I've been thinking about how demoralized most of us are. Frankly that is completely logical given current realities. I feel discouraged, powerless, frustrated, boxed in. I don't think the actual left in this country has disappeared, but we are scattered. I am exhausted by being outraged, finished with dwelling on that. I'm also finished with being cynical. Spending my time and energy that way feels a waste and a dead end road.
Welcome to all you visual artists.
Thought I would send out an appeal
to share your opticals and or
aural scapes.
Here's mine...
visited a solar farm under construction
near where I work. On Navy land. A good use
of taxpayers expense.
You’ll decide, of course. (smile)
‘DOJ Now Says There Was No Plot to Kill Elected Officials; Fevered reporting about efforts to abduct and even kill members of Congress and the vice president are without foundation, the Justice Department admitted, after prosecutors falsely asserted such a plot in court’, Joe Lauria, January 18, 2021, consortiumnews.com
We explore the relationship between mythology and the unconscious, and look at the monomyth Joseph Campbell called the myth of the hero's journey.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (highlights reading)
“The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization. As he crosses threshold after threshold, conquering dragon after dragon, the stature of the divinity that he summons to his highest wish increases, until it subsumes the cosmos. Finally, the mind breaks the bounding sphere of the cosmos to a realization transcending all experiences of form - all symbolizations, all divinities: a realization of the ineluctable void.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
h/t Lookout
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Well, we just rejoined the Paris Accord and the Keystone Pipeline is canceled. Power plant emissions will be cut.
Ex-president Donald J. Trump slunk out of town carrying the nuclear football, leaving the United States unprotected from nuclear attack for 3 hours while the football was punted back to DC. Meanwhile, The Storm, Trump's heroic mass execution plan for ridding the world of child-eating Liberals, stalled off the Florida coast and was downgraded to Class F (Failure).
Cuz nothin' says Failed Republic like: 'Flag-packed National Mall, razor wire & military patrols give off surreal vibes ahead of Biden’s ‘virtual’ inauguration (PHOTOS)', RT.com
'Biden hosted a ceremony on Tuesday night to commemorate the 400,000 US deaths linked to Covid-19. The somber event featured a row of candles that lined the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial, prompting CNN to gush that the lights were “extensions of Joe Biden’s arms embracing America.” [...]
Welcome to Wednesday. Today we witness another political charade.
Had something more to offer in this OT, but the dog ate my essay. Poof! into the ether.
Oh well.
I am wiped out this week, guys.
…on this MLK Day civil rights 2.0 as the nation is being torn asunder with fear and loathing post-Capitol insurrection.
*International human rights activist, organizer, political analyst. National Organizer for @blacks4peace
