Some entertainment

 Well, I went outside and this is what I did.  For the one person that has been following me forever...

Disney Movie

Sugar cube on tongue,
my destiny cracked,
man put on pause,
Han Solo in a trap,
Just another rolling stone?
Alien on my shoulder,
Asking: "am I a saint or a sinner."
Purple Haze, unicorns, moonbeams and rainbows.
Matrix glitter...
I am gold.
I just want to escape,
the cycle of life/death and rebirth.
My ID BOLDLY walking two step forward, then dragged ten steps back by the SUPER EGO or was it a UFO.
My mind always playing tricks on me.
I'm complaining to Job about God,
I don't like the crucible,
the fire is too hot.
from the friction from the struggle of reality constantly testing my EGO.
Can't get ahead, always falling behind,
breathing hard and heavy trying to sprint a marathon...
Time really flies, in the moment of now, yesterday is gone, and there is no tomorrow.
Hold up!
Slowly putting together the broken pieces of my porcelain china tea cup,
looking in the grass for lost army men,
and misplaced marbles.
I found her.
A Disney princes not like most.
Silently
She stares with her beautiful dark brown eyes.
wondering?
Am I a man or a mouse?
or the frog she will kiss to turn into a prince.
Little does she know, I am the last of the urbane Pharaohs...

be like water

The tiny rain drop.

A centimeter in the "enlightened" city of men.

over time... 

becomes the mighty avalanche, 

melting into rushing rivers and waterfalls,

then calmly settles in a crater from a pebble from space,

to go rushing off down a stream, 

easing downhill, 

or 

lazily meandering to the shore,

to pour into the ocean

and 

become the tiny rain drop once more.

Daily struggle

 Like the sun rising daily,

memories of yesterday flood into my mind's eye.

regrets?

too few too mention...

I had a dream?

Washed away with the dirt from tomorrow's sin.

My thoughts linger on sorrow

Love lost,

but "better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all..."

are hollow words for a tombstone.

Hate flows threw my veins.

perhaps,

Disdain...

The melancholy of the doldrums setting in ivory towers in the ghetto.

Sometimes I feel joy!

Ode to life.

a sheep in a flock with a shepherd.

I am one with all.

In reality, we face life alone.

Isolated,

seeking permanent bonds

in a world made of sand.

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Minimalist Art by FUdo. I am FUdo the upright sage.

 

Plato

I choose to bask in the sunlight of reality and discover "self" rather then impose my "will" on others. In the "Allegory of the Cave" by Plato, he describes a system of education for the masses. For instance, imagine being chained to a seat, and the masters of the educational system begin to indoctrinate you with their views of reality. (The original matrix) Imagine a horse being describe to you with a shadow puppet. The shadow puppet does not do a real horse justice. Matter of fact, a modern picture of a horse or any type of animal does not capture the essence of the beast. For example, a picture of a squirrel does does capture their frantic energy scurrying about trying to find food or playing with friends. Basically the education system does not teach the individual the reality of our existence.
One day, your chains are broken and you are free to roam around the "cave." You see a simple device that is used to educate the people. A torch is lite and the instructor holds imagines of animals in front of the fire and projects the image on the cave wall for the people to learn, "shadow puppet." Moreover, behind the educational device, that imparts faulty knowledge, you see a very bright light down at the end of the cave. You follow the light and discover it leads to outside and real sunlight not torch light. First, you are amazed about the the sunlight which blinds you temporarily, then imagine you the shock of seeing a real horse running around versus the image of the "shadow puppet" you are told is a horse?
At this point in the "Allegory of the Cave" you are given a choice: 1) To descend back into the cave and educate you the people to the truth about our reality, for some it would be pointless to tell them the truth about a real horse when they have been conditioned to believe the image of the "shadow puppet." Or, 2) you can continue your path of self enlightenment and discover your personal relationship with our reality.
I have tried to do both, but now I am just going to bask under the sunlight and improve self, but stay accessible to those that leave the cave looking for information. For instance, I have an online school that supplements home schooling that teaches liberal arts and a variety of skills to help students achieve academic success, but I am not actively seeking students.
An example of a person that bask under the sun and goes into the "Cave" to teach would be a professor, not a teacher. A professor has earned the ability to conduct personal research "basking under the sun" and taking the information they have discovered and try to teach it to the individuals in the "cave." However, the information they teach to the people are "shadow puppets." The professor teaches semi-enlightened people "teachers" to operate the machinery to educate the people.
I refuse to operate the machinery or develop the machinery for mass indoctrinating the people for control. The people that operate the machinery are known as "Guardians" in the republic. The guardians in the republic have to have certain qualities. The major quality for Plato is the attribute of being Just.
Anyway, I am FUdo, the upright sage! I am going to travel the world one day and get out of California. I have seen the world as a storm trooper for the United States, I know want to see the world as a sage.

Water

Were Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) crops created because of the declining levels of potable water for the production of healthy food for the world population? The less water needed to grow a staple crop the more water saved to feed the people in cities in the long run. Kind of like a business venture cutting the cost to develop a product to maximize profits.
I threw away a lot of food today that had spoiled, like some tomatoes, avocados, plums, a half a head of lettuce and some watermelon. I thought to myself such a waste of food and started to remember the commercials of starving children in Africa from the eighties. How many people are wasting food in the United States? I probably threw some GMO food in the garbage.
According to a report by USA today, the natural water tables underground across the world are being depleted faster than they are resupplied. For instance, in Punjab India, farmers are unable to control their own destiny due to limited water supplies and committing suicide. Moreover, I\in Southwest Kansas communities are tearing themselves apart fighting over water rights to produce edible food for the cities in the United States.
In addition, the process of fracking in the United States to produce oil domestically in order to minimize U.S. dependency on foreign oil is causing havoc on our domestic water supply. The world is running out of fresh water to grow nutritious food for humanity.
Will a world government be needed in order to control water supplies around the globe in order to produce food for cities or will the need to produce crops to feed cities result in the further exploitation of third world resources.
For instance, take the product Almond milk produced in California and other sections of the agriculture infrastructure of the United States. Almond milk cuts the cost of the production of a milk product by downsizing the reliance on cows ( that use a massive amount of water to feed [the production of grain] and quench the thirst of cows) and using a plant to produce a healthy alternative to cow milk or is it?
Today, I look at the desire of the United States and China to compete over the natural resources of Africa. Special forces soldiers have already been killed in the region: https://abcnews.go.com/.../us-soldiers-killed.../story... To finish my rant. Something is going to have to give in order to feed humanity. I see a global totalitarian government being generated in order to control the actions of the people and determine the use of natural resources globally just to feed the people.