So the convicted criminal-in-chief now bullies our scientists, public health officers.
And a senator like Joni Ernst, a former military person, and a former victim of rape, turns sycophant to men who see women as unfit for key military service, but fit for rape.
Human truths hurt. Power insulates. And historian Yuval Noah Harari sets the l…
So the convicted criminal-in-chief now bullies our scientists, public health officers.
And a senator like Joni Ernst, a former military person, and a former victim of rape, turns sycophant to men who see women as unfit for key military service, but fit for rape.
Human truths hurt. Power insulates. And historian Yuval Noah Harari sets the love of truth against the craving for power. The former requires humanity: subtleties, contradictions, past patterns, serendipity. The latter mainly devolves to money, bullying, safety and sinecure over truth.
The plurality of Americans who voted in the recent U.S. elections has not gotten any human truths from schools or media for decades. No humanities. Instead, they whose plurality won the recent U.S. elections did so with decades of embitterment against the elites. And the main place these voters saw these elites in action was in schools, where humanities had long disappeared in favor of the dehumanized abstractions and neutered categories of standardized testing.
Dems void of humanities surrendered the election to the orange felon’s vulgarity, Republican sycophants’ lies and cowardice, and the now triumphal billionaires. These all reign now, craven power and sinecure over love of truth.
Ernst answered a letter I sent urging her to vote against Hegseth because of his history of incompetence and lack of qualifications. She responded that he assured her he would cut waste at the DOD. So the fool who nearly bankrupted two small organizations that saved themselves by firing him is apparently able to manage the $800B+ budget because he will eliminate waste. What a sell-out, what a betrayal of what she herself once sought to protect!
I'm glad for your mention of Yuval Noah Harari. I'm reading "Nexus" now, and it's giving me insights into how I can appear with truth to power amidst local issues.
This is so well put. Leaders of both parties allowed a steady erosion of safeguards against wealth inequality and monopolies so that an increasing portion of the potential electorate is struggling to get by. Michael Podhorzer recently wrote that Democrats lost because too many had given up on their ability to deliver needed change. Potential voters staying at home was a vote of no confidence in Democrats by low information voters or those struggling too hard to pay attention to the rest of us trying to warn them. Brick by brick, year by year, we came apart at the seams.
As this gets investigated, it could be the start of community conversations with Republicans who suspect the 2020 election. We might find common ground with some in discussing the standards needed to ensure that all votes are counted.
True. However, most human individuals still love something or someone. I do wonder what would happen in our local communities if all the electricity in the world was shut down entirely for the next ten years. We are in the gothic age as foreseen by Mary Shelley, ruled over by a Dr Frankenstein’s monster.
To check that one out -- "most human individuals still love something or someone" -- we might go to how the rich may or may not as easily as a camel pass through the eye of a needle.
Or we might go to Orwell's "Politics and the English Language," which aligns the rich with those blindly propelled by, carried by all the slogans, clichés, abstractions, banalities, formulae, and other "dead language" wherein those with no humane language dwell.
We do know of the living dead that they "love" standardized testing -- or any machine-like assembly lines which number, package, slot "life" into units, as our rapist, fraud, criminal-in-chief ever indulges his merchandizing, huckstering, lying, and bing-bing-boing-bong pardoning and promoting mass terrorism.
The hollowing out of individuals into soulless units for and of infinite consumption, Marcuse’s One Dimensional Man, has yet to begin to end. Rape by any other name is still profiteering.
So the convicted criminal-in-chief now bullies our scientists, public health officers.
And a senator like Joni Ernst, a former military person, and a former victim of rape, turns sycophant to men who see women as unfit for key military service, but fit for rape.
Human truths hurt. Power insulates. And historian Yuval Noah Harari sets the love of truth against the craving for power. The former requires humanity: subtleties, contradictions, past patterns, serendipity. The latter mainly devolves to money, bullying, safety and sinecure over truth.
The plurality of Americans who voted in the recent U.S. elections has not gotten any human truths from schools or media for decades. No humanities. Instead, they whose plurality won the recent U.S. elections did so with decades of embitterment against the elites. And the main place these voters saw these elites in action was in schools, where humanities had long disappeared in favor of the dehumanized abstractions and neutered categories of standardized testing.
Dems void of humanities surrendered the election to the orange felon’s vulgarity, Republican sycophants’ lies and cowardice, and the now triumphal billionaires. These all reign now, craven power and sinecure over love of truth.
Ernst answered a letter I sent urging her to vote against Hegseth because of his history of incompetence and lack of qualifications. She responded that he assured her he would cut waste at the DOD. So the fool who nearly bankrupted two small organizations that saved themselves by firing him is apparently able to manage the $800B+ budget because he will eliminate waste. What a sell-out, what a betrayal of what she herself once sought to protect!
Carmen, I am surprised she actually responded and put such ignorance in writing. So little courage in so many people
I'm glad for your mention of Yuval Noah Harari. I'm reading "Nexus" now, and it's giving me insights into how I can appear with truth to power amidst local issues.
This is so well put. Leaders of both parties allowed a steady erosion of safeguards against wealth inequality and monopolies so that an increasing portion of the potential electorate is struggling to get by. Michael Podhorzer recently wrote that Democrats lost because too many had given up on their ability to deliver needed change. Potential voters staying at home was a vote of no confidence in Democrats by low information voters or those struggling too hard to pay attention to the rest of us trying to warn them. Brick by brick, year by year, we came apart at the seams.
Added several hours later: Voting expert Greg Palast wrote a guest piece in The Hartmann Report, stating that he would testify in court that Trump lost and that Republicans only defeated Harris through voter suppression on steroids. This is very convincing and sickening. https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f?r=dpmrd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
I'm hoping that there will be court challenges? I fear it's too late. The election was stolen
As this gets investigated, it could be the start of community conversations with Republicans who suspect the 2020 election. We might find common ground with some in discussing the standards needed to ensure that all votes are counted.
True. However, most human individuals still love something or someone. I do wonder what would happen in our local communities if all the electricity in the world was shut down entirely for the next ten years. We are in the gothic age as foreseen by Mary Shelley, ruled over by a Dr Frankenstein’s monster.
Most, as you say, Monnina?
To check that one out -- "most human individuals still love something or someone" -- we might go to how the rich may or may not as easily as a camel pass through the eye of a needle.
Or we might go to Orwell's "Politics and the English Language," which aligns the rich with those blindly propelled by, carried by all the slogans, clichés, abstractions, banalities, formulae, and other "dead language" wherein those with no humane language dwell.
We do know of the living dead that they "love" standardized testing -- or any machine-like assembly lines which number, package, slot "life" into units, as our rapist, fraud, criminal-in-chief ever indulges his merchandizing, huckstering, lying, and bing-bing-boing-bong pardoning and promoting mass terrorism.
The hollowing out of individuals into soulless units for and of infinite consumption, Marcuse’s One Dimensional Man, has yet to begin to end. Rape by any other name is still profiteering.