Apropos of nothing or are we all going to hell in a handbasket ?
My spirit received a considerable boost after listening to the Mia Mottley link you posted . I am in sync with everything she said. And the miracle is that she is a politician who was actually elected to lead her country . Hope springs eternal . Is Barbados one of the last bastions of sanity ?
As for the Democrats “not being good enough” to win crowd approval perhaps in today’s climate it may be that they just weren’t bad enough .
I am a Canadian boomer. Were I American, I would not have voted for Biden because of his support of Israel and the ongoing genocide in Gaza. But then who ?
While backpacking in Israel in the 70’s,I spent some time in the Golan Heights . I remember having a heated discussion with some Israelis because Israel was supplying arms at that time to South Africa . When I asked them what happened to the claim “we just want a homeland of our own where we can finally live in peace “ . They answered that they needed to make money. And so it goes….
Do you remember “Dear Doctor “(Beggars Banquet ..The Stones) “oh help me please doctor I’m damaged , there’s a pain where there once was a heart It seems to me that there are quite a few people out here walking around with a hole in their heart . I was listening to an interview with a Rev William J Barber . He thinks what may be necessary are some moral defibrillators or heart transplants
It looks like the Trump regime will now start scooping up Arabs as well as Latinos in their attempt to whiten America . At the risk of sounding super negative which I am not , I couldn’t help wondering today if we are all going to hell in a handbasket .
Yes. I think “hell in a hand basket” is a thought, if this were a kind of heaven. I hope it is for somebody, it is not for me. But that may be my personal conundrum since I have no heaven in my head. But if the countries I know now were closer to Barber and Mottley I’d be joyous. They are there but “America” does not gear nor follow nor quote them. Mizrahi videoed today that Israel and the US are children. They are. They have yet to enjoy adulthood. For me this eternal adolescence is rooted right where they are proudest: in the Judaeo Christian values and tradition. “Another world elsewhere.” I might be happier in a Confucian world. We might see, sooner rather than later but bibles and capitalisms are destroying themselves. That was my hell.
Perhaps because I played Shakespeare for a couple decades untrammeled by academics I learned what noone was teaching. Mamdani is in front! There’s hope yet!
Great metaphor, Dikran. I cannot feel any widespread urgency from the Democrats for relevant ideas, thoughts, and potential actions other than the usual gestures of criticism and opposition to the GOP and Trump running roughshod over the Constitution.
What do the Democrats have moving forward?
I am a 74-year-old and have lived and studied the past sordid history of Western civilization and American history from the beginning to the present time, and honestly, we do know the hell of the half of it, and quite probably, America was never meant to last. It was never the great democracy it pretended to be. The spoiled empire is on its way to self-destruction.
Is there any resistance movement that will prevent what is happening in America?
Yeah. I think, and I live here for a reason I am searching for, but I think the US may be the “worst” country on the face of the earth ever. If one is the worst one will spend every ounce of your being trying to convince yourself and the rest that you are the “best.” The worst slavery, the worst ethnic cleansing.
Except I give no weight to the monotheist bipolar invention: good and evil. So I have no interest in good evil best worst. We are all of it each of us: multitudes. Human development ended with the Greeks, I think, and feel, so I admit it is subjective. Monotheism was a small spiky cult of stubborn Judaeans, and might have remained so except for Paul? Why not? Jesus is a hellenic creature. Coopted. And I am not a believer. A transitional creature gone wrong.
Apropos of nothing or are we all going to hell in a handbasket ?
My spirit received a considerable boost after listening to the Mia Mottley link you posted . I am in sync with everything she said. And the miracle is that she is a politician who was actually elected to lead her country . Hope springs eternal . Is Barbados one of the last bastions of sanity ?
As for the Democrats “not being good enough” to win crowd approval perhaps in today’s climate it may be that they just weren’t bad enough .
I am a Canadian boomer. Were I American, I would not have voted for Biden because of his support of Israel and the ongoing genocide in Gaza. But then who ?
While backpacking in Israel in the 70’s,I spent some time in the Golan Heights . I remember having a heated discussion with some Israelis because Israel was supplying arms at that time to South Africa . When I asked them what happened to the claim “we just want a homeland of our own where we can finally live in peace “ . They answered that they needed to make money. And so it goes….
Do you remember “Dear Doctor “(Beggars Banquet ..The Stones) “oh help me please doctor I’m damaged , there’s a pain where there once was a heart It seems to me that there are quite a few people out here walking around with a hole in their heart . I was listening to an interview with a Rev William J Barber . He thinks what may be necessary are some moral defibrillators or heart transplants
It looks like the Trump regime will now start scooping up Arabs as well as Latinos in their attempt to whiten America . At the risk of sounding super negative which I am not , I couldn’t help wondering today if we are all going to hell in a handbasket .
Yes. I think “hell in a hand basket” is a thought, if this were a kind of heaven. I hope it is for somebody, it is not for me. But that may be my personal conundrum since I have no heaven in my head. But if the countries I know now were closer to Barber and Mottley I’d be joyous. They are there but “America” does not gear nor follow nor quote them. Mizrahi videoed today that Israel and the US are children. They are. They have yet to enjoy adulthood. For me this eternal adolescence is rooted right where they are proudest: in the Judaeo Christian values and tradition. “Another world elsewhere.” I might be happier in a Confucian world. We might see, sooner rather than later but bibles and capitalisms are destroying themselves. That was my hell.
Perhaps because I played Shakespeare for a couple decades untrammeled by academics I learned what noone was teaching. Mamdani is in front! There’s hope yet!
Great metaphor, Dikran. I cannot feel any widespread urgency from the Democrats for relevant ideas, thoughts, and potential actions other than the usual gestures of criticism and opposition to the GOP and Trump running roughshod over the Constitution.
What do the Democrats have moving forward?
I am a 74-year-old and have lived and studied the past sordid history of Western civilization and American history from the beginning to the present time, and honestly, we do know the hell of the half of it, and quite probably, America was never meant to last. It was never the great democracy it pretended to be. The spoiled empire is on its way to self-destruction.
Is there any resistance movement that will prevent what is happening in America?
Yeah. I think, and I live here for a reason I am searching for, but I think the US may be the “worst” country on the face of the earth ever. If one is the worst one will spend every ounce of your being trying to convince yourself and the rest that you are the “best.” The worst slavery, the worst ethnic cleansing.
Except I give no weight to the monotheist bipolar invention: good and evil. So I have no interest in good evil best worst. We are all of it each of us: multitudes. Human development ended with the Greeks, I think, and feel, so I admit it is subjective. Monotheism was a small spiky cult of stubborn Judaeans, and might have remained so except for Paul? Why not? Jesus is a hellenic creature. Coopted. And I am not a believer. A transitional creature gone wrong.