Fire Is Fire

[mnaz]

Fire is about itself.
Fire lives only to burn.
Fire respects nothing.
Class, money or power.
Fire lives to consume.

[saw]

you're right
fire is impartial
it just burns until
all the fuel is gone

same with the planet
she isn't prejudiced
you fuck with her
she'll fuck back

[mnaz]

Like physics. Action reaction. My niece's apartment is in the path of one of those fires, and I hope the fire burns out before it reaches her.

[saw]

me too
scary shit

[mnaz]

What I no longer understand is the idea I grew up with that these are the "United" States of America. What a dead fucking dream that is/was, if the latest internet spew is any indication, which I'm hopeful it isn't.

[stilltrucking]

stewing in the spew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orqzRg11o0s

hope your niece is ok.

[mnaz]

So far so good. And the brutal Santa Ana winds have died down if not the seemingly endless, childish mean-spirited political bluster and finger pointing in their wake that I guarantee will get us nowhere. Where do I live anymore?

[winddance]

sung to the tune of huey lewis' "I need a new drug"

I need a new home
one that won't make me sick
a place with some sanity
not led by a pr**k
I need a new home
with normal people en masse
folks who think with their heads
and not with their a**

[saw]

Huey would approve...

[mnaz]

Winddance, good start. Where is our shared humanity? Ok, I'm not doing the tribal politics anymore. I'm not reading the articles, nor the cesspool of reader comments-- especially not those. What a wasteland.

[mnaz]

So to be honest, here it is 2 months later and I'm still reading the same sort of articles hopelessly disputed by both sides, and the attached wasteland of comments about tribal politics. What am I missing? Is "The Other Side" really that bad?

I guess what I'm "missing" is choosing to miss these back-forth toxic sessions. Maybe I'll start today.