I ended the last post with an except by Walter Lippman on the absurdity and insanity of war, and in this case, WWI. Now did the common people really have any specific buy-in to the Austro-Hungarian Arch-Duke who was assassinated, in recently annexed Serbia, at the end of June 1914. Read more…
As I observe what is going on around the world, with large-scale protests and civic disobedience, the unrest, which is poorly covered by the mainstream media, is ushering in a change. What seems clear is that 2024 promises to be an interesting shitstorm of that change. I don’t foresee it Read more…
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities; we are eaten up by nothing” Charles Bukowski. During his early life, my father went through hell and turned out sane. Read more…
I begin today’s post with a paragraph by poet Allie Michelle, because it is so poignantly on point about our need to stop accepting victimhood as normal and to claim back our power instead of waiting for others to create changes that we want. “We yearn for connection, yet isolate Read more…