Who You Want to Follow

FD Thornton

I have to tip my hat to all the writers and bloggers out there, that do their due diligence to put out well researched work. I remember when I used to be that same way when I was a grad student and then a BSA. Now I look like an old beach bum in a faded island t-shirt, an old pair of Sperry Topsiders, and white ankle socks. As my kids like to say, “Dad’s uniform”. Now I just sit behind my keyboard and typing out what Gobble Goop that comes out of my head.

Still for the last three days, me and Google AI have been trying to hammer out a story about the “Zero Sum Game”. That robber barons and financial elites have been playing with the working poor for 250 years. I’ve started out aiming in three or four different directions, concluding with the war is not white against black, or us against immigrants. It’s about the capitalist elites against us, playing a zero sum game. Where there has to be a winning and a loser. But I decided to forget it. Thinking this little game has been rigged and such a herd mentality is so engrained. What’s the damn point.

I’ve decided to quit wasting brain cells trying to convince anyone, it’s rich and poor and nothing else. Besides there’s only so much time left on the clock and my titanium ticker only has six years of battery life. So you do what you got to do. I’ll just let the scales of empathy measure out your sentence. As for me, I’m still wearing my bracelet with the initials of my kids on it. Along with my turtle charm made from recovered plastic waste. You make up your mind who you want to follow.