Watching America self-destruct is very close to unbearable; at the very least we must bear witness, and always, always watch and be ready for the moment grace allows us to act, and to act with neither hesitation, malice or fear, but simply to act as an expression of the essential and the enduring values of life, nature, and individual rights -- in that order.
these fine women:
this will be getting worse and worse and worse for a few months, leveling the economies of the world, revealing the depth of politician's greed and the strength of soul if they have one; in 25 years it will only be an episode, in a hundred it will be half-forgotten, in 150 years it will happen again. we are a species that flat refuses to...
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ferkixlll:
@oldernow - one would think that current memory would be sufficient. Since 1968 we had: the Hong Kong flu, swine flu, bird flu, H1N1, HIV, The Ebola outbreak, SARS & MERS. Don't forget the Times Square Flu test back in the '50's when rate of spread was tracked to see how quickly a known Biologic would move through a population. As they say "this ain't rocket science". With ALL of this history Anybody NOT sitting up and making plans in January, when China locked down a city of 11.9 million people and built two 1,000 bed field hospitals in weeks; has no business leading anything.
the interesting thing to me is the way various collective cultures are reacting to the unknown. panic basically. when i think of my father, who was a 4-year POW in WWII being told he wouldn't walk any more, it was as though someone had mentioned that today was Thursday... not so much numb or detached as integrated, able to navigate calm or stormy waters with...
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ferkixlll:
As usual an apt song. Back in the '70's Leo Buscallia's lectures used to get PBS air time during pledge week. One of his points ( of several ) that has stuck with me: If you want to see how much of an impression that you make, take a glass of water, stick your finger in & then remove it. ** The problem with T. P. is that the Industry was AT Capacity. The supply for Commercial T. P. Vs. Household T. P. is completely Separate. And now that so many are using their Home Toilet instead of Work or other non-Home locations means that there is a Surplus of Commercial T. P. and increased demand, not hording, of Home T. P.. When I was Over-the -Road there were times that I got a load of T. P. at a Paper Mill and took it to a Grocery Store Chains Distribution Center rather than a Center that all Chains could order from. As time goes on the Keg Beer vs. Bottle Beer devide will show up the same way. And other Commercial vs. Home use Items will track in a similar way. Carry on.
oldernow:
@ferkixlll you make an interesting point about the TP... my office building is on the other side of my driveway on 60 acres sandwiched between two massive vinyards -- so besides my employees, i am rather isolated to begin with (not counting the wife and cats, that is). With 8 -- eight!! -- female employees ATM, I go thru TP so much that I switched to commercial supplies some time ago - hence not really noticing the change. ironically, with all of them now working from home, i have a more than adequate supply for this millennia... or the year anyway. our work is mostly on computers, so the work continues.... when this all went nuts a few weeks ago my wife went straight to our cleaning supply company and grabbed a few boxes of this and that. I am on medications for a lung virus that zero out my immune system so--bad lungs plus vulnerable to illness = not good. hence the employees working from their homes. our area is moderately hit - about 500 cases in a town of 60,000 so far, but more every day. the big problem is that all the regional hospitals are taking all kinds of overflow from downstate. my doctor friend says they can't even get saline solution here, much less medicines, PPE, etc. --all the local eye doctors and dentists have given their stashes of such things to the hospital a while ago. no medical people have succumbed yet - and that is the biggest worry, really. 50% of the town died in 1918 when the doctors died...
ferkixlll:
Frank how we need you today!
lolaemme:
Love music your listen.
Yeats and others have long seen the next collapse of the West... not the last by any means, nor the first (thank you Edward Gibon for detailing just how bloody, greedy and stupid "Christian" monarchs have been for millennia)... but a real tipping point in the mythic identity of American has occurred. simply put, for good and for ill, there is no more balance of...
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thebeliever:
It has been a depressing week... At some point I imagine that things will get better, but it's hard to believe sometimes.... Since about 2016 the world seems to have lost its collective mind. It's like watching someone exhibit suicidal behavior, but in this case it's global.
ferkixlll:
And tonight's democratic debate just adds to the misery. Two hours of the pot calling the kettle black instead getting to the real issues. I heard more lines to be used against them. There were better debates for class president when I was in High School. They keep this up and it's Trump uber alles.
I'm betting only a few folk here might have ever heard of the "Charge of the Light Brigade" so here's a bit of Wikibackground: quote:
The Charge of the Light Brigade was a failed military action involving the British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War. British commander Lord...
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unita:
great post, thanks for sharing❤
ferkixlll:
Nice to add the Kipling. **To be remembered, later in the Afternoon the Heavy Brigade did over take that position. ** The group Pearls Before Swine ( 1970's ) had ( on their album ) the old Edison Cylinder recording of Trumpeter Lamphery playing the Charge on the trumpet that he played on that fateful day.
This has been running through my mind/memory and on my flat screen these past few days... :
the whole film is on You Tube and is SO worth seeing!! the acting alone is stunning, the writing even more so. most of the cast had been performing this on stage for a year or more, so ... tight.
but all that is truly besides the point....
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francy:
good
ferkixlll:
Good observation. As "Blazing Saddles" put it: " Gentlemen, we have to save our phoney baloney jobs". **Short term profit shall be the death of us.
ferkixlll:
Proves my point: all of these easily offended types Need to listen to Lenny Bruce, Richard Prior, Don Rickles & George Carlin on repeat until they get a Sense of Humor.
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oldernow:
@ferkixlll yep: https://www.seva.org
ferkixlll:
Thank you.