Sunday, July 10, 2022

news dispair?

bear in mind... crime-- commercials-- tragedies-- commercials-- sports and weather-- anchor chat-- fluff-- it is a formulaic...standardized ( read edited ) product tailored to fit specific world views...always has been...always will be...it has relied on the lurid to attract and frighten ( and here is a salient point, " men's minds, once unsettled, are prepared to belive anything." tacitus. the annals of imperial rome. ) viewers/readership...have a look at your environment and your daily life and see how the match up...yes there is crime and there are tragedies...these do not constitute the sum of existence...however that is what we are led to believe...and we are being led ( hence "the editor" )

Friday, July 8, 2022

the president is a frontman for the oligarchs

"a small number of superior heads, whose names are very likely not the best known, settle everything, while below them are the great mass of second-rate politicians, rhetors, tribunes, deputies, journalists, selected through a provincially conceived franchise to keep alive the illusion of popualr self-determination" ozzie spengler. decline of the west.
ozzie said optimism is cowardice as well and yet you keep hoping these "second-rate politicans" will end violence, save pro-choice, and act on climate change...which they will not...or, at least, not until it is far too late to actually accomplish any of it...pay attention...joe biden is no more responsible for the price of gasoline in 2022 than george "dubya" bush was in 2008...it is yet another political ploy designed to keep you divided and at each other's throats while that clown "don't boo" donny trump and his elitist thugs grin and see a 2024 payoff a la "it can't happen here"...the fat's in the fire and capital is gouging all of us all the way to the bohemian grotto...get a grip people...none of these jokers ( and i am bi-partisan in calling each and every one...shumer...mcconnell...ocassio-cortez...pelosi..and that sycophantic fucktard graham "second-rate" and entirely opposed to my [and your] actual interests ) is going to help you...they will only help themselves.