Massey Ferguson

I find that as a writer it is always difficult to talk about current world events, because they are so quickly forgotten. The interesting thing about stories is just how dramatically they change when they are presented from another point of view.

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Cops are killing black guys for no reason at all; or so they say

While yet another aboriginal girl is found in a plastic bag

Racism is alive and well; so they say

An American journalist is headless

 It's an all out declaration of war

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History is simply the documented record of the most popular narrative. It kind of makes you wonder how differently things would look if it was possible to integrate cultures seamlessly.  

A lady in Winnipeg inadvertently destroyed her husband’s chance of winning the current mayoral race, because of a comment made several years ago.  She said that she dislikes walking downtown because of all the drunken Indians. The media is in a uproar and the general public is upset that she would make such an insensitive comment.  The truth is that it’s a problem because we have allowed it to be one.

I would hate to be the guy that gets hired for a job on the basis of a mandated ethnic diversity policy; rather than by a  perceived ability to perform the task. However, that's how they pick candidates for university, so I guess there isn't really any difference.

You may point out the brokenness of the justice system and all the ways in which it fails, but you can’t say that it doesn’t have a purpose. It wouldn’t come as a surprise if I were to tell you that selfishness is the most influential motivation of human behaviour.

If it wasn't for religion and politics... we might all have the wherewithal to co-exist in a more harmonious manner. Maturity is simply the ability to comprehend the needs of others as well as your own.

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human." - Kurt Vonnegut

Malfeasance of Solecisms

I find that it’s much more difficult to write during the dog days of summer than in the drudgerious* throes of winter. It’s not that I don’t have all sorts of pleasant things to talk about, but anachronisms aren’t an appreciated novelty so I’ll simply carry on. Airplanes are dropping out of the sky nearly every day, and they keep telling me that death by Ebola is quite likely.

It seems that I’m up to my knees in bees; when you work at an apiary sleep is nothing but a distant memory. Much like the thousands of moths left clinging to the side of a steel clad building in the early morning; completely oblivious to the absence of the night that was.

Controversial as they may be, Vonnegut + Ondaatje paint the world in such a way that fiction and reality coalesce so as to be entirely indiscernible. The following quotes are evidence enough:

“In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness.
And God said, "Let us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what we have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat, looked around, and spoke. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely.

"Everything must have a purpose?" asked God.

"Certainly," said man.

"Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God. And He went away.”
―Kurt Vonnegut


“Death means you are in the third person.”

" Everyone has to scratch on the walls somewhere or they go crazy."

―Michael Ondaatje


Both of these authors make a living by vividly descriptive aberrations of human existence, laced with tantalizing satire. They do very little to inspire change, but neither did Obama really. However, neither one of them comes close to being as profound as this:

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

― Pope Francis

* Drudgerious -  A word that I happily invented.