my humble opinion

Open Thread - 05-20-22 - Assorted Ramblings

Submitted by JtC on Fri, 05/20/2022 - 8:17am

Chugga chugga, what's that sound? It's the American Dream leaving your house headed for DC. See that steam rising from the smokestack? That's your dollars burning, rolled up into logs, working for the man. See that caboose? That's you running like the dickens behind the train, but you'll never catch up. The dollar train left the switchyard long ago, when moneystreet decoupled from mainstreet. With abundant dollar logs to burn, hot off of the printing press, the train chugs onward. Until it derails. But maybe that IS the point.

Restoring Humanity to Humanity - Open Thread 10/08/21

Submitted by JtC on Fri, 10/08/2021 - 6:30am

Someday this epidemic will end. What then? How will we reconcile the deep divisions that have been so skillfully cultivated? How will we reconcile the animosity that has so been insidiously implanted into our psyches? How do we look each other in the eyes after the cultivators of aspersion have fomented so much hatred? Broken families, broken friendships, broken lives. How does humanity deprogram itself? How do we individually break through the fog?

Our reality has been reshaped right before our eyes. No matter your stance on either side of this pandemic, your reality has been formed by others. Think you're immune to the programming? I say, think again. I think we have all been manipulated.

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