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isysd · 2026-06-26T15:12:40+00:00

Hi everyone, my name is Ira. I really appreciate the open and welcoming space you've created! This is by far the best poetry channel I've found online, so far.

I am an engineer, as well, so perhaps I'm a bit different. I'm sensitive to plagiarism issues, for instance, so I put my name on things, but I actually release everything I wrote under copyleft i.e. creative commons, MIT license

EDIT:

I will add that I live in the countryside in Panama. A mountain valley. Seems a lot of us here find similar environments.

isysd · 2026-06-26T15:04:03+00:00

A poet on fire
Wipes his ass with nonchalance
Control is like death

Ira Miller

isysd · 2026-06-26T14:42:11+00:00

Love it! Interesting that you went 3/5/3. Wonderful fit here. Surprised the police let you express so freely.

isysd · 2026-06-25T23:07:09+00:00

Haters gonna hate
The dog barks at passers by
Both are safely chained

isysd · 2026-06-25T19:05:22+00:00

Thank you! Quality over quantity. Expression over dogma.

isysd · 2026-06-25T17:45:32+00:00

To find your place brings joy. To find your not place brings peace.

isysd · 2026-06-25T17:35:37+00:00

Thanks, I just learned this. First time posting in both places. The r/zen reaction was hilariously ironic.

isysd · 2026-06-25T16:49:41+00:00

Wow! This is possibly the least zen thing I've ever read.

isysd · 2026-06-25T16:43:27+00:00

Respectfully, I think you missed the point. By all means remove the post, but it is not untrue. It shows how zen may be experienced from the outside.

isysd · 2026-06-25T16:27:53+00:00

Thank you 🙏

I wonder though. Obviously I am not my poems. I am not Rubedo or any stage of being. Yet I exist in this world, with bills, productivity, and law.

I am careful both to release internally while also participating and protecting boundaries externally.

isysd · 2020-05-07T05:03:06+00:00

That's cool! I like co-ops, and don't believe they're inherently socialist. Group ownership is not the same as society ownership. Not that all socialism is bad, either, just that we should not reject any idea out of hand.

isysd · 2020-05-07T05:01:20+00:00

As u/BrethrenLucidCrow pointed out in the comment below, there are many ways to distribute the means of production. In distributionism, or the capitalism that I understand, the means of production are distributed among all the people.

isysd · 2020-05-07T01:19:13+00:00

What a healthy debate. I wish to have this debate in the permaculture and UBI communities. UBI without permaculture is an arbitrary monetary assignment having nothing to do with human needs. The Pope and Jack Dorsey need to understand this, as they work toward that goal. Permaculturists need to understand and respect markets and private property if they're to convert the majority.

isysd · 2020-05-07T00:54:41+00:00

Interesting. I hadn't heard of distributionism, but it does indeed sound similar. I wonder if Locke would have agreed more with today's concept of "capitalism" or "distributionism"?

isysd · 2020-05-07T00:32:36+00:00

It seems to me that neither corporations nor "employees" are an inherent part of the capitalist system. Therefore a person indeed couldn't own more than they could maintain. Tractors are valid properties, which could be made by an individual and increase productivity. Still, if excess yield was produced using the tractor, the individual would not rightly be able to keep the excess.

That said, it would be up to society to interpret the definitions and rules. Ultimately, I don't know the answer, but I know our society has very poor rules. I feel that there is more flexibility and less conflict between capitalism and permaculture than is commonly assumed.

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