Woke

[mnaz]

I like waking up.
It means I'm alive.
Wake! Wake! Wake!
Not woke! Past tense.
Woke bad, bad, bad!
What a difference one
one letter makes, I'm told.

[saw]

"Woke " is obviously a buzz word..... cooked up in a think tank to be regurgitated by people that never read a book..it's a MAGA shortcut for the lazy intolerant hordes that follow Trump's non-stop lies...

there are many it seems many that reject, Live and Let Live, which has been uttered for centuries to express a philosphy of peaceful coexistence......Trump and his simpleton disciples believe only
They are Right, and intend to force their philosphy on the masses....and anti wokeness will lead them to the promised land

[sasha]

it's right up there with "fake news", "liberal", & "rigged" in my Top 10 list of misappropriated words & terms of the post-Covid era

[winddance]

please let me woke up from this bad dream

[saw]

Hunter S.Thompson once quipped," The brutality of politics would probably be intolerable without drugs"

might have something there...choose your poison

[stilltrucking]

saw wrote:

Trump and his simpleton disciples believe only
They are Right,

Is that really what they believe?
I used to wonder what they believe?

"I used to stand and wonder, now I only stand...it came to me one rainy August morning like a flash,. We might all wa/oke up tomorrow in a pile of smoke and ash"—Peggy Wilson a waitressd at Sambo's in Atascadero

sorry for the digression, thank you so much for writing . you have no idea how much you help me cope.

[mnaz]

It's all divide and conquer politics at this point. I'll just leave it at that.

[stilltrucking]

waked woked wanked
tryany of words remember that book?

[mnaz]

I admit I didn't read the link, but I love the phrase "tyranny of words." A surprisingly big problem

[stilltrucking]

Truth be told I don't remember much about it, just remember the title and a friend who turned me onto the book when I was Hanging out at Johns Hupkins college in baltimore in the nineteen seventies.
back in the days I waas a head hunter emloyee snatching agent. steal engineers from Dupont to Union Carbide and so on
also
Reminds about a joke I heard about "Who killed more Indians than Custer?

wordy worded words
jam on that right thru the night
my world before my life on and over the road

[stilltrucking]

if i could sell my words for a penny each I wouldn't be driving a 98 olds
pity there is not a market drugs rock and roll after Planet Queen and lsd and pornographic haluscinations of f*k ing a
s black widow spider the sweetest orgasm i have ever had and then the begining of 25years on the road and over it
my 18 wheels humming home sweet home

[mnaz]

I think HST wasn't far from the truth about "the American dream," but there was no way that "Fear and Loathing" (in Vegas) was ever going to fully translate to the big screen. You had to read the book.