April 5th, 2024 Thoughts

Thinking about Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have A Dream Speech

  1. History has shown precedent for not always fixing things in a timely manner
  2. Calling out Governor of Alabama’s racism was necessary, though that said likely created security concerns for Governor of Alabama’s and other’s families.
    1. This is consequential because while MLK Jr.’s movement was non-violent, there were other more violent movements during the same time at least from my limited knowledge of history.
    2. Calling out the need for Justice, those responsible for Injustice matters and precision, smaller surface area is important, likely not always ideally pondered.
  3. Changing the future requires sales, sales that are inclusive of all parties are valuable
  4. Racism that was not ideally fixed 100 years after slavery, should likely not be set to ideally fixed 56 years after the Civil Right’s Movement. Set to over, already solved sounds good and it might be easier to fall into the trap of thinking that dependent upon where you live in the country. Not a problem for me or you might not equate to ideal delivery in other parts of the country.
    1. People do not establish ideal value based upon race, ethnicity, and country of origin in good times.
    2. Countries sometimes experience war, famine, drought, and natural disasters. Bridges and conversation built with each other today factors into capacity to have peace, make positive change tomorrow.
    3. There are problems outside of racism like solidifying support lines and strife in families that does not always equate to more ideal delivery for people of different ethnicities – family drama reduces throughput fully appreciated?
    4. I know I don’t get it perfect, maybe others are closer than I – Claim A, Fee A, does not guarantee A delivered. People do not always admit their delivery is less than ideal because they have to defend it, have to sell in a confident manner. I think confidence and logic defended is both part of the solution and part of the problem at times in our world.
      • “he LTIs it, can we really trust someone that LTIs it?” is why people don’t always admit their delivery is LTI, likely to deliver LTI
      • A Tyrant might never like to admit problems, LTIs that should be factored in – the product is perfect, I see no need to make any modifications, updates, changes. The combination equates to potential for power, problems, ground won and lost that factor into peace.

LTI – Less Than Ideal

Side note – I drink Dr. Pepper quite often. I have had stomach issues over my lifetime likely partially due to some of my drinking in the past. That said the Dr. Pepper I am drinking seems like it might be higher level of acidity in the past – might be my health, might be something else. Life has tested me more than I would like with problems in supply lines. People don’t always discuss LTIs that factor into delivery of documents. Min win may factor into delivery gets set to ideal.

See no evil, taste no evil, feel no evil combined with it is not what goes in the mouth that defiles a man? The combination is less than ideally light in a world with stomach problems like gout, ulcers, and indigestion. Pepto, Fiber Gummies, Tums, and Prilosec have been what I have used with varying levels of success. Too many Tums not all good, other options are nice to have, Prilosec works great but limited on how much one can use it (instructions say like every 4 months I think). Also have been using Aspirin both lose dose and higher dose that seems to be helping age + heart and seems to help improve my capacity to exercise. Drinking more water and less acidic drinks helps as well.

Think better of others, supply line problems, and hard to prove (magnified by age and personal health problems, medications that might mask) likely leads to problems that are not always fixed – feedback matters and amplifies less than ideally. I could potentially mix the Dr. Pepper I am drinking with water though someone familiar with might need to use some litmus paper, which might solve the problem for more.

I really don’t like the idea of more pain in the world – that said God knows my supplies like those I get from Amazon factor into value for self, family, friends, and country in the future. I keep getting partial orders, and some orders have had replaced items – either the government knows and isn’t saying anything (might not always like artists, artists that use political art) or doesn’t and this could be a bigger problems for other’s in the community. I want the problem fixed, I don’t want people punished as high potential for wrong parties blamed. I don’t really want parties punished via God – fully valued loss compounded punishment sounds far less than ideal. Might be useful in reducing corporate corruption higher up in the ranks at Amazon. I don’t think it is the people delivering – some of the delivery still gets here.

Computer I got from Amazon (Alienware) freezes up more often than I would like – gives feeling of systemic oppression. Potentially people that might be anti-military (I am not military, but my family was and I support our current efforts trying to make Israel and Ukraine safer). Losses today factor into reduced trust, reduced output, reduced support, and reduced potential and progress for self, family, friends, nation, and world – much of my art I would be willing to give for free to free hostages worldwide.

In combination feels like oppression is trying to wreck my studio, potentially in a way that might lead to me not existing, potentially that leads to me unable to support others in the world.

Limited supplies factor into changing directions, lost direction more often. I have potential in many directions – no paints, equals I have potential to write more, work on music more. That said if I don’t fix supply line problems for self, it might equal others don’t get their supplies which at its worst could be like no insulin needles for a diabetic. I rode my bicycle around the lake yesterday – pretty epic, fresh air and good exercise (minus the electricity – e-bike) helps with frustration due to halved shipments – have potential to turn loss into a win does not equate to shipments if-ed is all good.

Imagine there is a grenade in the middle of the room and I jump on it shield others. It doesn’t matter what are the ethnicities of the people saved, life protected is what matters. Just because I jump on the grenade does not mean I have ideally reduced bias, ideally amplified reduced racism and greater equality in the community. Now being a man, a man that is less than perfect how do I make sure the grenade isn’t dropped around people in the first place? Desire to save self and others in advance factors into me seeing it as a profitable path. I don’t hit all home runs, less pitches thrown is desirable, if people are pitching grenades.

Update – bought a Dr. Pepper at a store called Rocket Fizz in Deep Ellum around noon, it is the Imperial Sugar kind so a bit different formulation. Did not seem to give me the same issues I experienced last night. Something else worthy of note the stomach problems I do have seem to show up like clockwork at times around 6 pm.

Leave a comment