Invisible wound

Can’t select the graphic to catch your eyes.

Invisible man (Ralph Ellison). Invisible hand (Adam Smith). But this? like those hollowing of the aftermath?

Time heals? Nelson Mandela (I saw Color of Freedom last night) was quoted as saying “Time heals wounds, but not invisible wounds”).

How about our man in Louisiana solitary confinement for a crime he did not commit. Heal his wound.

I had mine. Will show you mine if you showed me yours.

We carry polka-dots tissues inside. Invisibly. If there aren’t any pain, there ain’t life.

People shootin. People dyin. People profitin. From Baltimore to South Carolina. Extreme idealism on the one hand, and extreme greed on the other. It greases the wheel. Big wheel. Keeps on churning.

France gets its Rodney King’s hour. Burn baby burn.

For a while, we assumed “just build and they will come”. Not any more. Gas is expensive, even with fracking.

Thank God for youtube, Facebook and Google. We can now stay home, and “amuse ourselves to death” ( and save the environment from pollution).

Not without the costs. Speaking of big Tech. Since when Apple made a jump from 1 Trillion (the last time I looked) to 3 T company.

I wordpress my days away. To inform (in case you did not even know about Apple is now a 3-T company), entertain (can we all get along) and educate (we need reform, starting with the man/woman in the mirror).

Long ago, I believed that someday, one day, we will reach ” the Empathic Civilization”. Been a while since. No empathy. No sympathy. Just shootin, burnin, and dyin. To rub it in, billionaires – instead of building bridges, splitting it so his super-yatch can pass through – as in Bezos’, or submerging it permanently under water – as in recent submersible) amused themselves to death.

We all grow old, one day at a time. And not a lot of us were born in Happiest Countries.

In fact, the weight of the world tilts more toward Africa/Asia, with India emerges as world’s most crowded. There will be oil, blood, sweat and tears. No way around it. (the solution? Afro-abortion?)

Bill Gates inadvertently gave rise to the rebirth of White Supremacy in Europe. A Harvard drop-out donated money to vaccines, which in turn, reduces infant mortality rates in India and elsewhere. Then the lower fertility rates of the White population contributed to the mismatch in demographics.

Voila! easy solution: curtail immigration and refugees, genocide and homicide, incarceration and termination. It gives me goose bumps, because those easy solutions reminded me of where I was from: spray pesticide to defoliate (Agent Orange) and deny the enemies their sanctuary.

Before we know it, the wind blows the other way and burns us to the ground. It’s called backfiring. And subsequent aftermath. PTSD. Then invisible wound. Then glossy cosmetic surgery. “See me, touch me, feel me, HEAL me….” Nelson Mandela says, “Time will heal some wounds, but not the invisible wound”. Right on.

Can we all get along! Steve Jobs, another college drop-out, did us a disfavor. He philosophized that we should live and think different. Out of the box, the computer, the handset etc… only to put all our eyes and ears into one. Then Zuckerberg, in the tradition of dropping-out, gave us Social Media.

Damn if you don’t. Damn if you do. Invisible wound (unhealable by time or technology). What wound. Can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there. Have you seen yourself in person, face-to-face? Or just its reflection which has withered away one day at a time. Mirror mirror, who is the fairest of all!