Kings and the Soaps, a freewrite
Question for the protestors: When you say “no kings" do you mean NO kings? Or do you mean only the kings that you already allow to rule you?
How does this use the prompt you might be wondering?
It all started with a bar of soap. It had been left in the soap dish, and he’d somehow managed to fill the soap dish up with water, so that the soap dissolved. Nothing but soapy slush left in the dish.
She, enraged, asked him to not get so much water in the soap dish while he washed. He, enraged, began spinning in pirouettes she’d had no idea he could do. He turned and turned, and turned into a pile of slush, just like the Witch from the North. Next thing she knew, the place was swarming with Munchkins, stomping in the slush and singing “no kings, no kings, no more kings” to the tune of row row row your boat.
So which are you going to choose people? Your kings, their kings, or no kings at all?
Hello my freewriting friends! It's good to be here. Thank you for reading my story.
True to my nature, another psuedo political post. No matter how hard I try to write a simple fictional story, I veer back into an exploration of the illusions we humans are being fed.
And believe.
It's time. Snap out of it.
This is my entry to @mariannewest's daily freewrite challenge. Today's prompt is soap.
Lol. I cured that problem by getting soap in a bottle. I like Jamie and did not want to bad spell him. It did verily piss me off though.
I gave up. I just emptied the dish after he washed his hands. It was not worth the trouble.
It was Brecht who said he didn't want his audience to,“Hang up their brains with their hats in the cloakroom”, as they entered the theater. You are that rare breed of person whose brains insist on working, no matter the prompt :))
Well that does not suck to be told that! Thanks!
Well said, @agmoore!
This morning I re-read some things about Socrates, the wise man assassinated for his political opinions.
You have the courage and honesty to confront illusions, delusions, idiotic beliefs, and popular misconceptions. Maybe it's like Don Quixote tilting at windmills, or maybe it's more like St. George slaying dragons - I think of you as a dragon slayer, @owasco. Here, there be dragons,
Ok, gotta look it up:
"Here be dragons " (Latin: hic sunt dracones) is a phrase used to indicate dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps where potential dangers were thought to exist...
"Fight the good fight" - what, nobody thinks we need to think about what this familar phrase means? I'm here to dig deeper and share what I find, even if most people wish I wouldn't. You're not one of those people, though, so here goes.
Ah, but most people do not want to be challenged.
Don't want their beliefs questioned.
Don't want to make CHANGES in their thinking or their habits.
St. George, sharpen your sword!"
--Or not:
(Catholic apologists also say "We don't ask you to check your brains at the door.")
Critical thinking is a scarce commodity.
THANK YOU Owasco for your freewrites! For your honesty, for your efforts to better our world!
*Socrates was widely hated in Athens, mainly because he regularly embarrassed people by making them appear ignorant and foolish. He was also an outspoken critic of democracy, which Athenians cherished ... he did reject the city’s gods and he did inspire disrespect for authority among his youthful followers (though that was not his intention). He was accordingly convicted and sentenced to death by poison.
If you're looking for complacency, do not read @owasco's posts 😇
haha I like that about me.
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Snap out of it indeed! :)
Interesting arrangement of the story.
It's also interesting that you noticed that. The freewrite began with the soap dish then the Question for the protestors. I moved that Question to the top, and had to add that final query to bring it to a close. All a true freewrite though, it popped out and was proofread in five minutes, perhaps less. I have not been able to freewrite very often of late. I start thinking too much. I really like this one though.
I don't think they'll ever snap out of it. The idea of no rulers seems to be one of the most difficult to sell to people.
I read somewhere that HALF of Americans work for the medical industry in some way. HALF OF US. That's half of us that would lose everything if they let the idea that the medical model might be harming us more than helping us.
As for government, same problem. Government (taxpayers) pays a lot of us in some way. I pay as much in taxes as I receive in social security. And all those years that I and my employers had to pay in! It's a wash!
I ask if they think things would be worse than they are now, now that big powerful governments and rulers are in every country of the world. It doesn't change any minds, but it clarifies for me.
Sixty percent of people in Ireland receive one or more welfare payment and that's not to mention the huge subsidies paid to farmers. The government has bough everyone...with their own money.
I did not know that about Ireland and welfare.
I searched for "what percent of Americans receive some sort of support from the US government." I got a range of obfuscating figures.
If I just use the SNAP percent and the "transfer" percent, we are at 65% here in the US.
We are trapped. Like slaves. And think it's in our best interest to keep it up. Like good slaves.
We need a reset!:)
Greetings @owasco ,
Lovely word images.....beautifully written.
Ah yes....'No Kings' or 'no kings'...^__^
I like to hear the story about what Alexander the Great was told by one of his generals...when he asked him if there was there anything he could do for him. He was reclining in the sun and He said 'Yes....you can get out of my light.'
Kind Regards,
Bleujay
Kings, anarchy sounds good to make him clean up after himself. Not above anyone!