Vertago

Global View

        What is your five year plan?

        I've been asked this question over forty years. I don't know.
        My Tarot deck tells me that I am in constant motion.
        It also mentions a romantic interest. I like to listen to talk
        radio. They remind me of the street performers. I could sit
        and listen to Brother Blue all day in Harvard Square. He's a
        poet. This was early street rap. He had a poem about "The people,
        by the people and forgotten." It was an observation on quick
        gratification. That's my global view. Everything popular is bullshit.
        I can't say I know the answer/solution .. I'm skeptical.

        "When round the Lombard cities
        The iron flood shall flow,
        A swifter flood than Po,
        Frothing white with many plume,
        Dark blue with many a spear,
        Then by that sign ye may divine
        That Charlemagne is near."
        (Lord Macaulay 1856)

        In a crisis folks tend to look for a Saviour/king.
        Back in the day, I'd watch a lot of television. Now, I'm just too tired.
        One of my favorites was LOST IN SPACE. It was a frontier story
        about a family exploring other planets. I was obsessed with Penny
        and whether she'd find a boy friend. She had a little brother Wil ..
        and I identified with him. He was about my age at that time.
        Of course, there were two adult couples the parents and an older
        sister, who was romantically involved with the pilot. But, they didn't
        interest me. I imagined Penny and Wil, hooking up. This was my
        global view of relationships at that time... My mom liked the show too.
        She had no idea what I was fantacising. She liked the actress, who
        played the mom: June Lockhart.

        The show of course was silly. The odds of finding another habitable planet
        are slim and far between. But, it made me wonder about marriage and
        parenting. How would Penny and Wil assimilate? They were in a very
        isolated situation. . If interstellar travel is realized. Long term confinement
        must be taken into consideration. Anywho, I'd got into that TV series as
        well as Star Trek. God, Uhura was so hot... There I go again after the brown
        sugar. My dad said that was my, "Negro side." Dad liked Star Trek.
        He thought it was, "Liberals in space." He'd laughed when the shooting
        started, "Well, so much for interstellar peace." Dad showed me how to fight.
        He'd give me a spin with my right arm and flip me onto my back onto the
        couch. This happened occasionally, during a fight scene on Star Trek.
        "Get up. I'll show you that move!" he'd shout. It was fun.. I broke one of
        dad's ribs. He was lying on the couch, watching Star Trek and I ran up
        from behind and jumped on his chest. .. Well, mom drove him to the
        hospital.+  We had been watching, "Space Seed" with Ricardo Montalban.
        I guess that's the most any television series has impacted me.


        Time for a nap.