Don't Feed the Monsters
from Eating Cake Hosted by Nicole Torres
What a wild ride! R and N talk about many things that they didn't anticipate discussing: the vile "health care" system, media games and the chattering class, living a life with dignity within an abusive system, the deceptive phrase "job creators," strategizing ways to be social while staying safe, and even touch upon conspiracy theories. N closes with reading the poem "Do not Feed the Monsters," by 2019 Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo of the Muscogee Creek Nation. New - Opening Music! Special thanks to Sodium Bicarbonate for the use of his track, Art Reel. Art Reel was composed in 2019, days after attending an orchestra performance at the community performing arts center in Shoreline, WA. Art Reel is about experiencing humanity with a holistic perspective, more specifically a reminder that when someone retires to their bed someone else on the other side of the globe is only waking up, and despite the position of the Sun in the sky, each person will separate time by eating meals. Because we are literally motivated by hunger. We need to eat. Even after eating, we are still not complete, we will need to eat again. Jonathan produces music under the alias Sodium Bicarbonate for two reasons: one, obscurity; he intended the name to be difficult to follow. Two, it was the remedy for his own ‘heart burn’. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, by Joy Harjo: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780393353631
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