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Friday, May 6, 2016

too many!

Human beings are making ourselves an endangered species as we overpopulate our environment, consume everything in sight, like a deer herd over-grazing a land of every green thing*. We kill off every competitor, which is any other living thing that might eat something we could eat, or occupy space we could claim with buildings and pavements, to make room for still more of us. We extend life expectations with science and medical advances. We have gone forth and multiplied and multiplied and... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, May 1, 2016

A Progressive Luddite

Here in the US, there is a great battle joined that seems to go on forever: Conservatives vs Progressives/Liberals. And in Great Britain, too, as the country contends over whether to remain in the European Union, or not. I've been hearing a lot about this from my son-in-law and one of his relatives of the opposite view, as they post back and forth on Facebook. Here and there, it always seems to be a matter of those who have had enough of trying to keep up with changes in the world that seem to... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, April 30, 2016

Telling truth from lies

Bear in mind that political campaigns have never been clean or honest, all the tricks justified by "We can't make the changes, do the work, defend the right, etc, if we don't get into office." So candidates hand themselves over to professional campaigners who make every effort they can get away with to get their guy/gal elected. The Candidate is an artificial construct and, at the worst, an outright lie. We don't get to see the real person, the real character of that person when the 'handlers'... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

No one wins

So, the registered Democrats who weren't somehow accidentally wiped off the rolls, get to choose who the Democratic candidate should be. And the registered Republicans get to express their opinion on who the Republican candidate should be. So, it's a Party thing... So, a huge number of people don't have a voice in the system because they are neither Democrats nor Republicans. Where do they get to express their will? Are people who are not registered Democrat or Republican not really part of the... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Food Ways

Facebook led me to this page: http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/04/04/470071043/going-green-is-really-going-native-western-apache-chef-nephi-craig?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160404 about the Apache/Navajo chef, Nephi Craig, who is bringing some up-dating and reality-checking to how the world percieves the food ways of the Apache, past and present. Makes me wonder what else one might do with the handful of colorful juniper... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, April 3, 2016

Dreaming again

I woke this morning from a social/political dream about donating blood. Years ago when I was a college student in Cleveland, I answered a call for blood donation. The call was on behalf of a particular man who was having heart surgery. They valued my pint of blood at $30, I think. I told them to donate it to the patient. Oh, they were so nice and kind to me then! A second time, I went in on my own and because I had rent to pay and needed that money, I accepted the payment. Oh, how judgemental... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Projection and Celebrity

Celebrity is a bright candle, an incandescent lamp, a cloud-raking search-light! It draws our attention in a most superficial way to someone who somehow, somewhy, stepped into the light and stayed long enough for us to notice. We notice the presence and some outstanding characteristics, just enough to take an interest. And then we project... Projection is that dynamic of imagining details onto the target of our attention, imagining and applying as if they are true, what we want that person to... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Hitler is his model...

I've just heard that Mr Drumpf has made good use of Hitler's writings, keeping one of Hitler's books on his desk: MY NEW ORDER. "A collection of Hitler's speeches set in a running commentary... Millions of words have had to be eliminated, so as to retain only such speeches, or parts of speeches, as make a readable and instructive book." (reviewer of the book, on Amazon site) Apparently, Drumpf finds it instructive. Even his buzz phrase: Make American Great Again is styled after Hitler's Make... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, March 11, 2016

Who's President doesn't really matter in the long run...?

But this one does matter for us and the next several generations. It won't matter 5000 years from now, but to say it doesn't matter now is like saying the Germans choosing to let Hitler lead them didn't matter. The craziness of the election season, the ability of Republicans to draw a mad crowd, and the inability of Democrats to get past their individualistic political ego and get up a proper mob, leaves a gaping hole for the likes of Drumpf or any of the abysmally unqualified Republican... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, March 4, 2016

Endgame of Self-Indulgence and Entitlement Mindset

America once stood as a beacon to the world, the fearless demonstration of how free thinking and free speaking advanced understanding, realized the greatest potentials of our humanity, all to the benefit of the entire world. That was the ideal, the worthy goal of all our energy and endeavor, all the resources we had to draw on... Out of this came the assertion that "The United States of America is the Greatest Nation on Earth!" The post World War ll generations inherited this national belief and... Sign in to see full entry.

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