Thursday, December 11, 2025

Destiny

What do you do when you've reached the end of the road? You look to the sky and start to fly.

Predestination only goes in one way. Those who are true and faithful live in this world but are not of it. It means you get it out of your system but it never gets in.

It isn't about the journey. It really isn't about the destination, either. It is about fulfilling what has long been promised. 



Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Shiny and New

Any new technology or shiny smart system can fall quickly into disrepair and rot before you can even get your money's worth from them. 

Just like how any new, shiny establishment can quickly become abandoned and haunted by the ghost of neglect, these new, smart, AI-powered tools being peddled as the quick fix to a lack of institutional transparency - by being an all-new, easy access, real-time monitoring system that can shine a light on all corners of an old, long-standing, corrupt way of doing things - can quickly reveal themselves to be nothing more than expensive, hyped-up gizmos nobody would even bother to take out of their junk storage when all the hype has died down and when the supposedly slain monster of corruption, neglect, and insincerity once again rears its ugly head.

It is never about the tools. It is always about who uses them and for what purpose they are used. Even the finest china tablewares will in no time be smashed into discarded pieces of unidentifiable shards in the hands of callous, unthinking, beasts. No tool can ever replace disciplined vigilance.

Destiny

What do you do when you've reached the end of the road? You look to the sky and start to fly. Predestination only goes in one way. Those...