't to go I used to sit on the garden wall say hello to people going by so tall hallo to the postman's stubbly skin hallo to the baker's stubbly grin mrs thompson gave me a bear brigitte and some people lived upstairs skating on happy valley pond various ministers and guards stood around the ice was nice hallo the invisible brethren and there was a tent you played cards with the soldiers in, don't worry we won't send anyone after you they screamed but me and licorice saw the last of them one misty twisty day across the mournful morning moor motoring away singing ladybird, ladybird what is your wish your wish is not granted unless it's a fish your wish is not granted unless it's a dish a fish on a dish is that what you wish earth water fire and air met together in a garden fair put in a basket bound with skin if you answer this riddle you'll never begin (And the opposite is also true!)

He is rich but not a gentleman He is rich but not a gentleman Civility can be learned With some effort and struggle, effort and struggle But rich people don’t understand The power nor beauty of language that causes Civilization to occur That causes civilization to occur It will occur without his knowing With or without him If he makes no effort He risks losing attention too Because he’s too miserly He lacks empathy He is miserly He lacks empathy (Left) Insulated from reality Insulated from reality You can never serve humanity, society You can never serve humanity, society (Right) With great power comes great responsibility With great power comes great responsibility With great power comes great responsibility Great responsibility, ahhhh Great responsibility, great responsibility Learn about it!

With your skin pierced like a jewel By the sun An immense power of ambiguity Fades my distant vision For a dark and brooding tryst With emptiness—soaked memories In a nutshell, cracked to pieces. If I budge from here All magic disappears A wingless flight of truth Riddled with holes An infinite denial Set loose upon What holds out a hand Of relevance, our lost years Spinning away Our lost years, spinning away

In life, all things are true and false at the same time If you don’t know this and don’t embrace paradox This can become a Catch 22 Which can in a world of logic make you insane, because logic Says a thing cannot be true and false at the same time Which is true…if you are in an argument So watch your mind dart all over the place Trying to make logical sense of it…or relax, because Once you embrace paradox, you start to rely on meaning-making That is sourced inside of one relationship at a time Joe likes A, But Jane likes B, yet Arnie insists on C. No problem, because All three have a right to their own preferences And even their own belief systems. Most important is to recognize that consciousness begins And travels toward mastery of knowledge Starting at unconsciousness, and splits at the point wherein You are either at the effect of something, or cause of something. Effect side: Unconsciousness, Mystery, Belief Systems, Thinking About, Feeling About… Unresolved issues are recycled ad infinitum when… At the effect until you develop an attitude Of being a cause of the issue which is at the moment of Truth Or where you recognize that what is so is so what Here you stop worrying about or being at the effect of it. You start being the cause of it. This is a much more powerful and productive way to be The causal path is: Acceptance of the matter, Participation, Experience, Realization, Mastery of Knowledge, (The mastery of knowledge is love) Doo-doo-doo-doot-doot-doo-doo-doo Doo-doo-doo-doot-doot-doo-doo-doo Ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhh, Ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhh Bop bop bahh, ba dop bop ba da Bop bop bahh, ba dop bop ba da Bop bop bahh, ba dop bop ba da Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, So being responsible is always your best way Out of anything, to start healing. You do not have to say this to others, You just have to be in your own process and sort it out for your own mind. Where this lands you is your reward. You come first, then the “Other”. Self-love is the first love. Or you really cannot love anyone cause you don’t have Any experience of it, any experience of it And the mastery of knowledge is love. (Chuckling) That's lovely!

In Düsseldorf they had a dream To find the heart in the machine Technology with a human face Brautigan bestowed it with loving grace But now the bros have bigger plans Do what they will because they can HAL writes your songs and drives your cars Draws you cartoons and tears your world apart Deep fakes are ringing in the new It won’t be long till they’re more real than you We’ll have an AI President Inventing new techniques of punishment Boiling frogs trapped in our own device All our Zoom backgrounds look like paradise Each to our own reality Uncanny Valley, RFD

Most assets depreciate over time Assets are things, nouns, physical units Depreciation is an expense on a profit and loss Depreciation is accumulated To lower the value of an asset Over its projected life expectancy Things wear out without maintenance Maintenance of an asset increases its life Investments in Assets decrease cash or liabilities Investments in Assets increase value and equity Every accounting transaction Includes a debit and a credit Every accounting transaction Requires a journal entry and a description Every accounting transaction Includes a paradox or two Every accounting transaction Increase or decreases net worth Every evidence-based rebuttal negates existence Everyone who learns accounting will never go insane Insanity is the result of refusing to understand That all things are true and false at the same time Darwin supports superior/inferior duality knowledge Einstein supports connection of possibilities Use your head Learn Math, English, Humanities, Science Use your head Completion of goals builds self-esteem Use your head Self-esteem brings confidence Use your head Confidence feels great yet does not boast Confidence relies on using your head Builds assets, accounts for liabilities, and builds net worth.

