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You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Good coffee, good weed, and time on my hands...
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That's so good I can't think of anything funny to say about it!
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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It's more than just ConRot, my friend (although it is that). ConRot is the symptom, tribalism is the cause (although there is a self-reinforcing aspect to it). More and more psychological research is demonstrating that humans have an almost unfathomable capacity for self-delusion, and confirmation bias is exploding the "information age." The only "information" that is relevant is that which conforms to my existing beliefs, whether it has any substantive basis or not. It will take a paradigm shift of extraordinary scope (a la, WWII, or the Great Depression) to create a "new reality". Ahem ! [b]SEVEN THINGS YOU CANNOT SAY ABOUT THE UNITED STATES[/B].
Once, weapons were manufactured to fight wars; today, wars are manufactured to sell weapons
It is far easier to deceive folks than to convince them they are deceived
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Today I said to friends: the older I get the deeper into the Twighlight Zone I feel myself. Perfect. Especially when I see people floundering about like half-wits looking at the finger instead of the moon.
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
Dostoevsky
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If you think it's bad now, wait until Trump & Co. get through with the world: ![[Linked Image from s28.postimg.org]](https://s28.postimg.org/mwpevrp31/Capitalism.png)
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
Dostoevsky
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I woke early this morning, again worrying about how catastrophic the Trump administration will be. I can't say I was panicked - although I did take seriously Wired magazine's article Survive Anything by Always Carrying These 13 Pieces of Gear. I haven't felt this level of uncertainty since 9/11, and that is no exaggeration. I am trying to get my affairs in order. Much of this was inspired by the cavalier dismissal of "cyber" threats Trump expressed. I don't know if he is actually delusional, whether it is posturing, if he knows the difference, or if it has any meaning whatsoever. That, in and of itself, is disorienting. Every indication is that he will be as arrogant and ignorant as he portrays, and with the control of Congress in the hands of the party of irresponsibility and non-governance, I am trying to find any kind of optimistic scenario that I can believe - with no success. But, hey, the Seahawks are in the playoffs, so there is that.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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I woke early this morning, again worrying about how catastrophic the Trump administration will be. i woke up this morning - do do da duh when i realized Mr Trump was the prez - do do da duh i went stark raving crazy running through the streets - do do da duh til i realized it was a dream a very bad dream- whoooaaaa nice guitar riff is the end of the world at hand? probably not. will there be a dramatic shift in policy? abso-frakking-lutely. My point is stop hyperventilating until there is good cause to throw your hands in the air and rush wildly into the streets screaming the end is near.
ignorance is the enemy
without equality there is no liberty
America can survive bad policy, but not destruction of our Democratic institutions
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It was not my intention to portray myself as hair-on-fire (although, I did in fact start this thread). Rather, it was to convey that I am not behaving in my typical happy-go-lucky fashion. I am having personal angst.
Although I think it is unlikely that the world will end before I do, I am confident that there will be a marked shift away from the world-as-it-should-be during Trump's tenure. That is not all attributable to Trump himself, but to the people he surrounds himself with and the control the GOP will have. I think the pervasive feeling, for me, is that I no longer have confidence that "cooler heads will prevail." That's gist of it.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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It's the Despair Quotient! Carpal Tunnel
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It's the Despair Quotient! Carpal Tunnel
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