Re: BLUE SKIES, BIG SCIENCE, POETIC TECHNOLOGIES 7 June 2012, Thom the World Poet, 9 June 2012,

2, the Griot Poet (response)

I have a friend who is paid by IBM Just to sit around and solve conundrums He is a poet-as several other IBM ex-poets Whose lateral emotional bases allowed flexibility? Yet whose individuality clashed with corporate groupthink (You cannot make soup out of ice creamIdeas often threaten power structures focused upon control) Investment post September 11 is in military, police, surveillance mega-industry All of which constitute inertial economic drags upon productive creative processes As schools now focus more on learning to the test Movies and music become retro /recycled clichs eating off past visions Toffler was right/De Bono was right-to sell thought processing to Corporations Every clich is true. Dick Tracy wristwatches exist/as do jetpacks They have yet to be commercially marketed. Space travel exists (privatized) Patents for new inventions compound Jetsons/2001/Star Trek previews of the possible Venture capital supported enterprises seek solutions/even when most investment is military Eccentric individualism has been replaced by robotic animeProgrammed drones kill civilians with no responsibility Technology has no morality. Science is value free. Economics only one factor when it comes to innovative technology What philosophy Armageddon? Sarin, anthrax attacks? Deliberate assassinations STUXNET cyber-warfare, universal surveillance, secrecy and censorshipAll limit both individual freedom and initiative. New ideas required But first we need to replace those robots and drones With poets, artists, philosophers-free thinkers all!

***** We forget the lesson of "Ender's Game," As Mazer Rackham, of bugger-kill fame And the faux military-industrial-complex declares fair game A sentient race we make "other" with epithet No science used to program - A Google translator - Or Star Trek "universal communicator" To see what a hive-complex species thinks, To know how an entire entity of beings Lived in harmony, Before Ender advertently: made them extinct! Seeking only to live Beyond its planetary borders We were attacked in the story: what for? Because: "they hated our freedoms"? Orson Scott Card does not explore The myriad possible reasons Earth was assaulted In his treatise...as a species, weve got a history of pissing people off! OBL of 9/11 fame made it quite plain: it was for the children WE bombed in Iraq between false wars And his twisted devotion To eye-for-eye killings of more innocents as if that would implore Blood to flow that had once been poured, Sinews and skin to assemble Upon dry bones "La vengeance se mange tres-bien froide," Or, "Revenge is very good eaten cold," (Novel: Matilde, 1841) As I compose verse to the coming sun, I bear witness: IT [revenge] makes a poor spark, Or kick start To a resurrection!