Spot on as usual, Bob. Perhaps, periodically, you could do a fairy tale call it “Bed Time in America” in which we could momentarily suspend belief and envision a happy ending.
Well put, Bob - depressing as hell (as is all truth these days), but very well stated. Like the apocryphal frog in the slowly warming pot, we've finally awakened to find that common sense and decency will soon be relics of the past, and iron hand of theocracy shall rule the future ... or what's left of it. The bright side of this tarnished coin is that the rise of the morons will only hasten the end of human rule on earth, as that suddenly very real climate pot boils over to cook us all. Maybe the surviving sentient cockroaches and crows will build a new civilization in a million years or so -- they certainly can't do a worse job of it than we did.
Happy Independence Day, the last we're likely to enjoy in a semi-functioning democracy. So long George Washington and the Founding Fathers -- it was good run while it lasted, but the experiment ultimately failed -- and hello to the new Ayatollahs of Christo-Fascism. The inmates will soon be running the asylum, and the rest of us may be running for our lives.
One of my favorite quotes of the past few years, taken from a tech guy on Bill Maher's show who got it from someone else, reads more or less " humans are paleolithic creatures with access to godlike technology and are governed by medieval institutions". We are in a paleolithic rise period of history, and the experience of war is no longer a unifying, myth making option to bind us together to believe we are in a better world. Dang the technology part for that development. Humans need to feel themselves, and often it comes through brushing with death or in today's world, by experiencing the energy of a MAGA rally; we just need to harness it better than by making war.
I usually hark back to FDR days wishing that if all Americans had to work side by side doing physical labor together, all cultures mixed, we could restore balance and come to find the best in us all. Physical exertion building things from stone walls to beautiful hiking trails brings out the best in people, and it's far better than sharing a foxhole with a fellow soldier. The political crazies and the toughs want to be loved as much as anyone, we just can't figure out how to make that happen because the power seekers will always be lurking in the bushes with their slow moving take over strategies, so the seesaw of life experiences continue.
Spot on as usual, Bob. Perhaps, periodically, you could do a fairy tale call it “Bed Time in America” in which we could momentarily suspend belief and envision a happy ending.
Well put, Bob - depressing as hell (as is all truth these days), but very well stated. Like the apocryphal frog in the slowly warming pot, we've finally awakened to find that common sense and decency will soon be relics of the past, and iron hand of theocracy shall rule the future ... or what's left of it. The bright side of this tarnished coin is that the rise of the morons will only hasten the end of human rule on earth, as that suddenly very real climate pot boils over to cook us all. Maybe the surviving sentient cockroaches and crows will build a new civilization in a million years or so -- they certainly can't do a worse job of it than we did.
Happy Independence Day, the last we're likely to enjoy in a semi-functioning democracy. So long George Washington and the Founding Fathers -- it was good run while it lasted, but the experiment ultimately failed -- and hello to the new Ayatollahs of Christo-Fascism. The inmates will soon be running the asylum, and the rest of us may be running for our lives.
One of my favorite quotes of the past few years, taken from a tech guy on Bill Maher's show who got it from someone else, reads more or less " humans are paleolithic creatures with access to godlike technology and are governed by medieval institutions". We are in a paleolithic rise period of history, and the experience of war is no longer a unifying, myth making option to bind us together to believe we are in a better world. Dang the technology part for that development. Humans need to feel themselves, and often it comes through brushing with death or in today's world, by experiencing the energy of a MAGA rally; we just need to harness it better than by making war.
I usually hark back to FDR days wishing that if all Americans had to work side by side doing physical labor together, all cultures mixed, we could restore balance and come to find the best in us all. Physical exertion building things from stone walls to beautiful hiking trails brings out the best in people, and it's far better than sharing a foxhole with a fellow soldier. The political crazies and the toughs want to be loved as much as anyone, we just can't figure out how to make that happen because the power seekers will always be lurking in the bushes with their slow moving take over strategies, so the seesaw of life experiences continue.
Bottom line. Once again Bob's testicles ascend into his abdominal cavity at the mere mention of our Noble ex-president.