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Four Layers of Reality

Lee Camp wrote an article a month ago about the 4 layers of reality, political and cultural reality basically, and what they are and mean.

The first layer is one we all see and participate in, I think, and one the media discusses constantly. It's the surface layer: who's running, who's going to win and so on. It's an important layer, but it is just a start.

These layers look good to me! Image from 600 acres.

It's hard to not see the irony of Trump hurting the well-being his own voting base much worse than Democratic voters. It's almost as if he simply doesn't care about poor people.

One of the frustrating things about the MSM (and even non-MSM media) is the fact that I haven't seen anyone (particularly on last weekend's TV news shows or in any of the 2024 Presidential debates) ask this rather basic question: What does a peace deal to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict look like? So, in the interest of getting a discussion on this topic going, here are some basic concepts:

In 1982, Reagan was giving the world a preview of Trumpism and the hippy wave of the 1960s had broken and was slipping back to sea. Donald Fagen of Steely Dan took a nostalgic look back at the experiences of us Baby Boomers in a solo album called The Nightfly. Its lead song called "IGY" took us back to the 1950s and the feeling of optimism that defined our lives at the time.

I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World) - Wikipedia