<>Facebook Posts and Letters to the Editor. <>Rich and Poor.

A FEW of my responses to discussions/posts in Friends’ Facebook page, slightly edited. 

<>Facebook Posts and Letters to the Editor.

BEFORE the advent of the internet, letters to newspapers were carefully screened. Identities checked, edited for space and brevity. Lengthier insight landed on op-ed as essay etcetera but from those who knew what they're talking about. 

       These days on Social Media, people write inane stuff and punkish one-liners as a cover for cluelessness, boredom, and idiocy. Yet in past informal public gatherings, such as in barber shops and town plazas, those who disagreed were not banished but reminded of civility and coolness. If rabblerousers failed to comply, they were barred. 

       Social media is weird. Many don't want to be told they are wrong. Everybody is a genius. I am cool with that as long as I am presented with insight per their own words and not nasty slogans and dismissive self-righteousness. And “newslinks” as response to a conversation is simply irritating. 🗣👤👥

<>Rich and Poor.

LIFE. There are rich and there are poor. There are bad people and poor people. But rich doesn't automatically make you bad or good; poor, the same. But, yes it is true, the eerie space of convenience and comfort between rich and poor drive people to sadness, anger and grief. But that is not the fault per se of the rich just because we the poor don't have wealth to pay $thousands to frolic for an hour in the Milky Way in Jeff's spaceship or chill (and die) in a sub down the sea to ogle at a historical relic. 

       Mostly, the social divide is caused or ushered or enabled by a government that is tasked to lessen agony of the poor and distribute more richness to the impoverished in an equal manner, somehow. But if our government tosses billions$ (such as $113 billion) of taxpayer money to a war that feeds the corporate rich than works ways to negotiate peace, then this displeasure continues to exist. 

       The rich in general becomes open target and we the poor stay wanting. Because we are so divided and our energy so spread out that we lose the power to reform a leadership or correct an inept and weak governance. Why don't we just let the rich bury their dead, allow them to grieve in private. and live their life. And we the poor enjoy the little blessings that we get here in America where, many times, our relatively cool endowments and entitlements blind us from a quiet pursuit of our own respective happiness. Cool? 😒😔🤨