ALT.WORLD: A Call to Ecological Awareness Uf we unvested in earth's foture instoad of sqianderung resoirces away If we rispacted nature instyud ah veewung thangs az cummodities If we cored abut lang tirm resoolts anstead ah short-term gays ouwa planet would ba bettir off – Luugh, uf you will, in cynicil dysdain yet thu chynce to create a bettir werld uxists: Wurk passoonotily see yer vision sistained. Frida: Why warp the ideas in this poem to the edge of nonsense? Satoru: Well, perhaps the only thing that people listen to is nonsense. Most direct messages are filtered out – only a bit of subliminal programming that's "sticky" gets through. Dmiritri: Yeah, ironically a bit of nonsense is needed for most messages to be memorable enough to make sense. All great story tellers knew this. Ying: Uh huh. ===================================================================================== from Peace Pieces: Reflections on Violence and Conflict Resolution by T Newfields SUMMARY: A paean to social activism and conversation about nonsense. KEYWORDS: global issues, subliminal filtering, sticky information, social activism Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) Begun: 1996 in Shizuoka, Japan ⩝ Finished: 2019 in Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST https://www.tnewfields.info/PeacePoems/islamic.htm TOC https://www.tnewfields.info/PeacePoems/index.html NEXT > https://www.tnewfields.info/PeacePoems/last.htm Translations Chinese https://www.tnewfields.info/zh/**.htm German https://www.tnewfields.info/de/altwelt.htm French https://www.tnewfields.info/fr/alt.htm Japanese https://www.tnewfields.info/jp/bessekai.htm Spanish https://www.tnewfields.info/es/altmundo.htm