A few posts behind.

Including one about the Tao of Dystopia and a post entitled “Scrod Muffins and the Sanctimonious Failure of the Civil Rights Movement”…

Alas, minds, like air filters, need to be changed… preferably often. I am undergoing an calculating change of expression, one which will manifest itself into a new site design.

But I will spare you the “under construction”.

I suppose I could choose the easy way out and quote passages from select poems and essays I admire…

Some time, it will be found that people can be changed only by changing their surroundings. It is alleged that, at least ninety- five per cent. of the criminals transported from England to Australia and other penal colonies, became good and useful citizens in a new world. Free from former associates and associations, from the necessities of a hard, cruel, and competitive civilization, they became, for the most part, honest people. This immense fact throws more light upon social questions than all the theories of the world. All people are not able to support themselves. They lack intelligence, industry, cunning — in short, capacity. They are continually falling by the way. In the midst of plenty, they are hungry. Larceny is born of want and opportunity. In passion’s storm, the will is wrecked upon the reefs and rocks of crime.

The complex, tangled web of thought and dream, of perception and memory, of imagination and judgment, of wish and will and want — the woven wonder of a life — has never yet been raveled back to simple threads.

Shall we not become charitable and just, when we know that every act is but condition’s fruit; that Nature, with her countless hands, scatters the seeds of tears and crimes — of every virtue and of every joy; that all the base and vile are victims of the Blind, and that the good and great have, in the lottery of life, by chance or fate, drawn heart and brain?

-Robert Ingersoll  “The Brain and The Bible”