Archive for the ‘satyagraha’ Category

If All You Can Do

October 28, 2026

If all you can do is complete tasks more or less per someone’s instructions, then, sure, you can be automated out of the ability to earn a living — as endangered as any whale, bee, dinosaur, conscript, or prophet.

But no machine possesses a soul — which is you, if only you’ll awaken & acknowledge yourself & others — & what you & they must do to complete the glorious becoming — & mutual acknowledgement — that’s love — which no mechanism can be or do.

Then you & they can decide to cooperate per goals you discover you both desire in loving political economy.

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A Man Swerves His Car

October 16, 2026

by Eric Chaet

A man swerves his car as tho to hit me
where I stand on road shoulder
torn between thumbing a ride east from Kansas City
& watching a crew lay bricks on a newly-erected wood frame.

At the last moment, he turns aside.

He wants me more aware of death & of himself & myself
if I’m going to stand in midst of world
that’s driving him back & forth along highways.

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