I believe we are living in a USA country which has lost the consensus necessary for our liberal democracy - it’s been deteriorating since the beginning - civil war+ - FDR+ tried - Reagan+ featuring plans leading to trump+ and today…
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strictly i'm all over places
like many o' my acquaintances
I Am a large black 100% cotton comrade
Merci
I do wish you 2 healing
now and in the end
...it's us
Love for you two J
Please thank J for Dr Williams' medicine “This Is Happiness” ... i'm now with his "History of the Rain"
Remembering you pointing me to "A Tale of Love and Darkness" Dr Oz
mine now:
McCarthy’s "Stella Maris" fascinating
forgot to drink my tea... "The Passenger" was a good warm up
Erdrich is a go-to & finally found "Light In August"... "Sound And Fury" too language-disjointing for me (i should talk)
Loves: present n past: MUSIC, FILMS, Duras, NYC's Leonard Michael's, Hamsun, Banks, Böll, Morrison, Màrquez, Beckett, Sebald, Bukowski, Fante's "Ask The Dust"&"The Road To Los Angeles"... etc
Keep On Pointin'... Please... Thank You!
"The Road" Cormac McCarthy
I think that if this was written & read in the 60s it might have been different for me
By 2006 even i knew Bach & Glass
Serling & Robbe-Grillet
Warhol & 99 bottles of beer on the wall
The Cormac can write!
this was tedious! ... your students were born too late Joe... ?
"Stella Maris" is my kinda engaging Light
...it's us
my pictures can also show up in somewhat expected places i love my cousin his creations!
STEVE SCHMIDT APR 08, 2024
The Nazis told the world precisely what they would do to the Jews for nearly 20 years in January of 1942, when Reinhard Heydrich convened a lunch meeting in Wansee outside of Berlin to make it final. Literally.
This is where the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” became policy. Within months, Operation Reinhard was underway with the killing camps at Chelmno, Belzec and Treblinka operating at a continuous and ceaseless level of murderous frenzy.
While the Nazis were killing at an industrialized scale, they continued to deny the mistreatment of the Jews that they simultaneously and openly celebrated. The world didn’t seem to care much about the contradictions.
When the Nazis needed to show the International Red Cross how good the Jews had it in the Reich, they needed a stage. They needed something that would impress the cynical, gullible and naive. The place to which the Nazis took their moral dupes was the fortress town of Terezin. Here they built Theresienstadt, the show camp.
I am writing this sitting on a bench outside of the school Jewish children attended, listening to a bevy of birds sing and an owl hoot. I know the story of this place. I have been here before, and I know that nearly every person who was imprisoned here either died of disease, or was shipped east to Auschwitz, and killed on arrival. Certainly, that was the case for nearly all of the children. Barely any survived resettlement in the east. They did not survive a monstrous lie and its marriage to political power and the authority of the state.
Terezin, Czech Republic
The Jewish school in the Terezin ghetto
Democracy is what keeps us safe. It is the only moral form of government because it is the only faith that holds the human being as supreme and higher as an individual than a collective that serves a state, a man, a party or a dogma.
More than anything else, the American president must be an apostle of this faith — and must never, ever waver in his (or her) testimony.
All over the world, wherever people are oppressed and downtrodden, trampled and abused, they must know that there is a place that rejects their oppression and tormentors in the name of freedom and the rights of each human being. They must know that in the darkest nights that we stand with them, and that we see them.
Freedom is the most powerful force in the world, but it is fueled by hope. Hope can be smothered and strangled by indifference. The election ahead will test the faith of the American people. It is a pass or fail exam because only one party in America has maintained a faith in our creed. There is no America without elections, and what that means is simple: the humility to lose is as deeply necessary as the wisdom needed to govern. What a concession demonstrates is restraint, and an assertion that something is bigger than the result. What matters is the continuity of the system that maintains the supremacy of majoritarian rule under a system of law, rules, traditions and norms that protects minority rights.
This is what the election is about. We must decide again.
The world needs America. We should never delude ourselves into believing that “America First” means anything other than America alone and a more dangerous world.
We must learn the lessons of the 20th century to survive the 21st. Our greatest danger may well be that we have forgotten what was once so clearly seen and widely known.
Surviving drawings made by the Jewish children in the Terezin ghetto
There have always been forces that seek to take away control from others by imposing on them rules, dogmas, and sometimes, insanity in the name of power. Always, there are lies. The sustainment of a con of such profound dimensions is always accompanied by a legion of lies and liars. It breaks my heart that anyone might be fooled by the siren songs of grievance, scapegoating and revenge, but they are, and always have been.
Don’t be fooled. There is truth in the world, and the greatest truth of all is human freedom. I can see that perfectly clearly from a bench in Theresienstadt, in the shadow of Auschwitz, Treblinka and Majdanek, and so much suffering in the world...
The many following many posts are from the past - since 2009:
The many following many posts are from the past - since 2009:
The many following many posts are from the past - since 2009:
The many following many posts are from the past - 2009 to 2024:
Capitalism - the rotting root of it... the needy the greedy
Crime - capitalism's system of wealth distribution top to bottom
Diet by capitalism - salt fat sugar oil plastic...
Lucky some can breathe today
Context lasts no longer than one of our flashing seconds
We think we're within reach
Art people if we focus we believe it's radical shareable receivable
Look for a village
We all got some kinda scripture
1956 nightclub in Pasadena I peed with Eugene Wright he's bigger than me
Bach Beethoven Mozart HankWilliams TheDominoes Miles Tebaldi LeadBelly Dylan Stones Glass Pavarotti MajorPowers et al . . .
Mother Father Nancy Moses Esther Monet Nick Dan You+ . . .
Capitalism Produces and Distributes Death and Destruction
I wish I were more wicked than capitalism
As wicked as I believe I want to be
Intellect memory wit heart
Attempting to be kind truthful just in the tangle of nature-nurture
Have a headache sit-stand-walk spine-straight what
Needs from each to each even brief chats covered
can't know the winds that blow in you - Bamsi
hope every body gets a size that works
Know where we are ...it's amazing.
Eco-Socialism For Now and the Future - Albritton
you will get down as the whitey funk bohemian marxist+ bruhster of our 2 li'l centuries
i will never come up