Daily bigjac Black Friday Poetry Slam

by bigjacbigjacbigjac

I work at Walmart.

So.

A pallet,
for those of you who only shop in stores,
and have never worked behind the scenes,
a pallet is about four feet
by a little less
than four feet
by however high it is stacked,
often about four feet,
sometimes five or six feet.

Some special displays
are four by four by four, almost exactly.

Anyway,
I have been dealing with these pallets
for about 18 years,
but more so just lately.

This is the first time I have been
assigned to the backroom inventory crew
in the weeks leading up to,
in the days leading up to,
Black Friday.

Black Friday Riots

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Daily bigjac heading over the cliff Poetry Slam

by bigjacbigjacbigjac

The worst thing we can do
for each other,
humans as a whole,
that is,
the worst thing we can do
for each other
is to feed each other.

And nothing else.

No numbers of how many of us
we can feed,
total,
and how many of us
should live in
this city
or that city,
this country
or that country,
based on available
drinking water,
and nearby farms
and ranches.

That is the worst thing we can do
for each other.

Feed each other.

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Daily bigjac not the ideal Poetry Slam

by bigjacbigjacbigjac

There is no ideal way to tell you
anything.

There is no ideal way to phrase it;
there is no ideal way to get you to understand.

That was philosophy.

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Protein

by bigjacbigjacbigjac

This is actually another of my overpopulation alarm diaries.

But I feel a need to focus on a particular point, the question of what is the ideal human diet.

I got a diary on the rec list, but many thoughtful readers firmly disagreed with my statement on the topic of nutrition.

This is important, because if we are to make proposals of how many humans would be sustainable on the planet, we need to define, to some extent, what lifestyle we are proposing for the humans of the future.

Fewer humans, yes, but living in what housing, drinking water from what sources, and filtered and processed how, and what nutrition, what balance between protein, fats, and carbs, and what sources for vitamins and minerals, and what sources of protein, fats, and carbs?

On none of these questions should our answer be a shrug of the shoulders and a vague mumbling of whatever has been working, because that would be advocating business as usual, and that strategy has us heading straight for disaster, and quickly so.

We need to think about these things.

I certainly do not have all the answers, but I know we cannot get stuck in analysis paralysis.

I have some ideas, below the fold.

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