Laniakea Filaments in the darkness Immeasurable heaven Wispy branches of light Vastness that stretches To the South Pole Wall Shifting supercluster Mother of us all One insignificant rock Circles a mundane star And on that piece of matter Is everything we are Space time and energy Everything we know and see It’s all up to you and me Responsibility It’s a long hot summer On the world we call home Space is all around us But we’re all alone Robust and fragile The speck we crawl upon We burn it up like garbage Until the winds blow wrong Expelled from the garden That’s what we like to believe But we live in the garden We can die but we can’t leave Responsibility It’s up to you and up to me We’re nothing and we’re everything We’re space, time, and energy Black holes and dark matter Do their inscrutable work Light, motion, and physics Fast forward, reverse Take comfort in knowing We are small and huge It means nothing that it means nothing We make meaning every moment we choose Responsibility It’s up to you and up to me We’re nothing and we’re everything We’re space, time, and energy Space, time, and energy Laniakea smile down on you Laniakea smile down on me

We took our David Bowie knives and slit the Putin throat The Donald we left gurgling in his Mar-a-Lago moat Coming, can’t you feel it in the wind? Rumsfeld and his Cheney men, the buzzards left their bones Assad is drawn and quartered, the world watches on their phones Coming for you, can’t you feel it in the… The Clintons couldn’t shake us, they will never carp again His member’s in a private box, we know he feels our pain Everyone named Reagan undergoes a gender change Coming for you, can’t you feel it in the air? Luminol is all that’s left of Asia’s new Pol Pots MBS is disappeared except a couple spots. Coming for you, can’t you feel it in the… Everyone named Rogan undergoes a gender SHOCK! Shock…shock…shock.. Coming…air…coming for you… Can you feel it in the air? Everyone named Rogan… Can’t you feel it in the air? SCREEEEEEEEEE…

Hauling stones for Khufu Under the Egyptian sun So he can live forever And keep the peasants busy Onions, radishes, and garlic Castor oil for our skin We build a shrine for future thieves To sell off to the Rosicrucians We lived and died in 3050 BC The sun sails across the sky in a boat Every month a pig eats the moon You know the king’s name but you don’t know ours. The “greatest man the human race produced” Graduated from his lessons in Ethics And began a campaign of extermination Spreading culture to the survivors Proclaimed the brotherhood of man With an army and a sword in hand Died at 32 of ennui His empire fell apart instantly We lived and died in 330 BC F.A. Wright didn’t tell our story The pretty boss of a massive crime wave In his wake they built a cool library. From barbarian Europe There did emerge a king Who created French culture With German discipline 54 holy wars Unity, morals, and order Baptized the heathen Saxons And pocketed their treasure We lived and died in 800 AD Negotiating tricky loyalties Put our finger up to measure the wind Hope we picked the right god so we can live again… What is a king for? What is his purpose? What are his duties? How did he get this job? Who does this history serve? Who blows the whistle when he goes too far? What is the meaning of good and evil? What questions should we keep to ourselves? This is the story of borders and walls The global sweep of history A long epic of slapstick murders All the vaudeville power and glory Who cracked the code of cultivation? Who catalogued all the herbs and mushrooms? Who invented the written word? Who built and played the first trumpet? Kings, warriors, and thugs Get their names in the schoolbooks Raise a glass for the unsung Who invented civilization.

(When I see you, everything is better) Life is chaos, life is complex Life can be too confusing Life can get frustrating Sometimes it’s so amusing Let’s get along Life is too short To spend on anything That is not part of The perfect pattern of our lives Let’s get along Let’s not fuss, let’s not fight Move beyond wrong and right Cut ourselves a little slack Cultivate understanding Let’s get along Walk in the sun You are wonderful You are phenomenal You are glorious You are amazing Let’s get along You matter, I matter High time to realize We can communicate We are civilized! Let’s get along I am just like you I get triggered too Kindness, empathy Feel the tension just dissipate And defuse Let’s get along Let’s walk in the sun (In the fog) Let’s walk in the sun (In the clean) In our beautiful sun (Beautiful, cool) Let’s walk in the sun (Refreshing fog) Let’s get along!

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