Month: March 2023
FRONT-ROW SEAT FOR THE PEANUT GALLERY
Some people have had a front-row seat from the peanut gallery to the financial inanity in the USA over decades. Here’s a scenario
CAPITALISTIC USE OF THE FEMININE
A remembrance of Pat Schroeder on CBS Nightly report yesterday mentioned that she was appointed to a Commission but needed to share the seat with a male associate due to her status as 1/2 a person in that time and place. Some women remember those days. We may return to them. Meanwhile too often it feels like the women who endured those places and times are expected to “just get over it”. And so a road to a return to that time is paved.
OLIGARCHY OR MERITOCRACY?
Either work well in capitalism.
They say time is money. It’s also your life.
YIN AND YANG = BALANCE
Some people see value in each of patriarchy and matriarchy when they are in balance and cooperative. Currently and over many centuries, the globe has experienced wildly out-of-balance patriarchy. We can envision better. —
PUBLIC RISK AND PRIVATE PROFIT
The irresponsible and authoritarian refrain over several decades has been to “run government like a business”. Aside from the obvious FACT that this is organized crime, this is a system that mirrors principles of communism and capitalism.
MEDIA CHERRY-PICKS INFO….AKA ADVERTISING
The news story of the day seems to be that MSM is limited on FACTual news reports. Aside from the so-predictable FOX so-called story about obfuscation for ad dollars, what else is new?
FENCES AND AUTHORITY
The following is one example of incredibly widespread moral bankruptcy that is aside from financial. The stock market is an indication of the general tendency to place greed over life. Jamie Dimon seemed to lead a willing Obama (everybody does it) to reward Financial Meltdown perpetrators in 2008 when he could have chosen to uplift consumers.
US STRUGGLES TO SEPARATE FROM EUROPEAN FEUDALISM
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America”—Preamble
PROGRESS OR DYSTOPIA?
The reminder of the old film called Soylent Green arose while hearing a commercial intended to sell fruit and vegetable related nutrition vitamins using the phrase (paraphrase) –get nutrients of fruits and vegetables without expensive trips to the grocery store.
HARM OF CHAUVINISM
American chauvinism that chooses to define the world according to US views seems self-indulgence.
LEADERS NEED TO EXPLAIN ACTIONS
Someone once said, if you can explain it to others, you probably understand it yourself. This proved to be true.
WHO WANTS PEACE?
C-Span ran a bit of a speech by someone named Mike Gallagher-R, in which he said (paraphrase) the CCP (China) took advantage of US “good faith”. Probably he’s referring to the blind trust of US politicians (AKA jumping through corporate hoops) in imposing the national security risk upon the US public known as globalism, in which jobs, manufacturing, and control evolved to China.
NON-ESTABLISHMENT REALITY
The FACT is raised in this Kim Brown discussion, about local and often volunteer firefighters who didn’t know the type of chemicals in the fire in Palestine, OH that they fought. Some Upstate NY anti-fracking advocates are quite aware of the problem of industrial insinuation of chemicals into local neighborhoods with the possible disasters that are described as “accidents will happen”, and are a part of the nationalizing of risk and privatizing of profiteering that is embedded in capitalism.