
For Amanda
It is great to have friends and to really get free.
Geoff, 4th February, 2021, Down Under
FREEDOM, DEMOKRASI AND CIVILISED HUMANITY
In defense of freedom, democracy and civilised humanity is an increasingly intolerant western world.
For Amanda
It is great to have friends and to really get free.
Geoff, 4th February, 2021, Down Under
This is a transcreation from the Indonesian language poem “Kebebasan”.
Poet Maman A Majd Binfas sees how freedom and the discipline of conscience are essential to living well.
The nanny states of The West take this away from people.
Geoff Fox, 30th December, 2020, Terra Nullius
When two old white guys get together, there is no telling what might happen.
Geoff Fox, 12th November, 2020, Tottenham Front
Geoff
Melbourne artist Eddy Burger knows my story.
This old friend of mine also knows a lot about moral and immoral forces which buffet us all.
In this drawing by Eddy (with words added by me), I see an image of how life giving purity can be vulnerable to monstrous cruelty .
I see what governments at their worst can do to individuals focussed on life and what life needs.
It doesnt have to be that way, but sadly sometimes it is.
Geoff Fox, 25th October, 2020, Terra Nullius
Shelly of Houston has left the fantasies of The West Coast to seek truth in Houston. The heartland not the hinterland of The American Soul.
Men and women are not the same but most of their rights are the same.
The differences in rights relate mainly to pregnancy, breast feeding and giving birth where women’s capacities are so very different.
The only way to stop the minorities of misandrists and misogynists from causing misery is to build gender peace.
Geoff Fox, 24th October 2020
This modern world, crippled by fear, wants a failure-proof freedom.
Herbert Hoover died on the 20th October, 1964.
In 1936 he said, “There are some principles that cannot be compromised. Either we shall have a society based upon ordered liberty and the initiative of the individual, or we shall have a planned society that means dictation, no matter what you call it or who does it. There is no half-way ground. They cannot be mixed.”
Nowadays we want freedom that never lets us down.
But there is no such thing.
Freedom by its very nature offers up the possibility of failure.
That is how we learn to do better.
Listening to our world, we learn to live.
Lest We Forget what we are.
Geoff Fox, Down Under, 20th October, 2020
Crooner Bing Crosby died on the 14th October 43 years ago.
Democracy needs both vigorous outspoken freedom of speech and gentle respectful listening at it’s heart to survive.
Geoff Fox, Down Under, October 14, 2020
The Red White and Blue is in a very dark world.
Shelly has had enough of West Coast over-exposure to rising seas of inhumanity.
She is seeking safety in Houston. Will she find it?
Geoff Fox 10/10/2020, seeking balance, hitting snags
George Mason, the “father” of America’s Bill Of Rights died on October 7, 1792.
Lest We Forget
Geoff Fox 5 October, 2020