SALMAGUNDI (OCTOBER 2026)

When flattery’s desired among us
Eschew to praise the mobile vulgus
Say your mob is democratic
Rather than it’s ochlocratic
For freedom’s such a lovely word
For what’s a mere stampeding herd
And above all tame heresy
That puts the crown on one – that’s ME

 


 

Wash your hands
And say your prayers
Because Jesus & germs
Are everywhere

 


 

I was trying to think of a new word for “those who impose on my freedom” and then I remembered that word already exists.

 

YOU.

 


 

Consciousness is the trait shared by all people at all times. A person can be asleep, high, brain damaged, an infant, have dementia, whatever, and while all people have an identity that is unlike any other identity, every person is conscious in the same way. Simple. Now do AI.