Stories (a #poem)

In the end 

all we have 

are stories

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Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)

Tens of million of US citizens are só incredibly stupid that they honestly believe that putting an end to fair treatment and treating everyone equally will somehow magically make that scary thing called 'woke' disappear. Besides: literally none of them can even define 'woke'. In the end every single one admits: "'Woke' is just everything my favourite right wing populist says that I should be against." 

What is your definition of 'woke'?

Of course, Musk and his worshippers are wrong. DEI is in fact good for business. Just like in nature, communities thrive on diversity; if a single organism is dominant, it will exhaust the soil and nothing ever will be able to grow anymore. Including that dominant species.

Elon Musk himself is a 'product' of diversity, being part African, part European and part North American. Really silly that a product of diversity himself, Elon Musk, is against diversity. 

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Without diversity we would never have heard from a man who was born in Canada, has a Cuban father yet calls himself 'real American!' and 'Ted Cruz'. Although he was born as Rafael Edward Cruz. 

Millions of 'woke' people couldn't help laughing when 'Ted' proposed a bill limiting the use of preferred names and pronouns. Leading to the silly situation that Senator Cruz will feel insulted if you use his birthname ánd will cry if you use his later chosen name. Typical for dumb right: they always find a reason to cry.

When is someone 'a friend'?

We were really surprised to hear a friend's actual name at his funeral. Did you know that 'Ray' was Mike's actual name?" "You called him Mike?" He was popular in a few different 'BBQ groups'. And even had different birthdays apparently. "We just celebrated his 57th birthday two months ago." "What!? With us he celebrated his 62nd six months ago." In unison: "Bastard!" It was a good funeral. Made some new BBQ friends.

Some say women see friendship in a different way that men do. Generally speaking, of course. But it may make sense as men's and women's brains are - literally - wired differently. And of course 'different' does absolutely not mean 'better' or 'worse'.

When is someone 'a friend' to you? If you know everything about eachother or is it enough to have a few common interests?

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Luckily friends are not like family and can be chosen. And most social media has a 'block' feature. Just in case you one day want/need to contact that person you don't really want to be friends with IRL And sometimes you just simply 'drift apart', just like your values that can change over the course of time. 

Real friendship is about unconditional love. Unlike the kind in many relationships: "I love you unconditionally, but..." In a true friendship there is no 'but'. Hence, imho, friendship is the best kind of love.

Here's a poem I wrote on friendship:

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Friends (a #poem)

Of course he remembered that night!

Just not the occasion.

Drinks were more expensive there 

than at home but that was not the point.

Point was that they started talking 

and basically never stopped.

The more they found they had in common, 

the more differences they encountered.

And that was fine.

Of course.

'cause they were

Friends 

We need to mix

"Large" is a real English word, right? No, it's not. At least not always. It's actually French and really means 'wide' or 'broad'. It's just one of the many, many examples of words that became part of the English vocabulary. Which is a medieval, Latin word. 

You and I would not be able to understand an English person from 500 years ago. Let alone speak with 'the Cheddar Man', a 'real Englishman'. From the Mesolithic era. Some 9000 years ago. Just like you probably would not understand a word of what the grandchildren of the grandchildren of your grandchildren say.

Not only the languages of men change over time, but so does their appearance. 

Factors like nutrition (available food) and climate change our appearance. It changes the amount of melanin we need but - looking at our US friends here - apparently also our fat percentage.

Just look at these images of our cousins and ancestors: Homo Neandertalensis, Cro Magnon, Homo Sapiens and the recent addition: Homo Americanus, pictured in the bottom (...) left corner.

And it's all normal. Evolution is normal. Mixing is normal. Adapting is normal.

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Some 800.000 years ago humankind almost went extinct because of some world wide disaster. 

Or  - more likely - a series of disasters: draught, floods, food shortgages, climate change and perhaps a pandemic. Possibly like the one that some scientists believe eventually lead to the extinction of our Neandertal cousins.  If only they had vaccins in those days. .

If the approximately 1200 survivors in those days had been racist bigots who refused to accept others because they looked different and had different habits, humankind would have seized to exist.

Do you see any advantages of being a racist idiot? Which is a pleonasm so let's rephrase that: Do you see any advantages of being a racist?