A million years ago when I was, oh, about twenty I can remember being very afraid of the year 2000. I thought by then 1984 would be true plus global warming. I thought that the death would come of everything I love: nature, animals, free thought...and I thought the killer would be the substitution of international corporations for national governments. Oceania, etc. with the real decisions made in board rooms.
I was also scared to death of getting old.
I comforted myself with the thought that I would die just about the time everything I care about dies. I think I am right about that, though off by about 25 years.
Well, I'm certainly starting the new year off on a happy note! Sorry about that. I guess I need to buy some hydrangeas.
3 weeks ago
To me, shocking as the murder, it is even more shocking that people in Minneapolis can't go about their routine lives anymore without running into harassment by shit tons of ICE border patrol prosecutors and, apparently, armed militias who have empowered themselves to join it. And this is being covered with headlines about "surges" in response to "protests breaking out" language that assumes the invasion by Trump forces is legit while supposedly there is something scary about the protests.
I desperately hope the people of Minn can stay nonviolent. When the George Floyd protests degenerated into riots, that movement died and all that was accomplished was help for the Republicans in the midterms.
GtNC is scaring the crap out of me.
A million years ago when I was, oh, about twenty I can remember being very afraid of the year 2000. I thought by then 1984 would be true plus global warming. I thought that the death would come of everything I love: nature, animals, free thought...and I thought the killer would be the substitution of international corporations for national governments. Oceania, etc. with the real decisions made in board rooms.
I was also scared to death of getting old.
I comforted myself with the thought that I would die just about the time everything I care about dies. I think I am right about that, though off by about 25 years.
Well, I'm certainly starting the new year off on a happy note! Sorry about that. I guess I need to buy some hydrangeas.
To me, shocking as the murder, it is even more shocking that people in Minneapolis can't go about their routine lives anymore without running into harassment by shit tons of ICE border patrol prosecutors and, apparently, armed militias who have empowered themselves to join it. And this is being covered with headlines about "surges" in response to "protests breaking out" language that assumes the invasion by Trump forces is legit while supposedly there is something scary about the protests.
I desperately hope the people of Minn can stay nonviolent. When the George Floyd protests degenerated into riots, that movement died and all that was accomplished was help for the Republicans in the midterms.